Essays on Seattle

Company Profile

Revered as the biggest e-commerce website around the globe, Amazon Inc. is an American multinational entity engaged in e-commerce selling and cloud computing. Founded in the year 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington DC. Amazon is the biggest e-retailer in terms of revenue and market capitalization. Beginning with the modest background of selling books and Blu-Ray DVD’s, Amazon today offers more than billion products and is now operating globally with presence in 19 countries. The company is listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol of AMZN and is also the constituent of NASDAQ ...

In the chapter “Relationship Versus Task Orientation,” it states that there is a clear distinction between hot- and cold- climate cultures within the work environment. While the hot- climate is based on relations between people, the cold-climate is oriented around tasks. Hot-climate communication is centered on promoting an inviting atmosphere, albeit most often on a superficial level. In cold-climate communication, however, the truth is favored over peaceable relations. It is rarely about the person, and is rather focused just on the task at hand. Personal issues are in a different category than objective issues. In relation to my current ...

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“The End of the Day” (1990) Materials used in the painting are oil and canvas. The painting is executed in realistic style. It depicts a quiet scene of family life: the end of the day, as the name suggests. The foreground depicts a women, holding a book, with a child sitting on her knees. This is a mother, who is reading a story for her daughter. Interestingly, there are no any scenes or objects on the background, it is just a brown wall, possibly wooden, as it becomes obvious from the texture. Thus, the painting reminds a close ...

as Environment Policy

Effectiveness of Carbon Tax as Environment Policy

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because unrestrained rising of global temperature would cause melting of glaciers and rise of sea level that would submerge land masses, change weather patterns with frequent incidence of hurricanes and floods and droughts. As an effective response to the challenge, global leaders have agreed to cut back emission of Green House Gases (GTG) to contain the global rise in temperature below 2 degree Celsius (Symon, 2013). Carbon dioxide, a major constituent of GTG, is released to the atmosphere on combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and ...

Youths are not generally tried in adult court for the crimes that they commit. This is because most of the crimes committed by youths are not serious enough to justify incarcerating them alongside adult offenders. Most youths are tried in juvenile court and are sentenced to serve time in juvenile detention facilities if convicted. However, this does not apply to youths who are convicted of more serious crimes, such as murder. The age at which a person can be tried in adult versus juvenile court differs between states. In forty-one states the maximum age of a juvenile before being ...

THE iPhone: A PRODUCT OF THE APPLE COMPANY

Apple, Inc. is one of the very successful companies in the world and very few people around the globe would deny the fact the Apple is one among many other companies that grew tremendously in the short period. The company specializes itself in designing, developing and selling the consumer electronics, software, and it also sells the digital content through its retail chain store called as Apple Store. The consumer electronics includes the products like Mac personal computers, the tablet computer called as iPad, smartphone device as iPhone, and media player with high portability as iPod, Apple TV digital media ...

Abstract

Over the past years, the criminal justice system has experienced both praises and criticism involving the manner in which various officers enforce law and order. While most officers strive to ensure sanctity and order prevail among all equals, a section of the officers overlook the art of humanity and apply undue force to innocent and suspected individuals. Unfortunately, the blanket of corruption shields the officers from prosecution in the effort to safeguard the exposition of the inner affairs of the police culture. Corruption broils police brutality and individual victimization with unwarranted allegations as a weapon to silence their sufferings. ...

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Seattle in Washington, USA, may have come home to several persons across America and the world, in fact, through the little glimpses and aerial shots that we get during Sondra Rhimes’ Greys Anatomy, or made a household name because of Sleepless in Seattle, but for me Seattle is truly home. For me, Seattle is more than the upwardly mobile young people who sip coffee and appear to be talking about changing the future; it is more than its reputation of being a place of rain; it is more than the memory of Gary Payton, Sean Kemp and George Carl ...

Internal Analysis of Encana

Internal Analysis of Encana

Introduction

The oil and gas industry in North America is currently experiencing challenges and transition stage. The increasing need for the environment-friendly and sustainable forms of energy is affecting the industry negatively as more governments and companies are encouraged to use energy with no or low carbon emission. More companies are now developing solar and wind energy and create vehicles that can rely on electricity rather than oil. Such growing trend in the energy sector resulted to lower demand of oil and gas particularly in the North America. Many oil and gas producing countries and companies ...

Management

Starbucks is “the global coffee and food retailer operates more than 21,000 locations in 66 countries” (Fortune 500). The history of the company began in 1971 when the first Starbucks café was opened in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. Since that time, the company has grown into one of the world leaders in coffee retail represented in 66 countries all over the world. Moreover, Starbucks became the symbol of ongoing process of the Americanization that embraced countries in Asia. Starbucks included in Fortune 500 on 146 place in 2016. Figure 1 illustrates Starbucks’s Fortune 500 rank ...

This paper is divided into three different sections; 1) relevant subjects in 1990, discussed in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in volume 59, issue 6, 2) methodology used within the article, “Chronic Parenting Stress: Moderating Versus Mediating Effects of Social Support, and 3) a comparison between two articles, the first being a professional article and the second being a newspaper article. Other outside sources will be included within the text to verify information used in the study. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology covers many topics, but in 1990 there were several topical trends. One trend ...

Introduction

The University of Washington has tended to turn into a commercial institution rather than it being an institution that takes heed to improve the status of the institution rather through education. This has been due to the fact that the school has tended to prefer students from outside the state because they pay more in terms of their tuition as compared to the counterparts who are from the state. However, this issue may not be as wrong as it is deemed. This essay will lay down the various factors that seem to support their move and those that may ...

Can gang members be predicted? Why or why not?

Gang membership can be predicted regarding the risk factors that are present. A person who has had a poor upbringing and no parental stability is likely to be involved in gang life. The gang represents family on the streets and often give the individual a sense of belonging and companionship. The risk factors are important in determining future gang affiliation.

What are the main predictive factors that increase the likelihood that an individual will join a gang?

The more risk factors that a person has increased the chance that gang involvement will be in his future. Some predictive risk factors are the low economic environment, single parent or no parent homes, growing up in a bad ...

Bill Gates, as any outstanding personality is unique. However, today we will not argue with those who criticize him. We will apply the golden rule of business, which reads: "Learning should be from the successful people." We will talk about what events from the biography of Gates and the quality of his character helped him to become what he is. He is the legendary founder of Microsoft, who is also the richest man in the world for over ten years. He is a charismatic business leader, innovator, has a knight title in the UK and is the father of ...

The Project

The Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program makes use of project planning as a tool in project management through the use schedules. The project’s schedule indicates that it is to be led by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration and various administrative organs in King County. The project schedule indicates that Washington State is responsible for the funding of thirty-one of the projects envisaged under the program. It also identifies the scope of works to be undertaken from the inception of the project in 2007 to date as illustrated by the ...

Murray, the current mayor of Seattle, has set up plans for moving the squatters out. This is to be done by providing them with roads and services that are easily accessible to the police and service crews, unlike the plan of the past bulldozers-led sweeps that was not compassionate by displacing the people who were homeless. With the help of Union Mission teams which has made treatment and shelter available, many people have managed to move away from the Jungle. The city staff also say that the shelters have rooms provided by the state and can accommodate everyone. One ...

Introduction

Starbucks Corporation is a company founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971 and is a premier retailer, roaster and marketer of specialty coffees around the world. (Annual Report 2015) In 2015, Starbucks reported a staff of approximately 180,000 employees over 19,760 company licensed and operated retail stores in over 60 countries worldwide. Roasted and handcrafted high-quality and premium coffees, tea and fresh food items as well as other beverages make up their product mix.(Annual Report 2015) Starbucks also sells coffee products and tea, as well as licenses its trademarks through multiple other channels like grocery, licensed stores ...

Information Technology Strategic Plan

2016-06-07 Information Technology Strategic Plan

Introduction

As we know, the success of any organization depends largely on how it satisfies customers. If the customers like the quality of work and organization of the administrative staff, they will become loyal. Thus, the rate of customers’ loyalty will increase. Attracting customers are contributed by the timely execution of orders or projects, good service, reasonable pricing policy and effective business communications with customers. Not every customer is willing to spend his money immediately and conclude a profitable deal with the company. In order to increase income, the customers must be interested in the ...

Business Negotiation Skills Improvement Conference

Business Negotiation Skills Improvement Conference

Negotiation is a method by which people settle differences. The purpose of negotiation is bringing people to compromise or reaching agreements, and avoiding argument and dispute. It is a professional communication and could be improved by skills.

Purpose of conference (Workshop)

Our team conducting this conference is by the purpose of helping businesses to improve their negotiation skills during negotiation meetings, and allowing businesses to have a win-win situation. Lack of preparation usually lead businesses to have lower benefit than they deserve to have or they expected. Besides preparations, negotiation tactics during the meeting also has sizable effects ...

Environmentalism ought to be examined in a philosophical context to develop an understanding of the different factors at play and even the viability of some strategies of environmentalism. The issue of public land leased to coal mining companies by the Department of Interior provides a perfect case scenario to explore the philosophical aspects of this issue with an emphasis on the factors that are at play in a tussle. A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Interior because it leases public land to coal mining companies despite the well-documented evidence that coal mining is the world’s ...

Evolution from Hunting and Gathering to an Agricultural Society

The Neolithic Revolution is also known as the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Data indicate that this began about 12,500 years ago. People formed communities and they developed settlements as they began to domesticate certain species of plants (Tignor, 23). This “revolution” occurred in several places around the world. The earliest revolution occurred in the Fertile Crescent area of Mesopotamia between 10,000 to 8,000 BC, in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia at about 8000 BC, and in Subsaharan Africa at about 2500 BC. One theory that is used to explain this phenomenon is that agriculture was ...

Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies

Starbucks is an American company for the sale of coffee and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks is the largest coffee company in the world, with a network of stores (more than 20 thousand) in more than 60 countries. Starbucks sells espresso and other hot and cold beverages on its basis, and hot and cold sandwiches, pastries, snacks, and items such as mugs and glasses. Headquartered in Seattle city, Washington. Initially, the company was founded in 1971 by an English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Sigl and writer Gordon Bowker, who opened a shop selling coffee beans in Seattle. When choosing ...

Introduction

Leadership styles of executives define organizational culture and thus determine the health and profitability of business operations. Leadership is a process through which an individual guides, controls and influences the thinking pattern, feeling and behavior of fellow employees in an organization (Haiman, 1951). Organizations are positively influenced by leaders who have the ability to plan and act through their own unique styles towards achieving their long-term visions. Analyzing the styles of leaders of business organizations reveals why certain organizations keep on breaking sales records whereas others fail to create a significant impact in the consumer market. Broadly, today’s ...

1.0 Executive summary Ryanair has experienced tremendous growth and success over time. The low-cost company strategy has been quite effective for several years. The adoption of the strategy has contributed to the growth and the success that the airline currently enjoys (Barrett 2004, p.90). However, despite its success the company is faced with various challenges including but not limited to volatile fuel prices, increased competition among others. The strategy employed by the company has worked well in the past. However, there is the need to analyze the current market and develop appropriate strategies that will further increase the airline ...

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee or the SNCC, as the name suggests, revolved around peaceful forms of resistance to the white supremacy ideologies that not only warranted the enslavement of blacks in the antebellum period but also cemented the grounds of segregation. In other words, because of the racial divisions that existed between persons of African descent and their white counterparts, American societies functioned around a social hierarchy that made whites the predominantly superior race at the expense of blacks. Now, to end the racial injustices in the Southern States, the first method that the SNCC employed encompassed the “ ...

Discussion of the Results got from the Analysis

Discussion of the Results got from the Analysis

Calculation of percentage changes that have a likelihood of occurring in the stock is important. The percentage changes are influenced by some factors that exist in the stock market such as changes in the annual gross domestic product of countries, housing price index, and annual average interest rates among others. After an analysis of the data collected from 1980 to 2011 on factors that are known to have an influence on the stock market percentage change the following multiple linear regression lines was arrived at: S&P500 (Percentage Change) = 1.229 + 0.008 * (Annual ...

The world has witnessed many examples of discrimination, persecution, and genocide throughout history. These various practices have occurred due to differences in race, culture and religion. One way a society discriminates against a particular group of people is through laws. In ancient times, the Roman Empire used laws to discriminate against Christians, and since then, we have seen many other examples of a state using laws to negatively control a group of people. One current example of Israel and its laws that discriminate against the Palestinian people. This is a brief look at some of the ways the state ...

Company Profile

Starbucks Inc. is a famous company that retails coffee in various forms worldwide. The company began with a single retail store in Seattle, Pine Place Market back in 1971 (Starbucks par 10). Today, Starbucks has over 23,500 retail stores in over 70 countries globally. Currently, the coffee company employs nearly 191,000 people who serve and interact with millions of customers daily. Starbucks leads in coffee retail business, not only in America, but globally as well. The company’s mission is “to inspire and nurture the human spirit - One person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a ...

Executive Summary

A strategic analysis of Amazon is employed in this document in order to highlight the major problems that must be considered by the management. The company is considered a leader in electronic retailing globally, however facing a stiff competition from its counterparts as bricks and mortar companies as they are emerging in the contemporary corporate setting and establishing their online presence. Amazon is engaged in finding ways to adequately address the contemporary challenges in the global marketplace in order to maintain its competitive position and subsequently attain a greater share of profits from the international market.

Introduction

Amazon is deemed ...

The purpose of the memo is to evaluate the documentation of the Superfund site from the EPA website. The site provides information about the superfund data and about the site location which is south shore of Elliott Bay in Puget Sound on Terminal 5 at Seattle, Washington. The investigation has developed a good remedy to the problem that the site is experiencing. Contamination in the site requires a solution since there are health concerns to the people living within the town. The units of the superfund site include upland unit and marine sediments unit. The site has an area ...

Abstract

This paper deals with explanation and evaluation of positive effect of small size classes. In brief it shows history of researches of Glass and Smith on beneficial effect of small size classes and how further findings led to Tennessee’s Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) experiment. After insight in history of this question one observes current situation with small sized classes and CSR. Moreover, there are examples that show positive effect of small size classes for students as well as for teachers. Using research data this paper illuminates why students of small size classes are more successful in school ...

Puget Sound Economic District is a federally designated Economic Development District (EDD) covering King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties. This economic region is recognized by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) an arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce tasked with promoting regional economic development across the nation through grants and awards as mandated by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Puget Sound Economic District, its economy and demographics. In what follows I shall compare district level to and state wide data on business clusters and industry presence, population ...

Introduction

The Seattle area is one of the American regions that have experienced huge traffic in the recent past. The trends show a projective nightmare in the area if no control measures are taken to reduce incidences of high traffic in this area. According to Davies, et al. (1991), the level of traffic flow in a city or in the region is directly correlated with the economic potential of the area. This project provides fundamental strategies upon which the traffic in the Seattle area can be improved.

Rationale

The rationale for choosing this project is to come up with another model ...

Statement of historical question

Consumption of coffee in the America. What role does Starbucks play in the American coffee culture? Thesis Statement The evolution of the American coffee culture traces its origins from the seventeenth century. Over the years, the country would grow to become the largest consumer of coffee in the world. It is corporations such as Starbucks have served to spread this culture across the globe.

Annotated Bibliography

William H. Urke. All about coffee. Newyork, Newyork the tea and coffee trade Journal Company 1922, Retrieved Apr 13, 2016 from http://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/2/8/5/0/28500/28500-h/28500-h.htm Urke was an author in 18th and 19th centuries that focused primarily on ...

Costco is a wholesale corporation in the United States that provides a wide selection of merchandise. James Sinegal and Jeffery Brotman founded the Corporation in September 1983 and currently the headquarters offices are operated in Issaquah, Washington in the United States. The first Costco warehouse was set up in Seattle and in 1993 it merged with Price Club to become PriceCostco and in 1997, the warehouse resumed to Costco as its identity (Coriolis Research Ltd 12). The Corporation operates as a membership club with intent to provide its members with affordable possible prices on quality and brand name merchandise. ...

Starting out from downtown and heading towards the University District provides a sampling of much of what Seattle’s landscape has to offer. Initially, the landscape is almost entirely constructed of human imprints. There are tall and taller office buildings that cut off almost any view of the horizon; literally a concrete jungle. However, as one walks to the higher numbered streets such as Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Avenues; the landscape has a dramatic change. Through the space between the buildings, on one side, you can see the Puget Sound and the islands, and mountains the face the city ...

A minimum wage is the minimum amount of remuneration which may legally be paid to workers. In other words, it is the minimum price below which people are not willing to sell their labor as it will be illegal. In the USA the minimum wage is determined by a body of laws stated in federal, state, and local statutes. Such legislation is introduced nowadays in almost 90 % of all countries. Other countries, which have no minimum wage law, such as Denmark, Sweden, Austria etc., rely on binding collective bargaining regarding this issue. The minimum wage has an impact on ...