Life Essays

Introduction             Infant abandonment is not a new phenomenon. In biblical times when the infant Moses was placed among bulrushes, mothers who could not keep their infants considered abandonment as their only choice. In early fifteenth century Florence, mothers could safely abandon their babies by placing them on rotating stone …

“I am not coming home.” These are the hardest words I have ever said, and waiting for the response seemed to be the longest moment of my life. I came to USA from Russia as a visitor. I was supposed to stay only for three months on a short term …

Set in the 1950s, the movie is about PK, an English boy, and his strong desire to affect change, even in small actions, in the world. He was the only English boy in the African school where he studied. PK grew up a good man although he became an orphan …

Central to the process of decision making is the concept of responsibility centers. Here, the principle of controllability states that the manager of a responsibility center is only accountable for the income, costs and investments of which he has control of (Atkinson, Banker, Young & Kaplan, 2001). The case of …

Few Continental philosophies are as misunderstood as existentialism.  Often cited for negativism bordering on nihilism, its stress on the individuality and freedom of every human is overshadowed by the misperceptions associated with it.  Some of the confusion surrounding a clear definition of existentialism is because the diversity of positions associated …

Introduction The September 11 bombings of the United States became a turning point in American politics and society as well as the Arab nation: on one hand, Americans’ disbelief and shock on the degree of hatred of Arabs to commit such act and on the other, it is an exclamation …

The Power Elite written by C. Wright Mills in the year 1956 is a statement, consisting mostly of evaluation and critique, on how the organization of America has evolved. Specifically, Wright discusses on how the three key players of America’s society has intermingled and entwined thereby forming the power of …

Introduction A batch file consists of a series of commands that are issued ordinarily to system prompt for it to perform an operation of computer. It is commonly used to start programs and also to run utilities. Batch file uses one command rather than the multiple commands that are required …

     When an individual feels powerless to tackle a situation, one is persuaded to act against one’s will, one experiences the importance of power; when one is able to exercise one’s  will and feels what one does is  correct, power comes to the fore again. All human relationships have implied …

            Both the letter of credit and the bill of exchange are useful documents in expressing the buyer’s interest in undergoing a contractual relationship in the international trade. However, rationality should be employed in internalizing which between the two pronounces better terms in such interest.  Letter of Credit (LC) refers …