...Zahraa Rahal Mrs. Nina Shalhoub English 204 1 October 2015 A Critique of “The common App Fallacy” by Damon Beres Damon Beres, a columnist for New York University’s Washington Square News, professes his point view on the Common College Application and lists what he believes to be wrong with it. Beres presents the main bulk of his argument in a conversational tone, which has emphasis over conciseness and logic rather than fact. It is clear from the beginning that Beres’ target audience is: college students, roughly his age, who read the NYU school journal. In his article “The Common App Fallacy,” Damon Beres blasts the Common College Application, citing how the one-size-fits-all application is ruining the college application process. With students just pointing, clicking and applying, colleges are reaping in a new application tithe, leading Beres to postulate that, “it’s a cheap, money making scheme that homogenizes applicants and schools alike.” This rapid fire, mass spamming of applications is what he believes to be pauperizing the college application process. By not engaging in a personalized search for the right college, Beres reflects that students are misappropriating collegiate stock and saturating colleges’ application slots, preventing more invested students from making the cut--shockingly to him, something Beres reasons that the College Board and colleges are indisputably extorting. Beres’ article is most certainly intriguing, if not informative. He illustrates...
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...Essay of your Choice A portrait of Julia Child leans precariously on my bedside table competing for space with sticky notes, pennies, and a plastic alarm clock. Julia has been my role model ever since I spent an hour at the Smithsonian American History Museum watching cooking show after cooking show. As she dropped eggs, burnt soufflés, and prepared a whole pig, she never took herself too seriously and with her goofy smile and accompanying laugh. And yet, she was as successful in her field as anyone could ever be. Her passion completely guided her career. She taught me that it does not matter what I choose to do, it only matters that I do it with my whole self; zealously and humorously. Unlike Julia, I do not aspire to be a chef. Brownies out of a box may just be the highlight of my baking career. Something I have been passionate about for my whole life, however, is teaching. The first traces of my excitement came from a summer camp that I founded when I was seven years old. Motivated by too many imperfect summer camp experiences, I established my ideal summer camp, one in which campers could choose their activities, from banana split tutorials to wacky hat-making. So that year it began, with seven five-year-old campers in my backyard. For six consecutive years, I ran my summer camp, each year tweaking and improving from the years before. Chebeague Island, Maine, established a preschool in the spring of 2012, run out of a trailer by a recent college graduate. I volunteered...
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...Failure can be experienced in many different ways. It’s the decisions you make after you have that experience which determines how you handle the same situation in the future. I’ve experienced failure in many different forms during my high school soccer career. Freshman year i broke my leg winter break and had to re build muscle strength and almost learn how to run again. This showed me that in life things can set you back, it may be crippling physically or mentally but once you overcome those challenges you develope a sense of perseverance and break through challenges! Like Winston Churchill says “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” I also believe that failure is the greatest teacher because you learn from act that didn't work and you learn to adjust and challenge the lack of success you once had. You almost start to develop an algorithm to break through those challenges to avoid failure. You can work on your shooting so you never miss a shot, you can develop new foot placement to change the angle of your shot. You can adjust the way your foot strikes the ball, but in the end its who is stronger mentally and wants the drive who wins! If you remember the fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, it was more than just a boxing match it was a mental game! It went 11 rounds and Joe Frazier won defeating Ali for the first time out of 31 fights! It easy ali had a strategy that was a little out of the norm, it was an acting stunt...
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...The event that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood within my family was not easy nor tranquil, yet a long journey that was extremely challenging. During the time span from 2012-2013 I was submerged in the experience of my sophomore year of high school. Looking back on my sophomore year, I remember being carefree, still just a kid. Likewise, the only worries I had to fret over was finding my place in the large social scene of my high school and what time softball practice was. However, all that began to change a few weeks into the New Year of 2013, where my life was turned upside down. In January, my father underwent a L4-L5 spinal fusion. He was a paramedic. My father has such a beautiful and inspiring passion for helping others and our community. Unfortunately, his passion was put to a halt due to his tragic injury. In addition, post-operation left my dad in a state of complete dependency because he was left unable to walk for a large portion of the recovery process, as well as the indescribable pain he had to endure every single day. Without any source of immediate income, with my father unable to work, my family soon ourselves in financial catastrophe. Soon after, my mother served my father divorce papers and quickly moved out; leaving my dad, my younger sister, and I to in simplest form, fend for ourselves. Consequently, the absence of my mother, shook the roles of the family, and left a scar on all of our hearts. The result of her decision, was equivalent...
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...According to Damon Beres in “The Common App Fallacy” "Truth is college applications are crapshoot in this day and age" (Beres 79). he is telling us the process to enter to a University and to a college, and what they check to see if you can get into that specific school. For example, they would look at your GPA and most of the student's would have to do an SAT to check what classes does he or she needs for the career that the student is looking for. Beres tells us his experience, he was one out of 11,000 out of 34,000 students to join the New York University freshman class (79). That means that they would accept people that are smarter than others. His friend didn’t had a good GPA so he seems to be a lazy student.It is hard to apply now a...
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... project plan 5.0 6 project plan 5.1 6 project MILESTONES AND DEADLINES 5.2 7 WHAT COULD GO WRONG 5.3 7 MAINTAINENCE 6.0 8 WEBSITE MAINTAINENCE AND DEVELOPMENT 6.1 8 POST MAINTAINENCE 6.2 9 conclusion 7.0 9 bibliography 10 Mission Statement Kennesaw State University Dining Facility, Commons is to provide students, faculty, and staff with quality food and services. This is accomplished by practicing creative menu development, ensuring a friendly environment, incorporating variety, and convenience. Executive Summary The Commons at Kennesaw State University is very popular and has a meal plan that is required by all students with the exception of seniors. ……………………. It would be in the best interest of Kennesaw State University to fix this problem with the university growing rapidly. In addition to the meal plan already in place, another reason to improve the Commons is due to the upcoming football team in 2015. There will be an influx in newly recruited athletes at KSU. We are designing a smartphone application to help the university’s Culinary Department to become more efficient. Also, we have chosen to improve the Commons of Kennesaw State University and would like to implement an up-to-date menu, incorporate social...
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...tablets. It means that only apps from its App Store will loaded for its devices, and will function only with Apple platform. Also, Apple is trying to increase its user base; some apps are free, and it allows bring consumers to the Apple marketplace. They even stopped Google in its plans to allow Google applications to work on Apple products (Google Maps). So, by doing it Apple is trying to capitalize on their loyal customer base. Google: its business model focused on the Internet and the Web. Google provides value to the user by using an inexpensive, flexible infrastructure to speed up Web searches and provide its users with a vast array of Web-based services and software tools. After, when Google bought Motorola, it gives Google the ability to make its own cell phones and tablet devices. However, when they tried to enter completely new territory their Nexus One smartphone was unsuccessful. Microsoft: its business model focused on the desktop computer running the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity applications. While Microsoft is trying to expand its presence on the Internet, it still must try to keep customers bound to the desktop computer. 2. Why is mobile computing so important to these free firms? Evaluate the mobile platform offerings of each firm. Apple: the mobile platform that Apple provides with its products is “iOS”. This mobile platform is the closed platform that is it is applicable for apple products and only apple apps could work on this. ...
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...Flappy Bird’s now officially Game Over Have you seen the bird with thick lips, which looks really heavy, that can’t fly on its own? Tap to flap was its line to be able to go through the spaces of the tubes from above and below. That game which has a weird looking bird that keeps on making people curse themselves when it got itself bumped with the tubes, is called the Flappy Bird. In May, Dong Nguyen uploaded a new game to the iOS App Store. It was just one of the hundreds of apps added to Apple’s iTunes marketplace each day. Nguyen had created a simple game in which the player controls a funny-looking bird by tapping the screen, and it needed a simple name. He called it Flap Flap, until he realized another app had the same title. Luckily, developing and updating games on the App Store is such a fast, iterative process that he was able to quickly retitle it Flappy Bird. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. This game was very common to most teenagers where in they waste time just to be in high score. It was very viral that became the next Angry Birds and next Temple Run. Months after he released it, Flappy Bird shot to the top of the charts, drawing even more players, which made it even more popular, which drew in even more players. Millions of people were downloading Flappy Bird at its peak, and Nguyen was raking in $50,000 a day from the pop-up ads that appeared during gameplay. The concept of the game is just very simple: You tap the screen to make the bird fly, release to...
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...gets Iphone projector Brookstone Pocket Projector for iPhone 4 and 4S This unit package was opened, but it has never been used. It is very easy to use, just dock your iPhone 4 or 4S and project videos or iPhone Photo Slide Shows onto any surface. Perfect for sales people, students presenting projects, travel, meetings, or keeping kids entertained on the go. 640x360 native display resolution able to projects up to a 50" image Super-bright 15-lumen projector lamp ensures clearer, more brilliant images Built-in 0.5W speaker and focus adjustment for an optimum viewing experience Built-in 2100mAh battery functions as a back-up battery for your iPhone 4 or 4S device when fully charged NOTE: Please be ware that the projector only works on iPhone 4 and 4S, because of the mufti-wire interface. iPhone 5 and later versions use the micro connector which has 4 wires and doesn't allow the video to communicate with the Brookstone Projector. This is a great projector to take on the road. Its super-bright 15-lumen LED projector lamp ensures clearer, more brilliant videos. Focus adjustment lets you control image clarity while the integrated 0.5W speaker delivers the audio. Great for keeping kids entertained with their favorite videos on the road!Rechargeable batteries powers the device. The Pocket Projector's built-in 2100mAh battery charges via USB connection with the included cord. When fully charged, the projector may also be used as a back-up battery for your...
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...A common cross-cultural challenge in managing across cultures is language barriers. If managers are working in another country that does not speak English, the manager will have a hard time effectively communicating with his staff. As a result, now many international companies communicate internally through the English language. Managers are able to communicate with their foreign counterparts through speech and text with English. However, there are many times when the manager will still be forced to learn the language of the country he is working in. For example, if all of the Japanese workers are speaking Japanese, the manager will be expected to communicate in Japanese as well. Another challenge in managing across cultures is cultures. Managers must understand that other cultures do not conduct business the same as they do in the United States. Before doing businesses in other cultures, managers need to study the culture of the country they will be working in. They need to become familiar with business etiquette, time management, dining etiquette, nonverbal communication, religion, and personal space. If managers have an understanding of the previously listed concepts, they will be successful in managing in another country. For example, a manager doing business in Greece should be aware of how Greeks feel about time management. Managers should leave ample time in their schedules when conducting business meetings in Greece. Greeks are not strict about time and it is common...
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...Request for Proposal (RFP) Task 1 1. Introduction The purpose of this project is to introduce a new network infrastructure design for Simple Gateway Inc. The new network design will solve the existing problem with the multiple versions of the same document in each regional offices, digitize, and automate the workflow associate with administrative tasks. 2. Summary and Background Simple Gateway Inc. is a regional travel and tourism company Headquarters in California with 12 branch offices across the western United States. As of now, each office network operates independently with their own window base file server, an exchange server, and all of the data (File and Document) are stored locally. There is no centralized network and system infrastructure. 3. The current challenges in the Simple gateway affecting Key stakeholders Simple Gateway Inc.’s decentralized network was affecting the day to day business operation, and every day employee productivity was very low within the organization. Furthermore, currently affected shareholders are the chairman, vice president, director of operations, area managers, human resources, office manager, and office staff. Overall the stakeholder main problems are: Since each regional office was operating independently, there was no standardized version control of the document. Each regional office had a different version of the same document. Due to the lack of transparency and visibility of company data among the...
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...Environmental Scanning/ Marketing Project 1 Ashley Jackson Marketing 314 2/18/10 Environmental Scan- IPAD Laptops are one of the most common sources of information. In today’s fast paced economy, where would we be without a laptop or computer? It would almost be like you were living in the dark ages. While laptops and computers are convenient to have, Apple has come out with a new and revolutionary product that changes everything. It’s called the iPad. Apple Inc. is a multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics, computer software, and commercial servers. Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak effectively created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976 and incorporated the company on January 3, 1977 in Cupertino, California (Bellis). The Apple iPad was announced on January 27, 2010 with retail availability commencing in April and systematically growing in markets throughout 2010. The iPad is twice the size of the iPhone with the same capabilities of any other laptop computer, but still smaller, making it more convenient to carry with you. For an iPad with Wi-Fi, it has a reasonable price of $499 for a 16GB, $599 for a 32GB, and $699 for a 64GB. If you want one with Wi-Fi and 3G, you can find one for $629 for a 16Gb, $720 for a 32Gb and $829 for a 64GB. In this environmental scan, I am going to break down the iPad into five different environments, social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory. The first environment is the social environment...
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...of Mobile App Stores: There is more than Open vs. Closed Roland M. Müller1, Bjorn Kijl2 and Josef K. J. Martens3 1 Berlin School of Economics and Law, Department of Information Systems, roland.mueller@hwr-berlin.deUniversity of Twente, School of Management and Governance, 2 b.kijl@utwente.nl, 3j.k.j.martens@alumnus.utwente.nl Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze the competition among mobile app stores for smart mobile media devices. Therefore, the business models of seven mobile app stores are analyzed with a special focus on Apple and Google. We use e3-value modelling - a formal business modelling technique - for analyzing the critical elements of these mobile ecosystems. The analysis of the app store ecosystems allows a differentiated view on the different strategies of the app store owners. Additionally, we look at the impact of network effects, economies of scale, platform differentiation, quality assurance, and transaction costs on the design of mobile application markets. This theoretical model allows a deeper discussion about the design choices and success factors in the different app store cases. Based on our analysis, we expect that the open versus closed models discussion becomes less relevant - so-called open platforms have closed aspects as well as the other way around - and that competitive differentiation and segmentation strategies will become increasingly critical in order to strengthen the competitive positioning of the different app store platforms...
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...Snap-A-Plant Target Market Target market: Because our app is being sold on the apples app store, our market can potentially be anyone with an iPod touch or an iPhone. Apple has sold an estimated 33 million total iPhones and 13 million iPod touches up until the start of 2010. This means the market consists potentially of about 46 million iPod touch and iPhone users. Specifically, we are going after 2 smaller target markets. The first market will be women, ages 16 and above. This market is interested in plants, flowers, gardening and the outdoors in general. They may also be interested in travel. What we can offer these people is flower identification. If they see something they like, whether it be out in a forest, in someone else’s garden, or on a trip to a different country, we are providing them the service to catalogue the plant and give them the closest location to either buy it in the store or find it in the wild. We are also providing them with the knowledge of what kind of plant or flower it is by giving them the common and scientific name. The other market we are going after is the adventurer. This person is primarily male age 15-50. This market is interested in the outdoors with activities such as camping, hiking, backpacking, traveling, hunting, fishing, etc. What we are advertising to this person is the information the app provides on the individual uses of each plant. We can provide them with information on edibility and other...
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...Android, and Blackberry App Marketing Research With the proliferation of mobile applications, the age-old marketing problem of discovery is now paramount. What can you learm from mobile app marketers across various operating systems like iPhone (iOS), Android, and Blackberry? My company conducted mobile application research with both B2B mobile app developers/marketers and B2C mobile app users in an effort to understand the successes and challenges developers face when vying for the top spot in various app stores. The results are useful as you develop your plan to market mobile apps. This month’s column will cover the results of my company’s B2B mobile application research. The results of the B2C mobile application research will be covered in my next column. Purpose The purpose of the application research was to uncover app marketing techniques employed to drive mobile app discovery and downloads of native apps developed for the top mobile platforms. Criteria A respondent was required to be a developer of native mobile apps for iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, and BlackBerry devices. Each of these platforms offer a proprietary “app store” to developers for managing the discovery, download, and monetization of apps developed on their respective platforms. Most respondents to our survey were iPhone app developers (53 percent) that develop native iPhone apps as their primary business (47 percent). App Store Rankings Tip: Learn how rankings in each app store work and how...
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