Essays on Cornerstone

Personal impact statement

Personal Impact Statement Impact Statement Psalm 118:22 in the Bible says, “The stone rejected by the builders became the cornerstone itself.” The corner stone or the foundation stone is usually the first stone masons set while constructing a big building. All other stones are arranged with reference to the corner stone. Is it amazing to see a stone that was initially rejected forthwith ultimately becoming the most important stone that defines the very shape and strength of the building? Each and every stone used for constructing a building differs in size and shape. A mason carefully arranges stones according ...

The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament, which tells the story of the establishing the Christian church and the spread of its holy message on the territory of the Roman Empire. It is considered to be the cornerstone in the history of Christianity (Schmemann, 120). Purpose: to provide a history of the early Christian church. The emphasis of the book is put on the importance of Pentecost and witnessing Jesus Christ`s deeds. Acts tells the story about the apostles witnessing Christ's miracles in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and it is aimed to send ...

Throughout the course of my academic career I have adopted and synthesized various elements of effective academic article construction techniques, yet none have been so fundamentally formative in my ability to engage with the viewpoints expressed by other writers as the principles and techniques outlined in chapter four “The Three Ways to Respond”. In this chapter, I gained a greater degree of understanding regarding effectively engaging in academic dialogue through incorporating the three primary response methods of agreeing, disagreeing or some combination of both to better discern the viewpoints of an author from the perspective of an active reader, ...

Introduction

Paid Crowd Work: An Overview Definitions: Crowd Work, Requesters. Examples: general purpose vs. specialized marketplaces Pros v. Cons of Globalized Workforce Pros: Economic and Social Mobility, Flexibility, geographically distributed workforce Cons: Dead-end jobs, low wages Future of Crowd Work Establish Career Ladders Improved Task Design Facilitated Learning Conclusion Introduction Over the last decade, paid, online crowd work (defined as a work platform that distributes work tasks between a crowd of workers, who receive financial compensation upon the successful completion of each task they perform in accordance with the task requirements specified by an individual, group or organization) has quickly ...

Abstract

This paper puts the legal and ethical issues of physician-assisted suicide in the context of the larger debate on privacy and the right to die, which can be divided into three constituent parts: (1) a patient’s constitutionally protected right to privacy in all matters involving end-of-life treatment decisions. So long as a patient has the mental capacity to make informed consent, the government does not have a legitimate interest to override end-of-life decisions. Critical to the analysis of a patient’s refusal of life-sustaining treatment is the burden of the state to prove a patient did not have ...

Importance of Mathematics in our Daily Life

Introduction Many students had disliked mathematics or math and had given up on appreciating its use. Some do so since they see Math as a hard and intimidating subject, while some do not simply see the point of studying it. However, many have discovered and acknowledged that Math is indeed an important part of our lives. They had recognized that Math is an indispensable tool and that many encounters or transactions are highly dependent on it such as in banking and economics. Likewise, the technology in today’s society is the fruit of algorithms, several mathematical computations, and mathematical ...

Personal Leadership

Personal Leadership

Introduction

Understanding of self is critical and important for the personal development of human being. Understanding on own-self helps one identify the opportunities for improvement and growth while overcoming weaknesses. The importance of the matter increases much more in the modern world where team orientation has taken a driving seat. Ranging from students to the leaders in the corporate world as well as politicians and professional of all sorts are required to assess own-self for improvement and future contribution. As a matter of fact, though one can identify self by different traits, there are different tests developed by ...

Christian Worldview: An In-Depth Insight and Personal Analysis

Worldview as defined by Kenneth Samples is “how one sees life and the world at large” (Samples, 2007, p. 20). From a layman’s stance, it is the perception, understanding, and total assumption of an individual about the things that are around him or her. This paper focuses on Christian worldview, particularly on what it necessarily means and on how everything related to it got the whole focal point of its understanding. In this case, does he Christian worldview evolve based on one’s predicament and change overtime? Or does it stick to its cornerstone principles and continue to ...

Reflection_Chapter 8

The way individuals think about leadership is highly divergent and, doubtlessly, influenced by one’s experiences of leading and being led. While studying, I did both, and always tended to see leadership as an aggregate of functions to be exercised by a leader. My experience shows that forming mutual trust and good relationships within a team are major tasks a leader needs to perform. When being a team leader for a school project, I used two major practices to promote trust and links inside my team. Firsly, we tended to spend much time together, getting engaged into different activities ( ...

Abstract

In the globalized world, it is difficult to preserve national culture uninfluenced by tendencies and trends that are brought up by technological development or changes in lifestyles. Even such conservative societies as Saudi Arabia or other East Asian nations are subject to dramatic changes in the minds of people. For centuries, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s culture was under a great influence of religion, traditions, the way of living of the ancestors, and rich heritage that allows it to be influential and independent. Islam influenced the culture of the country a lot. However, some historical incidents affected women ...

Accountability and rehabilitation. These are the core objectives of the juvenile probation system today. In early America, children who committed crimes were either simply placed back into the community where they would recommit or they were placed in jails with adults. Since children are mentally, emotionally and developmentally different than adults, there was a significant need for change for these children. Today, juvenile probation is the most common disposition for children adjudicated in the juvenile justice system as delinquent. The “workhorse of the juvenile justice system” is a term that has been given to the juvenile probation system in ...

IMPLEMENTING A BEHAVIOR-BASED FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM IN A FOODSERVICE ORGANIZATION: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The goals of the organization are varied, and information was collected from internal sources within Roundy’s, Inc., to better understand the needs and the structures governing the overall state of affairs. The organization is a large food service organization but it has been suffering from some financial problems in recent years, and these financial problems have been associated with expansion. However, the leadership of the company is aware of the need for food safety protocol; the need for food safety protocol transcends the need to make a profit, as lax food safety protocol can be the downfall of ...

Critical Thinking About HR

Critical Thinking about HR 1. The main purpose of this article is to discuss the talent war, which is currently based on human capital and the talent in which employees possess in the business marketplace. Some are so talented, in fact, they are lured away from their current place of business in an effort to help create success elsewhere. Because the authors are discussing Human Resources, human capital, in this case, refers to talent one can bring to a company or organization or company they work for. The article makes references to LeBron James moving from one team to ...

INTRODUCTION

Civil Engineering (CE) is a career in existence since 4000 BC, where human beings begun changing from a nomadic lifestyle, to construct shelters (Narayanan 2003). Construction, design and maintenance of the structures has been made possible through the study of CE, to share scientific and physical principles. Currently, CE applies physics and mathematical principles in the study of design and construction of roads, bridges, buildings, dams, and canals (Narayanan 2003). The disciplines under the study relate to material science, soil mechanics, hydrology, geography, environment, design, and structures. To be a civil engineer one must pursue a Bachelor of Engineering degree, which takes three ...

Introduction

Recent researches indicate that there has been a great stride in women advocacy and right. However, despite this, violence against women as well as girls continues to rise (CEDAW, 2015). The paper analyses the vaccine deemed to reduce the increased violence and attacks on women and girls in education and involve women in peacekeeping and conflict resolution. This can be illustrated by the many cases of violence and attacks against both women and girls especially those in the education system as shown below. There have been several attacks on girls or women trying to access education such as the ...

In life, human beings experience traumatic events; whether accidents, death or any other trauma, such occurrences harm the person’s psychological well-being. In some cases, people are unable to deal with the aftermath of such occurrences; they thus deals with it by pushing it out of consciousness into the sub-conscious. Instead of dealing with the problem, they ignore it through psychological processes; this research paper focuses on the analysis of the process. It is a process known as repression (Loftus, 1993). Repression is a very general concept in the field of psychology researched by many scholars through the years. Psychologists ...

Judgment in the case of Marbury v. Madison, often referred to as the most important in the history of the United States Supreme Court, has put into practice the principle of judicial review and the authority of the Supreme Court to recognize the constitutionality of both legislative and executive acts. This case arose as a result of the political dispute that broke out after the presidential elections in 1800, when Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated the president of that time Federalist John Adams. In the final days of his being in office of the administration of Adams, Congress, in ...

The Marxism theory is the cornerstone of all relationships, but suggests that the economy can bring power, while the conflict theory is only the cornerstone of all relationships. They both advocate for social relationships, but the latter does not support the issue that power can only be gained by economics. Conflict theory is an alternative of functionalism, and it gives a macro sociological perspective (Bartos & Wehr, 2002). It brings out the elements that are normally constant in the society, and these are hostility and resentment. Power is different in the different levels of social status. Resources are also fought ...

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Philosophy

How should one deal with desires, needs, bodily limitations and mortality during the living of one’s life? To what extent can our minds know and control or improve our bodies? The question of how one should deal with desires and needs, on the one hand, and bodily limitations and mortality, on the other, has been one of the most significant, essential issues throughout the history of philosophy, in particular, and history of mankind, in general. It would be unrealistic to assume that it is possible to answer this ...

Chapter 8, pg. 306: Stuxnet and the Changing Face of Cyberwarfare

In the past, cyber crime only dominated the domain of fiction writers. However, cyber warfare as emerged as a daunting and unique problem for every internet security expert, not only in detecting and preventing intrusions but also in tracking cyber criminals and prosecuting them. The most prominent problems include for example, American and Israel hackers used cyber warfare to interfere with the operations of Iran’s nuclear plan, by causing malfunction in one device controlling the nuclear plant. The problem will become worse for countries with advanced technologies such as the U.S., which rely on an electronic banking system and ...

This essay will review Bloom’s Taxonomy in an effort to evaluate the impact that the tool can have in my own teaching in the field of dance. Assessing the areas of evaluation, synthesis, analysis, application, comprehension and knowledge will enable a far better understanding of the factors needed for a credible decision. In the end, this study will benefit my efforts to learn and identify the best overall teaching methods available. The area of evaluation relates to the ability to institute value judgments as regards materials or ideas (Nwlink.com 2013). In the field of dance the skill of evaluation ...

- Summarize the issues surrounding the violation. This academic integrity issue involves an exam environment. The incident happened during the course of an exam in Management 301 class. It is a requirement by any code of academic ethics that each student presents his or her own work during examinations. It is the only way that instructors can be in a position to ascertain whether a given student is making progress or not. In this incidence, my behavior during the exam period was the boron of contention. The instructor was concerned that I might have gained access to the work of a fellow ...

Introduction

There are still many myths and mysteries that remain undiscovered despite the time that has passed since World War II ended. World War II is considered as the deadliest and most devastating human conflict ever recorded. The cumulative number of casualties was over a hundred million. It was an event of total war between some of the world’s leaders in terms of economic and military capabilities such as the United States of American, France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union which was during that time headed by the Russian Empire, China, Poland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, ...

One of the most contentious subjects in post-colonial America in the 1800s was slavery. It was well known that the South relied heavily on slave labor to maintain its cotton-based economy; at the same time, the social conditions and squalor slaves were forced to live in were unbearable, and slave accounts were gaining more and more notoriety (Dew, 2001). The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final nail in the coffin for a secure Union, as the threat of abolition from Lincoln was what led the South to finally secede. The agricultural restrictions and changes, as well as the tariffs, ...

Security refers to the level of protection offered to safeguard individuals, countries and even groups against possible danger, loss and also criminal activities. According to The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM), security refers to the creation of a barrier between threats and assets. In this case, most assets when dealing with security involve the human resource. Threat to human life is normally the primary interest of any security apparatus. Threat to property is also imperative for peaceful coexistence. The level of security allocated to individuals varies. Dignitaries and other respected persons in society deserve more security than members ...

Company Overview

Lowe’s (LOW) is a home improvement company that was founded in 1946. The company was then incorporated in 1952. Lowe started as insignificant hardware store to become the second largest home enhancement retailer in the world. Lowes is ranked 54 Fortune’s top 500 companies list. As of February 2012, 1, 745 stored in the United States, Canada and Mexico were operational. The company’s customer includes homeowners, renters, and commercial business customers. The company offers a range of products that include maintaining, repairing, modeling, and home caring. In addition to offering appliances, the company also sells different companies products ...

1. Exposition The role of PKI’s and its essence in gauging and controlling online access of customer web and online information is critically analyzed and given a prior enquiry

PKIs, Online Security and Business

This part centers its enquiry into the public key encryption and the results or consequences it poses on business. It forms the rubric of the paper.

How the PKI’s enhance Business Security

PKI’s adoption and installation in different business environments has had the competitive advantage of improving internet and online security. This part examines how this level of indulgence has led to ...

Introduction

When compared to the general population, it can be said that college students heavily make use of the Internet (Jones 2). Internet usage is usually a part of their everyday routine, partially because computers have been a part of their lives while they were growing up. It has become a part of their everyday communication habits and has become as ordinary a technology as televisions or telephones.

According to Jones (2), 20% of college students began using computers at the age of 6 or 7 such that by the time they reach the ages of 16 or 18, they would already be very ...