Essays on Palm

Introduction

Benin is a country found in the West African region. It borders Togo to the East and Nigeria to the West. Trade in Benin is dated back to 15th century when the Europeans involved in slave trade. The Europeans imported slaves from other African countries into Benin. However, sources argue that Benin prohibited the exportation of male slaves to prevent its population from depletion. Their main exports were Palm oil, ivory, cloth, and pepper. This paper discusses trade in Benin, its imports and exports and the changes witnessed in the last 30 years.

Benin remains a significant business hub ...

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INTRODUCTION

The following discussion is a literature review on five sources each for sustainability monitoring systems and effective indicators.

Sources for Characteristics of Good Monitoring Systems

“Monitoring Systems for Sustainability. What are they measuring?” This is a doctoral thesis from an Australian university that examines the sustainability reporting and monitoring systems by governments, private corporations and global non-governmental organizations. Australian frameworks are compared to those of international models. Sustainability indicators in the Australian context are discussed extensively. Two case studies from the private sector are presented. (Davidson, 2008) Using the case study of the Australian Gas Light Company, shortcomings in current sustainability reporting practices ...

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

Role of community citizen in palm oil producing nation

The role of a community citizen in a palm oil producing country is very important. A community citizen will have two main roles. The first is to ensure that the people benefit from the output of palm oil and the second is to ensure that there are no adverse effects on the environment during palm oil production. This role requires the citizen to work together with palm oil producers to ensure that the population is educated about the best ways to protect the environment while producing palm. The community citizen is also tasked with working with government to ensure ...

Analysis of Fogo de Chao Service Marketing

Abstract Contemporary challenges in the business environment are determined by globalization and the increasing complexity of the operations of organizations, which grow outside their national cultures. The effectiveness of marketing strategies for these organizations given high diversity and specificity of business in each of the countries is one of the important discussions in academic context. Service marketing is significantly different from a product for several reasons. To look at the challenges specific to service industry in a context of the international operation, this document analyzes the strategy of Fogo de Chao, Brazilian multinational company, operating steakhouse restaurants in the ...

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In June 2016, the Pentagon reviewed and revised the Department of defense’s accession disqualifications with the effect of lifting the ban on transgender populations from serving in the military, but the debate on the suitability of the new policy has grown even more heated. This paper argues that barring transgender individuals from serving their nation in the most selfless way possible is at odds with both the constitution and the values that the military fights to defend. Given the large number of transgender personnel already serving or having served in the military, there is no reason to believe ...

A. Community health nursing is a concept that seeks to identify and analyze all vital data in relation to a community or a group of people to assist in the development of appropriate interventions that can improve the health status of the community or group. It is a concept that recognizes the importance of the social-health determinants and their influence on the quality of health and be quality of life depicted by the community (Stanhope, Lancaster & Stanhope, 2014). If applied, the community health nurse has to focus on the needs of the community across the economic, social, cultural and ...

Why I choose AcuCare Centre?

As a part of the field assignment, I visited the AcuCare Centre, 12133 Pembroke Road, Pembroke Pines, FL33025. I choose this particular place for my assignment, as I wanted to know about the method of “healing through touch”, as I would call it. Reiki is an alternative medicine that is sought by many for stress and chronic diseases. My aunt is particularly supportive of the center and has recommended it to me. She has sought alternative medicine to treat her migraine problems. She found allopathic medicine ineffective and replete with side effects.

Initial impression of the center:

On entering the center, there was a ...

Q. 1 I do not think that Unilever was employing the true CSR course. Indeed, at the heart of CSR is to give some value away to the community in an attempt to improve the bottom line, which is the welfare of the subjects. However, the enterprise became philanthropic with the aim of ensuring that the sales persons and suppliers adhered to the company’s working principles. Here, Unilever is not attending to the welfare of the stakeholders. Rather, it is using CSR to manipulate them. The chief reason for the low score was the fact that Unilever was ...

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 ...

Event: Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend

Introduction Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend is a five-day event in Palm Springs City, at the tip of the Coachella Valley within the Colorado Desert, California. It is held at the end of the March every year. This year I was part of the 20,000 people who flew to California for the debauchery, and this paper will summarize my observations and analysis of the lesbian community. First, lesbianism, as observed in Dinah, is not about hatred for men, or anti-men or feminism, but rather, a celebration of identity. While the girls were predominantly happy, most of them agreed ...

Introduction

The U.S. airline industry continues to be fiercely competitive, due to a combination of rising costs, increased government regulation, fluctuating macroeconomic conditions, and increasingly price sensitive consumers (Southwest Airlines, 2016a). Environmental pressures have led to several mergers and acquisitions within the industry, including major carriers as well as regional and domestic carriers (Southwest Airlines, 2016a). Low-cost domestic airline carriers that offer non-stop service to popular domestic and tourist destinations within North America have emerged as formidable competitors to large, international carriers such as United Airlines. Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air are two carriers that focus on variations of the ...

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The ever growing rise in global temperatures is a threatening characteristic to the entire universe. The information about past global climatic condition can be used to establish information about the effect of climate change, carbon dioxide variation and effect of the earth biosphere on world's climate. Several discoveries in the Arctic and Antarctic region have shed light on the drastic climatic change that has occurred in these areas. The Antarctic region has experienced severe climatic change over time. Recent discoveries in drill cores obtained from Antarctica's sea floor have indicated a warming phase in the climate around 52 million ...

“A man's life was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer to his ancestors” (Achebe 122). – One of the impacts of colonization is the disappearance of cultural or traditional practices. This quote shows how a life of an individual is related to his or her culture or origin. “Behind them was the big and ancient silk-cotton tree which was sacred. Spirits of good children lived in that tree waiting to be born. On ordinary days young women who desired children came to sit under the shade” (Achebe 46). – This quote illustrates the richness of the culture of ...

Introduction

The end of the nineteenth century is the period of the final partition of Africa between the European powers. European states demanded the immediate "salvation" of “savages” and bringing the noble atmosphere of the church Sunday schools to Africa. One of the latest British acquisitions was the State of Benin, the remains of the once mighty forest empire. The art of Benin was developed under the direct influence of the more ancient culture of Ife. In the XV-XVII centuries this art has reached its zenith. At this time (1400) Benin kingdom (which previously recognized the authority of the supreme ...

Introduction

The government of Dubai undertook a mega project entitled the Palm Jumeirah in 2001. The mega project involved the building of an island on the shoreline of Dubai with intentions of attracting tourists and create a grand tourist sector. This was not a lofty goal as it has been met and expounded upon. Dubai is now considered the world’s most modern city with the Palm Jumeirah and other mega projects. The impact of the mega project has been local and global. Locally, the city has seen rapid economic growth and now attracts corporations and tourists from all over ...

Museum of Fine Arts Houston; compare and contrast an Italian Renaissance painting with Greek vase painting.

In this work, I will analyze two works from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, from different epochs and of different styles. Even the means involved are different. It may seem that these artworks can only be contrasted; however, it is an interesting challenge to compare them. “Black-Figure Amphora Depicting two scenes: - Theseus slaying the Minotaur - Gods in array departing for Olympus”. Date 530-510 BC. Attributed to the Antimenes Painter, Greek  Greek ceramics is the most common finding in the archaeological studies of ancient Greece; you can find it all over the areal settlement of the ancient ...

With the population expected to surge to nine billion people by the year 2050, there is a need for every individual to strive to make sustainable food choices. The sustainability problem can be addressed through the three pillars of sustainability, that is, environment, economy and society. First, to address the environmental sustainability, I believe that what I can do is to adopt a shift in my diet. I intend to lower my consumption of meat and dairy products and start eating more vegetables. Approximately 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions can be accounted to beef production. If meat consumption ...

The correlation between climate and vegetation is evident in Africa, where, despite the rapid destruction of natural vegetation by humans and animals, there are still vast areas of natural vegetation. There are two main zones in Sub-Saharan Africa.

AREAS OF EQUATORIAL FOREST

The rainforests cover just under 1000 km in latitude and approximately 2250 km from west to east, from the Cameroon coast and Gabon to the eastern borders of Congo - Kinshasa (to the mountains flanking the Rift Valley to the Ruwenzori, the Virunga Mountains and Ugoma (northwest of Lake Tanganyika). The equatorial forest has a wide variety of trees (very high ...

Providing high-quality services to customers is always a primary concern of most businesses. This is based on the fact that customers consider quality when choosing a product in order to satisfy their needs. Businesses that meet this expectation tend to enjoy consistent customer traffic throughout the year. To achieve high-quality service delivery, therefore, Ritz-Carlton should embark on an undertaking to put several measures in place. Ritz-Carlton should have feedback platform where customers give their views concerning the services they received. In essence, feedback is a good tool to monitor customers’ satisfaction because it does not only provide an insight ...

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Achebe in his novel Things Fall Apart reminds the readers of pictures of pre-colonial Africa. He claims that before the arrival of the colonists there they had their own rituals, their own religion, orders, and laws. Despite the seeming brutality of some customs, people were not so barbaric. Achebe is not trying to pander to the clichéd consciousness of Europeans, who were, and still are, convinced that Africa, lived as a primitive savage community, virtually without any organization. Achebe has written an honest, truthful humane novel about real people, their life. Of utmost interest to us are the ...

The Constitution was written and signed in 1787. It, however, entered into force in 1789. It enshrines the fundamental framework of the US system of governance. Accordingly, it establishes the Congress, Presidency and Supreme Court. Besides, it provides for the bill of rights. On the other hand, the Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and adopted by the Congress on July 4, the same year. Accordingly, it preceded the Constitution. In a nutshell, the Declaration of Independence enunciates themes such as equality and inalienable entitlements to all citizens, the philosophy of public governance, legitimacy of ...