Chapter 5 Questions for Thought 1. Explain the reasoning behind the wintertime expression‚ “Clear moon‚ frost soon”? On clear‚ calm nights‚ objects and the earth surface cools off by emitting infrared radiation. This cooling effect is more rapid on clear night than cloudy nights since there is no clouds to emit back to the surface. Hence the phrase “clear moon‚ frost soon”. The cool surface is then mixed with air above it‚ which will eventually cool to the dew point and water vapor will appear
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Astronomy’s 5 Big Questions Summary The article by David J. Eicher in the Astronomy magazine tries to answer 5 questions about the universe. The first problem is the Big Bang and how did it happen. It is rather difficult to be sure what was there before the Big Bang but it is possible to describe what happened after that. According to Eicher a powerful explosion of space-time sent matter and energy reeling outward into nothingness. At first it took a fracture of a second while the universe kept
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An Ethical Analysis of Kardell Paper Company Decision Executive Summery The Board of directors of Kardell Paper Company should accept the installation of the new processing technology witch protects the environment by refining the company’s waste water .Implementing this new technology will increase the company’s long- term profitability and reputation by providing enough power and ability to compete and operate efficiently in the future market. This ethical solution is offered‚ after analyzing
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To answer this question‚ we must first examine the thinking process and define the meaning of morality. We continually make decisions without regard to ethics or moral values on a daily basis. We can define morality as a system of shared rules‚ or values that dictate specific behavior during the interaction of people. Morality or moral value is about doing the right thing and brings up questions on how we ought to act in any given situation. According to John Wilcox and Susan Ebbs‚ in The Leadership
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The idea of groupthink does not have a positive meaning because decision making is hard to do as a group; it is damaged group burdens that lead to a worsening of “rational effectiveness‚ truth analysis‚ and ethical decision”. Groupthink happens when groups are extremely organized and when they are under significant stress to make a valuable choice (Janis‚ 1972). A group is particularly weak to groupthink when its participants are alike in training‚ when the group is separated from outer ideas‚ and
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Answer These Questions 1. Which of the following types of LANs was a competitor of Ethernet LANs from the earliest days of wired LANs in the 1980s and into the 1990s? a. ATM b. FDDI c. Token Ring d. Metro Ethernet 3. Which of the following speeds are not defined as a speed by some Ethernet LAN standard? a. 1 Gbps b. 4 Gbps c. 10 Gbps d. 40 Gbps 5. A campus LAN drawing shows hundreds of user devices cabled to LAN switches on various floors of a building. The per-floor edge switches
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Two Tales Assignment 1.) Before watching the talk‚ make a list of the 5-10 most important decisions that you will make in your life. a. College choice b. Whom you will marry c. The career you choose to be in life d. Deciding to have children e. Whether to make an investment f. Deciding where to live 2.) Choose two or three decisions and list the criteria that you will use to make these decisions. a. College choice i. “Do I have good grades?” ii. “Do I have a good ACT/SAT score?” iii. “Do I Have activities
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Small and large businesses today have an obligation to conduct their businesses ethically. If a business makes unethical decisions‚ it could mean the loss of jobs for the employees and or jail time for the leaders of that company. Whole Foods is no exception‚ in order to stay in business it has to make ethical decisions and do so with all stakeholder in mind. Kent Hodgson‚ a management consultant‚ has identified seven general moral principles that he calls “the magnificent seven” (Kreitner
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Truman’s decision to drop the bomb. My opinion is based on my belief that dropping the bomb was not a moral or ethical decision to make. To think from a moral standpoint‚ it is never right to endanger the lives of others. Thousands of people lost their lives once the bomb was thrown and there were many who had long-lasting effects. I think that there is always another way to handle things. However‚ when making a decision like this one has to think from a military standpoint. Truman’s decision to drop
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IT-250 Week 5 Questions 1. What function does every C program have? Why should you split large programs into several functions? Functions named main (). Easy to trouble shoot problems with C program coding errors. 2. What command could you give to compile prog.c and func.c into executable named cprog? $ cc -o cprog prog.c func.c 3. Show two ways to instruct the C preprocessor to include the header file /usr/include/math.h in you C program. Assuming that the declar.h header file
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