Examples of resilience through flexibility include: During the Western Australian gas crisis‚ some food processors used alternative (diesel) power supplies to keep production over the short-term. It took up to four months for some food supply chain elements
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calculating and checking the opportunity cost. A simple theory of exclusion is put into play. If you choose something over another thing‚ then what loss you sustain is the opportunity cost. If we minimize the opportunity cost‚ we get maximum profits. For example‚ a person who invests $10‚000 in a stock denies himself the interest
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Utilitarianism treats people differently based on their capacity for happiness. Utilitarianism cares only about maximizing happiness or pleasure‚ not the unhappiness side. In addition‚ the rights of individual not as important as the good for the many. For example‚ the hospital ten patient that in need of organ transplantation as soon as possible and nine organs available for organ transplantation. Nine of the ten patient need only one organ to survive their sickness‚ but the remaining patient need all nine
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What are some ways in which receivers of messages provide feedback when listening to or reading a message? What effect does this have on the message? Receivers can provide feedback through body language and eye contract. For example‚ if a person is falling asleep or rolling their eyes‚ it shows they are not interested or not listening to the sender. If a person is talking to somebody else that could mean they are also disinterested with what the sender is saying. This has a negative effect on the
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replace major social institutions. An example would be the U.S. civil rights movement which was in the 1960s (p. 306). Countermovements are designed to prevent or reverse the changes sought or accomplished by an earlier movement. A countermovement is most likely to emerge when the reform movement against which it is reacting becomes large and effective in pursuing its goals and therefore comes to be seen as a threat to personal and social interests (p. 307). An example of this would be the emergence in
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Progressives used muckraking journalism to shine a light on the problems created by industrialization. What are some examples of muckraking today? How effective are these efforts? When President Roosevelt delivered his speech‚ “The Man with the Muck-rake” in April 1906‚ he spoke of two different types of muckrakers. He acknowledged the muckraker who knows “[t]here is filth on the floor‚ and it must be scraped up with the muck rake”. This muckraker respects the “times and places where this service
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An example of a situation I have been in where I experienced a lack of power that led to poor conflict strategies occurred when I was a very young child. I was five years old and my parents had just had my little sister. My mother says that I was very jealous of all the attention the new baby was receiving. She said that I acted out and misbehaved often in the year after my sister was born‚ but I remember one instance when my sister was just old enough to be able to sit up on her own‚ I carried my
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Examples of Iambs‚ Trochees‚ Spondees‚ Dactyls‚ and Anapests Once we know what stress is‚ we can note that many words and phrases in English naturally fall into iambs‚ trochees‚ spondees‚ dactyls‚ or anapests. Such words make it easy to spot the metrical pattern in a poem. Here are some examples: Iamb or Iambus (iambic): = u / u/ behold‚ amuse‚ arise‚ awake‚ return‚ Noel‚ depict‚ destroy‚ inject‚ inscribe‚ insist‚ employ‚ "to be‚" inspire‚ unwashed‚ "Of Mice and Men‚" "the South will rise
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5. Give an example of a "consilience" explanation to one specific religious phenomenon (e.g.‚ why do people worship snakes‚ etc.). Be sure to choose your own example. Consilience is the understanding that each branch of knowledge studies a subset of reality that depends on other branches. Many religious phenomenons cannot be studied in isolation. Math underlies the working of physics‚ which studies chemistry‚ and it continues on with biology‚ psychology‚ sociology‚ and then we are able to understand
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Mole Examples (Avogadro’s Revenge) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 23 Astronomers estimate that there is a mole (6.02 x 10 ) of stars in the universe. One mole of high school chemistry textbooks would cover the USA to a depth of about 320 km (200 miles). Water flows over Niagara Falls at about 650‚000 kL (172‚500‚000 gallons) per minute. At this rate it would take 134‚000 years for one mole of water 23 drops (6.02 x 10 drops) to flow over Niagara Falls. Avogadro’s number (6
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