What is a hyper-connected world? It is the accelerating inter-connectivity between people globally at all time. This increasing connectivity has in so many ways made our lives so much easier and has also improved the standard of our lives greatly. This inter-connection has virtually managed to influence every aspect of our day to day lives. Social media‚ e-commerce‚ smartphones‚ healthcare – you name it! Digital connectivity has permeated it all and in fact our dependence on it is growing exponentially
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automobiles‚ fast food restaurants‚ and the thoughts and ideas Americans believed were to be a true American. One in fact‚ was the beginning of a despairing mindset Americans based their beliefs about women‚ and who the ideal woman should be. Lynn Peril analyzes in her novel‚ “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy
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to now‚ the twenty-first century. I don’t think anything will be the same in the world after the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel talks about the indifference of love and hate‚ the indifference of beauty and ugliness‚ the indifference of faith and heresy‚ finally the indifference of life and death. Elie Wiesel stated‚” And the opposite of life is not death‚ but indifference between life and death.” Don’t put somebody else’s life in misery‚ just because you’re impassive about them. Adolf Hitler put so many Jews
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Milgram‚ Stanley‚ “The Perils of Obedience.” Harper’s Magazine Dec. 1973: 62+. Print. Yale University psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ conducted a series of obedience experiments during the 1960’s to prove that for many people‚ obedience is a compelling drive overriding their own morality and sympathy. These experiments ended in shocking results. The Milgram experiment consisted of a teacher‚ learner‚ and the experimenter. The teacher being the actual subject while the others were actors.
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For years there has been a debate on whether human beings are good or bad‚ there is no right or wrong answer to this. We have learned these two meanings through different reinforcements taught to us by our peers around us. People of different places and eras have conducted experiments and surveys trying to prove both sides. Some experiments have made the news and showed us just how mad people can become‚ others are now used to tap into our minds and get our attention. The way we as living individuals
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How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In - Jim Collins Stage 3: Denial of Rish and Peril This chapter really just talks about the over-confidence that companies tend to have when they become very successful and think that they are invincible. Collins is very good at bringing in examples of companies‚ what they did wrong and what they should have done and comparing it with other companies who took the road less travelled and did things at a slower pace and therefore stayed/ are staying
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Following: 1. Indifference Curve - An indifference curve is a graph showing combination of two goods that give the consumer equal satisfaction and utility. Definition: An indifference curve is a graph showing combination of two goods that give the consumer equal satisfaction and utility. Each point on an indifference curve indicates that a consumer is indifferent between the two and all points give him the same utility. Description: Graphically‚ the indifference curve is drawn
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Eve Bunting’s Terrible Things is a juvenile fiction in the genre of allegorical story. The author meant to say about the terrible things that happened to the Jews during World War II in the Holocaust. The theme of the story is human indifference. The story is about the people who do not care about each other or are afraid to stand for each other. Eve Bunting used symbolism and the language that youth can understand. In the story there is a forest of animals and every few days the “Terrible
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Just as genetic testing could be used by employers to spot genetic deficiencies in potential employees‚ it can also be used by insurance companies to screen clients to see if they are genetically prone to specific diseases. The use of such tests is already a reality for life insurance companies‚ which have been given access to genetic test results that indicate whether or not the policy recipient has the genes for Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s disease is of particular interest to life insurance
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THE PERILS AND POLITICS IN A NATION (NIGERIA AS CASE STUDY) Preface The growing violence and tension in Nigeria in the recent era demand scholastic exploration to explain the phenomenon and also it could be used to elucidate the ‘tap-Roots’ of the Nigeria states of violence‚ terrorism in a democratic dispensation its impacts on the nation stability. These studies examine the underlying root causes of violence‚ which has recently turned into the act of terrorism in Nigeria. Drawing from these
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