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    Indeterminacy can be applied to different applications of “randomness” in the performance or process of making a work. Composition Indeterminacy The term indeterminacy is applied to many different applications of “randomness” in the performance or process of making a work. This notion of “randomness” originates from the fact that the choices are made in some way beyond the control of the maker and the result are outcomes that

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    In her essay “Pacific Distances” author Joan Didion writes about the randomness and lack of meaning in the car culture of southern California. Her implied thesis is that people in Los Angeles spend their time “in transit,” leading unreal lives without meaning or a sense of connectedness to anything, even other people. She conveys her thesis to the reader through expressive writing and unusual word choices, and she employs description and narration to create a sense of emotional deadness and random

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    Abstract: This lab report is the first practice of students in Professor Hulett’s Biology I. In this research, each students estimate the length of 10 centimeters in paper then turn it in. The result are recorded in 3 table represents students in each class. This report will only focus on the age of participants in relationship to their average estimation. The students’ age are divided into three group: Group 1 is under 22, Group 2 is 22-26 and Group 3 is above 26. The hypothesis is created. Hypothesis:

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    The film God on Trial explores the controversy behind the existence of God and his goodness, in terms of the Jewish people and the Holocaust. One argument that is presented is that God cannot exist because he allowed the suffering of the Jews, despite the covenant that they shared; and if God did exist, then he could not possibly be good for the same reason. The other side of the trial that is presented is that God does exist, suffering is merely a test, and through faith the Jews and the Torah

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    gradually louder. This is where the depersonalization occurs because all the sounds of all these different instruments are clashing together to become one loud piercing noise; essentially meaning that every who takes LSD will always experience the randomness of

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    present with “poor oral health and traumatized teeth” (Ransford, Soryal, Mccorry, Sander, Duncan, & Huggins, 2014, p. 403), so it is imperative they receive care. A few characteristics of seizures were mentioned, but the randomness of the disorder was the main focus. The randomness of seizures means that it is very rare that a patient will have a seizure in the short appointment that they are scheduled for. However, the number of seizure triggers from the patient’s point of view may be more numerous

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    Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" by Leonard is “The Drunkard’s Walk”. At first, it discusses a view called determinism, which is the idea that the state of the world at the present determines precisely the manner in which the future will unfold. However, small differences in initial conditions could change drastically the result. This is the Butterfly effect that small events in life do have a massive impact sometimes later. If life affected so much by randomness, why do we think in

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    So any encrypted data that an attacker can get their hands on is still valuable and useable data to them. To keep the level of security we want, we need to add more randomness to the encryption. With extra randomness this will include a data size increase. Let’s say you need a 1024 bit key to keep an increased element of randomness. This means you are

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    a “true” war story. In one of O’Brien’s stories, he discusses the bond between two men on their journey from enemies, to friends, to loss. The story is appropriately titled, “Friends”. The truth that O’Brien discusses in “Friends” deals with the randomness and chaos of war. War is unexpected, yet the unexpectation of war can lead to serenity

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    In their work Searches and traffic stops: Racial profiling and capriciousness, they introduced the dynamic of capriciousness or the randomness of a decision by police to stop a particular individual. (p. 164) The authors expound on the fact that initial research in the field of racial profiling focused on the rate of traffic stops, this is consistent with most of the empirical research

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