Unexpected Hanging!- Paradox

The unexpected hanging

[A man condemned to be hanged] was sentenced on Saturday. "The hanging will take place at noon," said the judge to the prisoner, "on one of the seven days of next week. But you will not know which day it is until you are so informed on the morning of the day of the hanging."

The judge was known to be a man who always kept his word. The prisoner, accompanied by his lawyer, went back to his cell. As soon as the two men were alone, the lawyer broke into a grin. "Don't you see?" he exclaimed. "The judge's sentence cannot possibly be carried out."

"I don't see," said the prisoner.

"Let me explain They obviously can't hang you next Saturday. Saturday is the last day of the week. On Friday afternoon you would still be alive and you would know with absolute certainty that the hanging would be on Saturday. You would know this before you were told so on Saturday morning. That would violate the judge's decree."

"True," said the prisoner.

"Saturday, then is positively ruled out," continued the lawyer. "This leaves Friday as the last day they can hang you. But they can't hang you on Friday because by Thursday only two days would remain: Friday and Saturday. Since Saturday is not a possible day, the hanging would have to be on Friday. Your knowledge of that fact would violate the judge's decree again. So Friday is out. This leaves Thursday as the last possible day. But Thursday is out because if you're alive Wednesday afternoon, you'll know that Thursday is to be the day."

"I get it," said the prisoner, who was beginning to feel much better. "In exactly the same way I can rule out Wednesday, Tuesday and Monday. That leaves only tomorrow. But they can't hang me tomorrow because I know it today!"

... He is convinced, by what appears to be unimpeachable logic, that he cannot be hanged without contradicting the conditions specified in his sentence. Then on Thursday morning, to his great surprise, the hangman arrives. Clearly he did not expect him. What is more surprising, the judge's decree is now seen to be perfectly correct. The sentence can be carried out exactly as stated.

Overview - The Curse of the Good Girl

Rachel Simmons is a New York Times best-selling author and the founding director of the Girls' Leadership Institute. The Curse of the Good Girl looks into the phenomenon of the glass ceiling placed on girls who attempt to live up to the standard of being "good." Simmons then shows how parents can help build girls' self-esteem and give them the strength to pursue their goals.

In this volume for parents of middle-school daughters, the author of Odd Girl Outobserves that girls today still pressure themselves to conform to the old, narrow paradigm of a nice, people-pleasing, rule-following, even-tempered, socially acceptable good girl, shunning the image of a rebellious, proud, socially outré, in-charge, outspoken bad girl. To dispel the curse of the good girl, and despite using those familiar, easily misconstrued labels as a touchstone, Girls Leadership Institute founder Simmons offers instructive tales out of school and workshops, revealing that flawed communication rituals and fear of confrontation contribute equally to a girl's belief that it is more important to be liked than to be an individual. In order to become a successful, well-adjusted "real girl," she needs to know how to say no to peers, ask for what she needs and express what she thinks. In the second half of this book, parents will find concrete strategies and tools-confidence-building exercises that emphasize emotional intelligence, self-evaluations, q&a's, scripts and lots of first-person stories-to help guide a girl's growth into a young woman who can respect and listen to her inner voice, say what she feels and thinks, embrace her limits and present an authentic self to the world.

A theory paper

Well, can there be something more than what he holds in that so serene a smile of his.I'm talking of none other than our great teacher of electronic circuits.
My God, i'm all at sea as to what i'm gonna do to manage a decent grade in this theory course.
A single digit score in test 1 is something i've gone through..but the anticipation of a test 2 at a higher level of difficulty,with no marks as such under 'assignments' is something new and i wonder how its gonna be.
But definitely,i'm not giving up.I've got Boyelstead from seniors and today i've bought Boggart. The predicament in the test 1 needn't repeat.I hope i bring back that old study routine ,yeah that old school thing, for the last-day rules proved to flunk quite fabulously.
Or even a shadow of it should prove to be my rescue.
Well, that said lem'e pause...theres more on queue, my sweet cutie bloggie,..now sleep my babo..cho cho..sleep.

Just In!

Has been real long i wanted to have a 'cutie li'l bloggie' for myself.And now i have one...Happy...*Peace*
God bless my humble,earnest endeavours towards conjuring a world of dreams around me.Where the fairies of peace and happiness dance to the tune of love and wisdom.
I open my heart before thee...for You are Me,I'm You, You are All, All is You.

Just In!

Has been real long i wanted to have a 'cutie li'l bloggie' for myself.And now i have one...Happy...*Peace*
God bless my humble,earnest endeavours towards conjuring a world of dreams around me.Where the fairies of peace and happiness dance to the tune of love and wisdom.
I open my heart before thee...for You are Me,I'm You, You are All, All is You.