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INNOVATION ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM) The innovation acknowledgment show (TAM) was produced by Davis (1989) to explaincomputer-utilization conduct. It shows how clients acknowledge and utilize new innovation. The model recommends that when library and clients are given another innovation, various components impact their choice about how and when they will utilize it. Such factors include: Perceived handiness (PU) - This was characterized by Davis (1989) as how much a man trusts that utilizing a…

Brother of Richard Oldenburg a well-known art historian whom of which was director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, between 1972 and 1993. From 1930 to 1933 the Oldenburgs moved to and lived in New York, then from 1933 to 1936 they lived in Oslo, then Norway. Oldenburg had attended the Latin School of Chicago, where he graduated and attended Yale after he and his family had both moved and settled into Chicago in 1936, then later on attended Harvard, which he had dropped out of too later…

The Olympics have been causing several problems in recent and not so recent years, putting many countries and cities into financial debt. To stop this we must put permanent sites on our building list for the Olympics and keep those the few things on that list. Over the years the Olympics have been hosted we are shockingly finding that each year those hosting cities will spend billions of dollars on unnecessary things, such as facilities and equipment. The host for the 2016 games, Brazil,…

All individuals come into existence with the ability to choose how they will be seen by their peers, and the choices one makes reveals their true character. In the novel Sophie's World the author Jostein Gaarder writes about a person's capability to choose how they want to exist in this world. The plot of the novel is based on the main protagonist, Sophie Amundsen’s educational expedition through a strange correspondence course in philosophy. However, it is evident through the author’s writing…

Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style by Nils Christie, a professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, is somehow a ground-breaking book to the extent that it argues that ‘’crime control, rather than crime itself is the existent danger for our future’’ and that systems of crime control have the potential for developing western style Gulags, or concentration camps (p.15) Crime Control as Industry is divided into 13 chapters each of those filled with very concrete and…

The Chinese empire underwent many economic and technological advances between the 8th and 13th century. In the early 15th century, massive fleets sent on expeditions by the Chinese controlled the Indian Ocean and its trade. During that time, the Chinese had the technological innovations, economy, system of bureaucracy and transportation to secure their place as the powerhouse of “the age of sail”. However, it was European powers that dominated the world and entered the Industrial Evolution…

Social movements are about ensuring political equality, about creating positive change and about ensuring social justice. Discussions in class have enhanced my point of view about social movements and how they are the mainstay of any successful democracy. If it were not for the Abolition movement, Women’s Suffrage movement or the 1960s Civil Rights movement, this country would not have progressed and evolved the way it has. These movements resulted in transforming the country into a better…

A Challenging Opportunity Good evening ladies and gentlemen, at the heart of every catastrophe is an opportunity. Surely, this would be the general consensus of my colleges in the audience today. It is an irrefutable fact that every event in our lives brings about a certain transformation in us. A proof of this, will emerge through an anecdote, I shall share with you shortly. Before I begin, I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude for felicitating me and considering me to don the…

for the longest of the two groups. The Gaza Strip is a rectangular land mass on the Mediterranean coast in the middle of Israel and Egypt. The majority of the population there are Palestinian refugees, and many have lived in camps for years. In the Oslo peace accords in 1993,…

brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” On December 10, 1964, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize to a full auditorium at Oslo University. Less than 20% of the attendees were black. They sat in their own area, sonorously separated from the white men and women attending. What do you think of this? One-hundred years after the Civil War. One-hundred years after the…