Their contemporaries described them as “Robbers‚ Opposers‚ and Violators of all Laws‚ Humane and Divine.” Many viewed themselves as a more selfish reincarnation of Robin Hood‚ stealing from wealthy merchants‚ foreign traders‚ and abusive captains‚ and in doing so‚ threatening the hierarchical status quo of sixteenth and seventeenth English society by declaring “war against the world.” The Law considered them hostes humani generis‚ enemies of all mankind. In reality‚ pirates of the Golden Age‚ a period
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Bad Science – Book Report Elam Dula 212964763 20/11/14 1. THE PLACEBO EFFECT The first break through that caught my attention was the most common one‚ the application of “ The Placebo Effect” on our society. A placebo is a fake treatment‚ inactive substance that can sometimes improve a patient’s condition simply because the person has the expectation that it will. As I read Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Science‚ I was surprised to learn a couple of new things. TThe first one was the fact that alerting
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Spade discuss to Brigid about Mr. Flitcraft. A man who abandoned his prosperous career and his family after nearly being killed by a falling piece of construction work while walking to lunch. Having an epiphany that life is worthless and subject to randomness. "He adjusted himself to beams falling‚ and then no more of them fell‚ and he adjusted himself to them not falling." (Flitcraft Parable) This defines Spade’s existential attitude and explains‚ in a sense‚ his basically honorable final action‚ a
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Freedom‚ Evil‚ and the Illusion of Omnipotence “Is he an omnipotent and wholly benevolent being willing to prevent evil‚ but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able‚ but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is Evil?” -Hume In the world we live in today‚ there is undoubtedly the existence of evil. Such a presence of moral wrongdoing seems confusing in a world where such a significant portion of the population believes in the existence of a God. This
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One Cuil = One level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation. Example: You ask me for a Hamburger. 1 Cuil: if you asked me for a hamburger‚ and I gave you a raccoon. 2 Cuils: If you asked me for a hamburger‚ but it turns out I don’t really exist. Where I was originally standing‚ a picture of a hamburger rests on the ground. 3 Cuils: You awake as a hamburger. You start screaming only to have special sauce fly from your lips. The world is in sepia. 4 Cuils: Why are we speaking
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO Bilbao—today one of the top tourist destinations in Europe—was such a backwater in the 1990s that‚ according to Gehry‚ the 265‚000-square-foot museum‚ beside the Nervión River‚ went up almost unnoticed by the press. That only contributed to the drop-dead impact it created with its unveiling. “I like to work under the radar as much as I can. It’s been harder since I’ve gotten notorious‚” says Gehry. The first photos of the near-complete structure‚ which resembles a gargantuan
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Submit completed tests as word or pdf files via email to paul.kurose@seattlecolleges.edu Due: Sunday‚ May 19 (by 8am). 1. a) In Chapter 6‚ you learned to find interval estimates for two population parameters‚ a population mean and a population proportion. Explain the meaning of an interval estimate of a population parameter. An interval estimate for a specified population parameter (such as a mean or proportion) is a range of values in which the parameter is estimated to lie. In Chapter 6
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Q. Explain the term Sampling distribution The term sampling distribution refers to a frequency or probability distribution of the sample statistic obtained from all the possible samples of size n taken at random from a given population. The sample mean (x) shows the average value calculated from measurements of a sample. Its main characteristics are: 1. The average of all sample means should equal to the true population mean (µ) 2. The standard deviation shows dispersion
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basically a matter of chance‚ as is the effect each president will have on the court. As Karol states‚ “At issue is not fairness to individual presidents but rather ensuring that the court does not overrepresent one president or party because of the randomness of mortality and retirement decisions” (Karol 35). By ensuring that each president gets the same number of presidential appointments‚ term limits allow the people a voice in the makeup of the nation’s least accountable body. Through the election
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PROPERTIES OF DISCRETE TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS ABSTRACT In mathematics‚ the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) converts a finite list of equally-spaced samples of a function into the list of coefficients of a finite combination of complex sinusoids‚ ordered by their frequencies‚ that has those same sample values. It can be said to convert the sampled function from its original domain (often time or position along a line) to the frequency domain. INTRODUCTION The input samples are complex numbers
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