Explanation

As I noted earlier, Why Nations Fail minces no words with respect to the geography and particularly Diamond’s argument. While Acemoglu and Robinson do admit that it “is a powerful approach to the puzzle on which he focuses,” they dismiss it offhand because it cannot be extended to explain “modern world inequality,” or regional/intracontinental disparities (52). It is here that they lose a huge opportunity by falling into fallacious reasoning. Geography played an initial roll — just because it…

The process of constructing an explanation for the poster and presentation helped me understand the grammatical concept we selected, which was Possessive nouns. Overall if you know how to explain how something works, you are more likely to understand the concept easier and faster. Coming up with an explanation for the poster helped us remember the form, the rules, and the concepts of how possessive nouns work. During the process of figuring out what we were going to say and do, we were able to…

Can something be accurate and simple simultaneously? Is there a trade-off? Can one not explain all the details of a concept but have it still be simple? First let’s start off with the definition of a trade-off. A trade-off is a balance achieved between two desirable incompatible features; a compromise. The definition of a trade-off suggests that you cannot have both accuracy and simplicity because they are incompatible. It also suggests that you have to let go of some of the accuracy as well as…

2015). In using the integrative theory, you can use a wider prospective in the explanation than that a more narrower theory. This type of integration can be further classified into one of three possible sub-types based upon the way in which the constituent theoretical propositions are linked together: up-and-down or deductive integration…

Shirl, (Flip’s assistant) stating “she’s not here, she quit” (Willis, 1997). Even though Sandy and Bennett went through all this chaos started by the actions Flip, this was what led them to their winning of the Niebnitz grant, discovery of fads and explanation of chaos…

mentions it at the beginning of section 4, “Improving the modelling of HIV transmission”. On top of the publications made by others, Johnson is using statistical distributions and mathematical formulae in the paper, and he does that without much explanation, suggesting that the audience for the paper are mathematicians or bio-mathematicians who want to expand their knowledge in the…

The world is not black and white. There is rarely an absolute and definitive reason why a country ventures onto the lands of an opposing state. There are a number of factors that can come out to play when analyzing a countries imperialist nature. In the article “Explaining Imperialism: The State of the Art as reflected in Three Theories”, Rajan Menon and John R. Oneal interpret the discourse behind imperialism and formulate three theories; the realist theory, the socialist theory of capitalism…

This article is, in my opinion, an example of how personal narrative can sometime confuse the author’s purpose. In order to frame her arguments she discussed her experiences with her family, and specifically how she was born a twin to a stillborn sister. She explains her families lack of coping and how her family effected her life, but I failed to focus on the overarching idea that she wanted to get out because of how distracting the stories from her personal life are. Instead found myself…

National Academy of Science, a theory is “a plausible or scientifically acceptable, well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena and predict the characteristics of as yet unobserved phenomena.” On the other hand, a fact is “referring to a scientific explanation that has been tested and…

It begins with the night of the incident and an explanation of whites versus the non-white population’s interactions and from there follows a loose chronology of the incidents after it, along with relevant commentary of the social climate of Hawaii at the time. Rosa includes quotes from outside sources not…