...An example of this is the Sumerian law (an eye for an eye) that says that if a house builder is found guilty of faulty construction that kills the owner’s son, then the builder’s son must be put to death in compensation. The Sumerian concept of justice at times reeks of immaturity and reveals that the sense of virtue is hindered by instinctive tendencies and takes time to develop. The Sumerian practices of slavery and land ownership touch on other issues. The universal traits of nomadic tribes depict egalitarian tendencies where personal property is essentially nonexistent. Slavery does not show up among the universal traits of tribal life, perhaps because nomadic tribes are not willing to take on more mouths to feed. Once the domestication...
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...Universal Law, Theory of Immanuel Kant Kantianism is one of the theories of ethics. The creator of this theory is Immanuel Kant. His central concept was categorical imperative. Universal law of this concept says that you should only act on maxims that you can will to become universal laws. I don’t think that this is a good test for determining what action is morally allowable. This test can be used for many situations, but it doesn’t always work. Each person is very individual, so we can’t say exactly what universal law said. The idea of Kantianism is all about acting on the basis of rules that everyone accepts, but not on the emotions or personal goals. Kant uses Universal law to make the test of those rules. To act only on maxims that you can will to become a universal law is the Universal Law Test. To make the test we have to know the maxim, which is always expressed as a general rule or policy. Maxim is your reason for choosing to act in a given way. Kant’s idea of that test is that if a maxim passes the Universal Law, then this action which passes the test is morally good. For example, if you will say “As a general rule, it is okay to buy sandwiches in school’s buffet because you are hungry”, ok yes, that passes the test. The Universal law said that you can buy sandwiches because everyone will accept that. But if you would say “As a general rule, it is okay to steal sandwiches in school’s buffet because you are hungry”, that would not pass the test. Not everyone will...
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...Melanie Garcia English 015 5 September 2013 Signs of Danger Everyday I pace back and forth on the hard pavement on the edge of the pool with my red tube. Hot sun beaming down on my already burnt skin and tried faces scanning the water. All I look forward to on these summer days is lunch break and free swim time. I know I am safe if anything happens today, I’m a lifeguard, I’m trained to respond to life-threatening situations. Blow a long whistle really loud, point at the person in distress, and press the Emergency Stop button. I’m okay. I kept pacing back and forth doing my job, watching over people’s lives. On this afternoon I encountered a situation that will forever be imprinted in my memory. I remember vividly seeing a body on the mid-surface of the water, sinking. Looking at the body I waited for it to come back up or at least show me some signs of helplessness. Nothing. And I counted “One. Two. Three.” I blew on my whistle, pointed at the body, and went to hit the Emergency Stop button. I jumped right in and my heart was pounding. “Why isn’t he moving or struggling?” “Was this going to be my first unconscious body?” “...Please let them be okay” I thought to myself. As I was getting closer to the body I saw it keep sinking. The worst thoughts came into my mind. When I was right on top of it I left my red lifeguarding tube on the surface and dove straight under, grabbed the heavy man with both my arms, going under his armpits and pushed off the bottom of the pool...
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...Improving Your Note Taking ▪ Effective note taking is one of the keys to succeeding in school. Students should devote a considerable amount of time reviewing information discussed during classroom lectures. It is very difficult remembering specific details from classroom lectures without good notes. These note taking strategies will help you to take better notes: ▪ Make clear and accurate notes Make sure to take legible and accurate notes since it is not uncommon to forget key details discussed in class after it has ended. Frequently, students comprehend the teacher's lecture, so they'll neglect to jot down specific details only to forget them later. Students who keep accurate notes can review them later to fully grasp key concepts during personal study time. Additionally, since during classroom lectures teachers frequently cover many topics, effective notes enable students to concentrate on specific topics. ▪ Come to class prepared Students properly prepared for class usually take better notes. Proper preparation includes completing assigned reading prior to class and reviewing notes from previous lectures. Students who do this can ask questions about confusing concepts and be prepared for new topics. ▪ Compare your notes To ensure your notes are as accurate and detailed as possible, compare them with the notes of other students after class is over. This is useful because your colleagues will frequently write down lecture details that you...
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...The idea of the “flipped classroom” is for a professor to basically put there lectures online for students to watch, and during regular class time they actually work on homework and assignments from the lectures that the students watched online. I think the flipped classroom is a good idea, because I know from personal experience sitting and listening to a lecture in class gets boring after awhile and people tend to not care or listen to what is actually going on. Then the professors wonder why so many students aren’t doing well in the class, and the reason probably is because they are bored and don’t feel like sitting for 50 minutes or an hour and a half listening to a teacher just talk. I actually wouldn’t mind the flipped classroom model because I am one of those students that will get bored sitting in class listening to a teacher talk, especially if it’s a class that I don’t find interesting, like history. It would be good to do interactive things in class so that we don’t have to hear a teacher talk for an hour. The only down side to this would be that some students aren’t going to watch the online lectures. I know for sure I wouldn’t sit at a computer for an hour and listen or watch a lecture. If teachers chose to do this they should at least make their lectures somewhat interactive even online or at least do it in parts so a student isn’t sitting there bored for an hour. I wouldn’t mind for some of my professors to take part in the flipped classroom model, it’s something...
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...people could become angry and/or violent towards you and your argument. 4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members? A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. I belong to several discourse communities of which I don’t know how to label them. It helps to establish common ground for its members by having resources and peers interested in and sharing in your same beliefs and ideals and having peers to converse with to learn and research subject matter than you all enjoy and share interest in. 5. What is the universal audience? What are the...
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...* Liberty and Justice for All GEN/195 August 28, 2012 * I seem to use my reasoning skills (rationality) to determine what processes and systems should be put into place to assure fairness and justice for all the community (equality). Using reasoning skills and justice thoroughly explains why my personal preferred lens is the relationship lens. I seek to have relationships with others, especially the underprivileged. Great relationships are built while helping others who sometimes do not have the ability or resources to help themselves. * * My blind spot is overconfidence in a process. There is truth in this because I do overly trust in the “process”; the process of fairness. I do not like seeing or hearing of anyone being treated unfairly and it bothers me to find out that not everyone has what I consider to be valuable morals. Also, to find out that someone less fortunate or inadequate according to America’s standards (i.e.-financially, physically, or a minority) isn’t being treated fairly literally makes me angry on the inside. This ultimately causes me to fight harder for the process’s sake-fairness and equality for all; especially the underprivileged. * * It is comforting to know that my strength is justice. Seeking justice in the overall community is very important to me because it ensures that if everyone is all right in the community, they too will be more willing to reach out a helping hand as well. When the question is asked, “Am...
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...below. Please insert your answers to each question in the gray boxes immediately after the question to make it clear to the grader which question you are answering. I After the simulation loads click Start. Describe what you see in this simple sun-planet system. Specifically, what happens to the central object (the Sun)? The sun begins to move Can you explain why the central object moves? HINT: Is gravitational attraction only the star pulling on the planet? Gravitational forces between it and the planet are pulling it. Does the planet orbit in a perfect circle? Is the sun at the center? It orbits in an elliptical and the sun is off to the side. Why don’t the objects move in a straight line as described in Newton’s first law? II Make it so Set the “Position x” of body 2 to be a value between 30 and 300 and move the “Accurate/Fast” bar to the far left. Through trial and error experimentation, determine the minimum initial speed (Velocity y) that will allow body 2 to get around the sun (rather than crashing into it). You must click the reset button to change the velocity each time. Record that minimum speed and the position you chose in the box below. minimum speed = position = Click reset and then set the “Position x” of body 2 to a value between 30 and 300 (your choice!). This will be the radius r, of your circular orbit. Through trial and error experimentation, determine the initial speed (Velocity y) that will allow the planet to sustain a circular...
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...Cover page: Unit 2 Lab 2.1.1 States of Matter . Survey of the Sciences Week 2 Assignment 2 – Lab 2.1.1 – States of Matter Date of assignment: 12/18/2013 Date turned in: 01/15/2014 Liquid at over 650K | Liquid under 650K | The molecules appear to be faster and more spread apart | Molecules are even faster, mostly touching and mostly compact | Gas at over 1540K | Gas at under 300K | Faster and mostly apart and randomly touching | Slower, more clustered and in ring shapes and mostly touching with less space apart | Solid at 350 – 360K and over 600K | Solid at under 10K | Moving from one position to another at accelerated pace but mostly touching at an even faster rate and mostly spread apart | Less movement, but still clustered and connected in ring forms | Solid is at 157K and appears to be moving slower and less close but compact in rings. Liquid is at 328K and appears to be closely bonded but moving around much faster. Gas is at 809K and appears to be moving much faster and occupying more space than solid and liquid. But when the temperature is reduced to about 97K the rate of movement decreases and the molecules get more clustered and compact, the reaction in liquid is almost the same as gas when the temperature is reduced to the same 97K. The reaction in solid liquid and gas stages of water are almost constant at a reduced temperature of 97K. Only the solid state resembles itself in heated and cooled stages. The others have different resemblance. In...
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...INTRODUCTION Based on the discussion of the validity of Noam Chomsky’s perception of Universal Grammar (UG), some past & current researches which maintain & contest Chomsky’s UG from different areas are represented. The essay focuses on: 1) Chomsky’s Universal Grammar in brief, in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) context; 2) Evidences supporting Chomsky’s UG - views offered by linguists such as Williams and White, etc, to provide arguments to support UG pertaining to first language acquisition and second language acquisition; 3) Evidences refuting Chomsky’s UG - according to Piaget and Haspelmath, etc, based on the insufficient assumption of SLA and also biological evolutions; 4) UG and language teaching; 5) and in the conclusion, I shall add my two-cent worth of perspective as a language teacher. 1) Chomsky’s Universal Grammar in Brief Universal Grammar is the brainchild of Noam Chomsky, adopting the cognitive approach. Human beings have implicit knowledge of grammar but may not be able to explain how they get this ability. This is because they have no conscious awareness of the processes involved. 1) Universal grammar is a theory of knowledge: It is mainly concern with the internal structure of the human mind, suggesting that the speaker knows a set of principles that apply to all languages, and parameters that vary from one language to...
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...In metaphysics, there have been countless arguments to prove the existence, or absence, of certain kinds of things, such as universals. There have been several attempts find a solution to the problem of universals, an unresolved issue which revolves around the question of whether or not universals actually exist, and if so, which particular form they take. Though there are many possible solutions to this question, in modern metaphysics one of the most popular stances on the issue is Realism, which can be further boiled down into two popular schools of thought, Aristotelian realism and Platonic realism. Although both forms of realism agree that universals are actual entities, they are distinguished by their contradictory views on the independence of universals. Aristotelian realism asserts that universals exist exclusively as properties instantiated by particulars, while Platonic realism suggests that universals can exist as entities separate of their particulars. However, with regards to the problem of universals, this distinction is negligible because both forms of realism use the same essential logic to attempt to prove the existence of universals. Realism hinges upon the idea that in order for certain phrases and ideas to be true, universals must be considered distinct entities. For example, consider the statement “the sky is blue.” There is a known entity, the sky, that, in all senses of the word, can be accurately described as being blue. This much is indisputably true. But...
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...Name __________________ Gravitational Lab Go http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=My_Solar_System and click on Run Now. I After the simulation loads click Start. Describe what you see in this simple sun-planet system. Specifically, what happens to the central object (the Sun)? Can you explain why the central object moves? HINT: Is gravitational attraction only the sun pulling on the planet? Does the planet orbit in a perfect circle? Is the sun at the center? In the simplest sun-planet system the Sun has a much larger mass (20X) than the planet. The planet is orbiting around the Sun in an elliptical orbit. The reason for this elliptical orbit is because gravity force of the bodies is acting on each other. The Sun's gravity keeps the planet from traveling off into space, and the planet's gravity acts on the much more massive sun causing it to have its own circular path instead of being just a stationary point. Mathematically, the force of gravity can be expressed as Force= G*(ml*m2/rA2), where G is the gravitational constant, ml is the mass of one object, m2 is the mass of a second object, and r is the distant between the two objects. II Click Stop and then select 3 bodies. Then Start Sketch a complete cycle (orbit) Watch the ‘funny’ object closely What is it doing? Describe and explain. Could this be the Earth/Moon/Sun system? (Try un-checking Show Traces.) Is there anything you are...
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...amended so that it would allow suitably qualified women to vote on equal terms to men. Though this amendment was outvoted in the end, for the first time, female suffrage was on the parliamentary agenda and had been discussed seriously. In 1870, Richard Pankhurst introduced the first Women’s Suffrage Bill into the House of Commons in the form of a Private Members Bill. This passed its first two readings and was only defeated when the Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, made it clear that the Government would not support the Bill, let alone take action on it. More bills were introduced into The House of Commons throughout the 1870s and succeeded in gaining a majority on a few occasions but the government prevented them from passing into law each time. Real progress was made in the form of the 1894 Local Government Act. This Act gave married women the right to vote in local elections alongside single women and widowers as well as men, and also allowed women to stand for election as municipal councillors. This led to many women getting themselves into positions of responsibility in their local areas, for example Eleanor Rathbone, who involved herself in...
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...CHAPTER 1: 1. A systematic grouping of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose is call a(n): ______ B: Organization 2. Common characteristics that are found in every organization include the following except for: A: it has been organized by a union. 3. Titles of typical top management positions include the following EXCEPT: D: district manager 4. Organizations develop a systematic structure that defines the various roles of members. This may include the following EXCEPT FOR: E: creating informal cliques. 5. The Taft-Hartley Act started that any person who can do which of the following is a supervisor? A/ Lay off B/ Hire C/ Suspend C/ Transfer E/ All of the above 6. Organizations may be divided in the following distinct levels EXCEPT FOR: B: board of directors 7. The controlling function includes all of the following EXCEPT FOR: D: resolving conflicts among members. 8. The bottom level in the pyramid is occupied by: E: operative employees 9. As the role of coach, the supervisor is expected to: A: know how to listen to, guide, train, and assist. 10. Individuals who reflect a group of people responsible for establishing the organizations overall objectives and developing the policies to achieve these objectives are called: D: top-level managers 11. The management function which involves monitoring activities to ensure that targets are being met is called _______ A: controlling 12. Another way to think...
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...INDICE: CAPITULO I Teoría de conjuntos…………………………………….……………………………………………3 1. Conjuntos……………………………………………….……………………………………………3 * Cardinalidad……………………………………………………………………….……………3 * Clases de Conjuntos……………………………………………………………….……5-7 * Relaciones entre Conjuntos……………………………………………………………………..7 Subconjuntos……………………………………………………………………………….……..7 Igualdad………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Conjuntos Disjuntos………………………………………….…………………………………8 Intersecantes………………………………………………………………………………………9 2. Operaciones con Conjuntos……………………………………………………..……………9 * Unión……………………………………………………………………………………….………9 * Intersección…………………………………………………………………………..…………9 * Diferencia……………………………………………………………………………….………10 * Diferencia Simétrica……………………………………………………………….………10 * Complemento…………………………………………………………………………………11 * Producto Cartesiano…………………………………………………………………….…12 3. Álgebra de Conjuntos……………………………………………….…………………………12 * Leyes de las Operaciones entre Conjuntos………..……………………………12 CAPITULO II Ejercicios de Aplicación………………………………………………………………………13-25 CAPITULO III Bibliografía……………………………………..…………………………………………………………26 CAPITULO I TEORIA DE CONJUNTOS 1. Conjuntos La palabra conjunto generalmente la asociamos con la idea de agrupar objetos, por ejemplo un conjunto de discos, de libros, de plantas de cultivo y en otras ocasiones en palabras como hato, rebaño, piara, parcelas, campesinado, familia, etc., es decir la palabra conjunto...
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