...Madonne Exavier Lower Division Capstone BUSN300-1102A-33 Assignment 1 Charles Pickar April 25, 2011 I. Introduction A. Thesis statement B. Global Warming C. What is Global Warming II. Body of paper A. Cause (Main point) 1. Information regarding 1st point 2. Support for the 1st point B. Effect (Second point) 1. Support the 2nd point 2. Explanation of 2nd point C. Third main point 1. Support the point 2. Explanation of point III. Conclusion A. Summary of all the main points B. Restate the topics C. Tie all the ideas together Global Warming is the augmentation in the normal temperature of the Earth. The augmentation in temperature includes the oceans the surface air. The Earth’s temperature has risen a steady one degree in the past 100 years. It is said that the rise was caused by industrial revolution. The productions of certain gases as well as carbon dioxide were part of the dilemma (The Bowdoin Orient 2011). If these figures are maintained, the Earth’s weather blueprint will be interrupted. Global Warming is said to be a major ecological dilemma. There are a number of natural causes such as volcanic eruptions, solar output variations, sunspots, and alterations to the Earth’s orbit. A number of scientists believe that the Earth will ultimately encounter Global Warming with or without human intercession (The Bowdoin Orient 2011). Without hesitation the...
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...Running Head: APPLICATION OF THEORIES Unit 2/ Application of Theories Running Head: APPLICATION OF THEORIES Abstract A critical feature of a successful organizational team, especially in knowledge-based enterprises, is that they are invested with a significant degree of empowerment, or decision-making authority. With more companies moving toward ways of implementing employee empowerment, it can help change things and give managers more time for visioning and nurturing their company. Running Head: APPLICATION OF THEORIES Application of Theories Introduction Most decisions at a company should be based on using critical thinking than on non-critical thinking. In general, critical thinking is a process that helps evaluate situations or problems and then leads to the best solution possible that will give one’s organization the best results. Employee empowerment culture GE Oil and Gas is committed to find ways to achieve an incident-free workplace (Veazie, B., Knode, T., 2010). Human Resources is one of the most critical in this implementing process because they will help train, and communicate to employees how important safety is. Good effective leaders will help empower all employees towards safety excellence (Veazie, B., Knode, T., 2010). In addition, all employees assume the responsibility of their own safety and the safety of those around them arises only out of discretionary behavior (Veazie, B., Knode, T., 2010). Discretionary behavior is simply a choice made...
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...To create an effective multi-layer security plan, all seven of the domains of the IT infrastructure must be addressed. An improvement on each of the domains will help to fight against an attacker. For this part of the project we will address five of the domains. Probably the best place to start beefing up security is with the user domain. Most attacks on security are from users. You cannot allow users to have simple passwords. A complex password is paramount to defending the user domain. A complex password is at least eight characters, uses a mix of upper and lower case letters, and contains special characters such as an @ or $. Passwords need to be changed regularly as well. They should be change every so many months and users should not be able to use a password twice in a year. In the LAN domain we need to protect against malicious emails. Users should know better than to open suspect emails at work, but a reminder could not hurt. Spam filters are extremely important so that user do not get as many suspect emails. In the workstation domain we need to make sure our workstations are protected. Internet security or at least antivirus should be used an all workstations. It seems like a no brainer in this day and age, but we still need to ensure it is implemented. Another way to secure our workstations is to encrypt the hard drives. We should also deactivate all media ports. In the WAN domain we need to set up firewalls. The firewalls we block things our company does not...
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...sanjay EN102.22566 Prof. Decker 9/26/2013 Ad Analysis Essay Global Warming Global warming is one of the serious issues which is being discussed and studied by scientist around the world. It is one of the causes for most of the catastrophic natural accidents. The temperature of earth is constantly rising because of different harmful gases emitted to environment through different ways. It is responsible for major climate changes we are facing now and major serious changes which we might face in near future. The recent advertisement of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for global warming presents the effects of global warming by comparing the natural destruction with a man-made destruction. It compares between two unforgettable tragedies: 9/11 attack on US where 2,993 people were killed and Tsunami in Indian Ocean that occurred in 2004 which killed more than 230000 people. This advertisement was published by WWF Brazil. WWF is an international non-profit organization which works on issues regarding preservation, research and restoration of environment. WWF has become a symbol for nature lovers who are working hard to preserve and restore natural environment. What this ad really does is create the awareness about natural disasters which can happen anytime, anywhere and also encourages people to conserve the environment. This advertisement by WWF is an appeal to everyone to preserve nature. This ad presents New York City which is surrounded by hundreds of planes which...
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...how 100 seats should be divided among the ten states. The number of seats in a state should be fairly distributed and in proportion to the ratio of population. The rounding off rule will be applied. 1. Using the Hamilton method of apportionment, determine the number of seats each state should receive. The Standard Divisor= Total Population/Number of seats In our case the total population= 15475+35644+98756+88346+369+85663+43427+84311+54730+25467 Divided by 100(The number of seats) =532188/100 which is equal to 5321.88 Therefore the standard quota= State Population/Standard Divisor Calculated as follows for each individual states |States |State Pop/Std Divisor |Standard Quota |Lower Quota | |1 |15475/5321.88 |2.9 |2 | |2 |35644/5321.88 |6.7 |7 | |3 |98756/5321.88 |18.5 |19 | |4 |88346/5321.88 |16.6 |17 | |5 |369/5321.88 |0.1 |1 | |6 |85663/5321.88 |16.1 |16 | |7 |43427/5321.88 |8.1 |8 ...
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...TUGAS PERSONAL PROGRAM STUDI SISTEM INFORMASI BINUS UNIVERSITY [pic] ALGORITHM AND PROGRAMMING 15 Juni 2015 RAHMAYEZI EDWAR 1801490330 Bina Nusantara University Jakarta Tugas Personal ke-1 Minggu 2 Review Questions: 1. Java source filename extension is “.java”, and the Java bytecode filename extension is ".class" 2. Java is case sensitive? Java distinguish between uppercase and lowercase. The case for Java keywords, such as "String", “string”, "Int", “int”, etc, are different. 3. There is no effect on runtime performance between: a. Import java.util.Scanner; b. Import java.util.*; The facts are: • There is no runtime cost from using an import statement • The compilation process can take a little more time with an import statement • The compilation process can take even more time with a wildcard import statement • For improved readability, wildcard import statements are bad practice for anything but throwaway classes • The compilation overhead of non-wildcard import statements are minor, but they give readability benefits so best practice is to use them 4. Pseudo-code and flowchart to create: a. an algorithm to calculate a triangle area [pic] b. an algorithm to change second into hour and minute unit [pic] 5. Describe...
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...Was there any other planned attacks on the twin towers? 9/11 was not the first planned attack on the twin towers, a man named Ramzi Yousef attempted to kill 250,00 people by planting a bomb in a van parked in the center underground parking of the twin tower building. although it wounded more than 1,000 it killed only six people. 9/11 impacted society by influencing people's life in a negative manner, destroying important buildings,and Urging Americans to change the security system. One way 9/11 impacted society in a negative manner by taking many people’s lives. Over 3,000 people were killed altogether in both New York City and Washington D.C, and it has been the second most loss of life in American history. It gave a lot of shock to families of the victims, and people who witnessed this dreadful event and made it out of the tower were scarred for life. This gave an aftershock to does who witnessed the Event. Some people showed love some showed hate some wept for their lost loved one. 9/11 was told to be an inside job. Meaning foreign Americans or immigrants who live in America had planned this since the got here.facts state it might be related to attempt was 1993. This event didn’t put citizens alone in danger,but it put officer and firefighters in risk were by many of them lost their lives in the process. The 3,000 lives that were taken impacted their, process of work in offices. It also left a lot of vacant spots for jobs. Another way 9/11 impacted society is by...
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...Running Head: Impetus of the DHS 1 IMPETUS OF THE DHS-CASE STUDY 1 Impetus of the DHS 2 Prior to the 9/11 attacks, there were other terrorist events that took place on U.S. soil. Two of these were the Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center bombings. Even though these attacks were devasting they did not have the same impact as the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 attacks helped to lead to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The 9/11 attacks was the impetus for forming DHS because of an impulse. An impulse to enhance efforts to protect the United States. The essence of homeland security can be summed up in three words: prevent, protect, and respond. The ideal objective is to prevent terrorist attacks. It was also desirable that potential targets of terrorism are not left completely vulnerable to attack, that protection is increased to the fullest extent possible. When 9/11 happened it finally put the boot in America’s behind that something had to be put into place to protect Americans and the U.S. Prior to 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center bombings caused devastation for many but did not have the same impact as 9/11. I think this is because they were smaller events and the individuals guilty of these attacks were caught after a complete investigation. Once these events happened the government and police got right into investigating...
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...2. Time management tips for studying B. Tips for how much time for work 1. Tips for job performance 2. Time management tips for working III. Grant and scholarship searching A. Grant searching tips 1. Where to search for grants tips 2. Tips for setting aside time for grant searching B. Scholarship searching tips 1. Tips on where to search for scholarship 2. Tips for setting aside time for scholarship searching IV. Tips for bringing expenses down to barebones with a strict budget A. Tips on getting utilities and phone bill down to barebones 1. Tips on how to talk to utility company about levelized pay agreements 2. Tips on how to lower phone bill B. Tips on shopping and lowering gas consumption 1. Tips on shopping for groceries and necessities 2. Tips on how to lower gas consumption Reference Page Entry Blake, K. Controlling college debt (1998, October). Vol. 81 Issue 10, p2, 1/2p. Consumers' Research Magazine, 81 (Issue 10), . (Teacher comments: Extra...
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...characters can be letters, numbers or _ only. 3. Variable names are Case Sensitive. 4. There are some reserved words which we cannot use as a variable name because Python uses them for other things. These are: and,del,from,not,while,as,elif,global,or,with,assert,else,if,pass,yield,break,except,import,print,break,except,import,print,class,exec,in,raise,class,exec,in,raise,continue,finally,is,return,continue,finally,is,return,def,for,lambda and try. http://www.programr.com/python-variable-naming-rules General Naming Conventions for Java. Names representing packages should be in all lower case. Package naming convention used by Sun for the Java core packages. The initial package name representing the domain name must be in lower case. Names representing types must be nouns and written in mixed case starting with upper case. Variable names must be in mixed case starting with lower case. Common practice in the Java development community and also the naming convention for variables used by Sun for the Java core packages. Makes variables easy to distinguish from types, and effectively resolves potential naming collision as in the declaration Line. 5. Names...
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...Children: Criminals, Challenged, or Confused Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx L33333333 Liberty University Abstract Should children under the age of 7 years old be held responsible for crimes they have committed? In this case study we will be looking at an incident where a 6-year-old boy shot a classmate at school. Our purpose for conducting this case study is to find evidence to support the current laws of our legal system. We will cite developmental reasons why young children, during early childhood development, lack the ability to understand what they have done. We will cite areas that may lurk in the background of the young child’s life that support the current law. We will explore the Biosocial, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Developments of young children to find support for the legal system’s age determination. We will be using only one reference book for this case study. The book is titled, “The Developing Person Through the Life Span.” Its author is Kathleen Stassen Berger. Using this as our single reference, we will obtain the necessary support to sustain the actions of our legal system. The abstract (in block format) begins on the line following the Abstract heading. The abstract is a one-paragraph, self-contained summary of the most important elements of the paper. Nothing should appear in the abstract that is not included in the body of the paper. Word limits for abstracts are set by individual journals. Most journals...
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...To create an effective multi-layer security plan, all seven of the domains of the IT infrastructure must be addressed. An improvement on each of the domains will help to fight against an attacker. For this part of the project we will address five of the domains. Probably the best place to start beefing up security is with the user domain. Most attacks on security are from users. You cannot allow users to have simple passwords. A complex password is paramount to defending the user domain. A complex password is at least eight characters, uses a mix of upper and lower case letters, and contains special characters such as an @ or $. Passwords need to be changed regularly as well. They should be change every so many months and users should not be able to use a password twice in a year. In the LAN domain we need to protect against malicious emails. Users should know better than to open suspect emails at work, but a reminder could not hurt. Spam filters are extremely important so that user do not get as many suspect emails. In the workstation domain we need to make sure our workstations are protected. Internet security or at least antivirus should be used an all workstations. It seems like a no brainer in this day and age, but we still need to ensure it is implemented. Another way to secure our workstations is to encrypt the hard drives. We should also deactivate all media ports. In the WAN domain we need to set up firewalls. The firewalls we block things our company does not want...
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...businessballs handwriting quick self-test graphology explanation Graphology is the study of handwriting, which for hundreds of years has been recognized as being unique to each individual. Through the centuries, starting with Suetonius, the Roman historian, scholars like Shakespeare and Walter Scott believed that personality is reflected in the style of writing. The scientific establishment began to compile evidence and theories proving this as early as the 17th century. Early work in Italy and France was taken forward in Germany, and the basis of today’s methods were set down during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This makes graphology a relatively new science, which perhaps explains why many remain sceptical. The term ’graphology’ was first used by the Frenchman Michon in 1875, from the Greek ‘grapho’ meaning I write, and ‘logos’ meaning theory. Graphology is now widely used in fields ranging from education, recruitment and human resources, to criminal psychology and illness diagnosis. Further reading on the subject is available in many books including: What your handwriting reveals Manual of Graphology Character indicated by handwriting The psychology of handwriting P’s and Q’s Self-knowledge through handwriting M Gullan Whur E Singer R Baughan R Saudek J Meyer H Jacoby Aquarian Press Treasure Press Upcott Gill Allen & Unwin Geoffrey Bles Dent & Sons At its most complex, graphology is a large and dynamic subject. At its basic level however, it is relatively easy to understand...
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... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes place about a year after 9/11. September 11 was a tragic day which affected every single person in the United States, if not the world. 9/11 changed airport security dramatically, and everyone who was alive during the attack remembers exactly what they were doing. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell was sent home early from school on 9/11. His dad, Thomas Schell, was in one of the Twin Towers for a meeting. He had left several voice messages, each one asking if anyone was there. When Oskar got home, the phone started to ring, but he couldn’t bring himself to answer it. This continued to haunt Oskar for the rest of the book. Also, when Oskar was out on his “quest,” he was frightened by tall buildings, elevators, and public transportation such as trains and buses. This was because he was afraid that those places were prime locations for terrorist attacks. In one scene of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar’s adventure leads him to the top of the Empire State Building. At first, it took a lot of convincing on Mr. Black’s part to get Oskar to go to the top. Once he finally relented, the two of them got into the elevator. Oskar squeezed Mr. Black’s hand, and used all of his concentration on being brave. Oskar was so scared that he kept imagining them dying; the cables snapping and the elevator falling. It was not surprising that Oskar was scared, especially because he was only nine years old. ...
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...“As the House of Lords has existed for about six centuries without reform, some alterations have become necessary in order to bring it into conformity with the changed institutions by which it is surrounded.” – Lord Rosebery, 1884.1 Since Lord Rosebery’s well-known speech there has been much debate about changes in the composition of the House of Lords. Major reforms included the Life Peerages Act 1958 and later the House of Lords Act 1999, which reduced the hereditary members to 92.2 Nevertheless, constitutional experts such as Rodney Brazier argue that the House of Lords continues to be “unelected, unrepresentative and unaccountable.”3 The Coalition Government is therefore working on another reform bill to provide for a wholly or largely elected second chamber. This essay will argue that such a drastic change from a largely appointed to an elected system is too unrealistic to be implemented. Instead, the Government should seek to abolish Prime Ministerial patronage as well as the remaining hereditary members and adopt an independent Appointments Commission that appoints all the members of the upper chamber. To arrive at this conclusion, we will need to analyse which selection method best retains the Lords’ expertise, as well as their independence and representativeness. Then, a discussion follows whether the Lords necessarily ought to be democratically elected to provide a legitimate chamber. Lastly, the possibility of a mixed chamber will be considered. The House of Lords...
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