Essays on Meantime

Video in Opera Stage

Introduction Advances in technology and the corresponding creation of digital technologies have significantly impacted the performing arts (Poole & Ho, 2011). Opera has not escaped the technological advancements and as such, new forms of opera have emerged in both digital and virtual formats (Symonds & Karantonis, 2013). Salter (2010) explains that since the 1990s, the scenography of opera has emerged with technological advancements transforming stages into video and monitor accompaniments. The obvious payoff is an enhanced experiential, virtual reality of the opera’s stage. The new technologies blur the lines between the opera’s stage and the motion picture common in ...

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Under the social contract theories of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it was stated that initially a human being lived in the society without any government and there was no law to control his actions. As a result, various unions were formed to secure and defend individual’s rights, since lack of government and laws resulted in injustice and problems within the society. These unions aimed to protect individual’s life and property, and to make sure that his rights are not being violated. The authority or the government was formed under the unity called Pactum unionist and subjections ...

"Sorta Mom" is a commercial advertising insurance services of Esurance company. It was released during the Super Bowl championship season in 2015 on several social media platforms, including YouTube video-sharing platform. It can be found by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIey1MTsS9w . There has been much discussion about this commercial as it touches upon the issue of gender and stereotyping on the basis of gender. It portrays a careless and even reckless woman who stops by a school to pick up a child (see figure 1). However, she does not even care that this is not her child, stating that, "I ...

It is an ascertained fact that adolescence, that is typically associated with the teenage years, is a transitional state during which an individual is likely to experience numerous psychological and social issues which may lead to crisis situations. In actual fact, "adolescence can be a stormy period in which teenagers are struggling for independence, yet are still in need of guidance and emotional support" (Kanel, 2015, p. 119). According to Kanel (2015), during this transitional period, teenagers tend to "engage in self-destructing behaviors" in order to meet their special needs and requirement of society (p. 119). Crises related to ...

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There may be different views about the influence of social media on the people’s lives, but it is absolutely evident that in the contemporary world the types and modes of communication became sophisticated due to the rapid technological process. The launch of the social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Reddit might have been one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in the 2000s. In 2006, Time magazine recognized the importance of the social media and wrote the following phrase on the cover of the “Person of the Year” edition: ‘You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome ...

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Modern global economic system is a considerably distinct from the dogmatic frameworks of political economy (Mankiw, 2014). Professor Blanchard contests that extreme increase in production and substantial automation of the business processes have seriously changed the global economic landscape (2011). In order to stay competitive the companies have to develop and implement new business solutions, as well as they have to stay socially and environmentally responsible (Goldin, 2014). In addition, Gartner wrote that there is an increasingly important need to stay in line with the perpetually evolving customers’ preferences (2006), and the smallest disharmony with their predilections may result ...

The majority of historians argue that a new era began in the early 1990's resulting from the end of the Cold War era as well as the Gulf crises. In actual fact, "it was this new era of globalization, of a world being tied together by flows of investment, of trade, of ideas, of culture, of people travelling all the time" (Yergin, "Commanding Heights: The New Rules of the Game"). There is no exaggeration to say that "we are living through a revolution. The 1990's saw the creation of a new king of global economy - a single market, ...

Well-planned marketing is always vital for launching the new service. First and foremost, it is of great importance to build up the channels through which the company will communicate with the customers. There are great differences between the people of different ages. Internet will be especially helpful for communication with the young customers. In the meantime, the older and more conservative customers should be approached differently. Personal offline conversation is likely to be the most effective way of communicating with such customers. The same thing concerns advertising – online advertising should be targeted at the young customers and traditional advertising ...

In the modern era of high and sophisticated technologies, one cannot imagine his/her daily life without numerous technological developments and advancements of the 21st century. The prevalence of modern technology in society and around the world taken as a whole as well as its profound impact on every aspect of an individual’s life, including healthcare, education, and business activities, cannot be underestimated. Therefore, “technology, and the constantly new world it brings, is an abiding concern for human beings” (Hanks, 2010, p. 1). It should be taken into consideration that one of the basic purposes of modern technological development ...

The debate over unauthorized immigration rages in America for reasons of economics, sociology, politics, morality, and more. The United States is a country with a reputation for providing refuge for victims of persecution and economic hardship. The protection of people requiring humanitarian protection has been a critical component of the immigration policy of America. Considered the “land of opportunity”, access to employment, higher standards of living, political asylum, free education and health benefits, and many other factors encourage immigration to the United States. The detriments and benefits of illegal immigration is difficult to document due to an inability to ...

Being dominant in terms of economy, political affairs and military power requires a country to have a certain geographic location and a size that would allow achieving ambitious political and economic goals. Undoubtedly, for a small country with insufficient natural resources, little population, and large neighbors nearby it is very difficult to become powerful. In the meantime, even small countries may act as very authoritative international actors if they have several reliable and strong allies and the surrounding countries cannot harm them. In this paper, the importance of geography in making a country an economic, political and military power ...

In 1886, thirty four years before ladies in the United States had the privilege to vote, a visionary business person called David McConnell had the phenomenal thought to establish a business taking into account the reason of giving ladies a chance to get cash outside of the home and become financial autonomous. He didn't set out to make a delight organization. Indeed, McConnell was a voyaging book businessperson and offered beauty items as an extra liven to his female clients. He saw that these ladies were more intrigued by the free scent tests than the books and that huge ...

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Introduction A fifty-seventh quadrennial presidential election of the year 2012 refers to the United States presidential election and it was conducted on November 6, 2012. The independent candidates Barack Obama along with his succession partner Joe Biden were considered for another term. However, a big challenge for Barack Obama and Joe Biden was their significant contestants as Mitt Romney along with his succession partner Paul Ryan. All of the stated individuals had performed the duties of the executive public positions. Even though numerous chief media establishments declared that the ...

CONTENTS I. Introduction 3 II. Factors, Behind Huawei Decision to Enter the Canadian Telecommunications Market 4 (a) Political Environment in Canada 4 (b) Economic Environment in Canada 5 (c) Legal Environment 6 (d) Technological Environment 6 (e) Environmental Profile 6 III. Huawei Response to Competition in Canada 7 (a) Bargaining Power of Suppliers 7 (b) Bargaining Power of Customers 8 (c) Competition Intensity 8 (d) Threat of Substitute Products 8 (e) New Market Players Entry 9 IV. Two Ways to Enhance Image and Reputation in Canada 9 V. Conclusion 10

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Introduction Huawei Technologies Ltd. is one of the leading ...

According to the test results, my psychological type can be defined as ESTJ. The abbreviation stands for Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging personality. Having regard to the results of Information Gathering dimension, I can characterize myself as a sensory type of personality rather than an intuitive one. It means that I am really good at dealing with concrete and specific problems that can be promptly solved through the application of specified facts and data. It also should be noted that I would rather seek out to the very roots of the problem rather than take a superficial glance at ...

Statement of Purpose and Academic Motivation

Intercultural management practices and competence has been poorly explored by the academic community from the perspective of multicultural Finnish professional life (Weber, Festing & Dowling, 2013). In spite of the fact that various cultural issues in the employment context have been studied from the purely managerial perspective, the majority of these studies relate to either migration of the highly skilled professionals (Thomas & Peterson, 2014), reflected common international trends (Van der Vijer, Hemert & Poortinga, 2008) or evaluated financial performance of the institutions, which significantly attracted employees with different cultural backgrounds (Smith, 2004). This research, however, pursues a number of unique objectives, ...

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Marketing plan is a foundation for business growth. As a pivotal element of any growth and development strategy, not only it helps to identify where a company will sell its products or what strategies it will employ, but how to spend the resources in a most effective way. The business community has a firm community that even the most brilliant idea is doomed to failure, if its marketing plan has been composed in a haphazard or amateurish way. This paper is a continuation of Gebeta Enjoyment business analysis. Its purpose is to analyze its target markets and segmentation strategy, ...

As of today, the majority of people take their reading abilities for granted and consider reading and reading comprehension abilities as processes “requiring little effort and little planning” (Grabe 4). In actual fact, reading is a very complicated process “of acquiring information from a written or printed text” which can be characterized in terms of two levels of processing: lower-level and higher-level processes (Eskey 5). The processing activity occurring in our heads when we read consists of three fundamental processes, which are “word recognition, syntactic parsing, and meaning encoding” (Grabe 21). In the meantime, our working memory is considered ...

Values and Culture Profiles of International Companies

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Speaking from the perspective of company’s values and culture, TransAlta would be the best fit with my fundamental work place values, which are altruism, security, and prestige, as it scores the highest in these three values. The company can with good reason be described as a socially responsible business. Its website states, “Being a good neighbour means investing in and making a commitment to the communities in which we operate” (qtd. in TransAlta.com). TransAlta website focuses on how much they value their employees and invest in them. Additionally, they have good compensation plans and benefits, such ...

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The business literature is replete with different concepts and theoretical approaches. Despite the fact that many efforts have been spent by the theoreticians to develop them, only a few manage to survive the dynamics of contemporary business revolution. The concept of managerial economics developed by Professor Alfred Chandler in the early 1960 is among the few concepts that did. The main rationale behind his theory is linking internal structures, strategic decisions and corporate performance of the business institutions (Chandler, 2005). Although this theoretical framework attracted much criticism from both the academicians and the business practitioners, it is in use ...

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Bebeta Enjoyment intends to become a local, United States-based producer of non-alcohol wines. After the company becomes competitive on the local marker, it is seriously considering possible alternatives for nationwide, and, in the long-run, international expansion of the firm. Thus, this report pursues multiple objectives. Firstly, it seeks to provide a comprehensive, yet accurate description of the most recent trends in the United States and global wine markets, focusing on Bebeta Enjoyment areas of specialization (non-alcoholic wines). Secondly, this report provides a SWOT analysis of the firm, deeply delving into its strongest and weakest features, as well as accentuating ...

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Contactless payment systems have evolved into a popular method of payment across the United Kingdom and internationally (CPSS 2012). Many merchants, including ExxonMobil, McDonald’s, Burger King, AMT Coffee, Tesco, Subway and other notable members of the hospitality, production, energy and other industries accept this form of payment (Anderson 2015). The most influential members of the international financial community, including MasterCard, Citibank, American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Bank, Visa and other institutions, involved in banking and financial sector, power the system (Dapp 2012; Chaudhyry 2012). The commentators anticipate that by 2020 every third transaction online and offline will be ...

The modern technology has simplified the work processes by eliminating the un-necessary work steps and energy spent on completing a task. The modern technology has simplified the work processes by eliminating the un-necessary work steps and energy spent on completing a task. The technological advances accomplished in the previous couple of decades have realized an insurgency in the business world, influencing about all parts of a working life. Individuals can achieve others all through the world in a matter a seconds, with cost being progressively irrelevant. Representatives no more should be physically with their customers and associates; rather they ...

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Firearms policies of the United Kingdom are one of the strictest in the world. As a result, the rates of homicides and other violent crime are reported to be the lowest (Uttley 2006; Squires, 2014)). Today’s research shows that only 0,05 intentional murders involving the use of civilian firearms have been recorded per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 (Van Kesteren, 2013). Moreover, only 2.3% of all homicides perpetrated in the country involved the use of guns (Office for National Statistics 2015). The only one killing spree to have ever happened in the United Kingdom was the notorious ...

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Macau is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region, just across the border for Hong Kong. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. However, unfortunately this is not the case, primarily because of the intense pressure on manpower, which is contributing to labour turnover in Macau, so much that, almost 30% of the SMEs are facing closure ...

According to Michael, “Flash Boys” is all about how another group of venture firms has schemed with the financial firms and the stock traders to utilize sophisticated programming calculations to skim pennies. The group skim money from the genuine financial specialists who give value cash flow to the economy. Michael narrates a story through diverse cast of characters who come to comprehend this cutting edge scalping operation, and attempt to do something to defeat it.

The ethical champion in Flash Boys is Brad Katsuyama, an exceptionally well-paid stock merchant at the Royal Bank of Canada, who evaluated that the ...

EVALUATION OF WOOD GROUP EXISTING STRATEGIES - AN OIL AND GAS SUPPORT/SERVICES COMPANY BASED IN SCOTLAND THAT OPERATES IN SOME 50 COUNTRIES

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Wood Group Engineering Wood group is an autonomous supplier of pivoting tool services and clients who are in demand of the energy of oil and gas markets. The services the GTS provides include industrial designing, architecture, obtainment and construction. They also provide office operations and support, updates, optimization and overhauls of gas and steam turbines, pumps, compressors and other many services. Their strategy and goals work on ensuring that they are a global leader in their callings, hence ...

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An organizations aggressive edge lies in its capacity to create provincial and worldwide vicinity while offering and keeping up best administrations at standard or superior to anything opponents. While trying to control a bigger piece of the overall industry in solar energy assembling and circulation, SHIV LLC has three branches, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston. Remote clients in Los Angeles need to transfer close continuous data to workplaces in Houston without hardly lifting a finger. This will likewise apply to individuals from the official and administration who need to convey administrative parts to branches without much travelling. This should be possible ...

The Negative Effects of Peddling Organs for Profit

The most frightening news that many people can receive is a negative medical diagnoses. One of the most feared of diagnoses is one involving the inefficiency, damage to or failure of a bodily organ. Unlike the appendix and spleen, most organs cannot be lived without. Sometimes the only recourse for such patients is to work to treat their immediate symptoms, work to prolong their life and wait for a possible organ transplant. Such transplants require an available organ, a proper genetic match between donor and recipient and this, still, leaves patients with a possibility that their body may still reject an even ideally matched ...

The Mormon War of the 1850s is an important and controversial event in Mormon History as well as the greater history of Utah and the United States. Between 1857 and 1858 the United States Army attacked Mormons in Utah Territory thereby eliminating the ability of Mormons in the United States to live with an isolationist mentally. As a result, Governor Brigham Young was ousted and US military command became involved in the Mountain Meadow massacre. The result of this massacre was trauma and disgrace within the Mormon Church. This event has gone by many names: Utah War; Utah Expedition; Utah ...

'Radioactive' is a half-hour mini-series that shows the life of a radio station. The main characters are in their mid-20's, so the targeted audience is not only teenagers but adults too. In each episode we see the background of one of the characters as well as the development of the main plot. The cast should be diversed so that anyone can relate to one character or another on different levels. The main plot is based on the humour-filled situations involving the producer of the station. Some of the characters live together, even though they can not stand each other. Some of ...

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The economic conditions of Singapore were stimulated starting with the sixties – seventies, when the country started to focus on the international trading. The international trade focus came as a solution for solving the country’s poor economic system, getting Singapore out of the third world countries and emerging into a developed nation. Currently a developed economy, Singapore ranks the third in the world in terms of living standards, standing out as the most open economy and the third per capita ratio in the world (Central Intelligence Agency “Singapore”). However, this Asian country applied a series of economic measures for becoming the strong economy it ...

German authority and hesitations have since decided the determination of strategy choices in the EU. There is the inexorably intergovernmental modus methodology of the EU system. Foreign accomplices, for example, the U.S. progressively recognize Berlin as the strategic place in the Euro zone. Concerns about Germany's future remote and security role persevere. The change of political initiative in Berlin was caused by the September 2013. Federal decisions have expanded the interest for investigation of German European, external, and security strategies. Basing on the above notions, it is true that the making of Europe was Germany’s answer to its ...

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Living by the principles is exhausting, so thought William Webb Ellis, who in April 1823 picked up the ball and ran to the opponent’s goal amidst a football match that was held in Rugby, a British town. An ordinary foul at the first glance, however turned to be the first ever mentioning of rugby. Since then the game has received wide popularity and even turned into an Olympic sport in the beginning of the twentieth century, and on the Olympics of 2016 rugby teams will be among the represented national groups. This type of sport demands high level of physical ...

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Disease and illness are a source of great fear for many young and old. There are any numbers of diseases that can limit one’s mobility, ability to function, and even strip them of their five senses. However, there are no conditions more frightening to many in the public as those that affect and compromise one’s mind. As we age it is not uncommon for people to forget things here and there, but when it goes beyond minor forgetfulness, but strips a person memories and ability to recognize even their closest loved-ones, it becomes incredibly frightening. Wives and husbands will ...

As the effectiveness model obliges results and destinations to be characterized it just takes after that our perspective of certificates, skills, and different approaches to diminish a human into a capacity would take after. The reasoning runs so profound inside the understanding of instruction hypothesis that I end up a bit at a misfortune actually considering an alternative. Words like effectiveness have an extremely contemporary esteem in my calling, typically referred to from scholars, for example, Richard Clark. Expressed most essentially, why utilize any type of media that is more costly than one that accomplishes the same targets? For business, military and numerous ...

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China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

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SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

The Siege of Vicksburg also called Battle of Vicksburg was the zenith of a naval campaign and long land campaign by Union forces to attain a critical strategic position during the period of American Civil War. The president then, Abraham Lincoln, recognized the importance of the town that was located above the Mississippi River. Abraham Lincoln said that the city was very instrumental, and the war was not going to end unless the “key” was in their pockets (Johnston, 2010). Seizing Vicksburg was imperative in severing the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy from the east of Mississippi River. It was to open the river ...

Synchronous learning is an environment of learning in which everyone takes part at the same time. Lecture can be viewed as an example of this type of learning in a face-to-face environment. In this, learners and teachers are present all at the same place and in the same time. Long before technology enabled synchronous learning, most of the online learning was carried out through asynchronous methods. Since various tools for synchronous education have become available, most of the people are viewing them as a way to help decrease the difficulties related to transactional distance that are present in online education. ...

Distance learning started around the early 1700s by Caleb Phillips in Boston where he taught scholars by sending week after week sends to them. Isaac Pitman throughout the 1840s began showing a gathering of learners through correspondence. With the progression in engineering, the notoriety of distance learning expanded to an extensive degree and in 2008, few taking in projects were begun in the United States of America in the forty four states. The principal college to offer distance learning in the United Kingdom was the University of London in the year of 1858. The system was known as the University ...

Identity theft is a rare but recurring phenomenon in the world of cybercrime – in today’s technology-driven world, much of our bank records and money is computerized, and the advent of credit cards has allowed people to incur debt without needing to pay for it. All of these factors combine to create a scenario allowing for people to steal other people’s personal information. In the 2013 film Identity Thief, this concept is played for comedy – the basic scenario involves accountant Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) having his life ruined due to the machinations of serial identity thief Diane (Melissa McCarthy), and ...

After the university entrance exam, in 2006, I was working in a medical company as a salesperson for the sales division, for about three months. Although I had not studied business before, this became both the beginning of my interest on the subject and the entrance on the business world. The following year, I came up with a plan in which I could sell the gains I had acquired from online gaming to somebody who needed it. After 2 days, I decided to get outside feedback; so, I searched for people who had at least one month experience in online gaming. ...

The article is about the report of the death of the late former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi in the Guardian media. In the article are allegations about the location of killing of Gaddafi, the possible killer and the likely time when he was killed. The allegations came from different sources around the world. In one source, it was said the Gaddafi had been killed by a NATO strike on his escape from his loyal home town of Sirte. Another report from a representative of Libya in the United Kingdom claimed that Gaddafi was captured alive when on an escape from Sirte ...

The Pokot is a tribe in Africa living in both Kenya and Uganda. However, most Pokots live in the Northern part of Kenyan Rift-Valley which lies along the Kenya /Uganda border. An interview with Daniel Lotodo, a 78 year old man from the community revealed a lot about the ethnography of the community The Pokot for a long time are predominantly pastoralists’. Their occupations of cattle keeping has been necessitated by environment factors. The area is semi arid and agricultural produce can hardly do well. However, through barter trade with neighboring communities such as the Samburu and the Marakwet, the society would ...