Claims require evidence‚ or else they are disregarded‚ but to what extent? Evidence is a fact or a piece of information that portrays the validity of a belief or proposition. For example‚ in science‚ you cannot claim a theory if it is not backed up with supportive evidence. However in matters like the reason of existence or religious beliefs‚ to what extent should evidence be provided? In Hitchens quote‚ he claims that if one makes a statement without providing evidences to back it up‚ the claim
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it is important for the mind to develop in the best way it could. There is a quote saying that people who read‚ succeed. In my opinion‚ teenagers nowadays do not like to read books. There are many factors contributing to this fact. However there is still a small percentage of them who are still the bookworms. But still the majority of them do not like to read books. Among the factors that cause teenagers to not read books is that they are too tied to school related activities. School activities
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PROVING IDENTITIES Proving Identities Proving an identity is simply verifying that one member of the equation is identically equal to the other member. It is important to know that there is no general rule in proving an identity. The proper choice of the fundamental identities and algebraic operations will certainly make the verification process easier. Mathematical competence and familiarity with the fundamental identities are the basic tools that will greatly facilitate the transformations
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Geography essay Mass tourism is better than no tourism‚ do you agree? Yes‚ I agree with this point because countries which do not have tourism nowadays are hard to imagine nowadays if it is not a country with war or a desert through it entirely‚ although even countries with mostly desert have quite a bit of tourists in them so it is far more easy to imagine a town or village with no tourism. And then there are those places with mass tourism which only have one noticeable problem – Overcrowding
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Introduction 2 Major Theories in Finance Three major pillars of modern finance. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Relates the risk of an asset to its required expected return. Dividend and Capital Structure Irrelevance (M and M) In a perfect world: i) A firm’s share value does not depend on the firm’s dividend policy. ii) The firm‟s total value does not depend on the amount of debt it has. Option Pricing Theory Can find the value of an option. Shares are a call option on the firm’s
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Napoleon was nothing more than a dictator in his rule of France between 1799 and 1815. How far do you agree? “History is a version of events which everyone has agreed on” - Napoleon Napoleon was nothing more than a tyrant as he exploited France in pursuit of his own ambitions to achieve a dynasty in his name. A dictatorship is often associated with repression and the workings of a police state. Both of these were‚ in fact‚ being used in France . For example Napoleon vigorously censored the
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rather amazing how man can associate war with the term ’necessary’. The article speaks of the retaliation of United States against the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. After the two great wars that threatened to annihilate the entire tapestry of humanity in the twentieth century‚ Man still has not learned. Man has ironically progressed from an uncivilised state to now where killing each other has become a necessity. Dropping bombs and food supplies at the same time is evidence of the
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Secondly‚ there is another topic with evidence that supports the lone assassin theory. The topic is the ballistics. We first look at Lee Harvey Oswald’s ability of successfully carrying out an assassination attempt. Part of his ability was the time frame. The amount of time it took for Oswald to fire off shots at the president was around 8 seconds. This was believed to be almost impossible for somebody to successfully fire off 3 shots that hit the president. However‚ not for Lee Harvey Oswald as
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Andrew Hurst ‘The First World War increased rather than narrowed Germany’s political division’ How far do you agree with this judgement? Although initially it seems apparent that the First World War narrowed the existing political divisions in Germany during this period‚ as the war progressed‚ the resentment grew‚ in part because of the huge losses and the economic crisis that hung over the country. Therefore because of this the political divisions increased‚ and by the end of the war
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Oliver Davies To what extent do you agree that schools have a uniform? From the ages of 5 to 16 by law every child in the UK must attend school; whether the school is state funded or privately funded they almost all have some form of school uniform. School uniforms are a requirement at almost all schools but in some state schools the regulations on school uniforms are a little looser than others‚ Meaning that some pupil wear pretty much whatever they want to school taking no notice of the school
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