Africa is a continent with a booming customer base, aspirations for entrepreneurship, and indigenous innovation. However, a crucial sector for economic development in Africa, science and technology development has long been underfunded and ignored in many of the continent’s nations. Some economists believe that the continent’s underdevelopment is partly due to the widening technological and…
The fraud triangle is described as a system commonly utilized in making a comprehensive review to clarify the purpose of a person’s choice of committing fraud. The three significant components of the fraud triangle are (i) opportunity (ii) pressure (iii) rationalization. Pressure In this context, pressure is the ultimate motivation for committing a crime. In…
The movie Samson and Delilah is about two fourteen-year-old indigenous teenagers who steal a car, attempt to escape their bleak life, fail, and eventually return to their tiny outback community. It draws attention to the aboriginal community, reflecting social and economic inequality toward marginalized groups in modern-day society. The rise of Capitalism and economic expansion…
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has been dubbed a “black swan occurrence,” has had a negative influence not only on people’s health but also on countries’ socio-economic activity around the world. To help flatten the epidemic curve, the governments of over 162 countries announced a complete shutdown of national and international borders, as well as travel…
In today’s global society, there are significant national culture variations, which have an impact on how people conduct business. Many functional aspects of business such as pace of business, business protocol, decision making, risk-taking, and marketing are influenced extensively by culture. Understanding the culture of the people you’re interacting with is crucial to having successful…
The term “person perception” is used in social psychology to describe the many mental processes that we utilize to develop impressions of other people. This encompasses not just how we generate these impressions, but also the various conclusions we draw about other individuals based on them. It looks at how these processes affect social judgment…
David Hume is known as one of the empiricists that argue that there are no innate ideas, and that all knowledge comes from experience. Hume’s focus on causation opened the discussion on how we can learn about cause and effect through our experiences. Hume begins the discussion by concluding that the reason humans perceive cause…
European Union is an international non-governmental organization formed by the Maastricht Treaty on the 1st of November 1993. It was a treaty that was coined to enhance political and economic integration in Europe by; creating a common currency, designing unified security and foreign policy, unified citizenship rights, and advancing cooperation in the sectors of judiciary,…
Although the book was not familiar during the lifetime of Behn, currently Oroonoko of the year 1668 is among the broad read books of Aphra Behn and most respected work. Oroonoko, also known as a loyal slave, remains critical as it impacted the English novel development, establishing females’ narrative voice and handling anti-colonial and abolitionist…
Introduction Universal basic income is a concept where a small payment is made to everyone regardless of their need. On the other hand, basic income refers to a wage payment given to persons who need it. Basic income is considered an outrageous idea, but in 2020 we all experienced and lived it. Explained further universal…
Humans lose hair, sight, teeth, and muscles with age. Hearing is not any different. There are many reasons people lose their hearing ability as they age. Normal wear and tear are one of the reasons people’s hearing abilities decrease with age, damaging, breaking, and wearing out of hair cells. Sometimes the cells just die. The…
Burke’s Speech on East India Bill concerns India particularly British rule in India. In the speech, Burke has presented India in graphic detail including its history, geography, territorial vastness, culture, ethnicity etc. Burke believed that Eighteenth-century India had declined sadly from the height of Mughal power. But still, in the Speech on East India Bill,…
‘No adults mean no future’. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys become stranded on a desert island and must fight to survive. Almost all the boys change because the surroundings are different and there are no adults. Fascinating character changes can be seen in Ralph, Jack and Piggy.…
Introduction Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand chemist and physicist. He is known as the father of nuclear physics because of his discovery of the nuclear structure of an atom. This is the discovery that will be explained in this report. This wasn’t his only discovery. He also discovered the concept of radioactive decay (half-lives),…
Harbisson, Neil, “Humans Should Challenge Technology by Becoming a Cyborg”, New York Times, 05 December 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/12/05/is-artificial-intelligence-taking-over-our-lives/humans-should-challenge-technology-by-becoming-a-cyborg OP-ED In his newspaper opinion piece, (Humans Should Challenge Technology by Becoming a Cyborg), Neil Harbisson suggests that if we do not want technology to become more intelligent than humans, we need to become technology: i.e., cyborgs. Harbisson…
INTRODUCTION Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms that belong to the fungal kingdom. When yeasts consume sugar and convert it to energy, they emit carbon dioxide, this is referred to as fermentation. The yeast will be more active and develop faster if there is more sugar present. While sugar and other sweets provide “food” for yeast,…
Introduction The Second World War, usually referred to as World War II, was a global war that took place between 1939 and 1945. It was made up of a vast majority of global countries, especially countries with great powers. The countries with great powers formed opposing military alliances, which were known as Axis powers and…
Introduction Change management plays a crucial role in an organization. Business organizations usually work to meet the needs of consumers through the production of goods and services. To ensure that sustainable profits are achieved in an organization, a positive change that affects all the critical areas in an organization should be embraced. While many modules…
The novel, Tomorrow When the War Began was written by author John Marsden and published in 1993, entails the story of a group of teenagers put into a precarious situation. Upon returning from a short camping trip to the nearby mountainous areas of Wirrawee, they discover themselves in a new world. A world overrun by foreign soldiers,…
Countless things impact moral growth in a person, with some forms being more effective than others. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, three factors that can influence an individual’s moral growth are shared. The three significant elements that impact an individual’s moral development are the environment lived in, maturity, and parental guidance.…