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Pascal and the Probability Theory..., Chevalier challenged him to solve a puzzle which at that time was known as “the problem of points”. This problem had been posed in the late 1400s and no one had managed to solve it for a period of 200 years. The problem was that; how the stakes of a chance game should be divided in case the game is not played to completion. This puzzle triggered Pascal to start thinking about probability immensely. He sought the correspondence of the then great Mathematician Pierre de Fermat. The work of these two scientists laid the foundation for the modern theory of probability. Pascal and Fermat realized that in solving the puzzle, all the possibilities needed to be listed, and then from this it...
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Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets...Lecturer’s and Number Submitted English Essay Comparison Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets is a play that is centered on taxi drivers’ meeting, who are planning to hold a labour strike. The play involves separate scenes and a number of characters who are either supporting or opposing the strike. One character that arrests my attention as very significant in this play is Joe. Joe, one of the workers and also a family man, expresses his dissatisfaction with low wages but is reluctant to stand up for his fellow taxi drivers for fear of further negative consequences from his boss. This is not until Joe’s wife, Edna, challenges him to act on behalf of his fellow workers so as to realise better income. Edna threatens to...
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Kiddy Thinks by Alison Gopnik...Essay, English Literature ic and Modern) Topic: Analysis Essay Introduction Children think and act from the level of purity and spontaneity and therefore the adults, whose mind is the conglomeration of several stressed thought processes, have problems with them. Adults want that children should do what they expect them to do, but the children want the total understanding of the things they do from adults. “Kiddy Thinks”, by Alison Gopnik, informs the readers about their “extremely powerful learning abilities”. (269) They constantly observe, willing to commit mistakes and learn. Efforts have been made by the author to assert that even the facial expressions of a nine-month old are meaningful from its...
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Clifford...the same ship had made many successful voyages before, and in the same condition. This, in Clifford’s view is against the laws that govern and regulate the ethics of belief. On this basis therefore, the ship owner was wrong, and it doesn’t matter whether the voyage was successful or not. From his explanations, we can denote that Clifford was of the opinion that the ship owner had an option of carrying out an investigation to prove on the ability of the ship to make a voyage. This is by making the necessary repairs, and having experts to examine its capability. The ship owner comes under severe criticisms from Clifford, because his actions were based on faith and...
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Clifford Stoll: The call to learn...Computer Science and Information Technology Review of TED speech "Clifford Stoll: The Call to Learn" Clifford Stoll is a very intelligent person, and this can be attributed to his successful pursuit of capturing Markus Hess, who was a hacker in 1986. He is also an astronomer; in fact, some of the things that he mentioned during his TED speed referred to as “Clifford Stoll: The call to learn” were fascinating. There are several interesting ideas that he mentioned at the beginning of his speech such as his view about computer in schools; though, he does not present a detailed discussion. Some of the main ideas of his discussion include the future, one-sided things and measuring the speed...
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What Fuentes Thinks About Language...What Fuentes Thinks About Language How I Started to Write is one of the many essays written by Carlos Fuentes and it is a good example of how he uses language to convey his ideas simply and beautifully to the reader. His thoughts about language and his notion of telling a story come across clearly; as he begins his tale in a Dickensian manner speaking about his birth and going on to describe the events of his early life. From the very opening of his essay, it is clear that he considers language to be the superior art form compared to silent visual displays of art. His disdain for silent films becomes apparent since he does not expect great fiction to come from silent music and images alone.
His father’s work as a...
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Wrong news...up, they must present news that people will want to watch. And if it’s going to help the show’s popularity, why not add their own clever twist to the story? It might only be a small percent of journalists who would actually make fake news at the expense of the public, but there are other ways the news can be inaccurate.
While certainly not all journalists are as untrustworthy as those in the aforementioned scenario, it should be pointed out that sometimes the sources they gather their information from are wrong. Many journalists and reporters rely on the information that is shared with them by ordinary, average people. Some of these average people may skew the story to protect themselves of someone they know. Or...
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Japanese Spirit, Western Thinks...A Reaction to “Japanese Spirit, Western Things” Introduction The article, “150 years after Commodore Perry: Japanese spirit, Western things,” the author outlines the how Japan was able to turn into a world economic power years after it finally opened up to Western ideologies without actually embracing these. The author claims that Japan’s success is not due to the aftermath of the Second World War but because Japan has apparently “mastered the art of opening up on its own terms.” That is, Japan’s culture has allowed itself to adapt foreign things and ideologies, but only upon improving on these and shaping them according to their own requirements.
Modernizing the economy without embracing Western culture
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James Nachtwey...James Nachtwey James Nachtwey is a modern day war photographer admired by numerous global people due to his excellent work in revealing the utter inhuman injustices, which citizens in war torn states endure (Fussman 206). During the past three decades, James Nachtwey has focused on covering war scenes and other diverse, critical social issues globally (Linfield 205). His core purpose was to reveal to the world and specifically citizens residing in other peaceful regions about the utter reality evident in the war torn countries. He also intends to reveal these injustices to the relevant law enforcement authorities, which most of them think these injustices are only...
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Clifford and James...Clifford and James Truth encompasses the fact of an object or the essence of something being true. Therefore, in the context of Clifford and William James, the existence of God or a car is blue interlinks with what the latter described in his essay The Will to Believe. It wholly revolves around adoption of certain critical beliefs (James 4). This often requires a measure of confidence and unsupported faith. On the other hand, Clifford’s The Ethics of Belief is based on the duty of inquiry. He, therefore, insists that something remains what it is and cannot change with ample evidence in the given context.
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