learned new things with Tinkercad. I learned how to make designs with different shapes and learned what 3D printing was actually like. It was difficult at first but then I got the hang of it and I started to love it. I created an earbud holder that was a mouse that actually worked out pretty well. It took a lot of time and processing to create it and print it. It also took a lot of creativity to make it unique and interesting. There are some different things that I had in mind before making a…
User experience design is the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product. User experience design encompasses traditional human-computer interaction design, and extends it by addressing all aspects of a product or service. Designing human-friendly products is a new and ever-changing…
management, it was launched in 2009 by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin is considered not only an interesting, but also a disruptive technical innovation by many people. A number of regulatory and supervisory bodies propose that Bitcoin’s design presents distinctive risks that differ from other payment methods and stores of value. It can be regarded as speculative assets. In this essay, I will focus on its transaction risk and the characteristic of bitcoin against monetary policy.…
The Federal Reserve: Explained The Federal Reserve is a big part of today’s economy. The Federal Reserve controls the money in the United States without any power of political parties; it is its own entity (Satterthwaite, 2014). The board of Governors based in Washington D.C, and 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks located in the U.S. major cities, regulate the flow of money in the economy (Federal Reserve, 2014). The reserve has its own set of rules and regulations that must be followed. The…
Problem and solution in Zimbabwe Introduction Inflation refers to rise or increase in prices and fall in the purchasing of the value of money. A problem tends to affect many countries worldwide. Among the countries that have been affected by this crisis, Zimbabwe is one of them. The problem always plunges many countries into long seasons of instability. It is one of the countries facing the problem of inflation for a longer period. The problem of inflation in Zimbabwe came because of bad…
The Forecasting for the June 15th financial instruments of the S&P 500, 10 year T-Notes (yield), the gold price, the oil (WTI), the unemployment rate, and the Euro. My reasoning for these instruments was a mix between guessing and little economic reasoning. Out of the 6 financial instruments I was closest to 10 year T-Notes (yield), and the oil (WTI). While the other four instruments I was either in the right direction or the market went in the opposite of what I predicted. On May 18th the S&P…
According to United States census of 2010, Central Americans are reported as 7.9% of total Hispanic population which is a significant number. Salvadorians and Guatemalans have more than 1 million in population. However, homogenizing effect, globalization, and transnationalism and overwhelming majority of Mexican American population are directly or indirectly contributing invisibility of Central Americans among the Latino population. Michael Kearney, an anthropology professor…
The book that I chose for my summer reading project was I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai. It focused on life in the Middle East, specifically in Swat, Pakistan. This book showed a striking perspective from a young woman who told about life growing up in Pakistan and her fight for education against the Taliban. In the beginning of the book, Malala talks about the history of her country, such as past leaders, dictators, conflicts, and more to give the reader a sense of Pakistan’s past. Throughout…
The commonly perceived operation of a bank is fairly simply; a bank received deposits and holds them in trust The bank lends out the funds to generate income - the loanable funds model.. While this perceived intermediary role of a bank is fairly typical, it in fact does not illustrate the process and method by which banks hold deposited funds. The actual method is called Fractional reserve banking [FRB], in which banks are required to keep a fraction of the total reserves (deposits) held,…
The third policy is the Monetary policy. Monetary policy refers to what the Federal Reserve Bank, the United Sates central bank, does to influence the amount of money in the U.S. economy. It controls the economy by managing amount of money available. By modifying money supply and/or interest rates, aggregate demand can shift. The Federal Reserve Bank is the central bank of US, which sets the overall policies and oversees all banks. The Federal Reserve Bank has three different tools…