The 2003 sports novel “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis‚ is the true story of Oakland Athletics‚ an American professional baseball team‚ as they try to build a competitive team with a limited financial budget. The General Manager of the Oakland Athletics‚ Billy Beane‚ realizes that his team can never compete in free agency against teams with twice as large budgets and begins to implement a sabermetric approach. Sabermetrics is identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies
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Sociol 180 Fall 13 MidTerm 1 Possible Questions. Question 3: 3. Does inequality matter? Imagine that you are asked to write an editorial for the New York Times on this general topic. What might you say? What empirical evidence might you use to support your claims? Liberals believe different answers to this question than conservatives I. Liberals believe A. It is unjust. Millions of children go to sleep hungry in the world’s richest nation – the U.S. B. Society unfairly
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Harris‚ Joseph. Rewriting: How to do Things with Text. Logan‚ Utah: Utah State University Press‚ 2006. COMING TO TERMS: (15) “not only to explain what you think [text] means‚ but to say something about the perspective from which you are reading it” Three moves in coming to terms: *define the project of the writer in your own terms What is the writer’s position or arguments? What issues or problems does the writer wish to explore? *note keywords or passages in the text How does
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Social Class Matters Diane Shutt SOC 120 Lawrence Randolph Social class‚ although somewhat illusive in meaning‚ is one of the most important conceptual discussions among sociologists. Developed in the mid-eighteenth century‚ originally class was a process to categorize animals‚ plants‚ and any natural event not promoted by humans
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Does Bicameralism Matter? Michael Cutrone Dept. of Politics Princeton University Nolan McCarty Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University 1. Introduction Perhaps the most conspicuous variation in modern legislatures concerns the practice of granting legislative authority to two separate chambers with distinct memberships. While the majority of national governments empower but a single chamber‚ at least a third of national legislatures practice some form of bicameralism as do 49 of the 50 American
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Every Child Matters (ECM) Every Child Matters (ECM) is a Government ambition‚ which was launched in 2003‚ that covers England and Wales. The initiative primarily focuses on protecting children and ensuring that each child fulfils their potential. Their goal is to create an environment that offers both security and opportunity for children up to the age of 19‚ or 24 for those with disabilities. Child protection is a fundamental element that is carried out across all private and voluntary organisations
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A Temporary Matter Husband and wife Shukumar and Shoba are notified that their electricity will be turned off at 8:00PM for five evenings in a row in order to fix a power line. Shoba tells her husband this news. He looks at her‚ noticing that her makeup has run from her time at the gym. He reminisces about how she would look in the morning after a party in happier times. Shoba insists that the electric company should work on the lines during the day. Shukumar takes slight offense at this idea; since
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As Jeanette‚ the protagonist of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ states‚ “time is a great deadener.” (93) Essentially‚ as time passes‚ people will inherently forget crucial details of history‚ allowing for various interpretations and even inaccuracies to be perpetuated. The aforementioned Oranges‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia‚ and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart all explore‚ in some capacity‚ how certain people or events from the past are
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THE SUBJECT MATTER OF EXPERIMENTS A well-designed experiment tells us that changes in the explanatory variable cause changes in the response variable. More exactly‚ it tells us that this happened for specific subjects in the specific environment of this specific experiment. No doubt we had grander things in mind. We want to proclaim that our new method of teaching math does better for high school students in general or that our new drug beats a placebo for some broad class of patients. Can we
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Four Failures That Matter Jimmie L Green POS/355 July 10‚ 2014 James Johnsen Four Failures That Matter Introduction: Operating systems has come a long way and a much improvement in the way each system built. This paper will discuss the four common types of distributed computer system failures‚ which are crash failure also known as operating system failure. Hardware failure. Omission failures and byzantine failures. Included in the discussion are failures‚ which can also occur
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