Entries by Daphne Hanson

The founding of the Texas Republic

Hopefully, by now you’ve learned that the state of Texas has experienced significant constitutional change since the founding of the Texas Republic in 1845. And, you’ve probably realized that current constitution, first written in 1875, has many major problems for a state government operating in the 21st century. What are some of these problems? What […]

The assigned Non-Commissioned Officer Common Core Competencies

Executive Summary (EXSUM) on the assigned Non-Commissioned Officer Common Core Competencies (NCOCCC) of Readiness while balancing it against, ” FTX Mission Influence Case Study” throughout your EXSUM. EXSUM must possess critical thinking, reasoning, a shared focus and approach to both the historical case study, and the assigned NCOCCC. Your EXSUM must possess additional (In addition to the Case Study) scholastic research and […]

West African slavery

Was West African slavery affected by racial attitudes? In what way? What significance should be attached to the observation that the Portuguese obtained most of their slaves through trade with African dealers? Conditions on the other side of the Atlantic are relevant too; before the importation of Africans to the Americas, the Spanish enslaved many […]

Coherent programs to voters

Parties should present clear and coherent programs to voters. Voters should choose candidates on the basis of party programs. The winning party should carry out its program once in office. Voters should hold the governing party responsible at the next election for executing its program. How well do you think these principles describe our current […]

The Texas Legislature

What can the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Legislature do if they disagree with how the Texas Executive Branch is overseeing Texas DFPS? How effective is the Texas system of checks and balances when all 3 branches are controlled by the same party and ideology? Have the Texas Judicial and Legislative branches effectively ‘checked and […]

Give two reasons why they might compile a floating-point program into code that, when run, produces differing results

Give a brief and rudimentary clarification of the standards of how the language onad which corresponds to ML code . Consider different versions of an optimizing compiler, each of which uses IEEE standard representation for all variables. Give two reasons why they might compile a floating-point program into code that, when run, produces differing results. […]

Describe what is meant by tail recursion

Compiler Construction Programming answers should be written in some notation approximating SML or OCaml. (a) Describe what is meant by tail recursion. [4 marks] (b) Eliminate tail recursion from foldl given below. Explain your answer. (* foldl : (‘a -> ‘b -> ‘a) -> ‘a -> ‘b list -> ‘a *) let rec foldl f […]

Enumerated Powers of the Constitution

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) expanded the Enumerated Powers of the Constitution, and enabled intrusion into Reserved Powers by creating a third concept of governing power, Implied Power.  The ruling set the stage for the growth of national government.  Should we return to the original view of the Constitution or should we continue to expand the […]