...Wait? is a new cloud-based web application designed to help consumers find restaurants in their areas with the shortest waiting lines. With this app, people will be able to view real time information about certain restaurants that they wish to go to on that night (location, waiting time, how many reservations ahead of their party). It will be able to tell exactly how long the wait is for groups of various sizes, as if they arrived at the restaurant right then, and will be able to navigate customers right to their desired destination. The thing which will set this app apart is it’s ability to be real-time; constantly updating itself with the help of information online from restaurants. Why Wait not only will list the exact current amount or wait at a restaurant, but will be able to locate and display certain restaurants around the customer’s desired area as well. This app can direct a user straight to their destination with only the click of a few buttons. The user will be able to narrow the search by cuisine category as well, in order to locate a desired restaurant in their area. There will be a link to the direct phone number of that restaurant under the location as well, for reservation creating purposes. Also there will be a link to the restaurant’s website in order for a customer to look at menus as well. Reservations tab will allow a user to view the current amount of reservations already taken prior to their party at any time during the evening. Reservations will be able...
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...can give an recommendation to the interviewers about him before he has an interview. Linda can also tell Bill to study and research the company so he is prepared. Case #2 Question #1. The ethical issue in the this scenario is that Violet could easily take a computer for her son and only send 11 computers to the elementary school. These transactions are not kept on record so Violet would be able to do it without anyone noticing, provided the school doesn't know how many computers they should be receiving. Question #2. Instead of Violet jeopardizing her job she could go to her son and explain the situation. Let him know that getting a computer for him is very hard on her own and ask he if could pitch in to help. If her son got a job and used some of his pay to help out it would be easier for Violet to buy a computer. Also, Violet does not have to a buy a brand new computer. There are many ways for her buy a used computer and her son could use that until they can afford a better one in the future. Case #3 Question #1. The ethical issue in this scenario is that David is using his company computer to send personal e-mails which is against company policy. Even though David is not falling behind on work these kinds of e-mails are not permitted and he could get in trouble if he is caught. A lot...
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...they were charged with feeding, rearing and caring for their children. Theirs is an American story that is rarely told on any grand, meaningful scale—not one, at least, that defies stereotype and caricature. But recently, “The Help,” a film based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling book of the same name, became a cultural touchstone when two of its lead characters, both African-American maids in the then-staunchly segregated Mississippi, challenged viewers to walk their journey—to see, as lead protagonist, Abileen Clark, said, “what it felt like to be me.” To me, ‘The Help’ is this year’s most outstanding and socially relevant motion picture; Viola Davis’ quiet but powerful portrayal of Abileen made us all take notice of a historically invisible class of women and Abileen’s story, along with those of the other maids who rallied with her to tell it, remind us that when we speak, if only in a whisper, momentous things can happen. Of course, the movie, does not come without its controversy: while so many, myself included, questioned then embraced Stockett’s story and actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer earned Academy Award nominations for their roles as the maids who conspired with a young white woman to canonize their life stories, others question why, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her portrayal as the affable, sassy slave maid Mammy in Gone With the Wind, Hollywood ushered to the screen a movie feting the Jim Crow subjugation of black women. What is lost...
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...Woodstock is a place where teens and adults are assisted in many ways. I am an interviewee for the upcoming position here at Family of Woodstock and I would like you to be aware of my knowledge and to let you know why I applied. I am a person that is really interesting in helping other people and that is the reason why I am graduating with a degree in human service. After reading and learning about the facts of Family of Woodstock, I became very interested in the working for the organization as I would like to take part of the people helping the young adults by providing my knowledge and skills. It is very difficult to prepare an organization as well as to understand the needs of the people. A person has to have the heart to be able to help others in need; otherwise that person will not be able to fully assist others. Family of Woodstock began as the founders found several factors that led them to create such an awesome organization. The people in need are the people that inspired the founders to open the organization. The founders had to learn and understand why so many teens and young adults had decided to run away or to escape the confines of the world they had been living in. Listening to their reasons and to understand why is what helped them plan an organization that would be able to assist them fully. The founders saw how people slept on benches, on parking lots, hitchhiking, and even seeking out food and clothing. These are some of the reasons that led the founders...
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...(Gibbons, 2010). However, after the music festival ended, people were stuck in that county which turned into a problem. Homelessness and drugs became a major problem, the young people slept on benches, camped out in parking lots, and searched for food and clothing (Gibbons, 2010). This also became a problem for the townspeople. The young people were getting in trouble with the law because of the drugs. One woman, Gail Varsi, recognized the problem and decided to do something. She first, gave police her home number and instructed them to call her whenever a homeless youth got in trouble. She then reached out to local residents and businesses and together they began hosting food and clothes drives. Family of Woodstock, Inc. was founded with the help of Michael Berg (Gibbons, 2010). Family of Woodstock Inc. is an advocacy group that believes everyone is entitled to receive food, clothing, and shelter. The Family of Woodstock Inc. believed in having non-judgmental attitudes toward others. The...
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...2011, 129) I agree with those words wholeheartedly. Sean was a fun loving kid who had everything going for him. His family described him as “a good guy with a big heart.” However that soon began to change changed. At the age of 13 Sean began experimenting with alcohol as a way to escape from the reality of his life. He felt that the buzz was his “miracle juice.” Drinking made Sean feel good. However, the sad and harsh reality of the situation is that it is the exact opposite of feeling good. Sean sees alcohol as a way to deal with the constant feeling of never being good enough in his father’s eyesight as well as a way to escape the fact that his father is a homosexual man. The constant pressure and bullying by his family doesn’t help...
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...Have you ever wondered what it was like in the south during the 1960’s from a black woman’s point of view? Kathryn Stockett’s The Help gives people the chance to see the Civil Rights Movement from the eyes of the maids living in the Deep South in the early 1960’s. The Help was about the lives of three different women living in Mississippi during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. The first woman, Aibileen, was a black maid who had to deal with the struggle of just losing her son due to the unequal treatment in the world as well as take care of a white family who did not respect her as an equal. Another maid, Minny, had the trouble of dealing with an abusive husband and all her children as well as finding a job where she would work well. The last woman in the book, Skeeter, was a white woman who had just come back to town and, when seeing how these maids were being treated along with remembering how much she loved her maid as a child, decided she wanted to do something special to help these maids get recognized for everything they did to help support these families. Therefore, the three put together a book with stories entirely written by black maids that Skeeter eventually was able to publish....
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...Associate Level Material Appendix F Research Plan As part of your Research Plan, you must draft a research question for your research paper. A research question, which is more specific and focused than a general topic, is the question that you will answer in your paper. For example, if your general area of interest is Social Security, a potential research question might ask, “How might low-income families save more money under a reformed Social Security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, keep in mind that you will research sources with both supporting and differing viewpoints. Do not select a narrow or one-sided issue that will limit your research; instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate. |What is your topic or area of interest? |My topic of interest is Drugs. | | | | | | | | | | |In what ways is this topic appropriate for a persuasive essay? |The way in which this topic is appropriate for a persuasive | | ...
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...about startups is how few of the most successful founders are like that. Maybe successful people in other industries are; I don't know; but not startup founders. [1] I knew this empirically, but I never saw the math of why till I got this founder's email. In it he said he worried that he was fundamentally soft-hearted and tended to give away too much for free. He thought perhaps he needed "a little dose of sociopath-ness." I told him not to worry about it, because so long as he built something good enough to spread by word of mouth, he'd have a hyperlinear growth curve. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape. The numbers on the Y axis are smaller, but the curve is just as steep, and when anything grows at the rate of a successful startup, the Y axis will take care of itself. Some examples will make this clear. Suppose your company is making $1000 a month now, and you've made something so great that it's growing at 5% a week. Two years from now, you'll be making about $160k a month. Now suppose you're so un-rapacious that you only extract half as much from your users as you could. That means two years later you'll be making $80k a month instead of $160k. How far behind are you? How long will it take to catch up with where you'd have been if you were extracting every...
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... HRMN 4840-01 MINI LESSON IN CLASS Presenting any kind of material in front of an audience is a very helpful an rewarding procedure it develops interpersonal skills and pushes the candidate to portray his verbal skills, presentation skills, and interaction with a group of people. I choose the topic of “how to secure your data via disabling computer usb ports. I chose to do this topic because I believe that all students should secure their data and information that the struggle and spend countless hours for gathering it and processing it in a meaning full format. Data security is very important in the contemporary world where people might want to steal your data or corrupt it for obvious reasons. I could have done great in presenting my lesson to the class if I had followed the necessary steps required for the delivery of an ideal lesson. Components like pre assessment, clarity, audience interaction, evaluation are one of these necessary steps that everyone should follow. Materials foe the audience during the lesson are also important as the help retain the information and also help the audience to say on track of the lesson. But after experiencing the process I came to understand the importance of these procedures and have seen them play their part in real time. I would like to thank our instructor for giving this great opportunity to try what we have learned in theory and applying it in real time and help us assessing our performance, and also for pointing out the...
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...employees to notify every one of the cave in of the mine in which 33 of our fellow colleagues are currently trapped in. Although is too early to tell if the miners are safe, we are in the process of working with the government to assemble a rescue operation. We will be relentless in our efforts to exhaust every channel that may lead us to obtain more information about the condition of the trapped miners. Please refrain from answering questions to any media personnel. Media personnel are to be referred to our business affairs department. Please do not communicate any information to your family members as we need to respect the families of the trapped miners. At this time I want to extend the opportunity for volunteers as we will need help for the rescue operation. Once we receive word from the government we will relay the message of areas where volunteers will be necessary. We will be accessing the cause of the cave in and take necessary measurements to avoid accidents. Please be alert and do not hesitate to report any hazard to the rescue team. Further information will be released as we continue our efforts to rescue our friends. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Sincerely, Face to Face with Family Members Today August 5, 2010 the San Jose mine caved in trapping 33 men. A crew of men has been sent down; however, after descending 400 meters the crew realized the ramps had collapsed. Nearly 700,000 tons of rock collapsed in the mine cutting off ramps...
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...enough foundational belief for any Christian that believes in him. In this biblical worldview essay, I plan to explain how this belief will have a great impact on my career as a psychologist and how it will affect my everyday life once I start my career and the people I will help in the near future. I will also mention the theology of creation and God’s involvement. As it states in Genesis 1:26 (KJV), Then God Said, “let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creping things that creeps on the earth.”” EXAMPLE 1 In this world we live in, we have choices to accept certain religions and worldviews to accept and live our lives and represent that specific religion. As a Christian and a future psychologist/counselor I have to be very mindful of my representation of God and what he expects from me and how I interact with people within my career. As it states in Proverbs 13:10 (KJV), by insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom, and in chapter 15:22 (KJV) it states, Without Counsel Plans fail, but with many advisers they succeeded. I have to believe that God created man in his image in my career choice because Instead of just doing secular counseling I can always convert to pastoral counseling which can include theological techniques. With counseling you have to be as God and to help oneself. As it states in John...
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...being able to work with individuals as well as their families and communities. The dysfunction that starts in a single family can spread to affect many people throughout a geographical area. Helping just the one individual sometimes is not the answer because without correcting their surroundings, what you do to help them will be in vain. Once reintroduced to the situation that they had been removed from for treatment or help they will revert to their old ways and behaviors that brought them to you in the first place and thus a vicious cycle will begin. It is important to know your client base and what helping services will work best to get positive results. The Helping Process There are infinite ways of helping people. There are however set practices that all helping professionals learn and will use in their day to day interactions with their clients. There are five stages of the helping process that can be applied to every client: 1. Physical setting and review – Before your client ever arrives you should make sure that your space is inviting and comfortable. It should put your client at ease and make it easier to talk to them. You also will have gone over any files that have been provided to you so that you have a back ground on your client. This will give you a starting point and give you invaluable insight even before you meet. 2. When the client arrives – It is important when meeting your client for the first time that you introduce yourself and the organization...
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...individual may have a personal problem that is interfering with their work performance. There are “red flags” in an employee’s behavior that can be used as indicators. There is usually no single event, but rather a noticeable pattern of change in the employee’s behavior, attitude or work activity. Individually, these signs may seem harmless enough but taken together they may represent a serious problem. It is important to avoid ignoring the initial indicators. These are some of the signs that might help you identify an employee who has a problem. Work Related Unable to concentrate on work and complete the given task/activities on time. Errors in the task completed Making excuses for substandard work Procrastination, inability to concentrate Self Major changes in personal appearance, attitude or behavior Problems with family, friends, co-workers, legal issues, financial issues Heightened anxiety, overly defensive 2. Have you come across any such individual/s at your organisations? YES 3. How have you handled the situation? A ONCE-to-be valuable and productive employee unexpectedly starts turning in less than an acceptable worker. More often than not, the root cause of such dramatic behavioural change is troubles - either personal or professional. Most employees develop some problems at some point of their careers, which negatively influence their work, standards, morale and attitude. The genesis may be job-related, like frustration...
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...Mike Scovil Gen/200 Personal responsibility has a lot of different meanings; it varies from person to person and region to region. Responsibility is the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something, so personal responsibility means that you are solely accountable or to blame for something. As a father, husband and a member of the military this statement rings deep with me and I know I have more than my well being and safety at stake and failure is not an option. Going to school may not seem like a life or death situation to some people but to me it is just as serious. In the army there is a saying “train as you fight”. I use this saying as motivation as it applies to every aspect of my life including school. If I slack off in school how could I expect myself to do anything different when I get my degree and enter the civilian work force. When in school a person develops their working habits and routine, so if I want to be successful in my career then I need to work hard now. While in college there will be a lot riding on my shoulders and many people looking up to me. I have a wife and two children that look up to me and are expecting me to get my degree so that I can provide them with the life that they deserve. I will also have the ARMY looking over my shoulder to see how I am doing in school not only because they are playing for me to go to school but also because they expect me to be a leader and to set a standard for other soldiers to follow. To be successful...
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