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- 1041: Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- ... or what everyone refers to as the "Silver Bullet." The Silver Bullet is the terminology used to represent the creation of an automatic fix for the Yk2 problem. There are two major problems with this philosophy. First, there are too many variables from hardware to software of different types to think that a "cure-all" can be found that will create an "across-the-board" type of fix. Secondly, the mentality ...
- 1042: Morality and Ethics and Computers
- ... the office? Should employers monitor employees' work on computers? If so, should employees be warned beforehand? If warned, does that make the practice okay? According to Kenneth Goodman, director of the Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy at the University of Miami, who teaches courses in computer ethics, "There's hardly a business that's not using computers."1 This makes these questions all the more important for today's society to ...
- 1043: Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- ... or what everyone refers to as the "Silver Bullet." The Silver Bullet is the terminology used to represent the creation of an automatic fix for the Yk2 problem. There are two major problems with this philosophy. First, there are too many variables from hardware to software of different types to think that a "cure-all" can be found that will create an "across-the-board" type of fix. Secondly, the mentality ...
- 1044: Morality and Ethics and Computers
- ... the office? Should employers monitor employees' work on computers? If so, should employees be warned beforehand? If warned, does that make the practice okay? According to Kenneth Goodman, director of the Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy at the University of Miami, who teaches courses in computer ethics, "There's hardly a business that's not using computers."1 This makes these questions all the more important for today's society to ...
- 1045: Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition
- ... and the actual death of her parents, the experiences during the Inquisition, are all noticeable events that have been described in exaggerated terms. The subtitle, “optimism,” used to Candide in which is used of the philosophy of Leibritz was to call attention to the points relevant to an understanding of the philosophical tale. The formula, “Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds,” is often reminded to ...
- 1046: Candide: Cause and Effect
- ... their actions and there are no consequences to follow, then people will continue patterns of bad behavior. This implies that things just happen to happen. This does not impress Candide and he rejects the olden philosophy of ways. Candide says that we are responsible for our actions. God does not decide them for us; we make up our minds and live with the results. Yet another reason for Candide beliefs is ...
- 1047: Social Commentary In Animal Farm
- ... given and enjoy abusing those weaker than themselves. The sheep are a shared characteristic of both works, depicting them as easily manipulated and led to the slaughter. The works diverge from one another in which philosophy they individually espouse. Orwell’s novel is an obvious attack against communism. The pig characters of the novel represent the political figures of the early days of the Soviet Union. Orwell goes on to depict ...
- 1048: Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
- ... Tales provide a picture of medieval life and the character of the medieval generation. Chaucer uses the images of the individual travelers in the Tales to paint a picture of his own society. Chaucer’s philosophy best described as “humanist, or liberal humanist; it places the individual above history, and esteems the human capacity not to be made but to make history. (Patterson, 1)” This humanist theory is evident through out ...
- 1049: Haliburton Created Sam Slick To Voice His Own Positions
- ... people?" Once asked, the individual then must consider his or her relation to that "character." Because society has changed, a consideration of what the Nova Scotian character is (or was) in terms of manners, habits, philosophy, though not unimportant or uninteresting, should be set aside until we ponder the broader question of what it means for the individual that he or she can be described in terms of a provincial character ...
- 1050: Fifth Business - Internal Battles of Dustan Ramsey
- ... a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed. Within Fifth Business, a miraculous event that sets precedence over Dunstan’s philosophy occurs in the very first chapter of the novel. During this chapter, Percy Boyd Staunton throws a snowball at Mrs. Dempster in an attempt to hit Dunstan. However, the unforeseen took over. Being fully aware ...
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