Nadine Gordimer‚ South African writer and Nobel Prize winner‚ said that penetrating fiction doesn’t give answers‚ it invites questions. This quote is accurately reflected in Anthony Burgess’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ in which many questions and moral values are explored. Burgess strongly believed that humans’ ability of choice is the only factor distinguishing us between animals or machines. The two most predominant recurring themes of and questions relating to the novel involve ‘good vs evil’
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Career Anchors Revisited: Implications for career development in the 21st century Group 8: Adnaan Hirani‚ Arun Chaddah‚ Nikhil Patil‚ Riya Patel‚ Saloni Jain‚ Sanjana Sheth PGDM MC (14-16) Executive Overview • Organizations are undergoing a metamorphosis today • These changes in the occupational environment have implications for career development in the future • “Organizational career” or “Internal career”? • Most people form a strong self-concept‚ a “career anchor” • Will the concept of career
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Georgia. Traffic signals glare as I make my way to the intersection of Abercorn Street and Middleground Road. The music continues to play through my speakers; while the cool air grazes my countenance. A period of living in an arduous war zone has revisited and made its influence upon me. The significance of this short six month tour of duty will have a lasting impression upon my life. Surely this event that had me taken aback; and the level of appreciation for the circumstances surrounding my time
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Utilitarianism theory is the most widely used ethical theory today‚ and also the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy. It is the rightness or wrongness of an action‚ which determined by its usefulness. It is based on the principle of Utility which John Stuard Mill stated that “Actions are right to the degree that they tend to promote the greatest good for the greatest number.” This means that in any situation‚ where there is a moral choice‚ one
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The Ptolemaic-Aristotelian view was very idealized and simple compared to the knowledge we have today. They taught that the planets were perfectly spherical‚ traveling in circular orbits‚ at a constant speed. The geocentric model of our galaxy was also taught‚ meaning the earth would be at the center. Bit by bit‚ philosophers‚ especially in the eighteenth century‚ began to find discrepancies in the ancient model. Copernicus‚ believed that a heliocentric model of the galaxy better accounted for planetary
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associated content from SG • Reading (for Thursday): chapter 16; notes by RP • Chance processes‚ box model‚ law of large numbers Week 8 (10/15‚ 10/17) • Reading: chapters 17‚ 18; notes by RP; SG 23 • EV‚ SE‚ CLT‚ Markov and Chebyshev revisited. Week 9 (10/22‚ 10/24) • Reading: chapters 19‚ 20; notes by RP; SG 24 • Sample surveys‚ chance errors in sampling Week 10 (10/29‚ 10/31) • QUIZ 3 on Monday 10/28 on Chapters 17‚ 18‚ notes by RP (in lab) • Reading: chapters 21‚ 23
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Thira is the main island of Santorini‚ the location of an ancient city. Excavation carried out in 1896 by Baron Hiller indicated that there was some kind of settlement dating back as early as the 9th century BC. However back then little else was known. After the ancient architecture was excavated more recently‚ the archeologists discovered more clues to this lost city. The commercial buildings in Thira were constructed of dressed limestone blocks‚ while residential houses were constructed by using
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Zheng He was a Muslim eunuch who served as a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor of China during the Ming Dynasty. He went on voyages to Southeast Asia‚ Sumatra‚ Java‚ Ceylon‚ India‚ Persia‚ Persian Gulf‚ Arabia‚ the red sea Egypt‚ and the Mozambique Channel. The number of his voyages vary depending on method of division‚ but he travelled at least seven times to The Western Ocean with his fleet. The fleet comprised 30‚000 men and seventy ships at its height. He brought back to China many
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The South was considered a slave-base economy. Sometimes the South’s economy was considered to be separated from the merchant revolution‚ but this is not entirely true. The north would not have been able to industrialize without the help of Southern cotton‚ or at least not as quickly. Cotton was one of the first industrially produced products and quickly became the most important commodity in the world trade in the nineteenth century. There was a lower number of salves in the North since the Northern
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Many smokers will argue about their rights to smoke‚ while conversely this stance can cause infringement on the nonsmoker’s rights to breathe clean air free from the effects of second-hand exposure. Smoking laws should be revisited and stricter laws should be enforced to protect the health of the innocent. To what degree can a recreational activity be allowed to cause harm to unwilling participants? Stricter law in this area is the only measure to protect those who are subjected
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