...focusing on how society functions. In particular he concerns himself with how capitalism, the working class, and the revolutions create problems in our society. My paper will analyze how Marxian theory and concepts fit into major climactic scenes of the film. The film revolves around the protagonist Filk, a worker ant. The colony is being oppressed by a group of grasshoppers and their leader Hopper. The grasshoppers claim they will provide protection as long as the ants provide the food supply. When the ants cannot supply the food for the grasshoppers, Hopper demands the ants to produce twice as much food as they did before. As a result, the ants will not have enough food to store up for themselves. Filk then travels to recruit warrior bugs to help the ants fight off the grasshoppers. According to Marx, this would free the colony from the constant oppression of the grasshoppers. The major themes of the movie follow Marxian theory. The first relates to Hopper and how the grasshoppers abuse their power and exploit the ant colony. The grasshoppers expect food knowing that the ants cannot produce enough food for themselves and the grasshoppers to consume. In another scene, the lead grasshopper, Hopper, becomes livid when one of his soldiers suggests...
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...University of Phoenix Material BUGusa, Inc., Worksheet Use the scenarios in the Bugusa, Inc., link located on the student website to answer the following questions. Scenario: WIRETIME, Inc., Advertisement Has WIRETIME, Inc., committed any torts? If so, explain. WIRETIME, Inc. (WIRETIME) has committed trade libel. WIRETIME’s advertisement satisfies the three conditions of trade libel as defined by our text (Melvin, 2011, p.212): 1. Clear and specific reference to the disparaged product. WIRETIME makes defamatory statements about a specific company [BUGusa (BUG)] as well as to the specific product that BUG manufactures (BUG’s electronic recording devices). 2. Disparaging statement made with either knowledge that the statement was false or reckless disregard for the truth. WIRETIME’s statement that BUG’s electronic recording devices are low quality and do not work reliably for longer than one month is reckless disregard for the truth. We have no proof referenced in this scenario ascertaining the truthfulness of WIRETIME’s statement, but we can demonstrate that they published this statement with malice, or reckless disregard for the truth, with the intent of making BUG’s customers believe that BUG manufactures a low quality, unreliable product, thus driving away BUG’s customers and influencing them to use WIRETIME’s product as an alternative. 3. Communicated to a third party. By advertising the disparaging statement, WIRETIME communicated to...
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...Systems Engineering Perplexity at Apple Systems Engineering Architecture and Design December 12, 2014 Abstract In response to the ever-increasing complexity of new products and systems, Systems Engineering has emerged as a distinct professional discipline in the past half century. It is an interdisciplinary approach to design, implementation and evaluation and helps to successfully develop complex systems. This paper provides a brief overview of the current gaps existing in today’s SE approaches exercised by the company Apple Inc. which is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California. They design, develop and sell online services, consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers (Apple Inc., 2014).This papers discusses the right/wrongdoings of Apple Inc. in the Systems Engineering domain, the changes they should be making and how they can implement these changes. Introduction and background Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker. It is also the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated market capitalization of $446 billion by January 2014. The Mac line of computers are its best-known hardware products, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its online services include iCloud, iTunes Store, and App Store. Apple's consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating...
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...manufacturers, lawmakers and the courts will have to decide on the inevitable litigations suing for physical and economic damages caused by insecure automobile control software. 3. Visit the USSData website at: http://www.usadata.com/ USAData consolidates personal data on millions of people. Anyone with a credit card can purchase marketing lists of consumers broken down by location, age, income level & interests. It's accredited by the Better Business Bureau as an A+ rating. Consider the following data users: govt. agencies, your employer, private business firms, other individuals. So, do data brokers such as USA Data (which is linked to massive databases that consolidate personal data on millions of people, where one could obtain a selected demographic list of select targets) raise privacy issues? Why or why not? Give specific examples. How do you feel about this? USA...
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...Computer Network Security for Social Networking McCray C. Devin Undergraduate Business, Leadership, Information System Technology Security Regent University 1000 Regent University dr. Virginia Beach, VA 23464 e-mail: devimcc@mail.regent.edu Abstract In this paper, I will address the security issues, flaws, and problems that social networking sites are faced with in retrospect to information that the sites hold. The Information is not protected from the public in any way, why is this a normal operation about the popular social media sites. Lastly I want to address the simplicity of gaining someone vital information through a protected individual’s social network profile. 1. Introduction In today’s society almost everyone has some type of social networking service that they hold an account with. These social networking sites are a great way to communicate, network, and interact with fellow colligates and friends. Facebook, Twitter, and Google plus are just a few social networking sites to mention. These sites all have a one factor authentication system for the user to log into their account (Beaver) .This simplistic authentication systems is very easy and efficient for the users accessing there accounts. The idea arose if it is this easy for me to log into my account how easy would it be for an outside party to gain access within my account. Companies are faced with the problem of convenience over security. (McCHale 12) In this paper I would like to address...
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...Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code Charles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat University of California San Diego {ckillian,jwanderson,jhala,vahdat}@cs.ucsd.edu Abstract finding bugs with model checking currently requires the programmer to have intimate knowledge of the low-level Modern software model checkers find safety violations: actions or conditions that could result in system failure. breaches where the system has entered some bad state. For We contend that for complex systems the desirable bemany environments however, particularly complex con- haviors of the system may be specified more easily than current and distributed systems, we argue that liveness identifying everything that could go wrong. Of course, properties are both more natural to specify and more im- specifying both desirable conditions and safety assertions portant to check. Liveness conditions specify desirable is valuable; however, current model checkers do not have system conditions in the limit, with the expectation that any mechanism for verifying whether desirable system they will be temporarily violated, perhaps as a result of properties can be achieved. Examples of such properties failure or during system initialization. include: i) a reliable transport eventually delivers all mesExisting software model checkers cannot verify live- sages even in the face of network losses and delays, ii) all ness because doing so...
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...JYOTI TANEJA Expertise in Business Analyst with over 7+ years of IT experience on all phases of a SDLC project. Primary focus on Analysis, Product implementations, system Integration/Migration projects and process improvement projects. Significant hands-on experience in business sectors such as, Finance, Healthcare and Banking. Effective communicator, excellent team player, quick learner and creative problem solver with fine-tuned analytical skills. Education includes: Professional Summary Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, System Analysis, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis. Industry experience in Healthcare, Finance, Health Insurance and Banking sector. Expertise experience in writing Business requirements document, System requirements specifications, Functional requirements document, developing Use Cases, creating screen mockups, and preparing Training manuals. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)- Feasibility Requirements Analysis, Design, Construction, Testing, Implementation, Support) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML methodology Expertise in Waterfall and iterative methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, and Agile. Excellent skills in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Non-Functional Specification Document, System Design Specification (SDS) Performed Gap analysis, SWOT analysis, Risk analysis, and Cost/Benefit analysis...
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...Professor Name: Title: Date Due: Why Should You Get Vaccinated I. Introduction A. As a parent, you may not prefer seeing your baby or child being given an injection. However, vaccination is a critical venture in securing your child against a scope of genuine and possibly deadly diseases. Immunizations are brisk, safe and greatly powerful. Once your child has got vaccinated against an infection, their body can battle it all the more effectively. In the event, that a child is not vaccinated, they will have an expanded danger of getting the illness. B. Immunization is as essential for adults as it is for children, but then numerous adults are not ideally vaccinated. Immunizations emulate the virus so as to anticipate disease by that same virus or bacteria. II. Body A. Vaccine preventable diseases haven't gone away a) Measles is an exceptionally irresistible viral illness that can result in fever, hacking and unique red-cocoa spots on the skin. The shingles antibody is a decent illustration. Shingles are brought on by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus. It can result in a serious and excruciating skin rash. The immunization is suggested for adults 60 and more seasoned (Shah, 1664). b) Measles is brought on by a virus that is exceptionally contagious, can live for up to two hours on surfaces and get transmitted through a tainted individual's hacks or sniffles. Measles is contagious to the point that "90% of the individuals...
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...paragraphs a description of my chosen company for the software development, the overall size of personnel, equipment square feet, worldwide buildings, what it does (dental care), programming centers or organization aspects, and how it communicates with other companies. Not only do they, the Dental Clinics, communicate and send information from one clinic, medical building, or office house, they also send information across the globe to other clinics such as Iraq, Europe and South America, and a description of how that is done will be identified as well. A Dentac is a massive military corporation that not only is centralized in one area, but as stated above, located all over the globe, unlike a civilian dental clinic, a Dentac is run by the USA Military, the corporate branch does not matter in regards to Air Force, Navy, Marines, or Army, as each is tied in, and there are many other global locations that use computer systems to send information from one to another, for example, a dental clinic located...
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...RESISTANCE IN DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF TOMATO AGAINST INSECT PESTS An internship report submitted for the award of degree of Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Agriculture In Department of PBMG By Babar Usman Roll No. 110 Reg. No. 2009-URTB-1136 Session: 2009-2013 The University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Faculty of Agriculture Rawalakot CERTIFICATION It is certify that M. Usman Afzal, Reg. No. 2009-URTB-1136, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Faculty of Agriculture Rawalakot has successfully completed his internship program submitted by his report in this present form by the University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Rawalakot. Internship Supervisor ……………………….. Department Chairman…………………………. DEDICATION DEDICATED TO HOLY PHROPHET (PBUH) MINER AT OF KNOWLEDGE My beloved Parents (Father) WHO SUPPORTED ME FINANCIALLY AND MORALLY AND GAVE A LOT OF SACRIFICES FOR MY STUDY. (Mother) Who guided me to the right path Who was the inspiring force behind Each and every step I took forward in my life Especially to My sisters, brother and friends who encourage Me & Guide me to right path to future ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to acknowledge the omnipresent kindness and love of the Almighty Allah, The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful, Who made it possible for me to complete the writing of this internship report. I would love to express gratitude and respect to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) who is forever a torch of guidance...
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...resources to working together with clients to make their business stronger. With more than 40 global delivery centers and approximately 61,700 employees as of December 31, 2008, we combine onsite/offshore model infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in Business Week’s Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings Start Today For more information on how to drive your business results with Cognizant, contact us at inquiry@cognizant.com or visit our website at: www.cognizant.com. World Headquarters 500 Frank W. Burr Blvd. Teaneck, NJ 07666 USA Phone: +1 201 801 0233 Fax: +1 201 801 0243 Toll Free: +1 888 937 3277 Email: inquiry@cognizant.com European Headquarters Haymarket House 28-29 Haymarket London SW1Y 4SP UK Phone: +44 (0) 20 7321 4888 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7321 4890 Email: infouk@cognizant.com India Operations Headquarters #5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road Okkiyam Pettai, Thoraipakkam Chennai, 600 096 India Phone: +91 (0) 44 4209 6000 Fax: +91 (0) 44 4209 6060 Email: inquiryindia@cognizant.com © Copyright 2009, Cognizant. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the express written permission from Cognizant...
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...Trisha Myers Professor --------- English 1302 December 2, 2014 The Genetically Modified Boogeyman There is an acronym tossed around today that is so infamous and so widespread, it is able to stir up deep-seeded feelings of distrust in many people in several parts of the world: the GMO, or, the genetically modified organism. There is hardly a product on American grocery shelves today that does not contain some form of a genetically modified (or GM) crop, and many people find this fact disturbing. The average consumer does not fully comprehend the GMO, but fears and rejects it based on a superficial knowledge of the term. The possible dangers – or the possible lack there-of – of GMOs are largely debated among consumers, organizations, corporations, and even politicians. And yet, the overlooked consensus of the scientific community is that, so far, GM ingredients in food products cause no more harm to the consumer than non-GMO products. However, there is no proof that long-term risks do not exist, and many point to the several countries that have banned or severely restricted the production and trade of GMOs. But mankind has been altering the genes of food through domestication for thousands of years using selective breeding; many say that biotechnology is simply the newest innovation in agriculture. There are, without a doubt, problems surrounding GMO production and regulation that need resolving, but the process itself is not inherently bad. As long as the practice is well-regulated...
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...12150 E. Briarwood Ave., Suite 202 Centennial, CO 80112 USA Phone: (303)740-1999 FAX: (303)740-1990 www.geotech.com Data Management ( GIS ( Graphics ( Internet Implementing an environmental data management system (EDMS) or a geographic information system (GIS) is a business decision that will provide both tangible financial benefits as well as intangible technical and subjective benefits. This document highlights some of the benefits that our clients have seen from implementing Enviro Data and Enviro Spase. We will first report specific cost savings that have been reported by clients, and apply these financial benefits to several scenarios. We will then discuss the intangible benefits, both technical and subjective, of installing an EDMS or GIS system. Finally, we will help you calculate the specific financial benefits for your company, and provide thoughts about recovering the cost. Specific Cost Savings for Enviro Data Implementation One Enviro Data user at a large industrial company reported that her time to process electronic deliverables from laboratories decreased from 30 minutes to 5 minutes per file after they implemented and enforced a data transfer standard and a closed-loop reference file system so that the laboratories delivered clean data. Since the data administrator was handling about 300 files a year, this translates to 125 hours per year saved, for cost savings of almost $6,000 per year just for that one task. Additional...
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...GREEN CLOUD COMPUTING ABSTRACT: Cloud computing is a highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure for running HPC, enterprise and Web applications. However, the growing demand of Cloud infrastructure has drastically increased the energy consumption of data centers, which has become a critical issue. High energy consumption not only translates to high operational cost, which reduces the profit margin of Cloud providers, but also leads to high carbon emissions which is not environmentally friendly. Hence, energy-efficient solutions are required to minimize the impact of Cloud computing on the environment. In order to design such solutions, deep analysis of Cloud is required with respect to their power efficiency. Thus, in this chapter, I discuss various elements of Clouds which contribute to the total energy consumption and how it is addressed in the literature. I also discuss the implication of these solutions for future research directions to enable green Cloud computing. The paper also explains the role of Cloud users in achieving this goal. Table of Contents ABSTRACT: 2 1. Introduction 3 2. What is Cloud computing? 6 2.1 Cloud Computing Characteristics 7 2.2 Components of Cloud Computing 8 2.3 Cloud Computing Deployment Models 10 3. Cloud Computing and Energy Usage Model: A Typical Example 12 4. Features of Clouds enabling Green computing 13 5. Towards Energy Efficiency of Cloud computing: State-of-the-Art 15 5.1 Applications 15 5.2...
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...ART APOCALYPSE AND MILLENIALISM (Name) (Institution affiliation) (Course) (Date) APOCALYPSE AND MILLENIALISM Introduction As the societies embrace the turn of a millennium, there is, historically, a perceived notion that this is a portentous time- a time of jubilation, may be, but on equal grounds, and may be more persistently, a time of apprehension. Five hundred year cycles system appears to be as significant as the thousand year cycles. Discussion In Thomas Schutte’s Efficiency Men (2005), there are three enormous ghostly figures of men. These figures are standing on thin spirals of steel and are covered by heavy dark blankets from which emerge perturbing faces modeled in colored silicon. Resembling grotesque figures in costume, these effigies of corrupt, scandal ridden contemporary society slope in a sinister fashion across the room of exhibition; they might be well an embodiment of the death that is elicited in the artwork of paintings on the walls. Mysterious and enigmatic, are a combination of artifice and superficiality, urging us to get involved more directly with the reality of our everyday world. This is the only way in which the dialogue between art and society can become truly meaningful (Dogana, 2014). This artwork by Schutte, explicitly displays the hopelessness and devastation of humanity which is evoked probably by the thoughts and imaginations of apocalyptic events. The human race is doomed and...
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