...children of rich families attended. Now legacy admissions are doing the exact same thing. In an article in Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, titled “The History of Legacy Admissions” Cameron Howell and Sarah E. Turner state that “legacy” means the son or daughter of an alumnus or alumna, but the practical application of the word reveals how it has been derived from its original meaning of inheritance. Legacy admissions began in the earliest days of Harvard College, in which Henry Adams informs us about familial ties among Harvard alumni (226). Although colleges and universities are beginning to emerge there is still a preference of who gets in and how, just like hundreds of years ago. At this point legacy admission are unfair, with the world nearing depression college and universities should be more considerate to applicants other than those of alumni, because everyone has the potential to do something great in life, not just children of alumni. Universities are beginning to lower the standards for admission. In many instances admission officers lower the acceptance bar for legacy students due to the great support of their family. Robert DeKoven gives his thoughts on another article titled “Time to Bury the Legacy” which also appeared in Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. DeKoven states that giving that edge based upon being a legacy is, in reality, an advantage based largely upon race (225). Universities think legacy children will be the same as their...
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...them. The firm operates on its homegrown distribution and accounting system that runs on legacy systems. It is assumed LBS Textiles has proprietary fabric designs that are used by the weaving plants to create products, which attract all demographics in the Northeast America. Current Challenges in the market: The following challenges lurking round LBS Textiles manifest threat of existence. The price discounts offered by the weaving plants in China and other countries in the east, are attracting markets towards them causing shutdown of US weaving plants. This is affecting LBS Textiles because the market now tends to buy substitutes directly from the east and its clients are closing down their plants. LBS Textiles is confined to Northeast America and needs to expand to reach out for more weaving plants across the nation and around the globe. People in the company are still working on legacy systems and have no acquaintance with new technologies. Strategic planning: LBS Textiles’ strategy is to expand across the nation and also establish itself in the global market. The existing legacy systems hinder the ability to effectively communicate with all units and clients in the market sphere that LBS Textiles wants to expand to. Current conventional ways the firm adopts for designing and distributing the fabric to the weavers, will take longer when the span increases globally. The homegrown legacy distribution and accounting systems are outdated and need replacement. The fact that...
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...its rank based on total gross sales it will show that CGI movies have steadily become more popular and dominate in gross sales since TRON was released. TRON was created by Steven Lisberger in 1976 when he came up with the idea for what he called a neon warrior at his own design studio in California. He also took inspiration from the original game of Pong. In an interview almost two decades later Lisberger said, “And what happened was, I saw Pong, and I said, well, that's the arena for him.” (Lisberger, 2010). This statement was in reference to what would become the arena duel where discs of light are hurled at their opponent. Along with creating TRON he wrote the script and directed the movie. Lisberger was also the producer of TRON: Legacy which was released in December of 2010. The movie centers around Kevin Flynn who finds himself transported inside of a circuit board to the world within. In this computer world when programs are no longer needed they are forced to fight other obsolete programs in arena battles to the deletion. Flynn is thought to be a program but it is discovered that he is a mythical user. He befriends a couple of programs and together they escape and have to travel to the portal back to the real world without being captured along with destroying the MCP (Master Control Program) on their way out. TRON is considered by many as one of the pioneers of CGI usage in movies. Unlike...
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...states and 70 countries. Their enterprise also leverages on talents of hundreds of thousands more people working for Boeing suppliers worldwide. BAL however faced difficulties as it sought to upgrade its procurement systems and processes to improve operations. Russell, the new National Procurement Manager on realizing the new opportunities available through e-business technology, Russell needed to decide what BAL’s next step should be, should BAL invest in new system that would simplify procurement processes; should BAL sit on the fence? I am Russell Menere, the National Procurement Manager for Boeing Australia Limited (BAL)., my decision is to recommend that BAL pursue a cost effective e-procurement system that will interface with the legacy information technology systems that are already in place. This tool should simplify the procurement processes across the different divisions of BAL and support the complex interfaces BAL’s suppliers and customers require. Based on a 6 month to a year...
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...Similar to the hundreds of colleges which still give preferential treatment to legacy applicants, Harvard’s incoming freshman class contains close to 30% of students who had previous generations attend the school. Generally, students who get in through legacy applications are wealthy and under qualified for the college that they’re attending. Even though there are legacy students who deserve to attend due to their academic potential, several are admitted because they have two very important things: money and parents who attended the school. A vast majority of the colleges which still give preferential treatment to their legacy applicants, weigh receiving donations from affluent students over building an academically fit class for the institute....
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...A Sick Medicaid System August 5, 2012 Maine Department of Human Services (DHS) believed that they needed a new Medicaid system so that information could be safer, accurate, and provided more functions. This new system needed to be updated with the new HIPAA requirements. DHS managers reasoned that building a new system would be easier and less expensive to maintain than upgrading and maintaining the old system (Oz, 2009). In 2001 DHS put together a proposal. They received two offers. DHS chose the lowest bid from a company called CNSI. CNSI had no experience with a Medicaid system. When trying to build this new system there was very little communication between CNSI and the medical experts. In 2003 the new governor John Baldacci merged the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services with the Department of Human Services in the new Department of Health and Human Services (Oz, 2009). In doing this the new system was a disaster. The claims were being denied and medical providers had to take out loans and some had to close their businesses because of no payments. DHHS fell so far behind due to the system they had to hire more experts. Instead of the system costing $15 million they had to pay out $70 million and they were six years behind. Were there any factors that contributed to the project failure which were not the fault of the project team and its leaders? There were...
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...companies like Embracer and Gulfstream. In addition to all these, the aerospace industry was very volatile as airline travel was subjected to economic and the socio-political conditions as well as the willingness of the public to purchase the airline tickets. Moreover regional and low-cost carriers were growing much faster than their legacy carrier counterparts. Business Problems As the company now was offering a range of products and services and had a global presence their growth by acquisition strategy was giving troubles and posing challenges for the firm. Bombardier used to inherit the data, processes and systems of each company it used to acquire which in turn created inefficiencies in data sharing and labor mobility. The cost of information systems ownership also used to get multiplied due to the increased burden of managing a number of systems. There were problems related to process delays, sequential activities, low inventory turnovers price inconsistency and supplier proliferation. The biggest issue the company was facing was of low visibility of inventory and lack of integration between its legacy systems. Problems with the Legacy Systems Bombardier Manufacturing Systems (BMS) was unable...
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...Ramos Jose I. Prof. Tantalo English 101 11/6/13 Essay 3 You’re only as Strong as Your Weakest Link Recently in Michigan there has been a reopening of a dispute traced back to the 1950’s. This argument is whether the use of affirmative action should be used when determining whether to accept or reject the request of an applicant. Affirmative Action refers to policies taken into consideration that may boost someone’s application and thus help them be accepted. These extra policies can used in jobs, universities and other similar competitive based applicable positions, normally they include race, religion or sex. These policies limit the field of applicants and thus make applying for an opening unfair to all that are not helped by it. It also helps create a wider gap in what we would want to have, equality. Instead of focusing on the helping it hides the origins of the original problem which is insufficient help to specific areas of cities, states and counties. During the year of 1978, the court case, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was a major debate towards that of Affirmative action. Bakke was a 33 year old that had applied to UC Davis Medical School. Even though he had outstanding perquisites he was denied because of the school’s affirmative action helping minorities gain entrance even though they had lower scores. Upon learning of this Bakke decided to take the UC system to court upon which he won and was allowed attendance to the university. Traditionally...
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...Looking at characterisation in Paper Towns Margo Roth Spiegelman: While she doesn’t appear in person for much of the book, there is no doubt that she is at its centre, the focus being the unravelling of her real identity as compared with others’ images. She comes to us through the Quentin, and is seen by her actions and reactions to what others say about her, and also in what she says about herself, although she may not always be right. Task: Create a mind-map for Margo. Some might empathise with her, others might find her a prima donna (overly dramatic). Opinions need to be supported by evidence from the book. I have given you some examples below to kick start the process... Actions: Page 15-16: Quentin documents everything she has done; Page 86: paying off the security guard at Sea World. Page 106: describing how she keeps things in check at school. Reactions: Page 104: Quentin says she is having the kind of fun we can only imagine Page 106: ‘Only now, after all this lost me, did I realise how terribly I had misunderstood both her game and the prize for winning it’ What she says: Page 39: being ‘hot’ is stupid to her Page 78: she maps out Q’s life for him What others say about her: Page103: Ben says ‘She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at Twenty-seven like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like the first-ever Nobel Prize for...
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...scientists in 1984 and brought public in 1990. In 1997, Cisco featured in the list of Fortune 500 companies and ranked in the top five companies in Return on Revenues and Return on Assets. Cisco passed the significant $100 billion mark in 1998 and in 1999 Cisco had more than 75% internet sharing (Nolan, R. 2005). Problem Cisco’s legacy IT department was too traditional and internally oriented and was considered being a cost center. The legacy system was very traditional only having the capabilities of very simple tasks. Cisco made years of modifications and customizations to the system which made it very complex that was comfortable for the users. In January 1994, Cisco’s legacy environment failed dramatically. The failure was so bad that the system actually was on the brink of complete failure. An unauthorized method for accessing core application database was used as a workaround, which malfunctioned and corrupted Cisco’s central database. As a result, the company was virtually shut down for two days. Cisco faced the need for their systems to be replaced based on its significant growth potential and its reliance on failing legacy systems The autonomous approach was insufficient and that had the impact that it could not keep up...
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...for many professionals in the industry. One such industry professional group is of course, Daft Punk. Daft Punk formed in 1993. They are a French duo with musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem Chirsto (Last FM 2013). According to Last Fm, Daft Punk have been considered one of the most successful electronic music collaborations of all time (LastFM, 2013). Since forming in 1993, Daft Punk has had an incredibly successful and impressive career. They have released seven albums, sixteen compilation album, one soundtrack album; three remix albums, one video album, twenty-two singles and eighteen music videos (Allmusic, NA). Albums include Homework (1997), Discovery(2001), Alive (1997), Human After All (2005), Alive (2997), Tron Legacy (2010), Random Access Memories (2013). Daft Punk has also won an incredible amount of awards over the years. Random Acess Memories won the Grammy Award for Album of the year in 2014. The track Get Lucky won the Grammy Award for Record of the year in 2014. They have won the Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/electronic music in 2014. Along with many awards, Daft Punk has toured and...
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...NYCAPS and City Time: A Tale of two New York City 1. How important were the NYCAPS and CityTime projects for New York City? What were their objectives? What would have been their business benefits? * Importance of NYCAPS and CityTime projects for New York City: 1. To reduce the paperwork used handling employee benefits and job changes. 2. To save labor and IT costs for New York City. 3. To control overtime payments to the city employees and improve accountability. 4. To reduce the mismanagement of the system and to deliver the information accurately. * Objectives of NYCAPS and CityTime Projects: 1. To create a modern automatic system that is used for managing and updating the personal information for New York City’s workforce along with information of employee benefits. 2. To save millions of dollars every year for the New York City with the successful implementation of NYCAPS. 3. City time project objective is to provide an automatic payroll for employees to control and check the undeserved overtime payments to city workers, which are not possible before. * Business benefits using NYCAPS and CityTime projects: 1. They are able to reduce the labor costs by automating the system to handle employee benefits. 2. It saved the revenue of the New York City by control the overtime payments to the city employees. 3. Improves the business process and efficiency of the system 2. Evaluate the key risk factors in both projects...
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...Brookshire Grocery Company Brookshire Grocery Company has always operated under the “people first” commitment. This has helped the company to 150 supermarkets, 3 distribution centers and 13,000 employees. They have basically out grown the system they have. To support the growth the legacy system need to retire and new business process and data software needs to be pursued. They chose SAP ERP Human Capital Management software to improve their HR processes. The legacy software was not integrated to the company’s payroll so everything had to be rekeyed concerning employee’s time information. Reports were also time consuming, which required IT to compile information from spread sheets across the entire company. Payroll tied up the software for a day and benefits were just as difficult. Employee enrollment was on index cards at each location. Information was everywhere, with no way to track audit trails or processes. They had to change the whole management program through training and ongoing communication. They also had to get a dedicated team that would support the business needs, to make decisions and were also named as point of contact after going live. The reason SAP was selected because it was unified software that would integrate all of the business processes. Which this enhanced business intelligence functionality. SAP was a great commitment to the retail industry. SAP was developed due to the fact it required no additional customization. Finally it had the...
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...these new system(s) should be a consideration as much as what to purchase. • Available resources – Management has restricted the resources available to purchase this system. This will make it necessary to look at only what is a “must have” rather than just a “nice to have” in the system. This is where employees should be invited to register their opinions on the new software and processes. • Management position – Since management still seems to be leaning toward patching together the old systems they will need to be convinced if the decision is made to change procedures or software. Ultimately, they are the ones who will ok the spend. • Legacy systems – possible integration, data transference capabilities. We need to consider, especially if going with a new software system, if there is an easy way to transfer the accumulated data on the legacy systems. If not, a plan needs to be implemented on how to get the data into the new system. • Company geography – Any adjustments to the system or upgrades to software need to take into consideration the multiple locations of this company. It should help the company to...
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...a dominant approach for dealing with legacy information system problems. In order to avoid invalidating maintenance support from the ERP vendor, most organizations reengineer their business processes in line with those implicit within the software. Some customization is required. While customization can give true organizational benefits, careful consideration is required to determine whether a customization is viable given its potential impact upon future maintenance. Introduction * Focus was upon the maintenance of legacy IS * From an IT perspective legacy IS problems are well documented * Legacy IT was never planned coherently and was designed for specific needs in specific times with no integration * Main consideration: memory optimization and processing speed * Impact upon the structure of systems, increasing maintenance problems 2. The rationale for ERP software adoption and its customization * ERP offers some benefits * Even in the light of the benefits of implementing ERP software, some organizations still choose to customize. In this paper, customization is meant to describe changes or additions to the functionality available in the standard ERP software. It does not refer to the switching on and off of functionality that is part of the blueprint of the software, sometimes referred to as software configuration. It is possible to argue that organizations may be recreating the problematic legacy conditions the ERP software was implemented...
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