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The nation’s current health care expenditures have continuously risen over the past years. The issue has escalated because many Americans do not have a health care coverage. The government has been in constant search for solutions to control and cut health care spending. The rise in the health care over the past years has made the economy of the United States to decline (Yong, Saunders, Olsen, & Institute of Medicine (U.S.), 2010). The high health care costs have increased the government spending in the health care. Moreover, it has led to increased number of people who do not have Continue reading...

What are the causes of Happiness?

What happiness is everyone understands differently, because each of us is an individual with his or her own interests and preferences. For some people happiness is having the latest model car, and well equipped apartment with furniture. But for a great number of people happiness is caused by various factors.
For most people to become happy is to have faithful friends able to come and help any time. Only close friends listen to you and share you interests. Nobody can make you happy but somebody who is near, whom you can count on, and who is important to you. Continue reading...

Christian Doppler

1. Life and work. Christian Andreas Doppler, a famous physicist, mathematician and astronomer, was born on the 29th November, 1803 in Salzburg, Austria. At the age of 19 Christian Doppler entered the Polytechnishes Institut (nowadays Vienna University of Technology), where he studied physics and mathematics for several years. Then Doppler returned to Salzburg and studied philosophy for two years (Schuster 21).
After Doppler completed his education, he went back to Vienna in 1829. There Christian got a Job of assistant. In 1831, his first scientific article was published. His career went up, and in 1835 he got a place Continue reading...

a) From Marpol identify the requirements for the disposal of machinery space bilges.
Marpol 73/78 is the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978. ("Marpol" is short for marine pollution and 73/78 short for the years 1973 and 1978.)
“According to Annex I of MARPOL 73/78, and more precisely Chapter 2, Regulation 9, the requirements for the disposal for a ship of 400 tons gross tonnage and above other than an oil tanker and for machinery space bilges excluding cargo pump-room bilges of an oil tanker unless mixed with Continue reading...

The Constitution of the United States was created on September 17, 1787 and ratified on June 21, 1788. Before the adoption of the Constitution, all thirteen states used the Articles of Confederation as the basic law. However the federal government, operating within Articles, was too weak and didn't possess sufficient powers for resolving the conflicts arising between states. Therefore, the Convention was appointed in Philadelphia to May, 1787. In spite of the fact that initially the Convention was conceived only for correction and specification of the existing laws, during discussions participants of Convention passed to creation of the new Continue reading...

Gender and racial discrimination are a real and serious issue in American corporate culture. Many women of color struggle to overcome systemic racism as they advance through their company, only be met by the infamous “glass ceiling.” Some instances of discrimination are cut and dry, such as when a person is denied opportunities explicitly on the basis of their gender or race. However, most of the cases in which discrimination is alleged are not so clear. In the case of Maria, it is not immediately apparent whether her company has committed discrimination.
Maria appears to have many desirable qualities Continue reading...

Rene Descartes stands out as one of the most outstanding, noble, refined and articulate thinkers of the ancient generation. It stems from the fact that most of his assertions and philosophical reasoning have been verified and ratified as true for the past period. As a unique and rigorous philosopher and a reputable social commentator, Rene Descartes stands out as the most liberal minded person because he sought to engage in the new territories of intellectuality (Descartes, 8). It is explained by the fact he rejected all the things that he had been taught and instead sought to enlighten himself. Continue reading...

“The Curve” by Joel Garreau seems to be very confusing when the reader first starts to read it because of its title that makes an impression of some boring unintelligible story that baffled you beginning like a fairy tale and continuing like a non-fiction plot. It is hard to figure out what that king-peasant thing and the curve have actually in common. In such extraordinary way, the author provides the reader with thoughts about the future of human kind within the technological progress that is making great strides now. The chapter is about possible human evolution that is reflected Continue reading...

(During 3 Periods: Early Judaism, the Hellenistic Period and the Muslim Domination)
In this book the author describes the development of Jewish thought from a spiritual and philosophical point of view. His main point of reference is the “Hebrew Scriptures” (15). This source is crucial for the topic of “rabbinic Judaism” – it contain the written documents that define the rabbinic tradition as it is today, which is a product of those Scriptures. More importantly, they contain answers to universal questions that have been studied by other streams and schools of philosophy – questions about the origin of the universe and Continue reading...

Those driving faster than us are often labeled as crazed lunatics while those who are driving slower than us often are encouraged to, “find the gas pedal,” and get off the road. We, the collective driver, or the individual driver, appear to base our driving mentality off our own experiences, as well as our own driving preferences. If other drivers do not match our driving preferences, they are labeled chaotic and insane, or old and slow. There does not appear to be an in between, nor does there appear to be an allowance for the experience or subjectivity of Continue reading...