Mindset of Possibility: Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg & More

 The One Mindset Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, and Dozens More of the World’s Most Successful People Share Editor’s Note: Alex Banayan is the author of the new book The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers, which is available everywhere June 5th. Alex’s journey began … Read more

Investigating the 2014 Sony Pictures Hack: The People and Technology Behind It

 Sony Pictures Hack (2014) On November 25, 2014 a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace (GOP) hacked Sony pictures, which crippled the broad Sony network for several days. The hackers posted sensitive information on the internet from Sony’s database, including unreleased films at the time (Elkind, “Sony Hack”). Initially it was purported that … Read more

The Debate: CEO Pay in the US & UK

 Abstract With the semester coming to its logical conclusion it brings me upon completing another SMAC paper. After completing ten of them in the last semesters I have grown to develop a better sense for what is a meaningful topic that a student can write about throughout the course of the semester. In this … Read more

"Flood Risk Management Strategies in Europe – 2007/60/EC EU Directive

 Flood risk management strategies in Europe Pooja Shankar Mat Nr: 3303937 ABSTRACT: Catastrophic floods endanger lives and cause human tragedy as well as economic losses. Floods area natural phenomena but through right measures can reduce their likelihood and limit their impacts. In addition to social and economic damage, floods have a severe impact on … Read more

Delving Deeper into We Share: The Circular and Sharing Economy

 As mentioned in the introduction, the circular economy can be seen as a broad definition for a collection of initiatives that aim to contribute to the paradigm shift. This chapter further elaborates on the different sorts of perspectives of the circular economy and the sharing economy. Thereafter, various business models for carsharing are categorised … Read more

US Foreign Policy between 1890-1898 with George Washington's Farewell Address as Foundation

 In his farewell address, George Washington states, “the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible” (Kaufman 35). Limited international involvement served as the foundation for America’s early foreign policy. The United States strove to … Read more

Music and identity

The following analysis will eschew the essentialist and reductive tendency within dialogues of popular music to state that music either provides listeners, artists, and producers with a homogenous identity, or is simply a way groups of people express a fixed or static identity. This reduction of identity to categories with clear and unmoveable delineations, whilst … Read more

Aviation the Marvel of the Past, Present and Future

 Aviation, a Marvel of the  Past, Present and Future The history of powered, heavier than air flight is relatively brief. In just a little more than a hundred years the world has been fortunate to experience some truly remarkable aircraft, people and technology related to aviation. If there is one thing the history books … Read more

Fight Back Against Copyrighted Content: Join the Morally Imperative Movement to Protect Free Speech on the Internet.

 An Internet Activist known as Aaron Swartz once said, “Information is power, and like all power there are those who want to keep it to themselves ”     On the 20th of June, Europe passed a law that will ultimately rid the Internet of unlicensed copyrighted content, This sounds much more complicated than … Read more

New Orleans’ Rich History & Unique LGBT Culture

 What to Expect: A Guide to Navigating New Orleans By Shane Womack Don’t feel bad for enjoying your time in historic NOLA and the French Quarter! The 47th annual Southern Decadence, the massive five-day music and dance party festival that annually attracts more than 250,000 LGBT attendees to the infamous New Orleans French Quarter, … Read more

Karl Marx: Detailing Class Conflict & Free Enterprise's Limitations

 Karl Marx Karl Marx trusted free enterprise will definitely swing to communism. This suggests his conviction that free enterprise contains inside itself conditions that would be unfavorable to its own reality, factors which would in the long run prompt the populace to receive a communist method of living. Truth be told, Marx gathered that … Read more

"The Atlantic Slave Trade: Impact of Slave Trade on Intercontinental Migrants

 The Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Considered the earliest interaction of the Atlantic, the slave trade was a critical interaction and perhaps the most capital-intensive. The slave trade entailed a massive intercontinental migration from Africa to Europe and the Americas, which represents the largest forced transportation of slaves from Africa before the history of the … Read more