Thursday, October 6, 2016

What are the disadvantages of using a bar chart?

We often turn to graphs to better visualize the data, or information, that we have. There are many types of graphs that we can use based on the data that we are trying to show. One common graph type that is often used is the bar graph. In this graph, we use bars to represent the data along an axis—the x-axis (horizontal) and the y-axis (vertical). Put all the bars next to each other and you have a great way to quickly analyze and understand the data.
That being said, there are also several disadvantages to using bar graphs. One such disadvantage is that the bars can seem manipulated if the data amounts are too large. The information given by a bar graph can also seem limited because the bars themselves can only be used for discrete data, or data that is grouped together. Bar graphs typically display data with whole numbers, so finding information such as percentages, fractions, and decimals may require a bit of work to be done.
Overall, it is best to first determine the data that we have, and then look at the options in terms of how to best allow ourselves and others to visualize and understand the information.


As the question suggests, there are definitely reasons to use a bar graph, and there are definitely reasons to not use a bar graph.  In general, a person should use whatever kind of graph best displays the information in a quick and easy to access and understand format.  Bar graphs are great at showing amounts and/or comparing amounts of different items; however, bar graphs are less effective when trying to show trends over a course of time.  Financial growth over the course of a year is better displayed as a line graph instead of a bar graph.  Bar graphs also don't do well when trying to display changes in speeds.  This is especially true when trying to graph something like acceleration.  Another disadvantage of a bar graph is that they can be easily manipulated to give a false impression of a data set, or they simply don't give a good overview of the data.  This can happen when too few bars are plotted.  Conversely, using too many bars looks extremely cluttered.  
https://geographyfieldwork.com/DataPresentationBarCharts.htm

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What is an example of alliteration used in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand?

Alliteration is the repetition of the beginning sounds of words, like when Juliet says that parting was "such sweet sorrow" in Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet. Authors often choose to use alliteration to make certain phrases memorable or poetic, or simply to add emphasis. (Other times, random chance causes authors to simply use the same sounds to begin words close together in a phrase--although you can still call these instances "alliteration," you might better understand them as coincidences of language, like when reporters mention "legal liability" or "past practices.")
If you take a look at Chapter 1 of Anthem, you'll notice quite a few alliterative phrases, such as "memory of men," "thin threads," "Street Sweepers," "your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers," "big bell," and more.
Are these examples evidence of purposeful alliteration? Probably. I say this because these particular alliterative phrases help establish the serious, dramatic, foreboding tone of the chapter. Clearly the narrator is in distress throughout Chapter 1, struggling to express his fear and reflecting on the extremely rigid existence he's lived through so far. This narrator's tone of voice, sentence structure, and poetic phrases all combine to convey that fear and distress.

How did religion deal with growing secularity in the nineteenth century?

Christianity had a problem in the nineteenth century as new scientific discoveries, especially in paleontology and biology, undermined the Bible as a factual account of the history of the world. In earlier eras, when the Bible had far more authority, people were willing to give it some leeway. Science was often used to verify when the Bible was speaking poetically and when it was factual.
However, by the nineteenth century, science was poised to topple the entire authority of the Bible as a factual account of history. As scientists made more and more discoveries, it became increasingly clear that the earth was far older than the Bible said, that humankind had been around far longer than the Biblical account suggested, and that humans evolved rather than being created by God from dust.
Several reactions emerged. One was fundamentalist Bible literalism, a school of thought that said if science contradicted the Bible, science must be wrong. If the Bible says, for example, the earth is 6,000 years old, then carbon dating is wrong. This way of thinking, which is still with us, became more rigid in its literalism than any former theology.
Another nineteenth century development was to put more and more emphasis on the emotive weight of Christianity. This group decided to de-emphasize facticity and promote Christianity as important because it led people to feel and act in ways that were loving, forgiving, and caring. Its chief value lay in the positive emotions it aroused. This romantic view of Christianity in many ways mirrored the Romantic movement in the arts. The privileging of feeling and intuition developed into modern liberal Protestantism.

What was George Washington's lasting impact?

Perhaps George Washington's most significant lasting impact is that, through his actions, he set important precedents for the presidency of the United States. He was, of course, the first President, and unlike all of his successors, he had no model to look to (except, perhaps, the negative model of European monarchy.) He was also aware that his decisions would, in turn, set precedents for what the leader of a republic should look and act like. Some of his decisions while in office were very important in this respect. First, he established the Cabinet, now crucial to the operation of the executive branch. This institution is not specifically called for, or at least not outlined in any detail, in the Constitution. So when Washington appointed Secretaries of State, War, Treasury, and an Attorney General, he established a precedent that would be followed by all of his successors. Presidents would be assisted by formal advisors. Washington also began a practice of staying out of European wars that would last until the United States entered the First World War in 1917. First in his Neutrality Proclamation in response to the outbreak of war between Revolutionary France and Great Britain, and then in his famous Farewell Address, Washington asserted what would become the most important principle in American foreign policy until the twentieth century. Finally, Washington, by refusing to run for a third term, established a precedent that would be observed until 1940, when Franklin Roosevelt was elected a third time with World War II looming.  This informal tradition was made law in the Twenty-second Amendment. 

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

int (2 - tan(theta/4)) d theta Find the indefinite integral.

int(2-tan(theta/4))d theta=
Use additivity of integral: int(f(x)pm g(x))dx=int f(x)dx pm int g(x)dx. int2d theta-int tan(theta/4)d theta=
Since the first integral is easy int 2d theta=2theta+C we will concentrate on the second integral. To solve it we will make substitution: u=theta/4, du=(d theta)/4=>d theta=4du
int tan(theta/4)d theta=4int tan u du=-4ln|cos u|+C
Return the substitution.
-4ln|cos(theta/4)|+C  
Now we subtract the two integrals to obtain the final result.
2theta-(-4ln|cos(theta/4)|)+C=2theta+4ln|cos(theta/4)|+C

How would you describe the purpose of the Bill of Rights at the time the U.S. Constitution was drafted and today?

The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution is known as the Bill of Rights. These rights specify certain protections and freedoms guaranteed to every individual. For a moment, let’s imagine what the atmosphere may have been like at the time the U.S. Constitution was drafted. The colonies had just fought the brutal Revolutionary War and won their independence from the British monarchy. The United States was going through a great change and the people feared, without guarantees of protection from this new government, it could easily return to the type of rule that they fought so hard to free themselves from. The U.S Constitution spelled out the formation of government and the separation of powers between the three branches but did not specify basic freedoms and protections for the people. The first ten Amendments did. Knowing that the people had freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to counsel, the right to be protected in their homes from unreasonable searches, to name a few, helped the states come together and support the U.S Constitution.
Today, the Bill of Rights is equally as important as the day they were written. In fact, we have seen through many U.S. Supreme Court cases that the interpretation of the Amendments has evolved while the wording itself remains the same. One example of this would be the 6th Amendment clause pertaining to the “right to counsel.” Prior to the 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, a person, of course, had the right to be represented by an attorney; that is, if you could afford one. With the Gideon ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that individuals in all felony cases should be represented by counsel whether they could afford one or not. As a result of this new interpretation, the Public Defender’s Office was created. Please visit the following site if you would like more information on the case: Gideon v. Wainwright


The Bill of Rights are comprised of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. These rights helped solidify the concept of personal liberty and freedom from government oppression. Because the Constitution does not specifically address ensuring personal liberty and freedom of citizens, James Madison wrote the ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights to ensure that the Constitution would not become a tool of oppression by the government, particularly the federal government. Of course, even the Bill of Rights did not address the freedom of enslaved black people, the genocide and land theft of indigenous peoples on that land now known as the U.S., and the oppression of women (the severity of which varied depending on the woman's class and race status). The Bill of Rights can be technically applied to any citizen today, however, because its creation did not end the oppressions I stated above, the rights were written in a general way that now is supposed to legally apply to all citizens.


The Bill of Rights was largely adopted as a compromise measure to secure agreement to the Constitution. Many of the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention were concerned that the new proposals gave too much power to the federal government, representing an attack on the cherished traditions of republican liberty and radically devolved government.
In particular, a number of delegates were worried about the possible implications of the Constitution for states' rights. Under the Articles of Confederation, ultimate political sovereignty in America had resided with the states. And critics of the new Constitution wanted to retain this principle as far as possible. The Bill of Rights was a way of assuaging their concerns by explicitly protecting the liberties of individuals and states from encroachment by the federal government.
Though the power of the federal government has grown exponentially since 1787, the Bill of Rights still retains its relevance today. It acts as an expression of principle against which the actions of authorities—both state and federal alike—can be measured. Americans greatly cherish their constitutional rights, seeing their protection as almost sacrosanct. But the Bill of Rights's precise interpretation remains a matter of considerable disagreement, as can be seen from the often bitter debates over the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.


The Bill of Rights was originally created because many people feared that the government, created by the Constitution, would abuse its powers because there was no specific guarantee of protecting people’s rights in the Constitution. Representatives of several states indicated that their state wouldn’t agree to ratify the Constitution without a guarantee of protecting basic rights such as the right of freedom of speech and religion as well as the right to bear arms. Thus, an agreement was made to add these and other rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
These rights are still very important today as they protect the rights of the American people. The right to bear arms was a heavily debated issue in the last presidential election. It is part of the current debate regarding gun control. There are people who feel any form of gun control violates the second amendment or will lead to a weakening of it. Freedom of speech is on display each day as people state their opinions about various government policies and actions that they either do or don’t support. The current debate regarding American immigration policy is drawing many comments and actions on a daily basis that are protected by the right of freedom of speech.
The purpose of the Bill of Rights is as important today as it was in the days when the states were debating the ratification of the Constitution.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

What is your opinion of Carl Jung's theory of "collective unconscious"?

Carl Jung's theory of the "collective unconscious" operates on a fairly simple base principle. Namely, he posits there are impulses and memories that are common to all mankind regardless of whether or not a specific fear has been realized in an individual's life.
Jung labels these ancestral impulses and images "archetypes" and hypothesizes that they are innate across humanity and not dependent on personal experience. (This is the dividing line between the "collective unconscious" and the "personal unconscious," in which impulses are informed directly from events an individual experiences.)
The study of human mythology afforded, in Jung's view, a glimpse of the collective unconscious at work. His archetypes often take a central role in mythology, emboldening his opinion that the religions and spiritual behaviors of human beings were projections of a collective unconscious.
Ultimately, the theory is nearly impossible to prove given the supposed nature of the collective unconscious coupled with our current understanding of human brain structure.
Further Reading:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/collective-unconscious


What you feel about Carl Jung's theory of "collective unconscious" is up to you. To arrive at your opinion, you should think about what Jung meant by the "collective unconscious." He believed, that underneath the conscious mind and our personal conscious, lay a collective unconscious, in which we share common archetypes and instincts, many of them primitive in nature. One of these common archetypes included the shadow, or the animal side, of our personality that governs our creative and destructive forces.
One aspect of the collective unconscious that you might want to think about is that people tend to share similar types of dreams and fears. For example, snakes and shadows often show up in people's dreams, and people are afraid of these images, even if they have not experienced them directly. Very few people in the developed world have had an encounter with a poisonous snake, but they remain deathly afraid of even the image of a snake. Jung would argue that our fear is a remnant of the fear of our ancestors in the primitive past. In addition, while some of Jung's ideas have been dismissed as belonging more to the world of myth than to the field of psychology, some of his ideas have gained widespread traction in psychology and in our understanding of ourselves and our personalities. For example, his ideas of extroversion (the turning of attention outward) and introversion (the turning of attention inward) have resulted in tools such as the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory (MBTI) that allows people to understand the way that they characteristically work, based on these factors, as well as other factors. Therefore, Jungian thought has some applicability to today's world.

Summarize the major research findings of "Toward an experimental ecology of human development."

Based on findings of prior research, the author, Bronfenbrenner proposes that methods for natural observation research have been applied in ...