BIDDING PROCESS IRREGULARITIES CHARACTERS Inside Information Topic: Bidding Process Irregularities Characters: Tom Jones, New salesperson for Wood Truss commercial building supply firm Mark Smith, Tom’s boss at Wood Truss Tom Jones has recently joined the sales force of Wood Truss, a manufacturer of wooden structural parts for commercial buildings. Large contractors issue requests for bids for a bill of materials required to construct a commercial project. Tom’s job includes reviewing the bill of materials and developing his firm’s bid. Tom’s new boss, Mark Smith, gave Tom a request for bids from Strong Built, a commercial contractor.[unique_solution] The request involved the construction of a 300,000 square foot warehouse. Tom immediately set about costing out the materials specified in the bill. The day before the bid was due, Mark came in and handed Tom two brown envelopes. Mark said the envelopes, which contained copies of the bids from Wood Truss’s two main competitors, had just been received from their inside man at Strong Built. He also said that the Wood Truss bid must be just under the lowest bid from the competition.…

Reflect on the characteristics and benefits of a high-performing project team. High-Performing Project Teams The success of a project is impacted significantly by the levels of cooperation between the team members because this element promotes efficiency, accountability and a steady flow of communication. When the team is well-equipped and functioning such that the stakeholders and other contributors to the project are less worried about the plans’ progress because they receive regular updates due to efficient communication, the chances of the project’s success are high. Most high-performance team members report that working on collaborative teams is fun and satisfying since they are expected to contribute beyond their maximum potential and to learn new kinds of stuff along the way. High-performance teams have got several characteristics, such as group leadership shifts from time to time, to deliver results as required. No single person is more important than the group as they all have the same goals to strive for. People have strong and profound confidence in each other and the objective of the group—they freely express their opinions and ideas. Team members…

Characteristics and Operations of Malware Characteristics of Malware The malwares in existence have many different characteristics. One characteristic of malware is that they are mandatory to install. They do not require an administrator’s permission for them to install. They install themselves on the user’s computer. The malwares are difficult to uninstall. The malwares do not have the conventional way of uninstallation, and they always run even after unloading procedures. The malwares also hijack browsers. The malwares do this, and they modify the user’s information. Malwares also collect the user’s information. The information ranges from the user’s internet use behavior to private information like bank details and passwords. The malware also conducts malicious uninstallation of programs. Malware like computer viruses can replicate themselves until they infect the whole system. They also can attach themselves to computer files. Malware also reduces the speeds of the computer system and its related processes like data transfer. Some malwares are polymorphic, meaning they can change the computer’s code. Operations of Malware The different malwares operate in many different ways as well. Computer viruses infect clean…

Love And Ambition in the Female Characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet Introduction The Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a novel which is a replete of love uncertainties. It depicts the lives of two women characters, which is Gertrude who is the Hamlets mother and Ophelia, his lover. The story depicts clearly the role of women in the society and how they strive to satisfy their quest for love (Pennacchia, 33). However, Shakespeare brings the theme of love on the part of women and how they survive in a patriarchal society, where men rule and decide on the daily actions. As a result of this, these two characters are naïve and do whatever they can to ensure that they satisfy men who come across their lives, for example Hamlet who is he male protagonist in the play. Finally, they fall as victims of love in the society and still die because of the same, after the love which they are trying as much as possible to fulfil turns sour. The most basic love should originate from the family but it is ironical that none…

DSM diagnosis of characters             Crazy all the time is a book written by Frederick L. Covan who is a psychologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York. It talks about conditions and the running of the psychiatric ward in the hospital. It greatly talks about the patients and people in and around the hospital. This is in terms of their characters, behaviors and their activities they carry on. Some of the characters are workers, interns, doctors and even patients admitted in the hospital. Some of these characters involved in the flow of the book are as follows; Mr. Paul Trent, Mr. Gary, Gloria Nadller, Freudian, Fred, Barry, Maggie, David Anderson, Chris Mueller, Brenda Colman and Inez. Mr. Trent is a patient admitted to the hospital, Gloria Nadller is a dermatologist in the hospital and Fred is a homosexual addict admitted in the hospital while Maggie is the secretary in the hospital. David Anderson is an intern taking his duties in the hospital, Chris Mueller is a student who failed in his careers and engaged in crime and Inez is a…

Select a movie in which one of the main characters exhibits a mental disorder Select a movie in which one of the main characters exhibits a mental disorder. Some examples could be: A Beautiful Mind (John Nash, Schizophrenia) Jerry Maquire (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) Rain Man (Raymond Babbitt, Autism) Charlie Brown (Avoidant Personality Disorder) The Little Mermaid (Ariel, Compulsive Hoarding) Winnie the Pooh (Eeyore, Dysthymia) Provide a brief summary of the movie and the character you selected. Then analyze the movie for various emotional cues expressed by the character and write about your observations of the character’s emotions and behavior, including an assessment of their emotional intelligence. Your response should be 750 to 1000 words (approximately 3 to 4 pages, excluding the cover page and references). Use double spacing and a 12 point font, and include at least two sources other than those in the reading assignments. All references should be included on a separate page and formatted using APA style.[unique_solution] Select a movie in which one of the main characters exhibits a mental disorder. Some examples could be: A Beautiful…

INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND GROUP MECHANISMS Individualism Individualism refers to a moral stance, political inclination, or ideologies that focus on the value of a person. In other words, individualism is concerned about a person taking care of one’s self. The implication here is that even the government should never mingle in a person’s personal affairs. According to the concept of individualism, each human being is unique from anybody else and independent of any other person (Pardeller et al., 2017). It is caused by various factors, such as socio-ecological factors. Several elements comprise the principle of individualism. The features include autonomy, independence, individual, success, and responsibilities for one’s self.   Collectivism Collectivism is quite different from individualism. It refers to the concept or principle of emphasizing value on the group as opposed to individual members of the group. It a  theory based on political inclination associated so much to communism (Pardeller et al., 2017). In other words, it demands that a person should prioritize the welfare of the general society at large at the expense of individual people in society. In that…

Comparison of the Character Hamlet by Shakespeare and Hamlet Movie starring Mel Gibson Portrayed Shakespeare’s portrayal of Hamlet can be witnessed and confirmed in the series of events seen in the production. It is witnessed at “To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom.” As soon as the play commences, Hamlet appears to be mourning the death of his father while the mother is full of lamentations. As the play unfolds, it is indicative that Hamlet’s father appears to him as a ghost, informing him that the death was caused by poisoning. This can be seen in “The memory be green, and that it is befitted.” The poisoning, in this case, had been crafted by Claudius. In the avoidance of doubt concerning the interpretation of such visions, Hamlet decides to make consultations as well as conceal his succinct intentions so that Claudius would not get wind of the points in issue. However, because Hamlet’s uncle thought that Hamlet would know of what he had done, he decided to frame plots to have him killed. This aspect can be…

Cultural Characteristics of Asian American Group In recent years, the growth of Asian –America people, population, and diversification cannot be termed anything short than a phenomenon. Resettlement of refugees in the late 1980s and 1970s contributed immensely to the racial group. Sustained immigration contributed and played an important role in the growth of the population. According to statistics in 2001, the number of Asian – Americans was more than 12.5 million people in the United States (Kiang, n.d.). This number comprises more than thirty different groups and nationalities and include East Asia (Chinese, Korean and Japanese), Central Asia (Iranian and Afghani), South Asia (Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi), Pacific Island (native Hawai’ian, Samoan, Guamanian, and Tongan), and South Asia ( Mien, Filipinos, Thai, Burmese, Cambodian, Malay, Lao, Vietnamese, Mien and Hmong). The largest nationalities of Asian descent in 2000 in the United States were the Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Chinese. There is a remarkable difference in the Asian American diversities due to their cultures, histories, and various languages. To expound on the diversity of Asian – America, there is…

Vampire Characters             The debate on the existence of vampires has been receiving different forms with the development of each vampire story. Several writers have based their works on vampire stories to benefit from the advantage due to the significant interest of readers in vampire stories. Vampires have characters that can be seen as similar to rational human beings’ characters. However, vampires are presented as creatures with powers higher than human beings. Vampires are always viewed as blood feeders with several writers presenting different kinds of vampires depending on the methods used to get blood. Some writers have presented vampires as human hunters while others present vampires as friendly creatures who only feed on blood from volunteers. Sex and death have been presented in Carter’s Lady in the House of Love and Le Fanu’s Carmilla to be related. The act of blood sucking has been attributed to orgasmic sexual pleasure by several vampires. Also, several vampires have succumbed to death due to their sexual desires that affect the decision making of the vampires. Several writers have presented sexual lust as…