...Ivan Mote January/19/2011 AP English Language Mrs. Ray On the 19th day of January, Ivan Mote challenges the claim that the vulgarity of music is should not cause conflict. Ivan believes that music being portray as only offensive and inappropriate is a false statement. Why Should America Not Oppose Vulgar Music The problem with vulgar music is that it is offensive. To those that are not subjected to this extreme syntax would only view it as disrespectful, derogatory, and degrading to moral values of society. Having vulgar music perceived as unwanted is a wrongful theory. The music is supposed to serve as a career and entertainment. Making so this music will be erased will end in catastrophic results. The elimination of music will leave the consumers without entertainment, and the elimination of the music will leave the artist without a career. These two options obviously would pose a bigger problem than vulgarity. Vulgar music is not simply a reflection of an artist. Entertainment artist come from multifarious background and the music is an outlet of their feelings. The vulgar lyrics are produced from stress of their commanding job, as all careers are. The lyrics are also repressed feelings from their childhood being released, which are never memories someone appreciates. Having to remember that your father was on crack, facing ignominy of some sort, or just complete abuse would be powerful enough to drive the artist to use the point where simple words...
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...Chapter 13 – Emerging Technology Given near-universal Web access and the wide use of blogs and social networking, can companies still keep their information secret? (p220). The question came up because Barton discovered an employee of IVK had blogged about the outage. The staff member spread gossip that viruses or hackers were the source of IVK’s troubles. It was a touchy situation because Williams had given specific orders to keep quiet. My personal take is that companies can limit their negative exposure from employee bloggers but not eliminate it. Many employees have not considered the ramifications of their actions on the Internet. Before the age of blogs, an employee did not have the virtual soap box that allowed their message to reach thousands. To limit negative exposure, businesses should consider using an official employee policy. Ask their staff to agree to it as a condition of employment. The agreement should include network security guidelines, and explain their responsibility as representatives of the company. Chapter 14 – Vendor Partnering How important is “control” to a company like IVK when outsourcing IT? The IT staff was instructed to find a new financial software vendor for IVK. The search led to a discussion about Software as a Service (SaS). IVK had considered using a vendor that hosted most of their data in the cloud. The IT staff was divided on whether it was wise to entrust a third party with their sensitive data. I think...
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... AIU online: Course work unit one individual project SSCI206-1205D-01 Aspects of Psychology Short Description of each Perspective: Gestalt: Is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied. Founded by Max Wertheimer, was to some extent a rebellion against the molecularism of Wundt’s program for psychology, in sympathy with many others at the time, including William James. In fact, the word Gestalt means a unified or meaningful whole, which was to be the focus of psychological study instead. Behaviorism: hard core behaviorists believe that everything you do is because of conditioning. You are merely a puppet, an animal trained to act one way or another by your parents and society. Physiological: the name says it all - most everything you do or feel can be traced back to a chemical, neurological, physical reaction of some kind in your body. Examples that represent each perspective: * Example of Gestalt: The example above (containing 11 distinct objects) appears as single unit because all of the shapes have similarity. * Examples of Behaviorism: Behaviorism only concerns itself with the behavior that...
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...popularized by the Europeans, there is significant physical evidence that suggest that Columbus was not the first to discover “The World”. Many Historians such as Ivan van Sertima believe that the West Africans discovered the Americas...
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...This does not only tell the reader that Elena has to put her life together as a puzzle nor that the reader has to do that, but it shows the means through which the character will build her identity (Segura, Columbia University). In fact, she starts the process necessary for her self-analysis by reading her mother’s diary. In this way she relates to her mother, but in doing so, she “recognises the limitations of her subjectivity and is willing to articulate them in order to evolve a singularity capable of subverting authority and emancipating the self from extraneous social factors” as Kakraba says (1999). The process continues with the reading of the detective’s reports. These reports work as the notes of an analyst who looks at a patient from outside, giving her more clues about her life than how much she could find on her own, almost assuming the role of the author on whom the story of the character depends before she starts the journey for her inner understanding (Amago, 2006). The fact that the narrative of the book is important in relation to Elena’s development can be also seen in the reference to Kafka’s Metamorphosis. If reading and writing are directly linked to the character’s transition from being a mere woman to being conscious of her true self, then...
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...Negroponte addressed the World Economic Forum with a computing idea to “save the world”. (1) Less than three years later, the One Laptop Per Child initiative (OLPC) launched into distribution with unprecedented cooperation of the United Nations, corporate funders, and governments organizations. Though it is early to review the success of Negroponte’s OLPC initiative, it provides us with an opportunity to explore the implications for rethinking the roles and responsibilities of individual researchers as key ethical players in the equitable design and distribution of technology. With corporations seeking new consumers to distribute technology and bridge the rapidly shrinking digital divide, it’s valuable to ask these questions while there is still time for researchers to contribute their leadership, vision, historical perspective, and critical thinking to ethically inform and guide this process. This paper will review Negroponte’s contributions to HCI and explore linkages to historical figures of the field. In addition, this paper aims to critically review Negroponte’s influence as an advocate for universal usability and the OLPC project. Architecture Machine Group In 1967 Negroponte founded the Architecture Machine Group at MIT. Researchers in the group invented new concepts and developed new approaches to human-computer interaction. Inspired, in part, by Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad design interface, The Architecture Machine Group’s original focus was to create an architecture machine...
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...What lessons could a city learn from reading the same book at the same time? What lessons could be learned in a city trying to heal from senseless violence from a driveby shooting in Southeast Washington that killed three teenagers last month? Could a city heal from a book that tells a complicated story about injustice, racism and the need for second chances? What would happen if throughout the city, everyone were engaged in the same lesson? Like back in English class, when a professor asked you to think deeper, to look for symbolism in the story, for irony, character development, layers of complication? Officials at the D.C. Humanities Council and the D.C. Public Library system are participating in the "Big Read," a program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts to "revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture," are hoping that everyone in the city can learn from reading the same book. This year, the Humanities Council selected "A Lesson Before Dying," by Ernest J. Gaines, a novel about a black teenager living in segregated Louisiana, who is sentenced to death in the 1940s for murders he did not commit. The council and the library system distributed more than 2,500 copies of the book to programs for the homeless, juvenile correctional facilities and to schools, where questions raised by the story were explored. Film showings and book discussions related to the book are scheduled across the region, including book chats hosted by The Washington Post. On Monday...
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...to Turnitin to assess for an Academic Integrity violation Main Task: Prepare an Annotated Bibliography Using the guidelines and resources you’ve reviewed create an Annotated Bibliography consisting of the two articles listed as resources for this Activity. Length: 2 entries. Approximately 2-3 pages. Submit your document in the Course Work area below the Activity screen. Learning Outcome: 8 • Analyze research articles for construction of an Annotated Bibliography. Your instructor will give you feedback using the form below and in margin comments on your work. Reading and using your instructor’s feedback is as much a part of your learning as is reading the course materials and doing activities. Your instructor will not only help you understand the quality of your work on this activity, but will also give you guidance on how to improve your skills and increase your knowledge that, if you follow it, will help you do better on future activities! Feedback Introduction to Feedback: 1. Was the activity completed as instructed? Activity Elements Faculty Feedback |Two Annotated Bibliography entries that follow guidelines and | | |resources | | |2-3 pages...
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...Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Sistema de Información Científica Miranda Montenegro, Iván Ricardo Insights on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: A Sociolinguistic Perspective Íkala, revista de lenguaje y cultura, vol. 17, núm. 3, septiembre-diciembre, 2012, pp. 263-272 Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Colombia Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=255025411004 Íkala, revista de lenguaje y cultura, ISSN (Printed Version): 0123-3432 ikala@quimbaya.udea.edu.co Universidad de Antioquia Colombia How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage www.redalyc.org Non-Profit Academic Project, developed under the Open Acces Initiative InsIghts on BIlIngualIsm and BIlIngual EducatIon: a socIolInguIstIc PErsPEctIvE [Percepciones sobre el bilingüismo y la educación bilingüe: una perspectiva sociolingüística] Iván Ricardo Miranda Montenegro holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics to EFL Teaching from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Colombia. He currently works as assistant professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. Mailing address: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Instituto Internacional de Idiomas, Calle 4 sur No 15-134 Sogamoso, Boyacá, Colombia. E-mail: ivan.miranda@uptc.edu.co Abstract This paper is primarily intended to present some major considerations about bilingualism and bilingual education...
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...Profit and loss account The profit and loss account is a record of revenues and costs of the business over a period like a year. It shows how much profit the business has made over the past year and what has happened to the profit. The profit and loss account is a record of past costs and revenues. However, it can still help people in the business to make decisions about the future because the account says something about where the business has been in the recent past. On the whole though, other financial data, such as cash flow forecasts, are far more useful than the profit and loss account in helping businesses make these decisions. More importantly, the profit and loss account is a summary of recent business events for the owners of the business and anyone who might want to invest in the business. Shareholders in limited companies, for instance, are particularly interested in trends in profits because this determines, in part, how valuable is their share of the business. Profit and loss accounts are also used by the tax authorities to assess a company’s tax. Other businesses may also look at the company’s profit and loss account for the previous year to judge whether it is safe to give it credit. The profit and loss account of Smallbone plc is shown below. The profit and loss account can be split into three parts: |Smallbone plc | |Profit and loss account for Smallbone plc 2005 | | ...
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...| JetBlue Airways | | Valuation of an IPO Case Study | | JetBlue Airways | | Valuation of an IPO Case Study | 2014 Ivan McClure, Imtiaz Saboor, Vanessa Lopes, Gilberta Pjetri 2014 Ivan McClure, Imtiaz Saboor, Vanessa Lopes, Gilberta Pjetri TABLE OF CONTENTS * History * Advantages & Disadvantages of an IPO * IPO Process * Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) * Similar Company Analysis * Discounted Cash Flow Analysis * Final Decision History David Neeleman, an experienced entrepreneur in airline startups, announced that JetBlue would bring “humanity back to air travel” on July 1999. He was convinced that his commitment and innovation would keep the planes full and moving despite the fact that 87 new-airline startups had failed in the last twenty years. An impressive new management team and growing group of investors shared Neeleman’s vision. JetBlue’s management team included David Barger, former vice president of Continental Airlines. Neeleman received strong support in funding from high-profile firms such as Weston Presidio Capital, Chase Capital Partners, and Quantum Industrial Partners, and quickly raised $130 million. Neeleman’s goal was to “fix everything that sucked about air travel”. His strategy was built on that goal as well providing the passengers with new aircraft, simple and low fares, leather seats, free Live TV at every seat, pre-assigned seating, and high quality customer service...
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...conditions that keep them poor. | Saying goes, “Give a man fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - this should be the guiding principle of our political leadership on how to solve the problem on poverty but People itself should also help themselves. | Ending poverty is a daunting challenge. However, since it was made by human rules and institutions, new ones can unmake it. People itself should applied what they have learned in school so that they will be able to have a good and more opportunities. Forgive international debt unconditionally and stop other predatory tactics. End the use of economic power as a means by which the wealthy control the poor. | 2. Education is what we say the key to our success. And According to Rizal, The Youth is the hope of our future. But, so many youth for today who are not educated enough and far to reach their hopes. Education is rare for the success because our country is facing so many trials when it comes to education. Many schools were lock of classrooms. Lock of skilledfull teachers. Lock of books to be read by the students. Some school were too expensive that’s why many cannot afford. | The responsible for this problem is Government and then it should address to the Department of Education for the response. | The main aim of education should be to enable the learners to develop a mind which is balanced, restful and completely unruffled and still. Government should implement more Scholarship...
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...WEB DEVELOPMENT Brief History of the Internet Origins of the Internet The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA,4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving...
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...Myth and Scripture resources for Biblical Study Susan ackerman, Old testament/hebrew Bible editor number 78 Myth and Scripture conteMporary perSpectiveS on religion, language, and iMagination Edited by dexter e. callender Jr. SBl press atlanta copyright © 2014 by SBl press all rights reserved. no part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 copyright act or in writing from the publisher. requests for permission should be addressed in writing to the rights and permissions office, Society of Biblical literature, 825 houston Mill road, atlanta, ga 30329 uSa. library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Myth and scripture : contemporary perspectives on religion, language, and imagination / Dexter E. Callender, Jr., editor. p. cm. — (Society of Biblical literature resources for biblical study ; number 78) includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978-1-58983-961-8 (paper binding : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-1-58983-962-5 (electronic format) — iSBn 978-1-58983-963-2 (hardcover binding : alk. paper) 1. Myth in the Bible. 2. Bible. old testament—criticism, interpretation, etc. i. callender, dexter e., 1962– editor of compilation. ii. callender, dexter e., 1962– author. Myth and Scripture : dissonance and convergence.. BS520.5.M98 2014 220.6'8—dc23 2014002897...
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...Medias Synagogue By Julie Dawson and Letitia Cosnean The Mihai Eminescu Trust 63 Hillgate Place, London W8 7SS Tel. +44 20 72297618 Romania Str. Cojocarilor nr. 10, Sighisoara 545400 Tel. +4 0265 506024 The Mihai Eminescu Trust UK 63 Hillgate Place, London W8 7SS Tel. +44 20 72297618 with the Ten Commandments. The pediment is flanked by two carved wooden acroteria. The mural paintings along the interior walls depict artistic representations of a menorah, vegetal motifs, lions, Stars of David, the Ten Commandments and a fortress, probably a romantic depiction of Jerusalem. During Ceauşescu’s dictatorship, the Trust helped dissidents keep in touch with western academic thought; and by alerting the world to his plan to bulldoze Romania’s rural architecture, it played a part in saving hundreds of villages from destruction. After his death, the Trust turned its attention to the country’s cultural revival and rural regeneration. The Trust concentrates on the Saxon villages of Transylvania, a special case because of the age and richness of their past and the emergency caused by the mass emigration of the Saxon inhabitants to Germany in 1990, leading to the abandonment of many of their houses and a loss of awareness of the value of their heritage. These villages – farmers’ houses and barns built around fortified churches, substantially unchanged since the Middle Ages – lie in spectacularly beautiful surroundings, rich in wild flowers. Wolves, bears and wild boar roam...
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