Alliance Term Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

At the end of the 1970s, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged from the Mao Zedong era and started the process of opening up to the foreign world. As it initiated its reforms in 1978, it has also ventured into the international realms (Bijian, 2005). It pursued a winning policy for economic development, surged its military and political power, and made their nation a formidable player in the international arena. This phenomenon spans almost thirty years. As China’s economic, military and political power has increased over the last three decades, its national leaders also sought to enhance their ...

1. Describe in detail, how each of your goals and objectives, listed on your contract
It was a privilege given by the University of Northern Colorado, School of Human Sciences, placing me at the Human Services Program, as an intern, with the agency-North Colorado Health Alliance (NCHA); which is coordinating the Weld County Community Health Campaign-Make TODAY Count! Supported by, the grants from Kaiser Permanente and the Colorado Health Foundation. This is a three-year campaign launched in June, 2013.
After obtaining internship contract, I contacted the faculty supervisor and the academic advisor to discuss my assignment for internship. I ...

Financial Outcomes Paper: Walgreens

Walgreens Financial Initiatives

Walgreens is a United States based company and the largest drug retail store in the country. The company currently has 8, 300 retail stores in all 50 states as of 2012. The company was founded in 1901 in Chicago, Illinois and currently headquartered in Deerfield (Walgreens.com, Web). As of 2012, Walgreens posted a total revenue of US$71. 633 billion derived from its two operating divisions, the Walgreens Health Services and Walgreens Health and Wellness. The current President and CEO Gregory Wasson were happy to announce the company's revenues composed of US$ 3.464 billion total of operating income ...

Overview of the Health Issue

There are four lifetime stages of alcohol use (Swendsen et al., 2012). These include use, regular use, abuse without dependence, and abuse with dependence. Similarly, there are four lifetime stages of illicit drug use. These include opportunity to use, first drug use, drug abuse without dependence, and drug abuse with dependence (Swendsen et al., 2012).Data from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) showed that 59.8% of the sample had alcohol use at some point in their lifetime. The prevalence was 78.2% among adolescents aged 17 to 18 years and 42.5% among those aged 13 to 14 years old ( ...

Executive summary

I chose to focus on functional strategy formulation and strategic choice in their application to real business world. This would aid me in understanding the topic in this “Strategic Management and Business Policy” textbook written by Thomas L. Wheelen and J. David Hunger. This report will be aimed at analyzing topic seven and eight, as they appear in the above class textbook. Chapter 7 and 8 concentrates on functional strategy formulation and strategic choice that concerns the full cycle of business life. This topic analyzes various strategies a business undertakes in the pursuit of growth and stability as well as ...

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Iraqi forces represents yet another critical milestone in Iraq’s turbulent recent history. The policy options available to the United States are complicated by the regional dimensions of the conflict and the divergent interests of key players, most notably Iran, Syria, Russia, a loose coalistion of Western countries and Sunni-regimes in the region. While most of the policy options may be framed as a search for the “least bad” policy to address this quagmire, there may be a path worth exploring to transform the situation into a rare opportunity ...

The paper aims to comprehend and document the history of Germany and delve deep into the possibilities and capacity of the nation to dominate the European continent. It requires our understanding that Germany has the potential and power to emerge as the omnipotent force in the continent and an insight into the national history would only reiterate the claim with testimonials and evidences to supplement the view.
The country was hit by the March Revolution in 1848 which ended up in being a failed attempt at establishing the German state. However, this called for more liberal state policies, nationalism ...

World War 1

World War 1

Introduction

The First World War became a severe test for the whole world in the twentieth century. It was a turning point in European civilization that marked the end of the 19th century - the century of conservatism, education and stability, and the beginning of the 20th century - the century of the great revolutions and world wars, mass terror and rapid technological development.
According to Dowling, more than sixty million people entered the armed services in 1914-1918. Around ten million men gave their lives in the conflict known as Great War, along with twenty million others. The ...

Understanding of the political system of Japan is critical for understanding the major interests of this country and forecasting its behavior. Since the 1950s until the early 2000s the Liberal Democratic Party remained in power. But in the 21st century, it was temporarily ousted by other political forces. In 2012, it regained power and is ruling party in Japan now. What are the reasons behind the LDP’s domination? I will try to explain it not going deep into history but illustrating the most recent developments in Japanese policy.
The result of the Japanese parliamentary elections of 16 December ...

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- Executive Summary
The main perspective of this assignment is to analyze the strategic alliance and its advantage for the company, with the name of Oslo Financial Services that is one of the world’s largest insurance founded specifically in the year 1958 by Stake Blackstrom and his campaign, Kevin Sandbech. The company, offers services in terms of insurance, life insurance, casualty insurance and property insurance The Company had grown tremendously well from last few decades due to its vast and active operations and its propensity to be in the strategic alliance with all of ...

Ethics and leadership

Leaders are expected to be people of high moral and abide with ethical ways of executing their leadership functions and in the exercise of their authorities. Plato and Aristotle in their books taught how political leaders should be ethical in their conduct of state tasks. Using the democracy of ancient Athens they argue on how ethics cannot be separated from politics, as political leaders should exhibit high level of ethical standard in all they do. It is believed that Aristotle taught Alexander the great about ethics and politics (Morgan, p. 253)
The level of ethical and morally disciplined a ...

Question one

Critically evaluate how international companies can apply and make practical use of the strategic theory and model of ‘Ansoff’s Matrix’ in terms of market penetration, and market development, for ONE of the following products; hand soap or paper towels.
It is usually challenging for international companies to adopt necessary tools that will work with excellent marketing strategy. One of the most common forms of marketing tools is Ansoff’s Matrix. The main aim of the tool is aid the business in determining its products, as well as the market growth strategy. Ansoff’s growth matrix bears suggestions ...

Introduction

The idea of slavery for many people is the images of black men in cotton plantations, working a whole day for no pay. The trade of African people for lifetimes of slavery is the other embedded idea of slavery to many people living in Canada and United States. These concepts of slavery ignore the possibility of a current form of slavery. The idea that slaves are working forcefully without pay in Canada and the United States is farfetched. This status of ignorance acts as part of the modern day slavery, where people, especially young girls, are sold for purposes ...

Two Arguments on Homophobia

Introduction
The discrimination of individuals who identify as homosexual or are thought to be gay is a common occurrence across the globe. Cities, boroughs and states have passed legislation that outlaws homosexuality. Negative attitudes towards homosexual people usually lead to hostility that come in verbal and physical attacks which sometimes result in death. Homophobia or the fear of individuals who are gay has been associated with religious and cultural beliefs, general ignorance about sexuality and the need to make homosexuality a tool for political gain.
Using the case of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, this paper explores the causes of ...

Abstract

The mission of the United States police force on terrorism and threats from countries in the Middle East such as Afghanistan is to foster peaceful coexistence within states and other nations. Their involvement in the provision of humanitarian support to the civilians in Libya during the military crackdown in 2011for instance was contributed to by the foreign policies that arose after the Second World War (Beasley, 2013).

There are international incidences that have involved operation of the United States police force in the past five years include:

- Provision of humanitarian support to the Libyan civilians during a military crackdown in response to the uprising curfew in Gadhafi’s reign.
- The war and threats against nuclear terrorism in ...

Julius Caesar lived from approximately 44 to 100 B.C. and brought power, organization, and reform to the Roman Republic turning it into the Roman Empire, and laying a foundation for success for centuries to come. Caesar was not born into power, but gained ultimate power through his military and political prowess. Caesar approached leadership in a way that had never been done before by listening to the people’s needs, and bringing them prosperity. He changed policies and took actions that were innovative at the time, and became a hero to the people as he brought power and authority to the nation. ...

Introduction

After the current economic crisis, the thing that emerged like essential for the entities is their inner confidence and efforts to compete with other organizations operating in similar line of business and control (Adair & Thomas, 2004). Growth and Development in regular concession is extremely essential for an organization, because it is the only thing that can keep it edgy and productive in terms of their competitors. The power of competition has increased heavily in all over the world especially after the current economic crisis, and from that period, the stance of competition is increasing heavily (Elias, 2007).
History ...

In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law. Its purpose was to update healthcare information records so that they were in keeping with the digitization practices of modern record keeping. Privacy was another issue. Many people involved in patient care, administration, and insurance had access to patient records. Before HIPAA, there were no federal regulations that addressed patient record privacy. Through HIPAA, Congress sought to protect health records because there were so many people who had access to them. Keeping records in a digital format would allow even more people access to health records, which is ...

The First World War, sometimes referred to as the Great War, was based on Europe and it involved the entire world super powers that formed two dominant alliances which included the allies; United Kingdom, Russia and France and the central power which comprised of Germany, Hungary Belgium and Turkey. There were many contributing factors that arguably caused this far reaching war. Factors like assassinations, nationalism, entangled alliances and militarism as well other factors can be highlighted to have triggered the war (Hamilton and Herwig 16).

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand together with his wife which was affirmed to have ...