There are many possibilities that may create an altruistic attitude. Perhaps, survival of the fittest has been replaced as the all-driving mechanism of human nature in a world where survival is no longer paramount. Perhaps it is a search for meaning in one's life that promotes this altruistic nature. Psychology itself is in essence a search for meaning in one's life and altruism can often give us that meaning, that sense of purpose in life that is often the balm needed when trying to create a whole personality. In the instance of this article an IRS staff person has used her knowledge to help those in need, costing the government money, but creating a place in her heart for caring.
e may also generalize that someone working for the IRS is often faced with the opposite situation in their lives, having to penalize people who did not file correctly or…...

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Works Cited

Stengel, Judy. "An EITC Success Story: Helping People with Disabilities Earn and Save." 2007. 17 Febraury 2007. http://www.wid.org/programs/access-to-assets/equity/equity-e-newsletter-january-2005/an-eitc-success-story-helping-people-with-disabilities-earn-and-save

Outliers
People are fascinated by success stories, especially the rags-to-riches stories wherein someone starts from nothing and, through a combination of hard work and extraordinary luck, becomes famous and rich. In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell profiles a number of individuals who have been tremendously successful. Some of the names are well-known: Bill Gates, the Beatles, obert Oppenheimer. The stories of their success are much more complex and interesting than one could ever imagine. Gladwell also provides plenty of examples of people for whom success has been elusive. They appear to have much in their favor and yet circumstances such as culture, class, family and even date of birth relegated them to an existence of missed opportunities and mediocrity. Talent, hard work and luck are certainly components of success but, as Gladwell shows, the back story is often richer and more complicated.

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References

Gladwell's Outliers: Timing is almost everything. (2008). BusinessWeek 11/20/08. Retrieved from  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_48/b4110110545672.htm 

Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. New York: Little, Brown.

twist on the usual American success story that looks at success from another angle and, contrary to the usual tale, seems to consider its achievement a form of wastage. Very much Tolstoyan in implications, the author tells about straining to reach the pinnacle of academic success, achieving that, and then finding himself regretting the huge chasm that resulted between himself and his boyhood past, between himself and his culture, and between himself and his family. Ultimately, as Tolstoy's stories indicate, simple peasant and untutored existence gives the greatest joy. The climb up the academic ladder becomes increasingly lonely until one ends up in a "quiet reading room in the British museum" in this case writing a dissertation on some remote theme that will never be read by others and surrounded by equally dour and seemingly frustrated individuals.
This is the author's one argument: that academic success may not bring the…...

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Reference

Rodriguez, M. (2009) "The achievement of desire" In Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle (Eds.) Rereading America (pp. 541-554) Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

Initiative seven is for creation of research agenda that is on a national platform as well as data collection strategies that relate to the initiatives. Initiative eight utilizes technology that is available so as high levels of health and safety are produced. Initiative nine calls for a thorough investigation of all fire fighter fatalities and injuries. Initiative ten calls for grant programs support implementing safe practices as requirement for eligibility. Initiative eleven encourages the development of national standards in place for emergency response policies .the twelfth initiative entails the development and championing of national protocols in support of response to incidences that are violent. The thirteenth initiative requires that fire fighters and their families access counseling as well as psychological support.

The fourteenth initiative entails the public education receiving more resources and championed as a life safety and fire program that is critical. The fifteenth initiative ensures that advocacy has to…...

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Reference

Clark, B.A. (2013). Why the Fire Service Should Avoid the Term "Line-of-Duty Death" | Firefighter Nation. Retrieved March 26, 2013, from  http://www.firefighternation.com/article/firefighter-safety-and-health/why-fire-service-should-avoid-term-line-duty-death 

IAFC Leadership summit, (2005). Implementing the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives. Retrieved march 26, 2013 from  http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Implementing-Firefighter-Safety-Initiatives/dp/087939416

Healthcare as an Obligation of Each Citizen
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The commercialization of services and goods has been on the rise with the prevalence of globalization to an extent that even essential services that human cannot survive without like the health care have widely been commercialized. The provision of healthcare especially in the cases of delicate surgical procedures and extensive medication has been left the selected few who go for it from the high end private hospitals with personal doctors and consultants. This privilege however comes at a cost, one that the poor and average Americans cannot afford hence they miss out on them and are rendered to make do with the public health services provided by the government.

It is hence an obligation of each individual to uphold the contributions towards the provision of the free and comprehensive universal healthcare for all the citizens of America. We all have the moral obligation to…...

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References

Michelangelo S., (2014). Obamacare Success Story: Man With HIV Thought He'd Be 'Dead Within 6 Months,' Now Has Awesome, Cheaper Insurance. Retrieved May 15, 2015 from  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/obamacare-success-story-m_b_4413329.html 

The Atlantic Monthly Group, (2015). The Precarious Success of Obamacare. Retrieved May 15, 2015 from  http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/for-those-that-hate-obamacare-do-you-know-why/387913/

Branching out into new sectors of retailing - Wal-Mart has become a major pharmacy, an automotive repair shop, and a grocery retailer. This is just one example of success. It demonstrates Sam Walton's vision of being the best retailer around. After a store expands physically and geographically, it must then expand in terms of what they sell by branching out and competing with other businesses.

The conventional retail business of Wal-Mart has been to sell discount and house wares and plastic goods, clothing, sporting goods, and toys. Other departments have include but have not been limited to stationary and office supplies, hardware, home improvement, paint supplies, arts and crafts, cosmetics and toiletries, shoes, books and magazines, greeting cards, and confectionery. Wal-Mart has also branched out into home electronics, automotive supplies, pharmaceuticals, jewelry sales, photo finishing, travel planning, along with home gardening. After that Wal-Mart moved into the grocery store business with…...

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References

Caban, Jennifer. (2007). Financial Success of Wal-Mart. Retrieved July 23, 2010, from   ml?cat=55http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/260675/financial_success_of_walmart_pg2.ht 

Carmichael, Evan. (2010). Wal-Mart - Sam Walton's Success Story. Retrieved July 23, 2010,

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hen Alger's Ragged Dick put himself forward for hire as a guide for a rich boy who is visiting the city, the boy's businessman uncle hesitated to entrust his nephew to him. But after reflection the older man decided that although Dick "isn't exactly the sort of guide I would have picked out...he looks honest. He has an open face, and I think he can be depended upon "(55). Thus, although Alger believed that private generosity and charity alone were necessary to remedy the evils of capitalism, he knew no one could truly succeed alone. Dick's contact with the rich boy Frank because of Dick's shining honesty resulted in his becoming a young gentleman, not just because Dick was a hard worker. And, in the story of Tom, the street tomboy, rather than rise to prosperity through her labor, Tom became the genteel 'Jane Lindsay' at the end of the…...

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Works Cited

Horatio Alger: Gender and Success in the Gilded Age. Edited by Charles Orson Cook. Houston: Brandywine Press. 2001

However, critics complain that although the creatures created are fascinating as will be discussed later, the merging of special effects with the film itself is far from seamless. "Alas much of the effects work is considerably underset by thick matte lines - uncharacteristically poor work from Brian Johnson" (Scheib). Those thick matte lines are very visible at times during the film, particularly during the flying sequences when Flagor flies the young warrior on his journeys to save the besieged Fantasia.
This could be seen as a valid criticism of the special effects. However, it could also be seen as a way for the special effects team to underscore the intention of the film. The intention is to create a world drawn out of people's imaginations. The imagination is a place of dreams, not perfection. It is a place of vivid images and creation, but not necessarily ones that are so…...

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Works Cited

Brian Johnson" Yahoo Movies. 2006. 5 November 2006.  http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1801927305/awards 

Dark Crystal, The. The Jim Henson Company. 2004. 5 November 2006.  http://www.henson.com/entertainment/fantasy_dc.html 

Ebert, Roger. Video Companion: 1996 Edition. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996.

Neverending Story, The. Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. Warner, 1984.

Inclusion
The ABC News Turning Point series called "Sean's Story" features the issue of educational inclusion. Federal law assures a "least restrictive environment" and full access to mainstream education for students who would have once automatically been placed in special education tracking away from their peers. Individualized education plans and other methods of ensuring best practices for students with special needs are making "Sean's Story" continuously relevant. The story raises a host of issues about educational philosophy and ethics.

"Sean's Story" is powerful in that it features not just Sean but also Bobby. Bobby's mother adamantly refused to move her son from idge to the public elementary school because she did not believe that doing so was the best thing for her child. She thought that her son was better served at idge, which could at least teach Bobby basic vocational skills. On camera, Bobby's mom even states that placing a child…...

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Begg, D. (2010). Sean's story: A lesson in life, Part 2. Retrieved online:  http://icehousecrafts.blogspot.com/2010/04/seans-story-lesson-in-life-update.html 

Goodman, W. (1994). Television review; Disabled: Public or Special School? The New York Times. Sept 7, 1994.

Sean's Story. ABC.

A Documentary Filmmaking Experience Aim and Accomplishment
Renov (1993) states that there are four fundamental purposes of a documentary: “1) to record, reveal, or preserve; 2) to persuade or promote; 3) to analyze or interrogate; and 4) to express” (p. 21). In my documentary, Palestine, her story, my aim was to observe—i.e., to record, reveal and preserve—the stories of the Palestinian women who served as the subject of my film. The film is therefore an observational documentary.
Looking back on my original proposal, I can say that I have completed at least a portion of my original project. The focus of my 20-minute film is on the three Palestinian women who live a successful life in London. Each woman is of a different generation and thus each one has a different experience to share, a different story to tell. Yet they also have one thing in common, which is Palestine. The films focuses…...

Wal-Mart Good for America?
The story of Wal-Mart is a reflection of a company that has experienced unprecedented growth from its humble roots as a single store to an extent that it has become the most powerful retailer in the worldwide economy. This company has set the standard for many 21st Century businesses just like General Motors and U.S. Steel characterized the 20th Century corporations. The success of Wal-Mart can be attributed to several factors including its transformation of the conventional push system to a pull system where retailers inform the manufacturer what to produce and how much. This change has enticed several multi-national manufacturers like Kodak and Hoover to establish their offices near the global headquarters of Wal-Mart. The pull system that contains unparalleled accuracy and efficiency has enabled Wal-Mart to know exactly what to buy and the costs of buying it.

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Vedder, R.K. & Jacobs, K. (2007, May 8). Is Wal-Mart Good or Bad for America? A Debate.

Retrieved June 22, 2012, from  http://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=125

Sinuhe the Egyptian
The story is about Sinuhe, an individual who loses his status after fleeing from his country, Egypt and later gains his rightful place in the Egyptian society by restoring himself. The story first draws Sinuhe as a coward who deserts his king for fearing for his own life. Sinuhe then challenges an opponent in a combat and comes out successfully (Gardiner and Alan 8). This win is crucial because it makes him decide to return to his homeland.

The story was composed after Pharaoh Amenemhat I's death who founded the 12th dynasty of Egypt in the 12th BC. The story is believed to be fictional as there is no evidence to claim that the story is based on a true story. In the tale, Sinuhe, an official and accompanies Senwosret who is a prince to the neighboring Libya when war was waged against Libyans. hile on the trip,…...

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Works cited.

Bullock, Ronald. The Story of Sinuhe. London: Probsthain, 1978. Print.

Gardiner, Alan H. Notes on the Story of Sinuhe. Paris: Librairie Honore? Champion, 1916. Print.

Matthews, Roy T, FD.W. Platt, and Thomas F.X. Noble. The Western Humanities. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.

colors, when all you could see was black and white, when nobody could think of a featured film, it was then that the director Antonio came up with a film "story of a love affair" which challenged the traditional ideas and themes. Cronaca di un amore is an Italian black and white drama film which was released in 1950. The movie is known as 'Chronicle of a Love' in the United Kingdom, and 'Story of a Love Affair' in the United States of America. It was the first venture of the director Michelangelo Antonioni as a whole length feature film. Before this the director Michelangelo Antonioni has been famous for different short films and he was also given the opportunity to direct a documentary about the internal works of an asylum but he abandoned this opportunity. Story of a Love Affair was his first narrative feature film (Venturi, 1955).
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Bondanella, P. (2007). Italian cinema: from neo-realism to the present. NY: Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.

Johnston, I. (2006). "We're not happy and we never will be." Bright Lights Film Journal, 53.

Venturi, L. (1955). Notes on Five Italian Films. Hollywood Quarterly, 5(4), 389 -- 400.

Artificial Intelligence
There is much ado about artificial intelligence today and this is reflected in the article published in the Science Daily entitled "New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, oredom." The report states that the computer software is such that is senses the emotions of students and responds to the cognitive and emotional states of students including those of frustration and boredom. This computer program was developed by Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Sidney D'Mello, along with Art Grae3sser from the University of Memphis and another colleague from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A New Technology

Reported as a new technology "which matches the interaction of human tutors, not only offers tremendous learning possibilities for students, but also redefines human-computer interaction." (Science Daily, 2012) The software program is named "AutoTutor" and "Affective AutoTutor" and can be used to measure the level of knowledge of students through "asking probing…...

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Bibliography

New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, Boredom (2012) Science Daily -- Science News. 2 Mar 2012. Retrieved from:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302132546.htm

Change management initiatives of HP, IBM, Kodak, and McDonald's
Kotter's Model

Although it is said that the only constant in business is change, the need for change has thwarted many potential corporate superstars of the recent past, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kodak, and McDonald's. Although these companies were able to deal with the changes demanded by exterior economic circumstances and internal corporate pressures with varying degrees of success, all met with roadblocks on their way to pursuing change. Kotter's model for successful change suggests that all change entails a certain amount of urgency; a period of coalition building during the pre-change process; the need to create a vision for the change; communicating that vision; removing obstacles; creating short-term wins; building on the change; and permanently anchoring that change in the corporation's culture (Kotter's 8-step change model, 2013, Mind Tools).

HP: Three significant errors

However, in the case of HP, critical errors were made during…...

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Adamy, J. (2007). For McDonald's, it's a wrap. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved:

 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117012746116291919.html 

Kotter's 8-step change model. (2013). Mind Tools. Retrieved:

 http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_82.htm

I. Introduction
A. Explanation of court room technology
B. Importance of technology in court proceedings
C. Purpose of the essay

II. History of court room technology
A. Evolution of technology in the court room
B. Impact of technology on court proceedings
C. Examples of early court room technology

III. Current technology used in court rooms
A. Video conferencing
B. Digital evidence presentation
C. Electronic filing systems
D. Court room management software

IV. Advantages of court room technology
A. Increased efficiency in court proceedings
B. Improved access to justice
C. Better organization of evidence and case files
D. Cost savings for the court system

V.....

1. An In-depth Analysis of Apple Inc: A Leading Technology Company

2. Examining the Success Factors of Amazon: A Retail and Technology Giant

3. Company Analysis: The Business Strategy of Coca-Cola

4. A Comprehensive Review of Tesla Motors: Innovation in the Electric Vehicle Industry

5. Analyzing the Growth Strategies of Google: A Dominant Player in the Tech Industry

6. Uncovering the Success Story of Walmart: A Retail Giant's Business Model

7. Company Analysis: Understanding the Marketing Strategies of Nike

8. Exploring the Financial Performance of Microsoft Corporation

9. Case Study on Starbucks Corporation: A Coffee Company's Global Expansion

10. The Evolution of McDonald's Corporation: A Fast Food Empire's Business....