The Weakest Link

President Obama conveyed in his State of the Union, “No one who works full time should have to live in poverty” (Holzer). Most Democrats will support the president’s message; however, most Republicans will strongly oppose it because it will lead to an increase of the unemployment rate. Politically speaking, we shouldn’t rely on politicians to tell us what is true or what is false about our own country’s economy. We should rely on our economists instead for factual information and statistics. My…

Does age play a role in second language acquisition? In recent years, more and more parents have decided to introduce their children to one, or even several foreign languages in order to increase their opportunities in professional life. Parents are often uncertain whether or not their children could actually benefit from multilingualism and if an early acquisition of a foreign language could interfere with their child’s ability to fluently speak the mother tongue. To optimally prepare the…

In her opinion article “50 years later MLK’s work is not done” Donna Brazile, a CNN Political commentator, and Democratic strategist, uses Martin Luther King Jr. day to express where she feels we as a country are still unequal and the areas that we need to push in order to reach this equality. The purpose of her piece on the surface is exposed and motive us as a nation to change voting laws so that more individual are able to vote. Underlying though her purpose is to smear republicans and sway…

Pink Ice in the Urinal: This chapter opens by talking about the masters, and how one year Herman Miller was invited to go to the masters so in order decide what to do they formed a few committees to discuss how to spruce up the facility. One person mentioned that they could put pink ice in the urinals. I thought that this was absolutely crazy, because how would the color of the ice change anyone’s opinion about the facility as a whole. This chapter focuses on all the little things that a company…

Halloween is just around the corner, shops are loading their windows with witches hats, broomsticks, plastic spiders and all manner of ghoulish costumes. Here in the UK, scorn is poured on the holiday, mainly due to the fact the meaning of Halloween is largely unknown and often misunderstood. Many consider it to be an Americanisation and to some extent it is, others simply do not want to open their doors to mischievous children in cheap rubber masks. The true history of Halloween was lost long…

Social Media It’s not a far jump to say that social media has created life as we know it. Social media has changed and molded the world and will continue to do so. The majority of social media originates in the United States, it affects our thoughts, actions, creativity and our values. Social media includes everything from video chatting with someone across the country to snap chatting a person in the same room as you. The things that are available now compared to even just 10 years ago are…

software should be patched regularly and hardware bios and firmware updated as soon as it becomes available. While it’s difficult to completely eliminate human error, strong measures should be taken to minimize the human error because it’s the weakest security link. Other measures to mitigate cyberattacks include multi-factor authentication and cybersecurity training for all the employees. 2. Power Outage Although Contoso doesn’t have much control over the power outages, there are some measures…

As a managing director for a company who just lost their finance manager at short notice I would first concern myself with the parties to whom I report my finances with. These parties include investors, the government, and business contacts. It is important to stay in contact with these parties for different reasons, investors hold ownership of the company therefore the finances of the company is very important to them based to see how the business is doing and to help them make decisions to…

warns Othello of jealousy, “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock…”(III, 3, Line 165-166). This again proves that jealousy is Othello’s tragic flaw because what Iago is so skilled at is finding a person’s weakest link and using it against them. In Othello’s case he marries a woman who left her father in the night without looking back, and so he never fully trusts her making his jealousy that much easier to control and…

then they get pulled out because they did something wrong. Which gives the kid, no chance to fix his/her mistake. (NBC News, 9).Stated in the article by Jeff Pearlman, it says “He made it painfully clear to the others that my brother was the weakest of weak links, that he was useless as a soccer player.” When you play a team sport it usually says that every player is required to play during the game. When a kid that is not good at the sport is thrown into the game with other kids that are better…