Boston Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Abstract

The Arc of Massachusetts is a non-profit organization helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by advocating for their right to education, employment and a normal life with dignity and respect. The Arc of Massachusetts is led and staffed by parents and family members of the disabled people whose concerted effort has made the organization one of the biggest organizations operating in Boston. Though the Arc receives funding from the government, the amount is not sufficient to meet all the objectives of the organizations and therefore, the Arc periodically organizes different event shows and programs to catch notice and attract donors. ...

A lot has been said about the construction of the Big Dig. The highs and lows but most strikingly the death of the woman when concrete slabs from the ongoing construction fell on her car as she was heading to the airport and the four deaths of workers in the Big Dig while at work(Poole & Samuel, 2011). Another matter of concern is the large costs of $14 billion it took to construct the 8 lane road from an initial estimated cost of $2 billion(Smith, 2007). A cost that the government is still struggling to pay off and ...

The Big Dig project drew attention for different reasons, most of them appearing to be negative to the public. According to Virginia Greiman, the Big Dig drew attention due to its enormity, environmental issues, its visibility and the technology used in the project(Greiman, 2010). The Big Dig is a project that was able to capture the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Among them the $14 billion dollar count of the amount of the project from a prospected $2.4 million(Wald, 2007). Also, the details of the Big Dig construction seem to have been removed from the website ...

The growth of the American urban centers dates back to the colonial period. Urban cultures have emerged since the early nineteenth Century to the modern cities. Boston was among the first cities to develop, from its trading advantage over other cities such as New York and Philadelphia. The three distinct periods in the history of the development of American cities are the provincial, commercial, and industrial periods. ‘The first was a provincial period, which lasted from the foundation of Manhattan down to the opening up of ocean commerce after the War of 1812, This was followed by a commercial period, which ...

Introduction

Disruptive innovation involves the whole process of creating new markets for an array of products. The idea of disruptive innovation is best explained by Christensen, C. M. (2003) as the creation of new value networks and markets, something that would cause disruptions in the existing market. Disruptive technology has created a competitive advantage for many business organizations, where a new and more superior product or service is introduced to the market. This knocks out the competitors since the products or services do not exist on the general market. Superior goods and services would, therefore, force the general existing market prices to ...

1 Introduction to the Brand
1.1 History
Vertu is manufacturing and Retailer Company based in the United Kingdom dealing with luxury hand-made mobile phone devices (Nuovo et al. 2008). The Nokia Company established the company in the year 1998, and its headquarters is in Hampshire in the UK. The Vertu Mobile Company serves the global market with its luxurious mobile phones (Nuovo et al. 2008). However, in the year 2012, Nokia decided to sell Vertu to Equity Group for unspecified reasons but retained 10% share of the company (Nuovo et al. 2008). Since its establishment, Vertu has created a ...

What are the effects of sleep deprivation on health and job performance? Sleep deprivation is becoming a widespread phenomenon among adults as technology advances and people become engrossed in a more active and unhealthy lifestyle. With the invention of the light bulb, people changed their habits as well and soon, even companies followed suit. When sunset used to connote the end of one's social activities for the day, now, sunset marks the start of a busy and eventful nightcap. Companies found an opportunity to create work shifts to ensure that the business runs 24/7. It seemed that, somehow, people were achieving a lifelong ...

WANG KEPING (b.1949)

“IDOL” 1979
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Collection of the artist
Exhibited:
Asia Society Hong Kong (May 15 – September 1, 2013).
“Blooming in the Shadows” China Institute Gallery New York (September 15 – December 11, 2011).
“Wang Keping, Works from 1979-2006” organized by He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (Oct 25th until Nov 23rd, 2008).
National Art Gallery, Beijing (August, 1980)
“The Stars Outdoor Art Exhibition” Beijing (27 September, 1979)
Wang Keping was born in 1949 in Beijing, China, and is one of the most significant contemporary Chinese sculptors. He is known as one of the founders of the ‘Stars’ group (Xingxing), which ...

INTRODUCTION

Color Kinetics Incorporated (CKI) used the Disruptive technology. Disruptive technology refers to the technology in which when introduced it displaces the technology that has been established. This particular technology was applied in the case whereby CKI targeted its products to a different market that is the merchandising, retail and architectural as well as display industries. It was initially selling its products to the professional and entertainment industries. The particular change that CKI applied is also known as visual or “Retailtainment” merchandising. (Narayandas, & Caravella, 2001).
Through the application of the visionary market sales strategy, CKI was able to succeed in ...

Stanley Milgram who was a psychologist from Yale, conducted a well-known experiment about obedience which is relevant for human psychology. This happened in 1963 and the experiment was related to the fact that people were in conflict between their own conscience and obeying authority. Milgram was seeking for explanation of people who committed genocide because they were ordered to do so during WWII and he found out that obedience is a powerful impulse.
Milgram was inclined to believe that people tend to obey the authority because it is a tactic for survival. “For many people, obedience is a deeply ...

Introduction

The Blue Ocean strategy reconstructs established models of development, such as the widely used Porter's five forces model. Renee Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim specify two forms of markets wherein economic actors work-- the red and blue oceans. The 'red oceans' pertain to markets that are crowded or saturated. Red oceans are current, established markets. Growth opportunities are limited due to the fact that a large number of economic actors are involved, aggressively trying to expand their position in the market (Kim & Mauborgne, 2015). 'Red' denotes the cutthroat competition, as well as the purchasing consultant, customers, and suppliers who ...

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Rob's situation with Dusty puts him in a dilemma. The community, customers and board members of the firearms company exert pressure on him to relieve Dusty of his duties owing to his past as a criminal record after the exposure by a local publication following a tip from Dusty's former crime mate T-rex. On the other hand, Dusty has been exemplary in his job and has even been an important figure in the community owing to his voluntary service. Furthermore, Rob is aware that he has reformed and has already atoned for his crime ...

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, is a memoir that was written by Michael Patrick MacDonald, that details all his childhood, and growing up as well as the events that afflicted his family and him while they lived in the Old Colony House Project in Southie. His is a story of resilience and determination because in the end he survived despite losing his siblings and many children in their community through crime, gang violence as well as drugs. The people living in this poor neighborhood are predominantly Irish- Catholic and most of them are headed by single mothers ...

On the other hand, Wolff sees the university as the pursuer of simple truths in various areas and the institution responsible for the preparation of young people for the pursuit of these simple truths. Finally, Readings envisions a scenario where the fragmentation of university as a factor that can be put be leveraged on and put to good use. While all these perspectives are true in their own rights, it is this paper’s contention that Kerr’s assertion is the most defensible. This paper will discuss why the university is a loose federation sufficing for the satisfaction of diverse needs.

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Throwing garbage in the yellow trash can instead of the black one is not admirable, but it may encourage people to think about their consumption and what sustainability means. It is one tool, and the last line of defense in a more comprehensive strategy to reduce waste. Recycling is not difficult, requires no sacrifice, and is much easier than changing lifestyle. It is much easier to recycle plastic bottles than it is to organize and participate in car-pooling. Trading in the SUV for a much smaller fuel efficient car could help, but many Americans identity is intertwined with the car or ...

The Name of the Class (Course)

The Name of the School (University)
The City and State
Introduction
The emergence of Windows server 2012 has revolutionized the entire network environment, because it has made easy the process of installation of Operating Systems (OS), which was initially a very cumbersome task for computer users across the globe (Lavapie, 2012). It has simplified the process by eliminating activities, which used to be done before the actual installation of the OS, for example, configuration of CMS, formatting and partitioning of hard drives. Installation of an OS involved the use of DVDs and CDs, and there would occur ...

Violence and Sex in Media and Pop Culture

Media and pop culture are full of sex and violence. It is impossible to turn on any television show, radio station, or video game without being confronted by something sexual or violent. While adults who have a different view of the world may be able to process these images more maturely, what is the impact that they have on teenagers? Are teenagers capable of viewing this risky behavior several times a day in the context of its being “cool” without it impacting their behavior, their interactions, or their future? Multiple studies suggest no, it cannot. Teenagers are incapable of taking in ...

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Introduction
A credit card (BC, BCard, Bank Card) is a plastic card that is tied to one or more accounts with banks. Used to pay for goods and services, including through the Internet, as well as cash withdrawal. Cards are debit and credit. Debit cards are used for the disposal of his own money, located in the current account in the bank. Credit cards are used for the disposal of the bank's money, that when making the payment automatically taken from the bank on credit (which is required to repay ...

Let me begin by a confession that at the start of this module, I did not anticipate so much. As a matter of fact, I thought it will be straightforward. They say change is inevitable; like growing. You can’t do anything to change the inevitable, can you? On hindsight, I now look at my initial disinterest with a lot of dismay. I was on the brink of missing out on one of the most significant aspects of an organization’s survival. I am now aware that change is actually an optimization process in the quest for an ideal state. On a professional ...

An aggressive marketing strategy:

Solution:
Now since the market is competitive and Digital Labs in order to improve their sales and profit figures, if adopt for an agressive marketing campaign, apart from financial issues relating to increased fixed cost and commission cost, company have to consider the marketing strategy of their competitors and also if they are losing on product quality and innovation factors, even a $15 million budget on advertisement will not help the company.
Thus, considering their product quality and what kind of innovative techniques their competitors are offering to the customers, is indeed an important consideration.

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A 5% reduction ...

Current development of information sharing via the internet has brought several advantages as well as disadvantages with it. Unlike a few decades back, communication in the current age is instant, thanks to digital technology. People are no longer kept apart by bureaucratic and expensive communications. In a social sense, the whole world lives as a village. Passing of information between people and organizations is real-time. The benefits that accrue to this form of information sharing are far-reaching. The past decade has seen more companies becoming global entities than any other time in history. With these benefits comes the ugly side of digital ...

The founders of the famous Cheesecake Factory include Evelyn, Oscar and their son David Overton. They have always ensured that the values that they strongly believed in when they incorporated the company are held and are a part to the company’s culture to date. The main value being to a strong commitment to quality in the products they use and the materials that are used in the construction of the many branches that are located all over USA, the Middle East and in Latin America.
The strengths that have helped to ensure the company’s continuity and expansion include; low ...

For the purpose of this paper, I will be reviewing media messages from The New York Times newspaper. I will analyze, interpret and evaluate different media texts as they available on this newspaper. The first media text that I retrieved from The New York Times is an advert of NYTimes application for Android smart phones and tablets. In this advert, there are bulleted points that give the reader the specifications of this new app, which is meant for Android operating system devices. The application that is also branded as the New Android-only Times Experience has a new android optimized design ...

Introduction

Wishes and Rainbows is a children’s comic storybook. This book talks about a town, Colorland, that in its entire existence has not seen anything of color and when flowers are introduced to there, the whole town is overwhelmed. The book is essentially designed to stimulate the imagination of the students as they continue with their exploration of economic problems such as scarce resources, different allocation methods and the society’s reaction in alleviating such problems.

Question 1

The concept of scarcity is illustrated very well in the story. Scarcity can be defined as a situation where there is a deficiency of something that people ...

Eric Shinseki with the proposal:

How to low costs in the veteran apartment

INTRODUCTION

PROBLEMS:
AMERICAN HEATH CARE SYSTEM
VA ISSUES
COSTS
CONCLUSION
It is well known that the U.S. has the most extensive help system for veterans in the world. This system exists from 1636th, when the Pilgrims Plymouth Colony was at war with the Indians Pekuot. Then was the first time when was mentioned that a soldier who is injured must receive help from the colony. 1776th, on the Continental Congress was the first time when was mentioned pension for the injury military. Nowadays, MDC is available to all ...

Introduction to Business Law

Chapter 1-7

The underlying theme under these topics is on how to effect social responsive investing. This as the type of investing in which the corporate organization gives back to the community in which it operates (Jeffery, 34-78). This could well be undertaken through involvement in events organized by the firm so as to better the living conditions of the community.

The gains from such activities are that they act as platforms for advertisements. The corporate organization gets to advertise the services or products it offers while undertaking these programs. Furthermore the individuals who benefit from the firm would ...

Dialogue between a teen-age boy and his grandfather.

Teen-age boy: Granddad, the history book I have says that WWI was a “total war.” But if WWI was a total war doesn’t that mean there wouldn’t be anything left of Europe? Wouldn’t all the countries be destroyed by war?
Granddad: “Total war” today probably does mean something like that because of nuclear weapons. But a “total war” in history means everybody in the country has to work hard to make sure their side wins the war. Men who can fight have to join the military. Well then, that leaves no one doing their work on the farms ...