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             Media, these days, has become so advanced that there is no sense of age related constrictions on content shown on television. TV shows and programs need advertisements to run. When the intended audience is children, the issue of linkage between mental frailty of children and the sensitivity of content being shown arises. Children’s minds are too frail and naïve to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy content shown in the advertisements. The focus of this article is on that advertising should be banned on television programs targeted for children under age 10 .             Advertisements are to be blamed in mutating the minds of youngsters from purity to incorruptibility. Today, kids are learning about their society through media, and due to the adult content shown in advertisements, like sex and violence, they are adopting that specific kind of perception, and are beginning to...

Animal Cruelty             Animal Cruelty, which still prevails in our sophisticated society, is definitely a very serious issue of the present world. There exist multiple reasons for animal abuse or cruelty. Some of these include animal experimentation, factory farming, fur trading, hunting and use of animals for entertainment (Rockett). Some cruelty acts are termed as active cruelty in which a person deliberately hurts an animal. This is the most intense degree of animal cruelty which needs to be taken seriously at the governmental level. Other acts are passive acts in which animals are left ignored due to the very absence of proper care which may harm the animal seriously, such as, starving the animal. Here, we will discuss an active act of cruelty- abuse with dairy cows in factory farming.             For a dairy cow to be able to produce milk, she must give birth frequ...

Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Estimates Project estimates play a vital role in knowing whether a project would be completed in time considering the available time and resources or there would be some hurdles in timely completion of the project. Now, there are two main approaches that project managers use for accurate project estimation, which are top-down and bottom-up project estimate approaches. Let us compare the two approaches in some detail. In bottom-up estimating, detailed estimates of all tasks included in a project is done, whereas in case of top-down estimates, the duration of major project deliverables is calculated. Bottom-up approach is considered more accurate than the top-down approach. However, project managers need to define all project deliverables first in order for accurate estimation of the deliverables (Six, 2015). Top-down estimates require some overall results or those from some prior similar project to fill in the required fields for the current project. On the...