I did not like the article “Let’s Think Outside The Box of Bad Clichés” by Gregory Pence. I do not agree with any of the arguments he makes. He is ineffective in the way he tries to persuade his readers to think more instead of using trite phrases. He organizes his article in a manner I find unusual and uses selective details to create an overall tone of annoyance. Often‚ Pence uses negatively connotative diction to show his emotions‚ but he has overdone it. I did not like the overall topic of the
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When I begin to read this book‚ it makes me think why I do want to be a teacher. She starts out hardcore‚ letting the reader know exactly what to expect. I find that I was never much in a fantasy world about teaching‚ I’ve been in school and non of the students are perfect little angels‚ but I realize how I will deal with that will come in time when I have ample experience to handle the worst of them. The encouragement that she provides at the end of her tangent on the hardships is very slim. But
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When looking at things from an ethical perspective‚ one has to consider how to protect and preserve the basic needs of others as well as their own. There is no difference here when dealing with the well being of animals. Alice Walter and Ted Kerasote are two individuals who deal with ethical issues regarding the well being of animals‚ and while their stories are vastly different‚ their main points have overlapping similarities. In Anthony Weston’s A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox‚ both Walter and Kerasote’s
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simple and fast. There should be no reason ever to use approximate methods based‚ for example‚ on the Central limit theorem. 1 Box Muller It would be nice to get a standard normal from a standard uniform by inverting the distribution function‚ but there is no closed form formula for this distribution 2 x function N (x) = P (X < x) = √1 π −∞ e−x /2 dx . The Box Muller method is a 2 brilliant trick to overcome this by producing two independent standard normals from two independent uniforms
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CATEGORY: APPLIED MATHEMATICS Computational Efficiency of Box-Muller and Polar Method Using Monte-Carlo Application by : Joy V. Lorin-Picar Mathematics Department Davao del Norte State College‚ New Visayas‚ Panabo City picar_joy@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The efficiency of Mean Square Error (MSE) of the random normal variables generated from both the Marsaglia Polar Method and Box-Muller Method was examined for small and large n with Monte-Carlo application using MATHLAB. The empirical
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What did it mean for a man in Ancient Greece to lead a good life‚ according to Platos’s four dialogs in the Trial and Death of Socrates? In Ancient Greece‚ leading a good life is rather more complex than it is in today’s society. It is evidenced in Plato’s four dialogs in The Trial and Death of Socrates. Through the dialogues of Socrates we can learn that in Ancient Greece education‚ religion‚ society in general‚ law and values played a major role on a person’s way of living a good life. In the
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Box‚ Inc. is a software technology company for businesses that has experienced immense success in their early years of incorporation. This paper focuses on Box‚ Inc.’s growth management. Specifically‚ this analysis addresses the hiring problems and communication malfunctions of Box‚ Inc. and offers solutions to them. The success of a growing start-up company lies on many things‚ but two are found to be of upmost importance: hiring for Person-Group (PG) fit and cultivating clear‚ consistent lines
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Pete Hamill’s article "Crack in the Box" describes how television has the same negative effects as drugs. He states that television is addictive and creates the same influence over a person’s life that a drug can have. The abuse of drugs provides an escape from reality‚ a feeling of indifference towards society‚ and generates an undeserved stimulus to the brain. Hamill is correct in his assessment that watching television produces the same symptoms as taking drugs. The term couch potato did not
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television‚ also known as: TV‚ the boob tube‚ the idiot box‚ as well as many other nicknames‚ has been around for almost a hundred years. Ever since cable TV became popular in the 1950’s‚ there has always been a worry that people watch too much TV. Most people believe that with exorbitant exposure to the popular media both dumbs us down as well as makes us more likely to tolerate acts of violence. Dana Stevens’ “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” argues that television does not make you smarter‚ directly
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region covers a General Acute hospital‚ Rehab hospital as well as an Elderly hospital In your capacity as a Financial Controller you are requested to explain what mechanisms would you adopt to: (a) Ensure regular monitoring of the business (b) alert respective internal stakeholders particularly when an adverse variance seems probable Articulate also which information would you make use of to achieve (A) and (b) above and what reporting structures would you deem appropriate to achieve your
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