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Summary of the Whale and the Reactor by Langdon Winner
Summary of The Whale and the Reactor by Langdon Winner (pp. ix-39, 99-200). Winner states implicitly that he wishes to add his book to a surprisingly short list of works that can be characterized as "philosophy of technology" (which includes Marx and Heidegger). His book will deal primarily with the political and social aspects of this philosophy, pertinent since as he notes the world is changing because of tech., no longer comprised of national entities--a
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Egyptian Women’s Movement-Short Summary
Early feminists wrote poems about their outrage of the unfairity, with few taking action. Those that did, however, began to inspire a nation of women. As to seeing rights being conducted upon Egyptian women, the women in other countries of the Middle East began to take action. These women vying for voting rights, education, as did the Egyptians. Nabawiya Musa was the first Egyptian girl to graduate from high school. It opened doors for other
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Fallacy Summary and Applications
Fallacy Summary and Applications Richard M. Murnane MGT 350 Paula C. Herring October 31, 2005 Fallacy Summary and Applications Have you, as a writer, ever attempted to employ logic to support the claims that you are making in your paper? Have you ever thought that your reasoning was weakened due to the presenting of fallacious arguments in your papers? In writing papers, or presenting arguments, it is important for you to be able to identify,
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Eco 360 Week Two Chapter Summary
Chapter 22 Chapter 22 explained economic growth, business cycles, unemployment and inflation. There are two frameworks that analyze macroeconomic issues; long-run growth framework and short-run business-cycle framework. Inflation is the result of creating credit values in society without the actual production of wealth. Monopolies of Land and Land Speculation creates artificial scarcity of land which results in skyrocketing land values and are the last values to come down during depression. It makes it difficult for
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Ethics Article Review
Ethics Article Review Ethical behavior applies to everyone in their personal and professional lives, ethics are essential for professionals such as accountants because people trust them with their finances, and livelihood. "Ethical values provide the foundation on which a civilized society exists. Without the foundation, civilization collapses" (Smith, para. 1, 2003). In private industry and Government ethical accounting is a requirement for any organization to be successful. If the numbers being input are incorrect or
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Broomhead Article
Broomhead, P. (2005). Shaping expressive performance: a problem-solving approach. Music Educators Journal, 91(5), 63-67. The music teacher assumed that students were learning from his but they actually were depending on his. He would give them a phrase from a well-known folk song; allowing them thirty seconds or so to decide how to shape the phrase, and then have the entire ensemble sing the phrase with no direction, coaching, or conducting from his. They were using
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Summary of Heart of Darkness
Part I Beginning through Marlow’s being hired as a steamboat captain. Summary At sundown, a pleasure ship called the Nellie lies anchored at the mouth of the Thames, waiting for the tide to go out. Five men relax on the deck of the ship: the Director of Companies, who is also the captain and host, the Lawyer, the Accountant, Marlow, and the unnamed Narrator. The five men, old friends held together by “the bond of
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My Summary of the Good Life
The Good life can be interpreted in many ways by various people. It is pondered by every individual and can be discussed and analyzed in different ways. The following texts have shown me a very different perspective to the good life. One that I would of never thought I would have. Every person can come to their own decisions to define the good life. I believe after one reads the chosen texts, one will have
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Essay on the Article How Organizations Can Overbalance
Essay on the article “How Organizations Can Overbalance” For my essay I read the article “How Organizations Can Overbalance: Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure” by David C. Wilson, David J Hickson, and Susan Miller. This article appeared in The American Behavioral Scientist, in August 1996. In this essay I will first objectively identify the thesis and how the authors supported it, and secondly I will give a subjective interpretation of how this article
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Problem Analysis Project Summary
Problem Analysis Project Summary JACC is our Management Consulting Firm. We offer tools and training to companies to assist them with solutions to their problems. The work related problem being presented is a high employee turnover ratio within the company. In 2000, the high ratio turnover presented a major problem to the company. We will describe the problem as a comparison between the current and preferred situation. Is a high ratio turnover really the problem,
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Articles of Confederation
In 1776, the Continental Congress called upon the colonies to draft a new constitution, thus forming the Articles of Confederation. The states chose the confederation as their first form of government, which created a loose union of states where a federal and state level existed, yet the state level held the most power to do their own thing. Although the confederation provided the first form of government to the states, it quickly needed to be
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Newspaper Article on ’to Kill a Mockingbird’
Maycomb Rape Trial Summer, 1936 Maycomb, Alabama- The Tom Robinson trial concluded today. For those of you who are just learning about the case: Tom Robinson, a young black man, is accused of rape by Mayella Ewell, a 19 year old girl. The trial began with Judge Taylor's presiding and then Heck Tate,1st officer of the county, began by testifying. He began with saying that on November 21 Bob Ewell, father of victim and 7
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General Plot Summary of Homer's Iliad
General Plot Summary of Homer's Iliad The Iliad is a lengthy poem of some 15,693 lines, divided into 24 books (cantos) and has as its theme the anger (menis) of the Greek hero Achilles, the greatest of the heroes to sail to Troy. In the tenth year of the war, Achilles quarrels with the leader of the expedition, Agamemnon, over a slight to Achilles' honor. In his anger, Achilles withdraws from the fighting and wins
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Harley Davidson Executive Summary
Harley Davidson, the name makes grown men smile and act like kids. The only problem is that Harley Davidson only targets grown men the company has lost its younger crowd to the “crotch rockets”. Honda and Yamaha are two companies that have taken advantage of this and they have stolen many customers from Harley Davidson. What is being proposed here is to revamp Buell and make a true Harley Davidson “crotch rocket”. How this will
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Executive Summary for Canada
Executive Summary for Canada Canada is situated above the U.S.A. It is an affluent, high-tech industrial society much like the United States. Canada’s market-oriented economics system, pattern production, and high living standards are almost identical to that of the United States. There has been a huge growth since World War 2 in manufacturing, mining, and service sectors that has transformed the country from a large rural economy, into a primarily industrial and urban economy. The
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Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis
New study finds therapeutic medicine that reduces endometriosis which is called pycnogenol. This plant is extracted from a pine bark along the southwest of France and has been studied for over 35 years. Now researchers have study and discovered that this antioxidant reduces pain symptoms associated with endometriosis by 33%. Endometriosis is the lining of the uterus that regurgitates into the abdominal during menstrual cycles. Estrogen and progesterone sometimes cause endometriosis to grow outside the
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Utopia Summary by Wikipedia.Com
De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Classical Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ ou ("not") and τόπος
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5 Voices of Freedom Articals; Vocabulary and Summarys
Voices of Freedom articles. “A Slave Describes the Middle Passage.” Vocabulary: Indulge: To yield to the desire or whim of; pamper. Flog: To beat severely with a log or rod. Loathsome: Repulsive or disgusting. Summary: This article is about a slave who was kidnapped and brought onto a slave ship. He didn’t know where he was. They put him below deck with many other slaves, and it smelled horrible. Some of the slaves managed to
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Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis
Are Elite Universities Loosing Their Competitive Edge? In the article titled “Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge”, the researchers set out to determine if there has been a decline in a university’s drawing power due to the lack of productive research colleagues. The study showed that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970’s; this same effect was weakened in the 1980’s, and disappeared in the 1990’s
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Summary 3
The book I read was "Noah Webster, A Man Who Loved Words." It was written by Elaine Cunningham. The book has twelve chapters. The book has 176 pages in it. This book is a very good book. I would recommend it to anyone my age. The book was kind of sad also. In the beginning of the story, Noah is five. He was always eager to learn. Noah could not wait to learn. When he
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Tes of the D’urbervilles Summary
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Chapters 1-5 John Durbeyfield is walking down a country road in the small English town of Marlott when he is stopped by a friend of his who tells John of his rich family history and how his ancestors are not just peasants and farmers, but wealthy people with power. John is excited of his new found heritage and celebrates by going to the bar. The second chapter mainly has to do
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Eat Drink Man Woman Summary
Foreign films intimidate many people; it could be the culture shock, or it could be the hesitance to reading subtitles for two hours. Despite these setbacks, foreign films are some of the best made and Eat Drink Man Woman, directed by Ang Lee is no exception. Eat Drink Man Woman offers many elements of a great movie such as excellent filming techniques, interesting and unique characters, and unanticipated plot twists. Eat Drink Man Woman focuses
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Summary of the Dialogue of Theaetetus
Summary of the Dialogue At the gates of the city of Megara in 369 BC, Eucleides and Terpsion hear a slave read out Eucleides' memoir of a philosophical discussion that took place in 399 BC, shortly before Socrates' trial and execution (142a-143c). In this, the young Theaetetus is introduced to Socrates by his mathematics tutor, Theodorus. Socrates questions Theaetetus about the nature of expertise, and this leads him to pose the key question of the
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Article Analysis
Article Analysis 2 One of the foremost problems facing the accounting profession today is the loss of respect that faces accountants in light of recent accounting scandals. In order to regain lost respect in the accounting profession an accountant must have integrity and ethics that are above and beyond the norm. This fact is true whether the accountant works for a business entity or for a government entity. In either situation the accountant is
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Persuasive Articles About Gun Control
Persuasive articles about Gun Control Persuading an audience can be done in several different fashions, one of which is Hugh Rank’s Model of Persuasion. Rank’s model states that two major strategies are used to achieve the particular goal of persuasion. These strategies are nicely set into two main schemas; the first method is to exaggerate an aspect of something, known as “intensify.” While the second is to discredit it, which is referred to as “downplay.”
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