... for examination and discussion. Muller-Brockmann also published a book called Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers/ The graphic artist and his design problems in 1961. This became a leading document in spreading Swiss typography and it's methods to an international audience. This was helped by the fact that the German text was also supplemented by French and English parallel translations, which was quite ... , almost explicitly. Text was also unjustified and set flush left, ragged right with centred text looked down upon. Photography replaced illustrations, with drawings only allowed a plac...

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... for the nation when it comes to economic, world political power and respect, and national security is superior to that of Switzerland. While the foundation of a specific Constitution by the Swiss, according to the opinion of this writer, can be considered to be a stronger way of protecting what a nation wants and will want for its citizens and guidelines its governmental actions ... missions with NATO. According to 2001 referendum, which can be done by the public in Switzerland, 70% of Swiss voter rejected any political movement toward European Union membership. Even with these numbers,...

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... experience of international treatment of black people. "Stranger in the Village" is an essay he wrote documenting his encounter while visiting a tiny Swiss village that is approximately "four hours away from Milan" (Baldwin, 165). James Baldwin was a civil rights activist in America; not ... wherever he goes, because of his advantage of the assumed distinction and position as an example of authority. Baldwin makes a connection between the Swiss village and white America through their shared ideologies and influence. Baldwin writes, "America comes out of Europe, but these people have neve...

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... aim is to discuss the way in which music is used to educate, influence or re-enforce an audiences ideals and political viewpoints (Horner and Swiss 1999, p.60). Key terms, such as 'politics' (within the context of popular music), will at first be explained. Following this, the ... party politics, and is associated with "songs which either serve or struggle against dominant institutions like the state and economic system" (Horner and Swiss 1999, p.55). In this context, it could mean that a particular political party uses a 'rallying song' in order to attract more potential voters. ... ...

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... of death by firearms reaches as low as 2.91 people per 100,000 (Carter). Switzerland tackles the gun control issue with quite a different approach. Similarly to the United States, the Swiss require a permit to purchase a firearm, but without as many restrictions. In Switzerland, to bear arms in public requires an additional permit, but obtaining this permit, obligates the pursuer "to pass ... an examination on the correct handling of weapons as well as a test on legislation on the use of firearms" (Swiss Embassy). Consequently, such examinations and testing result in a rate of death by ...

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... , also, who replaced Newton's symbols with those familiar today. Calculus had even already been applied to problems, like that of describing mathematically the motion of a vibrating string. Leibniz's students, the Swiss Bernoulli brothers, used calculus to solve this and other problems, such as finding the curve of quickest descent connecting two given points in a vertical plane. In the 18th century, the ... great Swiss-Russian mathematician Leonard Euler, who had studied with Johann Bernoulli, wrote his Introduction to the Analysis of Infinites, which summarized known results and also c...

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... standard design. Extremely well made and durable, toasters from this time are still hard at work in many homes today. Max Gort-Barten designed the Dualit toaster in 1946. This Swiss designer was stranded in Britain at the beginning of World War II. With his redundancy from the RAF; Gort-Barten used scrap metals from an army surplus store to create ... to its classical styling and durability. Each is still handmade a few feet from where the first was created. The Dualit toaster has become a symbol of good British design. Despite the Swiss nationality of the designer, he was clearly influ...

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... why many people who struggled with psychotic disorders were placed into insane asylums. The term schizophrenia was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), a Swiss psychiatrist and the medical director of a mental hospital in Zurich (Maddux & Winstead, 2012). The term refers to one's lack of emotional stability. He developed "fundamental symptoms" of schizophrenia ... ...

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... individual can be traced as far back as the medical insights of Greek physician Hippocrates, who would write of individuals with unrestrained impulsivity mixed with mania and melancholia. Millenia later, Swiss and German physicians would make note of individuals suffering from unpredictable moods that follow an equally disturbed and unpredictable course. Some physicians would liken it to a form of trigger-detonated ... ...

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... as their capabilities to process information are far more limited than those of adults (23). Description of different stages of cognitive development and abilities are largely based on the famous Swiss psychologist's, Jean Piaget's work. According to him, there are four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete and formal operational stages. We need to look at these different stages to ... ...

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... the safety of innocent people by taking away the weapons used to kill them. Additionally, American citizens do not handle guns in a responsible manner. According to a survey supported by the Swiss government, "America boasts the most accidental gun deaths in the world at 0.27 deaths per 100,000 people (Alpers)." Even our own former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally ... ...

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... their market share and to compete against international giants whom they thought were otherwise not possible to compete. Brahma Brahma was founded in 1888 in Rio de Janeiro by the Swiss Joseph Villiger and was acquired by a group of investors led by Jorge Paulo Lehmann. After the acquisition, Brahman went through internal development process and became an aggressive and entrepreneurial company ... ...

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... Slaughter Controversy in 2011 Congress upset many animal rights activist with the lift of the ban of funding the horse meat inspections. The 2014 Agriculture Act (Farm Bill) "It's like a Swiss Army Knife. " (President Obama via usda.org) will be an important program to impact the lives of many Americans with jobs, economic gains and the reform of tax payer's dollars ... ...

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... by aliens, to the possibility that they were part of a religious ritual performed by that Nazcas. One speculative claim that rose to prominence was a theory presented by Erich von Däniken, a Swiss author, who argued that extraterrestrial beings affected the Nazca culture by producing these massive engravings for the purpose of being used as a runway for spaceships. Racist implications can be made ... ...

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... can, instead supporting sustainable development, it also help the company to cut their expenses, in other words to help them gain more profits without harming the sustainable development, for example Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption. Saving energy could be done in ... ...

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... . Hence, he called it dementia praecox, a term originally introduced by the French psychiatrist Morel. Emil's thoughts were later disputed by many psychiatrists. One of these was Eugene Blueler, an eminent Swiss psychiatrist, who, in 1911 found that the onset of the disease could in fact occur in the later years. He also reported that schizophrenia was not characterized by the progressive ... ...

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... in all aspects of accounting "financial, managerial, tax, and audit "I came across a professional services organization with offices located all over the world. That company was Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss-based company that focuses on assisting other companies with decisions involving everything from finance problems within the company to risk management programs for all of the company's employees. After extensively ... ...

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... had identified the heartland of the witch craze to be a hundred miles or so either side of the Rhine, from Luxembourg and north west Germany down to Savoy and the Swiss Confederation. Although these places were hit quite hard by the craze some countries avoided them almost entirely. There have been many attempts to estimate the number of deaths due to ... ...

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... , recognized schizophrenia as a separate mental illness. He described a distinct disorder in 1896 then called dementia praecox, meaning early insanity. The name we use today came about in 1911 by the Swiss physician Eugen Bleuler. This disturbing thought process has been described as "A loosening of the links between thoughts." Schizophrenia in literal translation means the splitting of the mind. The most prominent ... ...

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A Swiss Proverb once enlightened, "When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything". Sadly, vision is the primary sense of mankind and often the solitary basis of judgment. Without human's limitations of the shapes, colors and textures of our overall outward appearances, the world would be a pl...

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... which the English lived under a government which the absolutists craved was after the beheading of Charles I and under the dictatorship of Cromwell. Enlightened absolutism: Jean-Jacque Rousseau's Social Contract 1762. Swiss-born writer, democrat. Book received little attention during his lifetime, but ultimately became his most famous work. Vision of participatory democracy in which the community became a force for the moral ... ...

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... , listening, reading and writing. Furthermore, thought is central and language is a symbolic system that we use to refer in various ways to what we think."" Robert Lado Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist, was one of the founders of modern linguistics. He established the structural study of language, emphasizing the arbitrary relationship of the linguistic sign to that which it signifies. Saussure ... ...

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... for several years, where he worked under various artists, including Guilio Cluvio, a miniaturist. Bruegel also spent time studying in Switzerland, where he created many paintings of the Alps and the Swiss landscape . Pieter Bruegel's paintings are unique in both their style and subject matter. A large part of Bruegel's paintings concentrated on peasant life. Nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel," he portrayed the peasants with ... ...

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... , p. 44 ) states, that high context cultures, such as Asian, Arab and Latino substitute verbal communication with " cues and messages - where as, low-context cultures, such as Americans, Germans and the Swiss " typically focus on precise, direct, logical verbal communication". Gestures are often used to compensate for verbal communication difficulties, however, these often lead to misunderstanding rather than effective communication. It is ... ...

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... 1896, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin grouped what were previously considered unrelated mental diseases under the term dementia praecox. It was not until 1908, however, that an influential essay by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler corrected Kraepelin's theory that the disease was an organic brain deterioration and thus incurable. Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox, emphasizing the dissociative phenomena ... ...

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