person needs a sense of assurance in which to make a decision. One’s failure to take a position due to a lack of security does not necessarily constitute a disadvantage. On the contrary‚ even though one’s certainty in a situation may build confidence‚ the benefits of doubt outweigh those of certainty‚ for not only does doubt provide hope and allow one to have conversations with others without the presence of biased thoughts‚ it also leads to the much progressed legal system that exists today. The
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Decision Making Under Certainty‚ Uncertainty & Risk Principles of management UPG SYBMS- B Introduction • Decision making is the major responsibility of a manager‚ regardless of his or her functional area or level in the organization • In any disaster-related program‚ the goal should be to provide a framework for decision makers to effectively analyze a complex situation containing numerous alternatives and possible consequences and to arrive at the best possible choice with a minimum of delay
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Long Essay- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Authors often use characters within their novels to show the consequences of challenging cultural boundaries and‚ in turn‚ display their own personal concerns. It is not uncommon for characters to reflect an author’s ideology regarding social groups in their contemporary time periods. It is clear that this is certainly the case with the 1975 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum‚ (also referred to as How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead)‚ written
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The Establishment and Defence of a Gendered Honour in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing is a timeless dramatic comedy that establishes a number of Victorian gender norms as well as their relation to honour through the two main romances in the play‚ that of Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedict. The relationship between Beatrice and Benedick is completely different to the more traditional relationship between Hero and Claudio‚ who’s relationship
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Hi everyone‚ By the biginning of the 5th century BC‚ Carthage had become "the" commercial centre of the Mediterranean region‚ Carthage controled the entire north African coast from modern Morroco to the boarders of Egypt‚ its influence had also reached Sardinia‚ Malta and western Cisily‚ it was’nt until shortly after Rome consolidated her power on all of the Greeks and the Italian pininsula including the southern Greek city states‚ that she turned her attention to Sicily that was occupied by both
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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A. HONOURS & GENERAL COURSES OF STUDIES ENGLISH 2010 1 W.E.F. 2010-2011 SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A( HONOURS & GENERAL) COURSES OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH‚2010 HONOURS Word-limit for the answers for the honours papers Full marks of the questions → 16 7 12 8 14 4 9 5 18 10 15 35 20 Word-limit of the answers → 600 250 450 300 500 150 350 200 700 400 550 1000
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RELATED INTRODUCTION BRIEFLY AND THE THEMATIC MEANING TO ONLY UNDERSTAND THE POEM--‘Caedmon’s hymn’ ORIENTATIONS BRITAIN‚ ENGLAND AND ENGLISH “The cliffs of England stand Glimmering and vast‚ out in the tranquil bay.” Matthew Arnold‚ ‘Dover Beach’ (c.1851) The cliffs at Dover were often the first of Britain seen by early incomers and have become a familiar symbol of England‚ and of the fact that England is on an island. These cliffs are part of what the Romans‚ perhaps from as early as the 2nd
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greater extent‚ certainty. This desire to understand has given way to a multitude of discoveries and convictions throughout the course of human history. Although‚ William Lyon Phelps and Bertrand Russell had differing views on the nature of doubt and certainty it is only through the original state of doubt that one could gain the status of certainty- or at least to some degree. What qualifies as certainty itself is unstable‚ since every person comes to the conclusion of certainty in a
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How does the impossibility of certainty affect Shakespeare’s play Hamlet? What differentiates Hamlet from other plays from Shakespeare is that the action we expect to see‚ and particularly Hamlet’s action‚ is continually postponed while Hamlet tries to understand the truth about his father’s death and about what he should do. This play poses a certain number of questions that other plays would have taken for granted. For example‚ Hamlet does not know whether the ghost he has seen truly is the ghost
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proven to be certain then the entire idea or argument in that category is eradicated. The point of this‚ is to break down all knowledge to their core foundations and by doing this ultimately finding an absolute certainty. Rene Descartes used methodic doubt to attain an absolute certainty and came to a conclusion “Cogito‚ ergo sum” meaning ‘I think‚ therefore I am”. To achieve this he thought up the deceiving demon‚
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