Essays on Drew

Common features:

absence of complex scientific terms; purpose.

Differing features:

size; abundance of examples in the book; the extent to which the topic is narrowed; specification; genre; angle; the book introduces a new topic, while other texts elaborate on already existing ones. One of the major differences among the four given texts is the extent of their specification. The book (Chabris, C.& Simons, 2010) presents a high level of specification, the topic is analyzed very profoundly, the book contains detailed description of the concept and the manner in which the experiment was carried out, as well background information concerning the nature of the ...

How Iconography and Hieratic Scale give us the Message of the Stele of Naram-Sin

The construction of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin took place in the Sippar’s Sun God Cult in celebration of King Naram-Sin’s triumph over the people of the Lullubi Mountain. The king was the fourth to rule the Semite Dynasty of the Akkadian Empire (stretching from the Inner Iran to Anatolia, and from the Mediterranean to Arabia). As shown in Figure one below, the Stele of Naram-Sin is a representation of this King’s victory (ARTH, 6). The depiction uses iconography and hieratic scale to give a unique view of what took place during the battle. Figure 1: ...

Fashion and food

1. Executive summary The clothing and the foot ware market in Saudi Arabia performs quite well due to the thriving economy and the high levels of the disposable incomes in the country. The unemployment rates are quite low, a fact which has contributed to the growth of the fashion and food markets. Available information at the end of 2015 indicates that the leading fashion brands in the country increased the number of the fashion brands in their portfolio as the customers raised to demand quality and more luxurious brands. As a result, the retailers have expanded the outlets across ...

Personal Development Planning

Abstract Personal development planning is an innovative concept that was developed to ensure that the achievement of a student are tracked in a structured manner. Such a plan has been essential in enhancing their learning and career development, which are essential aspects of their learning and career development. Universities in different countries have facilitated students to develop PDPs, which are integrated with their transcripts. It is essential to note that PDPs have facilitated students to set clear goals that are essential in ensuring they achieve the desired objectives. Personal development planning has facilitated students to develop effective learning skills, ...

MOBILE ORDERING PLATFORMS FOR FOODS AND BEVERAGE SERVICES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY TO INVESTIGATE WHAT KEY FEATURES BUSINESS MANAGERS LOOK FOR PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION Mobile Ordering Platforms for Foods and Beverage Services: An Exploratory Study to Investigate What Key Features Business Managers Look for Prior to Implementation

Literature Review

The necessity to approach marketing as an integrated part of management and not as a separate function has been acknowledged decades ago, when Peter Drucker illustrated that marketing tells businesses how to adjust on meeting changing consumer needs and creating a clientele (Webster, 2009). Consumer needs are ever – changing, as Drucker observed, and ...

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If a defendant has prior warrants issued against them, and the police officers know of this fact, any evidence found at an illegal stop can be used against the suspects in court. In essence, the High Court affirmed that such searches do not impinge on the Fourth Amendment when the warrant is enforceable and unrelated to the behavior that required the stop. This opinion, rendered by Justice Clarence Thomas, drew a stern condemnation from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who averred that the decision will affirm illegal police practices of targeting racial minorities and use the decision to further ...

Why is it important to look at alternatives, trade off, uncertainties, and risk tolerance when making most decisions? Can you think of a personal decision you might be making. Share experience with class. Hard decisions have to be taken all the time in everyday personal as well as professional lives. In order to make the best possible decision, we have to approach the issue from all possible angles and foresee all possible consequences. A decision taken based on just one factor has a higher probability of being the wrong decision. It is paramount to look for alternatives, maybe what ...

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 ...

Introduction

Since the republics in the Soviet Union proclaimed independence in 1991, there have been significant changes concerning the ethno cultural, and demographic situation. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the major reason behind the creation of the Russian Diaspora. More than twenty-five million Russian citizens found themselves in the midst of newly and freshly created states, which were often redesigned as their new political dwellings (Beissinger, 2008). After some time, the displaced Russians were compelled to either assume a fresh political identity, or to return to the Russian Federation, which was newly created. Assuming fresh political identity would ...

Introduction

Sexuality refers to sensation and linked closeness between two human beings. In psychological terms, sexuality is the way through which people make an expression of the completeness of love between a woman and a man. In biological terms, this is the means through which the conception of a child occurs and the ancestry is passed over to the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to look at the issue of public expressions of sexuality concerning the law in the United States. In this paper, is going to be established that public expressions of sexuality in the United ...

The life of Frank Netter

Frank Netter was born in Manhattan on 25 April 1906. He was an American surgeon. However, he is best known for his lifelike, aesthetic medical illustrations. He started his life with a passion for art. He got training as an artist at the Art Students’ League in New York City and the National Academy of Design. By the third decade of his life, he became a successful commercial artists, whose work continuously appeared in different national magazines (Quinnipiac University, qu.edu) including some of the best known publications such as The New York Times and The Saturday Evening Post. His ...

Although I had had several holidays in Western cities like London, Paris, New York and Berlin, I had never got any opportunity to visit a city in the Eastern Hemisphere. I had always been enthusiastic to have fabulous time in major cities of the world in the Eastern Hemisphere like Tokyo. I felt most enthusiastic about Tokyo because it is considered the capital of the Eastern Hemisphere. Tokyo is one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, and it functions as both the largest city and the capital of Japan. During the last summer, I decided to have an 11 day ...

Introduction

The USA is now witnessing one of the highest income disparities in its history. Rich people are getting richer while poor people are getting poorer. One of the main challenges for the government is to ensure more equitable wealth distribution among the population. One of the most discussed techniques in recent years is “minimum wage”. Minimum wage in the USA is currently $7.25 per hour and a multi-year long debate between the Republicans and Democrats is going on upon the issue of increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 (Peters). This has become a major issue of political tussle between ...

Abstract

'Gothic' term represents medieval art that carries a strange history. The style of art developed in Northern France and spread to the rest of Western Europe. Late Gothic art expanded well into the 16th century before getting consumed by the Renaissance art. Gothic period carries splendid examples of sculptures, stained glass, fresco, panel painting, ivories and illuminated manuscripts. The essay offers a perspective on the popularity of Gothic ivories and how they encouraged the devotional practice. The ivory diptychs were used as sophisticated tools and were seen as physical vestiges of the divine. Gothic ivories were the visual cues ...

Circumstances

Both texts were created by Mahatma Gandhi when India used to be a British colony and Gandhi was leading his country’s march towards independence from colonial rule. Since, India was a British colony; the British Empire ravaged local business and forced them to sell on British made goods. The Dandi March was an effort by Gandhi and fellow Satyagrahis to produce Indian salt as a means to to break the British hegemony over Indian public and Indian industry. The first speech came before the Dandi March in 1930 when Gandhi wanted to make sure that his intentions of ...

The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, is a narrative that revealed how diseases spread, how cities developed and how people viewed science in 1854. Integrative thinking and the ability to make connections enabled Dr. John Snow to trace the pattern of the disease to its origin. John’s ability to make a connection between the epidemic and the water the people consumed was marvelous. It enabled him to save people’s lives. It is, therefore, important to have an open mind and think in a connective manner. This is a narrative that took place in 1854 during summer. London, ...

WHY MANY FEMALE ARCHITECTS CHOOSE TO REMAIN INVISIBLE WHEN OPERATING WITHIN A MALE-FEMALE ARCHITECTURAL PARTNERSHIP

In the architectural practice, the majority of the women architects have chosen to operate as invisible while operating within the male-female architectural partnership. The women are typically invisible based on leadership, academic success, and merit in practice. The paper will discuss the personal and professional reasons among the females to involve themselves in a male-female partnership. Some people argue that the women devote themselves in the partnerships for romance purpose. Furthermore, the historical timelines of the male-female partnerships will be useful in creating more understanding on the topic. Our argument will be based on those women that who have ...

Introduction

Starbucks is inarguably the largest coffee house in the world. The company has had a holiday-themed coffee cup since 1997. The festive cups have had different designs over the years, including snowflakes, reindeer, ornaments and more symbols associated with the Christmas season. However, in 2015, the company opted for a simpler look without the holiday symbols on the cup. The unveiling of these cups is usually a big deal even with countdowns on their website. The design of the 2015 cup in October was described as “a two-toned somber design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades ...

Introduction

The connection between Colonial America, Atlantic trade and slavery helped in the development and growth of America’s colonies. Without slavery, it would have unmanageable for European colonists to develop the New World (Morgan 6). It is also inconceivable that colonists and settlers could have managed to settle and develop America without slave labour. Slave labour is the essential reason American was able to produce major consumer goods that became the basis of global trade of tobacco, cotton, rice, etc. (Dodson). Slavery and the Making of America is a documentary made by PBS that discusses the role played by ...

Impact on Relationships

The advent of social networking has introduced a new dynamic to how people relate to one another in society. Where once only a broad circle of individuals might be known to a single person, now through social networking a single user can be connected to dozens if not hundreds of other people in a matter of minutes. From Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn and several others, social networking has managed to connect the world in a way it has never known before. For all this however there is a very real and noticeable disconnect between individuals in terms of ...

Introduction

The United States is depicted as the most democratic nation in the world. The aspect of democracy arises from the choices that people are presented with. The ability to determine one’s leaders, goods, services, regions and rights are some of the choice elements that the American population is presented with. Another aspect that can be associated with the United States is its diversity in regards to the ethnic groups and races; immigration has resulted in the creation of one of the most interracial communities in the world. Nearly all races are present in America as a result of ...

Dance is an art that allows people to express their feelings through body movements. It is also an art that is used to entertain as well as bring people of different cultures together. Dances have also been used as a historical tool to identify people from different ethnic background, age groups and different social setting in addition to being utilized as a tool for harmonizing different people in a social event. People brought together through dancing are able to learn different cultures, thus learning how to respect and appreciate cultural and social diversity. It is common to see people ...

Probably, US residents still remember and honor the time of 80s. After all, movies about this time are still popular and will come out in theaters. Even though I have not lived in those days, these pictures allow everyone to find themselves in that wonderful time when rock and roll was at the peak of glory, when both boys and girls had, like it seems to us today, ridiculous haircuts, when high school students spent more time at rock concerts and parties with hot girls and free drinks, than at school. Many many movies try to convey to their ...

Abstract

A balanced scorecard refers to the management system and strategic planning tool used broadly in industry, government and nonprofit organizations across the globe. Its application seeks to better align operations to the specific strategy and vision of an organization, to improve both external and internal communications and to monitor an organization’s performance alongside those strategic objectives. The scorecard was first was introduced back in the early 1990s by Norton and Kaplan of Harvard School. More than half of the key companies in the US, Asia and Europe currently employ the scorecard approach, with its use on the rise ...

Macy’s Inc. is one of the largest retail stores in the world with over 880 functional stores in Guam, Puerto Rico and most significantly the United States. The stores cater to the needs of every customer who visits their stores. In other words, Macy’s is the “all-rounder” store that provides items such as accessories, furniture, footwear, beauty products, jewelry, men and women clothing, bedding, spas, food courts, and much more. People who visit theses stores can appreciate the personal attention and the comfort of each store. For over a century Macy has been successful in creating a ...

Business Enterprise Planning

Different countries have laws and regulations governing different businesses unique to the country and business type. Usually, the laws are meant to protect consumers regarding the quality of products and services, safety, information, and pricing. In Saudi, a draft of E-commerce laws was introduced in 2014 to protect users and support the growth of e-commerce in the country (Al-Ghaith, Sanzogni & Sandhu, 2010). The laws are in regards to merchant information, consumer protection, advertisements and delivery. The first e-commerce law requires businesses to include their website in their registration certificate (Cdn.stepfeed.com, 2016). The website must contain such information as physical ...

The Use and Abuse of History in the Recent Ukrainian Crisis

A revisiting of Ukraine's geography and historical narrative would clearly shed light on the recent Ukrainian crisis and how the turmoil and sentiment in the Orange Revolution and the 2014 confrontation originate from a long history of struggle over the delicate status of Ukraine between East and West. Through the correct use of history, one would understand that history drew the dividing lines and spurred the conflict that spanned centuries. Eastern Ukraine was occupied by Russian imperialism in the 1800s, followed by Western Ukraine. This provides an explanation of the reason Eastern Ukrainians have largely remained loyal to politicians ...

Preparatory drawings by Correggio

Antonio Allegri is more famous by the name of the small town of Correggio, and this is where the artist spent his professional career. He was a reputed name and maintained a high position among the Italian Renaissance artists. He is looked upon as one of the most skilled draughtsmen of the sixteenth century1. He is counted among the most famous early sixteenth-century artists. His drawings call for a scrutiny of his styles and skills and are beautiful but utilitarian. The artist completed his work with steps in its construction and drew only when required. He drew only when ...

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the fact that there is greater likelihood of one to falter in detecting the second target T2 after he has detected the first target T1. There had been concerns that participants in previous studies had problems in detecting the second target after 200 ms -500 ms from the first target. The researcher employed a 2 ×6 experimental design; it involved a randomized sample of 49 university students. Using web experiment software, Interactive Sensation Laboratory Exercise (ISLE), the researcher had students identifying letter S as the first target and letter T as the second target ...

The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois Concepts like public sociology, the sociological imagination, policy sociology and methodological triangulation are terms frequently used in modern sociology. Sociology student are encouraged by their academic advisors to supplement their class work with practical field experience. For instance, research to evaluate the effectiveness of social programs can be extremely useful. The question of whether sociological research can have a positive effect on society is particularly relevant in the modern day. Researchers have to ask themselves whether the work they are doing have implications for public policy. Furthermore, students are expected to bring different ...

Introduction.

The end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s was a period which saw a completely new wave of subcultures that turned London and New York into a haven of eccentrics. Through hardship and recession, the youth of that time rose up and created a change of the face of partying into a spectacle that was completely new and revolutionary; it later become unheard and forgotten in the current days. Originating from the glam and punk rock movements and Andy Warhol’s death, the Club Kid scene led to the rise of many big names such as ...

Abstract

A balanced scorecard refers to the management system and strategic planning tool used broadly in industry and business, government, as well as nonprofit organizations across the globe. Its application seeks to align operations to strategy and vision of an organization, improve external and internal communications, as well as monitor an organization’s performance alongside the strategic objectives. The scorecard was first was introduced back in early 1990s by Norton and Kaplan of Harvard School. Currently, over, half of the key companies in US, Asia and Europe apply the scorecard approach, with its use increasing in those regions and in ...

The article, The Perils of Obedience, written by psychologist Stanley Milgram describes his experiment which sought to test how much pain an ordinary person could inflict on another because they have been ordered to do so by someone in authority. It is set around the 1960s, written as a scholarly contribution to Yale University. The article examines obedience in an attempt to define the extent to which obedience can go and the impact that it has on conduct. Milgram holds that obedience is paramount to many; obeying authority counts even where that that goes against one’s conscience. The ...