Essays on Ayala

Chang, N.-Y., & Liou, T.-Y. (2009). A study of Latino parenting culture and practices: listening to the voices of Latino parents. Hsiuping Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12, 1-36. Retrieved from http://ir.hust.edu.tw/bitstream/310993100/1599/1/12-01.pdf The article studies culture and practices of childrearing in Latino families. As the authors write, “Traditional Latino parents, in general, may have more rigid parenting values compared to their Caucasian counterparts” (Chang & Liou, 2009, p. 1). The conducted study is based on the qualitative research. First, the authors provide a complete literature review regarding the main values of Latin culture and historical background of their living in ...

Q1: Provide at least two examples of EACH type of Intellectual Property.

Patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks are the four forms of intellectual property. Utility, design, and patents are the three kinds of patents. On the other hand, the different forms of trademarks are brands, company names, and logos. On the contrary, the different forms of trade secrets are marketing plans, product formulas and employee rosters. Copyrights take forms in live recordings, photos or artistry (Bouchoux 4).

Q2: How can an intangible asset create value for an organization? Explain with examples.

An intangible asset such as trademark increases the organizational value by safeguarding the company production secrets from being stolen. An example of a trade secret is the coke’s formula. Nonetheless, an intangible ...

For rural dwellers, urban environment has always presented unique challenges and fascinations. This is primarily because of the reason that urban life offers more opportunities to its residents, both in terms of finances as well as chances to growth. There was a time when the rural people use to move, putting it more technically migrated, to urban areas in search of better job opportunities, thus getting access to higher wages. There is a concept of wage premium that is linked with big metropolitan cities. It is precisely this concept working behind the notion that the earnings of workers tend to be ...

The American movies of the 2000s have been primarily dedicated to such important national and international issues as racism, gun control, poverty, drug abuse and crimes connected with it, as well as ambiguity and, as a result, ineffectiveness of national and international policy that is supposed to solve these and many other social problems. Among the most prominent movies of the decade are the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Traffic, 2004 Paul Haggis film Crash and 2004 Terry George movie Hotel Rwanda. All three movies are based on completely different stories, but share similar tension born out of the social problems ...

Introduction

This essay aims to discuss certain aspects about the increasing trend of rapidly growing Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) among the US’s major foreigner community Latino. The matter becomes serious when specifically we look at the population of this community in the Los Angeles (LA) county, of the California (CA) State. It has around 4.9 million Latino-based population. The Latino population includes 48.3 percent of total in LA and 38.4 of total in California. They also comprise of 21.6 percent of total firms in LA and 16.5 percent of total firms in the California. They are owned either by ...

I. Introduction In this research paper, the relationship between science and religion is examined in terms of the potential for a harmonious coexistence. This is an old debate and currently it is a vitally significant one. The view of science and religion as warring enemies has historic roots. The Catholic Inquisition was known to persecute and execute people considered heretics because of their belief in science and scientific things. The Church found science as an explanation offensive. Galileo Galilei is one of the most well known of the victims of the Inquisition. He was imprisoned and forced to do penance ...

Introduction

Non-profit hybrid organization is such an interesting topic since it is a fresh academic matter. The concept of such organization goes beyond the boundaries of profits and voluntarism has been recorded in the literature just recently. Non-profit organizations, which are also called “not-for-profit organizations,” are entities founded to benefit a specific issue or endeavor (p. 1). There are more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations that operate around the world and thousands of new non-profit organizations are established daily (p. 1). Unlike business enterprises, non-profit organizations do not function to generate income. They also do not share the earnings to the organization's ...

- Ayala Land, Inc. Company Description Ayala Land, Inc. (or ALI for short) is the largest property developer in the Philippines. It is a fully integrated corporation that performs master-planning and development roles for mixed-use developments that include residential, retail, commercial, and hotel among others. ALI was incorporated in 1988 and offered shares to the public in 1991(the company was listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange or PS) in that year). Since then, ALI has been the leader in strategic land bank management, in development of properties for residential, retail, commercial and other corporate uses, and has developed a ...

Psoriasis: Overview

Introduction and Clinical presentations Psoriasis is a common skin infection that is usually persistent, recurrent, and immune mediated. It affects about 2 percent world population with associated negative impact on the physical, emotional and psychosocial wellbeing of the individual. No predilection for any age group. It is a papulosquamous condition with different morphology, distribution, severity and course. Presentation is in the form of moderate or severe. In patients with moderate presentation (10 percent of the body surface is usually affected) (Ayala, 2007) while severe cases tend to affect the quality of life of the patient with several systemic conditions ( ...

My dearest auntie Rachel,

sorry we didn’t write you since our departure. I didn’t believe they’ll force us to leave our homes and go to America, but the pogrom was so huge and devastating that there was no other choice. Still leaving our house was very painful for me despite of the massacre the day before. But we know that our migration was the only choice to survive – weren’t we asked to leave?! I can never forget my friend reading the edict stating our forced exclusion. Whom else can we blame if not our fellow villagers, it was them ...

The process of impoverishment of workers in Puerto Rico had its genesis way before 1898. However, events that followed after 1898 amplified this process to a greater level. According to Cesar (25), the Census of 1899 showed that 85.9 percent of the families in Vieques were landless. Vieques is an island-municipality found in the northeast of Puerto Rico. The main event that aggravated the process of impoverishment was the United States invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 when Spain ceded the island in a brief and relative bloodless war. Prior to this invasion, coffee and sugarcane were the islands main cash ...

Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States of America which happens to be one of the oldest of its kind. It is one among many islands found in the Caribbean. It is located in the east side of the Dominican Republic and the west side of the British Virgin Islands as well as United States Virgin Islands. Thanks to its location, it enjoys good tropical climate and is also subjected to hurricanes from the Atlantic Ocean. - POLITICAL CONNECTION WITH THE USA: WHAT IT IS AND WHEN IT STARTED The Relationship between Puerto Rico and the ...

The 2000 film “Traffic” is an incredible piece of ensemble cinema, and it unquestionably follows an ensemble, rather than a single protagonist, structure. It describes three different but interconnected stories about drugs, their use, and the measures taken to fight against them.

According to Linda Cowgill (Plots Inc. Productions, 2003), “the key ingredient in all great ensemble films is dramatic unity – the synthesis of thematic ideas and plot movement – which enables the screenwriter and filmmaker to integrate the lines of action and construct the framework for the film's plot.” This is exactly what occurs in “Traffic.” The overriding theme director ...