Adventures Down Under & Presidential Insights

Australia’s East Coast: A Six-Month Journey

Marine, a young woman, spent six months exploring Australia’s East Coast. Along the way, she discovered ‘paradise on Earth,’ made new friends, and found work.

Arrival in Cairns: Gateway to the Tropics

Cairns, a city with temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius, greeted Marine with an incredibly blue sky. Everyone seemed tanned and relaxed. Here, Marine met Yannick, a French traveler who had just bought a van. Eager to drive along the East Coast, Marine decided

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Real-Time Operating Systems: Core Concepts & Scheduling Algorithms

RTOS Fundamentals: Structure and Core Concepts

RTOS Structure and Characteristics

A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is an operating system designed to process tasks within strict timing constraints, ensuring predictable and deterministic execution. The structure of an RTOS includes key components such as the scheduler, task management, inter-task communication, memory management, and interrupt handling mechanisms. The characteristics of an RTOS include:

  • Determinism: Guarantees task execution within
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Plato and Aristotle: Contrasting Metaphysics and Epistemology

Plato vs. Aristotle: Ontological Dualism

For Plato, true reality resides in the World of Ideas. For him, the physical world is merely an imitation of these truly real ideas. The World of Ideas comprises concepts that are immutable, eternal, intelligible, and universal (inspired by Parmenides’ characteristics of Being). This world is apprehended through reason; the rational soul comes to know these values.

The physical world consists of sensible things perceived through the senses. These are finite,

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E-commerce Growth Strategies: SEO, Social & Mobile Marketing

Advantages of E-commerce

  • Faster buying and selling processes, with easy product discovery.
  • 24/7 availability for transactions.
  • Wider customer reach with no geographic limitations.
  • Lower operational costs and improved service quality.
  • No need for physical company setups.
  • Ease of business setup and management.
  • Customers can easily compare products from various providers without physical travel.

Disadvantages of E-commerce

  • Ease of entry for all, leading to potential for fraudulent sites.
  • Lack of guaranteed product
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Descartes and Hume: Contrasting Views on Knowledge and Reality

Descartes’ Rationalism: Foundations of Knowledge

Methodical Doubt and the Cogito

Methodical doubt is applied to all knowledge, as all true knowledge must be differentiated from sleep. That which cannot be doubted is the fact that we think and the ability to do so.

The Existence of God

God is the guarantee of true knowledge. If the subject comes to understand and methodically assured knowledge, they can be sure that their thinking is real, since God cannot deceive us when we act with rationality.

The

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Boosting English Vocabulary with Physical Activity

The Power of Movement in English Language Learning

Abstract

This paper develops my Final Degree Project (FDP) as a Primary Education student. It focuses on the use of movement and physical activity as a reinforcement to improve English language learning, driven by a desire to explore successful tools for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to students. It incorporates insights from the Total Physical Response (TPR) theoretical framework, observed during my school placement. This document

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Cloud Computing Fundamentals: Services, Models, and Benefits

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and more—over the internet (the cloud). It offers faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. Users access these resources on-demand, paying only for what they use. This eliminates the need for maintaining physical infrastructure, reduces costs, and enhances scalability and security.

Types of Cloud Computing

There are three main types of

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C++ OOP Concepts & UML Fundamentals

Function Overloading in C++

Function overloading is a feature of object-oriented programming that allows you to define multiple functions with the same name but different parameter lists or return types. This enables you to create functions that perform similar tasks but operate on distinct data types or have different functionalities.

Friend Functions in C++

A friend function in C++ is a function that has access to the private and protected members of a class.

Advantages of Friend Functions

  • Access to
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Externalities Explained: Market Failure & Economic Solutions

Understanding Externalities in Economics

An externality occurs when someone’s actions affect others without paying or being paid for it, and these effects don’t go through the market. The problem arises because the full social cost or benefit isn’t reflected in the price.

The Nature of Externalities

This concept explains externalities—situations where one person’s or firm’s actions affect the well-being of others outside the market system (i.e., not through prices).

Consider the example of Bart,

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Philosophical Foundations: Hellenistic Thought and Cartesian Principles

Hellenism: 323 BC – 31 BC

Cynicism

  • School founded in Athens
  • Accept life according to nature (“like a dog”)
  • Despise conventionalisms
  • Advocate autarky (self-sufficiency, rejection of material possessions)

Diogenes of Sinope

  • Lived in a barrel (cask)
  • Performed indecent acts
  • Appeared unkempt
  • Was exiled
  • Lived in poverty

Epicureanism

Epicureanism was a practical philosophy, aiming to heal human suffering. Its primary guidance was to get rid of worries. Epicurus sought to eliminate religious myths and superstitions,

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