A BADGE OF HONOR? “Our society seems to place a moral value on sleeping as little as possible… . Saying ‘I’m tired and I’m going to sleep’ is viewed as being lazy.” Sleep research Dr. Eve Van Cauter (Brody) provided this adequate description of how our high demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week world, is robbing substantial numbers of people of sleep. For many Americans “inadequate sleep is a workaholic’s badge of honor” (Brink). We proudly pin on our badge of sleep deprivation and polish…
Email: The Primary Genre for the Church Worship Team Introduction Understanding the genre of the worship team email is critical to diagnosing the forms of communication used in the discourse community of the church worship team. Without a firm conceptualization of this intercommunication methodology, it is nearly impossible to see how members converse in this community. Consequently, the understanding of email is crucial to healthy correspondence within church worship teams. Earlier studies in…
Society often makes the assumption that there are strictly two sexes: male and female. This idea is supported by this idea of “the perfect body,” an ideal biological make up and a flawless appearance. When in reality this idea of perfection and what is deemed by society to be ‘normal’ must be challenged. Infants that are born intersexual do not have the advantages of males or females because in the eyes of society intersexuals are abnormal – outcasts. Given society’s binary construction of…
amount of funding they have for the victims that need government assistance. As a society we often want to help each other but don’t want to infringe on our own personal rights. In stances where the violent crime rate is brought into question in comparison to the violent crime rate of other countries such as Europe, the U.S…
Both smartphones came with hardware called System on Chips or SoCs, which were used to integrate ARM-based CPUs, GPUs, cache memory, and other various processing functionalities onto one chip. The new Apple “Ax” series was the name of the family of SoCs for iPhones (“Apple iPhone 4”, n.d.). The…
Cost Accounting Cost accounting refers to the internal financial system to track expenditures and costs within an organization. Such a system guide managers and decision-makers in their actions as they show the profit or loss of the organization within a specific period of time. Traditional accounting process considers only direct cost related to the product and skips many environmental and hidden costs. For example, if toxic materials are emitted during the development of a product, then it…
American leaders were once considered powerful and respected individuals appointed to represent the needs of their people. Great leaders throughout history like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are commemorated for their service. But this optimism towards government has quickly eroded as Americans lose faith in their leaders. How has such an important institution lost the support of the people it represents? When the New York Times published the first papers of the infamous “pentagon…
upon the joys and obstacles he faced through his life, and made his way through the house to each room, looking back upon the memories he made with his family and his “special girl.” My dog, Riley, lost his life to brain cancer. According to Riley’s file at Essington Road Animal Hospital, his weight was fluctuating at a range between 10.8 pounds and 9.6 pounds with great signs of…
now, very limited research work is carried out in this area. Some of the notable, proposed architectures for using SDN in WSN are: • Software Defined Wireless Sensor Network (SD-WSN) • TinySDN • Service-centric networking for URban-scale Feedback Systems (SURF) • Software Defined Networking in WIreless Sensor nEtworks (SDN-WISE)…
Fast fashion system mainly contains two components that make it superior from other systems. One component is short production and distribution lead times, which helps match supply and demand so eventually minimize the gap between them. Another component is highly fashionable design capabilities that enhance the desires of consumers and increase sales (Cachon and Swinney, 2010). As a fast growing fast fashion brand, Zara is “the most innovative and devastating retailer in the word”, called by…