1. In Chapter 5‚ of Supercrunchers‚ "Experts versus Equations"‚ the author makes a great case for the fact that equations predict better than humans. What reasons does the author give that illustrate why a human cannot make predictions as well as an equation? Reason 1: the human mind tends to suffer from a number of well documented cognitive failings and biases that distort our ability to predict accurately. Reason 2: Once we form a mistaken belief about something‚ we tend to cling to it. We are
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Amari‚ a fifteen year old African girl‚ taken from her village‚ and forced to work on a rice plantation‚ finds her strength by not giving up on life. Copper Sun by Sharon Draper talks about how Amari endures life on a rice plantation‚ and all the pain she goes undergoes. At first‚ Amari needs strength to survive her horrible trip to America. For three months‚ Amari faced so many challenges on her trip to America‚ to become a slave. The ship was a disgusting place with no clean places to sleep‚ no
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Dear Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott‚ Ever wonder how to increase the graduation rates and set students one the right track with their education? Young students love to use technology and allowing students to use it in class will motivate them to do their work.I would like to introduce my opinion about digital natives to you. I believe that being a digital native can help a person in a variety of ways socially and educationally. Being a digital native can help a student‚ such as I‚ with
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The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday “The only easy day was yesterday” is a motto or way of life of the United States Navy SEALs. SEALs stands for sea‚ air‚ and land which is the work place for Navy SEALs. They are the worlds best maritime special operators. SEAL Team Six is the group that killed Osama Bin Laden. Mark Owen was a member of SEAL Team Six and was on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden and many other less known missions. In the autobiography No Easy Day‚ Mark takes us into
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we have for dinner?” posed at the beginning of his book‚ The Omnivores Dilemma. Pollan breaks his book down into three major components‚ the preface‚ the process‚ and the person. By clearly identifying what he is examining‚ and through firsthand experience‚ Pollan was able to discuss American diet‚ and all that goes along with it. As consumers‚ the general public has a common knowledge of the things they buy‚ but mainly this knowledge only comes from firsthand experience in being the consumer
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A Computer Smarter Than Me? Growing up‚ I would frequently sit back and listen to my Great Grandma tell stories of her life. Several were of the adventures that she went on and things that she encountered throughout her years. To this day‚ I still sit back and ponder on how much different her growing up was then mine is. So many items of technology that I take for granted‚ she never had the opportunity to possess. For instance‚ the microwave: so often when I want something to eat‚ I can easily pop
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JuN Professor N/A ENGL 1307.741 5 July 2013 Book Reviews have Feelings too Academic writing is basically writing you will start in college. Once entering an academic community with similar ways of thinking‚ speaking‚ and writing‚ it is important to also develop the skills to do these things in order to have a higher level of educational learning and to join others in conversational studies. Like any other types of writing‚ academic writing has many types of genre that follow under it. These
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Book review. My book report is on ‘Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D.Salinger Over a month I have really enjoyed reading this novel. It’s a very perceptive book‚ but only in one point of view: Holden’s. I never felt attached to the book in any form‚ and when I wasn’t reading it‚ there was nothing that drew me back to want to read more. However when I wasn’t reading I would ponder about the book a lot and question the meaning and depth that Salinger was trying to get across. It’s a very interesting style
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Critical book review: Christopher Lasch (1991) The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Expectations The culture of narcissism was widely recognised as a socio-cultural critique of American society when published in 1979. Written by Christopher Lasch‚ the book analyzes a social phenomenon identified by Christopher Lasch as ‘cultural narcissism’‚ a process by which certain attributes of the pathological branch of narcissism (Bocock‚ 2002) become societal characteristics (Lasch
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How to write a book review Perhaps the best way to offer guidelines on how to write a book review is to give you an example of the kind of instructions and guidelines we (i.e. the academic staff) would be given by journals who invite us to review books for them. So‚ here are the instructions given to authors by the ‘Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders’. “A book review should be an objective and tactful evaluation of a book. The review should offer logic and fact in support of its evaluations
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