Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at Stanford
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Do You Really Know Yourself? Throughout time great philosophers have pondered the question of what knowing your self is. Philosophers like Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Alcibiades have somewhat of a similarity when it comes to identifying one’s self. However‚ there are the differences that lead up to the explanation and what individuals believe the self is. Socrates focused on the ‘good life’ and stresses the fact that to know how to live we need to know who we are. Under Socrates‚ the founder of philosophy
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Curve-Fitting Project – Linear Model: Average Sales Prices of new homes sold in the United States between 1964 and 2008 (LR-1) Purpose: To analyze the average sales prices of new homes sold in the United States from 1964 to 2008. Data: The prices were retrieved from http://www.census.gov/const/uspriceann.pdf. I chose to use the prices between 1964 and 2008 as they showed a huge increase (More data was available (see link)). Average sales prices of new homes sold in the US Year Time (seconds)
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Nigeria.SMEToolKit.org [pic]Linear programming is very important in various fields of life especially in managerial decision making. The reason is that it helps the company in minimizing the costs and maximizing the profits. Through linear programming managers can calculate the prices and the sales units which can maximize the profits of the company. Therefore‚ there are various issues which the company incurs regarding their costs and prices therefore‚ tools like linear programming can help the managers
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The Babington Plot Anthony Babington was a young Catholic noble who joined a plot to depose the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Sir Francis Walsingham‚ the head of Elizabeth’s secret service‚ captured a Catholic plotter named Gilbert Gifford and ‘convinced’ him to act as a double agent. Gifford would act as an intermediary - smuggling letters to Mary who was imprisoned in Chartley Hall. All the letters were given to Walsingham. The letters were written
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You Only Think God is Silent by Julie Ann Allen is the personal account of a recent widow’s journey of faith after her husband’s unexpected death. Prior to the accident‚ she had the perfect life. Two small children‚ a loving spouse‚ and a vibrant church family. She was always busy‚ but never had trouble hearing God. Then‚ everything changed. On her birthday‚ tragedy struck her family. Her husband Elan went to work and never came home. His car was still in the parking lot at his last stop‚ but no
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In class‚ we watched a movie called “You Don’t Know Jack”. The movie begins with a former pathologist doctor name Jack‚ he believes that if someone is suffering they have the right to end they life‚ so he creates this machine that could end people lives‚ jack had a big man and also his sister by his side that had a lab. He tried his best to advertise what he does so he had a lot of patient that would do what except the offer. He did it for no money‚ however the medications aren’t not cheap and so
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Liberator (Links to an external site.)‚ how do you think revivalism shaped Garrison’s convictions and his approach to abolition? The question whether there are any universal moral principles or whether morality is merely a matter of "cultural taste." Differences in moral practices across cultures raise an important issue in ethics -- the concept of "ethical relativism." Relativism shaped his believes in ethnic differences and Garrison believed that slavery was immoral regardless of their ethnic differences
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ASSIGNMENT ON BOX PLOT COURSE CODE: URP1251 COURSE TITLE: STATISTICS FOR PLANNERS | SUBMITTED BY MEHEDI MUDASSER 110412 SUBMISSION DATE: 09/05/2012 DISCUSSION OF BOX PLOT GRAPH WITH APPROPRIATE EXAMPLES The box plot goes back to John Tukey‚ which published in 1977 this efficient method to display robust statistics. Box plots‚ the term of graphical
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‘Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction‚ and the act becomes... hollow.’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I stood in front of the mirror‚ gazing at my reflection through tears. They are always like this I thought. Violent. What did I ever do to them? I rarely talked to them. Yet‚ they always picked on me. Well
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