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Yep for me in general life was going excellent as a "norm" in terms of academics and future jobs prospects, but then things were going downhill from year to another due to various reasons. And now I am trying to adapt to the drastic changes. And I agree this is the hard part: Sometimes I have...

Thanks for your reply, Chiro. Where I live these days in my home country many companies are involved in bribes, bid rigging or the "new fashion" by making a non-prof which only exists on paper, located inside their for-profit company, and what you got is one company with two faces: tax-free one...

Hey everyone, I'm wondering on how someone can define where his responsibility starts and ends at the workplace, especially in our highly-connected jobs environments with modern economies. These days I work as an independent freelancer, but I'm considering to work at some companies and I'm...

As to how monarchies have emerged in human history, perhaps it's best to think of it in the context that States were essentially a "Security Business" within tribes, and sons inherit the business of their fathers sometimes. (e.g. a castle is owned by a Duke/King, an expensive defense structure...

I guess Polybius got it similar in some ways to Plato's cycle (he explained it in Part IV, or Books VIII-IX of the Republic of Plato: First is the fall of the "Ideal State" -- he called it "Aristocracy", but not exactly in the typical definition of aristocracy in modern works but more like a...

I'm sorry if it seemed that I violated the guidelines. (I did read them once before, and did read them again now). My point was along the lines of Plato's hypothesis in the "republic of plato": that many democracies can eventually become a de-facto dictatorships of demagogues who are very...

If I still remember correctly, Plato did discuss in his Republic some sort of a cycle of political systems of which states may go through -- which was drawn from his observations of Greek politics and predictions of how it will develop. He predicted that after people end up preferring democratic...

I must admit that yes; plagiarism and citation rules sometimes can be very confusing to me. I personally see no problem, as also mentioned by some of members above, if someone submits the exact academic work two times as assignments to different classes and would not consider it plagiarism. I...

Thanks everyone. Yep I personally don't see it as plagiarism if someone write his own cover letter, then use the same text, or parts of it, several times when sending other job applications. But if the same thing is done in academia, it's almost always considered as plagiarism e.g. submitting...

Sometimes in academia they say that copying parts, or a whole, of someone's own work is considered palgiarism. Does this also apply while writing several cover letters for different job applications? (From a legal, social norms and/or ethical perspective) If it's OK; how is it different from...

Yep I see what you mean. I think many factors will influence the decision that you will make. Perhaps if you're planning to obtain an engineering degree to qualify you for certain jobs, then maybe one extra year can seem a better option than applying for grad schools and spending 2 extra years...

Actually from my personal experience classes during the first two years in engineering are very similar to physics classes -- I was an engineering student and until my sophomore year we had physics students studying calculus, Differential equations and some physics classes with us. But junior...

:smile: I was reminded of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfVqfIN8_c"

@ Ms. Music and JetBell: Yep I think a short answer can it itself convey a quick and brief response, and also hint that long posts are difficult to be responded to in detail. @ Hypatia, turbo-1 and ideasrule: Yep I think it can be used sometimes when too long posts continue to come for a too...

Yeah it can be a bit tiring especially when the long posts are provocative. Usually when exchanging news with friends back and forth, it kinda cool down to "glad to know your news, keep it touch" or some hint of ending the exchange. And friends can cooperate haha. But in long written discussions...