learning and artificial intelligence for solving social issues can be fulfilling both emotionally and financially. This epiphany struck me when I came across a slew of start-ups which worked with the Indian government in the implementation of JAM trinity programs (Jan Dhan - Opening bank accounts, Aadhar - Citizen Identity Card, Mobile connectivity). As a result, rural labor engaged in government projects in India receive 100% of their wages every week in their bank accounts without paying bribes
Diwali, a festival which has been part of my life for seventeen years was suddenly gone, as soon as I left my country. I always felt I was missing a part of me. Coming from a country where we celebrate different festivals, I felt incomplete witness only few festivals, than I learned to compromise and adjust to the situation. Pretty soon I learned that I was wrong every time I was made to believe that Stonehill is not diverse and it is very exclusive bubble. I soon realized that Stonehill has a thirst
population located in the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store mirrored the demographic make-up of my city, yet was not reflected in my educational trajectory. My parents, like many financially secure families in my area, sent me to a private college-preparatory school to escape the deficiencies of the public school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. While white
In TCS the diversity in the school is enormous. More than 115 countries are represented by past alumni and present students. This allows for cultures and customs to leave a big imprint on the student’s, especially because TCS is a boarding school, but it is also a day school for teens that live forty five minutes away or have no need to board. However, when comparing boarder’s to day students, many think that boarders have an advantage culturally and socially, and have a higher tolerance and have
Characters living a ‘double life’ is at the very core of Oscar Wilde’s hit play “The Importance of being Earnest”. A play who’s mere title has different meanings, it shows from the beginning these characters, especially that of Jack and Algernon, who at one stage are both this fictitious ideal of a man ‘Ernest’, are never really sincere, Earnest, even. Wilde so brilliantly captures the momentum of living insincerely, covering ones identity, masking who you are & learning to say what others want to
Running Head: IS AFFIRMATION ACTION ETHICAL? Is Affirmation Action Ethical? Mehlia Adkins Baker College of Allen Park Cultural Diversity Seth Persky Is Affirmation Action Ethical? Introduction Nowadays, the confrontational subject of affirmative action is rising and becoming a controversial issue. This study will explore and analyze the controversy over an ethical affirmative action perspective, and examine the social policy behind this basic premise that every individual should receive
Eighth Edition Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts Thomas P. Edmonds University of Alabama–Birmingham Frances M. McNair Mississippi State University Philip R. Olds Virginia Commonwealth University Edward E. Milam Mississippi State University (Contributing Author) FUNDAMENTAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2013, 2011, 2008, 2006
his undergraduate degree, Onyealisi worked as a policy research analyst for the District of Columbia, then changed career paths and worked as a real estate analyst for three years before attending business school. Onyealisi was a first-generation college graduate and awarded the Robert Toigo Foundation Fellowship upon entering the MBA program.1 While Onyealisi was not very involved in the graduate school community, through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America organization he was a Big Brother for
INVITED PAPER Cognitive Radio and Networking Research at Virginia Tech A large research team with a wide range of expertiseVfrom ICs and reconfigurable computing to wireless networkingVworks to achieve the promise of cognitive radio. By Allen B. MacKenzie, Senior Member IEEE , Jeffrey H. Reed, Fellow IEEE , Peter Athanas, Senior Member IEEE , Charles W. Bostian, Fellow IEEE , R. Michael Buehrer, Senior Member IEEE , Luiz A. DaSilva, Senior Member IEEE , Steven W. Ellingson, Senior Member IEEE