In his article, “Amid Religious Discrimination Probe, Mobile Takes Buddhist Meditation Center to Court,” John Sharp states that the city of Mobile has filed a state lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against the Buddhist Center at the same time that the U.S Department of Justice is looking into whether the city’s commission and council violated the Federal Religious Land Use Law by denying the center’s project on Eloong Drive in South of Downtown Mobile. Late last year, Dr. Prasit and his wife Lar Nimityongskul being the head of the Buddhist Meditation Center in Mobile felt the need to relocate their meditation center from what they called “cramped and bustling Airport Boulevard” to a less lousy place on Eloong Drive. It was a perfect idea for them, except that the residents and the city weren’t in support. The group first sought their planning approval last year but nearby residents protested claiming that the meditation center would cause traffic and noise and that it didn’t conform with housing developed along the serene river south of Downtown Mobile. On two different occasions in March, Lar Nimityongskul gathered
A very interesting man who was born in February 16, 1839 in Stoughton, was Ellis Drake, who according to a story in Boston Sunday Globe in 1909 invented a two-piece figure-eight stitched baseball cover. Ellis Drake was the only son of a shoemaker named John Ellis Drake who was married to Susan S. (Treadwell) Drake.
In the biography Drive: The Story of My Life, the subject, Larry Bird, has numerous notable achievements. First of all, while he was playing in the NBA, he won three championships with the Celtics. One playoff series in 1981 was against the 76ers. The seventh game in that series was one of the most emotional games he’s ever played in, according to Larry.
In the non-fiction article, “Let the Robot Drive”, by Tom Vanderbilt the objective summary is about the pros and con of the future of driving. Tom Vanderbilt explains that driving has quickly changed from manual to autonomous abilities and that this quick growth in a car’s ability, will allow for cars to become smarter in the future. In addition, these autonomous abilities will be better than the human driver in every way. Tom believes this will lead to many positives and negatives for cars and their drivers. For drivers, the believed goal is to distance themselves from active engagement in operating vehicles which allows for more safety.
Neil Postman dives into a deeper understanding of technology and how he perceives certain technological developments. He considers the outcome that technology has on societies and cultures and then evaluates them to see if they are beneficial or detrimental. He also examines what people, who base their lives around technology, do to keep technology in power. His ideas about technology are in a perspective that numerous people would not consider because he is willing to contemplate all the angles of technology. Driverless cars have become a recent design that most people would consider a huge step for mankind in technological advancement but after reading Postman and getting some insight of his views on technology, driverless cars could end
According to Oates Lincoln felt embarrassed of his frontier past and seldom mentioned his parents. As stated by Herndon in a conversation he and Lincoln had Lincoln would confess that his biological mother to be a bastard and ask Herndon to not speak a word of this as long as he lived. In regards to Lincoln’s father it was stated that Herndon would argue that Thomas Lincoln was certainly not a “shiftless oaf” but a sober man skilled in carpentry who paid his taxes, accrued land and enjoyed the respect of his neighbors. Whatever the case, Lincoln seemed to hold his father in contempt for his intellectual limitations sharing that, “he never did more in the way of writing than to bunglingly sign his own name” and at the age of twenty-one Lincoln
The Valentine Road is about an eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Lawrence King (Larry King) twice in the back of his head during his computer class. Two days later on Valentine's Day, Larry died. According to the Agnew strain theory, I think the strain that play a large role for both Larry and Brandon was the presentation of the negative stimulus.
In the play, “How I Learned to Drive” written by Paula Vogel a young woman nicknamed Li’l Bit has a sexual relationship with her uncle Peck. When Li’l Bit was eleven years old, her uncle Peck showed her how to drive which is how it all started. Throughout the play an extreme deal of growth of maturity occurs with forgiveness and love. Li’l Bit is the innocent in the play.
In the film 127 Hours, James Franco portrays Aron Ralston, a real-life rock climber who resorted to cutting off his own hand after spending days trapped in Blue John Canyon in Utah. The film demonstrates various theories of motivation, including the arousal theory of motivation, the drive-reduction theory theory of motivation, and the instinct theory of motivation. Ralston was initially motivated by a constant need for excitement, which is why he enjoyed rock climbing in the first place. According to the arousal theory of motivation, humans are motivated to attain a certain level of arousal or stimulation, either mental or physical. It is safe to say that Ralston required even more stimulation than the average person.
In criminology, differential association is a theory developed by Edwin Sutherland proposing that through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior. The differential association theory is the most talked about of the learning theories of deviance. (DAT). (Sutherland) (Sociological Theories of Crime and Their Explanation on Crime , 2007) Theories of criminality are most commonly derived from human behavior.
Introduction This assessment will examine Dasani’s life from the bifocal of spiritual, cultural, physical aspect of her environment. Also in this assessment, I will use the theories we have learned about to evaluate further how they apply to Dasani’s situation. Summary of Control Theory Control Theory teaches us that we as individual’s face issues when trying to control what goes on in our physical environment.
1.1. Positioning the company – Competition Porsche Automobile Holding SE, usually shortened just to Porsche, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry and has about 18,000 employees all over the world (Porsche, 2014). The main competition for Porsche’s high-end cars like the 918 Spyder or the 911 Turbo or Turbo S is arguably from Italian specialty automaker Ferrari. In similar demographics the brands appeal through traditionally vehicles to quite different personalities.
US auto industry is full of auto manufacturing companies, BMW Group, Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep, Ford Motors, General Motors, Honda/Acura, Hyundai/Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru are the main competitors in US Auto market. For 2012 as a whole, automakers sold approximately 14.5 million vehicles in the U.S. Market, a 13 percent increase from 2011 and the highest annual sales total since 2007 marking the third consecutive year of annual sales increases of at least 10 percent. As fuel prices remain high and there is greater concern for the environment, more energy efficient cars are increasing in demand.
In fact, individual emotional and motivational aspects should be considered [17]. Motivation is defined as a desire to make an attempt in order to perform duties and responsibilities and to use individual skills [18]. Academic motivation refers to behaviors that lead to learning and improvement [19]. It includes the tendency to perform well and to spontaneously evaluate one's own performance. Experts have devided motivation into two main groups, namely intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
As growing a university student in foundation, I tackle an immense amount of questions everyday. While some are faily easy to answer ,others may take time to think about as they are preparing me for the rest of my life . After all, is not that what university is about? One of the biggest,most crucial and most popular questions arise towards the end of my second semester in foundation .People keep asking me on what course will I continue for my degree .Nowadays, people think that going to the university is no longer an option as it is a necessity in the society that we live in .In
