...Anne Conway – A Pioneer in Modern Women’s Philosophy Kimberly Higinbotham My decision for a final paper will be Anne Conway. This was the only female philosopher the class spoke upon and prepared summaries for throughout the semester. Being controversial at the time she lived and not afraid of writing her thoughts on life is something that is inspiring to me; this is why my decision was an easy one for this final paper to discuss the topic of questioning philosophers before us. Living in a time when higher education was not readily available to women, most women were expected to be homemakers and raise their children. Lady Anne Conway broke those barriers for women, possibly never realizing what impact she could make for future female and male philosophers. Giving her own viewpoint of the attributes and existence of God, this differs from Rene Descartes who begins his mediations in order to doubt God’s existence. As his writes, “Perhaps there are some who would rather deny so powerful a God than believe that everything else is uncertain” (p. 16). Another difference between the two is Descartes believes one could be deceived by God. Descartes would find it difficult of the likelihood to be deception brought on by God to the senses of a human who is imperfect when God himself is perfection. In contrast, Lady Conway has the belief of God to have the attributes of spirt, life, and the light. “Creatures have their essence and existence purely from him” (p. 10) because...
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...the “Quinquereme of Ninevah.” The author evokes the senses using multiple kinds of imagery in each stanza of the poem. The poem encompasses the past and the future of the changing ships and cargoes throughout various periods of history. John Masefield was born in 1878 in Ledbury, England. He married his wife, Constance, at the age of 23 and had two children, a boy and a girl. He suffered tragedies early in his life such as his mother’s death when he was 6, both of his grandparents’ deaths at the age of 7, and his father having a mental breakdown five years later and then dying when John was 12 years old. His Aunt and Uncle took on the responsibility of raising him and at the age of 13, his Aunt sent him to the sea-cadet ship the HMS Conway to train for a life at sea. It was aboard this ship that he developed a love for story telling. Sea life did not suit John and on his second voyage he deserted his ship in New York City and began to travel the countryside, taking whatever odd jobs he could find, often sleeping outdoors and eating very little. After 3 years, he was ready to return to England. John became a very big admirer of William Butler Yeats and after many letters to him, Mr. Yeats became John’s friend and mentor. This brought John into the inner circle of Mr. Yeats’ poet friends and publishers. Subsequently, John went on to have many of his works published that were met with praise and positive criticism. In 1930, he became the Official Poet Laureate until his...
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...The interrogation of Eric, which begins this act, is the last in a chain of interrogations which have structured the play since the Inspector’s arrival (in order: Birling, Sheila, Gerald, Mrs. Birling, Eric). Each of the Birlings has played a part in Eva Smith’s death, and each of them must take part of the responsibility for what happened to her and for her final, sad choice. This motif, as well as the structure of the play and of Eva Smith’s life (though, to get the order of events right, Mrs. Birling was the last, not the penultimate, character to affect Eva in reality), points to two of Priestley’s key themes: the interrelationship of cause and effect and, more generally, the nature of time. The “chain of events” that the Inspector outlined as leading to Eva Smith’s death in Act One is a key idea in the play. The chain of personal and social events is not simply a metaphor for the way the class system holds people like “Eva Smiths and John Smiths” firmly in their subservient positions in society, but it is also a neat encapsulation of the Inspector’s key moral: that everyone, contrary to what Birling explains, is indeed bound up with everyone else “like bees in a hive.” As much as we like to think of ourselves as individuals, we are also social beings. The Birlings and Gerald Croft are chained together by Eva Smith’s death. Birling sets off the chain which makes possible Sheila’s bad deed against Eva, which in turn throws Eva into the path of Gerald and then Eric and, finally...
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...RULES & REGULATIONS 1) Members are assigned to classes based on their level of exposure and experience in the art. A combination of factors including movement coordination, knowledge of technique and fitness determines the member’s placement. Classes are held as per the schedule issued by the BaSiS Director(s) each term. 2) Members must adhere to the rehearsal attire set out by the Director(s). Dancers are required to wear black leotard, tights and skirts/pants with jazz shoes/slippers. Black, Dark Blue or Grey clothing is allowed for other arts forms. Members wearing incorrect gear may be taken out of class. Members are expected to be punctual for rehearsal sessions and must request Instructor’s permission before joining a class if they arrive late. Once in class/rehearsal, members must remove all jewelry. This includes watches, rings, necklaces, bracelets. Only small stud/knob earring is allowed. Females must comb their hair away from the face and rolled in a bun for all classes. Long fingernails are not allowed. Cellular phones must be turned off (or put on the silent mode) and secured in bags once has begun. No Shoes excepting the approved dance footwear is allowed on the dance floor. Dance footwear should not be worn outside of the dance room. Absolutely no food will be allowed in rehearsal. Food must be consumed outside, and wrappings/containers must also be disposed of in garbage bins provided. Only drinking water or energy drink will be allowed inside the dance centre...
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...Priestley initially introduces Sheila Birling as ‘a pretty girl’ although she’s in her early twenties. These early descriptions suggest immaturity; the fact that she is in her early twenties yet is still referred to as a girl. At the beginning of the book, she is presented as shallow and naïve. This allows for the audience to make premature judgements. However, this naivety and immaturity isn’t apparent at the end of the play. Sheila matures over the course of the play and her change is much more dramatic than other characters in the play. As the play is set in 1912, it could be argued that Priestley uses these changes to suggest the forthcoming changes after the war: before WWII, everyone was rather ignorant but the catastrophes of the war acted as an eye-opener for the general public; just as the Inspector’s visit was an eye-opener to the Birlings. At the beginning of the play Sheila’s joy and cheerfulness seems slightly excessive. This is a subtle hint to the audience that there’s an oncoming turnaround. Sheila is very materialistic (“…who has put on ring admiringly”) and very superficial (“Pretty?”). Similarly to a child, she enjoys attention and is definitely enjoying the attention that comes with the engagement. Another very childlike attribute Sheila possesses is her lack of seriousness; she seems to take everything as a joke (“with mock aggressiveness” “half serious, half playful”). Sheila doesn’t just act like a child, but is also treated like one (“Now Sheila…”...
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...Mr. Macomber English 3 AP Syllabus 1.5 English 3 AP Course Overview Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and texts in order to establish greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. C16 Students examine rhetoric in essays, images, movies, novels, and speeches. They frequently confer about their writing by conferencing in class. C 14 Feedback is given both before and after students revise their work to help them develop logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence. Rhetorical structures, graphic organizers, and work on repetition, transitions, and emphasis are addressed. I comment on individual drafts, and I write memos to the class in a blog about whole-class concerns such as specificity of quotations, parallelism, and transitions. C13 Simultaneously, students review the simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence classifications. We examine word order, length, and surprising constructions. Loose and periodic sentences are introduced. We examine sample sentences and discuss how change affects tone, purpose, and credibility of the author/speaker. In addition, feedback on producing sentence structure variety...
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...Second Component Value Chain Con-way Inc. Primary Activities: Inbound logistics Under inbound logistics, Menlo Worldwide Logistics is the expert. They handle all of the receiving, warehousing, and inventory control of input materials. Menlo serves industries like the automotive, high-tech, retail/consumer, chemical, government, and industrial goods. They work with companies one on one to set up transportation management, warehouse management, value-added services, supply chain solutions and information technology. They achieve these results with shorter implementation periods and lower project costs than a customer company could achieve. Compared to their competition, Con-way Inc. has the competitive advantage because Menlo Worldwide. UPS and FedEx inbound logistics would consist of their local stores that receive and store inventory of packages that customers can come pick up and drop off. Besides their local stores, they both only have a few regional warehouses that they use for bigger packages and delivers. This is where Con-way exceeds. Because of Menlo, Con-way goes further than just storing and receiving packages and deliveries. They actually help manage transportation and warehousing with business which is their main customers. Operations Con-way Inc. operations are comprised of three business segments. That is Con-way Freight, Menlo Worldwide Logistics and Con-way Truckload. Con-way’s major operations include less than truckload services, full truckload services...
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...Mythology by Moncure D. Conway is an article where the author claims their subject as mythology. The scholar, Conway, argues on mythology that “the facts and authorities are much less limited than the moments that the scholar can venture to occupy”. Conway states his issues at the beginning of each paragraph, and then goes on to explain each issue of mythology representing religion, worship, mythology being of growth, a kind of “fossil poetry” through the evolution of mythology, and the method of studying mythology. Conway’s first issue is his “problem of the evolution of deities, and of the myths with which they are invested” (Conway 202). He states this within the first sentence of the paragraph comparing the issue to most people and how they are bias. Conway then uses examples of how the “wrecks of religion” made mythology. Also in this paragraph, Conway talks about the evolution of objects worshipped in religion. One such example is the flower named after the Madonna (Conway 203). Conway’s next issue is the use of the same object in different ways or functions for worship. An example is the use of reptile bones in a ceremony designed for bird bones. This was the phenomena that created a mixed character of facts in mythology. Then Conway goes on to talk about the development of evil beings or actions after the earliest mythology recorded. Conway states, “The Hebrew Yahve says, ‘I create light, and I create darkness; I create good, and I create evil’” (Conway 204). Trice 2...
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...Economy Shipping Company Solutions Estimated Cash Flows Alternative 1: Replace the Conway with a new diesel-powered boat today; sell the Conway and its spare parts; overhaul the diesel engines in Year 10; sell the diesel and the diesel parts inventory in Year 20. Year | Specific Item | Cash flow after taxes | Present value factor @ 10% | Present value | 0 | Sell Conway | 25,000 | 1.00 | 25,000 | 0 | Tax shield on sale of Conway (39,500-25,000) x .48 | 6,960 | 1.00 | 6,690 | 0 | Sell spare parts of Conway | 30,000 | 1.00 | 30,000 | 0 | Tax shield on sale of Conway parts (43,500-30,000) x .48 | 6,480 | 1.00 | 6,480 | 0 | Investment in diesel | (325,000) | 1.00 | (325,000) | 0 | Investment in parts inventory (adequate for 3 diesels) | (75,000) | 1.00 | (75,000) | 10 | Overhaul diesel engines | (60,000) | .3855 | (23,130) | 1-20 | Operating costs (156,640)(1-.48) | (81,453) | 8,5136 | (693,458) | 1-10 | Tax shield on engine depreciation (60,000/10) x .48 | 2,880 | 6.1446 | 17,696 | 11-20 | Tax shield on engine depreciation (60,000/10) x .48 | 2,880 | 2.3690 | 6,823 | 1-20 | Tax shield on depreciation of parts (75,000/25) x .48 | 1,440 | 8.5136 | 12,260 | 1-20 | Tax shield on depreciation of hull (265,000/25) x .48 | 5,088 | 8.5136 | 43,317 | 20 | Sell diesel | 32,500 | .1486 | 4,830 | 20 | Tax shield from loss on diesel sales (.2 x 265,000-32,500) x .48 | 9,840 | .1486 | 1,462 | 20 | Sale on diesel parts inventory | 37,500 | .1486 | 5,573 | 20...
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...IS535 TOPIC: IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC E COMMERCE IN CONWAY STORES INC, E commerce is the online business buying and selling products and services, or even transferring funds through the web. It requires high internet connection. According to Education Center “Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction, which involves the transfer of information across the Internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction or music sites, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. It is currently one of the most important aspects of the Internet to emerge. Ecommerce allows consumers to electronically exchange goods and services with no barriers of time or distance. Electronic commerce has expanded rapidly over the past five years and is predicted to continue at this rate, or even accelerate. In the near future the boundaries between "conventional" and "electronic" commerce will become increasingly blurred as more and more businesses move sections of their operations onto the Internet” There are different types of ecommerce, business to business B2B, consumer to business C2B, consumer to consumer C2C, business to consumer B2Cand so one.. Nowadays it is very necessary for a company or even a small business to have online store because it could attract more customers (far away or foreigners) which means more money and profits. And also with the e commerce...
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...Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, is a book about the science and politics behind some of the most important scientific discussions in the 20th century. It covers the issues of smoking and second-hand smoke, acid rain, ozone depletion, global warming, and history revisionism. In each topic Oreskes and Conway delve into how these discussions and arguments took place, and the goals that were being accomplished. The section of the book which had the best resonance was the section on history revisionism concerning Rachel Carson and her work relating to DDT. The reasoning is partly a personal matter on both the concept of history revisionism and the effects of DDT. Aside from personal, the issue with historical revisionism...
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...Economy Shipping Economy Shipping Company (Abridged) Question 1. What are the relevant cash flows under each of the two alternatives? And in what years do they occur? Alternative 1: Rehabilitation of the Conway We decided to divide this alternative in two parts. Part A is Rehabilitation without parts and Part B is Rehabilitation with parts. Facts/Assumptions • Conway’s additional useful life of 20 years. • Book value of Conway: $39,500 • Market value of Conway: $25,000. This is the Opportunity Cost of not selling the Conway at year 0. • Rehabilitation costs: $115,000. If spare parts are used, rehabilitation costs would be $71,500. • Book value of spare parts if used on the Conway: $43,500. • Market value of spare parts: $30,000. This is the Opportunity Cost of not selling the spare parts at year 0. • Annual operating costs of Conway: $203,150 • No dismantling and scrapping costs at the end of useful life (This will be covered by the value of the scrap and used parts). • Return of 10% after taxes. • Tax rate: 48% • Book cost of Conway, including rehabilitation costs, would be depreciated over a 20-year period. • Depreciation according to the straight line method = (Cost - Residual value) / Useful life. For the rehabilitation alternative, residual value is zero at the end of year 20. • ATCF(After-tax cash flow) will be calculated using the formula = Operating Costs after taxes plus Tax shields from depreciation...
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...Overview In the spring of 1950 the controller for Economy Shipping Company was asked to report on whether or not the company should refurbish an old steamboat, the Conway, or if they should replace the steamboat with a diesel boat. Economy’s business was to transport coal from the nearby mines to steel mills, public utilities, and other industries in the Pittsburgh area. All of the steamboats that Economy owned were at least 10 years old, with the majority being 15 to 30 years old. The Conway was 23 years old, and needed immediate rehabilitation or replacement. If the Conway were rehabilitated it would have a useful life of another 20 years. The book value of the Conway was $39,500, but if it were sold it would only bring in about $25,000. Also, if the steamboat were to be rehabilitated it would cost $115,000. However, spare parts from another boat that Economy owned could be used in the rehabilitation of the Conway. These parts had a fair value of $43,500, and if used would decrease the rehabilitation cost from $115,000 to $71,000. If the parts were sold they would only bring in $30,000. The other costs for rehabilitating the Conway would be the operating costs of $203,150. If rehabilitation were chosen, the book value of the Conway including rehabilitation costs would be depreciated over a 20-year period (using straight line depreciation). The diesel boat could be purchased for $400,000 ($325,000 for the boat, and $75,000 for parts inventory)...
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...Economy Shipping Company (Abridged) Question 1. What are the relevant cash flows under each of the two alternatives? And in what years do they occur? Alternative 1: Rehabilitation of the Conway We decided to divide this alternative in two parts. Part A is Rehabilitation without parts and Part B is Rehabilitation with parts. Facts/Assumptions • Conway’s additional useful life of 20 years. • Book value of Conway: $39,500 • Market value of Conway: $25,000. This is the Opportunity Cost of not selling the Conway at year 0. • Rehabilitation costs: $115,000. If spare parts are used, rehabilitation costs would be $71,500. • Book value of spare parts if used on the Conway: $43,500. • Market value of spare parts: $30,000. This is the Opportunity Cost of not selling the spare parts at year 0. • Annual operating costs of Conway: $203,150 • No dismantling and scrapping costs at the end of useful life (This will be covered by the value of the scrap and used parts). • Return of 10% after taxes. • Tax rate: 48% • Book cost of Conway, including rehabilitation costs, would be depreciated over a 20-year period. • Depreciation according to the straight line method = (Cost - Residual value) / Useful life. For the rehabilitation alternative, residual value is zero at the end of year 20. • ATCF(After-tax cash flow) will be calculated using the formula = Operating Costs after taxes plus Tax shields from depreciation. Part...
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...industrias en el área de Pittsburgh. La de la compañía de varios barcos de vapor también en ocasiones llevan cargas a lugares tan lejanos como Nueva Orleans. Todos los barcos de propiedad de Economía eran generador de vapor. Todos eran por lo menos 10 años de edad, y la mayoría tenían entre 15 y 30 años de edad. El barco de vapor el controlador estaba preocupado sobre el Conway, tenía 23 años y requiere rehabilitación inmediata o sustitución. Se estima que el Conway tenía una vida útil de otros 20 años, siempre que se hagan las reparaciones y el mantenimiento adecuados. El valor en libros de el Conway fue 39.500 dólares, pero el controlador cree que si la compañía vendió el barco en 1950, traería sólo alrededor de $ 25.000. Se estima que los costos de rehabilitación inmediatas para el Conway a ser $ 115.000. El controlador calcula que estos gastos generales de rehabilitación se extenderían la vida útil de la Conway durante unos 20 años. Nuevas piezas de repuesto de otro barco, que se había retirado en 1948, estaban disponibles para su uso en la rehabilitación de la Conway. Si se utilizan estas piezas en el Conway, una estimación de su valor razonable fue $ 43,500, el cual era su valor en libros. El uso de estas partes tendría el efecto de disminuir la inmediata los costos de rehabilitación de $ 115.000 a $ 71.500. Se creía que si estas piezas...
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