Essays on Strauss

Williams v Pennsylvania (2016) was brought to the Supreme Court by Williams who was found guilty of murder back in 1984 and sentenced to death because he claimed that the prosecution not only utilized false testimony but withheld evidence that could have led to his exoneration (Supreme Court, 2016). I found this particular case interesting due to its conclusion where the petitioner was ultimately denied his appeal even after his allegations were proven by the PCRA (Supreme Court, 2016) which just goes to show how even if the filer was in the right, the law still refused to rescue ...

Education systems are much diversified all over the world because of the great differences in cultures and customs of various countries. This way, when bringing changes to any education system, it is important to mention all possible benefits and deficiencies of people, as some of them may be ready to try something new or reject it with all the attendants. Perhaps, the factor of difficult acceptance may be the key aspect of durability and little changeability of education systems in different countries (“Understanding the American Education System”, 2016). Considering this, the paper is to compare education systems at the ...

Management

MANAGEMENT Executive Summary NIVEA is the initial label and most significant line of Beiersdorf, a derma care organization that was started in Germany. Beiersdorf’s common aim is to become the leading care label in the product categories and market. The agency plans to attain such goals by utilizing NIVEA as a star line strategically. NIVEA's communication purpose is to reinforce its brand as the leading derma care line and to update its brand image (Keller, 2008, p. 6). Lately, the organization has declared Blue agenda the label compass, which concentrates on reinforcing the NIVEA line. Nevertheless, the firm ...

Diabetes mellitus is said to be one of the most medical conditions in many places around the world, affecting around 347 million adults in the year 2013 alone (Pal et al., 2013, p.2). Out of this number, as much as 90 percent of them have type 2 diabetes, which is a complex medical condition, as it can lead to heart attacks and heart strokes (Pal et al., 2013, p.2). In the year 2010 however, almost half of those who were diagnosed with diabetes mellitus are within the 20-60 age group that has a 2-to-4-fold increased risk of having cardiovascular ...

Childhood Obesity: An Overview

The rate of childhood obesity remains to be high in the past years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015b), 17 percent of children and teenagers or 12.7 million young individuals in the United States are affected by obesity during the past decades. Childhood obesity in children is determined by the child’s body mass index (BMI). Compared to children of the same weight and gender, a child is considered obese if his or her BMI is in the 95th percentile (Anderson & Butler, 2006). This is a serious condition. Obesity increases mortality and morbidity and presents ...

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Introduction

The goal of therapies addressing weight loss is to decrease the risks for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, but also to ultimately increase positive feelings of well-being from physical improvements. Significant weight loss is accompanied by both positive and negative emotions and if the decrease in body mass is accompanying by negative feelings, maintenance is difficult. Therefore, psychological aspects to weight loss programs are an important consideration when determining the success of the therapy. Previous research concerning the psychological aspects of significant weight loss has made ...

Introduction

The quarterback serves as the offensive head of a football team. He is responsible for setting up the plays in order for the team to gain yards. His plays can be seen in different ways such as passing or running (Strauss, n.d). Depending on the decision of the team during huddle, the quarterback must be the one to ensure the success of their plays. Unfortunately, not all the plays made by the quarterback are successful. There are several factors which contribute to the failure of the plays, such as failure of execution of the designated roles, being outsmarted by ...

Problem Identification

Ponsonby Pies has endeared to stay at the edge of competition. Even though gourmand pie was not common at its time of establishment, it ventured into this product regardless of the stock market crisis and decreased demand for pies. However, its organizational structure and culture may threaten its current achievements and expectations. The firm focuses so much on personal communication between the directors and workers as a move to engage employees. Although the engagement of employees has been proven to be very beneficial to the staff and the company at large, it is important to adopt effective strategies of ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human Resource Management is responsible for attracting, selecting, recruiting, placing, recognizing, engaging, retaining and rewarding people while developing anticipated organizational culture and leadership, as well as, ensuring compliance with national and international labor and employment laws. Mostly, small to medium organizations manage their HRM activities by outsourcing their human resource functions to specialized HRM firms. Other hires few HR professionals. However, larger business corporations uphold an all-inclusive HRM functional division that is characteristically dedicated to the specialized tasks such as strategic recruitment and selection, employee engagement, and development of functional leadership across the business undertakings (Bratton & Gold, 2011, ...

Introduction

It’s called a fugue state. A fugue state is characterized by a complete removal from, or interruption of, a person’s identity and a personal history. A fugue state is not always permanent, but during the episode, a person can completely forget who they are, and can assume a completely new identity for themselves. Usually, the fugue state isn’t even diagnosed until a person can recall their identity after the fugue state has ended (Costandi). This is a perfect metaphor for Death Fugue, a novel by Sheng Keyi. In her novel, she explores the events related to ...

Report of Hudson’s Bay Company

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Introduction

Founded in 1670 in Canada, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest firm in North America, operating in the retail segment across Canada, United States, Germany or Belgium (HBC official website, n.d.). With a long tradition in the fur market, the company adapted to socio-dynamic changes that marked clients’ loss of interest in fur, and adjusted to more modern requests, entering the general retailing business, currently operating in luxury fashion, after acquiring brands such as SAKS Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, but also owning department store (GAMERIA Kaufhof, Galeria INNO, Sportarena), off-price stores (Designer Depot) or furniture, appliances ...

Overview

The English Premier League is among the most popular football leagues in Europe and across the world. Different teams in the Premier League have many fans in England and across the world. In addition to the attractive football, the other element that is characteristic of English football is the high turnover of managers. Despite the cost associated with dismissing managers before the completion of the term, teams in the English Premier League have a history of dismissing managers for various reasons despite the cost implications. For instance, Liverpool Football Club had to part with six million pounds sterling to ...

Kinship represents a system of societal organization that describes putative or real family ties. The concept is a human attribute that deeply relies on cultural extensions. While it remains common among many social sciences, kinship is increasingly popular in cultural anthropology. This essay describes descent and alliance as two significant concepts in cultural anthropology of kinship. Both terms encompass the primary forms of human relatedness. On one hand, the term alliance refers to the social relatedness that individuals form through marriage. Marriage-based alliances point to the necessity of interdependence for families and lineages. These marriages exist as a form ...

Lucien Levy-Bruhl was a French anthropologist who had a study in the primary field explaining the types of minds and which involved primitive mentality. In the work, “How natives think” he hypothesized on what he mentioned as the two basic mindsets of a person, the “primitive” and “the Western.” He goes ahead to explain in his work that a “primitive” mind does not have the ability to distinguish between the supernatural and the reality. The primitive mind, however, uses a “Mystical participation” to so as to exploit the world. Besides, Levy-Bruhl explains that the Primitive mind does not address ...

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International Management Abstract The film and music industry have both evolved drastically during the past decades. From vinyl records to CD’s to digital mp3 files in the music industry, and from cassette tapes to mp4 files in the film industry. The evolution in both the film and music industry is most likely a result of the practicality demanded by the society. Individuals often seek easier and cheaper alternatives. In both of these relevant industries, the most practical solution is of course to have instant access to demanded content that is merely software and requires no type of disc. ...

Summary of the main themes of the field study

Violence in sports-sports is often marred by violence and other forms of hooliganism. Sports fans in most cases take their passion for the game to extreme heights where they turn a blind eye to the sensibility and decorum. The numerous fights are a clear demonstration of violence in sports. Qualitative research offers firsthand information regarding field incidences (Corbin & Strauss, 2014). Intolerance in the game-while sports acts as a uniting factor in the society. It is often full of intolerance. Fans normally find it too hard to withstand contentious decisions that go against them. As a result, the referees are ...

Briefly, define and describe community resilience as it related to critical incident management. Include in your answer what is meant by “continuity of government.” Community resilience implies the measure of the sustaining capability to make proper use of the entire available resources so as to deal with the diversity of the adverse situations. Kean & Hamilton (2004) asserts that the communities may possess limited resilience if there is no intensity of readiness for catastrophes. Properly prepared communities are described as resilient due to their capability to offer assistance in the prevention of losses incurred as a result of a disaster. ...

Abstract

Since the end of the Great Wars, the international community has worked double time to improve the human rights conditions of the public. Throughout the conflicts that transpired for years, citizens were persecuted in the most horrific means in order to gain information or punish the innocent. Several important conventions were established after the war to fight against these torture incidents such as the United Nations Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Convention. Many states are signatories of these Conventions; however, it is a question if these conventions can still be applicable today especially as several conflicts continue to ...

Levi Strauss & Co. is one of the most iconic name in the clothing and fashion industry. However, the brand lost its way in the beginning of this century and suffered for almost two decades. Levi Strauss & Co. encountered the somber issues of excess capacity that brought about the crisis of dropping sales, declining market share, eroded profit base, and sagging business diversification. The excess capacity at Levi Strauss & Co. was fueled by the consistently increasing market competition, which subsequently pressurized the company to cut down its production cost. The excess capacity issue had a number of underlying causes such ...

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher. He was born in 1469 in Florence, Italy. The removal of the Medici family from power made Machiavelli reflect on the political future of Italy and drove him to write The Prince. The Prince was written by Machiavelli as a way to return the favor of Lorenzo de’ Medici who was the governor of Florence (Machiavelli, N. 1998). Machiavelli dedicated The Prince to Medici who did not return the favors Machiavelli was seeking. Machiavelli went on to write other political books like Discourses, The Art of War and The Mandrake. What makes ...

The assessment of learning and development among young children is increasingly gaining popularity. Both government and private organizations have been involved in the development of programs aimed at enhancing the readiness of all young children. The most targeted are children who hail from economically disadvantaged communities and homes as well as children with special needs. The programs have been designed with the goal of helping the young children to enhance their academic, social, and language skills through effective early care and education. Besides, the programs also constitute an avenue where young children with problems associated with development can be ...

Dunkin’s Donuts operates two main brands, which are Dunkin's Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, in more than 60 countries using a distribution of more than 1800 franchises located in different parts of the world. One of the biggest challenges facing the growth of the Dunkin’s Donuts is the existence of poor franchise relationship that has resulted to numerous law suits every year. It acts as a major setback towards the development and expansion of the company since such lawsuits ruin its reputation; thus, scaring away investors from investing in the company. For instance, in 2010, the company experienced a ...

Business Perspective

Part One The first franchise offering is the UPS offering. In order to be a business owner, one will need the seed capital to start up the operation. UPS requires that a franchisee to have $167,825 - $535,580 when the franchise is opening in the traditional locations and $139,673 - $254, 562 when the franchise is opening in a non-traditional location as the startup cost (Franchise Direct, n.d.). UPS requires an additional $150,000 as the net worth of the franchisee and $60,000 -$100,000 as the liquidity (Franchise Direct, n.d.). The biggest challenge ...

Issues regarding ethical and unethical practices are all around us and exist in all walks of life. The issue that I have selected for this paper regards the ethical behavior of teachers at their workplaces. Teaching is a dignified profession because it helps in developing the future generations, and it plays an important role in the character building of an individual during his early years. Scholar Richard Rothstein recently gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education in New York (Strauss). It brought to notice the way statistics are tampered and is ...

There is a long-standing debate on whether student-athletes should be paid for services rendered to their respective colleges or universities. On one end, it is true that the very spirit of amateurism dictates that such benefits should only come in the form of school stipends, perhaps as an added benefit to scholarship grants. On the other hand, it is also true that the magnitude of revenues garnered by universities, amounting to hundreds of millions and in some cases even billions of dollars, would imply that it is only fair for students to have at least a minimal amount of ...

Introduction

Genetically Modified Cotton (GM Cotton) is one in which biotechnology has been applied to come up with transgenic or altered and desirable traits such as increased pest resistance. Approximately 25 million hectares have been put under cotton around the world especially in China, India, US, and Pakistan. GM cotton has been engineered to address two major issues. The first one is ability to resist glycophosate-based herbicides and the second issue is the ability to produce a toxin that kills bollworms which is a primary destroyer of the crop (Eyhorn, 2007). There are controversies regarding the benefits or disadvantages of ...

The radio is viewed as the most impactful medium of communication during the genocide due to its extensive outreach in the Rwandan population. The role of radio starts from the partisan ownership and lack of objectivity that comes with it. The main radio station cited, RTLM, was owned by Hutu hardliners in the ruling government, same people who led the genocide (Strauss). During the genocide, the radio’s messages were full of anti-rebel sentiments and inflammatory statements (Strauss). The radio station announced people’s names and places which were later attacked in the violence, tying the broadcasts directly to ...

Introduction

Denim jeans could very well be the most prevalent type of clothing on the planet. Odds are you effectively own (no less than) one sets of them. The development of the denim business is noteworthy in the realm of design. Contemporary design is quite often finish group on the off chance that you simply include pants. Pants are worn with tunics and sweaters to go with the sharp looking contemporary design from work to dinner and the night life. Athletic wear and pants for outside work have most likely been supplanted by engineered substitutes the spot for denim in ...

Introduction

Research Question for the Case Study. The research question from this case study of the fast-food labor movement is; what is the primary cause of the continuous strikes by the fast food workers? Many articles have been looked at and have been discussed in this research paper to try and explain more about the research question. Most of these research materials that have been used for this research have mentioned a lot about the research question.

Reasons for the Strikes

These continuous strikes from the fast food works are as a result of the small wages that the workers are paid. The strikes ...