A review of the book “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
This paper discusses the ideological and philosophical issues raised by the characters of the book. While the writer acknowledges that the book encompasses a great deal of the Russia of Dostoevsky’s time and even more of human experience, he claims that the philosophical discussion is what gives the novel resonance and power.
The story of the Grand Inquisitor is a complex parable presented as a poem written by Ivan Karamazov. This element in the story tells much about the history of the church in Russia at the time and about theological concerns of the time. The story is presented as a battle between the Old Cardinal and Christ, with the Old Cardinal imprisoning the returned Christ because the example Christ sets is seen by the Cardinal as having placed a burden on mankind that the human being cannot meet. The focus of the poem is on a dialogue between the Grand Inquisitor and Christ. The Grand Inquisitor represents the Church that has come into being purportedly in support of Christ’s teaching and to maintain Christ’s example, but the Grand Inquisitor shows that the Church is actually teaching what Christ should have represented to mankind. This all relates back to Christ’s rejection of the three temptations–if he had accepted the bread, mankind would know security; if he had performed a miracle to get down from the pinnacle, human beings would have something miraculous to worship; and if he had accepted the power Satan offered him, he could wield that power for humankind.
PHC-121Introduction to Biostatistics
In probability theory and statistics, skew is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. The deviation value can be positive, zero, negative, or undefined.For a unary distribution, negative skew usually indicates that the tail is on the left side of the distribution i.e. the median is greater than the mean. The positive deviation indicates that the tail is on the right, meaning that the mean is greater than the median. In cases where one tail is long while the other tail is fleshy, the deviation is not subject to a simple rule. For example, a zero value of the deviation means that the sides on either side of the mean are generally balanced; This is the case for a symmetric distribution, but can also be true for an asymmetric distribution where one tail is long and thin and the other is short but fat.In a normal distribution the mean is exactly equal to the median and the deviation is of course zero. The greater the gap between the mean and the median, the greater the deviation. The closer we get to the mean and the median, the smaller the deviation is. So if I am a researcher, I will make sure to change the data so that it reduces the gap between the mean and the median until it comes close to the normal distribution.
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