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Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, and killed on April 4, 1968. He was an American Baptist minister, humanitarian, activist, and primary leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights based on nonviolent confrontation, sadly, he was assassinated. His death was a huge loss to his family and the Civil Rights Movement, but everything kind of broke open after that, and eventually this country did accept desegregation.
In the mid-twentieth century, a consensus emerged among scholars that the historical background of the person known as Lao Continue reading...

For the Bay Area Business Magazine, Mariah Brown counts ten ways in which technology has changed our lives for the better. At the top of her list is education. Technology has allowed students to have knowledge at the tip of the fingers, as well as give teachers and professors a way to better present the information through the use of many different software, such as PowerPoint and Excel. Next on the list is healthcare. Technology has served to give communities better treatments, more efficient surgical procedures, and apps for our phones to help us keep on track of our Continue reading...

Effective policy making and equality in resource distribution overrules Humanitarian and development aid for less developing nations

Introduction
The concept of humanitarian and development aid as an economic incentive to developing nations has been the subject of deliberative discussions and arguments among scholars, activists and non-governmental organizations on its effectiveness towards beneficiaries’ economies. Developed countries such as United States, United Kingdom, and China have been committing a massive funding base to assists under-developing nations in their infrastructural and humanitarian activities. Unfortunately, little economic impact has been realized since the same countries have not advanced in Gross Development Product level. Such a concern invites a sensitive question; Is it the fish, the fisherman, the consumers or the Continue reading...

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson has a social ground and explores such serious issues as blind following of tradition and ruling of a mass. However, luckily, such “lotteries” do not appear in the modern world as now we live in a democratic society and have fundamental rights and freedoms. There are violent people, but they do not behave in such a heartless and tyrannical way as the characters of the story in question who kill without understanding that and do that on a regular basis and without a grain of doubts or sympathy.
Now civilized people Continue reading...

The Cultural Work of Microwork

This article’s primary focus is on Amazon’s newest division called Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). This new business concept uses crowdsourcing as microwork systems for getting things done. Instead of using computer technology to handle tasks, human beings are used to handle tasks that computers cannot handle. In a nutshell, “Mechanical Turk allows clients to farm out the kinds of menial clickwork that we all wish computers could do, but can’t” (Irani, 2013). It works by connecting employees called requestors with workers to carry out tasks. Requestors posts tasks called Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT) and the price Continue reading...

Adding alpha returns of all active investors while ignoring transaction costs such as fees and expenses does not guarantee positive returns. For active investors to realize positive returns, the market must be favorable as well as satisfy several factors. First, active investors should carefully select investment opportunities that lie above the market line. The market line provides a benchmark for evaluating the performance of an investment (Foster, 2010). The probability of getting positive returns also depends on chance. Therefore, an active investor may project that a particular investment will deliver positive returns but, selection strategies fail to deliver the Continue reading...

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Spending money is an inevitable. Selecting an ideal checking account essentially helps curb the trait of expenditure without proper planning. Every individual desire an account that would act as an investment tool, ideally, the checking account tend purposely to handle finances that settle bills and day to day transactions.
The Wall-Street Journal tips on the proper way of selecting a checking account provide the guideline that would suppress the spending plan of an individual. The checking account typically is applicable to my financial life as it is the best tool to provide the financial plan. To begin with, Continue reading...

Business

Group Members:
Mohamed Nazer,
Grant Burges,
Mark Folkwein,
Taylor Murphy,
Harmeet Singh.
Business
1) A: While exhibiting signs of being obsessive, Yi-Ren’s initial response and desire to be the note taker during the earlier meetings, along with her attention to detail pegs here squarely in the realm of neuroticism. During the latter part of the project, she became easily frustrated at the slow pace of development of the project. On the other hand Ana is sort of the counterbalance to Yi-Ren’s impatient tendencies, her agreeable demeanor is evident from the get-go and throughout all stages of the Continue reading...

Dan Davis Accountant

Issue arises as to whether the Attorney asking about Dan having an affair on his wife was proper for purposes of the deposition. There is greater lieu way on what questions may be asked in a deposition than in an actual trial. However the result of answering questions that may seem irrelevant must be evidence that is admissible at trial. The question asked by Robert Jones is personal and meant to embarrass Dan Davis and has no relevance whatsoever to the case for purposes of the deposition or the trial if one resulted.
The second issue is whether punching Continue reading...

Communication

The five themes that can be drawn from the essay of Anzaldua are racism, cultural imperialism, low self-esteem, and self-belongingness or identity formation. 
This article has focused on acculturation which has become a violent and cruel process for non-Americans. There are two sides in acculturation process namely, Hispanic and Anglo side. The Anglo side demands that there must be a sense of urgency in the adoption of the culture. This can be illustrated when there are persons who decided to migrate to the U.S, they are expected to embrace the American culture and use the English language to get Continue reading...