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    In this paper, I will argue that John Stuart Mill’s, act-utilitarianism (AU), does not fulfill the complexities of a person’s virtues and the influence it has on their motives. AU claims that an action is right if it brings the greatest amount of happiness for the general well-being. Furthermore, Mill believes that the concept of morality contains two of the main utilities in the Greatest Happiness Principle: a person’s actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as…

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    most valuable experience would be when I took Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1 over the summer. The reason for that would be that it gave me some valuable life lessons that contributed to my success in the years after I took this course. This experience began with an idea that I came up with as the end of my sophomore year began to creep up. I came to the decision of taking a Calculus course over the summer that way when I face calculus problems in my future math classes, they will not be new to…

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    math skills I have acquired before taking pre-calculus and how these skills are helping me now. I will also discuss math skills that were lacking along my journey of the world of math. With these arguments, I will talk about the importance of achievements I have made and how I will use them in other classes as well as in my life. Math to me is more than numbers, theories, and concepts. It’s a discipline that has many forms. Before taking pre-calculus, I took college algebra, and prior to taking…

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    The history of Calculus can be traced back as early as the 5th Century B.C.E. in Ancient Greece. The first major discovery was made by a Greek scholar named Hippasus. Not much is known about this philosopher who studied under Pythagoras; but, he has sometimes been credited with the discovery of irrational numbers. \begin{center} \includegraphics[width = 6 cm]{triangle.png} \end{center} He described his reasoning as: \begin{enumerate} \item Start with an isosceles right triangle with side…

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    Vaughn offers a lot of great educational opportunities, from trips around the world to AP classes. One of the classes I am taking as a senior this year is AP Calculus. At first all you had to do to get into the class was sign up, but as more people became interested we eventually had to take a placement test. After I was made aware that I scored well enough to get into the class I was given a summer packet that was about 30 pages long. Most of the material was vaguely taught by our teacher and…

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    “College Calculus” Kenzie R. Lincoln Roncalli High School College Calculus In “College Calculus” John Cassidy presents both sides regarding whether or not a higher education is necessary. For hundreds of years Americans have stated that a higher education is key to human betterment. Recently the demand for a higher education has increased because it does not just help a person acquire higher-paying jobs; it also raises wages and helps with rising inequality. Colleges have also…

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    7:20a.m. The exact time that the bell rang every single day to signal the beginning of AP Calculus. Surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the school, I realize that I had something in common with many of them— most of us are first-generation students whose parents immigrated into America to give their child an opportunity that was not offered to them as students, a valuable education. This was something I had noticed in the first few weeks of being in the most challenging class of my…

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    Boyneburg also died in that same year, so his widow employed Leibniz. She released Leibniz in 1674. Leibniz expanded his mathematical concepts and created calculation rules for finite differences, but was struggling to create a proper notation for his calculus all during the last couple years. Finally, on…

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    the morally right action that causes the greatest overall amount of pleasure, happiness, or the least amount of suffering. This can be applied in general by using the Happiness Calculus. The Happiness Calculus measures how much pleasure and pain will be brought out of a given situation. An example for the Happiness Calculus would be going to the zoo on a rainy day. The pleasure would be seeing all of the exotic animals, while the pain would be doing it in the with the possibility of not seeing…

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    Writer, John Cassidy, in his article in The New Yorker, “College Calculus, ” sums up the history of our higher education from the establishment of Harvard College in Massachusetts. Then he goes further in the discussion of the funding for students and the actions Obama has taken to provide higher education for the people. Cassidy’s purpose of writing this article is to enlighten the reader in what our government our media and the business community speak so fondly of receiving higher education…

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