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    Certainty and Doubt

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    William Lyon Phelps stated an absolute certainty will make anything possible‚ but Bertrand Russell believed that our opinions should always have some sort of doubt. This conflict between optimism and doubt is most importantly meant to be kept balanced. This balance of doubt and optimism can be seen in the real world in many ways such as in sports or school. When Phelps said that we need to have an “absolute sense of certainty‚” he meant a setting your mind to it mentality. If you can imagine it

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    Is Thérèse Raquin a Naturalist novel? Émile Zola is often considered the chief literary theorist of the Naturalist movement and so one would assume that his creative offspring‚ including the novel Thérèse Raquin‚ would display the traits of the genre. Zola may be responsible for many of the conventions that one would associate with Naturalism and so naturally you could extend this logic to argue that his work defines the genre. To the modern reader‚ Thérèse Raquin appears anything but naturalistic

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    way‚ the paper challenges the pessimism. It aims for showing Hemingway hero’s happy side through these facts --- Hemigway’s own life‚ Nick Adams in the In Our Times‚ Jake barnes in the The Sun Also Rise‚ Frederic Henry in the A Farewell to Arms‚ Rorbort Jordan in the For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ Santiago in the The Old Man and the Sea. The reason is the more the Hemingway hero knows happiness the more he knows sadness. Key words: Hemingway’s world;hero;pessimism;happiness Introduction

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    restarting ever since. What I don’t like is when people misinterpret my purpose or intentions of my actions and start to talk behind my back about it. It’s not fair if you are blamed for something you didn’t really do. Since I am not much of a fan of pessimism‚ I’ll leave my dislikes at that. In my family‚ there are 5 people: my mom‚ my dad‚ older sister‚ younger sister‚ and me. In addition‚ I have 6 aquatic members as well: 1 goldfish‚ 4 guppies‚ and a golden platy. I have many friends as well‚ but just

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    Philip Larkin

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    Philip Larkin Philip Larkin‚ is a famous writer in postwar Great Britain‚ was commonly referred to as "England’s other Poet Laureate" until his death in 1985. Indeed‚ when the position of laureate became vacant in 1984‚ many poets and critics favored Larkin’s appointment‚ but the shy‚ provincial author preferred to avoid the limelight. Larkin achieved acclaim on the strength of an extremely small body of work‚ just over one hundred pages of poetry in four slender volumes that appeared at almost

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    The work is a satire on philosophic optimism that is in complete opposition to Alexander Pope and his Essay on Man. Pope’s work is primarily meant to vindicate the ways of God to man through philosophic optimism. Philosophic optimism is the belief that everything will turn out well in the end. Voltaire disagreed with the idea of philosophic optimism. He shows his disagreement by making a mockery of the belief through the extreme events that

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    I - Introduction: Nowadays‚ virtually almost every country in the world has once engaged in trade activities due to the obvious benefit it can bring. Besides‚ free trade activities are also being encouraged in all over the world. However‚ along with these benefits‚ free trade in fact brings plenty problems‚ especially for the developing countries. This paper will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of free trade in developing countries‚ and provide a pessimistic point of view in the global

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    Crawlers and scrapers 2.3.2 Text pre-processing 2.3.3 Bayes Classifier 2.3.4 Support vector machines 2.3.5 Word count classifiers 2.3.6 Vector distance classifier 2.3.7 Discriminant-based classifier 2.3.8 Adjective-adverb classifier 2.3.9 Scoring optimism and pessimism 2.3.10 Voting among classifiers 2.3.11 Ambiguity filters 2.3.12 Network analytics 2.3.13 Centrality 2.3.14 Communities . 2.4 Metric!3 2.4.1 Confusion matrix 2.4.2 Accuracy 2.4.3 False positives 2.4.4 Sentiment error 2.4.5 Disagreement 2.4

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    Orwell’s primary goal in 1984 is to demonstrate the terrifying possibilities of a totalitarian government. The protagonist‚ Winston‚ is the looking glass into Orwell’s horrifying perfect communist society‚ where all of Winston’s worst paranoids and fears are realities. Winston’s personality is such that he resists the groupthink pressure that is put upon him‚ he attempts to gain individuality throughout the plot. This resistance allows the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the Party’s harsh

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    •Money Markets: the market where short-term securities are bought & sold•Capital Market: the market where long-term securities such as stocks & bonds are bought & sold•Primary Market: the market in which new issues of securities are sold to the public•Secondary Market: the market in which securities are traded after they have been issued•Initial Public Offering (IPO)–First public sale of a company’s stock–Requires SEC approval•3 Choices to Market Securities in Primary Market–Public offering–Rights

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