Silicon Valley

cities and the employers that are located in those cities. People were moving to cities because the cities promoted recreation and leisure time and it was beneficial for the employers in terms of recruiting. I personally would like to find a job in Silicon Valley where employers like Google, promote recreation. There are various onsite recreational facilities inside the employer’s…

In the article Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted the author Malcolm Gladwell states how social media has “weak ties” which means that it has weaker bond towards the people, while interacting with people have a stronger bond. In my perspective I agree with the writer about his statement, although there are some rhetorical devices that the author used to emphasize his point that does not have as much impact as the other devices. Some of the rhetorical devices he used to…

The introduction of English immersions programs are claimed to raise performance and result in higher test scores. For example, Ken Noonan, a superintendent of schools in Oceanside, California, and founder of the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE), which for years actively campaigned for bilingual education, he states “After one year of implementing English immersion, the district achieved amazing results in English-administered state tests. Specifically, Spanish-speaking…

Texas economy keeps flourishing while the rest of the Nation is still clawing its way out of downturn? Ever speculate curiously why a place that is known for oil wildcatters and cattle rustlers in the nation’s wind-vitality leader and has thumped Silicon Valley off its cutting edge platform? Ever ask why Californians and also New Yorkers are moving to Texas by the thousand and carrying their investments with them? For writer-businessman Sam and Andrew Wyly, the appropriate response is crystal…

Lesson 6 Case Studies Kayoung Oh International American University BUS 530: Management Information System Matthew Keogh February 15, 2015 Assignment on Week 6 A tablet PC platform emerges to compete with the PC as a business system. Apple opens its iPhone software to developers, and then opens an Apps store on iTunes where business users can download hundreds of applications to support collaboration, location, based services, and communication with colleagues. 1. Introduction / Overview…

Tesla Motors Incorporation. Tesla Motors Inc. is a motor company founded in 2003 in Silicon Valley by a group of engineers (Tesla, 2015: Burns, 2014). Their main aim was to prove that electric cars could do better than local gasoline powered automobiles. Their products would be cars with instant torque, incredible power, and zero emissions, with each new generation becoming more affordable than their competitors'. Tesla launched its first car in 2012, the model that was the first electric Sedan…

planet a longer spin time than Earth. (Kte’pi:2014) Earth completes a spin in 24 hours while Mars takes 24 hours 39 minutes and 2 seconds. Earth and Mars both contain similar elements however in different size quantities. Both Planets consist of silicon(Si), oxygen(O), Iron(Fe), Magnesium(Mg) Aluminium (Al), Calcium (Ca) and Potassium(K) and these elements create rocky planets with crusts of basalt, feldspar and glass. (Kte’pi:2014). However similar in composition on the surface, it is the…

Processed foods have been around for far longer than most people know about. Before I opened this book I didn’t have much knowledge on exactly how many foods are actually processed, as a matter of fact it hardly ever crossed my mind. Before I eat a specific food I usually check the nutrient facts of the label but I always check for carbs, sugars, percentage of sodium and so on. I always looked at a box of cereal and thought, “wow this cereal has 300% daily value of vitamin A, how that was even…

Abraham Lincoln is deemed as one of the most influential presidents, of the United States of America, that has ever lived. He may have never been the most influential in terms of foreign policies but, that was all due to his devotion to the country as the president. Abraham Lincoln wanted to unite the country amid the Civil War, so he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln wanted all citizens to have equal opportunities to own a land, so he proposed and passed the Homestead Act of…

As I sat down to read Lizzie Widdicobme’s “The End of Food”, I could not help but to thoroughly analyze the $8.80 Chipotle dinner I had eaten fifteen minutes prior. It took me roughly six-minutes to get there, 12 minutes in line, and an additional 6 minutes to get home—Between the meal and parking, a total of 24 minutes of my day and $9.05 had come to pass. Although most, myself included, would classify this trip as efficient, Rob Rhineheart, CEO of the Soylent Corporation would argue otherwise.…