...GEARS Studio, a small, independent game developer also based in Vietnam. The game has a side-scrolling format and the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between rows of green pipes without coming into contact with them (Wiki information). Originally released on the App Store since 5/2013. By the end of the month 1/2014, Bird started flappy fever charts and lead free app for both IOS and Android platforms in the United States. According to figures from App Annie, flappy Bird had a growth rate astonishing jump from 1500 levels to the highest position of the charts after only two months (Zing.vn information). Flappy Bird’s popularity continued to climb into January 2014. On Jan. 10, the app achieved a major milestone: It became a top-10 app in the United States. It was ranked the eighth-most-downloaded free...
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...that those who interfere with it will suffer the consequences. The idea that the monkey’s paw is of supernatural origin is first brought to light by the sergeant-major who informs the White Family that “It has a spell put on it by an old fakir a very holy man” (Jacobs 2) which allows three wishes to be made by three separate men. The Sergeant-Major continues to tell the White family that the monkey’s paw has supernatural powers, he foreshadows through the words “He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow” (Jacobs 2). Through this quote, “The ominous threat of the paw is presented” (Brantingham). The Sergeant-Major warns the White family that wishing on the monkey’s paw and changing their destiny will not appeal to the supernatural world and they will suffer the consequences. Continuing on with the idea of the supernatural, there are a few instances within the short story that support the idea of the monkey’s paw coming from an uncanny universe. The first instance is that everything in this short story comes in threes. The grouping of threes is “A number used in folklore for mystery and superstition” (Koger). The monkey’s paw can be used by three men, and they get three wishes each. There were three visitors to the White’s house: Sergeant-Major Morris, the man from the factory and the final visitor, and there were also three members in the White family. It is no...
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...For example, on February 27, 2013, Curry set his career high of 54 points in an away game at Madison Square Garden, against the New York Knicks. This record is the third most points set by a visitor followed by Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. On December 7, 2013, Curry broke the franchise record of most threes in a career with 701 threes. This record is also outstanding for a young player sets this record. On January 7, 2015, Curry set a record of his 1000th field goal made of three-pointers and became the fastest person in the NBA to achieve this. On April 9, 2015, Curry set the current most three-pointers in a season of 286, which led his team to the...
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...Ready To Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry Monday, September 09, 2013 3:09 PM The Big 3 and the industry before the 1990's 1972 Federal trade Commission file a major antitrust suit against the big 3 (Kellogg, General Mills, and General Foods) Argued: Monopolized cereal market and had taken specific steps to deter entry by new firms How? Restrained competition amongst themselves through "unwritten agreements" to limit the in-pack premiums (free toys, gifts, e tc) -Refrain from trade dealing-offering discounts to retailers for special treatment or special promotions -Refrained from widespread fortification of their brands because it was believed to not be in the long run interests of the industry (vitamin fortification) FTC also argued the big three took specific actions to make new entry ventures unprofitable -prevented entry into the RTE cereal industry by encouraging super markets and other retailers to adopt a shelf space plan that ensured the big threes products received the most valued center aisle position Caught off guard with the introduction of natural cereal brands Industry environment in the 1990's Technology Processes utilized in creation of many children's cereals took substantial engineering expertise and production experience to master. -Standard plant was estimated to req. a capacity of 75 million pounds per year to achieve minimum efficient scale -employed 125 people -req. capital in excess of 100 million -a singly plant...
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...DeAndre Callands Professor Williams English 111 January 27, 2016 Success essay The media portrays success to be the attainment of riches and the latest of technology and cars. Is this the real definition of success? No, the definition of success is being able to attain a goal or multiple goals that a person has set in life. There are two steps to being successful education and experience. A prime example is of a basketball player I know his name is Randy Foye and he plays for the Denver nuggets. The first thing Randy had to learn the game to be a successful basketball player. He used to spend all his earlier days going to a jersey recreation center. By doing this learning he was able to make mistakes and correct himself, the same way people have to do in life to be successful. People must make mistakes and see the error in there ways. He would also watch game footage from Tim Hardaway and Michael Jordan and see what they did to be successful. He would then emulate them. Like other people do to be successful they watch there idols decisions and actions to learn why they are so successful. If someone wanted to be successful in a field like business they would study people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs if one want to be successful like them. Randy also spent his 10,000 hours practicing and playing lots of games. Randy had a lot of experience in the mean streets of Newark, New Jersey. He had played with people twice his age and it made him tougher on the court...
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...Moving house can be a stressful business. Often emotional, invariably time-consuming and expensive, it's always a major operation. Time and money tend to be in short supply. However, when it comes to packing up your home ahead of a move, there are several things you can do to save yourself a bit of both. First of all, do not underestimate the size of the task. Allow yourself enough time to do a thorough job, and put a bit of thought and planning into it. The first step is to decide what stays and what goes - it's just a waste to pack up and ship things you no longer need. Before you even pack the first box, have a thorough clear-out. Throw away stuff you don't need or want, or donate it to the goodwill store or friends or family. You'll need to decide whether you want to do the packing yourself or to pay someone else to do it. Clearly you save a lot of money by doing your own...
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... And the research also shows more exactly that the difference can be more than $1 million in the course of their lifetimes. What’ is more, one having a Master or Doctor degree can do better. With a lot of money, people can travel, relax, do whatever they want, and they can also provide a better life for their parents, children. They do not need to experience much hardship, for example, those who do not have these degrees need to work form the basic level which requires more boring and complicated tasks. So money can be a very attractive reason for people to attend college. The second reason is that we can make many good friends at college. In every college, there are many students from different cities or even different countries. They major in various subjects and have several habits. When we come to the college, we can join the clubs and make friends with who have the same interest, such as hiking, singing, swimming. And also, when taking the classes, we can meet many people and have opportunities to find someone having the similar opinions, ideas or just the same hometown. If interested, we can be close friends. Just take myself for example, I come to IUB some days ago, during the...
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...Since 2012 there have been ten Wild Card games played in MLB with the two Wild Card team system; nine of those twenty teams had 90 plus wins, and eight of those 90 plus win teams played each other in a winner take all game ("Major League Baseball Wild-card Game"). How to improve the Wild Card system has been talked about year after year. There is of course one side opposing this and another agreeing to this change. MLB needs to change the Wild Card system so it is a three game series instead of one game. People view the MLB season as being too long. Many people have lauded the idea of going back to a 154 game season, but continuing to keep the single game wild card format. This idea can make sense because if MLB does take out eight games from...
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...1. Using the table below, explain the key areas in current legislation which relate to the safeguarding of children (1.1) | Legislation | Description of the area | 1 | The Children Act 1989 | * a child’s welfare is paramount when making any decisions about a child’s upbringing. * It introduced the concept of parental responsibility * Local authorities are charged with the duty to investigate if there are suspicions a child suffers significant harm * The NSPCC is designated “authorised person status”. * defines “harm” as ill-treatment (including sexual abuse and non- physical forms of ill-treatment), or the impairment of health or development. * helps professionals in identifying children in need, and deliver the best options in helping the families and children. * | 2 | Children Act 2004 | * sets out the process for integrating services to children * appoints local authorities and their partners to delegate a director of children’s services and an elected lead member for children’s services, who is ultimately accountable for the delivery of services * created the post of Children's Commissioner for England * updates the legislation on physical punishment | 3 | The sexual Offences Act 2003 | * updates the existent legislation regarding offences against children * monitors the sex offenders * includes the offences of grooming, abuse of position of trust ,trafficking. | 2. Evaluate the effectiveness of a range of activities that...
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...mortgage loans. It spread rapidly to the Euro Area and other parts of the world, and led to the worst global recession since the Great Depression” (European Economy 3). The result of these events caused a increase in government purchases and transfers of households and tax cuts. I remember that a number of banks applied for help and were bailed out by the government, to include some major car manufactures as well. According to (European Economy 3) Bank losses explain about a quarter of the fall in EA GDP and consumption in 2007-09, and more than three-quarters of the fall in private nonresidential investment. It also implies results suggest that government support for banks noticeably dampened the fall in EA GDP, consumption and investment during the crisis. In the short run, the rise in government consumption would raise output, but crowd out consumption and investments (European Economy 3). The majority of the banks were helped by the government during 2009. This enabled them to get back on track in helped minimize the impact of the crisis. The crisis in Europe also came in threes. According to Jay C. Shambaugh (1), “The Euro area is currently in a banking crisis, where banks face a capital...
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...1. Who were the peoples whom Europeans came into contact with in American in 1492? The peoples who Europeans came into contact with in the American in fourteen ninety two is the Ciboney or Guanahacabible. They also met the three major Caribbean groups whom they labelled Arawak, Caribs and Maya. 2. Choose one South American indigenous group and one Caribbean indigenous group. How were they described by European explorers/ invaders [refer to appearance, religious, beliefs, gender role and political system]? One South American indigenous group is the Taino. The Taino were very religious people, and they had very distinctive theological ideas. They expressed their religious beliefs through complex rituals and ceremonies. At the core of their religious beliefs was the recognition of a spirit world in which both humans and gods were classified and ranked. They called their religious spirits or gods, Zemis. They displayed these gods in the shape of images made from gold, wood, stone and bones. Each person had his or her own highly personal way of worshipping Zemis and Zemi, images reflected the thinking of the individual worshipper. Each person then had his or her Zemi images; sometimes several were carried around the necks. Many of the Zemi images have survived and we can see that they were designed to show the supernatural powers of the gods. For example, some Zemi images were carved with prominent sexual organs to show the fertility power of god; others...
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...the mathematic history. “Among the books was discovered a mathematics text written on 200 bamboo strips. This work, called the Suan shu shu (Book of Numbers and Computation), is the earliest extant text of Chinese mathematics.” (Katz, 2009, p. 196). This work was created during the Han Dynasty. It consisted of different problems and their solution. Alongside Suan Shu Shu was the Sea Island Mathematical Manual, which probably was the most practiced and important to ancient Chinese mathematics history. During the Tang Dynasty, a man named Li Chunfeng decided to collect all the history of mathematics in china which led to what became known as the Ten Mathematical Classics. These included methods of solutions to various problems. The four major areas...
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...An Analysis of the Setting in The Inferno Abstract Plutus and Pluto, and their placement in the fourth circle of Hell, were originally very confusing for me. After researching for the interactive oral, I had a much better understanding of him because, in Greek mythology, he is the God of wealth and, in Roman mythology, he is the God of the underworld. Pluto, the Roman God, is not only the God of the underworld, but also of the riches. He is placed in the fourth circle of Hell, that of greed and avarice, which makes sense because of the occupants’ sins, which have to do with riches and wealth. Also, the negative association of money and wealth to greed helped me tie in why a God was in Hell, other than the fact that Pluto/Plutus was Roman/Greek and not Christian. This development not only helped me understand why greed was around the middle of Hell, but also why Pluto/Plutus was there. It also connects to the prevalent idea of retribution, or an eye-for-an-eye, because the God of wealth, riches, and the underworld (money and evil) was around greed (evil due to money). My understanding of the retribution idea in The Inferno was also developed substantially through the interactive oral. Originally, it was easy for me to understand that the punishments were retributive; such as those who tried to look into the future will look backwards (to the past) for all eternity; gluttoners are rained upon by vomit (because they regurgitated what they ate), etc.; but what I did not understand...
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...Hypothesis Work-safety tension can arise when workers observe that work safety is at odds with effectively performing their duties. A workers perception of work-safety tension can be associated with higher levels of perceived risk which in turn can relate to an increase in job related injuries. The hypothesis of this paper is determine if that one has a positive relationship between perceived organizational support and safety climate was expected that they would have a positive perception regarding safety climate at work therefore lowering one’s work-safety tension. (McGonagle & Kath, 2010, and Gyekye & Salminen, 2007) Introduction Organizational climate is considered to be one of the most significant and important characteristics within an organization. Organizational climate signifies the shared perceptions regarding an organizations values, norms, beliefs, practices, and procedures. Organizational climate may be defined differently from one organization to another but generally refers to the importance to which an organization focuses and emphasizes on an organization’s innovation, flexibility, appreciation and recognition, concern for an employee’s well-being, learning and development, citizenship and ethics, quality performance, involvement and empowerment and last of all leadership. There have been numerous studies that have correlated a relationship between an organization’s climate and an organizations success. If the relationship is positive then the correlation...
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...Introduction: This case study is based on Ashraf Silk and General Mills (ASGM). The case study mainly focuses on how the organization is run and its major operations. The most crucial part of the case study is based on the employees at ASGM and the case will be analyzed in relation to the employees and their employers. The case study is based on a case from Gujranwala where approximately 10,000 weavers were working in over 1,000 textile weaving plants. The market of weaving industry was highly competitive and there was always a fear of losing weavers because their demand was greater than the supply, and hence the labour turnover rate in the weaving industry was very high. In ASGM, on average every two out of twelve weavers left every month according to an estimate by Fawad. This figure was particularly better than what it was in other organizations since ASGM had a good reputation with regards to weaver retention. This particular information will help in identifying the core issues that existed within the organization and the industry as a whole and then a solution will be devised keeping in consideration these on-ground realities such as labour turn-over rate and the need for keeping the employees motivated in the long run. The Core Issues: Considering the fact that the weaving industry was very competitive, keeping weavers motivated so that they did not leave made for an important part of every weaving organization‟s manager or head including ASGM. The weavers knew that they...
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