In his biography‚ Olaudah Equiano writes that he was born in Nigeria at the age of 11‚ he was kidnapped. Some days later he was sold to European slave traders‚ with other slaves he was put or packed into a ship and transferred across the ocean to Barbados islands. Many years later Equiano wrote a biography about the treatment of slaves in Virginia. His descriptions of the punishments and humiliations that slaves had to endure were the first published account of an autobiography of an African slave
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This‚ what James quotes in his essay‚ is not Pascal’s reason for believing in God and as James points out it is probably nobody’s real reason for believing in God(William James 131). What Pascal is arguably trying to do here is point out to a non-believer‚ that there is a good reason to look at faith more seriously and consider what it can do. Perhaps‚ if someone reads Pascal’s argument and takes up interest in the church they may well become
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’probable’ could also apply to propositions for which there was good evidence. Aside from some elementary considerations made by Girolamo Cardano in the 16th century‚ the doctrine of probabilities dates to the correspondence of Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal (1654). Christiaan Huygens (1657) gave the earliest known scientific treatment of the subject. Jakob Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi (posthumous‚ 1713) and Abraham de Moivre’s Doctrine of Chances (1718) treated the subject as a branch of mathematics
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UNIT 1-T : STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF A COMPUTER 1T.1 : MAJOR FUNCTIONS AND PARTS A computer is an electronic device operating under the controls of instructions stored in its own memory unit that can accept data (input)‚ process data arithmetically and logically produce output for processing and store result for future use. A computer is a device‚ which can perform computation‚ including arithmetic and logic operations‚ without intervention by a human being. A computer system consist not
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Having informally observed an ongoing dialogue discussing social responsibility in business‚ it seems that the social responsibility at some point took a backseat to the prospect and mentality of higher profits at any cost (what’s good for GM ). The transition I sense now is a movement toward incorporating social responsibility‚ which is to say incorporating an ethical code considering extrinsic matters and concerns‚ fluidly in business models. The revelation that business entities do not operate
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With the upcoming presidential elections‚ citizens of the Unites States will soon be asked to vote. It can be quite challenging to be completely educated on all subject matter that the candidates use to promote their campaigns. So when your distant family member asks for opinion about a subject at the dinner table and you don’t really know anything about that particular subject‚ what do you say? You could say you don’t know anything and look uneducated in front of the rest of your family. Or you
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IPO Chart of Problem 1 3. Declaration of Variables for Problem 1 4. Algorithm for Problem 1(Pseudo Code) 5. Pascal Program for problem (Step by Step Correction of Errors) Screen Shot 6. Compilation of the Pascal Program (With Successful) Screen shot of the Whole Pascal Program 7. Printing of Pascal Program in Microsoft word 8. Print out Dataset Given By teacher 9. Execution of the Pascal Program using the dataset given by the teacher and screen shot of each page with execution 10. Defining
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Today’s computer programmer has many languages to choose from‚ but what’s the difference between them? What are these languages used for? How can we categorize them in useful ways? These days‚ programming languages are becoming more and more general and all-purpose‚ but they still have their specializations‚ and each language has its disadvantages and advantages. Languages can generally be divided into a few basic types‚ though many languages support more than one programming style. This
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the French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes‚ who lived from 1596 until 1650. Cartesian diver lab is used commonly in scientific experiments to illustrate principle of buoyancy. The objective of this Cartesian diver lab is to demonstrate Pascal ’s law and Archimedes ’ principles. Observation is the key to conduct this experimental study of the Cartesian diver. First a 2-liter bottle is filled with water to almost all the way to the top‚ then prepare the diver which is a test tube‚ fill
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IMPACT OF INDIAN CULTURE ON WORK-ETHOS Prologue: “Such an historical concept … cannot be defined according to the formula genus proximum‚ differentia specifica‚ but it must be gradually put together out of the individual parts which are taken from historical reality to make it up.” --Max Weber‚ ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ (New York: Scribner’s Press‚ 1958)‚ p. 47. Introduction In the homo sapiens’ race for wealth and power -- economic‚ industrial and military
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