Lean concepts

Throughout a persons life, nonhuman objects can play a significant role in their day to day activities. As both a child and an adult, people form relationships with nonhuman items within their surroundings. These items can and will have intrinsic worth and symbolic significance to its owner for various reasons. First Symbolic Item As a young child, Goldy had a hard time in school, and was constantly made fun of. At the end of the long school day she would walk home to her house all alone mad…

Cogito ergo sum is perhaps the birth of the modern philosophical movement for multiple reasons. The famous phrase of Descartes’ when translated means, I think, therefore, I am, and was the first of a series of logical proofs that Descartes made to help prove his own existence. Up until this time, the history of modern philosophy had relied on arguments about or involving God. Descartes is credited with writing ““Meditations” as the rejection of medieval ways of thinking and the invention of the…

Memories Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot brought up the question of should people hold onto memories. “Many people believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past ,repress it and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view.” This means that people are having everyday issues determining whether or not you should hold onto memories or let them go. Memories have a positive and negative effect when it comes to dealing with other people, traumatizing…

From my perspective, Chester by William Billings is genuinely a combination of tenor, melodic concordance and clashing dissonances with quite harmonious consonances which consist of fluent It is also made up of changeable levels of syncopation. Of all the things in this song that I found that is attractive to me first, I will strongly state that its complexity of rhythm that is sensitively mess but actually in harmony in different aspects. What’s more, complicated melodies in a wide range also…

It is impossible to define the concrete meaning of a human because humans are unpredictable beings with nothing being the only commonality they share. However, the evaluation of one’s self can be used to briefly understand what humans are like. Because my being is the only one I know, I can only understand myself in the context of being human. From the moment I was born, being alone was the only truth I have ever known and will remain as such until the moment my body begins to decompose. I am…

To begin the inquiry of the possibility of there being and enduring self, the argument that J. David Velleman holds against the enduring self, will be evaluated. In the beginning of Velleman’s paper, So It Goes, he asserts that the enduring self is an illusion. Velleman is helped by another philosopher, Derek Partif, in establishing his claim that anything enduring seems false in claiming that, “connections of memory do not necessarily trace out the career of a single, enduring object, and they…

Obstacles in My Education Critical Self-Reflection I make an effort work hard all the time but, when there are obstacles in my way that seem too great to conquer it is easy to slack off and not work hard at the task at hand. Still in the midst of an obstacle I must find the courage, resilience, and strength to overcome the problem. My view of personal identity is significantly formed because of many factors in my life, the beigest obstacles in my life is my education, because I lacked basic…

communicating with my student’s family getting them as involved in their child’s learning as possible. Being able to form a beneficial relationship with the family of children who are in my care is fundamental as this strongly links to the main personal concept of my image, which is teamwork. This image strongly represents Bronfrenbrenner’s ecological systems theory(McInerney, 2014). The ecological systems theory…

Kant attributes Hume as his inspiration to the critique of pure reason as Hume’s work motivated him to prove Hume wrong. Specifically, Kant worked against Hume’s concept of causation. Where Hume found no necessity in causation nor of causation, Kant found causation necessary in both senses- otherwise no one would be able to navigate the world. However, Kant’s critique of Hume is much more general than causation, Kant through causation is asserting the existence of synthetic a priori judgements.…

The best course of action for the firm would be to sell the production facility at $2 million, because in order to to continue doing business in the next two years, the costs to operate will be greater than the potential profits expected by the company. By the end of four years, company will have already spent $16.5M, vs. the total anticipated return of $14M. With this in mind, the company will have lost $2.5M by the end of four years. In addition, the plant will have no resale value by the end…