EMSE 6020: Decision Making with Uncertainty HOMEWORK 4‚ SUMMER 2013 Instructor: Joost Santos DEADLINE: June 27‚ 2013 Problem 1: (2 pts) Two contractors (1 and 2) placed a bid on a road construction project. They were each asked to provide percentile estimates of the time (x‚ in years) it would take the road to undergo a major maintenance after its completion. We seek to maximize this time variable x‚ as larger values imply better structural integrity as well as cheaper projection of the net
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Racial prejudice is an insidious moral and social disease affecting peoples and populations all over the world. It is diagnosed by the cataloguing of its various symptoms and manifestations which include fear‚ intolerance‚ separation‚ segregation‚ discrimination‚ and hatred. While all of these symptoms of racial prejudice may be manifest‚ the single underlying cause of racial prejudice is ignorance. Historically‚ a race of people is defined as a population with distinguishable biological features
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The Group Policy Object oversees these Group Policy settings that are displayed in definition below. These can be connected with designated Active Directory containers‚ such as organizational unit’s domains or sites. Group Policy Object can manage the Security options Registry-based policies‚ Scripts options Software installation Folder redirection options and maintenance options (Zinman‚ 2004). Group Policy Objects are processed in the following order: • Local - Any settings in the computer’s
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Crash is a movie about racial stereotypes that people believe in‚ and how they let them influence the way they see people. The stereotypes lead the characters to have prejudices about certain people in the movie. Every race is guilty of having prejudiced beliefs about some other race in the movie‚ and all the characters of al different races are somehow interconnected with each other. The point of the film is to show that people shouldn’t believe ever stereotype they are told‚ and consider the possibility
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Racial Identity refers to whether or not there is a higher representation of white men and women in the magazines in comparison with other ethnicities.. For the racial identity variable‚ I considered it significant each time the image projected a individual with a white american display. My goal was to determine whether or not these magazines used a specific model or type of image for its advertisement. Stereotypically‚ I thought that there would be a model of consistency amongst the forms of advertisement
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The Advancement of Racial Equality Since the beginning of the United States of America becoming one union has been the driving force in the lives of many people. Major Ownes‚ who was a New York politician as well as a member of the Democratic Party once said‚ “What is our biggest enemy? Segregation.” However‚ what he failed to put into his quote was the racial equality was an even bigger enemy. Far beyond the days of the Civil War and even the American Revolution‚ African American people
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The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibition is a showcase of artworks that have been stolen and destroyed by Nazi’s at the time. These works of art were known to be “degenerate” according to Adolf Hitler; because it was far different than the classical artworks that had more meaning and made more sense rather than abstract modern art. Originally the art show was put on in order to shame the artists and expose the German’s to the unacceptable artwork. The Exhibition was presented to “demonstrate that modernist
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Throughout the history of the country‚ America has been considered a fairly racist union. Undoubtedly the greatest injustice in the United States to this day is the whites treatment of African-Americans‚ specifically slavery. The vast majority of non-black people of that time believed that blacks were not equal to other races. White Americans of the slavery period specifically held this view. It was nearly impossible for a black to live free in America‚ and it was even more difficult for a black
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Racial Rights! Many African Americans discover racism daily in this union supposedly‚ “The land of the free.” Our past leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Malcolm X refused to be treated with disrespect they went to jail‚ protested‚ and even did speeches. They did that to earn future generations equal rights‚ but has
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or will races solve their discrepancies? The movie Crash takes a closer look at this idea of racial anxiety in society. Throughout the film‚ different races collide with each other‚ creating conflicts that are a constant part of today’s culture. Although it gives examples of many different races conflicting‚ it appears that the main focus is between blacks and whites. Crash reinforces the idea of racial tension between blacks and whites‚ which influences the viewer to believe that conflict between
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