...4/17/12 Michelle Hatten ITM5000-08 Information Technologies Management Mid-Term Essay America needs a National Broadband Plan for economic growth, job creation and competitiveness. The Plan is to achieve affordability for all; there are millions of Americans who do not have access to the internet let along broadband. This addresses the issue and ensures that every American has access to broadband capabilities. Allowing Americans the opportunity to access broadband will advance consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety, homeland security, community development, healthcare delivery, energy independence and efficiencies, education, employee training, private sector investment, entrepreneurial activity and other national purposes. Due to the lag the US finds its self verses other countries relating to the advancement in broadband, The Plan is an innovative initiative to put Americans on a competitive path. Broadband will impact healthcare by improving quality and better outcomes while lowering cost and improving data capture and use. The Plan will ensure all healthcare providers have access to affordable broadband. Broadband infrastructure is often costly for rural clinics and small physician offices. As well The Plan will improve Indian Health Services by upgrading their infrastructure and network of providers. Improvements create incentives for adoption by expanding reimbursement for e-care and removing barriers by modernizing regulations such as device...
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...Finance Name Institution Course Date This essay breakdown gender heights of international finance that underlie the engagement of the female’s movement with monetary markets and monetary rules. These gender heights happen at all stages: the micro stage (as well as the intra-family stage); the meso stage (manufacturing, banking, state organizations, taxation); and the macro stage (countrywide including internationally). The micro, meso, and macro stages of money have turned to be further inter-associated with internationalization. For instance, credits to growing nations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank increase to the home supply of finance, causing high government spending and venture and/ or lowered foreign exchange deficits. Bilateral growth co-operation and World Bank lending always promote home credit organizations and schedules in growing nations. Through this manner, the 8-10 million families that take credit from micro-credit schedules are not directly reliant on international sources of money. Remittances from migrant employees create a considerable basis of foreign exchange in nations such as Philippines and Bangladesh. Accepting this appreciating of international fund like a firmly woven mesh of macro, meso, and micro stipulations, this essay studies the way international fund affects, and is affected through the distinguished economic ranks of women and men (The World Bank Group, 2013). In this essay, four sex biases of international fund...
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...compatible with various opposing political beliefs. This means that there are many forms of nationalism based on both how to define a nation, and the ideas of different political ideologies. In this essay I will discuss whether each of these are inherently aggressive and expansionist. Firstly, a nation can be defined by ethnicity and culture. This is the belief behind ethno-cultural nationalism. Ethno-cultural nationalism gives a very crude and simplistic definition of a nation, as it is based on eugenic characteristics and culture. This makes it exclusive, intolerant and backward-looking. An example of an ethno-cultural nation is the Tutsi and Hutu tribes in Rwanda, which are both defined by ethnicity. Although ethno-cultural nationalism can cause conflict due to its highly exclusive nature, I do not think that it is inherently aggressive. Nor is it expansionist. Civic nationalism is often described as the opposite of ethno -cultural nationalism. It is far more inclusive, tolerant and forward -looking. People can easily become part of a nation by taking a test or simply following the practices of the nation. Civic nationalism is also known as 'state centred' nationalism as it often attempts to unite the nation behind the state's political or economic aims. The inclusive nature of civic nationalism means that it is not inherently aggressive or expansionist. As I mentioned in the introduction, there are forms of nationalism which are influenced by political ideologies. One example...
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...of sovereignty that is, more or less, in control of the territory. Differences between nationalism and racialism -Racialism is where the basis of nationhood is founded on ethnic identity, which leads to a synthesis between racialism and nationalism. In extreme cases, the two terms become synonymous. Many nations based on race also adopt Darwinist views of the world. -Racialist philosophers theorised that races were arranged in a hierarchy. In the struggle for superiority, those nations who showed the strongest unity would prevail. - This differs from cultural nationalism as it attempts to protect minority cultures being threatened by another culture. Inclusive/exclusive and civic/ethno cultural nationalisms * Civic nationalism: nationhood is defined by common citizenship. A civic nation consists of those who subscribe to its political creed, regardless of ethnicity, race, colour, religion, gender or language. IT has equal right bearing citizens united in patriotic attachment. They share a set of political...
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...WHAT IS A GLOBAL CITIZEN AND HOW CAN OUR SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION CREATE GLOBAL CITIZENS? Title of Essay: Unlocking the civic sense of young minds Full Name: Karthik Shankar Date of Birth: 26 July 1989 Current Occupation: Student Course: Journalism and Mass Communication University: SRM University, Chennai Email Address: karthik.psshankar@gmail.com Country: India UNLOCKING THE CIVIC SENSE OF YOUNG MINDS Karthik Shankar Patrick Geddes, the Scottish city planner said “Think globally, act locally”. That is a very apt statement with regards to the philosophy of global citizenship. Today with globalization, there is a deeper understanding that the daunting challenges of poverty eradication, sustainable development and religious extremism, among...
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...Change Agent Abilities Required to Help Create a Sustainable Future © ACPA – College Student Educators International (http://www.myacpa.org/) in collaboration with the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org ) May be reproduced for educational purposes with credit given In order to be a successful sustainability change agent, an individual must have the following: 1. Knowledge of the environmental, economic, and social issues related to sustainability (understanding); 2. A value system and self-concept to support and under gird the actions of a change agent (motivation); and 3. Change agent abilities (skills). Change Agent Abilities: The following is a listing of change agent abilities compiled from numerous sources. For ease of use, these sources have all been acknowledged at the end of this document. Change agents are: • Resilient • Optimistic • Tenacious • Committed • Passionate • Patient • Emotionally intelligent • Assertive • Persuasive • Empathetic • Authentic • Ethical • Self-Aware • Competent • Curious They can: • Communicate ideas clearly, concisely, and precisely both orally and in writing • Listen to others and incorporate their ideas and perspectives • Accommodate individual differences (cultural, socioeconomic, global, etc.) in your decisions and actions and be able to negotiate across these differences...
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...well as introduction of welfare state a need in the new conception that would look on the relationship on an individual and the state appeared consequently. The norms of citizenship, therefore, have improved with the development of state and citizenship became a multination concept, which implies different things to different nations (Dahrendorf, 1974, p. 12). According to Michael Ignatieff (1995), the introduction of the welfare state can be explained as an attempt to make citizenship “a real as opposed to a purely formal experience” (Ignatieff, 1995, p. 67). The experience of World War Two has demonstrated that that the concept has to be changed and since then the “security” became of the main value for the new conception of citizenship. Civic solidarity had to be built on the principles of “presumption that the more a citizen received from the state the more...
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...choose from in this new technological world. Some are for thrills, racing, off-roading, and for the boring people, a mode of transportation. Hundreds upon thousands of vehicles fill the roads and highways every day, and many don’t need to be there, due to just people driving for no reason. There are really three types of automobiles that are the greatest in number on the road. These types that fill the roads are cars, trucks, and SUV’s. Each vehicle is very different and really all contain what a person is looking for. Cars are the most common form of vehicle on the roads today. Cars can really be categorized into a few types, from economy, luxury, and sports cars. Economic cars usually cost less, and get more efficient gas mileage. They are great for the average family or single person. A few examples of these cars are Civics, Cavaliers, and the new hybrid cars. Luxury cars are more for the people who have too much money on there hands. The gas mileage is not too bad, but the car can cost a pretty penny. Some examples of these cars are Cadillac, BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus. Luxury cars have the most smoothing cruising and really are the best for relaxation. The final type of car is the sports car. These cars are the ones that cost the most and guzzle gas like no other. They range in the highest price range and are built for only one thing, speed. Much of today’s youth are interested in sports cars, and really have the need to have a thrilling, exciting drive on the highway. These cars...
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...makes difference in the state government agency. it's also self-sufficient government to every state In the United states, people choose every elected Official Government for equal Opportunity most of the society In the world are federalism it's very Important to distribute the wealth to the state and the local community, and much more. Since its inception more than 200 years ago, American federalism has undergone tremendous change. Today, all governments -- federal, state and local -- play a greater role in the lives of their citizens, expectations about what kind of services and rights people want from government have changed, and relations among the federal, state and local governments have become infinitely more complex. In this brief essay, Ellis Katz, professor of political science and a fellow of the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University, explores the origins and development of American federalism, its contemporary practice and problems, and the forces that seem to be moving it in new directions. How does federalism play a part today? Many local towns and villages are dissolving or consolidating. In doing so they are able to share one police/ fire department share public works and many other resources. Fiscal Federalism can be seen in the...
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...SLUM REDEVELOPMENT - POST PANSHET FLOODS OF 1961 Sejal Nagori 50. The Panshet dam disaster in 1961 redefined the city’s geography, wiped out the modest Pune settings in peth . Nearly half of Poona City was under six feet of water today as the swollen Mutha River completely washed away the earthen Panshet Dam and made a 100-foot breach in the Khadakvasla Dam. The first wave came in the forenoon when the raging river destroyed the Panshet Dam. Another mass of water cascaded into the city when the Khadakvasla Dam gave way in the afternoon. The failure of the dam occurred because of the breach that developed in Panshet Dam, upstream of the Khadkawasla reservoir. The upstream dam released a tremendous volume of water into the downstream reservoir at a time when the Khadkawasla reservoir was already full, with the gates discharging at near full capacity. This caused overtopping of the dam because inflow was much above the design flood. The entire length of the dam spilling 2.7 m of water. Vibration of the structure was reported, as the incoming flood was battering the dam. Failure occurred within four hours of the visiting flood waters. The gushing flood water rendered homeless hundreds of families in just a few hours, besides damaging popular landmarks of that time like the then newly reconstructed LAKDI PUL (SAMBHAJI BRIDGE) and OMKARESHWAR TEMPLE to name a few,” . The top of the STATUE of RANI LAXMIBAI OF JHANSI on JM Road was visible while rest was completely submerged in flood...
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...In “A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift appeals to his readers with sarcasm, and outlandish ideas concerning the problem of hunger that Ireland was facing. Swift appeals to his readers with many rhetorical devices throughout the entire short story. The tone in this essay is both, academic and intelligent. The readers get the sense that the solution to the problems that the inhabitants of Ireland are facing will be logical, well-informed, and completely reasonable. However what the reader gets instead is an maniacal amount of information on the benefits of eating children. All while suggesting that doing so will provide a substantial food supply as well as economic relief (because there will be fewer mouths to feed). Since it is comprehensible that the essay is becoming more ironic, it is the last thing that any reasonable person would have thought. One of the quotes in the essay that help illustrate the irony in this essay is, “I...
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...peak oil, immigration, urban sprawl and public health, retrofitting suburbia, and so on. But also on the board appeared, like a sacrilegious graffito, the words "Trivial Profession." [1] When we voted to rank the listed items in order of importance, "Trivial Profession" was placed — lo and behold — close to the top. This surprised and alarmed a number of us. Here were members of one of the finest planning faculties in America, at one of the most respected programs in the world, suggesting that their chosen field was minor and irrelevant. Now, even the most parochial among us would probably agree that urban planning is not one of society's bedrock professions, such as law or medicine or perhaps economics. It is indeed a minor field, and that's fine. Nathan Glazer, in his well-known essay "Schools of the Minor Professions," labeled "minor" every profession outside law and medicine. Not even clerics or divines made his cut. Moreover, Glazer observed that attempts on the part of "occupations" such as urban planning to transform themselves "into professions in the older sense, and the assimilation of their programmes of training into academic institutions, have not gone smoothly." [2] But minority status by itself is not why "Trivial Profession" appeared on the whiteboard. It was there because of a swelling perception, especially among young scholars and practitioners, that planning is a diffuse and ineffective field, and that it has been largely unsuccessful over the last half...
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...is said that Nationalism is one of the most widespread and influential ideologies in modern world history. In this week's reading for James Wood, entitled "Nationalism", it talks about Nationalism and how it affected Latin American countries. An example of how Nationalism affected Latin America is the Cuban war for independence from Spain, which happened from 1868 to 1898. Jose Marti was a apostle of Cuban Independence, in which he earned this title from many years of fighting for this cause. Jose had died on the battlefield fighting for Cuba's independence in 1895. Due to his belief about Cuba being independent, Jose was imprisoned and was also exiled from Cuba. Jose Marti's most famous essay was published in newspapers in both New York and Mexico City in January of 1891. In this essay he talks about the blindness of the previous Latin American governments to what was actually going on in the that region. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 had posed a revolutionary challenge to the neocolonial system. Francisco Madero had led a campaign to overthrow the government, which at the time was a positivist dictatorship ran by Porforio Diaz. This revolution lasted for a decade from 1910 to 1920 and it was very bloody. The Revolution had many twists and turns, but it gradually became institutionalized in the 1920's. With that being said it created space for a variety of nationalistic expressions to appear. An example of this would be Mexican...
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...sectors. This essay will explore the differences between each sector and the sub sectors within each one. The large variety of stakeholders that are involved in events will be explored as well as their relevance to the different sectors. Social and economic impacts of festivals are vast and limitless; this essay will establish some of the effects that a festival has, both positive and negative. The biggest of the sectors within the festival industry is the government sector; corporations within this sector primarily create events for social, cultural, economic and tourism causes. The government sector mainly creates mega events; these are defined by Getz (2005) as ‘must see’ events that yield extraordinarily high levels of tourism, media coverage, prestige and high economic impact for the host community. Examples of such events are the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Millennium celebrations and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee; seemingly government sector events are those that are aimed at the general public and will often combine the celebration of a significant national anniversaries and events. Silvers (2004a) defines government and civic events as those that are comprised by or for political parties, communities, or municipal or national government entities. Government run events are typically characterized by free entry and wide accessibility to form part of the public culture; for example the New Year firework display in London. The central government focuses on civic celebrations...
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...Reflection Essay Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Date Reflection Essay Firstly, in the course of the semester, the discussions we had in class allowed us to talk about my thoughts and those of my cohorts. Simultaneously, the studies helped to shape my initial experiences into a more unpredictable comprehension of the content. As I added to my perusing attitudes and insight into what literature is about, I have developed the capacity to make necessary disclosures about anything that I write or even read. Secondly, the academic resources from my lecturers gave us the foundation information that we need to excel in writing, both on reading the class resource books, extensive lectures, and independent research. Likewise, they have assisted us to exhibit our thoughts in a contemplated and thoughtful analysis. On a frequent basis, they would instruct us on points that they have a particular enthusiasm for and have taken a shot at broadly. Their exploration and analysis can be considered as the foundation stage of our interest in writing. To start with, in the contemporary society, there is by all accounts a move towards auxiliary school subjects that have a solid connection to a tertiary course of study. Hence, a there are few parents and a few understudies who feel that the aspect of writing, particularly among high schools, college, and universities is of great importance. For instance, students who devote their time on just English Language alone, with its accentuation...
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