It is a terrible yet bittersweet coincidence that I am writing a response to Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized
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quacks. Many unskilled people are cunning enough to masquerade as specialists. The credulous people are duped by them. We must try to distinguish between the real and fictitious specialists and try to beware of the latter species. A man with real and deep knowledge is generally sober and humble. He is not interested in giving himself airs and indulging in cheap publicity. He believes in constructive work. It is not his motto to make an easy buck. But a man of shallow knowledge shows himself off. He
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“This trucks older than you” declares the mechanic in the 2011 Chevy Runs Deep commercial. Communicating the central message of this text that Chevy indeed “Runs Deep” judging by the many years the family depicted in the commercial has had this worn out truck. It is easy to see that the makers of this short image are appealing to the “All American” truck lover. As an audience member‚ I feel pretty neutral about this particular video clip. I did not find the argument persuasive because I am not a
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up with a barely functioning artificial intelligence machine or A.I. In order for a program to be considered an A.I. it must be able to think for itself and as a result‚ learn from its projected environment. The first example of this was the robot "Deep Blue" that was created in 1989‚ it was designed by IBM to contend
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Topic: The Deep Web Thesis: To Inform the class on what the Deep Web is and what it is used for I. Introduction Attention Getter: What would you think if I told you that under your feet was another world with a thousand time more people‚ and a wealth of knowledge? Well when it comes to the intranet‚ that’s exactly the case. 1. Credibility Statement: I have been trying to figure out how to do everything that were not allowed to do for years. Using the “Deep Web” is a great way to figure out how
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in it. He examined multiple philosophical and theological schools of thought to find the true source of sin. Saint Augustine was a very spiritual man whose views differed from other popular beliefs such as the Greeks and Romans. What he learned from Neo-Platonism‚ Christian belief‚ and all his experiences in his early life allowed him to truly grasp what grace meant and how God’s omnipotence affected human
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Rolling in the Deep By Adele “Rolling in the Deep” is a song by an English singer-songwriter Adele from Tottenham‚ North London‚ England‚ UK. Paul Epworth who is a British Music Producer‚ also wrote the song. He describes Adele’s song “Rolling in the Deep”‚ as a dark blues-y gospel disco tune. The song “Rolling in the Deep‚” features martial beats‚ pounding keys and chanting back-up singers. This particular piece of music is called revenge song‚ in which the speaker/singer rages into
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profit-maximisation hypothesis is basically a non-issue today."Perhaps the most controversial assumption that compromises the neo-classical hypothesis is that firms always maximises profits (and minimise costs). This is further explored by incorporating more recent managerial models in particular Baumol. There are however a number of other generic managerial criticisms of the Neo-classical model‚ all of which have been widely investigated by economic literature. The first criticism concerns the inevitable
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Department of Thematic Studies Campus Norrköping Local Political Ecology and the Effect of Globalization A Study of Industrial Water Pollution in Tirupur‚ South India Jennie Malm Master of Science Thesis‚ Environmental Science Programme‚ 2004 Linköpings universitet‚ Campus Norrköping‚ SE-601 74 Norrköping‚ Sweden Institution‚ Avdelning Department‚ Division Institutionen för tematisk utbildning och forskning‚ Miljövetarprogrammet Department of thematic studies‚ Environmental Science
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AN ARTICLE ON THE IDIOMATIC PHRASE “BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA” A common idiomatic expression in use in many English speaking countries is the reference to being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Among the most popular of English sayings‚ the origin of this particular idiom is routinely debated‚ with some tracing the saying back to the days of Roman and Greek mythology. Whatever the origin‚ the expression has come to refer to being caught in a dilemma involving only
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