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10.15.19

Was voter efficacy an issue in Athens? I mean if 50,000 people are voting, did people go “eh, what I say doesn’t matter?” Or did people think it was their civic duty? Or were they Greeks so they just felt their opinion was the most important and everyone would be lost without it?

Also on the note of payment for civil service, when were pockets invented? Who said “hey, let’s stick coins in our mouths!” Was it to keep the jurors from talking excessively?

How good was the average person at counting? 

What are the odds we can bring back executions for incompetence in the next 16 months?

Just general questions I thought of today during the lecture. Tomorrow should have more due to discussion. 

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BUS 308 Week 4 Lecture 12 Part Three Multiple Regression

BUS 308 Week 4 Lecture 12 Part Three Multiple Regression for $5 Only

Read Lecture Twelve. In Lecture Twelve, a multiple-regression equation was developed that showed the factors that influenced a person’s salary and—almost as important—factors that did not influence salary. How do we interpret a multiple-regression equation? Pick one of the factors—whether statistically significant or not—used in…

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The Commercial Club, Chicago, 1909, Burnham;  “Make No Little Plans” 

“The task which Haussmann accomplished for Paris corresponds with the work which must be done for Chicago”

“To Restore to the city a lost visual and aesthetic harmony, thereby creating the physical prerequisite for the emergence of a harmonious social order.”

The City Beautiful as a good investment

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Plan for San Francisco, 1905, Daniel Burnham

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An illustration of the McMillan Commission Plan for Washington D.C., 1901, an early example of City Beautiful planning, which came in the wake of the 1893 World’s Columbian Expo in Chicago.  Like Chicago, Daniel Burnham was the lead planner, along with well-known architect Charles McKim (of McKim, Mead, and Lowe) as well as FL Olmsted Jr, the landscape architect and city planner, and Augustus St. Gaudens, the sculptor, in charge of public art program.

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Cass Gilbert, Doe Library, UC Berkeley, 1911

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UC Berkeley Campus, John Galen Howard (1864-1931), Doe Library, 1912

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Cass Gilbert (1859-1934) Univ. of Minnesota Plan, 1907-1910