...3.1.5 Practice: Hawks and Doves Practice Assignment U.S. History since the Civil War Sem 2 (S3034136) Points possible: 30 Date: ____________ Your Assignment 1.Choose three quotations from the list. Create a table for each of the quotations with the following: Choose and write down a quotation from the list provided. 2.Write whether the opinion expressed was that of a hawk or a dove. 3.Think about and explain the meaning of the quotation. What opinion about the Vietnam War was expressed in the quotation? 4.Finally, what is your opinion of this position? Write whether you agree or disagree with the quotation and tell why. Quotation #1: “Should I become President . . . I will not risk American lives . . . by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.”— Future president John F. Kennedy, 1960 Hawk or Dove? Dove Meaning of the Quotation: John F. Kennedy would be the best president he can be and try not to make any mistakes. He would not risk having Americans die over wars they don’t belong in. Your Opinion/ Analysis: If I was president, I would probably want to do the same thing. Americans don’t need to die over wars they don’t have any business being in. ...
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...3.1.5 Practice: Hawks and Doves In: Novels 3.1.5 Practice: Hawks and Doves 3.1.5 Practice: Hawks and Doves Practice Assignment U.S. History since the Civil War Sem 2 (S3034136) Points possible: 30 Date: ____________ Your Assignment 1.Choose three quotations from the list. Create a table for each of the quotations with the following: Choose and write down a quotation from the list provided. 2.Write whether the opinion expressed was that of a hawk or a dove. 3.Think about and explain the meaning of the quotation. What opinion about the Vietnam War was expressed in the quotation? 4.Finally, what is your opinion of this position? Write whether you agree or disagree with the quotation and tell why. Quotation #1: “Should I become President . . . I will not risk American lives . . . by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.”— Future president John F. Kennedy, 1960 Hawk or Dove? Dove Meaning of the Quotation: John F. Kennedy would be the best president he can be and try not to make any mistakes. He would not risk having Americans die over wars they don’t belong in. Your Opinion/ Analysis: If I was president, I would probably want to do the same thing. Americans don’t need to die over wars they...
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...Draft chapter from An introduction to game theory by Martin J. Osborne. Version: 2002/7/23. Martin.Osborne@utoronto.ca http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne Copyright © 1995–2002 by Martin J. Osborne. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from Oxford University Press, except that one copy of up to six chapters may be made by any individual for private study. 2 Nash Equilibrium: Theory 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 Strategic games 11 Example: the Prisoner’s Dilemma 12 Example: Bach or Stravinsky? 16 Example: Matching Pennies 17 Example: the Stag Hunt 18 Nash equilibrium 19 Examples of Nash equilibrium 24 Best response functions 33 Dominated actions 43 Equilibrium in a single population: symmetric games and symmetric equilibria 49 Prerequisite: Chapter 1. 2.1 Strategic games is a model of interacting decision-makers. In recognition of the interaction, we refer to the decision-makers as players. Each player has a set of possible actions. The model captures interaction between the players by allowing each player to be affected by the actions of all players, not only her own action. Specifically, each player has preferences about the action profile—the list of all the players’ actions. (See Section 17.4, in the mathematical appendix, for a discussion of profiles.) More precisely, a strategic game...
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