Author: chris

to understand the concepts and legal prosecution of ethnic-cleansing vs. genocide via a case- study paper (15 pages with bibliography/notes) on one of the following topics: American Indians in 1800s, Hereros in German S.-W. Africa/ Namibia in 1890s, Armenian Genocide in the Turkish/Ottoman Empire in World War I; Ukrainian/Russian Famine in the USSR in 1920s; Nanking Massacre of 1937; Holocaust against the Jews in World War II; the parallel Nazi genocide of Gypsies and homosexuals; Khmer Rouge Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” in 1975/77; African “child-soldiers”; Charles Taylor’s 1990s massacres in Liberia and Sierra- Leone; Serb ethnic-cleansing of Croats and Muslims in Bosnia in 1991-95; Serb ethnic-

cleansing of Albanian Muslims in Kosovo in 1998-99; Rwanda’s Genocide of Tutsis in 1995; Saddam Iraq’s Anti-Kurdish ethic-cleansing during the 1987-88 Anfal Campaigns and 1991 repression; Saddam Iraq’s Anti-Shi’a 1991 repression; China’s repression in Tibet; Sri- Lanka/Ceylon’s repression of Tamil Tigers insurgency in 2009; international trials of Milosević, Karadzić and Mladić; national trials of Saddam and Ali Hassan al-Majid; international trial of Muammar Ghaddafi and Charles Taylor; international vs. national trials on Rwanda

Network security has become increasingly important. Network controls is a paramount component of network modeling and design. They are necessary to reduce or possibly eliminate threats. In 500 + words write a short essay of one of these preventive controls:

Investigate the capabilities and costs of an intrusion prevention system

Investigate the capabilities and costs of an online backup service.

In this attached excerpt from The Exegesis—an entry penned some fourteen months after his 2-3-74 revelation—Dick mulls over a number of hypotheses on both the causes and effects—
personal and world-political—of his visions.

Some questions you should address in your critical reflection:

1.    Why, according to pkd, did the revelation come to him, of all people?  Why is it so rare?
2.    What, according to pkd, was revealed about the nature of reality, and our place in it?
3.    What are the political implications of his vision?
4.    How would pkd characterize the role of empirical investigation in religion?

By ‘critical reflection’ it means that more than simply a summary of  the excerpt should be done.  What do you think of it?  Feel free to be selective in the critical attentions, not all questions have to be answered but at least 2 of them should.

Introduction

Cleanse PLC is a major producer of domestic washing powders and other domestic cleaning products, based in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The company have been present in the market since 1901 and produce a wide range of products under well-known domestic brand names. The company has four production plants in the United Kingdom, each specialising in particular products and brands, and to satisfy growing demands for their products across Europe the company also have a production plant in Genoa, Italy. The company have recently acquired an additional production plant located in Istanbul, Turkey. The company have made this move in an attempt to tap into the growing demand for domestic washing products in Turkey and its surrounding countries. The new facility is located close to all of the major transportation routes in and around Turkey.
Cleanse PLC’s Turkish production facility predominantly produces washing powder alongside other Cleanse PLC products. However, the branded washing powder ‘Wonder-Wash’ was not selling well in the Turkish market-place. Despite significant expenditure on press, magazine and television advertising, focusing upon the company’s famous slogan “the powder that gives you Wonder Wash power!” sales of Wonder Wash had been disappointing and the company’s competitors are developing a growing share of the market.
The European Board members of Cleanse PLC are not happy, as they have invested many millions of Euros into the construction and operation of the Turkish production plant. Following recent meetings, the Board have developed a plan and budget to develop a new washing powder product specifically for the Turkish market. This new product is to be manufactured at the Turkish production plant.
The European Board of Cleanse PLC is disappointed that the aforementioned internal review into new product development has not yet been completed. As a marketing consultant with particular expertise in new product development, you have been employed by Cleanse PLC to put forward a series of changes to improve new product development at the company and to encourage the use of creativity and innovation by employees at Cleanse PLC.
During 2012, Cleanse PLC set up an internal review of how the business develops new products, and also how they could encourage creativity and innovation amongst their workforce when developing new products. This internal review is still on-going.
Marketing in Business December 2013 Final  NCC Education 2013
Assignment
Task 1 – 40 Marks
Select a suitable model of New Product Development, and assess how this could be implemented and used in the development of the new washing powder product to be made at the Turkish plant.
Task 2 – 20 Marks
Market research conducted for Cleanse PLC shows that Turkish customers expect to be able to conduct a pre-wash, and then a full wash of their laundry, without the need to add more washing powder. At the moment, ‘Wonder Wash’ does not guarantee this, as it is not seen as essential in the UK and European market places in which the product was originally developed.
How important is understanding buyer behaviour as an integral part of the New Product Development process?
Task 3 – 20 Marks
How might you apply Everitt Rogers’ (1962) model of “Diffusion of Innovations” to the new Cleanse PLC washing powder, developed for the Turkish market?
Task 4 – 15 Marks
Define creativity and innovation, and explain how the use of both of these processes may help Cleanse PLC in the future, in terms of developing new cleaning products for the various market-places in which it operates.

Choose what you like of the following questions?
1.    Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”  Why did the spread of slavery become such a divisive political issue in the 1840s?
2.    How did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas convey their ideas of freedom during their famous debates?  How did their views differ on the expansion of slavery, equal rights, and the role of the national government?
3.    Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increase the intensity of the national debate over the expansion of slavery?  What was so controversial about it?  How did it intersect with the Missouri Compromise of 1820?  What was “Bleeding Kansas”?
4.    Analyze the significance of the 1857 Dred Scott decision in the developing sectional split.  Why was the Supreme Court ruling in this court case notorious?
5.    What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?  Why was it a major setback for abolitionists?
6.    Why was the Mexican War viewed as a crisis of American democracy?  How did it compel Henry David Thoreau to write “Civil Disobedience”?
7.    What was California like after Mexico ceded it to the United States?  Why did it achieve rapid population growth and ethnic diversity?  Was it a free or slave state?
8.    Discuss the early history of Texas.  How did it become independent?  What is legendary about the Alamo?  How did Texas become part of the United States?  How was Sam Houston, Governor of the State of Texas, reacting to the southern secession movement?
9.    John Brown was a militant abolitionist.  How did he wage a war against slavery?  How did he become a martyr?  How did he spark the Civil War?
10.    Why did the American South start the secession movement?  How was the Confederacy (Confederate States of America) different from the Union?

Discuss the critical theory of communication reference to the Frankfurt schools