Essays on Pajamas

Business Ethics

In the United States, drug companies enjoy a high-profit margin. It means that when purchasing different commodities, Americans incur high costs, unlike Canadians or Europeans. The drug industry has been noted as the most profitable sector in the economy in the last two years. The United States drug prices do not indicate a fair and competitive market since they sell only a handful of essential drugs with the aim of establishing a top selling market (Williams, 1985). Pharmaceutical companies have ethical responsibilities that contrast with that of small biotechnology organizations regarding research and innovation. For instance, CV Therapeutic is ...

Gender roles have been a matter of controversy almost as long as time itself. Back when Homer was writing about the tales of the Greeks’ adventures in Troy and on the way back, it only took the wiles (in the case of Odysseus) or the looks (in the case of Paris) of a dashing man for goddesses to fall in love, and when they did, all sorts of chaos ensued afterward. In the centuries since Homer wrote his pair of epics, the interplay between the genders has been an area of focus of storytelling, and when film became an ...

Question 1

Financial managers play an important role in an organization. They are required to manage an organization’s financial activities in line with its underlying goals and objectives. Financial management activities aimed at increasing and organization’s profit shence contributing to subsequent growth of a firm. A firm’s investment in productive projects or in any production process has a great impact on the returns the shareholders will acquire. This comes in as a result of taking a safety investment which is certain of making profits to the firm. Earnings from the invested funds of such projects ensure that the shareholders are contented with ...

Introduction

Images always have had their high pedestal in advertising. A picture is actually worth a thousand words when it comes to advertising. Advertisers chose to appeal on the visual senses of their target audience rather than bog them down with long text. According to Scott, visual imagery is used to command attention, stimulate curiosity, and demonstrate product features and benefits (Scott, 1994). When the product, which is neutral to the target audience, is paired with an image that elicits some kind of reaction in the intended audience, they try to draw parallels between the image shown and the product being ...

Introduction

Pongee fabric is a soft thinly woven cloth. It is usually a plain weave of light–medium weight fabric that has slubs (small lumps of yarns) on the surface and comes in natural light tan color. The slubs cause pongee to have a warm feel on the skin. Pongees originated in the 16th century from China along the banks of the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces where it was usually home woven (Datta & Nanavaty, 2007). Some places in Japan such as Kyoto and Joshu can also be credited with the invention of the pongee (Japan Traditional Crafts Aoyama ...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (2006) tells the story of a nine-year old boy Bruno who comes from a very wealthy German family. He lived in a big and beautiful house in Berlin with his father who worked for the military; his mother who took care of their home; and his sister Gretel whom he considered a hopeless case. He came home from school one day to learn that he and his family were moving to some place far away, which devastated him because it would mean that he would have to leave school, his three ...

Snow/Unaccustomed Earth/Girls of Riyadh

1. Introduction

Tradition can be thought of as an annual family ritual like a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Traditions can also apply to communities such as when the nation watches the lighting of the White House Christmas tree on television. Not everyone in one community or even one family always celebrates in exactly the same way and exactly the same time.

Another way to define tradition according to Oxford American Dictionary (728) is as “a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting.” That definition applies more to what this essay will be discussing. Even better is the fourth definition ...