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Growing up with scientist parents, I followed them around the world as they pursued their education and careers in scientific research. I was born in Shanghai, as my parents finished their post-bacs degrees, and moved to Japan at the age of two to accompany them as they obtained their PhDs. When I was seven, my family finally settled down in Seattle. These experiences growing up in the different countries and different cultures have broadened my perspective. Having gone to school in three…

Okay. We have to assume that virtually everyone today is familiar with the term “hacking.” We generally associate this term with computers, and all they mean in our lives. Hackers can be bad or good, depending on your inclinations and politics - freedom fighters of the internet or reckless partygoers endangering us all. But hacking has never been limited to the computer world, and the term “biohacking” is becoming more popular in our everyday world. So, what exactly is biohacking? The…

people. There are the good impacts as well as the bad impacts. Now the good impacts can occasionally to bad things in the end. Just like bad impacts can eventually lead to have good payoffs. Right? Jenny Q. Ta a writer for Business2Community has a few different things that she believes media has an impact on. The first one has been a common topic so far. That’s right, politics. Jenny proclaims that the media that any politician should hop right on the so…

Paulo Freire’s ‘the banking concept of education’ states that a teacher is a depositor and the student is a bank account. His solution for this is ‘problem-posing education’ which in essence is taking that deposited value and investing it forward in their future and allowing them to invest the capital in different locations without restrictions. But there is a middle ground where you can use problem-posing education with the banking concept in a meld of the old and the new, meaning that if you…

"The only sustainable competitive advantage is to learn faster than your competition and to be able to act on what you have learned." ~ Jack Welch (Former CEO, GE) While Samsung has held on to its leadership position in the market, it is noteworthy that Micromax is growing faster. Despite being a homegrown and a new-born mobile phone manufacturer, Micromax has snatched market shares of big multinationals from South Korea and Finland. In the end of Quarter II, 2014 Samsung stood first with 17%…

In the article “The Good, Racist People,” Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses an event which resulted in Forest Whitaker being accused of shoplifting. What could possibly be a reason to assume Whitaker, a famous actor, had committed shoplifting? From Coates’ point of view, many others want to believe that this encounter was a misunderstanding that had nothing to do with race. Whitaker was accused of shoplifting and then was frisked, based only on his appearance. Coates then goes on to claim that the…

challenges and reccomendations.journal of environmental research and development 7(1). Corley, K. et al., (2011) Team EcoA technology assessment test report: Cell phones and their networks on the environment. Retrieved from http://mrstarke.iweb.bsu.edu/510/ta/TeamEcoA_RoughDraft.htm Gifford, C (2011) colony collapse disorder: the vanquishing honey bee (apismellifera) retrieved from…

James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates are two astonishing writers who have made compelling argument in their books “the fire next time and between the world and me”. For years there has been argument about the racial inequality in America between blacks and white. It has been made said that categorizing these group/race is a part of a social structure and a display of hierarchy. The question that we struggle with is how we can we bridge his gap and create equality among each other on earth. By…

“Worldviews shape not just our individual lives, but universities as well.” (Why College Matters To God, 20) I believe that the main way that we should live in the world is through listening to and being able to talk to people openly about differences in beliefs and social differences. If one strives to be conscious of and learn from other points of views and experiences, one can be enlightened and educated in things that they might have missed otherwise. This can be portrayed by the…

What is SDI’s required rate of return (ks) using nonconstant DCF methodology? Assume the following conditions: SDI’s current stock price is $15; investors expect a dividend cut to $0.20 in 1997, after which the company will experience a supernormal dividend growth rate of 20 percent per year out to 2001 and a normal growth rate of 14.9 percent in 2002 and thereafter. LE ON LY SWAN-DAVIS CORPORATION, Fundamental Concepts, CASE 72, Directed 7 TABLE 1 Historical Balance Sheets…