...To begin with, there was a good deal of propaganda spread throughout the community in both novels. “They've spent so much money trying to convince people they can monitor all the TVs and computers, you know they couldn't have afforded to actually do it” (Haddix 68). This quote from Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, suited this characteristic the most. People wouldn't risk themselves to do anything which might cause them trouble. The Government had spread news all over the community that every computer and television was monitored. They knew, with the news around, people would always be wary. But Jane, the daughter of a prominent governor said that it was just a lie. They couldn't actually afford to pay for it to happen. In The Giver, there are also quotes which exhibit how the figurehead use propaganda to control people's action. “He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realising” (Lowry 150). People in this community were given false information about what release meant. They all thought it was a good thing when really, it meant being killed. Propaganda is used in dystopian societies very commonly. The quotes exhibited how the Government used propaganda to control the actions of the whole community. Given misleading information also relates to the fact of how the outer world was being banished and driven away. When what is given to them is limited, people know nothing about the outside world. Consequently, they wouldn't refuse...
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... The first book that I read this summer was Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden. The book retells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk’s escape from Camp 14. Camp 14 is a prison for the political enemies in North Korea, and in the camp Shin was forced to survive torture, starvation, malnutrition, and grueling hours of manual labor since he was a child. In a constant battle zone, Shin fought for food and was brainwashed by the camp into believing nothing existed beyond the fences he was trapped in. On January 2, 2005 Shin escaped from the North Korean political camp and was able to see beyond the fences when he was 23 years old. Shin then dedicated his life to sharing his story and is the only person to ever escape any of the North Korean political prison camps. The main impact of Shin’s story in Camp 14 is the psychological toll the camp took on him. At the beginning of the book, Shin describes that he thought of his mother as competition for survival (77), and this led Shin to do things like steal her lunches. The need for survival in the camp forced Shin to not have typical relationships with his friends and family, and the psychological toll of the camp returned prisoners to their basic human urges and instincts. This idea is similar to what happened to the boys in the Lord of the Flies when they began to turn against each other and view each other as a means for survival instead of friends. Another instance of the psychological toll the camp had on Shin was when Shin recalled in...
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...In a futuristic society the world is controlled by a new government and "The Population Police" who have decreed that no family shall have more than two children. These laws having been brought on supposedly by overpopulation, severe famine and death. Any child being born third or after in a family is a "shadow child" not to be seen by anyone or they will be taken away and killed along with their family and anyone who harbors them. Luke Garner is a third child. His two older brothers Matthew and Mark go to school and have futures, but Luke must stay hidden, he can never have a job or get married or leave the farm. Luke was allowed to play outside on his family's farm and the woods, until the developers came. New homes are built next to Luke's farm and the woods are torn down, now he is no longer allowed outside, no longer allowed to eat dinner with his family in case he might be seen. Luke is miserable, until one day he sees a girl's face in a window, a window of a home that already has two children. Luke has found another third child and one day he dares to meet her. The other third child is Jen and her father works for the Population Police as a spy trying to overthrow the corrupt government. Jen introduces Luke to things he's never experienced, television, computers and junk food, things only the rich and government officials are allowed to have. Jen is planning a rally of third children who will march in front of the country's leader demanding their right to exist in...
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...The main character of the book "Among the Hidden," Luke Garner is a brave 12 year old boy who has to live an unfair life because the government has a law which does not allow any third children like Luke to exist. This means that Luke has to hide and not go outside. He was miserable until he met someone who would help him change as a character from the beginning of the story to the end. Also, this book made me wonder if I would want Luke by my side in a crisis or not. One way that Luke changes as a character from the beginning of the story to the end is that in the beginning Luke used to almost always be miserable. After his family had to leave their farm, Luke was no longer allowed go outdoors. This would make him miserable because he missed running around. He was also not allowed to attend school or anything else that included him going outside. Several other things made him miserable and upset also, like the...
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...you, you’re dead. The thought of this life is fearsome to most people, but this was what happened to hundreds of kids in Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. In this future America, our country had befallen to hard times and overpopulation, so the government made a law that each family could have only two children and if any more were born, they were killed. Despite this law, there were “third children” who live in fear and isolation. But there was one illegal that would not be afraid, the high class, Jennifer “Jen” Talbot. This young girl portrayed leadership characteristics that were absent elsewhere in the novel. She was highly optimistic and had a talent for bringing people together....
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...In the astonishing book Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix snags the reader’s attention. The author uses alluring vocabulary words to build up character development towards significant characters and to their own actions in this story that may even make you feel tizzy. Going through the whole novel, Haddix was able to pick precise words to describe something complex or convoluted in Luke’s journey as an illegal third child just one word wether it is a noun, verb, or adjective. Near the middle of the story, the word preponderance is used to describe the many ways of agricultural methods there are. The word describes something that is exceeding in number or amount. The government notices how Luke’s dad is attempting to try hydroponics, but cease him since they don't want him to follow one of the many agricultural methods that may be involved in the cultivation of illegal substances; as a result, Luke’s father goes back to his...
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...allowed cost to be properly allocated across different accounting pools. It allowed Kanthal to identify which high volume customers are actually more expensive to the company and which low volume customers are actually much more profitable. In the end, Ridderstrale will be able to more accurately identify costs and profits and categorize them accordingly. 2. The previous cost structure: a. Could show two customers being equally profitable on all gross margins when there could be hidden costs and or hidden profits present. b. Resources are equally distributed across all products and customers. They do not measure an individual customer's profitability or the real costs associated with individual orders. c. Recorded production overhead, selling, and administrative costs as "fixed". Under the previous costs system, indirect costs were manufacturing costs allocated to products based on direct labor or overhead costs that were treated as period expenses. These costs were also unanalyzed. The reason for hidden loss and...
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...Executive summary Hidden Valley Cabins and Tours is an award winning solar power user which runs their resort fully by solar power. They have a solar power plant of their own and this plant provides them with their essential electricity. This electricity and power is cheaper to them than the fossil energies. The price of fossil energy is increasing day by day. But expense for solar energy is not increasing. So, this helps their economically also. This solar power plant is very much eco-friendly and helps them to reduce the emission of carbon at a high rate. Hidden Valley Cabins and Tours are creating the example for the people that solar energy are very eco-friendly and they can be used for large facilities also. Contents Executive summary 1 Introduction 3 Purpose of the report 4 Findings 5 Conclusion 10 Recommendations 11 References 12 Introduction Solar power energy is one of the most discussed issues now a day. The whole world is experincing a crisis for the fossil energy. The day is not so far when all the available energy will be ended. So, the quest for an alternative source of energy was going by many people. As a result of this quest the solar power energy technology has been invented and this energy source is becoming more and more popular day by day. But there are only a few examples around the world and even in Australia that any resort or any structure is completely run by the solar energy. Hidden Valley Cabins...
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...Johari Window A model for self-awareness, personal development, group development and understanding relationship Adapted from www.businessballs.com, © Copyright alan chapman 2003 The Johari Window model A simple and useful tool for understanding and training selfawareness, personal development, improving communications, interpersonal relationships, group dynamics, team development and intergroup relationships Developed by American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in the 1950's, calling it 'Johari' after combining their first names, Joe and Harry Especially relevant due to emphasis on, and influence of, 'soft' skills, behaviour, empathy, cooperation, inter-group development and interpersonal development The model Also referred to as a 'disclosure/feedback model of self awareness', and an 'information processing tool' Represents information - feelings, experience, views, attitudes, skills, intentions, motivation, etc - within or about a person - in relation to their team, from four perspectives Can also be used to represent the same information for a team in relation to other teams Terminology Refers to 'self' and 'others‘ 'Others' - other people in the team ‘Self' - oneself, i.e., the person subject to the Johari Window analysis The four Johari Window perspectives Called 'regions' or 'areas' or 'quadrants'. Each contains and represents the information - feelings, motivation, etc - in terms of whether the information is known or unknown by...
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...school and was able to further contrast the differences she witnessed between children in poverty, the middle class, and wealth. Some key indictors Payne list, that identify poverty are (2-3): 1. Poverty is relative to the society you live in. 2. Poverty occurs in all races and in all countries. 3. Generational and situational poverty are different. 4. For students to be successful they must understand the hidden rules of class; they must be taught the rules if they are to succeed. 5. Two things help individuals move out of poverty—education and relationships. Hidden Rules Payne describes hidden rules as ”unspoken cues and habits of a group. Distinct cueing systems exist among groups and economic classes. Generally, in America, that notion is recognized for racial and ethnic groups, but not particularly for economic groups. There are many hidden rules to examine. The ones examined are those that have the most impact on achievement in schools and success in the workplace...(41).” Payne’s analysis of poverty is the idea that there are “hidden rules” which...
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...Their name is that because the children went through many things for their religion to stay hidden from the Nazis. Some Jewish children could pass as Aryans, and so the people looking out for the children got false identity papers for them. For the children who didn’t pass as Aryans, or the ones that’s presence in a family’s house caused too much suspicious had to stay physically hidden. They hid in cellars, attics, barns, chicken coops, and forest huts. The hidden children had to stay quiet, and sometimes even motionless for long hours. Even if there were bombings happening, the children couldn’t leave from their hidden places to look for safety. These conditions usually led the children to suffer from lack of human interactions, and fear (Jewish Victims of the Holocaust: Hidden...
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...Article Critique of “Feedback Equals Feed forward: Issues in Teacher Progression and Development among Primary Teachers in Jamaica.” Miller, P. (2013). "Feedback Equals Feed forward: Issues in Teacher Progression and Development among Primary Teachers in Jamaica." Problem First, to observe, the ‘hidden factor of not receiving feedback on applications submitted or on performance after interviews can be considered equally problematic for teacher development and progression. Second, the needs of rewarded system can encourage productivity. And lastly, is the reason of being promoted. Comment From the journal, it shows that no teacher interview received post-interview feedback is problematic in several ways. First, this is simply not good HR practice. Second, the opportunity to help candidates develop and see their ‘blind spots’ is missed. Teachers teach because of their ethic of care (Smith 2011) towards students; they should be rewarded for their dedication, commitment, skill, experience and expertise by providing continuous professional development (CPD) as their ladder to be more productive. The tendencies in promoting and/or appointing must give way to inclusive practices based around merit, equal opportunities and ‘fitness for purpose’. It can no longer acceptable that persons are promoted or appointed because of who they know or who knows them. In addition, creative ways should be found to appropriately reward well-qualified and experienced. Main Points * Importance...
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...How does employee hidden mental illness manifest adversely in workplaces? An employee hidden mental illness has become the most prevalent illness found in western societies today. It has widely emerged within many workplace organisations and surprisingly remains largest among the medical and health sciences fields. According to De Lorenzo and Mirella (2013), hidden mental illnesses effect between 17% and 20% of employees in a given twelve month period. The most common hidden mental illnesses are depression and anxiety, depression effecting 4% and anxiety 14% of employees in a twelve month period. The socio-economic impact of mental illness within the workplace is frightening, the loss of productivity and costs have already caused major damage, and serious consequences for the future when depression and anxiety within the workplace increase. Mental illnesses within the workplace can be worsened if the employee has poor self-management of their illness, which includes inconsistent medication use, and social factors such as low social support, discussed by Munir, Yarker, Haslam, Long, Leka, Griffiths and Cox (2007). Mental illnesses are not treated like physical illnesses by society. They are pushed aside and not seen as a real disease that impairs peoples abilities because it is an invisible illness. Stigma of mental illnesses within the workplace is a major reason why employees choose to conceal their issues. Employees can feel labelled, less capable and treated differently...
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...Sensitive information is usually hidden behind an innocent looking document usually an image thus making the document undetectable to human eye. Steganography has a number of nefarious applications; most notably hiding records of illegal activity, financial fraud, industrial espionage, and communication among members of criminal or terrorist organizations. This was the technique used by terrorists involved in 11 September 2001 demolition of World Trade Centre [12]. The misuse of the technology cannot be blamed on the technology itself but it totally depends upon the users of the technology. It is the inner conscious which covers the human being. If we follow our moral ethics and values and give respect to our culture we can prevent misuse of...
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...Abstract—Cognitive Femtocell has been envisioned as a highly promising solution for spectrum scarcity problems and local-convergence demands for indoor network applications. However, the achievable gains from Cognitive Femtocell deployment is limited by the hidden node problem leading to increased interference and consequently reduced spectrum efficiency. In this paper we compare the degree of performance enhancement when a cooperative mode is used to share information about the channel versus when standalone decisions are taken about the state of the channel. Simulation results indicate superior performance of the cooperative mode in terms of the number of observed hidden nodes and probabilities of detection and false alarm. Keywords—Femtocell; Cognitive Radio; Dynamic Spectrum Access; Energy Detection; Hidden Node Problem; Spectrum Sensing; IEEE 802.22. I. INTRODUCTION Recent surveys have shown that indoor traffic accounts for more than 50% of the total data and voice traffic carried in wireless networks with most of the traffic originating from homes, airports, and schools [1] .This skyrocketing growth of indoor traffic coupled with the increased user demand for high broad band services necessitates new solutions that will provide the required indoor coverage and bandwidth. The existing macrocells are not efficient at delivering indoor coverage due to the high penetration losses in walls during signal propagation which leads to low coverage regions (black spots) [2].The...
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