Technology has many effects. It has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products known as pollution and deplete natural resources to the detriment of Earth's environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, and the challenges of bioethics.
Philosophical debates have arisen over the use of technology, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism,
and similar reactionary movements criticise the pervasiveness of
technology in the modern world, arguing that it harms the environment
and alienates people; proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view continued technological progress as beneficial to society and the human condition.
Until recently, it was believed that the development of technology
was restricted only to human beings, but 21st century scientific studies
indicate that other primates and certain dolphin communities have developed simple tools and passed their knowledge to other generations.
Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (second – exploration) of a territory. It is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking.
Prospecting is a small-scale form of mineral exploration which is an organised, large scale effort undertaken by commercial mineral companies to find commercially viable ore deposits.
Prospecting is physical labour, involving traversing (traditionally
on foot or on horseback), panning, sifting and outcrop investigation,
looking for signs of mineralisation. In some areas a prospector must
also make claims, meaning they must erect posts with the appropriate
placards on all four corners of a desired land they wish to prospect and
register this claim before they may take samples. In other areas
publicly held lands are open to prospecting without staking a mining
claim.
The traditional methods of prospecting involved combing through the
countryside, often through creek beds and along ridgelines and hilltops,
often on hands and knees looking for signs of mineralisation in the
outcrop. In the case of gold, all streams in an area would be panned at
the appropriate trap sites looking for a show of 'colour' or gold in the
river trail.
Once a small occurrence or show was found, it was then
necessary to intensively work the area with pick and shovel, and often
via the addition of some simple machinery such as a sluice box, races
and winnows, to work the loose soil and rock looking for the appropriate
materials (in this case, gold). For most base metal shows, the rock would have been mined by hand and crushed on site, the ore separated from the gangue by hand.
Often, these shows were short-lived, exhausted and abandoned quite
soon, requiring the prospector to move onwards to the next and hopefully
bigger and better show. Occasionally, though, the prospector would
strike it rich and be joined by other prospectors and larger-scale
mining would take place. Although these are thought of as "old"
prospecting methods, these techniques are still used today but usually
coupled with more advanced techniques such as geophysical magnetic or gravity surveys.
In most countries in the 19th and early 20th century, it was very
unlikely that a prospector would retire rich even if he was the one who
found the greatest of lodes. For instance Patrick (Paddy) Hannan, who discovered the Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie,
died without receiving anywhere near a fraction of the value of the
gold contained in the lodes. The same story repeated at Bendigo,
Ballarat, Klondike and California.
The use of the term "technology" has changed significantly over the
last 200 years. Before the 20th century, the term was uncommon in
English, and usually referred to the description or study of the useful arts. The term was often connected to technical education, as in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chartered in 1861).
The term "technology" rose to prominence in the 20th century in connection with the Second Industrial Revolution. The term's meanings changed in the early 20th century when American social scientists, beginning with Thorstein Veblen, translated ideas from the German concept of Technik into "technology." In German and other European languages, a distinction exists between technik and technologie
that is absent in English, which usually translates both terms as
"technology." By the 1930s, "technology" referred not only to the study
of the industrial arts but to the industrial arts themselves.
In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that "technology
includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing,
clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which
we produce and use them."Bain's definition remains common among scholars today, especially
social scientists, but equally prominent is the definition of technology
as applied science, especially among scientists and engineers, although
most social scientists who study technology reject this definition.
More recently, scholars have borrowed from European philosophers of
"technique" to extend the meaning of technology to various forms of
instrumental reason, as in Foucault's work on technologies of the self (techniques de soi).
Dictionaries and scholars have offered a variety of definitions. The Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary
offers a definition of the term: "the use of science in industry,
engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems" and "a
machine, piece of equipment, method, etc., that is created by
technology."Ursula Franklin,
in her 1989 "Real World of Technology" lecture, gave another definition
of the concept; it is "practice, the way we do things around here." The
term is often used to imply a specific field of technology, or to refer
to high technology or just consumer electronics, rather than technology as a whole.[10] Bernard Stiegler, in Technics and Time, 1, defines technology in two ways: as "the pursuit of life by means other than life," and as "organized inorganic matt
Under 45 years of age, and with good health status.
1. Certificate of HSK
HSK level 5 (HSK level 3 required for the
major of teaching Chinese as foreign language ). Without certificate
students could be academic probation.
2. Photocopy of valid passport
With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included
3. Passport photo
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4. High school academic transcript
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Graduation certificate in languages other
than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and
be certified by notarization.
6. Letter of guarantee
The guardian should write out his/her name,
nationality, occupation and address (if an organization acts as the
guardian, reference to the organization should be made clear).
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