HP Envy Spectre 14 is an Ultrabook manufactured by HP and a launched into various markets worldwide in February 2012. HP unveiled this series and appropriately billed it as a "premium Ultrabook." The computer is indeed premium since its starting price of $1,400 made it pricier than the much hyped about 13-inch MacBook Air (Wollman,2012).Some of its remarkable features include a standard 14-inch (1600 x 900 adiance Display) as well as a CPU powered by an Core i5-2467M or Core i7 processes, 4GB AM, a 9-hr battery, a backlit keyboard as well as an incredibly beautiful carrying case.
The Ultrabook has several other bells and whistles such as an NFC chip that is built into its palm rest to be used for transferring Uniform esource Locators (ULs) from one's phone browser to the machine. It also features an Intel Wireless Display, Beats Audio Speakers, HP Wireless Audio, CoolSense technology, and…...

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References

Dignan, L (2010). A look at HP's decade-long R&D slide: Can Apotheker reverse it?

 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/a-look-at-hps-decade-long-r-d-slide-can-apotheker-reverse-it/42082 

Emmett, B (2011).Ultrabook Uncovered.

 http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/07/the_world_of_computing_is/

Corp Trans
Change in Organizational Culture: Sustainability Initiatives and "Speed Brakes" in the Massage Envy Chain

In his writings and theories on organizational culture and specifically on cultural changes meant to improve organizational performance and/or stability, obert H. Miles defines and discusses six "speed brakes" that can prevent an organization form effectively implementing desired changes. He defines them -- and proposes solutions for them -- in a specific sequence as he insists that it is in this sequence that they ought to be addressed. Miles' (2010) speed brakes are cautious management culture, business-as-usual management process, initiative gridlock, recalcitrant executives, disengaged employees, and a loss of focus during execution. Though he recommends specific steps to counter each of these six speed brakes in order, Miles' (2010) plan for organizational plan can be boiled down to a very simple overarching strategy: have a well-focused initiative for change that is rolled out quickly and immediately.…...

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References

Lyons, a. (2010). Massage Envy's $600 million in annual revenue and 20,000 employees. Accessed 16 March 2013.  http://www.cpchampion.com/blog/adam-at-champion/massage-envys-600-million-in-annual-revenue-and-20000-employees/421244 

Massage Envy. (2013). Accessed 16 March 2013.  http://www.massageenvy.com/ 

Miles, R. (2010). Accelerating corporate transformations. Harvard Business Review.

Miller, K. (2011). Organizational Communication. Mason, OH: Cengage.

Unilateralism and Preemptive Defense
The arguments for unilateralism and preemptive strikes outlined by conservative historians appear logical and well-documented but are essentially wrought with contradiction. In his recent documentary film called Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore delivered the premise that American culture is built on the promotion of fear. Fear underlies American foreign policy, especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11. In fact, those attacks offered the Bush administration easy fodder for propaganda to promote unilateralism and preemptive strikes on other nations. In spite of the huge practical leap from Bin Laden to Iraq, the administration launched its attacks on that nation with impunity and in spite of massive international opposition. The willingness of the American government to act without the slightest respect for the United Nations proves that America as a whole is under the spell of a cultural superiority complex. This complex is not only psychologically dangerous, potentially…...

This created silent enemies whose sole purpose is to make that person look like a complete and total loser. Therefore, restoring the balance that was lost and feeling better about them while you are left feeling degraded and humiliated about what happened. On the other hand, the lesson is often learned the hard way and one can see that it does not pay often times to stick out in the crowd. There are those that thrive in the monotony of it all being predictable. If one follows the leader than no harm can come to them and balance is once again restored. It never works trying to appear better than those that you seek support from, they end up feeling as if you only want their support because you in fact think in some way you are better than they are. This is a sure way to keep people…...

He sees a dejected "sad animal" in the mirror, beset with minor tragedies that ruin everything. He examines his face thoroughly, sees flaws and makes half-hearted, destructive attempts to rectify them, only to make things worse. He is annoyed by others and by himself. This could be the story of his life, and it is. Nabokov has managed to summarize a good portion of this character's self-image into a segment of one page.
Olesha has himself contemplating life as seen through the mirror and sees it as warped and confusing, being sometimes the opposite of what he perceives it will be.

Both men also refer to perspective, Olesha talking about proportions and how things appear as if gazing through the wrong end of binoculars. "How improbable the change of proportions," he says and thus refers to how things that one wishes were small are large and vice versa. This is a…...

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Cornwell, Neil "Dar [the Gift]." The Literary Encyclopedia. 30 June 2002.  http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5747 .

Maslenikov, Oleg a. "Russian Symbolists: The Mirror Theme and Allied Motifs." Russian Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan., 1957), pp. 42-52

Nabokov, Vladimir. The Gift. New York: Vintage. Reissue edition, 1991.

Olesha, Yuri K. (Translated by Thomas Berczynski). Envy. New York: Ardis Publishers. 1979.

" (Barry, 36) He continues to suggest that women shouldn't care what they look like either. He says that women may say they are obsessed with looks because men want them to be, but argues that (a) women shouldn't be idiots just because men are, and (b) that men don't recognize women's beauty efforts anyway. "Many men would no notice if a woman had upward of four hands." (Barry, 36)
McLaughlin does not deny that the gender stereotypes are precisely as Barry reports them to be, though she recognizes as stereotypical what he claims as truth. She says that it had always before been that "what mattered in life was how women looked and what men did." (McLaughlin, 31) This is talking about the same thing Barry is when he says that men would find some way to bolster self-esteem other than appearance. However, McLaughlin continues to point out, that this…...

GoPro Social Media
The Gopro camera is an action-oriented personal camera that can be mounted virtually anywhere and record spectacular action sequences with stillness and clarity never before possible through the use of handheld equipment. Gopro's use of social media -- particularly Youtube, where user videos are uploaded and shared with millions of viewers -- is a great way for the company to market itself to consumers, who are a given numerous examples of just what they could do and capture with their own Gopro mounted camera.

GoPro has branded itself as the camera for all things extreme: its tag at the end of its online videos is "Be a Hero" -- and is displayed at the end of videos such as that of the man training a pelican to hunt fish and to fly. The camera company is appealing to individualistic people looking to do something different, something exciting, something off…...

Depending on the way a person looks at calculating advertisers is often how the advertising affects the consumer. Yet there are many tools which help the marketer create better algorithmic advertisements for the consumer; through using the tool of '"under development [. . .] [n]egative screen data bases" will help the niche marketer better understand marketing effectiveness through capturing an entire universe of prospects with marketing history attached, not only the responders to promotion"
(Johnson G. 1992, no page number).

PHILOSOPHY and ADVERTISING

If the advertiser and the consumer begin to have a mutually positive relationship, could the marketing still have negative consequences? "At the heart of any communication is the creative philosophy or approach and thus, philosophies play an important role in the agency-client relationship"

(est no page number). Databases and algorithmic marketing now has ties not only in politics, but also in philosophy: the question of the meaning of life, a…...

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Bradley, Samuel D., James R. Angelini and Sungkyoung Lee. 2007. "Psychophysiological and Memory

Effects of Negative Political Ads." Journal of Advertising 36, no. 4: 115-27. OmniFile Full Text

Select, WilsonWeb (accessed March 17, 2011).

Cashmore, E. 2006. Buying/Sales. Chapter 9 in Celebrity/Culture. Oxford: Routledge

The outcomes of the analysis activity will be used by the company to base change its decisions on them. The imminence of change will determine managers to behave differently by being resistant to alterations.

The training and development efficiency has to be measured against previous own results and current industry results, through benchmarking.

The advantages of this alternative are:

The company is aware of the competition's training and development programs and their levels of efficiency.

The company can improve its results by following industry best practices in those areas where it score below industry averages.

Also, it can monitor its improvements during its entire activity by comparing the actual results with the ones from the previous years.

The disadvantages of this alternative are:

If the industry has lower efficiency levels in average, a.C. Kaplan can't use industry best practices to improve its activity, because the company is the one creating these best practices.

Also, if the company considerably…...

In this, the individual does soak up the behaviors of those he or she is associated with. Yet, this is out of mimicking others behavior, with no regard for self gain. On the other hand, Bandura placed more emphasis as development being based on a balance between the environment and one's internally set goals. From this perspective, the individual mimics behaviors that lead to the achievement of certain goals, specifically engineering a more personal purpose to what is learned.
Bandura can also be seen as contrasting the theories of Jean Piaget as well. Once again, the two place a huge role on the nature of social environments on learning and development. Still, there are clear differences. First, there are clearly issues in regards to when the stages of development actually occur. The two present different age ranges for the important stages. Then, there is the increased importance of the social…...

LVMH Apart
Recessions come and recessions go, but luxury never goes completely out of style, even if sales were subdued in the early 2000's. Some individuals with deep pockets and high ambitions are always willing to spend prodigiously on common items like handbags and watches, provided they get what they want in return: quality, fashion and the envy of their friends. While the past couple of years have been difficult for the luxury category as a whole, LVMH has managed to distinguish itself from its competitors. It posted a 30% jump in profits in 2003 while the company's stock has risen 50% in the past 12 months. This tremendous rate of growth can be explained through brand protection and limiting underperforming stores.

LVMH is all about the power of brand, and its stable is jammed with famous names: Upscale leather goods retailer Louis Vuitton, its largest unit; wine and spirit makers…...

Anyone who through merit broke through the class barrier and moved up a notch aroused fierce jealousy amongst those left behind who knew they would not follow. (De ono, E. 2001)
In this sense, jealousy is a part of human nature and does not only exist within relationships between two people but extends into the society at large. A good example is the play Othello, by William Shakespeare. In this play, Iago is jealous of Othello for both personal and social reasons. Firstly he is jealous because Othello, a black man, has achieved a higher rank and status than he has. Secondly, Iago is jealous of the relationship that Othello has with the beautiful Desdemona. His jealousy is the driving force and centre of conflict in the play.

Advertising, envy and jealousy

Jealousy and envy of others is often used in the advertising and marketing world to promote product sales. The image…...

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Comstock, J. Effect of relationship length on the experience, expression, and perceived appropriateness of jealousy. The Journal of Social Psychology. 2/1/1997

De Bono, E. Jealousy. 2001. Accessed March 22, 2005.  http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/msg08m.htm 

Grow, G. The Two Faces of Envy. Accessed March 22, 2005. http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/Hate/Envy.html

Simmel, Georg:. "The Sociology of Conflict: I" American Journal of Sociology 9 (1903): 490-525. Accessed March 23, 2005. http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Simmel/Simmel_1904a.html

Gaze
Seeing, Looking, egarding

When Mulvey (1975) wrote about the psychological importance of the male gaze, most women would have recognized in her description of the dynamics of phallocentrism and the male observation of women their own experiences. Mulvey argued that men use their ability an authority to look at women as a means of maintaining their power in a patriarchal society, and this use of the gaze is something that women often encounter in their lives. Applying a psychoanalytic approach to film criticism, she compared the force and intent of men's physical penetration of women's bodies with the psychological penetration and control that men can assert over women by capturing them with their eyes, their gaze. The ways that men look at women in movies and television shows reflects this use of the gaze as essentially a weapon that can be used to intimidate women. The power of the gaze in…...

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Hellstern, M. (2010, May 26.) "20 Questions with Candace Bushnell." Original content. Retrieved 14 December 2010 from http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/20-Questions-with-Author-Candace-Bushnell/2.

Holland, E. (1999). Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus. New York: Routledge.

Horney, K. (1967). Feminine psychology. W.W. Norton Company, New York.

Marshall, S. (1996). "Edith Wharton on Film and Television: A History and Filmography." Edith Wharton Review: 15 -- 25.

For example, consider the phenomenon of the evil eye. Among this rural Iranian community, the evil eye represented a kind of gaze that could be cast-sometimes intentionally and sometimes not -- that can cause harm to others. The evil eye is a common concept throughout the Middle East and in many other communities. In the modern world, most consider the evil eye to be little more the ridiculous superstition. However, for the women of Deh Koh, the evil is very real and affects their behavior and reactions to life events.
Specifically, consider the matter of Simin's pregnancy. Once discovered, news of the upcoming birth spread rapidly throughout the community. The other women with whom Simin was close quickly presented her with all manner of charms and practices that they felt would best insure the health (and gender, for that matter) of the child. Simin's own mother "brought a bag with…...

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Works Cited

Friedl, Erika. Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

extended definition of the abstract concept of jealousy. Jealousy is an emotion, but it is also a concept, and not necessarily one of the most positive and helpful emotions a person can have. Jealousy depends on others to feed it, and so, jealousy cannot survive in a vacuum. Jealousy can be destructive and debilitating, and it is an emotion that can cause great emotional pain and self-doubt.
What is jealousy? Dictionary.com defines jealousy as "A jealous attitude or disposition or close vigilance." However, this succinct definition does not tell the whole story. Jealousy is much more than an attitude or disposition. For some, it is a way of life, and for others, it can consume their life, changing it forever. Take the case of California socialite Betty Broderick, who found her husband with his secretary/lover and killed them both in a jealous rage (Cupach and Spitzberg 33). Jealousy can be…...

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References

The Dark Side of Close Relationships. Eds. Brian H. Spitzberg and William R. Cupach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Nannini, Dawn K., and Lawrence S. Meyers. "Jealousy in Sexual and Emotional Infidelity: An Alternative to the Evolutionary Explanation." The Journal of Sex Research 37.2 (2000): 117.

Salovey, Peter, and Judith Rodin. "The Heart of Jealousy; a Report on Psychology Today's Jealousy and Envy Survey." Psychology Today Sept. 1985: 22+.

1. The impact of social media addiction on mental health and well-being
2. The role of media addiction in fostering a culture of instant gratification
3. The influence of media addiction on interpersonal relationships and communication skills
4. The connection between media addiction and decreased productivity and academic performance
5. The ways in which media addiction contributes to the rise of misinformation and fake news
6. The relationship between media addiction and physical health issues such as poor sleep habits and sedentary behavior
7. The influence of media addiction on self-esteem and body image, particularly among young people
8. The connection between media addiction and increased levels....

1. The Crucible effectively portrays the mass hysteria and fear that consumed Salem during the witch trials, highlighting the devastating consequences of unchecked accusations and the power of mob mentality.

2. Arthur Miller's The Crucible serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of intolerance, prejudice, and the erosion of individual rights during times of mass hysteria and fear.

3. The Salem Witch Trials, as depicted in The Crucible, underscore the importance of due process, the presumption of innocence, and the need to safeguard against the abuse of power.

4. The character of Abigail Williams in The Crucible embodies the destructive potential of....

Reality Television: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly Introduction

Reality television has become a ubiquitous presence in popular culture, captivating audiences with its voyeuristic appeal and seemingly unfiltered glimpses into the lives of ordinary people. However, the proliferation of reality TV has also sparked considerable debate regarding its societal impact. This essay explores the complex relationship between reality TV and society, examining its potential benefits and drawbacks while drawing lessons on the challenges and opportunities it presents.

Empathy and Social Awareness: Reality TV can foster empathy and social awareness by introducing viewers to diverse individuals and perspectives.....

1. Social media has become a virtual stage where individuals perform their identities, blurring the lines between reality and online personas.

2. The pressure to curate a perfect life on social media can lead individuals to present a distorted version of themselves, impacting their self-esteem and sense of worth.

3. In the age of social media, the validation of likes and comments can shape individuals behaviors, pushing them to seek approval and validation from others.

4. The constant comparison fostered by social media can lead individuals to experience feelings of envy, inadequacy, and....