10 ONLINE SHOPPING 10.1 O v e r v i e w According to eMarketer (www.emarketer.com)‚ the number of U.S. consumers shopping online has been‚ and is projected‚ as follows: Number • • • • • • • 2009: 2010: 2011: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015: 163.1 million 172.3 million 178.5 million 184.3 million 189.6 million 195.4 million 201.1 million Pet. of Internet Users 85.0% 87.1% 87.5% 88.1% 88.7% 89.4% 90.1% Sixty-percent (60%) of U.S. adults shop online at lease once
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Virtuous person is the Happy Person Is virtuous person the happy person? Does virtuousness leads to happiness? Aristotle claims that virtuous activity controls happiness. From this line‚ it is understandable that the virtuousness is the source of happiness. What are the components or the elements that form virtuousness then? How does one become a virtuous person to achieve happiness in a life? What is the definition of happiness? What are the qualifications and necessities to become a
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After reading the last paragraph of the article by Jane Jacobs‚ I cannot help but thinking which type of person in her description I belong to. Am I the “transient person” who lives in the high-rent tenants and does not take care of the neighborhood? Or‚ am I the “intervening type of person” who helps to care for the streets and is aware of whether people living around are safe? To my disappointment‚ I found myself closer to the former type. I have been moving from place to place since I left my
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The Organization as a Person: Utilizing Metaphoric Analysis to Transform Organizations Leadership Advance Online– Issue XV‚ Winter 2008 by Antonio G. Marchesi What is an organization? Is it a place‚ a process or a person? Individuals at all levels of employment often wrestle with what many deem to be the daunting task of succinctly articulating the nature of the organization. Countless texts exist that attempt to provide a model for describing the construct and function of organizations. However
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positive and negative consequences of our actions‚ and deciding whether the ‘reward’ is worth the ‘cost’. This ability to predict consequences of our actions isn’t shared by the lower animals‚ and is pivotal in making the distinction between a person and a non-person. We have the ability to justify our beliefs and actions and to enter into reasoned dialogue with others. Rationality also leads to the ability to evaluate experience and draw logical‚ considered conclusions which will influence our actions
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Online Education Education is an important part of people’s lives; it will either make them or break them in the future depending on the careers they choose. Education is greatly diverse today in comparison to the 1950s because of advancements in teaching and other great inventions that provide easier techniques of teaching. One major issue that has been raised is distant learning courses and online education. Distant learning could be any format from VHS videos‚ DVDs‚ or internet courses online
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cannot be persons In this essay I will argue that animals cannot be considered as persons using the three main definitions of biological‚ psychological and legal or ethical. An animal is a multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia‚ which differs from plants as well as humans in certain characteristics. Movement‚ metabolism‚ response to stimuli‚ restricted growth and fixed bodily structure are all different between plants‚ animals and humans. There are many definitions of a person‚ one of which
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Online dating has proven to be more likely to enhance marriage satisfaction compared to that of face-to-face dating. In a study including 20‚000 respondents‚ 35 percent met their date on an online site and married each other. Out of the 35 percent of online daters‚ 6 percent reported to end in a break up or divorce. That is more than half of the respondents that wed offline. Research shows that while online‚ people tend to be more honest and open with their partner than they are when they are offline
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to face with a professional person. But within recent years technology has changed all that up. Online therapy has been created for convenience‚ time management‚ and also low cost. One can find so many different online therapy organizations in the privacy of their home. Some can benefit from online counseling and some cannot. Online therapy is communicated with professional’s online nationwide‚ through‚ live chat‚ text‚ Skype and also through email. Online therapy is very affordable;
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Online Dating “Are you ready to find the love of your life?”‚ “Experience the difference”‚ “Someone special is already waiting for you” are all different things you might hear on an online dating commercial‚ but is it really as good as they say? According to a study conducted by the Washington Post and PC World not even 20% of the connections made on these websites turn into committed relationships. Conventional dating is much safer and efficient than online dating in finding someone one actually
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