HISTORY OF PROJECT MANAGMENT 01-Jun-13 UMMARA MUSHTAQ 2123224 HISTORY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals. Starting in the early 1960s, businesses and other organizations began to see the benefit of organizing work around projects. This project-centric view of the organization evolved further as organizations began to understand the critical
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Institutional Racism Does institutional racism exist within the United States? Of course it does, the history of America is rough one in terms of racism.In an article written by History, it claims that slavery ended hardly over one hundred and fifty years ago and Jim Crow laws were completely abolished barely over fifty ago, so to claim that racism is eradicated completely within America is a very rash and uneducated statement. In more systems than one including schools, law enforcement, and even
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The History of Computers From primitive abaci to lab tops and calculators, the computer has evolved through time to become the essential part of our technocratic society. The development of the computer has shaped the way technology and science is viewed in different cultures around the world. The connotation of what a computer is nowadays brings to mind a monitor, keyboard, processor and its other electronic components; however, that is not how things have always been. From the Chinese using
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word, sentence, or phrase. An excellent example of this is in the literary work of Bitter Fruit: The story of the American Coup in Guatemala, by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, as it discusses the leading up to, during, and aftereffects of the American coup and the supposed role that United Fruit played in influencing America’s involvement. One of the main arguments that the authors argue is that the American coup was a turning point in Guatemalan History and has influenced the view of Guatemalans
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modernity for individuals in contemporary society (Giddens, 1991a, 1991b). Giddens showed that traditional society is based on direct interaction between people living close to each other. Modern societies stretch further and further across space and time using mass media and interactive media. Disembedding mechanisms (modern artefact objectified and made real) such as money and other symbolic means. As many theories modernization theory has critics, this
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Hannah Arendt on the History of the Modern Jew and its Ties to Totalitarianism German-born, Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt made her literary debut with her book The Origins of Totalitarianism which she published in 1951 to discuss the roots of Naziism, Jewry, and totalitarianism as present in current society. Arendt’s work can still be looked at today as an analysis of how totalitarianism can come to be. Additionally, it can be used as a warning for signs of totalitarianism today and help prevent
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mainly inspired by radical and liberal ideas altering the course of modern history. The revolution triggered the decline of absolute monarchies and theocracies then replaced them with democracies and republics (Hibbert, 1999). The revolutionary wars unleashed global conflicts that extended from the Middle East to the Caribbean. This revolution was later termed by historians as being one of the greatest events to occur in the human history. Historians debate amongst themselves the causes of the
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HISTORY AND THEORY STUDIES FIRST YEAR Terms 1 and 2 Course Lecturers: CHRISTOPHER PIERCE / BRETT STEELE (Term 1) Course Lecturer: PIER VITTORIO AURELI (Term 2) Course Tutor: MOLLIE CLAYPOOL Teaching Assistants: FABRIZIO BALLABIO SHUMI BOSE POL ESTEVE Course Structure The course runs for 3 hours per week on Tuesday mornings in Terms 1 and 2. There are four parallel seminar sessions. Each seminar session is divided into parts, discussion and submission development. Seminar 10.00-12.00
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Orientalism and India Introduction ”Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” (Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West) In his much quoted verse above Rudyard Kipling revealed something of the nucleus of the long-lived tradition of Orientalist thought. According to J. J. Clarke, the ambivalence of the West [1] towards the East is age-old. The ”rich cultures,” ”superior civilizations” and ”ancient wisdom” of the Orient have inspired many Westerners, but on
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level that they exceeded all other nations in progress and growth and stayed at the top for many centuries. The history of Islam is enriched with ingenious examples of science and culture. When Europe was no way near development, the Muslims were taking giant steps in the fields like astronomy, architecture, geography, literature, mathematics, medicine, physics and documentation of history. Many new systems were inherited to medieval Europe from Muslims, such as algebra, numerals with the zero vital
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