Essay on Critique

When I first got accepted into Stuyvesant High School, I heard countless of rumors stating: “Oh the workload is terrible”, “The competition is so fierce” or “Out of schoolwork, extracurriculars, or sleep: you can only pick two.” I found it hard to let it faze me, since I graduated from one of the most prestigious middle schools. However, the rumors transformed into reality when I stepped into Mr. Nieves’ Freshman Composition Class. The workload at the beginning of the year was brutal, coupled with assignments from other core classes that seem unaware of the workload of other teachers. Reading assignments were a regular, and there were journal entries and occasional quizzes to keep us in line. What made it bearable was the friends I made in that class; everyone had their own opinion about the topic we were talking about, and listening to other perspectives really broadened my horizon and enriched my learning experience in Stuy. Another thing that this class has taught me is the importance of time management, a skill that I will carry on for the rest of my high school career and life. When I choose to sign up for Mr. Nieves’ AP American Literature class in my Junior Year, I was hoping to relive the discussion-based lesson plans and meet more outstanding peers. I was not disappointed, to say the least, reflecting through all the experiences at the end of the course. The lesson plans he laid out for us were an interesting mix between small lectures and class output, and what I

“People think about trucking as a meat and potatoes business where you pick something up and then deliver it to a destination, but it’s not that simple, it’s a highly competitive business, and in order to thrive, firms need to implement innovations that will give them a competitive edge.”

Cleaning up down South: supermarkets, ethical trade and African horticulture is a piece by Susanne Freidberg published in Social and Cultural Geography journal in 2003 (Freidberg, 2003). Susanne Friedberg holds PhD from UC Berkely and is a Professor of Geography in Darmouth College, New Hampshire (“Susanne Freidberg,” n.d.). In the article the author argues that the ethical standards have become fetishised. The UK supermarkets compliance with such standards edges on paranoia. It does not mean that the supermarkets care about these standards from moral point of view but that the compliance is driven by fear of bad

The purpose of this report is to conduct a critical appraisal of a published article.

railroad has allowed the rail industry to provide a more tailored service to its customers. It has also

You and I live in a world were modernism is reaching new heights every day. One day that touchscreen phone is considered new, and then next week it’s old news. These two stories that I am going to compare are about the role of technology, science and how it affects me and you. Based on how it uses new technology and modern science A Sound of Thunder is a better sci-fiction story.

Dr. Mark Lasser’s book “Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction” gives insight to those who suffer from sexual addiction and to the families, friends and other people in their lives. Dr. Mark Lasser has chosen to write this book, to share with others his personal struggle and victory with sexual addiction. Dr. Lasser has written this book from a Christian view, to give other individuals hope in a difficult and growing disease, which is taking control and destroying our families. Lasser defines sexual addiction as “a sickness involving any type of uncontrollable sexual activity, and because the addict cannot control his

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate three technology opportunities associated with the transportation and logistics industry. With today’s constantly evolving business environment, consumers are placing demand on businesses of all industries, and they want products and services faster, with more added value, and delivered immediately. Nevertheless, customers are smarter by requiring more quality, innovation, and choice, and at the same time wanting to spend less money and effort. Consequently, every transportation business has to remain highly competitive in researching and developing innovative cost-cutting techniques in order to save money.

Journal of Information Technology (2009) 24, 392–400 & 2009 JIT Palgrave Macmillan All rights reserved 0268-3962/09 palgrave-journals.com/jit/ Teaching Case Competing technology options and stakeholder interests for tracking freight railcars in Indian Railways Shirish C Srivastava1, Sharat S Mathur 2, Thompson SH Teo3 1 Operations Management and Information Technology Department, HEC School of Management, Paris, France; Centre for Railway Information Systems, Indian Railways, New Delhi, India; 3 School of Business, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2 O PY Correspondence: SC Srivastava, Operations Management and Information Technology Department, HEC School of Management, Paris, ´ 1 Rue de la

An order processing system will be trap the order information from the customer service or straight away get it from customers. The data will be stored in a central database and the order information will be send to the accounting and shipping departments. The order processing system will be generate the tracking data based on the orders and inventory for every step of the way. Order processing system is very useful in any company especially those retailer or supply chain company. This system can help to ensure that all of the customers’ orders are filled on time. Since it is an automatically systems thus it can reduce errors while order is processing. By using this system, it can create a win-win situation between their business and their customers. It will enhance customers’ experience with more reliable deliveries and zero mistakes order fulfillment. For the business side, it can maximize the profit of the company with all the accurate orders, not to mention about the long-term revenue boost that comes from consistently satisfying

In the article “Language acquisition for deaf children: Reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches” the authors talked about children need regularly and meaningfully accessible to human language. Children that have not acquired a language in the early years might never speak fluently in any language. This critical period is for children to develop their first language skills. Most children that are born deaf in the developed countries have cochlear devices implanted, but these devices do not offer accessible language to many deaf children. This device might cause the child to miss the critical period that is needed for children.

Dr. Mark Lasser’s book “Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction” gives insight to those who suffer from sexual addiction and to the families, friends and other people in their lives. Dr. Mark Lasser has chosen to write this book, to share with others his personal struggle and victory with sexual addiction. Dr. Lasser has written this book from a Christian view, to give other individuals hope in a difficult and growing disease, which is taking control and destroying our families. Lasser defines sexual addiction as “a sickness involving any type of uncontrollable sexual activity, and because the addict cannot

“Now We Can Begin” an essay by Crystal Eastman is a very powerful essay. Eastman makes the point know in her essay that an honest and true feminist no matter where she stands in the movement she will see to the woman’s fight with strength and courage and how it  matters in the future and as well as its difference in its approach for the workers fight for industrial freedom. Eastman state “In fighting for the right to vote most women have tried to be either non-committal or thoroughly respectable on every other subject. Now they can say what they are really after; and what they are after, in common with all the rest of the struggling world, is freedom”

The strategic decisions are mainly infrastructural decisions like yard allocation or building new tracks. The tactical horizon deals with the composition of wagons to trains, routing of aggregated wagon flows and mid-term personnel planning. Timetabling, track and locomotive scheduling, empty car distribution and yard control belong to the operational decisions in railroad freight traffic” (Clausen and Voll, 2013). Considering that North America and Europe have a different structure of ownership, they will also handle shipping decisions differently as well. North America has separate rail networks for freight traffic whereas in Europe freight and passenger trains share the same network.

Management is appropriate and so are significant resources and time being established and developed to process a new form of rolling stock production. The revised method will help build from lessons learnt on both millennium and Tanagra establishment process this will provides greater and better risk allocation for state rail and rolling stock industries.