Alfred T. Mahan

(noun)

U.S. Naval officer and highly influential geopolitical strategist. His views on the centrality of naval power to geopolitical stature influenced military strategy among world powers and helped cause the European arm's race of the 1890s.

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Examples of Alfred T. Mahan in the following topics:

  • The Debate over American Imperialism

    • There is also a conservative, anti-interventionist view as expressed by American journalist John T.
    • Alfred T.
    • Mahan, who served as an officer in the U.S.
    • In chapter one, Mahan argued that modern industrial nations must secure foreign markets for the purpose of exchanging goods and, consequently, they must maintain a maritime force that is capable of protecting these trade routes.
    • Mahan's argument provides a context that also justifies imperialism by industrial nations such as the United States .

  • Progressivism and Religion

    • During the same era Asa Mahan, the president of Oberlin College, and Charles Grandison Finney, an evangelist associated with the college, promoted the idea of Christian holiness.
    • In 1836, Mahan experienced what he called a baptism with the Holy Spirit.
    • Important leaders include Richard T.

  • Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

    • Four particularly notable Neo-Freudians are Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, and Karen Horney.
    • Alfred Adler was the first to explore and develop a comprehensive social theory of the psychodynamic person.
    • Adler proposed the concept of the inferiority complex, which describes a person’s feelings that they lack worth and don’t measure up to the standards of others or of society.

  • Sexual Orientation

    • Alfred Kinsey was among the first to conceptualize sexuality as a continuum, rather than a strict dichotomy of gay or straight.
    • In 2011, President Obama overturned "don't ask, don't tell," a controversial policy that required homosexuals in the U.S. military to keep their sexuality undisclosed.
    • Alfred Kinsey was among the first to conceptualize sexuality as a continuum, rather than a strict dichotomy of gay or straight.

  • Mead

    • For example, to believe my cheating spouse is faithful may help me feel better now, but it is certainly not useful from a more long-term perspective because it doesn't accord with the facts (and is therefore not true).
    • For example, to believe my cheating spouse is faithful may help me feel better now, but it is certainly not useful from a more long-term perspective because it doesn't align with the facts (and is therefore not true).
    • Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead considered Mead a thinker of the first rank.

  • Clinton and Domestic Policy

    • Clinton's domestic policies included One America, reforms of the criminal justice system, and the implementation of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and DOMA.
    • Instead of lifting the longstanding ban, the armed forces would adopt a policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell”: those on active duty would not be asked their sexual orientation and, if they were gay, they were not to discuss their sexuality openly or they would be dismissed from military service.
    • Army soldier Timothy McVeigh parked a rented truck full of explosives in front of the Alfred P.

  • The Primary Structure of DNA

    • In addition, he found that the amount of adenine (A) always equaled the amount of thymine (T), and the amount of guanine (G) always equaled the amount of cytosine (C), regardless of the DNA source.
    • As set forth in the following table, the ratio of (A+T) to (C+G) varied from 2.70 to 0.35.
    • In a second critical study, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase showed that when a bacterium is infected and genetically transformed by a virus, at least 80% of the viral DNA enters the bacterial cell and at least 80% of the viral protein remains outside.
    • The other forms of RNA are messenger RNA , mRNA, and transfer RNA , tRNA.

  • Version Control Vocabulary

    • When used in discussion, "checkout" usually means something like "clone", except that centralized systems don't really clone the full repository, they just obtain a working copy or working files.
    • A copy of the project, under version control but isolated so that changes made to the branch don't affect other branches of the project, and vice versa, except when changes are deliberately "merged" from one branch to another (see below).
    • This way, making a release needn't interfere with ongoing development work.
    • For example, "I can't commit any changes to the web pages right now.
    • It seems Alfred has them all locked while he fixes their background images. " Not all version control systems even offer the ability to lock, and of those that do, not all require the locking feature to be used.

  • Economic Way of Thinking

    • Joan Robinson's [1903-1983] comment was, "If you don't ask the right question, you won't get the right answer."
    • Alfred Marshall (1842-1924, English Economist), Léon Walras (1834-1910, French/Swiss) and Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923, Itallian/French/Swiss) were among the writers who were instrumental in the development of Neoclassical economics in the basic form that persists.
    • Alfred Marshall is best known for his use of partial equilibrium that requires the concept of ceteris paribus.