...Chris Rollins English 102 Shannon Garland 02/21/2009 The Legacy Controversy You’ve just completed four grueling years of high school. You have a 3.5 grade point average and figure getting into the University of Virginia will be no problem. You and your best friend have planned on going to Virginia since you were kids; his father attended and has told you many stories of his escapades while there. One problem, your best bud only has a 2.5 GPA, and hasn’t exactly applied himself during high school; he may not get in. You rush to the mail box everyday hoping for an acceptance letter, and this day it’s there. You eagerly rip into it only to read “We are sorry, but you have not been accepted to this year’s freshmen class”; you are heartbroken. The phone rings, you answer to the sounds of your best bud screaming “we’re going to Virginia baby!”; how can this be? The answer, he’s a legacy and you’re not. Legacy admission practices have long been a topic of controversy. Many claim they are unethical and violate anti-discrimination laws while others claim they are a financial necessity and help boost school loyalty. Each side has valid arguments, deciding who’s right or wrong is up to you. The article “The curse of Nepotism”, featured in The Economist, paints a jaded picture of the Legacy admission practices of Universities across the country. The article reminds us that this country was founded on the idea that you can achieve your goals by working hard, and being honestly committed...
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...Legacy Systems Older software systems that remain vital to an organisation ©Ian Sommerville Software Engineering, 6th edition. Chapter 26 Slide 1 Objectives To explain what is meant by a legacy system and why these systems are important To introduce common legacy system structures To briefly describe function-oriented design To explain how the value of legacy systems can be assessed ©Ian Sommerville Software Engineering, 6th edition. Chapter 26 Slide 2 Topics covered Legacy system structures Legacy system design Legacy system assessment ©Ian Sommerville Software Engineering, 6th edition. Chapter 26 Slide 3 Legacy systems Software systems that are developed specially for an organisation have a long lifetime Many software systems that are still in use were developed many years ago using technologies that are now obsolete These systems are still business critical that is, they are essential for the normal functioning of the business They have been given the name legacy systems ©Ian Sommerville Software Engineering, 6th edition. Chapter 26 Slide 4 Legacy system replacement There is a significant business risk in simply scrapping a legacy system and replacing it with a system that has been developed using modern technology Legacy systems rarely have a complete specification. During their lifetime they have undergone major changes which may not have...
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...Legacy Admission It is a dream of many students to be admitted into an elite college or university. However, getting into one has been a controversial issue on college admission for so many years. Some says that money matters more than brains, wherein college officials favored legacy student over the common applicant. Legacy admission is a process in which a student is admitted without enough credentials and not based on academic standards. Legacy students are getting preferential treatment because they are child of a wealthy, popular, educated, or alumni of the university. In article, “Time to Bury the Legacy”, Robert DeKoven, a professor at California Western School of Law, stated that legacy admission is unfair and should be eliminated. DeKoven (2003) also pointed out that legacy admission is equal to taking races and genders as factors, which is discrimination. Students should be admitted based on their merit and for a university official to give more weight on having college-educated parents violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. (p225) He noted that at Notre Dame, 57 percent of students admitted were children of alumni. He also stated that George W. Busch applied to Yale University with a C average and 566 SAT. Yale University accepted him and rejected others with impressive credentials because he is the son of affluent family. (DeKoven, 2003, p. 224) According to the data provided by The College Board, most universities use “common application...
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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...A legacy is what someone is remembered by. Everyone has a legacy, either for good or bad. Legacies can be material possessions or character traits that make people think of someone. For example, if someone was committed to community service and helping others, it would be said that they left behind a legacy of selflessness. The current generation can be remembered for many things: the war on terrorism, global warming, or the changing gender identities. In the end, the current generation will be remembered for its dependency on technology every day in education, daily tasks, communication, and the workplace. Use of technology in education at all levels has become commonplace for many reasons. First off, the use of the internet allows for an...
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