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    IV. Mesoproterozoic Depending on what part of Minnesota you would have been in during the Mesoproterozoic there would have been different things occurring. In Northern Minnesota, the greenstones and granites were eroding away along with the gneiss and granite in north central Minnesota. This erosion created a lot of quartz, which was eventually turned into quartz sandstone (Ojakangas, and Matsch 1982). These quartz sandstones are the Sioux Quartzite of southwestern Minnesota, the Nopeming…

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    and Lakatos all demonstrate Dawkins’ memetic ideas. Kuhn, for example, crafted a systemic, three-step ideology consisting of “pre-science,” “normal” science, and revolutionary science. Kuhn’s ideology emphasizes acceptance of falsification: if an anomaly arises, it is the researcher’s fault, not the paradigm’s. Kuhn’s philosophy also concludes that prior paradigms are superseded during periods of crisis, which often create a bandwagon effect. Popper, however, employs a mentality of…

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    - A sport write named Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder questioned why are there few black coaches in basketball? - His comment about black basketball players has longer thigh than white and this comment about during the slave trading the owner would breed his big black to his big woman so he could have big black kid has gotten him fired from the net work She points out that the one race is the negro race. American labeled afro American as an black scholars, black women, black writer. Meanwhile a…

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    continues to recover…her health returns. Next month, the new CT scan is normal. Prayers are answered, it’s miraculous. “Where is the cancer? What happened? How could this be?” The family is astonished. The specialists merely say, “It was an anomaly.” “An ANOMALY?! It’s a damn misdiagnosis!” the family rails. She is awash with relief. Her family breathes unfetter. Their nightmare is over. She emerged from the wrong rabbit…

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    Some may ask of the importance of robots without knowing how much they make use of them daily. Robots are able to undertake assignments that humans are incapable of doing, such as extremely tedious, or just larger tasks that require time that most people just do not have. Writer Kevin Kelly, in the article Better than Human, explains the way humans and robots interact, and how humans will continue to grow heavily dependent on them. Robots are given the jobs that humans are incapable, or just do…

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    India’s democratic longevity is anomalous to modernisation theory’s claim of a correlative relationship between economic development and democracy. However, this anomaly does not disprove modernisation theory, but rather is symptomatic of its inapplicability in many democratising countries today. To address this tension, this essay will outline the theoretical foundations of modernisation theory and subsequently offer an institutionalist and voluntarist approach in revealing its inapplicability…

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    To the Webster dictionary the noun anomaly defines as, “something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected”. In the entirety of my early educational career I have fluctuated between both sides of the deviation chart. When someone like me does not fit into a standard, I unintentionally created a dilemma for many of my previous teachers, parents as well as setting a personal goal for myself. Even though I had this problem, I had a drive to always help people in so matter or way.…

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    Identified Flying Objects Passage located in page 92 of How to Think About Weird Things claims that there is too many empirically profound evidence to simply just deny the existence of extraterrestrials. People sometimes say things that seem to suggest that knowledge doesn’t require belief. For example, after reading extraterrestrials’ evidences we might remark, “I understand that they exist, but I still don’t believe it.” What we mean, though, is not that we doubt that what we’ve read is true…

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    “non-risk”, and may not fully understand the importance of prenatal care (Azuh 112). This issue, along with the lack of quality healthcare and socioeconomic issues, puts Middle Eastern women at a significantly increased risk for maternal and infant anomalies. Also, without attending a skilled facility, these women lack the opportunity for certain screenings that can detect other fetal and maternal issues, some of which can be treated prior to…

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    Social Construction

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    The tendency to classify what we experience into categories and assign them with labels has always been an universal aspect of the human experience. We create concepts that we may make sense of the complex world around us. This allows us to process information efficiently and quickly, giving our lives order and sense. More than a component of cognition, such categorizations are also an evolutionary defense mechanism that allowed us to feel secure in our knowledge. Because what can be categorized…

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