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STANDARD SEVEN: LIBRARY AND OTHER INFORMATION RESOURCES Resources and Access Library services and resources are tailored to fulfill the needs of the University’s curriculum across all modalities. In 2012, the Rose Traurig Library aligned its strategic plan with the Academic Affairs and University plans, wherein the main goal of the library is to better serve our student population by becoming 80-90% electronic by FY15. To meet this objective, 14 new databases were procured, including 3 e-book…

An Unfriendly Object A Review of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Skyscraper Vase Our lives are filled with objects. They surround us. Many objects were created to be helpful whereas some exist to fulfill more sinister ambitions. Whatever the case may be, it seems as though objects, that is to say, “material [things] that can be seen and touched” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, have endured with humankind for as long as there have been people to make them. This curious persisting relationship…

Joseph Goebbels was a key figure in Germany’s Nazi regime that was collectively responsible for the deaths of 46 million Europeans as a result of World War ll. Goebbels held the position of Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, which gave him total control of all forms of communication media in Germany. Through this role he played a vital part in Hitler's rise to power and promoting anti-semitic views amongst the German population. Joseph Goebbels was born on October 29th,…

The abundant affects nuclear science has had on society as whole and in our everyday lives are the result of the first ever “controlled” nuclear chain reaction test held in an old squash court beneath Stagg Field at the University of Chicago in Chicago IL. Led by Enrico Fermi an Italian Physicist, the event took place on December 2nd 1942 in a small reactor called the Chicago Pile-1 which Mr. Fermi and his team of scientist created. The Chicago Pile-1 was interracial part of a secret initiative…

1.1 HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT Safety increases productivity, reduces accidents, acts as moral booster for employees, enables them to work fearlessly with confidence when they are assured of work safety. Safety measures develop team spirit and the sense of belongingness among employees, as they see no hazards to their lives and health. 1.1.1 The safety policy The occupational safety and health are primarily a management function like quality and production, having total participation of all…

For this last day of the week, I’d prepared a quiz about the equation of the circle. I prayed that they might answer it correctly. I provided easy items only. As I entered the class and looked at them, their faces seemed to be burdened as if their most hated subject finally began. It hurt. However, I didn’t had any choice at all but to continue and start the task. For them to improve their moods, I said that we were not about to discuss any topic for today. Instead, a short quiz would be…

The objective of this essay is to understand the work scope of the chosen manager, and to evaluate how and to what extent the Mintzberg’s informational roles are applicable to the manager’s management work. In addition, this essay also examines the extent to which organisation size and workforce diversity may impact the work of the manager. Management is the development of collecting and using sets of resources in a goal-directed manner to achieve tasks in an organisational setting (Hitt, Black…

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” was written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1968. There are a few different ways of analyzing a story I will be using three different styles to get a better understanding of the story and what I think the author meant the true meaning to be. First by looking into the life of the writer and the time period in which the story is written one can see the influences they had on the story, the second is to analyze the short story critically, and lastly is to look at…

Introduction You Should Be Here is the second mixtape released by singer Kehlani on April of 2015. The mixtape is made up of 15 songs in which Kehlani channels a mixture of longing and uncertainty about both, romantic and familial, relationships in her life. The mixtape’s cover sparked my intreset as it was a painted portrait of Kehlani on top of a building. For the purpose of this paper, I will attempt to answer this research question: How does Kehlani’s mixtape cover further embolden and…

Winning political independence from Europe, they aspired to a form of cultural independence. In the process, they dreamed of American literary and artistic life that would rival the greatest achievements in Europe. Americans believed that their “happy land” was destined to become the “seat of empire” and the “final stage” of civilization, with “glorious works of high invention and of wond'rous art.” The means of expression that this “independence” found was among other places in early American…