Occupy Movement Research Paper: Occupy movement is a global protest movement that would draw attention to economic inequality, greed in the corporate world, the problem of lobbying, the banking system’s shortcomings and more. The movement is inspired by the Arab Spring, and can also be seen as a response to the recent financial crisis and the way in which these crises have been handled. Operating slogan is We are the 99%, which refers to the movement claims to represent the great mass of the population, in contrast to the small elite that they believe that the current system favors. The movement can be said to have started during the protests…

George Boole, born November 2, 1815, died December 8, 1864, was a British mathematician and philosopher. He is known as the creator of Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic. His father was a simple merchant in the city of Lincoln in the west of England. He himself was interested in mathematics and was the one who gave George the first introduction to mathematics. George was also linguistically gifted. At age 12, he translated a poem by Horace into English. His father was so proud that he published the translation. Boole never received any formal academic training. At age 16, he began as a teacher assistant at a…

Auguste Comte, born January 19, 1798 in Montpellier, died September 5, 1857 in Paris, was a French philosopher. He is considered the founder of positivism and is also considered one of the founders of sociology. Comte was born in a strict Catholic family. He studied from 1814 at the École Polytechnique in Paris and worked for Saint-Simon, whose influence betrays itself in Comte’s writings. His first work won him recognition by François Guizot and Alexander von Humboldt. He was, however, for expressing his materialistic views, excluded from all official university chairs, and was forced to earn a living by giving private lessons in mathematics and with the help of contributions…

The term “yellow journalism” refers to the type of press, which often deals with issues of content from affordable publications, specialized on rumors, sensations (often speculations), scandals, gossip, and shocking taboo subjects. The information in such publications is not presented as spiritual and practical knowledge, but rather as an entertainment product. There are several theories about the origin of this concept. According to one of them, the name comes from the color of newspapers are printed on cheap paper. According to another version, the appearance associated with the lawsuit between newspapers the New York World owned by Pulitzer and the New York Journal American comics by Hearst about the comic…

Volkswagen (from German: people’s car), often abbreviated VW, is a German car brand that is part of the Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen is part of the group Volkswagen AG, which is one of the world’s largest automakers, which in turn is owned by Porsche Holding. The Volkswagen group has over 336 000 employees who are involved in producing 21,500 vehicles a day (2003). The company VW (Volkswagen AG) is located at the Mittelland Canal with its headquarter in Wolfsburg, Germany, where there is also the very first Volkswagen plant. The history of Volkswagen dates back to 1932, when Ferdinand Porsche built his first prototype for the Zündapp company, a car with…

A Clockwork Orange is a novel by Anthony Burgess, a psychological drama, published in 1962. The novel is based on a landmark event Burgess own life, his wife was raped by deserters GIs during World War II. The novel was adapted to film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 under the title A Clockwork Orange. The action takes place in London in the near future. A young offender aged 14, Alex, left with his band of droogs to have a good evening. He steals, rapes, tortures, and fights. One day he gets arrested and goes to prison. It will make him undergo a treatment: the Ludovico treatment. Following this, violence and…

Student rights are those rights that protect students, who attend universities and other educational institution. The level of rights granted to students, whether legally or by Convention, varies greatly around the world. Today there are many organizations, national, or local, acting in local institution. They are managed by students, that is to say people who are close to the students’ challenges and claims. Such student organization may be involved in two ways: on the one hand it is a privileged interlocutor in the facility for everything about students rights, but also the organization that will challenge institutions and governments to protect these rights and just go even further, posing problems…

Sanctification (Greek hagiasmos, Latin sanctificatio) is, according to Christian belief, the process by which the Christian is transformed into ever greater holiness and likeness of Christ. The Lutheran theology describes sanctification as the realization of God’s holy will on the people. Within the Catholic Church, sanctification is perceived as a work of God in and with man, not something that the person is aware of, and it does not differ sanctification from salvation or repentance. After the Reformation, different moments of salvation were distinguished in psychological and educational interest. Sanctification was then denoted as man’s moral transformation. Sanctification is emphasized particularly in Methodism (including the Salvation Army) and charismatic Christianity,…

Occupational therapy is the science, which studies human activity ability after injury, during illness, or other disabilities. Even healthy people’s activity ability could decline, and they can experience a change in behavior or a lack of development in their activities. Occupational therapy is a science where the ability of activity is in focus but also a way where one finds individuals’ motivation and desire. Occupational therapy’s main task is to help people who, because of injury or disease, have a reduced ability to cope with their daily activities at home, in school, in the workplace, and/or during leisure time, to regain the desired activity ability. The basic idea of the…

Oceanography (from the Greek: O??????, “Okeanos” and ???????, “to write”) is the science of the Earth’s oceans and seas. Oceanography is a very broad area of ??research where the oceans are studied from physical, chemical, biological, and geological perspective, and among other things includes plate tectonics, ocean currents, and meteorology. In some countries, there is some linguistic confusion regarding the name oceanography where an oceanographer of today only deals with the ocean currents, temperatures, waves, etc., the equivalent of meteorology on land. A marine geologist is working with the sediment and so on. When talking about the history of the “proper” oceanography, it also includes all disciplines of the ocean…