Why am I pursuing a Doctorate? My father’s mantra and lifelong dream was for me to become a medical doctor. After his death, I gravitated towards business but maintained limited connections with the hard sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Biology). For my Advanced Level (A-Level) studies, I did Pure and Applied Mathematics and Accounting. At undergraduate level, I earned a Bachelor Degree in Applied Information Systems. With a further three (3) years of hard work, I earned a Master’s of Science in Information, Computing and Telecommunications. I am also a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. The UK National Recognition Information Centre (NARIC) equates the ACCA Qualification to a UK taught Masters Degree. The International Accounting Standards Board is working with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (US) with a view to harmonizing standards. Once this can be accomplished then leading online US Universities such as Walden may consider evaluating professional qualifications such as ACCA for Degree credit transfer. Currently, I am a full-time lecturer at the College of Science Technology Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT). I have been lecturing at the tertiary level for the past nineteen (19) years. I have over thirty plus years in lecturing experience. My current employer’s continuing professional development policy states that all full-time lecturers with Masters level qualifications must start Doctoral level studies within six (6) years of their commencing employment with the College. I am in my third year as a full-time lecturer with COSTAATT. The short-term view is to satisfy current job requirements. The long-term view is to lead the organization within the next seven (7) ye... ... middle of paper ... ... customers informed about developments that may impact our relationships and collaboratively develop solutions to overcome foreseeable problems and difficulties. Develop strategies to counteract lack of interest such as mentoring and coaching weaker colleagues, reflect and meditate on the positives rather than dwelling on the negatives and focus less on self and concentrate more on group or team-oriented goals. Conclusion During my career, I have built and nurtured a network of resources including my mentors and advisors, my personal information gathering and dissemination website (http://iteach.org/jobsterling) and an array of tools and techniques that allow me to collate and analyze information quickly such as mind maps. Walden University online DDBA in my specialist area of Information Systems was the perfect match that allowed me to commence doctoral studies.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a book that focuses on the events that occurred on and led up to the AT&T long-distance telephone switching system crashing on January 15, 1990. Not only was this event rare and unheard of it took place in a time when few people knew what was exactly going on and how to fix the problem. There were a lot of controversies about the events that led up to this event and the events that followed because not only did
Empress Dowager Tzu His Exposed in Sterling Seagrave's Dragon Lady China’s great ancient empire has been the source of stories, fables, and fascination throughout the world for generations. The Asian culture has a long history of powerful leaders and ruthless battles making it one of the longest standing powers that the world has ever known. Yet, what took centuries to create was destroyed during the reign of a single ruler, plunging the country into chaos and confusion. The one who often
“cyberpunk” genre as argued by Bruce Sterling was born out of the 1980's and was due in part to the rapid decentralization of technology. With the influx of computers, the internet, and virtual reality into the everyday household came technological discoveries that affected the individual. Certain themes that are central to “cyberpunk” involve implanted circuitry, cosmetic surgery, and mind invasions such as brain computer interfaces and artificial intelligence. (Sterling 346) With these issues in mind
A Place to Remember When I was sixteen years of age, my Gram, Aunt Jamie, and I went to Scotland. We visited many places, such as Edinburgh, Sterling, and Dumfries. We also visited Arundel, Windsor, and London in England. The most exciting part of our trip was when we went and saw the house my Grandad born in and the family house. As I looked at those houses, I felt like I was home, I had found the place I was supposed to be. All my life I have known who I was and where I was from, I am Scottish
that happen to bump into them? One of the drawing features of the young Internet was its freedom. It’s "...a rare example of a true, modern, functional anarchy...there are no official censors, no bosses, no board of directors, no stockholders" (Sterling). It’s an open forum where anyone can say anything, and the only thing holding them back is their own conscience. This lawless atmosphere bothered many people, including Nebraska Senator James Exon. Exon proposed in July, 1994 that an amendment
such as Stassinopoulos claimed that women's unique perspective and talents must be valued, intentionally emphasizing the differences between men and women. A third type of feminism, post-modernism, is represented in Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto-Sterling. Post-modern feminism questions the very origins of gender, sexuality, and bodies. According to post-modernism, the emphasis or de-emphasis of difference by cultural and liberal feminists is meaningless, because the difference itself and the categories
European Union, representing roughly 5% of total employment and of GDP, and 30% of total external trade in services. Together with employment and GDP indicated in other sectors, such as transport or distributive trade, these figures rise up 20 million jobs and to roughly 12% of GDP. [IMAGE]In the UK, residents made more than five times as many holiday visits abroad than overseas residents made to the UK. The graph shows the number of visits and spending of overseas residents to the UK by region
unified Americans as no previous political event ever had." It levied a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, and nearly every other form of paper used in the colonies. Adding to this hardship was the need for the tax to be paid in British sterling, not in colonial paper money. Although this duty had been in effect in England for over half a century and was already in effect in several colonies in the 1750?s, it called into question the authority of Parliament over the overseas colonies that
Both "Pretty Boy Crossover" and "Flowers of Edo" share a similar and resounding theme. People are afraid of change, death, being left out, and not knowing things. People would rather choose to evade these realities, or even decide to escape them by doing suicide. They do whatever it takes to fit in, to be worshipped, and to be immortal. They do all of this in order to maintain their sanity, because they can't accept being outcast, or can't accept death. People would rather do what's popular instead
thing, uses extrapolation as a foundation for its stories. Extrapolation, predicting or tracing a path of continuation for an idea or event, is also used in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is known for its use of extrapolation in the fabric of daily life. (Sterling 348) It takes common science fiction themes, such as body and mind manipulation, and events of daily life and describes them with intensely dizzying detail. Neuromancer by William Gibson is a perfect example of cyberpunk writing because it uses this
Opium and Victorian Britain Although opium has been imported to Britain for hundreds of years for medicinal purposes it was not until the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that its use as a pharmaceutical panacea and exotic recreational drug became epidemic within all strata of British society. Prior to the 1868 Pharmacy Act which restricted the sale of opium to professional pharmacists, anyone could legally trade in opium products: by the middle of the nineteenth century hundreds
she hasn't worked since. I was fortunate enough to have my mother home with me when I was younger. A lot of children I went to elementary school with weren't as lucky. Growing up my brother, parents, and I all lived in a small, ranch-style home in Sterling Heights. We had a nice yard, two cars, and a basketball hoop. This was typical if you looked down our street. Once I hit fifth grade our house went up for sale and we moved to Washington Township. Our home was bigger now and the people in the neighborhood
daughters of the soil and have inherited age-old traditions which they do not question. Their courage lies in meek or at times cheerful way [sic] of facing poverty or calamity" [Meena Shirdwadkar, Image of Woman in the Indo-Anglian Novel (New Delhi: Sterling, 1979), 49]. Rukmani, the main character, and her daughter Ira display suffering hroughout the novel. Rukmani works hard and is devoted to her gentle husband. She endures blow after blow from life: poverty, famine, the divorce of her barren daughter
Personal Narrative- Volleyball Tryouts Six long hours after departing Hotchkiss, we finally reached our destination. We pulled into the parking lot of the Super 8 just off Interstate 76 in Sterling, Colorado. Since I had been to this hotel on a previous trip to Sterling, I began wishing I had brought my swimsuit along. Mom and dad went inside and got the keys for room 129. I was so sick of riding in the car that I did not care what the room looked like as long as there was a bed for me to sleep
The fluctuation or well known as the exchange market is the rate at which one currency will be exchange for another. It also regarded as the value of one country’s currency in the terms of another currency. The fluctuation was determined in the foreign exchange market (Wikipedia, 2014). The fluctuation rate is not permanent sometime in one day the fluctuation rate can change from high to low and from low to high. Hard currency is any global traded currency that is expected to serve as a reliable