Journal Entry #1 The United States is considered “the land of opportunity” for everyone. America welcomes the people that other countries don’t want‚ or at least we used to. The Statue of Liberty even says “Give me your tired‚ your poor‚ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free‚ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these‚ the homeless‚ tempest-tossed to me‚ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”-The New Colossus. America once expected immigrants to come in and rise up the ranks
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Running head: THE GROWING THREAT OF COMPUTER CRIME The Growing Threat of Computer Crime Diana Ritter Baker College of Cadillac May 9‚ 2001 Abstract Computers have been used for most kinds of crime‚ including fraud‚ theft‚ larceny‚ embezzlement‚ burglary‚ sabotage‚ espionage‚ murder‚ and forgery‚ since the first cases were reported in 1958. One study of 1‚500 computer crimes established that most of them were committed by trusted computer users within businesses; persons with the requisite skills
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Security Threats and Trade Barriers "As defence‚ however‚ is much more important than opulence..." In 1776‚ even as Adam Smith was championing the ideals of a free market economy‚ he recognized that the interests of national security far outweighed the principles of free trade. More then two centuries later‚ that sentiment proves to still be accurate and in use. Since the early 1900s‚ the United States has used this precept to defend its position on trade barriers to hostile nations‚ and
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The Security Threats Of Online Shopping Have you ever bought a book from Amazon‚ purchased a movie or a music album from iTunes‚ booked and paid for a hotel room or a plane ticket at Expedia‚ ordered clothes or cosmetics from the brand’s website‚ sold your unused stuff on eBay‚ ordered a fitness class with discount through Groupon? If the answer is yes‚ then you are an online shopping consumer. Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows people to purchase and sell products or
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B) resources are scarce. C) resources are infinite D) with good planning‚ trade-offs can be avoided. 2. The best measure of the opportunity cost of any choice is: A) the monetary cost of that choice. B) whatever you have given up to make that choice‚ even if no monetary costs are involved. C) the cost associated with not taking full advantage of the opportunity offered by that choice. D) your hourly wage. 3. A busy professor can’t decide whether to stay in his office to grade papers for
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Current domestic and global security threats: The impact on The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed to cope with the challenges of a bipolar world. However‚ today’s global environment faces multi-polar challenges from non-state actors such as terrorists. Threats once considered domestic concerns now affect the world‚ like global warming and the need to rebuild the infrastructure of unstable states such as Afghanistan and Bosnia. The
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I reviewed the Webinar titled “Gamification: is it Edu-tainment or a Genuine Opportunity to Engage Learners?” By Brian Knudson of Noggin labs. Gamification of Learning high lights – What The webinar started by a brilliant experiment with those who signed up for the webinar and shared the results of the game. The webinar covered two broad categories of gaming types: simulations and social games. In this paper I was drawn to the first category‚ simulations because of its broad existence and usability
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A GREAT OPPORTUNITY MISSED! A famous bureaucrat once said that IAS stands for… I Am Sorry. I was reminded of that while meeting one yesterday and apparently‚ he had invited me to discuss the social media strategy for his organization. We got off to a bad start when he asked‚ Why Social Media? He might as well have asked‚ Why Gravity? Duh! Then‚ making a pathetic excuse‚ a subordinate walked into the room and remained busy for about 20 minutes explaining her situation about a lost ATM card. We
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Living During the Nuclear Threat HIS 145 Living under the threat of nuclear war would have been a very scary and unimaginable event‚ especially in the 1950s. Terrorism is another very dangerous threat‚ but it is different in its own. Living under the threat of nuclear war was a scary time for Americans. The media had to curve the tension people thought by making a television cartoon to enhance people to think they were save as long as they followed a few rules. Society in that period
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monetary terms‚ it will vary from person to person. A person who needs to study for a final to be taken on Monday may give up more than someone who is going to the library to work on a project that is not due for a few weeks. Page 18 question 4 The opportunity cost of spending the $100 now is the additional $5 I would earn in interest after 1 year. Page 36 question 3 When new technology emerges that produces
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