Essays on External Forces

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

“We are what we eat; in the modern, western world, we are made more and, more into what we eat, whenever forces we have no control over persuade us that our consumption and our identity are linked ( Mintz, 1985, 211).” In his book, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney. W. Mintz takes a historical and anthropological approach to the production and consumption of sugar and in the process explains the place of sugar in the human food chain and how capitalism and market forces changed the status of sugar from a luxury item into ...

American Public University

1. Compute the elasticities for each independent variable. Note: Write down all of your calculations. The demand estimation as follows: QD = -3,500 - 150P + 30A + 75PX + 10Y. When P=300, A=750, PX=200, and Y=10,000. Placing these numbers into equation: QD=-3,500-150(300)+30(750)+75(200)+10(10,000)=QD=-3,500-45,000+22,500+15,000+100,000=89,000. Under given these numbers, we have 89,000 products demanded. Price elasticity of demand is [d(QD)/d(P)]/[QD/P]. Therefore, we take a derivative of the function subject to price, and we assume other variables do not ...

Introduction

Apple Inc. is a global company based in California, United States. The company is well-known for designing, manufacturing, and selling state-of-the-art personal computers, consumer electronic products, computer software, and cell phones in different parts of the world. It concentrates on providing its customers with the best user experience through its innovative services, software, and hardware. The company leads in innovation with iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and the Mac. Apple is the most valuable brand in the world. Apple Inc.’s marketing has played a considerable part in its success over the years. Consequently, the focus of the present paper ...

Identify the key external and internal strategic issues and forces impacting upon WGF.

William Garden Furniture is a small business that is owned and established by Martin William twenty years back. Since its origin, Mr. William is the managing director and sole owner of the business. William Garden Furniture principally serves the high-end customers and manufacturers up-market wooden chairs, tables, and benches for gardens. William Garden Furniture had fought very hard to develop a sound market reputation, and the underpinning factor for its success is its highly skilled craftsmanship. Unfortunately, after 8 years of its start-up, William Garden Furniture started encountering a number of internal and external strategic issues that are still ...

Abstract

Terrorism has in fact resulted in the need for understanding the underlying conditions, motivations, and the behaviors that facilitate its development and growth. Growth can be attributed to multiple factors that can be either from internal or external perspectives. There seems to be some form of connection that exists between the popular attitudes and the extremism that is a common place, and is now viewed as being the informational battleground. The link between the public and support either proposing or opposing violent extremism remains to be fully understood. The story is similar for the Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslā ...

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Business Strategy Introduction A business strategy is a means to which a firm uses to achieve its set goals and objectives. It involves the long-term planning of an organization. The plan is referred to as long term because it covers a period more than three years to accomplish results. The resources that a company holds are the primary concern for the form of strategic planning for the enterprise. The resources are mainly finances. For instance, the management plans on which project to invest in. For a production plan, business strategy occurs when the company encounters a business scenario like ...

Introduction

Costa Coffee is a multinational coffee company, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Founded by Costa family, the company started as a wholesale operation, working with specialist Italian Coffee shops. In 1995, the organization was acquired by Whitbread, who adopted very aggressive growth strategy, expanding the physical operation of Costa Coffee to over 2,800 shops across 30 countries. With over 1700 stores in the United Kingdom account for a major part of the total revenue of the company. Costa Coffee employs over 45,000 people and serves 25 million customers annually. Costa Coffee operations are complex, ...

SLIDE 2: American Nursing in the Past. Florence Nightingale was perceived by many as the

initiator of the nursing profession, but it actually started at prior to the Civil War. Men and women unofficially learned to assist in treating of the injured in wartimes, and female staff were trained initially in maternity wards. At first, “nurses” were exploited for any type of labor required in treating patients.

SLIDE 3: American Nursing in the Past, continued. With the advent of formal training

programs, nurses began to become recognized as valuable tools in patient care. After overconing racial and gender bias in the industry, nurse began to move into areas of care previously not anticipated.

SLIDE 4: Current Nursing Opportunities. Nurses are usually seen in the health care industry

as diagnosticians, planners, coordinators, and forces for positive change. Many careers previously closed to any ...

Interview and Proposal on Syrian Refugees

In the current world, there are many fights between governments and the within the nations. The conflicts have increased the number of refugees, and Syria is one of the countries that are currently experiencing the challenge. The issue needs to be solved to ensure the citizens live comfortably.

The government of Turkey opened its doors to the refugees from Syria to seek a temporary protection in the country. Before May 2014, over two hundred and twenty thousand refugees had crossed into Syria and were hosted in multiple camps along the border. As the number of refugees has continued to ...

Chartres, France

The monuments and architecture in ancient times allow talking and narrating about the historical background from the angle of time in which they were built. Through various signs, they inform us about the prosperity, decline of the reigns and empires as well. Thus, they are the major means of communication. They can tell us a lot about the economic, political and religious circumstances of the specific region. They also narrate the contemporary architectural trend. In medieval Europe, especially in France, the Gothic architecture was at its pinnacle. Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is one of the Gothic architecture examples in ...

Consumer goods and services industry “includes industries and companies focused on manufacturing, distributing and marketing finished products that will be used by the general public” ("DMOZ - Business: Consumer Goods and Services", 2015). Consumer products include small appliances, food, beverages, toiletries, cosmetics and the like. This sector is not only a large contributor to the economy and the gross domestic product of a country; it also channels money into the retail and advertising sector. The consumer goods and service industry in Qatar includes Zad Holding Company, Qatar German for Medical Devices, Salam International, Medicare Group, Qatar Cinema and Food ...

On a particular issue of importance to Canadians, do the media present a range of viewpoints or political positions or do they reinforce and reproduce dominant ideologies? Media play a major role in informing the general public of the current affairs entailing the issues that may directly or indirectly have effects on their daily lives (Carney 2008, p.18). In both the western and eastern world, mass media are recognized as the primary source of news, entertainment, advertisement, sports and recreation in general, and the education channel that aim to reach a large number of audiences. Media are deemed as ...

1. The Retail Failure Case 1.1. Introduction Current report sets out to discuss and analyzes one of the greatest failures in the sector of delivery and logistic services. City Link had been a big courier company headquartered in Coventry, UK. It was founded in 1969 and after 45 years of presence in the market, it went into administration in January 2015. The company announced its intention to enter administration on the Christmas Day in 2014 after clearing all its Christmas deliveries and it was a shocking as well as bad news for its above 2500 employees working in its ...

The problem statements are as follows:

What is the role of the teacher in motivating the students? REVIEW OF LITERATURE The Motivation – Definition and Interpretation Motivation means driving people ahead; sometimes this process of pushing is self-made or sometimes the people are pushed with outside forces. The basic attribute of motivation is to move people into action. It activates the people towards doing something. The purpose of motivation lies in its etymology. The word motivation is derived from the original Latin word movere, which means to move or be moved (Ryan, Lynch, Vansteenkiste & Deci, 2010). For moving something, some action must be performed. For example, ...

Question 1: What constitutes the organization’s general environment? How would this impact on decisions made by a change agent?

Organization’s general environment is all the external forces that either affects a department or an organization as whole. It is made up of technology, legal and regulatory, economic, political, social and ecological elements. It affects decisions made by change agents indirectly or directly. For instance, economic meltdown directly affects demand for organization’s products by lowering products demand. It can as well indirectly influence decisions made by change agents’ because of its linkages with the external agents. When the elements are high, the organization is restricted and thus becomes responsive Question 2: Through what strategies do organisations gain ‘ ...

Agency Theory in Supply Chain Management

Introduction

The agency theory has been around for quite a long time, but formalization of theory dates back into the 70s. In the past, there have been researches done on this topic such as the one done by Rechner and Dalton (1989) to examine the effect of management duality on risk and its effects to the share price. Others include but not limited to (Grover and Malhotra, 2003; Slack et al, 2004; Mabert and Venkataramanan, 1998; Pannirselvam et al, 1999; Selen and Soliman, 2002). In supply management, the agency theory implies that the retail chain is a series of agreements between ...

Abstract

In April 20; 1999.Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold launched an attack on Colombian High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 people and wounding at least 23 others before turning the guns on themselves (Pooley, 1999).This incident ignited a lot of interest in this area with several studies being carried out to determine whether a relationship existed between the habit of playing violent video games and aggression in the youth. Craig Anderson and E. Dill carried out two studies to examine the effects of violent video games on aggression and other related variables. A correlational design was used to examine the ...