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External and Internal Issues In Light of Apple’s Most Recent Move There is current news about Apple’s investment in Did Chuxing Technology Co., major ride-sharing service in China (Wakabayashi, 2016). The recent strategic plan of action for Apple Company is based on multiple difficulties the company has in China. From one point, the multiple new business opportunities Apple started perusing poses a variety of different threats to other connected industries: gadgets, automotive, and computer…

Life is full of different groups and separation between classes. We have all experienced the difficulties of not being accepted by everyone. The book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a great example of how being different can trap you in a certain group. The novel is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963 and follows the gang of greasers and the daily troubles they face as being outsiders. The term “greaser” is given to those in the lower class on the East side for their greasy hair. The greasers are in…

Introduction The following pages will discuss pride parade performance in the past and today. The history of where pride parades began and the impacts of performance and corporatization in North America. Pride Parades through time have changed dramatically. What once was used as a means of protest and a riot used for the protection and fight for people’s human rights, in North American culture, has turned into a celebration. The people who are present range from “visitors to pride parades line…

Nissan Motors Ltd is Japan’s second largest automotive company. It is headquartered in Yokahama, Japan. Since 1999, it has been part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, a partnership between Nissan and French automaker, Renault. As of 2013, Renault holds a 43.3% voting stake in Nissan, while Nissan holds a 15% non-voting stake in Renault. Nissan Ltd has over 244,500 employees globally. The company sold almost 5.2 million vehicles and generated 10.5 trillion Yen (USD 105 billion) in fiscal 2013. In…

Digital Media and Society: Rolex Digital media describes any media encoded in a format that machines can read. Computers provide avenues for creating, viewing, distributing, modifying, and preserving digital media. Examples of digital media include computer software and programs, digital video, digital imagery, websites, and web pages. These are inclusive of data and databases, social media, e-books, and digital audio. A combination of the internet, computers, and digital media can have…

ME310: a case study of engineering design thinking education Zito Tseng, and Shih-Chung Kang zitotseng@ntu.edu.tw, sckang@ntu.edu.tw Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Abstract: Engineering education has been substantially changing in the past 100 years. Among these changes, design thinking has created great impact to this field. ME310 is a project-based engineering design thinking course originated in Stanford University in 1967. In this course, students learn…

Early brain imaging studies of musical imagery used PET (positron emission tomogra- phy), which has now been almost completely replaced by fMRI. PET and fMRI each have their pros and cons as methods for functional brain imaging. PET works by com- bining several tricks. Typically, subjects are injected with 2-deoxyglucose, a modified form of sugar that is transported through the bloodstream to cells just like glucose, but cannot be metabolized. As a result, 2-deoxyglucose builds up rapidly in…

Weber’s distinction between zweckrational (instrumentally rational social action determined by purpose and expectations about a behaviour taken under a condition of scarcity) and wertrational (value-rational social action determined by belief in the unconditional intrinsic value of some acts of choice) is also fundamental to understand the pluralism on which individual and social social dynamics are grounded (Weber [1921] 1978). Pareto’s distinction as well as Weber’s different types of…

Formula 1 cars emit approximately 2,400 gms of carbon dioxide (CO2) per mile (almost nine times as much as an ordinary new car today), that equates to 17 tonnes of CO2 per season. When air travel is included, this figure rises to 54 tonnes of CO2 per driver per annum. These figures point towards a startling discovery about how unsustainable motorsports are and how the World has turned a blind eye to an industry that functions at its own whims and fancies. But all hope is not lost yet, there are…

After much study, psychologists have uncovered many ways to control the mindset of people. Many marketers have adopted the strategies of mind manipulation in order to more effectively accomplish their goal. Some of the ways used in advertising are effective sounds, color, and dialogue. The Doritos Company has utilization of a tagline that influences the reader to take part in the “Crash the Super Bowl” contest. In effect, thousands of people filmed their own commercial of Doritos and entered the…