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Optimum Budget Allocation Method for Project with Critical Risk by Tomoichi Sato

Optimum Budget Allocation Method for Project with Critical Risk by Tomoichi Sato
A project, irrespective of the field it is in has numerous constraints; the constraints are categorized using three criteria; budget, quality, and time (Bosworth, 1995, p. 46). The constraints of the project affect the outcome, with risks and threats associated with these constraints in the project’s cycle. This can be seen under various coverage of the project, for instance, in the execution phase, certain steps that may result with the project failing and/or decline of the quality standards associated with the approach on a specific project ...

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C.
Introduction
The book “The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community” is an idiosyncratic ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes. The book brings the story of this group of people into present and hubs mainly on the very real problems of cultural continuity in a dynamic world. The author manages to discover demonstrates that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was 1985. This ethnography is very ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction
The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

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The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

Introduction

Juvenile delinquency has long been a sensitive topic. It often encompasses the disciplines of morality, ethics, and criminal justice and law enforcement. The same is true for other hotly debated and related topics such as the over-criminalization of youths, youth policing, and the war on drugs and how it affects the mindset and social behavior of young people. There has also been numerous works that have been published about these topics. One of those was Punished Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. Punished was a book published by Victor Rios in 2011.
What makes this book a ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

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Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian innate with a Doctorate from Oxford University as well as a degree from the Harvard University. Moyo Dambisa has demonstrated her diligence working at the Goldman Sachs and the World Bank. Dambisa Moyo wrote her first book, the Dead Aid which is a controversial exploration of aid projects in the African Continent. The book by Moyo has received lots of praises from Kofi Annan. Kofi Quotes that the book is the best description of a fascinating case for a new strategy in Africa. She emphasizes that the time for Africa is here. Moyo further ...

Digital technology has impacted life in various ways. Maybe those who are the inhabitants of the Antarctica could make a case against being influenced by the technological advancements or even worry about digital technology and how lives have been impacted by the changes in the digital technology especially the changes that have been realized in the 21st century. However as depicted in Joel Brenner’s book entitled the America the Vulnerable, the ideas expressed in this book is definitely worth reading. In this well researched and addressed book, Joel addresses various issues of cyberspace as a way of getting exposed to ...

Kathryn Tanner – Christ the Key (2010), 320 pp
Kathryn Tanner joined the faculty of Divinity in Yale in 2010. This was after teaching in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago for sixteen years and the department of Religious studies in Yale for ten years. She has engineered a lot of research on the history of Christian thought to current issues of theological concern using cultural, feminist, and social theory. She has written several books such as; God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? The politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice, Theories of Culture: ...

Question One: Is there a settled vision of human rights as the western idealists, academics, human rights crusaders and some politicians would have people believe? This question emanates from the discourse on alternative perspective by Joseph Chan on page 29 of Chapter 3 in the second paragraph towards the last sentence. Chan is at pains to explain how dissatisfied he is, with advocates and lawyers in conferences who deprecate the Asian values of human rights citing them as an excuse for the continued violation of human rights. He then states that these human rights advocates and lawyers constantly call on ...

Meursault is the main character of the novel “The Stranger,” in which Camus wanted to emphasize the problem of belief in contemporary society. According to Camus, the most serious issue is the inability to believe in reality, observe what happens in the moment, and the inability to live life as it is rather than being concerned with nihilism and contemplating the absurd (Francev, 2010).
The novel shows three stages of development, through which Meursault eventually learns to deal with the lack of meaning in life. In the first part of the book, Meursault is an isolated being who ...

In the book The bright forever by Lee Martins, the character Henry Dee clearly fits the psychological profile of a pedophile. He is obsessively fixated with Katie, continue to deny that there is more to his attraction to the minor than the fatherly love he proclaims for her. Henry is also interested in things that will easily interest the child. Take for instance his love for the purple martins, he clearly understands that Katie would love the birds. To get closer to Katie, he chooses to share same infantile adoration for the birds. In terms of career, most pedophiles go ...

Introduction: Historically, female Black slaves endured the worse treatment, but have received the least amount of attention than their male counterparts in North American Slavery (Hine, 2007). There are longstanding myths that surround the experiences of female Black slaves, and struggles they face daily trying to survive. Deborah Gray White provides an intimate look into female slavery that until 1985 was long overdue. In her book she stated “Slave women were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen” (White, 1999, p. 162). In the nineteenth ...

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Public Administration Capstone PUAD 5340vc01
Abstract
This review presents the book Managing performance in the Public Sector by Hans de Bruijn, summarizes and analyzes it. The book discusses the issues that arose from ineffective performance measurement and offers ways to handle these issues and mitigate their negative impact. Having analyzed the real-life cases and the extensive literature on the topic, Hans de Bruijn describes the perverse effects of performance measurement on public organizations and the quality of their services. The author proposes the use of design principles that will improve the system of performance measurement. These principles are variety, ...

Harford’s book The Undercover Economist is devoted to the exploring of fundamental reasons for rich economies being rich and poor economies being poor. Formaini smartly notices that Harford in his book “seems to want to explain to noneconomists some of the interesting theoretical conclusions that economists use to explain observed behavior and wealth pattern” (204). Within the book, which is rather easy for understanding, a set of major concepts from economic theory are deeply analyzed and interestingly and, sometimes, entertainingly explained by the author. In terms of this paper, a brief summary of Harford’s book will be ...

The United States Department of Labor describes competitive sourcing as a key element of the President’s Management Agenda that seeks to get the best value for money on taxes paid by the American people. This is accomplished through a strategic plan that leverages the market economy’s competitive forces to improve the efficiency of the government. It involves awarding of tasks and activities to the most qualified party through a competitive process. Government organizations are allowed to compete for work against the private sector based on the assumption that both can perform tasks and deliver commercial services cost-effectively ...

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The book Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals written by Heidi Grant Halvorson creates the step by step instructions of how to reach the aims. The work is not the container of simple clichés and well-known instructions, but a specific set of advices of how to reach personal goals. The entire work is following a logical structure of indentifying the goals, preparing to achieve them through the evaluation and investigation, and accrual attainment of the goals. According to the author, it is essential to distinguish between true goals and those imposed by the environment, as the ...

St Thomas was a philosopher in the concept of natural law and the role of God’s justice in the legal system. Ethical arguments between lawyers and judges confront on a daily basis is suggested as an occupational profile for the professional conduct of judges and lawyers in their everyday interactions. St Thomas offers procedural comments on the criminal and civil relations as well as sentencing guidelines. In this era in which a Christian lawyer is many times faced with situations that are unethical and the modus operandi is one of questionable choices, the Christian lawyer and judge have ...

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The book “Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian” written by John Lukacs published in 2004 depicted the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the time of the Second World War towards the end of his career and death. Several chapters were assigned for Churchill’s relations with other World War II leaders and politicians who challenged his policies. Other sections were attached to how the world saw Churchill, the criticisms that continued to plague his life until his death. Churchill was former British soldier, writer, historian and journalist before he became the prime ...

Tolstoy’s What is Art? examines the nature and purposes of art by focusing on it as a medium to communicate ideas, values and morality. He argues that most definitions and analysis of art are wrong because they focus exclusively on beauty, and instead focuses on the context in which it is used to share ideas, emotions and experiences. He does not completely neglect the beauty of art, but believes it is too vague and indefinable an idea to be a useful framework for analyzing the complicated question of “what is art?” According to Tolstoy, the essence of art, or what “ ...

The conduct of any business venture is supposed to conform to the law. However, recent years have seen businesses increasingly engage in misconduct, and this has prompted questions of whether conformity to law is a prevalent practice among business entities. In the article “Business Ethics: Law as a Determinant of Business Conduct, Vincent Di Lorenzo looks at the influence that law has on business conduct by comparing the purpose and requirements of the law with actual business conduct that currently exists in the market.
The Principles of Corporate Government articulated by the American Law Institute acknowledge that although the primary ...

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Book Review of Slavery by another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
Slavery in the United States did not come to an end with the Confederate forces surrendering themselves in the year 1865. Douglas A. Blackmon, a Wall Street Journal Reporter in his recent Pulitzer Prize-winning book titled ‘Slavery by another Name’ claims that "the great record of forced labor across the South [after the Civil War] demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, didn't end until 1945." In this ...

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The book, “A systems approach to small group interaction 11th edition” is a revised edition from the tenth edition of the same book. Stewart writes it. Ideally, it entails different scholarly and practical information based on a small group interaction. The content does not deviate from the title. It is comprised of eight distinct chapters within which information from the tenth edition has been modified to address the current audience. The various named and edited material within the book are as a result of the frank contributions from the avid readers of the book. The main adjustments are deemed to have been ...

Beth, Mary. "It takes a garden: Cultivating Citizen-subjects in organized garden projects." Geoforum 2008.39 (2006): 1228-1240. Print.

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There have been increases on institutional based activities in the neoliberal state, as well as increased consequences of neo-liberalism since 1980s. Schools, hospitals, jails, hospitals, as well as clinical settings have the populations at most risk. This article hides its meaning over the connotative term known as community garden, and it acts as a link between the history of garden projects with advances concerning the supposedly transformative power of gardening practice for individual change, as well as social transformation. The article evaluates two ...

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The most appreciated and widely applied parenting programme in the world today is the Parental Effectiveness Training (P.E.T), which was devised by Thomas Gordon, an internationally reputed psychologist. Gordon developed the PET programme while intensively researching on humanist psychology at the University of Chicago, with assistance from Carl Rogers. This programme attained popularity when Gordon published a comprehensive book by the same name in the year 1970, which has been reviewed as under. The book revolves around the idea that every group interaction involves conflicts and differences of perspective that must be resolved in order to sustain the ...

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Ron Deal in his book dating and the single parent (2012) identifies dating as a complex matter for single parents when children are involved. Dating requires consideration of its effects on children. A single parent or the dating partner must be ready to meet the challenges both emotionally and relationally. Deal (2012) provides single parents with solutions from a view of an expert that can help them prepare for dating. His book encourages single parents to consider different perspectives before starting to date. These considerations include whether the dating is beneficial for both children and the single parent at the time ...

1. (a) Define subliminal perception.
Ans (a) Subliminal perception is an old traditional system of visualization of real-time awakening, and it is nothing new. It dates backs to 1950s when one market researcher named James Viicary claimed that by using subliminal messages in a movie theatre, he manages to boost the sales of popcorn and coca cola by a huge margin. Subliminal perception is used in advertising agencies to transmit messages that cannot reach conscious awareness even if attention is focused on them. There are two methods by which messages can be transmitted. One is by using attractive visuals and the other ...

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- If I was part of the audience, I would have responded to the presenters question by saying that the demonstration showed that alcohol was dangerous to the human body. The worm here would represent living beings and that the effect of alcohol on living things was to kill them. The demonstration would therefore mean that cells in the body disintegrated every time someone consumed alcohol.
- If I was the presenter, I would have avoided the ambiguity in the question by clearly stating what each part of the demonstration represented. In this case, the worm ...

The book, The Quest for Prosperity, is written by, Justin Yifu Lin. Mr. Lin is the chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. He illustrated in his book, a fascinating overview of development, development of economies, development for the underdeveloped countries and economies particularly after the Second World War. The book written by Justin Yifu Lin has been notable and it has been acknowledged as a knowledgeable and highly sophisticated book for people that have their interest in economic development, economic policies, economic growth, development of economies and development for third world countries that are struggling to improve ...

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Tutorial Two
Introduction
One of the landmarks of the 20th century was the unprecedented growth in the field of Psychology. However, some pertinent issues (which remain unresolved) threaten the credibility of this noble profession. For example, there is little data to support the classification of “mental illnesses” and use of drugs to treat nonmedical conditions.

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Psychology and the Status Quo by Isaac Prilleltensky
Prilleltensky (1989) argues that the rise of Psychology has been immune to skeptical ideology. In some way, Psychologists learn not deviate from contemporary ideology. As a result, no questions have been raised about some ...

Journal Entry 3: Book Review

Journal Entry 3: Book Review: Season of Life by Jeffery Marx
Part One

The best thing about Season of Life by Jeffery Marx is that boys are allowed to have feelings in this book. Feelings can range from deep sadness that causes them to cry as well as happiness when they are part of a winning sports team. The book is about true experiences from Gilman High School football players and from Joe Ehrmann, who is famous from his days as a college football player. Marx takes a different approach from other books when he shares ‘coming of age’ stories of ...

The book lewis and Clark expedition was first written in 1998 and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. However, there are 53 reviews on the book since then. In this book, Barth addresses a navigation that was conducted by Lewis and clerk among other people. This navigation was stimulated by President Jefferson Thomas after the purchase of the new land (louisiana) which belonged to France. This was through the agreement that was made in the senate to buy this new land. It is after this that the president appointed his personal secretary Lewis to explore this new land. Lewis then sought for ...

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This paper summarizes the story of the Motley Crew as narrated in the book “the dirt confession of the world’s most notorious rock band’’. The essay chronicles their lifestyles from formation, rise to power, moral decadency, and distinct highs and lows among other aspects. It concentrates on most remarkable events of the group as demonstrated in the autobiography. The work goes further to depict frightening scenarios of the Crew events taking place on and out of stage.

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The Motley crew depicts a group of hardcore Rock Music heroes who begun life at the very center of poverty. The most ...