Descartes notion of the mind/body problem in relation to Free Will Descartes took an extreme skeptical position by asking, “What is impossible to doubt, even when trying to believe that everything is false? ” His answer was: “I think, therefore I am”; which is Descartes’ most famous one-liner and is the one that explains his understanding of the dualism argument. The term ‘dualism’ has a […]

Monetary policy can be used as a method to control inflation within an economy. This is usually done by the manipulation of interest rates to either increase or to decrease the spending power of the population of that economy. This is a particularly useful method to use within the UK as the majority of people own their own homes, as most of these people will […]

An oil refinery is located on the north bank of a straight river that is 2 km wide. A pipeline is to be constructed from the refinery to storage tanks located on the south bank of the river 6 km east of the refinery. The cost of laying pipe is $200,000 per km overland to a point P on the north bank and $400,000 per […]

Girls and problem of choosing suitable jobs One of the interesting social upheavals of the present era is the emancipation of women from the bondage of age old prejudice and traditions which restrict the sphere of woman’s activity to within the narrow confines of the home. The spread of education has enabled women to smash open the panes of the stuffy, ignorant conservatory and come […]

Week 5 – Financing Strategy Problem Problem 1 – Chapter 20 Firm A has $10,000 in assets entirely financed with equity. Firm B also has $10,000 in assets, but these assets are financed by $5,000 in debt (with a 10 percent rate of interest) and $5,000 in equity. Both firms sell 10,000 units of output at $2. 50 per unit. The variable costs of production […]

Perhaps no other child-serving systems encounter a higher percentage of children with a trauma history than the child welfare system. Almost by definition, children served by child welfare have experienced at least one major traumatic event, and many have long and complex trauma histories. Children in the child welfare system, especially those in foster care, have a higher prevalence of mental health problems than the […]

Issue Spotters Delta Tools, Inc. , markets a product that under some circumstances is capable of seriously injuring consumers. Does Delta owe an ethical duty to remove this product from the market, even if the injuries result only from misuse? Why or why not? I think Delta Tools, Inc. doesn’t owe an ethical duty to remove the product from the market unless the company doesn’t […]

Introduction In today’s world increasing competition, changing customer needs, the global economy and pressure from stakeholders have created many challenges for InterClean, Inc. (InterClean). Using a defined problem-solving technique such as the one used at the University of Phoenix will help InterClean understand the situations that lead to the problem; analysis of the challenges and opportunities which leads to a much better understanding of the […]

Tyco’s job was a consequence of top executives and members of the board non supervising what was legal and what wasn’t within their company. CEO’s Kozlowski and CFO Swartz failed to unwrap 1000000s of dollars of low involvement and involvement free loans they received from Tyco. The executives unethical behaviour resulted in stockholders benefits being written off which ended the company traveling into a monolithic […]

System methodologies are widely engaged in planning, structuring, implementation and evaluation, each addresses some specific viewpoints about a particular system problem solving. For instance, hard system thinking attempt to ‘make step-by-step control of projects feasible, it elaborate and popularize the use of mathematical models in order to aid decision making O5.’ Meanwhile, every system methodology has its own weakness as well. In the complex actual […]