Essays on Crisis

1. Considering what is known about the teenage brain and sexual development, are messages of "just say no" likely to be effective when it comes to drug use and sex? Why or why not? Be sure to explain your answer. Please note your answer should make reference to both adolescent brain and sexual development. (3 points)
The adolescent brain is considered to be more similar to the brain of a child than an adult. Its development is a work in progress. Adolescents don’t perceive things in the way adults do. Their brain is filled with curiosity about the Continue reading...

The story by Don DeLillo is about two teenage girls appearing on a kids’ television channel. The setting is in a minimum-security prison in Dubai, where criminals charged with financial crimes are rehabilitated. One of the criminals happens to be the father of the teenage girls who are presenting the market news and reports. Issues of financial market and financial reports that the girls are reporting on are too advanced for them. Observing the very first show they present, we understand that they have no understanding of what they are presenting; they have been given scripts with the reports, Continue reading...

Macroeconomics 2301

18.04.2014

HCC

Spring 2014
8 week course
The world’s economy has faced several periods of crisis during the last twenty years. The financial crisis in 2008 is the one that is most recent. It emerged in the United States and then spread to Europe, later affecting the rest of the world. The most problematic sector in the US was the mortgage sector, and was one of the main causes leading to the financial crisis. The house prices have been rising from 1998 to 2006, prompting home builders to construct more new houses every year, but these injections helped rising Continue reading...

Identity Crisis is a fundamental step in finding out a person’s sense of direction and belongingness. An adolescent who are equipped with a proper sense of identity may find it easier to transition from puberty to adulthood. It can be both psychological and social. A young person must somehow identify himself with the community he belongs to.
Personally, I have undergone the same experience with identifying myself to a particular group. In my school before, there are particular cliques and school organization that makes a sense of belongingness of that person. In school, there are different groups. There Continue reading...

Thesis

The global financial crisis was a period during which downturns were experienced in the stock markets, economic activities as well as losses in the housing market all over the world. During this period, banks had to be bailed out by national governments and consumer wealth declined significantly. The result was a major recession between 2008 and 2009 .
This paper looks at the global financial crisis in the world, its effect in the US and measures taken by the US to manage it. This financial crisis was experienced in the world in the late 2000’s and the US was Continue reading...

Thesis

Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles that begins with the deaths of two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices; their deaths are caused by their own swords in a struggle for the throne after their father, Oedipus, dies. Creon, the relative who takes up the throne allows for an honourable burial of Eteocles but denies Polyneices the same respect. He issues a decree that Polyneices’ body be dumped in the wild and no respect to be paid for it. Antigone, Polyneices and Eteocles’ sister, learns of the decree but goes ahead to bury her brother, Polyneices, despite the orders given by Continue reading...

Discussion Paper: Review of Egypt in Crisis

Introduction
After more than 30 years of authoritarian rule under Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has finally moved towards democratization – a theme that is highly apparent during the so-called Arab Spring that caused massive uprisings and protests within the nation in 2011. With resounding calls for the establishment of free and fair elections following the ouster of Mubarak, Egyptians finally succeeded in electing their first-ever democratically elected leader in 30 years, Mohammed Morsi. Morsi, a leader of the Islamic political faction Muslim Brotherhood, won the elections not through a landslide victory, but rather through a mandate highly skeptical over his opponent, Continue reading...

General Motors (GM) has a new CEO - Mary Barra. She has joined the multinational at a time when it is facing a crisis for selling cars with faulty ignition for a decade, which has resulted in accidents and deaths. Considering there is a global outcry, she must save the reputation of the firm by addressing the ignition problem. This will be crucial for her legacy as a leader. To remedy the situation, Barra accepts responsibility on behalf of GM instead of blaming her predecessors. She also appoints a global vice-president to deal specifically with safety issues and pledges Continue reading...

Introduction

“Energy crises, then and now”
Ever since the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, there have always been issues and rumors pertaining to an income energy crisis. Some of the issues that arise are always just rumors while others are real. My stand to these is that energy crises do really exist and the countries should place measures to counter attack this miss-fortune from happening.
Currently, all the major nations of the world are always discussing on how they will evade energy crises by taking control of the leading energy producing areas. Countries have also gone to go to war Continue reading...

There have been a lot of crises throughout the history: South Sea Bubble (1720), Cuban missile crisis in 1960s, OPEC oil price shock in 1990s, Asian financial crisis of 1997, Economic crisis in Mexico (1994) and many others.
However, the financial crisis of the 2007-2008 is said to be the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. First victims were the countries, which are the biggest financial centers in the world. Later, in a year or half, the rest of the developing countries started to suffer from the financial crisis that became global.
The term of the Continue reading...

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Summary:

- What the Paper is about
This study was done by four students from Department of International Business at Schulich School of Business (Bae et al., nd) to test how expropritaion incentives of controlling shareholders impact firm values during a financial crisis and the recovery period.
The results of the expropriation model ran for Asian firms for their 1997 crisis and Latin American firms for the 2001 Argentine economic crisis were aligned with the main hypothesis. The hypothesis called “expropriation hypothesis” posits that the value of firms with weaker corporate governance would significantly drop during a Continue reading...

Financial Markets and Institutions

Impact of Credit crisis on financial market liquidity
The financial crisis which the United States economy had to face during the years of 2007 – 08 was the worst of its kind. The banking system had not faced a crisis of this magnitude since the 1930s which forced professionals who belong to this field to question the state of liquidity of the system. The central role that banking institutions, and which the financial business performs as such, is to provide the public with cash, allow them to make deposits and invest their funds in securities or provide them with term Continue reading...

Introduction

Banking, financial, and even insurance-issuing institutions were badly hit by the global financial crisis that happened in 2007 to 2008. It created a serious domino effect that eventually took its toll on the U.S. Federal Government. The struggling dollar and U.S. economy—the world’s largest economy in terms of GDP, led to a serious wave of financial and stock market corrections that were felt globally, especially in countries whose economy is largely dependent on U.S. commodity and financial supply and consumption. The ultimate effect of the global financial crisis of 2009 was an increased uncertainty and negativity in Continue reading...

Introduction

Wal-Mart is one of the biggest corporations in the world and is known as an organization which changed the way retail industry operated with its phenomenal and path breaking modus operandi based on cost effectiveness.
The success and growth of Wal-Mart is a thing of folklore, however as said in Spiderman ‘With great power’s comes great responsibilities’, and thus Wal-Mart success is testament to the strategic planning and its subsequent execution and keeping in perspective the magnitude of Wal-Mart operations and its efficiency.
However, things seems to have gone sour for Wal-Mart, there are multiple reasons however in Continue reading...

Introduction

Russia’s wishes to have political control of Crimea are not a recent phenomenon but one that has been present for a long time. However, over the last one month, Crimea and Russia have been embroiled in controversy. This has resulted in the most reported-about East-West confrontation since that of the Cold War. This comes after President Viktor Yanukovic was overthrown in the wake of protests in Kiev, which escalated to widespread violence. The situation worsened when the Crimea Parliament, comprising of ethnic Russians gave a majority vote to join Russia. Consequently, the region of Crimea set a referendum Continue reading...

Introduction

While the world continues to deal with a number of challenges, the nursing shortage has become the new phenomenon on the list. Many countries are today faced with a dilemma as to how best nursing shortage can be addressed (AACN, 3). To some, the nursing shortage is an accident waiting to happen if not amicably addressed. One wonders what the problem really is because in the older generations, there were no shortage of nurses in fact there was plenty. It is critical to note that things keep changing and the timing of the events is what makes the difference ( Continue reading...

Global Financial Crisis (2008)
Development and Effects of Global Financial Crisis (2008)

Gokay (2014) argues that the main trigger that caused the financial crisis of 2008 was the burst of the United States housing bubble that had reached its optimum in 2005-2006. During the last decade, the government had prompted banks to provide mortgages to people that were initially viewed as bad credit risks. The prices of the houses kept rising and this made lending institutions think that price trend would continue. They figured that if people were unable to keep up with the mortgage rates, their houses would Continue reading...

The interview subject in this case is a job seeker who resides in the United Kingdom. The study seeks to find out how the Eurozone Crisis has impacted the job seeker because this economic situation has had an immense impact on the economy of the UK. The Eurozone crisis has been a continuing crisis which has affected a majority of countries in the European Union since the beginning of 2009. The crisis was caused by a combination of multifaceted factors which include; the financial crisis of 2008, globalization of finance, real estate bubbles, international trade imbalances, fiscal policy strategies Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper summarizes the key policies that were implemented by the United States Federal Reserve Bank in the period between 2008 and 2010. This time period under review presented a unique economic environment for the Federal Reserve and the US economy as a whole, due to the Global Financial Crisis which begun in the second half of 2008. This paper seeks to understand the key decisions that the Fed took in averting the deepening of the crises, and in steering the economy back on the right course. By and large, the decisions taken by the bank are to a Continue reading...

Central Financial Protection Bureau: Roles and Functions

Central Financial Protection Bureau is one of the new federal agency created during 2011 after its concept was included as part of Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act. In the wake of financial crisis of 2007-08, where many investors were left bankrupt after they invested in risky products without even understanding the nature of the investment, it was important for the federal government to establish an agency that could regulate financial products and also have supervisory powers to protect the consumers. CFPB has the responsibility to oversee financial products and services being offered to the consumers. Infact, CFPB Continue reading...

Letter of Transmittal

Designation, Department Name
Dear Professor Name,
I hereby submit a report requested on ‘’Major Reasons for Financial Crisis of 2008’’. In order to provide an authentic and resourceful report, I have referred to some of the best academic and research resources.

Regards,

Introduction:
It has been 6 years now since the news of bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers shook the global financial world. The intensification of the global financial crisis following bankruptcy and dis-solvency of leading investment banks, corporations, commercial banks, etc. had made the economic and financial environment very tough for the world economy. By early 2009, whole of the Continue reading...

- Introduction: Crisis Theory and Intervention
Society is not a place without problems. In fact, it is a place with a lot of it. There are a lot of categories of problems that exist and perhaps the most common forms of problem are economic, political, health-related, and social in nature. The objective of this paper is to discuss a case of Crisis Theory and Intervention, particularly the case of Ken, a 20 year old college student studying at the University of Southern California, who is showing continuously increasing signs of anxiety and depression after being exposed to a traumatic Continue reading...

Since the beginning of The Great Recession it is difficult to imagine an area of life that the economic crisis as not impact. It has thinned the wallets and bank accounts of many and even turned our attention away from once pressing matters such as the climate. Countless articles have been written about this topic in an attempt to make sense of this catastrophe and explain what is going on to the public at large. Two articles in particular make an attempt to explain very opposite ends of this chaotic financial spectrum. One attempts to shed light on household Continue reading...

Evil is a threat to human reason as it challenges the perception that the world makes sense. For instance, the Lisbon earthquake which occurred in the eighteenth century was manifest evil. In a study of religion and culture, Suzuki views evil as a matter concerning human cruelty and Maude Barlow as an extreme incarnation. Whether expressed in secular or theological terms, evil denotes a challenge about the world's intelligibility and it confronts religion with fundamental questions.
Scholars of modern philosophy argue that a demon, which is no less powerful than God, subject humanity to different crisis or terror and Continue reading...

Question one:

Developmental crises that demonstrate the normal evolution and growth of human beings where dramatic changes lead to abnormal responses
Situational crises arise in the case of extraordinary and uncommon events which an individual cannot control or forecast.
Existential crises relate to the internal conflicts which are closely connected to crucial human issues like responsibility, purpose, freedom, independence and commitment (Long, 2006).
Ecosystemic crises also entail disasters caused by human beings and natural disasters. The people find themselves in such disasters without their intention.
The founders of crisis theory include Rapoport in 1967 and 1970 who categorized crises into development Continue reading...

The global economic crisis overview

The global economic crisis has been recorded as the most severe financial and economic crisis experienced across the world. Up to date, its aftermath is still being felt. This global crisis is known to have heard unprecedented effect on capital and credit. It took offshoot from financial markets in the United States. The contagion and impact ended up spreading unevenly all over the world. In this paper, I am going to discuss the effect and aftermath of the global economic crisis on the VLCC market in Nigeria, basing my argument on variables such as flight rate, other books, new Continue reading...

Essay

Economic cycle includes four phases: crisis (recession), depression, recovery and growth. The initial phase of the cycle is a crisis (other names: Recession - lat. Recessus-deviation). At the time of recession, there is a decline in economic growth rates, and then, as a rule, direct reduction of output. These phenomena are associated with the overproduction of goods. At this time, the stocks of unsold products are dramatically increasing. There is a mass bankruptcy (devastation) of industrial and commercial enterprises, which can not sell the accumulated products. Because of the suspension of production the unemployment is rapidly growing, and wages Continue reading...

Question one:

Developmental crises that demonstrate the normal evolution and growth of human beings where dramatic changes lead to abnormal responses.
Situational crises arise in the case of extraordinary and uncommon events which an individual cannot control or forecast.
Existential crises relates to the internal conflicts which are closely connected to crucial human issues like responsibility, purpose, freedom, independence and commitment.
Ecosystemic crises also entails disasters caused by human beings and natural disasters. The people find themselves in such disasters without their intention.
The founders of crisis theory includes Rapoport in 1967 and 1970 who categorized crises into development crises ,accidental Continue reading...

Water cannot be created nor destroyed. The amount of water all over the world has been always constant for literally ages. So unless the earth contains much less water that the world population demands, the real global water challenge is allocation - getting the water to where people need it - and this is what the crisis is all about. After all, every single one of the billion world population needs eight glasses of water a day, and that is just for bodily intake. And no one survives without water for a span of days.

How does water use of the past compare/contrast with water use today?

Tracing historical origins of Continue reading...

Fred Moseley. "The U.S. economic crisis | International Socialist Review." N.p., 20 Jan. 2009. Web. http://isreview.org/issue/64/us-economic-crisis
In 2009, the U.S economy experienced its worst disaster since the Great Depression. The article discusses the causes of the crisis, how bad it was and the various policies the government implemented to end it. The major cause of the crisis was the decline in the rate of profits. The rate of profit declined from 22% in 1970s to 12% in 2009. This resulted to high inflations and unemployment rates, therefore reducing the consumers’ purchasing power. As a result, the government had to adapt Continue reading...

According to Thomas Kuhn, science normally progresses in four stages. The first stage is known as the Pre-Paradigm Science. This phase of scientific advancement is the science practice lacking a core set of methods or propositions. In this stage some the paradigms are somewhat vague and for that reason new observations can be accommodated since the indefinite form of the paradigm does not clearly define what are acceptable or unacceptable outcomes. Discovery takes place as an outcome of the more or less random observations made and employed to create a paradigm view that is more structured.
The second stage Continue reading...

Management

IMF gives a warning that much efforts is needed by banks to lower their risks
The article is talks about the alerts made by that the International Monetary Fund for banks to come up with solutions to their own problems. It is said that, “when you fail to plain, you plan to fail.” The article’s author is Douwe Miedema and the source is Bloomberg BusinessWeek newspaper. In the paper below, the crisis of bankruptcy in big banks is discussed and their over dependency towards the government. The paper goes further to discuss the improper handling of taxpayers’ money Continue reading...

The article “Democracy under Pressure” published by Serge Schmemann on the 4th of December, 2014 in the New York Times gives an account of the diverse governance models of the world, especially the United States. The present economic models that favor the middle class become a threat to the Western liberal democracy. The newer democracy plagued with unpredictability and corruption is the major reason for economic turndown in the United States . Democracy actually means “rule by the people” (Greenberg & Page, 1996, ch1, p. 17). It is important that the American population involves in the democracy and works vigilantly to Continue reading...

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The world witnessed and experienced a great debt crisis during the 1980s whereby Latin America and several other regions became highly indebted. As these regions were not able to repay the loans, they asked for aids and monetary help to get out of the great crisis. There was further explosion of the problem in 1982 when Mexican government declared its inefficiency to pay its international debt. The same problem spread to other regions as well. Thus, it would not be incorrect to state that the 1980s was a terrible era for a majority of countries in Continue reading...

The great depression refers to longest economic crisis that was witnessed in the west. The great depression is attributed to the downfall of the Wall Street in the United States where there was a dramatic fall of the stock market. The crisis was so intense that it led to the elimination of well-established investors who had put their resources into different business in the country. The crisis led to a decrease in sales; the number of investors and there was a high unemployment rate since most organizations were forced to lay off workers (Robbins 24). This is because, in Continue reading...

Introduction

Ancient societies existed through a lot of strife politically, economically and socially. This essay explains issues in relation to the creation of a better world through the eyes of Confucius and Socrates. It also examines the crisis of the third century in the Roman Empire as well as the feudalism. States and Empires managed to overcome their challenges through socio-economic, as well as political reforms.

Creation of a better world

Confucius, the most significant Chinese philosopher, believes and teaches that the nature of men is the same but their habits separate them. He also believed that one should not do to others that which Continue reading...

The Challenges faced by the European Union

This paper discusses two specific challenges that the European Union (EU) is facing currently. One is the democratic deficit and the second challenge is the euro crisis.
The ‘democratic deficit’ can be defined principally as the disagreement regarding the lack of democracy in the European Union as well as in several of its other bodies. It is apparently claimed that due to this democratic deficit, the European Union and all of its other bodies are unapproachable to the common people as their functioning methods are extremely complex in nature.   At each and every single stage of the process of Continue reading...

The Death Crisis

Death paves the way to several crises. In the criminal justice, crisis is also an indication of the death. The death crisis is increasing, and this increase is continued since 1980. In 1980, the number of deaths increased because of various reasons. These reasons include suicide, murder, violence, substance abuse, poverty, sexual abuse, unemployment, teenage pregnancy single parent families, families having two working parents, and joint families (Steele, and Raider). Suicide is a major cause of death in most of the countries. Majority of people in the developed as well as developing countries commits suicide due to depression. In Continue reading...

The global crisis stroke most of the nations and the super powers. It started to show its effects in 2007 and 2008. The world stock market had drastically fallen with few profits. Nations such as United States had to come up with packages to rescue the situation. They had to assist the most disadvantaged nations by giving those finances that would sustain their nations (Shah, 2013). There was also loss of confidence by US investors after the global financial crisis. As a result, the US Federal Bank injected a large amount of cash in most of the financial sectors. Continue reading...

Introduction

There are certain laws which actually supports with the prevailing laws and regulations of economics, and among them there is a name of Economic Life Cycle as well. Likewise Product Life Cycle (PLC), there is a name of Economic Life Cycle (ELC) as well, which is one of the most important aspects that can deliver effectiveness to the market (Brinkman, Holroyd & Gardner, 2013). In the ELC, a country or an economy move towards a specific place and then went down drastically in the market. Most of the times, the ELC have been regarded as the economic crisis (Brinkman, Holroyd & Continue reading...