Capital One

female students are sitting on one side and the male students are on the other. This means that unless our teacher picks the groups for us, we always split up by gender. I never thought this was a problem until I went that convention for female computer science majors. It was brought to my attention how my classes were specified for a male student, how I am less likely to talk when in a…

involved in projects to revive the Iron Range. The four forms of capital are vital in revival of the Iron Range economy. Human capital must be used; education and knowledge is important in innovation and creating new businesses. Social capital is important in terms of knowledge in networks. Everyone needs to work together. Structural and institutional capital is important; it involves where these people live and work. Finally, cultural capital is important; preserving the cultural aspects of the…

When one sets out to build an impressive, modern building, one might be calling upon architecture that is 2,000 years old. That architecture would be ancient Greek architecture. Why Greek architecture? The answer is that Greek architecture established a new way of thinking about and using space. The Greeks thought about the rational organization of buildings and cities. They established the foundations for a spirit of creative experimentation in design and a vision of freedom. This way of…

fact, economies were an addition to the society, not a focus of society itself. This is where embedded and disembedded economies come into play. Disembedded economies, or capitalistic economies, are relatively new. Up until the 19th century, no one was focused on having money for the sake of being wealthy; it was actually forbidden by the church. The economies they had then were called embedded, or precapitalist, by Polanyi because they were just that: embedded within the societies of the…

Bartlett and Ghoshal’s article Building Competitive Advantage Through People discusses three areas of human resource management, which impacts today’s competitive workforce, all of which revolve around one thing, people. What is a key to any successful company being competitive begins with the recruitment strategy. It is essential to hire the right people for the right job and “attract the right people for those positions” (Jacoby, 2014). This recruitment foundation needs to be built on the…

Corinthian, and Composite (Stemp, 2006, pg. 28). Palladio used the Ionic order in the design of Villa Barbaro (Reist, 1985, p. 312). At the time, the Ionic order was, according to Vitruvius associated with “feminine slenderness”. The column had a scrolled capital, a plain frieze, and three flat strips in the architrave (Stemp, 2006, p. 28-29). The front elevation resembles a Roman temple portico, which was recognized as a bold architectural decision at the time. Palladio borrowed this form from…

with small use of literary devices author Louise Erdrich has made the story very intriguing. To clarify, some of the literary devices used in The Leap are simile, flashback, and analogy. In the story, the literacy device simile is used to compare one element to another. An example of simile used in The Leap is when the story reads “they loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds” (2). Without doubt the author has used simile in a delightful way to compare Anna & Harry Avalon…

In the beginning, the brothers were inseparable from each other and the car, they went places together in that car throughout that one whole summer. But after at least three years, Henry comes back from the army, everything about their relationship, their brotherly bond changes dramatically. Lyman tries to recover their brotherly bond by beating up their car and “[making] it look just…

Unfair Balance of Power One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from India, Persia, and Arabia and have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of different stories, they are all centered on the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates different stories for a thousand and one night in hopes that the King would stop killing innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The…

The mere mention of the word death evokes fear, anxiety and restlessness. It preys on the young and old alike, the poor and rich, the strong and weak, the brave and the cowards. Because of its nature that remains to be a mystery, men and women have turned to poetry to vividly describe it, seeking to shed a glimpse of light on this “might foe” Such thoughts are captured in the two poems by John Donne, “Death, Be Not proud” and “The Tyger” by William Blake. For sure death is just a temporal state.…