The end of August 2005 is a period of time that many along the entire Gulf Coast area will never forget. Hurricane Katrina, even ten years later, is one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in United States history. Despite the awareness and preparation that is afforded when anticipating a hurricane, the Gulf Coast was severely devastated when the storm made landfall on August 29, 2005. Although there was widespread destruction, the region most decimated by the hurricane was New Orleans.…
August 29, 2005 was a tragic day for the residents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama. It was a day that would change their lives. On August 25, Hurricane Katrina hit land in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 40 mph. On August 28, in the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina became a Category 5 with winds of 175 mph. At 6:10 on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana. When it finally reached Louisiana on August 29, it had weakened to a Category 3 with…
In the novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius is not the best when it comes to understanding people. When he meets a man named Dorian, nothing changes. Dorian is amused by Ignatius ‘originality’ and humors what he says. But when Dorian insists that Ignatius is nuts, Ignatius starts to insult the gay community. But when Ignatius see’s that the Gay community in New Orleans is larger than he thought, even extending to the military, he decides to work with them. The gay community in New Orleans…
shoplifting in Midtown Mobile at the Walmart off Hwy south of Interstate 65. Mobile is the third populous city in the state of Alabama. According to the U.S. Census reported Mobile population estimates at an approximate 195,111 people living in the land area of 139.11 miles (United States Census Bureau, 20014). Mobile is the second largest of the Port City on the Gulf Coast. In addition, mobile is the home for USS Alabama and the Battleship Memorial Park, Gulf Coast Explorium, Mobile Convention…
The radiation-induced cell phones cause chemical processes in the body may cause damage. The Cell phone is the most common device in the world. The majority of people use cell phones. People who want to communicate with others can use cell phone to do that. Using a cell phone is a very important thing in people’s live. In addition, there are many ways to contact people who don’t live in the same house or same area by cell phones and computers. In these days, it is significant for everyone to…
Assignment 3 Summary - In this report, a cognitive walk-through has been conducted of a mobile app “gomoney NZ”1 which is a banking application from ANZ bank mainly used for online transactions. A non-user based evaluation method has been used for finding usability problems and determining various solutions in order to prevent them. The primary task for a banking application is fund transfer, it can be either between users two different accounts or paying a person. In this experiment both…
These heinous acts of privacy violation are the result of mobile devices. In today’s modern world, almost everyone has a cell phone or other mobile device. A majority of people possess “smart” phones. Smart phones are miniature computers, connecting individuals from all over the globe. A price comes with those connections. Phones are the main sights for…
Introduction: The advancement in the internet technologies (2G, 3G) as well as the mobile communication industry along with the increasing popularity of mobile communication devices such as smart phones, tablets, net books and laptops, has led to the emergence of mobile commerce as an alternative business model. Mobile phone today is considered as a lifestyle device and not just a tool to connect (Thakur & Srivastava, 2012). Its functionality has gone far beyond the function of merely connecting…
their face is displayed on the phone in real time. While communication methods of the 1970’s seemed revolutionary at the time, the introduction of the smart phone into society made it much easier and more efficient to communicate with one another (“Mobile Phones and…
Emergence of mobile technology Mobile technology can be defined that the technology extends computing and the Internet into the wireless medium (Sheng, Nah and Siau 2005). Users are allowed to have anytime, anywhere access to information and application by mobile technology, so it provides flexibility in communication, collaboration and information sharing (Sheng, Nah and Siau 2005). Mobile technology devices consist of hardware, software, operating systems and networking (Varshney and Vetter…