...“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” (Alexis de Tocqueville) Although the future of America is often uncertain, Tocqueville’s words are an inspiration to look toward the future with hope because of the reassurance that the past will guide our steps into tomorrow, so the American spirit can walk out of darkness and into the light. Even though the news often depicts a deep pessimism toward the future of America with divisions in our government, I believe the America future is still bright and full of potential. This nation has surmounted an amalgam of challenges and altercations throughout its history from the American Revolution to World War II in the struggle to maintain a democratic, free land that...
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...Ibukunoluwa Sobayo Lee University April 10, 2015 What Excites Me About The Future Of Technology? It is not news that we are at the peak of technological advancements that will change our lives. Nothing has made more impact on how we live our lives today or carry the potential to so seriously improve the human condition, as the technologies each one of us now has at our disposal, and the wonders yet to come. The inter-connectedness we have, the vast amounts of information accessible to us in less than a minute, the way in which anyone with basic knowledge can communicate with their friends and family, or even the entire world is quite impressive. The ease and convenience with which we can access almost any resource on the internet using anything from a mere personal computer to a small smart device in the pocket is highly impressive. I am encouraged and grateful to be part of such a great global innovation. I truly believe that personal and individually accessible technologies, will become an important part of humanity’s next stage of growth in the general quality of life and even survival. There is such a great potential to empower any individual to interact with people all over the world – from family and friends to new people on the other side of the planet. Nothing the human race has seen to date has the potential to empower the individual to make as much of a difference, to make as much of a connection, to make as much of himself as the technologies we have now and those...
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...The University of Alabama offers many different programs that are unique and many other colleges or universities in the country do not offer. My future goals include majoring in some pre-law program and attending law school. The New College offered at Alabama give me the opportunity to create a plan of study that will best prepare me for my future endeavors. I will get a more well rounded liberal arts education that will enhance my thinking skills. I will not be constrained by predetermined course requirements like other majors, and I know I will have a great amount of input when it relates to my educational intentions. Areas that I could combine while participation in the New College includes political science, economics, public policy, philosophy, and sociology....
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...PSYCHOLOGY 1A ASSIGNMENT 1 REFLECTIVE EXCERCISE 1) Describe how knowledge about online resources or database searching will help in your future studies and career? To begin with, online resources or data base searching has been a tremendous and effective contributing factor towards the fast and easy researching method my colleagues, myself and other learning colleagues are using widely in the twenty-first century. Fortunately, online resources have created essential communication skills between me and my colleagues, tutors and other acquaintances around the universe. This method has enabled me interact via online through discussing and exchanging learning information. However, the effect has not only made it easy for the general public and myself to access accurate and non-accurate information, but has also contributed in developing and improving social development/network. Most importantly, it has given me the privilege to search more than one database to enable obtaining a successful research project. Furthermore, the aspect of locating the right source is an enormous issue. Example is researching using Google and Google scholar. The difference is that, Google scholar is peer-reviewed but Google is not. Based on this evidence, not all information is academically evaluated or peer-reviewed before it is made public on the internet. Database...
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...Unit 2 – Cost Management AIU Online – ACCT310 February 24, 2013 Abstract This is a paper that will explain the difference between cost accounting and managerial accounting. It will describe the aspects of the philosophy of lean production. Also, those principles will be compared to those principles of a typical production. Lastly, recommendations for the reductions needed for Dr. White’s clinic will be given. INTRODUCTION Cost accounting systems are useful for managers to use when trying to figure out the best ways to determine the cost of producing and manufacturing their products. They help in ways to manage each activity done such as machine hours for particular business production tasks. The information obtained can also help to determine and evaluate the performance of employees as well as reward performance. The information provided by cost accounting tools can be divided into external and internal; which may make cost determination much easier. There are, also, different types of accounting for businesses. Specifically, managerial accounting differs from that of cost accounting. (Wild and Shaw, 2012). DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANAGERIAL AND COST ACCOUNTING Managerial Accounting This type of accounting has more to do with the actual recording of a business’ financial endeavors. It is the recording of fiscal sales within the business as well as reporting them in the monetary statements. It involves the generation of advice from certain accounting tools that help in...
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...Hilliard doesn't interact with a huge amount of characters very deeply, but often has overviews of their personalities and is very judgemental in assessing different aspects of them. He comes across as quite cold and unforgiving with other people and aspects of this are shown in his relationship with the major. He doesn't give the major much time and is short in his responses “I’ve been in France.” The major asking a simple question and Hilliard is almost sarcastic in his response. This could be because Hilliard is tired of the home fronts view of war and that he doesn't want to continue what feels is a discounted view of what war is. However the Major is an old man and perhaps he is a little out of touch but this may be because people don't update him on how war changes. This shows a hypocritical nature within Hilliard as he is angered by the home front’s naivety but doesn't elect to tell them how its changed. It creates a relationship between the characters of discontent in Hilliard’s view of him within their relationship. Also this use of short, sharp and blunt sentences in common within Hill’s writing style which usually represents annoyance when used in speech. This quote is representative of this. Another aspect of the Major and Hilliard’s relationship is the idea that they don’t really have conversation they just talk at each other, without really listening on responding. “you weren't a cavalryman”… “oh, i do,” especially when the major talks back to Hilliard, he...
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...Fear of the Future In the book Catcher In The Rye written by J.D. Salinger Holden has always been the kid to not fit in. Aside from his smart, funny, and sensible characteristics Holden does a great job of always getting kicked out of schools and getting into trouble. Throughout his times at multiple different schools it is learned that Holden sees everyone as phoney and immature. He only has a few people he can really talk to, Allie, his dead brother, Phoebe, his little sister, and Jane, an old neighbor of his that he has always thought as attractive. When he learns he is getting kicked out of his most recent school, Pencey Prep, he ventures to New York before his parents find out. He lives on his own for a couple of days in the big apple. Holden has enough money to take care of himself, even indulge, but the readers soon learn that Holden is lonely, confused...
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...Backward Design : Lesson Plan Title: Future Tense Topic: My Plan Course: English Class: Primary 6 Time: 3 hours Teacher: Ayse Algin | Stage 1: Desired Results | Standard F1.2.1 Write in an exchange in interpersonal communication and how to plan their time.Standard F1.2.4 Write to ask for and give data about themselves, their friends and matters around them. | Understanding: * Student will understand how to make positive sentense in the future tene. * Using future tense is important for things which we willl do future. * If we plan our time we can enjoy with it and we can have time to spent with our friends. * How to make plan for future using future tense. | Essential Questions: * What does the plan mean? * How can you plan your time? * How can you invite your friends to play? * What can we plan our time for? * What kind of job students want to be most? | Students will know… * How to use future tense. * What is structure of future tense. | Students will be able to… * Understand future tense structure. * Write positive sentence in future tense. * Write negative sentence in future tense. * Make question in future tense. | ...
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...The Study of Retro Futurism: A Look Into The Past’s Future Dreams of the future reveal more about the mind of the dreamer than the future itself. Futurism was brought about by humanity’s sudden trust and understanding of the technological revolution. To the people who were around during these sudden changes in technology, it seemed that the future was right around the corner. This optimistic concept of the future sparked the creativity of artists and filmmakers everywhere and caused their imaginations to run wild with thoughts of what the world would be like in the very distant future. Incredible flying machines float over the Empire State Building while a war between humans and robots below is being fought with laser technology. An entire city made of porcelain and metal soars above Niagara Falls. Humans travel in tubes to work, and breakfast...
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...to lock in a future price & hence make their future cash flows more certain * Have an underlying position in the asset | * using the market to bet on a price change * have no underlying position in the asset | * trade on mispricing between the derivatives & spot markets or between different derivative contracts to make a profit | * spot – price today, delivery today * forward – price today, delivery at a future date * future – price today, delivery at a future date Futures: * standardized with respect to quality, quantity and maturity * Clearing house * initial margins * Variation margins (marked to market) * Cash settled * Futures are a Zero Sum Loss Game * With cash settlement, the asset is never exchanged Users of future markets Hedgers: Selling Hedge: - Worried about a fall in price, so Sell Futures If price falls, loses in the spot market, but wins on the futures. If price rises, wins in the spot market, but loses on the futures e.g. Sell SPI futures to protect your share portfolio Buying Hedge:- Worried about a rise in price, so Buy Futures If price falls, wins in the spot market, but loses on the futures If price rises, loses in the spot market, but wins on the futures e.g. An electricity generator buys coal futures to protect themselves against a rise in the price of coal Speculators To bet on a price rise – Buy Futures To bet on a price fall – Sell Futures Arbitrageurs ...
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...The following is a highlighted summary of the book, Competing for the Future, published by Harvard Business School Publishing. The statements below are key points of the book as determined by James Altfeld and have been made available at no charge to the user. Competing for the Future By Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad Look around your company. Look at the high profile initiatives that have been launched recently. Look at the issues that are preoccupying senior management. Look at the criteria and benchmarks by which progress is being measured. Look at the track record of new business creation. Look into the faces of your colleagues and consider their dreams and fears. Look toward the future and regenerate success again and again in the years and decades to come. Now ask yourself: Does senior management have a clear and broadly shared understanding of how the industry may be different ten years from now? Are its headlights shining farther out than those of competitors? Is its point of view about the future clearly reflected in the company’s short term priorities? Is its point of view about the future competitively unique? Ask yourself: How influential is my company in setting the new rules of competition within its industry? Is it regularly redefining new ways of doing business building new capabilities, and setting new standards of customer satisfaction? Is it more a rule maker than a rule taker within its industry? Is it more intent on challenging the industry status quo...
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...“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick and Fahrenheit 451: The Graphic Novel by Ray Bradbury are both stories that make negative predictions about the future. In both of these stories the author is trying to tell the reader what to expect in the future. The authors are both trying to make it aware to the reader that the feature will be dystopian like and lacking many things that society has today. In “The Minority Report” Philip K. Dick tells a story about how three precogs predict what crime is going to happen next, so they can stop it. In this dystopian story, there is a lack of freedom. This is because in this world, there are people like John Anderton, the head of prcrime and Commissioner of Police (Dick). In detail, this story takes...
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...corporate narrative archetypes If the objective is | You will need a story that | In telling it, you will need to… | Your story will inspire such phrases as … | Sparking action | Describes how a successful change was implemented in the past, but allows listeners to imagine how it might work in their situation. | Avoid excessive detail that will take the audience’s mind off its own challenge. | ‘Just imagine’ ‘what if’ | Communicating who you are | Provides audience engaging drama and reveals some strength or vulnerability from your past. | Provide meaningful details but also make sure that the audience has the time and inclination to hear your story. | ‘I do not know that about him.’ ‘Now I see what she is driving at’ | Transmitting values. | Feels familiar to the audience and will prompt discussion about the issues raised by the value being promoted. | Use believable characters and situations, and never forget that the story must be consistent with your own actions. | ‘That is so right’ ‘why do not we do that all the time?’ | Communicating who the firm is- branding | Is usually told by the product or service itself, or by the customer word or mouth or by a credible third party. |...
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...The future of nursing: the impact of the IOM report on the nursing profession Rakia Adam Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V July 14, 2013 The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent organization providing advice that is unbiased and authoritative to the public and to private sectors (About the IOM 2012). It asks and answers the most national pressing questions on health and healthcare (About the IOM 2012). In 2010, the IOM after thoroughly reviewing the multiple factors and the changes that were about to take place in America’s healthcare system came out with some recommendations in a report. These recommendations will impact nursing education, nursing practice particularly in the primary care setting and the nurse’s role as a leader. This paper will focus on the future of nursing in the changing health care system to meet the IOM report goals. First, with the passing of the affordable care act (ACA) of 2010, more opportunities were created for nurses to practice to their greatest capacity because patients, in all settings, deserved care that is centered on their unique needs and not what is most convenient for the health professionals. (" The future," 2010). Preventive care and primary care services will be needed for new insurance holders as required by the ACA. In rural areas, patients can be seen by advanced practical nurses instead of primary care providers. Research has shown that most NP are capable with the supervision of physician to follow...
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...The Three Laws of Performance Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life By Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Jossey-Bass, 2009 ISBN 9780470195598 Introduction When something isn't working in our work lives, we struggle with which part of the problem to tackle first. Do we start with cost reduction? What about morale? Or should we begin with process improvement? In our personal lives, it's the same dilemma - which problem do we work on first? Should we resolve to do better with home finances? Make our marriage more fulfilling? Get rid of 10 pounds? Spend more time with the kids? The optimist says there's opportunity everywhere we look. The pessimist says everything is messed up, and it's as though every system is perfectly designed to stay messed up, no matter how many things we try to fix. We pick the problem to work on and we either fail or succeed. If we fail, we add "frustration" to our list of problems. If we succeed, a new problem pops up to replace the old one. The solution to a problem becomes the next problem. We cut 10% of our department budget and our star performers leave in frustration, experiencing a lack of support for projects that are important to them. We quit smoking and gain 10 pounds. We go to the gym to lose the weight, and our family complains we're not at home enough. We spend more time at home and our boss gripes that we're not getting enough done, the budget is out of control and when are we going to fire the next person we...
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