510(k) premarket notification as a regulatory pathway. To support 510(k), I have to exhibit that the device is substantially equivalent to predicate devices.[2] What’s more, it must (i) have a similar sign for utilizing, (ii) technological characteristics comparable to existing one and (iii) ought not to bring up any new issues of safety & effectiveness.Here, predicate devices are pre-amendment devices, which were cleared, possess moderate risk and were widely & safely used before enactment of…
Is the Genocide Convention an adequate tool to prevent future genocides? Genocide and its prevention is a critical and controversial topic from a long time. Though the word ‘genocide’ has not been used from a long time but the act of genocide is a very old phenomenon. Among the important issues genocide is one of the serious topic for international to prevent it. So, genocide convention is one of the possible and adequate tools which is created by the international to prevent the future…
In Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason he is trying to investigate the origin of human knowledge, which is done by an examination of a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Along with examining a priori and a posteriori knowledge he states that each type of knowledge is acquired through a faculty. A priori knowledge is obtained by cognitive faculty (analytic) and a posteriori knowledge is obtained by sensorial faculty (synthetic). In Kant’s Of the difference between Pure and Empirical…
Abortion Abortion wasn’t always legal in America, until the early ‘70s. Before abortion was legal women who had the money will usually pay a doctor to do it for them. However, for many women that wasn’t always the case. Those who wanted an abortion, but couldn’t afford it will place a coat hanger in their vagina or they would drink hard drugs and or other chemicals. On January 22, 1973 in the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, was when abortion was finally legal, because the courts had realized it…
Nicole Lewis B00660746 BSc (Hons) Language and Linguistics Introduction The rationale behind this particular research project is due to an interest within pragmatics. Pragmatics is a growing area within the linguistic field and although many areas are explored widely for example; scalar implicatures it is interesting that other areas such as distributive inferences are not studied within the same amount of detail, despite both having very similar properties. Due to this fact,…
Many philosophers have debated the question of truth. Can truth exist? Can it exist outside of context? Can we know anything? Philosophers from Leibniz to Hume have worked through these questions using rationalism or empiricism to guide their search for truth. Multiple conclusions have been reached by these philosophers. Therefore, the debate still continues. By exploring some of the arguments surrounding the debate, and putting them in a contemporary context it becomes easier to understand the…
The app I’ve chosen to modify is noredink.com. It is a writing and grammar-based app designed to provide learners leveled practice in grades K-12. It uses “high interest content” based on student interests and names. Practice lessons are adaptive to each students’ needs, so there is no set number questions. The app also includes a diagnostic feature and quizzes with feedback. Teachers can assign specific lessons or the lessons are scaffolded in complexity. While sentences and practice…
The search for the truth of the world has been a highly debatable topic for many philosophers. The concept of ‘substance’ have differed throughout the years, as many philosophers have established contrasting perspectives on it. G.W Leibniz and John Locke were two prominent philosophers whose discussions offered a very unique lens to the the question of what is substance. This essay will focus on philosophers, Leibniz and Locke, and their contrasting perspectives on the concept of substance.…
This essay will analyze the similarities and differences of an ancient greek philosopher, Plato and the modern influence of Immanuel Kant. Plato’s writings are actually Socrates thoughts, Socrates was the main philosopher behind Plato’s philosophies. The philosophies were structured around, thinking your own mind/obtaining knowledge, living the good life, and the immortal soul. Kant’s philosophies can be looked at as branches from Plato’s knowledge and thought because of the gap in their…
American and German philosophies are very different in some ways, but very similar in other ways. In this research paper, we will be comparing and contrasting the lives of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Immanuel Kant as well as American and German philosophies and how they differ from one another. Kant was born in 1724 in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia). His parents were Johann Georg and Anna Regina, and they were both pietists. Although, they raised Kant in this tradition…