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Aiza Nageeb A Fish Story Not everything in life is crystal clear; sometimes we need to dig deeper to find the true meaning behind a particular idea/thing. In the case study, "A Fish Story" a college professor is trying to teach his students a lesson by making them observe a small fish on a white plate. For three days in a row, the professor assigns the students the same assignment and as the days progress, the students find new results. The first day the students notice basic physical characteristics about the fish, like its size and the color of the plate it rests on. The second day the students use a book to find out about the type of fish it is, and the third day they dig deeper and observe minuscule details; like its weight, position of the mouth and texture. The main purpose of the professor leaving the students unsupervised was so that they could find answers on their own. I believe that the professor did this so that students would learn that not all answers are obvious and that to find them, one must really think. It is very clear in the story that the professor was not looking for something specific when he assigned the students the task of observing the fish. His main goal was to teach them a lesson that would help them during their college years, and for the rest of their lives. The lesson the professor was trying to hint at was that sometimes in life not everything is going to be easy. There will be times when one must struggle, like the college students had…

In the essay “The Dog Ate My Disk, an Other Tales of Woe” Professor Carolyn Foster Segal explains that even after lengthy syllabus warnings and a humorous cartoon of a cat explaining to its teacher that a dog ate its homework, students still came up with multiple excuses for being tardy, absent or turning in assigned work late. She categorized the excuses into these five categories, the family, the best friend, the evils in dorm life, the evils in technology, and the totally bizarre. For…

completely from it. At six, he suffered from (suffering from muscle and joint pain) fever. Although he recovered from this too, he became convinced that his heart had been damaged permanently. Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher, born in the Austro-Hungarian city of Brno. He was a bright and inquisitive child, who had interest in various subjects. Although he entered the University of Vienna with physics, he continued attending mathematics and…

David Hilbert mathematician, was born January 23, 1862, Konigsberg Germany And died February 14, 1943 Gottingen Germany(Britannica.com) Hilbert background of childhood is he came from money. His father Otto was a reputable city judge and his mother Marla was interested in philosophy and astronomy(thefamouspeople.com) Since he was a child he excelled in mathematics and had interest in language. In 1872 he joined Friedrichskolleg Gymnasium, when he graduated he decided he was to stay…

Germany. Immanuel was a huge influence on all aspects of philosophy especially the different schooling of Kantianism and Idealism. Kantianism is the rightness or wrongness of actions that does not depend on the consequences of those actions, but on if they will fulfill our duties. Idealism is more-or-less the ideas that we hold to be true in our own minds; our interpretations of our experiences. Immanuel Kant was one of the greatest philosophers of all time and had started new trends in…

this tradition he does not appear ever to have been very sympathetic to this kind of religious devotion. As a youth, he attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg, after which he attended the University of Königsberg. Although he initially focused his studies on the classics, philosophy soon caught and held his attention. The rationalism of Gottfried Leibniz and Christian Wolff was most influential on him during these early years, but Kant was also introduced to Isaac Newton’s writings…

ethical worth is not the outcome, but the motives behind the action. The categorical imperative is Kant’s famous statement of duty: “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” (McCormick, 2005) Kant’s Time Line (Uzgalis, 2003) 1724 April 22, born in Konigsburg, East Prussia, to a family of the pietist sect. 1734 Enters the Collegium Fredericianum to study theology, excells in the classics. 1740 Enters the University of…