Essays on Cogent

Need of Code of Ethics in Engineering

Engineering profession needs Code of Ethics in order to indicate the conducts and standards that all the members of an organization such as Engineers Island adopt and abide by in their professional lives. The Code of Ethics is meant for enabling engineer to maintain cordial relations with employers, peers, clients, and society (Humphreys 1999). The Code of Ethics is also for creating awareness in Engineers regarding social as well as environmental obligations. It is for developing and maintaining professional standards and conduct. Further, it is also for ensuring proper adoption and implementation of disciplinary action, and also for enforcing ...

Introduction

As the manager of an IT company experiencing a merger or acquisition, it is the perfect opportunity to reevaluate, or improve the situation because the customers would normally expect the worst if they are unaware of the process. “A great deal of the mergers fails to deliver the promised improvements which were previously specified and it interferes with the shareholder value. This may happen to be the result of knowing that merger or acquisition decisions are inherent tradeoffs” (McLelland, Goldsmith, & McMahon, 2014). Companies tend to focus more on the aspects of reducing their overall operational costs or worrying about ...

Introduction

Evaluating an argument is crucial if we are to come up with a good judgment about the validity of certain statements. There is a need to critically examine the fairness, reliability and relevance of a given premise to establish if they are valid enough to support the conclusion. This paper aims to examine the given dialogues and provide a critical analysis of the arguments by evaluating the statements, on whether they provided a clear argument or not. Specifically, the statements will be examined against the ARG conditions to determine their acceptability, relevance and sufficiency of grounds in support of ...

Introduction: Overview & Thesis

According to a PBS report in 2011, commenting on Middle East rooted terrorist group attacks, “While these extremely violent religious extremists represent a minority view, their threat is real” (Moore, “Evolution of Islamic Terrorism”). Today, of course, the most commonly popularized terrorist group gaining worldwide headlines in the news are the jihadists known as ISIS. Ever since ISIS has gained center stage internationally, there is hardly a human being who is not aware of the group’s presence on Earth. Currently it has been written that the contemporary world in the Middle East has been socio-politically changed, and the ...

1. DCS, PLC and SCADA are different systems, but all of them are automation systems. DCS is a system suitable for operations requiring many analog inputs and outputs with multiple controllers, while PLC is for operations where all its functions can be contained within one controller and for tasks that need operational speed. DCS may contain several PLCs in one unit. In the case of DCS, the operator will be monitoring the I/O (input/output) through a display, and the operator operates the central controllers. In DCS, there are also distributed controllers distributed across all other ...

Same Sex Marriage and Crime

Introduction Throughout history, homosexual and homoerotic love has existed because of the sheer fact that men have matched with men and ladies have combined with women looking for fraternity, bolster and adoration – regularly physical affection (Smith, 2014, p. 1). Renowned Yale University law professor William Eskridge, in his cogent monograph, “The Case for Same-Sex Marriage”, refers to recorded histories of same-sex couples dating back to Biblical times. He takes note of that Same-Sex links between men were standard in antiquated Greece; truth be told, the Roman Ruler Nero even had a formal wedding function with his male beau Sporus. ...

This paper proposes to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent protagonist hero of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and illuminate the reasons as to why this prototype of brooding adolescence, displaying a rather uber-cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment became an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The paper seeks to take issue with the wider dimensions attached to the ‘incapacitation and debilitation’ Holden is often accused of and address Salinger’s vision behind etching Caulfield precisely the way he is. The paper also wishes to foreground the ...

A study of the Effects of Social Media on the Arab Spring; Syria case

The Arab Spring refers to the instance that characterized the North Africa and Eastern Europe. I this regard, the countries that border this region was characterized by repressions and war related instances that were targeting the respective governments in the specific countries. The counties covered in the Arab Spring include, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan when it is related to Africa. On the other hand, the countries that comprise Eastern Europe are the likes of Tehran and Syria. It is referred to as the Arab spring because it center staged in the Arab world over a very short period (Wilson, 2013). ...

According to White Hayden, historical accounts are connected to inherent and connectivity platforms. In his assertions, history and fiction ought to be taken as genres of a distinct basis. He argues on the plausibility of analyzing historical accounts as either fiction or science. Unlike science that is subject to interpretation and references, historical events do not entail facts that have been agreed upon and accepted to be inducted. Historical events focus on chronologies and past fallacies which find a recognition scope, as opposed to other submerged past occurrences. In this case, Arcadia is well established along White Hayden’s provisions. ...

Description of 3D Printing and Associated Science

Over the past decade, technological advancements and general progress have indeed changed or rather revolutionized human life and activities. Through the advanced technology both in hardware and software, people can now interact, communicate and complete different tasks in a more efficient and effective manner than before. The efficiency is because of how technology has influenced how we operate. Computing and Information technology has seen the rapidest and noticeable development in the past few years. These changes have affected the society, businesses and human life over the past few years. Through technology, one can achieve more socially, industrially and commercially. 3D ...

This essay will explore the compositional method and the harmonic innovations that Stravinsky used in his ballet “The Rite of Spring.” In order to capture all the ideas the essay will have three parts; the first part will be linked to the observation for the piece as a whole, the second part will be an analysis of the strategically features with examples from the score and the third part will be a cogent summary of the analysis that will imply the interpretation of the piece. “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky was premiered in 29 May 1913 at the ...

Importance of Motive in Criminal Investigation

Criminal justice usually does not deal with motivations of the crime, but only the crime. The judge does not ask why the crime was committed, but only whether the crime was committed. The question of motivation related to ‘why’ a particular crime was committed (Steinberg, n.d). Although, it does not make much of a difference in courts of justice, but for criminal investigations, it does. Particularly, in case of homicide, the investigator does seem to form hypotheses about various people around the victim regarding the possible motives for which those people may have committed the crime. Even though, this does not ...

Article Reviews

Mayer, J., Wilson, R., and M. Hazlewood. “Personal Intelligence Expressed: A Multiple Case Study of Business Leaders.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 30(2): 201-224.

Summary

This article acknowledges the wealth of intelligences that can lead to success in many different areas of life, focusing on the ways in which personal intelligence (PI) can influence life expressions. Defined as “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans and life experience,” PI can increase one’s interest in one’s own personality, and the personalities of others, inspire the creation ...

Introduction

When a company outsources a product or service to another company and that company that has been outsourced with the service/product performs poorly, there are ways to correct this. Hanfield and Krause (2007), argue that there are three ways to correct low services from the supplier: either improve the supplier, change the supplier or bring the process to internal developmemt. Hanfield and Krause (2007) further argue that it is better to developthe supplier becaue of cost and logistics. When undertaklinmg supplier development, it isimportant to ensure that both parties commit to the process both in labor and resources and cost. Supplier ...

Summary of the Case

The video Nissan Cogent presented Nissan’s initiative of the same name. In particular, Nissan Cogent is a co-development regeneration tool that involves the Nissan European Technological Center, Cranfield University, and 89 of Nissan’s suppliers. The case described how Nissan and its suppliers use Nissan Cogent to communicate and coordinate with each other during the design and development phase so that a better understanding of each other’s needs may be obtained. On one hand, Nissan Cogent would enable suppliers to improve their processes and products and maintain their reputations as quality suppliers. On the other hand, Nissan Cogent ...

Introduction

Efficient manipulation of information is the key concept towards ensuring effectiveness in the organization operations and facilitating the organization to match up the present competitive nature of both local and global market. This therefore implies that the paradigm of strategic planning needs to change frequently in order support the new and emerging technologies in information technology and information systems. Strategic Information System planning (SISP) is always directed towards assisting the business enterprise or organization in the realization of its business goals and objectives through the identification of necessary portfolio and implementation of computer based application that will aid the ...