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What are the fundamentals of an epic hero, and how does this epic hero Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon world that thrived so long ago? While reading the spine tingling work Beowulf, I discovered the answers to these confounding questions. This work of evolutionary poetry paved the way for all epic heroes and their destinies. The simple complexity of this work is breathtaking, and it is more than meets the eye. When it comes to analyzing this stunning masterpiece it is hard to merely put into…

Book V of The Republic exists as the beginning to one of the most customarily controversial and confounding topics in the building of the “true city”: the inclusion of women guardians. Socrates begrudgingly accepts the challenge put forth by his comrades to delve into the specifics that guardianship would include, firstly that of the role women would play. This first wave, which questions the possibility of equal male and female guardians, is successfully ridden out by Socrates, whose logical…

Bethany Lacy looked for an explanation of increase in brutalities of wars in her article, Explaining the Severity of Civil Wars. She starts the essay by explaining her hypothesis that the economic development and the power of the countries military do not play as much as a major role as once believed. Instead states that Non-Democratic countries have a significantly high death rate during wars. Lacy used “the regression controls for variation in conflict duration and population by using the log…

Question and Theory: The study of “Saving the Last for Best: A Positivity Bias for End Experiences” by O’Brien and Ellsworth is based on the theory that human beings go through final experiences on a daily basis. These authors used examples such as book endings and graduations among others to reveal that when people are aware of the signs leading to the conclusion of a last moment they will recognize its value in a more favorable way. The study asks the question: How does telling individuals the…

1. The hypothesis: Distractions during mealtimes is the reason for obesity and the increase of consuming unhealthy food. 2. The operational definition(s) of the dependent variable(s): There are two dependent variables in this research: the body mass index which was calculated according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines (CDC) and the food consumption. They have trained researchers to measure the height (cm) and also the weight (kg) of each participants. Body mass…

_**Models for Non-violent Crimes**_ We then did a very similar data analysis on the number of nonviolent crimes per $100,000$ people within a community. First, we realized that a quadratic transformation of nonviolent rate was necessary because this improved the linear relationship between nonviolent crime rates and the predictors. We also included quadratic terms of some of the predictors. Second, but running Forward Selection Algorithm on all the $25$ predictors that could potentially affect…

sensations, pain and suffering has to be real and not just absence of something else. To explain that, let me go back to the explanation of getting a gift, although some people would be almost ecstatic to get a new gift, there are other possible confounding variables that could affect a person’s mood during that time. What if that gift reminded the receiver of a bad moment in his or her life, like an ex boyfriend/girlfriend, and he or she had fallen in despair and suffering? Had this person gone…

#MyCalvins, therefore encouraging the Public to join in and use the # themselves. ______________________________________ In this generation it is interesting to see how social media and technology have such a confounding impact…

Samantha Overcashier 9/13/2017 Psy 201 Tara Young Malone, J. C., Liu, S. R., Vaillant, G. E., Rentz, D. M., & Waldinger, R. J. (2016). Midlife Eriksonian psychosocial development: Setting the stage for late-life cognitive and emotional health. Developmental Psychology, 52(3), 496-508. This study addresses the question of potential association between midlife Eriksonian model psychosocial development and late life emotional wellbeing and cognitive functioning with depression as a mediator.…

Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a honey bee syndrome of unknown origin which was named and defined in 2006 by a team of United States entomologists (Entine 2013). The symptoms of CCD are: 1) the absence of older, worker bees 2) absence of a graveyard pile 3) the presence of a queen, unattended brood and newly eclosed workers 4) the presence of food stores and 5) the absence of kleptoparasitism (other insects do not move into the empty hive). Unless each of these factors is met, a dead hive is…