Leland Stanford

He went to college on and off for five years. He ended up leaving Stanford without even earning his degree. The one thing he did receive while going to college is many friends and acquaintances that would influence his writing tremendously. After leaving Stanford’s English program he enrolled in Hopkins Marine Station…

Bali is one of the most popular destinations and one of the leading tourist destinations in Indonesia (Jones Lang LaSalle, 2015). The number of international visitors has increased in the concluding four years. There were 2.892.019 international visitors who visited Bali in 2012 and increased to 4.001.835 visitors at the reminder of 2015 (Bali Provincial Tourism Office Centre, 2016). According to the Statistic Centre of Bali Provincial, the amount of 1-star to 5-stars hotels have developed from…

Have you ever went online shopping and the next thing you know, you are on Facebook and an ad for those gorgeous shoes are shining brightly in that sidebar looking better than ever? Eli Pariser explains why this is happening in The Filter Bubble. Ultimately, the new web is changing how we think and what we read. In this essay, I will review the book and discuss the arguments inside. Right now, we think that the information that we are looking up is general information that is available to…

Keywords: Deception, Lying, Prevalence, Professionals Introduction: How deceptive are the professionals in some of the highest level jobs in our society? This paper examines levels of deception among lawyers, doctors, and business people. This research stems from Professional Deception: Examining Perceptions of Deception in Law, Medicine, and Business, by Klein et. al. (2015), which examined the perceived levels of deception among the general population of these three professions. To add to…

After Stanford scored on their first drive with a 75 yard run by McCaffrey, Iowa’s defensive mentality became overly reactive—loosing the poise of a well established zone defense. Either Kevin Hogan, Stanford’s quarterback, or Stanford’s offensive play coordinator…

Not much thought goes into opening a web browser and Googling a question that’s on your mind. It’s become habitual for the everyday millennial to turn to Google if they need information instantaneously. Traditional methods such as visiting a local library or reading books to gain knowledge have been rendered unnecessary and inconvenient. Despite Google’s creation of an allegedly flawless platform that helps users travel through the web with ease, some have theorized that Google has selfish…

Alphabet Incorporated Alphabet Incorporated, more commonly known as Google is a technology based company originally founded along a search engine. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Alphabet is operated by CEO Larry Page. Their gross revenue for the last year was $74,989,000. This resulted in the gross profit of $46,825,000. Alphabet has 66,575 employees. These things put Alphabet at #36 on the Fortune 500 ranking. Alphabet is available on the NASDAQ under…

Steve Jobs can be considered an American icon. He helped create a society filled with technological advances no person could have ever imagined. In 2005, Jobs presented a commencement speech at Stanford University that captured the hearts of many people through his use of emotion and rhetoric. By breaking down his speech into three parts he was able to develop one overlying theme, never give up until you find something you love. The three stories he decided to share included connecting the dots…

Cisco Company Paper Cisco Systems Incorporated is a networking equipment company that was founded in San Francisco, California. It is found in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ 100, and the S&P 500. Cisco is also the largest networking company. Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner founded it in December in 1984.When it was created; the technologies that Cisco was using were bizarre at the time, and not many people had ever heard of fit before. The current CEO of Cisco is Chuck Robbins. Cisco…

Carr and Shirky disagree with the idea of what the social structure around the internet should be. Shirky in the “Does the Internet make you Smarter?” he believes that we can create a social structure that will change the way we use and see the internet. While Carr in the “Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?” he thinks that it is impossible to create a positive social structure around the internet. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr has this idea that the internet is making us…