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Navon (1977) has shown that the global characters are reacted to faster than local ones. However, this study will focus on how we perceive local characters when they are same as the global ones, and when they are different. It is based on Navon’s experiment 4 from 1977 but with the attention of the study being shifted from global characters to local ones. The participants (first year undergraduate psychology, C81MPR students) had to press the button on the keyboard as soon as they identified the…

Introduction Nortel Network Corporation was a huge Canadian player in telecommunication. It was a part of the telecommunication boom in the 1990's. Like many companies it had a great rise then suddenly it started to fall. There was four huge reasons for the company downfall: governance structure at the board level, executive compensation, ownership structure, and earnings management. (Collins, 2012) The company may have started with some good Samaritans but as it grew more and more the company…

In his satirical folk song “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues”, Todd Snider said the alternative to alternative was a band that wasn’t even together. However, with the internet becoming such a creative force, the alternative to alternative has become more than a joke. With the advent of the internet, new genres are birthed and begin to gain popularity daily, most without any trace of a record label to their names. The term “Indie used to mean without a record deal, all by themselves”, but was…

During the mid-seventeenth century, England was facing the enormous debt from the Seven Year’s War, where the British and its colonial allies fought France and won the war. The Parliament passed several laws to help decrease the debt. The Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and the Tea Act were all established to lower it, but it changed and affected many lives negatively, along the way. After the Seven Year’s War, the Parliament needed to find ways to solve the problem with the war debt. The prime minister…

Lori Macintosh Cannabis and its Effects on the Body and Society Introduction Cannabis is the name given to the medical and recreational drug prepared for use from the cannabis plant. Indigenous to Central and South Asia, it is known to have been used by ancient Hindus in India and Nepal thousands of years ago and has an ancient history of being used in rituals. Criminalization of cannabis in various countries began in the early 20th century. Cannabis is currently rated a Class B drug in the UK…

You literally fell down drunk and died. Not quite what the study had in mind. Last fall, I spent about a month in the file room of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, hoping to learn the secrets of the good life. The project is one of the longest-running—and probably the most exhaustive—longitudinal studies of mental and physical well-being in history. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all male), it has followed its subjects for more than 70 years.…

Basic leadership could be characterized as the way toward picking the best option out of a few ones keeping in mind the end goal to satisfy the goal of the association and to build the shareholders' riches. The way toward picking the best option from a given arrangement of tasks includes different quantitative and subjective investigation of the accessible arrangement of choices, to settle on the practicality of the undertaking or ventures that will be picked by the administration. One vital…

The history of the modern computer is relatively new. What we think of today of computers was not even brought into the world until the 1940’s. If it was not for the competitiveness of World War II, we could be thirty years behind where we are today. The need for faster, more efficient ways of computation and communication developed into a contest for who would have the biggest advantage in war by ways of technology. This race between the great world powers of the United States, Britain, and…

Technology in the 21st Century Computers, and technology in general, have undergone tremendous changes since the turn of the 21st century. Computers went from blocky chunks of hardware, to sleek and streamlined laptops and handheld paper thin tablets, which have revolutionized education. Whereas mobile phones have also slimmed down, losing their keyboards and making every aspect of daily life more convenient, however have had caustic effects as a result. However, the advances in technology do…

computers and re-spec them and even though Apple’s devices were smaller than those of their predecessors then, IBM, the customizability factor is what gave them the edge in the market. When Steve Jobs, the business genius, took over, he produced the Macintosh which was supposedly the epitome of perfection in the computer world. This was so contrary to the original Apple that Wozniak, as Wu shows, denied having a hand in that product; this product started a rigid dictatorship in which Apple Inc.…