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In his article, “Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a ‘Community of Learning” Kenneth A. Bruffee postulates that Binge drinking has been on the rise in college campuses and that the important reason for this behavior is the membership in fraternities. He begins his article by mentioning the consequences of binge drinking such as bad grades, drunk driving, assault and even death. He says that even after the involvement of the college officials and pro active measures such as banning alcohol in campuses, punishment of heavy drinkers and getting rid of fraternities and sororities, binge drinking continues. He then Continue reading...

The interviewee was Johnson. One of the elderly neighbors aged 65 years. Johnson grew up in Texas in a family of four. He currently lives in Washington. He gave his experience in movie watching while young.
According to my neighbor, his greatest movie going experience was in 1950. He was young; he was changed and officially hooked on the pop culture for the rest of his life. He likes the pop culture until now. He said this was his stepping stone into the pop culture.
On one occasion, he went to the movies with his father who he had Continue reading...

During the war, the Union and Confederacy adopted different methods through which they hoped to win. The recruitment of freed slaves, women, and even the Indian tribes provide an excellent example of each side accepting received help in different degrees. Thus, the United States underwent various social transformations during the war, where white man’s supremacy failed.
Foremost, the white man’s society revolutionized drastically with white women assuming the positions once solely allocated to the men. For instance, demand for soldier’s uniforms and other provisions encouraged women to work in industries (Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey 2008, 449). Continue reading...

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The educational system continuously evolves and improves to provide quality education to both its learners and educators. Academic institutions have been exploring ways on how to gauge and assess the learning of a students and its effectivity whether his learning is enough to live accordingly outside the four corner of the organization.
The article entitled “Healthier Testing Made Easy” emphasizes the absence of real-time and actual mechanism to evaluate whether the learning of a student goes beyond rote memorization and getting high scores in an examination based on their teacher’s discussion. Continue reading...

UNB Saint John,

Dear Jasmine Alam,
RE: INTERNSHIP
Following your advertisement on our campus notice board, kindly consider my application for the position named above.
I am currently an international student at the University of New Brunswick in Canada taking a course in Business Administration (BBA). I have learned and grown a lot in my class and my keen interest in marketing, communication and business development has enabled me to perform exceptionally well in the different units I have taken. I have also attained a certificate in Economics and Statistics that has been instrumental in helping understand research. I have been able Continue reading...

The Amish are Swiss Anabaptist Christian communities with foundations in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Amish people follow basic Christian beliefs but have distinct cultural traditions that set them apart form mainstream society. They are known as “plain people,” who live simply, dress modestly and reject modern technology and conveniences. One fundamental Anabaptist doctrine is that community members are baptized during adulthood instead of at infancy (Robinson 2002). Joining the church is a decision that is made after the age of sixteen. Despite a reputation of conformity, the Amish strongly believe in free will and freedom of Continue reading...

Trials call for witnesses that can either be factual or expert witnesses. These two have a major contribution to the ongoing proceedings, but it evident that the two witnesses have their similarities and differences during the trial period and the testimonies provided (Brodoslky, 2009). The similarities between the two types of witnesses is the importance of their view to jury. The information they provide to those in a courtroom will play a key role in guiding the jury in making a decision regarding the case. Therefore, when preparing an expert or factual witness, it is important to ensure that Continue reading...

The turbulent sixties saw the rise of Martin Luther King as the champion of civil liberties and an eloquent speaker. He had borrowed the concept of non-violent resistance from Mahatma Gandhi and civil disobedience from Henry Thoreau. King was a source of inspiration to millions of people within the United States and thousands of tormented souls across the globe. Martin Luther King delivered his most revered speech from the steps of Lincoln Memorial calling for the end of racial prejudice and social inequality. He was addressing a quarter a million civil rights supporters during the 1963 Washington march. Martin Continue reading...

Accounting fraud entails financial misdeeds by executives that are trusted in either the government or corporations. In essence, these misdeeds involve complicated mechanisms of misdirecting or misusing an organization’s funds, understating expenses, overstating revenues, underreporting the liabilities existing and even overstating the price of the assets of an organization. Such accounting frauds are always geared towards personal interests of enriching oneself, and are always illegal and punishable by law. This paper analyzes the Enron scandal (2001) as an accounting fraud to explain the fundamental drivers of fraud.
Before it was declared bankrupt in the year 2001, Enron Corporation Continue reading...

Implementing Organizational Change

One of the successful example of implementing change management is a company is that of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs was a founder member of the company, but due to internet squabbles he resigned. When Jobs was brought again to head Apple Inc., the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. Jobs started focusing on creating beautiful electronic products that matched the taste of consumers instead of aimlessly designing small electronic goods. The iMac was launched in the year 1998 and Steve Jobs developed excellent brand management by promoting his product ideas through excellent networking. At the same time, the Continue reading...