...Big Brother’s Eyes – analysis Writers This article about camera surveillance has been posted in The New York Post on 2 May 2002, about 1,5 years after 9/11 where the use of video surveillance has become a bigger part of the reality. The article is written by William D. Eggers and Eve Tushnet. Both Eggers and Tushnet are at the posting time working at the Manhattan Institute where they are working on a book on how technology is transforming government. Eggers is at the posting time at the age of 35 as a senior fellow (member) and Tushnet is at the age of 24 as a research associate and by the way is a lesbian. Readers The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, mostly distributed in New York City and the area around. The intended reader for this newspaper is the common American, thus it reaches out to most people possible. Language The use of language in the article Big Brother’s Eyes is quite simple and easy to read and understand. The article doesn’t consist of long sentences with a high academic language; it is more informal and based on a reader-friendly style, which by the way gets along with the audience the newspaper reaches, i.e. the common American. Let me give an example of how the structure of the sentences is: “Many civil libertarians insist that the only way to protect privacy is through prohibition: tear down the cameras. Ban government from using face-recognition and other biometric technologies.” ll. 10-12 p 46. It is a good illustration of the...
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...encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible. I am making this project not only for marks but to also increase my knowledge. Executive Summary Today e-commerce became a major part in the business world. It remains a relatively changing area of business management and information technology. Nowadays modern organizations are seeking for the methods to expand their business, so ecommerce became one of the solutions for that. With the use of e-commerce, organizations easily can achieve their goals. Therefore in this project we first considering about the global influence of e-commerce. And understand the positive and negative effects of ecommerce on society. Akbar brother’s (pvt) Ltd is a large tea manufacturing and exporting company in Sri Lanka. We selected the Akbar brother’s (pvt) Ltd as our organization because it does not have an e-commerce website provided. First we accessed their core and supportive business functions by studying them. We identified their core business and eight supportive businesses. Then we identified and evaluate their short term and long term business aims and the stake holders...
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...watching The thought of someone watching my every move is not only scary but also annoying. It's like living in a house with no doors. Everyone needs privacy in his or her life. I've always heard people refer to the government as "Big Brother". Big brothers are supposed to protect their younger siblings. Is "Big Brother" protecting us? Or just out right being nosey & invading our privacy? In our society today everything we do is being tracked. There's video surveillance everywhere we turn. Every click of a mouse or push of a button on the Internet is being tracked & logged. Almost everything today is GPS enabled. The government can access these records, videos, and locate people from their GPS enabled device without their knowledge. Scott McNealy couldn’t have said it any better “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it” (Sprenger, 1999, para.1). The evolution of technology has made it easier for Big Brother to watch us. Our privacy against government intrusion is virtually impossible because technology has provided more access than our judicial, legislative and political systems have developed restrictions. After 9/11 The Patriot Act was one of many surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to keep an eye on us. The change in this law gave the government more authority to check any citizen’s Internet usage, obtain bank and credit card information, check emails, and monitor phone calls. The government obtains this information by sending...
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...works, which made the break in the means of development of the character. Characters of his plays appear in a new light before our eyes, and the time trick allows us to see them in a new, deeper level. The extract under analysis is taken from the play “Dangerous corner”. According to its title we can guess that the play describes some dangerous situation, it implies that “dangerous corner” is a dead end, a difficult situation, which has no way out, like “to be in a tight corner”. However, to my mind there can be one more interpretation of the title: “corner” – like a turning point in one’s life – some people have courage to turn around it, to face all the difficulties and danger and cope with them, but others haven’t, they are afraid to lose their illusions, to lose the aim of the life. So we can see that the play deals with mental topic. The situation described in the play deals with the state of affairs in the family of Caplans. From the beginning of the extract we can see the development of two sub-plots: wireless play, and the situation on the foreground, which are mixed. The wireless play is called “The Sleeping Dog”. As the characters explain, the sleeping dog is the truth, which you shouldn’t disturb. But not all characters agree with this statement. Robert Caplan starts investigating the trifling facts about his brother’s suicide. A big quarrel arisen leads to Robert’s suicide. From the stylistic point of view, a play is a stylized dialogue, stylized because of the...
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...a good idea to snap Orlando's neck, but Orlando doesn't know about this. Naturally, Orlando is ticked off that Oliver treats him so badly and he's ready to "mutiny" against his older bro. Instead, he channels all of his pent up anger into a wrestling match, where he beats the court wrestler to a bloody pulp. Orlando's wrestling skillz catch the eye of a local girl named Rosalind, who has her own family drama to worry about. (Ros is the daughter of Duke Senior, who used to rule over the French court but was overthrown by his snaky, backstabbing brother, Duke Frederick. Because Rosalind's dad is living in exile in the Forest of Arden, Rosalind has been crashing at the palace with her BFF/cousin, Celia. Did we mention that Celia is the daughter of snaky, backstabbing Duke Frederick? And you thought your family had issues…) Rosalind thinks Orlando is the dreamiest boy she's ever laid eyes on and Orlando feels the same way about her. The two fall in love faster than you can make Ramen noodles. Rosalind gives Orlando her necklace, which means the two are officially an item. Things go downhill from there. Orlando finds out that his big brother Oliver is planning to burn his house down (with Orlando in it), so he runs away...
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...MIGUEL, Karl Ann D. INTSOCI C33 Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything There are several things required to understand the world through economics: first, knowing the incentives of all parties; second, realizing that conventional wisdom is usually wrong; third, understanding that most effects have subtle and distant causes and the most obvious is often the wrong one; fourth, specialists like salesman and lawyers use obscure knowledge to achieve their own ends and the internet helps to erode this advantage by making knowledge more freely available to people; lastly, data is invaluable to understanding the world. Chapter 1: What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? People all learn to respond to incentives, whether positive or negative from the outset of life. An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social and moral. Economic incentive is something material or tangible; moral is based of self-judgments; social is terribly powerful as it depicts what other people think of you resulting from your own actions or choices. Any incentive is inherently a trade-off; whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Cheating is a natural act getting more for less. The government required the High-Stakes Testing as part of...
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...Movie Analysis on Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” is an award-winning indie film and most talked- about movie during the time it was showed. I already heard it from news and read feedbacks from entertainment portals, but I didn’t really get the chance to watch it. All I knew about it is, it’s a story about a gay teenager and his growth as a third sex in the society. Some says, it was funny and realistic, but I never knew it was an eye opener and an educative film especially in accepting the third sex in the society. I remember that time, I’m looking forward to really watch the film, but I never got an opportunity. Not until I was in 3rd year college where we were tasked to watch it during our Social Psychology class. I was excited to view it because it would be the realization of my desire and my curiosity and interest would be satisfied. The movie started focusing on what the place is, the swamp environment where Maximo live, the people around, the way of life there, and then who Maximo really is. Congested Manila slums project both the adorable and harsh everyday reality in the coming-of-age film Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros), a mesmerizing piece of actuality in the midst of poverty, crime, family, forbidden love and everything in between. The superb direction from Auraeus Solito brings to life the blunt and honest writing of Michiko Yamamoto that mainly revolves on the conflict between Maxi's...
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...you able to easily summarize using your own words? Were you able to write without having the original source open in front of you? Did you include proper in-text citations? Assigned Questions 1. In no more than four paragraphs, summarize the story of the three pigs. (Refer to either the Higley or Ashliman version for direct quotes.) 2. Compare and contrast these four interpretations of the story, using direct quotes and paraphrases as appropriate. Try not to be judgmental; use the author's evidence for support. 3. Offer a brief critical analysis of the interpretations. What were the strengths and weaknesses, if any, of each? Three Little Pigs: Four Interpretations Gomez (1999) Literature is rife with pigs as symbols, from the Three Little Pigs to Porky, from the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm to Hollywood’s recent creation, Babe. These characters have ranged from the crafty to the naive, from the big-hearted to the stupid who noisily eat garbage and roll about happily in mud. Wolves have fared poorly; with the exception of the 1983 movie Never Cry Wolf,...
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...The first major decision we made was that we were going to be presenting to 6th graders. While presenting to a younger group is always fun, we felt that 6th grade was perfect for us. Any older than 6th grade and we would risk losing the student’s interest. In the beginning, we had an idea of presenting the story with puppets, however, we quickly realized 6th graders would feel insulted by puppets as they are not “little” kids anymore. As a group we decided to divide the reading evenly. We chose a character analysis because it is more challenging as they have to give textual evidence. We figured this would be a later lesson in a succession of lesson on stories. Prior to this lesson, the student would have covered plot, themes, settings, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denoument and characters. As a group we felt the worksheet was a perfect precursor to the homework assignment of changing the point of view of the tale. According to Kathleen T. Horning in her 2010 book, From Cover To Cover, “each of [the points-of-views] offers different advantages, challenges and limitations” (157). Teaching the students would help them to delve more into a story and see more than what a surface reading would present. Each student would be able to...
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...Were you able to summarize easily using your own words? Were you able to write without having the original source open in front of you? Did you include proper in-text citations? Assigned Questions 1. In no more than four paragraphs, summarize the story of the three pigs. (Refer to any of the four interpretations for direct quotes.) 2. Compare and contrast these four interpretations of the story, using direct quotes and paraphrases as appropriate. Try not to be judgmental; use the author's evidence for support. 3. Offer a brief critical analysis of the interpretations. What were the strengths and weaknesses, if any, of each? Three Little Pigs: Four Interpretations Gomez (1999) Literature is rife with pigs as symbols, from the Three Little Pigs to Porky, from the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm to Hollywood’s recent creation, Babe. These characters have ranged from the crafty to the naive, from the big-hearted to the stupid who noisily eat garbage and roll about happily in mud. Wolves have fared poorly; with the exception of the 1983 movie Never Cry Wolf, the...
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...INTRODUCTION Most of the influential masterpieces in the literary world are undeniably, from Western Literature. Those that shaped most of the modern day thinking are found in books that belong to the Western Literary Canon. Any literary work can be considered as Western Literature as long as it is written in the context of Western Culture, in the languages of Europe and some other Indo-European languages. Tales of frontier heroes Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett set the stage for the Western hero and the Lewis and Clark Expedition written in the early nineteenth century gave readers some of their first visions of the landscape and native peoples of the West. Later explorers added to the colorful picture of the West. However, as the realities of the West changed, so did the focus of writers who used the West as subject and symbol. Land became less available and the uses of land came into question. The environmental movement led to a reevaluation of humanity’s relationship to nature. As the region was settled a mix of cultures came into play. Writers now have come to emphasize the complexity of Western life, rather than its simplicity. Contemporary Westerns sound with more diverse voices than ever before. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, he writes about his dark vision of the future. It may not just be of the future of the West, but the way of thinking and system portrayed are particularly Western in nature. A lot of terms coined in this novel are also use widely already in...
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...MARKETING CRM Done Right by Darrell Rigby and Dianne Ledingham FROM THE NOVEMBER 2004 ISSUE T hrough the late 1990s and into 2000, managers plowed millions of dollars into information systems meant to track and strengthen customer relationships. Often built around complex software packages, these customer relationship management (CRM) systems promised to allow companies to respond efficiently, and at times instantly, to shifting customer desires, thereby bolstering revenues and retention while reducing marketing costs. But most firms failed to reap the expected benefits, and as executives dramatically reduced IT expenses in subsequent years, CRM sales plummeted. After rising 28% between 1999 and 2000, CRM sales dropped by 5% in 2001, 25% in 2002, and 17% in 2003, according to the technology market research firm Gartner. Many observers came to believe that CRM was destined to join enterprise resource planning (ERP) as another overhyped IT investment whose initial unmet promise nearly killed off the approach. But something unexpected has happened: Senior executives have become considerably more enthusiastic about CRM. In 2003, Bain & Company’s annual Management Tools Survey of 708 global executives found that firms actually began to report increased satisfaction with their CRM investments. In 2001, CRM had ranked near the bottom of a list of 25 possible tools global executives would choose. Two years later, it had moved into the top half. In fact, 82% of surveyed executives...
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...Writing Analysis Essay Throughout my childhood and until the present day, I have always been told by my parents, teachers, coaches and others that practice makes perfect. As my knowledge broadened, I thought to myself, perfect is impossible to be because humans are engineered to have flaws. No matter how many times one does something over and over again, whether it is shooting free throws until all are made, or writing fifteen outlines until points are stronger, one can only make progress. There will always be space for improvement in any category in life. Writing is no exception, and compared to my writing when I first started college, my work has definitely improved. Although I know I need more work, my organization, development, syntax, mechanics and cognition of my writing has escalated to a level that I did not know I was capable of. Essay outlines was never a priority of mine, but once I began to take the time to write it, my topic sentences and coherence within the paragraphs made more sense to the reader and myself. On the first paper that was graded, “Is College Worth It?”, I received no credit due to the lack of organization and development. At first, I thought I would at least earn a passing grade but once I read the “NC” (no credit) on my grade sheet, I was discouraged and disappointed in myself. I knew I had to state my opinion on my topic sentence, yet I did not do it. For instance, in that same essay, my topic sentence was a fact, “…there are college graduates...
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...and thinking through issues) * Both deliberate and conscious of challenges of relating Biblical faith to Social issues * Housing and immigration are public policy issues * Daniel devotes a chapter to this question, using “Caesar vs. God” image from New Testament * Micah Shows up in both books (see below) * Differences? * Is immigration more of a “hot button” issue than housing? * If so, do we find different kinds of rhetoric? * Phil comment in class: Does Reckford focus more on system or structures or root causes (next slide) and Daniel more on individuals? * If so, do we have different kinds of solidarity in these two approaches? * Root Causes (“cycle”) of Poverty (structural analysis) (52-53) * Rhetorical device? * Cites 5 of them * “social capital” (56-58) is a rich illustration * Solidarity involves “learning” and “sensitivity” and “collaboration” (60) * Corresponding interventions/Solutions * E.g. “not charity but capital” (Clarence Jordan, cited 54) * 62-63: justice = level playing field (Sen. M. Fenwick, grandmother) * Housing is one of several interventions, but foundational (59) * Note structural components (infrastructure) of this intervention * E.g. ONE Campaign (http://www.one.org/us/) : 1% of US budget against extreme poverty * Immigration as “spiritual pilgrimage” * Religion/Public Square (ch.4) * “Do I believe...
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