(weekly Torah portions). We begin our morning with some coloring, and then have Moring Meeting. In Morning Meeting, we sing some songs and introduce the what we are doing each day. The first part of class is Hebrew. We are making our way through the Aleph –Bet, learning a new letter every week, which is the letter of the day. For each letter, we learn what the letter looks like, what its sound it makes, and a few words that begin with that letter. The letters are our gateway into the Hebrew language
On considering the comparison of cardinalities of the set of natural numbers and real numbers, we turn to Cantor’s Diagonal Argument and Cantor’s supposed proof that there exist more real numbers than natural numbers. In this essay I will firstly outline this argument and continue by setting out some of its implications. I next consider Wittgenstein and his remarks on Cantor’s argument, namely the abstract nature of transfinite numbers, the use of the term infinite and the assumption that all sets
Borges’ story has a profound experience with a mythical object that changes his outlook on life. In August 1944, visiting Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo Borges met Estela Canto, who fell in love. Estela was inspired by him to write the story “the Aleph”, which is considered one of Borges' best works. Despite resistance from his mother, Borges offered to marry Estela, but this never happened. In 1952, their relationship ended. Kafka since his early youth had difficulty sleeping. In his diaries contains
Most people think of Gandhi and Malcolm as huge cultural leaders. But they really don’t know how their ambitions were heard. Since they both had religious views this helped their words be spread throughout the country. Gandhi first started out as a Hindu who wanted to learn more about his culture. He decided to visit India and that is when major changes started. He was known as the father of India who freed India from the British. On the other hand Malcolm ‘s story started out with his childhood
link to image There are a number of reasons why someone who is not of Jewish descent might want to learn Hebrew. For Christians, learning Hebrew offers them the ability to read sections of the Bible in its original language. For Historians, it opens up a world of firsthand access to early Jewish literature. For those of Jewish descent, learning Hebrew is considered their connection to Israel and their key to learning from the primary sources. Anyone who has learned a language can tell you that things
When a person has solitude, and it is just that person and their thoughts, they are in fact meditating. Every religion has some form of meditation, a person that may not believe in mediation, but if they are a religious person then they meditate. Some of the major religions practice some form of meditation. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity all have some form of meditation within this religion. These major religions are all unique in their own way and have their own way of meditation
Argentina Argentina, officially known as the Argentine Republic or Republica Argentina, is a country occupying the most southern portion of South America. For many foreigners, especially Europeans, Argentina has presented the traditional New World image of a land of romance and opportunity. It received its name, "roughly translated as 'land of silver' or 'silvery one,' from the Spanish explorers of the 16th century who were lured there by rumors
The Munich Massacre was executed by a group of Palestinian terrorists, who were able to infiltrate the Olympic village and take nine hostages. Several counter-terrorism organizations and operations were a result of the attack on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games. The group responsible for the Munich massacre was a team of eight individuals, part of a terrorist group known as the Black September Organization, a.k.a. BSO. The BSO began as a small group of Fatah members enraged by the king of Jordan
The Women of Cyberpunk Women have always been on the fringes of the science fiction writing community. Not only have there been few female writers, but few female characters of substance have explored the universe, battled aliens, or discovered new technologies. Even in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), considered by some to be the first science fiction novel, Elizabeth, who is the major female character, does little more than decorate Victor's arm, snag his heart, and eventually contribute
One of the first things we learn at school is our ABC’s, but do we ever learn where the alphabet originates? It is known as the Latin alphabet, so why has it got a Greek name? Plus it was not invented by the Greeks. Where does it originate from? Egypt, Samaria and the Origins of Writing It seems that writing originated in Mesopotamia and also ancient Egypt, where both were developed independent of each other, and they are notably very different. Hieroglyphs. The ancient Egyptians created a very different
Ethan Couch grew up with parents who did not teach him the proper differences between right and wrong. They spoiled him with anything that he could ever want because they were wealthy. Unfortunately, because of this he did not hear the word no being used often when it came to things he wanted. These were some of the defenses used in court against declaring that the actions of Ethan Couch on the night of the accident that he caused while drunk was not his fault. His parents had allowed him to live
“Mom, I am gay. I’ve felt this way about women for a long time. I was very afraid to tell you. I’m scared. Maybe it’s a phase. Will I go to hell for it? I’m not sure right now but I choose to be with the same sex.” said I. This day changed my life. I remember it like it was yesterday. I felt very confused for a couple of months then it all came clear. I had a few friends and family member who came out to me. A lot of us homosexuals were scared just like me because of the religious aspect of it.
Mount Vernon, New York. He served in the army before going to college. He graduated from Cornell University with a Bashelor of Arts degree in 1921. While at Cornell he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun. He was also a member of the Aleph Samach and Quill and Dagger societies and Phi Gamma Delta. During this journey he picked up the nickname Andy. White wasn't just known for the childrens book Charlotte's Web he also wrote the childrens book Stuart Little in 1945. The main
The collection of stories in The Aleph as a general theme, tend to employ lots of physical violence. Whether that comes in the form of executions, knife-fights, political killings, or revenge, many of these tales are in the lean, machismo, cold-hearted tradition. A story that caught my attention in particular was that of “The Dead Man.” On the surface a simpler story; violent, fast-paced, and in a typical Borges fashion, a surprise ending where we realize the connection between the title and the
uclid’s proof of the Infinitude of Primes — Proof by contradiction (Reductio ad absurdum): (1.3.3) Prove that there are infinite number of prime numbers. Assume that there are finite many primes: T = {P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6… Pn} Let Q be a number which is equivalent to the product of the finite many prime numbers, plus one. Q = (P1 x P2 x P3 x P4 x P5… Pn) + 1 Therefore, there can only be two possible types of numbers that Q can be, namely a prime number, or a composite number. If Q is a prime
Nationalism plays a major role in the politics world and established as a fundamental aspect to endorse equality. The way people perceive nationalism is that “all members of a nation or citizens of a state are held together by (imagined) sense of kindship, which makes all of us having something in common such as shared sense of identity and values”. In contrast, the state is defined as a political group, while the nation is a cultural group where the nation of different nationalities can increase
properties. First, there are an infinite number of them. In fact, there are so many points that no matter what list we create or what rule we apply, not all of the points will appear, even if our list is infinite. In other words, the set belongs to aleph-one. This is demonstrated through diagonalization. Here’s how—first one endpoint of the original line segment is labeled zero. The other endpoint becomes one. All the points in between are assigned fractional values. We can calculate more easily
Georg Cantor I. Georg Cantor Georg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of trigonometric series and was the first to prove the nondenumerability of the real numbers. Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family stayed in Russia for eleven years until the father's sickly health forced them to move to the more acceptable environment of Frankfurt
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”, the narrator offers a host of fantastic imagery relating to a fictional “pleasure dome” constructed by the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan. Coleridge professed ignorance of the poem’s meaning, saying only that it was a fragmented memory of a dream, but an analysis of the symbolic imagery of the poem through the lens of psychoanalytic interpretation will show that the poem is a study of the nature of creativity and imagination and the dangers associated
The Power of Angels in America "Such ethical possibility is, however, founded on and coextensive with the subject's movement toward what Foucault calls 'care of the self,' the often very fragile concern to provide the self with pleasure and nourishment in an environment that is perceived not particularly to offer them." -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "Demanding that life near AIDS is an inextricably other reality denies our ability to recreate a sustaining culture and social structures