...Week 6: Five Pillars of Islam HUM130 Week 6: Five Pillars of Islam The central theme of the Islam belief system is that of a monotheistic culture or a culture that believes in One God. The name of the Islamic god is Allah. Allah is similar to Christianity as the major roles God is responsible for is creation, teaching and judgment. As humans following Allah, we are to build a moral foundation in order to live our lives fully while worshiping Allah. These central beliefs tie into the Five Pillars of Islam as well as they help to define a foundation for the faith system to rely back on. The Five pillars of Islam are: Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, Sawm and Hajj. The Shahadah is the equivalent to the First commandment for Christians. This pillar is the belief that Allah is the one and only God to be worshiped under the Islam faith. Allah had prophets to help pass on teachings and revelations. The greatest true prophet was Muhammad who delivered the last and final revelation. Prayer is very important to the Islamic faith. The pillar of Salat is the schedule in which the Islamic followers must pray. Their worship schedule occurs 5 times a day, including Early Morning, Noon, Mid-Afternoon, Sunset and evening. The worshipper must be clean and bow to symbolize submission to Allah. The pillar of Zakat is the giving back to the community through taking care of the poor. It is Muslim belief that in order to take care of the poor, it is crucial for the rich...
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...Learning Organization Paper A large amount of change has been carefully observed to various kinds of business organizations, due to the constant changes in the world of business. These circumstances can be related to globalization and the continuous cycle of improvement and development in advanced technology. In the business world there are no other options than to come up with plans that can adapt and direct these changes. The process of change is not easy, it is important that an organization come up with strategies of how to implement a change accordingly. In order for this process to take place, it requires a management team to institute several ways to implement change that is very distinguishable from that has been created in the previous business practices. The management team should deliberate the fact that there is no unique way or standard method that can help implement a change process. Employees must be aware with the roles they must play to participate in, during the change implementation process. The management team and the employees are key players of adapting and overcoming the challenges and applying the change method. The learning environment for the managers and the employees are very important in order to locate the errors and hampers the implementation process. What is Learning Organization? Learning organizations could have many different meanings. A learning organization is a kind of organization that enables...
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...While contrasting UNIX systems to Windows a few of the features discovered in UNIX incorporate: the usage of simple text for saving data; a ordered file system; UNIX manages tools for example printing equipments, mouse and keyboard and also other tools like files. The UNIX system also manages directories and procedures like files. There's only one root directory inside the UNIX operating system hierarchical tree. UNIX utilizes devices and applications via the command line in contrast to utilizing a single monolithic application which includes all the same functionality. The kernel offers services to begin and stop applications, deals with the file system that saves and arranges the computer system files and data. The kernel usually shifts data into as databases for storage and use. Both UNIX and Windows file systems are ordered and both support lengthy names as much as 255 characters. File Processing Evaluation UNIX programs that are based upon simple text files for setup use a lot of powerful devices that are utilized to process text files. Piping is widely utilized to reroute the result of one command to the input of the subsequent command. UNIX deals with most command in a consecutive order (first in first out) but the procedure may be overridden by making use of variables and alternatives (ADD). This lets commands to be installed collectively and implemented without storing all the results to an output file. UNIX utilizes commands that include: Echo - shows text...
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...The concepts of week five 100 6/15/2015 BRENDA DURDEN The concepts of week five The work of art that I would do to show my experience, as a student it would be like a puzzle with finish and unfinished parts of the puzzle. The puzzle pieces are unfinished would represent how tough school was in my classes. Then it will be another side that will show the entire puzzle piece connected to each other. That would be my success, in the University of Phoenix. By overcoming the tough classes and reaching my goal, of graduating completing the puzzle of my academic dreams. It will be a round ball surface. It durable outside weather sculpture that made out of metal life, size, and it will have the colors of black and gold black being for the unfinished puzzles. To show the tough side of my experience then it will have a gold side that will show my success and overcoming the hardships in my experience. It will be spinning within mid air circling around, to show the full sculpture to the audience when they are looking at it. They will not have to do it manually their selves when looking at the artwork of my experience. The way that it will communicate, it experiences in terms of its composition. That the colors would be black in gold the black color unfinished puzzle piece, will show my tough experience I went through. The gold pieces, of the puzzle, show my success that I gain through the tough experience, and it will be a 3d dimensional also the geometric shape circle...
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...Homework: Week Five Business Ethics & Social Responsibility Oscar J. Miranda Professor Georges De Schryver April 5, 2015 Body The way the economy works, the least restriction we have involving a higher power on businesses it can become a good thing for small to medium entrepreneurs. I do not believe the government should be involved in anything related to the consumption or buying of goods. Only manufacturers should be allowed to regulate the information that is provided in both their products and advertising. It is the consumer responsibility to be aware of what they are buying. In a sense, I believe that the free market is the one that will regulate what is put into the advertisement, since the consumer demand will depend on the information that is provided to them. By avoiding the complexities and delays of a judicial process, self-regulation offers consumers a quick, uncomplicated, easily-accessible and (because it is funded by the advertising industry) often cost-free means of having their complaints handled. Self-regulation is also flexible enough to adapt to changing societal views as well as advertising media / techniques. It can apply immediate sanctions by publishing the jury decisions and by pushing for media refusal or withdrawal of advertisements. (About Self-Regulation) The first precondition for setting up a self-regulatory system is a significant degree of consensus within the advertising industry on the need for such a system. Achieving such...
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...Outline of Week Five Cynthia O’Brien COM200 Interpersonal Communication (ACM1546D) Instructor: Reginald Doctor December 7. 2015 Congratulations Allan and Jennifer this letter is to help you learn essential communication skills. With education and learning interpersonal communication skills, I hope to pay it forward so you and Jennifer will not end up in the statistics of a failed marriage. As you may know, educators are focusing on communication skills personal and professional. This letter will go over core competencies to keep the doors of communication open at all times. By identifying barriers to effective interpersonal interactions, the process of self-concept developing and maintaining strategies for managing relationships, personal conflicts and the strategies to avoid them also define emotional intelligence and the role to have an effective interpersonal relationship. Communication is a shared meaning the essential purpose of human communication is to allow people to generate and share their thoughts, feelings, experiences, beliefs, opinion, or anything they can think to express (Bevan, & Sole, 2014). Communication is a development it involves two or more individuals. Reading in Bevan & Sole (2014) “A communication theorist David Berlo describe communication as a continually evolving interaction or activity that changes each of our relationships to one another over time” (Section 1.1). Although you might find a day that you do not want to talk...
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...Marketing in a Global Economy Edward Walls BUS 620 Managerial Marketing Prof. Dr. Susan Sasiadek October 7, 2013 Marketing in a Global Economy Starbucks has grown from a specialty coffee roasting company based in Seattle, Washington to an international behemoth that buys, roasts and sells specialty Arabica coffee beans and coffee beverages these expensive Arabica coffee beans are the main ingredient in Starbucks American version of Italian coffee beverages like espresso, lattes and cappuccinos that many customers from other countries love. However, Italy remains to be an untapped market for Starbucks because of the likelihood of tarnishing the good name of the company while in the process of trying to satisfy the refined taste and preferences of coffee drinkers of Italy. Starbucks must definitely be mindful of the potential risk of ruining the company’s good name by trying to compete in an already flooded market in Italy that is home to 140,000 coffee cafes or bars as they are called in Italy. In Italian coffee bars the customers pays first then served and the bartenders who are dressed in white shirts and bow ties are called baristas serve up cups of espresso on a daily schedule to satisfy the local customer demand for local traditional coffee preferences over all other brands because Italy is the coffee culture capital of the world (Faris, 2012). Italian tastes and preferences differ from the northern parts of the country to the southern parts of the country....
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...Currently, I approach weekly course reading material in a fairly unconventional way. My weekdays are usually incredibly hectic between my job of working with my clients and my day to day personal life with my children, so finding any quality reading time is hard during the day time hours. I generally have all reading material downloaded to my laptop in advance as we all should so I can get in a bit of reading time during my break time and my clients nap time. The problem with this is, even though it is quiet and my break time, there is still quite a bit of activity going on around me having to deal with small odds and ends, breaking any concentration I have and understanding of the text. I do get a small amount of time in peace when I get home and right before the kids get home after school in which I use to get in some reading and study time. This time is definitely quality time as my concentration is at its greatest and I can get something done. The night hours, usually after dinner, is where things have been really difficult as this is the time where the bulk of my study and reading time is. Thankfully my fiancée has begun to rectify this problem for me (when he is home from work himself) by keeping the kids busy with various things and away from me during this time so I can actually get quite a bit done in peace and...
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...Business Analysis Business Analysis In this paper, an overall business analysis of Apple Inc. will discuss the company’s financial statements, the company’s financial health and how it compare to other companies in the industry and globalization and how it has affected the company’s business strategies. Lastly, a benchmarking analysis will be conducted in the following comparison with other companies in the same industry. Apple Inc. has the talents of Steven Jobs along with other top idealists. Having such talent clearly gives Apple the advantage over other competitors in this industry. The collaborative efforts of the leaders give Apple Inc. a clear strategic advantage. Apple main goal is to stay on top of its competition. In order to accomplish this goal, the employees have to spend long hours determining what the consumer’s want and how to design their products based on that outcome. A good example would be the development of the iPhone. The iPhone was derived from a display of information of the iPod. This included a bigger touch screen that helped in the development of the smart phone. This vision didn’t stop there; Jobs began to think in the future toward concepts of applications for the smart phone. Once it was realized that the iPhone was a personal computer, three years later Apple Inc. introduce the iPhone and its application system. According to (Bajarin, 2011) Apple raises the bar with every new generation of the iPhone. Apple’s new version of the iPad has stood...
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...Week Five Exercises Chandler W. Morgan PHY/101 May 2, 2015 Dr. Rashmi Sharma Week Five Exercises Ch. 22 Exercise 8 Your hair becomes positively charged upon the removal of electrons through the comb. These electrons are now present in the comb and absent from the hair causing the comb to have a negative charge. Because both the comb and the hair were neutral, electrons have a negative charge. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63557/why-does-the-comb-attract-the-pieces-of-papers-if-theyre-neutral Ch. 22 Exercise 38 When you rub a balloon against an object, it takes the electrons from that and becomes a negatively charged object. Once you place the balloon near a wall, the electrons in the wall are repelled away from the balloon and the protons are attracted to the balloon so they come to the edge of the surface of the wall. Because opposites attract, the electrons in the balloon cause the clinging to the wall after rubbing the balloon in your hair. www.regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/phys03/aeleclab/ballrub.htm Ch. 23 Exercise 1 There are several things that can be done to increase the flow of a water pipe, however, I will just name two. (1) Increase the pressure of the water and (2) Increase the diameter of the pipe, which decreases resistance to the flow of water. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/126625/does-increasing-diameter-of-a-water-pipe-increase-speed-or-volume Ch. 23 Exercise 26 Automobile headlight are wired in parallel circuits...
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...happy and successful, they must be thin. So-called “plus-size” models are a growing presence on magazine covers, television and lingerie catalogues but at the Fashion Weeks of New York and London they are still the exception. In a reflection of the expanding market for women who defy the super-slender ideals of the catwalk, leading fashion magazine Elle offered its readers a special issue in March featuring larger than normal models and sales jumped. British designer Mark Fast introduced shows last year in which the models were all above a British size twelve, and American size eight, following criticism that his dresses were too skinny. Despite their trailblazing status in the fashion world, when it comes to bigger models New York and London are slightly out of step. The move towards more generously sized models has accelerated since the death from anorexia in 2006 of Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston, which shocked the fashion world. Spain and Italy banned models below a certain body mass index after her death, while Britain stopped short; banning only those aged under sixteen from the catwalk. “Sixteen corresponds to a level of maturity,” said Caroline Ruth of the British Fashion Council. When Frederique van der Wal, a former Victoria’s Secret model, attended designers’ shows during New York’s Fashion Week this month, she was “shocked” by the waiflike models who paraded down the catwalk. They seemed even skinnier than in previous years. “We know seeing super-thin models...
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...Week 5 Knowledge Check Study Guide Concepts Mastery Score: 15 / 15 1. Recruitment begins by specifying __________, which are the typical result of job analysis and workforce planning activities. A. human resource requirements B. strategic imperatives C. pay grades D. affirmative action candidates Correct: The Correct Answer is: A. Human Resource requirements must be specified for the recruitment of potential candidates for any change in position or new hire. The Human Resource requirements are established to ensure policies and laws are followed correctly. 8. The step following recruitment is ________, which is basically a rapid, rough selection process. A. orientation B. initial screening C. performance management D. workforce planning Correct: The Correct Answer is: B. The initial screening is used to narrow the search down to the individuals who are best fit and qualified for the job requirements and needs. 9. Typically, the first step in an employee's introduction to company policies, practices, and benefits is a(n) _________ program. A. initial screening B. intensive training program C. team-building D. orientation Correct: The Correct Answer is: D. The first step for a new employee’s introduction into a company or organization is done through an orientation program. Orientation programs take a new employee through all of the company’s policies, benefits...
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...New companies entering the market, mergers, and globalization, on pricing and the sustainability of profits: Identify the type of merger activity in your industry or one with which you are familiar–horizontal, vertical, or conglomerate–and explain why you made that choice. (Gerald) Current and expected government policies and regulations, including taxes and regulations in place to address issues related to externalities. (Monica) Global competition on the decisions made by management with regards to change in labor demand, supply, relations, unions, and rules and regulations in your chosen industry. (Jennifer) Introduction With the augmentation of modern technology companies have greater opportunities to compete, advance, merge and (or) go global. These contingencies are even more possible now, than ever, with any company presented to the public. Within this report we intend to express the strength of the market pertaining to { market field/or company } and the probabilities, according to current statistics, the sustainability of profits in the current market. We will also identify the type of merger activity in { market field/or company } and relate it to one of the following three activities: horizontal, vertical or conglomerate. This report will also include up to date government policies and regulations related to the externalities of { market field/or company }. This report will also identify global competition on the decisions...
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...sister and I made our way to 1st St. and Central Ave. from a failed attempt at another left-to-be-unnamed cultural epicenter, which was a very disappointing trip. Little Tokyo proved to be quite the opposite, as I was able to ascertain a much deeper understanding of the Japanese culture because of it, and at the same time was able to reflect on the differences and similarities of my Filipino heritage. From what I was able to gather, the Japanese and Filipino cultures have quite a few significant differences, but have more similarities than I originally anticipated. As the name would suggest, Little Tokyo is fairly little, with its borders spanning a radius of only a few blocks. Walking from one end of the town to the other took no more than five minutes. That afternoon, we started our trip right in the middle of all the activity, into the mouth of a little alley known as the Japanese Village Plaza. People were walking in and out of cosmetic stores, bakeries, bars, gift shops, a brightly lit Sanrio store, cafes, a market, and a number of restaurants serving sushi, shabu shabu, ramen, even Korean barbeque. Many of these shops were playing traditional Japanese music, and interestingly, almost all of the employees that worked in these shops were women. The same could be said about the restaurants, as many of the servers were also women. The chefs on the other hand were all men, which may be one aspect of gender roles in the neighborhood. The Japanese had great pride in serving the...
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...Tyden Brammall Mike Arevalo MKT/421 February 27, 2012 Stephanie Jensen Tyden Brammall Tyden Brammall is an organization that is in the process of trying to become the largest and most successful security seal provider in the world. Owned by a private equity firm it has been transformed from a United States manufacturer to a global company by expansion, merger, and take over. As the worldwide expansion has progressed it has encountered many if the issues raised. Items such demographics, infrastructure, global interdependent, and inferences such as culture. The other issue of ethics and working within different political systems such as the one in China and the effect of the tech revolution and the ease that it has made operations that much easier. Global Interdependence and Cultural Differences Tyden and the equity firm have gambled much on the value of global interdependence. The company requires all division to be able to support each other with sales being in Europe, Latin America, and the largest market the USA. Manufacturing is centered in China and the Far East with a small assembling procedure in Latin America. This interdependence and support of each is essential to the operational success of the organization. As a global manufacturer each and every division must know its place and support each other. The other side of the coin in having a global company that depends on each other is the fact cultural difference play such a part...
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