...Stevens CHY 4U May 30, 2014 The Legacy of Ivan the Terrible The legacy of Ivan Vasilyevich, Tsar of Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584 (Kort 31), is like a pineapple. In order to enjoy the goodness of the sweet fruit inside, one must laboriously get past the tough skin and sharp, stiff leaves. Much like a pineapple, determining the legacy of Ivan Vasilyevich has its drawbacks, as there was a fair share of inadequacies during his reign, but after one gets past this, one will discover that Ivan’s reign was indeed one that benefitted Russia for the short and long term. Ivan Vasilyevich was indeed an effective leader of Russia as his reign would lay the foundation for making Russia one of the most powerful nations the world has ever seen. His expansion of Russia, Renaissance pursuits, and effective domestic policies are all reasons why Ivan was an effective leader of Russia. Ivan’s territorial gains that included Siberia as well as Kazan and Astrakhan to the east (Kort 35) would benefit Russia from an economic, political, and social standpoint. First of all, he managed to annex a large Muslim population that lived in these areas (“Prominent Russians: Ivan IV the Terrible”) and turned Russia into a multi-ethnic and multi-religious state. The significance of this is enormous as this happened in the 1500’s, a time where Europeans, fresh off the Dark Ages, were generally intolerant to any religions other than Christianity. In fact, Ivan made the people that he conquered, including...
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...through one way or another to philosophy. Dostoevsky portrayed a truly great masterpiece when writing this book, as his intention of writing a book that blended philosophy, mystery, and religious topics was indeed accomplished. The Brothers Karamazov depicts not only these topics, but also the Russian society at that time. While reading this book I realized that several of the philosophical topics present could be simply the author´s themes, or in other words, the author´s message to the readers. Upon beginning it you can realize that there will be a clash of philosophical topics, the majority of which are portrayed through the characters present in this story. After concluding with the required reading, I began to comprehend that several topics here are still present in modern day society. The conflict between faith and doubt is a topic, which currently rages several debates between us humans. While some of us have faith, be it in religion or personal subjects, others have doubts regarding topics that involve faith. Therefore, upon finalizing The Brothers Karamazov I can state that this book has several philosophical topics, which are depicted throughout the complete book. Even though there are a broad variety of philosophical topics in this book, they will be arranged the order of importance, according to which topics I believe have more explanation and material to cover. The ones with fewer material and of less importance will be placed at the beginning, while the ones with...
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...Profit and loss account The profit and loss account is a record of revenues and costs of the business over a period like a year. It shows how much profit the business has made over the past year and what has happened to the profit. The profit and loss account is a record of past costs and revenues. However, it can still help people in the business to make decisions about the future because the account says something about where the business has been in the recent past. On the whole though, other financial data, such as cash flow forecasts, are far more useful than the profit and loss account in helping businesses make these decisions. More importantly, the profit and loss account is a summary of recent business events for the owners of the business and anyone who might want to invest in the business. Shareholders in limited companies, for instance, are particularly interested in trends in profits because this determines, in part, how valuable is their share of the business. Profit and loss accounts are also used by the tax authorities to assess a company’s tax. Other businesses may also look at the company’s profit and loss account for the previous year to judge whether it is safe to give it credit. The profit and loss account of Smallbone plc is shown below. The profit and loss account can be split into three parts: |Smallbone plc | |Profit and loss account for Smallbone plc 2005 | | ...
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...paper focuses on a brief summary on the history of behaviorism, starting with experiments conducted by Franklin Henry Giddings and Ivan Pavlov, a sociologist and a physiologist whom established the groundwork for behaviorism, particularly in America. In addition, this paper also explains the main components of behaviorism, which are classical conditioning and operant conditioning, connectionism, and the contiguity theory. It moves forward to explain four experiments that are popular through the study of behaviorism: the reason behind conditioned salivation in Ivan Pavlov’s dogs, conditioned responses in humans through Watson’s little Albert experiment, Thorndike’s research with cats and a puzzle box to demonstrate the law of effect through the use of reinforcements, and B.F. Skinner’s experiment with rats to prove how an organism learns through operant conditioning. Finally, this paper examines how, according to behaviorists, there are three principles of learning new and intricate behaviors, known as shaping, chaining, and fading. Behaviorism and Its Effect on the Understanding of Learning Behaviorism suggests that an organism learns from its environment. It is the result of the association between a stimulus and a response. An organism learns new behavior through classical or operant conditioning. It is a theory that does not base its ideals on emotions or prior knowledge. Some say behaviorism came about accidentally, specifically within the works of Ivan Pavlov and his experiment...
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...IVEY BUSINESS JOURNAL Brief summary of main points in reading: Innovation depends on customers learning: Today companies make new products by just changing the names. Rest everything is same such as technology and the contents. Such new products cannot be called innovative because these soon get forgotten by customers. Customers need to active and aware of the product innovations. Teaching customers new Behaviours: There is a rigorous need for Pedagogy i.e the correct use of teaching strategies. This can help in forming and reinforcing new customer behaviours and extinguishing old patterns which are useless. Many big companies such as RIM used this strategy and achieved their goals. Traditional marketing was more focussed on cognitive principles whereby the customer attitudes were formed by perceptions. But now the marketers have no time to inform or remind the customers about their products. Pedagogy for innovating customers behaviour: Table 1 shows the various stages involved in teaching customers. There is a proper hierarchy for this. It starts with Emotional, then cognitive and ends at behavioural. EMOTIONAL: It involves: * How the customers acquire new ideas? * How customer responds? * Do they value the information they receive? * How they organize and characterize the information? COGNITIVE: * Customers need to know that an innovation had been created * They must be in a position to comprehend the benefits...
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...Challenges and risks involved in m-commerce: The term m-commerce was coined by Kevin Duffy, the director of Group Telecom of Logical, in February 1997.Several definitions have been suggested for m-commerce. The Durlacher Mobile Commerce Report defines m-commerce as .any transaction with monetary value that is conducted via a mobile telecommunications network. This definition is fairly rigid, and makes a very clear-cut distinction between m-commerce applications and other mobile applications. The challenges to the emergence of m-commerce do not end with limited resources. The bandwidth currently available is not ideal. The effective bandwidth, as quoted by m-commerceworld.com, is somewhere around 9kbps. This further hinders the advent of sites containing graphics and user-friendlier interfaces, in turn discouraging users from opting for m-commerce. M-commerce or mobile e-commerce represents the using of mobile devices for communication and implementation of electronic commerce transaction or any transaction with monetary value achieved through mobile devices. M-commerce appeared due to the rapid evolution of the mobile devices and connection among internet became more accessible regardless of the geographical location of the person who connects to the Internet. M-Commerce applications are obtained by the two methods: • supplement or extend existing applications, which involves the addition of new tools to improve more efficient the access to E-Commerce applications existing...
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...NSA Capstone Greenway Bank Project Presented by: CISSA Amed Aplicano, Ivan Armendariz, Chris Christopher, Steven Smedley, Samuel Holman Table of Content 1. Table of content…………………………………………………………………………..……1 2. Project Charter………………………………………………………………………………....2-11 3. Change Management Plan…………………………………………………………………12-15 4. Change Management Procedure……………………………………………………….16 5. Project Schedule and Gantt Chart………………………………………………………17 6. Network Activity Diagram………………………………………………………………….18-20 7. Work Breakdown Structure……………………………………………………………….21 8. WBS Dictionary………………………………………………………………………………….22-24 9. Network Logical Diagram………………………………………………………………......25-26 10. Network Physical Diagram………………………………………………………………….27 11. Server Configuration…………………………………………………………………………..28-30 12. Active Directory Schema…………………………………………………………………….31 13. Client Configuration……………………………………………………………………………32-33 14. Infrastructure Configuration……………………………………………………………….34 15. Budget/Bill of materials……………………………………………………………………….35-37 16. Quality Plan…………………………………………………………………………………………38-40 17. Risk Management Plan………………………………………………………………………..41-48 18. Meeting Minutes…………………………………………………………………………………49-66 19. Final presentation slides……………………………………………………………………..67-77 20. Progress report………………………………………………………………………………….78- 1 NT2799.U1.HO4 Greenway Bank: Project ______________________________________________________________________________ Greenway Bank Project NSA Capstone Project Charter __...
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...personalities. Personality theorist seek to explain human behavior in terms of inner causes, instincts, feelings of inferiority, needs, conditions of worth, intentions, and so forth. In this research paper, I will be exploring both behaviorist theory, as well as the Trait theory in trying to understand serial killer Wayne Bertram Williams. Behavioral Theories The Behaviorist theory places importance on the external environment, and on the effects of conditioning and learning. Ivan Pavlov was the first psychologist to discover and explore this theory at the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrated this form of learning which became known as “classical conditioning” in an experiment with dogs. He would place a small amount of meat on a dogs tongue, and after continuing to do this many times, the canines would salivate before they were giving the food. Before long, the dogs would begin to salivate as soon as Dr. Pavlov would enter the room. He realized that this was a reflex, whereas one stimulus will be followed by another r stimulus, because the two stimuli occurred close together. This reinforced that behavior can be attributed to experience. B.f. Skinner on the other hand, argued that most behavior is learned through “operant conditioning”, wherein the human being must make the correct response to be reinforced (receive a reward or avoid punishment). A response operates on the environment to produce consequences that either strengthen or weaken that behavior...
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...Marketing Plan Assignment # 2 Dr: David Kalicharan Walter Ivan Zapata Funez Marketing 500 Strayer University Date: 08/13/2014 Executive Summary The Riverview Hotel, Notown USA, will representative of the five star brands within the 'Exclusive Business Hotels of the World' group. All Riverview Hotels will be boutique properties, offering between 25 and 35 exclusive rooms. The Riverview properties are renowned for their convenient and strategic locations within major cities throughout the country. Also synonymous with the brand are the high level of personal service guests receive, and the extensive range of comprehensive business facilities available in luxurious settings. The Riverview Hotel, Notown will have 35 exclusive rooms and is targeting corporate guests with a two to three night stay requirement. Target business segments include the IT sector, due to the proximity of the property to Silicone Hill, USA; the automotive industry in order to capitalize on the strategic location of the hotel in relation to the Overall Motors Plant and HQ in Notown and travel trade guests attending National and International Travel Fares at the Notown Exhibition Halls. Differentiating the type of business service offered, from that of the competition, will assist not only in building the Riverview brand as a whole, but will attract frequent business travelers, who require a higher level of personal service and recognition than they can receive at competitive...
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...THE OTHER WOMAN Group 8 3 – D Pharmacy Members: Sta. Ana, Axelle Anne Tan, Rhey Antoanette Tiu, Chrisanthydel Uy, Philene Victa, Ma. Nerissa Diane Villaflor, Ruby Anne Mae Ysit, Raymond Ivan I. Author of the Text Norma O. Miraflor graduated with a degree of AB Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas. She received various awards from the Philippine Free Press and Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature. She and her sister are poets and fictionists. Due to their eloquence in English, they both wrote various English poems, fictional stories and novels. She and her sister were like the famous Brönte sisters who were renowned British novelists. She worked as a journalist and taught English and Literature in different colleges and universities in Metro Manila. She travels extensively and divides her time between Singapore and Australia. She is married to a war historian and communist named Chin Peng. She said in one of her books “I have a list of my husband’s kindnesses as long as my arm. I have often been distracted. I never mean to seem ungrateful and on this score, I am lucky.” II. Summary of the Text This story is about a woman who is a writer and a mother of four sons. She is just like a traditional mother who was expected to be dominated by her husband but she differs from other mothers in the way that she relates with her family. Even from the start of her marriage...
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...Ivan Potkonjak Professor Green English 170.01 26 September 2011 Digital or Man-Dating? In this essay, I will examine two articles, one of them is Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?, written by Christine Hassler, a former Hollywood Agent, and the author of the book called Twenty-Something, Twenty-Everything. This article talks about social networks, their impact on both of our social and love life. It tries to convince us to try to experience all the benefits that online dating provides us. The second article, called “The Man Date”, written by Jennifer 8. Lee, a reporter for the NYT, tries to encourage the male population to try man-dating, a term that describes a new trend among guys that involves two heterosexual guys, usually good friends, going to a date. Lee also writes about the stigmas about relationship between two men that pervade our society. The purpose of her article is to change the perception that majority of adult males have about men-dating. These two essays are written by different authors, as I already mentioned, who share similar views of social and love life but also use distinctive styles of writing, by using different types of claims, proofs and language which makes their articles special in their own way. The first thing that we have to do when analyzing and comparing two articles is to identify the claims. As we all know, there are five types of claims: claims of fact, definition, cause, value, and policy. The author of the...
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...VERTIMAR 2007 Symposium , 5-8 June 2007 Post-spill environmental impact assessment: approaches & needs Ivan Calvez & Loïc Kerambrun Cedre, France ntre for ocumentation, esearch and xperimentations on accidental water pollutions • Non profit organisation in charge of : – Documentation – Training – Research & Development – Contingency planning – Advice and expertise More info at www.cedre.fr Post-spill environmental impact assessment: approaches & needs. INTRODUCTION • Each major oil spill → ecological impact assessment (EIA) • Studies may differ (targets, methods, duration…) from one accident to another: - Pollution features (e.g. meteo oceanic conditions…); - Ecological concerns (sensitivity, special interest…); - Type of oil (crude vs. fuel); - Research team availability; - Fundings; - Socio-economic concerns; - ... • different context priorities... different motivations, different Post-spill environmental impact assessment: approaches & needs. INTRODUCTION What is required to assess accurately the environmental impact of oil spill: No loss of time, no loss of information • set-up the framework defining initial measures and research that can be implemented as realistically as possible in terms of human, technical and financial resources quickly decide and implement the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) programme What should be surveyed, how and to what end? • Post-spill environmental impact assessment: approaches & needs. ...
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...Myth and Scripture resources for Biblical Study Susan ackerman, Old testament/hebrew Bible editor number 78 Myth and Scripture conteMporary perSpectiveS on religion, language, and iMagination Edited by dexter e. callender Jr. SBl press atlanta copyright © 2014 by SBl press all rights reserved. no part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 copyright act or in writing from the publisher. requests for permission should be addressed in writing to the rights and permissions office, Society of Biblical literature, 825 houston Mill road, atlanta, ga 30329 uSa. library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Myth and scripture : contemporary perspectives on religion, language, and imagination / Dexter E. Callender, Jr., editor. p. cm. — (Society of Biblical literature resources for biblical study ; number 78) includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978-1-58983-961-8 (paper binding : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-1-58983-962-5 (electronic format) — iSBn 978-1-58983-963-2 (hardcover binding : alk. paper) 1. Myth in the Bible. 2. Bible. old testament—criticism, interpretation, etc. i. callender, dexter e., 1962– editor of compilation. ii. callender, dexter e., 1962– author. Myth and Scripture : dissonance and convergence.. BS520.5.M98 2014 220.6'8—dc23 2014002897...
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...those affecting the law enforcement community. One of those problems was the lack of interaction between the police departments and other local/state law enforcement with the federal law enforcement agencies. Local law enforcement agencies are the primary responders to any incident of crime or terror, therefore developing a better interagency collaboration in order to share information is essential in order to prevent future attacks. Prior to the 9/11 attacks many of the agencies believed in keeping information within their own realm due to protocols and security clearances. These criminal justice agencies each had pieces to a puzzle, but because these agencies never worked together, those pieces would never be put together to reveal the bigger picture. The 9/11 events revealed the lack of interaction and set about a positive change that would impact the way the criminal justice system approached their problem solving. One of those changes was the reorganization of the federal law enforcement agencies, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration (Brown, 2007). Another positive change was the reorganization of federal, state, and local governments for the purpose of increased information intelligence and sharing. Despite the positives changes that occurred to improve interagency collaboration, there were several challenges to the process (Unlu et al., 2012). One of those challenges is the ability to...
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...Final report INDEX Amber Inn & Suites, Inc. 2 Summary 2 Question 3 Answer 3 Explanation 4 Teaching Notes 7 GloFish, LLC 8 Summary 8 Question 10 Answer 10 Explanation 11 Teaching Notes 20 Amber Inn & Suites, Inc. Summary * Time: Late in the afternoon on April 4, 2005 * Company profile: Amber Inn Suites, Inc. is positioned as limited service hotel between economy hotels and full service hotels in US. The company locates its properties on premium sites on major highways close to suburban industrial and office complexes, airports, and large regional shopping centers for the most part. Urban, downtown locations have been avoided. And the service mission is to provide principally business travelers with clean and comfortable quest accommodations in convenient locations at reasonable price. ◎ Organization Board of Directors President & CEO Joseph James VP Grace SVP Elizabeth SVP Finance SVP Lodging Op SVP Players: 1. Joseph James is the new president & CEO of Amber Inn Suites, Inc. 2. Kelly Elizabeth is Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing. 3. Catherine Grace is Vice-President of Advertising. Fiscal 2005 was projected to be the fifth consecutive unprofitable year for Amber Inn & Suites, Inc. The new president of Amber inn &suite inquired that each of company’s four senior vice-presidents was to prepare a one hour presentation that described (1) his or her initiatives, expenditures...
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