Are People Rational (in the economist ’s sense) and Reasonable (in the lawyer ’s sense)? Both concepts of rationality and reasonableness indicate a process of reasoning by anticipating and analysing the consequences of their potential actions and establishing a list of preferences‚ depending on the anticipated consequences. A rational person‚ having established their list of preferences‚ will choose the action which will maximise their utility. There are many different variations of rationality
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Marilyn Monroe wore a size 12 dress‚ while today most sex symbols average around a size 4. At first glance‚ this seems like a drastic change‚ but if you look at the clothing industry over the last half a century‚ sizes have gotten bigger so that today’s size 4 is much bigger than a 1950s size 4 would have been. According to my mom‚ she wore the same size in college as today‚ even after having two kids – because of the rate sizes changed. And my grandmother says she wears smaller sizes today than she would
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Writing 12-18-11 Interpretive essays Order vs. Chaos The hallways during a switching period in our school are crazy! Teachers try to put order in the hallways and try to keep them safe‚ while students are wild and create chaos in the hallways. The hallways in my school are chaotic but have order. Likewise‚ Gotham city also has order and chaos. In Gotham city‚ the Joker creates chaos‚ while batman tries to put order in Gotham City. The camera movements
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In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Macbeth’s visions and hallucinations play a significant role and contribute to the development of his character. In the play Macbeth‚ a man is driven to murder his king and his companions after receiving a fairly ambiguous prophecy told by three witches. Although the witches triggered the series of events that later aid Macbeth’s descent into complete insanity‚ Macbeth is portrayed from the very beginning as a fierce and violent soldier. As the play goes on‚ several internal
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Methods of Development: Writing Routine‚ Good-News‚ and Goodwill Messages Most business communications can be prepared by following one of three patterns or methods of development: Direct Order‚ Indirect Order‚ or Persuasive Order. This lecture will discuss the direct order that is used for most routine‚ good-news and goodwill messages. Learning Objectives: □ To understand methods of development for writing routine business messages. □ To recognize structure of
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When the documentary was released‚ it had gotten much publicity so much so that McDonald’s lost millions in revenue and had to take a good look at their business model and had to redesign their advertising strategies. They no longer offer Super Size menus and began implementing healthier choices such as salads‚ fruit smoothies‚ and yogurt. However‚ this alternative to the average burger menu has not officially changed anything since the calorie intake is nearly the same or higher. Additionally
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What is being taught/addressed: This video is discussing a technique that can be used to help students with the 5th pillar of reading‚ comprehension. The teacher in this video is modeling how to do a think aloud to her students. The teacher explains how she stops at every heading to predict what will happen in the next section and reflect on what happened in the section they that was just completed. She also explained how helpful illustrations in text are to being able to figure out what is happening
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of litter size on growth in mice. There are numerous factors that affect both litter size and growth rate of mice. The goal is to evaluate these elements and how they affect the growth rate and weights during different stages after birth. I hypothesize that the growth rate as well as the weights for small litter pups and males will be larger than the big litter pups and females following the stages post-parturition. I believe this will occur due to the fact males tend to be larger in size and weigh
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outputs of the order process are reports of credit holds‚ customer invoice when product is delivered and paid for‚ processing the product order‚ inventory check (product availability)‚ shipping instructions‚ and reports of back orders. The Diagram: The diagram starts off with one of the business processes called sales. A customer faxes‚ mails or calls in an order to the company. The order is taken down by a representative who manually takes down mandatory information required for the order on an order
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in the film and that it doesn’t focus entirely on one side of the story. An example of a documentary that is biased is Super Size Me‚ directed by Morgan Spurlock. The documentary primarily focuses on the detrimental effects of fast food and it does not mention any positive effects it could have. The documentary shows Spurlock living off McDonald’s food for 30 days in order to display to the audience how badly his health is affected. However‚ Spurlock purposely limits the amount of exercise he does
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