Extreme Makeover

Software Methodologies Agile Methodologies Agile Software Development (ASD) has in the recent years been an emerging development approach in the South African software development industry. The agile approach is continuously improving with time and companies are now identifying that, there are still difficulties in adopting the agile approach and how software is developed in an agile environment (Greer & Hamon 2011). Aleid (2015) explains agile as a set unconventional development methodologies,…

Gattaca, is it really down to a science? “Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. - John Phillips” This relates to the society in the movie “Gattaca” due to the fact that the society is only for the “people” that are “valid” meaning that only people that have been genetically modified are accepted in the advanced work field of the future. Due to these facts that only “valid” people are accepted in the world,…

Development Goals spearheaded by the United Nations is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere.” Several targets were set in order to achieve this particular goal and the timeline was set to 2030. These targets or actions include: eradication of extreme poverty everywhere; reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty; Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all; ensure that the poor and the vulnerable have…

drought, can again lead to aggression and higher suicide attempts in farmers (Guiney). This is just one example of how a specific group of people or population’s mental health can negatively affected because of climate change and more importantly extreme weather events. These two ideas have direct and indirect impacts that could be lessened and dealt with over time, if policy making bodies gain awareness about…

Irene Sans Meteorologist Irene Sans was always focused in mathematics and science from a very early age. She attended Florida State University, where she graduated with a bachelor in Meteorology, minor in mathematics and concentration in Hispanic Marketing Communications. While in FSU, she was the first bilingual deputy State Meteorologist on board at the Division of Florida Emergency Management – Emergency Operations Center where she would brief state officials about the weather conditions…

Keep the Iditarod Did you now that the dogs are so intelligent that they can pull a sled by their self without anyone telling them where to go? It is true!! The dog are breed for it and they are so smart that they know how to lead a sled better than a person. Some people think that it is bad for the dogs. But the dogs are breed for these conditions and they are in fit for it too. The dogs might look like they are too skinny and will freeze but that is not true the dogs have so much fur…

This class has helped me realize my potential as a leader. While not always great at team efforts in the past, I have since become adept at handling different personalities and situations. My ideas of leadership have been affected as well. While not totally gone, my old notions have been impacted by new ideas of team dynamics. Aiding this learning of new ideas is the group I was assigned to. I have made friends with the members of this group and would trust them with almost anything I would…

Communication accommodation theory suggests that we adapt our communication when interacting with others. Giles and Coupland (1991) refined speech accommodation theory (Giles, Mulac, Bradac, & Johnson 1987) to better understand our adaptations during interpersonal communication. The major components of communication accommodation theory are convergence and divergence. While convergence is the adjustment of our speech to match the other party, divergence is the altering of speech to differ from…

mediated event”. The two reality tv shows which I feel will be most intriguing to explore are, Extreme Makeover and Fear Factor, growing up I remember these two TV shows were a favourite of mine when they were aired along with 7th Heaven but we wont go into that today. Extreme Makeover: extreme-makeoverhome-edition1__111215213324 Ok, so I 'm pretty sure everyone has seen at least one episode of Extreme…

article Beautiful Ever After “Extreme Makeover” and the Magical, Mythical Spectacle of Rebirth by Fiona Whittington-Walsh. Actually, after reading this article I have conflicting feeling about the word “rebirth”. What is the “rebirth” means in this article: Are you became a new version of yourself? or You are no longer the original version of yourself? (First one is the passive feeling about “rebirth” and the other one is negative feeling.) In the show Extreme Makeover, many girls want to…