Professional Skills for Systems Analysis and Implementation

Question: Discuss about the Professional Skills for Systems Analysis and Implementation. Answer: Introduction Willowbrook School is a small private school that wants to retain their services as the system analyst in order to assist the development of new information system to do administrative as well as financial works. The system analyst should develop IT solutions for their businesses. The Director of the school, Victoria Owens discusses the possibility to set up a computer system in order to handle both administrative as well as financial tasks. The report is based on designing system architecture for Willowbrook School with its proposed physical as well as logical network topology. It gives the list of the hardware required to design the system architecture. A well-proposed system design specification document is prepared which is helpful to design the application development methodology. A test plan as well as used data set is given. A training plan is also given based on the needs of the user groups. A data conversion and system changeover are well developed based on the proposed information system for the school. System Architecture for Willowbrook School Justification for the proposed system The proposed new information system for Willowbrook School is based on the client server architecture. A three-tier architecture is considered to be the best option as the school is always within a scaling mode. The proposed information system is structured simple, and its three-tier should be useful for the process of development (Bajdor and Grabara 2014). Client Server Architecture Basic Architecture The basic architecture of the proposed system is very flexible. User environment It empowers the user to improve the productivity of Willowbrook School. Options for processing The data processing can be shared as well as configured in any of the way (Yan et al. 2014). Options for data storage The data are placed close to the users. Integration of hardware or software The integration of both hardware, as well as software, is flexible. Figure 1: Three-tier client server architecture for Willowbrook School (Source: Vieru and Rivard 2014, pp-384) Advantages of the proposed system The client system is useful as it contains the presentation logic and therefore it is helpful for the scaling process. Few resources are required for the client workstation. More resources for the server are required to address the request of the client (Davenport 2013). The server can address the requests of the clients with efficiency. For the Willowbrook school information system, the above system architecture is useful as it uses to reduce the data traffic on the network that allows the school to address requests within a shorter period (Arvidsson, Holmstrom and Lyytinen 2014). Due to business logic, the performance is high, and the database is physically closed which reduces the waiting time of the clients. It also lowers the initial as well as maintenance cost of the business operations. Disadvantages of the proposed system Due to the implementation of the proposed information system within Willowbrook School, the changes within the business logic cannot be reflected on the server automatically. These new changes require distribution as well as an installation of the new client side software (Dingsoyr et al. 2012). The data those are generated by the use of the system are not ported to other database platforms. Therefore, the performance of the server is poor if the volume of request becomes too high. Cost-benefit issues of file and client server design The cost-benefit issues are that it reduces the network load as well as improve the response times (Olsson, Bosch and Alahyari 2013). The expansion of the network as well as its maintenance is easy. Even the alterations of the ability of the large-scale central server are not required for the new information system. Physical and logical network topology for Willowbrook School Based on the architecture of the proposed information system of Willowbrook school, the physical, as well as logical network topology, is the bus. This bus topology contains the main run of the cable with the terminator at each of the end (Dingsoyr and Moe 2013). All the nodes such as the server, workstations as well as microcomputers are connected with the linear cable. The advantage of this linear bus topology is that it easily connects with the computer to the linear bus. It requires less cable length as compared to other topology (Simpson, Schraeder and Borowski 2015). The physical bus topology is the oldest network topologies that are associated with the Ethernet environments implementing the co-axial cables. As the bus topology is a distributed environment, therefore there is no single point of failure. The bus topology is the cheapest way to connect the computers in order to form a workgroup. Figure 2: Logical and Physical Bus Topology (Source: Simpson, Schraeder and Borowski 2015, pp-17) List of the hardware Serial Number Hardware required for the proposed information system 1 Database server 2 Router 3 Web server 4 Application server 5 Access point for the internet 6 CPU 7 RAM 8 Networking hardware System Design Specification Document Purpose of the Document The purpose of this document is to store the system design specifications details of the new information system for Willowbrook School. The new system should track the enrollments of the students, tuition, and payment as well as aftercare billing. This document gives the scope of the new information system with an overview of the components, modules, system design, structure and relationships, user interface issues and the schedule. It helps the project team to carry forward the implementation process within the school. Scope of the Development Project With the use of new information system, it creates customizable reports in the system and then eliminates the requirement to export the data into the external spreadsheets. The complete documentation is done in the system and eliminated the use of Word documents. The new information system monitors the account for tracking, reporting as well as reviewing the costs. It has the capability to review the individual transactions of the students with full details information within balance for more efficiency cost analysis (Hsieh and Lin 2016). Overview of the Components/Modules In the proposed information system for Willowbrook School, it consists of three components such as teachers, administrative as well as students. The key modules of the three key components are: After login into the information system, 1. School Admin manages the details of the student and the payment process. 2. Teachers manage the details of the exam as well as a subject within the school campus. 3. The students manage the details of the subjects and amount of the course fee managed by the system. System Design for the Information System of Willowbrook School The system is designed using the hardware such as database server, router, web server, application server, an access point for the internet connection, Networking hardware, CPU, and RAM. The physical and logical network topology based on the system architecture is bus topology. The proposed system is based on three-tier client server architecture. The three parts of the three-tier design consist of the client application, server application, and database related to managing the student's details. This system architecture makes easier for the school to evolve the application as per the needs as well as opportunities for Willowbrook school. The existing system is permanently retained with the use of new three-tier architecture. Structure and Relationships There are some dependencies among the modules such as: All the students, teachers as well as school administration depend on the login module. There are two types of users within the login module such as: 1. Registered users: The users those have already registered with the school. 2. Unregistered users: Those are the guest users. User Interface Issues There are two of the interfaces within the implementation of the information system are the users as well as the administrator. It has a little learning curve, and it is easy to use. The login module allows the users to protect access to the data (Bowen and Hinchey 2012). After the preliminary investigation on the entire system design, the users and management teams can deliver both times as well as a cost estimate for the entire implementation plan. Proposed Process Component: Login 1. Identification of the user 2. The purpose is to entry the registered user within the system. 3. The function of the component is to allow the authorized user to access the information system. 4. Firstly, the user will connect to the client server of the school where the user will authenticate through a token. 5. Depends on the data of login; the server allows the user to access the system. 6. In order to perform the financial as well as administrative tasks, the user must have an internet connection. 7. The most important are that server authentication is needed to prevent the data from used by any unauthorized person. 8. My SQL database is also required within the system. Application Development Methodology for Willowbrook system The management team of the Willowbrook School uses agile software development methodology to plan, create as well as deliver the system. This methodology promotes continuous iteration of development as well as testing through the development of the software life cycle of the project (Gandomani et al. 2013). With the use of agile development methodology, the project requires handling the existing requirements to best suit with the requirements of the project. Within the agile development methodology, the tasks are to be delivered with specific features for the release. Advantages of Structured Approach The advantages of the structured approach are as follows: Reduces the complexity of the new information system Focuses on the ideal or logical system It provides with a future orientation of the new information system (Leau et al. 2012). Disadvantages of Structured Approach The disadvantages of the structured approach are as follows: If there are any changes in the requirements of the new system, then the system analysis should be done again (Wasson 2015). Using the structured approach, it takes a lot of time as well as money for the Willowbrook school in order to analyze the system. If there are huge changes within the system, then the staffs should be given training that is also wastage of both times as well as money (Valacich, George and Hoffer 2015). Advantages of Object Oriented Approach The advantages of the object oriented approach are as follows: The object-oriented approach reduces the cost of maintenance as most of the procedures in the system are to be summarized; the system behaviors are reprocessed as well as incorporated into new behaviors (West, Nanz and Meyer 2015). It improves both reliability as well as the flexibility of the system. As the objects are accessed dynamically, then new objects can create anytime. This application is scalable as the object interface provides with a roadmap to reuse the object within a new information system. Disadvantages of Object Oriented Methodology The disadvantages of the object-oriented approach are as follows: The challenges of this approach are that in the conversion of the legacy system, it builds within the structured programming languages (Dennis, Wixom and Tegarden 2015). It is difficult to reduce the effects of the structural systems on the new information system. Advantages of the Agile Development Approach The advantages of the agile development approach are as follows: An agile methodology is a realistic approach to the development of the software. It promotes teamwork as well as cross training (Dyba and Dingsoyr 2015). The requirements of the resources are minimum. This methodology enables concurrent development as well as delivery in an entire planned manner (Givoni et al. 2013). This methodology is to be divided into individual models that the team members work on. Disadvantages of the Agile Development Approach The disadvantages of the agile development approach are as follows: This methodology is not appropriate for handling of compound dependencies. It has the threat of maintainability, extensibility as well as sustainability. This methodology has a high individual dependency, and therefore it requires minimum documentation generation (Hsieh and Lin 2016). Due to lack of documentation, transmission of the technology to the new team member is moderately challenging. Details of the testing plan for suitable data set Willowbrook uses the application testing for their new information system. The school is not keeping anything from the old system except the hardware. The staffs those are presenting for the testing plan will be any staff those are using the new system as well as a team of quality assurance (Stephens et al. 2015). Firstly, unit testing should be completed. During this phase of testing, the team runs in order to identify the errors. After the correction of the error, an integration testing should be completed. The two phrases for the system are fixed billing phase as well as aftercare phase (Galliers and Leidner 2014). After the testing of each of the phrase separately, the phrases are to be integrated as well as tested together. The integrated system is functional, and this new information system is tested using the current system of Willowbrook School such as the operating system, computers as well as networks (Givoni et al. 2013). The testing of the system is to be done for checkin g the compatibility of the system. Lastly, the system is tested using the similar data to what the Willowbrook School is using. After completion of the necessary testing of the new information system, the staffs are trained to handle the system. After the training of the staffs, another testing is to be done by the staffs to make sure that they understand the system as well as its functionality. Training plan and procedures based on needs of user groups The new information system requires training of the staffs. The training should be based on site as well as within small groups. The user groups of the Willowbrook School are categorized as follows: Essential staffs: The essential staffs such as Kathy, Susan and others require training on the entire system. If they are trained on the entire system, then it allows the other staffs to seek assistance from them before they are calling for the support (Simpson, Schraeder and Borowski 2015). The topics those should be covered within the training procedures are requesting enhancements, reports as well as user training. Teachers: They have required training on the topic such as startup as well as the shutdown of the system. It also requires training on the topics such as the major functioning of the system, menus as well as troubleshooting. Volunteers: They are trained on the working as the volunteer. The Willowbrook School requires the volunteers those assist them with fundraising. They should be trained on the aspects of fundraising of the system. The volunteers are trained by both Kathy as well as Susan. Data Conversion and System Changeover Data Conversion The excel data of the Willowbrook school should be exported into the new information system. All the data are to be exported into the proposed system. The information of the student are the most important data that are required to enter into the system (Schadow 2013). Once the data of the student is entered, the monthly billing of the particular student is also entered. The data those are entered next are the parent data, information of the block, lastly attendance of the student. Categories Data entry order Student Billing Parent Block Attendance 1 Name of the student Pay dates Household Number Year Information of Student 2 Student Number Information of Student Information of Student Student Number Block ID 3 Fixed fee Bill dates Contact Number 4 Household number 5 Information of Parent 6 Contact Number System Changeover Method Willowbrook requests a direct cutover method that is timed around the academic year. Willowbrook school uses a schedule for their billing purpose is: the fixed fee billing is to be completed in April as well as begins in the month of July. The drop-in aftercare billing does not end until the second week of June. Therefore, this period allows the system to be installed as well as functional in the month as well as half. The school uses the direct cutover method for the system (Schadow 2013). However, due to a use of this method, significant issues are raised within the system. The allocation of time in order to complete the changeover is not a significant amount to be tested as well as corrected the potential issues. Therefore, the system analyst recommends not using the cutover method for their new information system. The system analyst recommends using the phased operation that would allow the system to install in phrases and allow more time to test the system as well as correct the issues that arise. Firstly, the phase is fixed fee billing for the financial task of the school. The initial phase starts in the month of April after the completion of the first fee bill (Bowen and Hinchey 2012). This phasing allows the system to be installed as well as tested within 1 and half months before the completion of the aftercare billing. After the completion of the aftercare billing, the system phase is being installed as well as tested (Chitchyan et al. 2015). It would allow a timeframe of 1 and half months to have an aftercare billing functional, installation as well as allow the entire system to be tested entirely. Conclusion It is concluded that the new information system for the Willowbrook School requires a client server architecture with a three-tier architecture as the school is within the scaling mode. The client application is to be executed on the same computer as it is more efficient as well as effective when the client, as well as server, are executed by a various computer connected with the use of the network. Agile methodology is used as the application development methodology for the Willowbrook system. Phase operation is used as the changeover method for the new system to complete the installation of the new information system for financial as well as transactional tasks. Testing is done to make certain that the new system should assemble the organizational goals of Willowbrook School. 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The crucible role of abigail in the play Essay Example

The crucible role of abigail in the play Paper What is the role of Abigail Williams in the play The Crucible and to what extent did she cause what happened in Salem? As an actor or director what qualities to you consider important for this role? The Crucible is a play written by Aruthur Miller as an historical allegory for the 1950s communist witch hunt in America. However, The Crucible is mainly a play which allows the reader to see deeply into the human condition, the good and the bad and makes the reader think about loyalty, their own and the loyalty of others as they continue through the play. Throughout the play we see many sides of Abigails character which changes and develops as the situation in Salem does. In the play Abigail is evidently the villian; lying and manipulating her friends and other people in the village. Abigail plays one of the most important parts in the Crucible. She is a catalyst and a protagonist fuelling the fire, and starting many of the accusations in Salem. Abigail is first introduced as seventeen and strikingly beautiful, she is also decribed as an orphan which makes us initially feel sorry for her. Also from her description we assume she has good intentions. This stereotype is confirmed when she tells Parris, on page seven, that she did dance and that he should tell the town she confessed it. This is partially so that she would not get into any more trouble but also to stop the talk of witchcraft in the town, therefore meanning she began with good intentions. The fact that she did begin with good intentions gives the reader an idea that she did not intend to let the happenings in Salem get that far. We will write a custom essay sample on The crucible role of abigail in the play specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page Order now We will write a custom essay sample on The crucible role of abigail in the play specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Hire Writer We will write a custom essay sample on The crucible role of abigail in the play specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Hire Writer During the play she sees an oppurtunity to further her station in the society of the time and to take revenge on the one person who is keeping her from the man she loves: John Proctor. Throughout the play Abigail shows one pure emotion which is love. I think that she truly believes John loves her as she is convinced hell love her yet as he knows her. She also feels quite vunerable as she saw Indians smash her parents heads and cannot believe that the man she loves has used her. Also one can argue that a corrupt society breeds corruption and this is so in the case of Salem. Compaired to some of the other so called role models in Salem, Abbie is not particularly corrupt. In some aspects Abigail is rebelling against a corrupt society, combatting modesty with running naked running through the trees and the working ethic by dancing in the forest. Miller has filled Salem with corrupt people. Ironically, the most corrupt soul is infact Parris the reverend of Salem a popous, proud man. He appears to only care about his repuation, and repeates my ministry to Abigail showing that he does not care for his job only his position. Also the Putnams, both twisted, greedy souls who in the play accused people so that they may buy their land. It seems that even though Abigail sent people to her deaths she did so in the name of love; not for pride or money. This is ironic as Miller shocks the audience by his use of twisted unrequited love and how far a person would go to try to be with the one they love. However, Abigail definatly sees a weakness in the society and exploits them as she slowly manipulates and gains control of the town for a time before she decided to run off to avoid a punsihment. During the course of the play, she sentences 17 people to their deaths where she could have confessed that she was lying, rather than reap a whores vengence on Elizabeth, John and the rest of the town. Abigail is menecing and spiteful, this means she showed no remorse toward the dead, but rather run away. We can see this towards her treatment of the girls. She uses the hysteria of the witchcraft they did to manipulate the girls as they are scared of her pointy reckoning and the fact that witchcraft is a hanging offense as in Salem society it is going against the thing they all believe they live for, their God. Abigail manipulates the questions asked to her by Hale and turns them to her own advantage to avoid being accused herself. When hale accuses her of witchcraft she blames Tituba, the black slave, saying she hears her singing her barbados songs. However when she decided she wants the spotlight back on her again she takes control of the situation again, this is key after Tituba confesses to working with the devil. Being a good christian, the main ideal of Salems society, Hale forgives her in the name of the lord and she starts to name witches. Abbie who is afraid takes control again so she cannot be named herself. She puts herself on a pedestal so that she can be in control of a life that would have been set for her otherwise. She becomes so powerful that Mary Warren cannot charge murder on her because Mary is afraid that Abigail will kill her. During court she changes the subject to suit her motives. This allows the judges to see only what she wants them to see. On page 87, at court when she believes she is being mistrusted she turns the arument around and acts as a victim. This shows great disrespect for the people she has sentenced to their deaths. She also changes the subject and refuses to answer questions regarding John, shouting that she will not have such looks and turns to leave when she is accused. To sentence many people to their deaths and create lies and deceit Abigail causes a great extent of what happens in the town of Salem using the lies and gossip in the town to her own advantage. Abigail has many different qualities throughout the play. I think the most important qualities is her outward appearance. The most noticable aspect of her outward appearance are her strikingly beautiful looks. If it wasnt for these John Proctor wouldnt have thought of her softly therefore her idea that John loved her would not have put her in so much trouble. Also her looks made her resent the corrupted society of Salem, mainly because of the way the men of the town treat her. We see this especially in the film, where she is wolf whistled at on the way to the Putnams house. She also appears to look innocent throughout the film and hides her feelings well. This enables her to lie convincingly to everyone in the village. We associate angels with being beautiful like Abigail, this strengthens the idea that she is infact with God instead of doing the devils witch. Abaigail also has the ability to be a convincing and manupulating. This is the other key quality to performing this role. She is convincingly threatening when she talks to the girls. This is her first main outburst, scaring the girls with a pointy reckoning. This fear she instilled allows her to control the girls. She also controlles Danforth outside the courtroom with a similar technique telling him to beware, realising what she has said she quickly changes the subject. However I believe that Danforth was very aware of Abigails power after that. Crutially Abigail has to be convincing in the courtroom or she would not have had such power of the town. This is crucial to the whole plot. If nobody had believed her then the plot would have taken a completely different turn; stopping the allegory as Miller had intended. There was many separate causes to what happened in Salem in the crucible. Many people believe it was completely Abigails fault. They are partially right due to the fact on the first few nights of her being in charge thirty-nine women were accused. But the question still stands to what extent of her fault was it. Abigail confessed to dancing and pleaded Paris to allow her to in the beginning. However this has to be weighed against her plotting and manipulating of the town which came to her at her beckon call. Also other characters in the town used the hysteria to their own advantages, for things like land. I believe that Abigail was mostly to blame, however she did not start the mess that happened, however acted at a catalyst, quickening the pace of the accusations and excecutions which eventually lead to the hanging of John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse, two fairly upright names in the town. Her acting as a catalyst also lead to the power of theocracy breaking and good names being soiled because of her childish lust.

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Sample For Writing an Essay - How to Use One For Your Writing EssaySample for writing essay is most likely an important part of essay writing. In fact, it is your first introduction to yourself in the form of a written essay. You are introducing your ideas in this brief but important topic and your topic of this essay will play a vital role in shaping your career. There are many sample essays available in different online resources that you can consider.Here are few of the sample essays you can use for writing your essay. It would be a good idea to begin with the sample topic of your own work and then search more samples of topics which are close to yours. One good example of a topic to base an essay on is Mary Wollstonecraft's famous essay, 'Of Woman Born.'The sample essay which I used is from the internet's 'Write From Home Book.' You can easily find samples of essays online with articles you can base your essay on and you can also see samples of writing samples on how to format yo ur essay. There are thousands of samples to choose from and it is up to you to decide on what works best for you and your topic.After choosing a sample essay to base your essay on, you must now work out a plan on how you want to write your essay. It is important that you choose a topic that relates to your area of interest. If you are new to writing, you should start with a more simple topic like health care. Once you feel you are ready to move on, you can look at the sample essay in depth and understand more about the topic you chose.After deciding on a topic, it is now time to choose a style or format for your essay. Some people prefer the word for word approach, whereas others prefer to use the style which is referred to as Hemingway or Pushkin styles. There are many other styles of style and, it is up to you to decide which you think will suit your personality best.One excellent sample essay is from 'The Easy Way to Learn How to Write' which explains some of the basics of essay writing and there are several other good sample essays which are found on the internet. Once you have decided on a topic, you can now start working on the writing.Many writers use their sample for writing essay as a way of practicing. They write the sample first and then write their essay on the sample. If you want to write better essays, you need to write on paper first before starting your essay and you will improve your ability in writing essays if you start with a sample essay.

Free Essays on The Shining

The Shining Have you ever been so frightened of someone or something that it controls your thoughts and actions? When I was a small child, this â€Å"something† was the movie â€Å"The Shining†. With the director’s used of good actors and actresses, a vivid story line, and terrifying special effects, this movie frightens children, as well as adults alike. As the story unfolds, the main characters are a family of a father, mother, and young son. They have to stay in a huge hotel as caretakers, snowed in for the winter months. The father, Jack Torrance, can’t take the solidarity and ends up going crazy. His son, Danny, is also noticing dead people living in the house as ghosts. He has a special â€Å"sense† and only he can see and talk to these spirit people. These ghosts soon possess the child and his mother, Wendy, must shake him out of his trances. Jack becomes psycho at the end and attempts to kill his wife and son to live in the hotel with the spirits of the once living. When they arrived at the scary hotel, just the sight of it made my insides hurt. Large, empty hotels are very scary to me now. As the young boy wanders throughout the hotel, he stops and talks to these mysterious dead people that once inhabited the hotel. He was advised at the very beginning to stay out of room number 217. The child is led, of course, down the corridors to this room by spirit children every chance they could get. Since I was a child, this scared me because they were my age. The horrors in that hotel room are what scarred my abilities to take showers or be alone as a child. In this terrible, forbidden room, as the boy entered it, the floor was wet. The dead woman in the bathtub that attempts to strangle poor Danny has special effects makeup that is incredible. When Danny and Wendy are trying to escape the murderous Jack, I was terrified to see a wave of blood spew from the elevator. Everything looked and sounded believable in this movie; a key fa... Free Essays on The Shining Free Essays on The Shining The Shining Have you ever been so frightened of someone or something that it controls your thoughts and actions? When I was a small child, this â€Å"something† was the movie â€Å"The Shining†. With the director’s used of good actors and actresses, a vivid story line, and terrifying special effects, this movie frightens children, as well as adults alike. As the story unfolds, the main characters are a family of a father, mother, and young son. They have to stay in a huge hotel as caretakers, snowed in for the winter months. The father, Jack Torrance, can’t take the solidarity and ends up going crazy. His son, Danny, is also noticing dead people living in the house as ghosts. He has a special â€Å"sense† and only he can see and talk to these spirit people. These ghosts soon possess the child and his mother, Wendy, must shake him out of his trances. Jack becomes psycho at the end and attempts to kill his wife and son to live in the hotel with the spirits of the once living. When they arrived at the scary hotel, just the sight of it made my insides hurt. Large, empty hotels are very scary to me now. As the young boy wanders throughout the hotel, he stops and talks to these mysterious dead people that once inhabited the hotel. He was advised at the very beginning to stay out of room number 217. The child is led, of course, down the corridors to this room by spirit children every chance they could get. Since I was a child, this scared me because they were my age. The horrors in that hotel room are what scarred my abilities to take showers or be alone as a child. In this terrible, forbidden room, as the boy entered it, the floor was wet. The dead woman in the bathtub that attempts to strangle poor Danny has special effects makeup that is incredible. When Danny and Wendy are trying to escape the murderous Jack, I was terrified to see a wave of blood spew from the elevator. Everything looked and sounded believable in this movie; a key fa...

International Women’s Day Pioneering Female Writers

International Women’s Day Pioneering Female Writers International Women’s Day: Pioneering Female Writers It’s International Women’s Day, which seems a good time to celebrate pioneering female writers! But instead of looking at the obvious candidates – your Wollstonecrafts, Austens, and Woolfs – we thought we would focus on writers who deserve a little more recognition than they usually get. 1. Enheduanna When people discuss the first female author, they often point to Sappho, the sixth-century BC poet from the Greek island of Lesbos. But while Sappho is a key figure in literary history, she was not the first female poet. For that, we have to go back another 1,700 years to the Sumerian city-state of Ur. There, we will find Enheduanna, the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna. Among other achievements, Enheduanna wrote a series of hymns and other religious texts. This makes her not only the first known female poet, but also the first named author in history. And if that doesn’t make her a pioneering writer, we don’t know what would! 2. Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe We’re not saying that the Revelations of Divine Love – a book of fourteenth-century mystical Christian devotions about universal love and hope in a time of plague and war – is going to suit everyone’s tastes. But it is the first book written in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich. So it does have an important place in literary history, and more people should know about it! Julian of Norwich (in statue form).(Photo: Matt Brown/flickr) Oddly, another literary first by a female author comes from Norfolk, England: The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe, was the first autobiography written in English. Even stranger is that Kempe mentions visiting Julian of Norwich in 1413 in her book. So not only were there two pioneering female authors in one part of England at that time, they even knew one another! 3. Anne Bradstreet Moving beyond England itself, we have Anne Bradstreet. An important early American poet, Bradstreet moved to the English North American colonies in 1630. She and her family settled in what is now Massachusetts. And while there, she wrote poetry that reflected her religious and emotional conflicts as a woman writer and Puritan. Bradstreet is noted for being America’s first published poet, with The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts. This was also the first book written by a woman published in what would become the U.S., so Anne easily makes our list of female literary pioneers. 4. Phillis Wheatley and Lucy Terry Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman to be published. Her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, came out in 1773 to much acclaim. And her fans included George Washington, who noted her ‘great poetical Talents’ in a letter. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. The earliest known work of literature by an African-American woman – or, in fact, by an African American of either gender – is ‘Bars Fight’ by Lucy Terry. The ballad describes an attack on two white families by Native Americans in 1746. But it was only published in 1855, 24 years after Lucy Terry’s death. Both Wheatley and Terry, though, were undoubtedly literary pioneers. Are there any authors you think should have been on our list? Let us know!

Quantitative Research Manuscript Critique Assignment

Quantitative Research Manuscript Critique - Assignment Example 1365). Among the independent variables includes the effects of emotional intelligence education to the students while the dependent variables included the development of emotional intelligence in children (p. 1367). The research question of the manuscript at hand was â€Å"How did emotional intelligence program affect the emotional intelligence of young children†. To answer the research question at hand, a personal information form research instrument was utilized in the collection of demographic characteristics’ data. The used scale, the Sullivan Emotional Intelligence Scale comprised of scales for children intelligence, empathy scale, and teacher rating scale. These scales, as applied to the present manuscript indicate a validity and reliability of 0.68 to 0.90 and 0.97 to 0.99 respectively (p. 1367). Under the emotional intelligence scale; recognition, understanding, and management of emotions are tested. On the other hand, empathy scale aimed at measuring the empathic reaction of the control group, comprised of children only. The results from the study were collected and entered into an SPSS statistical analysis software where Covariance Analysis was conducted to compare the group that was enrolled to the program and that which was not (pp. 1367-1368). Since the analysis method was experimental in design, the use of T-test was essential. Ulutas, I., & Omeroglu, E. (2007). The Effects of an Emotional Intelligence Education Program on the Emotional Intelligence of Children. Social Behavior and Personality, Vol. 35 No. 10; pp. 1365-1372. Accessed online on November 25, 2014 from

Globalization Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1500 words - 8

Globalization - Essay Example It is due to those encounters found on the pages of world history that several phenomena like exchange of ideas, thoughts, ambition, trade and technology have evolved giving rise to globalization. Phenomena of different centuries that have played the most important roles in globalization Several phenomena of different centuries have played the most important roles in globalization. These phenomena are the ideas, ambition and plan of accession to the thrown in order to gain complete control of the bureaucracy, military and thereafter to play a national role in the overall development of their nations through exchange with the international community. The regimes of President Assad in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq since the 1960s indicate that these phenomena have led the path of establishment of self-identity for the nations, like Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Persian Gulf, etc., and created a platform of equality with the international community where exchange of trade and technology could take place. The fourth largest city in Syria is Hama, where Assad followed the Hama rule, which states, â€Å"Rule or Die† (Hureau 105). ... The phenomena of women’s empowerment over the centuries have also fostered the spread of globalization. The position of women in the oldest civilizations of China and India depicts the inferior status of women in the previous 600 hundred years of history. The societies were majorly patriarchal societies with power and influence of decision making in the hands of the men. The physical and psychological inferiority of women hindered the output of potential of the women. The women in China were influenced by the Confucian culture whereas in India, the women were dominated by the religious and cultural aspects of moral duties and obedience. With the growing dominance of men over women, the liberalization efforts on the part of women were observed in their struggle for equality. The willingness of attainment of equal status with the men opened the doors of the world, which led to their access to rights and legislative powers. Thus, the participation in the world platform and the fr eedom to be a part of the interaction between the communities led to the process of globalization. The phenomena of taxation in trade from the 16th century has played significant role in the spread of globalization. This could be observed in the Iranian history. Influenced by the bribes offered by the British colonial rule, the then ruler Nassir Ed-Din Shah sold monopoly rights to the imperial power. The Iranians received a considerable fixed amount on a monthly basis plus a quarter of the net profits. A sabotage act by the imperial rule stopped the payments to the Iranian empire in order to increase own profits of the trade. This led to a rise of national sentiments, and the farmers, peasants, and the trade agents revolted against the ruler. Ultimately, Nassir Ed-Din Shah was assassinated.