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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the creation of Twitter than to the creation of the Great Pyramid. The T. Rex lived closer in time to us than to the Stegosaurus. These facts (and evolution) are counterintuitive, since our puny minds cannot grasp the vastness of time.
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Il convient également de noter qu’il existe des différences significatives entre les trois pays : la concentration de la propriété privée était exceptionnellement élevée au Royaume-Uni, un peu moins en Suède, et encore un peu moins en France. Par exemple, la part des 10 % des patrimoines les plus élevés dans le total des patrimoines privés dépassait 92 % au Royaume-Uni à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale, contre « seulement » 88 % en Suède et 85 % en France. De façon plus significative, la part des 1 % des patrimoines les plus élevés atteignait 70 % au Royaume-Uni, contre environ 60 % en Suède et 55 % en France (mais plus de 65 % à Paris).
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
This sophomore group, in contrast, was looking at the feedback they were getting and thinking hard about it. They were processing what they had seen in others’ work and trying to figure out how to apply it to their own. They were given the space to do it and an incentive to keep working, which heightened their motivation. When I’d taught, my students felt the grade I’d given described them. But this sophomore class understood the score described only their level of performance on a specific skill at that particular time. If they didn’t like it, they had the ability to change it.
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