LAW 209 FINAL EXAM MAY 18‚ 2012. PROF. URIEL INSTRUCTIONS: THIS EXAM IS DUE TO ME NO LATER THAN 11:59 PM ON MAY 22‚ 2012. THE EXAM IS OPEN BOOK‚ BUT YOU MAY NOT COLLABORATE WITH ANY OTHER STUDENT. THE CHAPTERS TESTED ARE SEVEN THROUGH 13. YOU ARE REMINDED TO INCLUDE ANY EXTRA CREDIT AT THE END OF THE EXAM. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS AS A SEPARATE DOCUMENT AND EMAIL THEM TO ME AT JURIEL@JJAY.CUNY.EDU QUESTION 1: Albert has long wanted to smoke Cuban and Nicaraguan cigars. Believing that it is illegal
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experience via the senses‚ and that science also flourishes through observation and experiment. An Empirical Theory of Knowledge For Locke‚ all knowledge comes exclusively through experience. He argues that at birth the mind is a tabula rasa‚ or blank slate‚ that humans fill with ideas as they experience the world through the five senses. Locke defines knowledge as the connection and agreement‚ or disagreement and repugnancy‚ of the ideas humans form. From this definition it follows that our knowledge
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Checkpoint Nature and nurture has to do with how a person becomes who they are through their personality and traits. Nature is what a person is born with‚ their traits and personality is due to their genetics. Nurture is being born with a blank slate and traits and personality a person gets comes from the experiences they go through throughout their life. They are opposite from one another. I believe that it is flawed to ask how much of a particular behavior is due to genetics and how
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John Locke was a philosopher and supporter of The Enlightenment whose philosophies served a crucial role in its formation‚ these ideologies fall into three major branches: epistemology‚ political philosophy‚ and religious toleration. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that revolved around the use of reason and progress from the Scientific Revolution to address human problems. Epistemology supported inductive reasoning‚ a form of thinking in which one takes specific details and uses them to
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form our behaviour‚ beliefs and characteristics. Chief among scientists in this field of thought is psychologist John Watson. Watson developed a theory that we are not restricted to our genetic make-up‚ but instead we arrive into the world as a blank slate and all our information is learned. There is continuous dispute over this theory with the nature nurture debate strongly in play (McLeod‚ 2007). On the nature side of the debate‚ it is believed that individual’s differences are determined by their
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Marjorie Reeves and her husband Steven Reeves is analyzed. While on the way to a party at George Nicholson’s house‚ Marjorie admits to her husband that she had an affair with George last year. Upon hearing this life changing news‚ Steven pulls over on the side of the road‚ speechless. After a few minutes of awkward silence‚ he hits her in the face with the back of his open hand‚ in a blind rage. After apologizing for striking her‚ Marjorie insists that Steven get out of the car to help a raccoon
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wealth‚ education and social privilege are not part of the human biological system‚ and so cannot be directly attributed to genetics. The view that humans acquire all or almost all their behavioral traits from "nurture" was termed tabula rasa ("blank slate") by philosopher John Locke‚ and proposes that humans develop from only environmental influences. This question was once considered to be an appropriate division of developmental influences‚ but since both types of factors are known to play such
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1) 2) * - ralph likes that there is no authority figure * Different setting‚ none of the things that happened would have happened * No adults‚ most fend for themselves * No order let loose‚ do what they want * No authority to remind them what it right and wrong - Piggy thinks they are stranded on the island because their plane was attacked (p.2 line 28 and lines 31-33) “ We was attacked! […] When we was coming down I looks through one of them windows. I saw the
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responsible for characteristics and differences that are not seen at birth‚ but observed later in life. At the other end of the debate‚ lie the empiricists. Empiricists’ basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a blank slate and as we grow and develop as a person‚ our “blank slate” is filled as a result of one’s personal experiences. Empiricists believe that the concept of maturation applies only to ones physical and biological maturation‚ and that it is how one is brought up that determines the
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columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/04/26/voter_fraud.ART_ART_04-26-09_B1_99DLT9N.html?sid=101>. Hasen‚ Richard L. "Fraud Reform? How Efforts to ID Voting Problems Have Become a Partisan Mess." Slate 22 Feb. 2006. Slate Magazine. The Washington Post. 26 May 2009 <http://www.slate.com/id/2136776/>. Storey‚ Tim‚ and Jennie Drage Bowser. "Requirements for Voter Identification." National Conf. of State Legislatures. 23
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