Zero-sum Essays

  • Game Theory: Thinking in Positive and Negative Possibilities

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    positive. Game theory is not just one theory, throughout the years is has spread into six main games. These games are: zero sum games, non-zero sum games, simultaneous move games, sequential move games, one-shot games, and repeated games. Each of these games will be covered more in depth in this essay, with the exception of zero-sum games. Dalton will be writing about the zero-sum game in his essay. History is a very important key when trying to figure out what exactly game theory is. Game theory

  • Decision-Making Models

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    final decision is made. This paper will discuss the zero sum game, win-win, satisfying solutions, and the fixed pie models. Zero-sum game can play an important role wherein one entity wants or needs to dominate the other. Of the several decision-making models that can be implemented, the zero sum game is one decision model used in negotiations. In this instance, there is a winner and a loser. There is no give and take or compromise. The zero-sum can be seen in chess – only one player can win.

  • Greed Myth Essay

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    Before reading Money, Greed, and God, I believed many of the myths outlined in the book. A few examples would be the piety myth and the greed myth. The piety myth is “focusing on our own good intentions rather than on the unintended consequences of our actions” (43). I believed that if I did good things, or at least strived to be the best I could be in a fallen world, my negative actions would be somewhat negated. I also noticed that I have a tendency to not even notice those negative consequences

  • Inequity: The Struggle To Be A Mother In A Capitalistic Society

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    “Brecht intended her to be an object lesson in misplaced energy”; he is, of course, referring to her habit of choosing her business over her family. By including such situations where the limited options grow ever slimmer and the probability of a zero sum game rages on, the play demonstrates that though her actions and behaviors could have been different, the outcome for Mother Courage and her family would have been the same; it does this in order to both prove that capitalism is antithetical to human

  • Street Food

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    New York City famous attraction, Chinatown, has a variety of Asian cuisine to offer to tourist from all over the world. Ranging from Chinese to Japanese to Thai cuisine. But NYC seems to be lacking of some Hong Kong flavor. Although Hong Kong is considered Chinese, they seem to have developed their own kind of culture and cuisine. In Hong Kong, they are known for the variety of street food they present to every day Hong Kongese and tourist. But sadly in NYC Chinatown it does not even present a fraction

  • Chinese Food: Potstickers

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    Chinese Food: Potstickers I was flipping through the “Food” section of the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, November 5th, 2003, and came across an enormous picture of a potsticker. The article about “Potstickers” caught my attention. I thought, so what? Is there really a history behind the famous dumpling? Surprisingly, yes. The article began with an introduction of how Amy Tan, the famous author of The Joy Luck Club, makes potstickers with her sisters in remembrance of their mother. They

  • Symbolism and Themes in A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

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    Gianina, my twin sister, has an irrational dislike of bananas and cheese. She will not knowingly eat anything that has bananas or cheese, and in fact, the simple mention of bananas may very well throw her into a fit. Bizarrely, one of her favorite foods is mango cheesecake and she will quite happily eat anything so long as no one mentions it contains bananas or cheese. Gianina’s predilection annoys me not only because my favorite thing to eat is new york style pizza, but also because it reminds me

  • Amazon Analysis

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    Throughout American history, it’s society has glorified the idea of being gritty and its virtues, such as perseverance, toughness, and courageousness. These ideas were apart of the American man that settled land from the east the west coasts, built business from the ground up, worked multiple jobs to singly support his family, or if need be, go off to war. Today, these virtues have spread much further throughout society, but have started to take backlash from camps of people who see life’s potential

  • Article Review: Turning Off The School-To-Prison Pipeline

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    article that the author talks about frequently that contributes to the “pipeline” is the zero tolerance rule that school systems follow. The author speaks frequently about how the zero tolerance policy is a key factor to the school-to-prison pipeline being eliminated. Throughout the entire duration of the article the reader can expect to be confronted with

  • The Reflection Of Rene Descartes

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    “Cogito ego sum” - this is a famous quote from Rene Descartes. This quote means," I think, therefore, I am." His beliefs are considered to be epistemological and he is also considered as the father of modern philosophy. In his letter of meditation, he writes about what he believes to be true and what is not true. He writes about starting a new foundation. This meant that he was going to figure out what is true and what is false. He also writes about how he wonders if he is human and if what

  • Alcohol and Drinking - America Must Lower the Drinking Age

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    alcohol. The same study found that secondary students say it's easy to get beer, wine or liquor." (qtd. in Westbrook) Texas is a zero tolerance state for underage drinking it has some of the strictest penalties for underage drinking, and if 80% of the teenagers in Texas have had experiences with alcohol that tells me that the campaigns against underage drinking, and zero tolerance programs are not working. Teens are going to drink alcohol at one point of their lives. So instead of spending all this

  • William Gibson's Neuromancer - Syntactic

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    Throughout William Gibson's Neuromancer, the text shows many ways of using the syntactic rhetorical strategy. Within the text, many examples show a break in perception or explain quickly areas that span over a long period of time. For all of these reasons Gibson cleverly uses the syntactic approach to allow his readers the freedom to make their own assumptions and to illustrate his plot in this novel Neuromancer. Whether it be changing the point of view from inside the Matrix to indicating Case

  • Cryogenics: Is It Worth Waiting For?

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    standard for scientific temperature measurement is the Kelvin scale. On the Kelvin scale absolute zero has a value of zero degrees on the thermometer. In theory no substance can be lowered to or below zero degrees Kelvin or absolute zero. Temperatures in cryobiology range from zero degrees Celsius--water freezes--to just above negative two hundred and seventy three point sixteen degrees Celsius--absolute zero. The word "Cryogenics" comes from the Greek word “kryos” meaning cold (“Cryogenics” Raintree

  • Conductivity

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    electrons begins, it essentially goes on forever, making it an important material to humans. Superconductivity was discovered by a Dutch scientist by the name of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911. While researching properties of materials at absolute zero, this man found out that certain materials lost its resistance to the flow of electrons. For years to come, his discovery was at the head of theoretical interest. The only problem though, was that people at that time could not even think of a way to

  • A Matter of Honor Case Study

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    when it appeared that the administration and board might not uphold her position. The local newspap... ... middle of paper ... ...t era: A wake up call. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Martinez, S. (2009). A system gone berserk: How are zero-tolerance policies really …..affecting schools? Preventing School Failure, 53(3), 153-157. Retrieved from …..http://search.proquest.com.ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/docview/228530113?acco…..untid=6579 Protheroe, N. (2011). What effective principals

  • Sugar Investigation

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    Sugar Investigation \Input Variable Outcome Variable Temperature Time taken for the sugar to dissolve Volume of Water Number of Stirs Amount of Sugar Type of Sugar The input variable we are testing is the temperature to see if the time taken for the sugar to dissolve differs. Prediction I predict that when the temperature of the water increases, the time taken for the sugar to dissolve in the water will be quicker than dissolving at a low temperature. This is

  • Investigating the Temperature at Which Soap Powder Will Perform Best At

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    Investigating the Temperature at Which Soap Powder Will Perform Best At Introduction I am going to conduct an experiment in the controlled environment of a laboratory. The experiment will consist of placing a stained piece of fabric into water with a fixed concentration of a biological washing powder (Wizzo) in it. I will try this experiment several times trying different temperatured water and leaving the it for a fixed period of time to find the best possible temperature that the Wizzo

  • Beyond Pythagoras - Mathematical Investigation

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    Beyond Pythagoras - Mathematical Investigation 1) Do both 5, 12, 13 and 7, 24, 25 satisfy a similar condition of : (Smallest number)² + (Middle Number)² = (Largest Number) ² ? 5, 12, 13 Smallest number 5² = 5 x 5 = 25 Middle Number 12² = 12 x 12 = 144+ 169 Largest Number 13² = 13 x 13 = 169 7, 24, 25 Smallest number 7² = 7 x 7 = 49 Middle Number 24² = 24 x 24 = 576+ 625 Largest Number 25² = 25 x 25 = 625 Yes, each set of numbers does satisfy the condition.

  • Investigating the Effect of Temperature on the Volume of a Gas

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    Investigating the Effect of Temperature on the Volume of a Gas Aim: To investigate the effect of temperature on the volume of a gas, given that the pressure acting on the gas is fixed. Hypothesis: According to CharlesÂ’s Law, the volume of a given amount of gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature when the pressure is constant. Thus, it is expected that as the temperature of the gas increases, its volume will increase also at a constant rate. When the temperature is increased

  • Nine States of Matter? The Lesser Known States of Matter

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    are wishing to cool. Because the photons colliding into the partials slowed their velocity which is essentially the same as heat for a molecule you can get the matter down to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero which “is the minimum possible temperature” (Absolute zero) at which all movement stops. When you fire photons (light partials) into this ultra-cold substance light can slow to thirty eight miles per hour. The tell-tale sign that a substance is in BEC is when the millions of atoms