Was the Vietnam War worth all the hassle? Think of what was accomplished during the whole conflict‚ many people believe that it was necessary and that America accomplished a lot‚ others not so much. The war was good until America crumbled‚ showing their true weakness. The war on Vietnam was lost not in Vietnam but at home‚ the strain that the war put on America‚ Civil rights movement and other home conflicts was the real deciding factor on the war. These conflicts show that not only should America
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In this section‚ we propose a heuristic‚ called Lazy Super Parent Tree Augmented Naive Bayes (LSPTAN) that seeks to solve the problems discussed above‚ enabling the application of a semi-Naive Bayes techniques in large ADC tasks. Thus‚ we can evaluate whether the premise of independence among attributes‚ assumed by Naive Bayes‚ impacts effectiveness in large ADC tasks‚ an open research problem.\looseness=-1 The Lazy Super Parent TAN (LSPTAN) heuristic is a postergated version of the SP-TAN that
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Freedom of Speech; Is It Really Free In the United States we have many freedoms that we as citizens possess. Freedom of speech is one of the freedoms we enjoy. But what is the meaning of the word “freedom”‚ and how free is our speech? The word free‚ according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary means: having the legal and political rights of a citizen. With this in mind‚ it does not mean that we have the right to do and say as we please. The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law
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OLR 1 Kotter‚ J.‚ “What Leaders Really Do‚” HBR‚ 1900 Many people wonder the differences in management and leadership. Kotter (1990) clearly states the differences between management and leadership. He mentions that management is about dealing with complexity‚ while leadership is about dealing with change. Companies manage complexity in three ways. First‚ managers plan and budget to achieve their rather short-term goals. These goals are short-term because in the rapidly changing business
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1.) In the article "Whispers from the Grave‚" and the poem "Haunted House" by Valerie Worth show reasons why many people are interested by ghosts. One reason people can be interested in ghosts is because they can use these stories to compensate their feelings for someone they lost that was close to them. In the beginning of the article‚ the author writes about who Sarah lost and how this affected her life after this tragedy. "Sarah was haunted by her grief. She felt she was being pursued by a menacing
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Page 1 Does God really exist? The existence of God has been a controversial question for as long as time has existed. As many arguments can be made for and against the existence of God. In this essay‚ I wish to explore arguments both for and against and eventually come a conclusion that God does indeed exist. The very essence of Man‚ all his values and his beliefs‚ are wrapped up in this question‚ "Does God exist?" Most of us were brought up to believe that God does exist‚ and as such it
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Recently‚ I wrote here that the fundamentals of the 2008 race decisively favor Barack Obama. As is often the case‚ however‚ my words were met with a familiar riposte: What about the race factor? Are white Americans really ready to elect a black man as president? It’s a recurrent refrain among Democrats and even some hopeful Republicans. As Andrew Kohut wrote here‚ “56 percent of Democrats believe that many people will not vote for Mr. Obama because he is black.” With the first ever African-American
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History Paper Who discovered America? By: Deanne Mastrocola Why is it that American culture today attributes its geographic discovery to a man named Christopher Columbus? Could it be that he was the first European to claim this land as part of an Imperialistic expansion or is it merely out of convenience for the history books? It is known that the American continent was populated by 1000 AD which is long before settlements by Viking fisherman and even longer before the arrival of Columbus
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In the article‚” Gap in Diet Quality Wealthiest and Poorest Americans Doubles‚ Study Finds‚” by Tracie McMillan‚ and in Mark Bittman’s article‚ Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” we see how food can be very expensive and this makes it harder to eat healthier. This is making Americans obese because people are eating fast food‚ which contains high sodium‚ calories‚ fats‚ and sugar. However‚ according to Bittman‚ it actually is cheaper to buy the food from a store instead of fast food. This homemade
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Space exploration is not worth the cost. Space exploration is not worth the cost because it is not losing the lives of astronauts. It is also not worth the money that is being spent to make the rocket ship. Also there would not be a lot of income. First of all space exploration is not worth the cost because it is not worth losing the lives astronauts lives. Even though there are people willing to go to space they can lose their lives while leaving the atmosphere. An example is the 1986 challenger
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