What do you want to be when you grow up? What are your plans for your future? Have you thought about college? Have you thought about a career choice? These are questions we are bombarded with on a daily basis by our parents. We shrug them off‚ telling them that we have another three years to think about college‚ careers‚ or our future. We don’t know what we want to be when we grow up‚ because we don’t even know who we are yet. Yet in a blink of an eye‚ we’re seniors and now the decisions we tried
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Base Rate Fallacy Base rate fallacy is when probabilistic inference is made based only on data relating specifically to the situation but ignores additional background or general data relating to the instance of the situation that sometimes leads to wrong conclusions. Base rate fallacy is a “paradigmatic Bayesian inference problem” (Bar-Hillel‚ 1979). If we consider a situation where a hit and run occurred at night in a city where there are 2 cab companies and a cab was suspected to have been involved
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1. One of your inmates is a murderer. When he was 18 years old‚ he killed his girlfriend. He received a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. He is now 58 years old and you have come to realize that he is a model prisoner. He has shown impeccable behavior‚ has a job within the prison‚ has been around the community during furloughs and has become a positive influence and a great role model for other prisoners. Also‚ he has formed a bond with the victim’s family‚ who has forgiven him for
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It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you Simon Armitage writes an adventurous comparison poem to show how powerful imagination is by comparing life long dreams to one’s mundane memories in the poem‚“ It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you”. The poem displays three imaginative pinnacle-like events and with those events‚ there are three events juxtaposing them. The poem is presented in a manner where the story is based on the experiences of a first-person speaker. The poem follows
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#16 ‘If you are patient in one moment of anger‚ you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” Anger hate patient caring love happiness pain hurt revenge joy sorrow backlash sadness pride 1. meaning of the quote 2. what it means to me 3. how it could change the world The quote‚ “If you are patient in one moment of anger‚ you will escape a hundred days of sorrow” has an important meaning behind it. The quote to me means to not always jump to a fight‚ but to instead step
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Unfortunately it used to be accepted in society by many people‚ but the world has come so far that petty things like racism should not occur. Racism might not seem like anything to some‚ but it is like the butterfly effect. One racist thing a person says or does affects not only one person but also ten people. In the movie Crash‚ the characters were all very racist to each other. There were two African American men who did not like white people. They did to the white people exactly what the white couple
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day’. Hardy uses the time of year to convey a sense of melancholia as winter often has a negative connotation and is associated with colder feelings and emotions. In this way‚ ‘winter’ could be representing the frosty nature of the relationship and how Hardy’s former lover was cold towards him. The descriptions in the first stanza are all colourless (neutral tones) which suggests that Hardy feels as if he has no colour in his life‚ no love. His negative feelings about love are conveyed especially
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How does Bronte use the first five chapters of the novel to make the reader intrigued in the life of the character Jane Eyre? (40 marks) The novel of Jane Eyre engages the reader form the first chapter. Bronte cleverly uses intrigue throughout the novel but in the first five the author reveals a lot about the plot and characters to keep the reader interested. In chapter 1 Bronte begins to reveal parts of Jane’s character. We first see her as a vulnerable girl who is unable to show her emotions
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Tells the story of your mathematical history. How would you describe what mathematics is in your own words? What is mathematics to me? Mathematics is the study of numbers and also concepts and shapes. Math can be a lot of thing in math it can include numbers‚ letters are shape and lines .Do you consider yourself good at mathematics? No I don’t. Why; I don’t think I’m good in math is because I’m not patience enough to solve the problem in math. Was there a time in your life where you remember doing good
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the Rights of the Child‚ essentially provides the same two psychological loopholes‚ by allowing "best interests" and "child desires" considerations to be utilized in international child abduction litigation. There is an inherent "psycho-logical fallacy" in The Hague Abduction Convention. Virtually everything we know‚ psychologically and empirically‚
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