Essays on Spain

German authority and hesitations have since decided the determination of strategy choices in the EU. There is the inexorably intergovernmental modus methodology of the EU system. Foreign accomplices, for example, the U.S. progressively recognize Berlin as the strategic place in the Euro zone. Concerns about Germany's future remote and security role persevere. The change of political initiative in Berlin was caused by the September 2013. Federal decisions have expanded the interest for investigation of German European, external, and security strategies. Basing on the above notions, it is true that the making of Europe was Germany’s answer to its Continue reading...

There have been ethnic conflicts that arise from the difference in the groups. The conflicts may be racial while others may be due to the difference in the origin. The ethnic conflicts if not will resolve may grow to become wars conflicts (Krueger, DiDonato, 2008). There have been prolonged ethnic conflicts between the Latin American and the Native Americans. The Latin Americans include the Mexicans the Hispanics and other Spanish speaking Americans. The Native Americans discriminate against these American, as they are not English native language speakers. The Mexicans are the largest Latino population in America and have experienced Continue reading...

The paper has outlined Hannibal's tactical manner of combating its enemy the Romans during the second Punic War (Gabriel, 2008). Punic war was one of its kinds. Enmity and grudges Hannibal and Scipio were the main reasons for antagonism between the two rivals. Hannibal was the commander of the Carthagena while Scipion headed the Romans military. Hannibal was an exemplary military commander and regarded as the most intelligent in history of the Carthaginian military. “Barca” was a title earned by the Carthaginian troop and general which meant lightning (Gabriel, 2008). Scipion as well was an outstanding military commander with Continue reading...

Humans are interesting in the way that they come up with names for everything. Every object in this world must have a label so we may understand what another person is speaking about when we communicate. Names and labels are an integral part of language and communication; without them, we would never know to what anybody is referring. The story is no different when it comes to human beings themselves. We all have names in order to identify ourselves, whether to friends, co-workers, or verifiable government documents. Our names are essentially who we are. Some people come upon their Continue reading...

INVESTMENT MARKETING

For the success of any given business, the plan that the company makes is a vital tool to see it through success. The plan should always include marketing strategy. A marketing strategy shows the investors the way in which the investment is to take on the market. For the formulation of a good strategy, therefore, a business planner must have knowledge of the market the investment is to venture in and how ready the market is to receive the products the company will be producing. In addition to the nature of the market, the planner should also have planned Continue reading...

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
- Walt Whitman
The United States is more than just a geographical or political entity. It is a dream of a society that upholds individual liberty. It stands for equality, justice, and freedom, and above all the United States represent a promise that if a person puts in hard work in a virtuous Continue reading...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of etiquette along with various forms that it implies. Table, business, and greeting etiquette are the focal points of the research. Apart from the norms of socially acceptable conduct, the project contains the overview of such essential aspects as history, geography, population, religion, and industry. The project is based on the opinions of the leading subject-field experts and specialists that major in history, demography, sociology, ethics, and affiliated disciplines.
Keywords: Mexico, etiquette, conduct, geography, history, population, religion
Etiquette is a set of rules and conventions that regulates human social behavior acceptable in society. Continue reading...

Introduction

Pop culture also known as popular culture is the whole entirety of images, attitudes, perspectives, and ideas that are usually within the mainstream of a specific culture. It refers to learned and shared human trends or patterns for living; day by day living trends. These trends pervade all aspects of social interaction. Different sets of people share a common culture that can be depicted through things like the language they speak, the foods they eat and the homes they live. It is believed that to learn about the finer things in life, such as priceless art and high social Continue reading...

Describe how NBC’s programming, economic incentives, business strategies, foreign and domestic distribution, and use of technology changed from 1980-2010.

Introduction – Boom of Television
The 1970’s was the era of exploration, but then in the 1980’s a boom of television began. The cable television gave replaced the limited amount of traditional channels and brought out more channels. The three channels were replaced with sixty and later two hundred channels. The rapid growth of the channels compelled the channel owners to think hard about what they were going to show to the people, as television was gaining immense attention of the audience on a daily basis . Their main purpose had to be to show something so engaging that Continue reading...

Introduction

Designer Inc. is a family owned, midsize corporation that is in its third year of transition from second – generation to third generation leadership. The corporation is in the business of selling custom made electronics and program items to about 300 different businesses and has its headquarters in Houston, Texas. The electronic items that Designer Inc. sells have ‘smart chips’ that allows pens and watches to have LCD screens that can be used as a mini computer. This small computer can be used for numerous applications. This case deals with creating a comprehensive marketing plan for Designer Inc’s new Continue reading...

CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION, FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS

5. Findings and Analysis

Lulivo Irving restaurant is located in London. From the graph above, the hotel has 6 nationalities namely Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Egypt, Spanish and Hungarians. Italians are the majority with 6 followed by Albanian, Romanian and Egypt with 2 then Spanish and Hungarians 1 each. British nationals do not work in the hotel because most do not consider it a noble job to do. In the absence of British nationals, the hotel has no option but to employ other nationals thus the diversity.

Graph 2: Piazza Restaurant

Pizza restaurant has 6 nationals namely Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Egyptian, Spanish and Bosnians. Continue reading...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway adopts the use of simple language to explore the ravages of World War I through his main character Jake. Interestingly, Hemmingway does not succumb to the temptation of using colorful adjectives to describe his characters and the events narrated in the novel. Instead, Hemmingway uses short and direct phrases that leave the reader in suspense. In addition, the style makes the writer omit many details that would have otherwise been useful in dissecting his characters as well as the themes and motifs discussed in the novel. Nonetheless, the style is likeable for Continue reading...

Introduction

The shared history between America and Mexico can be dated back during the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836, and the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. As a result, several treaties had been signed in culminating differences between the two nations. For example, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Gadsden Purchase comprise some of the agreements made between the two nations. In the 19th century, America claimed Louisiana as part of its territory and was rightfully acquired during the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. These confrontations resulted into conflict as Spain opposed to the America's claim, stipulating that the western Continue reading...

THE GREAT INFLUENZA

The book the great influenza by john Barry takes us back to arguably one of the greatest medical disasters in human history, the book focuses on the influenza pandemic which took place in the year 1918. The world was at war in the First World War and with everyone preoccupied with happenings in Europe and winning the war the influenza pandemic displayed more of its opportunistic tendencies and struck when the human race was least ready and most distracted by happenings all over the world. In total the influenza pandemic killed over a hundred million people on a global Continue reading...

- List some of the factors that complicated the efforts of the emergency crews (fire, police

And medical) in responding to the Madrid attack.

Ans. Madrid train attack is recorded as the biggest Islamic terrorist attack on Europe. After

The attack rescue operations by Police, Fire and Medical teams became very difficult. The

Factors that affected their work are as follows.
There was no field triage or the tacking system which resulted in least injured patients
reaching The emergency care units first.

Fire and Police team had no access to the centralized information.They got confused to send

How many personnel to each site and, as a result there was a complete imbalance.
Telecommunication systems were completely overloaded and disrupted as result Police, Fire
And other emergency response systems could not communicate with each other at all.
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Executive Summary

This paper seeks to explain how Zara Company carries out its operations across all its stores in the globe. The paper also focuses on the possible threats that the company might encounter from potential competitors. It also analyses both the internal and external environment of the company.

Introduction

Zara Company is a worldwide business entity that deals with retailing of clothing materials across the globe. The company has its own headquarters at Italy. The company’s stores are distributed at nearly every single country across all the continents in the world. This allows for easy access to products by the Continue reading...

1 .What lessons, if any, can be learned by comparing and contrasting Hoover and Roosevelt’s differing approaches to combating the Great Depression?
The Great Depression is remembered as the worst economic slump that has ever hit the industrialized world. The Great Depression was experienced during the presidency of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. Their approaches towards the crisis were similar and dissimilar in a number of ways. Both the presidents utilized government resources more than any other previous US presidents in a bid to resurrect the struggling economy. Americans insists that Hoover was less committed to save the Continue reading...

The lives of women in the last one hundred and fifty years have diversified along the following instances; politically, economically, socially and along cultural grounds. It is also noteworthy that the changes and the diversifications in the same fields are classified as either positive or negative as it shall be deliberated upon in the succeeding discussion as below.
According to Smith in constructing womanhood, along political lines, the position of women one hundred years ago has been under the following manifestations. In the previous instances, the position of women along political lines was not developed as it is now. Continue reading...

Final Assignment: Analysis of Passage from Church, State and Jew in the Middle Ages

The letter written by James II, ruler of the Kingdom of Aragon, referred to an incident referring the loss of a young Christian boy, as reported by his mother, in the city of Saragossa. The Christians dominating the whole of Aragon that time blamed the Jews in Saragossa for the loss of the young boy. The whole incident indicated in the letter written by James II involves somewhat a conspiracy set up by the Christians against the Jews in Aragon. Given that the Christians form the majority of Aragon that time, there is an understanding that they favored any Continue reading...

Introduction

The practice of acknowledging, understanding, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people as regards ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental prowess, race and religion is referred as diversity (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario with the driving forces of globalization like the advent of technologies, communication, internet, transportation and transnational companies having diminished boundaries, the work place environment has grown extremely diverse with people of various cultures, backgrounds and beliefs fraternizing with each other every day on account of work and business. The demography in USA has gone through a Continue reading...

1. Why are you applying for this Executive degree program? How will it contribute to the achievement of your professional objectives?
When I approach the question of why I want to participate in this particular Executive Degree program, it is easy to produce logical, sound answers insofar as the benefits the program will give me and the opportunities that come paired with this type of experience. However, it is much more difficult to express properly the drive I feel towards this type of program: I have always been drawn toward business, and while this is the next logical step Continue reading...

Theoretical Explanations of Two Prominent Pre-Industrial Civilizations: The Mayan Civilization and the Roman Empire from the Lens of Joseph Tainter and Arnold Toynbee

Introduction

Civilizations have characterized much of human history and have laid the groundwork for several innovations on human organization. As humans have learned to congregate in societies, they have developed their respective ways of living based on their understanding on the natural and social environment enveloping them within a given geographical area. Human organization inevitably comes into play, in which positions of authority are recognized and tasked to maintain and improve the political, economic and religious affairs Continue reading...

Philosophy has been one of the most important disciplines in Western civilization. Many schools of thought have pondered over the great questions of human life. During the 19th and 20th century, the existential current questioned the nature and purpose of man, freedom and happiness. Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish writer closely associated to this movement. His short story “Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr”, portrayed many aspects of this theory, such as: . Therefore, the present text will analyze the relations between existentialism and .
Defining existentialism is problematic, as it is used to conglomerate many different systems of thought that Continue reading...

Introduction

Smoking ban refers to the prohibition of smoking as part of public policies for occupational safety and health regulations in office buildings and public places like bars, restaurants, city parks, college campuses and even public beaches. The rationale used for introducing smoking ban was to prevent second hand smoking. It has been estimated that the number of deaths caused by second hand smoking in USA is more than 42,000 people every year including infants (CDC #1, 2014). Since the implementation of this ban has made it a troublesome for smokers to smoke freely in places of their choice, Continue reading...

Introduction

Starbucks was established in the year 1971. Later, the founders of the company and a marketing manager who happens to own the company currently, decided to list the company in the stocks exchange. Ever since, the company has experienced continuous growth. The coffeehouse company has expanded over the years of its existence (Gia, 2009). The company has expanded both in size from an initial one outlet in Seattle, Washington to twenty thousand three hundred and sixty six outlets in sixty-one countries across the globe. This shows commendable growth in just four decades of operating. Starbucks has not only grown Continue reading...

Internal environmental analysis

Overview of Sara Lee’s market performance and developments
Every business is driven by key objectives that it uses to evaluate the extent to which it has progressed since its inception. These key factors are Market share, profitability and value of a share. Sara Lee Corporation‘s management used these key indicators to assess its progress until they resolved to strategize its business segments to manageable sectors. (Thompson & Gamble,2010). 
Sara Lee has extended its growth over the last 70 years through acquisition of different enterprises to increase its pool of risk and projected revenue basket. Appointment of Brenda Continue reading...

Introduction

“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” is an 1839 poem written by Robert Browning. The main subject of the poem is a Spanish monk living in a cloister who exhibits resentment against a fellow monk living in the same quarters.
Browning uses the Spanish monk to weave a stupendous web of hypocrisy and deceit. The monk expresses a variety of opinions that he shares together with those of the other monk. However, a close examination of the poem reveals that the monk’s assertions are not genuine. This monk tries to convince the audience or the reader of the poem Continue reading...

Currently, American workers are being overworked, which is leading to greater stress, which leads to more distraction, less productivity, and greater morbidity. Americans are sleeping less than they did 50 years ago (Lambert 25). Poor quality sleep has been linked to work overload and an increase in work stressors, which then diminishes productivity (Knudsen, Ducharme & Roman 1997; Naska et al. 296). The American workplace is stressful and full of high pressure situations, which brings about this greater stress. Given the problems of workplace stress, lower productivity and the need to facilitate more beneficial sleep, invoking a mandatory Spanish-style siesta Continue reading...

Every so often comes an idea that will change the way in which people to do normal tasks. While one may feel their idea is not ground breaking, it can become one of the best inventions. People go through their daily chores and wish that had an easier, or better product that will help them get things done the way they feel. James Dyson felt the same way, as he wanted to make things work better. James Dyson is the make of Dyson Vacuum Cleaners. James Dyson and his research team helped to develop products that have grossed him Continue reading...

Health outcomes among ethnic minorities are noted to be worse compared to the general population. These disparities are associated with many factors including patient distrust of the health care system, ineffective communication with providers, and cultural differences (Misra-Herbert & Isaacson, 2012). The Office of Minority Health (OMH) developed the standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) to address the language and cultural barriers to care (OMH, 2014). Three of the standards are discussed along with the level of organizational compliance. Recommendations for improving the application of the standards are also presented.

Standard on Diverse Governance, Leadership, and Workforce

The purpose of this standard is to diversify Continue reading...

Thesis: As of the present time, the absence of democracy and Western ideals of peace in areas such as Ukraine and North Korea emphasizes a possibility of America failing to act as a global police because one move they make may be read differently by the opposing side and declare war, which America is trying to prevent.
- Since the end of the Cold War, the United States had been active to stop the onset of war or conflict in highly tensed nations which were either marred by terrorism or the lack of democracy under the Wilsonian foreign policy Continue reading...

Question 1: Cultural differences between the companies

Organizational culture refers to shared norms and values within members of a given organization. These are the dominant values, beliefs and attitudes held by the organization’s employees. It can also be defined as the set of knowledge forms and basic assumptions commons amongst organizational members. Organizational culture is largely influenced by the society in which it exists. A merger between Excelsior Manufacturing and Quality Instrumentation creates a diverse and global team. Such teams are a source of competitive advantage and production efficiency. Mergers create concerns into international management. In determining the core elements in which the two organizations Continue reading...

Currently, American workers are being overworked, which is leading to greater stress, which leads to more distraction, less productivity, and greater morbidity. Americans are sleeping less than they did 50 years ago (Lambert 25). Poor quality sleep has been linked to work overload and an increase in work stressors, which then diminishes productivity (Knudsen, Ducharme & Roman 1997; Naska et al. 296). The American workplace is stressful and full of high pressure situations, which brings about this greater stress. Given the problems of workplace stress, lower productivity and the need to facilitate more beneficial sleep, invoking a mandatory Spanish-style siesta Continue reading...

The Incas

South America is enchanting and mystical. It has enough and more to offer to adventurers, tourists and archaeologists. The various religious beliefs and practices, the footprints of old and dying civilizations, the landscaped mountains, forests, waterfalls and beaches, the Amazon and the remnant scars of the dinosaurs make South America among the finest destination for travelers. The Inca Empire was an empire that flourished in the Andean region of South America. The Empire, which existed for over two centuries, fell to the Spaniards, when in 1572, its last surviving city, Vilcabamba, was captured. Here, was a civilization that lived Continue reading...

Democracy, Rights, and Empire

Thesis
Europe has seen it all; revolutions, plague, recession, famine, revolts, and invasions, and this was why, when opportunity came knocking at their doors, the few powerful nations of Europe, adventured to expand and control their business interests far from their shores. In order to understand how and why this transpired, one needs to go back in time and understand Europe as it was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Background

The Rise of Europe between 1500 and 1850 was largely accounted for by the growth of European nations which shared their borders with the Atlantic, and in particular, by Continue reading...

Films are made to pottery some of the social issues in the societies. A film is defined as the components of motion pictures that are recorded with the camera. Since films depict some aspect of any culture, so it does not affect the cultures both in positive and negative way. Films are considered the best media to convey a social message. So most of the films these days show violence, and it has an adverse effect on society even on small children. Wars movies are the best examples of this. The more violence that is showed in movies, the Continue reading...

- What role did religion play in the European settlement of the Americas? How did religion influence French, English, and Spanish attempts at setting up colonies, and what similarities or differences existed? Finally, which English colonies were the most inspired by religion and why?
Religion was definitely an important part in the settlement of the Americas. The Spanish enforced the Catholic religion in the Southern continent and to this day, there is a considerable presence of this religion. On their part, the English brought Protestantism and Puritanism to their Northern American colonies while the French did the same with Catholicism Continue reading...

Federalism as a system of government in the United States of America is one democratic governance. It ensures that power is vested in the people, as opposed to a central government and the political structure that come with it. Federalism has played a great role in the economic development of the Union. It is believed that it is in America that one would find the most stable democracy in the whole world. So below is a case study of three states with distinctive types of federal governments within them.

California State Government

California is among the few states that practice direct democracy Continue reading...

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was more successful as a writer and traveler than he was as a conquisidator. He was an early explorer, exploring the New World hailing from Spain, as well as a protoanthropological author. He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz in the year 1490 into a wealthy family. Orphaned at a very early age, Cabeza grew up under care of his maternal aunt. Pedro de Vera, his grandfather, had conquered the Canary Islands and would serve a large shadow in Cabeza de Vaca’s ambitions in ‘the new world’ America. His name cabeza Continue reading...

The Euskadi Ta Askatasuna known as ETA is an armed separatist and nationalist organization which was founded in 1959. The aim of the original Eta was the promotion of traditional Basque culture; however, they have evolved into a paramilitary group whose goal is to fight for the independence of the greater Basque Country. The ETA has become the major organization of the Basque National Liberation Movement which is chiefly responsible for the Basque conflict.
This is not the first time the ETA is declaring a ceasefire; they have declared ceasefire a couple of time in the past. The first Continue reading...