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Pokémon Go- Augmented Reality versus Virtual Reality In the recent years, technological innovations have greatly altered the way consumers use their mobile phone and the applications on them. The most recent trend in applications has been that of Pokémon Go- a mobile game which has attracted millions of people in the world. The game is based on the concept of finding virtual creatures which are located at areas called PokeStops (Gerber, 2016). The PokeStops are present on real-life maps, and it is a real-time experience of going to various locations and finding these creatures. The Pokedex is ...

There have been a lot of documented events wherein large scale multinational corporations have been successfully victimized by cyber security and information system attacks. It is surprising and frightening at the same time that even those corporations are being targeted despite the fact that they are the ones that are very much capable of setting up formidable information system defenses against malicious entities. In the case of Sony, one of the latest victims of cyber security breaches, their latest announcement suggests that they are investing $15 Million for a more formidable cyber security defense. Evidently, their previous budgets were ...

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Adolescence is a developmental period of individuals aged 13-19, which has its own peculiarities to distinguish between childhood and adulthood. Adolescents’ brain is not fully matured and is still subject to rapid development, which explains specific changes in youths’ reflecting and behavior. Spear (2013) supports this idea by claiming that “adolescent-typical ways of thinking and behaving appear in part neurobiologically based” (p. 11). In this regard youths’ social life relies on their perception of self-identity formed through family relations and peer networks in school and out of school. ...

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In ancient times, states were known for their military power. As a result many nation invested a lot in the military in terms of funds and time. The military was considered to be something powerful to an extent that it was incorporated into the cultures of their respective nations. This paper looks at the comparison of two such militaries, that is, the Spartan and the roman militaries. It achieves this by looking at several aspects that depicts how the set-up of the armies were organized. These two cities were considered to be stable during their time and they had ...

Japan is a country full of ancient secrets and wonders. Weapons from ancient times have been carried on to this day. When we go back in the days the first thing that we will probably think of is the famous Japanese samurai warriors. There were also others like warrior monks, ninja’s and ruffians. All of these were great warriors of ancient Japan that to this day bring a history of amazing weapons such as swords, spears, the art of archery and many other items and techniques used then and made as well as mastered to this day. Japanese ...

Milton's Satan is perhaps one of the most hotly discussed literary characters, as generations of critics over the last three hundred years have kept the battle over the issue of the primacy of Satan in Paradise Lost not only alive but also enduringly animated. It appears as if every generation has found its own reading and interpretation of this highly complex character created by Milton. The critical pendulum swings from one extreme to another: While some hail Satan as the hero of the epic, some find him a lowly creature worse than a worm (Vijayasree, 68). Milton presents Satan ...

Compare and contrast Achilles in Dante’s Inferno and Homer’s Iliad

Compare and contrast Achilles in Dante’s Inferno and Homer’s Iliad

Introduction

Dante Alighieri in his legendary text, Inferno, believes that anyone who committed unacceptable deeds would be damned eternally among the nine circles of Hell. Without a doubt, people like Achilles were to be found in these circles. Specifically, Achilles existed in Hell’s second circle. He qualified for this circle by being not only extremely selfish but lacking self-control, having raging passions and betraying his country at times. These descriptions paint Achilles largely in weakness. His description of Hell focuses mainly on his failings rather than his ...

Tuatha De Danann

According to legend the Tuatha De Danann were the rulers of Ireland’s fifth age. They consisted of two groups. The gods and the humans. The humans worked the land, while the gods were the artisans. When they arrived they burnt their ships to represent their determination in staying in their new land. They defeated the Fir Bolgs, who were the rulers during Ireland’s fourth age. Nuada king of the Tuatha lost his arm in the battle and had to give up his power. This is because they believed that a person could not be king unless he ...

Initial Patient Assessment

Overview The patient is 67-year-old Mrs. Finch.

She lives with her husband in their marital home.

Recently, she suffered a CVA and had been in the hospital’s rehabilitation ward recovering from her latest episode. Before her CVA, Mrs. Finch had a healthy and active lifestyle.

However, her condition has brought with it numerous other complications including a chest infection.

She is also having difficulty staying mobile due to residual weakness on her left side. She has had a dark wound on her heel for about a week now. This wound keeps deteriorating into the present wound. A series of CVA specific issues such as limited mobility, the risk for infection and reduced nutrition hinders Mrs. Finch’s capacity to heal. Wound ...

Introduction

Parthenon's symmetrical and idealistic architecture is the result of the continuous changes of styles and ideologies in the past (see fig. 1); despite the ruined state in the modern age, Parthenon temple still continues to be the role model for all architects throughout the world. The role of the Parthenon was not only limited for priests’ rituals and to appease the deities of the Olympus. Historically, the Parthenon itself was the center of the commercial and civic activity of the ancient Greeks since many people visited the temple to worship to their Gods and this was also the perfect ...

Honore Daumier was one of the prolific French artists in the 19th century because he specialized in various media including lithography, oil painting, and caricaturing. He was a staunch political activist who criticized the opulent lifestyles of the French royalty who lived in luxury while the majority of the French people lived in extreme poverty. From the website of the National Gallery of London, two independent biographies made by Eitner and Lindsay were published for the public’s awareness about this great artist. To start, Honore Daumier was born in Marseilles in 1808. The 19th century period in which ...

Introduction

This paper entails an in-depth and critical review of two organizational theory perspectives and how they relate with the contemporary environment within the sphere of information technology. This review and analysis will be undertaken on the basis of the philosophical approaches of ontology and epistemology with the intention of evaluating how these perspectives have contributed to a different understanding and application of information technology within modern-day business organizations and entities. The comparison of the theoretical characteristics of these perspectives with their subsequent practical application within the said organizations will be undertaken in this paper with the intention of determining ...

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION The concept of social marketing has been a significant force driving the market, particular in such 21th century that is market by the developed technology. As part of its characteristic, social marketing is based on the relevant connection that is established among the targeted group in the market (Gates, Copeland, Stevenson, & Dillon, 2007, p.143). Indeed, selling of behaviors, ideas, and attitudes is currently considered as the key principles of social marketing perspective. Social forces can generally be clarified into three forms: Obedience, Compliance and Conformity in which social norm factor is the key drivers for young ...

Literature Review

Theoretically, it is believed that wars including World War I and World War II have led to the development of technology. Warfare has made it possible for nations to test and implement new technologies. Humans have a history of creating weapon that date back to years before world war. According to Harrington (2009), technological weapons were first noticed in the 14th century. During this Century, most weapons were gunpowder and innovators were thinking of creating better weapons. In World War 1, poison gas was also employed, but the results were shocking leading to its ban. Woods and Woods (2011) ...

Women and gender studies are closely connected with such an important topic as teenage pregnancy. Despite the fact that the number of teenage pregnancies each year significantly reduces, still there are a lot of cases of adolescence pregnancy. This topic is worth considering, because teenage pregnancy has a significant impact on the future women`s life. Therefore, this research study is about teen pregnancy and how it was analyzed in Chen et al. (2007) research study and articles from peer reviewed journals. The method of the current research is mixed, as it allows applying the advantages of a wide ...

The history recognizes the Vikings as one of the greatest warriors with the most advanced and developed weapons, armor and methods of war. The reputation of the Vikings states that these were one of the most brave, strong, technical and dangerous and this reputation is obviously supported by the various historic facts about their weapons and warfare, which will be described in the next paragraphs.

First it should be stated that the Vikings were the true sea masters, as their fleet has become one of the most famous through all the years and ages. Their famous wooden longships, well-known for ...

- Paleolithic cave paintings and the Neolithic Susa vessel have a common subject matter; they both illustrate the animals, hunting scenes and cuneiform writings. The Paleolithic art which was made during the old stone period has two styles: Franco-Cantabrian which was attributed to the Cro-Magnon man whose designs depict horses, bison and cattle for their art subjects. The Neolithic art on the other hand was a new art formed in the new stone period. The style of Neolithic art was portable art is characterized of its ability to be moved from one place to another either by humans or by environment. ...

Ancient Rome was one of the greatest country and empire that have been ever existed in the history. Started as the small village in Italy it became the biggest and most powerful Empire of antiquity. Borders of the Roman Empire stretching from the deserts of Africa on the South to the Northern England and from Spain on the West to Euphrates on the East. However, it would be all impossible without Roman army, which conquered dozens of nations and brought a glory to Rome. Roman army was in war campaigns all the time. Thus, it was the most experienced army ...

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Methodology.4 Literature review5 Importance of Network Safety to Business5 Attacks to Beware and Stay Alert to..6

Businesses Largely Preferred by Cyber Criminals.7

Damage and Fiscal Losses as a Reason to Consider Network Security worth Adopting10 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COMPANIES TO CONSIDER AND THAT IMMEDIATELY.12 REFERENCES14 Introductory Remarks Besides its heavily advertised advantage of connecting people, the internet does connect criminals to them. Recent decades have seen numerous internet-associated gadgets, systems, and services emerge like email, smartphones, computers, social media, websites, and cloud-based services actively applied in the business environment these days. Unfortunately to all, there have always been ...

My speech was about spear fishing. I talked about how one gets ready for the activity, stalks the prey and in the end gets to achieve the objective of the activity by spearing the fish. I could feel that I had achieved the objective of the whole speech since after giving the speech my fellow students clapped. Also, in the course of the speech, the silence in the classroom meant that the students were attentive which makes me conclude that they received the message. The introduction cannot be said to have attracted the attention of the students. There ...

A tall, lean man wrapped in a bright red cloth around his waist or slung on his shoulders holding a spear and with one leg off the ground hooked behind the other. In most cases, the man will be shown sporting long hair that has been tightly braided in an intricate style and which appears reddish! That is the image that comes to the minds of many people when the word Maasai is mentioned. Maasai is a nomadic community found in grasslands of Kenya and Tanzania. The community is famous for its retention of a strong culture that is built around nomadism (Saitoti, 1986). ...

Gallery 155 at the Metropolitan museum of Art showcases Athenian Art, mostly vases with black figures that depict scenes from Mythology and actual life in Athens. Also in display are helmets, vests and knives from 7th century BC. While the vases are descriptive with exquisite painting of scenes from mythology, the bronze artifacts are rather telling of the war they were used for. The helmets, the body vests and the knives, although old and rusty are in good shape and can tell the viewer about the size of the person who used it. The fact that they survived this ...

The word "homo,” the name of the biological genus to which human belongs is Latin for "human.” It was picked initially via Carolus Linnaeus in his grouping framework. The saying "human" is from the Latin humanus, the descriptive manifestation of homo. The Latin "homo" infers from the Indo-European root “dhghem,” or "earth.” Human advancement is the evolutionary procedure paving the way to the presence of modern people. Human presented developmental capacities, which are innovative, complex, typical, and social in nature and make them unique from other surviving species. In any case, what precisely has advanced to evolve these ...

Introduction

Sarbanes Oxley Act, commonly known as SOX, has come into being in 2002 and its compliance is mandatory for reporting of financial information by firms. The aim of this paper is to discuss Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, the reason of its creation and how it prevents inappropriate behaviour in financial reporting. The paper has three sections. The first section discusses what Sarbanes Oxley Act, 2002 is and the need for the creation of such an act. The second section re-establishes the role of Sarbanes Oxley Act (2002) in the prevention of fraudulent financial reporting. The third section concludes ...

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT OF TOYOTA

- CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TO A WORLD CLASS COMPANY In the contemporary world, businesses provide a great of attention to the operations management of operations of activities. It is for the reason that organizations are evaluation by the quality and strength of its operations’ performance and not only by the claims that organizations make. Simply stating operations management is concerned with the activities of transformation of input into output. This three element process includes the role of material, skills, energy, information and capital and so on in best mix which in turn produces output that is ...

Introduction

Hierarchic scale refers to the act or process of manipulating the size and the space in a given picture. Usually, this is done in order to emphasize the importance of some specific object in the picture. For instance, when an individual undertakes to paint a picture of some woman in a farm of vegetables, one could do several things to the picture in order to emphasize the importance and the value that is attached to the object in question. If the most important thing in that picture is the shoe that the woman is wearing, then the person painting the picture would ...

Harris KhatriArt work name: Saint George killing the dragon (Bernado Martorell) November 14, 2013Hum 123-002

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Introduction

Any work of art apart from being attractive and beautiful, it has both a superficial and deeper meaning (Erbach, 2008). This submission examines the Bernat (Bernado) Martorell’s painting of Saint George killing a dragon and describes the form, size, technique, color, texture and lines of the painting. It further gives details of the movement, content, theme and interpretation in art. Figure 1(a) and (b) shows the actual painting of St. George killing the dragon. Figure one (a) Saint George killing the dragon Figure 1(b): Dragon being killed by Saint George According to Wood (2003), this ...

Office Base Strategies for the Management of Obesity 3

Introduction 3 Background 3 Aim 3 The purpose of the present literature review was to investigate obesity within the intellectual disability population. 3 Literature Review 3 Understanding the problem 6 Management Strategies 7 Policies at work Place 8 Awareness of Employees 9 Method 10 Results 10 Conclusion 10

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Office Base Strategies for the Management of Obesity Introduction This research aims to discuss different office based strategies, which can help prevent and control obesity. The problem of obesity can be managed at workplace by providing financial incentives ...

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Article Number 1: “India’s Foreign Policy Crisis” by Harsh Pant (29 October, 2013)

This is an article on South Asian affairs published on YaleGlobal Online titled “India’s Foreign Policy Crisis” (Pant ). The overall purpose of the article is to analyze and evaluate the position of India in context if of its past 10yrs performance against the background of change world scenario. The author argues that India has failed to capitalize on past 10yrs environment. And when the role of America in world affairs is receding, it is finding lacking in depth in formulating an effective foreign policy. He further argues that the current Prime Minister, though a capable ...

Claudius and power

Quest for Power is one of the main agenda that Claudius had in his mind as he lived. He had purposed that he will not see his grave before occupying the coveted seat of the king. Claudius who is a character in Shakespeare's hamlet has been displayed to love power and would do anything to have it. This was done not considering the pain it would cause to him or to those around him, all that mattered to him was to get the position and maintain it. As we shall analyse in this paper, the greed that Claudius had did ...

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“Instructor name’ ‘Institutional Affiliation” Imperialism is a subject which draws very strong opinions and emotions from historians and it offers a lot of scope for arguments and discussions. Today’s generation view imperialism to be inhumane and an arrogant activity undertaken by a strong nation to exploit the people and resources of a weaker nation. This is mostly true because the conquering European powers did utilize the mining and agricultural potentials of the African and Asian nations, to benefit the economy of their homeland rather than for the welfare of the countries they occupied. But one should not forget that, there were also a ...

Introduction

Ms. Zona is an 83 – year - old female patient who has been admitted to the hospital for worsening of the pressure ulcers on both of her heels. She has a medical history of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Surprisingly, she demonstrates poor understanding of her illness and its management. Due to this factor, diabetic complications seem to be almost certain. With a BMI of 31, she seems to be an obese patient, which means she is either not aware or not educated enough on the health risks associated with obesity. Her heel ulcers are painful; therefore, she tends to spend most ...

In this clip from Enter the Dragon, in which martial arts master Lee (Bruce Lee) defeats Han (Shih Kien), a dynamic and fascinating fight in a hall of mirrors, the script is fairly simple yet thematically resonant; by staging the fight in a hall of mirrors, Lee and Han are shown to be reflections of each other. Whereas Lee uses martial arts to achieve spiritual enlightenment and inner peace, Han uses his gifts and resources to plunder, steal and kill; Han is defeated by his own overconfidence and poor choices. The fact that he is ultimately killed on his own spear is ...

JAPANESE SOCIETY TODAY

The Warriors of Ancient Japan and Their Legacy in Japanese Society Today

Nihongi is the origin myth of Japan. After centuries of being passed down through generations by storytellers it was written down in 8 C.E. The Japanese islands were formed by droplets from a jeweled spear that had been dipped into the ocean by two Gods, Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto. The first mythical emperor of Japan had to fight humans and demons to reach the throne. He is Jimmu the “Divine Warrior.” (Gabriel, 2002, 315-316)

Manga graphic novels and amine cartoons have many series using the classic lone Japanese warriors ...

The Greek Canon (kanon) of naturalist sculpture is recognised as being amongst some of the earliest and best portrayals of the human form in all of art history (Janson et al. 92). On the whole, the Greek Canon demonstrates a strong understanding of the human form and presents it in an uncompromising way and without exaggeration. There are a wide range of Greek sculptures which demonstrate an evolution of the artistic understanding of the human form – most notably during the Archaic period. Early statues such as the ‘Kore’ which depicted female figures, characterised the body of younger women and were used to ...