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Abstract

Nowadays, the role of English can be hardly overestimated. Being a truly global language, a pathway to greater opportunities and the window to broader knowledge and other cultures, English keeps widening the horizons of its possibilities and functions. At the same time, teaching English as a foreign language requires taking great responsibility and, therefore, it often appears as a truly challenging task. This research aims to consider the importance of teaching English as a second language and the implications that may arise during the learning process so as to define key tendencies and principles in ...

COMM 495: Communications Studies Senior Capstone

Introduction The present portfolio is a compilation of different works that I completed throughout my studies at UMUC. They illustrate my understanding of the different communication theories and concepts that I learnt in these classes. In the first part of this portfolio, I presented my work samples and briefly explained their background and purpose. In the second part of the portfolio, I reflected upon the manner in which these works added to my body of knowledge and developed my communication, critical thinking, writing and analyzing skills. The final part of the portfolio is a resume. I believe that this ...

Voluntary Simplicity Meets Modern Consumerism

INTRODUCTION When people look at the modern world today the first thing they recognize is the evidence of humanity’s development of the world, how they harvested the needed environment for energy and rejoice in the modern technological advances that allow for a fantastic amount of convenience to many people’s everyday lives. However, many of these same human beings fail to consider the consequences, on many levels, that all of these developments and advances may lead to. Many argue that these advances and conveniences have led to an unhealthy kind of consumerism; ideologies that place a great deal ...

Question 1

Whole Foods Market versus Peapod Similarities Strategic Mission and Vision Both companies aim at providing grocery delivery services and aim to partner with similar service providers for increased clientele. Peapod has partnered with Ahold Delhaize while Whole Foods has partnered with Instacart for better market domination.

Customer Benefit Package Design and Configuration

Both Whole Foods and Peapod offer delivery services to customers who would prefer shopping online rather than going to pick up items from the store. Additionally, both service providers offer free deliveries for first orders, and subsequent deliveries call for a fee depending on the time the customer wants for the products to ...

For the traditional student, college is the next step after high school. He takes only a few months off between high school and college as he did between the previous 12 years of his scholastic life, a whirlwind transition that leaves little time for maturation or new life experiences between being a senior in one place and a freshman in the next. Adult learners, however, bring a fully-formed identity as an adult with them into the college classroom. Educationally, they may have finished high school several years prior, not have finished high school at all, or be completing a ...

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The Artifact: Steve Mclaren, et. al In 2008, there was a YouTube video (supanovasky 2008) that went viral because of the ticklish surprise of many after watching the starkly fake Dutch accent of famous English football manager Steve McLaren during an interview. He was then the manager of the Dutch professional football team FC Twente and was then being interviewed after a respectable but losing game against the English team Arsenal. The sports press all over Europe followed suit in mocking McLaren.

Connecting McLaren to Inter-ethnic Accommodation

McLaren joined Twente after failing infamously to carry England to qualify in the 2008 ...

For the traditional student, college is the next step after high school. He takes only a few months off between high school and college as he did between the previous 12 years of his scholastic life, a whirlwind transition that leaves little time for maturation or new life experiences between being a senior in one place and a freshman in the next. Adult learners, however, bring a fully-formed identity as an adult with them into the college classroom. Educationally, they may have finished high school several years prior, not have finished high school at all, or be completing a ...

For the traditional student, college is the next step after high school. He takes only a few months off between high school and college as he did between the previous 12 years of his scholastic life, a whirlwind transition that leaves little time for maturation or new life experiences between being a senior in one place and a freshman in the next. Adult learners, however, bring a fully-formed identity as an adult with them into the college classroom. They may have families at home and full-time jobs to work when they’re not in class. Educationally, they may have ...

Theoretical Essay

In the world of law punishment (alternative name – penalty) is considered as an “infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command).”1 Penalty may take different forms and vary from forced labor, flogging, body mutilation, fines and imprisonment to the capital punishment. The punishment has been very retributive, mostly in the form of revenge, during the pre-modern ages and usually the prosecution was executed by the victims or their families. There was not any proportion between the quantity and quality of wrongdoing and the punishment. The ...

In the recent past, governments through the health department have been calling for the increase in outpatient services among health care facilities considering that payers have come up with incentives as a way of reducing hospitalization charges in addition to the length of stay. As a result, a new shift oriented towards payment for performance and accountability in health care provision has emerged in addition to health organizations concentrating on medicine for preventive health, educating of patients, and care changes. Today, the most affordable medical therapy is offered in ambulatory care setting, yet the outcomes of adverse drug events ...

Over the years, nursing has tended to advance in one way or the other. The advancement is one regarding technology and at times the way the nurses carry out themselves and their nursing duties. These improvements have been attributed to various conflicts. Over the years, researches have been conducted for the reasons that have led to these said advancements. Nurses have advanced their practice over the years to correspond with the improvements in innovations and changes in times, needs, and customers’ expectations. The research carried out by Thomas David Barton (2012) showed the various improvements that have been experienced ...

Literature Review

The literature review focuses on organizational learning, organizational memory, organization structure, shear tacit knowledge as well as KM tools and techniques. Organizational Learning (OL) can be defined as the means by which team detects errors and them by gaining knowledge through individuals who act as agents (Tom and Murphy, 2007). According to Huber, there are four constructs which are linked to OL, which include: knowledge acquisition, information distribution, information interpretation and organizational memory (OM) (Dalkir, 2016). One important aspect in KM is the organization chart can be defined as the manner in which an organization designs its management and ...

The Old Testament discipline studies with its supporting archaeological, philological, literary technicians and historical are composed on the edge of new times which contains both threats and promises. It states that biblical texts were given fair opportunities to talk as a witness to the reality the bible was acknowledged to describe. This text was imperiled to appropriate scrutiny obtained from the textual criticism science, syntax, morphology, criticism form, and lexicography. The advantages obtained from these researchers were not without the significant benefits garnered from external control multitudes. Archaeology was good in the vanguard setting the Old Testament scholars pace ...

While social class impacts nearly every area of our lives, we do not often realize how deeply in impacts our education. Moreover, we do not realize the growing social gap is something that will not end, regardless of how often we are told that it is closing. Children born into low-income families are at a disadvantage, often from the moment they are born. The socialization experienced by low-income students in comparison to high-income students and the perception of their social classes often changes the impact of education on either individual. The article, “Why Does the Gap Persist,” indicated many ...

Popular television shows often reproduce and have a connection to real life gender, class, relationships, political ideas, religious identities among other issues (Dines & Humez, 2003). One needs to be attentive to television shows for a better understanding of how they portray these issues. This paper is going to focus on the television show Strangers with Candy which is a Comedy Central comedy series, and how it encodes real life issues such as the ones above. Strangers with Candy boldly covers difficult subjects ranging from alcoholism to mentally retarded persons having an affinity of baked deserts. The three main issues ...

Introduction:

Identity is a construct that encompasses the way people think about themselves and their role in the larger social environment. Human identity is enacted through social interactions with other people as well as the relationship built between them. Therefore, identity can be understood to be containing both individual and personal differentiators and components related to someone’s role in social groups (Berzonsky, pp. 55). Absolute identity characteristics can be written in the body such as ethnicity or gender. Therefore, the way people behave reflects on their behavior, beliefs and affiliations. Communication technologies and online information have shaped the process ...

Throughout the years, the world has advanced more through the usage of technology and the benefits it brings. In the beginning, there were only desktop computers that could do a limited amount of work, and now they have been transformed in portable tablets, laptops, and even phones. With this much portability on technology, it was certain that certain websites dedicated to keeping in touch with people were invented. The first successful social media website that was around during the early days of the internet was Myspace. Just like the social media websites today, a person could update their page ...

Ruby Faye Woolridge is running for the Democratic ticket for the United States House of Representatives 6th Congressional District in Texas. She has lived in the 6th Congressional District in Texas for thirty-six years. She is sixty-seven years old and has two grown children and a granddaughter. Her oldest son died last year from injuries in the Gulf War after receiving a bronze star. Her other son is a business owner and holds a Master’s degree. Ruby Faye Woolridge graduated from the Perkins School of Theology in Dallas and served as an associate pastor at Grace United Methodist ...

Why do you think the IT presentation at the board meeting was scheduled as the last agenda item and given only 30 minutes? As evidenced by the way the firm regards IT, matters to do with It are not considered to be of much significance to the board. They are therefore taken to be of less priority and only given a backseat when addressing company matters hence the little time allocated and scheduling it as the last item on the agenda.

What are the board of director’s responsibility with respect to IT oversight?

The board of directors has the responsibility to ensure that IT gets and adequate budgetary allocation, IT is ...

The Runaway Project

Root Cause of Major Infrastructure Replacement Project The company’s business depended on heavily upon the backend services. The IT-capabilities were required by IVK to get ahead of its competitors. Based on a review of IT capabilities with the competitors of IVK, the IT-team identified areas where they trailed on their competitors. The recommendations were given to replace the middle and back-end services with immediate effect.

Project Difficulties

The Infrastructure Replacement project started by hiring a third party firm to do the work. They recommended changing the support software systems with packaged software that were mostly on Java and Oracle technologies. ...

Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote In Memoriam A.H.H. after the death of his friend, Arthur Henry Hallam (Furneaux). Despite covering various questions of human life in the elegy, Tennyson commemorates the birth of his friend in this particular poem. “CVII” develops the theme of lasting relationships that continue after the death of Hallam. Moreover, it is clear that the author is eager to show his ‘recovered happiness’ after so many years of painful sorrow (Woodhouse). Indeed, this intention could be vividly seen with the change of author’s mood as having started with mainly depressing stanzas, he decided to finish ...

What is the basis of hermeneutic inquiry?

The basis of hermeneutic inquiry is the use of methods that allow for a deeper level of connection with the content. Rather than being based on a critical inquiry, hermeneutics are developed through a more basic method. Hermeneutics moves beyond simple descriptions in an attempt to better understand what is being communicated or represented within a text. The focus is therefore on making the effort to commit to viewing the content from the point of view of the author. This is done through the establishment of principles that allow for the researcher to develop a more profound attachment to ...

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 Introduction Statement of Problem Statement of Purpose Research Questions Significance of the Study Definition of Terms: Chapter 11 History of pay inequality Chapter 111 Laws Chapter 1V Women in leadership roles Chapter V Research Methodology Conclusion

Bibliography

Abstract Gender Differences as a Predictor of Salaries in Leadership Roles. Salaries have increased drastically in the past 50 years but still there is a salary disparity between men and women. In today’s workplace, leadership roles are very competitive. Applicants must have many qualifications to be considered for leadership positions. Workforce found that women needed a Ph.D. to equal the ...

Adult education embraces many countries to produce people who have better-working capabilities, have good family relations, as well as forming the foundation for better citizenship. “Adult and Continuing Education Programs play a very crucial role in the development aspect of any society. “(Rogers). Adult education enhances the education levels for various individuals who are not able to receive the core and the standard education. “A persons; lifestyle” is a part of their level of education (Barton) Adult education serves all individuals who are sixteen years and older without an education. It also includes people with no education at all ...

Management of IT

Management of IT is different compared to other management functions in an organization. One major reason that contributes to this difference is the rapid change in technology and innovations witnessed every other day. As a result, there will always be a change on how to approach particular management issues with each new invention. As Ruben put it and agreed by Barton, high-level managers in other departments like Loan Operations can easily work on any job at any management level, from the bottom up the hierarchy regardless of the number of years one worked at that level; most processes remain ...

Adult education is a system that has been embraced by various countries to produce people who have better-working capabilities, have good family relations as well as forming the foundation for better citizenship (Rogers, 1). Adult education is a system that has been able to enhance the education levels for various individuals could not be able to get the core and the standard education. “A persons’ practice can be located in their history of literacy (Barton & Hamilton, 6) This form of education is a system that incorporates all the individuals who have the age of sixteen years and above and ...

If you thought that the piece of presentation you interacted with last time was the most awesome thing you ever met in life then I have something more for you. That television add, captivating speech, inspirational book or the most informing and entertaining journal you read could have left you in awe of the prowess of the author behind it. However, I would like to introduce you to Darleen Barton’s most interesting book among all her famous works. She has become more than famous over time and most of her audiences adore her for her adept way ...

Introduction

Much concentration has been centred on the educational attainment of students, in this era of standards-based learning reorganization. With the hustle to accomplishment testing, learning institutions could have lost track of the 25 - 30 percent dropout rate over the past decades (Barton, 2002). Barton illustrated that many scholars, both graduates and dropouts, are lacking career development proficiencies as they penetrate the labour market or change to post-secondary learning (2002). In a survey of high school psychoanalysts’ career improvement proficiencies, Barker and Satcher (2000) established that they were inclined to ignore the requirement of implementing career improvement programs, ensuing in ...