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Approval Draft 1: Acceptable Use Policy.

Executive Summary. The AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) for IT systems by employees is designed to protect Red Clay Renovations, our clients, partners and the employees themselves from any sort of harm arising from the misuse of our IT systems, data and other resources. Misuse covers both inadvertent and deliberate actions. The consequences of misusing Red Clay’s system can be severe since the potential damages range from but are not limited to malware infections, data breaches, legal and financial implications due to data leakages, and productivity losses arising from network downtimes. This policy covers Red Clay’s IT systems ...

The article by Maria Tatar goes on to delve deep into the complexities of the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. The author of the piece engages in tracing the history of the fairy tale. She opines that there have been many interpolations and transformations in the narrative and content of the story based on cultural difference and timeline in history of literature. To substantiate her point, Tatar cites the versions of the fairy tale popularized in Germany, Indonesia, Japan and some other countries where the stepsisters of the central female character of the fairy tale meet very grave destinies by ...

Memory is easily one of the most precious facets of any individual’s life. Memory is the culmination of life experiences, both the good and the bad and is unique to every individual alive. For many people there are memories that they would be happy to forget, while there are others who wish they had different memories, or better ones. However, for the average person that concept eliminating bad memories or creating better ones is a matter of wishful thinking and the popular concept of modern science fiction. One such story is "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” ...

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The Beauvoir is located in Biloxi, Mississippi at the retired home of President Jefferson Davis. The site since it was built in 1848 existed as the home of the retired president existed from 1876 to 1889. The site has a large compound which can be approximated to about 50 acres of land. Within the site, there is a botanical garden, a gift shop, a plantation residence, Jefferson Davis presidential library and Museum. There is also a confederate cemetery that is historic and includes an unknown confederate soldier tomb. There are many large trees that seem to have been in ...

Today, the Sri Vijaya Empire personifies the glory and pride of the proud past of the Malay people. But an astonishing fact is that this kingdom was virtually unknown for the past few centuries, and was erased not just from the history books but also from the memories of the Malay people till the year 1918. The Sri Vijaya Empire was located in Palembang and Bukit Seguntang functioned as its capital. The historical evidence collected so far indicates that the kingdom was powerful, and served as an important Buddhist development centre between the centuries of ...

Conflicts are a natural part of the collective human experience. Wherever there is the involvement of choices, conflicts are bound to happen. In the current competitive world, opinion and views are highly divided and hence conflicts are inevitable (Deutsch & Coleman, 2000). In our efforts to work cooperatively and collaboratively with one another, we often have differing opinions about how best to accomplish our common goals. Conflicts in the workplace are common and they occur as result of varying personalities and perspectives. Employer and employee conflicts are the most common types of conflicts in the workplace. Conflicts most of the times ...

Abnormal psychology deals with unusual patterns of thought and behavior that are considered as a mental disorder. Scholars and prominent academicians have attempted to explain the psychological and biological causes of mental disorders. Abnormal psychology can be classified as normal, abnormal and supernormal. Clinical psychology and psychopathology are some of the branches of medicine that deal with abnormal psychology. It is a complete departure from the traditional and archaic methods of diagnosing and treating mental disorders. A case in point for these treatment methods was the trephining method. Stone Age physicians believed that evil spirits caused mental disorders. They drilled a hole ...

Introduction

Before the discovery of Atget’s photography, photographs were not known as a form of documentary. Eugene Atget, who was an only child and an orphan from the age of five, started photography as a profession when he was forty years old. This is after he had been a sailor and an actor. Atget’s work was not recognised until later by an American called Man Ray who introduced his work to the world thus making it popular and famous. Eugene Atget is known as the founder of modern photography and street photography. This is because his focus was on the pre-French ...

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We are in an age where technology is rapidly advancing all around us. It is impossible to turn our heads without seeing a new piece of technological handy-work, designed to make our lives easier. Soon, it will be able to infiltrate our minds, removing memories we no longer wish to carry with us. The question is should we allow this type of technology to exist? Should we allow it into our lives? The answer is an absolute yes. Erasing bad memories would make illnesses such as depression and PTSD, while making people happier. It would make life livable, while freeing ...

The mainstream media (consisting of films, TV and print) shapes the manner in which people form their self-concept and interact with others. The media also helps to share the stories of people’s culture, and what people of other cultures can expect from them. However, many are the cases whereby the mainstream media helps to propagate some stereotypes. Stereotypes are unfounded beliefs, and the mainstream media helps to strengthen those beliefs through the use of characters performing stereotypical roles. A good case is the portrayal of Asian Americans in film and print media. The mainstream media still conveys the ...

Data storage dates all the way back to the beginning of the digital age when data was stored on tapes and punch cards. Back then, the amount of data was smaller and that is why punch cards were commonly used. Over time, the use of magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, optical disks, flash RAM and solid state drives (SSD) began to be used. Magnetic tapes are plastic tapes coated with iron oxide used in magnetic recording and storage of data and digital information. They are non-volatile memory as they can store information even if they are not constantly supported with ...

Introduction

Women are now taking the roles of men and some men are becoming women in the way they act. It has been claimed that the women gender is endangered as women are now becoming brave and taking on the tasks that have been done by men in the past. The concept therefore means that women are abandoning their roles as women and now taking on the roles of men. There has been trans movement where women want to be taken to hold the same positions as males. This shows that women have been in the struggle to gain a higher ...

I. Case Summary

On May 1, 2001, a 24-year-old intern named Chandra Levy vanished without a trace. Her case became a sensational one because her boyfriend, a promising and married US congressman was suspected initially to have something to do with her disappearance. Fifty-two-year-old Rep. Gary Condit, who like Levy hailed from Modesto California, had become a subject of police investigation and their prime suspect when authorities learned of his affair with Chandra.

Despite Condit's denial of having to do with her disappearance and his cooperation with the investigation, police bore down on him and considered him its prime suspect – searching his apartment (where Chandra would ...

Introduction

A computer hard drive also known as a hard disc is a storage device that is used to record and read data which is represented by a collection of magnetized particles on some spinning platters. A hard drive can also be referred to as the long-term memory of a computer that preserves data programs and the computer’s operating system. The internal components of a hard drive cannot be easily seen as it is usually not left exposed especially when the hard drive is in operation. There are about four platters in a hard drive that can be visible when one opens up the computer ...