...Rawson World Literature Assignment 1 An analysis of the role of minor characters in The Visit and Chronicle of a Death Foretold in establishing a collectivistic or individualistic society. March 13, 2011 Word Count: 1073 Rawson 1 Without any characters; there is no story. Every tale needs a knight in shining armor to save the endangered princess or a misguided hero to meet a tragic end. A protagonist and an antagonist are the most basic of writing conventions and are crucial to the story. It is important; however, to not overlook the roles of minor characters in the plot. For example, Snow White would have been a radically different story without the seven dwarves. This exemplifies how minor characters can drastically influence the outcome of a story in a number of ways. In both Durrenmatt’s The Visit and Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the minor characters have an influential role in determining the fate of the protagonist. These minor characters are used by Durrenmatt and Marquez to establish an individualistic or collectivistic society within their works and by doing so isolate the protagonists and lead them to their deaths. In a collectivistic society, the people tend to view themselves as part of a group and hold the needs of the group over that of the individual. This is the society which Durrenmatt has presented in The Visit. In Durrenmatt’s The Visit, the town of Guellen is populated by minor characters lacking any names. Throughout the play...
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...What is actually virtual meeting on business? Recent years, advanced technology brought a lot of new opportunities in our life and on our businesses meanwhile these technological improvements get inside our life day by day. Virtual meeting is one of these opportunities which many businesses are using it and many of them will use in the future. Virtual meeting is having a meeting by using internet connection virtually with the other branches or other related companies that you work with. “Virtual meetings will never eradicate the need for traditional face-to-face meetings, but they often provide the least expensive means of bringing people together” (2011, Mittleman). As long as companies remain, people who work within these companies will travel to other countries or cities to have meetings but virtual meeting which is videoconferencing and telepresence will decrease these travels. What are the advantages of the virtual meetings on an organization? Maybe 15 years ago, if we talked about a virtual meeting, it would be so weird but now this is very common way to have a meeting and will be more than now. There are a lot of advantages of the virtual meetings first and important one for a business is saving time. The other important advantage is saving money. These two important things are actually main factors to consider for many businesses anytime. These virtual meetings will reduce your employees to travel for a meeting sometimes these meetings can last 1 week or...
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...dilemma as your family does not want to be relocated. The project has a six-month deadline. What factors should you consider in order to make this virtual assignment effective? Answer: First of all, virtual assignments is where the employees and managers are located in different areas as in this case, the Project Manager’s office is in London whereas the other six team members are in Munich. Thus, the Project Manager has to rely heavily on communication technologies such as telephone, email or video conference. In my opinion, the factors that has to be taken into consideration include effective use of technology, invest time in building relationships and trust, provide specific intercultural training and arrange face-to-face meeting occasionally. To bring a success to virtual assignments, I will need to be aware of the full range of technology tools available to us and become practices and proficient in their use. Without familiarizing the technology, it is difficult for managers to keep in touch with the team and it might end up slowing down the team performance. For instance, it will be a waste of time discovering the function of Skype tools during the virtual meeting. Besides that, as a newly-appointed Project Manager, trust and a comfortable level of social or personal interaction are enormously important for effective virtual assignments. It is crucial for me to find ways to engage with my members and create an appropriate and effective dynamic within the team. Initially...
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...OP issue & Challenges -Ocean Park was an old and tired brand and no one knew what it stood for. -HK has few scenic endowments hence need to create own attraction which take long time and high investment -Econ dwntn(1997) & SARs(2003) strike in Asia,fell by70%attendance,threat to close down. External environment analysis- PEST Factors Political -in 2009, the Govt of HK tourism board(HKTB) introduce removal of the quota of the Hong Kong Tour Group Scheme of Mainland tourists in 2002 -implementation of Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) enables Mainlander to visit HK as free and independent tourists without the need to apply for special visas. Economic As of Feb 12, high inflation rate lead to increase tickets price. From $208 (in 2009) to $280 (in 2012) .Decline in revenue will force OP to increase their retail price to sustain profit. Social -caters tourist from mainlander who are not sophisticated and they require long education campaign - Different market- locals & business group, and international tourist; family oriented Technological -use of latest technology in lighting, music and multimedia special effects, to enhance amazing undersea creatures. Industrial Analysis- Application of Porter’s 5 Forces 1. Threat of entry – very high -the entry barrier is high due to the need to invest large amount of financial resources -required land for a full scale development 2. Bargaining power of supplier (OP) – low -OP known in the industry hence weaken the bargain...
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...doesn't it make sense for retailers to use digital in-store, providing the types of devices with which omnichannel shoppers are already used to interacting with? While retailers may consider showrooming to be a threat, the power of in-store Wi-Fi and displays to enable consumers to access product information, reviews, and prices shouldn’t be underestimated. Let’s look at three examples of retailers innovating with digital technology to improve their in-store experience and drive engagement and sales. Marks & Spencer’s Digital Flagship Department Stores: M&S has been providing more ways to access products, including the introduction of new browse-and-order points, large digital screens that play catwalk videos to showcase products, and virtual makeover counters with facial recognition technology. Its new multichannel Home Hub maximizes store space to focus on key products while allowing customers to order from its full range of offerings via iPads and large touch screens. This technology is a great way to drive product engagement and purchases in-store, driving existing customers to login to their accounts, while providing rich information on omnichannel shopping habits....
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...through VirtualBox by stating that I encountered several occurrences of trial and error and this is the final resolution. I chose option two which was using VirtualBox® virtual machine on a local computer host platform. This installation was done on a desktop currently running Windows 7. First and foremost it is recommended that you free up enough space on your hard drive to install these programs. I personally allotted myself about 12GB just to play it safe but I didn't end up using near that much. To do this you can do a number of things including the following: Perform a disk cleanup on your main hard drive Remove any unused programs through the control panel Move any files possible to another drive with more space Next, download VirtualBox from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. (select package x86/amd64) Once downloaded, run the installation file and select all default settings. If required, restart the machine when prompted to complete the installation. Now you're ready to install the virtual machine using VirtualBox. Download the required software from the following Web address: http://webapps.national.edu/linuxiso/ubuntu-10.04.iso I discovered you will also need to download another Ubuntu iso file that you will use later in this document. Visit http://ubuntu-release.locaweb.com.br/10.04/ and download the link titled: ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso Once you've got all your essentials downloaded, you will...
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...Life We have been deluged recently with stories about the amazing virtual world of Second Life and the brave opportunities it creates for brands. It is hard to believe, but it has been little more than a year since the first major brand, US retailer American Apparel, opened its doors for virtual business on the site. The store sold virtual American Apparel clothing designed to be worn by the avatars that users create to populate Second Life. American Apparel was soon joined by other brands. In October 2006, Starwood, the owner of hotel brands such as Westin and Sheraton, premiered its Aloft hotel brand on Second Life. Starwood saw its virtual hotel as a way of generating early customer insights about its venture long before any of the hotels opened. A month later, Pontiac, the US car-maker, launched Motorati Island. According to Mark-Hans Richer, marketing director at Pontiac, it was designed to 'empower the car community in Second Life and develop with them in a unique and meaningful manner'. From April, Second Life boasted the ultimate marketing patronage when Coke launched a 'virtual thirst pavilion', where visitors could compete to create a virtual vending machine selling not Coke, but, according to the firm's website, 'the essence of Coca-Cola: refreshment, joy, unity, experience'. It all sounds pretty amazing, until you visit Second Life. Having spent last weekend walking around its virtual universe, I have to report that the whole thing is pretty crap - a bit...
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...1. How will customer relationships be different in a virtual world? Customer relationships in a virtual world are a delicate matter. The design of a web site is very important for presenting a favorable face to the customer. Similarly, the design of a business in SL is of chief importance. In a world where anything-goes design-wise, how do you want your customer service representatives to appear? The business must present something fantastic, that it could not present in the real world, if it wants to draw visitors into it. Anything you can do in the real world (RW) you can do in virtual worlds (VWs), only more. Numerous separate and independent VWs exist where consumer and business-to-business marketing opportunities lie dormant and underdeveloped. But marketers can now establish a dynamic presence in VWs that can position them for the new and future internet (Web 2.0 and beyond) made up of parallel and eventually integrated social networks and virtual worlds. Marketing within social networks and VWs is becoming a viable means for reaching and influencing the attitudes and behavior of consumers in ways that was never before believed possible. 2. How will supporting Second Life customers differ from supporting traditional customers? Second Life provides a medium for simulating real world interactions online. It has the same benefits as teleconferencing or videoconferences, the ability to assemble many people from all around the world into a real-time interactions. NPR’s Science...
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...Unit 6 Assignment Instructions: Do not forget, whenever you look up information, you need to cite your sources! Please copy and paste the full URL of any website you use in researching your answers to the following questions. If you use your book, please place the page number from your book in parentheses next to the answer. Requirements: 1. You notice that your computer is running a bit sluggishly and you want to determine if there is a way to increase your performance without purchasing additional hardware or software. Learn more about your computer’s performance by using Windows Task Manager and the MSConfig Utility. Immediately after booting your computer, run Windows Task Manager, then answer the following questions. a. Click the Applications tab and list all applications. Are any of the applications listed as Not Responding? No. b. Click the Processes tab. Identify how many processes are running, the CPU usage, and physical memory usage. 58 processes cpu usage between 0 and 14 % phy mem usage 42% c. While the Processes tab is still selected, click View on the Menu bar and click Select Columns. List four additional columns that could be displayed. PID, session id, cpu time, page faults d. Sort the CPU times in descending order. Which process is using the most CPU resources and what percentage is it using? rundll32.exe 2% e. Sort the memory usage in descending order. Which...
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...Why Off-Sites Should Go Virtual: the Virt-Site By Keith Ferrazzi Organizations are all trying to do more with less. As the economic downturn drags on, companies have tightened their belts even further. Businesses continue to lay off thousands of workers; holiday parties are being drastically downscaled; executive perks like corporate jets have become history; and the list goes on. As part of that belt-tightening, some companies have begun to rethink their strategic off-sites. Instead of flying executives from around the world to an expensive three-day offsite location, why not just conduct everything virtually? The problem, though, has been that many companies have been trying to use videoconferencing, virtual reality technologies, and other tools to try to replicate physical off-sites. One idea was to encourage spontaneous conversations by simulating a “virtual cocktail hour. ” Wrong! The use of virtual technologies to replicate traditional physical off-sites misses a huge opportunity. Doing so results in a “poor man’s” version of the real thing, like online training courses that consist of nothing more than a video recording of an instructor followed by a test. Instead, companies need to be much smarter about how they conduct virtual off-sites. They need to leverage online’s unique characteristics to push beyond what’s possible in a physical setting and truly transform the process. Interviews with dozens of experts resulted in the following methodology, dubbed the virt-site...
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...An Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audience David-Paul Pertaub*, Mel Slater*, Chris Barker** *Department of Computer Science **Department of Psychology University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT 2 An Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audience Abstract This paper describes an experiment to assess the anxiety responses of people giving five minute presentations to virtual audiences consisting of eight male avatars. There were three different types of audience behaviour -an emotionally neutral audience that remained static throughout the talk, a positive audience which exhibited friendly and appreciative behaviour towards the speaker, and a negative audience, which exhibited hostile and bored expressions throughout the talk. A second factor was immersion: half of the 40 subjects experienced the virtual seminar room through a head-tracked head-mounted display and the remainder on a desktop system. Responses were measured using standard Personal Report of Confidence as a Public Speaker (PRCS) which was elicited prior to the experiment and after each talk. Several other standard psychological measures such as SCL-90-R (for screening for psychological disorder), the SAD and the FNE were also measured prior to the experiment. Other response variables included subjectively assessed somaticisation and a subject self-rating scale on performance...
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...dialogue”[1]. Social Media is used for social interaction and communication using the World Wide Web. Nowadays there are many virtual communities like Hyves, Facebook, MySpace, etc. that were especially built up for social interaction. They count millions of members and have become indispensable for many people. Their influence has become so great that they are even used for significant matters like the job search. In the following we will present you how Social Media helps you finding a job without having even to move away from your comfortable couch. We will look at the social networks YouTube, Virtual Job Fair (using the example of www.feriaempresamujer.com), LinkedIn and Facebook. YouTube – www.youtube.com As everyone knows there are several forms of searching for a job. Every day we use the new technologies for this purpose. A very popular method in Spain is using the social network "YouTube". The job seekers upload a video with their professional profile, which contains information about their studies, job experiences, language skills - in fact, many people even speak in different languages on the video in order to prove it - and other skills that you may consider important. The next step is to send the URL or link to the companies you are interested in and hope that you have convinced them! Here you can find two examples of virtual personal profiles on YouTube: [pic] (To watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCfNHQ0oQg&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL70C1DD782F198FCB...
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...Nowadays, with the advances in new information and communication technologies, there has been a trend toward spending a lot of time in virtual communities and online social networks. We define online social networks as web-based communities that provide service for participants to build up their own profile in this system, to share information and views of points, and to communicate with friends or strangers by utilising some virtual tools (Furht, 2010). It is of great significance to discuss the influence of social-networking websites on customers, since this may help companies to formulate reasonable marketing strategy and boost sales. This essay will explore how those virtual social networks affect people when they make buying decisions. It is undeniable that social networking sites have an enormous impact on consumer decision-making, since they help to stimulate consumers’ potential needs and purchasing desires (Baskin, 2010). Many companies take advantage of sophisticated media technologies and promote their products on online communities in the form of texts, pictures and videos. Consumers can have a better understanding of the products and therefore grow interests in these products (Hua, Mei& Hanjalic, 2011). This is particularly the case for those customers who do not have a clear purchasing intention and are likely to buy a product on impulse; they are more likely to be attracted by what businesses post online and be motivated to buy. Another point to...
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...Unit 4 IP Christina Connell MGMT305-1104-01 AIU Online Reality Gets Better What is the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality? Virtual reality computer programs are designed to simulate real life. The user wears special clothing and head gear that allows them to be completely immersed in the program. The clothing helps them to navigate through the system because it takes the body movements of the user and communicated that to the computer. For example, if you are taking a virtual tour of a house and you want to walk to the next room your feet moving communicate to the computer the direction to take you. Augmented reality is technology that allows the user to enhance visualization of reality. It takes real life images and enhances them with graphics to give the user a different perspective of reality. A great example of this is used in the medical field. During surgery they can use augmented reality software to superimpose ultrasound images on the patient to help the surgeon know where the problem is. Of course it is used in our everyday or at least every weekend life when we watch sports and they show those lines on the field showing where the first down goal is (Laudon, 2010). Why is augmented reality so appealing to marketers? Marketing is a business that is all about appealing to the customer. How do you get the attention of the consumer? You have the flashier ads and the attention getting signs. How about having the newest technology...
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...Assignment 3: Virtualization across the Board Chris Brown Strayer University CIS512 Dr. Gideon U. Nwatu ABSTRACT Virtualization is simply when a virtual version of a device or resources such as server, a storage device, network or even an operating system, which divides the resources into one or more execution environment is created. Virtualization has provided greater efficiency in CPU utilization, save energy (less energy consumption), greener IT, and better management through central environment control, reduce project timelines by eliminating hardware procurement, improved disaster recovery capability. Virtualization is sure the best innovation in the IT environment of the present age. The core idea behind virtualization is to make efficient use of hardware resources, such as CPU, memory and disk. In any computing environment it’s highly unlikely that hardware resources are being used to their full capacity. For example a typical desktop does not use more than 10% of its hardware resources under normal operational conditions. By using hardware virtualization, we can more effectively distribute our hardware resources among multiple virtual instances of operating systems according to that particular environment computing needs. Virtualization provides a mean to dynamically allocate hardware resources when needed and essentially unbinding software from hardware. Thus bringing down the overall requirements for hardware, which ultimately result in reduction of...
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