The Most Importand Asset in Grad School Applications Time

document.createElement('audio'); https://media.blubrry.com/admissions_straight_talk/p/www.accepted.com/hubfs/Podcast_audio_files/Podcast/Linda_Abraham_Importance_of_Timing_2018.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify The Most Important Asset in Grad School Applications: Time [Show Summary] This episode is devoted to how the precious and finite asset of time can help you get accepted when applying to graduate schools. Linda Abraham, Founder of Accepted, Discusses the Importance of Following a Graduate Application Timeline [Show Notes] The problem: Lack of time. What’s the usual root of the problem? Applicants decide to apply one day and try to do so in too short a period of time. What are the possible results? A poor decision – Possibly applying to the wrong programs or the wrong schools Perhaps you’ll be accepted at schools that aren’t as good as they could be, or, You’ll be rejected and will face the additional costs and need additional time to reapply. Sometime applicants start the application with plenty of time but procrastination or life gets in the way of them completing it. The most common way that life intrudes? Discovering that you need to retake an aptitude test. If you haven’t allowed that possibility, the retake can cause all kinds of problems and delays. While it never makes sense to submit something less than your best, there are advantages to applying early. If you can submit either early in the application cycle for rolling admissions like medical school or in earlier rounds for most MBA programs, you are applying when the class is wide open. There are more interview slots and seats available. How Much Time for Test Prep, Research, etc Prior to Application? Here are my recommendations: For MBAs, allow for 6-12 months of research and test prep before planning to submit. For medical school, allow 12-36 months of taking classes, MCAT prep, and volunteering before actually applying. For law school, allow for 6-12 months of research and test prep. For academic masters and Ph.D. programs, allow at least 6-12 months for research and test prep, and it could be longer if you also have to get in volunteer or research experience. For these types of programs it is harder to give a rule because there is much more variety. These time frames mean: You will have time to prepare for and if necessary retake an aptitude test. You will have time to research programs and visit those you are most interested in and are feasible for you to visit. You will have time to do the volunteer work or experience that is vital for some programs. You will have plenty of time for essays, statements of purpose, etc. The other key element you need to know before applying for graduate programs is a post-degree goal. Most programs want to know that you have a goal they can help you achieve. Assuming you know that, and once you know your test score (and since you already know your GPA), you can move forward in choosing schools. Important Things to Think About Most MBA programs and all programs asking for a statement of purpose want to know the purpose of your studies. If you have no purpose, no goal, no solid reason for pursuing the degree, you will find that essay extraordinarily difficult to write. And if you come to Accepted, we will give you homework to figure out how you intend to use your degree. Graduate education is way too expensive for most of us to enroll in graduate coursework for the sheer joy of learning. If you aren’t clear on your purpose, allow time for more research and for informational interviews to clarify your goals and the kind of graduate education you seek. You need that purpose in order to choose programs worth investing in, and you will probably need it to apply effectively. Also, if at all possible, allow time to visit the campuses closest to you or that you are most interested in, or at least make a point to talk to current students and recent alumni. A graduate education is one of the largest investments you will make and probably the largest you’ve made to date. It pays to ensure you are going to apply to and attend a program that will help you achieve your goals and where you will also be happy. Ready to Apply Now you’re at a point where you know why you want to apply, where you want to apply, and you have assessed your competitiveness and shortlisted schools. If we’re talking about medical school, that short list could easily be 20 programs. If we’re talking most other graduate specialties, it’s more likely to be 4-8 programs. I’m going to give some specific suggestions for time management after this point, and I may shock some of you with the time I recommend you allow, but let’s be real. Most of you are working full-time or working and going to school. You are fitting the applications into an already busy life. Writing requires rewriting. It benefits from time in between drafts, revisions, and proofing. Again, plan on this taking a long time, and you won’t have any unpleasant surprises. It’s the most valuable asset at this point in your application process. Use it wisely, and you won’t be slapping together critically important essays in a mad rush minutes before the deadline when servers are likely to crash due to too many people submitting at the last minute. And you’re also likely to crash due to lack of sleep! Applying to MBA, Grad, and Law Programs: No Common App Most MBA, grad, and law programs do not have a common application system, which means you will need to write different applications for each school. For law school, you may be able to adapt a personal statement for different schools. This process will probably take 1-2 months total depending on how frequently you sit down to write and how many schools you plan to apply to. I suggest you allow 2-3 weeks for writing the personal statement and possible diversity statement or addenda. Allow an additional one week per school for adapting these essays to different programs and completing those pesky application boxes. Also allow time to review and edit your resume, and contact and prep recommenders. For MBA programs, you need to write separate essays for most programs. Sometimes you’ll be able to adapt previously written essays, and sometimes you won’t. For most MBA programs, you will need to write 1-4 essays, provide a resume, answer a few short answer questions, and perhaps submit a video. I recommend you allow at least 3-4 weeks for your first application and then two weeks for each additional program. If you gasped at that recommendation, remember: You are busy and writing takes time. Plus, if you are applying to highly competitive programs, you need a highly competitive application. That application requires thought, rewriting, and time. But you may say, â€Å"I want to apply round 1. I want the round 1 advantage!† There is no advantage to submitting half-baked mediocrity during round 1. For next year’s applicants, you can plan to apply round 1. You can get the GMAT or GRE done well before essay questions are released and start working on them as soon as they come out. You will have done all the pre-essay stuff in advance and be poised for an excellent application effort. For this year’s applicants, get started now on round 2 applications, which will mostly have deadlines in January. You will then have that most valuable asset, time. You’ll have the time to submit your best when those deadlines stare you in the face. If you aren’t well into revising now for R1, don’t try to draft something in a hurry. Apply R2 and submit an application you are proud of. For other grad students, including engineering, psych, and a broad array of masters and PhD applications, if you are applying in the 2018-19 cycle and have gotten the test score that you will apply with, know what you want to do with the degree, and how the programs you are applying to will help you do it, you are ready to write a dynamite statement of purpose. Get to work. Don’t wait. Many of you will face December and January deadlines. You also are most likely applying to multiple programs. I can assume your post-degree goal will not change with the school, but your reasons for wanting to attend each school should be specific to that school and reflect your knowledge of the program. If you haven’t already done so, line up recommenders, prepare a one pager that you can give them about the schools you are applying to, perhaps highlighting something you’re proud of that they may forget to mention, and their deadlines for submitting the letters. Make it as easy as possible for them. (This goes for you, too, MBA applicants applying R2) Now let’s turn to medical school applicants. If you want to apply next summer for 2020 matriculation and have not yet taken the MCAT or are not satisfied with your score, schedule an exam such that you are fully prepared. That may be in January or February. If you take it then, and are not satisfied with the outcome, you will have time for a retake so that you will have the second score by the end of May or early June. Alternatively, plan to take the exam next summer and consider waiting to apply until the summer of 2020 with a 2021 matriculation date. At the risk of repeating myself, test prep takes and benefits from time. Give yourself the time necessary to do well on the MCAT and to avoid applying late in the cycle because you need to retake over the summer. Let’s assume for now that you have your MCAT and are applying DO get cracking. You still have the time to apply to osteopathic schools. Their application cycle runs a little later and if you have everything else that you should have, then proceed. If you are planning to apply to allopathic medical schools next summer and have an MCAT that you are satisfied with, I suggest you start writing your PS and MMEs over winter break. You can always tweak them if something significant happens close to application time, but if you get these drafted at least, if not polished in December/January, you will be primed to apply in early June when the med school class is wide open. Time will be on your side. I also suggest that you spend time between winter break and June, when AMCAS opens, researching programs and taking notes on those programs. You may also want to start journaling or at least taking notes about experiences that you may want to write about or talk about when you move into the school-specific secondary and interview phases of the application process. Also use some of this time for pre-writing secondaries. You can find many secondary essay questions, with tips, at Accepted. You will quickly see that some essays recur and you can at least have drafts about community service experiences, leadership experiences, why you want to pursue the area of medicine you want to pursue, how you will contribute to the diversity of your class, and much more. Once secondary applications start to arrive, they will pour down in a deluge. Using your time to pre-write will give you the ability to turn around the secondaries quickly and well, preferably within two weeks of receipt. This is one stage of the process where you need to act quickly and without compromising quality. Pre-writing will save you time and give you that ability. So whether we’re talking about law school, grad school, medical school or business school, you need time to apply effectively, efficiently, confidently, and successfully. Time will enable you to present an application that reflects the best you. Related Links: †¢ Get Your Game On: Preparing for Your Grad School Application, a free guide †¢Ã‚  Med School Secondary Application Essay Tips †¢ The Smart Timeline for MBA Applicants †¢ Admissions Consulting Services Related Shows: †¢Ã‚  Meet Dr. Nadia Afridi, Plastic Surgeon, Recent Columbia EMBA, and Mom †¢Ã‚  Different Dimensions of Diversity †¢Ã‚  Focus on Fit †¢Ã‚  Stand Out! A Critical Goal for Your Application Subscribe: Podcast Feed ; The Most Importand Asset in Grad School Applications Time document.createElement('audio'); https://media.blubrry.com/admissions_straight_talk/p/www.accepted.com/hubfs/Podcast_audio_files/Podcast/Linda_Abraham_Importance_of_Timing_2018.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify The Most Important Asset in Grad School Applications: Time [Show Summary] This episode is devoted to how the precious and finite asset of time can help you get accepted when applying to graduate schools. Linda Abraham, Founder of Accepted, Discusses the Importance of Following a Graduate Application Timeline [Show Notes] The problem: Lack of time. What’s the usual root of the problem? Applicants decide to apply one day and try to do so in too short a period of time. What are the possible results? A poor decision – Possibly applying to the wrong programs or the wrong schools Perhaps you’ll be accepted at schools that aren’t as good as they could be, or, You’ll be rejected and will face the additional costs and need additional time to reapply. Sometime applicants start the application with plenty of time but procrastination or life gets in the way of them completing it. The most common way that life intrudes? Discovering that you need to retake an aptitude test. If you haven’t allowed that possibility, the retake can cause all kinds of problems and delays. While it never makes sense to submit something less than your best, there are advantages to applying early. If you can submit either early in the application cycle for rolling admissions like medical school or in earlier rounds for most MBA programs, you are applying when the class is wide open. There are more interview slots and seats available. How Much Time for Test Prep, Research, etc Prior to Application? Here are my recommendations: For MBAs, allow for 6-12 months of research and test prep before planning to submit. For medical school, allow 12-36 months of taking classes, MCAT prep, and volunteering before actually applying. For law school, allow for 6-12 months of research and test prep. For academic masters and Ph.D. programs, allow at least 6-12 months for research and test prep, and it could be longer if you also have to get in volunteer or research experience. For these types of programs it is harder to give a rule because there is much more variety. These time frames mean: You will have time to prepare for and if necessary retake an aptitude test. You will have time to research programs and visit those you are most interested in and are feasible for you to visit. You will have time to do the volunteer work or experience that is vital for some programs. You will have plenty of time for essays, statements of purpose, etc. The other key element you need to know before applying for graduate programs is a post-degree goal. Most programs want to know that you have a goal they can help you achieve. Assuming you know that, and once you know your test score (and since you already know your GPA), you can move forward in choosing schools. Important Things to Think About Most MBA programs and all programs asking for a statement of purpose want to know the purpose of your studies. If you have no purpose, no goal, no solid reason for pursuing the degree, you will find that essay extraordinarily difficult to write. And if you come to Accepted, we will give you homework to figure out how you intend to use your degree. Graduate education is way too expensive for most of us to enroll in graduate coursework for the sheer joy of learning. If you aren’t clear on your purpose, allow time for more research and for informational interviews to clarify your goals and the kind of graduate education you seek. You need that purpose in order to choose programs worth investing in, and you will probably need it to apply effectively. Also, if at all possible, allow time to visit the campuses closest to you or that you are most interested in, or at least make a point to talk to current students and recent alumni. A graduate education is one of the largest investments you will make and probably the largest you’ve made to date. It pays to ensure you are going to apply to and attend a program that will help you achieve your goals and where you will also be happy. Ready to Apply Now you’re at a point where you know why you want to apply, where you want to apply, and you have assessed your competitiveness and shortlisted schools. If we’re talking about medical school, that short list could easily be 20 programs. If we’re talking most other graduate specialties, it’s more likely to be 4-8 programs. I’m going to give some specific suggestions for time management after this point, and I may shock some of you with the time I recommend you allow, but let’s be real. Most of you are working full-time or working and going to school. You are fitting the applications into an already busy life. Writing requires rewriting. It benefits from time in between drafts, revisions, and proofing. Again, plan on this taking a long time, and you won’t have any unpleasant surprises. It’s the most valuable asset at this point in your application process. Use it wisely, and you won’t be slapping together critically important essays in a mad rush minutes before the deadline when servers are likely to crash due to too many people submitting at the last minute. And you’re also likely to crash due to lack of sleep! Applying to MBA, Grad, and Law Programs: No Common App Most MBA, grad, and law programs do not have a common application system, which means you will need to write different applications for each school. For law school, you may be able to adapt a personal statement for different schools. This process will probably take 1-2 months total depending on how frequently you sit down to write and how many schools you plan to apply to. I suggest you allow 2-3 weeks for writing the personal statement and possible diversity statement or addenda. Allow an additional one week per school for adapting these essays to different programs and completing those pesky application boxes. Also allow time to review and edit your resume, and contact and prep recommenders. For MBA programs, you need to write separate essays for most programs. Sometimes you’ll be able to adapt previously written essays, and sometimes you won’t. For most MBA programs, you will need to write 1-4 essays, provide a resume, answer a few short answer questions, and perhaps submit a video. I recommend you allow at least 3-4 weeks for your first application and then two weeks for each additional program. If you gasped at that recommendation, remember: You are busy and writing takes time. Plus, if you are applying to highly competitive programs, you need a highly competitive application. That application requires thought, rewriting, and time. But you may say, â€Å"I want to apply round 1. I want the round 1 advantage!† There is no advantage to submitting half-baked mediocrity during round 1. For next year’s applicants, you can plan to apply round 1. You can get the GMAT or GRE done well before essay questions are released and start working on them as soon as they come out. You will have done all the pre-essay stuff in advance and be poised for an excellent application effort. For this year’s applicants, get started now on round 2 applications, which will mostly have deadlines in January. You will then have that most valuable asset, time. You’ll have the time to submit your best when those deadlines stare you in the face. If you aren’t well into revising now for R1, don’t try to draft something in a hurry. Apply R2 and submit an application you are proud of. For other grad students, including engineering, psych, and a broad array of masters and PhD applications, if you are applying in the 2018-19 cycle and have gotten the test score that you will apply with, know what you want to do with the degree, and how the programs you are applying to will help you do it, you are ready to write a dynamite statement of purpose. Get to work. Don’t wait. Many of you will face December and January deadlines. You also are most likely applying to multiple programs. I can assume your post-degree goal will not change with the school, but your reasons for wanting to attend each school should be specific to that school and reflect your knowledge of the program. If you haven’t already done so, line up recommenders, prepare a one pager that you can give them about the schools you are applying to, perhaps highlighting something you’re proud of that they may forget to mention, and their deadlines for submitting the letters. Make it as easy as possible for them. (This goes for you, too, MBA applicants applying R2) Now let’s turn to medical school applicants. If you want to apply next summer for 2020 matriculation and have not yet taken the MCAT or are not satisfied with your score, schedule an exam such that you are fully prepared. That may be in January or February. If you take it then, and are not satisfied with the outcome, you will have time for a retake so that you will have the second score by the end of May or early June. Alternatively, plan to take the exam next summer and consider waiting to apply until the summer of 2020 with a 2021 matriculation date. At the risk of repeating myself, test prep takes and benefits from time. Give yourself the time necessary to do well on the MCAT and to avoid applying late in the cycle because you need to retake over the summer. Let’s assume for now that you have your MCAT and are applying DO get cracking. You still have the time to apply to osteopathic schools. Their application cycle runs a little later and if you have everything else that you should have, then proceed. If you are planning to apply to allopathic medical schools next summer and have an MCAT that you are satisfied with, I suggest you start writing your PS and MMEs over winter break. You can always tweak them if something significant happens close to application time, but if you get these drafted at least, if not polished in December/January, you will be primed to apply in early June when the med school class is wide open. Time will be on your side. I also suggest that you spend time between winter break and June, when AMCAS opens, researching programs and taking notes on those programs. You may also want to start journaling or at least taking notes about experiences that you may want to write about or talk about when you move into the school-specific secondary and interview phases of the application process. Also use some of this time for pre-writing secondaries. You can find many secondary essay questions, with tips, at Accepted. You will quickly see that some essays recur and you can at least have drafts about community service experiences, leadership experiences, why you want to pursue the area of medicine you want to pursue, how you will contribute to the diversity of your class, and much more. Once secondary applications start to arrive, they will pour down in a deluge. Using your time to pre-write will give you the ability to turn around the secondaries quickly and well, preferably within two weeks of receipt. This is one stage of the process where you need to act quickly and without compromising quality. Pre-writing will save you time and give you that ability. So whether we’re talking about law school, grad school, medical school or business school, you need time to apply effectively, efficiently, confidently, and successfully. Time will enable you to present an application that reflects the best you. Related Links: †¢ Get Your Game On: Preparing for Your Grad School Application, a free guide †¢Ã‚  Med School Secondary Application Essay Tips †¢ The Smart Timeline for MBA Applicants †¢ Admissions Consulting Services Related Shows: †¢Ã‚  Meet Dr. Nadia Afridi, Plastic Surgeon, Recent Columbia EMBA, and Mom †¢Ã‚  Different Dimensions of Diversity †¢Ã‚  Focus on Fit †¢Ã‚  Stand Out! A Critical Goal for Your Application Subscribe: Podcast Feed ;

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Crime has so many faces, and is perpetrated by people at so many different levels of our society that you may ask yourself what exactly it is. The answer is simple; crime is any activity in conflict with a just law - laws made to protect the citizens of this country and enforced by ourRead MoreTeenage Crime Is A Social Problem Of The World s Attention965 Words   |  4 PagesIn recent years, teenage crime has become a social problem of the world s attention. At the same time, the teenage crime increasing both in number and in dimension. Most of the crime forms concentrated in robbery, serious injury, rape, and other show the young ages tendency. This phenomenon has become a serious problem that endangers public security and the impact of society development. There are three significant causes of teenage crime: incorrect family education, social factors, and individualRead MoreThe Causes Of Crime And Crime Essay1354 Words   |  6 PagesThe cause of crime When an individual commits a crime it is society that has placed laws to find this individual guilty of such crime(s). This individual will now face the consequences of their action. But what caused this individual to participate in criminal activities? What causes crime? In order to answer such question, one has to understand what crime is. Nadia defined crime as â€Å"the breach of laws that are laid down by the ruling authority of the land† (topyaps.com) via mechanisms such as legal

On Racist Speech Essay Example For Students

On Racist Speech Essay In the following essay, Charles R. Lawrence encompasses a number of reasons that racist speech should not be protected by the First Amendment. In this document, he exhibits his views on the subject and what he feels the society should confront these problems. In this well- written article, he provides strong evidence to prove his point and to allow the reader to see all aspects of the issue. Charles Lawrence has been active in his use of the First Amendment rights since he was a young boy. When confronted with the issue of racist speech, he feels that it needs to be diminished by society as a unit, because this discrimination does not just effect one person, but society as a whole. There are many reasons that this issue disturbs Lawrence. The first being the fact that the use of racist speech on college and university campuses has greatly risen since the past. Another reason he is troubled is the fact that there are actual people being victimized and being perceived as a minority because of race, sex, class etc†¦ and he feels that until we have been put into this position, we have no idea how these people feel. Lastly, Lawrence questions why it is that all civil rights activists are so quick to challenge the weak efforts that are trying to be made by universities to protect the students. The case of Brown Vs the Board of Education is, in a roundabout way, a case of racial speech. By not allowing mixed schools, a message is being conveyed that segregation is all right. This is a prime example of how this hate can cause real psychological problems and how a student can be so tormented by racist speech that he is deprived from gaining a full education. Although university officials have tried to eliminate racial harassment, their efforts have proven to be futile except in incidences of personal confrontation. Only words that arouse anger and result in violence are not protected by the First Amendment. Although the First Amendment states that we should award the greatest amount of speech, racial speech is not deserving of this award because these words are meant to do nothing but harm another individual. The only time that speech may be regulated is when the victim is unable to get away from the racism such as in the home or in college bathrooms and common rooms. Lawrence feels that it is the responsibility of the university to protect the student to the fullest extent, and it is the right of the student to be able to walk around campus without being harassed. Although universities have attempted to make rules that ban the use of words as weapons to intentionally hurt, their efforts have been futile. Public speeches and rallies are permitted because the victim may have time to prepare for retaliation. As with many topics of debate, there are many arguments against Lawrence. Some say that freedom of speech is the only way that people can counteract, and others say that the perimeter s are too wide and that it would be nearly impossible to eliminate racist speech without eliminating other rights. Therefore we ask these victims to be subjected to this racism for the benefit of the community. Before we regulate speech, we first must listen to the victims, instead of mainly thinking how the society is going to suffer. The main point is that eventually good speech will prevail over bad and equality will be recognized, but not without everyone’s help. All people concerned with this issue must do whatever possible to over- ride the First Amendment protection of racist speech. 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Underachievers Essays (1911 words) - Education,

Underachievers This paper adresses the issue of how a negative self concept can effect achievement of gifted students. it specifically focuses on the effect of acedemic achievement, discusses what it means to be both an underachiever and have a negative self concept, how to identify these students and what family and teachers can do about this. PAPER Many academically gifted children underachieve in school classrooms as a result of the fact that they do not know how to achieve higher a or they feel they cannot achieve a task that they are expected to be able to but find it too difficult. Underachievement is a pervasive problem which results in a tremendous waste of human potential among our most able students. In fact, in 1972 the U.S. Commissioner of Education estimated that 17.6% of gifted ( both academically and non-academically) students drop out of high school, and that percentage is probably even higher today. (Schnieder, 1997) and to add a New Zealand perspective, Moltzen (in McAlpine and Moltzen, 1996) suggest that 10-20% of students who do not graduate are gifted. These students hold a negative self concept of themselves as they have not received the support necessary to be able to work and achieve at their own level. There are many different contributing factors to the establishing of self concepts and how they effect gifted children. . This paper addresses how gifted children form negative self concepts of themselves and how can effect their achievement in an academic school setting. First it is necessary to provide the background knowledge and the definitions on areas that are to be discussed. For the purpose of this paper the definition of self concept is a persons view of self, in relation to their perception of feed back from others. This view occurs in both academic and non-academic areas. (Fox, 1993 in Rawlinson, 1996) To specifically focus on the academic area of self concepts which is being addressed in this paper , an academic self concept is a relatively stable set of attitudes and feelings reflecting self evaluation of ones ability to successfully perform basic school related tasks such as reading, writing, spelling and maths. (Boersma & Chapman,1992 in Rawlinson, 1996) Self concepts tend to be domain specific, meaning that pupils have different self concepts towards different areas of the curriculum (Schunk,1990) but to avoid complications throughout this paper all academic subjects will all be inclusive with each other. The definition of underchievement is not as straight forward as that of self concept as many people have different ideas on what it means to underachieve. Wellington and Wellington (1965) suggest that under achievers have a low level of aspiration. In its simplest form it can be defined as a unfulfilled potential (Moltzen in McAlpine and Moltzen, 1996) but neither of these definitions provide much capture the essence of underachievement in gifted children as they do not provide enough detail as to the difference between what they are achieving and what they could achieve. The definition of the purpose of this assignment is provided by Davis and Rimm( 1994 in Moltzen, 1996) who define underachievment as a discrepancy between the childs school performance and some index of his or her actual ability such as intelligence, achievement, or creativity score or observational data. Because a gifted student underachieves it does not mean that they are failing in the school system. Gifted students are generally capable of performing at least two levels ahead of their age peers. If they are not identified as being gifted, they are seldom challenged to perform in accord with their potential. In fact, these capable students may be considered underachievers even when they get ?good? grades.( Schneider, 1997) All children are natural learners and begin life with a drive to acquire knowledge, understand it and make use of it according to their abilities. Children do not begin school with the intention of seeking failure or frustrating their teachers. (Schnieder, 1997) And gifted children definitely do not go out to seek failure. How pupils use this newly found information that they have learnt and how teachers react to how they use this information or how well they achieve, contributes to the forming of self concepts. An individuals self concept is formed as a result of interactions and experiences with others and is learned and acquired over time. (Rawlinson, 1996) In reinforcement to the idea that self concepts are learned, Scheirer & Kraut (1979) suggest with specific reference to academia that a self concept is a product of interactive outcomes with ones academic environment

Informative Essay Sample on Cars and New Technology Safety and Comfort

Informative Essay Sample on Cars and New Technology Safety and Comfort I will cover several main ideas in this report. First, I will cover an overview of the technologies that will make driving more comfortable, such as In-car Internet and Coast-to-Coast Radio. I will then cover different ways to make driving easier, such as intelligent cruise control, and voice control. Finally, I will cover technology that will make driving safer. This will include push-button help, seeing through fog and NightVision, and smart seats. I will now give an overview of the new technologies that are aimed at comfort. You will soon be able to send and receive e-mail, get news, traffic reports, sports scores, and stock quotes all without taking your eyes off of the road. This will all be done on the Internet through voice commands and a voice synthesizer. In order to activate these functions, all the driver has to do is say, â€Å"Start my E-mail† into a microphone on the steering wheel and the onboard computer will go to a specified web site where it will download the requested information and convert the text to spoken words for hand and eye free operation. The price will be about $2000 and a monthly fee for connecting to the Internet. This technology will be offered on the 2001 Cadillac Seville or DeVille and the 2001 BMW 750iL and Z8 models. Another form of comfort technology is Coast-to-Coast radio. This technology is used so that you will never need to face static or have trouble finding good stations in areas away from home. By the end of the year, two companies, XM Radio and Sirius Satellite, are expected to have satellites In place that will be able to broadcast synchronized radio signals all over the country. In addition to the high fidelity, static free sound, you will be able to listen to one station, from coast to coast. There will be about 100 channels to choose from with 50 being commercial free. Youll need to pay a monthly subscription fee of $9.95 to enjoy this benefit. BMW, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler have announced to have this as an option on new models soon. A final comfort tech is active body control. This sophisticated active suspension system is designed to counteract all types of body lean. It stops all lean from cornering, braking, or acceleration so that the car stays flat at all times. The result is a plush, comfortable ride. This also gives you the ability to control the car’s ride height and give you better clearance or better aerodynamics. This is currently only available on the Mercedes Benz CL-Class. There are several new technologies that will make driving much easier for drivers. The first of these is intelligent cruise control. Any cruise control system can maintain a set speed. This new system also maintains a set distance from other cars too. This system uses radar to detect any cars ahead for about 500 feet. If a slower vehicle is detected in front of your car, the system will slow down the car until you reach the set distance that you selected earlier. This is currently only available on the Mercedes Benz CL-Class. The next technology geared towards making driving easier is the electronic parking guide. This simple system uses radar to measure how close the vehicle’s bumper is to other objects and signals the driver with both visual and audio alerts to stop the need for guessing if your close or not and gets rid of the chance of scraping your bumper. This is currently only available on the Mercedes Benz CL-Class. The next piece of sophisticated technology is voice-recognition technology, or simply the ability to control systems by talking to the car. This lets the driver keep his eyes on the road and his hands on the steering wheel. The hard part about developing this technology was getting it to recognize different voices and inflections. There are still some bugs, but it’s a good first try. You will be able to control audio, climate-control, and cellular phone systems easily. With just a word or two, drivers can control radio station, CD tracks, and volume, adjust temperature, switch audio sources, dial a number, and lots more. The driver must remember several key words for the technology to operate properly. It doesn’t always work though, sometime you have to repeat the word or the system will just ignore you. This technology will eventually get much better though since the current technology is first generation. You will be able to enjoy this feature on the Jaguar S-Type and the Mercedes Benz S-Class. I will now discuss several safety features that will be put into high tech cars. The first safety feature is push-button help. With the push of a button, you can get travel information, roadside assistance, and emergency aid with the Mercedes Benz Tele Aid System. It connects you to a 24-hour center that can track your vehicle’s location via GPS. In an accident, the system will automatically call for help and transmit your location, while center personnel direct emergency help to the vehicle. This will also easily and quickly locate your car if it is stolen. This is currently only available on the Mercedes Benz CL-Class. The next technology which will make the roads safer are Thermal Imaging and NightVision to see through fog and at night. This technology uses a heads-up-display, like on fighter jets, mounted on the dashboard in front of the driver. This heads-up-display, or HUD, then projects the image onto the windshield. This NightVision gives the driver a view of the road ahead and picks up any heat-emitting objects., such as people, animals, and running cars. Heat-emitting objects appear in white on a black background. This can sense anything three times as far as low beams. When you are driving, you don’t look directly at the HUD, but your peripheral vision would pick up the bright object in the NightVision display. This can be used to avoid deer, see cars in dense fog, or even see a parked police car with its lights out and its engine running sitting by the side of a highway. This is only available on the 2000 Cadillac DeVille. The final safety technology that I will cover is smart seats. One new system has 10 air cells which sense the passenger’s weight distribution and automatically adjusts for better support, while other seats have heaters and cooling fans in them for maximum comfort. There are even massaging backrests to calm you down. For safety, seats are being tied into the passenger airbag systems. One system uses sensors that actually detect the electrical activity in a person’s body. Using this, the system can tell if a child is in the seat (by monitoring the height) or if a person is leaning against the door. In either case, the side airbag is deactivated and the front bag deploys at a lower speed. These various systems will be options on Cadillac’s, Mercedes-Benz’s, Lincoln’s, Lexus’, BMW’s, and Acura’s. In this paper, I have covered many topics. I have shown how you can use your car to check e-mail, get the weather, or listen to the radio without interference. You will be able to let the cruise control drive for you, park easily and without worry, drive without any sort of movements inside of the car, and control the car with voice commands. You will be able to get help with the push of a button, see on a pitch-dark night, and won’t have to worry about airbags hurting you. Your life will be affected in many ways from these new technologies. You will have much less things to worry about and have more fun driving. You will be more comfortable, and also safer. With these new technologies and the other technologies that will surely come, the roads will be a much safer place with less accidents and faster trips.

Brazil As An Emerging Market Economy Business Essay

Brazil As An Emerging Market Economy Business Essay Globalisation has become the order of the day and as multinational companies are scouting for new avenues in the bid to achieve competitive advantage over rivals and have at the same time economic viability of operations, nations too are vying with each other for a significant share of the global economic pie to cater to the development of themselves and take care of the socio-economic conditions prevalent amongst the population. Whilst the dominance of the developed nations persisted for a significant period of time, with political conditions such as the cold-war, division of Germany, and the like, abetting it, the changed political atmosphere worldwide threw up many opportunities and challenges requiring an introspection of policies of the nations and a need for reinventing and refurbishing of existing laws and governing policies to make the nation more dynamic and competitive. This assignment is sequentially structured to analyse the nature of emerging markets, the role of multin ational organisations in emerging markets, Brazil as an emerging economy, the need for cultural familiarisation for working in such an environment. This study also takes into consideration the cultural analysis of Brazil done by the renowned Geert Hofstede in an attempt to familiarise managers with aspects they should expect, and practice whilst in Brazil. These are followed by a PESTLE analysis of Brazil and finally end with a summative conclusion. Critical Analysis and Discussion Whilst no one-liner definition exists of emerging market economies (EME), the characteristic features tend to determine what they really are. Rapid economic growth, increased and sustained foreign investment, coupled with significant international political influence are the main markers of this type of economy. These economies are not on par with those of advanced nations due to the difference in the level of development .Very often bad policies namely those that interfere with the efficient performance of economic factors, and fragile institutional structures that place an additional burden of transactional costs for domestic and foreign investors, tend to inhibit potential investors. The expansion of organisations spanning different countries is centuries old, the expansion of multinational companies and their relevant importance in world trade achieved rapid pace post 1980 era. The propensity of integration with the global economy, together with the decline in the importance of the economic role of the nation led to the tremendous expansion of MNCs, particularly in the developing nations of the world. The significance of the functions of transnational companies in the shaping of the global economy has manifested, in significant proportions in the 20th century, such that â€Å"any of the top 100 or so global firms exceed the GDP of many nations†Ã‚  [18] and as it stands today, multinational companies are responsible for most of the employment and output and t in the world . [19] They have a reciprocal relationship with the globalization process; whilst globalization has contributed to high FDI flows to nations, countries eager to acquire a share of these FDI flows have undertaken significant policy shifts towards liberalisation. [20]Additionally, multinational companies have made it possible for the creation of â€Å"the global village† by facilitating international amalgamation of markets.[21]