Ambiguity

Medicine cannot afford to have ambiguity in its vocabulary as precision and understanding is key to the field’s success. However, a challenge in medical terminology includes how one should define the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’. In this essay I intend to explain naturalism and normativism in relation to how each one defines ‘health’ and ‘disease’. In order to do this, I will analyse naturalism and normativism as well as their critiques . Finally, I will discuss which approach is best and the…

In Glimer, there was some ambiguity about the effect of the statutory exclusion for contracts of employment because, the arbitration clause was not in a contract between an employee and an employer, but rather was in a contract between an employee and the agency. The Supreme Court clarified the ambiguity in Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, where the Court interpreted the exemption for “contracts of employment” exceptionally narrowly. The Court held that the statute applied to all contracts…

factor to the integrity of a person in law enforcement. When discretion is used to promote a just or fair result people more likely to feel comfortable in their communities. The purpose of discretion just in case an unclear law, nuisance behavior, ambiguity in states statues, moral standards, or an outdated law can cause an officer to have an alternate answer to a problem. An example is a police officer sees a speeding motorist. The officer has the right to pull over the vehicle and issue a…

On October 31, 1517, an unsatisfied, non-conforming, progressive theologian named Martin Luther took an action that altered the religious (and, in some cases) political landscape of the entire Western world. Disgusted at the Catholic church’s insistence on the sale of indulgences and unconvinced as to their doctrine of “salvation by works,” the Wittenberg professor nailed a 95-point document to the front door of his university’s Catholic church. This document, later called the “Ninety-five…

The study of history provides us with many valuable resources that are useful in all aspects of life. In his article, Jerry Bentley argues that the study of world history can develop three different qualities of wisdom. The first quality of wisdom Bentley argues is cognitive skill, “the ability to assess complex situations, understand, understand the dynamics that produced them..” (Bentley, 1). When studying world history, students gain the ability to look at an issue from a new perspective,…

Mary McCarthy’s pretty loyal to Vasari’s portrayal of Paolo Uccello. She describes him as a solitary character incredibly focused on work; to the point that he would just shut himself away to deal with his long term perspective project. Vasari speaks similarly of Uccello, even arguing that Uccello spentso much time on his project that he “nothing but waste his time, exhaust his powers, fill his mind with difficulties” McCarthy often quotes Vasari when describing the life of Uccello. And focuses…

1) The powers and obligations of the legislative branch, as dictated by Article 1 of the Constitution, as a whole are as follows: sole authority to enact or change legislation, to make all laws necessary and proper, declare war, sign or pass bills, to tax, borrow money, regulate commerce with foreign nations, regulate commerce among the states, to establish rules for the naturalization of foreigners seeking citizen ship, to establish a post office, to raise and army and navy, the right to…

2012). The author of “Sexism in Practice: Feminist Ethics Evaluating the Hook Up Culture”, Connor Kelly believes that rape culture is prevalent on college campuses because of the prevalence of hook-up culture on campuses as well (2012). Due to the ambiguity of the term hook up - it leaves a very open window of interpretation for two parties involved in a sexual…

In Kiarostami’s masterpiece “Taste of Cherry”, the film follows Mr.Badii, a man searching for someone to bury him after he commits suicide. He encounters three men, two of which decline because of personal and religious reasons. However, the third man, a taxidermist, agrees to the task because he needs the money to take care of his sick child. The taxidermist still tries to persuade Mr.Badii that suicide is not the answer, he even shares his own story of contemplating suicide and how the taste…

criticism in the Twentieth Century has come to regard ambiguity in poetry as one of its most characteristic and valuable features’, as shown in Michael Drayton’s sonnet ‘The Parting’, Lord Byron’s poem ‘When we two parted’ and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s poem ‘Love’s Last Lesson’ (Furniss & Bath, 1996: 207). The symbolism used in these poems portray the ambiguous representation of love/death elegies, love symbolizing hope and death symbolizing loss. Ambiguity, like its definition, can have…