The growth of the Internet in the past 10 years has been phenomenal. Companies large and small have embraced the Internet as a tool that can potentially expand their business beyond the traditional boundaries, which can give them a competitive advantage in the market place. The Internet and E-business websites seemed to many companies in the mid nineties as an elaborate, expensive and unnecessary company brochure. But the rapid evolution of e-business and Internet usage has seen their opinion dramatically change. In fact, companies now realise that they must participate in the e-business revolution to succeed in the modern and complex business environment. In 1996, Forrester Research Institute, a major E-commerce industry analyst, predicted that Business to Customer sales would be a $6.6 billion business in 2000, up from $518 million in 1996. In 2000 Business to Customer sales in the United States were actually about $18 billion, or 1% of total retail sales. In addition to that it is predicted that total e-commerce transactions in the US is predicted to reach between $3-$7 trillion in 2004 alone. Using the figures as a yardstick it is easy to see how far e-business has come and how much people have embraced it in such a short period of time.
It might be fair to say that the BBS Marketing and E-Business degree program which I am currently studying is an indirect product that was created on the back of the E-business revolution.
The initial use of the Internet as a business tool was predominantly for marketing purposes, in the form of a public information website. The functions of e-business websites have now become much more complex and elaborate. Companies now use their websites for product support, customer service and retail sales and as a delivery channel for electronic goods and services. Businesses no longer use it for solely Business –to-Customer (BtoC) purposes. It is now widely used for Business-to-Business (BtoB) transactions also, in fact a Gartner e-commerce research group study, estimates that 14% of business to business transactions are currently made electronically, with that number expected to grow to 50% by 2009.
E-commerce applications were first developed in the early 1970s with innovations such as electronic funds transfer (EFT) in which funds could be routed electronically from one organisation to another. However this technology was limited to mainly large corporations and financial institutions. Then came electronic data interchange (EDI), a technology used to electronically transfer routine, which expanded electronic transfers from financial transactions to other types of transaction processing such as ordering.
When Huck and Jim first meet each other on the island they are just acquaintances who had little history together but the decision they make to help each other foreshadows their relationship later on in the story. When Jim first finds Huck he states, "Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain' dead—you ain' drownded—you's back agin? It's too good for true, honey, it's too good for true. Lemme look at you chile, lemme feel o' you. No, you ain' dead! you's back agin, 'live en soun', jis de same ole Huck—de same ole Huck, thanks to goodness!" (Twain ). By this time, Jim has heard the news of Hucks “death”, so when they find each other on the island it comes as a surprise to Jim. “People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum--but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways” (Twain ), Huck thought. After Jim told Huck that he was a runaway, Huck promised not to tell anyone, which shows his values and foreshadows their relationship later on in the story. After leaving ...
To turn Jim in, or not to turn Jim in, that is the question that Huck is faced with in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Whether it is nobler to protect a friend or to give in to the demands of society by ending a friendship. This novel portrays a period in American history where most Southern whites considered blacks as a piece of property. Huck, a white Southern boy, and Jim, a run-away slave, had a friendship that was inappropriate in society. During their adventurous journey, Huck would have to confront the consequences of protecting a run-away slave, if he decided to give Jim protection.
He was born at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Blanco). During Joyce Dahmer’s pregnancy, she struggled with a series of health problems involving nervous seizures and extreme noise sensitivity. She took a medication by the name of Miltown to subside her symptoms. Although, that medication was thought to be a high risk for birth defects she took as many as twenty-six pills a day. This could have played a significant role in Jeffrey Dahmer’s mental health development during Joyce’s pregnancy and his early childhood years. Joyce also experienced postpartum depression after her pregnancy and on into Jeffery’s early childhood (stopspankingorg). Unfortunately, that resulted in her not being an adequate mother to Jeffrey as he was growing up. Jeffrey’s father was also not fully present during Jeffrey’s childhood because of his work (stopspankingorg). The Dahmer’s marriage suffered immensely due to Joyce’s health issues and Lionel’s absence due to work. The suffering in the Dahmer’s marriage may directly correlate to Jeffrey’s unruly
In today’s society, everyday people struggle with telling the truth. As you grow into a young adult one thing that many kids are told is that a “white lie” is much different compared to a lie. Although everyone knows that this ultimately is not true, it’s become such a normal act that people tend to just go along with it. Many people try to justify this immoral action by claiming that they are using their lies for good, instead of evil. But it is often hard to know at what point a lie becomes an irreversible, cruel action as opposed to an alternate explanation. Huck Finn, the main character and narrator in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, also runs into this dilemma frequently throughout the story. Growing up in the South in the middle of slavery, Huck feels “forced” to be dishonest about his identity many times in order to
Huck’s habit in telling stories to get himself out of tight situations has been a continuous trend throughout the chapters. It can be inferred throughout the novel with evidence like stealing the food but not taking certain types of food that shows that Huck’s morality is yet to be finalized. Still young in age, he is easily imprinted through experiences. In Chapter 16, Huck is revealed to have an internal conflict between what he was taught was the right thing to do versus what he has actually experienced. The result is that Huck eventually creates another story that saves Jim yet again. Huck then concludes
Along with his protection of Huck’s mental state, Jim also strips away at Huck’s racism. When Huck and Jim are reunited after being separated, Jim is elated to see Huck alive and well. Huck decides to play a trick on Jim, and make him believe the whole thing never happened. Jim
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered to be a classic must-read novel written by the Missouri legend Mark Twain. It is praised as one of America’s greatest novels because of it’s humor, dialouge, and the way he displays pre-civil war America. These concepts are demonstrated well not only by Twain’s writing style, but the characters in the story. Huckleberry Finn is a story about a young boy who runs away from home and meets a runaway slave named Jim; together they journey down the Mississippi River looking for a better life. Loyalty is a central theme in the story Huckleberry Finn, Huck shows loyalty to Jim on Jackson's Island, by helping him escape from the Phelps, and by staying loyal to their friendship.
- “The contribution of narcissism to social media content generation”. It is hypothesized that “highly narcissistic subjects are likely to participate actively in social media content-generation.”
I. The word neuro refers to the brain and how the neurons send signals through the nervous system to the brain. Linguistic refers to the verbal and non-verbal language, and programming is how the brain interprets the information. I believe that we all here have problems with procrastinating, depression, or phobias. NLP can help you erase those problems by making the person gain control of their mind. NLP means neuro linguistic programming and it’s a method used to help their people overcome their problems, has became a useful program through its history to people.
In today's competing world, many organizations are rethinking their strategies in terms of the online business and its capabilities and culture. Organizations are taking advantage of the widespread web to buy and sell goods from other companies and recently from individual customers. Exploiting these opportunities of convenience, availability and widespread reach of the web or Internet, many companies such as Amazon have benefited from the use of web successfully.
E-commerce, a system by which people can buy, sell and deal without even seeing the person on the other side, has taken a front seat in improving the economy of countries around the world. Technology today has made it possible for monetary institutions to help locate the customers resources and help solve their problems at any given time through online banking.... ... middle of paper ... ...
E-commerce application is a platform where there is buying and selling of products and services which are done by businesses and consumers via an electronic medium, mostly without using any paper documents. “E-Commerce applications support transactions between businesses and their customers. They provide 24/7 customer support, allowing customers to order products, check orders and track shipping, review previous orders, reorder products, and manage their accounts.” (Auburn SeeWolf llc , 2009-2012)
E-business and e-commerce are terms that are sometimes used interchangeably, and sometimes they are used to differentiate one vendor’s product from another. In both cases, the e stands for "electronic networks" and describes the application of electronic network technology - including Internet and electronic data interchange (EDI) - to improve and change business processes (Bartels, 2000)
What's e-business? It is the transformation of every business process through using the internet and associated technologies. In this transformation, each part of the business becomes a part of an intrinsic network, which enables employees, suppliers and customers of a given enterprise to conduct their tasks. People usually try to make a point in differing e-business from e-commence, but as I see, e-commerce is a part of the e-business category, and an important one.
The high take-up of the Internet leads to variety of opportunities in front of companies. People are more online than ever. They spend many hours each day on Social Networks such as Facebook and Google+. It is no wonder that buying and selling can now be done in a more convenient way. Although traditional shopping is still thriving, online shopping can be an alternative for people wanting to save time and money. If a certain customer plan to go shopping, it could be stressful and also be time consuming. E-business has made shopping or any kind of transactions online much easier and convenient. It introduces new facilities, opportunities and way of shopping for both vendors and customers.