...Joey Lahman [Company name] [Company address] History of the americans with disabilities act Joey Lahman [Company name] [Company address] History of the americans with disabilities act Abstract For years, individuals with uncontrollable disabilities have been discriminated against in education, employment, and public services. I have gathered information pertaining to the Americans with Disabilities Act to better educate those with disabilities and employers alike. I have found that even with the Act in place the number of discriminatory complaints regarding disabled people continues to rise each year. I recommend that employers make a better, conscious effort to employ and accommodate those who are disabled. Joey Lahman MGMT 339 – Cross Cultural Management Research Paper History of the Americans with Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities Act was first introduced to Congress in 1988 and was officially signed into law at the White House, during a signing ceremony on July 26, 1990 (dredf.org). However, the need for the Americans with Disabilities Act began long before that in cities all over the country. When individuals with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities began to fight for equality in their communities. The first step towards the Americans with Disabilities Act was the establishment of small groups that would advocate for the rights of the disabled and the Independent Living Movement, which “challenged the notion...
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...This paper is an assessment of the history of the ADA and the ensuing legal precedence that has been set since its adoption. It will discuss in detail the forcefulness of its passage including several political issues that led to its adoption as well as the legal issues that resulted in its conception and development. The paper will also address any outcomes that may have changes or clarified the act, especially those most recent findings that could change the act significantly. The paper will then go on to discuss the foundational way in which the ADA has changed the everyday lives of people. The ADA has changed the face of the belief system with regard to disabilities and the people who have them. It has given people with disabilities a voice, and a set of sounding board organizations that will hear their voice. It among other legislation’s has allowed people with disabilities an opportunity to be seen in the world, rather than to hide within the confines of their home or an institution. It has also changed the way people with disabilities live their lives, and are employed in many good ways. Lastly the paper will express an opinion about the progress that the ADA has created or not created in the overall goal of creating an inclusive environment of respect for individuals with disabilities. The answer to the question “Does abuses no longer occur?” may seem surprising but in truth the answer is no, abuses still occur regularly and the ADA has not done as much as it was hoped...
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...The Air Defense Artillery (ADA) branch has existed in the United States Army since 1917. Three officers from the Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) received orders for France with the task of assembling an Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) unit. They lacked properly trained Soldiers, weapons, and tactical knowledge (Stiller, 2010). Since then, the branch has grown exponentially to reach the capabilities it holds today. The ADA branch has evolved throughout history between 1980 and 2000 through new missile production and refinement, becoming battle proven during the Persian Gulf War, and undergoing intense criticism, which paved the way for new advancements. Although they had immensely progressed in terms of air and missile defense, the ADA branch needed to refine its approach to defend against the Tactical Ballistic Missile (TBM) to be effective in that period. “In 1984, the Patriot finally reached Initial Operation Capability with its first U.S. Army units,” (Parsch, 2002). The Patriot system and Mobile Intercept Missile (MIM)-104A...
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...with falling in love or falling in lust. However, in the book love is one thing that Ada and Inman have down pat. From the time that Ada lays eyes on Inman she is in love. Often times we hear people say “They are not really in love they are just lustful”. Lust means you think you are in “love” with somebody but you actually don’t love him or her whole heartily. Inman and Ada are main characters in the book and they truly fall in love with each other. The book jumps back and fourth between Ada and Inman telling the story. Ada’s dad was a minister who moved himself and Ada to Cold Mountain from Charleston. In Charleston Ada became very educated. However, Ada had no common life skills like working, or taking care of herself. When Ada and Inman see each other...
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...#include #include typedef struct Node { int data; struct Node *next; }node; void insert(node *pointer, int data) { /* Iterate through the list till we encounter the last node.*/ while(pointer->next!=NULL) { pointer = pointer -> next; } /* Allocate memory for the new node and put data in it.*/ pointer->next = (node *)malloc(sizeof(node)); pointer = pointer->next; pointer->data = data; pointer->next = NULL; printf("Successfully inserted.......\n"); } int find(node *pointer, int key) { pointer = pointer -> next; //First node is dummy node. /* Iterate through the entire linked list and search for the key. */ while(pointer!=NULL) { if(pointer->data == key) //key is found. { return 1; } pointer = pointer -> next;//Search in the next node. } /*Key is not found */ return 0; } int update(node *pointer, int key, int new_key) { pointer = pointer -> next; //First node is dummy node. /* Iterate through the entire linked list and search for the key. */ while(pointer!=NULL) { if(pointer->data == key) //key is found. { ...
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...*) X and Y founded company Z in February 1982 in order to develop and sell the ‘PostScript page description language’. The company is named after a Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind the houses of both of the company's founders. Find X, Y and Z. Answer Z-> Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd X, Y -> John Warnock, Charles Geschke *) Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine? a. Pascal b. Hollerith c. Babbage d. Jacquard *) Which of the following company is called Big Blue? a. IBM b. Compaq Corp c. Microsoft d. Tandy Svenson *) In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term 'computer virus’? a. Smith b. Cohen c. Norton d. Mcafee *) 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro started Company X in 1999. X crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006 & has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Name X. Answer X -> Mind Tree Ltd. [http://thetechquiz.blogspot.in/] *) What is common to these weird sounding names? •Toffili •Fredkin •Hadamard •CNOT Answer Quantum Logic Gates / Operators *) In 2000, the Clay Mathematical Foundation, in the footsteps of David Hilbert, proposed a prize of $ 1 million for solving seven of the biggest unsolved mathematical problems. These include the holy grail of computing, first posed by Steve...
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...Ada Lovelace was born in London on December 10th, 1815. Her parents were Lord George Gordon Byron and Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron. They didn’t have a happy relationship, and Lady Byron separated from her husband weeks after Ada was born. A few months later, Lord Byron left England, and Ada never saw him again because unfortunately he died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old. Later on in her life, Ada’s mother hired tutors to teach her science and math. She believed that if Ada engaged in these, it would prevent her from developing her father's moody and unpredictable temper. In 1835, Ada married William King. They had three children together. Ada's health suffered after a case of cholera in 1837. Doctors gave her painkillers and her personality...
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...in a Small Town (2006) is a nonfiction book written by John Grisham, and his first outside the legal fiction genre. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 for the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death. After serving 11 years on death row, he was exonerated by DNA evidence and other material introduced by the Innocence Project and was released in 1999. Contents * 1 Synopsis * 2 Book edition * 3 References * 4 External links | Synopsis Ron Williamson has returned to his hometown of Ada, Oklahoma after multiple failed attempts to play for various minor league baseball teams, including the Fort Lauderdale Yankees and two farm teams owned by the Oakland A's. An elbow injury inhibited his chances to progress. His big dreams were not enough to overcome the odds (less than 10 percent) of making it to a big league game. His failures lead to, or aggravate, his depression and problem drinking.[1] Early in the morning of December 8, 1982, the body of Debra Sue Carter, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress, was found in the bedroom of her garage apartment in Ada. She had been beaten, raped and suffocated. After five years of false starts and shoddy police work by the Ada police department, Williamson—along with his "drinking buddy", Dennis Fritz—were...
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...Have you ever wondered who wrote computers codes, who made games possible, and who made it possible for me to write this story? I can tell you the answer to that question the answer is Ada Lovelace. Ada wrote the first published code and experimented with computers. Birth Ada Lovelace entered the world on December 10, 1815 in London. She was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke. she was from a privileged family and received private tutoring just like her mother and did not attend public schools. She studied a range of subjects, but most importantly, she studied math more than anything else which influenced her love for coding and mathematics. The first code. At the age of 17 she met Charles Babbage. Charles...
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...Ada Lovelace was the first women and person to write a computer program. Her efforts and work has been a real inspiration to both females and males around the world. Young people look up to her because how young she was when she accomplished many things. Ada Lovelace is a woman I look up to because she tried to challenge herself, was very passionate about the things she did, and her perseverance. First of all, Ada Lovelace was a person who really challenged herself to try things to reach her full potential. Ada Lovelace had many tutors and would study many hours each day to expand her knowledge. This shows that she would really push herself and try to understand many different things. This is because her mother knew that she had potential...
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...Ada Lovelace was born in 1815, and died in 1852 from cancer. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of a famous poet Lord Byron and Anabella Millbank, who also enjoyed math. Ada’s parents were divorced right after she was born and was never able to meet her estrange father. However, her father corresponded with her mother on her upbringing. Anabella Millbank, Ada’s mother, did not want her daughter to be a poet like her father and did everything possible, pushed Ada night and day, to learn mathematics. Even though Ada’s fond interests were elsewhere, her mother diminished those interests until Ada grew a fondness of math, by no choice of her own. At an early age Ada met with Charles Babbage in London, and with that Ada first learned of the Difference Engine. This is when Ada Lovelace’s eyes grew with enormous content, interest, and enthusiasm of the invention, which was later known as the Analytical Engine. In her twenties, Ada married her husband (several years her age) Earl William King and soon after, she bore three children. After having her children she became engrossed and focused on the formulation of the Analytical Engine, which took several years of extensive work, which she loved. Ada composed a “plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan is now regarded as the first “computer program” (Larry Riddle, p. 1). Ada became ill and was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus and died at an early age, like her father, right after her accomplishments. Ada’s achievement...
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...What is hardware? Where did the study of algorithms come from? Once you discover an algorithm, do others need to understand it? When does the solution of a problem lie beyond the capabilities of machines? ------------------------------------------------- The History of Computing What are some of the ancestors of the Computer? Eventually, people began using gears for computing. Who are some of the people involved? Which of the men above produced something that was programmable? What were (and are) some uses of holes punched in cards? What kinds of devices replaced gears? What were some early computers? According to the text, what were the first commercially viable computers, and who built them? What happened in 1981? Who wrote the underlying software for the PC? What important development in computers happened as the Twentieth century was closing? What were two big developments for the Internet? (hint, look for the next two bolded phrases) As computers get smaller and smaller, what are some of the ways they're used? What does the text say is the "most potentially revolutionary application of computer miniaturization?" and what makes it important? Who was Augusta Ada Byron? (p 8 - Green Box - Summarize into one or two sentences) ------------------------------------------------- The Science of...
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...History of computer documentary Hardly anything defines modern life better than the computer. Whether we like it or not, computers have infiltrated every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute. For instance: supermarket scanners calculate our bill while keeping store inventory, computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled, and ATM’s let us conduct banking transactions from virtually anywhere in the world. But where did all this technology come from and where is it heading? To fully understand and appreciate the impact computers have on our lives and promises they hold for the future, it is important to understand their evolution. The real beginnings of computers start with an English mathematics professor, Charles Babbage. Frustrated at many errors he found while examining calculations for the Royal Astronomical Society, he declared, "I wish to God these calculations had been performed by steam!" With those words, the automation of computers had begun. By 1812, Babbage noticed a harmony between machines and mathematics: machines were best at performing tasks repeatedly without mistake, while mathematics often required a repetition of steps. The problem was applying the ability of machines to the needs of mathematics. Babbage's first attempt was in 1822 when he proposed a machine to perform differential equations, called a Difference Engine. It was powered by steam and...
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...Augusta Ada Byron was born in London on December 10, 1815 and died in Marylebone on November 27, 1852. Augusta Ada Byron goes by Ada Byron, Ada King (her married name), and The Countess of Lovelace because her husband William King inherited a noble title. Ada King’s home life was not the best. Her mother was Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, and her father was a famous poet named Lord George Gordon Byron. Her parents split up only a few months after she was born. It made it hard on her mother having to provide for both of them on one income. Her father moved out of the country when him and Ms. Byron split up. Also, Lord Byron died in Greece when his daughter was only eight. With that being said, Lord Byron was not able to watch his amazingly...
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...The following six Indians have been awarded Nobel Prize in various fields, so far:- Rabindranath Tagore, India’s popular poet and writerwas awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his “Geetanjali” a collection of his poems * 1. Chandra Shekar Venkata Raman/Sir C.V.Raman, Indian Scientist was awarded Nobel Prize of Physics in 1930 for his “Raman Effect” related to light. * 2. Dr. Hargobind Khorana, India’s Doctorate in Chemistry was awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968 for his study of the Human Genetic Code and its role in Protein Synthesis. * * * 4. Mother Teresa, a Yogoslavian nun who became an * Indian citizen was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in * 1979 for her service through her Charitable Mission * “Nirmal Hriday” at Calcutta to people suffering from * Leprosy and to those people dying in destitute. * * 5. Dr.Subramanian Chandrashekar, an Indian Astro-Physicist was * awarded Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his theory on white * dwarf stars’ limitation known as ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’. * * * * 6. Dr.Amatya Sen, an Indian Professor in Economics was awarded * Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in Economic Theory * related to Poverty, Democracy, Development and Social Welfare. The following Nobel Prize Winners are persons of Indian Origin/Citizens * of other countries or the Nobel Prize has been for...
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