...Philosophy of Life – Key Components PHI1000 – Intro to Philosophy August 7, 2011 Introduction The card activity in this unit opened my eyes to several positions that are interesting, but my personal philosophy of life focuses on a specific three issues. First, there is Free Will, which is the theory that we have the ability to choose our own destiny. Second is Reason and Experience, the theory that we gain knowledge using reason and experience. Finally, Personal Identity, that I conclude, we define by using free will (choice of destiny), then reason and experience (how and why we reach our destiny). Free Will Free Will comes into play because it relates to one’s own desires. “What freewill tries to account for is our introspective conviction that we are in control of many of our choices, and thus our destiny - that we are free to think and decide”. (Voss, 1997) The question that arises when we have free will is “Who do I want to be?” versus “Who am I supposed to be?” Subsequently, if one is pondering about whether to believe in free will or not, then one is already committed to its existence. The choices that I make help define who I am. “Throughout his life, every normal person deliberates, imputes responsibility, and recommends or proscribes courses of action. In each of these activities, he presupposes that alternatives are available to himself and others -- for it would make no sense to deliberate over what one had no choice about, or to recommend to a...
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...domestic appliances and commercial machines in the field of laundry care, dishwashing and disinfection. It was set up in 1899 and it is family owned by Mr Miele and Zinkann. PP3 – Today`s agenda is: • What are the key resources that have made Miele a successful company so far? Which of these are marketing assets? • Miele are now facing more and more competition in a changing market. Do their resources provide them with a sustainable competitive advantage? PP4 –The key resources that have made Miele successful are a mix of tangible, intangible and organisational capabilities. In particular, the company is oriented around the customer and their consumption habits and focuses on providing higher quality, more innovative, and “greener” products than their competitors, responding and forecasting consumer needs. They have innovative market capabilities. So the key resources can be divided into physical, reputational, organisational, financial, intellectual and human, and technological. These can be placed under each category, as marketing asset – PP5. A strong relationship with its customers and the brand represent for them guarantee of quality, reliability and durability. This concept is in the corporate philosophy of “Immer besser” (forever better). Some key resources that have contributed to building this image are: The Country of Origin (Germany): a leader in High quality products, R&D and innovation. Miele sets itself aside from its competitors by deciding to make most...
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...Gladwell wrote that “ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness” (41). What he was referring to here, is something I had never formerly acknowledged. Beforehand, I knew being successful required hard work, but this concept of ten thousand hours was hard to grasp. My ambiguity regarding Gladwell’s philosophy behind the ten thousand hour rule quickly vanished. As Gladwell presented numerous prominent figures of whom exemplified this notion, his idea started to become more clear. Gladwell’s story of The Beatles served as one of these examples. He mentioned that the ten thousand hours in which they performed prior to becoming famous is what “made” them into an iconic band. From the evidence which Gladwell presented, it was clear to see that putting in ten thousand hours of work resulted in a greater chance of success for several individuals or groups. Often times, I would agree that the majority of people would consider hard work to be a dominant factor when it comes to success, but what fails to be analyzed is just how much time this actually...
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...the planning or organization that go in to creating such a complex environment. Clearly, safety issues concerning air travel have been heightened during the past decade. While it is clear that major precautions are taken to secure the actual aircraft, prior to takeoff, during flight, and once the landing process has commenced, one often forgets about the safety implications involved in the actual airport. This paper evaluates AC No: 150/5070-7, titled “The Airport System Planning Process.” The aim is to give an overview of the process, including background regarding the purpose of the complex strategy, Within an integrated airport planning system, which is expected to provide guidance for future establishments in the field, there are four key aspects that must be exhibited. First, the system needs identification, where there is a specific reason that the airport was designed using the planning process selected. Second, there must be a system-wide development cost estimate. Such an expensive project, one might assume, does not require an accurate budget. However, it is crucial that one remain within the realm of the budget by meeting the estimated cost. Third, proper planning and organizing must be implemented through studies, surveys, and other collective actions to gain information and decide which aeronautical needs are to be met by the system of airports in question. This process is complex as there are a variety of requirements necessary to plan and implement the proper airport...
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...Faculty of Design Module Name: Programme Name Programme No. Assignment Title Project Objectives Assignment Brief 2012-2013 Culture & History 1: Product Design Masters (QF Level 4) BA (Hons) in Product Design DS 125 103 Module no Year 1 – Sem. 1 Total Hours: 42 DPD4120 No. of weeks: 14 Hours per week: 3 This project is designed to assess your ability to: - interpret the key issues of product design from different perspectives, including social, economic and technological, through rigorous explorations on selected product design masters. - critically review contemporary product design in the professional context. relate key aspects of the design masters’ design philosophies to design artefacts. Brief This assignment allows you to demonstrate your understanding of the design philosophies of the product design masters and apply critiques across theoretical and practical work. In this assignment you will be required to: research into one current or past product design master; relate key aspects of the design masters’ design philosophies to design artifact; interpret the key issues of product design from different perspectives, including social, economic and technological; critically review their contributions and effect to contemporary product design; and write an essay with a minimum of 1,500 words based on your findings. Deliverables 1,500 word essay in hard copy plus a soft copy in MS Word format uploaded into MOODLES. (MLO 2, 3, 4) 1. 2. 3. The essay...
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...a means to convey his points of view on how the world is in a degenerative mode and though I felt this strange at first, it became clear later as to why he used a Gorilla in the first place. The Gorilla here represents nature's voice and is a reminder that we need to look for ways to communicate with nature, first hand. This was the first eye opening aspect from the author. The second was the author's penchant for coming up with brilliant stories to derive and communicate his point to the reader. Instead of driving in his philosophies by pure theory would have been boring and heavy, but the author uses wonderful and thought provoking stories to do the same, so effectively. The first was the simple concept of food kept under lock and key. This is a practice that comes so naturally to us, but he brings out why this is a very unnatural way of things. For early man, what grew in the world belonged to everyone in the society, and to put it under lock and key is to basically create a working class who will do tasks, useful or useless, in order to earn their bread. Ishmael's (the name of the gorilla) teachings turn toward the subject of formal education, which he argues is merely a way to keep children out of the work force and is otherwise unnecessary because humans learn on their own, naturally following their own interests and picking up information necessary to operate in their culture. In tribal cultures, this information inherently includes that which is relevant to surviving...
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...INTRODUCTION: Tata Power is envisioning ambitious expansion plans. The company has in its core values that the holistic growth of the company is possible only through the aggregate satisfaction of the whole community which represent the stakeholders. So owing to this philosophy, the firm has to provide highly enhanced CSR activities to the beneficiaries. This need has aggravated more on account of the expansion plans. Now there are two alternate plans for meeting this need. So this has to be streamlined by careful and rational deliberations. PESTCL ANALYSIS: Political: * The issue of the land acquisition would have a big political implication, as at the site of operations. Different political parties play politics, by assembling people against the land acquisition and pose a roadblock. This is proved by the present simmering issue of POSCO in Odisha. | Economic: * The CSR issues if gather speed, would help elevate the economic condition of the displaced families, at the same time earning the government added revenues in the form of tax, form the company operations. | Social: * The people when benefited by the CSR of TPC, would have a big social impact on the TPC’s future initiatives, as now a social connect is there between the industry and local people. | Cultural: * The CSR activity portrays the vibrant, sensitive and responsible culture of Tata in particular and affects the value, attitudes of the employees in particular and the overall work culture as a...
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...be understood by unauthorized readers.” (Dyson) Encryption can be thought as locking something valuable into a strong box with a key. Sensitive data is encrypted by using a key algorithm, which renders it unreadable without the knowledge of the key. Data encryption keys are determined at connect time between a connection and the computer on the other end. The use of data encryption can be initiated by a personal computer or by the server it’s connecting to. On these terms, “Encryption is the technology that makes E-COMMERCE possible because it underlies the security systems used to protect electronic financial transactions.” (Dyson) Similarly, Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, gives another definition for the term. “Encryption is a method for users to securely share data over an insecure network or storage server.” (Boneh, Sahai and Waters) Since there are many transactions people do every day such as online banking or online shopping, it is necessary to make sure that they are done safely with the use of Encryption. As a matter of fact, the applications of encryption are very important. First of all we have data protection. Here we are referring to files and email encryption. The data is protected in the hard disk in case a hacker gets into the system. However, if the person who has the key of the encryption to decode...
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...Summary: The number of illiterates in India is estimated to be over 400 million of which 75% live in rural areas. Of the literate population, a significant proportion lack basic vocational skills. India has world-class institutes of higher learning, such as the IITs, IIMs and medical colleges but the rural India still remain isolated to them. India’s most valuable intellectual capital migrates to western countries keeping gap in demand and supply of such intellectual capital in India, therefore we need to develop the equal opportunities for the isolated communities and enable them to access the elitist structure of Indian education. With the weak and tottering foundation India will not be able to achieve social and economic development The key challenge of India is to rapidly provide opportunities to the rural population to empower them with education and make them literate, and develop basic leadership and problem-solving skills. Have strong basic education foundation rural India will be able to raise productivity, entrepreneurship and material standards of living Here we would like to opt to do research into how into how provide solution to the critical issues of primary education in India through innovation strategy. As a part of research we will be meeting and collecting information from founders of NGO called “eVidyaloka (www.eVidyaloka.org)”. eVidyaloka is a not for profit organization registered under the Trusts Act, focuses on...
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...Journey of the Self The road I’m traveling on I see as a dirt road through a light forest in the mountains of northern California. I’m not sure exactly where I am, but it is a bright day with some clouds and blue skies, but off to the distance I can see storm clouds. All I have with me is my backpack containing a notebook, a pen, a pair of gym shorts, a spare t-shirt, a pack of cigarettes with a lighter, a bottle of water and a couple of granola bars. In my pockets I have a cell phone with a dead battery, a pocketknife, and my wallet with five dollars and my I.D. inside. I’m walking, surrounded by trees of all types. There is a light breeze, but it’s quiet as I walk and look around. As I’m walking, the road is flat and somewhat narrow, but it is easy going for the most part, with random spots where the road becomes rocky and somewhat stressful, but it evens itself out and becomes smooth for a period of time again. I feel happy and serene, but exhausted at times and in need of a bit of rest, but I always continue and begin to walk again. As I’m walking, I come to a two-way fork in the road with a sign in the middle. The sign has two arrows with words printed on them. Each arrow is pointing in the opposite direction of the other. To the left I have the choice to walk to the city, while to the right I have the choice to walk to a small country town. After some thought and consideration of both of my choices, I eventually choose to head towards the Country. I’m not sure exactly...
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...What is Honor? My understanding of the term honor. Honor is defined as a source of credit or distinction, and is associated with reverence, dignity, reputation, good name and a good sense of what is morally correct. The key part to honor is having respect for others and for you; the two must act together because without both, there is nothing. I strongly believe that reputation is hard to gain and easily lost. Think about this, every day thousands of planes fly somewhere and there is never any news about a successful landing, but if any of those flights crash, it is all over the news. This fact tells me that in order to keep one’s honor, one must maintain a set standard of excellence. It will only take one infraction to cause said person to forfeit one’s honor. Nicholas Boileau once said: “Honor is like a rugged island without a shore, once you have left it, you cannot return.” Honor is something in which is not obtained and sustained easily. One must have patience and study to become a person of integrity and goodwill. Honor is an everyday thing; obstacles trying to deter one from being honorable lay in life’s everyday path. Perseverance is a key to honor; one must fight the constant impeding objects in order to maintain the highest level of honor. The shore of an island is often looked at as something isolated and secluded yet has a certain charm about it. Honor is much like the shore in this sense. Honor must come from inside and resist being influenced by minor factors...
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...David Srep Computer Literacy New Tech Update These three phones allow you to have the Unikey app. No more digging your pockets and looking for your keys. There a new app that you can get for the phones that are above this paragraph. This key is called the Unikey system, and it has some cool features that are actually kind of clever. The unikey app transmits a Bluetooth signal from the user iPhone, android, or blackberry smart phone, which is picked up by a paired unikey deadbolt lock as it is approached by a user. All the user has to do is walk up to the door and the phone has to be nearby the door. Next the user has to touch the outer surface of the lock, at which point the bolt will electronically withdraw. You can do the same thing when you leave the house. What I like about the Unikey system is that you can text someone the key to your house. This way your family member doesn’t have to wait until you get home. It gives you an option if you want that person have the key permanent or a one- time use. If you lose your phone you can deactivate the app from a computer and the unikey comes with a spare key. The unikey system is being sold for 199.00. It will be cool if they can make these apps for cars. I have car key 3 times and hand to pay 80 dollars for someone to get my key out the car. Source: http://www.unikeytech.com/ Source:...
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...Cryptography Cryptography Some data is very sensitive and therefore it has to be hidden away from parties who are not supposed to view it. In this age of computers, their capacity for transfer and retrieval of information may be exploited by other parties to gain access to confidential and potentially dangerous data. Therefore, measures have been taken to ensure that data is not accessed by others which is done by using several methods which, besides physical security, includes the use of encryption algorithms which are programs that change the way information looks by rendering it illegible. Data encryption is an important part of computing and, if done properly, can provide the user with means through which data can be protected from other parties. Encryption is done in many areas including end point devices such as computer terminals and servers which store important information. As such, data encryption has been applied in the military, banking sector, in businesses and other areas which require secure storage and transfer of data. Data encryption is simply the change of raw data or ordinary information referred to as plaintext into indecipherable material called cipher text. The data can then be stored or transferred securely since it cannot be read by another party. If the data is to be accessed, a cipher, which is the pair of algorithms that encrypts and decrypts data, is used to decrypt the data. The data can then be read and it is therefore accessible only...
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...Asia. product segments: Frozen savoury, Dessert, Fruit products customer segments: retailers (supermarkets), foodservice outlets (sporting venues or cafes), Petrol and Convenience Channel (Reliance BP sites) oversease markets: US market, Asia market Value chain: PFL doesn't sell directly to consumers. 2 What is the current life cycle position of the industry? (industry life cycle, and demonstrate why?) Maturity stage : The case mentioned that PFL has already achieved leadership in serveral markets. Besides, serveral other markets are very competitive. In addition, PFL is continuing to pursue conversion cost reduction, which is another character of maturity stage. So we conclude that this industry is in maturity stage. What are the key issues that will affect historical/future industry growth? What is their likely impact and the overall assessment of the industry’s future growth? (TEMPLES) Technology + The technology development, especially information systems and manufacuturing systems, will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this industry by enabling economies of scale and scope. So the smaller compititors who doesn't have strong cash flow to invest in the new technology, will be swept out. And the left competitors will grow market share by both further acquisitions and cost management. Economy + The potential growing sales in US and Asia may make the total industry grow by expanding to international markets. The global financial crisis (Case doesn't mention)...
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...Ariel Martin October 16, 2013 Descriptive narration Flash Burn My dad was set on fire when the car backfired. He was in the process of getting his Jeep fixed. On this particular day, the project of choice was working on the carburetor. The process was simple, he would pour gas into the carb well my boyfriend Mat would turn the key over. They must have done this at least a dozen times. The last time it all went wrong. My dad poured the gas and Mat turned the key. A loud bang like a gun shoot startled me, but I did not expect to turn my head to see the most devastating thing. I looked over to where the bang was there were flames coming from under the hood. The bottle of gas my dad was holding was on fire. He was unsure where my son was so he didn’t want to throw the bottle. Instead he tried to shake the bottle that’s when it all went wrong. The gas splashed his face then the flames; he hit the floor stop, drop and roll. It didn’t work as he hit the floor the bottle of gas fell and he rolled right into it. Now his chest is on fire, he realized it’s not working he stands up and rips his shirt off and starts hitting his head to put the flames out. The smell of burning flesh and hair was all we could smell. The sight was heart breaking when he turned around; the skin that was left on his face was hanging. From the time the fire started to when he looked me in the eyes and asked how he looked had only been about a minute and a half. That fast I had to look my dad in his...
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