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W11 Draft: Academic Paper Part 01

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  Is technology helping or harming our environment? Many of the technologies we use every day consume a lot more resources and power than they need to, and using and manufacturing them can create a mess through pollution, waste, and more. Carbon emissions, primarily carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, are greenhouse gasses produced by humans. Greenhouse gasses are gasses in the atmosphere that trap heat and radiation and reflect it back to the earth's surface. Carbon emissions are released into the atmosphere by cars, planes, power plants, and factories. They are also released by people like you when you use a vehicle or electricity generated by burning fossil fuels. The computer you are reading this uses electricity, as does your mobile device and video game system. In recent events, scientists are arguing if climate change could be a result of environmental change. Climate change is a new concept of the 1990s which is concerned with the long-term shifts in temperatures and we...

W11 Outline: Academic Paper

Topic : Is technology helping or harming our environment?   Thesis Sentence : Climate change is caused due to the release of a few carbon compounds into the atmosphere, which drastically brought weather changes all over the world. Climate change is not confined to a single region. It has become an important issue all over the world for the past few years.   Paragraph 1: General history. Questions to consider: ·          Is climate change caused by humans? ·          What are the main threats of Climate change? ·          How is Climate change affecting humans, animals, oceans, and farms? ·          What are the solutions to Climate change? ·          Why global warming should be avoided?   Paragraph 2 : Climate change events Current examples: Hurricane Katrina, The great sto...

Legal Brief - Week 10 : McDonald’s U.S., LLC v Steve Easterbrook

  McDonald’s U.S., LLC v Steve Easterbrook Case Facts             On August 10, 2020, McDonald U.S., LLC (“McDonald” or “The Company”) filed a claim against its former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Easterbrook (Easterbrook) in an effort to recover the exit payout he received after being fired “without cause” in November 2019 to avoid embroiling with him in a lengthy dispute. Easterbrook was dismissed for admitting to a consensual relationship with a subordinate which was in breach of the company’s written policy prohibiting relationships between colleagues. Easterbrook received an exit payout of approximately $40 million cash, 6 months of severance pay, shares, and other equity as part of his termination package.             Months after the incident, McDonald received an anonymous tip about a second relationship between Easterbrook and a different employee, wh...

W10 Assignment: Playing With Cards

  1. List of actions possible for a card given               ·          Click an envelope to view the message ·          Click on the employee image (front) to display his/her background information (back) ·          Click on the door to have the same door displayed in a different color ·          Click an image to flip it to 45, 90, or 180 degrees like a clock ·          Click to have a street light ·          Hover a mouse on an image to zoom in and out ·          Bouncing ball inside a card (frame) ·          Images slideshow ·          Click a circle in order to displ...

Legal Brief - Week 09 : O’Connor v. Uber Techs

Fabrice Tshiyoyi Banyingela Professor Michael Hales – BYU Idaho Business Law 375 13 November 2021 O’Connor v. Uber Techs   Case Facts Douglas O’Connor (Connor) and Thomas Colopy (Colopy), two UberBlack drivers who allegedly suffered a common claim filed putative class actions against Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. Uber then filed a motion for summary judgment.    Plaintiffs vigorously dispute these contentions, and claim that Uber exercises considerable control and supervision over both the methods and means of its drivers’ provision of transportation services, and thus are eligible for various statutory protections for employees codified in the California Labor Code such as a requirement that an employer passes on the entire amount of any gratuity “that is paid, given to, or left for an employee by a patron.”  The passenger’s fare—which was set unilaterally by Uber—was paid directly to Ub...