...Leonid Fridman wrote an essay titled, “America Needs Its Nerds”, in which he described the derogatory terms and meanings that accompany words such as “nerd” and “geek”. I disagree with Fridman’s view on this topic. Though the terms “nerd” and “geek” may have negative connotations, they are not always meant in a negative manner. Also, Fridman states that nerds and geeks “are ostracized but athletes are idolized” (Fridman 1). I do not always think that statement is true either. For example, in the Greencastle School District, there are many students who value schoolwork, and are not “ostracized” for their dedication to school. There are also students who are dedicated to both sports and academics, which is very respectable. I believe that the...
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...A life of isolation seems like a punishment to some. But to others, it's considered the best option. Do people really need to belong? Is belongingness important to life? People do need to belong for a number of reasons. It's human nature to want to belong with similar people to themselves. By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau shows this point. In the story, the Indian author moves to an Anglo-Indian and immediately notices the only other Indian girl in her class. “When it was time for recess, I followed the girl with the braids out onto the veranda.” The author wants to be friends with the other Indian girl instead of her other classmates because she wants to belong with someone similar to her. But what happens when people aren't involved?...
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...lonely human; usually a mother figure. However they came to be, the First People, while split into different geographical and cultural groups, had many things in common. These groups: the Costal, Plateau, and Basin Indians, all used the resources of the PNW to their advantage. For the most part, all depended on hunting and gathering for food and resources. The Basin Indians, with more limited resources, did have to forage for food and resources at times. Salmon was favored heavily for both a food source and in various ceremonies. Each group had domesticated animals: horses, dogs, or sheep. The changes in this era are more focused on the growth of cultures and of population; establishing societies. The Coast Indians were separated geographically from other native peoples. They had their own local forms of society and government involving a very class conscious social structure. Wars or feuds among tribes were not uncommon. The Plateau Indians lived in small settlements along major tributaries and streams. They came together for trading purposes, harvest, or to defeat a common foe. Not hindered by geography, the Plateau Indians traveled more extensively than the Coast Indian. Spending most of their time seeking food and water, the Basin Indians had little in the...
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...Open-Sourcing Self-Organizing Collaborative Communities Alan Cohen still remembers the first time he heard the word "Apache" as an adult, and it wasn't while watching a cowboys-and-Indians movie. It was the 1990s, the dot-com market was booming, and he was a senior manager for IBM, helping to oversee its emerging e-commerce business. "I had a whole team with me and a budget of about $8 million," Cohen recalled. "We were competing head-to-head with Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun-all the big boys. And we were 82 playing this very big-stakes game for e-commerce. IBM had a huge sales force selling all this e-commerce software. One day I asked the development director who worked for me, 'Say, Jeff, walk me through the development process for these e-commerce systems. What is the underlying Web server?' And he says to me, It's built on top of Apache.' The first thing I think of is John Wayne. 'What is Apache?' I ask. And he says it is a shareware program for Web server technology. He said it was produced for free by a bunch of geeks just working online in some kind of open-source chat room. I was floored. I said, 'How do you buy it?' And he says, Tou download it off a Web site for free.' And I said, 'Well, who supports it if something goes wrong?' And he says, 'I don't know-it just works!' And that was my first exposure to Apache . . . "Now you have to remember, back then Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Netscape were all trying to build commercial Web servers. These were...
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...The Board often orders, directors to remove anything it feels offensive. The censorship of films is governed by the Cinematograph Act, 1952. It assigns certification as Universal, Adults, and Parental Guidance to films in India before public exhibition. Film censorship is common today, but the first time a movie went through censorship because of politics and the law was in 1921. Bhakta Vidur was banned in Chennai and Karachi at its release during the imposition of the Rowlatt Act that put restrictions on Indian imports. Today most critical job is of censor board towards violence and sex. It has to control corruption of mind and to top pornographic films. But to the irony of censor board is ‘Internet’ where just by writing a word sex you can go to any porn site whereas censor board has long panel discussion for 3 second kiss scene in a movie. I don’t say to legalize pornography but the government has to realize the importance of freedom of speech and expression. Movies like Gangs of Wasseypur, Gandu (‘Arsehole’), The Dirty Picture, Miss Lovely and many more are getting international recognition but at the same time are criticized in...
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...68 3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter you should be able to: LO1 Scanning the Marketing Environment WEB 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT YOU! The Web is changing at an extraordinary pace and each new change provides more customization and convenience for you. If you use Myspace. com, Del.icio.us, Secondlife, or any one of hundreds of new products on the Web you are already part of the new world of the Web! Not long ago the Web simply provided a modern channel for traditional businesses. Music led the way with file-sharing services such as Napster and eventually online stores such as iTunes. The entire entertainment industry followed by offering books, movies, television, radio, and photography on the Web. The digital revolution allowed all of these businesses to benefit from the technical aspects of the Web. Now the term Web 2.0 is used to describe the changes in the World Wide Web that reflect the growing interest in collaboration, open sharing of information, and customer control. Many products and services such as podcasts, weblogs, videologs, social networking, bookmarking, wikis, folksonomy, and RSS feeds are already available, and many more are in development. As the focus moves from providing a new channel for existing businesses to empowering individual consumers with customized products, suddenly the Web is all about you! You can create your own video and post it on YouTube, sell your photos on iStockphoto, build a social networking site on Ning, and publish...
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... Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada and China. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, CinemaNow, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates under both the Best Buy and Future Shop label. Together these operate more than 1,150 stores domestically and internationally. In addition, the company operates over 100 Best Buy Express Automated Retail stores or "ZoomShops", operated by Zoom Systems, in airports and malls around the U.S. The company is headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota, United States. On March 9, 2009, Best Buy became the largest electronics retail store (online and bricks and mortar) in the eastern United States, after smaller rival Circuit City went out of business. Fry's Electronics remains a major competitor in the western United States, while Hhgregg remains competitive in the eastern United States. Many locations feature in-store pickup, which can be arranged through the company's website. As of December 28, 2008, the company operated 1,010 Best Buy Stores, 13 Magnolia Audio Video Stores (specializing in high-end electronics), 7 stand-alone Geek Squad stores, 3 Audio Visions Stores, 13 Best Buy Mobile Stores (standalone) and 17 Pacific Sales Stores (in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada), all through its U.S. retail subsidiary. They also operate 51 Best Buy and 140 Future...
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...The experience of being an outsider would be considered universal. Being an outsider is the feeling of not fitting in or being judged because we are different than the typical status quo. No matter where we are in the world there will always be the people who fit in and the outsiders, people who don’t belong. Places like schools and even other countries have outsiders along with people of different age groups. The world we live in has built this perfect society in where many people believe that being an outsider is a negative thing and that it impacts us in an annulling way. In Revenge of the Geeks by Alexandra Robbins she describes the social struggles and experiences that people at school must go through. ‘’The worst aspect of the treatment...
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...Case Study -1: Indian BPOs Waking Up to the Philippines Opportunity? To: In Partial Fulfilment for MBA in Management and Administration How has the Economic downturn, discussed in the opening profile and throughout this chapter, impacted jobs outsourcing in the BPO Industry? According to the Business Dictionary, Economic downturn is a situation in which the economy of a country experiences a sudden shift brought on by a financial crisis. (as cited on Business Dictionary.com. Retrieved 6.10.12.Copyright©2012 Web Finance, Inc. All Rights Reserved) “ Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the practice of using a third party, contracted to perform specific, specialized processes on a company’s behalf”.(as cited on Wise-Geek. Copyright © 2003 - 2012 Conjecture Corporation). Outsourcing is when the business contracted outside individual to carry out an assigned task. The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland theme was “Shaping the Post Crisis world”. (as cited in International Management.p3.para.2) The writer believed this theme was chosen due to the impact the recession had on the booming economies of the world. A crisis involves a recession, depression, collapse and drying up of liquidity, collaterals and rising and falling prices due to inflation. The financial crisis which crippled the world economy caused a credit crunch...
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...boys are in an angsty teen band along with a pair of their friends. Kaitlyn Krimpson is the long time classmate and unrequited crush of the brothers. She is smart but flakey; and, perpetually late, due to an obession with showering. Prathmesh Kimitri, aka Meat (complete with allusion to A.T.H.F.) is an East Indian lad, atypical of the common stereotype. He is the unkempt , doofy, class-clown, with no qualms about spoofing his wealthy, pseudo-celeberty father....
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...Middle east. Furthermore, one thousand years after Alexander, Greek remained the official language of jordan. (Doc E) A thousand years is a very long time to have Greek culture, literature, arts, and theater mixed into the Mediterranean and Middle East cultures, and it all happened on the behalf of Alexander. Not only did he spread the Greek culture, but he Alexander never got to see how much he influenced the world but she help the entire world keep Greek culture arts literature the culture. Haven't even in just a small part of the world, they could start spreading very slowly out to the rest of the world so it might not be a strong point anymore for the Middle Eastern Mediterranean, but it could be for Asia India Egypt except truck. End of geek culture is important because it was a very popular language back then. spreading it out will help it stay alive and exist I...
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...Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American business magnate and author. He is known as the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers (PCs). He is ranked as the 41st richest person in the world on 2012 Forbes Billionaires list, with a net worth of US$15.9 billion as of March 2012.[1] In 2011, his 243.35 million shares of Dell stock were worth $3.5 billion, giving him 12% ownership of the company.[2] His remaining wealth of roughly $10 billion is invested in other companies, and managed by a firm called MSD Capital (named after Dell's initials).[3] Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Writings 4 Wealth and personal life 4.1 Philanthropy 4.2 Political contributions 4.3 Criticism 5 References 6 Bibliography Early life and education Michael Dell was born to a well-off, Jewish family, on February 23, 1965.[4] The son of Lorraine Charlotte (née Langfan), an stockbroker[5] and Alexander Dell, a orthodontist, Dell attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, Texas.[6] In a bid to enter business early, he applied to take a high school equivalency exam at age eight. In his early teens, he invested his earnings from part-time jobs in stocks and precious metals.[7] Dell purchased his first calculator at age seven and encountered his first teletype machine in junior high, which he programmed after school. At age 15, after playing with computers at Radio Shack, he got his first computer, an Apple II,...
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...Name Professor’s name Course number Date Gender Stereotypes in Media The mass media plays a significant role in the contemporary society. It provides broadcast information at a fast race and gives entertainment to audiences from diverse social backgrounds. Mass media is made up of press, books, magazines, radio, television, and internet. The internet is the most embraced medium in the contemporary society where digital technology dominates. Nevertheless, TV also has a wide influence in the society. By creating and conveying certain type of information to the audience, media can manipulate the attitudes and opinions of people. In this study, we intend to discuss problems associated to media influence through an investigative study of its commercial structure. The study also tries to specify gender stereotypes as used in persuasive advertising technique. Humans organize their knowledge about the world sorting and simplifying the information they receive (Gu 291). They tend to establish cognitive schemes that are certain representations of reality portraying its basic elements and features (Everett 387). The schemes developed by humans are responsible for the definition of our perception and view of the world. They have significant influence our social understanding, situation, anticipation and emotional control. The most common type of these schemes used for social orientation in our environment is stereotypes (Darling 153). The stereotypes scheme represents the opinions and perceptions...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION & THEORETICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1 1.1 Introduction in to the topic and justification for choosing the topic A market potential forecast is a core component of a market analysis. It projects the future numbers, characteristics, and trends in your target market. A standard analysis shows the projected number of potential customers divided into segments. The facts are sobering: the majority of small businesses fail within five years of starting up. While there are many reasons that businesses fail, including some that have nothing to do with an owner's skills, it’s also possible that many of those same businesses collapsed simply because they couldn’t get enough customers to buy their product or service. In other words, the owners founded their business on a strategy of “build it and they will come” where, unfortunately, the customers never came. In fact, a recent study undertaken by the Blackbox seed accelerator found that many tech start-ups failed because they focused more on their product than on their potential customers. 1.2 Ask the right questions As a first step to determining the potential market for your new product or service, you want to focus on asking a couple of questions of yourself first, says Victor Kwegyir, a business consultant, business motivational speaker, and author of The Business You Can Start: Spotting the Greatest Opportunities in the Economic Downturn. Some of the questions you may want to begin with,...
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...Boeing Innovation Strategy Shayne Arndt, Lee Eadie, Sridhar Lakshminarayanan, Norberto Rodriquez, Phylicia Smith, and Amber Thompson STR/581 April 2, 2012 Cassandra Molavrh Boeing Innovation Strategy Innovations are a fundamental prerequisite for competitiveness. The economic crisis forced most businesses to conserve funds in various operational areas. Innovation strategy in any business or industry involves aligning the product life cycles in the company with the various research and development activities. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems. A top United States exporter, the company supports airlines and United States and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and, performance-based logistics and training (Boeing, 2012). Boeing’s Background In the ever-changing business environment, organizations are constantly seeking ways to diversify products and revenue sources, create the best organizational structure, and foster productive work environment cultures through innovation strategies. Boeing is a leading innovator in the aviation industry. The organization faces industry-wide challenges including increasing fuel costs, price-conscious customers, and increased...
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