Essays on Apathy

Why do Some Students Fail to Finish College in the U.S.?

Introduction

One of the major reasons why there are individuals who could not attend or finish college is poverty. In the United States, for example, poverty is the biggest hindrance to successfully completing college. Over the past several years, college tuition has increased dramatically. As compared to other primary goods, tuition fee increases almost twice as much while the average income of the majority remains almost the same. In just two decades, it has been observed that college tuition fees have increased by 500% while basic commodities increased only ...

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Politics and governance are closely linked in democracies and in other forms of governance. It is a mix of art and science that is used in governance. Politics is involved in all forms of governance and social or community situations. It has existed since time immemorial and is a subject of debate countries. Learning about the nature of politics and its role in modern society is critical for all citizens. Choices made by people and nations are defined under the umbrella of ...

Introduction

Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 written and directed by Julia Leigh. It is the story of a female college student named Lucy that works various part-time jobs. She was approached to a job that involves serving upper-class gentleman in sexy lingerie, eventually settling for a new role wherein she is sedated and taken advantage of by elderly men on the grounds that there will be no sexual penetration involved. The film climaxes in the protagonist waking up from her sleep finding an old man dead of an overdose beside her. Throughout the course of the film, the issue of ...

Introduction

A recent report of the International Longevity Center-UK (ILC-UK) indicated that dementia can no longer be viewed as an isolated disorder due to a high prevalence of medical comorbidities, often undiagnosed, associated with it (Scrutton & Brancati, 2016). Patients with dementia also had received a less coordinated comorbidity treatments, resulting to the faster decline of their daily functioning, a reduction in their quality of life (QOL), and earlier mortality events than patients with these comorbidities, but in the absence of dementia. The report also noted other important findings, which exacerbated the need for better therapeutic options in dealing with dementia, ...

Government Actions in Markets

Figure 1 As a result of increasing the passenger movement tax on airlines, the equilibrium price P2 moves to new point P1. (P1>P2) The new quantity of flights is Q1. Therefore demand decreases, Q1 <Q2. Because of the increased prices some consumers denies to purchase tickets choosing other flight companies or using alternative ways of transportation. A tax that is imposed on sellers in fact creates a burden on consumers as well because of the fact that consumers will be forced to pay higher prices. It is clearly shows on the Figure1 that the revenue from sellers ...

Kamal Hussein’s Thartharah fawqa al-Nil (Adrift on the Nile, 1971) is the film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film was released in 1971, four years after the Six-day War and a year after the death of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt and the man behind the Revolution of 1952. The movie stars some of the most iconic actors of the time including Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Ramz and Adel Adham. The film focusses primarily on the protagonist Anis, a civil servant, and his experiences with a group of men who have created ...

a) Antitrust authorities at the Federal Trade Commission are reviewing your company’s recent merger with a rival firm. The FTC is concerned that the merger of two rival firms in the same market will increase market power. A hearing is scheduled for your company to present arguments that your firm has not increased its market power through this merger. Can you do this? How? What evidence might you bring to the hearing? In order to prove to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) that the recent merger between two companies will not increase the market power, we will be ...

According to Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco and Hanson (2014), family dynamics refer to the patterns of interactions or relations between family members. Kaakinen et al. (2014) revealed that each family system often has unique dynamics. Nonetheless, this aspect usually affects the manner in which the members of a particular family views medical care. Such a claim has been confirmed across different media. A good example is The Fighter. Produced in 2010 by David O. Russell, the movie follows the lives of two characters; a professional boxer called Micky Ward and his elder half-brother. It is right to inform that ...

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In 2013, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM-5) grouped all subcategories of autism-related disorders in one umbrella, and it is called autism spectrum disorder or ASD. Characterized by repetitive behaviors and communication and social skills deficits, many children from all around the world are afflicted with this disorder. Throughout the years since its discovery, researchers and mental health experts have been interested in completely understanding the nature, etiology, and possible treatments for ASD. Through continuous research efforts and studies, several perspectives have been established to explain the causes of ...

Movie Review: THX-1138

THX-1138, the main character in the film THX-1138, works as a magnum operator in cell 94107. He was literally created to manipulate the magnum along with other people in his society. In general, the THX-1138 movie is one of the best films that the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, has ever scripted and directed. In 1976, Lucas produced Electronic Labyrinth: THX-113: 4EB, a short film that won various awards and introduced Lucas to movie fans globally (“George Lucas Biography”). The success of Electronic Labyrinth impressed the director of The Godfather, Frances Coppela, who urged Warner Brothers to provide ...

The book "The Last Days of Hitler" by Hugh Trevor-Roper was first published in 1947. The historical book was written within a year following the mysterious disappearance of Hitler in 1945. After four months without any news of his whereabouts, Trevor-Roper was hired to investigate the matter. Having spent many years investigating the Nazi Regime, he had come to be known as the expert of the Nazi Regime . The book describes leadership during the Nazi Regime and continues to demonstrate the downfall of this regime, which ended in mass suicide for Hitler and most of his confidants. Trevor-Roper manages ...

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Introduction For many centuries women were deprived of their natural rights to control their life and even body and yet the struggle for equal rights is still continuing. At some point, feminism acquired a negative connotation that people today associate with the fanaticism and misandry. It is quite difficult to explain why the movement that released so many women from their invisible prisons is criticized by the modern society. A lot of women have fought to overcome discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping of womanhood by changing the laws, altering the views of the society, and fighting back their oppressors. In ...

1. An investor does not need to make a decision which portfolio to choose when a risk free asset is included. There is now only one tangent portfolio he can choose. Explain this statement with graphs analysis. The line of possible portfolio risk and return combinations given the risk-free rate and the risk and return of the portfolio of risky assets is called capital allocation line(CAL). For an individual investors and under the assumption of CAPM model that each investor faces homogeneous expectations, the best capital allocation line is the one that offers the highest expected utility in ...

QUESTION A

Definition of Credit Default Swaps A CDS is an instrument used to transfer the risk of default or credit exposure between two or more parties (Fabozzi and Kothari, 2008). It protects the lender from the possible loss of default by the borrower. The lender (protection buyer) pays premiums to the CDS seller. In return, the CDS seller guarantees to pay the lender the face value of the loan plus interests due in the intervening period if the borrower defaults.

Cash flows

Annual CDS premium = 4% × 1,000,000 = $40,000 Quarterly payments = 40,000/4 = $10,000 The borrower does not default ...

QUESTION A

A Credit Default Swap is a swap that protects the lender from the risk of loss resulting from the default by the borrower. The protection buyer of the CDS (the lender) makes periodic income payments (CDS premiums) to the protection seller who in return guarantees to pay the lender the principal in case the borrower defaults.

Cash flows when there is no default

Notional amount = $1 million Annual CDS premium = 4% × 1,000,000 = $40,000 Quarterly CDS premium = $10,000 If the borrower does not default, the protection seller will make a profit of $120,000 at the end of the third year ($10,000 ...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, is a short story that was written in order to describe the total inefficiency of medical treatment for postpartum depression in its era, and to create a greater awareness of the lack of medical understanding of the condition. As such, the storm describes the primary character’s deteriorating mental health, as she descends into madness as a result of her depression. More specifically, her description of her environment, and the personification of the wallpaper directly represents her deteriorating mental condition. As the wallpaper’s descriptions become more vivid and charactuerized, the narrator’ ...

Inaction is more harmful than taking the wrong decision. The callous attitude of the Judges in the Supreme Court in recent times is affecting different sections of the society in the United States. Whether it is their reluctance to ban assault rifles or to withhold immigration reforms, the consequences are difficult to bear by the citizenry. There are several incidents of inaction in the past which disgraced the United States in the international arena. It is not surprising that neighboring countries are slowly isolating ties with the nation. Even allied nations choose to hold a neutral position. Inaction has ...

IDENTIFY AND DISCUSS THE PREDOMINANT THEMES OF ROMEO AND JULIET

Introduction Kenneth Branagh’s, 2016 play, presents Romeo & Juliet in a brilliantly new and expressionistic manner. The play starts with an assumption that live cannot exist without hate, and according to the many critics this indeed does not signify two opposites but the notion becomes merely depicted as two sides of a coin (Rowe, 2008). The opposite of this peculiar union is exactly the opposite of love and hatred, which is known as indifference. Indifference perhaps is the theme less explored in the play since Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet comes with the notion of fate and its tragically beautiful ...

Soldiers, despite their initial conviction and training to kill, are beset with the heaviness of their first kill. Although some are reluctant in showing their mental state affect, others are more heavily affected by the things they have seen and committed in battle. Noah Pierce, a soldier who ultimately ended his life due to his traumas incurred in his two trips to Iraq, is a vivid example of PTSD. Murder, whether it is committed in war as an act of defense, is a heaviness that will haunt the soldiers who do survive and return home. Noah Pierce, being described ...

Sadness is a construct, and as such cannot exist alone; without happiness there is no sadness and vice versa. They are the yin and yang that propels human beings through life, with happiness being the goal, and sadness being the benchmark by which human beings can assess the progress toward their goals. Ancient Philosopher, Aristotle, who studied under Plato, student of Socrates, touts “happiness” as our raison d’être. He is supported by philosophers who taught after he did, by the United States Declaration of Independence which purports the pursuit of Happiness, and by the fleeting American Dream, which ...

Virtue Ethics

The essence of Virtue Ethics is based in its antiquity and the fact that almost all ancient civilizations having endorsed some form of this principle. This is one form of Ethics that can directly be applied to professional and managerial situations. The reason for this is the ‘character-based’ nature of Virtue Ethics, wherein one evaluates an action in terms of specific ethical goals. In a sense, Virtue Ethics answers questions for managers better as compared to the Teleological or Deontological Ethical thoughts that are more consequence or duty based respectively. This essay would proceed to describe Virtue Ethics and ...

1.0. Introduction to the Project Wal-Mart that is one of the giant industry players in grocery retail has launched a project in 2015. The project was centered on minimum wage hike to make it rise above the federal minimum level of wages. The company raised the salaries of its employee to $9 per hour that is $1.75 above the minimum wage limit defined by the Federal government (Kell, 2016). There are certain factors at the bottom of this wage increase. For example, Wal-Mart is renowned as the largest grocery chain of supermarket in the world, but its compensation plan ...

The twenty first century has already seen a rapid technoligization of practically every aspect of life. Indeed, it could not but affect the labor force. The question is: in what way has it done so? Firstly and foremostly, apart from obvious computerization, we can speak of robots being introduced in the labor force environment. There are two facets of this process – the positive one and the negative one. As for the first, robots have taken on the most difficult and in certain cases most dangerous work. As for the second, it may be justly maintained that robots have endangered ...

Angela Carter prominently retells the fairy tale story of Little Red Riding Hood, with more vivid and gruesome details as to the horrors of monstrosity. In The Company of Wolves, she first describes in detail the attitudes and machinations of wolves, providing examples using the concept of a werewolf compared to the anthropomorphized wolf in the original tale. Through Carter’s retelling, she envisions a tale of love that more closely resembles what could have happened in reality. Through this, the dichotomy of humanity and monstrosity is blurred when both exhibit traits that are supposedly exclusive of the other. ...

Viktor E. Frankl “Man’s Search for Meaning.” Psychological Effects of Camp Life Viktor E. Frankl was a well-known author –psychiatrist of a very difficult destiny. He experienced several years as a prisoner in a concentration camp of Auschwitz and wrote a very impressive autobiographical book “Man’s Search for Meaning” that concerns many aspects of a human being perception of reality in difficult and nearly impossible conditions of living.

There were some ways for prisoners how to survive. The first one was to become a Capo, a kind of a helper for SS men. In order to be ...

I believe that selfishness and indifference are terrible scourges of our time. In the modern world the problem of alienation and indifference arose very sharply. People increasingly do not pay attention to other people's pain and suffering. They do not want to help anyone, almost never taking the initiative or responsibility. This behaviour is, unfortunately, becoming usual. People put their interest first and over others to get what they want in their life. Selfishness is a terrible disease that infected most of the world's population. The constant concern that a large number of problems, mistrust of the outside world, ...

The article “Good parenting key to breaking cycle of poverty” by Nicole Letourneau and Justin Joschko in the Toronto Star highlights the importance of strong relationships between children and adults in low-income families in Canada (Letourneau & Joschko, 2013). The article is significantly critical in the essence that it exposes the dangers of families suffering poverty not building a strong relationship with their children by particularly not giving them the necessary attention. In hindsight, the article depicts how extensive and sensitive alienation can be experienced while also revealing its prevalence to be witnessed across various issues. Alienation is thus witnessed ...

Every person is obliged to the right to eat for a healthy living. However, some people especially children do not get enough food to eat, or when they do, they eat without necessarily wondering about the kind of foods they eat, something that can result to malnutrition. Malnutrition is a body condition that develops when the body fails to get balanced nutrients as well as minerals and vitamins required for body development. Malnutrition can also refer to as poor nutrition, falling under either over nutrition or under nutrition. Over-nutrition is a condition where people get more nutrients than the ...

There is a wide accepted concept that after centuries of development, the Muslim world began to decline in the 15th century. Did it really decline? In this work I would like to illustrate the main trends of developments of the Muslim world in early 15 – early 20 century. We know that in part of the second millennium, and for five centuries later there were many Asian invasions in other regions of the world, wide expansion (Seljuk, Arab, Turkish). But then the stagnation began. Since the "golden age" of the Abbasid Empire, it has not changed territorially. And large areas ...

The article “Sinai explodes into violence after years of chronic poverty and opted to vent their alienation” by Harriet Sherwood in the Guardian reveals the dangers that can arise in cases of inequality in poverty levels (Sherwood, 2012). This is article is critical as it reflected various aspects of alienation and highlighted a scenario that was on significantly on the news globally. In essence, the article depicts the extensive levels of alienation and its prevalence. In the article, alienation is witnessed various ways and at various levels with both the poor and the wealthy or middles class feeling indifferent ...

The Dichotomy of Being Vegan or Non-vegan

Many authors have different positions when it comes to whether or not animals should be used as meat to feed human beings. Various grounds have necessitated these arguments. And some of the reasons for the arguments include the moral values as well as the religious values that the authors have and value of the animal as God's creation. Business owners have branded animals as items, without putting into consideration the pain and terror that the cows, sheep, goat and all other animals in the farm undergo. The primary motive as to why the authors responded to the use of ...

Project Description

The current project aims to compare discussion forum models that are used for social activity to determine which can be used and are more preferred for learning management systems. Hashemyolia, Asmuni, Ayub & Daud (2015) have noted the increasing significance of web-based applications in learning management systems, especially in higher education. The emphasis on learning management systems is because it exploits autonomy and self-motivation in self-regulated learning. Learning management systems can be used for both course administration and pedagogical purposes (Pătruț, Pătruț & Cmeciu, 2013). This is possible because of the synchronous and asynchronous communication that is enabled by ...

Abstract

Market structure refers to the interaction between various buyers and sellers. Different market structures have different characteristics. The characteristics of the market structure determine the realized outcomes. There are three main market structure: perfect competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. Perfect competition has many sellers. Therefore, they do not have any market power. They cannot influence market outcomes. An oligopoly has few firms with some market power. They can influence the outcomes. Monopoly comprises of only one firm with absolute market power. Therefore, it can influence the realized outcomes. This paper highlights the characteristics of the various market structures. It then ...

Introduction

Aggression is defined as a behavior that is violent or hostile in nature towards another person that positions the person in a state of attack or confrontation. Aggression can be verbal or physical once the individual has become angry or hostile. Aggression has been a controversial issue within many areas of research. Some researchers have posited that individuals with a diagnosis of a mental illness have no higher incidences of violence than the general population. Others have suggested that individuals with severe mental illness are more likely than the general population to have higher incidences of violence. There are ...

Once Albert Einstein said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Moffett et al. 175). Nowadays, his statement is more challenging than ever. We live in the age of technological progress that works both ways. On the one hand, it significantly eases our life and improves its level. On the other hand, almost uncontrolled development of technology makes people dependent and results in loosing humanity. Comparing with previous days, we have become less attentive and more indifferent to everything around us. The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact technology has on ...

Introduction

The report is intended for the Al Naboodah Real Estate Company. The company, which engages in the real estate business, intends to expand its business from its native country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company commissioned the report with the aim of exploring a suitable market for its products. Egypt in North Africa has been billed as the country that fits the company’s description of a suitable market both regarding moderate returns and sustainability of the company’s projects in the end. The report contains a brief background of the Al Naboodah Real Estate. It details its ...

Jack London is characterized as a naturalistic writer through most of his literature works, for instance, The Law of Life and To Build a Fire. In the two short stories, Jack incorporates naturalism themes such as nature vs. man, death, and the struggle for survival. The author presents main characters who struggle to survive with the indifference of nature to survive, but they ultimately die as nature wins the war against them. In To Build a Fire, London presents a protagonist who sets out on a journey despite the harsh weather. The man was warned against traveling during the ...

In his essay called “Christianity and the Survival of Creation”, Wendell Berry accuses Christian church of the insulting indifference that it expresses towards the whole world. While the church claims to be merciful and forgiving, it chooses to ignore all of the issues that are relevant for the modern society. Things like war, rape and murder the Church explains with the fact that God sends people obstacles that they are able to overcome. Instead of engaging into the fight with crime, the church hides behind the doctrine of acceptance. Berry is also outraged with the fact that Christians tried ...

Part A: Multiple Choice Questions:

The seller must have market power, that is the seller must have some control over price The seller must be able to identify different customer groups with different demand elasticities The seller must be able to prevent arbitrage between the two groups All of the above You’ve just decided to add a new line to your manufacturing plant. Compute the expected loss/profit from the line addition if you estimate the following:

There is a 70% chance that profits will increase by $100,000.

There is a 20% chance that profits will remain the same. There is a 10% chance that profits will decrease by $15,000. Loss of $15,000 ...

Introduction

In the modern age of technological progress, people begin to puzzle about their place in the environment and the relation of a contemporary human being to the nature. It seems like the link between a person and natural environment is lost, yet still despite the progress, humans try to connect to nature. There is a radical difference between the life in a modern city and in wilderness, which sometimes attracts adventurers and those who try to escape the civilization. There are radical examples, like Chris McCandless, who has chosen alienation from the society in order to live in wilderness ( ...

Literature Review

The influence of the family on children's behavior is widely documented in the literature, and numerous studies support the idea that involved parental style and authoritative parental approach significantly affect children's academic achievement, regardless of ethnic/racial background, gender, and age. Baumrind, in her study entitled Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior (1966), argued that theory-based categorization of parental style that led to specific parental control would bring forth diverse behaviors and attitudes in children. Baumrind's theory-based categorization of parental style led to the earliest parental style paradigm, namely, permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative, all of which having emotional ...

Answers to Questions One: Gang Intervention/ Prevention Program

An example of a gang intervention/prevention program: Mass Campaign against Gang Membership and Activities Gangs in the United States have become a big problem in society. They engage in criminal activities and disturb the peace with every opportunity that they get. It is, therefore, important that these gangs be prevented from recruiting members and committing a crime. It is the duty of both the government and every citizen of the United States to participate in gang prevention and intervention activities. Christian Outreach Planning Associates Incorporated or simply COPA is an organization that conducts sensitization campaigns against gang activity. There ...

1. Explain in detail the Exclusionary Rule. The Exclusionary Rule is the rule that is generated by the law under the constitutional rights. It does not allow the use of any of the non-legal obtained proof in the trials for criminal under the fourth amendment. It will usually apply for the elimination of the physical evident. The best example of exclusionary rule is stolen property, murder, or weapons that allows the police to catch a break in a case under the rights of the fourth amendment. The exclusionary rule could be under the Fifth Amendment, when no person can ...

The autobiography of Malcolm X provides insight into the life of a man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential civil rights activists in the United States. In his autobiography, it is apparent that Malcolm undergoes three keys states: the first stage reflects his early life, troubled youth, and struggle for identity; the second stage reflects his struggle to find God; and the third stage is his political work. In the course of the three life stages, Malcolm X held different convictions ranging from racial separatism to indifference in the later stages of his ...

Joeux Noel is a war drama shot in 2005 by Christian Carion. Being based on the real events during the World War I in 1914, the film reflects on how each side of the war participants has its own motives and vision of truth. The film got a critical acclaim and numerous nominations and awards in the cinematographic world. The opening series of scenes lets the audience get the idea of what is going on to happen on the screen throughout the film. The three schoolboys reciting patriotic verses demonstrate the audience that they are from different countries and ...

Introduction

The citizens of all the democratic countries are entitled to vote. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all the people have the right to participate in the governments of their nations either directly or through their elected representatives. Voting provides the citizens with a medium of expression. It gives the voters the chance to express their opinions about the governments, take part in the vital issues affecting their countries, and hold the elected representatives accountable. It is worth noting that high voter turnout is desirable in every democratic country. As a matter of fact, a high voter ...

Proposal for Original Business Research

1.0. Introduction Human resource management has always been integrally attached to the business and its activities, as the degree of success or failure of a business largely relies on the effectiveness of HRM practices in an organization. One of the core areas to be pondered by human resource managers is performance appraisal when it comes to people management (Tooksoon, 2011). 1.1. Problem Statement High employee turnover is one of the most critical side-effects of growing dynamism of modern business climate. Employees are switching from company to company basing their decision of quitting for many good reasons. However, it is ...

Key elements of the wellness program success at Nabholz Construction Company

The key elements in the wellness programs can be identified to include the setting of goals to be achieved, creating a wellness culture as well as identification of the workforce needs.

Adoption barriers to the wellness programs

Although the workforce wellness programs have been identified to have several benefits to both employers and employees, many employers are reluctant to adapt them owing to a number of adoption barriers summarized as follows. Lack of interest: There could be lack of interest by the management and the workforce involved given that their focus is on delivering in line with their job specifications and the stakeholders’ interests. Insufficient ...

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Executive Summary

Recent news reports on racial minorities being shot and killed by the police, or by those taken into custody and are reported to have died while in that situation, pose a grim reminder that the relationship of law enforcement and the racial minorities in the United States have been one filled with tension and conflict, mistrust and suspicion, fear and force, and domination and struggle. This is not a civil rights position paper; rather, this is a research geared to proffer that the instance of encounters between racial minorities and the police have been generally characterized by conflict ...

Altruism is the quality of a person. This quality is diametrically opposite to selfishness. Altruist is not indifferent and ready to help even when he/she does not have any reward in return, and when he/she does not expect any gratitude (Hewstone, Stroebe& Stephenson, 1996).. There are different theories which explain prosocial altruistic behavior, reasons and motives of this behavior, etc. For example, altruism can be explained by the fact that a person who helps other people has some external or internal reward. A businessman can improve the image of his company by doing money donation. In this case, ...

The novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus is one of the most important and popular of his works. It has a direct connection with the philosophy of existentialism and the absurd like most of the works of the author. The writer once again demonstrates the human and social relationships, as well as the internal conflict of the man himself by the example of the protagonist's life and feelings. The problem of the story touches upon many issues, but one of the main problems is the existence of God. The life of the protagonist Meursault is the way to truth ...

As the United States entered World War II, John Steinbeck was no stranger to writing anti-fascists propaganda for the masses. It may have seemed like a natural step for him to ensure he had a position as an intelligence officer in the United States’ armed forces in an effort to continue the habit. Unfortunately, for Steinbeck, this particular goal never came to be, and he spent most of his time becoming a simple war correspondent, eventually working for the New York Herald Tribune, provided he was able to secure the necessary security clearances to write the juicy stories the ...

Racial identity and the acceptance of different racial culture is important to the understanding of the way person accept and understand each other. For many authors the racial identity of their characters is important to the development of the plot and to the understanding of the characters and their contribution to the plot. Toni Morrison deviates from the conventions of presenting the racial identity of Roberta and Twyla and this adds to the ambiguous nature of the story. Twyla and Roberta are presented throughout the story as different person who had to learn to deal with each other despite ...

IMPACT OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIETY

Abstract Media technologies have undergone significant evolution in the past few years involving many new considerations such as Web 3.0., social media, and satellite coverage. Both negative and positive implications of media technologies can be observed on social level. (Artz&Kamalipour, 2007). Therefore, the proposed research will set out to study how these technologies can be used towards the benefit of society by eliminating or avoiding the negatively influential areas. It will extend in several critical dimensions. For example, the purpose of the research is to investigate into different areas wherein different types of technologies are benefitting society. On the ...

Report about Airbnb

Airbnb is one of the companies offering the private accommodation rental services. Folger (2016) reports that this service offers a platform through people with accommodation space that can be rented out and people looking for accommodation can meet. The people with accommodation to rent out start by listing the availability of the rental space on the website of Airbnb. The Airbnb does not levy any charges for the owners of the rental space who publish the availability of space on the company’s website. In addition to including a description of the space to be rented, the owners are ...

Abstract

A conversation between the individuals not only discloses the exchange of information but also divulges other aspects of personalities of the partners. One of the most important revelations is the attitude of the people towards their partner. The utterances of the conversational associates clearly indicate the comfort level in the relation. By doing a discourse analysis, one can easily find out the behavioural pattern of the participants, as indicated by the stance indicators.

Introduction (Stance and Stance Indicators)

Stance is the attitude displayed by the speaker towards the topic of conversation in a particular situation. By carefully examining a talk, stance is expressed by ...

Job stress in financial planning

Job stress is a common issue in the workplace especially when the money resource is not adequate. Job stress in financial planning occurs there is overload in the financial resource. In other words, it takes place when the organization does not have sufficient funds to implement their projects. It is worth noting that the financial planners undergo a lot of stress as they look for best alternatives to ensure that the funds available meet the needs of the organization (Kephart, 2003). Lack of conducive working environment is a key factor that leads to stress in financial planning. In circumstances ...

1. Argentini (n.p.) discussed crisis communication in the wake of 9/11. He noted that during the most urgent crisis situations such as 9/11, internal communications may be the most important thing. Based on his own experience of 9/11 and the experiences of others, Agentini (n.p.) highlighted important aspects of crisis communication. First, he said it is important to be visible to those who look to you for leadership (Argentini) although Jaques (12) warns that visibility may or may not mean the person is directly on site. Physical presence must be carefully considered, but visibility is an absolute (Argentini n.p.). ...

Eugene Burdick and William Lederer’s seminal novel The Ugly American is a sobering and detailed depiction of the disasters and complications of American foreign policy, as Ambassadors Louis Sears and Gilbert MacWhite demonstrate markedly different approaches to US relations with the fictional country of Sarkhan. While Ambassador Sears showcases the exact wrong way to engage with the peoples of a foreign nation by isolating himself from them and not engaging with any new ideas, MacWhite is much more engaged with the populace and their culture. Because of their different approaches, MacWhite and Sears showcase the complexities of American ...

The transactions in Zhu Wen’s “A Boat Crossing” are stark picture of the China during a period of political as well as economic transition during the 1990s and 2000s. This was the time when China was undergoing a transition in political landscape. During this time, the Maoist leadership controlled the economy. However, the grip ended with an economy, that was free and market friendly. The novella "A Boat Crossing", which is the part of the book "I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China", written by Zhu Wen, one of the representatives of the Chinese authors of the ...