Essays on Summer School

Question/Problem Definition

In a global and competitive world of corporation, each organization aims to acquire a significant share of market and earn lucrative profits from loyal customers. On the contrary, the customers want products and services from organizations that ensure their quality at least possible price. In order to produce and deliver a quality product and/or service to the customers, it is important to have an in-depth customer orientation and standardization in production processes. The two aspects need a strong synchronization with the organizational culture and strategic decision-making. Organizations need to sustain a strong compliance with quality guidelines and factors that ...

Abstract

Post the global economic recession of 2009, the government announced budget cuts across states. This placed great pressure on public schools to save costs in order to continue functioning. One of the cost saving measures employed by schools in several districts of the United States was to make cuts in the school. While this measure surely saves schools a lot of immediate costs, it needs to be evaluated what kind of an impact such a measure would have in the long run, especially with concerns being raised about the quality of education being provided in a shorter school year.

Cost Cutting Pressures

The US economy ...

I chose Death of a Salesman because it is such a well-known play and I felt I ought to know more about it. I read the play and also watched the film version in which Dustin Hoffman played the central character, Willy Loman. I found the play and the film extremely moving, so I was interested to know how audiences had reacted to it when it first opened in 1949. Because of my reaction I was also interested in the tragic elements of the play. I thought the presentation of the female characters in the play was slightly weak – they are ...