1.Read "Read-Only Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes" by Nagel‚ Blignaut‚ and Cronje. 2.After reading the Nagel‚ Blignaut‚ and Cronje article‚ write a 250-500 word summary of it. 3.Refer to the guidelines for writing an effective summary presented in the Module 2 lecture for use as a guide. Review the assignment rubric as well prior to beginning the assignment. 4.Be sure to include a discussion of the research problem‚ questions‚ method‚ findings‚ and implications
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Kuehne-nagel Since 1890‚ when the business was founded in Bremen‚ Germany‚ by August Kuehne and Friedrich Nagel‚ Kuehne + Nagel has grown into one of the world’s leading logistics providers. Today‚ the Kuehne + Nagel Group has more than 900 offices in over 100 countries‚ with over 60‚000 employees. Our key business activities and market position are built on the company’s truly world class capabilities: Seafreight: * Number 1 global seafreight forwarder * Sustained year-on-year double
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"Death” At the beginning of Death‚ Thomas Nagel questions: “If death is the unequivocal and permanent end to our existence‚ the question arises whether it is a bad thing to die.” Nagel wonders whether death is evil or not. To some people‚ like the hedonists‚ death is not bad. They propose the idea that a person is harmed when he or she has an unpleasant mental state. Furthermore‚ the hedonists also think a person is harmed when he or she suffers‚ and somebody is suffered when he or she is alive
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In his 1970 essay titled ‘Death’‚ American philosopher Thomas Nagel presents the deprivation account of death. Nagel describes death as the unequivocal and permanent end of our existence. He then presents the question is death a bad thing? In the following essay I will explore the two observations Nagel presents on death which constitute his argument that death is an evil not because of its positive features‚ but because it deprives us the good of life. I will then present a main objection to Nagel’s
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Philosophy 101 March 2‚ 2014 Thomas Nagel‚ Free Will 1. When you choose to act one way rather than another‚ you were free to have acted differently. 2. You could have done otherwise if you had wanted to do so. 3. Your choices are not predetermined in advance. 4. Determinism must be false. 5. Therefore‚ we have free will over the choices we make in our life. One case Thomas Nagel presents about free will is shown using a cake and peach example. He starts it off by saying that you are
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Article Summary With the increase in online courses‚ along came an increase in the drop out rates versus the traditional sit-in environment. During this study‚ valuable information was offered to increase student success and minimize drop out rates. There needs to be communication among peers and instructor to have success in online courses. A group of students from the University of Pretoria‚ were enrolled in a Masters program‚ and their online activities were tracked for 8 weeks‚ by a program
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Nagel believes that we are ridiculous creatures in the sense that we can’t prove without a doubt that our projects or goals are valuable. We can’t prove that our pursuits and goals have any value due to the existence of a gap that separates how we perceive a situation and the actual reality of the given situation. By noticing that we are absurd in this sense‚ we can approach our pursuits and goals with a more spirited attitude in that we think that our pursuits and goals are valuable in order to
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Moral Luck Through Moral Luck‚ Nagel discusses the problem of moral luck and the conflict that arises between the common practice and intuition that most of society believes in regarding morality. Throughout his essay‚ Nagel defines intuition and the phenomenon of moral luck and claims that‚ despite having this intuition‚ people often make moral judgments about people based on factors that are beyond their control (for example‚ a drunk driver who kills a child). Nagel claims that the problem of moral
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hat do we actually know? Am I just in my own world? Are the people I’m seeing a figment of my imagination or are they real? In this chapter‚ Thomas Nagel talks about the perception of reality‚ “How do you know anything?”. How can we be sure that what we are seeing is reality? Each person has a different view on whether or not this is possible. As human beings we have the tendency to question things based on ours senses‚ these are called our subjective experiences. We are able to see‚ touch‚ hear
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Death explores the debate concerning the nature of death itself: is death a bad thing? Nagel explores this question by formulating 2 distinct hypotheses. The first of these is the postion that death deprives us of life‚ which is the only thing (or state) we have‚ which would make death a certain evil. The other position holds that death is merely the cessation of all awareness and‚ consequently‚ existence. Nagel discusses the conditions of position one‚ saying that life may not be the accumulation
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