Extremes

What is a foul weather gear and why you need it? Description: Foul weather gear is the must-have item when you set out for some adventurous activity. It must keep you warm and comfortable. There must not be any water penetration. Can you hear the winds howling and the rain blasting by in horizontal downpour? When the wind is sharp, the sky is grey and the spray is chilled as an ice, all you need is foul weather gear to sail comfortably in the winter weather. Sailing in winter becomes a pleasure…

Scarleth Diaz Professor Mayer History 104 November 30, 2015 Second Assignment The Ages of Extreme: A History of the World In the novel The Ages of Extreme: A History of the World 1914-1991, the author Eric Hobsbawm tells the reader series of events that happened within those time frames. This 600 page book consist of the development of the entire planet, giving more details into the European affairs. The events are not told year by year but divided into three centuries: Catastrophe…

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…

Agile project management allows teams to work closely together. Agile focuses more on working software rather than planning and hence it is also called value driven approach. Agile assumes resources and duration is fixed but requirements can be changing. Many in the industry would consider agile as non-planned approach, which is wrong. In fact, Agile believes that requirements are constantly changing and hence uses just in time planning and plans only for immediate needs. As we can see from the…

Scrum is the main way of project management in Agile. It means that most of the Agile projects are run in a Scrum manner. Agile project management with Scrum has several main principles. Independence of the Scrum team is the first and the main principle of its work. It means that the team of Scrum developers has no strict limits to work within. In the traditional approach to software development, the team is usually provided with complete and detailed instructions on the future project. At…

India, a country with a population of more than 1 billion people, is home to many small, rural communities that have never encouraged education among their citizens (CIA, 2016). In one of these communities, a family of eight struggles to get by with the little money the family makes as tenant farmers. Overtime, situations such as these have been bettered thanks to the Millennium Development Goals, but there is room for further achievement. Since the implementation of the Millennium Development…

Task 1 In this assignment for project management I am going to choose the Agile Scrum methodology to use as the main body and examples. Agile Scrum is commonly known as it has its famous 12 principles that achieve a good success in project management. These principles I will describe below in a short description. This will hopefully illustrate whoever reading this a short understanding as I will progress to then explain why, Agile, is used to secure many great benefits to project management. 12…

The authors of Risks of Rapid Application Development lead off their discussion with this salient point (Agarwal, Prasad, Tanniru, & Lynch, 2000). They argue that management should not force the change through the organization but rather build a cultural shift that is accepting of what the process is looking to accomplish (Agarwal, Prasad, Tanniru, & Lynch, 2000). Ensuring that their is top down support doesn’t guarantee success however, without the support of management the process will not…

The Skeleton is one of the most dangerous sport in the olympics, one man and a sled reaching up to 100 miles per hour speeds on a ice slope. Skelton is one of the fastest and most dangerous sports ever added to the olympics. People have died during the sport by crashing into walls head first or not slowing down after the finish. Contestants can also hit 5 g’s and blackout. Contenders ride on a small sled that weighs 90 pounds and if you aren’t careful you can end up badly injured, and all for a…

for money, or find some sort of unsafe loan service. Those three methods are not good ways to store or receive money because by storing money in an insecure place like under a bed, there is a high chance that it can and will be stolen. The video “Extreme Budgeting” gave an example of how storing money in an insecure location could go wrong. They shared the story of Yonada; she is a Guatemalan native who lives in the remote village of Peña Blanca. She stored all the money that she earned for…