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  • Those germans

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    A brief quote I got last night while reading the fervently devout correspondence between Charles Peirce -u.s. scientist- and Victoria Welby – english writer. Welby to Peirce Duneaves, Harrow, England December 4th 1903 I am going to send a type-written bit of my last night’s lecture as soon as I can get it done. We…

  • Fixed Response Lab Report

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    Yong Ho Kim March 10, 2003 1. Describe your rat’s progress during shaping. A mistake in the experimenter’s side must be firsthand explained in order to make sense of the rat’s behavior. I understood that the rat was not being given water until it pressed the lever by itself and assumed that the light was…

  • life just goes

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    The week turned out alright. Thursday’s interview was smooth, thought it was more like “Oh my God, finally a volunteer! Please work for us” thing.. Irma invited for Coffee, and we talked about the kind of stuff done in the internship. It’s mostly white people (she calls them aglo-saxon, or aglosajones.. even though I thought…

  • Personality Assessment Assignment

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    Yong Ho Kim, April 29th 2003 1. What are some criticisms of trait theory in general? Possible criticisms include that subjects can falsify answers because the result of a personality test can be personally important to them, that very often the questions are culture-specific, and that subjects across different cultures don’t necessarily present the same…

  • Depth of Processing Assignment

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    April 4th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim Kalat (2002) summarizes the traditional consensus in the psychological community regarding short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is a “temporary storage of the information that someone has just experienced’ and long-term memory is “a relatively permanent store of mostly meaningful information”. Additionally, short-term memory stores up to seven (plus…

  • Shaping lever press behavior and fixed ratio training for water-deprived rats

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    Yong Ho Kim Macalester College Operant conditioning is a particular type of conditioning in which the subject associates particular behaviors with particular responses, and performs the behavior whenever it desires the response.

  • Reflective Essay on Readings of Marx’s Early Writings

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    Professor Peter Rachleff January 29th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim While at Mac, I got to hear of current humanities theories during my Intro HCST class. Under professor Kordela’s guidance, I was introduced to Zizek and his approach to Lacan, and followed a survey of western thought from ancient Greece to Debord and Derrida, and came…

  • Integration Paper on Race and Ethnicity

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    Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by December 9th Turned in by December 16th (7 days late) The U.S. banned the discrimination based on race, sex or ethnicity, through the Civil Rights Act, almost 40 years ago in 1964. However, more subtle, permeating forms of racism are prevalent in today’s U.S. society according to…

  • the meaning of being a full-time student

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    I was thinking of how I used time up.. and how much time I had left. See, there’s 24*7=168 hours in the week. 56 sleep21 meals13 church (4 sunday worship +6 friday bible study+ 1.5 mac christian fellas + 1 bible study group)12 class (4 classes)4 talks 1.5 (reading circle) +1 (marx series) + 1…

  • Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality

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    Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by November 18th, 2002 Turned in by November 25th, 2002 Yong Ho Kim Any large enough society in the world today faces problems of individual and social inequality among its people. In chapter 10 of his book, Newman has addressed this…

  • Gender – China

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    Intro. To talk about current issues of gender inequality in China is to talk about the consequences of a quickly developing socialist society with a patriarchal, agriculturally intensive and confucianist tradition.

  • Critical Book Review of Tracing the Veins

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    History of Modern Latin America Profesor Javier Morillo-Alicea November 11th, 2002 Yongho Kim The book Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata by Janet Finn is a study of two mining societies owned by one company. She intends to break off from the traditional way of viewing local histories as…

  • Proposal: Nationalism in Argentina

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    Paper Topic Proposal History of Modern Latin America Profesor Javier Morillo-Alicea November 5th, 2002 Yongho Kim I will write my paper on the influence that Argentinian nationalistic self-image had on the ignition of dirty war and regional violence during Peronism and the military coup. In Prisoner without a name, cell without a number, Timberman indicates…

  • Spring 2002 class quotes or memorable momenta bursting out of the green

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    Modern Philosophy Hans: On a sidenote, it seems like we could make an analogy between the Humean attitude of aggressive all-negation to that in… umm.. music, for example. Gundy: So Hume is the heavy metal of philosophy! Kevin: Yeah! Phil31 is offered every spring But Gundy teaches every semester. Analytic Chem Kuwata: so can anyone…

  • Alsino and the Condor: The Choice of Identity Over the Law

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    Yong Ho Kim Professor Kiarina Kordela HCST 10 : Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies 25 April 2002 Alsino and the Condor is a movie filmed by the Nicaraguan Film Institute and co-produced by Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica. According to The New York Times, it “is a film about injustice and revolution, not looked…

  • Lead emission decreasing around University of St. Thomas

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    Friday APRIL 12, 2002 50¢ Star Tribune NEWSPAPER OF THE TWIN CITIES / . Edition www.startribune.com Lead emission decreasing around University of St. Thomas By Yong Ho Kim anonymous submission SAINT PAUL, MN.―― Are students at University of St. Thomas (UST) more environmentally conscious than the mean of the population? The riverbank area of St.…

  • UNFINISHED The continuum in Hobbes’ De Corpore

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    A linguistic approach to his Geometry and Mechanics [this paper needs extensive footnote reformatting work]

  • [Audun Solli] analytic and synthetic

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    Audun Solli: An analytic judgement is for Kant a statement in which no new information or knowledge is contained or presented in the predicated that didn’t already exist in the concept of the subject, like “all mothers are women”. Synthetic judgements, on the other hand, add some information in the predicate that didn’t exist in…

  • [Sherali Tareen] Burke/tree

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    Sherali Tareen: The supernatural, literary connotations of words, and the distinction between the two concepts seem to be the main main focus for Burke. For instance, he discusses the non-verbal nature of trees that is entirely unrelated to the object of living thing “tree” itself. (1) However, the distinction between “the Word” and “words” remain…

  • [Aaron Hubbard] Descartes/God/Kant (?)

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    Aaron Hubbard: (…) Descartes grapples with those concepts that arise only with leisure. He questions that which he can really know, that which he can discern from the real, and concludes nothing other than that he thinks. His problems with sun on p.118 arise from the definition on the sign by its relation with other…