Essays on Replacing

Payment methods and technologies have shifted a great deal over the years. Gone are the days where cash and check transactions make up the bulk of the give and take that occurs when people engage in commerce, travel and otherwise spend their money. Credit and debit cards have ruled the roost for a while but some new contenders are starting to emerge. The first major alternative to the conventional credit cards and other more traditional methods was PayPal (PayPal, 2017). However, smartphone-enabled technologies such as Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay are starting to dominate the commerce and ...

Introduction

Mega-Events such as the World Cups and Olympics are so huge that it requires almost creating a temporary city for the massive event, with power, toilets, waste, water, and transport, among a host of other things. Such an event is inherently environmentally unsustainable, as it produces masses of waste and consumes unnecessary resources. While having no event is the most environmentally friendly event, there are many reasons countries hold why mega-events. However, it is beyond a doubt that those conducting the event have a social and environmental responsibility to reduce their impacts. This is true for all events, whether ...

Introduction

The process of managing individuals whether in business or sport is an intricate task and demands a compassionate appreciation of the multilateral roles needed (Crust and Lawrence, 2006). The position of manager in sports represents a tempestuous as well as a stressful occupation where persons are publicly held answerable for the performance of the team. Some football managers have been heavily criticized for not spending enough in buying top players to help their teams win trophies. For instance, as Kulper (2013) reports, Arsenal fans complain that the team manager refuses to purchase the costly players who can compete with ...

Abstract

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabian (KSA) has been experiencing dramatic shift and transformation from the simple migrant lifestyle that was pretty synonymous to the KSA society to the current day contemporary lifestyle. The labor market KSA has been heavily reliant on foreign workforce. The expatriate workforce in KSA constitutes two-thirds of the total Saudi Arabian employee base. According to report that was presented by the Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA) in the 2008, the expatriate population in the Saudi Arabian private sector constitute to more than 88 % of the total workforce of KSA. The increasing degree of unemployment among ...

According to the world-famous quote, “The one who owns information owns the world”. That is why it is important to stay aware of all current state of affairs and the emergent technologies. In order to do so, a certain well-structured and complex approach to information and its analysis is definitely needed, and the one may be provided by the technique of the Intelligence Cycle. Therefore the aim of this essay will be to introduce and analyze the concept of the Intelligence Cycle, as well as consider the methods of information gathering about potential terrorists, which is one of the ...

In an effort to improve the education of American schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th grade, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were released by the Council of Chief State Schools Officers and the National Governors Association in 2010 (Applebee, 2013); 43 of 50 states adopted them by 2013 (Conley, 2014). Attempts at voluntary national standards began with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 and over the next six years, a project in English language arts lost its funding after two weeks in 1992 and standards for history were voted down by the Senate in 1995. The ...

Bone mineral health is critical topic in the general fitness of athletes, more so female athletes. In determining the bone mineral health, experts analyze the mineral density in bones. The bone mineral density is calculated by measuring the mineral content in one cubic centimeter of bone. The higher the bone mineral density, the healthier the bones of the involved individual are and better for an athlete. In this regard, female athletes ought to ensure that they have high bone mineral density so that they are able to able to compete effectively and put their bodies into the strenuous conditions ...

There are indeed many things that can be done to solve the problem of Environmental Degradation in Canada. In our lecture, there was a list provided and one included in the list is the removal of leaded fuels and replacing it unleaded gasoline. While I think the unleaded gasoline would indeed do better for people, I think there must be more studies on the possible effects of this change. While there are diverse ways on solving environmental issues, experts and the government should decide which ones are the best. In my opinion, simply replacing leaded gasoline is not a ...

Introduction

United health care provides a platform for improving the health care system and addressing the United States citizens’ health needs. The system of united health has different features such as health insurances. The united health care covers individual and family health needs. Others are dental and visions, Medicare and Medicaid coverage. The united health care strategic plan approach in achieving the need for patients is improving on the medical services. This is undertaken through having high-qualified nurses, improving on the medical networking through offering health insurance and ensuring patients’ satisfaction. The study seeks to elaborate on the united healthcare ...

Introduction

In recent decades, trends in diets tailored to promote weight loss have resulted in a significant increase in the intake of protein, particular in people with overweight and obesity issues. Accordingly, researchers have questioned the benefits or risks linked to the habitual consumption of “dietary protein in excess of recommended intakes” (Martin et al., 2005). In general, the primary concern has involved the possibility that diets rich in protein may increase hyperfiltration and, hence, exacerbate renal damage. Nevertheless, the potential link between protein-rich diets and renal damage has also been questioned due to an absence of adequate clinical evidence. ...

During the inspection of the thermal envelope (insulation) of my residence, major mechanical equipment were evaluated. The auditing also involved conducting various diagnostic tests on residence. The evaluations are geared towards helping me establish and quantify the energy efficiency levels at my residence. The audit indicates that there are many energy consuming appliances at my home and some of them emit energy while on standby mode. The appliances include toasters, televisions, computers, and televisions. These appliances use varied quantities of electricity in terms of Watts (Turner, 2016). Some of the concerns revealed by the audit include air leaks around ...

Proposal Recommendation

Executive Summary Over the last decade, our school district has done an excellent job in keeping up with the latest in all of technological trends, accelerating the knowledge and computer skills of our students. Such knowledge and computer skills have afforded many of our schools with high rankings, as is compared to our closest counterparts. We have been known to set a trend that is not always the most popular. Yet in spite of such lack of popularity, we are able to account in a compensatory manner. For example, our choices have always tended to prove to be the ...

Within the article, Media Bias – Is Slanted Reporting Replacing Objectivity by CQ Researcher, it is discussed as to whether media coverage is biased within the United States, particularly in the realm of political parties and their affiliates. While this argument does sound outlandish to many, if one were to grow up in one of the more liberal parts of the United States that does not follow Fox News religiously, they would see a clear pattern of news programming both on the liberal and conservative side that tends to favor United States politics rather than relevant international issues, domestic policies, ...

Introduction

The concept of sustainable development was first introduced in 1987 by the United Nations as part of the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, in which it was stated that sustainable development implies “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (United Nations General Assembly, 1987). The World Conservation Strategy published in 1980 served as prelude to the conception of this notion, as the UN recognized the importance of minimizing the impact of human activity over the earth’s ecosystems and adopting models inclined towards sustainability ...

Introduction

Ricardo and Marx have developed an economic approach based on the labor-value. Both authors’ economic theory depends on the labor-added value. As known, the price determination in the markets is the most important mechanism defined in the science of economics. The price is an agreement between the agents in the economy, and the price conveys a lot of information to the agents in the economy. For instance, by using the cross-price demand elasticity statistics, or the income demand elasticity comparison, one agent can see how the price competition is developing, and how successful the market is contributing to the ...

The question of facility planning is one of the most important when it comes to the discussion about creating or building something new. Considering correct planning it is essential to realize the changes it can bring to the authors of a project. The quality of many lives will definitely be enhanced, and this impact cannot be ignored during the planning process. This way, the result depends of many aspects, among which the facility planning can be viewed as the most important.

Steps of Facility Planning

Tips for correct facility planning are the combination of different principles. Firstly, one should provide a study of ...

Internal Analysis of McDonald’s Corp.

Introduction McDonald’s is the biggest chain of hamburger fasts food cafes around the world with over 50 million consumers. The corporation was started in 1940 by two brothers in San Bernardino, California (McDonald’s. com, 2016). Today, McDonald's is the leader in global food service retail with around 35,000 locations in more than 100 nations. However, most of its worldwide restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business people. Additionally, the alignment strength in McDonald’s is its franchisees and suppliers. This system has been the reason for the long-term success of the corporation. In the ...

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Acknowledgements

This project paper demonstrates the integration of the knowledge I acquired from the courses in Master of Health Administration and Leadership Program and the collaborative application with this project’s community partner, MidMichigan Health to improve the community health in Gratiot County, Michigan. I am thankful for getting this valuable opportunity to work with a large healthcare organization. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who worked really hard to financially and emotionally support me in pursuing further education overseas. They comfort me every ...

Business Case Study: Yahoo. Inc!

Stakeholders and customer need Yahoo is a top player in online marketing through advertisement space and portals among other online marketing tools. Later, the company diversified its activities to include music, photo sharing, and blogging. Diversified activities aim at serving the customers' needs. Indeed, in the year, 2012Yahoo was ranked at position three regarding market share and some online visits as illustrated in the figure below. Figure 1: Internet use traffic data The company has faced serious management investment challenges that might jeopardize its return of investments and attractiveness to global investors. The dire blunt was felt in 2008 ...

A Fossil fuel power station is a plant location where fossil fuels are burned producing electricity. Such fossil fuels include petroleum, natural gas, and coal. There are power plants which are designed for continuous operations for large scale purposes called central station fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel plants in many countries are used in the provision of electricity. They have machines for conversion of heat energy from combustion of fossil fuels into mechanical energy that operates an electrical generator producing electric currents (Camus et al. 154). The Samso Island is planning to exhaust the application of fossil fuels ...

Informative Speech Outline

Organization: Topical pattern Audience analysis: The audience consists of my peers at school and other friends of the same age-group. They are young adults who use technology a lot.

Specific Purpose: To persuade those listening that we have become too dependent on technology Introduction: Attention-getter Many people exhibit Chanie Kirschner’s signs of technology addiction, which include conducting all important businesses and interactions online, felling empty without technology and being dysfunctional when technology is interrupted (Krishner).

Motive for Listening

Many people, especially the young, have become so engrossed in technology that it is starting to interfere with normal life and interfering with ...

How a Bill Becomes a Law

SITUATION: IS THIS SOMETHING THAN CAN BE LEGISLATED? Identify the problem/concern: Drug addiction is a complex issue that contains an adverse consequence for the community members. The estimate of the total costs associated with drug and substance abuse in the community include crime and health complications. On another view, drug and substance abusers lack moral principles to stop using drugs by changing the behavior in the community. Consequently, drug and substance abuse manipulate the brain in ways that usually foster compulsive drug and substance abuse. Typically, drugs and substance abuse have led to addictions and chronic replacing brain disease ...

Abstract

The experiment involved the investigation of the young’s modulus of different beams made from different materials. The beams that were used for the test were steel, aluminum and timber. The experiment involved placing of the beams on the measurement machine shown below and addition of loads at the center of the beam. The loads were then varied across the beams while investigating the relationship that existed between the beams when different loads were added. The height, width, and the respective deflections were therefore recorded for analysis. The dial gauge was used to measure the deflection of the beam ...

Reciprocity of Marketing & Culture

INTRODUCTION The growing interdependence of global markets has made a more compelling case for culture as an increasingly significant variable in marketing efforts. For one, products and services produced at a global scale find more diverse platforms, particularly across virtual media. The pace, scale and content of products and/or services are, moreover, making an increasing case for more standardized offerings across different marketing contexts. Typically, consumer behavior metrics – including, most notably, conventional market research and more innovative approaches as data analytics platforms and applications – are adopted in order to identify consumer behaviors and needs. This approach to consumer behavior ...

Diabetes type 2 is a chronic disorder affecting metabolism. It is characterised by high level of glucose in blood, lack of insulin and resistance of the body to insulin action. This article outlines the pertinent aspects of the disease and how dietary plan affects its prevention and management. It is classified under lifestyle diseases because it is caused by changes in how people eat and level and nature of day-to-day activities occasioned by the current living standards.

Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes

Signs and symptoms of this condition develop progressively over a period. It is possible that a person would have Type 2 Diabetes ...

IRON SUPPLEMENTATION DURING PREGNANCY

Iron Supplementation during Pregnancy Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy is a risk factor for adverse maternal and perinatal care. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 56 million pregnant women globally get affected with anemia, which is associated with iron deficiency. The large group of pregnant women affected with iron deficiency are mostly the poor and most vulnerable, especially those living in developing countries like South-east Asia. They have insufficient iron to meet the increased iron needs both for them and the foetus. According to Staff (2013), approximately 29% of the pregnant women experience iron depletion. Iron is vital ...

This memo addresses the question of whether Nice Creams should give a free ice cream cone replacement if a customer drops it. The gross profit per family per visit is $3.8 (20%*$19). Giving away an ice cream cone that costs Nice Creams $3.15 in material costs wipes out 82.89% of the gross profit made per family. For this reason, May seems right that giving away the ice creams would adversely impact on the profitability of the business. This argument is valid especially if you assume that there are no repeat customers. However, the business operates in a suburb ...

Introduction

MacJob is a loose term used to refer to the low paying as well as low prestige jobs that do not demand high skills and has little chance of career growth and advancement. Notably, the term was coined from the fast food giant MacDonald. As such, the term does not take into account the type of employer but the fact that the job is low paying and requires little-specialized skills. Owing to the emergence of technology, these types of jobs are highly growing and replacing the skilled labor across all the industries due to low costs involved in hiring ...

Just the sound of the words murder or killing someone tells us that something is wrong. The thoughts and feelings we get after learning that someone has been killed, proves to us that killing is very wrong. Therefore, how can we be comfortable with passing a law that supports the death penalty? The death penalty is a legal procedure whereby the state executes a person as a punishment for the crimes/offenses he/she has committed (Kaufman 546). Therefore, when the capital punishment law is not abolished, it means that we will see many murders of people who this sentence has ...

For many people who smoke electronic cigarettes, the main purpose is to combat nicotine addiction – this way people are trying to quit smoking modern tobacco products. Exploring the topic how effective the electronic cigarette is in combat against tobacco smoking, I pursue the only goal to prove that today the electronic cigarette is the life-saving panacea, which does not require the rejection of the smoking ritual but at the same time it does not cause the dangerous harm to the body of a smoker. Many people mistakenly believe that electronic cigarettes are dangerous to health – this statement is not ...

Importance of Online Communication in Business

Abstract Globalization has compelled many businesses to realize the importance of communication within the workplace as well as outside the business. Communication plays an eminent role in the business success. The modern business environment has changed the traditional communication trend. Now, businesses have shifted towards the internet. Communication effectiveness is depended on numerous factors such as Clarity of the message; the medium used for transferring information like the internet, email correspondence; Eliminating any distortion that hinders effective communication; and the receiver ability to decode the message. Email correspondence is different from the verbal conversations so the words must be ...

As technology advances and researchers develop new applications for technological discoveries, they may open Pandora’s Box by giving consumers too much freedom to try, and very difficult choices to make. In her article, “The Made-To-Order Savior”, Lisa Belkin shows how the modern technology involved in human reproduction can be used in order to save a child’s life. The author compares the story of two children, of whom one had the chance of being able to use this technology, and this saved her life. However, for this to happen, her parents needed to have a perfectly matching sibling ...

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Based on the videos and some more research on Amazon, if I have to look at the future ten years from now, I see that on the strategy and operations side Amazon has presence in ecommerce and physical store retail, has minimal human work force in the warehouses, provides the services in tier 2 and tier 3 cities in almost all the growing countries, and caters to a larger customer base with a broad spectrum of product line. Based on the article published in Forbes by Steve Denning, “ingle-channel retail will disappear, whether it’s pure e-commerce or brick-and-mortar ...

Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were leaders of Soviet Russia and the Nazi Germany respectively. Both were born into modest backgrounds and experienced impoverishment during their early lives, but rose to be powerful leaders. Although Stalin and Hitler never met, there are many similarities and differences between them with regard to their social, political, and economic ideologies. The two advanced socialist beliefs, but their idea of socialism was different. While Stalin was a strong supporter of communism, Hitler was a strong adherent of Nazism. A common aspect between these leaders was their lack of tolerance, which made them result ...

Social networks have entered our life relatively recently, but their popularity among Internet users is really impressive. Millions of people every day are involved in endless chatting, posting, twitting and liking activities which replace usual reading, live communication and writing on paper. In my opinion, this situation may be viewed from different standpoints: positive and negative. I will have a try to analyze in the present paper how social networks influence their users and whether this influence is more positive or more negative. I remember last year I had to pass a very important exam and I wanted to ...

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

Introduction According to Perrow (1967), technology is an action used to transform inputs to outputs. In other words, technologies are the tasks of individuals producing outputs. In microelectronics, technology can be viewed as those devices that make use of microprocessors and microcomputers. It also refers to user support services that are provided to assist users in performing the tasks. Technology is beneficial to man since it simplifies tasks for him, to work faster and efficiently. It also helps men to fit well to their environment. The main reason why technology is advancing is to improve the living standards of ...

“Successful international firms frequently introduce standardized products covering most market needs, thereby replacing many specialized products"

Introduction The globalization and internationalization has increased the concerns of international business and international marketing. The firms have been involved in developing themselves into the Multinational Corporations (MNCs) rather than local and national firm. It has resulted in various MNCs across the world such as Coca Cola, McDonalds, Pepsi Co., KFC, Wall Mart, Zara, Unilever, Nestle etc. Marketing strategy is defined as the development of the decisions for the resource allocation, relationship of the company with the investors and the timings for the actions. With the growth in the internationalization, the management of the companies is now more concerned ...

Abstract

This Wikipedia project explores MARS, Inc. In particular, the project provides a critical discussion on the importance of community based contribution and the ways by which, individuals can make a unique difference in the way a company, brand, or service is viewed by the general public. The project highlights a marketing campaign that was implemented by MARS, Inc. in 2013, known as "Better With M." The project explains the reasons behind the campaign and why it was so impactful to the company, and to the world. The project also explores the recent changes that occurred with MARS, Inc. deciding ...

1. I would advise the client that this is an appropriate design and should be adopted. This is because their estimates are lower than the expected costs of the project. In addition, they have experience in this field. I would recommend alternative if the terms stated in the alternative are better than those of Design and Construct firm. If no better alternative is available then it should be adopted.

2. I would decline this offer. Novation is replacing one person or party with another in a contract or replacing a contract with another. I would send the client a copy of the ...