Infinitesimal

One year is an infinitesimal amount of time in the grand scheme of life; paradoxically, it is an ample amount of time to understand more about the world in which we live. In a world plagued with disease and pestilence, it is up to our society to make the world a better place. One year can change the lives of both families and individuals, altering their perceptions of the world around them and changing who they are as people. Few people truly appreciate the value of time, but those who do will…

Starting at the precise moment of one’s birth, our bodies become part of a society founded and maintain by a scheme of docile bodies. Mainly focused in the control of the human body, the structure emphasizes in turning the body into an obedient machine that will serve the necessities of a given civilization. Philosopher Michael Foucault describes this scheme, composed by three main techniques: “the scale of the control, the object of the control and the modality”(Foucault, pp. 331-332). Although…

down my name on the list, the best signature I have ever signed. A shy boy, however, has no chance of becoming an eloquent public speaker overnight with fast forward scenes and upbeat background music as in Hollywood films. Looking into the infinitesimal camera lens, I could see my audience watching my every single…

cautions the public about the force they have unleashed. Agee argues that the detonation of the bomb has polarized man’s legacy, splitting history into commitment and consequence. He describes the weapon as “a merely pregnant threat, a merely infinitesimal promise,” giving the impression that the bomb’s scar upon Japan marked the awakening of a darker force. His diction of pregnancy and promise directs the reader into the future while remaining vague, leaving the nature of the turning point…

Integrals have been around for hundreds of years and have been used in several ways to solve complicated math problems. An integral is a function that expresses the area under the curve of a graph of a function. The first time the technique was brought forward was by a greek astronomer Eudoxus in the 370 BC. He used the technique called as the method of exhaustion which helped him find area or volume. The way he achieved this was using infinite numbers of division. Later Archimedes came along…

drink alcoholic beverages in their own homes with their parents consent so they can learn to drink responsibly and possibly reduce excessive alcohol deaths. "The chances that children are going to go to college ... and not consume alcohol are infinitesimal," said Stanton Peele a father of three who let his teens occasionally have drinks with their meals. The teen drinking epidemic in the United States causes 4,300 deaths a year and cost the U.S $24 billion annually. An average of 33% of High…

It was a beautiful, utopian day on October 14, 2013 - until a deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines. Millions of people are struggling to recover from this natural disaster. In total, 3,512,281 individuals and 703,244 families were affected by the earthquake, with only a mere 22, 816 families in evacuation centers. Many people have no home and are displaced in poor conditions. Ports, schools, airports, hospitals, and other facilities reported damage and powerful aftershocks…

Ethnography, the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures. When I first visited Jamaica I first arrived on the picturesque "version" of the island that most people imagine and see in movies. The clear ocean waters that I see all around me while I was drenched in the cascading aroma of the trees and the fruit they had bared… Nevertheless, I still knew all too well of the true nature and political system found within Jamaica. When I first swaggered onto the resort…

This paper examines the effects of sociological imagination, agency, and structure on my decision to select electrical engineering as my current major. Agency primarily focuses on my habits as an individual as well as my thought process toward mathematical and scientific issues presented to me. Structure focuses on the resources and techniques provided to me by society to aid in my judgement. Around the age of ten, I noticed that I developed habits that did not correlate to people who went on…

He defers this probability stating that while simulated realities could potentially approach infinity, they are never infinite at any given point, therefore we have more than an infinitesimal chance of being base reality. Weatherson further objects Bostrom’s trilemma with a story of “Rat”. He goes over and explains her entire day, then asks us if we took the set that contains all of humanity and filtered out all those that didn’t do…