The book “Six Thinking Hats,” written by Edward DeBono (1999), is a text that presents thinking as a methodical and systematic process that can be controlled. In fact, it should be controlled because the author argues that using several perspectives at once is confusing and lacks efficiency. DeBono assigned each thinking hat a color that represented its characteristics. The white, red, blue, black, yellow, and green hats are presented in the book, and a detailed elaboration on perspectives and insights from each hat are presented to the reader. Personally, I found ...
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INTRODUCTION
The idea of persistent poverty is a pervasive one, and its context in the plantation economy is important to understand if these aspects are to be applied to one’s own concept of the economy. In George Beckford’s 1972 book Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World, he presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the plantation states in the West Indies, while expanding the scope of these appraisals to other third world countries.
The book begins by showcasing the main characteristics of plantation societies, demonstrating the political, economic and social patterns that develop. These ...
In the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Egypt and Qajar Persia embarked on ambitious project to reform their countries. The empires wanted to develop form the Stone Age to the modern ages. This saw the improvement of their arm including their arsenals, the banking systems, decriminalization of homosexuality and the introduction of secular laws. There were major projects introduced all-round the empires including development of infrastructure and the economy in general.
They sought the help of the Europeans as they needed funds to finance their projects. This led the empires to sign treaties and agreements that will ...
Leadership is the main concept in the modern business and private life. It helps to distinguish successful managers and those who needs to learn more in order to become effective. Today there are many experts in the leadership sphere. However, John Maxwell is the most experienced writer and teacher on the subject of leadership. He has lots of writings and books in which he presents wealthy information on how to become a leader and how to improve the existing personal leadership qualities. Maxwell’s leadership book series cover different issues including attitude, equipping, relationships and leadership.
Leadership 101 is ...
Business Culture Inside and Out
Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what ...
Organizational Leadership and Management
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The book “Who moved my cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, despite its international fame and common recognition, appears to be quite humble and simple. An average reader can cover all 96 pages of this book within an hour. Nevertheless this is one of the most prominent works about transformational leadership and delivers the intended message in the most popular and understandable form. The extended title “An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life” summarizes the main topic - the change, the context – professional and personal activities as well ...
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson and The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson are two books that use symbolic stories to talk educate on interpersonal relationships and organizational and management skills.
The One Minute Manger mirrors the experience of a young man who desires to learn as much as he can about being an effective manager. In his search for effective managerial skills, the young man hears of a manager in a nearby town who has a credible reputation of being very effective and who is admired by many. When the young arranges a ...
Gatsby is distressed and worried at the fact that it’s impossible to win back the heart of Daisy. He is hit hard by disillusionment because of the strong attachment towards her former girlfriend. Gatsby is incapable of living in the present. He loves Daisy because of the emotions developed in the past and very obsessed of reconciling back with her. Because of the love, Gatsby reaches a point of purchasing a home that resided on the same lake with that of Daisy so that they could meet and talk again. At the present, Daisy had transformed afresh since ...
The book begins with an opening on Bill Gates as a child. He states his apparent love for computers because they did everything that he asked them to albeit with a slow pace. He identifies this as the most interesting aspect of computers because even to this day, years later, the programs he creates perfectly work under instruction. The growth of computers from when Gates was a thirteen-year-old has been tremendous (Domonkos, Donald, Bill, Nathan and Peter, 6). The machines developed in a way that they could communicate with each other through the internet, which is the ticket to ...
Book review
Abstract
The rise of the use of information systems has been an issue of concern and has attracted much attention by many business entities. The development of competitive advantage has been enhanced and developed with the use of information systems. Many organizations have adopted the use of information systems and enhanced the undertaking of business processes. In this paper, a review of information systems in the business context will be looked and assessed. The paper will focus on the content that the authors have focused and done research about. It will help to bring the issues that are of ...
What special insights did I gain from the readings?
Leadership is a skill that is developed through judicious application of power. I learned from Sharer that a leader goes through a lot of personal and corporate disappointments before making it. Effective use of power yields organizational success. I now understand that leadership is simply the effective utilization of various types of power to influence peers, subordinates and superiors towards a desired and noble ideal. Finally, visions and values give a human face to leadership.
Personal reflections
I know people are generally resistant to change. Now I understand that the panacea lies in the ability to influence and persuade fellow employees ...
Assignment Questions
Question one
According to Moyo, there are three categories of aid namely, charity-based aid, emergency or humanitarian aid and systematic aid. The author focuses on the systematic aid, which is the sum, total of grants and concessional loans that is given by the donor country to the recipient country (Moyo, 2009). It is a loan from the government of a developed country to the government of the developing country or from international financial institutions such as World Bank and IMF to the government of the developing countries. This type of aid is the most damaging and it is has ...
Southern Baptists and Southern Presbyterians maintained separate denominations as per the book by David Chappell. The religious forebears of the Baptists and Presbyterians broke up and formed the northern and southern spheres. David Chappell argues in his book that slavery was the reason for breaking the churches. This book, “a stone of hope” claims that further propaganda about religious discrimination lead to the civil rights movement. Religion played a major role in describing the blacks and quotes state that the poor in the Bible really fought the rich just as the poor in the civil movement. Those who were ...
In Book I, Marcus Aurelius describes skills and character traits he has learned from his family and friends. Book I makes an impression that Marcus Aurelius was a young man who was eager to learn new things and develop his personality.
It seems that his family was rather strong and his family gave Marcus Aurelius a lot of care and support. Also, Book I makes an impression that Marcus Aurelius had many friends and teachers who played a significant role in his personal development.
The general argument of the author is that family and friends were the ones who ...
Book Review of “Is China Buying the World”
As China grows to become the world’s largest economy, catching up with even the United States in the coming decade, it is important to understand the strategic growth objectives of the Chinese economy. Several authors have written books and research papers on the Asian Tiger, and the country is setting the pace of its economic growth. From becoming the manufacturing hub of the world at the end of the last millennium, China is now looking to expand its presence beyond its shores (Mitter, 2008). In the last decade, Chinese companies have begun acquiring companies and assets such as ...
Confessions of an economic hit man is Perkins’ account of his employment with the consulting firm Maine and how as an economic hit man he was instrumental in convincing less developed countries to take loans that they cannot pay from international financial institutions. His book has thirty five chapters and the summary consists of ten parts with three or more chapters in each part.
Chapter 1-3 –Summary
The first three chapters deal with Perkin’s birth, upbringing and his induction into Main. Perkins joins the Peace Corps because he does not want to join the army and is happy living among the ...
In the following book, the author considers the factors that contribute to the success of the city, as well as explores factors that can lead to its decay. The book examines how cities became one of the most influential forces of the modern world. The author calls the cities “our species` greatest invention” (p.36) and points out that the main factors that contributed to this invention are proximity and density. Proximity, or closeness of space, makes people who live in the city more resourceful and creative. Also, proximity is linked with the high level of productivity giving rise to ...
The critical review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”
Introduction
The need to create wealth is consuming humanity with the passage of time. The Wall Street is sharing a psyche of too much risk taking. The work calls the behavior of investors as casino mentality that causes adrenaline levels to increase in humans, and they receive direct dosage of the chemical straight to the heart. The investors experience addiction of the natural stimulant. The capitalism is based on the need to create social divides in the society. The social divides are created out of the economic inequality in the community. Human development does not occur because all of ...
Section 1: What is the something else that DeSoto argues is necessary for a capitalist economy to produce wealth? Choose and explain one example or counter example used by DeSoto to make his case.
The developed capitalist economies have the wealth to produce more financial resources for the investors. The individuals in the developed countries have houses, lands, and many other assets depending on those they can produce financial resources through the developed financial markets to make relatively more and more investments. Consequently, according to DeSoto, the capital is the most influential factor to be relatively more competitive in ...
In the book “The end of poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time” Jeffrey Sachs explains the yawning gap between the rich world and the poor and what can be done to improve that dreadful situation.
First idea depicts the greatest tragedy of our time – poverty and its dimensions, in which the one-sixth of humanity lives. As the author says, these countries are not even on the development ladder. The comparison of the poverty situation in Malawi, Bangladesh and India makes clear that the world community has so far displayed just too little action. Professor Sachs stresses that globalization under ...
Part One
In the world we live in there are changes in life that occur to us each and every day. Some of these changes are positive while some are meant to bring obstacles in life and make it seem even harder. Change in itself is inevitable in relation to human life. The book captures how life changes from worst to better or better to worse at some instances. Individuals are more afraid of change for the fear of unknown. People don’t seem to adapt easily to changes that occur in their lives and hence sometimes remain conservative. At a ...
Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation
Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation
The steady yet slow growth of the New Hope Church in America is an indication of commitment by the Korean-Americans to support the ministry's programs and cooperate in worship and fellowship. However, some negative notions imported from the Korean culture affect the success of the ministry's programs especially urban centers of America. Such notions such as the lack of sensitivity to community service are inherited by the new generation of believers from their elders. In the book “QBQ; the question behind the question” John Miller explains that a leader is responsible for ...
Introduction
In every country, literature is a sort of mirror that reflects all changes in society. The Shanghai Express by Zhang Henshui is a good example of Chinese literature and helps us to understand the nature of Chinese modernization. This social and psychological portrait of modern China pays special attention to the issues of gender, class, and modernization.
Modern and traditional China
Each country that has a period of modernization, experiences the same problem of the conflict between traditions and modern patterns. China's response to European model of modernization produced turmoil and chaos. China demonstrated the specificity of its national spirit and responded with ...
Leading change by John Kotter provides a couple of processes that organizations can use to achieve the set goals. Apart from organizations, these processes can also be used by individuals; whether they are leaders or not. More to it, the author has also outlined where and how the top performers fail during the process of changing. He has also provided practical resources for individuals that are charged with the responsibilities of ensuring the needed change is pursued. To avoid failure and disappointment when effecting changes the author has provided a number of steps that are effective. According to Jung ( ...
- Account for why and when the author decided to do the work and what he encountered while doing the research. What are your thoughts about the historian's work?
Stephen Oates is specifically noted for his craftsmanship as he tries to redefine the way history and its events are penned down into writing. Practically, in the book The Fires of Jubilee, Oates tries to take note of the fact that the hero of the event that occurred, in the being of Nat Turner, would particularly get the spotlight he deserves. The author of the book knew what needed to ...
Analysis of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
When reading about human history, there are patterns surrounding certain parts of the world, while other places don’t fit into these patterns; hunters and gatherers became farmers, spoken words became written language, villages became cities, etc. Most history books published in past decades contain a perspective that focuses on Europe when talking about the development of human societies. In the very same history books, it becomes obvious that the people of Europe and Asia were some of the first in the development of technology and their economy, but sometimes they were invaders and attacked others. This makes a ...
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Winston Churchill once said: History is written by the victors. This clearly means that most history books are filled with what those in power wish to and deem worthy of recording. A History of Wales written by John Davies is not just any other history book. True, it consists of facts and figures and dates pertaining to the history of Wales. However, the book delves into the roots of the country and all that it went through to reach where it stands today. John Davies provides a closer look into the issues that plagued Wale since the pre ...
Things fall Apart is novel written by a Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe paints a picture of pre-colonial Africa to the people who had no direct information on traditional African societies. This novel highlights the clash between the Nigerian traditional culture and colonialism. In the novel, there are a number of themes and background but the major themes in the novel are struggle between change and traditions whereby there is the Igbo culture and civilization and the expansion of the Europeans into Africa as from the 1880s.
Chinua Achebe through his book Things Fall Apart portrays the clash ...
Graham Greene’s The Confidential Agent (1939)
1. What sense do we get on how D’s character is changing as he remorselessly pursues K. and the manageress in part 2, chapter 1?
D’s character change can be analyzed and evaluated from different perspectives. While pursuing Mr. K, there is a change of heart and tact in the manner in which D perceives the events that culminate into the tracking of individuals whom are seen as offenders. D becomes aggressive to a greater extent in the sense that he quickly traces the people whom he thinks are the ...
Daniel A. Hughes, a leading figure in Attachment Therapy, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in attachment, child neglect, abuse and foster care. He assists therapists, family service programs, parents and social managers who need help treating attachment disorder in children (Hughes, 2000), work for which he has become globally acclaimed.
“Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children” (2006) is a detailed account of the meaning behind being a child damaged by systematic abuse and trauma. The book uses the story format to translate the affective charge of various principled techniques of caring for and ...
Every review of different types of books becomes unique, as the impressions from the book vary depending on cultural, ethical and different other types of tastes. The book, which is going to be reviewed in several paragraphs lower, is the non-fictional historic book by Bernard Lewis under the name “The Emergence of Modern Turkey”. It was published in 1960 in London, for the first time, with the copyrights of Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1961; however, the paper is going to review the second edition of the book, which was published in London, on May 1967; therefore, it ...
The period 1868-1912 is known as the Meiji era. In Japanese, Maiji means ‘the enlightened rule’ Japan developed from a medieval society to a leading economic and military power in Asia. Substantial changes were made in July 1853 when Commodore Matthew Perry ordered Japan to open its ports in order to accommodate American shipping needs. A new form of government was instituted and their new theme reflected in the phrase “fukoku kyohei” (“rich country, strong military”). The three novels written by Soseki Natsume, Japanese author juxtapose with the major themes in most of his novels. In his works he ...
The theme of the book starts with the research on moviegoers and their eating habits. Author tries to bring the attention of readers with the help of actual research has been done and on the basis of rationality. This rational approach helps reader to understand the problem in a better way. As title suggests that book is about brining change in life which is not easy but few simple steps can help it in bringing change easily. In this book author emphasized on bringing change when it is hard to change as the entire problem is in the mind ...
Pharmaceutical companies are currently discouraging and barring access to generic drugs in the marketplace. The most affected are the big pharmaceutical companies as they all oppose the issue of marketing the generic drugs. They raise this issue because they have the ability to control the market place.
The big pharmaceutical companies in the United States are capable of producing popular drugs in the market place. These drugs have long term manifest of the business offering them exclusive privileges to sell and market their drugs. They are even privileged to hold the business for more than twenty years. Similarly, the ...
Alexis de Tocqueville is regarded amongst the first thinkers of the 19th century that challenged the existing historical account about the founding of America. The prevailing account claimed that Americans’ regime and politics were, as a result of a revolutionary war but ended with the ratification of the Constitution. During that account, Tocqueville had paid a visit to the United States in 1831. At the same time, the citizens celebrated the” founding fathers” since they believed they contributed towards the development of the Americans’ culture and way of life. To illustrate this point, Timothy Pitkin said, “a more intimate ...
Beth, Mary. "It takes a garden: Cultivating Citizen-subjects in organized garden projects." Geoforum 2008.39 (2006): 1228-1240. Print.
Summary
There have been increases on institutional based activities in the neoliberal state, as well as increased consequences of neo-liberalism since 1980s. Schools, hospitals, jails, hospitals, as well as clinical settings have the populations at most risk. This article hides its meaning over the connotative term known as community garden, and it acts as a link between the history of garden projects with advances concerning the supposedly transformative power of gardening practice for individual change, as well as social transformation. The article ...
Lars Eighner talks about his life as a street boy and evokes emotions in people who value life and those who do not like the life of a street child. He refers to his experiences as a dumpster scavenger who looks for food in the dumpsters throughout the day to find his fortune. Throughout the autobiographical narration, the author draws readers’ emotions through many ways, which describe the trouble he underwent in his life as a dumpster. Throughout the writing, the author moves with readers’ emotions in a cyclical manner (Eighner 254). At some point, he appeals to people’ ...
Introduction
Engineering systems is an engineering concept that is of great importance to the engineers and non-engineers. This is a way on which systems are developed for some purpose is one of the reasons for the development of this component of engineering discipline. This paper will focus on a summary of the book “Engineering systems: Meeting human needs in a complex technological world” by Weck, Roos, and Magee (2011).
Chapter 1
The first chapter talks about the history of engineering and the various inventions that have been done in the world concerning engineering. The chapter focuses in the way human inventions have ...
The elegant book written by De Weck and his co-authors suggest that, in today’s complex world, people must conform to the technology and engineering artifacts through adoption of macro engineering systems. Through their extensive study, they identify that this intersecting macro-engineering systems compost of the management, engineering, and social sciences. They consider the technology framework to comprise of future needs, societal consequences and evolution of the systems. The book denotes that the engineering system posses the capacity to promote that development of new approaches to design, manage and analyze these systems. This comprehensive book uses several historical records, ...
Free Book Review About A Music Education Proposal To Improve Students Retention In Elementary School
Music education plays an important role in the retention of elementary school students. This is by improving the progression of students’ retention in the elementary schools and states the ways and factors of retaining a student in elementary school.
Music education improves students’ retention in many ways which are included in this book. Some of these factors are the reading performance, effectiveness of the administration and promotion.
One of the important factors improving student retention in elementary school is the student’s performance level for reading. According to this book, this will be done through class work, observation, tests ...
Book Review
This is the most famous chapter in the book of Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, socialism, and Democracy. Can Capitalism Survive Is the book that introduces the theory of creative destruction of Joseph A. Schumpeter’s. The theory states that, in capitalist economies, the current established firms that provide unforeseen avenues of the growth of economy (Schumpeter 122) erode the innovations. The capitalist societies are the perennial gales of destruction that will wipe the fortunes away. The writer in details has discussed the economic landscape of capitalism; Schumpeter further argued that the technological innovation is the cause of the business ...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz surely knows a thing or two about International Economics. The Nobel Laureate Columbia University Economics Profe.ssor, who served from 1995 to 1997 under US President Bill Clinton as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and then from 1997 to 2000 as the Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, debates in detail, the effect that globalization has had on the world.
Globalization, as a process, is the coming together of countries. It all but eliminates the needs for boundaries, making countries interconnected. The resulting effects are increased trade, better communication, ...
Summary and Critique of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The book Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson try to convey the incentives motivating individuals and the regulations influencing a nation’s economy and its possible outcomes. The result is an extremely valuable work providing loads of information based on chronology and geography and consists of highly appealing historical accounts involving the political and economic environment.
Drifting apart: chapter summary
This is one of the important chapters which traces the type of institutional drift, the evolution and significant junctures either away or towards inclusive institutions. The chapter tries to inform that most ...
Book Review: Culture Making – Recovering Our Creative Calling
Andy Crouch, the author of Culture Making, is a longtime theologist and Christian culture writer, having spend more than 15 years in the field. Crouch studied classics at Cornell University, and received a Master’s in Divinity summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. From 1998 to 2003, Andy edited re:generation quarterly, which was a magazine dedicated to Christian cultural creativity, and spent a decade at Harvard University as a campus minister for the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In 2012, Andy Crouch was named the new executive editor for Christianity Today magazine, having already executive produced their This ...
Introduction
This is a very innovative scholarly monograph that links the book Earthquake Nation by Gregory Clancey’s and an analysis of how technology was transferred in Meiji Japan from mid-nineteenth century to the present. Most studies on technological development in Japan focus on the technical and economic aspects of the issues. David Wittner’s book however is different in that it adds political and ideological factors in Meiji government’s work in selection of industrial technologies between 1870s and 1880s. Winter sets out his objectives in the introduction of his book and in the subsequent chapters contributes to each ...
An industrialist, a trend setter, entrepreneur, all these define one personality- Henry Ford. Starting off with a single car manufacturing, he went on to develop a completely new concept that would become world famous pattern of manufacturing in the longer run. He also had a trace of philanthropic element in him and aimed at improving the working conditions and overall life style of the workers involved in different industrial processes.
Henry Ford was born in the year 1863 in Michigan. His family had a descendance of farming and agricultural background. His personal inclinations did not show compatibility with the ...
“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and ...
Introduction
The book by Charles C. Mann is a non-fiction book based on pre-Columbian America. In his book, Mann argues that a cocktail of recent findings from different of research implies that there were numerous populations in the western hemisphere. He also argues that the indigenous people in the Americas were more culturally sophisticated, shaped and controlled the natural landscape and came earlier than the scholars indicated. This critical review evaluates Mann’s book with regard to his arguments and the evidence he presents to back them up in the four sections of the book. These sections include the Holmberg’ ...
Executive Summary
Pettis observes the trade imbalance in the countries' balance of payments. Some developed countries have a large amount of debt because they import much more than they export while some other developed countries have large surpluses in their balance of payments. This trade imbalance in the balance of payments is not sustainable according to him. While China continues to make massive investments by using the advantage of cheap labor in the country and Japan continues fighting against stagnation, U.S. and Europe has important problems of producing and growing. In a world like that all the countries are facing structural ...
Compiled by Silberman together with his colleague Freda Hansburg, “PeopleSmart” is undoubtedly a useful tool for learning that should be adopted for operational managers as well as corporate executives. It is an easy book to understand that is well organized and user friendly. PeopleSmart is a book with the potential of transforming the work environment particularly due to its practicality. For people interested in sharpening their interpersonal skills and individual growth, the inspirational book is a sure guide for success.
The main aim of the book is to encourage its readers to be socially astute through attempting to mould ...
Book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson – Book review, Literary and Psychological Analysis, Reflections on reading the book
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Abstract
This paper will present you with the book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson. The review will focus on the analysis of its context in literary and psychological terms, its contribution to the field of psychology as well as on the reflections deriving from its reading. A short presentation of the book’s structure will be given providing you with a highlight of the basic elements of each chapter. Emphasis will be given on the psychological theory developed in this book on behalf of Erik Erikson, a widely acknowledged psychologist and psychoanalyst who ...
In chapter eight of his book, Kaplan portrays the United States as the most powerful country so it must lead the effort to fight against the global warming or else, the country may suffer from the blames that may put upon it. He also portrayed that Bangladesh, as a third world country, showed how they acquired a powerful political dimension regarding with climate change. He argues that the future of American power not only depends on number of warships and military strengths, but it is related to how the country communicates with Bangladesh and other third world countries about ...
Introduction
Organizations are being forced to change rapidly in order to survive today’s technological world. Due to globalization, computerization and advanced communication, these changes are expected and must be acknowledged as the new norm. Today’s world requires managers to understand, accommodate and use change as part of their jobs. If the reality of change is resisted, conflicts are bound to arise leading to job dissatisfaction, reduced performance, and reduced morale. Dan Cohen and John Kotter in their book, the heart of change, interviewed several successful leaders in order to discover what contributes to successful change. According to these ...
Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines
Failure at Workplace: Designing and Applying Public Relations
I work a business which requires a very well developed public relations. Our company provides consultancy service to small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). The most important problem that many SMEs have is the quality of their stuff. Mostly, high school graduates are assigned as managers in the SMEs and it makes it harder for our company to explain things to them because they do not have any technical skills at the beginning. We may need to help them in many fields from legal issues to some technical issues in finance. ...
Various principals surround the financial transactions of the Islamic finance. In the Islamic finance, the purpose of financing should not involve an activity that is against the Islamic law. The financing is not supposed to receive or give interest (riba) as well as risk which is known as gharar in Islamic. However, Islamic finance is very relevant to society because it promotes the sharing of risk and reward between contracting persons. The investor always goes for projects that has a high degree of risk and reward sharing because they are for profitable. In order to achieve all these principals, ...
Summer C 2013
Dr. George Shepeard
Short Answer Questions (2 points each )
- List 6 common myths about male sexuality as highlighted in your text.
Men have a fertility cycle, erecticle dysfunction only occurs in older men, this penis is a muscle the average western penis is larger, sexual peak is at age 18, certain foods may increase the libido
2. Describe the difference between a sexual problem and a sexual disorder as identified in the text.
A sexual problem is a problem that occurs during sex. A sexual disorder involves acts or behaviors that can be described as deviant.
3. List ...
Introduction
For many years, more advanced people in the world have always treated the inferior members of the society with spite. The advanced people in the world will often feel that they are of more value to the world than their inferior counterparts. This was very particular in the early years of the American nation. The European colonialists often treated the natives, particularly the native Indians with a lot of unfairness. This indeed shows the backwardness of the society. However, Father Paul le Jeune “Encounter with the Indians” presents a new picture of how cultural and society development enables people ...
Chapter 1: Learning Objectives
- Define development, focusing on three elements of its scientific study.
Development is the scientific study of people’s lifespan changes, that is, from conception (womb) to death (tomb). It focuses on the systematic changes that occur over time among all individuals, and which explain continuities and discontinuities in life.
- List and describe the basic steps of the scientific method.
- Posing of the problem is done based on prior research, theory or observation.
- Formulating of a hypothesis refers to an educated prediction, which can be verified or tested.
- Testing of the hypothesis requires a research ...
Women in Horror Films of Vincent Price
Many of the horror evaluation texts by Jonathan Malcolm depict women as the victims rather than the causes of the horrific events in the films. Women in horror films of Vincent Price present one of the stories where the women face various horrific encounters; however, they cause few of the incidents that they fall victim. Jonathan Malcolm clearly indicates that the women in most of the horror films watch horrific scenes as they appear in their lives, but they have little they can do concerning the events (Mulac 92). At the same time, the horror scenes must restrict to ...
The massive immigration into the United States is attributed to the oppression that the colonial administration was perpetrating in Ireland. It is pertinent to note that their love for handwork was never diminished by the actions of the oppressors. On arrival in U.S, the Irish engaged in agricultural activities. They had enormous skills acquired during the process of commercialization of agriculture in Ireland. The Irish had also endured multiple hardships in their home country and were used to the aspect of resource optimization. It is evident that in their motherland adequate agricultural land was a contentious issue. However, in ...