1. In The World is Flat‚ what does Thomas Friedman mean when he says the world is becoming flat? "The global competitive playing field was being leveled. The world was being flattened." From this‚ we can see that a "flat" world is one in which the "playing field" on which companies compete has become level. It is one in which companies from various countries can compete with one another on an equal basis. Friedman says that what has really driven this is what he calls "Globalization 3.0." This
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* How does your response to Nea develop over the course of the story? Is she a dynamic or static character? Explain. Nea‚ the younger sister‚ has difficulty growing up and maturing as her own life‚ as well as her sister’s life‚ progresses. Her naivety‚ aggression‚ and anxiety influence her decisions throughout the story in a negative way. Nea is a flat and static character. Throughout the story she does not change‚ she remains childish in her actions and decisions. * Explain how Nea and Sourdi
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15). This theory of perspective focuses on the mid or macro levels of analysis compared to the other two sociological paradigms‚ which focus solely on the micro and macro levels of society. Herbert Spence‚ who could be considered the father of the functionalism perspective could possibly explain an employee’s apathy with their job that they feel they do not contribute
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In the story “The True Story of Ah Q”‚ Lu Xun wrote nine episodic chapters describing a series of adventures of Ah Q. Ah Q represented a combination of the weaknesses of the Chinese people. Using Ah Q‚ Lu Xun wanted to analyze certain particular “Chinese characteristics” such as gaining merely “psychological victories” through arrogance‚ belittling‚ the strong bullying the weak‚ foolishness‚ escaping from reality‚ and despising females‚ in order to deliver his message that would to reveal the “diseased”
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Present at least two different sociological approaches to social inequality and discuss these approaches with reference to a concrete problem area of contemporary relevance. Ghettos are preventing social mobility‚ and maintaining inequality in the society. Social inequality is one of the biggest struggles today and have always been. It is something that every great mind has tried to solve‚ without any great success. Social inequality is when resources in a society is unevenly distributed
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Findings Company History The B&Q store is located at Mahon Point Retail Park Mahon Co Cork. It commenced trading in 2005 and is one of nine outlets in the Republic Of Ireland. Its first store opened in the Republic at Liffey Valley in Dublin in 2002. The company was founded by Richard Block and David Quayle in March 1969 and the first store was opened in Southampton Hampshire. The store was originally called Block and Quayle but was then shorted to B&Q. The owners wanted to offer their customers
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Uli101 quiz 4b – redirecting and piping Your present working directory is /var/www Your home directory is /home/brian 1. sort the last five lines of file 8 and display it to the screen. Redirect all errors to /dev/null (use paths that are relative-to-home) 2. using the shortest paths possible display all lines that contain the text “username” of file10 and append them to file7 3. using relative paths only‚ count the lines of file14 that contain the text “trumpet”. Append the output to file6
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IS4560 Lab #1 Assessment Question & Answers 1). List five (5) steps of the Hacking Process. Footprinting Scanning and Enumeration System Hacking Plant Rootkits and Backdoors Covering Tracks Expanding Influence 2). In order to exploit or attack the targeted systems‚ what can you do as an initial first step to collect as much information as possible about the targets prior to devising an attack and penetration test plan? The first step I would take would be from the 5 steps to hacking which is the
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Jaclyn‚ Julianna has explained the five patterns of enabling as described by the text‚ and I would like to use an example for enabling based on a situation that I was thrown into professionally. I once had a forty-something year old (Patient A) patient that presented to the ED as a heroin overdose. The patients seventy-something year old mother called EMS after finding her son unresponsive on the bedroom floor. Patient A was a well known poly substance abuser that preferred heroin to achieve his
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Organized religion is a duality between the religion and the church which represents it. Sometimes the representation of the religion is marred and flawed to those who view it because of the bureaucracy contained within. Unknown to those who gaze upon the dissolved morals and values of what is perceived to be the contradiction known as modern religion‚ it was never intended to be this way. Most religions started off as a sect‚ a minor detail on the fringes of the society it never wanted to represent
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