...As a child, we were always told that we had to get good grades so we could grow up and be successful. Everyone has a different say about what success means. Most people think that in order to be successful, they have to make a lot of money and gain social praise. For other people, like me, success is made by how you feel. You feel success when you feel accomplished and happy about the task you just completed. Success is determined by you. A lot of people have long term goals. A long term goal is something that takes some work to accomplish. It also usually is a process that takes time and multiple steps to accomplish. These type of people choose making money as their success. College is the first step to their money-making goals. College is...
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...I think that success can be defined in many different ways. In my eyes the definition of success is a family big or small. First, I think a family is always very successful no matter what life hands us. Second, one person that I believe to be successful is my fantastic father, Paul. Last, I also think my awesome mother, Lonetta, is successful. There for, we can define success in all kinds of different, crazy, and wonderful ways. As a matter of fact, success can be determined by any type of family no matter how big or small. We can fight and argue, but we will always love one another. We should always keep each other’s secrets, no matter what they are or whose they are, but sometimes...
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...Extended Definition of Comedy. Define “comedy”. When browsing the Internet for the definition of comedy, they all have the quote: “a light and humorous drama with a happy ending.” Comedy is full of opposites and contradictions. Something is funny when it’s both expected and unexpected. Something is funny when it’s familiar and unfamiliar. There are various types of comedy including irony, sarcasm, parody, spoof and many more. Irony is where the opposite of what is expected happens or where someone says the opposite of what they mean, while sarcasm is where an insult or quick remark is fired at someone with the intention of causing injury. Parody is when someone deliberately mimics the style of another for comic effect or ridicule. Spoof is somewhat like parody, except it’s lighter and has a gentle imitation. It is not necessarily intended to make fun of the thing being spoofed but the comedy happens in the allowance of the piece being spoofed. Comedy is funny when the act is unexpected. For example, a woman buys a white coat and approaches a wet black bench. "Look out!" yells a zoo keeper. " Oh, thanks," says the woman, "I almost sat on that." Then an escaped lion leaps in from the side and bashes her. This is comedy because just like the woman, the audience did not know that a lion would appear and bash her, even though the zoo keeper warns her to watch out. We all though the same the the woman thought, that the zoo keeper was warning her about the wet bench. This would...
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...Teamwork in a simple layman language is when two or more people combine and work together to attain a common aim. In formal language same can be described as readiness of group of people working amalgamated towards a common goal creating positive environment with one another’s support combining their strengths to enhance the performance in order to achieve success towards their desired task. Teamwork is commonly understood as combination of attitude as well as conduct. Understanding and managing these factors will influence people to work together efficiently. There is no superior and inferior, everyone has to work hand-in-hand valuing and respecting their share and ideas .If someone’s feel superior, the others get demoralized and this attitude will reflect negatively on the team and teamwork. Similarly, if any member feels inferior will hesitate to share his/her ideas and then it is difficult to judge that how valued that idea would have been for the success and to which level that contribution would have taken the desired goal. Also, indifference of any member will surely reflect in final result. Therefore, open heart and mind is the key to success in teamwork. Although there are innumerable benefits of teamwork but as every coin has two sides, similarly everything in this world has positive and negative aspects that cannot be overlooked. Difference in opinion and clashes are unavoidable and are very much expected but the essentiality of a successful team is only...
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...Freedom Lives Within Three people are walking down a New York City street. One is a Black man, one is an Asian woman, and the other person is a White man. One can easily picture the three people walking beside one another because the image is not bizarre or strange, rather; the image is completely normal. The vision is normal because these three American citizens have the freedom to walk where they choose, with whom they choose. The word freedom is often overlooked and taken for granted by those who have it. A popular idea of freedom is: “Freedom lets someone do whatever he chooses to do.” Although this thought of freedom is technically correct, the phrase barely scratches the surface of the idea of freedom. Freedom comes from Old English freedom, meaning, "freedom, state of free will; charter, emancipation, deliverance” (Online Etymology Dictionary). Freedom includes possessing the ability to make a choice for one’s self. For example, the Black man walking down the street can choose to leave his two friends to stop and get coffee without being questioned solely because he simply wanted to buy coffee. Maybe it is Election Day and he made up his mind on the candidate best suited to hold a specific office. He is free to venture to his designated voting poll, and in personal privacy, cast his vote in peace because his personal choice of who to vote for is respected. One normally does not think of stopping at Starbucks as a freedom, while voting is considered a major freedom. Freedom...
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...What is Information Technology? “Information Technology (IT) is the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data” (Information Technology, 1). The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies field such as telephone, business, etc… IT is also known for data processing which is retrieving, manipulating and communicating information through the database. Understanding information technology is help us to profession in the computer world. To identify clearly what is information technology is, we need to know what it is run for. The PC was simply a mainframe on your desk. Of course it unleashed a wonderful stream of personal productivity applications that in turn contributed greatly to the growth of enterprise data. With the PC, you could digitally create the memo you previously typed on a typewriter, but to distribute it, you still had to print it and make paper copies. But with computer networks, it made the entire process digital, ensuring the increasing of the amount the message, data created, stored, moved, and consumed. Those are simple task that describe what is IT is. Most observers of the IT industry prefer and are expected to talk about what’s coming, not what’s happened. IT has been developed to help our life getting easier and better, it...
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...User Interface A User Interface (UI) refers to the component of a computer program through which humans and machines exchange data and instructions in order to complete a task (User Interfaces). The data and instructions can be exchanged through a growing number of mediums such as text or graphical stimuli. Computer scientists go to great lengths to design and implement UIs, as they are imperative to the efficacy of the program they create. Without a working UI the computer and user would not be able to communicate with one another, severely limiting the ability of both. For instance, consider how difficult it would be to make a phone call if your phone did not provide you with a contact list or dialing pad. You would still be able to call, but it would take a much deeper level of knowledge to accomplish one of the phone’s most basic functions TYPES OF UI A UI will generally fall into one of 3 categories: command line, menu driven, and graphical 1. Command Line The oldest and least common UI is the command line interface. The command line interface is comprised solely of text. This type UI will accept input almost exclusively through the keyboard and requires the user to be familiar with the commands it accepts since no implicit direction is given. For example, Figure 1 shows a command line UI of a grade calculating program. There is no information given to the user other than the text on screen. Command line UIs are the most resource efficient of the three types of UI...
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...of job that requires special education, training, or skill” . The main difference is some form of special education and training is required to be considered a profession and those same requirements are not necessary in order to have a job. For example, there is a hotdog vendor that sells hotdogs on the corner of a busy downtown street. No special education or training is required to do this job; conversely an architect designs buildings in that same downtown. The architect is required to have special education and usually attends other training throughout their career. To further clarify this point, one could go to the architect to buy a hotdog, but one would not seek out that hotdog vendor to design a building. Based on these definitions, the Army is a “Profession”. When a Soldier starts out in the Army, the individual attends what is the initial entry training that is where they start their special education and training. They learn basic soldiering skills along with learning the Army values and ethics. The Soldiers then continues their special education and training by completing advanced initial training. This usually consists of specialized training in the area of their Military Occupational Specialty which is the main job they will do while in the Army. While these two different types of training are completed early in their Army career, their education and training does not conclude at that point. As the Soldier continues their career, they must attend other...
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...Term Project – IT Governance Overall Scope: You are required to study of IT Governance in a business organization of your choice as per the Weill-Ross framework, develop of the Governance Arrangement Matrix (GAM) of the organization, and comment on the effectiveness of the Governance Mechanisms. Deliverables: Write-up and presentation Specific deliverables/guidelines: In line with the above, the following may be the specific contents of your findings/write-ups as well as the presentation. But then, these are indicative. You are free to decide to add any more relevant information. 1. Intro to the Company and Business Principles (Vision statement, broad enterprise level functions and unit level functions of the organization etc) 2. Role of IT in the organization & the IT Principles 3. The IT Governance Arrangements Matrix (sample shown below) 4. Various governance mechanisms implemented (enterprise wide and in the units) along with the advantages and disadvantages 5. Suggested IT Governance improvement needs IT Decision | IT Principles | IT Arch | IT Infra | Business Need | IT Investment | Archetype | Input | Decision | Input | Decision | Input | Decision | Input | Decision | Input | Decision | Biz Monarchy | | | | | | | | | | √ | IT Monarchy | | | | √ | | | | | | | Feudal | | | | | | | | | | | Federal | √ | | | | √ | | √ | | √ | | IT Duopoly | | √ | √ | | | √ | | √ | |...
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...Explain and Assess Murdock's Definition of the Family George Peter Murdock was a researcher in the 1940s and 1950s in the USA and defined the family as characterised by six main factors; common residence (living in the same home), economic cooperation (sharing money or helping one another with work or children etc.), reproduction, at least two adults of the opposite sex maintaining a socially approved sexual relationship and one or more biological or adopted children of the cohabiting adults. Murdock advanced the thesis in Social Structure that the family was a universal social institution found in all societies. His claim was based on his study of two hundred and fifty societies of all kinds - from small hunting communities to industrial societies and believed that the children were the 'corner stone' of the family, and was not a family if there were no children. According to Murdock the nuclear family was the smallest. However, many sociologists of today's society disagree with his view and are able to point out limitations. This definition, despite excluding many modern day families and being seemingly a very traditional old fashioned approach to the family, is an extremely useful starting point for defining the family. Due to his vast research he cannot be criticized for being ethnocentric, because his studies were world wide and this allowed him to acquire a thorough understanding of the diversity families at the time. His definition is just wide enough to include some...
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...Assess the view that ‘the extended family remains as important now as it was in the past’ (24 marks) There are different opinions regarding the importance of the extended family in modern Britain. Some sociologists such as Parsons and Wilmott and Young believe that extended families have almost disappeared completely due to them losing their functions. However some sociologists such as Charles and Wilmott say the extended family remains as important now as it was in the past, but maybe the definition has changed. Firstly, Parsons believed that the extended family was the norm during pre-industrialisation. This was because England was a kinship-based society was because the family was self-sufficient where its member’s wold work together and the older members of the family were needed for extra help with work or to look after the children. He then said that industrialisation led to decline of the extended family as it lost functions and the isolated nuclear family became the norm, suggesting the extended family is no longer as important as it was in the past. However a view that criticises this one is one from Peter Laslett, he thought that the extended family was never important in pre-industrialisation as he said only 10% of families were extended. He found this out by looking through the only records available at that point; church records. However an argument against this could be that this was influenced by the fact that life expectancy was only around 40. Therefore families...
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...Nuclear Family: Definition, Merits & Demerits Definition So, what does that mean? In simple terms, a nuclear family system is a family structure that consists of two parents living with their children, also known as an immediate family. For example, in The Simpsons, Homer and Marge are the parents and they live with their children, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. This system is different from an extended family system, in which the household may include non-immediate family members, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles. Many believe that a nuclear family is the best arrangement, yielding numerous advantages. However, with any system, there are also disadvantages. Advantages Financial Stability In today's traditional nuclear families, it is common to have dual incomes. Both parents work to providefinancial stability for the household, creating a larger cash flow to supply the basic family needs of housing, food and healthcare. Financial stability also allows the parents to provide additional extracurricular opportunities for their children, such as music or athletic lessons. These opportunities allow children to flourish socially and develop a higher level of confidence. Increased Consistency in Child Rearing A two-parent household is more likely to have higher consistency with raising their children. By reaching agreements on discipline and modeling appropriate behavior, parents act as a team to strengthen and reinforce child behavior. Children get consistent messages about behavioral...
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...Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being[clarify]. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind and body, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain (as in "good health" or "healthy").[1] The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."[2][3] Although this definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as lacking operational value and because of the problem created by use of the word "complete," it remains the most enduring.[4][5] Other definitions have been proposed, among which a recent definition that correlates health and personal satisfaction.[6][7] Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), are commonly used to define and measure the components of health. Systematic activities to prevent or cure health problems and promote good health in humans are undertaken by health care providers. Applications with regard to animal health are covered by the veterinary sciences. The term "healthy" is also widely used in the context of many types of non-living organizations and their impacts for the benefit of humans, such as in the sense of healthy communities, healthy cities or healthy environments...
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...country a nation? What is a nation? In this essay, i will attempt to gain an understanding of what a nation is, and why Canada is in fact a nation, not merely because we meet certain criteria, but because we, as Canadians, believe it is so. To define the term “nation” is quite a challenging task. The Student’s Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines a nation as, “a community of people forming a state or inhabiting a territory”. Compared to other resources, this is fairly a simple one. The same dictionary defines a state as “an organized political community under one government” By these definitions, Canada clearly classifies as a nation. Canada is without a doubt, a nation because the country has satisfied the dictionary’s requirement. Still, not all definitions are so clear. One of the most commonly accepted definitions of a nation is one that is ripe with complex and challenging requirements. These definitions often involve a group of people who share a common culture, ethnic origin and language, and they must either possess or be actively seeking an independent government. Even at a quick glance, we can see that Canada does not meet all of these...
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...URI 25 September 2013 Oedipus Tragic Hero Webster’s dictionary defines a hero as a person, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Although this definition accurately describes Oedipus’ character, tragic hero is more of an apt description. A tragic hero is defined usually by the following: One, A man of noble stature. Two, A selfless man who is not afraid to come under scrutiny. Three, The hero honorably receives the punishment given to him. From the beginning to end of the play Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, Oedipus truly defines himself as a hero, a tragic hero. Oedipus is first introduced as the sole ruler of Thebes. Kings/Dictators are usually looked down upon due to their brash and selfish behavior, but Oedipus is the opposite. A priest say, “Therefore, O mighty power, we turn to you: find us our safety, find us a remedy, whether by counsel of the gods or of men. A king of wisdom tested in the past can act in a time of troubles, and act well. Noblest of men, restore life to your city! “(Sophocles 2) when Oedipus makes a declaration to save the city of Thebes from the ongoing plague. The priest calls him the “Noblest of men” in marvel, at the fact, a man of such high stature and importance takes the time to address the concerns of his people. The words used to describe Oedipus such as liberator, noblest of men, boldness, and mighty power show that the people of Thebes rely on and look to Oedipus for safety...
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