Rousseau had read about an essay competition sponsored by the Académie de Dijon to be published in the Mercure de France on the theme of whether the development of the arts and sciences had been morally beneficial.

Joan Robinson published a book The Economics of imperfect competition ' with a comparable theme of distinguishing perfect from imperfect competition.

It can also be likened to a jealousy competition ( jealousy being the central theme in Shakespeare's play ), since players engulf the pieces of the opponent, thereby turning them to their possession.

The story's theme of competition between the Lord and humans appears elsewhere in Genesis, in the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

This segment of the competition combines features of the discontinued CDs and ODs ; each team performs a required pattern from one of the compulsory dances for about one half of the dance, then performs its own choreography, with some required elements, to a theme or rhythm specified by the ISU.

It is a working horse farm and an educational theme park, along with holding the distinction of being a retirement home for some of the world's greatest competition horses including Cigar and 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide.

In two late Roman sources, Hyginus and Ovid, Pan is substituted for the satyr Marsyas in the theme of a musical competition ( agon ), and the punishment by flaying is omitted.

In 1953 the American magazine The Saturday Review organised a competition to find plausible candidates for the Enigma theme.

In the evening is the Extravaganza-a show of sketches and acts about Alderney, the theme, and inter-island competition.

During the 1980s, Knott's met the competition in Southern California theme parks by theming a new land and building two massive attractions:

Most editions had a theme, with contestants singing songs from a particular genre or artist ( no original songs were performed at any stage in the competition ).

The competition uses realistic ROV-based missions that simulate a high-performance workplace environment, focusing on a different theme that exposes students to many different aspects of marine-related technical skills and occupations.

Halloween is also the time for a major costume competition that takes place on North Halsted, from Belmont to Cornelia, with an annual theme and categories from children and pets to adult groups from humorous to scary.

She also proved to be musically talented by helping Aisha write the winning entry in Angel Grove High School's competition to write a school theme song.

In both cases there are designated judges who compare the videos, either by the theme, the timing or overall production quality of the videos made during the competition.

Each years competition is run on a monthly basis, with each month having a dedicated " theme " for the images to adhere to.

Virgin asked B3ta to run an image competition in which board members could win PlayStation Portables and an Xbox 360 for creating something on the theme " What would happen if you said Yes to everything ?".

USAD releases the topics and theme of the following year's competition in early March, giving students time to prepare for a competition season that runs from November to April.

In the remaining two weeks out of every three, Sondheim's friend Mary Ann Madden edited an extremely popular witty literary competition calling for readers to send in humorous poetry or other bits of wordplay on a theme that changed with each installment.

Milo's theme was the school's official theme for the medallion competition of 1819, where Bayre earned an honorable mention.

Market Forces satirizes corporate practices and globalization and carries the theme of competition throughout the story.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

The theme of glorious summer coming after a long winter of discontent and repression was, he has told us, congenial to his artistic sense.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

Indeed, contract was the dominant legal theme of the century, the touchstone of the free society.

The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.

it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.

This kind of art goes back to the Minoan period, when its main theme was the representation of motion in a specific moment.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

This theme was greater strengthened by Christie ’ s time spent in the Middle East where she was consistently surrounded by the religious temples and spiritual history of the towns and cities they were excavating in Mallowan ’ s archaeological work.

It was also used as the entrance theme for Ricky Steamboat in pro wrestling of the mid 1980s.

These symbols show the deep religiosity of Gaudi, who was inspired by the contemporaneous construction of his basilica to choose the theme of the holy family.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

It is true that the theme of marriages in various difficulties was heavily present throughout his plays in the early seventies, around the time his own marriage was coming to an end.

On the Electron version of Frak !, the tune was the main theme from " Benny Hill ".

In this reign of a weak Emperor dominated by court politics, a major theme was the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople at this period meant Goths.

-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, but it was a recurring theme in the Eastern Roman Empire.