AT&T‚ T-Mobile Merger On March 20‚ 2011‚ AT&T announced that it would purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a staggering $39 billion dollars. The now second largest wireless distributor AT&T would become the largest over its competitor Verizon wireless by acquiring the 30.8 million subscribers that T-Mobile currently holds. This would not be the first time a merger took place between Wireless providers‚ in 2004 Sprint and Nextel merged and in 2009 Alltel merged with Verizon. So it came as
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J.S. Mill believes that one basic principle should govern our behavior. That basic principle is that our actions should maximize happiness for all‚ not just yourself. Happiness means the pleasure and the absence of pain. When Kant talks about pleasure‚ he does not mean physical pleasure such as sex or eating. Pleasure should be associated with intellectual and moral pleasures. An example of this principle is the Golden Rule. I have been aware of the Golden Rule ever since I started school and it
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with his power with a guilty conscience. Macbeth turns to murder out of the pressure of his wife and greed and in the end he pay for their consequences with his sanity and life. Although it is assumed that those who are murderous are simply heartless killers and do not have a conscience‚ in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare‚ his writing shows how there were conflicting desires that made Macbeth turn to murders and slaughter. Greed was Macbeth’s evil but his conscience was his downfall. In Act I Scene
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Asses the view that the conscience should always be obeyed. (35 marks) Conscience is a moral sense of right and wrong‚ especially felt by a person which will affect their behaviour due to an inner feeling of the ‘correct’ approach to take in a given situation. The majority of people tend to agree with the belief that there is such thing as conscience. In this essay I will be assessing whether the conscience should always be obeyed. Philosophers have made theories giving reasons why we should or
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ability to exhibit intelligent behavior (Gackenbach‚ Guthrie‚ Karpen 1998). This is not intelligence as defined by Turing; instead it is the very real ability of a system to solve problems of computation or reasoning based on trial and error. If one method of problem solving does not succeed in producing the desired result‚ a system with an appropriate number of connections can explore different possibilities‚ much as a human mind would analyze a problem (Minsky 1982). There has been much debate
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Act III Questions 1. In the play “Hamlet” written by William Shakespeare in Act III scene i‚ Claudius admits that he is suffering from his guilty conscious. “How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot’s cheek‚ beautied with plastering art‚ Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden!” (III‚ i‚ (50-55). This confession doesn’t change my opinion of Claudius because he killed his own brother on purpose and took everything
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Management System 2 and why should I have it is quite a tough thing to do. A particular grade in a single subject were calculated based from different factors‚ in example‚ scores in quizzes or examinations‚ graded or ungraded recitations‚ practicum‚ home works‚ seat works‚ individual or group projects. Yes! It is the subject lecturer or teacher’s task to give a student his/her grade. But the reality is that‚ the students are the ones who create his/her own grade. Students get the wrong impression
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voters it had hoped to but became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The media attention garnered from the events gave priority to urgent issues that had been largely ignored. One such issue was interracial marriage. At that time there were over a dozen states with active miscegenation laws; one of them was Virginia. In the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia‚ the law prohibiting marriages of
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The article “How to Do One Thing at a Time” states that seemingly harmless multi-tasking isn’t as harmless or efficient as we’d like to believe. A study at Stanford University showed the results of multi-tasking. Two groups of students were asked to coincide chatting‚ writing a short essay and arranging a music play list all in 30 minutes. One group multi-tasked while the other focused on each task individually for 10 minutes each consequently‚ in the reading the author states a memory test proved
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The Day Doesn’t End at 4 o’clock Emptying the school bag. Turning the side lamp on. Lounging in a comfortable chair. After a long tiring day analyzing philosophical concepts‚ writing essays and solving math problems‚ the mind demands a break. For most students pursuing their tertiary education‚ this is a day-to-day routine. College students become drained at school‚ go stuck in mile-long traffic jams‚ but eventually enjoy resting in the comfort of their homes. However‚ this is not the case
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