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Dell'Amore (2013) of National Geographic writes, "[A] new study shows that dung beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom" can help give your statement instant credibility. In this case, I had to do a Google search in an attempt to verify your statement. One citation that I did not have to verify of Jurmain et al. (2014) was "We're the only species to ponder our own existence and question how we fit into the spectrum of life on earth" (p. 4) .…

What is Big Fish Games? A casual gaming company founded in 2002, Big Fish Games has today grown into the world’s largest producer and distributor of online casual games. Paul Thelen, once a Group Product Manager for RealNetworks, broke away in 2000 to found Big Fish Games with a capital of $10000. In 2008, the company received major financial backing from venture capital funds and in 2009, opened its new European headquarters in Cork, Ireland. Its reach has increased exponentially and the…

Here we go then, don’t take it to heart, it’s meant to help. My six of the best criticisms, over breakfast  1. You advertise your forum as ‘Christian Activism’ and so you’ve just lost a political audience. Yet when browsing the site and attracting Christians, it largely reverts back to politics and so you lose both audiences. 2. It meanders topically, the home page which is your introduction to the site, jumps from one topic to another and it’s difficult to know what the site is about. I…

In order to acquire the use of Google’s many convenient services, users are required to create a Google account which includes freely giving up data such as phone numbers, birth dates, credit card information, and maybe even a photo. By placing all of this information anywhere on the internet, it becomes public. As a result of our data being publicized and our rights being compromised: there us a lard uproar being built within the social media community that will define privacy for years to come…

The article assigned to complete was titled, Problems of Purity and Novel Ritual Solutions, by Dr. Karapanagiotis. The article answered questions regarding the rules that Hindu followers felt were being violated with cyber-worship. The article concluded that Vishnu cares more about intentional devotion, rather than rules. With new knowledge of the importance of a Vaishnava devotee’s heart, exceeding the violations of Hindu rules. I understand that Vaishnava traditions uphold love, sincerity, and…

While researching the topic of over-consumption, my colleagues and I gathered reliable information from websites, documents, books, and graphs in order to gain knowledge about over-consumption. These authors wrote about the positive and negative effects of all types of over-consumption, and they used studies to provide information that supports their stand on the topic. However, we collected data through trusted databases such as Gale, summarized important information, and cited each source in…

Hazardous Cookies When you go on to a site did you ever wonder if you were being watched. Even on your own personal device. Well with cookies you are. These cookies aren't the ones you eat they are “used to track users internet surfing, record their online purchases, and greet them by name when they visit a Website” says Patrick Cunningham the author of the article “Are Cookies Hazardous to Your Privacy?” He also tells us that “a cookie is a piece of information passed between an internet…

It's crazy to see things that you wouldn't think you would see on Facebook. Like when you look at a certain object on a different program and then it just pops up on your news feed then you wonder how it knew that you looked that up. A lot of the time it's just random things that pop up just to get your attention most of the time it doesn't get people attention but when these ads show up, someone else is getting paid as they show up. Every moment that passes by and an ad come in they get some…

Marissa Mayer, the ill-fated CEO of Yahoo!, clearly made some major blunders during her early tenure at the company. Specifically, she lacked a long-term strategy, refused to listen to other members of her team, and invested in a series of failed marketing ventures instead of focusing on improving fundamentals. Miguel Helft from Forbes magazine documents these points quite thoroughly in his article “The Last Days of Marissa Mayer?” Time and time again, Mayer refused to adhere to a single,…

From the moment I walked into Google headquarters in New York City last June, I felt like I belonged to something so amazing. All of the employees welcomed me with open arms as I entered a room that felt like the home of technology. Each person in that building had something very unique about themselves however they all shared a common passion which is engineering and technology. Hearing about each of the jobs they offered at Google made me want to learn more about the field of computer…