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Seven Sayings from Calvary Father Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do (Luke 23:24) These words can be heard from the man whose last day were absolutely awful. But this words are nothing more than words of God who does love his kids. After all pain and tariffing deeds that that people had done to Jesus, he still proclaiming love ad salvation to everyone. He is asking for forgiveness for people who want to murder him. Is this word to direct forgiveness? Or those are words with permission to give them saving spirit, into their hearts? We ...

ACTIVIES: Abnormal Psychology. Please complete all activities and include these with your final submission.

In order that you can answer the essay on this area you will need to structure your introduction. First of all you could look up the definitions of abnormality and normality in the dictionary. Write these here:

Normality

Normality is the state that is characterized with normal behaviours that in turn opposed the factors such as deviance or unusual conditions. The normal behaviour is consistent when aligned with other behavioural practices of that individual .

Reference:

American Psychiatric Association, 2013. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5®). ...

More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson pointed out that education is the key to “prepar[ing] citizens to participate effectively and intelligently in our open political system if we are to preserve freedom and independence” (Wisconsin v. Yoder 221). Today, all children are entitled to a free public education, regardless of race, religion, color, or creed. While education is not considered a fundamental constitutional right, most states have statutes guaranteeing to every child access to an education. The benefits of an education are undeniable, and few persons will have any chance at success without attaining at least a ...

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Abstract

Nothing offends a society and community’s sense of morals and safety than instances where the most vulnerable of the community are subjected to brutal and crimes that define reason. Various agencies played significant parts in the perception of sexual felons as brutal, unfeeling and callous “brutes” out for the satisfaction of their own perverted carnal pleasures. However, research shows that what the media and other agencies reported tend to skew a proper study and comprehension of the proper understanding of what actually comprises sexual deviance. In addition, the public’s understanding of sexual felony is mainly founded ...

Abstract

Informational technologies have developed so rapidly, that there was no way not to affect the ways of teaching and learning. This paper gives brief information about the concept of use of technologies in education, as well as how they can help with the biggest problem of education at our time. The paper describes the basic formats of e-learning, their advantages and differences. As plagiarism is considered as crime nowadays, the paper includes the information about why this problem is so important and what are the ways of preventing it. (Keywords: e-learning, Informational Technologies, plagiarism,)

Introduction

Modern scientific literature pays special ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is comprehensive federal legislation that prohibits discrimination against persons that have a disability of impairment (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990). The ADA was the culmination of years of effort from disability and civil rights advocates (Concannon 90). The ADA has made great strives in combating discrimination against those with disabilities. Sharing many qualities with racial discrimination, disability discrimination is now a protected class under the ADA. The history of the ADA has many commonalities with race discrimination. Not until approximately 60 years ago was racial discrimination completely outlawed in the ...

Introduction

Not always, the law sufficiently regulates what is right and what is wrong (Chadwick, 1998). To guide the decision-makers on the most socially desirable forms of conduct the academic community has developed various ethical outlooks (Frey & Wellman, 2003). The ethical science have three primary dimensions – meta-ethics, which describe the supra foundations of ethical thinking and provide conceptual understanding of the right and the wrong (LaFollette, 2002). The second area is normative ethics, which theoretically explains, which forms of ethical judgements exist and how do they diverge from each other. The last field is applied ethics, which amplifies practical peculiarities ...

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1. Introduction The tourism and hospitality industry has been growing at a tremendous pace over the past few decades and this service sector has become one of the major contributors to the global GDP. In an attempt to take advantages of this magnificent growth of the tourism and hospitality industry, nations are taking vehement efforts to make their territories hot tourist destinations. Obviously, resorts and restaurants constitute a key segment of the hospitality industry. This report will analyze resorts and restaurants operating in Las Vegas, United States, giving particular focus to their unique product/service offerings and ...

Research question formulation

Charter school was one of the main component of the ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ which was created in 2002 (Shober, 2006). These schools serve as an alternative education and are managed independently of the public school system of its location (Shober, 2006). They are non- profit with there main aim being to enable all students with rights to education. Charter school legislation was first adopted in Minnesota in the year 1991. Currently, Minnesota has registered 165 charter schools which serve more than 41,000 students. Since then many states have adopted the charter school Act and as it ...

Business Decision-making Plan:

Introduction: Decision making is an important aspect toward the survival and success of any business. Decisions that are entrenched on a substantial body of facts and logical reasoning can steer the company into long-lasting prosperity (Walden, 2014). However, decisions that are made based on inadequate logic, emotionalism, and imperfect information can drastically bring the business down and fail in its operation. Bad decisions have been the prime contributors to the decline and fall of vast, capital-intensive companies over time. All entrepreneurs realize the painful demand and necessity of choice, which is often inevitable.

In the management of the Newman ...

Abstract

This paper will discuss the emergence of national security policies and laws in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to these attacks, there was relatively little coordination between different government agencies and branches with regards to counterterrorism. But the 9/11 attacks led to significant changes. All three government branches are highly involved in national security measures and interests. Congress responded by passing very important statutes to augment the government’s authority to conduct and investigate terrorist threats and apprehend suspects. These statutes reflect the practical difficulties of apprehending and prosecuting terrorists. Terrorism is unique in that if ...

This paper will focus on The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It will address the purpose, history, and possible future implications for the act. It will also address legislation that has occurred since the enactment, consequences for employees and employers, and the opinion as to its fairness. Several laws were passed prior to the ADA banning discrimination. Laws prohibiting employment discrimination against minorities, gender, age, and religious persuasion, had been enacted, but none had specifically addressed those with disabilities. The ADA was first signed into law in on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. (U.S. Department of ...

Mixdeinbrot

Heutzutage wird gesundes Leben immer mehr populär. Einer der wichtigsten Bestandteile des gesunden Lebensstils ist Ernährung. Die Kunden bevorzugen die traditionellen Produkte, die ihnen gesund zu bleiben helfen, statt Nahrungsergänzungsmittel. Das Ziel dieses Berichts ist es, eine Wettbewerbs- und Konkurrenzanalyse des Angebots von Mixdeinbrot zu erstellen. Sowohl Mixdeinbrot als auch Brotliebling bieten eine Vielzahl von verschiedenen Bio-Brotbackmischungen für ihre Kunden. Unter den auf dem Markt bestehenden Unternehmen, die Brot produzieren, wurde Brotliebling als Hauptkonkurrent angesehen, und deshalb wurde der Vergleich zwischen diesen beiden Unternehmen abgeschlossen. Zunächst lassen Sie uns die Angebote von Mixdeinbrot und ...

Introduction

It is challenging to fathom exactly what drives people towards accomplishment in life, but there are some reasons to believe that both external and internal forces play significance roles in motivation. “Motivation is the particular word commonly used to describe the situation of self-determination” (Deci & Ryan, 2014). The theory of motivation developed by Deci and Ryan (2014), suggest that individuals are necessarily driven by the need to grow to gain personal fulfillment. However, where does that motivation stems from? Deci and Ryan (2014) explain that “self-determination influences people towards accomplishing such tasks." First, people's activities and efforts are usually ...

Introduction

The developmental psychological is the study of changes that occur in the bodies of human beings during their lifetime and mainly deal on the part of the children and the infants. The premature birth and the development of ethnicity identity are part of the fields studied in science and fall over the course of development psychology.

Development of ethnic identity

Reason for choosing the topic I have chosen the topic of identity because it relates to the behavior and thinking which is observed in the society. Development of social identity is a significant problem as enables one to understand the identity as related ...

Reflection

Jobs and businesses are some of the most important things from the standpoint of an individual as it is all about to analyze the importance of a single aspect. Inevitably there are certain skills are required to do the job in particular, and things should be completed and molded in a special way from which different provisions could have been taken into consideration. There are certain jobs that require special consideration of people in particular as so different skills, as well. The job of an accountant is not an easy job as it is required to focus on the accounts of ...

Final Assignment

Both Bridges and Switches work on the data link layer of the OSI Model. However, switches are more advanced. Discuss how a switch has an advantage over a bridge in a network then elaborate more on the technology implemented in switches to control broadcast domains A bridge is a two interfaces device that creates two collision domains. This is because it forwards the traffic received from one interface only to the interface where layer two devices is connected (Olenewa, 2014). Bridges serves the main function of reading the destination of MAC address to forward the traffic only to the interface where it ...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary

Over the past few years, there has been a notable increase in the number of car accidents on our road leading to an increase in Emergency cases in the hospitals. The emergency section of the hospital has proven to be a little bit small for these increased cases; as it was not designed to suit that high number of patients at once. With this in mind, the purpose of the project would be to create a wing that would be specifically designed to handle such cases. This will result in effective health care delivery to the patients and utilization ...

- Introduction to Relevant Literature

This chapter reviews the literature sources which provide relevant information and data for analyzing the chosen topic of applying the marketing mix in three chosen countries on the examples of three companies: Blizzard Entertainment (US), Rockstar North (UK) and Tencent (China). The main area for the collection of academic sources was marketing, as it is directly connected with the topic. Due to the reason that marketing in computer games is not extensively researched, I reviewed the literature on marketing, game industry and some sources about the three chosen ...

The name Steve Jobs symbolizes advancement in technology and the greatest achievements in innovation and business management. Born on the 24th of February 1955 at Green Bay, Wisconsin, Steven Paul Jobs lived for 56 years and presented the characteristics of a genius all his life (Hunter 6). He was the man behind one of the world’s most successful electronics, computers and, software company, Apple Inc. which was initially called Apple Computer, Inc. He was also in the founding and leadership of the famous computer animation studio; Pixar as well as NeXT Computers (Imbimbo 90-94).

In terms of success, ...

Facts: Rajesh, who is a student in the university, works part-time as a delivery man for Yum Yum Pizzas. He is working in shift with strict start but the finish times are unspecified. While working he wears the uniform of Yum Yum Pizzas – a T-shirt and a cap. He was provided with special heat keeping panniers for the pizzas to stay hot. He used them on his own bicycle with the help of which he delivered the pizzas. Rajesh was paid a flat fee for every delivery. One evening, caring out his subsequent delivery, Rajesh performs a detour to the nearest LiquorMart store to buy ...

Context of Gender in Corporate World

For a long time, gender equality has always engrossed and troubled the corporate world. Gender equality efforts aims at eradicating the barriers of stereotypes and prejudices to enable both sexes equally contribute and benefit from social, economic, political, and cultural developments in the society. In the past, the society had a misconception on the ability of women to balance work and domestic roles (Benshoff and Sean 32). However, this has changed in the wake 21 century many women have dedicated themselves to the growth and success of various corporations. The corporate has felt the presence of women and their contribution as ...

E-commerce and business opportunities

Electronic commerce involves conducting business with computers and data communications. It focuses on the use of transaction Medias such as telecommunication, network and mostly depending on internet (Costa, 2001). Online marketing allows internet retailers to present their products, market to the willing and potential customers that may otherwise be difficult to acquire and meet. The examples of the leading company, on the services of the electronic commerce, are Amazon and eBay companies. They deliver to shoppers who bypass the search engines through advertising and provision of the marketplace.

In the electronic marketing, has taken over the marketing and ...

The History of the Evolution of the Cell Phone

Goggin, Gerard. Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. Routledge, 2012. Print.

As one of the secondary sources, this book offers viable information of the history of the cell phone which happens to be part of the research. According to Goggin, the cell phone has been in development for about fifty years(23).This book is going to be very resourceful as it offers the social and cultural dimensions that were created with its introduction. Since the research is majorly concerned with the social effects of the cell phone, the book will come in very handy in ...

Apollodorus, and Robin Hard. The Library of Greek Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, UK, 1997. Print.

This is a unique book showing the guide of the Greek mythology as from the origin of the Universe to the Trojan War. This book has been used as a source book by many famous classical writers due to its large and reliable history. The book gives a detailed story of each of the families of the Greek heroic methodology. These stories come with the adventures such heroes experiences highlighting the areas to which significance is needed. The book is considered to be the only ...

ABSTRACT

This article aims at illustrating the two types and effects of the cancer treatment techniques. Several methods are discussed and analyzed by defining them and showing their impacts on the patient. The article goes further to compare and contrasts the various methods that have been put in practice to treat cancer in an effort to determine the best. Radiotherapy alone, radiotherapy with chemotherapy, 3D CRT and IMRT are some of the discussed techniques in the article. Data was collected among the cancer sick patients who underwent different treatments. The patients were put under different conditions in regard to treatment ...

Bahdi, Reem, and Richard Marcuse. Racial Profiling. Canada: British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), 2010. Web.

Bahdi and Marcuse emphasized in their volume that racial profiling remains a problem in Canada, as with other jurisdictions worldwide. Commentators and law enforcement officials alike reject the practice of racial profiling; the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) emphasized its harmfulness when used in resolving criminal and national security issues.

Hahn, Kathy. Racial Profiling. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Print.

Racial profiling is the key concern of Kathy Hahn in presenting the At Issue series of her volume, which contains a holistic variety of primary and secondary sources containing insights from academic journals, statements from political figures, eyewitness accounts, organizational findings and the like.

Hirschmann, Kris. Racial Profiling. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Print.

Hirschmann explored a wide range of areas ...

Business or economic globalization is the global integration of markets. In the past century this has been one of the major global megatrends as economies of the world battle it out to have a share in the lucrative global business arena. Asia has not been left behind in this rush. It has taken several domestic and international steps meant to boost its businesses with foreign economies on a global scale. Trade agreements and improvements on the quality of products are some of the steps that Asia has taken to boost its presence in the global business arena. However, Asia has experienced ...

(BMW ) Bayerische Motoren Werke is a German automobile engine, and motorcycle manufacturing company founded in 1916.it is a global producer of high-class vehicles. BMW has become extremely successful following its exclusive innovation in production of automobiles, as well as promotion of the brand. One of the main competitors is Audi Company, which is also a manufacturer of equally competitive luxury vehicles. Audi was founded in 1932, where it traded as FWB and it was founded in Germany.

Audi is a result of merging of four companies that operated in Germany as car manufacturers. This is represented by the four circles label with each ...

Business and social interaction build on daily activities of all the individuals. The manner in which we express ourselves and transfer the information to other people has significant influence on our social wellbeing. Professional and business surroundings are extremely demanding in regards to individual ability to manage interpersonal relationships. Communication process, in this situation has very wide meaning and can be summarized as the instrument of using all the available resources to transfer information, persuade, inspire and connect individuals in a given business context (Means and Rankin, 2009). With that in mind, there is a strong relationship between communication and ethics. Communication ...

Introduction

The teachings from the class are very essential in understanding the various aspects of life. In the Republic of Canada, people face several challenges that make their lives difficult. Issues such as social discrimination and racial segregation have been reported to be dominant, further affecting the unity of the state negatively. Whenever peace and unity in the society is achieved, people tend to live happily. However, it has become difficult to achieve this situation where all human beings are treated equally. Individuals have basic differences that make it difficult for them to be freely incorporated into the society. The ...

Staging of kidney disease in patients involves assigning the stage of the disease based on the level to which the kidney of the patient in question is infected. Chronic kidney disease is defined as either kidney damage or GFR less than 60ml/min//1.73m squared for three months or more. Staging is important because it makes the work of the medical practitioners easy in terms of patient treatment (Hamm, 2010). As a result of staging, medical practitioners are in a better position of knowing the exact patients with the most advanced level of kidney infection with relative ease. This makes it very efficient ...

Introduction and Thesis

- The topic on standardized tests occurs as one of the most equivocal topics that have generated a controversial debate across various settings all around the world. - Speaking of standardized tests, this connotes examinations that are structured to assess the academic performance of a student (Harris et al., 2011). The controversy is surrounding this topic aligns with the fact that there exists varying views on the use of a standardized test as a measure of students’ academic progress. - Those in support for the use of standardized tests often argue that these tests offer a comprehensive platform that ...

Introduction

A company’s organizational structure constitutes of activities such as task allocation, coordination and supervision. These tasks are directed towards the achievement of the organization’s goals. An organization structure acts as the perspective through which individuals can see the organization and its relationship to the environment. (Dicksee, 1980) Company’s structure will thus determine its mode of operation and overall performance. The structure allows the allocation of tasks and responsibilities to different entities such as the branch, department, workgroup or individual. The organizational structure affects the company by providing the foundations for standard operating procedures and routines. It ...

A theoretical approach is proposed in order to link the strong environmental management to the improved supposed future financial performance as examined by the stock market performance. Therefore, the linkage to the firm’s performance is tested empirically with the help of a financial event methodology as well as the archival data of the firm-level environmental and financial performance. This enabled the researcher to measure the positive returns for the strong environmental management as directed by the environmental performance award. It was found out that the linkage between the environmental management and the financial performance may be useful to both practitioners and ...

A few years ago, sharing services between websites was absolutely impossible. There where no places on the web with the function of sharing information due to security reasons. Today due to innovation in assembly, sharing services has been implemented and people use this opportunity every day.

Nowadays, innovation in assembly made life much easier with websites supporting sharing services in multiple ways. “When commodity components are abundant, you can create value simply by assembling them in novel or effective ways” (Tim O’Reilly). Combining web 2.0 platforms can be called Mashup as long as the platforms are communicating ...

Annotated referencing

Hollis, N. (2013). The meaningful brand: how strong brands make more money. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. The book tries to identify how the brand of the product has been used by the marketers to unlock the financial development and growth in value. The meaningful and differentiated strategy has been the order of the current market hence making it a hypercompetitive. The book tries to point out the best strategies employed to cater and in fetching high prices. Brands of the products are differentiated in a manner of finding the appropriate large market share. This is in the objective of getting ...

1. This books at the basic norm in the office and how people behave in the office . It follows the character of Bartleby and all his workmates. Societal norms are what the author looks at when he takes us through the working a New York law office . The office has people who have been thee working for a longtime. The fact that they are long serving shows that they follow the ways things operate in the society.

The fact that Bartleby being a new lawyer had an impeccable record showed that it was not a must for you to follow society norm to ...

Larry Page is one of the icons in the technology industry. He is well known for creation of Google Company, and nurturing it to one of the largest and profitable companies in the world today. His interest in the field of information technology is no surprise, having born in a family of computer scientists. Larry’s Father, Carl Page, was among the first few individuals to earn a Ph. D in computer science, during the formative years of this field (White, 2007). His mother was a computer scientist as well. Therefore, he was exposed to computers from a very young age, something that ...

The White Aryan Resistance

The White Aryan Resistance was a Neo-Nazi racist extremist movement that was formed in 1983 and headed by Tom Metzger at Warsaw in Indiana.Its main area of operation was in the States of California, Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, and Washington. It is a racist skin head gang. However, some skin head gangs are non-racist (Leet, Rush, & Smith, 2000). The formation of this group was motivated by the idea that whites belong to a superior race to those of nonwhites (Christensen, 1994). As askin head gang, membership comprises mainly of young people aged between 13 to 25 years. Members of the White Aryan ...

An Information System comprises of software, hardware, individuals, procedures and data that are related and jointly work together to come up with reliable information. A lot of States have implemented the use of management information systems to create a platform where parents can interact with teachers as well as school administrators. Parents thus get access their children’s educational progress and provide them with education related information concerning the state. This research will narrow down to The State of Alabama and the management of its educational information systems.

Information Systems have several functions that lead to proper functionality. The first ...

Part 1

Ethic in business is a crucial thing. In these paper Halliburton company is said to have been involved in corruption scandals shall be evaluated. At the same time the Wal-Mart company that has been exploiting people shall be evaluated from different perspectives as outlined.

Utilitarianism takes two dimensions, the act utilitarianism and the rule utilitarianism. The act utilitarianism has it that consequences of a single act be measured depending on how right or wrong the course of action was. The basic rule in this case is exercising the probable benefit. In this case the point of reference in every action that ...

Thesis Abstract

In every society, extra marital affairs have actually been in existence from the time immemorial. Infidelity is maybe as old as the marriage. In the sophiscated western societies these affairs have become a fashion and are regarded as an extra qualification to enhance one’s self esteem to argue that he or she owns a ‘lover on the side.’ Nevertheless, ethically and morally, it is sinful or wrong to have such affairs, the truth remains that a large number of wives and husbands in the contemporary society fall prey to this unlucky serpent where many families breakdown and mostly finish up ...

This work is an annotated bibliography for a research study on the topic “impoverished first Nations women in Canada”. Notably, for the proposed research, First Nations will be used to refer to Aboriginal peoples of Canada. In compiling this work, I used a general selection criteria drawing from a single text source, a Website and three peer-reviewed academic journal articles. The source drawn from text will be presented first, followed by the Web source and finally three peer-reviewed sources. The paper gives a succinct presentation of the main arguments in the given sources, and a critical assessment on the main points as well as ...

Advancing in the field of academics is one of the achievements that many scholars look forward to accomplishing. I am a scholar who is interested in furthering my education in the Joint MS Information Technology and Management /MBA Program at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). I know that venturing into a new environment always results in various challenges. As such, I anticipate some emotional, social and academic challenges. The academic challenges such as coping with the new teaching methods used by the professors, conceptualizing the various types of assessment procedures, working myself round the volume and pace of the workload, ...

- Introduction

This paper is a financial analysis of General Electric (GE) Company. GE is a multinational conglomerate company incorporated in the New York, United States. The four main segments of the company include; capital finance, technology, consumer & industrial, and energy. There are many products and services the company offers but within the named categories. GE is ranked among the top ten largest firms in the US in terms of gross revenue. The 2011 annual reports of GE reported a total asset base of $ 717,242 million and $ 66,875 million in revenue.

GE has been selected as a point because of the diversity ...

"Steroids used in Sports! " Steroids.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013. .

The most commonly used steroids in sports are anabolic in nature. Anabolic steroids are derived from testosterone. In the website, it is stated that anabolic steroids are almost resemble androgenic hormones. Usually the need for steroid in sports is related to the desperate need for sports men and women to enhance their performance though increasing their weight, muscles, speed and endurance. Notably there are several types of steroids commonly used in sports and importance of this website with regard to the completion of the final research paper can be derived from the fact that the websites ...

Microsoft Corporation. (1992). Getting started with Microsoft Windows: For the Microsoft Windows operating system: Microsoft Windows version 3.1. S.l.: Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft version 3.1 was released in April 1992. It was an improvement of the Windows 3.0 that had been released previously. The OS was also compatible with all other Microsoft operating systems that had been released before. In addition, it allowed for desktop publishing as well as allowing 32-bit disks. It also had multimedia capabilities that included video and audio file support. It required a minimum of an Intel 80286 processor and 1MB of RAM to run.

Flynn, M., ...

Introduction

L’Oreal being the market leader in the cosmetic industry consists of 27 international brands with operations in 130 countries (L’Oreal, 2011). In the year 2011, the company recorded sale of 20.3 billion Euros (L’Oreal, 2011).

This assignment would consider both the internal and external environment and would help to identify the affect of both the environment on L’Oreal’ ...

Monitoring systems for possible risks is a major move towards risk prevention and recovery in most sensitive departments. It helps in avoiding serious injuries that may face the system if the concerned risk is not dealt with earlier in time. This paper seeks to discuss the aspect of continuous monitoring in the fire and security alarm management system of Alcon, an information technology based company (Natan, 2005).

Continuous monitoring as a security measure is defined as a means through which the awareness of the safety of an information system is made possible, noting its possible threats and seeking for possible ways of ...

It is fair to say that many of the citizens throughout the world, especially the developed nations, live as if there is an endless amount of natural resources to keep providing the world with everything we want. There is a very big desire for most people to want to buy more, have more, and do more. This happens even if the individual is unable to afford certain items; they still find a way to purchase what they want for the status quo part of it. Even if the citizens of planet Earth had the money to keep buying more new items, ...

Question one

The Department of Veterans Affairs is FIPS 200 complaints for several reasons. First, the organization has adhered to security measures and standards as set by the FIPS 200. The department has ensured that its information system is only accessed by the authorized users only. Only authorized personnel, devices, processes and functions are able to access the information system of the department. Secondly, it has ensured that all the managers, staffs and other authorized users are aware of the potential risks that may arise from their interaction with the system.

Question two

One of the weak areas is the inability of the ...

In a quantitative research design for my problem statement, Arabic language instruction intervention will be implemented in an experimental group taking a 24 week course at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, California. A control group with no intervention methods will also be studied at the same time. Information would be recorded via test scores at the end of the course; all participants would take the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), and the mean scores for both groups would be compared to determine whether the hypothesis (that the instructional methodologies in question can provide better oral ...

Qualitative research is often divided into either experimental or quasi-experimental research. Experimental research typically involves a control group and an experimental group performing an action and a variation of an action, respectively, in order to gauge the differences in results that should occur. A quasi-experimental design is an experiment along the same lines, but there are some unique differences that set it apart. In this paper, the differences between experimental and quasi-experimental research will be examined (Cozby, 2008).

Experimental research is strong in internal validity - it allows for X to lead to Y, because evidence is provided for this proposition, setting ...

In a case study, an individual person, school, business, or organization is described in detail. This type of study shares a lot of characteristics with naturalistic observation, in that this individual is observed in its natural habitat, without any sort of intervention provided. Case studies tend to outline the history, symptoms, behaviors and reactions to treatment and situations in this individual. They offer insight into the life of the subject, and can offer an ethnographic detail of how people or organizations thrive or function given certain circumstances (Cozby, 2008).

What is a psychobiography?

Psychobiographies are a unique type of case study, wherein researchers will look at ...

According to Trochim, scaling is “the branch of measurement that involves the construction of a measure based on associating qualitative judgments about a construct with quantitative metric units” (p. 129). When performing social research, they are incredibly important factors to consider, as they contribute some of the most important data in a qualitative study, forming abstract concepts into measurable figures that can be compared and studied. In this essay, the value of scales in research will be examined.

When applying a scale to objects, there are several issues to consider. For one thing, there must be a reasonable way to measure distance and degree ...

Personification

One of the most commonly used devices in literature is personification. Personification refers to a figure of speech where an inanimate object, an idea, or an animal gains human qualities. In this device, the portrayal of non-human objects is in such a way that they appear to possess human like ability. This device is important since it connects the personified object with the reader. Personification has the ability to improve the vividness of description of non-human objects. Another advantage is that it can help the readers to understand non-human characters and to sympathize with, and react emotionally to non-human characters. In ...

At first glance it would seem that the Sons of Liberty were Colonial patriots who helped steer the course of history and inspire the American Revolution. However, some revisionist historians have reexamined the philosophy behind the organization as well as their tactics and offer a more negative viewpoint about their motives and their schemes. The question of whether the Sons of Liberty were a good or bad organization is depend on the rational one uses to examine the history. An ends means rational would indicate they that they were overall a good group because their furthered the patriotic cause. If the motivations ...

Chapter One

Despite the fact that in 1996, Supreme Court Justice Scalia called single-sex education in public schools “functionally dead,” Single-sex education has become an increasingly popular model in schools since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was passed. This federal legislation promoted innovative programs for states to implement that included single-sex classrooms and schools (U.S. Department of Education, 2006). Within any educational setting there were many factors that impacted student achievement that related to boys’ and girls’ physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs. A single-sex environment provided boys and girls with a setting that promoted specific gender related ...

Research Survey Plan

The survey design for this research proposal is intended to examine the effects of various methodologies and strategies to improve second language acquisition in the Defense Language Institute's (DLI) program for Arabic language instruction. A mixed method of inquiry was chosen for this design in order to compare both the actual test scores of students undertaking the program and the qualitative experiences the students went through as a result of the various interventions.

Twenty military students will be selected at random among those signed up to take the DLI course for 41 weeks. The only stratification that will occur ...