...Jane Wearren Mr. McGill English- Block B 25 October 2012 Fate or Coincidence Fate can be described as something that which is inevitably predetermined. People say things happen for a reason and at times people cannot control how things go. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus hears from a prophet that he will kill his father and marry his mother. One day on his way into the city he encountered some people whom and he got in a fight with and ended up killing, little did he know it was his father. Since he solved the riddle from the Sphinx in front of Thebes he became ruler. He fell in love with a woman named Jocasta, little did he know it was his mother. Oedipus had no idea how bad things were but he would soon realize. After a bad plague was cast on Thebes, the blind prophet, Tiresias, told Oedipus that whoever killed the Laius the king would have to confess to it. Tiresias blames Oedipus for the crime saying “this day will bring your birth and your destruction” (Sophocles 184). Oedipus had no idea that Laius was the king and better yet his father. Was this just a coincidence this happened or was it fate? Oedipus never knew how bad things were or else he probably would never have done those things. Someone has a plan for everyone and things are going to happen for a reason. When Oedipus finds out the truth of what happened he is shocked. He even denied it when accused of committing the crime but now he “called down a dreadful curse upon [himself]” by denying it (Sophocles...
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...TENDENCY AND COINCIDENCE EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES (Parts of this paper are a repetition of a paper I prepared for the Legal Aid conference last year and which was published in Bar News Criminal Law Special Edition.) Ian Barker QC 1. I have practised law from a time beyond which the memory of man runneth not. At least, that is how it feels. During those years I managed, I think, to develop a slippery hold on fundamentals of the law of evidence, from the myriad cases on the subject. I was recently heartened to read something written by Sir James Stephen in about 1886 in the Introduction to his Digest of the Law of Evidence1. Speaking of the difficulty in finding concise guidance to the law of evidence he said: No such work, so far as I know, exists; for all the existing books on the Law of Evidence are written on the usual model of English law-books, which, as a general rule, aim at being collections more or less complete of all the authorities upon a given subject to which a judge would listen in an argument in court. Such works often become, under the hands of successive editors, the repositories of an extraordinary amount of research, but they seem to me to have the effect of making the attainment by direct study of a real knowledge of the law, or of any branch of it as a whole, almost impossible. The enormous mass of detail and illustration which they contain, and the habit into which their writers naturally fall, of introducing into them everything which has any...
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...As Albert Camus said in one of his writings, “The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth of life.” The famous masterpiece of Albert Camus, The Stranger, gives us the true taste of existential philosophy and teaches us about the universality and inevitability of absurd in humans’ lives. However, one can meet very similar concepts and ideas illustrated in another piece of art, which is the movie “I Heart Huckabees” by David O. Russell. This philosophical comedy does, indeed, share many similarities with The Stranger. The four main principles of existentialism similar in the book and the movie are observation, meaning of life, coincidence, and absurd. The best place to start is one of the most important aspects of existentialism and absurd as well as of The Stranger, observation. In The Stranger, we read about the constant observation that is done by the main...
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...Permutations The word ‘coincidence’ is defined as an event that might have been arranged though it was accidental in actuality. Most of us perceive life as a set of coincidences that lead us to pre-destined conclusions despite believing in a being who is free from the shackles of time and space. The question is that a being, for whom time and space would be nothing more than two more dimensions, wouldn’t it be rather disparaging to throw events out randomly and witness how the history unfolds (as a mere spectator)? Did He really arrange the events such that there is nothing accidental about their occurrence? Or are all the lives of all the living beings merely a result of a set of events that unfolded one after another without there being a chronological order? To arrive at satisfactory answers to above questions we must steer this discourse towards the concept of conditional probability. That is the chance of something to happen given that an event has already happened. Though, the prior event need not to be related to the succeeding one but must be essential for it occurrence. Our minds as I believe are evolved enough to analyze a story and identify the point in time where the story has originated or the set of events that must have happened to ensure the specific conclusion of the story. To simplify the conundrum let us assume a hypothetical scenario where a man just became a pioneer in the field of actuarial science. Imagine him telling us his story in reverse. “I became...
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...Although he believes that God is using him as an agent of fate, Dantes forms his own destiny by the decisions he makes throughout his life. A police commissioner who informed him, “Edmond Dantes, I arrest you in the name of the law”, arrested Edmond Dantes, being falsely accused by Danglars and Villefort through collaborating with the Bonapartists. With the betrothal feast going on, Edmond, did not expect anything terrible to happen to him because betrothal feasts are a time of celebration. This event was destined to happen to Dantes because of his enemies jealously if his accomplishments and his appointment of caption of The Pharooh. Being close to death, Abbe Farid tells Dantes, “You are the child of my captivity. My profession condemned...
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...should look out for Andover, on the 21st of the month. Just as stated in the letter, something happens on the 21st. A woman in Andover, named Alice Asher, turns up dead. On the crime scene an ABC railway guide is found, and Andover is marked. The police believes that this is just a coincidence, and that the letter and the murder are not connected. On the very same day, Poirot receives another letter. This time it tells Poirot, to look out for Bexhill on the 25th. On the 25th another woman is found dead. This time it is Elisabeth Bernard. Once again, an ABC railway guide is found on the body, and it is opened on Bexhill. The Police slowly starts believing that this is not just a coincidence. He receives the third letter three days late due to an error in the address, written on the letter. The next morning, a Sir Carmichael Clarke is found dead in his estate in Churston. The fourth and final killing happens in a cinema in Doncaster, where a guy named George Earlsfield is stabbed to death. ABC has erred, since Earlsfield does not start with a D. The police believes that the killer is a mad man, who has failed, and that the killings might be over. Poirot on the other hand, does not believe in coincidences. Therefore he believes, that it must be a methodical murderer with a clear motive. A man named Cust, a war veteran, was injured during the war, thus he sometimes get blackouts. On the day of the last murder, Cust wakes up from a black out, covered in blood, with a knife in his...
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...It is something that is learned. A person with intellectual virtue is someone who is not tempted to do bad in society or harm anybody. They are here to do good and that is it, they see everything in a positive manner. A moral virtue is defined as excellence of character through choices. Moral virtue is an example of a person that makes good choices out of good faith. Now this does not mean a person that does favors but they end up being bad. It’s as if a mechanic were to fix your car for free and a couple of days later it all breaks down. Now the mechanic had good intentions but it all ended up causing more damage. Also it would not mean doing good by it being a coincidence, such as being at the right place at the right time because that would mean a person was not meaning to do good it just happened as a coincidence. This can be somebody standing in the way of a robber that is running away and bumping him just because they were standing...
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...two-to-three page case study report on the following case: COVER STORY: INTERNAL FRAUD on pages 104-106 in Chapter 4: Billing Schemes of the Fraud Examination text by Wells. Discuss the coincidences involved in this case study. Use the 2009 Global Fraud Survey (also located in Doc Sharing) for references concerning perpetrator, size of fraud, detection, and controls. This case is about the $4 million embezzlement fraud by an employee of a magazine publisher, and how the fraud was discovered. The type of fraud discovered was a billing scheme that was found on accident. A billing scheme is, “Any scheme in which a person causes his employer to issue a payment by submitting invoices for fictitious goods or services, inflated invoices or invoices for personal purchases.” 1 In this case, it just so happened that the new chief internal auditor decided to stop by the accounts payable department to collect a series of recently submitted invoices so that he could meet with the vice president to understand how the accounting codes work. In doing so, they found that a number of invoices had been forged. According to the 2010 Global Fraud Studies, “11% of the time, victim organizations either had to stumble onto the fraud or be notified of it by a third party in order to detect it.” 2 With coincidence one, the investigation revealed that the forgeries were coming from the painting operations in its facilities department, in which was overseen by Albert Miano. Miano started his scheme...
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...greatest form of flattery, but IKEA’s new ad promoting its new catalogue “bookbook” flat out mocks Apple’s famous product commercials. Apple’s ads are known for close-up shots, blank backgrounds and elaborate descriptions, starring the likes of Jony Ive, the company’s chief designer, and Craig Federighi, the company’s chief software engineer. You can tell from this iPad Air spot below, even the color and style of Jörgen Eghammer’s shirt is no coincidence: YouTube/IKEA Singapore IKEA’s Jony Ive unveils “a device so simple and intuitive, using it feels almost familiar” They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but IKEA’s new ad promoting its new catalogue “bookbook” flat out mocks Apple’s famous product commercials. Apple’s ads are known for close-up shots, blank backgrounds and elaborate descriptions, starring the likes of Jony Ive, the company’s chief designer, and Craig Federighi, the company’s chief software engineer. You can tell from this iPad Air spot below, even the color and style of Jörgen Eghammer’s shirt is no coincidence: YouTube/IKEA Singapore IKEA’s Jony Ive unveils “a device so simple and intuitive, using it feels almost familiar” They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but IKEA’s new ad promoting its new catalogue “bookbook” flat out mocks Apple’s famous product commercials. Apple’s ads are known for close-up shots, blank backgrounds and elaborate descriptions, starring the likes of Jony Ive, the company’s chief designer, and Craig Federighi...
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...the death of Romeo and Juliet, but the most powerful contributing factors to there deaths are Friar Lawrence, Fate, and coincidence. These things were chosen, because they have the most influence on how Romeo and Juliet died. Is Friar Lawrence is to blame? He wanted to help the Capulet's, and Montague's back together and to end their feud together as a family. The Friar pushed too hard for Romeo and Juliet to get back together. He pushed them so far that they both killed themselves, Romeo with poison and Juliet stabbing herself. Friar Lawrence is blamed for their...
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...I think God does exist, firstly look at the world and how complex it is.. The make up of our bodies and how we have a set number of chromosomes from our mum and our dad which creates us as we are, the complexity of how our body functions how our heart pumps blood around our body how our brain works. The exact make up of the earth that is just right for humans to live, one fraction closer to the sun and earth wouldn't be suitable for human life. Secondly, the make up of the universe the distance from the sun, the moon the way the planets orbit the sun seems to much of a coincidence to just be perfect for the existence of human life. Even if the Big Bang is real what caused it? The chances of it happening at the exact right millisecond for it to cause the world to exist is very unlikely in my opinion and therefore if the big bang did take place something must have caused it, the Big Bang has no proof it is a theory no one was around at the time so therefore no one will ever know if it happened or not and cannot be justified as fact. Also is infinity real? something must have caused the universe it can't go on forever. Like cause an effect if you take things back everything that exists exists from something else, every effect has a cause therefore the universe must have a cause and it is more likely that God exists uncaused than the the universe existing uncaused. The world must have an intelligent designer, everything in the universe abides by the laws of physics and many these...
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...Hill and Walton state that the purpose of the book of Esther is to show that God can accomplish his purposes just as easily through "coincidences" as he can through grand miracles of deliverance. Though he works behind the curtain, he is just as much in control. Events that others see as chance or fate, can be seen by believers as signs of God's sovereignty (Hill and Walton 2009, p. 347). Although God was not visible in the book of Esther, Israel knew He was at work. They knew that what was happening was not just a coincidence and that it was really the Lord. When reading a book in the Bible, whether or not it is written as a story is not the most important thing. As Hill and Walton mention, "historical fiction often thrives on authentication details (Hill and Walton 2009, p. 350)." Since the writer used court records when writing the book of Esther, that shows that the writer wanted to show verification and had the intent of being historically rooted. The accuracy of the book of Esther cannot be outweighed because the contemporary sources cannot identify most of the principle players. Esther is a book that is like no other book in the bible. The way that it is written shows that it was not written to have chronicle history. It does have many of the characteristics that a modern short story would have. But having such a blend of literacy features and historical setting puts the book of Esther into a category of its own. The purpose and the message of the book of Esther is clear...
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...How many coincidences before there are too many? We are here today to witness the trial of the defendant Jack/Jackie Peifer. He/She has been accused of aiding and abetting in the kidnapping of Wilhemina Hamm. On June 15, 1933, Ms. Hamm was walking home from her office for lunch when a man approached her. This man reached out to shake her hand, but, shockingly, tightened his grip on her arm and pushed her to the curb. Another man then forced her into a car. In the car, Ms. Hamm, uncomfortably sandwiched between two men, with a pillow case over her head, was transported to a hideout. Ms. Hamm was also given ransom notes to sign, which, she decided, would be delivered to Billie Dunn. She was held at the hideout for many days, and was finally released in Wyoming, Minnesota. She was incredibly frightened, and the kidnapping still negatively affects her life today....
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...another novel written by William Shakespeare, also explores the themes of love, but in a comical perspective. Viola and Sebastian who are twins are separated after a shipwreck, and each character has to go through their own mishaps as they begin their new life in the different country. In both novels, Shakespeare uses the theme of fate, chance and coincidence to create a deeper understanding of the love between two characters. In both novels, although the characters know that even though...
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...THE HISTORY OF MONEY In the beginning, there was no money. 1. Self-sufficiency: families produced what they consumed and consumed what they produced. 2. There was no need for exchange. 3. No exchange meant no need for money. The advent of specialization spurred exchange, which led to the earliest barter systems. BARTER Barter is defined simply as good-for-good exchange. There are two main difficulties with barter. 1. Double coincidence of wants: • Occurs when traders are willing to exchange their products for what others are selling. • It’s a single coincidence if I’m willing to exchange my apples for your oranges; it’s a double coincidence if you too are willing to exchange your oranges for my apples. 2. Rate of Exchange: • The rate at which bartered goods are exchanged • How many apples per orange, for example. Arrived at during negotiations between the two bartering parties; these negotiations are transaction costs because they take time which might otherwise have been used better (opportunity cost) As the economy became more complex, with more producers and more consumers, barter became increasingly cumbersome. Number of goods produced and exchanged increased, so the negotiation of exchange rates became increasingly complicated, as there was no common measure of value. ADVENT OF MONEY Money was designed to solve the problems that arose from the earliest barter systems. Money is anything that is generally accepted by custom or law...
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