...My Philosophical View on Gattaca My Philosophical View on Gattaca I personally always thought that knowing what would happen to me and my life would be a great way to avoid the problems that I might encounter, but after watching Gattaca (1997), I am absolutely glad that I get to face even the smallest challenges in my life. Gattaca (1997) is a good movie overall, but to think of the problems I face on a daily basis makes me glad I am a “God child”, (Gattaca, 1997). In the movie any child born that has not been confirmed by a geneticist of being perfect, or as close as possible to perfect, is known as a “God child, degenerate, faith birth, or in-valid”, (Gattaca, 1997) and any child that is confirmed by a geneticist, to be perfect, is known as a “valid”, (Gattaca, 1997) child or person. Gattaca (1997) is actually a company that runs a space program and only hires “valid” individuals to work for them, because they will be going into space and the directors of Gattaca (1997) do not want anyone that would have a genetic defect and that may possibly pass away while travelling to their destination or while they are in space. The movie Gattaca (1997) is a good film to watch to learn what geneticists need to stay away from. The following is my view on the philosophical problems with the movie Gattaca (1997) and to show that genetics should be left to God, or whoever, and not to humans. The whole premise of the movie, Gattaca (1997), is how...
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...What it means to be human: a philosophical view on human nature Eyong Tabot SOSC 1012 Dimitris Kagia Thursday, March 10th 2016 1 Humanity, what does it mean to be human? Are we simply static beings defined by our ability to walk upright, and perform a range of mechanical tasks? Or does our ability to process thought, pass judgment, and adapt to a changing environment completely define us? For us to determine what it means to be human, we must observe humans actions within their environment. Many philosophers gave answers to the question what does it mean to be human? Now we can form an opinion by exploring these answers. Within this essay, we will be comparing and contrasting the views of two philosophers, Socrates in “The Republic” and Jean-Jacq Rousseau in part one of the “Discourse on the Origin of inequality”. Socrates believed Human nature is unchanging while Rousseau believed humans changed. As we explore both accounts can we find an answer to what it means to be human? In Socrates’s perspective, human nature was like the three classes found in the Polis (The Greek word for community). He believed the three classes which made up the polis were: the rulers, the guardians, and the workers. The rulers created laws, the guardians enforced these laws and the workers followed those laws. The stability of the polis revolved around the boundaries set by those three classes which cannot be crossed. Thus, a worker could not become a guardian, a guardian could not be a ruler...
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...PHIL101 Is “Jesus Camp” child abuse? Is it protected by freedom of religion? Can the emotions traumatize the children? Is this health for the kids and should it be illegal? “Jesus Camp” is absolutely child abuse. Attending church and Sunday school for children is perfectly acceptable and normal; children have every right to love and worship the lord at any time. However, what I do have a problem with is extremism in any form. The fundamentalism on display in Jesus Camp is, simply put, dangerous extremism. Regardless of whether Jesus Camp is protected by freedom of religion, through a loophole in the system, it should not be. Brainwashing children at such a young age is morally unjust. The children are far too young to even fully comprehend what is happening. The woman repeatedly refers to the Muslims as an enemy that "turns children into soldiers, carrying guns and willing to die for their beliefs," but then identifies the children within her camp as "soldiers who are willing to die for God." There are many clips of the children dancing to music, carrying sticks, and marching around; are these not “soldiers who are willing to die for God”? It's indescribably hard to disagree that these children are not being brutally brainwashed. The surge of emotions felt within the camp will permanently scar the children for life. Nobody can go through such strong emotional events, so much crying and fear, and come out unscathed. It is hands down unhealthy for young growing minds to be exposed...
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...I bought a book from crossword; he packed the book and added two bookmarks into my pack. A thought came to my mind. Why do I need a bookmark? I can easily memorize the page number and the next time resume from the same page when I resume reading, or read them all over to reach to the point where I stopped reading. But not all have a blessed memory; moreover, there are better things to remember, my grandpa would rather bookmark and rely on it to help him resume reading. It’s a kind of simple index, isn’t it? This article focuses on how MS SQL Server uses indexes to read and write data. Data is arranged by SQL Server in the form of extents and pages. Each extent is of size 64 KB, having 8 pages of 8KB sizes. An extent may have data from multiple or same table, but each page holds data from a single table only. Logically, data is stored in record sets in the table. We have fields (columns) identifying the type of data contained in each of the record sets. A table is nothing but a collection of record sets; by default, rows are stored in the form of heaps unless a clustered index has been defined on the table, in which case, record sets are sorted and stored on the clustered index. The heaps structure is a simple arrangement where the inserted record is stored in the next available space on the table page. Heaps seem a great option when the motive is simply storing data, but when data retrieval steps in, this option back fires. An index acts as a fire fighter in this scenario. Indexes...
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...Interview Questions for hiring an Oracle mid-level developer in an IT organization General Questions: • Please tell us a little about the organization that you work for and your role in it. • Do you see yourself as a nut and bold developer or more of team lead role within your organization • Do you have any issues with working on all phases of a project (such as Analysis, Design, Coding, Documentation and Implementation)? Under your current role, do you work in all these phases yourself or are you usually involved with one particular phase? General Oracle Database and PL/SQL Questions: • Do you have any experience with Autonomous Transactions in Oracle database? The purpose is to complete (commit/rollback) a transaction in a called procedure irrespective of the transaction state in the calling procedure. • Have you ever encountered a situation with Mutating Tables and what did you do to work around it? When a table is in state of transition it is said to be mutating. eg: If a row has been deleted then the table is said to be mutating and no operations can be done on the table except select. • What’s your experience with Oracle Forms and Reports. Where would you implement bulk of business rules so as to make your coding more modular in Oracle Forms? PLL’s (PL/SQL Libraries). • What is referential integrity? Rules governing the relationships between primary keys and foreign keys of tables within a relational database that determine data consistency. Referential ...
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...UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONAL DATABASES Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Name 03/05/2016 RELATIONAL DATABASES Being a data administrator is to handle and organize the bulk of data masses for easy and convenient retrieval of the information at any point of time. I generally believe that compiling a bulk of data is very difficult task for anyone who has the responsibility to manage the information. Therefore, here we go through and understand the concept of relational databases and use of tables designed to manage the data for the problem cases in our daily life. A relational database is a defined group of data items systematized and controlled as a set of formally defined tables from which the collected and unmanageable data can be reassembled or accessed in various different techniques deprived of having to restructure the pre-arranged database tables (Rouse, n.d.). According to Codd (1982), “Relational processing entails treating whole relationships as operands. Its primary purpose is loop-avoidance, an absolute requirement for end users to be productive at all, and a clear productivity booster for application programmers” (p.298). It comprises of designed data tables that are connected together in some important way. For instance, consider an organization that offers items to clients. The organization keeps up a database of the items it offers. Every item has a one of a kind code so it can be uniquely recognized. The item database comprises of a table, and each...
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...DEPARTMENT (DepartmentName, BudgetCode, OfficeNumber, Phone) Solution: CREATE TABLE DEPARTMENT( DepartmentName Char(35) NOT NULL, BudgetCode Char(30) NOT NULL, OfficeNumber Char(15) NOT NULL, Phone Char(12) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT DepartmentPK PRIMARY KEY(DepartmentName) ); ========================================================================================== 7.5 Write a CREATE TABLE statement for the EMPLOYEE table. Email is required and is an alternate key, and the default value of Department is Human Resources. Cascade updates but not deletions from DEPARTMENT to EMPLOYEE. • EMPLOYEE (EmployeeNumber, FirstName, LastName, Department, Phone, Email) • Department in EMPLOYEE must exist in DepartmentName in DEPARTMENT • EmployeeNumber is a surrogate key that starts at 1 and increments by 1. Solution: CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE( EmployeeNumber Int NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1), FirstName Char(25) NOT NULL, LastName Char(25) NOT NULL, Department Char(35) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘Human Resources’, Phone Char(12) NULL, Email Char(100) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT EmployeePK PRIMARY KEY(EmployeeNumber), CONSTRAINT DepartmentFK FOREIGN KEY(Department) REFERENCES DEPARTMENT(DepartmentName) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE NO ACTION, CONSTRAINT EmployeeAK UNIQUE(Email) ); ========================================================================================= ...
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...(1A) Donnellan makes a distinction between two uses of definite descriptions. He argues that definite descriptions can be used referentially or attributively. Donnellan states: “A speaker who uses a definite description referentially in an assertion […] uses the description to enable his audience to pick out whom or what he is talking about and states something about that person or thing” (Donnellan, 285). When definite descriptions are used referentially, they are used as a tool to pinpoint a certain thing or person. In other words, the definite description is used as a way to bring something to someone’s attention. For instance, a sentence with a definite description that is used referentially could be, ‘The guy with the Ray Bans looks pretty cool’. Here the definite description in the sentence is ‘the guy with the Ray Bans.’ Donnellan points out an important trait about the referential use of definite descriptions. He states, “In the referential use of a definite description we may succeed in picking out a person or thing to ask a question about even though he or it does not really fit the description” (Donnellan, 287). For the given example, ‘The guy with the Ray Bans looks pretty cool,’ the speaker or the person communicating to another picks out something, namely a person who is wearing Ray Bans. However, as Donnellan argues, we can still be successful in picking that specific person or thing out even if the person is not wearing Ray Bans. In other words, we...
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...the perceptions of those behaviors. Think of the study of conflict as a view through a lens, like the lens of a camera, or through prescription glasses. The lens model of conflict specifies that each person has a view of (1) oneself, (2) the other person, and (3) the relationship. These perceptual pieces form the fundamental views of all conflicts, and combined together they form the mosaic of a particular conflict (Wilmot & Hocker 2010). There are also minimal features of all conflicts. They are: (1)the communicative acts or behaviors of each person, (2)the meanings or attributions attached to those acts by each person, which are each person’s view of self and each person’s views of the other, and (3)the meanings or attributions the two people ascribe to their relationship, which include past events, current events, and future projections. Each person also has a lens that gives that person a particular perspective, just as people use different types of glasses to see. There are multiple views of conflict, yet each looks real to the one seeing it (Wilmot & Hocker 2010). In a conflict, each person will have their own view of the situation at hand and react differently. As the old saying says, there are two sides to every story. For example, let’s say you have a couple that gets into an argument or should I say, a conflict, about their child spilling juice on the living room carpet. The mother may view it as being a simple mistake and can easily be cleaned, whereas the father...
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...2. IMAGE ANNOTATION 2.1. LABELLING IMAGE DATA Looking at the Data panel in the upper right corner of the (Fig. 2.3). Opening an image dataset folder by pressing the button Open Image Folder. Then selecting an image in the listbox underneath. We may now specify the Image source in the Current image panel. In case the popup menu does not offer a relevant option, we may specify an alternative source of the image by choosing the option ‘other’. After pressing the annotate button on the New Annotation panel the tool will switch to annotation mode where only image labelling using the mouse is allowed. Annotate by pressing the left mouse button and clicking in the image area. Pressing the right mouse button will finish the object labelling and will close the polygon. (See fig. 2.3). If we press the Annotate button now, the previous label will be erased and we may label the object again. Pressing the right mouse button without having labelled anything will just cancel the annotation mode. The zoom feature will ease the annotation of smaller objects. Figure 2: Annotating an image object from our database 2.2. OBJECT ANNOTATION Having labelled an image we may now specify its class, degree of its occlusion, representativeness...
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...ideals on international affairs today and the combination of those and the paradigms discussed. Lastly, I will discuss three important principle differences between realists and idealists and their approaches to international relations. PARADIGMS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paradigms and International Relations In our textbook, World Politics In The 21st Century, it defines Political Realism as a “philosophical position that assumes that human beings are imperfect and possess an innate desire for power”. (Duncan,Webster,Switky, p. 33) I do believe that it does not matter what it is you are asking to be defined, the definition is always going to depend on who you are asking. Every individual as a unique point of view which might just be a slightly different perspective than the man next to him. This assumption that all people are naturally going to behave badly many people have frowned upon and stated that this type of negative outlook is only going to 3 feed into the negative behavior that might be of question. Realists have often been said to have a more cynical view on life than an idealist. But when talking to a realist, they are going to explain to you that there is...
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...Comparison Essay N/A PHI/105 N/A N/A Comparison Essay The three main types of philosophy, also known as schools of thought, are continental, pragmatic, and analytic philosophies. With analyzing these three types of philosophy, we can compare and contrast them and see what they are and how they are used. The first school is continental philosophy. Continental philosophy is a general term, which is supplementary with the philosophical opinions that originated on the continent of England in the 20th century (Moore & Bruder, 2011). It has numerous theories for instance, there are critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and structuralism (Moore & Bruder, 2011). The schools of thought accompanying continental which are the most important the two are existentialism and phenomenology (Moore & Bruder, 2011). The best known philosophers associated with continental philosophy are Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre (Moore & Bruder, 2011). Some themes of existentialism are traditional and academic philosophies are from the uncertainties of real life, the world is irrational, and the world is absurd in the sense that there are not explanations that can be given for the way that it is. These are not all the themes for this school of thought nonetheless these are the most fascinating (Moore & Bruder, 2011). The second type philosophy is pragmatic. Pragmatic philosophy is a type of philosophy that rejects the idea that...
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...fact I was going to be looking at art and I was confident in August that I would probably not have any appreciation for art despite taking an art appreciation class. My personal view before I took this class was that art is subjective to whoever is viewing it. There were absolutely beautiful paintings and portraits that undeniably could be viewed by all and all would be amazed by the artists work. However I held the view that why is it that if someone dips a paintbrush in paint and flicks the brush at a canvas and does this with multiple colors it could be considered a masterpiece. One can walk down the main hallway in Green Hall and a few of the paintings that come to mind as more simplistic paintings. However, this class helped me to understand that that art is not about a picture, but the interpretation of that picture. Sculptures like that of David or the Venus of Willendorf were direct reflections of the cultural way of thinking when they were made. The same apply to paintings. One must not just look at a picture and see the colors or the obvious design in the painting but rather must apply a philosophical approach to viewing that piece of art and see how that artwork not only affects how our current culture views the culture in which the art was made but also can change the way in which we view the world. This class actually has helped me look at many thing s in a whole new...
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...However, by changing how people view and practice teleology, nature culture dichotomy, worldview, culture, and sense of place then these concepts can be used to help solve human-environmental problems. Even though all of these concepts can be connected on a cultural level, they can be broken apart on an individual level. For example, not everyone believes in nature culture dichotomy, for that is a Western thought, also people may have a different sense of place from each other due to where they have been and who they have experienced that place with. When it comes to teleology, there are some people who view nature and see the purpose for a tree is to grow and be able to provide food, shelter, oxygen, and to just live. A tree can already have many purposes, some that even benefit humanity, without the need to cut down the tree to be made into paper or other consumer products. We cannot make the assumption that nature and place has the same meaning for everyone. I do hope that at some point, despite the fact that everyone does view nature in a different way, that we are able to make environmental improvements to better the...
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...World view and Culture within Africana Studies Kimberly Grant Hunter College: Introduction to Africana Studies – 02 The definition of world view has various definitions depending on the subject it is being used in. They, however, basically have the same concept which is how people see or view the world around them. According to Carroll “worldview refers to the way in which a people make sense of their surroundings: make sense of life and of the universe” (Carroll, 2008). One’s world view often stem from life experiences. “A person may be educated or uneducated, liberal or conservative… but all people act and live in certain ways because they are guided by particular worldviews.” (Samples, 2007) This shows how universal world view is. It can also be based in one’s culture, per an anthropologist, can be described as “people’s way of life in terms of all the customs and institutions which distinguish it.” (Redfield,...
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