Essays on Champion

The thought of my childhood imbues my heart with joy. A recollection of the time in the rural home when we visited my grandparents offers a glimpse of the adorable village life that many people have not discovered. Many times I wishfully feel like going back to the times and rejuvenating the friendship I had with my peers back then. However, my grandparents are no more while the rural childhood friends are all in the cities looking for their daily bread. My grandparents’ home was situated along the road and just less than one kilometer from the rural shopping ...

Article Review: “Attitudes and Health Beliefs Associated With Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Turkish Women”

The title ‘Attitudes and health beliefs associated with breast cancer screening behaviors among Turkish women’ seems fit for the article because it clearly and concisely indicates the key element of the study. From the title, a reader can understand that this article will explore the health norms and attitudes of Turkish women about breast cancer screening approaches. However, the title does not include the population sample considered for the study. Actually, the population sample was comprised of 1,342 Turkish women but it was not mentioned in the title. In total, the title is sufficient enough to give readers ...

The court of last resort for the federal system is the Supreme Court. A chief justice and eight associate justices comprise the Supreme Court. With the advice and consent of the Senate, the President of the United States appoints the justices of the Supreme Court . The Supreme Court has a very important function in the government of the United States. First, it being the highest court in the country, it is the court of last resort for those who seek justice. The second major role of the Supreme Court is to guarantee that all the branches of government work ...

Introduction

Within the industry of human resource management, the roles of being an effective strategic partner and an employee champion, or an employee advocate are considered to be mutually exclusive. However, this could be a form of identity crisis throughout the organization because the HR operations may need the company to be a strategic business partner, however, it always will cause a form of conflict to be considered an advocate for the employees of the company Collins & Smith, 2006). For instance, the human resource manager primary focus is to maximize the full capacity of human capital that would strategically be ...

Introduction

Employee involvement relates centrally to core managerial functions and organizational behavior. Employee involvement, in organizational terms, refers to participation and commitment of employees towards adding value to their organizations by utilizing their own creativity, problem solving skills, qualification, experience, and expertise. It is essential to increase the level of employee motivation to raise their level of engagement because motivation serves as a base for any further consideration in this regard (Schneider & Barbera, 2014). This paper sets out to provide some of the most practical recommendations directed towards improving employee performance by increasing their involvement.

Steps to be taken in order to increase employee motivation and involvement for performance enhancement are as follow:

Providing employees with autonomy Providing ...

Introduction

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was launched in April 2015. She notified the public on her campaign website by stating that “I’m running for president”. She proclaimed herself a champion and stated that “Everyday Americans need a champion”. The mission statement provided by Clinton’s campaign is “We are a team, and this is about Americans”. Heading her campaign as chair is John Podesta, a former Whitehouse Chief of Staff. Campaign manager, Robby Mook, has been a long time Democratic player. Chief strategist and pollster is Joel Benenson who will have support from two other pollsters, John Anzalone ...

According to Mackenzie (2002) about five million or more individuals are under criminal justice system supervision and authority in the United States of America. Close to 1.6 million are housed in local, state or federal correctional facilities. An estimated 70% of these individuals are supervised in either probation or parole, which are forms of community corrections. The suggestion here is that a large part of the correctional population at any one point is under the supervision of corrections in the United States (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997). About 3.8 individuals both men and women are in community parole and ...

Historical Origins of Correctional Enterprise

Correctional systems are institutions for rehabilitating criminals. They include prisons and community- based systems. After being convicted in court, criminals may spend time in correctional systems away from friends and family. There are different types of correctional systems classified according to the government level in which they function: private, local, state or federal. They can also be classified according to the level of security, age, and gender (Waldron, et al. 2009). Most correctional systems run Correctional Enterprise programs that provide opportunities for prisoners to learn new skills, be productive, and responsible. This initiative’s objective is to instill values ...

“I Got No Quarrel with The VietcongNo Vietcong Ever Called Me Nigger.” Sometimes words resonate through time. We hear them and immediately comprehend their importance; even if some don’t comprehend their value at that time. Muhammad Ali will chiefly be remembered as a charismatic and fearless boxing champion. Some, however, will also remember him as an advocate of social justice, speaking out against war, discrimination against African Americans, and support for peace and Islam. Whether as a prominent member of the sporting community or a fierce advocate for social change, Muhammad Ali will regardless be considered an influential ...

Muhammad Ali

Everyone has their own prototypes to follow such as idols, parents, friends or neighbors with motivating and inspiring life experience. World history has various examples of the famous persons’ biographies and after its reading people are inspired for accomplishing any goals. It can be people who lived a century ago or our contemporaries. Someone considers sportsmen to be successful, others find politicians, entrepreneur or singers more inspiring. However, they are united by the common trait, which is leadership. Nowadays, when the world is changing rapidly, the ideas of those leaders continue to be relevant and contribute to the people ...

Who we Are

Children Welfare League of America is an intense coalition of many private and open offices serving kids and families that are defenseless since 1920. Our mastery, initiative and development on approaches, projects, and practices enhance the lives of a great many kids the nation over. Our effect is felt around the world.

Mission

Children Welfare League of America leads and connects with its system of open and private organizations and accomplices to propel approaches, best practices and community oriented procedures that outcome in better results for youngsters, youth and families that are helpless.

Christine James-Brown; President and CEO

Christine James-Brown got to be President and ...

Thesis: Mohammad Ali will not only be remembered as charismatic and fearless boxing champion but also the advocator of social justice through his perspective against war, injustice, and his support for peace and Islam.

Introduction

Mohammad Ali, born as Cassius Marcellus Clay, took the personal fear and tribulations of the Black people in American history to transform himself into a world champion.

The heroic years in his boxing career were the years between 1964 and 1974 where Ali "shook up the world with his tremendous boxing and verbal skills. Mohammad Ali was one of the most influential celebrities who had ...

One of the oldest sports is considered a fistfight. Even in ancient history in the era of the ancient Greeks during the Olympics athletes competed in the pankration, which is how they called their fist fighting competitions. Fist fights in a modern understanding are mixed martial arts or MMA (Mix Martial Arts), and not boxing, as the two are often confused.

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Since the antique times MMA lost its glory and popularity. Is place was taken by what e now perceive a traditional boxing, kick-boxing, judo, taekwondo, and other types of martial arts. For a long time MMA was in ...

Born in 1909, Nkrumah rose through the academic as well as political and leadership rank to become the first African-born prime minister and later president of the newly independent Ghana in 1957. Nkrumah was born Francis Nwia Koffi Ngonloma on 21 September 1909 in Nkroful Gold Coast now Ghana although his exact date of birth remained a subject of debate and grew up in a typical African village while attending local elementary schools which were run by the Catholic Mission. He exhibited brilliance from a young age and often did well in academics attracting the attention of his instructors ...

The code below has been implemented using MIPS assembly in a MARS simulator, that when given a matrix NxN it calculates the determinant using a recursive function, the function is allocating any matrix in the heap using array structure where each row get assigned specific array and stores arrays through another array as below ## function computeMatrixDeterminant ## input: $a0 = the matrix pointer, $a1 = the number of rows and columns ## output: $v0 = the determinant computeMatrixDeterminant: #allocating space in the stack add $sp, $sp, -20 sw $s0, 16($sp) sw $s1, 12($sp) sw $s2, 8($sp) sw $s3, ...

Workers are important assets of a country’s organizations as well as builders of a country’s economy. Their productivity, however, is dependent on the way their employers treat them in all spheres of work including their representation in labor unions. In words of Bob Nelson, “Take time to appreciate your employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.” An organization cannot be able to establish a good rapport with its customers without developing one with its employees. Labour unions or workers unions are organizations that have been established to represent workers interests to their employers regarding wages ...

Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician, born December 20, 1925, in Alor Setar, the state capital of Kedah, north west. Mahathir was the fourth Malaysian Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003. Mahathir was the youngest of ten children of a professor of Indian origin and a Malay mother. He began a career doctor before entering politics in 1964. Climbing the ladder quickly, he became Prime Minister in July 1981 and quickly gained a reputation as a maverick. Mahathir bin Muhamad was educated in Alor Setar and the King Edward VII Medical College in Singapore. He joined the administration ...

1. Introduction Bulgaria is located between the Turkey and Romania in the Southeastern Europe and has a variety of different sports practiced by its citizens. The country of more than seven million citizens has been part of the summer and winter Olympics game from their early start. In the country the most popular sports are football - soccer, volleyball, various different gymnastics, wrestling, weight lifting and others. There are various different sport figures popular in the country, but they do not fully address the international sporting achievements of Bulgaria on the international level. The paper will present the country’ ...

(Class Information) Mike Tyson became a celebrity in his own right. He earned a big name in boxing, not to mention the wealth that he gained from the same sport. However, his fame waned when the front pages of the tabloids and newspapers feasted on his conviction story for allegedly raping one of the aspirants in the Miss Black America beauty contest. The Daily News read, “Mike Tyson, the world heavyweight champion at 19, last night became a convicted rapist at 25, after a jury found he attacked an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant in his hotel room here last ...

Abstract

A plea bargain has defined the court proceedings in the recent history of the criminal justice system. As such, prosecutors and judges have adapted to the policy to carry on activities while practicing copping plea arrangements so as to reduce the number of pending cases and the pile that characterizes most of the district magistrates’ courts. On one side, the idea of a plea bargain has greatly enhanced the efficiency of the legal systems. This is because it has reduced the time for prosecutors to work on various trials as well as reducing the instances of overcrowding in jails ( ...

In the article titled, ‘An explanation of a mini-guide programme: training local children in sea turtle conservation and ecotourism in Brazil,’ in vol. 11, no. 1, pp.48-55 of the Journal of Ecotourism in 2012, Pegas, Coghlan and Rocha explore a mini-guide program that was designed to train local children in Brazil in the conservation of turtles as well as ecotourism. The purpose of the study upon which the authors based the article was to elaborate on the features of the mini-guide program and explore how the community members in the locality where the program was implemented perceived the program. ...

The recent developments in technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs have presented modern ways of creating new things and doing things. One such development relates to the introduction of technology-based medical procedures, which have made it possible to achieve feats that yesteryear medical scientists could only dream about. The field of medicine has shown tremendous improvement as a result of the incorporation of new technological meth-ods into the field of medicine. Genetic engineering procedures have become common not only in the creation of medicines and vaccines but also in disease management before and after birth. Scientists have come up with ...

Probation and parole are alternative sentences to incarceration, which offer convicted offenders the opportunity to remain in the community, but operate under supervision (Hanser 12). Whereas probation takes place before and often instead of imprisonment, parole usually occurs as an early prison release. The convicted offender is required to comply with probation and parole conditions. The offenders are subjected to warrantless searches without any reasonable cause. In the United States, over 2,000 agencies administer probation on offenders who commit felonies as well as misdemeanors. Adult probation as well as parole are established in executive branches of state government ...

The recent developments in technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs have presented modern ways of doing things. One such development relates to the introduction of technology-based medical procedures, which have made it possible to achieve feats yesteryear medical scientists could only dream about. This introduction has however resulted in debates concerning whether controversial medical procedures should be allowed to play their role in society without external interference. In Lisa Belkin’s article, The Made-To-Order Savior”, the author describes how modern medical technology makes it possible to genetically modify a human being at conception so as to increase the chances of ...

“The Lesson” is the short story written by Toni Cade Bambara and its main topic is the social and economic inequality. This inequality can be seen in the position of the children and their families in the society. Miss Moore is also teaching them about social and economic inequality in her private lessons which happen during summer. The children symbolize the innocence and the young who are supposed to be educated about the world and about all of the injustice. The world functions in such a way that there are the privileged and the under-privileged groups of people. In “ ...

American nationalism is the kind that is concerned with asserting America on the international scene as a nation as well as promoting its culture and unity of purpose. This would imply the direct actions of the American government aimed at advancing the position and role of America on the international scene. It also entails the actions of multinationals whose mother country is America, movements, and non-profit organizations advancing their ideals, and the elements of American culture that inform their charters and terms of services on the international scene. Orientalism is an outlook that emphasizes, projects, imagines, misrepresents and exaggerates ...

Introduction

Most of the African countries were under the colonial rule. Due to the growth of industries in Europe, which was facilitated by the concept of industrialization that saw numerous economic, social and industrial changes in Europe, European countries had to look for raw materials for their industries. Consequently, they ventured into the African continent and other parts of the world in search of places where they would get raw materials for their industries back at home (Ahluwalia, 2012). Various European countries portioned Africa into different colonies, and Kenya was taken by Britain. Kenya is a beautiful country that is ...

Italian scholars attending the one American university “Chairs of Wisdom” have presented different volumes of nostalgic stories that reflect the history and the events of ancient histories of Italy. One of these scholars has had a great success with his book on the popular stories that have interested readers around the world. Michael Parenti is one of the renegade Italian American scholars whose works have caused much controversy in the literary world. He writes of the spell-binding moments of history and the popular illusions of the reality of the events that happened in the social history of ancient. The ‘ ...

Introduction

The quest to promote ideal working conditions for employees has been ongoing in the UK and the world at large for over centuries. While it remains to be seen whether a universally satisfying working conditions can be reached that wholesomely settles the long-raging battle between management and the worker’s union, several companies have continued to exercise colloquial and outmoded management practices on the employees and even attempted to bar them from seeking for their rights. There is a growing trend of many organizations’ management attempting to abuse the employees in a bid to maximize the output. All over ...

The prevailing cultural system appreciates and places superheroes in high esteem. This is true despite of these beings, regardless if they are humans or aliens, are only works of fiction and can only be seen in various forms of popular entertainment, such as in comics and films. In this regard, perhaps it is a safe premise that the society’s acceptance of super heroes is reflective of its desire to instigate progressive changes to their social and physical environment, and that these highly developed beings personify all the qualities that the society aspires to find in a single person, ...

The employer and employee relationship between Don and Rebecca is governed by various statutes but most importantly the Employment Standards Act (Filsinger 2005). Under the Act, an employee can be terminated from their employment under conditions such as: upon dismissal of the employee or when the employer stops employment of the employee included instances of insolvency and bankruptcy of the employer if the employer ‘constructively” dismisses an employee and they (the employee) resigns, as a response to the constructive dismissal, within a reasonable time (Motherselev v. Gulf Canada Resources Ltd).

Facts

Rebecca’s job was, however, terminated without issuance of ...

Soccer player Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima played for the national team of Brazil and some European football clubs. His professional career lasted nearly twenty years. Ronaldo was born on the 18th of September, 1976, in Itagual in Brazil. His parents divorced when Ronaldo was eleven years old and soon afterwards he gave up school to start a soccer career. ("Ronaldo Biography") Without a doubt, Ronaldo is one of the perfect players of all times. He is called the Phenomenon because of his incredible ability to score goals. He had his own unique attacking style but he also helped ...

After more than two hundred years of the first publication, the heroic poem about the adventures of Beowulf is still of high interest to the public. Not only do the scholars investigate Beowulf as an example of Old English literature, but a wider audience also finds this epic poem an important representation of Scandinavian culture. What attracts them is the fact that Beowulf is the only complete surviving text dates from the 8th and the early 11th century. The poem is indeed written in Old English language, but the stories take place in Denmark and Sweden. England is not ...

Everyone is acquainted to the notion of a teenager. In the American culture, there is the concept of a teenager, which determines the socio-demographic group of people aging from 13 to 20 years. This period of life is quite difficult for the teenagers as they are tempted by the desire to commit forbidden things and even break the law. The reasons for this may be numerous as the social group of teenagers is a complicated notion that demands special attention both from the parents and the state government. Every year juvenile delinquency increases largely and there should be observed ...

Many people know that professional athletes receive excellent salaries that are hundred times higher than the average wages of average workers. Someone dreams of such income, someone else might claim that professional athletes are overpaid. Moreover, there are people who believe that professional athletes should receive more money than it is now. Where is the truth, and is the professional athlete`s salary is fair? This paper will answer these and some more related questions. It must be said that there is almost no sense to provide average wages among professional athletes in this paper because the salary can ...

Abstract

Myanmar (Burma) is blessed with a vast variety of renewable and non-renewable resources. Among these resources is the forest resource which is a vital resource for the country due to its support of livelihoods and economic growth. The country is home to the world’s best quality teak which has proven a valuable commodity all over the world. The extensive logging by government authorities, foreign and private companies, and the local people has caused massive deforestation which has led to increased flooding, biodiversity loss, sedimentation of water bodies, water shortage, soil erosion and loss of wildlife species. The country ...

Negative Impact on Brand when using Athletes as Brand Ambassadors

The utilization of athletes by a brand to connect with the target market is with regards to the combination of the athlete’s skills in the sports, personality and the power to connect from an emotional standpoint. When done right it gives the brand great leverage to operate on a profitable level in terms of sales and brand equity, however, if a controversy erupts, it affects the brands reputation, given that most brand ambassador campaigns are based around the character of the athlete. Lance Armstrong is a classic example of an athlete’s negative activities impacting the brands reputation, ...

Women are neglected at many areas while it comes to the basic rights or sports. There are many women who have earned the highest success by hard work. The way of being a sport celebrity has never been easier for a woman. They had to face a lot of troubles at every step. The participation of women in sports is in a limited number because of the negative views of many people on the participation of women. The movie has provided a clear picture of that real scenario and portrayed the life of a girl with the dream of ...

Introduction

The pertinent question that confronts almost all Americans is whether healthcare is a privilege or a right. In the times of economic turmoil as witnessed during the 2008 global financial crisis, the cost of healthcare reached untamable levels. Some of the challenges of the crisis include the rising health care insurance costs in which case it compromised the ability of a vast majority of Americans to obtain affordable health care. Also, regulations hurdles from legislators have further complicated the issue by this question. In this regard, the nation's leaders have politicized the issue with inferences drawn from the country's ...

Introduction

Aravind Eye Care Systems is the largest eye care provider in the world. The hospital chain was formed in 1976 in Tamil Nadu, India by Govindappa Venkataswamy, a world-renowned ophthalmologist. (Ruth, 143) Ever since it was founded, Aravind has performed over 3 million eye surgeries and treated more than 30 million patients, mostly in India. The mission objective of Aravind is to eliminate treatable blindness and other eye problems by providing compassionate and high-quality eye care to all. To achieve this mission objective, the organization pursues its goals by strict attention to cost management, waste reduction, elimination of low-value ...

The largest banking merger in the Middle East

Introduction Mergers and acquisitions represent a type of change that is able to provoke different types of resistance. On the one hand, the resistance can stem from stakeholders, who may suffer from the formation of stronger business entities due to mergers and acquisitions. On the other hand, resistance frequently remains a domain of employees, who feel it challenging to adapt to changing working environment (Kansal and Chandani, 2014, p.209).

Attitudes of shareholders and competitors

The merger of the Emirates Bank National and the NRBD was free from resistance, coming from stakeholders, different from employees. Firstly, the government approved of the merger, perceiving it as ...

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Services and facilities were officially segregated and the law of segregation postulated that services and facilities were separated along racial lines. The fate of the blacks in the segregated South was defined by outright mistreatment, lynching and lack of the basic needs. That made them inferior to their white counterparts. There were a lot of prohibitions that marginalized the minority groups not necessarily just the blacks. The Chinese Exclusion Act that came into being prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country. The African American woman, just like other minority groups and their male counterparts were largely affected by racial ...

The human resource professionals and leaders are duty bound to manage and shape human capital by considering external factors and social conditions to improve the entire human resource process. The mission and vision of the organisation must be dynamic in order to drive the human resource programs and the entire human resource management system strategic. The strategic management of human capital means the human resource professionals or leaders should be able to align together all the essential factors of the HR system including recruitment/selection of employees, induction, training or mentoring, professional growth/development, evaluation or management of performance and salary ...

Achilles is perhaps one of the most well-known protagonists of human literary history, being the main champion of Homer's The Illiad. Born to the nymph Thesis and the King of Myrmidons, Achilles was dipped in the River Styx as a child in order to grant him immortality. The Illiad focuses on the Trojan War. Achilles is part of the Acheaen army, under the direction of Agamemnon. Although within Greek Mythology, Achilles is seen as an infamous hero, under a modern literary lens, it is difficult to understand the reasons behind their adoration. Within the first few lines of the ...

Preventable hospital re-hospitalizations are key quality and patient safety concerns. Statistics suggest that one in every five Medicare enrollees is re-hospitalized within 30 days of discharge from an acute care facility, and an estimated 75% of these readmissions are avoidable. Readmissions are expensive costing the United Sates (US) healthcare system an estimated $17 billion annually. The 2010 affordable care act established the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. This program offers a financial incentive to hospitals to reduce excess readmissions (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2013). In efforts to avoid Medicare penalties, hospitals around the country have implemented programs aimed at ...

Introduction

The promotion of wellness and healthy lifestyle among employees is one of the ways to enhance productivity in the workplace and also to ensure that employees are at their optimal level of productivity at any given time. It is thus appropriate to carry out workplace promotion programs on health related issues to sensitize the workers about potential threats to their wellness and sound health. Over the period, US citizens have experienced a series of mild and thorny health issues that are mostly acquired through ignorance and unhealthy practices (Joshua, 2010). Such practices have led to deaths and other severe ...

Introduction

This report is a human resource management (HRM) system design for Senaat Holdings, an agglomeration of industries headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This report will focus on creating a framework within which the HRM function of the company can be structured, streamlined and linked to the overall strategic framework of the company. The study will provide a justification for the existence and role of the human resource team and its activities. The report will be done in three parts. The first part will define the mission and strategy of the HRM function of Senaat and create a ...

Introduction

In this project, the Hearcare incentive scheme, we will be elaborating different perspectives that are to be used in it including the vision, background information, the methods appropriate to be used, and finally the analysis of the results. We shall, also, look at the set goals such as the sales set to be met after a specific duration by different stores or sale points as well as the rewards that will follow in case these sales are made or accomplished on time.

Vision and the Mission

The vision as well as the mission of this project is to ensure that the sales made ...

Obesity in Australia

Abstract This paper deals with the problem of obesity in Australia, which has been increasing through years and has a lot of negative impacts, notably not only on health, but also on economy and social sphere. The purpose of this study is to analyse opinions of the employers and employees about where the responsibility for addressing obesity lies and what obesity-related programs are expected to offer and are really offered in companies. The paper contains the statement of the obesity problem, reviewing of some previous researches, the evaluation of necessary special anti-obese measures in firms, significance of its importance, ...

Intellectual Property Rights and Their Practical Use

Intellectual property rights are a combination of civil law governing relations connected with creative activity. At the same time, the civil law does not directly regulate creative activities, because the creative process is beyond the limits of its rules (HG, n.d.). The functions of civil law are the recognition of the authorship of already created results of creative activity, establishing their legal status, moral and material incentives and protection of the rights of authors and other persons, who have copyrights (Cimoli et al., 2014). Copyright, inventive and the like rights are usually called exclusive rights, i.e., absolute legal rights, ...

INTRODUCTION

In the essay, “Censorship and the Imposition of Form”, Pierre Bourdieu begins with a definition for the word ‘skewed’. He states that when used in a grammatical context, it points to phrases which first seem to introduce a particular meaning, but go on to denote an entirely different one (Bourdieu, 1991). This idea is introduced by Bourdieu so that he develops a debate regarding the potential of language to establish authority, secure a powerful position, structure prospects for emblematic profit and establish limitations within a given field. Bourdieu writes that censorship is never quite as perfect or invisible as ...

Genetic engineering has made significant strides in the treatment of different diseases. Technologies that are employed in genetics have been growing in efficacy in the recent years, and they hold promise in the treatment of diseases proved difficult to treat in the past few decades (Bess 56). In addition, these technologies have opened new avenues in which people can make advancements to their bodies and minds. However, in the wake of genetic engineering, there are a number of problems that are cropping up. One of the most significant challenges is perfection. Because of the great promise that genetic engineering ...

Amazon is one of the giants of the computer market and is known to be the Wal-Mart of the web. It was predicted to be soon crushed by B&N after its launching; but it has become the most successful e-tailers of web and is doing the crushing itself (Amazon: The Walmart of the web, 2011). In order to compete, Amazon has focused on the pricing strategy as it believes to make the customers cheerful by providing them cheaper stuff. It has a superior business model where the technology is combined with the logistics company (Magee, 2011). It’s competitive pricing ...

According to Michael, “Flash Boys” is all about how another group of venture firms has schemed with the financial firms and the stock traders to utilize sophisticated programming calculations to skim pennies. The group skim money from the genuine financial specialists who give value cash flow to the economy. Michael narrates a story through diverse cast of characters who come to comprehend this cutting edge scalping operation, and attempt to do something to defeat it.

The ethical champion in Flash Boys is Brad Katsuyama, an exceptionally well-paid stock merchant at the Royal Bank of Canada, who evaluated that the ...

1. The two implementations had a number of similarities while also maintaining a few significant differences. The implementation of OILCO's system required significant changes to be made to the company's core business processes. The implementation required the company to change the way it went about its business, and to ensure that everything went smoothly, ERP's processing methods had to be closely replicated and matched. However, even though the company understood that it had to make significant changes to its core business processes, there were steps taken to ensure that the existing business process were not entirely discarded and ...

Comprehending the effects of cultural disparities among the members of the project team is gaining prominence in the purview of project management. Given this era of heightened globalization, people are increasingly interacting with other people from different cultural backgrounds. Each organization has its unique culture, which is defined as

“A system of shared assumptions, values and beliefs, which governs how people behave in organizations” (Anbari et al., 2014, p. 2). The organizational culture has overly influenced the organization’s staff and dictated the manner in which they perform tasks. In other words, the organizational culture provides the ...

High Costs of Cancer Medications

In this paper, the plan of action to be followed in addressing the problem of high costs of cancer medications will be outlined and its components described. The following aspects will also be addressed in the paper, my personal role in the plan of action, anticipated barriers and contingency measures for addressing these barriers, and the role of technology in budgeting and nursing management contingent to the plan.

Plan of Action

Based on the findings of the literature review and interviews of two senior hospital administrators, the following measures for addressing the problem of ever-escalating costs of cancer care will be instituted:

Clinical Care Pathways

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Oil and natural gas plays an important role in defining the political and socio economic status of Saudi Arabia, with the country taking the leading position as the leading producer and distributor of oil and other petroleum products in the world. Since the discovery of crude oil in Eastern part of Saudi Arabia in 1938 by the Standard Oil of California (SoCal), the economic status of the country changed tremendously as the source of government revenue was shifted from the levies collected from the pilgrimage to mecca, to mass exports of oil. The need to have a majority share and ...

a. Explain the basic steps in the planning process. Strategic planning is an important tool applied in business management as well as other fields in order to achieve a specific objective and implement an important action plan. The strategic planning process involves a number of basic steps as discussed below. These steps begin with planning and preparation and end in the implementation and review of the strategic plan. The first step in the planning process is preparing goals and objectives of the strategic plan. Goals and objectives serve as the guidelines for the planning process. Goals and objectives provide ...

If I had to choose a legend in the world of boxing, this title would definitely belong to Muhammad Ali, as no other person stayed even barely close to the great man of all times. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” is an expression, that became Muhammad Ali’s calling card, and later was developed into a boxing tactics for many amateurs and professionals. The story of Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (Muhammad Ali’s real name) is not a legend of a boy from a poor family, who decided to use the help of professional sports in order to avoid poverty. His parents ...