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The great evolution and changes in terms of technology seen in the world today have some great and smart minds behind them. Previous intellectuals and scientists did everything possible to make the world a better place for human beings. This saw the development of computers which have ever since made the world a global village (MacKenzie, 1998). Seymour Cray, famously known as a computer architect, is among the great minds behind the development of computers. He is recognized and credited with solely being the creator of high-performance computers in the technological world (Hill et al., 2000). Seymour Cray was Continue reading...

Value Investing

Introduction:
In the business world knowing the essentials of investment shall lead to sure success. Evidently, the way the world’s economy has been changing was into a platform that would encourage even the common people to invest. The world’s economy has grown much bigger in the 20th century and more accessible than ever with the existence of the worldwide web. But seemingly targeting the market without prior knowledge would be going into a battle without ammunitions. And to have a better approach in value investing most especially in stocks, the three lessons discussed in this paper will Continue reading...

Summary:

Jack Hitt relates his college experiences with alcohol in the 1970’s comparing it with what he describes as a binge drinking epidemic today. He is dedicated to the idea that the way in which he was taught to drink socially, by professors and other responsible adults in his educational environment, taught him how to drink with dignity, and without getting drunk. There was an understanding that you had one or two, and then stopped, and that was that. No one got lambasted, because everyone knew it was socially unacceptable.
Today, that is not the case. He describes the Continue reading...

Hume’s analysis of induction revolves around the notion that the mind tends to acquire expectations because of experiences. Sensory perceptions, in Hume’s study, tend to gather information about a particular phenomenon before storing it in the mind. As a result, when faced with a similar situation, the mind immediately conjures expectations that can hinder the assimilation of new experiences. To explain his study, Hume uses the process of eating bread. During said consumption, the eyes notice color, fingers feel texture, nose smells aroma, and if the baked dough is soft or not, the ears stand by for Continue reading...

“Promoting health, preventing disease: is there an economic case?”

About the Authors
This article is a human capital and development article that is written by three authors. These authors include Sherry Merkur, Franco Sassi, and David McDaid. Sherry works in the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and LSE Health in London. The author is also in School of Economics and Political Science based in the United Kingdom. Franco works in Paris, France at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Finally, McDaid works in the Europe Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) and LSE Health and Social Care. He Continue reading...

The success of a business is overly dependent on the suitability of the management style employed in the organization. Deficiency of this essential business element will translate into financial strains and losses. It was the case for Airtex Aviation and the company needed to be salvaged through acquisition. Fortunately, it coincided that Ted Richards and Frank Edwards, graduates from Harvard School of Business who had commenced their career in prominent firms, were looking for a company to purchase. On purchasing the company, Ted and Frank considered the future of the company to be bleak given the deteriorating financial position Continue reading...

RESPOND TO THESE 3 STUDENTS POST ON PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

Tawana Valentine’s
It is commendable that you are holding the belief that the impact brought by psychological tests is usually in the hands of the professional psychologist. The professional psychologist can make the test to have both negative and positive impact on the patient. You are also right to pinpoint that psychological tests are important because they assist in research measuring improvement, diagnosis purpose and in intellectual functioning. I am sorry that you are facing criticism from several persons who claim that the psychological test are old, discriminatory, expensive, and biased in favor of the middle-class white children. Continue reading...

Trip to India

Religion plays very important role in every society. It teaches how to give without expecting something in return and provides an example of how to be happy with those things a person already have without craving for wealth but taking care of spiritual.
Desire to try everything and to earn all money getting richer and richer has occupied minds of many people. Societies of developed countries are becoming more and more distant from church because of being busy with career building. It seems there is nothing bad in personal development but perhaps it is worth sometimes to stop to Continue reading...

Evolution is one of the major topics in anthropology, biology and other related fields of studies. In order to understand this subject, certain concepts need to be understood first. These concepts are: species, population, variation, The Four Forces of Evolution, isolation, and speciation.
The first concept, species, pertains to the group of organisms that can inter breed – meaning, they can produce a fertile offspring. The number of individuals belonging to one species or the number of species present at a defined time and place is termed population. What defines a species are the genes or alleles. There can be Continue reading...

Evolution of Ride Share

Booking a cab to airport or to the travel destination or to one’s office has changed drastically. Booking a cab was costly for a long period of time. However, with the concept of ride share, commuters now can have the luxury of going to their destinations in a pre-booked cab without worrying about paying too much money. Employee carpools or college mates sharing a ride back home from college are not new, but those traditional forms of sharing typically require advanced planning and involve people who know each other. However, with technological advancement, the nature of ride sharing Continue reading...