Summer Reading: Naked Economics Chapter 1: The Power of Markets 1. What are the two basic assumptions that economists make about individuals and firms? The two basic assumptions that economists make is that individuals do what they can to make themselves as well off and prosperous as possible and that firms attempt to maximize profits. 2. What is the role and significance of prices in the market economy? With demand rising‚ the price of a particular item will usually go up. This means
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No matter how many strengths there are‚ there is bound to have weaknesses. Starting with Linda Albert‚ the one weakness that I see her philosophy having is that students may take advantage of the teacher/student delegations. Some students may find that‚ since they have a voice in the process of creating the classroom rules‚ they may find it as a perfect opportunity to how they would want the class to run. The second weakness‚ that I found that Albert’s philosophy instilled is the lack of implementation
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Adaptation’s Versatile Influence on Perception When one adapts to a new environment or lifestyle‚ one gains a new perspective‚ thus leaving the old one behind. In Susan Faludi’s text‚ “The Naked Citadel‚” soldiers willingly adapting to a sexist and violent way of living. These soldiers are trained to act and think a certain way‚ as a result leaving their old perspective behind. The idea that adaptation leads to a loss of perspective‚ can be related to Oliver Sack’s text‚ “The Mind’s Eye”‚ when he
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I’d like to know why Barnard College was so harsh to Linda LeClair. Yes‚ I know she lied to them‚ but she just wanted to live off campus and do her own thing. Why is that wrong? Plus‚ when she was confronted she openly told them her real name and that she lived off campus. “After five hours of deliberation‚ the committee announced that as punishment for deceiving the administration about where she lived‚ LeClair would be ‘denied the privilege of using the following college facilities: the snack bar
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Linda Pastan via “Ethics” explores the importance of experience and leads the reader through a psychological journey with an overlaying philosophical question: “If there were a fire in a museum / which would you save‚ a Rembrandt painting / or an old woman who hadn’t many / years left anyhow?” (3-6) Pastan brilliantly structures her poem to alter the central question so that it appears more difficult to answer. By leaving "a Rembrandt painting" at the end of line 4 and "years left anyhow" at line
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The poem‚ “Ethics”‚ by Linda Pastan is about age‚ regret and the old woman’s thoughts about her teacher and the ethical question from so long ago. The same question was asked in Ethics class every fall‚ ”If there were a fire in a museum‚ which would you save‚ a Rembrandt paintings or an old woman who hadn’t many years left anyhow?” The author or main character in the poem probably grappled with this annual question for years. The question brings up the value of any life‚ both youthful and old
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played a major role in organizing new members and establishing many benefits‚ including the largest union-based adult education program in the U.S. During her 17-year tenure with DC 37‚ the union’s ranks skyrocketed from 30‚000 to 120‚000. In 1995‚ Linda Chavez-Thompson of AFL-CIO was elected executive vice president. She was the first person of color to be elected to one of the federation’s three highest offices. She is of Mexican descent and was one of the highest ranking elected woman officers’
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“Fireflies” “Fireflies” is a short story‚ written by Linda Cookson. The short story includes four small stories; these are interrelated in one story. The main character meets a man on a train‚ where we hear the first story. The man tells about his daughter who had jumped out from a tall building in Japan with a roman candle in her hand‚ and committed suicide. Then there is the strange dream happening on the beach‚ where Annie reads Robinson Crusoe aloud for Sophie‚ and the cave‚ the monster and
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Linda Zagzebski‚ Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma‚ defined virtue as “an excellence that has never been questioned… a state of the soul.” [2]. Zagzebski communicated in her definition that virtues transcend cultures
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“The Naked and the Nude” by Robert Graze is a work of connecting the certain aspects of the title and representing the literature as a distinguished acquisition to contrasting the phrases and meanings. Indeed‚ the purpose of “Naked” and “Nude” varies to the devices being used to categorize each; such as‚ the “Naked” uses imagery to represent positive outlooks‚ and the “Nude” represents the tone of negative remarks. “Lovers without reproach will gaze‚” the poem already introduces the personified
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