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The black autobiography has played an integral role in documenting the realities of African-American life in American literature. Rising to literary prominence concurrently with the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, these publications illustrated an existence permeated by struggle and provided unprecedented representation of the black reality within popular literature. These autobiographies taken together depict a collective existence…

The Autonomous Connected Car: Feasibility, Probability, and Onboard Features A man falls asleep while driving his car. His car automatically takes control and he is safe from any accident and, he is still headed towards his destination. His kids in backseat play online games using the car’s Wi-Fi capability. The car arrives at the man’s place of work and the car automatically uses its playlist of destinations to take the kids to school and proceed to drive back home and await its next command…

3. Environmental Assessment Political Forces Verizon must deal with politics at every level from local all the way up to federal authorities. Their business depends on cell towers to carry wireless signals. However, no one wants a cell tower in their backyard. So Verizon must navigate the permitting and zoning process at the local level to construct and maintain their cell towers. Verizon has obviously been very successful at this level of political forces because they have the largest…

African Culture: From Corruption to Change According to Transparency International, within the continent of Africa, the majority of countries (vast majority) slant towards the bottom of the scale of corruption, with Somalia and South Sudan having the lowest ratings of all the countries, yet other countries are thriving such as Batswana and Namibia. (Transparency International, 2014) Among the issues facing many of these countries is the issues of abject poverty, poor government infrastructure,…

New crust is generated as plates pull away from each other and can either cause sea floor spreading or new land to be created. An example of a continental rift valley is the Eastern African Rift Valley which is being formed as the Eastern African plate is moving away from the main Africa plate in a north-easterly direction. Plates move apart due to convection currents in the lithosphere. As the crusts move away from each other the crust thins, tension in the lithosphere causes the plate to…

Saudi Arabia has set a goal of reducing DM rates because it has one of the highest prevalence rates in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) of the World Health Organization (WHO)(Boyce et al., 2011). Saudi Arabia is in the center of a regional hotspot for diabetes prevalence with a national raw data rate of 20.22%. This is exacerbated by the fact that Saudi Arabia has no government entity for monitoring diabetes and no national diabetes prevention plan (Global Diabetes…

The potential for the inhibition of anti-apoptotic and RNAi pathways to enhance in vitro baculovirus biopesticide production Summary Baculoviruses are target specific virus infected a number of plant pests especially the lepidopterous pests. Baculovirus biopesticides have been used worldwide for decades. Although many have been done to enhance yields of baculovirus in vitro production, their large-scale production poses certain difficulties that limited the use. Apart from optimization of cell…

Many, whether they are Cuban or not, are left questioning the current state of Cuba, and especially its future. As a country that played a large role in bringing two superpowers to the brink of World War III, Cuba has evolved from being a vacation hotspot for United States citizens, to a prominent symbol of a leftist, socialist government within the Western Hemisphere. (Silverman, p. 314) The evolution and radical change that has left us with the modern Cuba we now begs us to look further and…

The north, south and east side of the park are very large sidewalk areas that are capable of holding large groups of people at a time. The most obvious of these is the south part of the park where there are two sets of steps that lead up into the park, this is the popular meeting spot for when protest take place here in Union Square. These sides of the park are meaningful as they have the ability to facilitate large groups of people and act as signifying objects that carry meaning with them.…

A primary concern of security-conscious users is having an intruder spy on your online activities and becoming a target for phishing attacks or hijacked connections. This situation could happen in various settings, especially at unsecure Wi-Fi hotspots, fake cellular base towers or hotel networks that have been compromised by cyber-criminals. Thus, it is best to use VPN every time you use public wireless…