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Executive Summary This paper consists of proposal to develop the Katarist mobile application for implementation in the iPhone OS system. This application will act as a means by which Katara cultural village will advertise its various events and sales to the general population of Qatar in a quick and efficient manner. Introduction Within the past few years, numerous local artists (i.e., craftsmen, handcrafters, performers, etc.), especially those in the cultural village of Katera, have been declining in significance due to the current societal push towards industrialization and the development of a distinct focus on modern day methods of entertainment. As such, it can be stated that in Qatar’s pursuit of becoming an advanced industrialized country, it has neglected its traditional heritage which is in danger of becoming lost due to the rapid progress of both the country and its citizenry. In order to address this issue, it is necessary to develop a means by which local artists within the cultural village of Katara can promote their work and reach modern day consumers in Qatar. Such a method must be affordable given their limited budget, while at the same time, it should be far reaching and convenient for consumers. It is based on this that it was decided that the best and the most effective method by which this problem could be solved would be a creation of a free mobile application pre-installed in all the iPhones sold within Qatar. Problem Statement Katara cultural village is a newly established organization which focuses on art and artists and attempts to introduce Qatar’s traditional cultural and heritage to both the locals and the foreign tourists. In a sense, it acts as a means of preserving Qatar’s cultural heritage from the continued influx of modernization entering into the city. The problem in this particular case is that despite Katara has its own website, the fact remains the same it still lacks a sufficient means by which people can be informed about the various events, sales and performances that occur in the village. The reason behind this is quite simple, few people visit the site, and as such, there has been very little interest in the cultural village as a direct result. Without some means of reaching out to people in a quick and cost efficient manner, it is likely that the cultural village project will end in failure. Objective The main objective of this study is to develop an OS application that can be installed for free in the Apple iPhone. Due to the current popularity of the device and the fact that it is widely utilized by many people within Qatar, having an application on their phones which informs them of events and sales at the cultural village should create significant interest and, as a result, increase the amount of visitors that go to the village. A special request can be authored and sent to the Qatar government which asks the software to be mandatorily installed in iPhones sold within Qatar as a means of preserving the country’s cultural heritage. Funding The funding for this particular project will come direct from Katara cultural village and will be equivalent to roughly 10,000 GP.
Introduction Fashion was seen as an intangible part of a culture that deals with constantly changing clothing trends. Nonetheless, fashion has become economically crucial and grown into a separate industry that operates billions of dollars. There was a specific need in certain legal rules that could regulate numerous issues which appeared. Fashion law, which is a separate legal discipline, is aimed at dealing with “the day-to-day business problems the fashion industry” faces (Jimenez & Kolsun 2010, p. 3). There are numerous issues related to fashion and business. However, one of these concerns has attracted considerable attention. The use of a personal name as a trademark is one of the most disputable issues now. The present paper dwells upon this aspect of fashion law and reveals major peculiarities of the issue and existing approaches utilized to address it. Personal names as trademarks What is a trademark? First of all, it is necessary to consider the essence of the trademark. Pitzer (2011, p. 310) notes that trademarks “identify and distinguish” products and trademark law is aimed at protecting trademarks and retaining “value in the mark”. Trademarks are regarded as potent tools to communicate the company’s message concerning the product. Thus, in only one word or a phrase, companies can reveal the essence of the brand. For instance, Nike bears a potent message and communicates the idea of winning and being the winner. More so, the sign of this trademark has become recognizable and the famous tick is associated with sports footwear. Admittedly, companies try to protect their trademarks which are their most valuable assets. The defense of trademarks is associated with the concept of confusion or rather absence of confusion. According to the Lanham Act, trademark infringement occurs when products under a trademark are likely to be confused with other similar products (Pitzer 2011). Noteworthy, it is often accepted that products pertaining to different industries can have similar trademarks. The main point here is that such similarity will not confuse the product’s consumers. It is also important to add that companies try to create unique trademarks as such marks are more distinctive. Pitzer (2011, p. 313) mentions four categories of trademarks: generic, descriptive, suggestive, and fanciful. Hence, some trademarks describe the product in some way, while others only ‘suggest’ what the product can be. Clearly, there is nothing more unique than the personal name of the person who created the product. In the fashion industry, personal names are often used by companies and designers. Personal name as a trademark However, it is not that easy to make a personal name a trademark in the world of fashion. First, the name should acquire additional meaning. In other words, a personal name should be associated with some products before it can be used as a trademark. Jimenez et al. (2010) note that it can take months and even years f
Problems Faced by Twitter Trio A twitter is a social internet site, which allows users to send short text messages with a limit of 140 characters. The short messages are called tweets, and a twitter user seeks to have many followers as possible. Twitter users have been faced by many security problems, which is a threat to the Twitter trio. Some of these problems are caused by links that are found on the twitter page. Some links directs users to unknown destinations. These links have commands for downloads which might destroy an individual’s or company’s data. More so, the links directs a user to malicious user’s sites. Some cookies are designed to be destructive because when it is saved on the hard disk it destroys useful information or data. According to Ivey (2011), tweets written by users can also be searched using Google. This is a risk because the users feel that their tweets are being followed by investigators and hence they fear expressing their views in detail. Hackers have been able to follow tweets from users, hence hacking passwords and interfering with private information, especially when it leads to a company’s sensitive information. Since anyone is able to follow and see what users are commenting, competitors have been able to follow up company’s secrets and at times even financial and investors information. Since twitter users accounts enables them to follow other peoples accounts, hackers also create accounts and follows many users, hence the users follow them too without knowing whether the accounts are for malicious use. These malicious people enter the twitter network and seek to damage it as long as they follow thousands of the social network users. As compared to other website accounts like Facebook, when you sign up an account, it is verified through the email address that a user has provided, but when you sign up a Twitter account, it does not verify the account through the email address that has been provided. This has enabled spammers to create some fraudulent networks and accounts on twitter. It is recommended that personal information should not be added on Twitter because people can monitor user’s activities; there are cases where people have been robbed because of twitting their movements and activities, which led to buglers easily monitoring them. Despite the fact that a tweet is real time, destructive leaks of information about a company or an individual can travel all over the world in just seconds. This can damage a reputation which has been earned for years. Shelly, Napier, and Rivers (2009) argue that Twitter unlike Facebook has many limitations because it allows a user to upload only one small picture. This is a major challenge to the three partners. Twitters interface is not friendly because when a user signs up for the first time, it is not easy to know what to do next. As compared to other social networks, people struggle to have many followers and hence it creates some competition and it is sometimes not easy for a new user to get followers. It is advisable for a
Introduction The Starry Night is one of the ancient pieces of antique paintings and it has continued to draw a lot of interest in the museum galleries and art exhibitions the world over. One of the most interesting aspects in the painting is the use of colors to bring out the textural aspect in this painting. One of the attributes that has made this painting very common is the fact that over time it has continuously been replicated by many artists and students over the course of time. There are certain very important features that make this painting to grow in popularity; perhaps the most important feature is the fact that there is a representation of the sky that is characterized by the stars that whose illumination causes a blaze that is further on enhanced by the crescent outline of the moon (Pioch, 1). The exaggeration of these features perhaps makes the use of colors in this painting even more crucial; the fact that many people can easily identify with the scene that is represented in this painting is perhaps one of the reasons as to why it is regularly chosen by most of the student to show the effects of using different colors to represent different textures and emotions through a work of art. Use of Different Colors in the Starry Night Different colors represent different emotions and feelings in a work of art such as a painting; perhaps one of the most important facts in the use of color is the ability to actively involve the visual use of colors to ensure that a viewer is able to clearly visualize the painting and get a feeling of the true reflection of the scenery that is put forth in the painting. The use of different colors in the painting can serve to bring different emotions to a viewer; originally, Van Gogh was able to make use of the color textures to show the peaceful essence of the hills and horizons (Pioch, 1). The cool dark colors are able to revive memories of the early childhood years in addition to spurring on the imagination; a viewer is able to get an imagination of what exists in the skies and also creates a sense of distance. It is also important to consider the fact in the original paintings the colors are used to bring out a sense of size in the painting, a change of the colors will bring an entirely different aspect with regard to size. Another important aspect use of color is the ability to bring out the aspect of isolation of certain structures in the painting; the dark colors used in this regard are able to bring out the massiveness of the structure in the painting. Finally the colors used in the structure enables the viewer to be able to make their own analysis of the background features in the painting including the bushes and the variety of objects in the painting (Pioch, 1). Representation of Different Colors in the Painting It is important and crucial to note that the use of different colors in a painting bring out different effects and interpre
If Mark Zuckerberg had not founded Facebook, the political situation in the United States and abroad would have been quite different in recent years. Thus, for fifteen years, Facebook, like other social media, has the power to affect and control people’s opinions. What started as an online platform to connect Harvard University students is one of the most influential media tools today that changes political and business worlds because of its exponential growth and wide popularity among 2.45 billion users. What makes Facebook so powerful? All these users voluntarily provide their data to be available online or for use in Facebook’s algorithms, and these data are utilized for spreading different types of content, including political ones, and for targeted advertising. This aspect makes users vulnerable as their sensitive data cannot be viewed as fully protected. The governmental regulation of social media content is an important step toward creating a safe digital landscape despite opposing views that freedom of speech can be affected in this case. Facebook and other social networks need to be held accountable for their potential contribution to developing political tensions and conflicts that occurred in social media posts. The most obvious reason is that Facebook today is an easy but powerful medium to spread any opinion or view, including hate messages and provocation under the veil of freedom of speech. First of all, tools for targeting need to be regulated because today any individual can apply Facebook’s advanced algorithms for making sensitive personal data on users’ activities become monetizable information. Nobody is protected. Political opinion shapers utilizing Facebook not only post their views, but they also have an opportunity to reach any user they want using sensitive data applied to Facebook’s algorithms. The impact can be extremely intense, and social media has become a perfect tool for hyper-targeted propaganda of different ideas. That is why the public should promote the idea of adopting regulations and censorship for Facebook to protect users from the manipulation of information. Government regulations are needed to defend 2.45 billion users of Facebook, but this means that just a simple rule cannot work in this case. A modern virtual landscape is very complex, and the determination of responsible actors to formulate effective private policies and regulations requires much time. At the current stage, it is possible to state that the solutions can be associated with developing the idea of Facebook’s responsibility for regulating and censoring political content as well as the idea of self
The communication techniques of animals belonging to the same species are normally shaped by natural selection and sexual selection. These two factors are very important in influencing the adaptation of organisms to different environments (Jord and Martins, 2006, p. 1). When considering organisms belonging to different species, there was the observation of complicated selection factors that brought about diversifications in several species. The research involved the use of four phylogenetic comparative methods, alternative phylogenetic hypotheses, and the asset of data that had been collected from 50 different sources representing 53 different strata (Jord and Martins, 2006, p. 1). The research was meant to test the relative importance of different ecological variables on the evolution of anal visual displays. The results of the study showed that the change in the different display components could have been a result of selection, but evolution normally shows that the changes that occur during the time of display could be as a result of sexual dimorphism and the number and uniformity of the display. The research also showed that ecomorph differences also affect the display structure’s evolution. Various factors have been shown to influence the evolution of communication structures in animals. For instance, signals used by species to attract mates will tend to be favored by selection (Jord and Martins, 2006, p. 2). The properties of the animal’s environment, especially the makeup of the habitat are another factor that influences the evolution of the communication methods. Apart from adaptation, there are other factors such as mutation, random genetical drift, and the genetic correlations between different elements of a given phenotype. It is rather difficult to positively identify the exact evolutionary process responsible for the differences in animal signals. This is because animals normally display more than one signal that could have arisen as a result of varying evolutionary forces (Jord and Martins, 2006, p. 3). In the study, modern phylogenetic comparative methods were used to study the effect of the ecological and phylogenetic factors on the interspecific diversification of a multifaceted signal and the dynamic visual displays of animals (Jord and Martins, 2006 p. 3). The study aims at showing how data from various sources can be compared to help determine the evolutionary forces that cause the diversity in signals. Anolis is one of the largest genera in the world and it consists of about 400 species. This could be as a result of adaptive radiation in the islands of the Antilles and the inhabitation of mainland Central America and Northern South America. The genera have been extensively used in research work because it provides an important ecological, evolutionary biology, and island biographic system. In addition, the group has a lot of information concerning its morphological, phylogenetic, and ecological setup (Jord, and Martins, 2006, p. 3). The study capitalized on the group‘s large species diversity and the focus was specifically on the diversified movement features in anole head bob and
Introduction My Sisters Place is a non profit organization that provides free shelter to homeless mothers and children within the Hall County in Gainesville. Women consist of 45% of the population while children represents 55% of the community (My Sisters Place, 2014). Demographics, Vital Statistics, and Morbidity The current population served by the organization is more than 500. Women consist of 45% of the population while children are 55%. On age distribution, persons below 6 years represent 6.8%, 6-19 years represent 14.5%, 20-64 years represent 69.6% and those above 64% represent 9.1% of the total population (My Sisters Place, 2014). In the last two years, the morbidity rates for cancer, HIV, and other chronic ailments have been on the rise among the children and adults alike. This community is characterized by a constant population growth rate of 4%. At present, almost the entire population is literate and this is projected to hit the 100% mark in the near future. Physical environment The average size of each household size is 2.8. The main impending disaster in sewage management is the leaks from damaged pipes which sometimes take long to repair, thus exposing the residence to contagious diseases. Health and social services: The services provided to this community include security, counseling, spiritual guidance, social welfare, and medical services for free. Continuation Communication: The main communication is through face to face interaction with the volunteers in the institutions and phone call incase of emergency. Economics: The main economic activity of the population is peasant business and casual labor provision. Education: There are ECD, primary and high school learning services offered to the population. Safety and sanitation: The community has well maintained solid and liquid waste disposal and management authority. Garbage is collected periodically for disposal by the authority (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). Transportation: There are several public transportation services by road that is available for the community in the form of buses and small cars. Politics and government: This community is very active in politics and the majority of them are members of the Democratic Party. Recreation: The commun
Introduction The period of restoration in England not only marked the beginning of the shift in the life of the kingdom in a social and political context, but it also established the beginning of a cultural period that is identically titled. The theatre life in that timeline mostly refer to a series of comedies that were written and performed on stage after they have been reopened in that period. The restored theatres in some substantial features differed from the ones closed by puritans, in which Shakespeare had been staged for the first time. There were other typical innovations, such as the mixture of the audience, as both aristocrats and middle-class were allowed to come and watch the plays, where the popular “scripts were written with up-to-the-minute topical” aim. 1 The comedy of the Restoration period was a genuine mirror of the public life of aristocratic England of that time. This comedy set its goals in portraying the life, probably more close to reality. It cannot be said that the types of plays in such satirical works developed from the theatre of the previous time, but rather than in particular way replacing it. In that sense, this comedy marks “rather a revolution than a development in English comedy and that its indebtedness to earlier English comedy is of very slight importance.” 2 The plays were not filled with much dramatic marks, where showing petty vanity and the unbridled lust formed mostly the main content. Cynical frankness of comedies of Restoration was closely connected with their Anti-puritan orientation. The hypocrisy seemed as a unique crime in the eyes of many play writers of Restoration; any defect in their eyes was justified, if it not dressed in a