...Gloabal Leadership: Grey Zone Paper Tiananmen Square Protests 1989 Chirs Niu 1454792 March 30, 2012 Box: 145 Industrial revolutions and economic reforms were the key drivers for Western societies to start the march towards democracy. The world’s most populated country, China, led by its historical figure Deng Xiaoping, started economic reform in the late 70s. Ten years of reform changed the country revolutionarily, making a once unenlightened and closed society prosperous and promising. The then current democratic atmosphere of the world heavily influenced the Chinese intelligent individuals, especially educated youth from state universities, during the late 80s. Nevertheless, the one party dominated socialist nation, which lived on its complete political control since independence in 1949, had not yet prepared to commence political reform that would eventually lead to democracy (CNN). In the early summer of 1989, astonishing sequences of events broke out and drew the entire world’s attention. This memorable event is known as the June 4th Event or Tiananmen Square Protests 1989. The Chinese government, unlike many democratic ones, uses authoritarian powers to facilitate political aspirations, from which the actions defined by the Communist Party as representing people’s rights and interests. Nevertheless, when students, workers and citizens marched on the streets all over China, the government chose to protect its own interests rather than those of the people’s...
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...The Gray Zone by Primo Levi – Summary In the chapter, the gray zone, the author Primo Levi describes the human relationships inside the Lager. In describing the gray zone, Levi discusses the different roles of prisoners assigned by the Nazi. The prisoners that did the work were seen as being more privileged which at the end of the day helped them get more food and live better. Therefore, the concept of the gray zone is analyzing the difference between the privileged and the non-privileged in the Lager. The difference can be seen by the tasks that the prisoners carried out, for example, one of the groups were seen as, “Low ranking functionaries... sweepers, kettle washers, night watchmen, bed smoothers... checkers of lice and scabies, messengers, interpreters, assistants’ assistants. In general, these people poor devils like ourselves, who worked full time like everyone else but who for an extra half liter of soup were willing to carry out these and other ‘tertiary’ functions.” This group was seen as harmless and not much different than the underprivileged. The other group of prisoners in the Lager was seen as the enemies to their own people. They were referred to as the Kapos who were “free to commit the worst atrocities on their subject as punishment for any transgressions, or even without any motive whatsoever: until the end of 1943 it was not unusual for a prisoner to be beaten to death by a Kapo without the latter having to fear any sanctions.” The prisoners that became...
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...Ecosystem The foothills of the Sierra Nevada are only a small section of the mountain range, encompassing the East and West slopes of the ranges in elevation from around 1,000 to 3,000 feet. The foothills are known as a biotic zone, one of five biotic zones, or ten if the person studying wishes to separate the Eastern side of the range from the Western side of the range. For our purposes, we will be including the Eastern and Western sides of the mountain range together as all being foothill zones. There are different types of species in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada; the producers, the consumers, and the decomposers. The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range’s foothills are at a low enough elevation that plant and animal life is adapted to hot, dry summers with very little or no snow in the winters. This type of dry climate leads to a lot of shrubbery and trees, which means there will be a large population of small animals and birds that will seek shelter in the shrubs and tree branches, as well as the larger animals that will feed on the plants and smaller animals. The plants that are typical to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range are numerous, but the most notable are the chamise, ceanothus, manzanita, Blue oak tree, Interior Live oak tree, and the Gray pine tree (Encyclopedia Americana, 2006). Chamise belongs to the rose family, and is a very dense flowering shrub that can grow up to 12 feet tall (Charters, M, 2010). Ceanothus belongs to the lilac family, and is often...
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...the transfer to e-books more successful. The most important issue is the unaccomplished negotiations with the authors. They demand to fulfill all their requirements what affects the project time line and the budget. Now the company management has to find the best way to settle such issue. Establishing the project priorities could possibly prevent or reduce the risk from such problems. “One of the primary jobs of a project manager is to manage the trade-offs among time, cost, and performance” (Gray & Larson, 2006, p. 103). Defining project scope Harrison-Keyes, Inc and the project committee should have defined the project scope in advance and have possibly prevented different problems. The project priorities and right protection of the works, they were converting to digital, could have allowed the committee to allocate properly time and money to the plan. “The primary purpose is to define as clearly as possible the deliverable(s) for the end user and to focus project plans” (Gray & Larson, 2006, p. 100). Responsibility matrices Any project requires a set of team members who will and can contribute, implement and accomplish the project plan. Harrison-Keyes, Inc failed to set a good responsibility matrix in place as not everybody who occupies the leadership position can do the job. The CIO Mack Evans does not have proper qualification to accomplish his part of the project. Mack’s experience is not up to date and he has no formal education in the technology field but...
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...There has been an ongoing debate if photography is a form of art or not. Photography is a form of art though because the photographer controls the camera, captures the image with the perfect amount of lighting, and captures the image at the right time. Elliot Eritt, who is a great photographer that we studied in class, said, “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” I really enjoy this quote because anything that you observe can be art, but the way that you observe a photo and the process that took to get that photo is the real art form. The definition of art is the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Photography shows beauty therefore it is art. The way the photographer controls the camera is a very important process that helps make photography considered art. A photographer will get a whole lot more out of their camera if they understand how it works. With a firm grasp of aperture, shutter speed, sensitivity and focal length, the ratio of truly great to merely mediocre shots that are downloaded at the end of an expedition is all but guaranteed to get better once they are able to learn how to control their camera properly. There are many books and websites that give information as to how it...
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...Hybrid zones have drawn great interest because they provide opportunities for further studies of the processes involved in divergence and recombination of species. Hybrid zones can be classified as primary or secondary, depending on their origins. In this study, we considered the hybrid zone within the Northern Flickers, which has been stable on the United States’ Great Plains throughout time. The interaction between the Red- and Yellow-shafted subspecies of Northern Flickers provides a great opportunity for experimentation due to their high tendency to interbreed. Nevertheless, it is unknown whether this hybrid zone is a primary or secondary one. Based off preliminary observations, we hypothesized that the hybrid zone of the Northern Flickers is secondary, due to the secondary contact between the two populations. To test this, we used a character guide (see figure 4) to quantify three specific traits shown within each member of our six populations: throat color, malar stripe, and tail feather shaft color. Through some analysis of these traits,...
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...I. Is a hospital liable for patients who fail to be compliant with discharge instructions? II. No. A hospital cannot be held liable for patients who fail to be compliant with their discharge instructions. III. Facts 1. In order to prove negligence or medical malpractice, the plaintiff must prove the: A. The requisite standard of care. B. A deviation from the standard of care C. A causal connection between the deviation and the claimed injury. 2. The hospitals rules, regulations, and policies do not establish a standard of care. However, a hospital’s failure to follow its own rules, regulations, and policies is evidence of negligence. 3. Discharge instructions can be construed to be part of a hospital’s rules, regulations and policies. 4. Unclear, or ambiguous discharge instructions can place the hospital at risk for increased liability for negligence if a casual connection can be made to a patient’s injury. Therefore, to protect itself, hospitals should be proactive in establishing clear discharge protocols and individualized discharge instructions. IV. Review of the Law In the case of Earline Therry, et al v. State of Louisiana, through the Department of Health and Hospitals and University Medical Center of Lafayette, Louisiana, a summary judgment was granted for the defendants based upon the plaintiff’s inability to establish a causal connection between a breach of the standard of care and any resultant injuries. In this case, Mrs. Therry accused...
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...ACI Worldwide Inc (NAS:ACIW) Altman Z-Score 2.73 (As of Today) ACI Worldwide Inc has a Z-score of 2.73, indicating it is in Grey Zones. This implies that ACI Worldwide Inc is in some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.81, the company may faces bankrupcy risk. The zones of discrimination were as such: When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones. When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones. When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones. ACIW' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years Min: 0.61 Max: 15.42 Current: 2.7 0.61 15.42 During the past 13 years, ACI Worldwide Inc's highest Altman Z-Score was 15.42. The lowest was 0.61. And the median was 3.20. Altman’s “Z- Score”, the paramount recognized model of Financial Distress which uses several ratios to generate a prediction of the likelihood of Bankruptcy. This model uses multiple discriminant analysis to predict the Financial Distress. According to the rules of calculating Z-Score, we need to find the Five Financial Ratios. Assessment Here we can perceive the ALTMAN’S Z -Score of ADVANCED CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (ACI), which reveals the Financial Distress of the Company as a whole. ACI has the Z-Score of 1.57 which reflects, the company is in the Ambiguous Position. On the other hand the entire company is not solvent enough because the Working Capital figure of the company is showing negative, which is one of the major factors in analyzing the Z-Score. At the end of the...
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...When a specimen, which may be urine, stool, other body fluid (CSF, synovial, pleural), as well as swabs from a wound, surgical incision, or specific area of the body (vaginal, eye, nares)is brought to the micro laboratory for culture it is inoculated on a nutrient plate or in a nutrient broth for growth, as well as specific complex, selective, or differential types of media. Some media (agar plates) contain substances that enhance the growth of certain organisms, while inhibiting the growth of others; some are highly selective for species; and others still can differentiate between species. Inoculating onto these different types of media can then guide the growth and identification of pathogens that are usually prevalent in a specific culture type. For example, Streptococcus agalactiae, also known as Group B Strep or GBS, is a normal flora of the digestive, urinary, and genital tracts, that is found in 20 - 40% of women. While it usually causes no illness in carriers of the bacteria, a pregnant woman colonized with GBS late in her pregnancy can pass it to her baby with very serious outcomes. Newborn GBS most often infects the lungs, blood , and spinal fluid, causing pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis, respectively. (ACOG, 2014) Because a vaginal swab will usually contain a number of mixed bacterial flora, it is important to isolate a pure culture of the organism, which can be used for testing and organism identification. If the culture isn’t pure, the chances of incorrect...
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...Alexia Gonzalez Political Science 4823: The Holocaust/ the Shoah Final Paper December 12, 2013 The Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Ethnic cleansing and genocide are considered to coexist in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. These threats were more prominent during the 20th century which caused massive violations of human rights and jeopardized the overall security of humans. Determinants of ethnic cleansing and genocide root from socio-political factors influenced by deeply embedded ideologies which are manifested by political leaders of specific regime types. During World War II, German authorities targeted Jews and other minority groups like the gypsies and Pols due to their perceived racial inferiority. The German ideology in attempt to eradicate these auxiliary groups led to the conflict known as the Shoah. The Shoah is the biblical word meaning destruction and it is the standard Hebrew term for the murder of European Jewry. The Shoah was the systematic, bureaucratic and state sponsored persecution of six million Jews. Comparable to other ethnic based genocides, Germans believed they were racially superior and that Jews were inferior; and deemed a threat to the “German racial community” resulting in their mass murder. Various interpretations of the Shoah has given rise to similar attitudes and opinions regarding its historical events. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, is one of the largest resources of its kind which includes...
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...Table of Contents 1. The Need for Pricing 2. Pricing Software Industry Products 3. Licensing 4. Pricing Discrimination 5. Bundling 6. Other Pricing Issues 7. Summary The Need for Pricing Pricing has far reaching effects beyond the cost of the product. Pricing is just as much a positioning statement as a definition of the cost to buy. Price defines the entry threshold: who your buyers are and their sensitivities, which competitors you will encounter, who you will be negotiating with and what the customers’ expectations will be. Good pricing will remove the price issue from being an obstacle to a sale. Pricing is also used as a weapon to fight the competition as well as gray markets. Pricing is unique from other marketing decisions for several reasons: • Price is the only marketing element that produces revenue. All other marketing decisions produce costs. • Pricing is the most flexible marketing decision. • Pricing reflects a product's strengths and weaknesses. It implies value as well as positioning. • Pricing has the most immediate impact on the bottom line. In the high tech industry, a 1% increase in prices can lead to a 10% (or more) increase in profit. This is twice the effect that the same change in volume, fixed or variable costs have on profits. Pricing Software Industry Products When it comes to Pricing Software, “Economics 101” is not applicable. There are many reasons for this: 1. Supply and Demand curves are based on the assumption...
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...Photography and Time-Base Media Another type of two-dimensional media is photography and camera art, this type of media allows the artist to explore the fourth dimension – time. Camera record the world around us, and the history of the camera is a history of technologies that record our world with ever0inceasing sophistication and expertise. Photography started in 1838 with still images, but the still images generated the though that might be possible to capture the object in motion as well. The Kinetoscope, which was invented by Thomas Edison and W.K. Laurie Dickson was the first continuous film motion-picture viewing machine. The process of silent moving images progressed into “talkie” and then added color. Photography • Photography – from the Greek phos, “light,” and graphos, “writing,” literally “writing with light” • You can photograph anything you can see • Creation is the process of asseblage • Photography is a process of asseblage, instant collage Early History • Camera – Latin world for “room” • Camera obscura – to copy nature accurately (A small hole on the side of a light-tight room admits a ray of light that projects a scene, upside down, directly across the hole onto a semitransparent white scrim. ) • Major drawback – While it could capture the image it could not preserve it. • Problem was solved in 1839, by fixing negative images on paper coated with light sensitive chemicals, a process that he called photogenic drawing. • In France a...
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...The Truth About Adulthood Remember when we were young and dreamt of the day we entered the world of adolescence. So eager to experience the sweet taste of independence that is, till reality came knocking on the door. It is the breakthrough from childhood to adolescence that was captured as the theme in John Updike’s story A &P and James Joyce’s “Araby”. The use of imagery to describe the lifeless and ordinary setting made it clear to distinguish the characters desire to overcome the barriers of childhood. The story of “Araby” begins at a dead end street where the narrator lives with his aunt and uncle. He describes the short days of winter and mentions, “The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet (107).” He is expressing the continuous change that comes along with getting older, just like the ever changing skies, this feeling of continuous change is something the narrator has no power over and is frustrating to him. To represent the initiation into adulthood and the loss of child like dreams the narrator describes the street where the boys play: “The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes…to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens… to the dark odorous (107). It seems as though where ever the boy goes darkness follows, representing a dreadful feeling of growing up. Passing through to adolescence comes with the crushing of dreams and illusions. In addition to the point on desire to enter adulthood, when in class the narrator...
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...balloons and he pointed to another balloon and said the word balloon. The balloons were different colors and Tommy pointed to the balloons and named the colors of them. The second area that I assessed was section eleven: concepts/vocabulary: expressive. In this category the appropriate skills for a 47 month old child include: asks word meanings or otherwise indicates awareness that words have meanings, makes rhymes to simple words, uses new words in conversation soon after hearing the word or having been told the meaning of the word, and labeling the colors: red, green, blue, orange, purple, yellow, black, brown, pink, and gray (Johnson-Martin, Hacker, & Attermeier, 2004). I was able to observe Tommy labeling colors: red, green, blue, orange, purple, yellow, black, brown, pink, and gray. During my hour long observation Tommy labeled pink as red and gray as white. A smart goal for Tommy to understand the difference between the two colors would be by the time Tommy is five he will have gained more experience and exposure to these colors that he will be able to understand the...
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...HISTORY 1120-102 | The Cold War | Professor Gray | | Davante Henderson | 4/30/2015 | | Davante Henderson Professor Gray HIST 1120-102 30 April 2015 The Cold War “We have to get tough with the Russians. They don’t know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.”-Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States. The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. The U.S. struggle to contain Soviet communism worldwide resulted in what came to be known as the "Cold War". Although full-scale war between the U.S. and Soviet Union did not occur, two major wars, (Korea and Vietnam), and many smaller conflicts occurred between 1946 and 1991 over the battle between democracy and communism. The Cold war was a product of many social and political reasons, a few but not limited to: The portioning of North Korea and Germany, the Marshal Plan, the Berlin Blockage and NATO. I’ll begin my explanation with the Yalta Conference, held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe. “At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war...
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