Nowadays, there are many celebrities who are famous for their glamour and wealth rather than achievements and this sets a bad example for young people. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience....
The “substitution effect” is that a higher price for a certain good causes potential buyers to shift at least some of their buying to substitutes. The “income effect” is that the if the price of a certain good rises, the overall buying power of one’s income is reduced, which tends ...
Philipp of Hesse as an Example of Princely Reformation A Contribution to Reformation StudiesThis article deals with Landgrave Philipp of Hesse as an example of princely Reformation. It shows the interconnectedness of theological convictions and political policy in his undertakings. Scripture is paramount...
Be that as it may, most contemporary Bayesians see their discipline less as a part of logic, which in common with most contemporary deductive logicians they regard as comprising just deductive logic, than of a general theory of rational belief and decision. Savage, for example, tells us in ...
The children heard this many times, but I couldn’t resist saying it again when Honey asked if I was still hoping to make a contribution beyond my duties as mistress of the palace and residence. Not having an answer, her question stayed with me. Later in the day, alone with my ...
Today, the former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has added his own contribution to the list of Brexit myths. In widely reportedcomments to the BBC, he claimed that the government’s ‘lack of preparation’ for Brexit had ‘beggared belief’, and that news of food and medi...
During this fruitless expedition, when one million Belgians tried to escape the Nazis, I happen to run into Elizabeth Wolff, my best friend. Her family too was trying to escape the German army. Elizabeth is a prime example of the emotional damage that world history inflicts on the innocent,...
Sign in to download full-size image Fig. 9.Example of a typographical punch cut by Claude Garamont and used to create display type. From the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. For casting, the matrix was inserted into a handmold, a two-part device which was ad...
of reproduction.Social anthropologists pieced together the logic of systems of descent and marriage which apparently gave these ‘homogeneous’ communities their cohesion. For example, the simple rule ‘reckon that you are the child of your father rather than your mother’ was enough to tease a ...
In his prefatory chapter, Locke explains that the Essay is not offered as a contribution to knowledge itself but as a means of clearing away some of the intellectual rubbish that stands in the way of knowledge. He had in mind not only the medieval Scholastics and their followers but also...