...Privacy in the 21st Century Sandra Bland ENG 122 Jason Romero March 25, 2013 How do you feel walking around knowing that you are being monitored at all times by cameras? Somebody is watching every step you take. Doesn’t that creep you out a little? You post something on Facebook and decide to delete it later on; did you know it will always be there no matter how many times you have deleted it. You may not see it, but others can. In today’s society, privacy rarely exists anymore. There are certain tools and gadgets people use when trying to invade somebody’s privacy including hidden cameras and satellites. Privacy no longer exists in my eyes because of all the new technologies and programs allowing the invasion. What is privacy? Do people today really understand what privacy is? Or have they really got to experience some privacy? The definition of privacy is allowing and individual or group to “seclude them or information about themselves and thereby reveal them selectively.” When something is private, it is usually something personal or valuable to someone. Everyone likes privacy, but it is no longer “available.” Everything people hope is private is no longer private. An example is, before data bases were even created a patient’s information was recorded and put into files in a filing cabinet. There were no security precautions preventing another doctor from exploring somebody’s files. A doctor could do anything with the files without anybody knowing because there is...
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...SLEEP DISORDERS UNCOVERED, | Sleeping Disorders Uncovered | Jeffery J. Dowling | | Mitchell College | 10/31/2013 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Sleep could very well be the most important aspect of a healthy life. Not only physical health, but mental, and emotional as well. Without sleep it is hard to manage life day to day. Everyone knows that sleep is the most important thing for a healthy body because sleep is the time to relax. When someone is sleeping they do not have to think about life’s problems. The nature of today’s world hinders the opportunity for good sleep habits. Multiple studies have shown direct relationships between work hours and total sleep time. The more time a person spends working means less time they have to sleep. This proves how today’s world inhibits people of quality sleep (Swanson, et al., 2001.). Sleep is worth its weight in gold times ten. With immense exploration and study of sleep, new statistics and ways of assessing peoples sleeping habits have been fabricated. Sleeping Disorders come in all different shapes and forms. There are many factors that can cause these disorders that some people are born with, and other people get through some environmental factor. The four most prevalent disorders that people have are Insomnia,...
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...the time, energy, and effort to actually follow through with this stuff. I’m Steve Kamb, creator of Nerd Fitness, and I know that getting healthy can be difficult. If it was easy, everybody would be walking around looking like King Leonidas from 300 or Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. However, just because it ain’t easy doesn’t mean it ain’t possible! 1 00 One of the most important Rules of the Rebellion is that, “we don’t care where you came from, only where you’re going.” I don’t care if you’re 600 pounds or 100 pounds, guy or gal, young or old, tall or short, alive or undead...I only care that you want to be better today than you were yesterday. So, I created a resource that helps you start kicking ass on day one. I’ve been running Nerd Fitness for over four years, helped thousands and thousands of people get healthy, answered 2 10,000+ emails, and dealt with people in every single situation, at every level of fitness under the sun. I’ve also seen people from every situation turn into a superhero version of themselves. I want you to be one of those superheroes. In...
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...effort to outshine competitors. Each organization seeks to come up with a product that is creative and inventive. Organizations may come up with great inventions and creative ideas through trial and error. It is very common for initial ideas to fail however, these failures almost always tend to lead to greater outcomes and inventions. There are already many technological devices being produced such as, a cell phone charger built into a laptop, mobile cable provider app for smartphones, solar powered smartphones and a safe driving app. X’s innovation: Imagine yourself seating in a taxi, airport, waiting room, etc. doing something very important on your computer. You phone ringing - it is your boss, or client, or somebody very important that can change your life – and before answering you noticing that your phone says that you have...
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...<Your name> MISM 2301 Final Case (Slusser) <Date> Q1. For the 3 Information systems described in the case (they are in capital letters in the case) and fill in the following table. Information System (ISs) | Location(s) the IS is used | Who is the main user | Briefly what it helps the user do (not how the system works) Do not repeat the answers from Q2 and 3. | Day Planner | The computer | The store manager | * Retrieving sales for the previous year from the corporate servers * Generating growth trends * Forecasting daily sales * Realization of the customer count * Developing steps to lure people into the store * Provides focus on customers * Provides Knowledge on availability of freshly baked cookies and the ability meet the revenue goals. | Crew Scheduler | The corporate servers | Managers | * Allocation of tasks to people on the basis of time and skills i.e. scheduling | Store Status | Headquarters | Store controllers | * Knowledge on the daily sales and staffing of stores * Detecting anomalies in sales i.e. discrepancy between the daily report of batches of cookies baked, and the sales report | Q2. For the 3 ISs fill in the following table. Information Systems | List the data the IS needs as input. | List the Information/data the IS produces as output | Day Planner | Command from user | * Questions on the type of day whether normal day, sale day, hot day, school day or holiday * Information on when to expand...
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...Individual Paper Topic: Explain the need for understanding different intergenerational attitudes of people towards technology and the implications it has for facilitating communicating between digital natives and digital immigrations. HO Nancy Hiu Kwan Introduction With the growth of time, the role of technology is getting more and more significant where technological products are commonly found in today‟s society and everyone generally equips with more than 2 gadgets to deal with their daily business. It is observed that majority of people flips on their smartphone during the ride or in meal are teenagers and young adults, they do with no reason but treat it as a habit. Since those digital natives can hardly live without the electronic devices, feel uncomfortable without them in hands and play with it (smartphone) regardless of the location and time can therefore said as an addiction. And now, it raises a question of whether the rapid advancement of technology betters our life or we are determined by technology? The above controversial topic often comes with diverse respondents amongst different generations, where teenagers may usually agree with technology improves their life in overall despite of some drawbacks brought by those digital technologies as they get used to the online space and possible to handle all the matters by their own; whereas the elder generation may have a different comments and believe technology undoubtedly better off our lives, yet more drawbacks...
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...it is acceptable to tell white lies or even a bigger lie for the greater good, if the truth is not something of importance. I will discuss several facets of deception. To start, I will describe several types of lies and give definitions and examples of them. Then, I will talk about some facts about the frequency at which we are deceptive on an average day, and situations in which we generally increase or decrease how deceptive we are. Next, I will discuss why lies are prevalent in relationships, and how deception creates friction in the workplace. After that, I will talk about how we deceive ourselves, and why, what motivates us to lie and then I will give some arguments about the possibility of detecting when someone is lying and if you can distinguish their lies from the truth. Lastly, I will discuss several disorders that may cause one to lie, whether it is purposefully or not, and how that can affect their life and the lives of those close to them. The...
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...to come on a weekend and except for a colleague of hers, Jack, the floor was deserted. Nanda had always hated Jack because of his arrogant and egotistical attitude. He really got on her nerves. Nanda finished her documentation. The time was 8:28 pm. She started checking her mailbox before she called it a day. There were a couple of unread mails but one caught her eyes. It was from an unknown sender with a red exclamation mark signifying importance. Nanda opened the mail a little unsure whether the thing carried some virus. The content of the mail was in little black letters. "Death is a game. Game chooses many random lives everyday. Today it has chosen you. If you don't get out of this cubicle in an hour , you will die. Find a way to get out and you will live. Time is now 8:32. The game starts, the moment you finish reading this. Best of luck" The moment Nanda read the mail, it got deleted automatically from her inbox. She knew it was a prank from Jack. She checked her watch, it was 8:32. She switched off the computer and got up from her seat. She took her bag and slid it across her shoulder. Just then she felt something on her forehead. She took the small face mirror from her bag and checked. She was bleeding a little. It was a small but deep cut. How did this happen? She quickly took a towel and wiped her head. The cut was now visible. It was on the mark which she had since childhood. She had fallen from a tricycle. But now the mark was replaced by a fresh wound...
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...Introduction 1.1 Background Technical Analysis is the forecasting of future financial price movements based on an examination of past price movements. Like weather forecasting, technical analysis does not result in absolute predictions about the future. Instead, technical analysis can help investors anticipate what is "likely" to happen to prices over time. Technical analysis uses a wide variety of charts that show price over time. One of them is candlestick chart. By the grace of Almighty Allah I have been assigned to prepare a project paper on ‘Making Effective Decision in Stock Market through Candlestick Chart Analysis’. I believe that I have tried all the way to follow the previous studies retaining my originality in writing the report. Any analytical criticism and creative suggestion on this concern will receive my heartiest welcome. 1.2 Origin of the report Each professional degree needs practical knowledge of the respective field of discipline to be fruitful. Our MBA program also has a Project Report program, relating to the exchange of theoretical knowledge into the real life practical situation. The report entitled “Making Effective Decision in Stock Market through Candlestick Chart Analysis”. During the project paper program, I was under the supervision and guidance of Md. Hafizur Rahman Khan, Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Leading University, Sylhet, Bangladesh. 1.3 Objectives (i) Main Objective: The...
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...HBR.ORG THE PRICE OF INCIVILITY LACK OF RESPECT HURTS MORALE AND THE BOTTOM LINE. BY CHRISTINE PORATH AND CHRISTINE PEARSON January–February 2013 Harvard Business Review 115 The Price of inciviliTy R udeness at work is rampant, and it’s on the rise. Over the past 14 years we’ve polled thousands of workers about how they’re treated on the job, and 98% have reported experiencing uncivil behavior. In 2011 half said they were treated rudely at least once a week—up from a quarter in 1998. The costs chip away at the bottom line. Nearly everybody who experiences workplace incivility responds in a negative way, in some cases overtly retaliating. Employees are less creative when they feel disrespected, and many get fed up and leave. About half deliberately decrease their effort or lower the quality of their work. And incivility damages customer relationships. Our research shows that people are less likely to buy from a company with an employee they perceive as rude, whether the rudeness is directed at them or at other employees. Witnessing just a single unpleasant interaction leads customers to generalize about other employees, the organization, and even the brand. We’ve interviewed employees, managers, HR executives, presidents, and CEOs. We’ve administered questionnaires, run experiments, led workshops, and spoken with doctors, lawyers, judges, law enforcement officers, architects, engineers, consultants, and coaches about how they’ve faced and handled incivility. And...
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...Profile Help 7.1 Exploring Plot and First-Person Poin… Previous section Next section 7.1 Exploring Plot and First-Person Point of View In "How I Met My Husband," even the title hints at the importance that events and decisions are likely to have in the development of the story. But, because the narrator is looking back at situations and actions, her insights and feelings are also prominent, creating a reflective tone. "How I Met My Husband" and Point of View Wayne Clugston, author of Journey Into Literature, examines the role of first-person voice in Alice Munro's How I Met My Husband. Critical Thinking Questions Why does Wayne Clugston say that first-person point of view might be "unreliable"? What is another story you have read in first-person, and how did the use of first-person enhance or detract from the story? Alice Munro (1931—) ASSOCIATED PRESS/ChadHipolito/The Canadian Press Alice Laidlaw Munro was born in Wingham, a small town in southern Ontario, Canada. She began publishing short stories when she was a student at the University of Western Ontario. Since then, she has published seven collections of her stories, three of which received the Governor General's Award for fiction. Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 in recognition of her distinctive craft and contributions to short story writing. Much of her work reflects perceptions she gained from observing the ordinary happenings and relationships of people in her small town and its...
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...exotic-skinned accessories by Gucci. No, this is not the Avenue des Champs-Élysées or Bond Street, but the departure lounge of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5, where passengers buy over $450 million per year of perfumes, clothing, scarves, sunglasses, jewellery, watches, bags and small leather goods from brands including Alexander McQueen, Burberry and Chanel, the airport’s top performer. A similar scene plays out each day at a plethora of major international airports across the world, from Singapore’s Changhi and South Korea’s Incheon to Dubai International and Charles de Gaulle in Paris. But this wasn’t always the case. Indeed, in the last 20 years, airside retail has undergone a radical transformation. From Sideline to Strategic Priority “What you used to have at Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, was big old airport terminals, with a WH Smith and maybe a Knickerbox and a big greasy spoon café,” Brian Collie, former group retail director of the British Airport Authority (BAA) from 1997 to 2005, told BoF. But things began to change in the mid-1990s. “What we did was bring quality retail developers and architects to the airports,” said Collie. “And we were beginning to get demand from brands who had never really traded at the airport: big players like Chanel...
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...joy. Bringing too the full-throated call of the tropical night, the soft and wild voice of the wind roaring through the hairs on your arm, the hollow wail of starlight, the teeth-grinding bellow of the moonlight off the water. All calling to the Need. Oh, the symphonic shriek of the thousand hiding voices, the cry of the Need inside, the entity, the silent watcher, the cold quiet thing, the one that laughs, the Moondancer. The me that was not-me, the thing that mocked and laughed and came calling with its hunger. With the Need. And the Need was very strong now, very careful cold coiled creeping crackly cocked and ready, very strong, very much ready now—and still it waited and watched, and it made me wait and watch. I had been waiting and watching the priest for five weeks now. The Need had been prickling and teasing and prodding at me to find one, find the next, find this priest. For three weeks I had known he was it, he was next, we belonged to the Dark Passenger, he and I together. And that three weeks I had spent fighting the pressure, the growing Need, rising in me like a great wave that roars up and over the beach and does not recede, only swells more with every tick of the bright night's clock. But it was careful time, too, time spent making sure. Not making sure of the priest, no, I was long sure of him. Time spent to be certain that it could be done right, made neat, all the corners folded, all squared away. I could not be caught, not now. I had worked too hard, too long...
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...The Power of Now A Guide to SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT By Eckhart Tolle CONTENT Foreword ........................................................................................................................... 4 Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................. 7 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 8 The Origin Of This Book .................................................................................................. 8 The Truth That Is Within You......................................................................................... 10 1. YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND....................................................................................... 13 The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment......................................................................... 13 Freeing yourself from your mind .................................................................................... 16 Enlightenment: Rising above Thought............................................................................ 19 Emotion: The Body's Reaction to Your Mind................................................................. 21 2. CONSCIOUSNESS: THE WAY OUT OF PAIN ........................................................... 26 Create No More Pain In The Present..........................................................
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...Pepsi: Repairing A Poisoned Reputation In India How the soda giant fought charges of tainted products in a country fixated on its polluted water Indra K. Nooyi says she still feels guilty filling a bathtub with water. It sounds far-fetched coming from the chief executive of a major multinational corporation, until you consider her early years. Nooyi, the chief executive of PepsiCo Inc. (PEP ), didn't get much water growing up during the 1960s in the Indian coastal city of Chennai. Although she describes her family as "very middle class," they still had to rise every morning between three and five—the only hours that the valves to the municipal water supply were turned on—and fill every bucket in the house. Two buckets were set aside for cooking, and two each would go to Nooyi, her older sister, and her younger brother. "You had to think about whether to take a bath," says Nooyi, matter-of-factly. "You learned to live your life off those two buckets." Nooyi left Chennai, propelled by a dream to build a career in the U.S. She headed to the prestigious Indian Institute of Management and later Yale University before moving into the corporate sphere, eventually settling at PepsiCo in 1994. When she was named CEO in October of last year, India's water again became a focus of her life. This time Nooyi was cast as part of the problem. Villagers charged that PepsiCo—which has named India as a top strategic priority—consumes excessive groundwater in their parched communities. Even...
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