Essays on Progress

Introduction

My client is Gina, a fifteen- year- old girl in high school who is sexually active. In addition to this, she is having unprotected sex and sees no problem with this behavior. She has been referred to me by her parents and her school counsellor and is here against her will and has clearly expressed the fact that she is unwilling to talk about the “situation”. She displays hostility. The primary problem would be resistance to therapy. I would be personally challenged in working with this client because we share tremendously different views regarding sex in terms regarding its ...

Florida National University (FNU) is a higher education system, where the purpose is to “contribute to the education of a population of diverse, presently predominately Hispanic, cultures,” (Mission Statement). The purpose of the university is to make it easy for Hispanic immigrants to have access to higher education and prepare them for employment in the United States. It offers classes on mainly on the business and medical fields. There is a large program in the university that teaches English as a second language to further help international students get situated in the United States. Because of this, the university ...

Reducing Bottlenecks, a case study of Starbucks

A supply chain is determined by bottlenecks. It is only after recognizing this fact that cash flow can be increased. In a supply chain, a bottle neck implies to resources that require the longest operations time of the supply for particular demand. Insufficiency and inventory increase are some of the associated with bottleneck. Insufficient materials and excess inventory do not occur always because of inconsistent fluctuations ( Bhalla, 2011). Bottlenecks determine the supply chain’s throughput. An improvement in the capacity of a supply chain’s bottleneck will increase in throughput. Non bottlenecks have an operating rate is one hundred ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum (1900)

Overview of the book

Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” seems to be solely intended to entertain children but it has more meaning that what the author presents to the world. The book follows the adventure of a young girl, Dorothy, who has to embark on an adventure where she encounters and interacts with other characters, some of whom have supernatural powers. Dorothy, the protagonist, lives with her uncle and aunt because her parents passed away. They live in Kansas where she brought her Toto. Toto is Dorothy’s companion, and he accompanies ...

Abstract

Efficient teamwork is an important prerequisite of a company’s productivity (Maddux, 1994, p.8). This statement can be substantiated by the fact that synergistic effects arise, when several individuals and entities start to work together. However, as it was emphasized by P.Lencioni (2010), the team-building and subsequent effective functioning of the team requires meeting two criteria (pp.9-10). Firstly, the group of people shall constitute a team by sharing goals, as well as rewards and responsibilities, stemming from the achievement of these goals (Lencioni, 2006, p.9). Secondly, the members to a team shall be ready to invest significant time and ...

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Overview of the Case The paper has been developed to identify how organized data collection methods can be utilized in organizational change. In the given case study, some of the documented response from the teachers, parents, and staffs of Logan Elementary School has been attached. There are 38 faculty associates, eight school staffs, and a single part-time librarian. Nancy Mestas, the principal of the school, has wanted to build an improved relationship among the teaching staffs to provide a better education for students. Considering her overall vision, she has made several drastic changes over the past few years. To ...

Abstract

It is evident that for businesses, organizational performance is of vital importance in order to be able to achieve organizational objectives and goals as outlined in a firm’s mission statement. As such assessing the ability to gauge the level of organizational performance, is a key component of ‘Strategic Management’. So the bigger organizational picture, is composed of the ‘broader’ aspects, related to the overall sense of the organizations direction and purpose, in being able to achieve its aspirations and desired goals and objectives. While a vision, describes what an organization aspires to be an organizations mission, is grounded ...

Introduction

In today's business atmosphere, employees have found that the capacity to investigate, sort out, and compose different kinds of writings is a basic segment of numerous positions, including those that are essentially specialized in nature. Organizations anticipate that representatives will speak plainly and effectively with both partners and colleagues. As a SVSU student I am provided with great opportunities to achieve development in personal and intellectual ways as well as learning highly professional and cultural programs. The University contributes much to the improving leadership skills and advancing the ability to adapt to every sphere of social life. The ...

Project title: Microsoft Office Project

Purpose: It is a tool designed by Microsoft that is helpful in the management of portfolio and project by planning, managing budgets, tracking project progress and workload analysis.

Description: Its main modules consist of project teams, project works, finances and schedules.

Objective: The objective of the MS project is to help managers and the users to create projects, track the progress of the project and to report the results of the project. Expected benefits: Ms Project is expected to provide a management interface that will help its user to manage projects effectively and with ease by providing tools that are flexible and having the appropriate usability blend. Funding: The cost of Microsoft ...

Human Resource Management

Gap Incorporated.

Executive Summary3

1.Company Overview and Introduction6 1.1 Company mission..6 1.2 Company vision.6 1.3 Sources of revenue.7 1.4 Industry information and Market share.7 1.5 Number of employees and their demographics..8 2.Problem Definition and Research Objectives..10 2.1 Problem.11 2.2 Decision statement12 2.3 Research objectives12 3.Business Case for Business Research14 4. Research Plan and Methodology.16 4.1 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data17 4.2 Secondary Data Collection.19 4.3 Primary Data Collection Tools20 4.4.Sampling Approacp0 5.Survey22 5.1 Survey Design Rationale.22 5.2 Focus Group Questions Rationale24 6. Implementation and Communication Plan26 6.1 Implementation Plan26 6.2 Timeline..28 6.3Budget..29 6.4 Communication plan30 8. References.32 7. Appendices

A: Survey Questions.34

B: Focused Group ...

The topic of the paper will focus on the organizational sustainability and management. The companies are today confronted with many challenges with improving the strategies, structure, social, economic and environmental performance. Crisis management is focusing on the survival of organizations with planning and making a formal plan how to act in the crisis situations that are threatening the sustainability. The companies have done many steps forward in starting to made business more sustainable with products, process, services and other activities. The thesis of this paper follows: organization and their crisis management should develop and implement the sustainable policies and ...

Importance of Strategic Management and Competitiveness

Importance of Strategic Management and Competitiveness

Introduction

The starting point of Apple Inc. is none other than the legendary Steve Jobs. Jobs and Steve Wozniak, were actually two friends living in the Silicon Valley, who were secondary school dropouts. The extent of imagination of these two young minds was simply exemplary. The pair decided to work together and start a company and this marked the birth of the world’s leading technology giant Apple. The company’s operations started the cellar of Job’s house in Silicon Valley. It was on the 1st of April, 1976 that the duo created ...

Introduction

This paper aims to discuss how the different innovations in the modern society made us look like we have reached the pillar of modernity with all the fabulous results, while the overall consequence is destruction. In the book Short History of Progress, the historian and author Ronald Wright, implied that the modern society is trapped into problems that came about as people, through their ingenuity, worked towards the betterment of the lives and the society as a whole. The author suggested that the common people, as well as those in the position to impose societal policies are always eager ...

Democratic revolutions like the Arab Spring has toppled down political regimes abusing their authority for personal gains creating nepotic cults that leave people impoverished. Contrary to expectations, a series of revolutionary movement mostly failed to reach the intended target. It is not that all uprisings were to no avail altogether. Tunisia had better resources than countries like Egypt to reform the country. Overall, the shortage of wealth, the presence of specific US interests in the region, a pro-military electoral mentality, and the dominance of political parties have halted the democratic progress in North Africa and the Middle East in ...

There are several issues relating to the topic different learning strategies that are considered to be effective in a mixed ability teaching setting such as the ability of every teacher to reach all of their students. It is always a challenge to reach all their students since each one of them have a different way of learning, progress in learning and variance in speeds. There are some students who consider learning task to be easy handle. On the other hand, there are other students who have a difficulty in understanding the lessons. Learning is subjective in the sense that ...

Children of Heaven

The film Children of Heaven is Iranian film released in 1997. The main theme in the film is family love and sacrifice they make for each other. The other important themes are dignity in poverty and effort that people make in order to survive as well as the contrast between urban and rural areas. The family is consisted of the parents, a son and a daughter and all of them are good people who happen to be poor and live in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. They are honest, hard-working and represent the society which is selfless and caring. ...

Singapore International Airlines: Strategy with a Smile

Airline industry is considered global because it is characterized by the movement of services between countries, i.e. international trade, the existence of international organizations (ICAO, IATA, etc.), the availability of the natural resource potential in the countries and highly skilled workforce. In general, driving forces of globalization include a new round of scientific and technical progress; the activities of transnational corporations that operate globally and spread around the world uniform business standards; expansion of the Internet as global communications, business and entertainment environments; the activities of international economic organizations; and expansion and aggravation of global problems, forcing humanity to ...

Question 1

The process of determining whether an organization requires a formal project management process is usually accompanied by a set of questions. Some of the questions include: Are the tasks complicated? Are there constrictions right? Are there vibrant environmental contemplations? Are there numerous activities to be assimilated? Are there practical border lines to be crossed?

Question 2

Project management methodologies present a number of benefits to an organization; project management enable the organization to achieve more tasks with less people and in short time, it increases the profitability of an organization, project management grants better control of the changes in the scope, ...

Introduction

An evaluation plan refers to a roadmap that identifies the goals and objectives that one is conducting. The evaluation plan will also describe the process to be executed in conducting a research exercise. It includes the information that will be collected and defines the methods that will be used to analyse the data collected. The plan will be responsible for carrying out the project. The question under evaluation is: What is Vocational Rehabilitation in patients with prolonged fatigue complaints satisfying optimal evaluation facets to be further pursued? This evaluation question is important because it helps to address the health ...

In 2008, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution to protect Iraq’s assets from any international threats stemming from Saddam Hussein’s era (MacFarquhar, 1). Such assets included oil, Iraq’s main asset, and other revenues from the country’s international trade. Given the precarious state that the country was in at the moment, it was necessary for the country to receive such protection or else it could be hit by a humanitarian crisis. It is estimated that Iraq has 144 billion barrels of oil hence making oil account for approximately 90% of revenues (MacFarquhar, ...

Teamwork and proper change management in an organization are key in enhancing success in an organization. Allied Software Corporation’s Tysons Corner has some issues such as lack of teamwork and inappropriate change management. These are two crucial issues that call for proper strategizing to foster efficiency hence good performance for the company. The following are some of the decisions that the company needs to consider in promoting efficiency. There is a great need for the management to incorporate and build strong working groups within all the departments. Motivation is a key tool in ensuring that all the members ...

Writings of Max Weber are representing fundamental importance to Sociology as scientific discipline. While different concepts were still not described, he has tried to clear up situations considering power, people attitudes, economy, and religion and even give them definitions which we are interpreting till nowadays. His works are without doubt having particular semantic load. This makes them harder to read but more challenging to explain. While analyzing different concepts described by Weber we should also take into consideration time when he was writing and influence of European, precisely, German politics and economics which somehow could have been different from ...

1.0Lesson Information 1.1 Introduction This comprehensive lesson plan will be used to teach six-year-old students in grade one the essential basketball skills. The estimated developmental stage for children in this grade is the cognitive stage. The number of students that will be trained using the lesson plan lies between fifteen and twenty. The fundamental skills that the kids will be taught include dribbling, shooting, passing, catching and handling skills. The details of the skills are provided in Table 1 in section 3.3. 1.2 Standards of Physical Education The department of physical education in Virginia offers standards that govern physical ...

Central America has about seven countries; among them are Costa Rica and Panama. Since their transition to democracy, the countries have realized enormous economic growth and stability; they had worked for the current economic conditions, and cannot be compared to the time before they earned their democracy. The fair political stability in these countries has contributed to their robust economies. The two countries have continued to progress economically since their transition to democracy; the political stability is reflected by the progress they have made, for instance, Costa Rica depends on tourism, electronic exports, and agriculture, which cannot thrive if ...

Macroeconomic Theory

Econ 385 – AS01 Winter 2016 Homework Assignment 1 William Easterly in his book ‘The Elusive Quest for Growth’ described the Solow’s growth theory as a ‘shocker’. Discuss why the Solow’s growth model was surprising. Which policy implication of the Solow model was surprising and how did Solow arrive at this policy implication? Up until the Solow model, economists mainly believed that capital accumulation (machinery and buildings) is the primary determinant of growth (capital fundamentalism). Solow’s growth model concludes that investment in machinery does not lead to long-term growth. The only possible source of growth is technological ...

A Review Paper on Tribological and Mechanical Properties of Ternary Nitride based Coatings

Chauhan, K. V., & Rawal, S. K. (2014). A Review Paper on Tribological and Mechanical Properties of Ternary Nitride based Coatings. Procedia Technology, 14, 430-437. doi:10.1016/j.protcy.2014.08.055 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212017314000917 The paper reviews the nanotribological researches that are required to create basic understanding of the interracial phenomena on the lesser scale in the nanostructured polymers employed in the storage if magnetic systems and for other commercial applications. In many fields of the electromagnetic and coating applications such as the use in the automobile and the aircraft sectors, the wear and the friction of the moving parts is a critical aspect to be put ...

Health policy combines action, plans and decisions to achieve certain health care improvements. The goals of the health care policies are referred by the World Health organization as a vision for the future, building consensus, informing people and outlining the priorities for the short and medium term. Many historical policies have been implemented in the United States, but still the health care expenses are rising from year to year and had in the last year 2015 reached 17.5% of GDP (United States Census Bureau, n.d.). The paper will examine one of the most important health policies Medicaid. The social ...

Implementation Plan

Introduction While most natural disasters cannot be avoided or prevented, their effects on the community can be mitigated using different methods. Disasters cause innumerable amount of damage, not mentioning the amount of fatalities and injuries in the processes. The government and the local communities have always put effort in trying to control disasters and their effects through the use of numerous methods and approaches. Of all the approaches at the government’s disposal, disaster mitigation planning has proven to be one of the best. Mitigation processes and plans play a very crucial role in lessening the amount of damage ...

Deviance in the society

A deviant condition is a situation where one or a group in a given society adopts some behavior that the community does accept or either deem unacceptable. It is also the violation of a norm in given societies. The scenario concentrates on many undertakings such that the realization of this character in the individual or group can be tamed or changed to better the society (Attridge and Rosenquist, 2013).

Introduction

Various reasons explain why the nature of human beings can be deviant at all or change in a way that depicts deviance. It can come from a youthful experience, for ...

There is evidence from the excavation to show that the site was occupied continuously. The lower most layer is a layer of sterile soil. This is an indication of a period in which there were no inhabitants in the site. However, the subsequent layers show evidence of the evolution of the inhabitants of the site over several hundreds of years. The commonality of some artifacts in two subsequent layers is an indication of the fading of one civilization over time and the rise of another civilization with different activities. There is also evidence of various activities at the excavated ...

Communication: Constant communication is necessary for any group to execute it tasks and achieve desired objectives. Group members will communicate through instant messaging using Google Hangouts. Each group member will be expected to have supporting applications installed on their mobile phones and other digital devices as will be necessary to facilitate real-time communications. Members must log in to their chat rooms, at least, every eight hours to confirm impeding group meetings and other information. Direct phone calls will also be utilized as often as will be appropriate. Consequences: Failure to log in to the Google Hangout, at least, every ...

Technological advancement, such as the one that we see in computer science, brings on a lot of new opportunities, but also new challenges and debates. This is particularly true in the area of ethics, as the advancement of computer technology is bringing new possibilities that are starting to challenge the way we think about many important things such as privacy and security. The rise of this technology is no doubt the single most important thing that humanity has achieved so far, as it has allowed us progress at a rate that has never been seen before. Computers have empowered ...

This paper substantiates the insights espoused by Enrico Moretti that the level of economic success depends on a number of factors, such as: education, productivity, and salary. These factors related greatly to geography, that is, where you live and work (Moretti 3). According to Moretti, a worker’s educational level and skills will determine his salary and on the economic progress of other individuals around him/her. Depending on the geographic location, the economic success between two individuals shows significant variances. Workers in developed cities, where innovation proves to be the driver in labor productivity, earn up to three times ...

Information Technology Effects

Abstract The objective of the paper is to analyze the effects of information technology on interpersonal communication. Technology advancement and continued economic development have both positive and negative effects on interpersonal communication. The topic is one of organizational development studies that investigate effects of technology on communications. The paper reviews both positive and negative effects of information technology, its effect on interpersonal communication. With the preamble of a new communication and information age, techniques of social communications continue to change. The project analyzes the effects of information technology in the love or relationship cases, workplace, and for recreational purposes. ...

Game Developer

Introduction - Game development is the process of creating a game for consoles, PC, arcades, tablets, mobile phones and other platforms. This has been one of the best and highest paying job in the world. A single game would take years before it is launched and millions of dollars are spent along the process. This job entails everyone “to create your own engine” (Whithall 1).

Job Description

Duties Establishing the game concept according to genre or type of game. Developing games scripts and storyboards. Developing visual effects and 2D or 3D animation software. Recording and applying audio features to the game. ...

The work setting in the office is not permissive for one to concentrate and produce concrete work. The nature of the office gives individuals fragments of time that limit their ability to do meaningful things. Fried (2010) argued that people such as engineers and thinkers would require long hours of uninterrupted time that is not available at the office. The distractions of the office are unique because they are involuntary. Fried noted that despite people thinking that social media distracts workers at the office, managers are the main distractors. For instance, the managers tend to keep on asking the ...

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Political: 5

Economic: 6 Social: 6 Technological: 6 Environmental: 7 Legal: 7 - SWOT Analysis. 7

Strength. 8

Weakness. 8 Opportunities. 9 Threats. 9 4) Competitive Strategy Analysis: Five Forces, Value Chain Strategy Clock. 9

A) Five Forces: 9

Threat of new entrants: 10 Threat of substitute products and services: 10 Bargaining power suppliers: 10 Bargaining power of buyers: 11 Rivalry among existing competitors: 11 Recommendations: 11 B) Value Chain: 12 C) Strategic Clock: 12 5) The Further Suggestions. 13

References 14

Samsung: Strategic Management: Business Report. 1) Samsung: Introduction and Background of the Topic. Samsung Group (in future SG) is the Korean global company - well known ...

One of the most widely used job analysis methods is the interview method. The analysis includes both structured and unstructured parts to increase the accuracy and validity. According to the data collected the ultimate goal of social worker is helping different categories of people to increase their well-being and quality of life. Social worker mostly deals with oppressed, marginalized groups and individuals that include people with mental and emotional problems, the elderly, refugees, drug and alcohol abusers, the homeless, children and those who suffer from trauma or poor family conditions. Social workers play a variety of roles within different ...

Project management undergoes various phases that span across initiating, planning, implementing, controlling and winding up the work of a team to attain specific goals and meet precise success criteria. Project management is a developing field used progressively by enterprises of all sizes. As company executives and entrepreneurs’ are faced with the daily responsibilities of handling an organization’s operations, it is vital to use dedicated project managers to superintend projects from conception to completion. Effective project management techniques assists organizations perform large-scale projects within the stipulated time frame, with minimal interference, and on the agreed budget. Project management based ...

Wal-Mart’s performance depends on the following external factors: competition, socio-economic, political and technological factors. Wal-Mart has been an absolute market leader for many years in a row. In 2014 Wal-Mart became a leading grocery retailer in the USA with the market share of 25% (Statista, 2015). Due to the advantage in the economies of scale and financial power, the company will be able to dominate in the market in the nearest future. The socio-economic factors also have a very positive influence on Wal-Mart. The USA has recovered from the economic crisis, the unemployment level is below 8% and ...

Term and Year

Nosocomial infections are among the most causes of infections on hospitals. In fact, nosocomial infects are the cause of some of most prevalent complications occurring to patients admitted in hospitals. Conservative estimates in the United States show that nosocomial infections are attributable to over two million infections in the country’s hospital. Estimates in the country further show that over ninety-thousand people die every year from nosocomial infections. In addition to the prevalence of the nosocomial infections and its effect on patient outcomes, there is also the aspect of the economic cost (Guggenbichler, Assadian, Boeswald & Kramer, 2011). Estimates from ...

Introduction

The Modern Green Movement is distinguished by its actions for combating the cataclysmic consequence of climate changes, by conducting global environmental events, conservation of natural resources, preservation of the environment, and overcoming the green gas issues. The consciousness of the people has become more intense now, yet, most of the environmental issues remain unresolved. And the chemically contaminated water and foods, genetically altered seeds, and other problems are putting the daily lives in dangerous conditions. To make matters worse, most of the natural resources dwindle, while the climate change plays havoc. The Modern Green Movement is convincing people, to ...

I. Introduction When Great Britain and Spain set out to colonize other regions, they both have goals that they wanted to accomplish in their conquest. The idea of taking over of other regions, considerably differ with each colonizer, but their goals were defended on the presumption that they wanted to civilize other places that they considered to have yet to experience the European progress. While the advancement of the Christian faith was said to figure prominently in Spain’s conquest, the Great Britain was said to have set its eye on seeking out better settlement. However, most historians claimed ...

HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a communicable pathogen majorly responsible for the prevalence of AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in a majority of the population. According to the report generated by WHO (2013), there were over 35 million people infected with HIV. When compared to the general populations, the virus is most common in gay and bisexual men, Caribbean and African communities, Aboriginal populations, women and people injecting illicit drugs . HIV is present in the semen, blood, breast milk or vaginal fluid of the infected individuals. While the likelihood of contracting HIV through the casual environment is ...

Concept of organizational management

The four functions of management in healthcare can be described as the main activities that outlines the major duties of a manger in a given health organization. They can be categorized as planning, leading, controlling and organizing.

Planning

It is the process in which the management decides on where the healthcare facility should go, by outlining the steps that would make the facility reach there. Planning is considered a common model in healthcare management because it allows the managers to first know the challenges that are affecting the healthcare facility. Planning requires the top management to make future predictions on ...

Strategic Project Management

Introduction Different people and business across the world have benefitted from the use of Volvo Truck Corporation (VTC) and rely on its durability to achieve different goals. The VTC utilizes the concept of project management and its SAP model to achieve efficiency in meeting its consumer needs more effectively. Through the concept, the company has realized a greater market scope and control hence generating more revenue at a reduced cost which is beneficial to the business (Brathwaite, 2015). Furthermore, through the concept of project management, Volvo will experience increased innovation an aspect that will make the company meet the ...

Introduction

It goes without saying that during the last decades a great number of countries face a growing number of diseases, which noticeably affect our planet’s population. The main danger is posed by the previously unknown viruses or mutated forms of familiar diseases. Obviously, treating such serious illnesses require highly qualified staff, modern equipment and implementing of information technologies in healthcare projects. Fulfilling of all these conditions on a regular basis in health care organizations will surely make diagnostics and treatment of a great number of illnesses safer and faster, reducing medical errors. Considering all these reasons, in the ...

Leadership - Report

Being proactive is crucial to every successful person, who aspires to master their life. Many of us perceive proactive people as spiritual leaders, the men of action and the initiators of creative ideas. In this respect, in his fundamental work, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, Covey describes the quality of being proactive as the basis of all the other six habits, ranking it first (2005).

Exercise 1

Covey defined Habit 1 as taking responsibility for one’s own choices, suggesting that “Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions” (2005). In other words, being proactive means ...

According to the World Health Organization (2014), one of the most important public health issue globally is patient safety. Surveys have shown that approximately one out of ten patients are harmed while receiving hospital care and treatment in developed countries. On the other hand, heath care infections are more common in developing countries than developed countries with seven in 100 for the former and ten in 100 for the latter. The increasing number of individuals affected by hospital related infections and harms led to the recognition for the need to improve patient safety. Some of the concerns when it ...

LITERATURE REVIEW – GENDER EQUALITY IN

Literature Review – Gender Equality in Corporate America Literature reveals the ongoing issue of gender equality in corporate America remains problematic for women. The importance of this issue aligns to implications of the continued lack of social progress taking place in American business among other areas and represents the backward view society continues practicing in general. Gender is the specific issue of inequality among the female population in the corporate America but unfortunately again, as statistics found in literature from studies of inequalities of diversity compounds the situation connecting to hiring practices. This institutionalization of such illegal ideas leads to ...

Science fiction, regardless of its medium, is often thought to be a means of projecting our ideas of the future – what it could be, what it might become, how it should be, and so on. This is often demonstrated in the utopian and dystopian genres of SF, in which future societies, either good or bad, are showcased in order to explore sociological and philosophical ideas about humanity and society. As Jameson notes, this kind of future projection and prediction can be complicated to express, as semiotics and symbolism grants us the ability to investigate those ideas in more abstract ...

The technological progress of the last several decades never ceases to amaze. There are many recent inventions that have made people's lives more comfortable and joyful. Yet, along with positive changes, the technological progress also raises a great deal of ethical and practical issues. One of the most argued topics in this regard is the work on artificial intelligence. Humans should not create artificial intelligence because firstly, it might become an extremely destructive means of warfare, and, secondly, intelligent robots might eventually outsmart people, leading to the death of human civilization. One of the most worrying matters in terms ...

Every individual needs to set some goals towards the achievement of a desired result. Setting personal goals can provide greater achievement with the use of SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-oriented) goals which help the individual focus on what they want to learn or achieve. The objective of using SMART goals is helping plan for relevant learning activities and to allow one measure the results and progress in achieving the learning goals (College of Nurses of Ontaroio, 2014). This paper aims to help the author develop my own personal leadership development by learning how to use SMART goals ...

Countries of former USSR

USSR, existed from 1922 till 1991, has occupied almost a one-sixth part of the land and has gathered together more than 100 nations and nationalities, which formed 15 unions and 20 autonomous republics. The collapse of such a large country on the 15 sovereign states became one of the defining events of the 20th century. It has affected not only the political and geographic realities, but also changed the economic situation both in the region and in the whole world. The countries in this region are objectively linked by the neighbor location and common historical development. Moreover, they are ...

Background

Solow Growth Model is one of the basic Macroeconomic model in the neoclassical era. It was first introduced by Robert Solow in 1956 (Verner, 1995). The model tries to explain the long term economic growth of an economy. The dependent variable of the Solow Model is long term rate of economic growth (output) and independent variables are capital accumulation, labor (also expressed in terms of population growth) and increase in productivity (technological innovation) (Verner, 1995).

Figure: Solow Equation: Y- Output, A- Productivity, And K – Capital Accumulation and L – Labor Growth (Boianovsky and Hoover, 2009) The main assumption of Solow ...

Chapter 1

Questions to consider

Dr. Maria Hunt the special education supervisor What are the facts of the case? Jake has been having learning disability over time. However, his teacher, Ms. Rose Weiss has been teaching him to overcome the learning challenge. Jake was making progress. As of September when Jake joined the learning disability class, he could not read three-letter words. After receiving one-hour instructions in a day with a focus on reading and presented with one hundred basic sight words, Jake could read them with an eighty percent accuracy. When given twenty single syllable nonsense words, he could also ...

Develop an initial mental health postarrest assessment for Doe that includes a line of questioning to determine personality type and suicide risk. Personality type should be taken into account in order to determine the psychological context of Doe. This can established through the development of their past circumstances and mental health history. This will help in demonstrating the conditions upon which the criminal action took place. Understanding their past history of mental illness will help to provide insight into this context. Through the establishment of a conceptual framework that can be understood in regards to the history and criminal ...

INDIVIDUAL WRITEUP

Even though we are claiming that we are leaving in a free world where everyone has equal rights, there are still some forms of injustice that are done to women especially as far as employment and pay is concerned. Up to date, women pay still lags behind and what they are paid now on average could be equal to what men were paid over 10 years ago . There have been numerous efforts done so as to ensure that women get equal pay with their male counterparts and the question that many are asking today is – is it time that ...

First, it is necessary to give definition to the term corporate social responsibility or CSR. According to Baker, “CSR is about how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society”. Nicole Taylor says that “Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to a business practice that involves participating in initiatives that benefit society”. All the authors agreed that corporate social responsibility is a new level of business activity nowadays that aims not only financial benefits but also nonprofit gains. Nowadays in order to be competitive every company should implement CSR. For short-term period, the implication of ...

Introduction

The documents provided for discussion and reflection pertain to education, its quality and impact. Education starts right from a very tender age when a child steps in school. It is considered as a powerful tool for development and progress, touching every aspect of our lives such as health, academics, technology, reducing poverty and a lot more. It is true that in the modern society, education has become a highly developed institution. However, I feel that it has become a lot more complex and expensive as well as lost its real objectives. It needs to be seen if education is ...