Essays on Exchanges

Karen and Arjun understand that political ecology studies the complex relationships that exist between political, economic and social factors which influence environmental issues and changes. Therefore, political ecology majorly politicizes environmental issues and phenomena to bring about the aspect of costing and its benefits and how these affect environmental changes distribution. This field as received numerous contributions from various scholars who believe that the accumulation of resources or wealth is generally influenced by the interplay of economic exchanges and their implication on the environment. According to Karen Bakker in “Golden Road to Riches” she believes that the economic geography ...

Q. 1 The health care reform brought by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a fundamental influence on the social, political, and economic environment of the U.S. According to Rosenbaum (2011), ACA has raised Medicaid enrollment by 15 million beneficiaries and reduced the number of uninsured by 31 million Americans. However, economically, it has led to increased healthcare costs for small business employers and politically, it has caused political differences between Republicans and Democrats, with the former vowing to repeal it. Q. 2 According to Norris (2016), the state of Florida is one of the active resisters of ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Educational Institute

Research Objective The objective is to determine and examine the role of the stock market in economic development. This research would analyze data gathered and demonstrate the significance of stock markets in the development of economies. Insights would be gathered on what factors can support the notion that the stock market is an indicator of economic health and a guidepost for a better understanding of economies.

Literature Review

Kelly, 2010 The article is a direct expository address to the relation between the stock market and the economy. It focuses on the conceptual aspects rather than on the data and analysis and ...

An information system has four elements, such as: risk, advertising, expenses and record keeping. People risk every time they invest money in exchange. They also risk when they sell their shares. They can either win or lose large amount of money. According to the article, after offering Facebook shares, Nasdaq had some technical problems and cased many delays and chaos (Wallace 27). Lots of people lost their money and were very angry of that. Advertising helps the stock exchanges to do their job. Many people are looking for the income and they can receive it on the stock exchange, ...

Product/Products sold: Groceries.

Components of a Good Customer Service Environment Customer Service Expectations of Sales Associates Explicit expectations from the sales associates in the grocery store is to help customers with purchases by assisting them to identify groceries, inform them about the location of groceries, and provide customers with an incentive to purchase greater volume. Implicit expectations from the sales associates at the grocery store are informing customers about fresh stock, offering discounts to loyal customers and maintaining relationship with customers. Situational expectations of sales associates at the grocery store would include pre-purchase needs of customers and post-purchase satisfaction. Sales associates would ...

Executive Summary

Eldredge, Inc. is a major provider of by-product management services with the specific goal of performing these services in a responsible and environmentally conscious manner. With Eldredge’s multi-disciplined professional staff, field technicians and logistics specialists, Eldredge offers a complete spectrum of environmental services. Eldredge Inc. is headquartered in West Chester, PA and it provides services in the industrial, refinery, commercial, government, and utility markets. Eldredge, Inc. operates four main business units including: 1) Waste Transportation 2) Industrial Field Services 3) By-Product & Waste sourcing 4) Oil Reclamation & Water Treatment Eldredge’s facility is permitted to handle an array of ...

Discussing Modern Electronic Records, Online Venues and Mobile Devices

INTRODUCTION This is the 21st century, an era of ever-increasing advancements in the realm of science and technology. Year after year more advanced, more innovative and more efficient technologies continued to be developed. We see this in how many people rely on technological devices, like computers, “i-pads” or tablets and smart phones, to fulfill their job requirements, to gain an education and in their every day social lives. There are no major industries that have not developed or placed their dependence in some kind of technology, be it farming and manufacturing or banking and construction; the healthcare industry is ...

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans was first released in 1929, but the story itself feels as though it has been told time and again through the ages. In this film, a married man meets a woman—a dangerous, beautiful woman—who tries to lure him away from his dutiful wife. What begins seemingly as a crime story evolves into exactly what the title suggests: it is the song of two humans and their relationship to each other over the course of the film (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1929). It is important to note that Sunrise is ...

Introduction

Background of the Study The world economy is currently facing numerous challenges, ones that imped growth and continuous economic development. In reality, there is no such thing as a straight line when it comes to economic development, accounting, and asset management. If history is to serve as a basis, economic development, both on a national and international scale, has been and so can be characterized by a cycle of boom and bust . Based on the metrics that both accountants and economics experts look into when analyzing a for-profit organization, a bank, or a macro economy, the risk of being ...

Petronas, which is short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is one of the most profitable companies in Malaysia. The company is ranked among the largest corporations in the world on the Fortune 500 and is one of the most profitable businesses in Asia. Petronas was established in 1974 and is Malaysia’s fully integrated oil and gas company. Unlike other some countries where private individuals run the oil and gas companies, in Malaysia, the government (sole owner of Petronas), used its power and took control of the country’s natural resources. Since its inception, the company has grown and developed ...

[Institution’s Name] The United States has a high number of uninsured people. When these people become gravely ill, it puts a burden on the health care system because they must take care of them, but have no way to pay for it. So Obama and the Democrats, with little to no input from Republicans, pushed through Congress the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare. Obamacare mandated that everyone be insured or pay a fine that was to be imposed through the IRS. The initiatives of the ACA were to make healthcare more accessible to the public ...

In What Ways Were the Romans Heirs to the Greek Civilization?

Introduction There is a consensus among scholars that the major influences of the Roman culture were the Greeks. Among the major proponents for this theory are authors, Roy Matthews, Dewitt Platt and Thomas Noble; and the renowned historian, Eugen Weber. In their book, ‘The Western Humanities, Volume 1: Beginnings through the Renaissance,’ Matthews, Platt and Noble developed the idea that Western culture, which developed from the Romans, was actually a product of the Hellenistic culture that dominated the Mediterranean region in the past (Matthews, Platt, & Noble, 2010). Similarly, in his video instructional series, ‘The Western Tradition,’ Eugen Weber presented ...

Background Introduction

The paper explores four court cases where IRS has won two of these cases and the taxpayers an equal two cases. The main area of focus is on gains, losses and investments resulting directly or indirectly from these cases. The cases have been examined to establish the elements that influenced the decisions made. Also, the quality of the decisions made has also been discussed as per the tax returns laws and the IRS implementation of the same. Existing studies show that the agency has more likelihood of winning in cases where it has been pitted against the taxpayers in ...

Danone, founded in 1919, is a leading French multinational foods and beverage company. Headquartered in French capital of Paris, the company is departmentalized according to its products i.e. medical nutrition, early life nutrition, waters and fresh dairy products. The company operates in more than 120 markets with most of them being in developing countries. Being a multinational corporation, the company is listed on numerous stock exchanges including; the Euronext Paris and the OTCQX market through the American Depository Receipt (ADR) program. Since most stock exchanges have different trading procedures, this may lead to complications in the financial management of ...

Abstract

Immigration has been a thorny subject for the past centuries. The issue has been widely debated and talked about since the influx of the movement of people from their original home countries to new countries for various reasons. Immigration can be defined as the movement of people from their native countries to countries where they do not hold citizenship with the main aim of settling there permanently or to take up employment. People who often cross international borders to other countries to look for jobs or with the intention of settling there are called immigrants. Whereas people continue to ...

Summary of Thinking, fast, and slow by Daniel Kahneman

George Mason University Summary of Thinking, fast, and slow by Daniel Kahneman Introduction The author, Daniel Kahneman, hopes that the readers would benefit from the reading of his book, which is about biases of intuition. According to the author, it can be a tough choice between what we believe and what we want. Friends and colleagues help us in making and evaluating choices. The thinking process is one conscious thought leading to another. The mental work creates impressions and intuitions silently in our minds. We allow our beliefs, feelings and preferences to feel confident about our decision, even if ...

For this paper, the commodity selected for analysis is tea. The paper will examine the team market on a worldwide basis in terms of supply, demand, price history, market structure, and other relevant economic aspects relating to the commodity. According to World Atlas (1), tea is the second most popular beverage in the world. This implies that there is a huge supply and demand for tea globally. Globally, tea is a major import and export commodity. In most markets such as Kenya, India, and Sri-Lanka, sellers sell their commodity through tea auctions and exchanges. Sellers and buyers organize these ...

Abstract

Rural residents have different health care needs compared to urban populations. There are economic, social and cultural as well as educational aspects that impacts the manner by which health care is delivered in rural areas. As a means to address the different health care needs of urban residents, legislators worked towards the development and implementation of policies that are perceived to improve the health and well being of the urban population. Included in these programs is the adoption of better payment plans, the promotion of wider and more affordable health insurance, and the alteration in the health care delivery ...

China

1. COUNTRY

We have chosen China as a country for analysis

2. RECOMMENDATION We have decided to convert US dollar to Chinese yuan on May 24, 2016. The total cost in dollars according to this option is calculated further in question 9. 3. CHINESE ECONOMY OVERVIEW China’s role in the international arena has been growing in the recent years. Apart from being the most populous country with over 1.3 billion people and one of the largest countries in the world by territory, it has been experiencing substantial economic development in the past decades (Naughton 3). China is the second largest economy in the world after the USA. ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) became a federal statute in March of 2010 (H. R. 3590, 2010). The PPACA required that group health plans and health insurance issuers cover all applicants for health insurance without regard to pre-existing conditions or sex of the applicant. Dependent insurance is required to cover uninsured children up to the age of 26. The PPACA further required that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide a stipulated minimum standard benefit at the same rates for everyone. Subsidies were available for eligible individuals, small business, and families. Government subsidies were made ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the traditional institution of trade and economics among the Trobriand Islanders. The primary focus is on the symbolic interpretation of the acts involved in the kula ring and in yam production, display and distribution. The first section of the paper explains the kula ring and how it operated in Trobriand society at the time of the first ethnographic description of the Trobrianders by Malinowski in 1914. The second section examines how social hierarchy is expressed in trade within the kula ring. The third section looks at the difference between symbolic gift ...

Final Individual Take-Home Exam

Final Individual Take-Home Exam

Nowadays, technologies have eased the way goods and services are exchanged among governments and entities between two or more countries. Despite involvements in actual purchases and sales of goods and services between one or more countries, the IB 207 class simply imparts into one skills and knowledge, beyond and above normal business expertise, for one to manage an international business. One becomes familiar with international and country specific regulations, local customs and laws and strategies of conducting business while involving multiple currencies. Specifically, successful learners in this class are capable of understanding how management of ...

Context: Current facts about the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

On 23rd March 2010, the ACA was signed into law. It introduces health care reforms with an objective of improving the affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care. The ACA has helped more Americans to have accessibility to affordable health insurance. Medicaid has been expanded to reach the entire population (Protection & Act 48). Through the expansion, small employers who are committed to cover their employees are provided with tax incentives, and persons willing to pay for insurance are also provided with tax credits. Furthermore, the health care industry has been reformed to reduce the higher costs of health care. ...

Introduction

It is a cliché to say that the relationship between China and the world has become complex, multidimensional and interdependent. But that does not mean that we fully understand the complexity of the Chinese attitude towards globalization nor its interdependence with the world in general and the Western industrial democracies in particular, with the implications thereof. The thesis that we develop in this article argues that economic interdependence greatly strengthens Chinese authoritarianism in its ability to politically influence the attitude of States and civil liberties in Western democracies, rather than the reverse. It contradicts the usual thesis that Western ...

The paper looks at the UAE stock exchange industry and the mergers between DFM-ND and ADX. The article further evaluates the risks and the business implications. According to the article, the security exchange market has grown to be a potential investment for many people in the world. Large players in the market such as the NYSE look at mergers with smaller security exchange markets in order to boost their revenues. The public stock exchanges have moved to acquire models that are for increased profits and cost effectiveness. As a result, there has been a growth in competition between the ...

The book Cultural Map by Erin Meyer indicates the way and manner through which culture intercepts with the work environment. This includes an evaluation of what role culture plays in the workplace and this includes communication, appropriateness, persuasion, power structures, decision-making processes, trust, conflicts and the conception of time. This book shows how the average worker and the average organization makes use of cultures and how the globalizing world is going to have inherent issues with conflict and other cross-cultural dimensions and its related issues. The book shows that culture can be explained and presented to people with divergent ...

Introduction

As the modern day business sees the emergence of new capital markets with enhanced relaxation over foreign capital governance and raised flexibility of stock exchange rates, it is very important for academicians and industry experts to derive a relation between the foreign exchange rates and stock market fluctuations. This information is a key component for the international investors so that they can effectively diversify their investments with an adequate hedging strategy. Also, understanding the true nature of interrelation between the stock market and foreign exchange is also a must for the financial policymakers so that they can try to ...

An Electronic Medical Record is a digital record of a patient’s chart and it contains their medical history. The computerised system implementation has been unsuccessful in some health care facilities. In most cases, user resistance has been the main factor why the systems have failed. The advantages of the systems are numerous ranging from improved quality care, increased patient satisfaction, financial savings, and decreased time spent on paper records. The following paper will evaluate the benefits of EMR in matters of cost, quality, and patient satisfaction. Electronic medical records have a number of benefits like prevention of medical ...

Introduction

Following the drops witnessed with the overall prices within the oil industry, it has been recorded that majority of the dependent industries have been reported devaluation in both their asset bases and their stock items. This is the suggestion of the Bushee and Miller (2013) on presenting the oil industry as one industry that is heavily depended upon by a majority of the sectors within commerce and industrialization. Suggestively, this is true based on the use of oil within the manufacturing sector, the energy and allied sectors, the transport sectors, and production industries. With this highlighted, the effect of ...

Trust in Negotiation

Introduction Trust is a relationship that exists between two or more parties whereby the trustor gives the right to the trustee to hold title to an asset or property for the well-being of the third party (Docherty & Jayne 2004). In a negotiation process there exist two types of trust namely living and testamentary trust. Living trust shows effects during the lifetime of the trustor while testamentary comes through the will of the deceased individual. The study by Ury and William (1993) shows that trust can apply in negotiation if the party benefiting is under age or is mentally disabled. ...

Introduction

The technique of high-frequency trading has been around for years, but especially close attention and a new surge of interest in it arose after the sensational release in May 2010 of the book by Michael Lewis “Flash Boys”. In fact, it is hard to call high-frequency trading methodology a revolutionary or even new. Although now, talking about it, everyone remembers high-performance computers and automatic programs with elements of artificial intelligence, but if to leave these technological “tricks” and the terms out of the brackets, everything becomes much easier. Actually, we are dealing with a business model, when using a ...

The origins of Russian-American relations are deeply rooted in 17th -18th century. The first Russian emperor, expressed interest in a faraway country, was Peter I. In January 1719, surveyors were instructed "to go to Kamchatka and then where indicated, to describe those places, whether America converged with Asia". During the reign of Anne of Russia, Bering made two expeditions to those regions: in 1725-1730 and 1733-1741 years he was in the Chukotka Peninsula and Alaska, reaching North America. During the war the United States for independence in the 18th century Catherine II refused to allocate to the English King ...

Stock market is a set of financial institutions, the leading securities trading. It consists of stock exchanges, as well as a vast array of other institutions that form the OTC market. The increase of the value of stock markets in both the national and global economy, happened due to important functional role of these markets. According to the stock market there is a transformation of accumulated savings into real investments, carried out capital mobility between sectors and countries, and securities courses provide investors with the necessary information about the direction of efficient investment. World stock market is divided into ...

Introduction

China is one of the largest countries in the world. Its territory is home to more than 21% of the world's population. The economy of China is characterized by consistently high growth rates. However, the Chinese government faces numerous economic challenges, including:

• reducing its high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic demand;

• support of respective job growth for tens of millions of workers and creating new jobs; • reducing corruption and other economic crimes; • reducing harm to the environment and the growth of social inequality, which is related to the rapid transformation of the economy. Economic development was much faster in coastal areas than in inland, and approximately 200 million ...

Introduction

Growth of the online market and developments in online platforms have given rise to new media marketing, which refers to the use of social media, mobile platforms, and search engines to reach out to customers (Herman, 2011). New media tools facilitate exchanges of information between marketers and consumers. Easy transmission of customer information on the Internet has led to the issue of consumer privacy (Hann et al., 2007). Consumer privacy refers to the prerogative of consumers to be left alone or be free from unsolicited intrusion, consumer control over access to personal information they share online, and concealment of ...