Systems Spring 2012 Final Examination (Take Home) due by noon EST 05/09/12 This is your final examination. Where appropriate, cite source(s) used to support your opinions and/or arguments. Papers will be evaluated on the quality of work. The entire exam should be completed on approximately 7-13 pages. The final paper is to be an individual effort -- absolutely no collaboration with anyone in or outside our class. Any breach of this requirement will result in a zero grade for this exam and a recommendation
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1. Summary of “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook”: The text is written by Elizabeth Cohen. The text is about how people use more time on Facebook than on social activities. Newton has a daughter on 12 years old. Newton cannot help her daughter with the homework, because she spends too much time on Facebook. Another example is Paula Pile, who is a therapist. Paula has three clients with different Facebook issues. That conclude that Facebook leads people from the real world into the network
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obesity in adolescents ages 12 to 19 has tripled. Childhood obesity has both immediate and long-term serious health impacts. Obesity is having a large amount of body fat, and is more than just a vanity flaw or concern. Obesity is a health risk and open doors for diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure. The cause of obesity is when you take in more calories and not enough daily activities like exercising or just doing daily chores to burn those calories off, and instead your body is storing
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corrective. b. One or more animals get sick. This would be an operational human error risk, it seems like there would be a breakdown in the operational procedures that would keep the animals healthy. Say an attendant to the animals was running late and “decided to skip a step in the cleaning process” of the animal’s dens, this could potential make an animal sick. If the Zoo implemented a more stringent risk control over the cleaning process it could have prevented the illness. c. The Zoo’s
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Nadim: yes. It’s a great problem and curse for our country. Jony: How? Nadim: You know, Education is the back bone of a nation. No nation can prosper without education. Jony: What should we do then? Nadim: We should work hand to hand to remove illiteracy. Jony: We should also need to create public awarness. Nadim: Yes, of course. It’s a vital factor. Jony: Thank you. Nadim: Welcome. 2.Write a dialogue between Nadim and Noyon about Tree plantation.
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Drugs and technology While it is almost impossible to get an actual percentage of people affected by drug addiction, the use continues to grow. Most people will admit to trying some form of illegal drug, but addicts have a hard time even coming to grasp that they are addicted. Our society has been struggling with addiction for hundreds of years. Those affected vary in age, and are not limited to adults. According to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2011),
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the company had become an open community, providing its users with a variety of services. Cyworld was no longer just focused on social networking, it had become a site based on personal media (concept of a user creating a “minihompy” and Home2) and a media platform (open platform for media sharing). Customer. Cyworld target users were mainly people in their late teens and their early twenties. This last group was considered the trendsetter group followed by the late teens group. Users spent
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Case Analysis Guide The Six Steps for Preparing a Case Analysis with excerpts from: “Teaching and the Case Method”, Barnes, Christiansen, Hansen; Harvard Business School Publishing. Professor Edward G. Wertheim, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University Why study using the case method? Stated simply, to teach you, the student, how to think. “The sole direct path to enduring improvements in the methods of instruction and learning consists in centering upon
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student and school success. Academic achievement scores are correlated with school attendance. Students who are not at school cannot receive instruction. Excessive school absence is a precursor of school dropout and is related to juvenile delinquency. And, because average daily attendance rates are a common determiner of school funding, absences mean that schools have less resources to do the job. Given all this, it is not surprising that reducing school absences is a top priority for many schools. (http://smhp
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Summer 2013 SYLLABUS –American History Before 1877 HIST1301.719 HIST1301.722 You must read this document CAREFULLY. ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE IS LISTED HERE. Section 1 – Getting started There is not an in-person orientation for this course. Please read the following syllabus thoroughly and e-mail me with any questions you have. I will communicate with the class through e-mails and post information on the ANNOUNCEMENT page - please check the announcements
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