The medieval synthesis was an outlook on life introduced by Thomas Aquinas that reformed the earlier ideas of logic and reason into a more logical and meaningful view on life, this can be seen in everyday medieval life by education, religion, and law. ... The first step, the trivium, consisted of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, which all were considered the base of medieval education. Grammar was the set of structural rules for a correct sentence, logic was the "mechanics" of thought and analysis, and rhetoric included the presentation of all these aspects in comprehension thought. ... The ...

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This is a question that many African Americans may have asked or be asking themselves. ... It would be easier to ask what black people have become today, because the answer would be practically everything; it would be more difficult to ask what it means to "be black" because it is probably seen different by so many people on their own definitional grounds. ... This natural cause proves that no one's racial identity should be questioned, regardless of the way they carry themselves. ... This proves that the logic behind "acting white" must stem from jealousy, or hatred, rather than some so...

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However, there are businesses that manage to provide their decision makers with processed and automatically consolidated raw data, presented in a clear, easy-to-understand format. ... Business intelligence and analytics requires a solid database foundation, a set of analytic tools, and an involved management team that can ask intelligent questions and analyze data. ... Analytics At the top level of a BI system is automated intelligent data analyses based on refined "vague" logic and "neuro-fuzzy" systems. ... Improve Operational Efficiency By providing real time reports to customers and emplo...

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These are some of the questions we can ask about anything in terms of their practical application. ... Namely, the sciences and maths, as they rely on pure reasoning and logic as a whole. ... Now moving on to Dewey's standpoint, it is much easier to describe his point of view compared to Kant's. Though Dewey rather calls it "theory of inquiry" or "experimental logic" instead of epistemology (Field), it is still very much philosophy. ... In my opinion, I believe that Dewey had a more coherent account of knowledge, only because I found it easier to digest his views ...

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Elizabeth Anscombe published a paper in the 1950's named 'Modern Moral Philosophy', which questioned morality on the basis of: How can we be ethical if there is no ultimate standard or lawgiver (God)? Through such logic, she presented her belief that moral laws cannot exist if God does not exist. ... Slote uses the words 'admirable' and 'deplorable' instead of 'good' or 'bad' as he views them as easier to explain and provided practical clarity to actions; for example what is admirable in our society? ... The distinction raises the ans...

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Jackson uses the characters within "The Lottery," to ask readers to question the fear and discomfort that comes with changing what is custom through foolish and outdated traditions in order to keep morals and ethics intact. The story demonstrates that most notable flawed logic that Jackson demonstrates in "The Lottery" over time is that traditions get dilute, with rituals changing and ultimately losing the meaning of the tradition itself. ... This realization by the readers can only bring them to question why the villagers still participate in the lottery without a remembe...

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The article, although fairly easy to read, is geared towards an audience that has a significant amount of scientific knowledge, especially with biology, physiology, biochemistry, and organic chemistry. ... The question of whether or not I could reproduce the figures included in the article with the information provided by the authors is not relevant for the type of figures presented in this article since they contain no quantitative data. ... The authors developed the ideas sufficiently so that I was able to follow the reasoning and logic presented throughout the article. ... This made follo...

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In 1894, if she would have taken a more militant stance it would have been easy for whites to dismiss her logic as bias due to her "black disposition". The idea of taking a less offensive stance in order to convince another party of your logic is an age old method of persuasion that Wells is able to yield masterfully in "A Red Record". ... Wells understood the idea that it is much easier to show people inconsistencies in another culture than it is to show them problems within their own. ... "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of soci...

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Swift employs irony along with parody by using what he masks as rational logic and compassion to highlight the ludicrous. ... After calculating the number of children who are to be born annually to parents who simply cannot afford to care for them, Swift retorts, "The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed" (2474). ... His apparent rationality is asserted when he diplomatically states, "After all, I am not so violently bent upon m...

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Straus have raised the primary research questions about whether youth's levels of educational and occupational aspirations were directly influenced by the family's position in the status structure. ... To elaborate on that, the logic behind the Chi-square was to test the term independence which referred to the relationship between the variables. ... It was easier for Chi-Square test to be significant if the sample size was large. ... Overall, the authors met the research goals in their primary research questions. ...

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The biggest question on everyone's mind as the Cold war threat progressed was rather simple: "Who will strike first?... Outlining the facts of nuclear war the diagram concludes in large lettering: "RESULT: A growing question whether a policy of receiving the first blow may be the best one". Given the situation of the Cold War it could be inferred that the communist opposition in Moscow would attribute the same logic to the situation. ... This made it easier to move massive amounts of supplies and even people across North America on an unparalleled scale. ...

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Be encouraged about the future for OB/GYN- I think that the field will change tremendously over the next few years and it will be much easier to balance lifestyle and career. I think that there will be more jobs available that allow more time for having a family and continue to play. (20 Questions) To be qualified for this profession, a handful of skills is commanding. ... This skill is needed because physicians need to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, and approaches to problems ("Obstetricians and Gynecologists). Also, ac...

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However, Achebe also chose to stress the inner battles Okonkwo faces; his personal battle between his manly hood and his resentment towards his spineless father, the legacy he left behind, and how Okonkwo realizes just how easy it would be follow in his footsteps, a path he spends his entire life trying to stay off of. ... Fundamental rules were found in their society, rules that no one questioned, and instead of an actual government, their religious beliefs instead influenced proper punishment for wrongdoings and provided a code of conduct they lived by. However, with the introduction of Eu...

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However, Achebe also chose to stress the inner battles Okonkwo faces; his personal battle between his manly hood and his resentment towards his spineless father, the legacy he left behind, and how Okonkwo realizes just how easy it would be follow in his footsteps, a path he spends his entire life trying to stay off of. ... Fundamental rules were found in their society, rules that no one questioned, and instead of an actual government, their religious beliefs instead influenced proper punishment for wrongdoings and provided a code of conduct they lived by. However, with the introduction of Eu...

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By grasping these three appeals it becomes much easier to identify various similarities and differences between the multiple persuasions. ... Where Profiling uses logic and reasoning to fight for profiling, Safety accesses logos to derail the wrongdoings of lawmakers. ... Even though Krauthammer builds his own character with the audience, it is easier to accept his credibility knowing that it was written for Newsweek. ... With Safety, there is very little if any sarcasm and her serious tone is established mainly through a rapid presentation of facts, and effective uses of the rhetorical que...

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The long and controversial history of human and animal relations does not suggest any easy solutions of the complex problems. ... Herzog cites some insightful examples demonstrating that "the way we think about other species" is frequently inconsistent, depends on biased concepts or emotional stimuli, and, "often defies logic" (242). ... "Question[ing] the morality of keeping pets," may also result in releasing pets from what their loving owners see as captivity (Herzog 243). ...

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Assignment Questions 1. ... In this case, Socrates saw great logic and rationalised that indeed it would be unjust for Socrates, a child of the State and its Laws to retaliate towards his parent. ... Perhaps a somewhat easier variance between the two texts to explain is the difference in time periods of the two dialogues. ...

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What users see on social networks or the Internet as a whole can be highly influential for those who are not able to separate their own logic apart from everyone else's. ... Most of theses social media sites have mobile apps that can be downloaded to iPhone and Andorid devices, thus making social media sites easier to access from mobile devices. ... Many people, whether social network addicts or curious dabblers, question the advantages of social networks. ...

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These detectives usually work in couples as its easier to gather information among the two of them on being the lead and the other one being follow up detective. ... They require active listening they need to pay attentions to what other will consider nonexistence or not important, understand and decide what other can't hear, they should always ask the appropriate questions, they must have reading comprehension to be able to read threw documents and any evidence that might be able to help them in work related also their writing -- communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for ...

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Bartleby's reactions to his superior are so unlike those which most of us have ever experienced, human nature causes the reader to attempt to apply logic to his eccentricities. ... This not being a logical solution, he moves on to the question of whether or not Bartleby could be considered a vagrant. ... He has rejected the lawyer's attempts at conversation and although the lawyer is still trying to make Bartleby's life easier in the few ways he can, Bartleby refuses to acknowledge it. ...

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On the surface this appears to be a valid question. ... In Neorealism and Neoliberalism, The Contemporary Debate (Baldwin, Ed. 1993) it is shown as evident that the only true difference between the two main strands of liberal and realist theory is the question of when absolute gains mean more than relative gains. ... With these factors in mind, I turn to social constructivism to find a theory of international relations that is not particular to the specific subject matter of international politics, but rather to the question of general theory. ... Three, anarchy has no logic apart from the...

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And finally, biological are a real treat, because they can either be as easy to make as chemical weapons and have the destructive force of nuclear weapon. Chemical weapons are attractive to many countries, because it is easy to manufacture and it is relatively cheap to make. ... In this section I plan to propose two critical questions that should be at the forefront of every country when they think about getting these types of weapons. ...

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Romanticism is not an easy movement to characterize, precisely because its focus on the emotional rather than on the logical prefers the indefinable. ... They all seem to have a character that fits into Smith's definition of sensibility from the 18th century: "[T]ender and delicate disposition of the soul which renders it easy to be moved and touched It gives one a kind of wisdom concerning matters of virtue and is far more penetrating than the intellect alone. ... Werther is confronted about his rebellion against logic many times and ends tragically; he shoots himself in the brain....

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The refusal of most affirmative action supporters to acknowledge this unavoidable logical truth " their naive or cynical embrace of Justice Lewis Powell's wiggy notion in Bakke that quotas are bad but race-as-a-factor is OK (because they do it that way at Harvard) " leaves supporters quite rightly scared of what the court might do when it reconsiders the question from scratch. ... To get an understanding we must ask the question "What is affirmative action?" ... Nevertheless, excluding Hispanics, or Asians, from affirmative action will not be easy. ... But these processes ar...

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Almost everyone believes that technology has made life easier and more comfortable and that it has enabled us to perform tasks that we could not do otherwise. ... It is possible to argue that the invention of the calculator is largely responsible for the inability of many people to do simple math; it is likewise possible to prove that electronic spell-checking (which is, and may always be, imperfect) has created at least one generation of individuals who cannot spell and know nothing about the logic of language. ... In contrast, few of us question the value of technological advances in t...

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