Essays on Inland

HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) is a highly complex and large public service organization that resulted from the merger of HM Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue office in 2005. The British government depends on the HMRC organization to find several of their policies and wanted to implement lean to their taxation system. The revenue raised by the organization is in the form of taxation and it is used for funding the welfare state, armed services, healthcare, and other government spending areas (Beech & MacIntosh, 2012, p. 255). The new Department’s goal was to balance its three main ...

Introduction

Contemporary organizations in the food industry, including food manufacturers, distributors and retailers are looking for the ways to incorporate sustainable processes and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into the global and local supply chains. One of the critical elements of any operational activity is the logistics, which has a significant influence on the external urban and natural environment. Importantly, companies are becoming increasingly concerned with the negative impact of transport logistics and the levels of CO2 emissions in inbound and outbound logistics. This increasing awareness and focus of the companies on sustainable logistics practices is a result of the primarily ...

Natural disasters affect a large of people around the worked and this is rising because of climate change and the rising concentration of people inhabiting the areas that are more exposed to natural disasters. These natural disasters reduce the economic growth and a significant impact on poverty and social welfare, which affects the developing countries, and their most vulnerable populations. While natural disasters cannot be prevented, actions can be taken to reduce their human and economic costs. This paper looks at a large-scale natural disaster such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, the effect it had on the ...

Introduction: The Historical Backdrop

The Battle of Normandy, that was codenamed Operation Overlord, primarily involved the landing of American and British troops along with their western allies, who landed on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944 during World War II . The aim of this extensive operation was to transport infantry men, military artillery and supplies across the English Channel to France, which was to become the origin point for the Allied invasion of Western Europe, then controlled by Hitler’s German troops. Despite the lack of landing harbors at Normandy that would complicate the docking of the vessels upon their arrival at ...

1.0 Tectonic Setting of South China Hong Kong, which is located near the southeastern margin of the Eurasian Continental Plate (ECP), called the Cathaysia Block, in Southeast China, rests on a stable intraplate region of the ECP some 700 km from its nearest plate boundary, an area that underlies Taiwan and trends southward to the Philippines and northeastward to Japan (Pappin, Koo, Free, & Tsang, 2008). Although stable, this continental intraplate region has been associated with earthquakes in the past as it straddles the northeast-trending Lianhuashan Fault Zone. There are two major fault zones, which trends in the regional northeast ...

Rock Art and Human Culture

Koonalda cave is located in the southern part of Australia in the Nullarbor Plains. This locations is a significant study into human cultures in the prehistory periods, while it highlights the different associations essential to influence human development through art and cultural. The Koonalda Cave supports and helps the archeology community in Australia to relate the importance of the cave to the Mirning people. It is value is located and shared among its features of art and drawings or curving on the walls of the cave. It is through research that the community used the cave for art and ...

Introduction

Both Judith Carney and Rafael Marquese examine the contribution of African Slaves in the development and production of specific cash crops. Carney believes that the production of Rice in South Carolina is as a result of diffusion of agricultural culture from Africa to Americas. She argues that rice production was the culture of the West Africans far before the Portuguese explorers reached Africa in in the 14th century. Rice was the staple food among most of the West African communities. They used the mangrove swamps to create paddies and used canal irrigation to water the rice. The same methodology ...

Post Disaster Project: Prepare a Project Plan

Project description A disaster is natural or man-made occurrence, that causes immense damage to human life, animal life or properties, on a large scale. It creates the need for external human assistance to alleviate the sufferings of the victims, minimize their loss and return them back to a state where they can manage the situation independently. Sometimes, the damage associated with a disaster is irreversible and assistance can only help victims to adapt. A proper disaster management project can help foresee disasters and minimize loss. Preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation are the different stages involved in the management of ...

Is the U.S Southern Border patrol Effective?

Abstract The primary role of the United States border patrol is to detect and prevent illegal aliens from getting into the country. Furthermore, it also plays a big role in preventing human trafficking. All kinds of people with ill intentions do find their way into America. Such individuals are a threat to the security of American citizens. They participate in acts such as smuggling, robberies, homicides and murder cases. In fact, a significant portion of the prison population in America is composed of illegal immigrants. Moreover, these people become a burden to the government since they increase capital expenditures ...

Section

Executive Summary In this study, the city wanted to determine the economic value of the Sharp Park and the surrounding coastal trail. Instinctively, one may think of lost revenues, or possible income which may be generated by keeping the golf course. However, in the study, it has been determined that the amount earned from the golf course is actually much lesser than the amount required to maintain such. In fact, the city does not even earn from such property. The expense is greater than the revenues generated. But in the course of the research, it has been ascertained that ...

Executive Summary

The possible opportunities of offering educational solutions in the Indian education market are numerous. For this reason, the company plans to enter this market to exploit these opportunities. Specifically, it will sell tablets to the learners to facilitate their learning. The brand consciousness among the Indian consumers is high. The company will, thus, sell high-quality, state-of-the-art tablets to attract the target customers. It will distribute these products through the retailers and online. Additionally, the company will use mobile device advertising and internet advertising to market its products. It will utilize online interactive promotion games and penetration pricing strategy to ...

Geographic Regions

China is the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada, and it is located along the Pacific Ocean coastline in the Southeast Asia. The country covers 9.6 million square kilometers similar to the United States (Harbach et al. 2010). China is boarded by fourteen nations, which includes Laos, India, Korea, Bhutan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Napa, Burma, Tajikistan, Russia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. On the interior side of the country, China has 22 governing provinces and the most relevant cities include Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Xian. Shanghai is the largest city and is called the ...

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

Islam and Muslims have been viewed in the Western world negatively and the contributions they make to the society have been overlooked, following stereotypes that are attached to the Islam region (Akel, n.d). For instance, the Muslims are associated with “terrorist activities” and are often considered as people who don’t love peace by the Westerners (Akel, n.d). However, this is not the case. Islam and Muslims have played an important role and made many positive contributions to the development of the society (Australian Government, 2008).

Looking at the case of Australia, the Muslims have been playing an important ...