Cold open

competitive advantage. It became apparent that companies can no longer afford to rely entirely on their own ideas to advance their business, nor can they restrict their innovations to a single path to market (Henry W.Chesbrough, 2003). In that vein, open innovation and crowdsourcing are trending up and becoming a manifestation of a larger bandwagon…

denote weakness. In pronouncing Mrs. Miller a “goddess” and Mrs. Carteret a “supplicant,” Chesnutt is also alerting his readers to the existence of a (racialized) moral imbalance. Chesnutt reiterates the notion of Mrs. Carteret’s being an exceptionally cold-hearted woman by having Mrs. Miller openly affirm that “All my life you[, Mrs. Carteret,] have hated and scorned and despised me.” The adjectives Mrs. Miller employs in this assertion – “hated and scorned and despised” – all carry incredibly…

Shootings and gun violence have become more rampant over the years, especially in college. In the United States shooting on college campuses is becoming more common. Every 15 minutes a college shooting occur. For the safety of the campus’s students and faculty, guns should be allowed on college campuses. Most people feel safe when there is a gun near or around. People tend to feel a sense of security when they know they have something to protect them. In the article, Matthew Miller states,…

the “structure, sequence, and organization” of thirty-seven Java APIs without permission in 2010. Google’s need for Sun’s APIs stemmed from their development of Android in 2005. They contacted Sun with the hopes of getting approval to use, adapt and open source Java, which was unsuccessful. According to court documents from Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc., “The point of contention between the parties was Google 's refusal to make the implementation of its programs compatible with the Java…

It’s all about the material inside, that we wouldn’t know what that material is unless we start to explore that book. Same thing with humans, we tend to judge off their appearance, backgrounds, or households. But we have to learn to keep our minds open, and explore behind the “cover.” I went through a rough experience that made…

In the book “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Piscine Patel, is stranded on a lifeboat after the boat transporting his animals and his family sinks. Pi makes it out to the dock and into the lifeboat, but the rest of his family’s whereabouts is unknown. Pi dash's for a lifeboat which has a total of four animals inside of it. The male bengal tiger, the male hyena, a male zebra, and a female orangutan. Pi is with all four animals for a day then the hyena kills the orangutan and the zebra. The bengal…

You can’t always make someone do something, no matter how hard you try. There still seems to be those few who honestly couldn’t care less, unlike us good, genuine students. They don’t give a crap about what is going on and are just floating in the ocean, hoping that a wave will come push them to the shore. Often times confused with being lazy, or even just plain stupid, a slacker is his or her own kind of issue. Someone who slacks off doesn’t just not do work . No- a slacker is so much worse…

delayed thesis statement causes gun advocates and anti-gun activists to read throughout most of article before they hear his opinion. If his thesis statement was in the beginning, it would cause these people to either stop reading or shut down their open mind. The article is informal because it uses very little statistics or facts. The author uses events from his life and hypotheticals that could of happened to him. The article still has a serious tone, which it needs when talking about a topic…

In Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan swift Lemuel Gulliver; our protagonist goes on an adventurous study to become a ship doctor. His passion was to sail the seas and enjoy life and everything it had to offer. This came to an abrupt stop when his ship was destroyed in a horrible storm. Which luckily he survived and was washed up on a near by island called Lilliput. Encountering a very awkward seen of tiny people that only reached heights of six inches. My first impression of the people of…

Funk and Wagnall’s give a universal description of gun control. Afterwards, they go into the issue at federal levels, citing the second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution along with court cases setting precedence and bills enacted. Nonetheless revealing that state and local levels are problematic by the idealism that states and localities are free to enforce their own policies. Finally, pressure from organizations on both sides of the gun control battle makes this a highly contentious political…