Learning about the past Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. There are several views from the people‚ whether important or not for us keep memorizing the thing that had happened in the past and then try to put on ours life now. For this topic‚ I would like to discuss about the positive and negative impacts that we can get from that. First of all‚ there are some proverbs
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Domestic Technology in the past There is information about the history of domestic technology and its effect on gender involvement in the home (ca 1850 - 1990). These are mainly changing standards‚ the nature of family life‚ and new roles for women in the home. Instead of removing housework‚ domestic technology accompanied to a re-definition of how this work must be organized and done. Housework in the 19th century The 19th century home The organization‚ physical effort
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OSHA Past‚ Present and Future PAST The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA is a part of the US Department of Labor‚ and was started in 1970 as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Its mission is to prevent work-related injuries‚ illnesses‚ and deaths by issuing and enforcing rules (called standards) for workplace safety and health. Since it’s inception it has helped to cut the incidents of workplace fatalities by sixty percent‚ and occupational injury
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Laptops: Past‚ Present‚ & Future Ms.C INF103 August 22‚ 2011 In order to understand the future of laptops‚ we will take a look at the history and present concepts of laptops. Technology has advance dramatically over the years. Laptops were once huge bulky machines and now most portable devices such as laptops are so small you can fit them in a regular purse. Laptops once had modems and dial up connection but now we use Wi-Fi as way to connect to the internet. Now laptops can do virtually
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Preserving the Past for the Present and Future Many people have little to no knowledge about human’s prehistoric past‚ especially that of humans in the Americas. As you cruise down east bound Interstate 70 and make it through St. Louis‚ you start to drive by one of North America’s largest prehistoric city structures‚ Cahokia. According to the Cahokia Mounds Historical Site‚ this city covered six square miles‚ had 120 mounds‚ and was home to anywhere between 10‚000 to 20‚000 people from the years 700
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extensively in the future because of its availability and its ability to simplify many of the actions in our daily lives. Computers are devices that have a rich history‚ a revolutionary present‚ and a promising future mainly due to the fact that it’s a device that remains prominent in our everyday lives. The importance of a computer is emphasized by the quote: “I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other‚ and how
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C H A P T E R S I X The Past and Future of Competitive Advantage CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Competitive advantage is a concept that often inspires in strategists a form of idol worship—a desire to imitate the strategies that make the most successful companies successful. It is interesting‚ however‚ that strategists have viewed precisely opposite factors to be sources of competitive advantage at different points in the histories of a number of industries. For example‚ Henry Ford’s emphasis on
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Some people claim that the living in the present can actually cause more harm than good. They say that in order to lead a productive and profitable life‚ one must study both the past and the future‚ the present is only a stepping stone. I think that this is quite the opposite. The past must be learned from‚ the future must be looked at‚ but the present is where things happen‚ where a person can make things happen. In each persons time‚ he has the chance to make a mark upon the world. Each person
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The Past and Future of Competitive Advantage By Clayton Christensen The author introduces to us that the concept of competitive advantage has inspired strategists in imitating the strategies of successful companies. However‚ the success of strategies is relative to the conditions of a particular place at a particular time— that not all strategies used by successful companies will work for others. Some companies that have economies of scale‚ integration and nonintegration‚ and process-based core
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present and future of RUP certification In the past‚ when IBM Rational owned the process and the certification process‚ individuals were advised to visit the two-day training course PRJ270‚ Essentials of Rational Unified Process version 2‚ directly from IBM Past Rational. Originally thought of as an official measure for future RUP instructors‚ the certification followed the content of the course. The course was not a prerequisite to achieve certification (and it still is not)‚ but the student book
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