Essays on Shifting

Organ donation and transplantation are notable hallmarks in medicine. Medical advancements are significantly confronting complicated conditions through organ transplantation and related practices such as grafting. Over the years, the procedures have grown and developed. However, organ donation and transplantation are surrounded by various ethical and legal issues. This paper discusses these issues in detail and elicits the relationship between them. The analysis is in line with both the support and opposition of organ donation and transplantation, particularly in Australia. The paper will also provide my personal stance and the final ethical decision by leveraging several theoretical perspectives – deontology, consequentialism, ...

Overview

Pro Service is a service provider that mainly emphasizes on outsourced resources to facilitate the handling of aspects related to human resources. The services are fixated on small and mid-sized organizations which are incapable or reluctant to handle these aspects internally. Pro Service handles matters concerning health insurance, payrolls, orientation of new staff, and retirement funding. Pro Service as a company has well over 250 permanently employed workers to variably suit client needs. Our mode of service provision is split twofold, into two localities, where most of our staff are situated. 20 of our staff members spend their time ...

Capstone Project [Phase]

Computer and Information Science Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology Literature Review Introduction The project aims to create a website for a restaurant that is yet to incorporate online applications into its functional operations. It is imperative for the restaurant to have a website for allowing customers to see all the foods and drinks on offer without necessarily going to the stores and also for allowing them to pay for their orders on online platforms using their credit cards. Additional advantages the ability to view pricing of varied items alongside the delivery times and pictures of the varied food items ...

I. Introduction The ubiquitous presence of mobility devices, including most notably smartphones, highlights how mobility has come to be integral to everyday life at workplace, college and home. The major focus on mobility is, given current coverage, is on applications and cloud platforms. Less reported still but is, probably, of much more significance, as shown later, is wireless licenses and applications which enable much of current mobility operational efficiency, if not operability at all. As is always common in ICT innovations, user interface applications and platforms more often than not draw ICT community's attention, a community focused more new ...

This report shall be a case study on change management and it shall focus on one particular company. However, rather than focus on a gleaming example of change management done right or a company that emerged stronger when it came to the practice of change management, this report shall instead focus on a company that did it too wrong and too late. Indeed, Blockbuster Video used to have a commanding share of the video rental market. However, they failed to read the proverbial tea leaves when it came to the paradigm shift to streaming and the use of kiosks ...

Leading & Managing Organisational Change: A Reflection

I. Value of Subject Experience on Capacity to Lead & Manage The current business practice involves numerous complexities in organizational development and change areas. If anything, evolving practices, a more dynamic workforce and, of course, ever changing ICT implementations which enable collaboration and communication – all contribute and inform how organizational development and change are understood, adopted, maintained and sustained. Accordingly, proper knowledge of and practical experience in optimum organizational development and change strategies, policies and practices are most critical not only to survive in current business practice but also to sustain a healthy, if not innovative, organizational makeup. For current ...

I. Challenges Given current case, one best planning strategy to adopt is a combination of Team Involvement and Reciprocity (Dunn, 2015). As not all coders agree on proposed change, persuading remaining coder could be "bought in" by seeking support of another manager, probably in Human Resources Department (HRM). This selection is based on a performance-compensation basis. More specifically, a change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 should be "sold" to non-boarding coder based on a better performance due to more enhanced capabilities of ICD-10 compared to ICD-9 and hence more workflow efficiencies and, ultimately, more customer satisfaction and better compensation prospects. ...

I am a female from the black race in the USA, a country whose population is composed of different races from all over the world. The largest race in the country is made up of the white population who are over 75% of the population. The second largest race consists of the black community often known as the African Americans who are about 13% of the population. Other races in the country include the American Indians, the Asians, Native Hawaiians, mixed races, as well as the Hispanic or Latino community (United States Census Bureau, 2016). In this regard, the ...

Article Summary

Insigniam: Ten Disruptive Forces in Healthcare The article articulates the factors that are perceived as disruptive in the healthcare sector. Part of the discussion includes transition to value-based reimbursement, which turned hospital systems into a healthcare system by providing pre-emptive care. In addition, the system is currently shifting volumes and lower reimbursement in order to reduce cost while maximizing the utilization of all systems. Another important areas of concern in healthcare are when the system moves from caring for the sick to focus on primary care. This issue is related to the prevailing increase in government regulation where agencies ...

Summary

The article titled “Amazon’s Shifting Tax Story” describes how the e-commerce company Amazon has moved its assets overseas in order to pay less taxes in the United States, where it is headquartered. In 2005, Amazon, a company since the early 1990s, moved its technology assets to the small European country of Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a “tax haven” because the revenue that the branch collects there is tax-free. Amazon pays royalties to Luxembourg in order to save billions of dollars in taxes that it would normally pay if its operations had remained in the United States. Amazon is not ...

Introduction

The concept of changing mindset transcends to both the personal perspective of every individuals to shift from career to entrepreneurship and the organizational perspective of shifting into a learning organization. Furthermore, the concept of changing mindset will be elaborated by analyzing a case study and the article by Seddon and O’Donnovan (2010). In he first part, the changing mindset was demonstrated by the case of Andy who successfully established a small business instead of staying in his career. It is apparent from the case that changing from career into a small business entrepreneur can be a challenge, but ...

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Post-Bureaucratic Practices in Leadership

Introduction Leadership is always found at the pole position in the success of any organizational or business model and the research that took place during the 20th century was explicitly focused on investigating the role and vitality of leading and managing individuals in organizational structures emerged during bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic eras (Dischner, 2015, p. 501). The turning millennium also brought with it a significant shift and change in nature, environment and settings of the workplace that is now taken as perpetually changing, self-motivating, and dynamic avenues; where management and leadership approaches ...

Internal and External Company Examination

Singapore Telecommunications Limited is a Singapore based communications company that provides integrated infocomms technology solutions to global customers (Yahoo, 2016). The company has three operating segments, which includes the Group Enterprise, Group Consumer, and Group Digital Life (Yahoo, 2016). The Group Enterprise segment offers services that cater to business consumers such as cyber security, cloud computing, fixed voice and data, mobile, managed services, and IT and professional consulting (Yahoo, 2016). On the other hand the Group Consumer segment offers end-consumer services such as pay TV, voice, fixed broadband, mobile and equipment sales (Yahoo, 2016). The Group Digital Life offers ...

The United States foreign policy during the Cold War was as much dependent on diplomatic efforts as much as it was related to both direct and indirect military conflict. The Cold War was a time when American practitioners of international relations thought deeply about what was the best and most effective way to deal with the existential threat of communist expansion.  Most notably the United States relied on an overall approach to foreign policy which relied on containment of communist expansion by supporting regimes which were friendly to the American cause of fighting the Soviet Union.  During the Vietnam ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has been the ...

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Academic year Discuss the efforts and challenges made by people of African descent to reconnect with Africa since the start of the 19th century The emancipation of Africans in 1865 was a great historical period for African Americans in the United States. The African Americans contemplated on what to do with their newly acquired freedom and started reconstructing their lives. Certain black intellectuals at the time such as Rev. Blyden suggested that they leave America since white Americans were still hostile towards African Americans, and violence against them was common. Others like Martin Delany, who was an African American ...

A Case Study of Coca Cola Inc.

Coca Cola Inc. is a multinational beverage company with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. It has many managed and private bottlers globally. As the largest beverage producer in the world, Coca-Cola sells to more than one billion consumers every day. Its well-defined distribution has been the cornerstone for its global positioning. The head factory produces the concentrated syrup, which is transported to its local distributors. The syrup and the production process intellectually protected by the intellectual property laws. As such, the head office controls all its products, including safety concerns. The organization produces a variety of carbonated drinks among ...

Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, erratic rainfall, deadly tsunamis, flooding, wildfires, heat waves, shrinking glaciers, and droughts are some visible highlights of a much debated global problem, i.e., the global warming. The problem is so severe that scientists, environmentalists, geographers, government officials, and various national and international tribunals huddle together time-to-time to embark on a sustainable solution to this issue. Nonetheless, the predicament persists putting everything (human beings, animals, birds, societies, environmental resources) in the soup. This paper discusses the impacts of global warming and the efficacy of solutions that are being implemented at national and global levels. Taking ...

Leaders who came from the ranks is almost always well-rounded, someone who has experienced what it feels like to get their hands dirty, experiencing what every other employee has experienced. A manager who has gone thru the ranks make for a good leader with a pool of experiences that he can draw from when it comes to making the tough decisions. However, it is in the transition from being a manager to heading a business, that managers experience the most struggle. To overcome these difficulties, the manager turned leader should now be able to shift his focus from managing ...

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The Walker Within: How Zombies Define Humanity Since it first hit comic store shelves in 2003, The Walking Dead has captivated readers, gaining even more prominence when it was made into a television series by the same name in October, 2010 by AMC. The allure of zombies as a trope is strong; they offer an antagonist that is truly unrelenting and impossible to reason with, while their ability to carry on despite massive and traumatic injury allows for high levels of blood, guts, and gore, appealing to the horror fans that are the zombie genre’s main audience. ...

[Author Name(s),First M. Last, Omit Titles, and Degrees] Economic development changes society in a manner that it becomes more and more difficult for the country to remain in the hands of a single man or a group of powerful elite. The change results to transforming the social and economic framework and then moving towards a changed attitude of the population in general. The primary concern of the countrymen is to achieve a commercial greater status and increase their wealth holdings. This changing scenario leads to people taking to skilled professions; they learn the importance of collective effort ...

1. Project Proposal 1.1. Research Background Media campaign has always been central consideration for any marketing plan. Trends of communication using different media have been undergoing steady evolution for the past several decades. Today’s marketing plan involves much more sophistications than ever before requiring companies to adopt state-of-the-art approach to it to maximize their chances of success (Napoli, 2011; Noll, 2007). The proposed research is going to revolve around the assessment of effective ways of collecting the required data for STA (a traveling agency) helping it develop its new marketing plan aligning to existing and emerging trends of ...

The film is a one-woman show performed by the American actress Whoopi Goldberg, who is a well-known comedian in the American history. The performer tried to seek the attention of people towards a scenario in which a lady realized while living in the popular culture. The film was presented to forward a message that it is difficult for a new person to survive in the popular culture due to the difference in norms, heritage, and values (Goldberg). All the actions and styles can be seen in this play due to the involvement of entertaining characters in this film. The ...

Background

The past several years have been graced with an increase in the production and use of hybrid cars. Numerous automobile companies are exploring and introducing hybrid electric vehicles to the market, with several other companies to follows soon given the demand. It is imperative to outline that the introduction and the fast embrace and use of hybrid electric cars over the past few decades have been stimulated by several factors. Apart from the increasing demand for hybrid cars based on their advantages, the increase in production of these vehicles has been stimulated by the declining fuel reserves and concerns ...

Abstract

The purpose of the assignment is to present recommendations for NCOA through using the Senge’s five disciplines of the learning organization. It has been determined that the organization is suffering for the issues system archetypes such as shifting the burden and limit to growth. The organization is not able to deliver the latest knowledge of supply techniques. The top management of the organization lacks in personal mastery, as leaders preferred traditional systems and wanted that instructor also follow the same. The failure of the organization in achieving its goals is the evidence that the firm is suffering from ...

1) Population growth and overpopulation is one of the major problems of every developing country. The factors that influence population growth are: a) Women getting married at early ages lead to a high birth rate. b) Provision of health benefits to children, women and the elderly have contributed to decreased mortality rate, and thus increased birth rate. c) Lack of family planning contributes to increased birth greatly. According to census, The United States population as on June 11, 2016 is 323,747,258 with one birth in every eight seconds, one death in every seconds and one international migrant ...

Maryse Conde’s ‘The Tropical Breeze Hotel’ is a pre-colonial play that focuses on the issue of the black body and struggle for power and identity. The Black Body is an issue that has a long history from the pre-colonial period and some authors have addressed the issue using dramatic writing. In the play, Conde unleashes a power struggle between the two characters, Emma, and Ishmael, which reveals a gender-based struggle or grasp for an identity. The author uses the two characters who constantly appear to switch roles as a way of balancing each other’s character. The play ...

The video “Slum Cities: A Shifting World” is among the most viewed films on YouTube, given its ability to provide real information regarding some of the world’s largest slums. Fundamentally, the film looks at the move of masses from the rural settings to urban centres and the manner in which such cities deal with the transitions. Directed by CBC News Canada, the film “Slum Cities: A Shifting World” provides a report of two mega slums; the Dharavi in India, and another one in Rio de Janeiro. As noted in the film, millions of people across the world often ...

Scenario Discussion

I chose Scenario 2 for this assignment. One the one hand, I would have an ethical duty to the owners of the firm (shareholders) to do anything possible to increase the value and profitability of the company. Accordingly, that would suggest that I agree to shift production to Mexico. This is especially true is production in Mexico has, as mentioned, satisfactory working conditions and produces a quality product. This view would most like conform to that of a naïve immoralist. To be sure, the move to Mexico is “just business” and it is an act that most businesses ...

Abstract

Steven Dewayne Bond was a passenger on a Greyhound bus when a border patrol officer squeezed his luggage after conducted an immigration check of the passengers. Bond allowed the officer to open his luggage when asked, and a brick of methamphetamine was discovered that was wrapped in duct tape and rolled in a pair of pants. Bond was charged with possession and intent to distribute as well as conspiracy. In pretrial matters, Bond’s attorney filed a motion to suppress the methamphetamine claiming that the search conducted by the officer was unreasonable and in violation of the Fourth Amendment. ...

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING REPORT

Introduction This report covers budgeting, break-even analysis, and the analysis of make-or-buy decision. The budgeting details the purpose of a budget and the importance of involving staff in developing a budget. The report contains a direct material purchase budget (in units and in dollars), a direct labor budget (in hours and in dollars), and a manufacturing overhead budget. The break-even analysis compares the hammer division break-even point locally and in Myanmar. The break-even analysis indicates that the business will have a lower break-even point if they shift the hammer division to Myanmar because of lower fixed costs and reduced ...

Review: Latin America and Shifting Wealth

Latin America and Shifting Wealth is part of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2014, published jointly by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), CAF (Development Bank of Latin America) and ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) (Latin American Economic Outlook 2014). In this chapter, the author discusses the economic growth of emerging economies, with special emphasis on China, the role played by Latin America in that growth and the options available for Latin America to improve its own possibility to achieve economic growth. As the main features of the global wealth shift towards emerging ...

Humans are good at multitasking because people in life generally have to do multiple things at the same time. Good organization is of the utmost importance and the brain adapts to this kind of situation. Humans multitask the majority of the time, but it can lead to stress which is why the key lies in the fact that they need to have a well-develop schedule and stick to it. However, unpredicted situation occur almost every day which is why people need to work on their multitasking skills. They are good at multitasking because of the fact that they need ...

Question 1

Incidents that were influenced by Truman Doctrine: Containment of the Communism Ending the war in Japan Shifting from détente policy to containment policy Containment of the Communism

The US was to contain communism or the Soviet Union both in Europe and throughout the rest of the world

This containment practice was to be achieved through offering economic and military support to any nation that was being targeted by USSR (Mastanduno, p. 503-531) America donates a total sum of $13 billion dollars to the European countries that were in need of economic support, in particular against the spread of communism. Ending the war in Japan

Truman never wanted a communist Japan

The war in Europe had ended before Japanese war There is growing likelihood of ...

How Biofuels Affect Our Society

Health Impacts of Biofuel The term biofuels is no more used in simple term, as it has become a matter of government policy and business. Earlier, it was due to government initiatives and policy matters that the support to the growth of biofuels was provided by the governments worldwide, but things have become complicated with biofuels affecting populations on the health, social, and environmental aspects, which need urgent attention. It requires good policy-making with a clear goal. According to Lawrence (2010), the present U.S. biofuels authorizations are not loaded with exact and efficient tools to fulfil a policy-specific aim. ...

In the article, "Why Game of Thrones is taking over the world," writer Charlotte Runcie considers the popularity of the HBO television series noting that it is one of most popular shows of all time and is broadcast in roughly 170 countries. The series, which is based on a series of books by George R R Martin, is packed abundantly with everything from poisonous murders to beheadings, fights and dragons. The appeal is intricate and intense among fans. The show is recognized as exploring the topic of power, weaving in the comic and harsh realities of what is means ...

What purpose do financial ratios serve? Why would anyone look at a ratio when analyzing a company? After all, it’s just a number. Actually, financial ratios do serve a purpose. A big purpose actually. By themselves, they don’t tell us much. But when compared against other companies and the industry as a whole, they are very valuable. But we have to remember not all industries are the same. Capital intensive industries like energy are much different than healthcare. What may be a good ratio in one may not be in another. So what can a ration tell ...

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BA (Hons) Fashion Management

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THIS WORK HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED FOR ANY OTHER ASSESSMENT ”. “ I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY SUPERVISOR, , FOR HER GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT THIS DISSERTATION. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE DESIGNERS SELECTED ON PROVIDING ME DATA AND SPENDING TIME ANSWER MY QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT INTERVIEWS AND THOSE PARTICIPANTS FOR FOCUS GROUP FOR TAKING PART ...

Changes in Market Equilibrium

The interaction of the forces of demand and supply determines the equilibrium price and quantity in a perfectly competitive market. A market is in equilibrium when no buyer or seller has any incentive to the change in the commodity that he or she buys or sells at the given price. The equilibrium price of a commodity is the price at which the quantity demand of a commodity equals the quantity supply and the market clears. The process by which the equilibrium is reached is shown by the intersection of the demand and supply curve of the commodity.

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Introduction

The primary objective of this term paper is to examine the intended and unintended consequences of the Split Roll taxes in California. Also, the term paper will address how commercial and residential property owners will bear the costs of Split Roll taxation system. Finally, I will offer alternatives to the Spilt Roll taxes and why I think they are ideal choices. I don’t support the Split Roll taxation since it would treat commercial property unfairly. Leaving out residential property in the current taxation system is not ideal since all individuals should be subject to a standard tax system. ...

U.S. Position in the Post-cold War ERA U.S. Position in the Post-cold War ERA

The post-cold war saw the rise and growth of the Western liberalism and capitalism. The fall of the great communist powers gave the opportunity for capitalism to thrive in the world. The era of cold war was a struggle for power, where international political economy the struggle for power and wealth was witnessed and is still present to date. The struggle for power is what creates chances for conflict in the world, “the changes in the distribution of power between states increase the chance of ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt so as to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has ...

The post-cold war saw the rise and growth of the Western liberalism and capitalism. The fall of the great communist powers gave the opportunity for capitalism to thrive in the world. The era of cold war was a struggle for power, where international political economy the struggle for power and wealth was witnessed and is still present to date. The struggle for power is what creates chances for conflict in the world, “the changes in the distribution of power between states increase the chance of conflict in the international system (Gilpin 1918).” The power shift from dominance by the ...

Americans hold a strong belief that marriage is a culmination of love between two people. Many of them are inclined to choose love as the main ingredient for getting married. But again many other variables influence the choice of marriage partners, and they include age, race, religion and even social status. Norms, traditions, and values are changing, and two people who choose to settle down in marriage always base their marriage choices on these variables, but more importantly love tops the list. In this era and age, Americans are bridging the gap that separated social groups. There are more ...

Health abnormlities of several kind require a thorough assessment in terms of management. With the technical advancements, medical field had evolved to simplify the complex assesssment tasks. For instance, medical imaging has come up to make feasible the analyis of body parts through the production of images. There is a need to know much about this particualr area. In such context, the present description deals with a topic Magentic Resonance Angiography (MRA) of the remal artery with a special emphasis on the 3D gradient echo sequencing in MRI. Briefly, magnetic resoannce angiography constitutes a kind of MRI (magnetic resonance ...

Immersion in Morocco

I encountered Rachid, a Moroccan, international student on a visit to his lifelong friend studying here on campus. Rachid, whom I met over in a social gathering organized for celebrating a friend's birthday at a nearby restaurant, was as active and as open a person as one could imagine. Before I met Rachid, I had never met a Moroccan before. Our first encounter was, if anything, a particularly fulfilling one and hence more encounters in subsequent days. In our first encounter, I was introduced to Rachid by a distant friend who spent last summer in Casablanca, Morocco. There, our ...

Hanger Cleaners Company

Executive Summary This paper aims to analyze the competitive environment of a small company in the market. This is a case analysis in which a small business is taken into the consideration. The business is about the Hangers Cleaners Company. The company aims to provide the environment-friendly laundry service as its unique service; however, P&G stands as the major competitor for the business. So, this paper proceeds by identifying and analyzing the various critical success factors of the business. Various critical success factors are identified that are very essential for the business. Then, the paper supports the existence of ...

Brief Summary:

The three videos provided carry the unifying theme of boasting the environmentally-friendly and sustainability benefits of their efficient production methods. TOTO boasts their commitment and focus on sustainable manufacturing of their products as well as their carbon neutral program partnership with UPS. Ford also highlights their commitment to sustainability and green initiatives by outlining their company’s efforts to improve all aspects of their operations – green product, manufacturing and people. Lastly, the Goldman Sachs Oil Outlook highlights the positive effects resultant from the increasingly efficient oil market and outlines how this will develop throughout 2016. All three videos include ...

Introduction

Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation is a story of a young woman explaining her endeavors after migrating to Canada with her family at the age of 13. She then moves to the United States and later immigrates to London. Lost in Translation by Nicola Mones is a story of a young American woman who tries to fit in China as a translator. In Lost In Translation by Eva Hoffman and Lost In Translation by Nicole Mones, both Hoffman and Mones successfully cultivate our appreciation for cultural differences by exposing the reader to foreign languages and terms, by challenging ...

The activist event organized by the CUNY graduate center took place on March 21st, 2016. The objective of the event was to attract attention to the problem of HIV/AIDS among the LGBTQ community. The participants of the event and speakers in particular tried to initiate a shift in the existing stigma of HIV/AIDS for the purpose of showing the wider public the wrongfulness of their stereotypic perception of the problem. The moderator of the event was Sarah Schulman. She has been engaged in covering AIDS since early 1980s. Currently, she is taking an active part in conducting several projects: ...