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David Shields, an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Brenda Bredemeier, an associate professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and a certified sports psychology consultant, give an analysis of competition in their book True Competition. Randolph Feezell, a philosophy professor at Creighton University, gives an analysis of sportsmanship. Even though Shields, Bredemeier, and Feezell are discussing different topics, their views…

Both boyd and Crawford did extensive quality research and data collecting making this piece trustworthy and dependable. Throughout the article, they quote many sources of highly honorable positions such as Melvin Kranzberg a historian, Lawrence Lessig an attorney, and Lev Manovich professor of Computer Science. Crawford and boyd provide a research project involving 1,700 Facebook users who are currently at the time attended college to examine how…

components; research design, study area, target population, sampling techniques and sample size, methods of data collection and data analysis and the reasons that prompted to the choice of each component. 3.1 Type of study The study is comparative study which focuses on factors that causes gender in equality in labor market in Tanzania Study design A study design is the arrangement of conditions for collection and analysis of data in a manner that aims to combine relevance to the research…

Ethical Dilemma Studies: Case #1 As a junior undergraduate student studying in the field of social work, it is essential to understand, acknowledge, and resolve ethical dilemmas in the field of practice. In ethical dilemmas, social work values, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics, and personal values will conflict with one another; therefore, discussing and analyzing various dilemma case study examples will strengthen my ethical decision making. The case example that…

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Emerson. Welcome to my friendship strategy. In this essay I will discuss four topics about friendships. They are the following: why friends matter to me, who I look for in friends, what I can do to be a better friend, and skills I can use in friendships. This piece is a plan I intend to execute. My most important reasons for having friends are to not be alone, to have someone to chill with, and to add more joy and happiness in my life. Being…

William Covino and David Jolliffe’s provide their view of the definition of rhetoric in the article “What is Rhetoric?” published in their rhetoric textbook in 1995. More recently, Joshua Rothman discusses the limitations of the system of academia and what it means to be an academic writer producing rhetoric in his article “Why is Academic Writing So Academic?” published in The New Yorker in 2014. Both articles focus on the importance and effects of audience on the rhetoric created and the…

Critical Analysis of the Extended Mind The concept of extended cognition is introduced in Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ article “The Extended Mind”. In it, Clark explains that the idea of extended cognition deals with the notion that external objects and interactions play a major role in helping the cognitive process. In this essay, I will critically examine Clark’s idea of extended cognition and how it pertains to real life technologies. Introducing this concept, Clark begins by asking…

Philosophical Essay #2 In “Addressing Problems in Profit-Driven Research,” Intemann and de Melo-Martin explore the problems of profit-driven research in science. The authors also take the stance that feminist philosophers’ accounts of objectivity in science are helpful in minimizing or preventing conflicts of interest in scientific research. They claim that standpoint feminism is best able to promote research that attends to important public needs. In this paper, I will agree with Intemann and…

In this chapter an overview on the Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) method is presented. In the first introductory section the development of the BCO algorithm is given, with an overview on history of mathematical model based on discovered behavior patterns in bees in early 1940s. The aim here is to remind of first steps made in solving of optimization problems by BCO and what kind of changes were performed to obtain the current versions of the BCO method. In the second section two variants of the…

Philosopher Daniel Dennett coined the term Intuition Pump in referring to a thinking tool that challenges our intuitive ideas or inspires new ones. In his book by the same name he offers up many such thinking tools, claiming that “these handy prosthetic imagination-extenders and focus-holders permit us to think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions.” Among the thinking tools that Dennett points out are analogies and thought experiments, both of which are the topics here.13…