Essays on Haworth

Police Interviews are a fascinating form of social interaction, and one in which a power and control dynamic is instantly apparent. As one part of forensic linguistics, the study of language dynamics between an investigating police officer and a member of the public provides an important opportunity to study this type of interaction, and power dynamics in social interactions more generally. There are various approaches to analyzing such interview, two of which are Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. Using these approaches, and bearing in mind the context and ongoing importance of interview data, such interactions can provide linguistic ...

Within the first weeks of the Christian Evangelism activity, I was able to meet and become acquainted with Sean. Sean is 17 years old. He is living with his foster family in our neighborhood. I am not sure about his ancestral lineage but from our conversations I learned that his grandparents were migrants who were not very successful in fulfilling their dreams in the foreign land. He was entrusted to his foster parents who are helping him to have a decent living and education. Unfortunately, his foster parents are already old and they would usually leave Sean by himself ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

The Meaning of Strategic Alliance

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...

Logic & Argument

The paper is well argued. By identifying a host of factors under "How Did This Happen?" section, paper's author offers a detailed background on how current situation has developed. The argument combines effectively an analysis of sociological, legislative and gender-related factors contributing to current situation. For example, in examining a paradox of high education and unemployment for both married and unmarried women in modern Japan, paper's author manages to justify how, upon retirement of a growing number of senior working men, unemployed women have come to gradually replace retired workers and hence daycare center problem. The paper's author also ...

The process of becoming fluent in writing and speaking a second language is a complex process that relies on a number of influences; individual personality characteristics such as maturity, past experiences, exposure to the new language, learning environment, motivation, and natural inclinations to adapting to new skills are some factors that promote or hinder progress. Research involving experimentation, investigation, and empirical studies has been conducted to describe individual factors that influence the quality and speed of children’s learning a second language and will be examined. Some children are born into multilingual families with different cultural backgrounds and it ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work: Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

There are things without which life will not be worth living. Everyone wishes to create the best seller of his life story. It is exceedingly difficult to avoid all the storms on the way but if people try to find rainbows in every cloudburst, they will start a new beginning. Nobody would be able to make a change in life without freedom. The liberty to the soul of man has completely the same importance as the light to the eyes, air to the lungs or love to the heart. Freedom has many sounds: freedom in politics, in philosophy, the ...