Lara Evans Ms. Wendel Jr. IB Lit.‚ 3 October 30th‚ 2014 Insert Clever Title Later Lar (u got dis) In the story of Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes the reader deep into the past of a small town‚ rocked by the murder of one of its residents‚ Santiago Nasar. The story is told twenty-seven years after the fact‚ as one man attempts to chronicle his memories and the other townspeople’s memories of what transpired. The author uses the alteration of previously insignificant memories
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Monica Gisolfi’s “From Crop Lien to Contract Farming...” uses a case study of Upcountry County‚ Georgia to examine how poultry farming replaced cotton as the mono-crop of the South. Like sharecropping‚ it put farmers in debt by putting the bulk of burden and cost on the worker. According to Gisolfi‚ a major problem with “King Cotton” was the crop lien and the related sharecropping and tenant farming practices. In spite of farmer expectations‚ the poultry industry failed to solve these issues‚ instead
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“Evidence” by Kathryn Schulz covers the topic of exactly what our beliefs are based on‚ and just how hard it is for us to admit we are wrong. Throughout our lives‚ we all experience moments when we realize we were wrong about something. For a majority of the time‚ these moments are small and somewhat insignificant to the rest of our lives. However‚ that is not always the case. You probably cannot imagine the difficulty of discovering a belief you held for your entire life was utterly wrong‚ yet that
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four cells. Smoker vs Non Smoker and Lung cancer vs No Lung cancer overconfidence‚ discounting intuition‚ garbage in/garbage out Bias in with decision Making (Bazerman) (more below) – hindsight‚ assume other ppl know your knowledge (curse of knowledge) Lecture 3 Decision traps Framing effect = Losses are more painful than gains are pleasurable. Confirmation bias = We only seek out and pay attention to evidence that confirms our initial expectations and deny the existence of any disconfirming
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Mission Command Analysis: Hamburger Hill As one of the most famous battles of Vietnam‚ the battle of Dong Ap Bia provides a useful case study for the concept of mission command. Infamously known as Hamburger Hill‚ the high casualties and subsequent abandonment of the mountain caused critics to question the decision of military leaders. As with many battles in Vietnam‚ the commander‚ LTC Honeycutt‚ contended with the enemy while attempting to exert control with incomplete information in jungle-covered
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Nike: The Sweatshop Debate Nike is a Global Force and leading force for globalization in the world. Nike outsources its manufacturing and employs over 600 thousand workers throughout the world in over 600 factories. Nike has 20 billion in revenues each year and its brand has become one of the most recognized symbols in the world today. Nike focuses on marketing and design and employs such star athletes as Michael Jordan‚ Tiger Woods‚ Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant to market its products. Nike
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their current environment as we would not make them otherwise. Their rationality and reasonability comes under scrutiny from third parties‚ after the decision has been made with the benefit of hindsight (Sibley; 1953). The opinions I express on every case study that follows is of course one with hindsight‚ it is impossible for me to put myself in exactly the same situation as the individual who made the decision due to different life experiences in the short (on the day) and long (that month or
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not guarantee ____. 13. ____ are designed to examine why cultural differences may exist. Thus they make larger inferential jumps by testing theories of cross-cultural similarities and differences. 14. Perhaps the most important arena with regard to bias and equivalence may concern the issue of ____. 15. In the ____ to establishing language equivalence‚ several
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| Mt. Everest Simulation Reflection Paper | Assignment 1 | | | | Individual reflection on the Mt. Everest Simulation exercise carried out on 5th October and the subsequent debriefing on 12th October | The Everest simulation was a unique experience. Before the actual simulation started‚ my team discussed the approach we would take and how we will deal with situations wherein the personal goals collided with the team goals. We shared our character profile information with each
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Canadian snack food has become an ingrained part of Canadian identity and culture‚ but only recently has its history been investigated and contemplated. In Janis Thiessen’s Snacks: A Canadian Food History‚ the narrow focus of the growth of the industry leads to the missing of the larger picture; as women begin joining the labour force and women’s roles in society and in the household concurrently evolve in the post-war period. The book is lacking in its portrayal of women’s roles and the degradation
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