adopts unconventional teaching methods. He helped his classroom‚ students which included gang members and no-hopers pass the rigorous Advanced Placement exam in calculus. Jaime Escalante believed that all his students were smart‚ not dumb like all the other staff thought. He knew his students had the potential of passing the Advanced Calculus Exam‚ and he never gave up on his students for he always motivated them to do better. In addition‚ the mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante accomplished such
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Chapter 4 The Origins and Concept of Justice Chapter 4 Contents Origins of the Concept of Justice Components of Justice Distributive Justice Corrective Justice CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know the definitions‚ concepts‚ and origins of justice 2. Understand the components of justice including distributive‚ corrective‚ and commutative. 3. Be able to define procedural and substantive justice. 4. Understand the difference between the utilitarian rationale and retributive rationale under
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In 1665‚ the plague struck the area near the university‚ forcing Sir Isaac Newton to return home. This is when he started to formulate his theories for calculus‚ light‚ and color. It was even on his family’s farm property where the famous falling apple took place and inspired him to work on his studies of gravity. After the plaque had been cleared from Cambridge University‚ he returned to his studies and
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and he used the Hedonic Calculus that he created to measure how good an act is and how many people it will affect‚ this is a major strength of utilitarianism because it tries to please everyone and each individual is equal. A weakness of Bentham’s view was noticed by Mill‚ Mill said it failed to differentiate humans from animals as animals can share the same pleasures that humans have‚ so this make human beings equal to animals. Mill also said that Bentham’s Hedonic Calculus was a weakness as it was
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"We could be raising a hedonistic generation...are in distinct danger of detaching themselves from what the rest of us would consider the real world." The author includes Susan Greenfield because she has an opinion about how the proliferation of texting is bad for teenagers. The
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Living a day as a utilitarian was difficult but manageable. It would have been significantly harder if I had to do it for the rest of my life. Perhaps it was manageable because I wore the mask of utilitarianism for a day and knew that it would only be for a single day. Utilitarianism believe “an action is morally right if and only if it does more to improve oval well-being than any other action you could have done in the circumstances” (Shafer-Landau 115). This theory is not always equitable because
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What is the hedonist view about the good life? Assess one major problem it faces. Hedonists believe that a good life is one that contains the greatest amount of happiness possible and goes well ‘to the extent that it is filled with pleasure and free of pain’. A problem that will be assessed is the idea of ‘false happiness’ where a person believes that they have led a good‚ happiness-filled life‚ unaware that this happiness is based upon false beliefs. Hedonism begins with the premise that there
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Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz are two of the most supreme intellects of the 17th century. They are both considered to be the inventors of Calculus. However‚ after a terrible dispute‚ Sir Isaac Newton took most of the credit. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German philosopher‚ mathematician‚ and statesman born in the country of Leipzig. He received his education at the universities of Leipzig‚ Jena‚ and Altdorf.
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contributing to probability and infinitesimal calculus on their own. After Jacob died from tuberculosis in 1705 at the age of 51 in Basel‚ Johann took his position at the university. He went on to teach Leonhard Euler and Guillaume de l’Hopital. A well know problem that the brothers applied themselves to was the designing of a sloping ramp that would let a ball roll from top to bottom at the fastest possible speed. Johann demonstrated through calculus that neither a straight slope nor one with a
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Part 1 Marshall Sahlins is one of the most prominent American anthropologists of our time. He holds the title of Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago where he presently teaches. Marshall Sahlins’‚ The Use and Abuse of Biology‚ is an excellent text‚ which attacks both the logical errors of sociobiology and its ideological distortions. His work focuses on demonstrating the power that culture has to shape people’s perceptions and actions
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