Mirage is an optical illusion in which “water” appears close to the ground surface. The illusion is caused by an interplay of refracted and reflected light from warm and cold air pockets near the surface. The warm and cold airs have different density and therefore different refraction index, which result in different angles of reflection. The warm air is continually rising and mixing with cold […]

Introduction The Montessori system of education can be attributed to Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician. While catering to a group of special needs children, she identified a gap in the education system that had to be filled if education was to be more efficient and able to meet learning goals. She thus came up with a new system that was more responsive and sensitive […]

Part one Smidt (2013) defines “child in culture” as one born, raised and adopt what the setting culture entails. For instance, when children are raised by their parents they learn from them. Their behavior is controlled by the the environment they are in. Children find themselves in culture, culture natures them and they develop what they absorb from the firsthand culture. According to Smidt (2013), […]

Information technology plays an important role in any organization. Some of the roles recognized to be instrumental to an organization that Information Technology assists with include communication, management of inventory and company data, information systems management, and the management of customer relations. Due to this invaluable contribution, a company with a well-defined Information System is more likely to be successful and in a better position […]

Abstract Television programing today is full of images of violence taking place, whether it is in news, movies, music, sports, or entertainment. This paper starts by creating a common scene at home when one browses through various television channels, looking for non-violent content. It then explores the issues surrounding the morality of watching programs with violent content, and the effect watching them has on the […]

Buffalo creek is a disaster that occurred on February 26,1972 when a coal company situated on a hillside in West Virginia burst four days after it was affirmed satisfactory by the federal mine inspector. The improper drainage procedures and heavy rains caused the failure of the coal entrapment (dam).The 17 mile valley in west Virginia was slammed by a wall of water. As a result, […]

Kitchell is a real-estate development company that also does a number of construction and engineering services. The company held a seminar and presentation, in which there were some participants who well-versed in technical aspects of projects and their development. It invited high caliber and technical-minded potential clients to the seminar. In the first few slides, the presentation started by making a clear explanation of the […]

Akiosonov was a young merchant who lived in the town of Vladimir. He was a good looking gentleman, with fair and curly hair.  In his youthful years he loved music, to have fun and drink and sometimes when he was drunk he would become incontrollable. He was a contrite man for when he married he decided to give up drinking and would drink only occasionally. […]

The Internet and Its Contributions to Politics and Governance Marshal McLuhan identified that changes in the technology we use to communicate result in great cultural and societal changes. He recognized the role that new technologies played in the field of communication and the implications that these new media systems had on the formation of new sociological networks within a cultural context. Of the new technologies, […]

People, in general, consider marriage as an act of showing strong commitment publicly and legally between two people to be together and devote themselves to each other. It also involves a document called marriage certificate. Jude William L. Downing, a superior court judge in Washington State defined marriage as “To join together in a close and permanent way” (Blankenhorn).  However, there is no exact definition […]