...Kaung Wai Yan Kyaw Prof J Hurley English 151 RW 3/2/15 There are a few factors why cheating scandal started in Park Middle School. No Child Left Behind, Poverty, Superintendent Beverly Hall, Principle Waller and Damany Lewis are the main factors. Education systems, setting high standard for schools that are in an impoverished area, have made teachers as well as principle to use unlawful way to meet the systems target. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Law, sets a standard for every school in the states. The Law requires 58% of students passing math and 68% of students passing language art, or Parks would be classified as a “school in need of improvement” for sixth year and the state could shut down the school. According to Rachel Aviv, “the Law requires public-school student to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.” This is giving teachers pressure and making the teachers to use other forms of method such as cheating. On the other hand, if the school were to achieve this target, the teacher and the staff would be rewarded. This relates to quote from the Gold Star Junkies article ”Rewards or Punishments are not only ineffective at motivating people, but are counterproductive and they might lose interest in the activity” This is saying that if Education system trying to pressure and reward the teacher, It would be counterproductive and resulting in teacher cheating. Atlanta’s school superintendent, Beverly Hall, approached her job like a business executive. She pressure the teacher...
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...malicious and cause damage but they are not self-replicating and don’t reproduce by infecting other files. Hackers have taken advantage of human nature with persuading the user to install a Trojan for the hacker by means of deception (Greenberg, 2011). Trojans Spread by users, the Trojan is latched onto an enticing program like a popular game, screen saver or any other program the user finds legitimate. Trojans usually open a covert backdoor into a targets computer or server, once installed the Trojan gives a hacker access to man operations including: Data theft, crashing the victim’s system, installing key loggers, and viewing the user’s screen (Greenberg, 2011). The Trojan must accomplish without raising suspicion, this is usually achieved by giving the Trojan program the name of a program the user uses commonly. Once this decoy program is launched the user will not have a clue the Trojan is installing because the normal program will work as intended (Sawicki, 1995). What is the Goal of a Trojan? There are many reasons why a...
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...electricity, it is capable of generating the same or even higher amount of electricity. It is said to be cheaper to access to. According to the article, it is around 75% cheaper than oil at the moment. (probably a citation as evidence is more persuasive) and it’d be best to include the exact price of the current oil supply. Many alternatives have been invented and tried out, but none of them still has proven enough to meet the demand for energy. Taking the balance between the ability to generate electricity and the emission of greenhouse effect gas, natural gas is ahead of the others. I personally think that the points you’ve written above should be included in my part in section A – product/ services. That’s because I’ll be explaining why we would wanna replace nuclear power by natural gas. (Nclear power as the current product utilized by the operators. And how this should be changed to natural gas(our product). I would also have to include in section A the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power to support the replacement of nuclear power to natural gas. 2. BP should invest in building natural gas plants as much as possible in UK. Aim: replace currently planned nuclear...
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...pennies and hour; and American workers are more productive and as a result earn a higher wages. These positive statements try to describe how things are currently happening. Normative statements: In order to preserve the dignity of the American workplace, the government should enact legislation banning imports of low-wage Asian clothing. The normative statement tries to give advice and prescribe a possible solution. b. Would such a policy make some Americans better off without making any other Americans worse off? Explain who, and why. Americans would benefit but also be hurt; the pros would be since there is a ban on low-wage imports, this will create jobs for the lower income families. Therefore a spike in available jobs, more people will be working and spending more money which will help boost the economy. On the negative side, any work done in America is more expensive. This would not be good because it would mean a shirt at Target for $15.00, the price would easily rise to $25.00 a shirt. There can be hundreds of products affected by the ban. This would also greatly affect the poor and even...
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...the design team was producing polo shirts and two women shirts with famous Burberry check but not a single coat. In America, the design team was making outerwear but the price was half in UK. In addition, as a British brand, the classic raincoats was made in USA. 2. Missing the historical core. Burberry began with its coats but in 2006, outerwear only represented 20% of global brand business. Instead of the coats, polo shirts and other stuff represented a lot. 3. Retail operation is not good. Burberry is a luxury brand so the target audience should be elite buyers. Burberry should find the right place to reach the right consumers to support luxury brand. But when the markets was identified, there was no stores in the market where the tow of the competitors had ones. 4. Salespeople accustomed to selling cheap items. They knew coats were more expensive and made more profit but they were not appreciate and communicate with customers why the trench coat was a good option. She needed to turn Burberry around by solving the problems. So she began to setup the goal as developing Burberry into a great global luxury brand and she re-targeted the disposable income of the world’s...
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...Title: spared The door finally opens. The front desk invites me, empty and bare. I slink towards it, locate the draw and find the key. The cold metal glistens in my palm. I leave the reception area and enter a room with a large number of wings, remembering it was the 2nd wing. Darkness and strange shadows surround me. No nurses to be found. The long corridor waits for me. I scurry down hoping I’m not found. I slowly creep, as silent as a ghost. Rooms line the corridor, left and right, filled with tortured souls waiting to escape. Cords dangling from the ceiling attach to unknown machines. A light flickers at the end of the corridor. Every time it attempts to shine it is shut down instantly by its inside. The silence and bitter cold only make me want to find it faster… I finally reach his office. A metal name plaque reads, “Dr Grey, Military doctor”. I grab the key with anticipation, place it inside the lock hoping it will yield to my touch and slowly pull the door open avoiding the shrill of hinges. I enter the office and shut the door behind me and lock it calmly and carefully. I leave the room in darkness in order to minimize suspicion, using my phone light to guide me. My eyes are drawn to the filing cabinet, my only chance of hope considering I didn’t find anything in his house. If I can somehow find evidence of one more mis-diagnosis, I can give Dr Grey what he deserves. He stripped me of my job and livelihood. He’ll be found negligent and disbarred. He will be the...
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...INTRODUCTION SOPA or the Stop Online Piracy Act was a proposed that intended to go after copyright violators by restricting access to the problem website that facilitates or host the material. Though SOPA intended target was overseas violators the language itself was vague and opened a door to hold U.S. companies accountable for many reasons. Supporters of SOPA included the owners of the copyrighted material being distributed such as many Hollywood studios. From their point of view they require protection against pirates because if their copyrighted material is pirated is cost them money. On the other hand however major computer and internet companies such as Google and Youtube.com among many felt SOPA made them by law accountable for copyright violations of others, using their website. For example the vague language of the bill states “a site could be deemed a SOPA scofflaw if it facilitates copyright infringements.” (claoit.umn.edu.), making anybody accountable. This paper will analyze from a few perspectives what where the potential implications of SOPA and will attempt to analyze ethically what this failed law means to both sides of the table. Additionally it will explore a bit the relevant legal principles and rule of law by analyzing what SOPA means legally to all. Lastly all the involved companies protecting their investment and their interests by taking a stand on both side of the issue but what about society? The Social responsibility goes above the legal and moral...
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...the United States. Bullying has recently become a more popular topic due to national media coverage of the tragic deaths of a few teens recently that have taken their lives due to being bullied. “The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center estimates that nearly 30 percent of American youth are either a bully or a target of bullying.” (Donaldson James, 2009) We must first examine why studying bullying is such an important aspect of the study in human development. Bullying in the teenage years can be very detrimental to the individual both psychologically and physically. Bullying can be something as simple as name calling to inappropriate sexual comments, threating to cause harm, physical violence such as pushing, shoving, hitting, spitting on and even kicking. Many teens that have been bullied have been known to shut down and become withdrawn from society. While some teens withdraw themselves from society some use other methods to cope with the abuse with the use of alcohol, food, pills, and illegal drugs in order to numb themselves from the pain that they have inside. As we examine bullying in more detail we see that bullying can be broken down into different components. Verbal Bullying, Physical Bullying and Cyber Bullying. Verbal Bullying can be seen as one of the...
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...Sean Bledsoe Rhetoric 201 Dr. Jeff Drury February 27, 2024 Critics of the golf ball rollback should stop complaining about it and support it. In his article titled “Golf Ball Rollback Is Good for the Game and Environment”. The Latter Argument Should Shut Up the Critics, if Nothing Else,” Prateek Srivastava covers the controversy surrounding the announcement of the golf ball rollback by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club (R&A) and the United States Golf Association (USGA), the two governing bodies of golf. Srivastava published this article on December 8, 2023, two days after the R&A and USGA published their groundbreaking news, in the Hindustan Times. In the beginning of this piece, he describes that the rollback will change the golf ball specifications...
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...# 2 Table of Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Estonia under attack……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Types of attacks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Threats actors and their motives ……………………………………………………………………………. 6 Who were responsible for the attacks ……………………………………………………………………. 7 Strategic Shifts in Response to attacks ……………………………………………………………………. 8 Conclusions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10 Introduction The Baltic state of Estonia was attacked by hackers in April of 2007. Scores of government and private sector website were shut down. Estonian’s daily activities, such as pumping gas or making withdrawals from ATM machines were severely impacted. The architecture of the Internet allowed networks of bots, called botnets, to direct millions of packets to the servers of the Estonian targets, overloading and rendering them inaccessible to visitors. Digital traffic from servers ranging all the way to Peru, Vietnam and the United States overwhelmed Estonian websites, overloading their buffers with superfluous data. At the apex of this DDoS flooding, government websites that had been receiving 1,000 visits each day were suddenly inundated with 2,000 per second (Crouch, Pg 1). No overt financial motivations were discovered as the driver of these attacks, with the principal motivation being political and retaliatory against the government of Estonia. The likely threat actors belonged to the Russian...
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...The Top 5 Risks Encountered in a Shutdown or Turnaround A White Paper by Ej Lister Director – STO & EPC Project Consulting IPEC Project Systems, Malaysia Knowing the Enemy Managing risk during day-to-day operations in the manufacturing industry is challenging enough without periodically having to shut down to ensure asset and process integrity. With complex processes generating high pressure, high temperature and high flow-rates, combined with hydrocarbons, chemicals and vapors, any loss of control can amount to significant, even catastrophic failures—often resulting in social and financial losses. Industry has come a long way in reducing and mitigating risk during day-to-day operations. When it comes to navigating complex projects like Shutdowns and Turnarounds, however, the ability to manage risk remains one of Management’s greatest challenges. Although the consequences remain the same— human, environment, social, financial, reputation and asset losses—the probability of an occurrence during the execution of a Shutdown or Turnaround is much greater. The very nature of executing complex and risky projects every few years, under pressure to keep costs low and outage durations short, increases the potential for something to go wrong. This paper explores the top five risks encountered in a Shutdown or Turnaround and their probability and consequence, along with suggestions to minimize their impact. Companies have a great deal to learn when it comes to managing risk during a Shutdown...
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...Classroom Management Plan: CALMM CLASS 9th-12th grade Kristin Guffey I currently teach at Soddy Daisy High School in the CALMM Class. CALMM stands for Coaching All Mentoring and Modeling. I teach social skills to high functioning autistic high school students. I have 12 students in my class. I have 3 girls and 9 boys in my classroom. There ages are from 14-18 years old. In my class students are instructed to walk into the room and sit at their assigned seats at the big tables in the middle of the room. If they need materials at their individual desks along the wall, they raise their hands to get permission. Usually students enter one or two at a time, due to their varied schedules. Students each have a desk for their supplies, backpacks, etc. They only have what is needed for the time being on the tables in the middle of the room. This prevents them from getting their things in others' way and arguing about stuff on the table. The room is not large, but there is plenty of walking space around the tables and desks. Usually there are only one or two people moving at a time. My desk is in the corner where I can see everyone, and the educational assistant’s desks are in the other corner where they can see everyone as well. My computer is in the corner by my desk, where it is not vulnerable to students messing with it. A book shelf with curriculum materials is along the wall behind my desk. It is accessible to my educational assistants and I. Students may get things...
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...cyber security incident, the impact of the attack, the consequences, and a brief explanation of the mitigation steps the hospital has taken post incident. The Boston Children’s Hospital was a victim of a cyberattack between the dates of April 20 and April 25, 2014. The cyberattack on the hospital focused on bringing down the hospital’s internal website – used by hospital personnel to check appointments, test results, and other patient information (Wen, 2014). The hackers used a distributed denial of service approach attack, which consisted of a bombardment of traffic to the hospitals web page, causing it to crash and become unusable to all hospital staff. The hospital has insisted that no patient data or information has been compromised due to these cyberattacks (Farrell, 2014). Law enforcement was notified of the attacks, but it is unconfirmed whether investigations were started. It is suspected the attackers were a part of the well-known hacker network “Anonymous”. Even though no evidence exists to prove this group is behind the attack on the Children’s Hospital, the incident has all the markings of a typical Anonymous cyberattack. The group typically targets Internet pages of large organizations and cripples them by with a barrage of traffic (Wen, 2014). This denial of service attack is exactly what had been happening to the hospital’s web server for days. The incident is believed to have been in response to the recent Justina Pelletier custody case, which ruled in...
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...Matthew Shaw Mrs. Deborah Scott Political Science November 27, 2011 Why are democracies vulnerable to terrorism? According to (Lutz and Lutz) democratic systems are more prone to terrorism then non-democratic systems. Throughout history, democratic systems are known for having weak securities and intelligences forces. For example, checkpoints where identity papers need to be presented are unusual and infrequent. In addition, democracies also have a relatively weaker control of their borders, thereby providing opportunities for in- and ex-filtration. Therefore, terrorism during 1975 – 1997 was high in Western Europe and West Germany. In West Germany, the Basque nationalist increased terrorism for nearly two decades leading up into the twenty-first century. Another study showed that during 1968 and 1986 non-democracies had experienced less terrorist acts than other democratic systems. In addition, international attacks on U.S. soil was very few, instead most attacks were against the U.S. targets in other areas. The reason for this was because Palestinian and Middle Eastern groups had easier access to other areas such as Western Europe, bottom line was geographically close to their home countries, and they were able to draw upon expatriate communities or locals who sympathized with them. Finally, based on these results from this article I see why democratic systems are considered vulnerable to outbreaks of terrorist incidents because political...
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...implement the recommendations. Lastly, this paper will assess the circumstances in which the company should discontinue operations while providing a rationale with its reasoning’s. Describe the details of the fictitious business that is created for this assignment Edmonds Equipment Inc (EEI) headquartered in Richmond, Virginia is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. Edmonds products include: cameras, binoculars, camcorders, printers, scanners, calculators, facsimile machines, office software, and projectors. EEI currently employs 150 workers and has hired a consultant to offer some advice that will help it make a decision as to whether it should shut down completely or continue operations. Originally, EEI was established in 1986 by Robert Edmonds and as his business grew, he employed up to 250 employees. The forces of global competition and technological advancements have caused profound changes within his business organization. In addition, EEI uses 100 of his workers to produce 6,000 units of output per month (working 20 days...
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