Essays on Lifetime

Declaration This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “Gaining Strategic Advantage through Customer Value”, presented by me to the University of South Africa for the award of the degree of Master of Business Leadership is a bona fide record of research work which was carried out by me under the supervision of Dr Sidney Shipham. The contents of this dissertation in full or in parts have never been submitted to any other Institution of higher learning for the award of any degree or diploma.

Acknowledgement

I would like to express my gratitude to my study group members of the ...

Introduction

Throughout history many battles and wars have been fought, but many people and societies never realized that there are other effects on the soldiers and other victims apart from the physical effect. To this end it has been observed that mental effect is another result of the war with several researchers dedicating their time to look at the phenomenon in detail. Though a number of soldiers have had the strife of facing these difficulties which remained in continuity for the rest of their lives, it has been found that they have only recently received their answers along with the ...

Educational Institution

Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Student Name, Drugs, alcohol, mental illness, and death are not words people would readily associate with beloved Hollywood actor and comedian Robin Williams. The demise and death of a beloved Hollywood actor is always shocking. Underneath the laughter and movie roles however, Williams was facing private issues that could not be seen on the surface. Williams struggled to maintain his sobriety from drugs and alcohol and suffered privately with mental health issues. Williams ultimately lost his battle with mental illness and committed suicide in August 2014, where he was found hanging ...

Q1: Customer Lifetime Value' and ways to implement Customer Relationship Management Customer lifetime value is a concept used in marketing to predict the net profit that a business should expect in its entire future involvement with a customer. The concept does not consider the whole life time of a customer. Instead, there is a cutoff point of approximately three years. If a business needs to do marketing plan that involves revenue consideration beyond three years, the process will require a more in depth examination than what customer lifetime value calculation can provide. The customer lifetime value calculations also do not include the previous contributions of a customer ...

In the article titled “A Lifetime of Student Debt? Not Likely”, Robin Wilson analyzes the issue of mounting student loan debts created by the ever-increasing higher education costs in the United States. Using various rhetorical strategies of logos and pathos, Wilson purports that the problem of college debt, as has often been widely publicized and criticized, is significantly misguided and it may not be as bad as most people think. There have been innumerable discussions and debates in many publications about how students are incurring huge loan debts as they get into college and how they are forced ...

IntroductionRegular long-term physical activity can provide lasting health benefits. People of all sizes, abilities, and shapes can acquire many benefits from just remaining physically active .Benefits of long term physical activities are not confined to health only. Being physically fit boosts self-esteem and confidence levels. Many people have over the years associated the need for physical activity or exercise with children and the teenagers. When adults hear of physical activity, they think of gym and other strenuous activities within the gym room .However, physical exercise entails less strenuous activities such as taking a walk or cycling. Research has ...

Fundraising practices have changed over the recent past with a majority of the shift recorded being the complete shift from transaction to relationships. In order to ensure proper fundraising, development and maintenance of long-term relationships with donors should be enhanced. The relationships maintained may be either aimed at one time donation or lifetime relationships to enhance better donor relationships. With the complete shift from transaction to donor relationship management approach, it should be more than playing with words. There should be a concise strategy to ensure better donation luring modules that emphasizes on performance rather than the need to generate ...

The estate plan is intended to reduce the amount of both federal and state tax payable on the gross estate of the clients. The estate plan seeks to develop efficient gifting plans by the clients to specific beneficiaries and effectively reduce the amount of tax that is payable from the gifting plans to the minimum. The estate plan should enable Rich distribute his estate to all his beneficiaries without any conflict of interest arising from the remarriage of his wife after his death. The estate plan seeks to revise the client’s will to be more effective and ...

The human population has had lengthy struggles trying to understand cancer. It has baffled many as it represents itself in numerous forms, and its features are exceedingly varied. Cancer requires specialist aggressive prognoses, innovative approach to its management, and early and fast response to it treatment. All these have dire economic implications to patients and their families. It is possible that a single type of cancer may behave entirely different in two patients presenting the likelihood of two types of diseases (Mukheerjee, 2010, p.1). There is no uniform theory regarding cancer that gives the common characteristics of various types of ...

As Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc., Jobs met many ups and downs as a good leader. Throughout Apple’s history, such as when they Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne have just started their business in 1976 in the garage of Jobs’ foster parents, years later, they were a success. It only proves that with the right mix of leaders, they can start a company that will later on live with its vision. Apple Company had since then continued to hire many highly talented, creative, and innovative people (e.g., Mike Scott, John Scully).

With Jobs’ leadership and the highly competent ...

Introduction

Sexual assault of women is a pervasive crime that exerts significant influence both on the lives of women, who become victims of gender-based violence, and the communities, where these women live (Klump, 2006, p.67). Sexual assault against women is epidemic to American culture (Miller, Markman and Handley, 2007, p.129). A woman can face a sexual assault both in childhood and adulthood. Different kinds of both physical and mental diseases tend to be prevalent in women, who have experienced sexual assault or another kind of gender-based violence in childhood or adulthood. The women also tend to report specific emotional conditions, such as ...

Importance of Physical Fitness

Importance of Physical Fitness Physical fitness is the aptitude in which the body can handle day-to-day responsibilities at varying difficulty tempos and levels. Noted historians have suggested emergence of several diseases that have occurred in 19th and 20th century, which were absent before. In their perspective point of view, they feel that long time ago people involved in manual day activities that placed their bodies in fitness conditions. However, with invention of automated machines to replace daily activities of man, this subject has not been placed to practice hence body systems have become weak and susceptible to certain ...

Considered to be among the most renowned Classical music, Ludwig Van Beethoven’s compositions have been attributed to multiple facts. For instance, Beethoven’s biography narrates hardships the composer had to overcome during his lifetime. Consequently, whilst his music is appreciated in genres outside classical music, debates emerge on the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven. The most prominent subject of said debates is the musician’s heritage. Whereas some argue the man to be white because of his German citizenship, others refute the claims. According to those against the ideology of Beethoven being white, “there has been a conspiracy on ...

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays social and economic development is characterized by the increasing role of the human factor. Today, human capital role takes on a new meaning. In business, it is the main criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of any company in achieving competitive advantage and ensuring qualitative parameters of economic growth, defined as the set of natural innate abilities, talents, creativity, moral, and psychological health; accumulated and improved as a result of investment knowledge and professional experience necessary for purposeful activity in certain sphere of social reproduction, bringing in the income to the owner. Moreover, analyzing human capital it is necessary to pay ...

Abstract

This paper first examines the factors contributing to the widening of the income distribution in the United States. It then explores the theories and trends in income distribution based on the macroeconomic and other indicators that have affected the distribution of income in recent decades. We found that the impact of inequality of income distribution affects the economic growth. The widening of the income distribution has contributed to a critical assessment of government policies. The paper also cautions the trend in the distribution of household income in the period between 1976 and 2007 based on the Gini index. Similarly, education ...

ABSTRACT

Higher education costs have increased greatly in the last thirty years, in part because of increased federal and state spending and growing enrollments. In the recent recession, though, high unemployment and student debt among graduates have raised questions whether a four-year degree is still worth the investment. In certain fields, particularly science and technology, university graduates will have higher lifetime incomes than those with high school diplomas, but this is not the case for those with liberal arts degrees. Universities have been reluctant to change their policies in an era of reduced public spending, despite government demands for lower costs, ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

According to life-cycle hypothesis of consumption and savings, an individual's consumption and saving is determined by the average of this individual's lifelong income. Individual, at the beginning of his life, do not earn any income, however, with an expectation of income in his total life, he defines an average spending. Because he does not have any income at the beginning of his life, he borrows money. (Negative saving or borrowing time) After he starts working he starts saving money and pays his debts from the beginning his life. After finishing with his debts, he saves money and makes ...

What is the role of offline vs. online ads in generating new checking customers? Is the mix right? How about the weight of where the budget is allocated? The role of offline advertising is to build brand awareness and improve consideration among potential customers to open new checking accounts (Gupta, 2012). Changing the name of the bank to BBVA Compass resulted into drop in brand awareness to 48% in 2009. Using offline advertisement would help the company to raise its brand awareness to 53%. The bank planned to achieve this growth through sponsoring WNBA, NBA, and ESPN. Through ...

The lives of individuals are characterized by a variety of processes which work together in ensuring growth and development is accomplished; life-span perspective suggests that the processes occur all through from birth to death. This is a view that has been adopted by modern developmental psychologists contrary to the view that study of developmental processes should focus on the period from birth to maturity. Development is considered a continuous process which results phenotypic characteristics of an individual; this process occurs through cell differentiation within the body. In order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of life-span human development, it is important to grasp the ...

According to Mayer (2007), “personality is a system of parts that is organised, develops, and is expressed in people’s actions”. The ‘system of parts’ would mean components of self that include emotions and motivations. Personality is, thus, a complex whole formed by intersection of various external and internal factors. It is a gradual process of development. While some researches have considered personality as stable and consistent, recent researches suggest that personality develops during a person’s lifetime. The following section discusses some of these recent researches.

Personality Development Studies

Personality development is a complex process. Different researchers have explained this process in different ways. This section ...

What would be the present without the future and the future without the dreams? When you save, your savings can bring you closer to your gigantic future dreams. I already recognize that to fulfill one’s imagination a person should make only one step at a time. In financial terms, all your lifetime gradual savings can make you rich and the life you live pleasant. Wealth creation is all about the person’s lifetime savings project. It should deal with money for retirement, paying off the house one hundred percent and saving to fulfill your cherished dreams. Such a shift is ...

- One of the distinctions made in business is between high value and low-value customers. However, a customer can move from one definition to another through a number of ways. One of them is increasing the sales for every existing customer. This is through up-selling or cross-selling, with caution not upset customer relationships. Another way is retaining existing customers for longer. While there are many approaches to achieving this, the primary goal is to keep the customer for longer as it is economically cheaper compared to recruiting a new customer. Alternatively, a customer can move from one definition to another by lowering the ...

1.0 Introduction

When the concept of green building emerges, environmentalists and researchers automatically assume the solutions lie on materials and their constituencies in buildings they are part of and the lifetime of the building. Exterior material directly in contact with the environment and natural elements may enhance the sustainability of the building, but may greatly impact the functions of nearby ecosystems. Hence building sustainability and environmental maintenance are not exactly interchangeable, and yet these terms are often utilized mistakenly. The pioneers of environmental constructs are not confirmed, although architectural historians suggest they date back prior to Ancient Roman times. Architects took ...

The poem of Emily Bronte entitled “Love and Friendship”, the poet compared love to a wild rose-briar, and friendship as a holly tree. Although the poem tells the readers that love is more beautiful physically because it was compared to a flower that is beautiful to look at, compared to friendship, represented by holly tree. It symbolizes that friendship will last longer, compared to love because just like a wild rose, the flower will wither and die, until a new flower blossoms again. However, friendship is like a holly tree which is by nature sturdy, strong and can last a lifetime. Love just like a rose, can ...

Overview of the Health Issue

There are four lifetime stages of alcohol use (Swendsen et al., 2012). These include use, regular use, abuse without dependence, and abuse with dependence. Similarly, there are four lifetime stages of illicit drug use. These include opportunity to use, first drug use, drug abuse without dependence, and drug abuse with dependence (Swendsen et al., 2012).Data from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) showed that 59.8% of the sample had alcohol use at some point in their lifetime. The prevalence was 78.2% among adolescents aged 17 to 18 years and 42.5% among those aged 13 to 14 years old ( ...

Background and Abstract

Hypertension is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality not just in the United States but also in other developed and developing countries. Moreover, the cost of addressing the medical and health care needs of patients diagnosed with hypertension are often serious; and when that gets coupled with the high volume of patients being diagnosed with the disease, the effects of the problem on health, on a national level, would be magnified. Patients diagnosed with hypertension (i.e. high blood pressure) had to undergo a thorough screening procedure that may include regular blood pressure measurement, electrocardiogram (EKG, ECG), and echocardiogram ...

One of the serious challenges that many nations face in their attempts to boost the economy is alcoholism and drinking in general. It is widely agreed that a society with several alcoholics will rarely make any progress in the development sector. Despite alcohol being legal in almost all countries all over the world, there is a danger when the citizens indulge in habits that can be termed as overdrinking. In a way, alcoholic individuals do not work, hence relying on the working population for their upkeep. Most states have laws that regulate drinking. For instance, they regulate the hours within which the ...

Introduction

Before the discovery of Atget’s photography, photographs were not known as a form of documentary. Eugene Atget, who was an only child and an orphan from the age of five, started photography as a profession when he was forty years old. This is after he had been a sailor and an actor. Atget’s work was not recognised until later by an American called Man Ray who introduced his work to the world thus making it popular and famous. Eugene Atget is known as the founder of modern photography and street photography. This is because his focus was on the pre-French ...

In order for a company to succeed, it needs to exhaust all of its resources and information to maintain its level of success in the industry. If a firm fails to plan what it will do for the next year and what direction to move to in the long term, it will have trouble allocating its resources, streamlining its processes, and yielding the highest possible profit in the following years. Strategic planning is the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities. It can be achieved with the effort of ...

Christopher Columbus lived through the fifteenth century and completed four voyages through his lifetime which took him across the Atlantic Ocean. The history however is incomplete when it comes to his discoveries, and not empty of controversy on the subject of his accomplishments. The voyage that specifically connects to Columbus’s name is his discovery of America, but Alas! That claim has been under immense scrutiny as of late. Many historians contest that there was after all colonization in America prior to the time of Columbus’s legendary breakthrough. Some historians even go a step further to claim that the ...

Islamic Site Visit Review

Islamic Site Visit Review

Introduction

Islam is the second-largest religion, with approximately 1.6 billion followers and the fastest growing religion in the world. Islam is a monotheistic religion established in the 7th Century in the Middle East. The name Islam is a literal translation of ‘submission’ or ‘surrender’. The religion originated from the teachings of the holy Prophet Muhammad. The holy text in Islam is the Qur’an, believed to be the direct words of God revealed to Prophet Muhammad. Under Islam exists two denominations, Sunni, the majority, and Shia. Islam is a widespread religion, with its presence felt in every part of ...

Abstract

Marketing strategies have recently changed based on the emergence of more cost-effective as well as diverse digital channels of marketing. Traditionally, marketing entailed “P” strategies that did not play any meaningful role in the establishment and maintenance of customer-company relationships. Indeed, traditional marketing strategies are considered to be based on assumptions that: Customers ought to avoid the responsibility of making decisions; customers are often passive and ought to be pushed as a result; customers often have great difficulties in the learning process; and that customers rarely use – or do not use at all – imagination. These general assumptions normally create a “push-based” ...

Abstract

The paper looks into an analysis of “The Dream” by Pablo Picasso and why this art work should be considered an example of "new media art". There are details in the essay regarding the artist, his bio, and the history and controversies related to the artist and his work. Most importantly, the essay looks into as to why the work of the artist and his practices are an example of "new media".

Introduction

There is no denying that the artistic genius of Pablo Picasso has influenced the modern and contemporary art and in unequaled scale. His creative output comprises of ...

Negative Effect of Obesity on the Economy in the United States

Introduction Obesity has become a crisis in the American society with statistics showing that two-thirds of the adults in the population are obese. Children too have not been spared. Over the past estimated two or three years, there has been a substantial and unreasonable increase in the number of obese children in different states across the country. Obesity has been accrued to many things, but diet forms the top concern. The cost effectiveness of unhealthy food makes it the first choice for people. Such foods include the fast foods that form part of the rationale behind the culture of the ...

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soul mate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soul mates, which takes a lifetime to perfect, ” said Criss Jami in Venus in Arms. To say that I had waited for my soul mate for a lifetime would be a falsehood; it would be closer to the truth to say that he was always loitering in my thoughts, though I knew not who he might be. I was a sophomore student in my medical college. One day a young man, ...

Introduction

Divorce refers to the legal dissolution of a marriage. Divorce can be considered as one of the major life-changing experience that can cause stress and trauma within the family. Aside from the psychological effect of divorce, it also affects the finances, living arrangements, household chores, schedules of family members and even their relationships. In most of the divorce cases, it is usually the children who suffer the consequences of divorce which can deeply affect their overall development. Marital separation and divorce have been identified as the most challenging events in a person’s lifetime due to the stress that go ...

When considering my lifetime goals, it is evident that my current and future academic and extra-curricular activities have helped me to achieve my goals. My goals involve having a good college education and ultimately achieving a job that I like in a field that I enjoy working in. By participating in extracurricular activities such as various sports I have been able to prepare myself for these issues, which require a measure of discipline and self-determination. One of the most important activities that I have participated in has been all of the sports that I have been in, including soccer, basketball, tennis, cross ...

Q: Clearly identify the central strategic issue(s) facing the company.

Upon the careful analysis of this case study, it is revealed that the major strategic issue that was faced by The Fashion Channel was inappropriate marketing strategies to address the customers. The marketing managers of the firm have not identified a specific target market for their channel’s content. Usually, most of the viewers were females falling in the ages between 35 to 54 years and the firm lacks much data about the trends of its viewership. There were no details present for conducting a research about the likes and dislikes of the viewers because The Fashion Channel does not had ...

One of the earliest questions that arose in Christian culture was whether or not believers should even avoid sin. After all, if the purpose of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross was to free humanity from the eternal burdens of sin, what is the point of living an ethical life? The thief hanging on one side of Jesus at Golgotha received admission into heaven simply for declaring his belief in Jesus, right at the end of his life. Before that, he had clearly spent a life living far from the teachings of Christ; otherwise, he would not have received a death sentence ...

Abstract

The number of people being affected by various diseases that require them to have organ transplants increases every day. Meanwhile, the amount of donated organs is extremely insufficient to meet the high demand. There is also the problem of finding a donor match for a recipient and the need to take strong medications that suppress the immune system of the recipient so that the transplanted organ is not rejected. A solution to these problems has been and is still being developed, with laboratory-grown organs holding much promise. These organs can be tailor-made using the patient’s own cells or other cell sources, ...

Introduction

Over the years, it has been widely accepted that disparities in racial, ethnic and socioeconomic status exist in the population of individuals with convicted felony. Also, these trends have been found to be interconnected with each other. Various researches have been made to explore the correlation of these trends and the consequences of being a victim as well as the effects of having criminal record to the offender and to the society (Wheelock and Uggen, 2006, p. 1-2). For example, criminal sanctions and victimizations often result to a disadvantage that worsens their social status because of discrimination in the society, prohibitions ...

I – Introduction The developmental disabilities are group of conditions due to impairment in learning, physical, language, or behavior areas. The impairment of learning will be determined through the child’s developmental milestone, proper monitoring, and screening at early stages. Parents play a vital role of the interventions necessary for the development of a child and seek assistance from health specialists of the child’s condition. These conditions start during the developmental period of young children and have a great impact in the daily functioning, and it last throughout a lifetime. - Definition of Developmental Delay Developmental Delay refers to children ...

One of the most critical and tumultuous times in a teenager’s life comes when they beginning choosing a college. There are many terms on which to base college choices. Some choose a college based on distance. Others pick a college because of the major, or because it is known for its social institutionalization. Many pick colleges based on tradition while some base their college choices simply upon the fact that they were accepted. One small factor that many students tend to ignore is how the college is ranked, because they do not think it’s an important component. However, if a student wishes ...

Everyone suffers from guilt sometime in their life while some people suffer these bitter feelings for a lifetime. Guilt is a bothered conscience that occurs when a person commits an offense, crime or violates a moral standard or code. It is associated with the beliefs of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A person’s guilt not only affects his/her own life but also the lives of everyone involved. This particular emotion is the subject of my analysis in which I have chosen to evaluate the novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” written by a Colombian writer, novelist and journalist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...

ObamaCare is a name of the current president of the USA to represent a complex issue of the health systems I the US. Just like the HillaryCare and RomneyCare which was used to represent those who were in power when the health care issues or policies were being enacted. The Affordable health care Act was established to increase the affordability and availability of medical insurance by the provisions it created. This Act sought to eliminate the pre-conditions for a health insurance cover and the risk of being left alone by the insurance company once you are sick. The Act further proposed additional ...

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Abstract

Victims of rape and sexual assault usually go through a harrowing, traumatic experience both on the mental and physical level and so, the process of recovery is usually slow and gradual. Rape can occur irrespective of gender, though it is common among women. They cannot be expected to cope on their own and require support from friends and family members. The support group of the victim has to look after issues related to health, justice and welfare while the victim makes a complete recovery. This research seeks to ...

Abstract

Human Resource is an important component of an organization. Culture plays a big part in influencing the operation of human resource management. It is important for a human resource manager to be aware of different cultural nuances existing in the world to manage diversity in the work place. Before determining the effect of cultural influence on human resource management it is very important to view cultures on the basis of certain criterions such as power distance, individualism, collectivism, masculinity, femininity and uncertainty avoidance. This paper has highlighted how the predominance of these criterions has shaped the HRM practices in different countries ...

Critically evaluate the extent to which the culture of different countries affects the way that HR is managed. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least three different countries. The influence of culture is felt at every stage of Human Resource Management right from the selection and recruitment of staffing to training, evaluation, feedback and exit interviews. It is very important, therefore, to be aware of the differences in cultural nuances to effectively work in a culturally diverse organization. It is not possible to know every cultural norm of different cultures but an awareness of the existence of these ...

Comparison of Musicians

Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach were two of the most brilliant composers in the genre of classical Western music. The nationality of these two musicians is German. Bach was a composer who lived during the Baroque period. On the other hand, Beethoven was a musical genius who lived during the transition period of Classical period to Romantic era. Beethoven came later than Bach or was born 20 years after Bach’s demise. Beethoven looked up to Bach as his inspiration were he adapted the work of Bach entitled “Well-Tempered Clavier” in one of his musical masterpieces, and regards Bach ...

A museum is a place where objects related to art, Science, Geography and History are placed for studies .The Birmingham Museum of Art is among largest great art museums with finest collection of art in the world. It attracts many visitors a year almost over 1million.It has over a collection of 450,000 works of art, which makes it one of the most comprehensive collections within Europe. Buddhist art is among one of the most important exhibitions within the museum. I visited the museum to learn more about Buddhist art, specifically the image of Buddha. The Buddha image is one of ...

As mentioned in the case, HubSpot believes that the rules of marketing have changed. However, I would be of the opinion that the rules of marketing have “evolved”. With the emergence of technology and the increasing presence of internet or Web 2.0, there is strong increased competition among different channels of media to attract the attention of consumers as a platform to get information. According to a recent research conducted by Forrester Research in 2012, the average consumer of internet in the U.S. spends as much time on the internet as he or she watches TV offline. HubSpot noticed this change ...

The United States is a multi ethnic, multi racial society. It is majorly comprised of the Hispanic, African-American, Native American and Asian people. Since the country was founded, racism has been a major issue. An insidious problem it is because there is a battle about which race is more superior of inferior than the other. Racism has been primarily steered by the Whites majority directing it against the other ethnic and racial minorities. According to history, the white have always shown disparities that are of racial nature when it comes to employment housing, and criminal justice. Racial disparity refers to is ...

Structural Components

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which in 1996, replaced standard welfare’s food stamp portion of in-kind benefits, is a program that is designed to give temporary assistance to families who find financial hardship until they are able to improve their circumstances (Hirschl & Rank, 1999). The stigma of receiving benefits has decreased in the first five to seven years, since the beginning of the recession. With unemployment escalating, and many people running out of unemployment benefits before finding new employment, the stigma that had been attached to receiving food stamps is lessening. Food stamps are becoming acceptable as a ...

Introduction

It is becoming clear that the many practices that are seen in lifestyles today cannot meet sustainability in a definite manner. The planet is becoming small and more resources are not in a position to be produced. What is more, there are many inhabitants who cannot even provide the very basic needs that they need. The problem of the need to live with the limited resources that are there today with equal access to limited resources is one of the concepts of sustainable development. There is complexity in engineering and products; this has called for engineers to consider ways of approaching ...

1.0 Introduction

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of neuropsychiatric anxiety disorder associated with disabling and irrational obsessions and/ or compulsion. The disorder is usually caused by chemical imbalance in the brain triggered by conscious and un-conscious event in the memory. While obsessions include repetitive, intrusive and unpleasant thoughts, images, fears, doubts and words that can take various forms. On the other hand compulsions are repetitive actions such as cleaning, checking and counting performed routinely so as to ease their anxiety. People with OCD feel overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness with regard to stopping the feelings although they are aware the ...

Renting an Apartment Is a Better Option than Buying a Home

I. Introduction.

There is a common thought that buying real estate is better than renting a house. Is that a fair assertion or is this an opinion being cultivated in human minds in order to help real estate and insurance agencies blossoming? Is renting a waste of renter’s money? Is ownership an excellent idea of building wealth? Let’s consider the statement taking into account a few expense items connected with renting and buying in order to compare these two alternatives.

II. Buying a Home: How Much?

A. How to Buy?

First of all, to buy an apartment or a house one should have some savings in the bank or ...

Abstract

The current antiretroviral drugs have been efficient in the management of HIV by suppressing the virus's replication. It has, therefore, helped in changing this virus from a deathly disease to a chronic infection. The utilization of extremely active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) calls for a lifetime prescription to prevent viral rebound by reducing the viral load to undetectable low levels. This high maintenance of treatment and the various side effects of the drugs and non-HIV related morbidity have led to the need for a better form of therapy. There has been an extensive study on stem cell manipulation done to develop gene therapy ...

The following is a brief analysis and reactions that I can give about this informative journal written by Peter Haberl.

Analysis Haberl reports on the famous Olympic, a very competitive tournament usually conducted after every four years. He says that it gives participants an opportunity to be celebrities, get a lot of media coverage, get quick riches and become so successful. Therefore, according to him, an Olympian must utilize this chance to produce their best in this prestigious game. I think, they should understand that their opponents are also well prepared. He says that there are many classes of Olympians: underdogs, tourists, surprise and favorites. To him, he believes that all the US athletes must play the role of ...

Inferences and Assumptions

Two important aspects of reasoning are the usage of inferences and assumptions. An inference is a conclusion that is drawn (or made) from a combination of many factors. Many inferences -- or conclusions -- are drawn from underlying assumptions. Underlying assumptions are facts that are taken for granted, or presuppositions. If an underlying assumption is invalid or incorrect, then, by necessity, the inferences one makes are skewed, and do not reflect the reality of the matter at hand. Many people -- including myself -- make inferences based on underlying assumptions. It is a normal, healthy aspect of everyday decision-making. However, when one's ...

I can remember the first time I looked out at a sea of faces such as these, filled with ambition and hope. It was during my son’s school’s musical recital. The children were, understandably, very excited to share all of the songs they had learned with their parents. They had even thrown in some of their own improvised dance moves to spice things up. They were already leaders in their own rights. The teachers let it slide because creativity is still encouraged in some places in this dark, dreary world. They were so happy, and full of light. ...