Famously‚ Plato claimed that knowledge procured from the senses is invalid. That the data received is merely a reflection or a shadow of reality and that the pure‚ true image of reality is imprinted upon our souls before birth. Without the possibility of any innate notions his theory would be implicitly invalid. René Descartes is another of these examples. Descartes asserted in The Meditations that our notion of the existence of the self: cogito ergo sum (I think‚ therefore I am)‚ the existence of God‚
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African Journal of Business Management Vol.6 (3)‚ pp. 1095-1099‚25 January‚ 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM DOI: 10.5897/AJBM11.2266 ISSN 1993-8233 ©2012 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Operating leverage and systematic risk Kheder Alaghi Armenian State Agrarian University‚ Armenia. E-mail: khederalaghi@gmail.com. Accepted 25 October‚ 2011 The aim of this paper is to study the effect of operating leverage in the systematic risk of listed companies
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Was the cold war inevitable? As we all know‚ the two superpowers; the Soviet Union and the United States rose to victory after the Second World War and many argue that after WWII‚ there was clearly going to be a long-lasting cold war. With regards to why the cold war started‚ there are a couple of main reasons that are said to have started this war. Some believe that it was because of the Soviets and Stalin‚ and some believe that it was a cautiously assembled plan for the United States and UUSR
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Yesterday‚ I read the article‚ which is about whether teenagers should have a part time job. In today’s society‚ more and more college students have part time job after school. In my opinion‚ I support that teenagers have part time jobs in their free time and the reasons are as follows. First‚ I think that having a part-time can train the teenagers how to earn money and let them know that it is not an easy thing to make money. Then they will use their money more and more carefully. Besides‚ I
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My initial position Euthanasia is wrong and should never be legalized Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not‚ and never have been‚ intended to make anyone suffer. Activists often claim that laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are government mandated suffering. This claim would be similar to saying that laws against selling contaminated food are government mandated starvation. In
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The government may have tried to get the North and the South to come to a compromise on their differences during the 1800’s‚ but the Civil War was a completely inevitable event. One of the most notable differences between the North and the South was their stances on who should have more power in government. Northerners believed that federal government should be the one to decide whether slavery was to be abolished or not. The South disagreed since they felt that states should be independent‚ and
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CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION 2 Introduction The current macroeconomic situation in the United States of America according to the article Economy in the United States that it is the world’s largest national economy‚ but has been going through a shaky economy. In 2010 the nominal GDP was around $14.7 trillion dollars. It also is a very high output when looking purchasing capita. The U.S. is one of the largest trading nations in the world with its
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There was multiple methods that could have been applied to prevent turmoil and chaos from happening‚ this could prevented the American Revolution. However‚ the American Revolution was inevitable‚ the amount of abuse that was inflicted on the people from the king himself took the basic liberties away from their society which soon led to the uprising. Also the ignorance that came from the political figures and parliament fueled the fire that was within the colonists‚ they finally took back what was
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Introduction With the growing of economy in the world‚ the transportation of dangerous goods has significant growth. For the increasing of transportation of dangerous goods in the world‚ it become very important to involve in the supply chain understand for the transportation‚ storage and handle dangerous goods in order to reduce accidents (ASEAN 2011). Carriage of dangerous goods cannot treat as normal goods (non-dangerous goods). The difference is the risk of leakage during transportation‚ it
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generate the coefficient‚ we get below equation Q = a - b1X1 + b2X2 + b3X3 Q = 514.890 – 242.884X1 + 1.223X2 + 2.919X3 (44.9245) (1.5596) (0.7313) => standard error Where Q = quantity consumed a = Intercept / Constant b1..3 = Coefficients X1 = Price Per Six-Pack X2 = Income Per Capita X3 = Mean Temperature Answer: [pic]
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