...Kindergarten, a group my friends and myself broke a flower vase in the garden of the Kindergarten while playing. When the teachers found out, they questioned the whole class. Another child that had seen us broke the vase told on us, hence making the teacher especially suspicious on us. However, we cohered on our testimony in saying it was not us who broke the vase, but a cat that ran through the garden (as we agreed on beforehand). The teacher believed us and we did not get into any trouble. Although this is on a quite unsophisticated level, it is an example where coherence was an obstacle in trying to reconstruct the past. In fact, because coherence often seems reliable, it can quite frequently result in untrue knowledge. In contrast to human or natural sciences, where coherence is almost always evidence of truth, verifying knowledge, coherence in history can lead...
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...University of Phoenix Material Environmental Science and Human Population Worksheet Using the textbooks, the University Library, or other resources, answer each of the following questions in 100 to 200 words. 1. What would you include in a brief summary on the history of the modern environmental movement, from the 1960s to the present? In a brief summary on the history of the modern environmental movement from the 1960s to the present, its focus was on a few prominent environmental issues and disasters. The environmental movement has evolved significantly in the last five decades. Today, many of the rallying points of the environmental movement have become ingrained into American society. Air and water quality standards are regulated for the public good, endangered and threatened species are protected, and chemicals and products go through a rigorous testing process to determine potential health and environmental threats. Today the environmental movement in America is divided into three levels: local, national, and international 2. Explain the primary concern over exponential population growth. What promotes exponential population growth? What constrains exponential population growth? 3. What is carrying capacity? Compare predictions for human population growth in developed countries versus developing countries. What will occur if carrying capacity is exceeded? ...
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...Over the past thousands of years natural science has been the focal point of scientific research, drawing in the world’s greatest minds as they attempt to solve the most puzzling and intriguing of questions. One such mind is Newton, who’s simple observations of an apple falling from a tree led to the recognition of one of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs of our millennium, gravity. However, another field of science has emerged in recent times, the field of the humanistic sciences. While natural sciences concentrate on chemistry, physics, and biology, human sciences surround history, economics, anthropology, and psychology. However, as these fields attempt to answer age-old questions concerning human behaviour, and the laws of the world, it is easy to wonder to what extent we can accept their discoveries as fact. Furthermore, what causes these scientific fields to be so intuitively appealing? Finally, as the majority of research performed in both fields relies on observation, to what extent can we trust observations utilizing sense perception? And what are the limitations of this trust in our human sense perception? Despite these several questions, the natural sciences serves a significantly more convincing field than human sciences, as more scientific research can be validated and accepted as truth. Furthermore, the human sciences relies almost solely off perception of past events, or behaviour, which can be contorted by bias, as well as several other limiting factors...
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...When I noticed this trait in young children, I had an epiphany that if our global society followed this childish outlook on the world, the world and the education system wouldn’t be the same. I will elaborate upon two possible perspectives towards this question; either you believe that disagreement does aid the pursuit of knowledge or you believe that it doesn’t. I will demonstrate both perspectives by analyzing how the roles of logic and emotion help gain new knowledge in the sciences. Ideally the role of logic is applied towards the natural sciences, and the human sciences use emotion as a way of knowing. I believe that disagreement in the natural and human sciences opens up the opportunity to question what has been asserted, in order to ameliorate our current Truths, but there are cases where this same disagreement rather hinders the pursuit of an “underlying truth”. The first perspective agrees with the statement above, that disagreement aids the pursuit of knowledge in the natural and human sciences. The...
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...SCIENCE A N D HUMAN WELFARE’ I BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE M Y SUBJECT this afternoon is “Biology and Medicine,” but I think a more accurate wording would be “Medi- cine and Other Phases of Biology,” for to my mind Medicine is a branch of Biology. Webster’s Dictionary defines medicine as the science and art dealing with the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease. Biology is the science of life, Disease might well be defined as life out of balance, and is in a strict sense a biological process. Whether it be an attack by microorganisms, or improper functioning of glands, or congenital misformation or maladjustment, or injury by poison or bullets, disease processes are in the last analysis nothing more than cells, tissues, or organs that have suffered injury and so not only fail to perform their normal functions but in most cases interfere with the normal functions of other parts, more often than not of the entire body. Of the two great divisions of medicine dealing respectively with treatment and with prevention, the former is much the older. It is far easier to observe the effects of treatment on a person suffering from a malady than it is t o understand why someone else escaped it. Some knowledge of curative or alleviative medicine was possessed by our cave-dwelling ancestors; in fact, it is instinctive in many lower animals. It gradually grew up as a sort of folklore from a slow process ‘Public lectures delivered a t the Rice Institute on Sunday afternoons in the spring...
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...GEPE4040, Human Science Valores (Values) Empecemos por decir que los valores son la medida que ayuda al ser humano a conseguir una armonía y a un desarrollo pleno de sus capacidades conduciéndolo a ser un mejor ser humano. El valor básico de toda vida humana es la dignidad humana es por eso que es fundamental en nuestras vidas. Nos permite alcanzar prosperidad, armonía e independencia. El valor humano es el eje central de una sociedad balanceada. Lo más importante es valorarse a uno mismo tal y como somos. Todo ser humano tiene la capacidad de actuar libremente, de tomar decisiones que no perjudiquen a los demás y obrar por el bien de todos. Los valores pueden ser de mayor a menor importancia pero todos nos llevan a ser mejores seres humanos, entre ellos podemos mencionar: La honestidad, la responsabilidad, el respeto, la decencia, la gratitud, la sinceridad, la solidaridad, el amor, la lealtad, la puntualidad, el perdón y la bondad entre muchos más. Uno de los propósitos esenciales de nuestra educación es formar un hombre con principios y valores que les permitan enfrentar las complejas situaciones, asimilar los cambios y buscar soluciones acertadas a los problemas complejos del mundo moderno. La formación moral no puede ser impuesta desde el exterior, requiere de cierto sistema individual de valores, puntos de vista, ideales, los cuales nos los imponemos de alguna manera y a su vez revelan la manera en cómo nos relacionamos con los que nos rodean...
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...Linguistics and the Human Sciences LHS (print) issn 1742–2906 LHS (online) issn 1743–1662 Article A linguistic analysis of Spanglish: relating language to identity Jason Rothman and Amy Beth Rell Abstract According to the 2000 census, 35.3 million Hispanics live in the United States. This number comprises 12.5% of the overall population rendering the Latino community the largest minority in the United States. The Mexican community is not only the largest Hispanic group but also the fastest growing: from 1990 to 2000, the Mexican population grew 52.9% increasing from 13.5 million to 20.6 million (U.S. Department of Commerce News, 2001). The influx of Mexican immigrants coupled with the expansion of their community within the United States has created an unparalleled situation of language contact. Language is synonymous with identity (cf. Granger, 2004, and works cited within). To the extent that this is true, Spanish is synonymous with being Mexican and by extension, Chicano. With the advent of amnesty programs such as Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which naturalized millions of Mexican migrants, what was once a temporal migratory population has become increasingly permanent (Durand et al., 1999). In an effort to conserve Mexican traditions and identity, the struggle to preserve the mother tongue while at the same time acculturate to mainstream Americana has resulted in a variant of Spanglish that has received little attention. This paper will examine the...
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...The Science of Human Action By L. M. LACHMANN Praxeology meaning - the study of human action and conduct Praxeology is the deductive study of human action based on the fact that humans engage in purposeful behavior, as opposed to reflexive behavior like sneezing and inanimate behavior. According to adherents, with the action axiom as the starting point, it is possible to draw conclusions about human behavior that are both objective and universal. For example, the notion that humans engage in acts of choice implies that they have preferences, and this must be true for anyone who exhibits intentional behavior. The most common use of the term is in connection with the Austrian School of Economics, as established by economist Ludwig von Mises. Catallactics is the praxeological theory of the way the free market system reaches exchange ratios and prices. It aims to analyse all actions based on monetary calculation and trace the formation of prices back to the point where an agent makes his or her choices. It explains prices as they are, rather than as they "should" be. The laws of catallactics are not value judgments, but aim to be exact, objective and of universal validity. It was first used extensively by the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. This is Professor Mises' magnum opus.' It is a magnum opus in every sense of the word. Its majestic sweep embraces almost the whole field of economics and touches, at some point or other, on almost every social issue of...
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...sense of who we are.” To what extent is this true in the Human Sciences and Ethics? Socrates once said, “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge” [1]. In similar vein, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know” [1]. A great Indian master, Nisargadatta Maharaj once quoted, “To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not” [2]. What were Socrates, Emerson, Nisargadatta hinting at? Is there any such thing as ‘knowledge’ and if so, can this knowledge ever give us a sense of who we are? Is there one concrete sense of ‘who we are’ that persists all throughout our lives or is our sense of identity a montage of ever-changing psychological and behavioral dynamics? Is the knower even capable of using ways of knowing to grasp a sense of who he/she is? If so, which way of knowing is more trustworthy and which area of knowledge should these ways of knowing be applied to, to get a better sense of who one is? Human sciences provides a sense of how we behave in the social context but not a sense of who we are at a personal level while Natural sciences while Thesis (….) I will be limiting my areas of knowledge to Human Sciences and Natural Sciences. Human Sciences, Psychology in particular, does attempt to answer questions about why and how people think, feel, and behave as they do. In a sense, it does attempt to give humans a ‘sense of how they behave’ but it doesn’t really give us...
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...Effects of Science and Technology on Society Effects of Science and Technology on Society Science and technology may be partly responsible for many of the problems that face us today. The problems are the advancement of weapons, bombs, biochemical and nuclear weapon, which brought us violence amongst ourselves and others. Another problem is human dependences on technology, such as the internet, computers, cell phones etc. Yet one of the biggest problems is pollution. Three types of pollution that dominate they are water, air and noise pollution. Water is one of the several resources that we need most, many people can survive without food for several weeks but they cannot survive without water for less then a week. According to Water Pollution web site “millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing, irrigating crops, and cooling industrial processes.” The advancement of science and technology causes much water pollution, such as dumping toxic waste into rivers, ponds, oceans, and even small creeks. For example, many Third World countries that are trying to get their country industrialized lack the funds to dispose of their wastes probably. But instead, they dump their toxic pollutants into surrounding bodies of water. All of the toxins that they dump, can be washed out into the rivers, seas, or oceans can contaminate our water we use everyday to wash our face, hands, clean our dishes, and much more. The air that we breath everyday to keep us...
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...Environmental Science and Human Population Worksheet 1. What would you include in a brief summary on the history of the modern environmental movement, from the 1960s to the present? The modern environment movement began on April 22, 1970 largely due to the release of the book The Silent Spring that is written by an environmentalist name Rachel Carson. Overtime, I think the environment has improved tremendously from where and how it all began. With the help of the National Resources Defense Council, many things started happening for the betterment of the environment. Many Acts and laws were passed such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act. The National Resources Defense Council has created acts and laws that have help to stop the mistreatment of the environment as well as the senseless killings of some of our wildlife that are still effective to this very day. 2. Explain the primary concern over exponential population growth. What promotes exponential population growth? What constrains exponential population growth? The primary concern over exponential growth is, the more people there are and the more resources we use will eventually lead to the Earths downfall thus leaving us with a weak environment. The population on Earth has grown over the past few decades and with that, growth come the more frequent use of unnatural resources. There are more people using and trying to advance technology and while it seems like a...
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...Human Population Demographic transition is defined as changes from high birth rates in a country to low birth rates being stable for the demographics. (Montgomery, K. n.d.). This is the changes in a country society because of the births and deaths in a country. In the texts its say’s that demographic transition is from high fertility and morality to low fertility to morality. (Editorial Board [EB], 2013, p. 191). Demographic transition is known for collecting data from countries about human population and is also known for the categories in 4 stages. (EB, 2013, pg. 192). Stage one deal with pre modern times in demographic transition. This stage change in the 18th century when the balance was broken in Western Europe. In stage one the birth rates and death rates are very high. This cause very slow population growth until the 18th century as stated above. The causes of deaths in stage on were fever, plagues, infections, TB, measles, whooping cough, and dysentery. Along with these problem poor hygiene, and clean during water wasn’t available. Some has called this stage the “Malthusian stalemate” because of its characteristics. (Montgomery, K. n.d.). Stage two; many have seen a rise in Europe population because the death rates have decreased slightly. It is still debatable that the birth rates stayed the same or risen slightly. The decline in death rates was seen in Europe starting in the 18th century in the north and the west. The reason for the lower death...
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...Workplace Violence CJS/235 Workplace Violence The newspaper article is about a gunman who shot and killed two ex-coworkers and then himself after he was fired from the network two years prior. Gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II worked as a reporter for WDBJ in Roanoke, VA. Mr. Flanagan had multiple altercations with employees. One with another news reporter and one with a camera operator who he did not like the way that he was filming which started months after he had started working there. Many employees were fearful of Mr. Flanagan’s temper and the way that he handled himself around others. “Mr. Flanagan was ordered to obtain counseling from employee assistance or lose his job. He complied, but because of continuing belligerence and other problems he was fired anyway, after less than a year” (Shear, M.D., Perez-Pena, R. & Blinder, A., 2015). Mr. Flanagan fired by the news director who had him escorted out by police. Employees who heard the commotion in the director’s office hid when Mr. Flanagan opened the door to leave. The employees were afraid of what he might say or do if he had seen them. The network hired off-duty police officers for the next two days once Mr. Flanagan was fired to ensure the safety of their employees. He was always accusing employees of being racists, which has carried through his entire career through broadcasting. Mr. Flanagan stated that he had always been discriminated against because he was gay and black. After Mr. Flanagan...
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...religion is, until someone asks us to define it.” Religion can be defined as the human quest for, experience of and response to the holy or sacred. It is said the universal human activity expresses itself in three ways: 1) in thought, 2) in action, and 3) in fellowship. In contrast, science uses methods to gain knowledge by testing hypotheses to develop theories through interpretation of the facts or calculations by experiments and can only answer the infinite questions of the universe that can be observed and measured. The relationship between religion and science has been a subject of study for centuries. It has been addressed by philosophers, theologians, and scientists. There have been many diverse perspectives from different regions, cultures and historical periods. Some state there is a conflict between religion and science, others disagree and others offer there is little interaction. Science and religion generally pursue knowledge of the universe using different methodologies. Science acknowledge reason and evidence, while religions include revelation, faith and sacredness. Despite these differences, most scientific and technical innovations prior to the scientific revolution were achieve by societies organized by religious traditions. Much of the scientific method was pioneered by Islamic scholars and later Christians. Regarding religion and science, Albert Einstein states: “For science can only ascertain “what is”, but not what should be, and outside of its domain...
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...The word 'science' is derived from the Latin word 'scientia' which means knowledge. Therefore, science is about gaining knowledge either through observing, studying, experience, or practice. Entire knowledge acquired through science is about discovering truths, finding facts, uncovering phenomenon hidden by the nature. Observations and experimentation, in science, support in describing truth and realities through systematic processes and procedures. For me, science is an intellectual set of activities designed to uncover information about anything related to this world in which we live. The information gathered is organized through scientific methods to form eloquent patterns. In my opinion the primary objective of science is to gather information and to distinguish the order found between facts. What Science Means to Me as an Upcoming Scientist Science exposes several ideas along with significant themes so that I could test them independently and without any bias to arrive at solid conclusion. For this purpose exchange of data and materials is necessary. I am able to generate real and tangible facts supported by reliable evidence. Work of scientist is based on theoretical science. It means, in theoretical science, there is only a sign, just a hint on which discoveries could be made, facts could be found. While studying science I am always working for determining truth, based on my perceptions, judgment, observation, experience, and knowledge collected through several means...
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