2. The criteria we used were percentage of water, number of major seaports, square kilometers of coastline, disposable income, and GDP (PPP). The criteria is important because it shows if the households have the purchasing power and water sources to use Connect a Dock. Argentina and Chile had the highest percent of water compared to total land, where Brazil had less land, but much more coastline. In terms of economic status, Brazil has a much higher GDP and disposable income than Chile and Argentina
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Book analysis-----“Winner-Take-All Politics” Jingshu Xu This book discusses the rising income inequality in America. During the last 30 years, the very wealthy people enjoy the unbalanced government politics and the middle class goes missing. The richer you are, the more you have benefited from economic changes. On the opposite, the poorer get the worse economic life and the middle class become vulnerable. The author give some statistics, since 1978—the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while
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Pre-Socratic Period Thales of Miletus Background: Thales of Miletus (fl. c. 585 BC) is regarded as the father of philosophy. Thales of Miletus was considered one of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece. Thales was the first of the Greek natural philosophers and founder of the Ionian school of ancient Greek thinkers. Works/Writings/Philosophy: His is said to have measured the Egyptian pyramids and to have calculated the distance from shore of ships at sea using his knowledge of geometry. He
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CLASS ASSIGNMENT For PAPER 2, SECTION 2: WESTERN METAPHYSICS On WILLIAM OF OCKHAM SUBMITTED BY: HARISH S PEDPAROLU MA PART 1 WEEKDAY BATCH ABSTRACT This write-up seeks to take stock of the philosophy of William of Occam , in the context of his position in the history of medieval philosophy and with reference to not just his ‘razor ‘ but also of his views on ethics
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are, of course, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Prior to these are the so-called Pre-Socratics. The Pre-Socratic philosophers include: the Ionians who attempted to formulate materialist explanations of reality, the Eleatics, who proposed various intellectual conundrums about the nature of being and thought and the Sophists, who taught rhetoric and were an important social force (as their contemporary intellectual descendants are today). Socrates, Plato and Aristotle represent almost a school of thought
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simple and straight forward, once people have the ‘right’ or ‘proper’ virtues, with practice it will never change. In this paper I am going to argue against Aristotelian ethics because people do not always keep their virtues in certain situations. Aristotle claims that once a virtue is learned, ‘come to light’, practice and lived by, the person practicing it will never change it. Aristotelian ethics is the practice of virtues, a median between the two vices that is “right”, also known as virtue ethics
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ENG 215- Research and Writing Assignment: Research topics with explanation Name and Surname Professors Name Date: 01.15.2013 My first topic is should citizens be permitted to carry a concealed weapon to their workplace (e.g., office, school, construction site)? The reason I chose this topic is to express my ideas and explain the advantages and disadvantages
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1 Ethics in Business Communications Com/295 12/8/14 2 Ethics in Business Communication I would have to find that is assignment was a bit challenging, there was very little interaction between the team at times. At the start of it there was only myself and one other student that seem to show an interest in the assignment, until towards the end then a few others joined in the discussion. So there was not much thoughts going around so this one is going to be hard
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350 BC ON YOUTH AND OLD AGE, ON LIFE AND DEATH, ON BREATHING by Aristotle translated by G. R. T. Ross 1 WE must now treat of youth and old age and life and death. We must probably also at the same time state the causes of respiration as well, since in some cases living and the reverse depend on this. We have elsewhere given a precise account of the soul, and while it is clear that its essential reality cannot be corporeal, yet manifestly it must exist in some bodily part which must be one of
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A pressure group is an association that may be formal or informal, who's purpose is to further the interests of a specific section of society or to promote a particular cause. They have several functions and methods. There are several ways pressure groups can be seen to enhance democracy such as educating the electorate on important social issues, holding the government to account and increasing participation in politics. Firstly, pressure groups are democratic as they can be seen to educate
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