The video which was viewed in class was regarding education and how the United States’ education is fractured and flawed and why the education in the United States is producing such results. The speaker in the video is Ken Robinson. Robinson‚ who is from Britain‚ came to the United States‚ California and has critical notions‚ regarding education in the United States currently. One of the first criticisms Robinson made was concerning the legislation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)‚ Robinson states
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A study of the organization’s objectives helps to understand how it is likely to respond to changes in its environment. It is often assumed that business organizations will always try to maximize their profits through a combination of maximizing revenue and minimizing costs. The profit maximization objectives must be qualified by a time dimension. A firm that pursuing a short-term profit-maximizing objective may act very differently to one that seeks to maximize long term profit. This may be reflected
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4 11 Spreadsheet Example 2 REVIEW 1. A mathematical programming problem is one that seeks to maximize an objective function subject to constraints. If both the objective function and the constraints are linear‚ the problem is referred to as a linear programming problem. 2. Linear functions are functions in which each variable appears in a separate term raised to
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what this absolute truth is. Ethical norms or precepts exist independent of human experience are objective and universally applicable. In religious absolutism‚ most world religions accept that God created the universe. Most Christians also believe that Bible is the inspired of God‚ which is absolutely right. They have to follow the rules and the beliefs according to the bible. “ There are no objective values.” which is written by a modern relativist‚ J.L. Mackie. He maintains that values‚ the
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In a Modest Proposal‚ by Jonathan Swift‚ the main objective was to draw attention to the plight of the Irish people and motivate readers to find a workable solution. Swift shows the readers his proposal mainly through irony. Irony can be defined as expressing the opposite of what is meant. This is a great technique of the sense of humor used in the proposal and in Swift. One of the voices that are present throughout the story is that of irony. The story itself is ironic since no one can take
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OBJECTIVE MORAL TRUTH There are many views on moral truths‚ which causes major turmoil in the world we live in. Were this a simple subject world peace would most definitely be solves in an instant‚ and pointlessly killing each other would cease. The question is are there universal objective moral truths? Are there irrefutable‚ accepted by everyone‚ moral issues that can be universally agreed upon by everyone no matter what age‚ race‚ color or nationality? My answer to that question is no‚ there
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Aswath Damodaran 2 THE OBJECTIVE IN CORPORATE FINANCE “If you don’t know where you are going‚ it does’nt maCer how you get there” First Principles 3 Aswath Damodaran 3 The Classical Viewpoint 4 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ Van Horne: "In this book‚ we assume that the objecKve of the firm
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Concept of Education‚” of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed‚ he describes his views of the educational system faults and why it’s not working. Freire claims the educational system is using the wrong method of “banking” education and proposes the use of a better method of “problem-posing” education. Freire believes “problem-posing” education would be fair and more effective. Freire conveys the image of “banking” education as a negative way of being educated. In banking education‚ teachers assume
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that RSA and Ken Robinson presented‚ thoughts flooded my head. How could the public education system change? “Every country on earth‚ at the moment is reforming public education‚” said Ken Robinson. I could already see that as we are slowly moving into “inquiry”. After the video I reflected on the public education system‚ my future life‚ and other thoughts such as divergent thinking. The current public education system was designed for the enlightenment and industrial revolution. We now recognize
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Chapter 2 is a part of Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paolo Freire’s book published in 1970 in New York. In this chapter‚ Freire compares two concepts of education. They are banking and problem-posing concepts. The banking approach considers students as the passive‚ lacking initiative “containers”‚ while teachers “fill” these “receptacles”. Students have to memorize mechanically information given them by teacher excluding the processes of inquiry. In contrast‚ the problem-posing concept encourages the
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