Agenda Article Reviews Samples For Students

The theory of sustainable development is perhaps the most equivocal factor that has dominated many debates in addition to generating equally varied interpretations from environmentalists. Sustainable development places significant importance on the maintenance of natural resources. For this reason, several values often emerge when defining or during the inclusion of natural resources. Resources come in different types that can be categorized as renewable and non-renewable. While resources are useful for the survival of humans both in supporting life and in meeting people’s needs, the satisfaction of human needs and scarcity of resources has led to several resistances. Such ...

Executive Summary

Talent management in any institution is a key concept that should be totally differentiated from human resource management. This is because proper talent management leads to increased productivity and loyalty among the employees. The article “Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda”, Human Resource Management Review, 19: 4, 304–313” by Collings, D.G. and Mellahi, K. (2009) helps to shed light on the issue of talent management and human resource management.
The following report analyses the views and issues raised by the authors by looking at the validity and reliability of the research methods used by the authors, ...

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In the article A Federal Perspective on Special Education Technology, which was published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities in September, 1996, the authors Jane Hauser and David B. Malouf (1996) provided an overview of the research that was conducted over the past 20 years with regards to the use of technology in special education.
As Congress began to recognize the role that technology could play in the education of persons with disabilities, it started to implement more statutes that aimed to strengthen the use of technology in special education. Part G of the Education ...

Georgia’s Criminal Justice System on Governor’s Agenda

Main idea
The article essentially tackles the featuring of Georgia’s criminal justice system in the new Governor’s budget. Indeed, the author reports that it has been established beyond doubt that the budget of Georgia is shrinking. Amid the tough economic times and the tightening of fiscal policies in the state of Georgia, among the affected departments, is the criminal justice department. The author outlines the fact that the state of Georgia is spending comparatively too much on the justice system. He observes that at least one in every thirteen citizen in Georgia is under some of ...

Invisible Poverty

The central idea of Cohen's article is the debate within researchers and policymakers about the relationship between poverty and culture. Several different views about the roots of poverty are presented in the article. The idea with more weight, supported by several types of research, is that poverty is a consequence of culture.
Poor people are not poor because they are lazy but because they are victims of the culture (4). Within the culture, community values and morality or ethics play a significant role. According to what people within a community interpret, or accept as their cultural norms and value, ...

Economic transformation has led to tremendous change in the role, scale and meaning of major urban airports worldwide. The major gateway airports are attracting spatial concentrations of commercial activities, leading to transport induced growth (aerotropolis). In Australia, airports are becoming major business centers and are being leased off to private companies by the government. The airports are no longer public goods but profit oriented ventures. As a result of development of these airports by these private companies, complications arise which relate to land use, environmental impacts and implications, infrastructural transport and stakeholder relationship. The impacts of airports are a challenge to ...

The article The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy by Gritsch lay the foundation of the fundamental impact that globalization has on the sovereignty of the state. The emergence of an international organization such as the World Bank, European Union, and International Monitory Fund characterize the trajectory of global economies through regional integration. The debate raised in The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy holds the view the relationship between the global economic, through the lens of Marxist theory and the functional theory of international organization, shapes the reduced ability and sovereignty of the state ...

In her article, “‘On the Side of Justice and Peace’: Canada on the League of Nations Council 1927-1930”, Linda Lloyd narrates a page of history, referring to the ascension of Canada on the scene of international politics. The author follows Canada’s endeavor of becoming a constitutive part of the League of Nations Council, deciding upon international social and political aspects, alongside world powers such as England and France, plus other independent states, such as Japan, Germany and Italy. Canada’s intention to participate in the election for the non-permanent seat available in the Council was a difficult and sensitive decision, ...

Analysis of “On Terror,” by Philip E. Devine and Robert J. Rafalko

Introduction

There have been several views on terrorism. However, research on terrorism differs from the standard social science research. As one is dealing with underground organizations, often there is little or incomplete data. Terrorism is like a war in the shadows that creates massive publicity. For the majority of researchers, it can be dangerous to do investigative research in danger zones, and therefore, majority of the research is carried out on the basis of reports released by the government and media news stories. Research on terrorism has more often ...

In the article “Are Syrian opposition fighters ‘former farmers or teachers or pharmacists’?” the author contributed greatly in providing an objective perspective about the reality of the members of the Syrian opposition. Obama’s explanation for the lack of success of the US military actions in Syria was based on the assumption that most members of the opposition are farmers, and professionals such as pharmacists. The author contributed to Obama’s comment that experts in the Syrian conflict have knowledge that a large percentage of the members of the opposition are ex-soldiers from Assad’s group. Only a small number ...

Is Apple Company any better after Steve Jobs Death?

Succession in Apple Company remained a tussle among the interested potential CEOs after the death of Steve Jobs death in 2011 (Chen). The employees of the company were worried and felt hopeless as they thought everything in Apple will change including the nature of the working environment and working conditions. There was a need for a more practical CEO who will streamline everything in Apple to raise its performance. While everyone though that Apple Company was on its ways to the grave with Steve Jobs, things turned out to be a surprise. Tim Cook took up the position and began to make everything ...

Charles E. Lindblom. The Science of “Muddling Through.” 1959.
Thesis: According to Charles, the United States bureaucracy uses bounded rationality and limited policy analysis in formulating regulations. He states that root analysis is a more comprehensive approach for decision-making than branch analysis. Charles, however, argues that policy makers lack the intellectual capacity to accomplish a root analysis, hence the lack of policy developments in organizations. The author states that a rational decision-making approach is not possible and explains why political maneuvering in decision-making was favorable.

“In the United States, for example, no part of government attempts a comprehensive overview of policy” (165)

“Limits on human intellectual capacities and on available information set definite limits to man’s capacity ...

Citation/Reference Information

The journal title, article title, author(s) names, year of publication, volume and issue/number, beginning page and last page, are all important because they will be needed for citations and your reference page.
Energy Policy
Article title
Energy Policies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries – possibilities and limitations of ecological modernization in rentier states
Volume Number: 38 Number: 5
First Page Number: 2395 Last Page Number: 2403
Purpose
Why do you think the author(s) wrote this article? What is its purpose? Does the article present research results? Does it present an ...

News reporting comes in various forms. Some may be in the form of newspaper articles, a television broadcast, or a radio broadcast, among others. Of the three news media, the newspaper offers a more direct and straightforward manner of news reporting, whereas the television and radio broadcasts are presented in a light manner in order to retain the attention of the audience. For newspapers, news are presented using the inverted pyramid style, which means the more important information are already mentioned to engage the reader at the beginning of the article. Thus, if a reader finds the article engaging, the tendency is for the ...

Part I: Using the questions in the Munro article, go through the two pieces of criticism by Greenberg and Rosenberg and write answers for each question posed by Munro.

In Greenberg’s “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” the work being criticized seemed to be art in general, and the struggle between all different types of art to become the dominant art form relative to its period. For the most part, Greenberg discusses avant-garde painting, and how it had and continue to has a purity that elevates itself above most art forms. He claims that there are no greater justifications for depicting nature ...