a What is Computer Science? Computer Science is the systematic study of the feasibility‚ structure‚ expression‚ and mechanization of the methodical processes (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition‚ representation‚ processing‚ storage‚ communication of‚ and access to information‚ whether such information is encoded in bits and bytes in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a human cell. The fundamental question underlying all of computing is: what computational
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What is Education? Answers from 5th Century BC to the 21st Century The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things‚ not simply repeating what other generations have done. -- Jean Piaget‚ 1896-1980‚ Swiss developmental psychologist‚ philosopher An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory‚ or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.-- Anatole France‚ 1844-1924‚
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What is the evil What could be consider as evil? What do you understand for evil? Would if you tell your wife you have a meeting and you will be home late‚ but in fact you went to a bar instead could be consider as evil? In “the nature of evil” Eagleton gives a definition for evil as “evil is not something positive but a kind of lack or defectiveness‚ a sort of nothingness or negativity‚ an in ability to be truly alive”(Eagleton1). Which means evil is some action due to lost confidence to live well
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What Is Law? Although “the law” may seem to be abstract and far removed from everyday life‚ it actually is a framework for much of what you do. Perhaps you get a traffic ticket or want a local store to replace a defective toaster you purchased. Perhaps you have been called for jury duty or must testify as a witness to an accident. Perhaps you want to stop a road widening project near your home‚ ponder the issues of prayer in school or abortion‚ or must see that the provisions of a will are carried
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“flourishing” to “the good life”. However‚ such facile English renditions of the word fail to grasp a complete sense of what exactly eudaimonia implies. It is especially necessary to have a full understanding of the idea of eudaimonia when reading Aristotle‚ because the concept plays an important role in both his ethical theory and his political theory. In this paper‚ first I will describe what exactly Aristotle’s specific conception of eudaimonia was‚ then I will show how it fits in with his larger ethical
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What is Quality? Hoyer & Hoyer state that quality standards and customer expectations‚ in various guises‚ have been in existence for many centuries. However international quality standards‚ the formal study and implementation of “Quality” are the preserve of the 20th & 21st centuries. Consumers in the last 20-30 years have become finely tuned to the existence‚ value and need for quality but do they actually know what it is? Hoyer & Hoyer identified 8 quality guru’s and summarise their definition’s
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What is ATTRACTION? n. 1. in social psychology‚ the natural feeling of being drawn to other individuals and desiring their company. This is usually (but not necessarily) due to having a personal liking for them. 2. in environmental psychology‚ a quality that affects the proximity of relationships - usually reflecting such factors as their liking for each other. For example‚ male-female and female-female pairs who like each are found to be closer to each other than do pairs who feel no personal
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What is communication? Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. Communication requires a sender‚ a message‚ and a recipient. Verbal Communication: face-to-face‚ telephone‚ radio or television or other media. Non-Verbal Communication: body language‚ gestures‚ how we dress or act - even our scent. Written Communication: letters‚ e-mails‚ books‚ magazines‚ the Internet or via other media. Visualizations: graphs‚ charts‚ maps‚ logos and other
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group becoming quite successful. While he was in China‚ he saw the real state of living in China that impressed him deeply‚ it was completely different from what he hand thought of‚ or studied of before. It is how he threw himself into a study of the modern colloquial language and his maiden work‚ the book-length study Lu Xun. One of his essays‚ ‘What is modernity?’ became popular‚ as a result‚ gained great public attention in 1948 during the Japanese occupation. It is from such an essay that his status
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WHAT IS A WORLD VIEW A worldview is a person’s philosophy on life. Hindson and Caner define it as “the framework of beliefs by which a person views the world around him.”(The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics‚ Ed Hindson and Ergun Caner; Pg. 498). There are three primary categories of worldviews; theism‚ naturalism‚ and pantheism. Theism is the view or belief that one God exists. This God is usually the center of all things; everything begins and ends with this deity. Christianity falls under
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