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need of all students and inspiring them for future experiences. During the vision creating process, I also gained some perspective of things I need to develop for my future as a leader. Knowing that my personality is led by my feelings, there were moments when I did take things a little too personal. I had to do some self reflecting during the process to ensure that I was doing what was best for the students in developing the team vision, and not backing down when others wanted to push it…

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is about making an assessment based on future outcomes. Prediction is indispensable to our everyday lives. The biggest problem with predicting about the future is even though you are forecasting the future the data it is based off is usually from the past. Just because you are able predict the past doesn’t mean you are able to predict the future. Silver demonstrates in this book how many prediction practices have been flawed and suggest ways that might…

lacks a control group, which causes many scientists to deem it invalid. According to Donald D. Price, Damien G. Finniss, and Fabrizio Benedetti’s A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought, “Assessing the magnitude of the placebo analgesic effect is not an easy task, as the experimental conditions change across different…

Addison Bollaert Professor Hunderman Comp 252 4/6/15 Fukushima The nuclear arms race of the 1940s gave birth to countless advancements in science and technology. A seemingly limitless source of relatively clean energy had been discovered. Nuclear power did not come without risks, as the smallest error could lead to a disaster of unimaginable proportions. The events at Fukushima served as a reminder that when . The Fukushima Daiichi disaster will have lasting effects on the environment, and the…

there are nine abusive events. The participants are asked if the abusive event was present or absent, 0=no and 1=yes. Also the Child abuse potential inventory was used to assess parents’s attitudes and beliefs on physical punishments and abuse. This scales examined things such as distress, unhappiness, and problems with their child. The results of this experiments was that fathers had a lower potential risk of becoming physical abuse perpetrators with their children than mothers. In…

In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Philo argues that the best and only method of giving someone a sense of religion, or an idea of it, one must use representations of man’s misery, and what he call wickedness. That exaggeration of past events, particularly those that involve some degree of pain and sorrow, are easy for man to relate to. Nevertheless, Cleanthes proceeds to argue that this is not the case, as he has not felt an abundant deal of anxious feelings. He then proceeds to describe…

The phenomenon of the modern supermarket is a product of the evolution of the needs of individuals. It represents a shift away from small scale subsistence; whereby, the food needs of oneself and one’s family were met, predominantly, through self-production, and what could not be produced/made was then purchased from a local supplier. 1 Unfortunately, the hectic pace of contemporary life, and the realities of two world wars reshaped the food industry into its present incarnation, which now…

In the next shot, the FBI has arrived at a technician’s home as they have a search warrant. He attempts to destroy all the data; the FBI breaks in and apprehends him. In turns out that the technician has a history of computer fraud which is what the warrant was for; he has been caught two times prior and is being arraigned for a third offense. They also learn that he is a highly skilled hacker who managed to cripple the FBI’s database the year before. The technician known as Theodore Finch,…

Imagine an American firing squad all lined in a row preparing to execute a convict, do they offer him a cigarette and a blindfold? It may sound funny, but the firing squad is how the state of Utah carries out the death penalty. How can you tell when something is working, by the results? I started to examine the Death Penalty and how effective it is at preventing crime. Is the fear of dying a sufficient reason to dissuade criminals from committing crimes? I evaluated the statistics, psychological…

From the Bering Strait to the connection between the Hill Center and the Engineering Building, bridges have been used for thousands of years to connect people with places. As people began building bridges, they have to consider not only the structural integrity of the bridge for the safety of the passengers crossing the bridge. With the invention of cars, even more safety precautions must be enacted to keep everyone safe. A car is being driven on a windy day has a higher chance of turning over…