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Most people consider higher education to be an advantage and a benefit that is supposed to increase a person’s chances to get a high-paid job and life full of abundance soon after graduation. The side effect that students and their parents usually agree to is high tuition fees and, thus, most probably six-figure student loans that will take a lot of time and effort to repay (Hacker, and Dreifus). Meanwhile, for their book Higher Education: How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus tracked over 900 former Princeton ...

Contributor: Thomas L. Saaty

Contribution: He holds the chair of University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering USA. He wrote a paper on “Decision making with the analytic hierarchy process” Details: There are many intangibles involved in decision making which need to be traded off. In order to do that, it is important to measure and evaluate the intangibles along with the tangibles. Thomas L. Saaty, who is internationally recognized for his decision-making process, called as the AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process). It is a concept of measurement through pairwise comparisons and focuses on the opinion ...

It was in the 1900s that the term television was first coined. From there, countless developments were pushed further. What most of us did not know was that the making of this phenomenal medium started seven decades before. Back in the 1830s, inventors initially worked with electronics and gradually adapted more concepts. At first, there were mere moving pictures, and they were without color. Thirty years later, there was only one TV station established and the reach was utterly small. People relied on the radio to get broadcast reports. This habit carried on to television. However, no matter how ...

MEMORANDUM

Below, please find a report on HR best practices as you requested. The environment in which a business operates keeps on changing. Businesses should, therefore, upgrade their way of operation. Human Resource is one of the major departments in any organization. The department should, therefore, ensure that it integrates new systems of operation as time passes. A reliable, effective and good-performing Human Resource department makes the organization to be successful. The Human Resource management should ensure that they apply best practices in this field of human resources. The best practices here also include the set standards that the human resource department ...

Legalising marijuana has been one of the most controversial debates in United States of America. Despite eliciting varying reactions for different quarters, the issues have also raised both legal and health concerns. Some individuals are greatly opposed to the ideas of legalising this substance in one of the highly civilised society in the world while some groups and individuals support the legalisation of marijuana in the country (Iversen 27). Presently, various states in America have legalised marijuana especially in higher learning institutions. In references to the pressure that have been put on the government by individuals who supports the ...

This paper will show how the issue of love can be cast in two alternative terms depending on the beliefs of an individual. Love is an affectionate feeling that every human being aspires to have. This is because with love an individual feels contented with life because they that someone appreciate them for who they truly are. There are many types of love but the one that really generates much debate and controversy is the one between a man and a woman that results in the two having an intimate relationship. There are those of the notion that true love ...

Introduction

Genericide can be defined as an historical process in which a trademark or brand name is transformed into a common verb through popular usage. This means people are using the trademark to even describe their goods and services. When this happens, trademark is no longer entitled to protection under trademark law because they describe a whole group of goods or services (Millstein 280). This paper will exclusively explore genericide. The paper will explain and discuss the legal concept of ‘genericide’ in its relation to trademark law. The study will use the example of Google (and the newly coined, popular verb ‘to Google’) ...

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This paper is based on the analysis of videos related to marketing. In order to analyze the videos, ideas from ‘the successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies’ have been used. According to Abrams and Abrams (2003), marketing plan and sales strategy are the core component of a business. In order to stay in business, it is important for companies to reach customers as well as to secure sales. The sales strategy and marketing plan of an organization are reviewed closely by investors. The potential funders want to identify whether the methods used for generating sales are appropriate ...