... change the past or change the laws. If determinism is true, he argues, our present actions are a direct combination of the past and the laws. And on that basis, he concludes that if determinism is true then what we in fact do is all that we can do. David Lewis rejects this reasoning. He claims that while there is sense in which we cannot break the laws of nature, there is also a sense in which we can break the laws of nature. Moreover, he claims that once we appreciate this distinction, Van Inwagen’s argument for the incompatibility of freedom and determinism collapses. Who has the better of this dispute? Write a paper which answers that question. There are many possible strategies you might adopt. For example, you could defend Van Inwagen against the claim that his argument cannot go ...
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...Creative Writing Response “Encountering conflict changes one’s values.” Friday afternoon, finally. Barely 4pm and she’d already snuggled down into the warmth of her bed, exhausted, miserable. Relieved that she didn’t have to face school again for a couple of days, the stares, the giggles, the shoves in the corridor. The relentless whispering and snide remarks. Pathetic bullies, she thought bitterly. That’s all they are. But despite her brave words, her eyes still smarted and she ached with the knowledge that there was nothing she could do. She hated it, the injustice of the way those girls treated her, treated others too, and she wanted to be brave. But she could never stand up to them. They could exile her completely, spread more rumours about her. What if she ended up with no friends, a social disaster, a freak? Her eyes stung as she struggled within herself. Better to stay quiet. Better to keep her head down, ignore them, wait for it to end. The injustice of the situation bruised her to her core, but she could never face losing the little popularity she had. She sunk down into her pillow and blissful sleep washed over her, easing her aching heart. A playful breeze danced around her and Gran as they walked together down by the pond. Gran was small and impossibly old, but she was sturdy, with a thick French accent and a thousand wrinkles. She was currently recounting her recent trip to the hospital, dismissing her heart palpitations as nothing serious, nothing wrong. “That’s...
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...Consequences of a Euro break-up * The Euro should not exist (like this) Under the current structure and with the current membership, the Euro does not work. Either the current structure will have to change, or the current membership will have to change. * Fiscal confederation, not break-up Our base case with an overwhelming probability is that the Euro moves slowly (and painfully) towards some kind of fiscal integration. The risk case, of break-up, is considerably more costly and close to zero probability. Countries can not be expelled, but sovereign states could choose to secede. However, popular discussion of the break-up option considerably underestimates the consequences of such a move. * The economic cost The cost of a weak country leaving the Euro is significant. Consequences include sovereign default, corporate default, collapse of the banking system and collapse of international trade. There is little prospect of devaluation offering much assistance. We estimate that a weak Euro country leaving the Euro would incur a cost of around EUR9,500 to EUR11,500 per person in the exiting country during the first year. That cost would then probably amount to EUR3,000 to EUR4,000 per person per year over subsequent years. That equates to a range of 40% to 50% of GDP in the first year. * The economic cost Were a stronger country such as Germany to leave the Euro, the consequences would include corporate default, recapitalisation of the banking system and collapse...
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...text and image to generate the password schemes. Once the table is been compromised, the table can be changed as well. And it will be up to the password generator person to inform their users. 5.1.5 Against password guessing Most users create password which are weak and these passwords also have word lists that allow the attackers to use. John the Ripper can also break the password when compared against its rainbow list. Thus using generated password increases the time and duration that the password will be cracked and this will probably protect the data for that limited time. The rate of getting the password guessed depends on the cryptographic function used by the system to generate the password hashes. A user-selected eight characters with number and mixed symbols and caes are about 30 bit strength and can be cracked in seconds if the password hash used are weak....
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... and Okonkwo is considered a success in the village of Umuofia, while Unoka is considered the village’s largest failure. Chinua Achebe portrays men as failures, masculine, and as weak minded. Unoka is Okonkwo’s father and in the village, Unoka is known as being the most irresponsible man in Umuofia due to him owing money to most of the people of the village and him not being able to provide for his family most of the time. “Unoka, the grown-up, was a failure. He was poor, and his wife and children had barely enough to eat. People laughed at him because he was a loafer, and they swore never to lend him any more money because he never...
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...bid deal then jerry distrust her. husband. In the business trip Ted tries to call jerry and tries to convince her but she doesn’t answer his call. Ted returns from her business trip with flowers in his hand hoping for a loving reception. But jerry thinks that her husband had cheated on her and thinks that her husband has sexual relationship with Janice. So she also makes up her mind that if her husband can have affair with another women than why cant I? So in order to balance the account she also spends a night with another person. Because Ted and jerry could not express their honesty and due to misunderstanding their marriage break up easily and both of then lives separately. So in the pre-code era all the marriage is shown as a weak relation which is cause of sexual nature of both men and women. This story shows that the marriage relationship is weak and vulnerable which results to divorce. In the pre-code movies all the marriages are not perfect. Since this movie was released in the pre-code era , this movies Is same as...
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...2 | Identify any examples of bias presented by the author. If none exist, explain how you determined this. | There are no examples of bias presented by the author. The premises support the conclusion. There is accurate information provided to show why the tax break should end. | 3 | Identify any areas that are vague or ambiguous. If none exist, explain how you determined this. | There are no areas of vague or ambiguous. The author provides accurate information that shows that the high income tax break should end. By allowing the rich families to be allowed a tax break is only making the economy worst. Rich families have the funding to pay taxes and should be not receiving a tax break. | 4 | Do you find the source credible? Explain your reasoning. | I do find this source credible because there is accurate information provided. That could be used to show the benefit of the economy changing by letting the tax break to end. | 5 | Identify and name any rhetorical devices used by the author. If none exist, explain how you determined this. | There are no rhetorical devices used by the author. The authors provide premises that support the conclusion. There is accurate information provided to support why ending the tax break would...
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...Jacinta Houng Comparing the Solubility of Chemicals in Water “Water is known as the “universal solvent” because so many different substances dissolve in it and we rely on this for many of our daily needs.” Introduction: Water is known as the ‘universal solvent’ as it is capable of dissolving a variety of different substances and dissolves more substances than any other liquid. However the ability to be soluble depends on a substances polarity and bonding. This then contributes to the various ways that different types of chemicals interact in water. Solubility is crucial to every living thing on earth as water can carry along valuable chemicals, minerals, and nutrients necessary for survival. In fact Water covers 70% of the Earths surface and composes 55-70% of the human body. Water is an excellent solvent due to its chemical composition and physical attributes. According to USGS (http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-solvent.html ) Water molecules have a polar arrangement of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms—one side (hydrogen) has a positive electrical charge and the other side (oxygen) has a negative charge. A polar bond is a covalent bond between two atoms where the electrons forming the bond are unequally distributed. This causes the molecule to have a slight electrical dipole moment where one end is slightly positive and the other is slightly negative. "Like dissolves like" is an expression used by chemists to help them remember how solvents work. The expression refers to...
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...created fear, distrust and envy among them. You must pitch the old black male against the young and vise versa. Pitch the light skin slaves against the dark skin slaves and vise versa. Pitch the male against the female slave and vise versa. He guaranteed that the distrust and envy would be self-regenerating and would outlast any adulation, respect or admiration. While crafting the fear distrust and envy among them, ensure that they love, respect, and depend on us, the slave master. The second method is to break the negro slave so there are useful for production for business and pleasure. Pay attention to the female and the youngest offspring because you will need to crossbreed to produce a variety and division of labor. He talks about breaking them like one would a horse. He ties both horse and slave together in order to break them. Break the will to resist. This is necessary for long range financial planning. KEEP THE BODY, BUT TAKE THE MIND. If you break the...
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...and friends who can connect very easily with strong ties. Individuals have different ways to approach relationships. Givers and takers are the most common people, and they approach relationships differently. Even though givers and takers have a same strong social network, givers always have one indivisible advantage than the takers, “weak ties”. The “weak ties” are widely connections with outer circle’s people who are classmates, strangers and friends who people less to communicate and interact. Since the...
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...symmetric encryption requires a quadratic number of secret keys. Efficiency: existing symmetric encryption methods are much faster and use much shorter keys than existing public-key encryption methods. Usability: symmetric-key encryption is easier to understand by a non-expert than public-key encryption. 2. Give an example of the false sense of security that can come from using the “security by obscurity" approach. Solution There are many examples. One possibility would be to use a weak encryption algorithm, like the Caesar cipher and try to keep secret the type of algorithm that you are using, in addition to keeping the key secret. The problem with this approach is that if someone guesses you are using such an algorithm or is able to reverse engineering your software, then they will discover your algorithm. From there it is a simple matter to break your weak encryption scheme. 3. Benny is a thief who tried to break into an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) using a screwdriver, but was only able to break five different keys on the numeric keypad and jam the card reader, at which point he heard Alice coming, so he hid. Alice walked up, put in her ATM card, successfully entered her 4-digit PIN, and took some cash. But she was not able to get her card back, so she drove off to find help. Benny then went back to the ATM, and started entering numbers to try to discover Alice's PIN and...
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...LEARNING PLAN 21ST CenturyLiteracy | Level ofCompetency (Strong, Good, Weak) | Activities to Improve/Enhance Literacy | Time frame | Support/ResourcesNeeded | Barriers/Challenges | Solution/ActionPoint | The Arts andCreativity | Good | *Attend Seminar/Workshop on Enhancing Arts and Creativity Skills in Problem Solving | * 3 years every semestral break | * Seminar Workshop/Training Fund | *Arts Skills not developed*Conflict time with teaching period* Insufficient funding | *Ask permission/authority to the Department you are in the service*Give set/time for trainings/seminars*Grab the opportunity when there are free or not free seminars/trainings/workshop offered by the Department. | Ecoliteracy | *Good | *Attend seminars and participate in every in every activities promoting ecological literacy to develop awareness of the environment. | *3 every semestral break | * Seminars/Activities/Programs conducted by Environmental agencies/funds. | *Conflict time | * Ask permission/authority to the Department you are in the service*Give/Set time for training seminars. | Cyberliteracy(Computer and ICT) | *Good | *Attend computer related seminar-workshops to acquire develop skills in the use of computers, internet & other information technologies. * Enroll a computed related course (e.g. online course) * Integrate/use ICT in every subjects most often as a tool of learning process. | * 3 every semestral break | *Seminars/Programs/Activities required by the DepEd*Online Tutorial/...
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...satisfying than in Anthem. Next, living conditions are very clean. Living in prison isn't dirty and you won't see dirt on the ground or human waste on the floor. Last, living in modern day, you have much more freedom than in Anthem. For example, in Modern day prison, you can go outside and play basketball and workout which in Anthem Prison you can't do that. The next main point is security is much better than Anthem Prison. The first example is that the security guards are smarter, stronger, and much more aware. Secondly, the technology is much better. Modern day Prison have High Tech cameras which record in 1080p and you can rewind and pause. Finally, jail cells and doors are much stronger and are made out of steel which is nearly impossible to break through by hand. The last point is that punishment isn't as bad as in Anthem. When you get hit by a security guard, they don't hit you to the point you can't handle it, they hit you to settle down. Although, the security guards can't kill you, but they can use a taser or pepper spray you bring you down. Last, people in prison can't get tortured by a security guard, but u can get tortured by an inmate, but they will stay in prison longer. These are the...
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOSIM & ETHICAL EGOISM There are many different ways to interpret psychological egoism and ethical egoism. Both of this theories have been studied, both have people supporting them as well as rejecting them. Psychological egoism states that whatever you do is for the soul purpose of self-gain no matter what the cost. Ethical egoism in definition is you doing things with the purpose of self-gain but not going farther than the social moral standard to accomplish those goals. I will show how psychological egoism and ethical egoism are false by showing how people sometimes do things because they just feel like doing them, and not all actions have a hidden meaning behind them. Psychological egoism is the theory that claims that anything you do, no matter what it is, is motivated by self-interest. That your motivation is influenced by your desires. That all of our actions even if they may appear to be altruistic, they must have a selfish motive behind it. Even with evidence of altruistic acts from today or in the past, believers of this theory will tell you that those actions can be traced back to acts of selfishness and not for the well-being of others. Last Sunday, while listening to the priest give his explanation of the Gospel, he narrated how once Mother Theresa found this malnourished young child in the streets. She noticed that there was a bakery nearby and walked to the bakery along with the child. Once in...
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...Though it is correct that the weak do need a helping hand. Children, the old, the crippled all of them are protected by someone, because they are deemed weak, but protection and enslavement are two completely different things. The weak do not need to be protected in a way that forces them to be completely dependent. The weak need support just enough to hold themselves up but not carry them away. Abolitionist concept of protection was not the pure and kind gesture Fitzhugh makes anti-abolitionist out to be. The protection they gave made slaves lose hope for anything better. Slaves were weak and stayed weak because they were told this and believed it. Though it is not completely the abolitionist fault. Slaves did not question the “protection” they received. Frederick Douglass explains it best in this quote,” I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to darken his moral and...
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