Essays on Nigel

The design and goals of management policies are primarily influenced by the fisheries and marine ecosystems health mental concepts. The Cognitive Maps: Cartography and Concepts for an Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Policy article, discusses how these mental concepts that are held by some individuals are fostered by the approach of Back to the Future (BTF) to the policy of fisheries (Tony & Nigel 1976). Such cognitive maps are normally obtained from local and traditional knowledge and the interplay of science. The approach of Back to the Future action employs all the sectors in remedial and positive and is meant to engage the ...

Tourism, hospitality management sectors are interlinked to each other to some extent and it is argued that Tourism, hospitality management are interrelated and have many cross-relationship to cover the entire sector together. Tourism and hospitality are closely related but not mutually exclusive; as hospitality is the least concerned with providing the needs of tourists. The definitions of hospitality and tourism field falls under “travel and tourism”. It is sensible to study the linked sectors together in detail on strategy and operation level. This research describes and demonstrates the close interaction between the tourism and hospitality; and flexibility of the ...

Developing a Marketing Plan

Executive Summary This report is an analysis of PepsiCo marketing strategy in Cambodian market. The report starts by giving an explanation of the significance of marketing plan for Pepsi. It goes further to state the goals that the company intends to achieve and the mechanism to make them. The current marketing situation analysis gives the facts on the ground about the enterprise. It goes further to illustrate how the company has positioned itself in the market. There is SWOT analysis for PepsiCo. This gives the strengths and weaknesses that the firm has. Working to improve these factors and exploiting ...

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Individual Differences and Fit

First and foremost, she must be conscientious with keen senses for detail. This includes a sharp memory and an ability to focus on any task at hand. She must manage time very well in terms of punctuality and meeting deadlines. There were many instances in the movie where she has to listen to her boss quickly passing instructions. She was assisting a person who is running a company in a hands-on manner and is willing to take on many details. She will be expected to handle the least important but numerous tasks. She must be organized. ( ...

Introduction

The growing cost of college education has raised debates about how viable a college degree is. These debates are further fueled by required knowledge and skill sets required for current job market. Given current unemployment rates (coming in heel of an unprecedented economic recession), investment in college education has not only become a financial burden long after graduation but is also becoming, critically, less rewarding from a job prospect perspective. Indeed, "overeducated" college graduates – particularly ones completing an undergraduate or a higher degree in software engineering or digital media majors – are experiencing particularly painful job experiences, particularly during early ...

Kindred is a novel written by Octavia Butler with an aim of narrating the agony of today’s black woman. It depicts a true picture of a society that subjects its people to bondage with limited resistance from victims. A major character, Dana, is forced to relocate from California to colonial South in order to provide protection to a man that would later become her ancestor. Her survival remains assured as long as she is able to keep this man alive. In this novel, she is instructed to travel to a Maryland plantation, the home of her ancestor Rufus Weylin. Every time his ancestor ...

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Considering the current financially bearish trend in Pan Europa, the entity needs to work on multiple yet chain corporate activities to avoid hostile takeover. Below are some strategies, which can be used by the company: i) To begin with, the company must channelize its investment in those projects that will assist the growth in the revenue figures and net income. It is also important for the company not take any additional debt and accept projects within their capital budget as the banks have already signaled red warning for unsustainable debt-equity position of the company with a rejection to grant any ...

Management

Introduction: Dunkin' Donuts is one of the widely recognized businesses in food retail. The company is the world’s largest chain of coffee and baked goods. The business initiated in 1950 and they started franchising in the year of 1955. According to the statistics presented in the annual report (Dunkin' Donuts, 2014), the company has more than 11,310 stores. A reasonable amount of these stores functions successfully all over the globe. The franchises under the umbrella of Dunkin' Donuts serve more than 2 million customers every single day all over the globe. Dunkin donuts offer more than ...

Introduction

The Devil Wears Prada is a story which focuses on the lives of career women and the kind of power influences they adapt in order to climb higher up the ladder. In this case, the storyline is simple and revolves around the life and career decisions of the main protagonist, Andrea who has just completed her college education and is aspiring to become a journalist. Despite having the skills, she lands up in a job as a second assistant to the editor of a magazine. The female lead, accepted the offer for this job as she thought that after completion of around 12 months, ...

Starbucks is the world’s leading coffee house chain. Ever since its inception in Seattle, Washington, over 40 years ago, the company has managed to expand its operations to over 60 countries, managing a total of more than 18,000 outlets (Starbucks, 2014). According to Forbes, Starbucks is the 76th most valuable brand in the world due to its robust business performance and incredible brand recognition globally (Forbes, 2014). Dunkin Donuts, on the other hand, is Starbuck’s major competitor and perhaps the biggest one. The company specializes in serving an elaborate variety of donuts and coffees along with ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is described as a mental disorder that is accessioned by traumatic events that might have threatened the safety of an individual, and therefore, the individual feels somehow helpless (Koren et al. 276). In most cases, PTSD is associated with soldiers who have served in major battles, as well as with persons who have experienced horrible situations in their life, for instance fatal accidents, violation of human rights for instance rape among others. According to Koren et al. (277), about 20% of Vietnam War veterans suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and/depression. However, it is worrying to note ...

Executive summary

Business operations are based on effective marketing campaigns that focus on sustenance of profitable outcomes through the inculcation of diverse operational strategies. Thus, from the analysis of G-spot, marketing is pivotal towards sustenance of profitability. Through the inculcation of plausible marketing strategies, the business is bound to generate effective marketing campaigns that are construed towards sustenance of revenue yield and market position within the business environment. Thus, as a plausible approach, it is imperative that its new shoe line, Beana undergoes effective marketing campaign towards profitable outcomes. Thus, this paper will evaluate the marketing approach towards effective performance in regards ...

The Beginning of the Geometric Period continuing onto the Hellenistic Period, Greek art has continuously created an enormous number of potteries, which have been handed down as heirloom. During the Archaic Period, when the art of pottery flourished, adventurous Greek mythology provided the basis of inspiration for many artists. Stories of gods and heroes, wars and feasts were the main topics of the world. During this period, trade and commerce in Greece made even further advancements and actively sought out the expansion of colonies. As a result, they came into contact with Etruria, an area of Italy, in which through ...

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Report on marketing process 3 Definition of Macro and micro environment and the factors that affect IKEA 5 Macro environmental factors 5 Micro environmental factors 8 Application of segmentation, targeting and positioning at IKEA 10 Segmentation 10 Demographic segmentation approach 10 Behavioural segmentation approach 10 Targeting 11 Positioning 12 Conclusion 13

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Introduction Marketing is an imperative aspect within the operational facet of an organisation. Thus as a tool for generating product or service awareness, it is significant that an organisation invests into proper marketing tools. Hence, from the analysis ...

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Analysis of the marketing environment and the macro environment factors that with illustration of the factors that might affect their business 3

Basic buyer behavior models and the way consumers might make decisions about purchasing bionic legs 6

The requirements of a well-defined market segments 7 The need to position by the product for each target segments by manipulation of variables of marketing mix 8 Conclusion 12

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Introduction Marketing forms an integral part within the operative mandate of the organization. As a tool incorporated towards raising product awareness coupled to enhancing sales within an organization, marketing is highly dynamic and involving. Hence, it is imperative that organizations comprehend the holistic aspects that circumvent the ...

Absurdity of human existence is a hard philosophical question. The problem of absurdity of human existence arises from the point of view that the universe is meaningless and there is nothing in the world worth living. According to existentialism the tragedy of human existence is that people are like abandoned in the world of physical pleasures. They don't know how to live in the world, aware of the impermanence of existence. In this essay I would like to highlight Albert Camus’, Richard Taylor’s and Thomas Nagel’s points of view on absurdity of human existence. Even though ...

As documented by Tarbell, discobolus the discus thrower is a statue of a discus thrower that was originally made by a Greek artist called Naucydes Myron between 460-450 BC. His Discobolus statue was called the Discobolus of Myron, and was made of bronze. This original statue is lost, and at the moment, many copies of it have been made of marble by Romans. The initial copy of the original was discovered in 1781 at the property in Rome-Villa Palombara, a property of the Massimo family. It was called the Palombara Discobolus and was discovered by an archaeologist from Italy. A second statue, Townley ...

Is It Time to Rethink You Pricing Strategy?

Abstract The article under revision is taken from an academic journal MIT Sloan Management Review dated as of 2012 written by well known economists and businessmen Andreas Hinterhuber and Stephan Liozu who are also the authors of “Innovation in pricing” book. It is headed as “Is It Time to Rethink You Pricing Strategy?” and dwells on the issues of pricing and its role in the company's profitability. Economists know that pricing plays a substantial role and a strong impact on company's profitability indicators. Many companies nowadays use old pricing methods based on cost and competition. Businessmen mainly pay due attention to ...

People spend money for apparently many reasons. We spend money to sustain our daily lives; we spend money for foods, rents and many other bills. Though we predominantly spend money for good reasons, some people in a bid to enlighten their lives extravagantly spend money. Considering that spending money copiously requires one to have a consistent flow of income, the aftermath in the long run has some effects (Charles et al. 45). Though one enjoys the benefits realized from spending money, the repercussion effects of the same are inevitable. Considering that people tend to spend more on the grounds of maintaining ...

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Barnes and Noble has maintained its performance through effective strategies and policies that have sustained its revenue yield and profitability. However, recent prevailing economic turmoil has led to significant challenges in their performance mandate. As such, the organization has been facing three main problems: increased costs of publishing books, stagnation in profitability and reduced customer awareness. The various challenges facing the organization have posed a daunting avenue for successful operations and sustenance of viability or survivability within the organization. Thus, with an aim of handling the challenges evident, it is significant that the organization incorporates three main solutions. The three ...

About Cyber Law

The term cyber law is not a new one, and almost everyone related to the web world and cyberspace are well aware of the law. Cyber law relates to the use of communication technology and how it is used in the cyberspace. As it is a junction of many legal fields, it still carries a lesser distinct field of law. There are aspects like freedom of expression, property, privacy and jurisdiction that come ingot play behind the law meant for the cyber world. The scenario here is much different as compared to the laws applicable to the physical world. With a phenomenal growth ...

Philosophy Questions

The main quotations which are evident and interesting in this text includes “though what we perform now were going to counts in many years, how could that maintain our current situations from being absurd?” This quotation simply tries to explain the view that absurdity fundamentally lies on the notion that anything we do will especially our actions matter in the near future. The next instrumental quote proposed by Nigel is that life is absurd since we ignore doubts which cannot be fulfilled, making them to continue living with almost uncontrollable carefulness despite all these doubts .the quotation thoroughly explains ...

Across the globe, approximately 1.7 people live in destitution today (Vetterlein 514). Poverty can be relative or absolute depending on the extent of the level of lacking. Many people living in absolute poverty cannot access basic facilities such as food, healthcare, shelter, clothing, and education. Apart from absolute poverty, other people live in relative poverty, whereby they cannot afford socially acceptable secondary items or income like the others in the same region. For a long time, communities and societies accepted poverty as a way of life, believing that nature could never be sufficient enough to offer the whole population a better living. ...

Cyber threats to Computers and Productivity

The security of computer and information systems is a fundamental aspect in any organization because nearly all organizations, in the current information age, depend on computer networks and information systems to execute their daily operations. Attacks to computer systems can lead to detrimental effects to an organization because it can lead to loss of important information and worse, breakdown of the entire organization system. For this reason, Information security measures must be implemented using vigilant approaches in order to control the pervasive effects of cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Control of inadequacies to cyber threats and other forms of malicious attacks ...

Religion has become a very significant force all around the world. Religion on the planet is present in the form of plurality, that means more than one religion are followed by different group of people. There are those who embrace Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity and then there are those who don’t embrace any kind of religion at all. According to Nigel and Linda (2009) “Reasons for coercive legislation drawn from some particular religion will seldom if ever satisfy the condition for justified coercion”. There are many people belonging to different religions residing in a particular society.

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Environmental Pollution

Pollution environmental threat There are a number of environmental issues faced by the world today. However, the most significant one is environmental pollution. Pollution is defined as the introduction of impurities into an ordinary environment, which results to discomfort, disorder, or instability to the ecosystem (Joseph, 2006). Pollution, is one of the environmental issues which once it takes place in one area, its effects may be felt in the entire globe, hence it is highly advisable for the entire world to rise and fight against it. Generally, there are three types of environmental pollution: air, land, and water pollutions. ...

Benefits and Risks of Modernity

Emile Durkheim is considered as being the father of sociology by many people. He is endorsed with developing sociology to a science, as well as having introduced it in the curriculum of the French. According to him, instead of restricted to specific individual actions, sociology should be aimed at studying facts accredited to society at large. In his entire profession, he was primarily apprehensive with the way the society could sustain its coherence and integrity in the modern epoch, when it is impossible to assume such things as ethnic background and shared religion. Besides, he was also apprehensive with the ...

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Globally poverty has stricken many developing and under developed nations. People are unable to afford their human needs. In many developing countries for example children are unable to enroll and complete basic education, diseases like measles are still causing death and children are still suffering from malnutrition.

The issues which have put poverty on rise world wide are: drug and crime rate, political instability, international debts, investment and trade, climatic changes and globalization, diseases, clean water and sanitation among others. Due to the nature of interrelation of man kind the affected nations and the developed nations have tried to ...