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Eyefi INTRODUCTIONMartin: Today we are in Mountain View at the office of Eyefi with Ziv. Ziv, who are you and what do you do?Ziv: Thanks for having m! I am one of the co-founders and I run in Business Development and I also evangelize and started the company about 8 years ago.Martin: And what did you do before you started this company?Ziv: So before we started, I was doing high-tech. So we’re four founders, I used to be an engineer, actually all of us used to be engineers. Here at Eyefi two of us are in business, two of us are engineering. I was at Apple a few times and then several startups before Eyefi and then Eyefi is my first founding company. And I have done one more since Eyefi in background and so I would say top 7 rate startups.Martin: Great. An engineer turned to business developer, how rare is that?Ziv: So I knew that Okay, so my two co-founders are way better than me in engineering. So I knew that they are so much better than me, I can just let them do the really really hard stuff and I can do the marketing, sales, business development. So as we started we agreed that they would do the hard core stuff, the really really heavy stuff and they are just way better and over the years we both migrated to marketing sales and biz development. But even before Eyefi I went more into management and marketing and so it worked out.Martin: How did you come up with the founding idea of Eyefi?Ziv: For Eyefi? We start having kids and we are here in the west coast, my parents are in the east coast. We were struggling with the new lack of sleep and everything else and so how do you actually share photos if you are busy you actually can share photos, and my parents were in the East Coast we are here in the west coast. We got the guilt trip non-stop of where are your first kids photos. And it’s not hard to share, it’s a chore. So usually you put chores off; laundery, cooking, dishes, usually you are okay doing them but you put them off. So getting the photos out of a ca mera to a computer is the same thing, it’s a chore. So taking a photo is easy, taking a video is easy, it’s just a click and everything else that comes afterwards is a chore. So we wanted to change to photo industry. We wanted to show, Hey, we can actually use these cameras which are really fun to use, but how do you actually get the content out of then and share it as close to the moment as possible. So we started with a different idea, we then morphed that idea EyeFi card and that was our launch.Martin: Great.BUSINESS MODELMartin: Let’s talk briefly about the current business model for Eyefi, how does it work?Ziv: So you put the card into your camera, you takes pictures, the card becomes a wifi hotspot, it then is being seen by your phone or your tablet or anything that’s around you, that connects to it and the magic just happens. So all you do is take pictures because the card is a wifi hotspot, the phone connects to it automatically and everything happens. It goes to the phone or tablet and from there it goes to our cloud or any other cloud. So its super simple, you buy the card at retail and immediately as you get it, you can start to use it and immediately start to share photos from the moment of capture.Martin: How can I manage as a customer where the photos will go?Ziv: So they go to our app, from our app it goes to anywhere you want, normally; Photo Roll, iOS, Gallery on Android, and then from there if you have Dropbox watching your Gallery or Photo roll, it goes to drop box, Google photo plus, Google plus, Facebook, anything that you want to, they already have a new device that works. We have the popular intents as well so you can from within our app go to Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, anything that is already installed on the phone, as well as we can go to a computer so from a computer it goes to anywhere you want to. You are really on your own with whatever you are already used to, the main difference is the photo that you captured on your ph one can come from a camera versus from the crappy camera that built in the phone.Martin: Right, understood. How is the distribution strategy working? So what type of distribution partners are you using and why did you choose this kind of distribution strategy?Ziv : Sure, we sell at every major retail. We sell globally, today we have 85% coverage globally. So we sell at every major retail, so Best Buy would sell here in the US for example, Amazon online is selling us, BH, Adorama. So the top photo retailers as well as CE, Consumer Electronics. In Europe we are at MediaMarkt, Saturn, every major retail in Europe, so western Europe, so Germany France, UK, Italy, Spain, everywhere in major retail as well as everything online, same in Asia, Asia pacific. We’re not yet in all of China but we’re launched in China and we are pretty much everywhere in Asia Pacific, Middle East and South Africa. We sell into distribution and then they turn around and sell it into retail but we are the one s that go out and sign retail.Martin: So the end customer pays X amount of euro for a card and gets what?Ziv: So you walk into a store, say MediaMarkt in Germany and you pay 41 Euros or 62 Euros or 82 Euros for 8 gig, 16 gig, 32 gig card. You then leave the store and you get the app from the app store and then there is code that is in the Eyefi card packaging that you enter into the app. Once you do that you are done. After 3 months, we then ask you if you want to actually pay for our cloud, if you pay for our cloud, awesome. For 45 Euros we give you infinite storage, in the US it’s 50 dollars in Europe 45, so you get infinite storage for your photos. If you don’t pay for the cloud, no problem, it still goes to your mobile device, but it stays there it doesn’t sync across devices, that’s it. So the cloud gives you sync across devices, across platforms, across device and infinite storage.Martin: And how much does it cost from a monthly perspective?Ziv: Its 50 dollar per year or 45 Euros per year for infinite storage.Martin: Okay Geat.CORPORATE STRATEGYMartin: Let’s talk about the corporate strategy. So what distinguishes you from all of your competitors?Ziv: We used to not have any competitors for about, so we’re 8 years old, for about 7 or 6 years we had no competitors. This is patented, it’s not patent pending, its patented. So for a while we had zero competitors. If you talk about competitors in terms of wifi and cameras, there was wifi and cameras even before we started Eyefi. So in 05’, 06’, Canon, Kodak, Nikon had wifi built in. But the camera guys are really good at building cameras, they don’t know how to do cloud and services and wifi really really well. We cannot build cameras but we can do clouds, services and software really really well. So the competitors today, we have two competitors out of Asia, they don’t have our distribution, they don’t have a global reach and our way of doing this is super automatic. So we believe tha t as you capture photos, it should go from the camera to the phone automatically. The competitors, basically you have to sign into the card from your phone from a web browser, choose the photos that you want to download and then download those. We believe that’s a lot of work. So in terms of competition, I would say the base competition force is not the wifi cards or the wifi cameras is the smartphone that people are using now and not the cameras. That’s why we have the cloud, so it can use your camera or your smart phone, either way, if you pay for our cloud, we’ re okay.Martin: Okay great.ADVICE TO ENTREPRENEURS In Mountain View, we meet co-founder Evangelist of Eyefi, Ziv Gillat. He shares his story how he co-founded this startup and how the current business model works, as well as some advice for young entrepreneurs.The transcription of the interview is included below.INTRODUCTIONMartin: Today we are in Mountain View at the office of Eyefi with Ziv. Ziv, who are you and what do you do?Ziv: Thanks for having m! I am one of the co-founders and I run in Business Development and I also evangelize and started the company about 8 years ago.Martin: And what did you do before you started this company?Ziv: So before we started, I was doing high-tech. So we’re four founders, I used to be an engineer, actually all of us used to be engineers. Here at Eyefi two of us are in business, two of us are engineering. I was at Apple a few times and then several startups before Eyefi and then Eyefi is my first founding company. And I have done one more since Eyefi in background and so I would say top 7 rate startups.Martin: Great. An engineer turned to business developer, how rare is that?Ziv: So I knew that Okay, so my two co-founders are way better than me in engineering. So I knew that they are so much better than me, I can just let them do the really really hard stuff and I can do the marketing, sales, business development. So as we started we agreed that they would do the hard core stuff, the really really heavy stuff and they are just way better and over the years we both migrated to marketing sales and biz development. But even before Eyefi I went more into management and marketing and so it worked out.Martin: How did you come up with the founding idea of Eyefi?Ziv: For Eyefi? We start having kids and we are here in the west coast, my parents are in the east coast. We were struggling with the new lack of sleep and everything else and so how do you actually share photos if you are busy you actually can share photos, and my parents were in the East Coast we are here in the west co ast. We got the guilt trip non-stop of where are your first kids photos. And it’s not hard to share, it’s a chore. So usually you put chores off; laundery, cooking, dishes, usually you are okay doing them but you put them off. So getting the photos out of a camera to a computer is the same thing, it’s a chore. So taking a photo is easy, taking a video is easy, it’s just a click and everything else that comes afterwards is a chore. So we wanted to change to photo industry. We wanted to show, Hey, we can actually use these cameras which are really fun to use, but how do you actually get the content out of then and share it as close to the moment as possible. So we started with a different idea, we then morphed that idea EyeFi card and that was our launch.Martin: Great.BUSINESS MODELMartin: Let’s talk briefly about the current business model for Eyefi, how does it work?Ziv: So you put the card into your camera, you takes pictures, the card becomes a wifi hotspot, it then is b eing seen by your phone or your tablet or anything that’s around you, that connects to it and the magic just happens. So all you do is take pictures because the card is a wifi hotspot, the phone connects to it automatically and everything happens. It goes to the phone or tablet and from there it goes to our cloud or any other cloud. So its super simple, you buy the card at retail and immediately as you get it, you can start to use it and immediately start to share photos from the moment of capture.Martin: How can I manage as a customer where the photos will go?Ziv: So they go to our app, from our app it goes to anywhere you want, normally; Photo Roll, iOS, Gallery on Android, and then from there if you have Dropbox watching your Gallery or Photo roll, it goes to drop box, Google photo plus, Google plus, Facebook, anything that you want to, they already have a new device that works. We have the popular intents as well so you can from within our app go to Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, anything that is already installed on the phone, as well as we can go to a computer so from a computer it goes to anywhere you want to. You are really on your own with whatever you are already used to, the main difference is the photo that you captured on your phone can come from a camera versus from the crappy camera that built in the phone.Martin: Right, understood. How is the distribution strategy working? So what type of distribution partners are you using and why did you choose this kind of distribution strategy?Ziv : Sure, we sell at every major retail. We sell globally, today we have 85% coverage globally. So we sell at every major retail, so Best Buy would sell here in the US for example, Amazon online is selling us, BH, Adorama. So the top photo retailers as well as CE, Consumer Electronics. In Europe we are at MediaMarkt, Saturn, every major retail in Europe, so western Europe, so Germany France, UK, Italy, Spain, everywhere in major retail as well as everything online, s ame in Asia, Asia pacific. We’re not yet in all of China but we’re launched in China and we are pretty much everywhere in Asia Pacific, Middle East and South Africa. We sell into distribution and then they turn around and sell it into retail but we are the ones that go out and sign retail.Martin: So the end customer pays X amount of euro for a card and gets what?Ziv: So you walk into a store, say MediaMarkt in Germany and you pay 41 Euros or 62 Euros or 82 Euros for 8 gig, 16 gig, 32 gig card. You then leave the store and you get the app from the app store and then there is code that is in the Eyefi card packaging that you enter into the app. Once you do that you are done. After 3 months, we then ask you if you want to actually pay for our cloud, if you pay for our cloud, awesome. For 45 Euros we give you infinite storage, in the US it’s 50 dollars in Europe 45, so you get infinite storage for your photos. If you don’t pay for the cloud, no problem, it still goes to your mob ile device, but it stays there it doesn’t sync across devices, that’s it. So the cloud gives you sync across devices, across platforms, across device and infinite storage.Martin: And how much does it cost from a monthly perspective?Ziv: Its 50 dollar per year or 45 Euros per year for infinite storage.Martin: Okay Geat.CORPORATE STRATEGYMartin: Let’s talk about the corporate strategy. So what distinguishes you from all of your competitors?Ziv: We used to not have any competitors for about, so we’re 8 years old, for about 7 or 6 years we had no competitors. This is patented, it’s not patent pending, its patented. So for a while we had zero competitors. If you talk about competitors in terms of wifi and cameras, there was wifi and cameras even before we started Eyefi. So in 05’, 06’, Canon, Kodak, Nikon had wifi built in. But the camera guys are really good at building cameras, they don’t know how to do cloud and services and wifi really really well. We cannot build cam eras but we can do clouds, services and software really really well. So the competitors today, we have two competitors out of Asia, they don’t have our distribution, they don’t have a global reach and our way of doing this is super automatic. So we believe that as you capture photos, it should go from the camera to the phone automatically. The competitors, basically you have to sign into the card from your phone from a web browser, choose the photos that you want to download and then download those. We believe that’s a lot of work. So in terms of competition, I would say the base competition force is not the wifi cards or the wifi cameras is the smartphone that people are using now and not the cameras. That’s why we have the cloud, so it can use your camera or your smart phone, either way, if you pay for our cloud, we’ re okay.Martin: Okay great.ADVICE TO ENTREPRENEURSMartin: I mean you have several years of experience as an entrepreneurs. What type of advice can you give other young entrepreneurs when they are thinking about starting a company?Ziv: It’s very tough. I think that being an entrepreneur is a disease. The reason that I say that it’s a disease is that it is really really hard and then you keep doing it andyou keep goong forth and you keep doingit over and over again. So that’s why it’s super super tough and we are crazy and we just keep doing it again. So let me just start with that.In terms of advice, it has to be a passion, if it’s not a passion, you are never going to succeed, because so many things will go against you, it will go wrong, that it wasn’t a passion you will quit after the first year. Typically businesses takes 7 years to exit, people think that they are going to start a business and flip it within a year or two, that happens sometimes, that is very very rare. Most of them fail and the ones that do succeed, takes 7 years to exit plus, actually it takes even more. We’re 8 plus years old and we still haven’t had the exit yet but we have tons of customers, tons of revenue and so the curve is awesome but we have not had an exit yet, so it takes a lot of work.Martin: Okay great and what advice can you give when somebody thinks about developing a hardware product? Because I mean this is a mix between hardware and software product that you’re providing and he’s thinking about a hardware product and wants to define the go-to market strategy.Ziv: Sure. I would say don’t focus on the hardware, focus on the software and focus on services first. The hardware is just a way to get it, it’s a conduit. We’ve always since day one said we are not doing hardware only, we are building services, we have had the cloud since day one. 8 years ago it was called the server, now it’s called the cloud, so really really important. People who focus on hardware, focusing on hardware first, they then build bad software, we had that as well. We had the card selling retail for 6 years then I would say our software was really not that great. Because we focused on the hardware, we made the hardware really really amazing and we had amazing camera relationships, integrations, we have camera from across all the cameras but our software wasn’t really good. We then took a step back, took away many of the features, simplified it, now it has way less features so in Europe for example Mobi is our only selling product, we don’t have the pro, the pro has tons of features, hard to set up. Mobi sells everywhere, easy to set up, less features. So focus on the software first. When you can figure out the software and the services and you figure out the experience then start building the hardware.Martin: And when you are trying to make partnerships with companies like MediaMarkt etc, and your very early in your start up process, how do you convince them?Ziv: So usually they come to us. So if you’re cool, they come to you. If you’re not cool, you go to them and then it’s really hard. But if y ou have a really cool productâ€"see the problem is retail is it has a very very limited shell space, online retail is very different. Amazon takes anybody because they have no physical space. Physical goods are really really hard to sell into retail so you really have to have a unique value prop and if you do, they actually come to you. For the ones that are smaller you can actually have a sales person that’s really amazing, they already have the relationship with the buyer and they can approach them. If you have enough margin in a product, if it’s enough value prop, they agree to it. But if you are one more, let’s say you make a mouse, if you are one more mouse, they won’t take you necessarily because they already have they preferred three or four vendors. But if you’re unique, they will take you.Martin: Okay, great Ziv, thank you very much for your time.

Discrimination Towards Indigenous Languages in Colombia - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 2 Words: 586 Downloads: 8 Date added: 2018/12/27 Category Society Essay Type Research paper Level High school Tags: Discrimination Essay Did you like this example? In Colombia, Spanish is the commonly spoken language but there are about 60 to 80 languages that are spoken by the natives of different areas (Stavenhagen, 2016). The mandatory multilingual education makes it easy for the natives to be fluent in more than one language. Multilingual education has provoked negative impression because the indigenous languages are referred to as an illness. Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "Discrimination Towards Indigenous Languages in Colombia" essay for you Create order Because of the fact that Spanish is widely spoken, other languages that are spoken by minority groups are seldom accepted. It becomes hard for the citizens who speak only their native language and need access to public amenities in the workplace and in the military. According to Stavenhagen (2016), indigenous people are discriminated in employment and occupation as the Spanish native speakers are given better opportunities in comparison to their counterparts. Employer language policies state that no employee should be discriminated based on their age, gender or language. As Stavenhagen (2016) opines, there have been instances where employees have been complaining of their employers offering more salary to the employees who can fluently speak Spanish and offer less to the indigenous language speakers such as Quichua, Romani, Creola English, Palenquero, among others despite having the same qualifications. Stavenhagen (2016) writes that requiring employees to speak only Spanish is discriminatory and not justifiable. He further states that for an employee to please clients and the organization, they have to speak in Spanish. Which becomes hard for the indigenous language speakers. However, on the brighter side, making an effort to speak Spanish shows interest and seriousness but should not be a measure of competency; this is because interpreters and translators can always make work easier. The military has various discriminations; from gender to age and language. According to Joffe (2017), during a census in the military, the soldiers who speak indigenous languages are forced to fill in Spanish as their native language; something that is discriminatory because, in one way, they are forced to renounce their native language. Language discrimination is very pronounced during the recruitment stage where Spanish native speakers are given the first priority and only a few indigenous speakers are recruited into the military (Joffe, 2017). Furthermore, in the army, discrimination has been the order of the day with many soldiers facing hard times which lead to physical injuries, trauma and even death; indigenous speakers are at the center of it all and more often than not, they are in grave danger (Joffe, 2017). Joffe (2017) opines that special treatment is given to the Spanish speakers in terms of protection on the battlefield. He further explains that while on the battlefield, the commander would give orders in Spanish, not putting into consideration that some soldiers do not speak Spanish. In a similar way, discrimination is quite pronounced during promotions as the Spanish are treated with more regard and are given a higher chance of being promoted. In conclusion, language discrimination in Colombia has caused problems from the workplace to the military. The employment sector gives more regard to the employee who can speak fluent Spanish while the military requires soldiers to identify with being Spanish rather than their own native languages. It is important for Colombia to take action against discrimination by providing laws that protect the right of an employee and a soldier despite their native language. It is also important to invest in interpreters and translators to make communication easier where there is a language barrier. REFERENCES Joffe, P. (2017). Advancing Indigenous PeoplesHuman Rights: New Developments in the Americas. Stavenhagen, R. (2016). 5 Indigenous Peoples: Emerging International. Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy: A Comparative Inquiry, 133.

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(Julia Beirut) Because cancer has affected so many people around the globe, it has become easier to find ways to cope with cancer than ever before. Many websites, books, support groups, therapist specialties, and therapies have been created to help everyone affected by cancer to find coping skills that work best for them. Many people have suggested that patients and family members let out the bad feelings so that they may more fully enjoy the positive aspects of the situation. It is also important to stay connected with family, friend, and the community through social networks, visits, and participating in community activities such as yoga classes, swimming, book clubs, and religious activities. It is also important to keep a positive attitude as much as possible without keeping the bad emotions balled up inside and pretending not to care. It is healthy to make peace with the unknown, or accepting that they do not know what will happen or if they will recover or not. This is said to be one of the hardest coping mechanisms, but also one of the most important. It is extremely important to seek professional care for psychological and emotional effects. Rarely can one deal with the pain and stress of cancer on their own and in their own way. Refusing to receive guidance from a professional therapist is like refusing to go skydiving for the first time with a professional skydiver. (National Bone Marrow Transplant Link) Joey Call is a survivor of stage 3 leukemia as of this year. He was diagnosed in the fall of 2010, at the age of 24. He was treated with chemotherapy and radiation frequently and felt the effects immediately. After starting treatment he noticed a change in his personality as well as his body. He explains,† I felt like I was in a fog for the first few months. Like my mind and emotions just turned themselves off. Then once I could really understand that I had cancer, I just exploded. I didn’t know how to handle it. It was too much to take in. I was like a baby. I cried for days! † Joey continues to explain that after the depression and denial, he started to become so stressed. â€Å"The doctor said that I won’t be able to have kids after the chemo. It made me even more scared and stressed out. How was my wife going to take this? I can’t even give her a family the normal way. We have to do ________ for the rest of our lives. That was the most stressful thing of the whole thing. † He and his wife also went through tough financial losses. Without Joey working and his wife still in college, they were struggling to pay their bills. When joey was younger, he was in prison. He was exposed to contaminated drug needles and other devices that had many diseases and viruses on them. He used his friend’s needle once, and that one harmless choice would later help give him not only leukemia, but also hepatitis B. Because of this one time action, he would later feel extreme guilt and regret, for he knew that that one â€Å"fix† was a huge factor into giving him great health problems later in life. â€Å"It was so not worth it,† he claims. Even though Joey is cancer free, he is still struggling with depression, fear or returning cancer, and extreme stress. (Joey Call) Even though cancer is extremely hard on the body, mind, and soul; happiness can be achieved. It may seem too difficult to handle, but many survive and go onto living happy and successful lives. With the help of professionals and the support of doctors, family, and friends, survival is possible. Works Cited Beirut, Julia. â€Å"Mental Effects of Breast Cancer. † [Online]http://www. livestrong. com/article/78853-mental-effects-breast-cancer/ February 2,2010 Call, Joey. Interview. Salt Lake City, Utah: April 21, 2012. â€Å"Cancer Prevalence: How Many People Have Cancer? † [Online] http://www. cancer. org/Cancer/CancerBasics/cancer-prevalence October 10, 2011 â€Å"Coping and Support. Emotional Effects of Cancer. † [Online] http://www. leukemiabmtprogram. org/patients_and_family/coping_and_support/emot onal_effects_of_cancer/your_emotions. html 2011 Mayo Clinic Staff. â€Å"Cancer† [Online] http://www. mayoclinic. com/health/cancer/DS01076 May 8, 2010 National Bone Marrow Transplant Link. †Survivorship Guide for Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant† [Online] How to cite Emotional and Psychological Effects of Cancer, Papers Emotional and Psychological Effects of Cancer Free Essays Writing 1010 Final Research Paper April 26, 2012 Emotional and Psychological Effects of Cancer Nearly 11,958,000 people were living with cancer in the U. S. in the year of 2008. We will write a custom essay sample on Emotional and Psychological Effects of Cancer or any similar topic only for you Order Now (â€Å"Cancer Prevalence: How Many People Have Cancer? †). It is the second-leading cause of death in the United States. Cancer is â€Å"characterized by the development of abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and have the ability to infiltrate and destroy normal body tissue. †(Mayo Clinic Staff) It is caused by a simple DNA mutation that causes the body to create a cancerous cell. It causes many physical complications including: pain, fatigue, difficult breathing, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and difficult immune reactions known as paraneoplastic syndromes. The effects of cancer are not only physiological but also psychological and emotional. Cancer causes a number of psychological effects such as: stress, constant fatigue, depression, withdrawal, fear, and anger. When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, their reaction may vary depending on a number of factors such as the type and severity or stage of the cancer, and simply the patient’s personality. In most cases, patients first experience shock or denial once they have heard the harsh news. This is followed, a few days or weeks later, by sadness and depression. Later on they will experience withdrawal, uncontrollable fear of what is to come, anger, and guilt. (â€Å"Coping and Support. Emotional Effects of Cancer. †) Some patients feel they have become lost and isolated from the world. For when they are undergoing treatments, they may be physically isolated for periods of time and must wear protective gear to simply exit their sterile room. Permitting contact with anyone or anything that is not necessary for treatment. This is an incredibly emotional taxing time for the patients, for this is the time that contact with family, friends, and the outside world are important for a person’s emotional well-being. Extreme stress is always an effect on a patient, their family, and their friends due to the many complications outside of the patient’s physical complications. This includes job concerns, financial instability, and what will happen to the family if the patient passes away. (Julia Beirut) Because cancer has affected so many people around the globe, it has become easier to find ways to cope with cancer than ever before. Many websites, books, support groups, therapist specialties, and therapies have been created to help everyone affected by cancer to find coping skills that work best for them. Many people have suggested that patients and family members let out the bad feelings so that they may more fully enjoy the positive aspects of the situation. It is also important to stay connected with family, friend, and the community through social networks, visits, and participating in community activities such as yoga classes, swimming, book clubs, and religious activities. It is also important to keep a positive attitude as much as possible without keeping the bad emotions balled up inside and pretending not to care. It is healthy to make peace with the unknown, or accepting that they do not know what will happen or if they will recover or not. This is said to be one of the hardest coping mechanisms, but also one of the most important. It is extremely important to seek professional care for psychological and emotional effects. Rarely can one deal with the pain and stress of cancer on their own and in their own way. Refusing to receive guidance from a professional therapist is like refusing to go skydiving for the first time with a professional skydiver. (National Bone Marrow Transplant Link) Joey Call is a survivor of stage 3 leukemia as of this year. He was diagnosed in the fall of 2010, at the age of 24. He was treated with chemotherapy and radiation frequently and felt the effects immediately. After starting treatment he noticed a change in his personality as well as his body. He explains,† I felt like I was in a fog for the first few months. Like my mind and emotions just turned themselves off. Then once I could really understand that I had cancer, I just exploded. I didn’t know how to handle it. It was too much to take in. I was like a baby. I cried for days! † Joey continues to explain that after the depression and denial, he started to become so stressed. â€Å"The doctor said that I won’t be able to have kids after the chemo. It made me even more scared and stressed out. How was my wife going to take this? I can’t even give her a family the normal way. We have to do ________ for the rest of our lives. That was the most stressful thing of the whole thing. † He and his wife also went through tough financial losses. Without Joey working and his wife still in college, they were struggling to pay their bills. When joey was younger, he was in prison. He was exposed to contaminated drug needles and other devices that had many diseases and viruses on them. He used his friend’s needle once, and that one harmless choice would later help give him not only leukemia, but also hepatitis B. Because of this one time action, he would later feel extreme guilt and regret, for he knew that that one â€Å"fix† was a huge factor into giving him great health problems later in life. â€Å"It was so not worth it,† he claims. Even though Joey is cancer free, he is still struggling with depression, fear or returning cancer, and extreme stress. (Joey Call) Even though cancer is extremely hard on the body, mind, and soul; happiness can be achieved. It may seem too difficult to handle, but many survive and go onto living happy and successful lives. With the help of professionals and the support of doctors, family, and friends, survival is possible. Works Cited Beirut, Julia. â€Å"Mental Effects of Breast Cancer. † [Online]http://www. livestrong. com/article/78853-mental-effects-breast-cancer/ February 2,2010 Call, Joey. Interview. Salt Lake City, Utah: April 21, 2012. â€Å"Cancer Prevalence: How Many People Have Cancer? † [Online] http://www. cancer. org/Cancer/CancerBasics/cancer-prevalence October 10, 2011 â€Å"Coping and Support. Emotional Effects of Cancer. † [Online] http://www. leukemiabmtprogram. org/patients_and_family/coping_and_support/emot onal_effects_of_cancer/your_emotions. html 2011 Mayo Clinic Staff. â€Å"Cancer† [Online] http://www. mayoclinic. com/health/cancer/DS01076 May 8, 2010 National Bone Marrow Transplant Link. †Survivorship Guide for Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant† [Online] How to cite Emotional and Psychological Effects of Cancer, Essay examples

Love Definition Essay Research Paper The word free essay sample

Love Definition Essay, Research Paper The word love is defined as: a deep feeling of fondness, devotedness, or fond regard to another individual . Knowing the actual definition is non adequate for a individual to to the full understand to concept of love. Love is so deep, it as so many parts that merely words can # 8217 ; T perchance assist a individual to hold on the thought. In the film Good Will Hunting, Will experiences love with many different people. First, Will and his friends shared a particular type friendly relationship that included much love. Will considered his friends to be his brothers, he trusted and cared for them profoundly. The chief character in the film that showed Will how to love was Sean, his healer. In the beginning of the film, Will didn # 8217 ; t cognize all that he needed to cognize about love. It wasn # 8217 ; t until he met with Sean that he learned more about love. Sean taught Will approximately true love and true felicity. He said to Will that there is no manner of cognizing what love is until one experiences it. Sean besides told Will that he needed to happen a psyche mate, one who challenges him and one who touches his psyche. Since Will had a difficult yesteryear life, he put love last, doing him iron EL scared and ashamed. His fright of fond regard caused jobs with Skylar, a miss he was interested in. It wasn # 8217 ; t until he became comfy with love, and took Sean # 8217 ; s advice that he tried to repair his jobs with Skyla. When some one is in love they are so overwhelmed with feeling. When you love person you drop everything for them, and there are no declinations. His or her defects are non of import, they are beautiful and fantastic in your eyes- nil else affairs. If Sean neer taught Will about true love, he would of missed out on a great experience. Everyone learns about love from person, whether it be a friend, parent or important other. In my instance I learned about true love though my important other. In some ways I felt like Will because for the longest clip I was afraid of love. My current fellow helped me to open up and experience what love was truly similar. For the longest clip I felt an emptiness, that is now filled with my love for him. The impact that he has had on my life is unbelievable, merely the idea of him can lighten up up even my worst yearss. Sean was right, no 1 can to the full understand love until they have experienced all that it brings.

Biography of Stokely Carmichael, Civil Rights Activist

Biography of Stokely Carmichael, Civil Rights Activist Stokely Carmichael was an important activist in the Civil Rights Movement who attained prominence (and generated enormous controversy) when he issued a call for Black Power during a speech in 1966. The phrase quickly spread, sparking a fierce national debate. Carmichaels words became popular among younger African Americans who were frustrated with the slow pace of progress in the field of civil rights. His magnetic oratory, which would typically contain flashes of passionate anger mixed with playful wit, helped make him nationally famous. Fast Facts: Stokely Carmichael Full Name: Stokely CarmichaelAlso Known As: Kwame TureOccupation: Organizer and civil rights activistBorn: June 29, 1941 in Port-of-Spain, TrinidadDied: November 15, 1998 in Conakry, GuineaKey Accomplishments: Originator of the term Black Power and a leader of the Black Power movement Early Life Stokely Carmichael was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on June 29, 1941. His parents emigrated to New York City when Stokely was two, leaving him in the care of grandparents. The family was eventually reunited when Stokely was 11 and came to live with his parents. The family lived in Harlem and eventually in the Bronx. A gifted student, Carmichael was accepted to the Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious institution where he came into contact with students from diverse backgrounds. He later recalled going to parties with classmates who lived on Park Avenue and feeling uncomfortable in the presence of their maids - given the fact that his own mother worked as a maid. He was offered several scholarships to elite colleges and ultimately chose to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C.. By the time he began college in 1960, he was greatly inspired by the growing Civil Rights Movement. He had seen television reports of sit-ins and other protests in the South and felt a need to get involved. While a student at Howard, he came into contact with members of SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (popularly known as Snick). Carmichael began participating in SNCC actions, traveling to the South and joining Freedom Riders as they sought to integrate interstate bus travel. Following graduation from Howard in 1964, he began working full-time with SNCC and soon became a traveling organizer in the South. It was a dangerous time. The Freedom Summer project was trying to register black voters across the South, and resistance was fierce. In June 1964 three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, disappeared in Mississippi. Carmichael and some SNCC associates participated in the search for the missing activists. The bodies of the three murdered activists were eventually found by the FBI in August 1964. Other activists who were personal friends of Carmichael were killed in the following two years. The August 1965 shotgun murder of Jonathan Daniels, a white seminarian who had been working with SNCC in the South, affected Carmichael deeply. Black Power From 1964 to 1966 Carmichael was constantly in motion, helping to register voters and fight against the Jim Crow system of the South. With his quick wit and oratorical skills, Carmichael became a rising star in the movement. He was jailed numerous times, and was known to tell stories about how he and fellow inmates would sing to both pass the time and annoy the guards. He later said his patience for peaceful resistance broke down when, from a hotel room window, he saw police savagely beat civil rights protesters in the street below. In June 1966, James Meredith, who had integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962, began a one-man march across Mississippi. On the second day, he was shot and injured. Many other activists, including Carmichael and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., vowed to finish his march. Marchers began crossing the state, with some joining in and some dropping out. According to a New York Times report, there were usually about 100 marchers at any one time, while volunteers fanned out along the route to register voters. On June 16, 1966, the march reached Greenwood, Mississippi. White residents turned out to heckle and hurl racial slurs, and local police harassed the marchers. When marchers tried to pitch tents to spend the night in a local park, they were arrested. Carmichael was taken to jail, and a photograph of him in handcuffs would appear on the front page of the next mornings New York Times. Carmichael spent five hours in custody before supporters bailed him out. He appeared at a park in Greenwood that night, and spoke to about 600 supporters. The words he used would change the course of the Civil Rights Movement, and the 1960s. With his dynamic delivery, Carmichael called for Black Power. The crowd chanted the words. Reporters covering the march took notice. Up until that point, the marches in the South tended to be portrayed as dignified groups of people singing hymns. Now there seemed to be an angry chant electrifying the crowd. The New York Times reported on how quickly Carmichaels words were adopted: Many marchers and local Negroes were chanting Black power, black power, a cry taught them by Mr. Carmichael at a rally last night when he said, Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down to get rid of the dirt. But on the courthouse steps, Mr. Carmichael was less angry and said: The only way we can change things in Mississippi is with the ballot. Thats black power. Carmichael gave his first Black Power speech on a Thursday night. Three days later, he appeared, in a suit and tie, on the CBS News program Face the Nation, where he was questioned by prominent political journalists. He challenged his white interviewers, at one point contrasting the American effort to deliver democracy in Vietnam with its apparent failure to do the same in the American South. Over the next few months the concept of Black Power was hotly debated in America. The speech Carmichael gave to hundreds in the park in Mississippi rippled through society, and opinion columns, magazine articles, and television reports sought to explain what it meant and what it said about the direction of the country. Within weeks of his speech to hundreds of marchers in Mississippi, Carmichael was the subject of a lengthy profile in the New York Times. The headline referred to him as Black Power Prophet Stokely Carmichael. Fame and Controversy In May 1967 LIFE magazine published an essay by the noted photographer and journalist Gordon Parks, who had spent four months following Carmichael. The article presented Carmichael to mainstream America as an intelligent activist with a skeptical, though nuanced, view of race relations. At one point Carmichael said to Parks that he was tired of explaining what Black Power meant, as his words kept getting twisted. Parks prodded him and Carmichael responded: For the last time, he said. Black Power means black people coming together to form a political force and either electing representatives or forcing their representatives to speak their needs. Its an economic and physical bloc that can exercise its strength in the black community instead of letting the job go to the Democratic or Republican parties or a white-controlled black man set up as a puppet to represent black people. We pick the brother and make sure he fulfills The article in LIFE may have made Carmichael relatable to mainstream America. But within months, his fiery rhetoric and wide-ranging travels made him an intensely controversial figure. In the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson, alarmed at Carmichaels comments against the Vietnam War, personally instructed the FBI to conduct surveillance on him. In mid-July 1967, Carmichael embarked on what turned into a world tour. In London, he spoke at a Dialectics of Liberation conference, which featured scholars, activists, and even American poet Allen Ginsberg. While in England, Carmichael spoke at various local gatherings, which drew the attention of the British government. There were rumors that he was pressured to leave the country. In late July 1967, Carmichael flew to Havana, Cuba. He had been invited by the government of Fidel Castro. His visit immediately made news, including a report in the New York Times on July 26, 1967 with the headline: Carmichael Is Quoted As Saying Negroes Form Guerrilla Bands. The article quoted Carmichael as saying the deadly riots occurring in Detroit and Newark that summer had used the war tactics of guerrillas. On the same day that the New York Times article appeared, Fidel Castro introduced Carmichael at a speech in Santiago, Cuba. Castro referred to Carmichael as a leading American civil rights activist. The two men became friendly, and in the following days Castro personally drove Carmichael around in a jeep, pointing out landmarks related to battles in the Cuban revolution. Carmichaels time in Cuba was widely denounced in the United States. Following the controversial stay in Cuba, Carmichael planned to visit North Vietnam, the enemy of the United States. He boarded a Cuban airlines plane to fly to Spain, but Cuban intelligence called the flight back when it was tipped off that American authorities were planning to intercept Carmichael in Madrid and lift his passport. The Cuban government put Carmichael on a plane to the Soviet Union, and from there he traveled onward to China and eventually to North Vietnam. In Hanoi, he met with the nations leader, Ho Chi Minh. According to some accounts, Ho told Carmichael of when he lived in Harlem and had heard speeches by Marcus Garvey. At a rally in Hanoi, Carmichael spoke out against American involvement in Vietnam, using a chant he had previously used in America: Hell no, we wont go! Back in America, former allies distanced themselves from Carmichaels rhetoric and foreign connections and politicians spoke of charging him with sedition. In the fall of 1967, Carmichael kept traveling, visiting Algeria, Syria, and the African West African nation of Guinea. He began a relationship with the South African singer Miriam Makeba, whom he would eventually marry. At various stops on his travels he would speak out against Americas role in Vietnam, and denounce what he considered American imperialism. When he arrived back in New York, on December 11, 1967, federal agents, along with a crowd of supporters, were waiting to greet him. U.S. marshals confiscated his passport because he had visited communist countries without authorization. Post-American Life In 1968, Carmichael resumed his role as an activist in America. He published a book, Black Power, with a co-author, and he continued to speak out on his political vision. When Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, Carmichael was in Washington, D.C. He spoke publicly in the following days, saying white America had killed King. His rhetoric was denounced in the press, and political figures accused Carmichael of helping to spur on the riots that followed Kings killing. Later that year, Carmichael became affiliated with the Black Panther Party, and appeared with prominent Panthers at events in California. Wherever he went, controversy seemed to follow. Carmichael had married Miriam Makeba, and they made plans to live in Africa. Carmichael and Makeba left the United States in early 1969 (the federal government had returned his passport after he agreed not to visit banned countries). He would settle permanently in Guinea. During his time living in Africa, Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. He claimed to be a revolutionary, and supported a Pan-African movement, the goal of which was to form African nations into a unified political entity. As Kwame Ture, his political moves were generally frustrated. He was criticized at times for being too friendly with Africa dictators, including Idi Amin. Ture would occasionally visit the United States, giving lectures, appearing in various public forums, and even appearing for an interview on C-Span. After years under surveillance, he had become intensely suspicious of the United States government. When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the mid-1990s, he said to friends that the CIA may have made him contract it. Kwame Ture, who Americans remembered as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea on November 15, 1998. Sources Stokely Carmichael. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Gale, 2004, pp. 305-308. Gale Virtual Reference Library.Glickman, Simon, and David G. Oblender. Carmichael, Stokely 1941–1998. Contemporary Black Biography, edited by David G. Oblender, vol. 26, Gale, 2001, pp. 25-28. Gale Virtual Reference Library.Joseph, Peniel E., Stokely: A Life, Basic Civitas, New York City, 2014.

How to Use Attribution Correctly as a Reporter

How to Use Attribution Correctly as a Reporter Attribution simply means telling your readers where the information in your story comes from, as well as who is being quoted. Generally, attribution means using a source’s full name and job title  if thats relevant. Information from sources can be paraphrased or quoted directly, but in both cases, it should be attributed. Attribution Style Keep in mind that on-the-record attribution - meaning a sources full name and job title are given - should be used whenever possible. On-the-record attribution is inherently more credible than any other type of attribution for the simple reason that the ​source has put their name on the line with the information theyve provided. But there are some cases where a  source might not be willing to give full on-the-record attribution. Lets say youre an investigative reporter looking into allegations of corruption in city government. You have a source in the mayors office who is willing to give you information, but hes worried about repercussions if his name is revealed. In that case, you as the reporter would talk to this source about what kind of attribution he is willing to commit to. You are compromising on full on-the-record attribution because the story is worth getting for the public good. Here are some examples of different kinds of attribution. Source – Paraphrase Jeb Jones, a resident of the trailer park, said the sound of the tornado was terrifying. Source – Direct Quote â€Å"It sounded like a giant locomotive train coming through. I’ve never heard anything like it,† said Jeb Jones, who lives in the trailer park. Reporters often use both paraphrases and direct quotes from a source. Direct quotes provide immediacy and a more connected, human element to the story. They tend to draw the reader in. Source – Paraphrase and Quote Jeb Jones, a resident of the trailer park, said the sound of the tornado was terrifying. â€Å"It sounded like a giant locomotive train coming through. I’ve never heard anything like it,† Jones said. (Notice that in Associated Press style,  a source’s full name is used on the first reference, then just the last name on all subsequent references. If your source has a specific title or rank, use the title before his full name on the first reference, then just the last name after that.) When to Attribute Any time the information in your story comes from a source  and not from your own firsthand observations or knowledge, it must be attributed. A good rule of thumb is to attribute once per paragraph if you are telling the story mainly through comments from an interview or eyewitnesses to an event. It might seem repetitive, but it’s important for reporters to be clear about where their information originates. Example: The suspect escaped from the police van on Broad Street, and officers captured him about a block away on Market Street, said Lt. Jim Calvin. Different Types of Attribution In his book News Reporting and Writing,  journalism professor Melvin Mencher outlines four distinct types of attribution: 1. On the record: All statements are directly quotable and attributable, by name and title, to the person making the statement. This is the most valuable type of attribution. Example: The U.S. has no plans to invade Iran, said White House press secretary Jim Smith. 2. On Background: All statements are directly quotable but cant be attributed by name or specific title to the person commenting. Example: The U.S. has no plans to invade Iran, a White House spokesman said. 3. On Deep Background: Anything that is said in the interview is usable but not in a  direct quotation and not for attribution. The  reporter  writes it in his own words.   Example: Invading Iran is not in the cards for the U.S.   4. Off the Record: Information is for the reporters use only and is not to be published. The information also is not to be taken to another source in hopes of getting confirmation.   You probably don’t need to get into all of Mencher’s categories when you’re interviewing a source. But you should clearly establish how the information your source gives you can be attributed.