Describe the five pillars of Islam. The five pillars of Islam are the structure of the Islamic faith representing faith‚ prayer‚ giving‚ fasting and the pilgrimage. The first pillar is for the testimony of faith with conviction. The second is for prayer they perform five prayers a day. Third is for giving (support of the needy)‚ forth is for fasting they must abstain from any food‚ drink‚ and any sexual relations. Last is for the pilgrimage to Makkah where all that are able to attend go and stand
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Green Technology: Future of power generation NEED FOR GREEN TECHNOLOGY Recently concluded Copenhagen conference on climate change and green house emission expressed concern over the amount of CO2 being released. This would in turn heat up the atmosphere and cause global warming that will result in the melting of glaciers and hence the sea level will rise that is a threat to several coastal cities of the world. So one can imagine how the amount of CO2 emissions can cause problems of displacing
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concept of cloud computing and cloud services‚ and we introduce layers and types of cloud computing. We discuss the differences between cloud computing and cloud services. New technologies that enabled cloud computing are presented next. We also discuss cloud computing features‚ standards‚ and security issues.We introduce the key cloud computing platforms‚ their vendors‚ and their offerings. We discuss cloud computing challenges and the future of cloud computing. Cloud computing can be defined
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WEEK 5: Assignment 3 HRM-320-11787 Employment Law Misael Sanchez Professor: Joy Bruno 29 Sep 2014 1. When can an employee’s religious belief qualify as a bona fide occupational qualification? Religious organizations are permitted to discriminate as long as the position relates to the promotion of the religion. Religious belief is considered a bona fide occupational qualification. For example‚ if a catholic church is looking for a clergy member. The Catholic Church would argue that only catholic
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Case Study ‘Blu-ray versus HD-DVD: A Standards Battle in High-Definition Video’ Discussion Questions 1. What factors do you think influenced whether (1) consumers‚ (2) retailers or (3) movie producers supported Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Every party in this standards battle had its own reasons for chosing one standard over the other. For instance‚ the motives for movie producers to choose Blu-ray were completely different from the motives for consumers to choose Blu-ray. In our opinion‚ the
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Written Project ACCT 301 Professor Chen From the case we discuss‚ LabCo’s accounting policy for recognizes revenue from construction contract is reasonable. According to ASC605-35-25-61‚ an entity… shall use the completed-contract...for which reasonably dependable estimates cannot be made or for which inherent hazards make estimates doubtful. LabCo Company uses a normal standard for its accounting policy which is using Percentage of complection method base on how it determine the profit (cost-to-cost
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Differentiated Lesson Based on Student Interest Part 1: KUDs (to be completed in Week 2) Grade Level 4th Curricular Area Math Established Goals Students will add and subtract fractions Standard(s) Include as many standards as are applicable for your lesson. Local‚ State‚ National Math.4.NF.B. Students will understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole. High-Quality Curriculum (KUDs): What I want my students to KNOW How to add and
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Stephanie Wohl Sundown Bakery 2 Case Study 3 1.) How do changes in the demographic makeup of Sundown Bakeries reflect transformation of the large workforce? As the bakery grew‚ the changes in the demographic makeup started to appear in the cultural differences and in many other demographical aspects. For example‚ Cultural impact on communication exposed Sundown management to have challenges on delivering important information and messages efficiently. 2.) Consider the following dimensions
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Case Project 1a) The histograms of page cost‚ circulation and median income are all skewed to the right because the majority of the data lies to the left of the mean and the tail on the right side is longer than that on the left side. b) There seems to be a strong logarithmic type of relationship between page cost and circulation and a slightly noticeable linear relationship between page cost and median income. As for the scatterplot between page cost and percent male‚ the points appear
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Week 5 Assignment Deliver the Value: IKEA Case Study IKEA is a Swedish-owned global business founded in 1943. The business generates annual revenues of 27 billion euros and employs 139‚000 people in 298 stores and 26 countries. The values and design philosophy of the founder continue to underpin the brand. These values might be summed up as frugal‚ democratic‚ environmentally aware‚ and design oriented. IKEA has become synonymous with Swedish lifestyle. The stores are virtually identical across
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