Autopilot

Journal Entry #1 – Self-Assessment During class, on September the sixth, the class I was in was to fill a self-assessment questionnaire. The questionnaire had sixty-four questions dealing with how we operate on a daily basis. Our answers ranged from zero, meaning the question is completely false or ten meaning the question is entirely true. I wishing to sell my book back at the end of the year scored my questions on a separate sheet of paper. Afterward, we were to total our scores on a…

After a loved one dies, which of the emotional repercussions is the most difficult to overcome? Is it the constant, pressing thought of how loving they were? Is it the daunting task of having to move on? In Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, the Salmon family faces the anguish of mourning after their daughter and sister, Susie Salmon, is raped and murdered by the neighborhood hermit. Prior to her death, Susie had been a precocious, brilliant, yellow-bell-bottom-wearing 14-year-old girl with a…

When the main character of the feature film “The Visitor” (2007, Groundswell) Walter Vale, unlocks his apartment in New York City, visiting from Connecticut to present an academic paper, he is surprised by two “visitors.” Tarek and Zainab, young undocumented immigrants from Syria and Senegal, respectively, are living in his house. They are the visitors to Walter’s otherwise humdrum life. They are also “visitors” to the United States, and as far as the government is concerned, unwelcome…

ship control.". Cheoh ran to the control room and flipped through the book again, "Now...push that button there and another one there...", Cheoh said while clicking the buttons. Soon enough, the ship got off the ground, and after setting it to autopilot, Cheoh sat a chair in the corner of the room. "Now I can just relax for an hour!", Cheoh said to himself while closing his…

Introduction According to Adam Jonas, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, “Tesla may be in position to disrupt industries well beyond the realms of traditional auto manufacturing.” (Hettich & Muller-Stewens, 2014) This case study is about how Tesla recognized certain trends, innovated their business model while creating value for consumers, and sustained a competitive advantage as competitors inside and outside of the auto industry are advancing and catching up. Furthermore, what challenges are…

Technology, no doubt, make us a little lackadaisical ; however, technology does great things like enhancing our experience as related to science and helping us come to important conclusions quicker. Technology makes us a slight bit lazy. No doubt about that. I mean we have calculators, cars that drive by themselves and phones that do absolutely everything we could ever need them to do. Every time a new phone or a new generation of a phones comes out I really think to myself, “What more could we…

After flinging my school bag onto my back in an angry manner, i left my empty casing of a family home slamming the door behind me. Usually at this point I would walk the family gremlin to school because sadly we went to the same one, but the daily argument happened 20 minutes before scheduled so she wasn't even ready yet, luckily. I was now in my element. Music on, world off. I went along the same route, passing all the same oak trees, taking all the right roads as per normal. This was where my…

The economic impact that fishing and hunting has in New York is easily seen in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-associated report. This report states that in 2006, a total of 1.2 million resident sportsmen in New York spent $5 million a day for an annual total of $1.8 billion. This amount of money definitely has an economic impact on the state of New York as well as an impact on many lives. The 1.2 million resident sportsmen in New York…

Human Dimensional Impacts upon Information Security Infrastructure William Fisher University of Maryland University College CSEC610 Cyberspace and Cybersecurity Professor Hall Abstract Evaluating the vulnerabilities of an organization’s information security starts with the risk assessment. The process includes the method performed and current protocols to both measure the risk involved and address attacks. Typically, businesses will have a network tailored to their particular needs balancing…

The effect you’ve had on my cognitive growth has been a lot both for the good, and the bad. You taught me everything, you both did. Everyone thought I was going to fall behind, but we showed them and I was doing more than most babies my age except for the walking part. You guys made me so smart I almost failed out of kindergarten. I never had to study in high school either so I had to accommodate my schema for learning new things in college, which I assimilate with my college courses now, and…