Col Course Works Samples For Students

This study provides a critical analysis on the changing notion of comfort standards in building systems through a critique of Cole, Robinson, Brown and O’Shea’s (2008) “Re-Contextualizing the Notion of Comfort”. Diverse climate conditions across several locations around the world highly characterize standards of comfort met through the construction of residential and commercial buildings, thus the understanding that people derive comfort based on the normal weather conditions in their respective locales. Various standards for buildings –where people use spaces for habitation or work, ensure comfortable living in accordance to distinct climate conditions. Climate change, in this case, ...

Advertisements in the 21st century are everywhere, whether on magazines, TV or even radio. Undeniably, it targets the audience who the advertisement has been designed for. Coca Cola remain as one of the best-known brands of soft drinks worldwide as it enjoys a wider market for its growing consumers. More so, Coca Cola marketing team believe in unique advertisements that are available both in electronic or print with their ads and commercials being assimilated with its consumers, as they remain exemplary humorous and entertaining to ensure it attracts more consumers of Coca Cola products. As a result, majority of the people ...

Coca Cola Company is a multinational American beverage company that specializes in production and retailing of non alcoholic drinks as well as syrup. The company has established a bland name from the well known logo “coca cola” coined together by John Smith Pemberton a pharmacist in 1886.
The mother company is located in Atlanta Georgia in USA. Currently, Coca Cola holds more that five hundred different brands in the market. Being a multi national company, it has many branches world wide. Its operations are defined by franchised distribution where the company produces the coca cola syrup which is then sold to bottlers’ ...

According to the first respondent, Cold War was the persisting state of dispute, confusions and threats. It took place between the end of World War two in the year 1945 and the beginning of fall of Berlin Wall in the year 1989. It involved the Soviet Union, the United States and their respective alliance. Several nations joined together to fight their common enemy. It majorly involved the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets, threatening, communism, propagandas, and competition in technology and space races. Technology competition was based on developing massive conventional and nuclear arms (James, ...

Al Capone strikes fear in the hearts of citizens as his reign of terror continues in the Chicago area. This Brooklyn, New York native began his life of crime at a young age, earning him the nickname Scarface (Messick & Goldblatt, 1972). As an original member of The Five Points Gang, his connections with crime boss, Jim Colosimo offered him to opportunity to learn the trade under Colosimo’s tutelage (Whitehead, 1956). Upon Colosimo’s death, Capone was groomed to take the position.

The prohibition allowed for many opportunities for Capone to continue to profit off of illegal alcohol sales ...

Economists have proved that capital and labor are not sufficient of themselves to stimulate growth in an economy. In fact, many experts now believe that the vital determining factor in economic growth is knowledge. It is generally presumed that larger firms have an advantage when it comes to producing and capitalizing upon knowledge. Large businesses are in a better position than most businesses in terms for paying for R&D, human capital and patenting inventions. However, although the factors of capital and unskilled labor are sources of competitive advantage in an economy characterized by large scale production, an entrepreneurial economy ...

- Limitations of the use of police force. The procedure in the use of police force.
- Advantages of using police force.
- Enables the police carry out their duties effectively.
- Scare criminals from engaging in criminal activities.
- They can deal with criminals with sophisticated weapons.
- Disadvantages of using police force.
- Police have misused the use of force.
- Has increased discrimination in relation to race and sex.
- Damaged relationship between the police and the public.
- Conclusion.
- The police force should be ...

Product

Pepsi Light is a PepsiCo ltd product that is among many of the company’s product. The product is an alcohol free beverage that is sold in stores, restaurants and other places. Pepsi Cola is a global product that received high sales and great market share due to the brand name which has existed for years. Pepsi light is associated with sports and mostly targeted to the youths between in different parts of the world. Pepsi light operates under the brand name of Pepsi. Pepsi Company uses the brand strategy for their branding strategy and their products also. However, Pepsi Light ...

Kenneth Cole is well knows not only for his successful business but also for his numerous social advertisements. Among these is the advertisement titled “Wake up call” which came out on the break of the century. This is truly a work of modern art that not only effectively uses marketing strategies, but also makes one think and ponder over the idea portrayed. This advertisement is especially successful because it is depicted on an everyday object; uses play of words and at the same times gives clear facts about the situation at hand.

You can no longer surprise anyone with a ...

The concepts of leadership that involves responsibility, power, and empowerment are normally related, but it is essential to begin with a basic definition of each. According to Cole (2004), empowerment relates to the use of an approach where personnel or employees are given a chance to portray their ability to make decisions that affect the running of an organization. Further, this concept of empowerment provides a sense of authority to the employees exercising it. Cole (2004) defines power as the capacity to be able to cause change by having a form of unaltered control over others. Responsibility, according to Cole (2004), relates to ...

Executive Summary

The strategic plan of Pepsi aims at establishing a clear vision and defined goals of how to maintain market leadership of Pepsi and how it has been able to be the best employer in the recent past. Pepsi Co majority of the times had a dominant position in the market, however, at the same time, it has also faced intense competition from its rival, Coca- Cola. The one type of change that it has experience in the last five years is its Diversity Inclusion Project which is now being led by CEO, Indra Nooyi, who has also been a major transformation in ...

The concept of Strategic Human Resource Management has attracted a lot of attention from scholars and practitioners since it came to the surface in the mid 1980s. Strategic Human Resource Management has replaced the word “Personnel Management” in the field of Human Resource. Moreover, scholars agree that Human Resource Management is the right approach to managing people at the work place since it meets the requirement of what happens in the highly competitive market structure. Strategic Human Resource Management adds value and profits to companies while making managing fun and exciting since it challenges workers to think for themselves ( ...

History Questions

1. Do you think that America’s fear of a communist takeover in the 1960s was valid?

The fear of communism appeared to take on an almost personified form in the 1960s. America and, indeed, the rest of the west, were terrified of a communist takeover, in much the same way that the fear of the H1N1 virus spread across the world a couple of years ago. It was as if the Americans believed that they could ‘catch’ communism like they could a cold. Their fears were not completely unfounded by their ignorance seems to suggest a lack of real understanding of what communism ...

The National Beverage Corporation’s website, www.nationalbeverage.com opens with a repeating slideshow of people of different races, ages and demographics drinking, and enjoying, a combination of beverages, bottled water and soft drinks. The message over a drum loop is “Get a taste of our flavors!”
Clicking continue takes you away from the opening slideshow and to the main page of the website. The website employs a sparse design that begins with an overview under the heading “A Formula. A Philosophy. A Tradition.” The paragraph below goes on to explain how “we” strives to be the best in everything that ...

1. Discuss the reality and significance of the Civil War in U.S. history. What were the factors that led to the outbreak of war? What were the long-term consequences of the conflict? Discuss Lincoln s role. What did emancipation mean to both sides in the war?

The reality of the US Civil War lies with the then economic and social differences between the Northern and Southern parts of the US, where Northern Federal states, grew industrialized, welcoming new cultures, while the Southern confederate states maintained an antiquated social order, and agriculture, utilizing the slaves in their farms. These socio ...

Overview of Diet Coke Plus

Diet Coke Plus was reportedly an extension in the Diet Coke product which aimed to address controversial ingredients in Diet Coke through the infusion of vitamins and minerals. As revealed, it was introduced in 2007 and allegedly targeted health conscious consumers who were acknowledged weight watchers and overly zealous in nutritional contents of their beverages. The ‘Plus’ extension to the brand name was emphasized to include: “15 percent of the recommended dietary allowance (according to the US Department of Agriculture) of niacin, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12, and 10 percent of the allowance for zinc and magnesium” ( ...

Current Situation of Pepsi Light

Pepsi Light is a product that has received great regard in the market globally mostly due to the fact that it mostly associated with sports and that it contains less calories compared to the normal average drink. PepsiCo is a well recognized company worldwide that a lot of people want to be associated with and this has made it easier for the company to introduce new products in the market and maintain the existing ones since the brand name is well established. Pepsi Light was well received in the market and currently it has reached the maturity stage. The product has enabled ...

There is enough evidence to support these attributes as explained by Michael Porter.

Switzerland was for instance the first country that started to expense labor shortages. On realizing that the production of watches was adversely affected by labor unrests, Switzerland opted to concentrate on highly innovative and very high-end watches that were not labor intensive and thus gained comparative advantage over the others
Despite having very high priced land, Japan still manages to be a global leader even with little capacity to hold stock. Japan has therefore invented the Just In time inventory system that ensures that stock is only available when its needed. This has propelled the country to global leadership ...

Summary

This poem has to do with the ways that anger and resentment can end up harming us not just as individuals but as a society. Six people sit around a fire, each with a piece of wood that could keep the fire burning. However, they look across the fire at one another, and several different areas of difference bubble up between them, and so they sit and wait. The first person is a woman who looks across and sees a black man sitting across from her. The prejudice she feels keeps her from putting her wood into the fire. Then, a person sees someone not ...

1. The term Share cropping refers to an agricultural system of sharing the land between landlord and tenant wherein landlord permits tenant or a farmer to use his land in lieu of a certain percentage of the crop production on the shared land. This system was widely practiced during the era of civil war in America and the main reason of this system was abolition of slavery in southern parts of America. Once slavery was eliminated, it became difficult for landlords to continue the cotton plantation. They had huge amount of land but the laborers were not available to work in ...

Legal –Based Ethical Dilemma

Whenever a person is faced with an ethical dilemma, the solution is to weigh the different options and their impacts and settle for the best. According to experts, ethical dilemmas in the work places are bound to happen at any given time (Robinson, 2003). However, the biggest problem is that, in most cases, the decisions that are taken are not always the best for all persons. In some cases, criminals have been left to go scot-free even after killing people in cold blood. Although these are cases that are witnessed in real life, there are no exceptions in some films ...

World War I and World War II were a global conflict that left scores of people dead across the world. The First World War occurred between the years 1914-1918. World War II broke two decades later which started in the year 1939-1940. The second war had more devastating results than the first one. The world became politically and economically unstable. The war took more lives and destroyed property and land. The years that immediately followed World War I and World War II was a time of both expansion and contraction of individual freedom. This contradiction played out in the lives of ...

Introduction

The Florida area is renowned for its attractive and unique coral reef. The coral reef system that exists in this area serves as the natural habitat to many reef-dwelling species. Some of the well-known species are the Gag Grouper, which are considered very important to the fishermen. However, in the past 40 years, there has been a significant decrease in the coral reef cover in South Florida. It is estimated that over half of the native Oculina Varicosa coral that exists off the Florida coast has been ruined since the early 70’s, and there is very little evidence to ...

Introduction

Wind engineering is a significant component in civil engineering. This is because winds can have devastating effects on different manmade and natural structures. Windstorms produce large amounts of damage every year (Holmes, 2007). Weather conditions such as thunderstorms generate local winds, whereas hurricanes and typhoons may generate very strong winds. Designing of buildings and structure takes into account the dead load of the structure plus the imposed load. However, in including a factor of safety for the structures the engineers have to factor in the wind load.

Types of Windstorms

Gales from Large depressions
These are strong winds generated in mid latitudes between 40 and ...

The European Union did not begin, as many seem to think, as a diplomatic coalition of European states. Instead, the formation of the European Union was a practical financial decision, born from the changing face of the world after the end of the Cold War (Majone). The European Union is home to a wide variety of different people with different cultures; the purpose of the formation of the Union was not to homogenize the continent, but to form a coalition of independent states that worked together to counterbalance American economic and financial power, as well as the rising economic power of China (Dinan).

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Introduction

People have different perceptions and understandings on the concept of consumption, but it take a lot of considerations and concern for one to get the ideal meaning of the term consumptions and how it needs to be applied in daily activities and practices. As argued by some scholars and writers, consumption is not necessarily about transaction but it is fundamentally subjective state of consciousness with different meanings and hedonic responses (Kreitner, 2000). This paper targets at investigating the inner meaning of consumption and drawing meaningful understanding to people on the application of consumption and how it relates to people, their ...

Patient

Lillian was an 84 year old diagnosed with sickle cell anemia and uncomfortable with the American culture. She went to America from Philippines at a young age of 24 as a bride of war. She married a Caucasian American and became a neutralized citizen and according to her, she was a Filipino. Having lived in America for many years, she assumes some American traditions and continues to practice Filipino traditions. Philippines fall under the Asian culture, which includes many races with a variety of illness and health beliefs. She has a problem with the Asian culture because some of the Asian generalized beliefs differ with Filipino ...

This paper will analyse the a key political speech given by US president John F Kennedy in West Berlin June 26th 1963 commonly referred to as the “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, literally translating as “I am a Berliner” although perhaps more amusingly making reference to a local food “I am a do-nut.” (Bruner 319-328) The historical context of the speech may be seen as an important factor in considering the importance of the speech as much as the words and language of the piece itself. To this extent, the speech was given in the capital of Germany a country which the United States ...

Introduction

This paper investigates changes that have occurred / are occurring in a multicultural workforce, and whether those changes have proved / are proving to have positive benefits.

The Research

A 1991 paper by Taylor Cox, Jr., of the University of Michigan discusses this topic. Entitled “The multicultural organization”, his paper notes how organizations are finding that diversity in “gender, race, ethnicity and nationality” is on the increase. The author sees both positive and negative effects of this phenomenon. On the positive side, Cox sees benefits such as improvements in decision-making, more innovation and creativity, and greater success in marketing to ...

The National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created when a treaty was signed in 1949 by all the Allies except for the Soviet Union after World War II. That means that approximately 65 years after WWII ended and thirteen years after the end of the Cold War NATO is still active. The NATO website states that there were three main reasons for creating NATO. One reason was to build an organization of countries that could rely on each other to work together against any threat from the Soviet Union. The second reason mentioned was to get a North American presence in ...

End of life palliative care can be a stressful, even traumatic time for not only dying residents, but also for families and the medical staff working with them. Fortunately, there is much staff can do to alleviate stress. In my own experiences as a Health Care Assistant in a nursing home, I have helped residents, families, and other staff members deal with this difficult segment of life through palliative care, and I have learned much from them as well.

Working and Interacting With Others in Palliative Care

Making sure that dying residents and their family have as stress-free an experience as possible is extremely important as a Health Care Assistant and ...

Jean Rhys’ I Used to Live Here Once, is an unusually short story. However, it is also unusually memorable, which is always a sign of an effective piece of work. Through the use of point of view, symbolism, imagery, and other narrative techniques, Rhys explores a delicate theme in a subtle yet powerful way.

I Used to Live Here Once is a rather shadowy tale of a woman who appears to be a ghost calling on her childhood home. The narrator trails the woman on her walk from a near river and along an old road that leads to the house in which she spent her ...

Pre-preparedness

Personally, I believe that to use effectively a machine or any tool to one need to have prior information about it and needs to have frequently used it. The experience he has in the use of the equipment will make him work most effectively and efficiently with the machine. Therefore, I propose that the disaster management equipment need to be used frequently by the people who are responsible for taking rescue actions in case of the occurrence of the disaster. The main reason is that through the frequent interaction with the machines and equipment, the workers are able to familiarize ...

What is the history of American football?

American football is a sport that is traced to the earlier versions of association football and rugby football. In both of the games there is involvement of kicking of a football at a goal and/or it runs over a line. They do have an origin in Britain. American football came to result from several and major divergences from rugby which occurred after the rule of changes instituted by Walter Camp which is from time immemorial considered to be the ‘Father of this American Football’. The rules included the bringing in of the line of scrimmage rule, down and distance and the forward pass.
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