Actuarial science

You hear about ghost stories all the time, they’re always on TV, there’s even a show called celebrity ghost stories. Many people believe in ghosts, they believe they can talk to and see people (that have died) on the other side. They believe they have a special gift that allows them to do this. Typically people don’t believe in ghosts because of their religion, personal beliefs, or just because it sounds so bizarre to them. This is where people become skeptic. They start to question how a…

In this paper, I will try to make an understanding of how social media, like Facebook and Twitter, can affect the six degrees of separation. The six degrees of separation is a theory developed by Frigyes Karinthy, which states that every human being, or phenomena, is linked to every other, in five connections or less (five connections link six human beings). This theory started with the following mind game created by Frigyes (1929), How can I link, with three, four, or at most five links of the…

Animals are there for people to enjoy and have fun with. They come in many different shapes, sizes, and types. Yet not all animals are not treated by the same standards as other animals. Animal testing is wrong because of the effects it has on the animals such as the harmful side effects, the reduction of life expectancy, and the lasting effects it has on the animal. Most of the time the test subjects are harmed in some way. Subjects often come down with some down sort of sickness or rash.…

According to the Belmont Report there are general ethical principals in research involving humans: Respect for persons, privacy, confidentially, autonomy concerning the capacity of the individual to understanding and the appreciation consequences of participation resulting in the free power to make the decision to participate, sufficient information provided to individuals along with informed consent. Concerning the promotion of well being-beneficence. In order to gain the maximum benefit the…

Throughout human history scientists have discovered and published theories and ideas which are often shared by other scientists and the general public, some of them more widely accepted than others, whilst others were simply rejected. At times, because of ethical and moral differences in the way different people view the same things, these theories are controversial. Today there are many controversial concepts or theories, some of which are the use of uranium (to improve mankind’s quality of…

The Natural Man (A Discussion of Colin Wilson’s Quote) Colin Wilson once said, "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." What Wilson is stating is a very debatable topic; is the average man a stoic that simply goes with the flow? Wilson is noting that man seems to become dull in society, many slowly begin to blend in, losing their originality and falling to the monotonous rhythm of everyday life. This conformism…

construct. We can’t define acts of injustice by examining race as independent of biological/genetic variations. Scholars discovered race didn’t exist in the 17TH century but race originated as a folk idea-it was a social invention, not a product of science. More than 400 years ago in the 1600’s Englishmen came to America seeking fortunes. They planned to overthrow the Indians by enslavement and obtain their wealth. Unfortunately, many Indians died of European diseases and other escaped to…

Weekly Reflection #9: Today, Michael Fenton talked about Desmos and what we should think about when we incorporate technology in the classroom. Reflect on the talk, the activities, and his philosophy of how we should incorporate tech in the classroom. Before Michael Fenton speech, I had hear about something people say, that someday we will live in a world where almost everything will be done through technology and where there will be not a lot of human interaction. Nevertheless, I did not think…

mental processes within the context of evolutionary adaptations. However, Roscoe’s conclusion that evolutionary psychology has been immensely useful in the matter of biological sciences may be weak. In fact, biology scientists (among others) have called evolutionary psychology to task for cutting in line in their hard science, without having a proper biological scientific background. While an abundance of critics of evolutionary psychology…

Chrystal Nguyen November 19, 2014 The Grand Canyon: A Natural Phenomenon Although humans are considered the smartest animal in the world, we are definitely not the most powerful forces in the world. Human history can be told verbally or documented with written language, but Earth’s history must be deciphered through the written clues in our nature. Whether we are analyzing rock sentiment, volcanic activity, or old climate patterns, there are many ways to understand the history of Earth. However…