Essays on Ingenuity

Why aren't detectives more successful at solving crimes? Given their relative lack of success, how do you account for the "detective mystique"? In this essay, share some solutions to make solving crimes more effective. One of the major reasons why some detectives have difficulties in solving crime is because they lack the necessary skill, particularly the intellectual capacity to perform their job. One of the major challenges of law enforcement agents in solving crimes is the cleverness and cunning of criminals. Although there are many theories and procedures that aims to aid detectives in solving crimes, the successful ...

Chief executive officers (CEOs) are among the most important members of any business organization. CEOs plan and direct company policies to make a company more profitable for its shareholders. Their personality traits can directly influence the potential of the business, and affect how people working for the CEO interact with him/her to complete their jobs. Indeed, the leadership attributes of those at the top set the business culture that is projected to the world. Therefore, it is the duty of the CEO to maintain high standards of ethics, thought, and leadership; Wal-Mart’s CEO, Douglas McMillon, has done just ...

Analysis of a Panic of 1907

The world has a witnessed some global financial crisis. The most notable one is the great depression that had severe impacts on the economy of the world. Developing nations were adversely affected by the crisis that hit many free markets. Nevertheless, the 20th century was marked by a panic, which ensued on the Wall Street. The aftermath is that American economy and Europe was not spared either as well as the rest of the world. The main aim of this exposition is to analyze the book The Panic of 1907; lessons learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm by ...

The time is March 2004 and the place is Paraguay. It is there, where a group of hunter-gatherers, quite possibly one of the few willingly isolated societies in the planet, came running out of the forest in northern Paraguay, escaping from ranchers' earthmovers. The Gran Chaco forest, which means "hunting land" in the Quechua language, the language of the people, is a thinly inhabited, warm and semi-arid coastal natural area of the Río de la Plata basin, shared among Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where it is attached to the Pantanal region. This area is often called the Chaco ...

Private security is mostly associated with the modern age. However, the concept of private security dates back to over three hundred years ago. At the moment, private security occupies a central place in the security apparatus of the United States. Private security has been defined as an industry involved in the provision of the requisite personnel and equipment necessary for the prevention of loses occasioned by human error and emergencies, but with a view to making profits (Nalla, 2001). The major difference between private security system and the mainstream public security system usually availed by the government is that the former ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Dyslexia and Motivation When one thinks of a motivated individual, one often thinks of a stereotype. The individual is usually formally educated, sharply dressed, and on the fast track to an Ivy League university. They do not have any special needs that hold them back from their studies, because how could anybody with difficulties in math or reading ever succeed in the real world? Actually, individuals with difficulties in school sometimes end up being quite successful in the real world, particularly those with dyslexia. Dyslexic individuals are prone to thinking outside the box, being pushed harder by their teachers, making ...

Humans have contributed to the development of advanced systems and platforms in a number of ways. From the early inventor of locomotive engines to the inventor of open source software, technological evolution has taken many turns. In this process, remains the hacker who participates in hacker virtual communities to improve and come up with new things, normally in unconventional and unorthodox manner. A hacker is not always the one who brings systems to a standstill causing disruption and inefficiencies in the daily operations of individuals and organizations. Rather, they are computer programmers, designers and software developers who exhibit enhanced computer skills ...

The title of the “text” shown above is what I have chosen to analyze. The Effects of Social Media on Kids concerns the thesis that social media has offered to us nothing but better and faster way of communication, especially to kids/school aged children. The topic comes from my readings of different reputable online resources about social networking sites. The context in which it is usually experienced is over the internet. I chose to study the text because it has always been timely these days. The rhetorical concept/philosophy that I will be utilizing in my study of the text ...

“When we read Dickenswe are reading all sorts of other things at the same time—plot, character, moral dilemma, historical predicament, and so forth—but we can see all these in their full complexity only if we attend to the illuminating play of style” (Alter 1996). Indeed, Charles Dickens is a master of style and a versatile genius. He weaves magic with his words that takes the readers into a rapturous world of imagination. The power of his words and imagination manifested in his depiction of simple stories and building of characters make him one of the most popular English novelists of ...

Introduction to Business

The Global Economy/Business Thesis Statement: In order to succeed in the emerging business trends in the 21st century, the leaders of the 21st century should be able to adapt to the new configuration of attitudes and abilities to compete with the global needs of the market. The success of multinational firms and companies shall be dependent on their leaders’ ability to keep pace with the modern business challenges. The leadership in the 21st century is affected by factors such as geography, organizational level, and individual conditions. Perrin et al., (2013) stated that the new strategy of leadership ...

Aaron Ralston’s Story

Aaron Ralston's Story Aaron Ralston, a 27-year-old mountain sports fanatic from Colorado in the United States, found himself in dire straits* alone in a canyon* in the desert when a 500kg rock came crashing down the canyon to smash his right hand and trap it against the canyon wall. A terrible accident, but the situation was made all the more serious because on this occasion Aaron had failed to tell anyone where he was going. At the last minute the plans for a trip with his climbing partners had fallen through, and on the spur of the moment he decided to head ...

Hector St. John de Crevecœur, the author of Letters from an American Farmer, was born in Normandy, France in 1735; he lived and traveled throughout America from 1759 to 1780, when he returned to Europe (22). He and his wife spent the latter half of their time in America on a farm on Orange County, New York (22). Because of his travels and experience in America, he had an excellent idea about the many ways the immigrants to America from Europe were conducting life and business in contrast to what they had experienced before as poor, landless people across ...

Roman Aqueducts: Synthesis of Form and Function

Rome’s aqueducts have long been a subject of debate over what constitutes architecture and what amounts to engineering. Howard Crosby Butler’s article on aqueducts as monuments examines the nature of architecture itself. Butler writes that “architecture is distinctively the ‘art of design’ or of composition, and the term may be applied to structures which, though they may have no claim to beauty of detail, give evidencethat their builders had a care for appearances, andan effect of dignity”1 While aqueduct design may indeed belong in the category of form versus function, there are those who have insisted that Rome’ ...