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    While one’s feelings are important‚ feelings should never be prioritized over the rights of others and/or fact‚ as facts tend to be much more stubborn. By accepting pure conjecture as fact‚ and placing political correctness above factual correctness‚ we become a more ignorant society as a whole. With the acceptance of conjecture over fact‚ myths such as the idea of ‘white privilege’ and ‘the gender pay gap’ are pushed by the media and politicians to pander to the feelings of others‚ having been backed

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    Through the Argument from Design‚ Cleanthes attempts to contemplate the complex order of the universe to arrive at knowledge about the nature of God. He establishes his a posteriori argument by way of analogy: Evidence from the natural world shows that the world resembles nothing so much as a work of human artifice (machine)‚ which is perfectly and intricately ordered so that each part from smallest to largest is perfectly adapted to the harmony of other parts. All parts of a machine are related

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    another question. ‘I reckon they are after somebody‚’ he reflected; ‘likely it’s me.’ He returned to his pocket the handkerchief he had been whipping away the red duct of Poker Flat from his neat boots‚ and quietly discharged his mind of any further conjecture. In point of fact‚ Poker Flat was ‘after somebody.’ It had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars‚ two valuable horses‚ and a prominent citizen. It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction‚ quite as lawless and ungovernable as

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    considered one of the greatest pieces of political theory in history‚ it is not always looked upon favorably‚ and a clear example of this comes from Frederick the Great. In 1739‚ Frederick the Great wrote a severe critique of The Prince entitled Refutation of The Prince of Machiavelli in which he expressed that he thought “Machiavelli corrupted politics‚ and in doing so hoped to destroy the very percepts of sound morality”. This is an idea with which I don’t particularly side with. In his critique

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    to achieve his ends. He made references to some political and religious philosophers like Thomas Jefferson and Jesus in his arguments. King wanted to call upon a sense of hypocrisy in those white moderates as he knew there would no probability of refutation. This effective approach managed to put King in a positive light as he is seen as someone who was willing to try and make a change to the people’s beliefs. This time period had especially took a toll on the blacks as there was a widespread of oppression

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    Cause and Correlation

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    that they are definitely correlated. Causation is “when you say one thing causes another‚ you are saying that there is a direct line between that one thing and the result. Cause means that an action will always have a predictable reaction” (Conjecture Corporation‚ 2012). A Few examples of causation is when a person presses a button which causes the bell to ring and the disease-causing infection caused several people’s deaths. (Wealthy People are thin.) There is not proven fact that all wealthy

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    The Okefenokee Swamp

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    archetype. The following sentence from Passage 1 is an example of this archetype: “The swamp is partially drained southward into the Atlantic by the Suwannee and St. Mary’s rivers.” All of the description is concrete‚ with little to no personal conjecture. Beyond that‚ there is little description‚ creating a rather unemotional and factual tone. The diction is also rather plain. Only the occasional challenging word or bit of jargon is presented in this passage. However‚ these deviations are typically

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    research in business

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    Research Methodology Kiran Iyer Roll Number – 32 MMM Batch-1 JBIMS Question 1 – Make up 3 different situations in which Motivation to work could be an independent‚ intervening and a moderating variable. Example of Motivation as Independent variable: “At a call centre‚ quality of solution provided to a inbound customer is dependent on the level of motivation & know how of the call centre employee responding to the call” Dependent variable - Quality of solution provided. Independent variable

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    1. Identify the type of unemployment referred to in the BBC article and outline the main causes of this form of unemployment. (1) Cyclical Unemployment‚ ment to describe the unemployment associated with business cycles occuring in the economy. Cyclical unemployment occurs during recessions because‚ when demand for goods and services in an economy falls‚ some companies respond by cutting production and laying off workers rather than by reducing wages and prices. (2) Unemployed individuals are

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    Reasoning

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    another and can be written and read as "If P then Q." A contrapositive is the conditional statement created when negating both sides of the implication and can be written and read as "If not Q‚ then not P." Anything that is not proven is known as a conjecture. In today’s logical reasoning three different types of reasoning can be distinguished‚ known as deductive reasoning‚ inductive reasoning and abductive reasoning based on respectively deduction‚ induction and abduction. Deductive

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