Essays on Assertions

Plantinga’s discussion considers science as a quasi-religion and justifies his assertion by observing that the former performs the cognitive function of the latter. In this regard, he argues that an individual’s beliefs regarding the world cannot be explained through natural selection unless such views affect their behavior. Plantinga advances three premises against science, one of which is that humans are incapable of making reliable beliefs. He also claims that natural selection has no ability to form true beliefs because it favors superior behaviors. Accordingly, he suggests that natural selection does not favor true non-adaptive beliefs over the ...

Several centuries ago, St. Anselm wrote a prayer titled Proslogion. One of the key and thought-provoking aspects of this prayer is St. Anselm’s attempt to prove that God exists. Indeed, the prayer is comparable to Descartes’ argument because it results from an understanding of God’s perfection. Descartes maintained that God must certainly exist due to the fact that he could clearly perceive God and His perfection is such that Descartes could not have devised it on his own. St. Anselm’s argument is similar to that of Descartes because it has the properties of a priori argument. ...

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The Madoff Securities scandal was one of the biggest Ponzi schemes to hit America. This essay would examine the Madoff scandal from an audit perspective since it was the complacency (or collusion) of the auditors that encouraged the perpetrator of this scam. While the scam that was pulled by Bernie Madoff, was both large and difficult to spot, its detection also helped expose a crucial flaw that existed in corporate America at the time. This was the lack of regulatory oversight in the Securities business. While one could lay the blame for this scandal on the Regulator, another important ...

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias The issue of illegal immigration has been discussed for decades. State and federal legislation has been drafted in order to respond to the issue, however, these policies have had an insignificant effect on the flow of people coming into the country illegally. In addition to the anemic effect that laws related to illegal immigration have on solving the problem, politicians will commonly leverage the issue as a means to manipulate their own popularity. The divisive nature of the issue is such that the nature of proposed response can influence the voting decisions ...

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Exordium The death penalty is something which has existed for centuries in various countries, but recently it has been coming under increased scrutiny. More people are turning to the view that it is somehow inhumane, or perhaps that it is immoral to say that we who obey and make the law are better than those break and oppose it, while still committing the same acts as they do (presuming that the offenders are murderers, of course). It could be said that the death penalty was a simple solution for a simpler time. Today, not only do we have the ...

The cultures of a place, the social norms and ways of doing things have great influences on the things that individuals do and justify. This essay explores and relates Richard Feyman’s story O Americano Outra Vez and Ruth Benedict’s The Individual and the Pattern of Culture. The two stories are about norms, behaviours, tendencies, cultures and generally how people influence each other to follow certain paths. In order to understand the correlations between the two texts, it is important to highlight some issues about the authors and the motivations each had for writing their pieces. Richard Phillips ...

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Blue Coral Copters Inc. is on a course of gaining prominence. However, such moves may be thwarted if the current, below par safety measures are put in place. Eminently, the organization is faced with an avoidable tragedy, which can be avoided through simple revision of the current security measures. Just like Blue Coral Copters, agencies in the service industry prosper today based on the safety precautions that they offer to their stakeholders. Thus, the much-needed prosperity at Blue Coral Copters Inc. may only be realized if the organization takes new steps in re-engineering their safety measures. From the assertions ...

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Lately, a lot of questions have been raised about the impacts that prenatal care may have on the development of a child in different stages. Based on important pieces of data, it is evident that human development is contributed to by a lot of factors with prenatal care being central to such factors. This paper has extensively explored secondary data to unearth aspects natured in prenatal sessions such as nutrition, genetics, behavior and teratogens as they contribute to the eventual cognitive awareness of a child. Notably, the paper is strategic in its choice for childhood cognitive development as it ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

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PTP (Pretrial publicity) creates a set of problems that forensic social/cognitive/experimental psychologists are uniquely qualified to address. What are some of these problems? Hint: they are psychological (social/cognitive) and legal (procedural/substantive). Thus, begin by addressing: why we are concerned with PTP at all? What are the alleged effects and what does the social science research indicate regarding these effects (be specific in citing literature)? One of the problems, caused by Pre-Trial Publicity is the cognitive one. This means that juries get the information about the case under some circumstances, identified by the pre-trial mass media articles, which they ...

Bad Internet Philosophy Paper

Broad topic gives the opportunity to show the deep knowledge of the history of philosophy. But not many know how to express their opinion correctly, which further causes errors in their articles. I have reviewed a lot of articles and decided to choose one of them where I disagree with the author’s point of view. Answering the question the author argues that: One (but by no means the only) way of answering this question is to suggest that Socrates' ethical assertions are not really assertions of fact. They are maxims more than substantial claims, and cannot really be ...

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Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy 9 Conclusion 11 Abstract This paper entails a critical analysis and discussion of the components of the corporate finance and its subsequent application in the contemporary business environment. The discussion and analyses contained in this paper are centered on the book by Ross, Westerfield and Jordan (2012) which is titled: “Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.” In this book, different aspects and components of this subject of corporate finance have been discussed in great depth and this paper essentially entails ...

Power

Power refers to the production of intended effects within the context of a given phenomenon. For instance, when a government declares war against an invading power, it would be seeking to defend the nation (intended effect) since it has the authority to do so for the sake of the citizens (context). Hence, when one has power, he or she would have the ability to make a palpable difference to the current state of the world. Accordingly, control is difficult to identify because its manifestation relies on relationships between people, groups, and States. Still on the example given above, the ...

Authors may use statistics in a biased way with the intention of making their points plausible. This paper cross-examines three articles; one by Los Angeles Times, The Forbes Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal on rising minimum wages in the USA examining their approaches and possible biases. Kitroeff (2016) quoting the UC Berkeley’s Centre for Labor Research and Education noted that those who stand to gain from higher minimum wages in California are the low-income adults comprising of a majority of the housed breadwinners. In the article, Kitroeff argues the about 5.6 million low earners stand to earn $ ...

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The idea of incorporating the Aristotle’s view that “everybody is a political entity, capable of using language for the sake of their personal gains, and the association between the language and the ideology has been a key point of discussion in the research in the political arena for the last several years. In this essay, the arguments and comparison are going to be based on the information gathered on the political slogans in China from the 1949 People’s Republic of China and the U.S presidential election campaigns from as early as 1920. Meaningful outcomes will emanate from ...

The philosophical contributions of Rene Descartes remain the cornerstone upon which doubt is built. The subjects of Rene begin when he decides to bring to an end the past conceptions through models of reasoning and intellect. In his analogy of falsehood and misconceptions, the meditator alludes to the past preconceptions as he resolves to recreate the certainty of knowledge by only accepting as truth things that he has proof. It is essential to understand the philosophical analogy that certain things must be made subject to doubt. As he begins to question the rationale that governs his perceptions, he began ...

A review of the literature provided reveals that Senegal has been experiencing a rise in cases related to prostitution and homosexuality. Mills (2) argues that the men who practice homosexuality are nicknamed góor-jigéen in Senegal. The term góor-jigéen is loosely translated to mean man-woman. These assertions are supported by Cohen (276) who asserts that the numbers of men who dress like women have been on the rise. According to Cohen (276), men who dress like women are called jankhas. Judging from the assertions and examples given by these two authors, I concur with them. From ...

The debate on the inclusion of scientific creationism has been subject to debate from different quarters in the US and other parts of the world. While different individuals hold different views regarding the inclusion of intelligent design, it is clear that there is raging dispute on the subject between the proponents and critics who hold unrepentant positions regarding the same. It is undisputable that the debate been given a rather unclear decision by the Supreme Court that still tries to allow the continuity of the debate by providing an encouraging analogy and decision on the matter (Behe et al. ...

According to David Hume, the essence of justice is vital to the success of any society. David Hume also asserts that certain benefits associated with justice usually arise from that basis that it may be superfluous, particularly when individuals implement initiatives to develop its proof (Hume 10). David Hume also believes that the primary origin of Justice is social utility. The benefits or advantages of justice in his opinion are founded on virtues. He is also of the opinion that stakeholders should engage in in-depth inquiry of virtues as the foundation of the benefits of justice. From a personal ...

In 1914, the world witnessed a ripple effect of war declarations as existing treaties compelled governments to defend nations with which they were allied. At the origins of the skirmishes, the assassination of the heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungary Monarch, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by a Serbian nationalist pitched the two countries against each other (Foner GML, 733). In other words, Austria-Hungary made the first war declaration, against Serbia. Now, the individual States had existing agreements with other powers and as a result, more nations joined the skirmishes as part of either the Allies or the Central Powers ...

The Greater Middle East Initiative is a questionable characterized set of monetary and political activity and arrangements. At the center of the Initiative is a progression of bi-horizontal organized commerce assertions and a project for the improvement of "civil society" in the Muslim World alluded to as the Middle East Partnership Initiative. Casual parts of the Initiative incorporate generously expanded subsidizing for the Middle East through such associations as the National Endowment for Democracy. Hawthorne in her article demonstrates that Iraq is clearly the mind-boggling center of the Bush organization's arrangement of endeavoring to change the Middle East into ...