...Throughout the newspaper, we can often read some kind of suicide cases, don’t we? Those cases are even more common on teens. However, is it means life is no longer treasure? Is that mean we can end it whatever time we want? Definitely not. The novel by Terry Trueman, Stuck In Neutral is a good example to express. Shawn, 14 years old, who is the main character. Unfortunately, he has to suffer from his congenital diseases. As the parents of Shawn, Sydney had to decide whether to end or not to end the pain. Meaning, to kill Shawn or not. Either way, euthanasia should not be legal, unless doctors prove a fully detail report to tell there is no hope and patient himself must agree to it. While we are suffering from disease, besides to be...
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...Taft Stuck in the Tub It has been passed around for years, the story of Taft stuck in a tub. The story goes, that William Howard Taft once found himself stuck in a bathtub. It is also said that it took four different men to remove him. The truth behind this story is murky but the following is true. Taft was the 27th President of the United States of America. Born September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati Ohio to Louisa Maria Torrey and Alphonso Taft. And he was one of no less than six children. And he spent his school career at a private school—and went to Yale. Yale, home to the underground organization known as “Skull and Crossbones” which was created—in part by Taft’s father—was a group which he joined during his college career. Following college life he married Helen Herron Taft, from 1886 to 1930. He had three children, Robert A. Taft, Helen Taft Manning, and Charles Phelps Taft II. He later went to the University of Cincinnati Law School and worked part time as a courthouse reporter for the Cincinnati Commercial. Before eventually becoming president. He ran for the presidency as the candidate of the Republican party. And won—he was sworn in—in 1909 and served only one term. When running for his second term he lost terribly. Even though he was originally held up by...
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...“Stuck in the Middle” From families with two parents to one and families with one child to multiple, families are all different. And, just as every family is different, every family has its own problems. The Wingfield family, in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” is definitely different with its own unique set of problems. Amanda, the mother; Tom, the son; and Laura, the daughter, are all extremely detached from reality. They all live in a live in a world of fantasy. But, out of all three characters the daughter, who appears to be the most detached at first, is forced to be the most in touch with reality because of how she must be the mediator between her mother and brother. While all three members of the family are grown adults, they all still live in a cramped apartment together. And, the mother, Amanda, still treats both of her completely grown children as if they are still small children in need of constant guidance. Amanda is constantly correcting Tom and Laura, telling them how to behave or how to dress or even how to chew their food. Amanda also continuously reminisces on stories of how when she was a young girl in Blue Mountain, she had numerous gentlemen callers and expresses how Laura needs to obtain gentleman callers of her own. Out of everything that Amanda does what points out her refusal to face reality the most is the fact that she refuses to admit that Laura is crippled or to even voice the very word. The constant control that Amanda places over Tom...
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...voting相同的效果。 2. fsd’( X’) = [X’n+1f(X’) + Xn+1fd(X’)]’ = [X’n+1f(X’)]’[Xn+1fd(X’)]’ = [Xn+1+f’(X’)][X’n+1+fd’(X’)] = Xn+1 X’n+1 + Xn+1 fd’(X’) +f’(X’)X’n+1+f’(X’) fd’(X’) = 0 + Xn+1 f(X) + f(X’)Xn+1 + fd(X) f(X) ………………. (1) a. if f(X) != fd(X) (1) = 0 + Xn+1 f(X) + Xn+1 fd’(X) + 0= fsd(X) = fsd’( X’) b. if f(X) = fd(X) fsd( X) = Xn+1 f(X) + X’n+1 fd(X) = (Xn+1 + X’n+1) f(X) = f(X) f’sd( X’) = f’(X’) = fd(X) = f(X) = fsd( X) 所以當X為任意值，都可證得fsd(X) = f’sd( X’)，故其是self-dual 3. 有四種情形是failure，分別是(0,0)->1，(0,1)->0，(1,0)->0，(1,1)->0 a. (0,0)->1 代表兩個輸入中有發生stuck-at-1的情形 我們知道兩個input都無stuck-at-1的機率是(1-P1)^2 又輸入為(0,0)之機率為0.25 故此狀況發生機率為0.25(1-(1-P1)^2) b. (0,1)->0 代表後面那個input發生stuck-at-0，而且前面的input無stuck-at-1。 機率為 0.25(P0*(1-P1)) c. (1,0)->0 機率同b d. (1,1)->0 代表兩者皆stuck-at-0，機率為 0.25(P0^2) 總體機率為四者相加，整理後得機率為 0.25 (P1^2 + P0^2 – 2P1P0 + 2P1 + 2P0) 4. a. Fault- is a physical defect, imperfection or flaw within the hardware or software component. Error- is the manifestation of a fault. Specifically, it is a deviation from accuracy or correctness. Failure- is the deviation from expected actions or services. Fault -> Error -> Failure It is failure that really annoying users. b. permanent fault是永久錯誤，一但出現就不會因重複而消失。例如RAM燒壞，重開機是沒用的。 intermittent fault 是偶發性錯誤，有時正常有時會發生錯誤。例如接觸不良。 transient fault 是暫態錯誤，不需理會就會回復穩定與正常狀態，是相對短暫的錯誤。例如剛按下電風扇時轉速過慢。 c. Reliability...
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...Michael Porter (Harvard Business School) originally discussed the problem of “stuck in the middle.” He said that the profitability of firms depends on the firm’s position and competitive advantage in that industry. He argued that competitive advantage derives from one of two strategies: cost leadership or differentiation of products or services. The problem, Porter said, was in trying to do both and thus doing neither very well. He seemed to be saying, “find what you are good at and stick to it.” Some examples: Industry | Differentiators | Stuck in the middle | Cost Leaders | Cellphones | Apple, Google | Nokia | Commodity Manufacturers | Retailing | Nordstrom, Banana Republic | K-Mart, JC Penny | Walmart, Target | Airlines | Cathay, Emirates | American Airlines | Jet Blue, Spirit Airlines | I think that being stuck in the middle could be seen as: 1. “Oh no, we are heading in the wrong direction because we have no direction of what do we do, who is our customer and what is our vision”. In this case, you need to decide: a. What your business is and isn’t. b. Who your business will sell to and who it won’t. c. What your business will sell and what it won’t. If you don’t do anything, prepare to have your business suffer and possibly face extinction. OR 2. We are in the middle to discover possible new segments of demand. After all, demand can be defined on numerous dimensions, well beyond cost and difference, such as convenience, style, and...
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...Zatre Lenoir Problem Solving Theory Unit 2 Research Paper 1 “Stuck on Red” My wife, Patricia, claims to be a patient woman. She says she just doesn’t like to wait. She REALLY doesn’t! Not at a restaurant, not in the grocery store line, not at a sporting event ticket booth and certainly not at a stoplight. “I got things to do and I don’t want to sit there wasting time,” she says. This is one of the many things we can fully agree and relate on. I can’t stand to be “stuck on Red”! There are lights that crank up the bad feelings in most of us. And there are lights that just simply might need a little adjustment. While I realize that traffic lights are needed, it is not necessary to sit at the same light long enough to grow a beard! I have devised a plan to cut traffic light stop times down. These are the steps needed to make this happen. Step one: place weight sensor plates about the size of a quarter every 12 feet starting 48 feet from the traffic light. Step two: sync the sensors to a main frame computer system that will trigger the light to switch colors based on the information it receives from the sensors. Step three: test the sensors with a trail run for one week. Step four: gather data and feedback from drivers who have used this route. Traffic lights are already wired into a mainframe with a timer system and could be switched out to this system very cost effectively based on my research and the cost of the sensors. The average cost for one sensor is $24.00. If...
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...Michael Porter’s “Generic Strategies” • Porter’s five-forces model describes strategy as taking actions that create defendable positions in an industry. • In general, the strategy can be offensive or defensive with respect to competitive forces. • Defensive strategies take the structure of the industry as given, and position the company to match its strengths and weaknesses to it. • In contrast, offensive strategies are designed to do more than simply cope with each of the competitive forces; they are meant to alter the underlying cause of such forces, thereby altering the competitive environment itself. There are, of course, many specific strategies of each type (offensive or defensive), and identifying which is best depends on the circumstances. But Porter suggests 3 broad or generic strategies for creating a defendable position in the long-run and outperforming competitors. 1) Cost Leadership • Cost leadership means having the lowest per-unit (i.e., average) cost in the industry – that is, lowest cost relative to your rivals. • This could mean having the lowest per-unit cost among rivals in highly competitive industries, in which case returns or profits will be low but nonetheless higher than competitors • Or, this could mean having lowest cost among a few rivals where each firm enjoys pricing power and high profits. • Notice that cost leadership is defined independently of market structure. Cost leadership is a defendable strategy because: I. It defends...
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...The drama, The Great Gatsby, is about a young man named Nick Carraway who moves to New York to learn about the bond business. The setting of this drama takes place in the 1920s also called the Roaring Twenties. He rents a house in West Egg, part of Long Island which is popluated by rich folk. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a big mansion and throws parties every Saturday night. Nick becomes friends with Gatsby and learns about his extravagant life. As the play continues, the narrator meets the rest of the characters in they play. Nick's meets Daisy Buchanan and her aggressive husband Tom. He also meets Jordan Baker who becomes a love interest for Nick. Daisy's husband, Tom, has a lover named Myrtle and she lives with her husband at the industrial area between West Egg and New York. The title of this story is named after the character James Gats. He was raised in a poor family and longed for wealth and success. When he got old enough he joined the military and met a beautiful rich girl named Daisy. He couldn’t marry her because he wasn’t rich. Daisy fell for him because he was in uniform and had very good manners, so she couldn’t tell if he was poor or rich. After several years, he came back from the war, but Daisy got married with Tom. Gatsby's obsession was to become rich and win back Daisy. This obsession leads to Gatsby's downfall. Both Nick and Gatsby are similar characters. They both came from the West and worked hard...
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...Everything stuck to him I went to Milan from Christmas and I really want to know what it was like when I was a child. “I asked my father, tell me what it was like”, as i sip the Strega, waiting for him to answer me. “ That was along time ago”, my father said. “almost twenty years.” “You can remember”, I say as he is thinking of the story he is going to tell. “ I could tell you about something that happened, They were kids themselves, but they were crazy in love, this eighteen-year-old boy and this seventeen-year-old girl when they married. Not all that long afterwards they had a daughter. The baby came along in late November during a cold spell that just happened to coincide with the peak of the waterfowl season. The boy loved to hunt, you see. That’s part of it. The boy and girl, husband and wife, father and mother, they lived in a little apartment under a dentist’s office. Each night they cleaned the dentist’s place upstairs in exchange for rent and utilities. In summer they were expected to maintain the lawn and the flowers. In winter the boy shoveled snow and spread rock salt on the walks. Are you still with me? Are you getting the picture? I am, she says. That’s good, he says. So one day the dentist finds out they were using his letterhead for their personal correspondence. But that’s another story. He gets up from his chair and looks out the window. He sees the tile rooftops and the snow that is falling steadily on them. Tell the story, she says. The two...
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...Stuck I remember the first day I learned about my dad’s illness, I was about twelve years old when my grandpa got a call from my grandma. She told him my dad was “stuck” and needed to go pick him and my little brother up. When they say he is “stuck”, it means he has a panic attack and can’t keep going away from home. Often times he can’t come back so he needs someone to go get him. My dad was driving to a furniture store so I was a little worried when they said he was stuck. I came to find out that my dad has Agoraphobia. Even since I was little, I can recall my dad not being able to go far from his home. He lives with my grandma and even something as small as going to the grocery store requires him to have someone by his side. The main complications...
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...Dear Stuck in the Middle, First off don’t beat yourself up about the problems in your relationship, we all go through them and I am sure it will get better. That being said, I do agree with you on this matter. The Never Ending Story was an amazing show. The actors in GPAC were pretty great. Moving away from my opinion now, I can give some details on what they play was really about and the meanings of each scene and characters. The plot pretty easy to follow and was actually very clever. This story used two levels of reality. This means that there were two different things going on at once, there was the boy reading the book and then there was the actually tale that was being told. Maybe that’s why your girlfriend had a hard time believing this was a good show, she maybe didn’t understand why there was just a random boy (who was played by an obvious girl) on the side of the stage. It seemed to be this modern fairy tale that seemed to somehow mash well with the reality today. This show spoke to the little scared child that is in all of us, it gave us hope and made us feel like the hero. The acting quality in GPAC could have been more professional, but it was a student production, so for what it was I feel it was pretty descent. We all make mistakes every now and then, it’s only natural. The costumes and the scenery were basic, but it was still somehow enchanting. The dresses and the costumes for the different characters were pretty nice to look at, the horse could...
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...Women in the Workplace: The Glass Ceiling If glass ceilings existed, they would allow people to see through to the world above them. Because glass is clear, those existing under such a ceiling might not, at first, even notice that a barrier was in place which separated them from higher levels. Yet if they tried to pass through, they would quickly learn that the ceiling prevented them from doing that. But let�s face it. Women have known about glass ceilings in the executive suite and throughout all levels of the workforce long before the Wall Street Journal highlighted the problem in March 1986. It was coined in the media to describe what happens to women when they are denied opportunity to the upper levels of executive management. Thousands of qualified women and minority men are routinely denied top level jobs in corporate America. But instead of calling it racism, sexism, or xenophobia, we call it the "glass ceiling." For people confronting these barriers, it is discrimination - plain and simple. Glass ceiling" is a term that describes the artificial plateau, beyond which women and other minorities are denied the opportunity to advance to upper levels of executive management in corporate America (Castro, 1997). It has become a routine practice to deny thousands of qualified women the top level jobs, merited by their performance. The "glass ceiling" barriers toward women are nothing but an insidious form of sex discrimination, in violation of law(Feldman, 1997). Glass...
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...Title:” Metaphor” by Eve Merriam “Metaphor” is the comparison between two things directly and do not use the words” as” or “like”. In this poem, Morning is a new sheet paper for you to write on -the poet is comparing the day with a sheet of paper and your action with a pen without an eraser. Every word on this paper represents something priceless. Each sunrise symbolizes a new sheet of paper or a new day. The pencil that writes on this piece of paper can only relate to your action. It cannot erase or rewrite what was noted down. Whatever you want to say, all day, until the night folds up and flies away- May your words have a solid foundation that will bring joy and happiness to oneself. Every sentence that contains my words shouldn’t offend anyone but should bring joy and satisfaction to my fellow being. A sheet of paper completes when sunset appears, and no line can repeat itself because once it is gone it can’t return again. The bright words and the dark words are gone-May this pen always be exposed to light in order to continue to write the glory of positivity, and to never encounter darkness where all lines will disappear. Until dawn and a new day to write on-The light are fading away, soon dawn will appear, and there will be an absent of light that will resolve in darkness. Light will disappear, and darkness will appear and so there will be no more line on this sheet of paper. In conclusion- Only my pen can determine what the future holds for me. I hope that this...
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...After watching The Matrix and reading the readings from Plato and Descartes you se some differences and similarities between the two. When comparing the hit movie The Matrix with the readings from Plato and Descartes there are many similarities. Some of the ways that they are similar are; In The Matrix you watch or read about a man named Neo who by day is a normal joe, doing normal joe things but, by night is a computer hacker. This is his life, or at least the life that he knows to be true. From the readings of Plato and Descartes we consider what would happen to a man that is trapped in a cave only ever looking forward and can assume that again this is his life, or, at least the life that he knows to be true. What we could understand from The Matrix and the Plato readings both is, that; both men are living lives that they assume are normal or the same as everyone else; because neither of the men have ever known another life, or known that there are things beyond themselves. This makes the first major similarity that, that people only know what is true to them. If a person spends the majority of their life believing that something is one way, then to them that is their truth. The second thing that The Matrix and Plato readings have in common is that both discuss what happens when the above said person would be, “brought to the light.” Both attempts to consider what would happen when the (in a sense) “trapped” person is shown the truth about the life that they are living and shown...
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...South Africa: Stuck in the Middle? | 2014 | 1. Why is South Africa stuck in the middle? 2. Please find at least three problems to answer the first question. 3. Give your opinion for solving each of the problems mentioned in second answer. | | Contents Africa is experiencing extraordinary growth 2 Challenges 2 Challenge #1 Education 2 Challenge #2 Unemployment 3 Challenge #3 South Africa's growth path is highly resource intensive and hence unsustainable 4 Solutions 4 Solution # 1 - Improve education form the bottom up 4 Solution # 2 – Address unemployment from a new angle and become More attractive to Global business and entrepreneurship 6 Solution # 3 - Reduce the need for commodities and Invest in technology and entrepreneurship 8 Conclusion 8 Africa is experiencing extraordinary growth, In fact this decade has seen more growth for Africa than any other time in history making it six in the world’s 10 rising economy’s. Life expectancy is improving and HIV rates are down almost 30%. Malaria is also down and despite SA having the highest concentration of HIV in the world, African children born today are increasing their life expectancy one year for every three years over the last a decade. Education rates are increasing 25%, and more young educated man are entering the South African workforce. Yet despite these growth factors South Africa, and the continent of Africa as a whole...
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