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A Glimpse into Buying your First Home 1. Intro Envisioning your life after college began from the beginning you drew your first home. In elementary school, art skills are put to the test to bring the house we aspire to have out from our imaginations and onto a white rectangular sheet of paper. The teacher would ask everyone to raise their drawings up for the class to see. All were unique, yet most with the same nonchalant design: a square base, door, one or two windows, and triangular roof.…

David Meyers Principles of PR Kenna Griffin Case study 4 – Equifax 15 September 2017 Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency had its security breached. This issue is affecting individuals all over the world. Personal information of people has been accessed by cyber criminals who hacked into the database of the organization. It is known as one of the worst hacks ever due to its range and the information that was exposed to the public. Equifax have been called out by the public for a scarce…

Airtel Money, the mobile wallet from the successful and popular telecom company Airtel, allows you to use your smartphone as an electronic wallet to make and receive payments. Originally launched in 2012, the app offers customers with an efficient alternative to cash transactions. The Airtel Money app provides people across the country an adept and convenient way of paying bills through various ubiquitous mobile platforms such as Android, iOS and Windows. Airtel Money was initially used by a…

user will not be aware that there details are being taken or used. Covert is when you are not aware that data is being collected – such as through cookies. The website reads the cookie and can then look up details such as your name, address, credit card number from their database. This saves you from having to re-enter your data every time you visit. Cookies capture information that you don’t particularly know that’s being collected. This has its advantages and disadvantages. A cookie is a…

So, I just sit down and try to figure it out for myself. Sometimes I just end up thinking way too much. Finishes laying last card. I’ve always been interested in things that other people think are weird. Like these, Tarot Cards are one of the most interesting things I’ve ever bought. Now I don’t necessarily believe in reading the future or anything like that. But, tarot cards really just work off of psychology. There’s this psychological theory by Carl Jung about archetypes. Basically it says…

everyone had a splendid time. When we moved to Canada, life wasn’t the same, we had no family relatives in Canada, and my mom, for the first time, was working fulltime as well. But she never lost her kinship values. In the text “The female world of cards and holidays: Women, families, and the work of kinship”, the author explains about kin work and how it is deeply embedded with the females of our cultures. First of all, the author describes kin work as a reference to how the woman in the…

In "Stuff Is Not Salvation," Anna Quindlen, a columnist at News Week, talks about how American consumers are out of control with buying the things they want instead of what they need. She talks about how the addiction to consumption is becoming much more of a problem than it should be. People love the idea of getting a good bargain and feel as if they can 't pass it up. She also mentions how this has been going on for decades, all the way back to the Great Depression. The big difference between…

Demonetization As demonetization took place, usage of digital payment methods like e-wallets, e-banking, debit and credit cards have increased and will go on to make a systematic cashless infrastructure; as demonetization came as a shock to Indians. Such a step was taken for taking notice of illegal activities, tax evasion, etc, due to which people were depositing currency notes in bank accounts showing unaccounted income, all of which was subject to higher tax and penalties. 1 Demonetization…

borrows money through Prosper (a P2P platform), they only charge origination fee to process the loan. On the contrast, banks will charge different kinds of fees, like transaction fee and security fee. (Laura Woods, 2015) Contrary to bank and credit cards, P2P provides lower interest rate. Thirdly is Flexible. Banks focus more on company’s’ credit history, if the business got a bad credit history, it is likely that bank will reject the loan requirement. However, the enterprise has another chance…

Once we started discussing Popular culture phenomenon’s in class I was slightly perplexed. My confusion in itself was confusing as We all join in on, or at least observe popular culture phenomenon’s daily. Since the internet became so prevalent we start to see an exponential rise in cultural phenomenon’s popping up. The western world especially has an irritating amount, of constantly new fads and phenomenon’s that most of us feel we should follow. Following these trends keeps us “in the loop”,…