Essays on Certainty

Uma R. Karmarkar, Zakary L. Tormala. Believe Me, I Have No Idea What I’m Talking About: The Effects of Source Certainty on Consumer Involvement and Persuasion. Journal of Consumer Research. 2010
- Research question:
Three different experiments are conducted to prove the above hypothesis using a restaurant review altering the certainty and expertise with various arguments. The objectives of these experiments include the testing of hypothesis based on the feedback of the participants on a restaurant review altering the certainty of the message and the expertise.
Experiment 1 aims at proving that altering the source certainty and the ...

Thesis on Deterrence Theory: General and Specific

Introduction
Deterrence is the omission of legally proscribed acts; hence by this omission one may be abiding by the prescribed law. It is important to distinguish between deterrence and punishment avoidance. While the former has been defined, the later, punishment avoidance happens when there has been commission of a crime but the perpetrator was not punished. This paper shall discuss and present a thesis on deterrence theory.

General deterrence relates to the effects to the public at large/potential criminals to the legal punishment of criminals. For members of the public, general deterrence, the experience with legal punishment is indirect ...

Introduction

Skepticism in simple terms refers to the attitude of questioning or doubting the truth about certain facts, opinion, knowledge or beliefs. Skepticism has been a subject of study for many philosophers throughout the years. Consequently, a wide range of arguments about skepticism has been developed. In this essay, the text “An Argument for Skepticism,” written by Peter Unger will be used to show that the author’s definition and characterization of the term “absolute certainty” has been misconstrued.
Peter Unger presents a very interesting point about skepticism. He argues for an extreme form of skepticism. He argues that there ...

Children's Understanding of the Modal Expression of Speaker Certainty and Uncertainty and its Relation to the Development of a Representational Theory of Mind
In 1989 Chris Moore, David Furrow and their associates conducted a research regarding certainty differentiation and showed that by the age of 4 children become able to recognize and understand terms in sentences which reveals degrees of certainty. Some researchers showed that children begin to use these terms in everyday speech when they are 2-3 years old. However, this does not mean that they understand them. According to Green, the process of understanding comes during the ...

A recidivism rate of 0% gives me a hundred percent confidence that a person who goes through the boot camp set up by the sheriff’s department will not relapse into social deviance or undesirable behavior that necessitated their participation in the boot camp in the first place. This statement does not offer absolute confidence for just one of the participants of the boot camp. It offers a guarantee that all people that go through the boot camp will be transformed completely. This statement does not offer room for error or uncertainty. It guarantees success in the highest levels ...

What is Descartes’ “method of doubt”? How does this method lead to the “I think” as a starting point of philosophy?

Introduction:

The Descartes‘s method of doubt which a basic aim and strategy of defeating skepticism on their own ground. This method approaches each situation by doubting it first. The method involves doubting all aspects including the truths, cultural presumptions as well as evidences of the senses of the argument. The method also doubts the whole process of reasoning .This skeptical challenge aims at ensuring that those arguments that pass the test are the ones which bears a ...

Emergencies often require the input of fast and effective services so as to contain the situation. In many cases, either property and or life are often at risk and the necessity often is to salvage the situation. Emergency can be managed well with the application of theories of emergency management. Although the theories approach emergencies in different perspectives, an application of the same enables the ultimate solution of emergency cases. This paper shall focus on two main emergency theories. These are the Chaos Theory as advanced by Klaus Mainzer and the Disaster Theory as advanced by Thomas Drabek. The ...

Introduction

Prospect theory is defined as human thriftiness behavior that explains how the human opt the most risky casuistry alternatives knowing the level of consequences they will have to face afterwards. This theory describes that usually people assess the probabilistic alternatives keeping in mind their possible gains and losses using common sense techniques rather than keeping focus on the final consequences. This model focuses on real-life facts rather than talking about idealistic approach. Professor Daniel Kaheman, in assistance of Amos Tversky, developed this theory in 1979 at Psychology Department of Princeton University as a more realistic and psychologically quite optimum ...

Introduction

Proponents of longer sentencing have put forward that longer sentences achieve higher deterrence levels in criminals. Longer sentences have been recommended for violent crimes such as armed robbery crimes. These are crimes where the thief is armed and dangerous while conducting the robbery. Often, the robbery results in the injury or death of one of the victims. The question is what does research show about the impact of longer sentences on the deterrence levels in the individual.

The impact of longer prison sentences on criminals ...

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'Our senses are an unreliable source of information about the world, and thus can never provide us with any certainty in the truth of our beliefs'
The senses are a curious thing. They're the fundamental lens through which humanity - the entirety of the human experience - has been surveyed. Without our senses we are nothing. They provide all the input needed to interact with the physical world, and that interaction is crucial for us to enter the abstract plane of thought. How would one contemplate the sound of water, or the sight of birds in flight without having ...

Res judicata needs be openly defined in order to decide its scope and confines. First, it should be known that this principle give the impression of being firmly rooted both in the legislations of the member nations and in the Court of Justice case-law. Therefore in this respect, it must be understood that res judicata is closely linked to the principle of legal certainty. Simply put, res judicata means that an adjudicated matter cannot be re-litigated. It’s also important to note that the legal authority of a decision in principle is relative. Striking a balance between conflicting interests ...

The concept of deterrence implies that the behavior of the human being can be controlled by means of punishment. Deterrence is one of the fundamental aspects of criminology and, to a large extent, the idea of deterrence lies at the heart of criminal justice systems of majority of countries. It is widely acknowledged that the theory of deterrence is based on the presumption of human`s rationality and the ability of people to calculate the consequences of their actions. The pain of legal punishment for a crime must offset the intention to commit an offense. (Akers, 1990, p. 654). ...

Compare and contrast Descartes method with the approach of Locke

Introduction
Philosophical methods and approaches are concerned with describing how to deal with issues such as the role of science in the society, uncertainty in knowledge, cause-effect relationships, judgment in human affairs, and how to describe and measure human values. asserts that the modern philosophy attributes its development to philosophers like Rene Descartes (1596-150) and John Locke among others. These philosophers brought revolution to the world of cognitive psychology by enumerating ways of ascertaining truth from reality and understanding the human cognition. Rene Descartes method grapples with the issue of certainty of anything. Thus, in Descartes method of doubt, ...

Having been involved in several cases, Daniel Groll’s intention to provide a lasting solution to this problem intensified. His intentions are to develop a model for understanding disagreements in a clinical setting. Groll at providing insight into what doctors can and cannot plausibly be said to know regarding what’s best for their patients. Groll deals with this by developing taxonomy of clinical disagreements. Groll’s secondary aim is to show that Robert M. Veatch’s theory on what on what clinicians can and cannot about their patients’ well-being is overly skeptical and limits the role. In the ...

Descartes philosophical writings were as controversial as his personality. In the perfect certainty project Descartes uses letters to make a representation of his thoughts. In the case he puts emphasis on the existence of God. In which he argues on both hands of His existence on one side he tries to emphasize on the fact that the angels represented on the triangle are equal. In order to come to this conclusion Descartes uses mathematics as part of his comfort. Descartes philosophy was highly respected and many were peculiar of his kind of imagination. It is the integration of religion ...

All heroes of tragic tales are marred by a fatal flaw, rendering them unable to act immediately upon what their hearts desire most, and the melancholy prince Hamlet, with wild thoughts of revenge nestled in his heart, is no exception to this rule. The beauty as well as complexity of his character is rooted exactly in this: that the human condition itself is tragic and simultaneously comic, and one needs all his wits about him to reach proper, reasonable conclusions and then act on them. Thus, Hamlet’s tragic flaw lies in the fact that he is a deeply ...

Descartes’ central project in Meditations is to provide a foundation for the certainty of knowledge. His project is to show that the real source of knowledge lies in the mind and not in the senses and that is why Meditations is also a critique of empiricism. His aim includes making a clear distinction between mind and body and providing the proof for the existence of God. The objective is to reconcile the church and science by providing each a separate domain to work.  He begins his project by doubting everything as he wants to find the indubitable basis of ...

Philosophy

Historians and scientists play an extremely significant role in society. While the former is concerned with activities that happened in the past, the latter not only seeks to predict with a particular amount of precision what is likely to happen in the future, but also seeks to influence this opportunities. These two activities lead to the collection of two sets of facts. These facts undergo probability tests and analyses whereby inferences are made. Indeed, logic is significant to determine which prepositions are true and which are false. There are usually two sets of truth presented by these phenomena. This ...

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Key Utilitarian Ethical Problems

The key utilitarian ethical problems that confront the supplier transistor company in the case is one where the supplier had to choose between ensuring its own good or the greater good. On one hand, the supplier had to protect the company by ensuring that it does not become liable in any way for any problems that may arise from the development or use of defective pacemakers (Shanks, 1996), especially considering that many people were dying from their use at the time. On the other hand, though, if they stopped supplying transistors to the pacemaker company then ...

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This was in response to an emergency phone call at 2055 hrs, made by a female who was hysterical but managed to give precise location of incident. On arrival at house, I found an early twenties white female lying on the living room couch ...

1. What is Descartes’ argument for the “real distinction” between mind and body? Does his argument succeed? Why or why not?
According to Descartes (“Synopsis,” p. 1), “the mind is thus enabled easily to distinguish what pertains to itself, that is, to the intellectual nature, from what is referred to the body.” This means that Descartes recognized the irreconcilable nature of the mind and the body and that sometimes the body has its own peculiar and natural tendencies. Hence, he concluded that the mind is distinct from the body. There is the crucial battle between the desires of the ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century. His philosophy influenced not only the various sections of philosophical knowledge, thereby extending its reach and scope, but also the development of such sciences as logic, mathematics, linguistics, the list of which is not complete. Moreover, if the twentieth century largely passed under the sign of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wittgenstein's philosophy this century got its most profound understanding. It is all the more ironic that the philosopher did not leave a special essay on social philosophy and philosophy of ...

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When the Europeans established contact with the Aboriginals in Canada, they started to make treaties and agreements with the Aboriginal people since they saw an opportunity of expanding their territory. Once European settlement began, the original inhabitants of the land found that the civilization they had developed for themselves faced the threat of extinction. The foreigners had no respect for their culture and lifestyle, and their sole purpose was to modify the land to meet their .
Through their treaties, the Europeans had carefully ensured that the Aboriginal people would give up their title to any ...

Sentencing guidelines in the United States are complex and varied, depending on the type of crime that the individual committed. Usually, sentencing guidelines are concerned with felonies and more serious misdemeanors (“2010 Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual,” 2010). Usually sentencing guidelines are given when the individual who has committed a crime has been convicted of a Class A misdemeanor or higher-- that is, they have committed the highest possible class of misdemeanor, or they have committed a felony. When an individual commits a crime that carries more than one year of jail time as a mandatory sentence, they have committed ...

This outlines the sales strategy for a Caterpillar Diesel Generator 4.4MW 2009 QX4400 to be sold to Del Monte Inc. Over the last 5 years, I have been involved in procuring Diesel generators to major companies and this was the major reason that led me to be included in the sales process. Efforts to procure a Diesel generator for the company have been futile despite involving experienced ...

Abstract

With development of new technologies and constant scientific evolution, human perception of ethics cannot keep up with the speed of progress. In order to understand how an individual should consider his actions and decision from the ethically appropriate perspective, an example of business case study given for this assignment is the most suitable. In this context, position of the company and its possible decision is evaluated from the points of three ethical theories and their explanation of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, ethical and immoral. The chosen theories include Utilitarianism, Kantianism and Virtue ethics. On the ...

Introduction

In the recent years there has been a high growth in the number of people who are getting incarcerated. This has led to a lot of debate on the legitimacy of the penal system. Is it really working to reduce or deter criminal behaviour? Is there anything in the punishment system that needs to be changes? The penal system should be revisited in order to address the high incarceration rates in the country.

The Legitimacy for Penal Punishment

There are theories that have contributed to the penal system. The choice theory in criminology has contributed over the years to justifying and specifying penal punishment. ...

1. In your OWN words, define the following concepts of deterrence theory--general deterrence; specific deterrence; celerity; severity; certainty; AND explain utility principle for rational choice.

Specific deterrence is when an individual is punished for a crime; general deterrence is others decide not to commit crimes because they saw someone else get punished. Rational choice weighs the benefits and repercussions of a particular action, and takes into account: celerity, how the quickly punishment follows the crime; severity, (pg18) how harsh the punishment is and how well it suits the crime; and, certainty, how likely someone is to be punished for ...

Abstract

The research tests the Independent variables in the hypothesis of rich oil versus less oil countries. The occurrence of conflicts served as the dependent variable, and the countries that have proven access to oil deposits have served as the unit of analysis. To prove this research hypothesis, the research methods that have been done by collecting information regarding the presence of oil deposits in the subject countries and other economic indicators such as the national GDP (Gross Domestic Product), among others. The collection of data focused on: Oil income, GDP, and Fail States. The analysis was done using the ...

Religious differences between Islam and Christianity have existed since the ancient days of human kind. The reason behind such differences can be explained by the ideological distinction between the two worldviews. The existence of one is seen as a threat to the other: as the bible says in Exodus 34:14 that you shall worship no other god for the Lord. However, there are some unique instances of similarities in which the two worldviews preach to their believers. In this concern, there are many positives to take from what the two worldviews project in the life on earth. This essay ...

Introduction

The current essay involves a critical review of the research process and development of two research reports on nursing care and shared care services and evidence based practice in the nursing profession. Understanding the research process and development may furnish important insights on how evidence based practice be implemented effectively in aid of better patient care in both traditional hospital nursing care and shared care services involving nurses as useful members in the healthcare staff.
Parameters for the research process critique involve important aspects in a research report: research approach or design, sampling method, methods of data collection, validity ...

Communication with families and critically ill

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Introduction

Critical illness is a lived experience that is sudden and often than not, affects the sufferer or the patient and the family. The condition of the patient throws the family of the patient into a crisis. The critically ill patients normally fall into a situation of total confusion whether at the beginning of their illness or after they have been treated, and they are emerging from a comma. The confusion that they have can be lasting or momentary. The confusion and the various stress levels normally affect the communication between the critically ...

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Air Wisconsin v. Hoeper Case
Facts of the case
The respondent of this case was the pilot Hoeper and the petitioner was Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. When Air Wisconsin ended its operations from Hoeper’s home base, Denver, on an aircraft that he was qualified to fly, he was supposed to get another certification to fly a different type of aircraft, if he needs to continue in his job. After Hoeper was unsuccessful in clearing the certification process in his first three efforts, the company agreed to offer him yet another chance, but ...

New HR Manager Strategy

Introduction
Business environment constitutes one of the most complex profiles of interpersonal relationships and communication. The reality shows that employees of the modern organizations value not only the work, job function and compensation that is involved in their position, but also are motivated by a number of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, individual for each of them. It is evident that working environment and social relationships, which employees build in the companies, constitute important part of their internal motivation. With that in mind, the “outsiders” opinion, management and leadership styles will always be seen as different from the corporate culture ...

“All punishment is mischief; all punishment is itself evil”. This is a famous quote by Jeremy Bentham, famous British jurist and philosopher. Bentham died in 19th century. So is it expediency to think so nowadays when it is already 21st century, when material and spiritual values have changed? Things that used to be immoral back in 19th century are common today in our modern world, so can this quote be considered practical?
One will say that crime should not be punished as they do not separate such things as “punishment” and “crime”. These two words are equal to such ...

Abstract

This paper analyzes different studies made by researchers in order to identify economic, environmental and political aspects of fracking and provides explanations on how fracking could be both advantageous and disadvantageous to the United States of America. Most of researchers argue that fracking activities have a negative effect on our environment and public health. For example, researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health and Brown University have found that the babies born near gas wells were 30 percent more likely to have congenital heart defects and oral clefts. In economic terms fracking is beneficial for our country as ...

Introduction

The introduction of banks replaced the traditional method of storing money. During the Stone Age period, human beings stored their possessions in caves and caverns. An ancient Chinese legend talked of a dragon which was the kept by villagers to guard their treasure. The banking industry replaced the need for hiring animals and soldiers to guard their possessions. The advent of banking replaced the barter trade and signaled the demise of the traditional method of keeping money. The conventional banking system was first developed in England. Banks kept equal an equivalent amount of gold or platinum with the amount ...

Philosophy

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Medical paternalism is a medical conduct that gives medical personnel immense authority and power as far as the treatment of patients is concerned. The following essay looks at medical paternalism and whether it is a valid medical practice or completely uncalled for.
Medical paternalism is a principle that gives medical personnel certain powers and liberties. Medical paternalism is the frame of thought that the medical personnel can withhold certain information from the patient or even forcefully administer certain forms of treatment and medication contrary to the wishes of the patient. The main argument behind medical paternalism is ...

A very popular misconception about skeptics is the general idea that they are individuals who have a tendency to disbelieve things. However the true and actual meaning of skepticism wonders far away from doubt, negativity or disbelief. Skepticism is a process that involves more of the application of critical thinking and detailed reasoning in the determination of the validity of a given issue. Skepticism involves pursuit of supported conclusion in the determination of truths and facts. It involves systematic doubt, suspended judgment and often elements of criticism. It also entails doubt concerning widely accepted religious and cultural principles for ...

Coordination in organizations, especially healthcare centers, requires elevated levels of micro level designs. The coordination occurs in a tri-dimensional way that touches on the programming approaches, feedback mechanisms, as well as relational coordination angles. Coordination harmonizes various actions of the organization to form a single element (Feldman and Pentland, 2003). The ordeal involves forming portions of right quantities in line with the design schemes available. Several approaches determine the harmonization technique. Two approaches are discussed in this essay. The programming approach is often relevant in situations of high certainty in the organization. In healthcare sector, high certainty often involves ...

The world of the dystopia is one type of science fiction story that often presents a world in chaos; these works are dark and gloomy, showing us what is in store if human society continues down its path of consumerism and control (Heuser, 2003). The cyberpunk genre is full of these stories - the works of Philip K. Dick often show polluted, grimy worlds where morality is fluid and people sell their identity and sense of selves to the highest bidder. However, Dick also find sways to demonstrate hope and optimism despite the terrible settings their characters find themselves ...

Max Weber in his social theory elaborated without clarity four main types of rationality. It was his position that rationality existed in four main variants; formal, substantive, practical and theoretical. According to Weber, rationality sufficed for purposes of rationalizing society into the modern form it has assumed. Rationalization, in the precepts laid by Weber, would occasion the shape and trajectory the society assumed and gave society its capitalistic character. Weber was cardinal on the consequences of rationality. He asserted that formal rationality was perhaps responsible in larger measures to the ethic bases that would lead to capitalism. However, an ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a Gothic horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the dangers of knowledge, especially as the book posits ...

Introduction.

Keynesian theory argues that, in short term, total output is determined by total spending, which mostly consists of investment and consumption, this is the reality for any economy in the world but it doesn’t hold all the time as its subject to alterations caused by microeconomic factors particularly inflation which brings about increased interests rates raising the cost of production and unemployment as firms layoff some workers in order to reduce their cost of production.
During the 2008 crisis which was one of the worst worldwide economic downturn one on the worst hit sector was the housing sector ...

Question 1

Determination of whether the furniture is part of the sale, in the first scenario, requires an application of the Parol Evidence Rule. This law is designed to support the validity of a written contract over any other evidence (Laws.com), as long as the written contract has not been tampered with or has not been made falsely. Based on this law, I would argue that the furniture is not part of the sale.
The Parol Evidence Rule clearly states that a prior agreement (or a written antecedent understanding) cannot be used to amend or contradict a later writing when the ...

Social theories are ideas generated by scholars in attempting to explain the social structures of the society. These theories touch on issues such as religion, crime, education, politics, philosophy and many other aspects of the society. Each theorist has held divergent views on different issues and such scholarly debate is always constructive. Criminology and theories under the divergent delinquent acts and have been explored by several theorists. Theorists such as Ernest Burgess, Robert Park and Cesare Beccaria have expressed their theories in their works. This paper evaluates the life and works of Cesare Beccaria especially his theories on crimes ...

“Pure philosophical writing is the anti-image.” - Agamben

In exploration of frameworks of both covert and overt manifestations of indeterminacy, these concerns are revealed, as representations, in philosophies of aesthetic iconoclasm and art, artifacts as symbolic, and modern issues related to Being and subjectivity, both of which are analogous to Nietzsche’s model of the relationship.  For example, tragedy, comprised of Dionysian and Apollonian forces which combine in a chiasmic unity of oppositions, according to Professor Fred Ulfers, are characterized by Nietzsche as beautiful, singular and factual on the one hand (Apollonian), and sublime, multiple, and fictional on the other (Dionysian).  What is reflected as desire and unformed wilderness arises as art and various forms of representation. ...

Overview

Palms Hospital, established in 1946 by Rob Winslow, is presently one of the best hospitals in Islamorada, Florida. It has one of the best inpatient care facilities in the Key Islands. In recent years, favorable federal regulatory rules, advancement in surgical procedure techniques, and substantial increase in the number of outpatient surgery services have created a high potential for outpatient surgery market. Key Islands have seen a phenomenal growth in population in recent years, which has increased the demand for inpatient as well as outpatient care services. Currently, Islamorada has no hospital with a facility of outpatient surgical procedures, ...

Introduction3

Alternative 1: Technical Control3
Internet Protocol Cameras.3
Cloud-Based Security Services..4

Data Encryption Services4

Radio Frequency Identification Tags .4
Biometric Systems of identification4
Using Electronic Articles Surveillance5
Access Control Mechanisms5
Non-technical Approaches to Solving Employee Theft in Retail Business.6
Pre-Screening the Employees7
Demystifying the Process of Loss in the Organization 8
Training on the Prevention of Loss 9
The Adoption of the Open Door Policy.9
Imposition of Strict Penalties on Rogue Employees..9

The Use of a Buddy System and an Employee Tip Line.10

Recommendation.11
Conclusion.12

Works Cited13

Business
Analytical Report
Abstract
This analytical is a comparative analysis of two courses of action for the issues of theft in the retail business. These two courses of action ...

Key Terms and Distinctions

Science is knowledge according to the causes. This implies that just knowledge about the facts cannot be considered as science. It is important to understand them, to know why something is true and to interpret this knowledge. Science requires development of the mind, it is caused by strengthening the intellect and working on it.
Practical science is compared to the theoretical science. The latter one is based on searching for the truth for the sake of itself. Theoretical science is aimed to explain the fact or event not its causes. On the contrary, practical science is designed to provide ...

Introduction

Geography is very important. Specifically, the geographic concepts are important to understanding the world thoroughly. The geographers, content experts, and geography educators contribute many relevant things in geography; the human, physical, historical, political, cultural, and economic factors can greatly influence the people and the environment. Everything in the world is related with each other; however, the nearer the things are, they are more related as compared to distant things. The product of the geographic thinking and its reasoning on the natural world and the human phenomena is the geographic knowledge. It only implies that the knowledge of and about ...

Memorandum

This memorandum will examine a scholarly article that discusses organizational change and managerial sense-making. The article critique will be presented in this memo by focusing on the thesis, methods, evidence of thesis support, contribution to literature, recommendation and implication.

Thesis

The strategic planners design change management programs, while the middle managers implement these initiatives by managing resistance and emotions of subordinates to ensure organizational transformation. The article, Organizational Change and Managerial Sense-making focuses on the critical aspect that managers must focus on ‘sense-giving’ to reduce skepticism and uncertainty among subordinates regarding the intent and dedication of their bosses about change ...

Reflection of MBA

The experience during MBA was quite interesting as I learned many useful things that are related to business. The learning outcomes of the whole MBA were attractive as many important queries regarding business administration had been solved. The aim of joining MBA was to analyze substantial the areas of business and learn how to manage different functions of the business. The tactics and techniques to analyze the situation and provide rationale decision over the analysis were learned from different outcomes of the program. The learning outcomes of the program were helpful in analyzing the situations and find out effective ...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112.
This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater ...

Introduction

The assassination of Luther King is one of the conspiracy theories that has sparked a lot of controversy. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader was killed on April 1968 using a sniper bullet. King was killed while on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel located in Memphis. The conspiracy theory regarding the death of Martin Luther King Jr. does not have sufficient evidence that would make it possible to peg the death of King on particular individuals. This is because some of the evidence to assert the claims do not have sufficient backing as they are different ...

Introduction

The purpose of the following essay is to research one of the central ideas of the Heraclites philosophy – the doctrine of flux, and to argue whether that doctrine undermines the possibility of knowledge. The particular attention is paid to the ideas of the Heraclites` follower, Cratylus, which form the main opposition to the doctrine. The theory is also evaluated through its relation with other ideas and doctrines of Heraclites, like the idea of singularity and the unity of the opposites.
“Everything flows” is one of the most famous sayings of Heraclitus which serves as the basis for a so-called ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an analysis of the poem ‘A Description of a City Shower’ which was written by Jonathan Swift in 1710. The essay will analyze and try to explicate the poem, highlighting its main thematic core and the way it is put across to its readers through its literary devices such as its symbolism and icons, its form, genre, verse, metre and figures of speech. The essay will emphasize on the interpretation of the poem and its symbolism, by shedding light to the way that Jonathan Swift uses the description of ...

Psychology

In their research “The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal”, Whitson, Galinsky and Kay (2014) addressed human emotions that are linked with the uncertainty of the world. They suggest a hypothesis that these emotions (such as fear, surprise, hope, etc.) should promote the need to endow the world with structure and order using a variety of compensatory measures.
The reason to conduct the experiments described in the article was a desire to prove that the certainty of the emotions plays a greater role than its valence in the process of activating compensatory control. ...

Introduction

One of the most important part of protein assay is the determination of protein concentration. There are diverse methods used for protein concentration determination, but the most widely used are the spectroscopic methods of analysis or spectroscopy. Spectroscopy usually involves the determination between the correlations of the degree of interaction of light with the analyte, which is the proteins in this particular experiment. There are different types light to analyte interactions and one of these is the absorbance of light or electromagnetic radiation by the analyte. This type of spectrometry is called absorbance spectrometry.

Principle involved in absorbance spectrometry and spectrometers

The majority of substances absorb ...

Introduction.

The future of human-kind depends on state’s capacities rights. If this argument is anything to go by then states must focus on the contributions of the corporate businesses and private sectors, and how such interface with public expectations and values. This interface describes how billions of people dependent upon the state must service both in dignity and in an economical perspective. For the last few years corporations operating both domestically and internationally shield their profits from taxation troubling tax payers and governments alike. There has, however, been a limited effort to associate such tax evasion to corporate responsibility ...