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Background: Buddhism is considered to be a path of spiritual development that ultimately leads to the insight of the true nature of reality. To Buddhists, meditation is a way of changing yourself in order to develop admirable qualities such as awareness, kindness, and wisdom. Buddhism is all about experience. The experience developed among the Buddhist tradition over many years has lead to a resource for all those who wish to follow such a path. Such a path ultimately leads into Enlighten.…

SOCU2253/SOCU2254 End-semester exam Student name: Sumeyya Ilanbey Student number: s338582 Course code:SOCU2253 Total word count (excluding reference list): 1610 SOCU2253/2254 End-semester Exam Instructions This exam has been designed to assess your knowledge of the entire course. It includes twelve short answer questions from which you must answer eight questions. Each question has a 200-word limit. Please type your answer into the space provided below the question. When you…

The evolution of multinational strategies from multinational European companies in the early twentieth century, international American companies post World War Two and finally Japanese Global companies during the 1970’s and 1980’s (Dobson, Starkey and Richards, 2004). However, a new type of strategy, the transnational strategy, is now necessary to balance local and global strategy and is, ‘the corporate equivalent of being able to walk, chew gum and whistle at the same time.’ (Bartlett, 1986)…

While ubiquitous Internet access is extremely convenient and enables marvelous new applications for mobile users, it also creates a major security vulnerability—by placing a passive receiver in the vicinity of the wireless transmitter, that receiver can obtain a copy of every packet that is transmitted! These packets can contain all kinds of sensitive information, including passwords, social security numbers, trade secrets, and private personal messages. A passive receiver that records a copy of…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…