...According to Greenpeace, by the end of the century Earth’s temperature could get so high that the climate and weather patterns would be drastically altered. It is the goal of Greenpeace, over the next three years, to close a vast majority of coal plants across the United States. With current renewable energy sources like wind and sun, most of our primary energy demand can be fulfilled. With disasters like the BP and Exxon-Valdez oil spills, marine life is become more and more scarce. The most visible signs of effects of global warming would be the western states wildfires, Midwest floods, and historic droughts in the southeast. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) aims to reduce the climate impact of burning fossil fuels by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from power station smokestacks and disposing of it underground. However, the technology is largely unproven and will not be ready in time to save the climate. One way to help the environment would be with Carbon capture and storage however, it is largely unproven and will not be ready in time to save Earth. According to Greenpeace, renewable energy Sources like wind, solar, and geothermal can provide 96% of our electricity and 98% of our total heating demand — accounting for almost all of our primary energy demand (Stop Global Warming, 2012). Global warming has the potential to harm everything from whales to polar bears as well as deforestation. While Carbon Dioxide is a harmful greenhouse gas, it is not the most potent and is...
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...Final Hum/176 January 29, 2012 Angela Thomas Final Part One- Option #3 My reporter was caught fabricating sources and making up facts. The way I would deal with this situation is first evaluate how much damage was done. I would want to know the facts of the actual story and compare it to the fabrication. I would then attempt to control the damage to the best of my ability by removing it the best I could from the Internet and our website. After I evaluated how much damage was actually done, I would want their reasoning for doing something that they knew was wrong? I would explain to my employee that our role as a news station is to deliver the most credible information that we have, because we owe it to the public to give them the facts. I would ask them if they knew the importance of ethical and legal compliance to online information. The next step is to find out if any copyrighted information was used. If there was copyrighted information involved, lawsuits could be filed against our network. I would also explain that we could lose ratings and face penalties for giving inaccurate information. I would make sure that they understood the seriousness of their actions and the legal consequences they may face because of their poor choice. I would make sure that they understood that the media has changed dramatically in the last century and now everyone has access to the false story they wrote. The significance of immediate news media is that now people can get the...
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...HUMN303 - DeVry University- April 21, 2013 Venus de Willendorf vs. Barbie With Time, Brings Change HUMN303 - DeVry University- April 21, 2013 Venus de Willendorf vs. Barbie With Time, Brings Change Introduction Venus de Willendorf is a statuette that first appeared during the Upper Paleolithic period. The exaggerated carvings of the body parts were how the artists of that time viewed women, fat and fertile. History often takes from the past to reinvent the future. Today’s society has the Barbie doll. Ruth Handler created it in 1959. Its long legs and slim figure has been worship by so many, that real women have undergone intense cosmetic surgeries to resemble the doll. Both figurines have gained notoriety based on the representation of women of their era, displayed their own meaning of beauty and cultures’ perception of it. Venus de Willendorf Venus de Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is a type of art statuette that was discovered sum 25,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1908 by the banks of the Danube River near the town of Willendorf in Austria during diggings led by Josef Szombathy. The statuette was carved from a rare oolitic (stone eggs) limestone using a flint tool. This particular type of stone was not available in the area it was located in, thus concluding the statuette was not created locally. Standing 4 3/8 inches (11.1 centimeters) tall, the figurine is noticeably rounded. It displays obese and voluptuous women’s body parts. It...
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...I will use the following strategies to apply creativity to the problems and issues regarding the proposed pension cut in the state of California. One strategy is to look at other alternatives to the proposed cut. There is always an alternative to a thought. Suggestions of charging oil companies for drilling on public land and waiting to build a new baseball stadium have been shot down so far, but with persistence and creative thought something else can be worked out. I must stay objective and obtain information from knowledgeable sources. I must also conduct my own research in order to find new information that has been overlooked. There needs to be other alternatives to cutting the retirement packages that police officers and all other civil service workers have worked so hard for to have. I also need to think of possible solutions to the pension cut. Perhaps taking a percentage out of a different fund, the problem is deciding which funds could handle a cut. One strategy that I can use to promote curiosity while addressing the topic of the retirement benefit cuts are imagination. People do not always think creatively and by sparking imagination in them, new thoughts will begin. Once the thought process is kicked in then new ideas can be formed. Another strategy is to ask a lot of questions. Asking questions enables new ideas to be formed and new thoughts to come about. Looking beyond the obvious answers gives opportunity to come up with new decisions. Curiosity about subjects...
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...developed. If support is requested for one program in a radio or television series, indicate the number and length of programs planned for the series. Also indicate where the proposed program fits into the overall series and the total projected cost to produce the series. B. Program synopsis: In less than one page, describe how the program would unfold from beginning to end. You should describe the program in more detail in the “Treatment or design document” section of the application. See the instructions for item 3 of the application below. C. Humanities content: Identify the humanities ideas, themes, and questions that the project will address. Explain the subject’s significance to the humanities and discuss the humanities scholarship that informs the project. (In the Frequently Asked Questions document, which is available on the program resource page, see the question about humanities themes.) D. Project format: Describe the program’s audio-visual style and approach. For example, will the program tell a story from a particular perspective? Will it use re-creations, dramatizations, animation, or other techniques? In explaining the program’s approach,...
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...Take-Home Final Literature, arts and culture are viewed as, by some, not as important as the sciences and/or math. The prominent STEM movement across America is a testimony to this belief: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Some places include the Arts and call it STEAM, however, most do not. These right- brained people often ignore the value of the arts. The left side of the brain, on the other hand, compliments the creative side of the world, which includes the arts and culture of today’s age. In this class, I have read about 10 short stories, a Shakespearean play and a novel. I have not always been an enthusiastic reader, since my strengths lie in the math area, but I have begun to see the value of the humanities. Throughout this course, my analytical perspective of ‘the text’ changed through the realization that literature is interrelated with culture and art; these three things can be one and the same....
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...000 – Computer science, information, and general works • 000 Generalities • 001 Knowledge • 002 The book • 003 Systems • 004 Data processing and Computer science • 005 Computer programming, programs, data • 006 Special computer methods • 007 Not assigned or no longer used • 008 Not assigned or no longer used • 009 Not assigned or no longer used • 010 Bibliography • 011 Bibliographies • 012 Bibliographies of individuals • 013 Bibliographies of works by specific classes of authors • 014 Bibliographies of anonymous and pseudonymous works • 015 Bibliographies of works from specific places • 016 Bibliographies of works from specific subjects • 017 General subject catalogs • 018 Catalogs arranged by author & date • 019 Dictionary catalogs • 020 Library & information sciences • 021 Library relationships • 022 Administration of the physical plant • 023 Personnel administration • 024 Not assigned or no longer used • 025 Library operations • 026 Libraries for specific subjects • 027 General libraries • 028 Reading, use of other information media • 029 Not assigned or no longer used • 030 General encyclopedic works • 031 General encyclopedic works -- American • 032 General encyclopedic works in English • 033 General encyclopedic works in other Germanic languages • 034 General encyclopedic works in French, Provencal...
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...Dilemma of Philosophy Debates in Research Philosophy and research approach debates are timeworn and even in the present era, present a great deal of difficulty for the doctoral researcher. Students are often overwhelmed by research philosophy. The classifications of old are duplicated, expanded, and evolving interchangeably (Mkansi & Acheampong, 2012). In many cases the students of today cannot make a correlation with a particular method in order to make the method relative to the subject matter in which they are researching (Mkansi & Acheampong, 2012). The following philosophical classifications: quantitative, qualitative, epistemology, and ontology all have variances but do contain several interconnected qualities. Many in higher education perpetuate these philosophies. Could researchers and students benefit from a standardized and more structured template for conducting research? Should there be a different standard for the social sciences and another for natural sciences. According to a study conducted with PhD students in North West Universities in the UK, not only did students not completely comprehend philosophy and classifications, they did not find them necessary in finding their approach to their research method (Mkansi & Acheampong, 2012). Most found they were not partial to one philosophy or another based on personal beliefs but were influenced more by typical methods for their field of study and the opinions of their superiors (Mkansi & Acheampong...
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...Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting one’s Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences “A Personal Analysis World Cultures – HUM 112 November 11, 2012 In analysis of the Discourse on the Method, I come to realize Descartes thought pattern was a simple yet complex one in the beginning. He basically took the thoughts of others and put them into a reality that coincided with his own so people would have a better understanding of the things and/or situations of this life. Descartes’s thoughts in my opinion are like a non-believer of God and His word at some point in life and then entering into the fullness and knowledge of the faith and seeking to live a Christian life after receiving knowledge of God and His redeeming power. He at the end starting to realize and offer the reader a gift and an answer to what living life is all about, “God.” I felt it was a bit hard to understand his point of view in the beginning of the passage because he was speaking of the existence of life on one’s own and not by God the creator of life. It was as though he was saying he created himself and there was no God to create creation or life; that the existence of life was natural and a part of an earthly way of life. For an unbeliever it is hard to understand what to believe at first because of the notion that people place on the table that God is good and he has, is, and will always do great things for His people, yet no one has seen him face to face. Descartes offers us reasons...
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...How are scholars able to find out how early people with no written records lived? Scholars use several techniques in order to establish and conclude a portrayal of early people’s lives, before any written records. They simply rely on findings that were left behind. Tools, bones, graveyards, hunting equipment, as well as weapons, art on pottery or cave walls, are some of the prehistoric finds, to name a few. These findings, when examined can tell scholars a lot about peoples lifestyle pre-written records. For example, by examining bones, a scholar would determine if people were malnourished, or whether they knew how to take care of broken bones or used any healing methods. What was prehistoric society like around the Amazon? Populations from North American and Europe did not find the prehistoric Amazon population interesting. The cultural differences were too vast, as opposed to societies around the Amazon. The Amazonian people believed in coexisting with their gods and relied heavily on their dangerous environment. I suppose the Amazon was a threat to societies around it, since they had not developed an acquired set of skills to survive. What ensured European domination in the New World? The Europeans were able to dominate the New World, by having armies that would take over natives ground, and have their own people settle. They also were in advantage knowing how to trade, how to build weapons, which were made of steel, as opposed to native culture who used leather, wood...
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...Raymond Williams on Culture From "What is Culture", at http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definitions/raymond-williams.html Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact. Every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings. Every human society expresses these, in institutions, and in arts and learning. The making of a society is the finding of common meanings and directions, and its growth is an active debate and amendment under the pressures of experience, contact, and discovery, writing themselves into the land. The growing society is there, yet it is also made and remade in every individual mind. The making of a mind is, first, the slow learning of shapes, purposes, and meanings, so that work, observation and communication are possible. Then, second, but equal in importance, is the testing of these in experience, the making of new observations, comparisons, and meanings. A culture has two aspects: the known meanings and directions, which its members are trained to; the new observations and meanings, which are offered and tested. These are the ordinary processes of human societies and human minds, and we see through them the nature of a culture: that it is always both traditional and creative; that it is both the most ordinary common meanings and the finest individual meanings. We use the word culture in these two senses: to mean a whole way of life--the common meanings; to mean the arts and learning--the special processes...
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...Defining the Humanities Defining the Humanities The humanities are past stories and events that help form our lives by looking back on how others lived and thought about life. The humanities are essential for understanding the past that is responsible for the creation of the present. The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative. This differs from academic disciplines which use an empirical approach in which evidence is gathered using the senses. The study of the human condition, the humanities cover areas such as art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature. All other modes of human inquiry are about studying non-human subjects. If it does not encompass the human condition, it is not generally classified as humanities. Art Art has long been a means of expressing social or political ideas. Anselm Kiefer took art and brought it to an entirely new level by using his art to bring attention to national identity and collective memory. In the process his art began evolving to include occult symbolism, theology, and mysticism. All of his work shares a common theme of the trauma experienced by entire societies and the continual rebirth and renewal in life. Kiefer’s works are usually designed in a depressive and destructive style in large scale formats. He often uses photography in conjunction with earth and raw materials. Kiefer is known to include...
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...Kaplan Online University HU300: Arts and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond Professor Lisa Dimitriadis Mr. Karl Gibson April 15, 2011 When I think of music and how it influences my life I come up with many different types to consider, and at various times. Music I associate with my childhood are various songs heard during family picnics, family gatherings, and times or events of this nature. I grew up as a child in the 1960’s and listened to what my parents were listening to. Songs like Finger Popping Time by Hank Ballard and the Midnighter’s, I got a Woman, Ray Charles, The Great Pretender, Sam Cooke and Think by Aretha Franklin, who is said to be the Queen of Soul. These songs were of good times, happy times, they made me feel that everything was well in the world, despite the horrific turmoil in the U.S. caused by the Vietnam War. I still look back at those times as some of the best times in America and my musical experiences. I think the music then reflect my childhood experiences of sensibility, freedom, fun and laughter. My adolescence year’s music seemed to change a bit in America as well as for me and what we listened to in our home, as well as on my own. I was never much of a rebel so I guess music in my adolescence years was more of a way for me to fit in. Songs in the late 70’s were changing over Woodstock was over as well as the whole Love & Peace movement. We were bringing troops home from Korea and the long dreaded Vietnam War was...
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...Corporate Culture, Environment, and Strategy The purpose of this article is to discuss the nature of a corporate culture in terms of the systems that are designed to support it. While it is true that cultures cannot be designed, the point we make is that the various control systems of the organization can work to shape through judicious reinforcement and feedback the desired attitudes and behaviors that are consistent with a particular strategic direction. The "culture" of the organization can therefore be defined as the emergent pattern of beliefs, behaviors, and interaction that uniquely characterize the organization as it operates within an industrial and a societal context. From a system perspective three levels can be distinguished from the start: (1) the societal level, (2) the industry level, and (3) the organizational level. Importance of culture in understanding behavior in different societies From this perspective, then, a "corporate culture" must necessarily be at least minimally consistent with the societal culture it is derived from. Societal exposure and heritage foster a labor force with a given value orientation, beliefs, and expectations about work and the work environment that are the "raw material" of corporate cultures. These points suggest that, in addition to societal culture, the specific industry a firm operates in is an important context for understanding corporate culture. While a complex array of internal dimensions affect...
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...Datoya Brown BIOL 703: Experimental Methods Biology January 29, 2014 “Preparing Graduate Students for Graduate-Level Study and Research” Summary The number of academically under prepared and at-risk college graduates completing graduate-level degrees is increasing. Many of the students are doomed to failure either because they are academically disqualified or because they lack the guidance to acquire new information necessary for involvement of their thesis and/or project. Ultimately the cost of losing students is worrisome to both university/college officials and program coordinators. One of the most common hindrances for graduate students is the completion of the thesis, which almost always involves complex reviews of subject area literature. This problem is often overlooked, since program coordinators, faculty advisors and other officials assume that students automatically have knowledge of procedures in obtaining previous data/research findings relevant to the thesis work. This could not be further from the truth. In lieu of reading this article for review Katherine O’Clair hypothesizes that providing graduate students with adequate resources and support, including the help from the library, is required for protecting and increasing return on investments for university graduate programs. Often, just simply involving a university/college librarian can help reduce graduate student attrition and improve degree completion rates. O’Clair had a simple question of, “does a course...
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