...Energy in Asia: Challenges and Solutions Ameliorating energy poverty of Mongolian nomads: introducing improved portable power solutions Aloysius Ng Yu De A0125524M Kim Dong Hyun A0135737Y Tan Wei Jun A0125360R We understand what plagiarism is and have ensured we did not plagiarise for this assignment. This assignment is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the module ES1531/GEK1549/GET1021 Critical Thinking and Writing. Date: Title: Ameliorating energy poverty of Mongolian nomads: introducing improved portable power solutions Main claim: This paper argues that the energy poverty of Mongolian nomads is caused by lack of electricity network and current measures are insufficient in mitigating energy poverty. The implementation of improved portable wind turbines and the Biolite HomeStove is proposed to significantly reduce energy poverty. Ameliorating energy poverty of Mongolian nomads: introducing improved portable power solutions In the world energy outlook 2010 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA), United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization defined energy poverty as a condition in which the lack of energy deprives access to modern energy services such as clean cooking and central heating (IEA, 2010). This paper argues that energy poverty is prevalent among Mongolian nomads and the lack of electricity network is the cause of energy poverty. Current measures...
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...INS 313 GROUP 4 ASSIGNMENT 1. Highlight the factors that led to the rise of early Chinese civilization I. Agriculture: Agriculture led directly to the availability of food surpluses. II. Pottery: This allowed efficient storage of the surplus produced by agriculture. This means that not only can the surplus be used to feed mouths that are not themselves producing food, but the surplus can be stored to feed everyone at times when crops fail. This allows the population to be more stable and less subject famine cycles. Pottery was practiced in China only after 5000 B.C. III. Specialization of labor: The advantages of specialization of labor are better defense, better technology, more goods for trade, and the ability to support traders and better co-ordination and cohesion due to specialized leadership. IV. Urbanization: Towns and cities grew and they became meeting points for traders who exchanged surplus food and crafts items. Centers such as Anyang and Loyang in China grew and became a focus of migration for a growing agricultural population. V. Political factors: Presence of a king with distinguished roles. VI. Environmental factors: Stability of environment, natural boundaries. 2. Discuss the major features of the following in the early Chinese history showing those that have affected development of the modern world. 1. Political structures 2. The Chinese economy 3. Social structures 1. Political structures China had a government ruled...
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...Decline of the Roman/Han/Gupta Empires Diverse Interpretations Assignment COMPARISONS TO FOCUS ON: * The causes for the decline of the Roman, Han and Gupta Empires * Understanding of how and why the collapse of the empire was more severe in Western Europe than it was in the Asian Empires. * Comparison of the role that religions played in the declines * The impact of missionary outreach of the Christians and Buddhists in these empires RESOURCES * Upshur – “The Decline of Empires” * Stearns - Decline of Empires. * Frank Smitha - “Decline and Fall” * Johnson and Johnson – “Why Don’t Empires Last?” * Spodek – “China and Rome: How do they compare?” * Bulliet pages 168-170 and 186-189. ASSIGNMENT 1. Construct a Venn comparing and contrasting the causes for decline of the Roman, Han and Gupta empires. Information will come from the documents and not the lecture…you already wrote the lecture notes once, why write them again? Rome Han similarities Gupta 2. Write 3 comparative analytical mini-paragraphs about the decline of empires. (generalization, facts, analysis…) Remember that analysis answers the question “why?” Example: The AP World History teachers have very different tastes in beverages. Ms. Forswall likes tea while Ms. Patch likes cola. Green tea and Earl Grey are Ms. Forswall’s favorites; they taste nothing like Pepsi or Coke because soft drinks are much sweeter. Ms. Patch usually chooses a diet style of...
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...EBUSINESS HERVE JEAN CHARLES 1B EBUSINESS Final Assignment Jean-Charles HERVE 1B Subject : Global advancement on E-Business in the past 5 years and emerging concept for the future. Introduction : The ebusiness structure and development for the past few years With nearly 90 000 e-business website in France, approximatively 300 000 in United Kingdom, a ratio of 2 websites created within each hour, the volume of european purchases has been constantly growing for the last few years. E-business also has been constantly evolving, and is still developing itself. Thanks to the technology of course, but thanks also to marketing pioneers who saw a great opportunity to gain more profits. We can generalize those statements to the whole retail market, which is experiencing a new revolution, the first one since 1960 with the birth of the retail distribution. But this evolution is somehow unpredictable because we don’t know how the technlogies can grow in the future and most important how the world is going to the next years… A- The past few years… More power for the customer 1 EBUSINESS HERVE JEAN CHARLES 1B With the emergency of social network such as Facebook, the amount of contents released by people on the web has been increasing a lot. Everywhere on the web you can see consumers talking about their purchase experience about one product, the service quality, they debates about the prices, give their opinion...
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...Question Bank in Social Science (History) Class-IX (Term-II) 5 PASTORALISTS IN THE MODERN WORLD CONCEPTS NOMADISM AS A WAY OF LIFE The Mountain Nomads The Gujjar Bakarwals of Jammu and Kashmir — They are pastoral nomads who move in groups called ‘Kafila’. Their movements are governed by the cold and snow. In winters when the high mountains are covered with snow these Gujjars move down to the low hills of the Sivalik range. On the onset of summer, when the snow melts and the mountains become lush and green, these pastoralists move back to the mountains. The Gaddi Shepherds of Himachal Pradesh have a similar cycle of movement. They also spend the winter on the low Sivalik hills and the summers in Lahul and Spiti. The Gujjar cattle herders of Kumaon and Garhwal spend their summers in the ‘bugyals’ and their winters in the ‘bhabar’. The Bhotias, Sherpas and Kinnauri follow the cyclic movement which helps them to adjust to seasonal changes and make best use of pastures. On the plateaus, plains and deserts — The Dhangars of Maharashtra : The Dhangars stay in the central plateau of Maharashtra during the monsoon. This is a semi-arid region. By October they begin their movement towards Konkan. Here their cattle help to manure the fields and hence they are welcomed by the Konkani peasant. As soon as the monsoon sets in, they retreat back to the semi-arid land of Maharashtra. The Gollas who herd cattle and the Kurumas and Kurubas who reared sheep and goat are ...
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...Herk argues, presents its readers with a “motiveless world” of terror in which “no identity is reliable, no theory waterproof” (45). Ondaatje’s novel tells the story of Anil Tessera, a Sri Lankan expatriate and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated with the figure of the nomad rather than the diasporic subject — and thus raises questions about the novel’s regulatory politics of diasporic identity. In contrast, Anita Rau Badani’s The Hero’s Walk represents the formation of diasporic identities as an empowering process shaped by multiple changes on the local level rather than by transnational mobility. Set in a fictive seaside town in...
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...SOC 105 01: RELIGION AND SOCIETY Spring 2015 / Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:35 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. Room: BROWER HALL 203 Instructor: Konstantinos Ardavanis Email: Konstantinos.ardavanis@hofstra.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to help you learn about the Sociology of Religion, with special attention paid to contemporary issues in religion and society in the United States. This course will set out to explore the various rituals, values, and customs that a society embraces, and through this, find the hidden meaning behind the cultural knowledge that these values, rituals and customs provide. While people use these values, rituals, and customs to interpret the world around them, it will be our job to discuss the implications and unconscious assumptions that these interpretations provide using a number of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. TEXTS AND READINGS REQUIRED • Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments (2nd edition) by Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos Jr., and Peter Kivisto, ISBN 978-0-7425-6111-3 • Additional readings to be posted to Blackboard SUGGESTED • Durkheim, Emile. 1965. Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. New York: Free Press. • Marx, Karl and Frederich Engels. 1978. "The Communist Manifesto" and “the German Ideology,” in The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Robert Tucker. New York: W.W. Norton. • Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...
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...|Assignment #2 | |Educational Issues and Social Change I: Historical Social Perspectives | Assignment #2 Question #1 Compare the “hidden curriculum” identified by S. Contenta with the underlying norms and values of “Indian education” highlighted in the video the Mission school syndrome and in the readings by Titley, Levaque, Gresko and Wilson. (750-1000 word) Although education was meant for all children, education for Aboriginal children clearly had a hidden curriculum. It has been mentioned in all of the readings and the movie that the main objective was to civilize them into the White culture which included the teaching of the English Language (reading, writing and speaking), religion, agriculture and other trade skills necessary to live in a “White’s man world”, where “the primary motive was to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”[1] However, the interpretation of the events of those days differs in perspective between the religious groups and the Native people. As Europeans immigrated to Canada and settled on the lands where Aboriginals hunted and lived, themselves hunting the same animals as the Natives (for sport rather than survival) and restricting the territory forcing Aboriginals onto reserves or residential schools. The Whites did not understand this way of life even thinking...
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...Marketing Management Assignment Gap Model of Service Quality: The Taj Hotels Submitted by: Syndicate 6 Sneha Oswal (11020541127) Sunil Kumar(11020541131) Sudhir Bairwa (11020541128) Swapnil Gupta (11020541132) Supratim Sinha (11020541129) Swati Thakur (11020541133) Sumit Bhattacharya(11020541130) INTRODUCTION The Gap model provides an integrated framework for managing service quality and customer driven innovation. The hallmark of this model is its anchoring on the customer and integration of the customer throughout all gaps within the model. Every gap and every strategy is used to close the gaps in the model and meet or exceed the customer expectations. SERVAQUAL is the service quality framework. It has 5 dimensions: reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangibles. SERVQUAL measures have been applied in and adapted to many industry settings. The 5 gaps are: •Gap 1 is the distance between what customers expect and what managers think they expect - Clearly survey research is a key way to narrow this gap. •Gap 2 is between management perception and the actual specification of the customer experience - Managers need to make sure the organization is defining the level of service they believe is needed. •Gap 3 is from the experience specification to the delivery of the experience - Managers need to audit the customer experience that their organization currently...
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...Esmeralda Rosende Chamberlain University Prewriting What is your narrowed topic? Be detailed in your answer. You can use any of the versions you’ve developed for prior assignments. 1) This topic is important to me because throughout my life I have constantly researched different diets, hoping to find one that will help me lose weight and keep it off. With this research I hope to find one that not only help me lose weight, but also begin a new life style. 2) As a result of the on again, off again weight gain I began to see myself as a failure, and also as a fat person who could not keep the weight off. Through this research I am hoping to find not a diet but a life style that is healthily. I hope to be able to recognize a Fad diet as soon as I see one, and be able to educate my friend and family on this matter. Who is your primary audience or reader? Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience. 1) The targeted audience would be people looking for a quick fix diet, maybe the girl that needs to get into that little black dress this weekend or the boy that will go swimming for the first time with a new girlfriend and wants to look slimmer fast. 2) I believe my secondary audience would be people like myself that just want a diet that works and are looking for new ways to lose weight. Not a quick fix, but a diet that is not very difficult and keeps the weight off. 3) I think...
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...Assignment #1 1. Quezon City, Philippines is located in Asia. 2. There are no countries bordering the Philippines because it is an island like Japan. 3. The closest major body of water is Pacific Ocean. More specifically the North Pacific Ocean. 4. The Philippines is in the Southeast Pacific Asia region. 5. I associate some of my friends to the Philippines because they always come in with Lechón, a popular fiesta food that is made of a full adult pig being roasted. Sometimes baby pigs are a substitute for the adult pig. 1. Damascus, Syria is also located on the Asian continent. 2. Syria is bordered by Turkey on the north, Lebanon and Israel on the west, Iraq on the east, and Jordan on the south. It consists of mountain ranges in the west, the Syrian Desert in the east, and the Jabal al-Druze Range in the south. 3. Syria is closest to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. 4. Syria is located in the Western Asia region. 5. What I know about Syria is that is holds a certain religious standing in my life. I visit Syria because of certain mausoleums that are currently over there. I also know that Syria’s government is republic under an authoritarian regime. I also do know that although Syria does consume a lot of oil, they do try to use renewable energy such as hydroelectric power. 1. Kigali, Rwanda is on the African continent. 2. The countries that border Rwanda are Uganda, which is located to the north, Tanzania, which is located to the...
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...Path: K:/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101/Application/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101Case8.3d Date: 4th August 2012 Time: 20:52 User ID: nachiappanr 1BlackLining Disabled CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? 339 CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS ON EXPATRIATE FAMILIES by Yvonne McNulty Lisa MacDougall looked at her desk calendar and realized it was the first year anniversary of her employment at John Campbell College. ‘How ironic’, she thought, ‘that I might resign today, exactly one year after I started here’. As her colleagues dropped by her office throughout the morning to discuss a new research project that she was leading, Lisa felt both elated and sad. She was excited to be embarking on a new chapter in her career, but upset to be leaving behind her first fulltime job in nearly a decade. To ease her mind, she took a morning tea break at the campus cafeteria and ordered a latte. Then her cell phone beeped to alert an incoming message from her husband, Lachlan. As she nervously picked up the phone and read the four-word message – ‘it’s done, go ahead’ – she realized in that instant that there was no going back now: Lachlan had just signed a two-year contract with his employer to move their family to China, and it was happening in six weeks time. Taking a deep breath as she walked back to her office, the first task was to write a resignation letter, after which Lisa emailed her boss to request an immediate meeting to tell him she was leaving. Although...
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...Path: K:/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101/Application/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101Case8.3d Date: 4th August 2012 Time: 20:52 User ID: nachiappanr 1BlackLining Disabled CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? 339 CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS ON EXPATRIATE FAMILIES by Yvonne McNulty Lisa MacDougall looked at her desk calendar and realized it was the first year anniversary of her employment at John Campbell College. ‘How ironic’, she thought, ‘that I might resign today, exactly one year after I started here’. As her colleagues dropped by her office throughout the morning to discuss a new research project that she was leading, Lisa felt both elated and sad. She was excited to be embarking on a new chapter in her career, but upset to be leaving behind her first fulltime job in nearly a decade. To ease her mind, she took a morning tea break at the campus cafeteria and ordered a latte. Then her cell phone beeped to alert an incoming message from her husband, Lachlan. As she nervously picked up the phone and read the four-word message – ‘it’s done, go ahead’ – she realized in that instant that there was no going back now: Lachlan had just signed a two-year contract with his employer to move their family to China, and it was happening in six weeks time. Taking a deep breath as she walked back to her office, the first task was to write a resignation letter, after which Lisa emailed her boss to request an immediate meeting to tell him she was leaving. Although...
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...Hayden_Ang_92:92 7/10/08 16:03 Page 1 Fundamentals International Institute for Educational Planning International schools: growth and influence The booklet Recent years have seen an unprecedented growth in the number of international schools worldwide. Although these schools were initially set up to educate the children of globally-mobile expatriate professionals, ‘host country’ families now increasingly consider international school education as an alternative to the national system in which they lack confidence, and/or as a means of providing a competitive edge for their children in education and labour market terms. In an increasingly globalized world, ‘international-mindedness’, concern for world peace, and the need for intercultural understanding has led to the inclusion of an ‘ideological’ dimension in the mission statements of many such schools. M. Hayden and J. Thompson This booklet provides an insight to the origins and characteristics of international schools, curriculum and assessment, students and teaching staff, and the management, leadership and governance of these schools. The booklet also discusses how international schools (usually private and feepaying) might develop in the future against a backdrop of growing forces of globalization and other international influences. In all cases, attention is drawn to the implications of the issues discussed for both policy-makers and planners in national and international...
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...FACULTY OF OFFICE MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY OMT 360: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ASSIGNMENT GROUP Prepared for: Submission Date: TABLE OF CONTENT NO. | TITLE | PAGE NUMBER | 1. | Introduction | 3 | 2. | Question 1 | 4-5 | 3. | Question 2 | 6-8 | 4. | Conclusion | 9 | 5. | References | 10 | Working from Home: It's in the Details By Rachael King on February 12, 2007 Additional Assets The benefits include lower costs and greater productivity, but figuring out how to communicate with off-site employees is crucial. Traffic surrounding Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., has become so congested that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire nearly missed a 9 a.m. speech at the company's main campus one recent morning. Roads leading to the software maker simply weren't designed to handle the 35,000 commuters who report for work there each day. The gridlock that greeted Gregoire was just the latest reminder that Microsoft needs to tackle its commuter crisis—and quick. So Microsoft (MSFT) has embarked on a program aimed at getting more employees to work from home and other off-site locales, joining the growing ranks of companies to catch the virtual-workplace wave. About 14% of the U.S. workforce gets its job done at a home office more than two days per week, says Charlie Grantham, executive producer of consulting firm Work Design Collaborative. That's up from 11% in 2004, and is set to grow to 17% by 2009 (see BW Online...
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