Essays on Trends

Introduction

The workplace is changing rapidly mostly attributed to the changing demographic trends being experienced in the country. As a result, communication becomes a barrier in most instances for those companies that do not embrace change. Consequently, work performance and output comes to a standstill hence compromising the survival of the organization. This report will focus on the demographic trends already experienced in the company, its effect on communication, as well as recommendation of communication practices that should be adopted.

Demographic changes

The company reflects three main demographic changes as exhibited in the American population. Firstly, more women have since joined the

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An overview of the financial statements does not convince me to suggest the management for the purchase of a major shareholding in Squirros Limited. My decision is based on the visible trend in the major portions of Balance Sheet and Income Statement.
First, the turnover of the company has consistently decreased over the years. The same goes with the gross profit margins and net profit margins of the company that courtesy low turnover has decreased significantly over the years. Another negative consideration for the company was increasing administrative cost and interest expense. To be noted that since the company

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American Women

Human health is a universal phenomenon that affects the body, without which we may not live. However, culture has a special imprint on the way we take care of our organism, and this influence is difficult to counter. Even though it is a condition that affects all of us, different civilizations imply different treatments of the body, which must be taken into account at the time of comparing health conditions. Many aspects must be taken into account, including possibilities of exercising and the tendency of the culture to lead people towards this aim. In my case, because I am

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The article called Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest: Unintentional Overcooling is Common Using Ice Packs and Conventional Cooling Blankets by Merchant, Abella, Peberdy, Soar, Ong, Schmidt, Becker and Vanden Hoek was chosen for consideration. Figure 2B on the page 492 will be examined.
- A line graph was used to describe the fluctuations of temperature with time. Line graphs help compare sets of data that are complicated to compare. Figure 2B depicts individual patient temperature courses with overcooling.
- Line graphs are often used to track data that changes continuously. A line graph helps track the trends in data.

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Emerging trends in various sections of a state ranging from the political, economic, climatologically to demography among others, have contributed a lot in the shaping up and realization of set goals and objectives in various states that have identified the gradual repercussion of these aspects . Furthermore, they have been used as a tool by analysts to identify the future prospects and their implications on the humanitarian aspect (Torre & Sergio, 2008). This has created a lot of anticipation on career diversity and advancement upon those in the job market and stiff competition amongst job seekers who at one point or

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The article “Bathymetry of Mariana trench-arc system and formation of the

Challenger Deep as a consequence of weak plate coupling”, by Zohar Gvirtzman, and Robert J. Stern, published by Tectonics describes the study of determining the depths of the Mariana trench-arc system, and how the weak plate coupling results in the formation of Challenger Deep: the deepest known point on earth’s surface. The author’s demonstrate that the Mariana Trench is located at the southwest, and not at the center, because of the width of the plate coupling zone. The authors examine observation methods such as Bathymetry, to know the relation of the Mariana trench with the regional topographic

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Functions of Statistics

Firstly, statistics is used to present facts in a simplistic manner. This makes statements more convincing and logical as compared to mere description. Secondly, statistics is used to reduce complexities associated with raw data enabling the readers draw interpretations and inferences. There are various statistical measures that are used to make raw data simple and intelligible (LeBlanc, 2004). Examples are; graphs, dispersions, averages, regressions, correlation and kurtosis. Thirdly, statistics facilitates comparison. Comparisons are important when the user of a given data set draw conclusions between two groups or the past and present. Statistical devices such as ratios, averages and

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Emerging trends have a remarkable influence in the future of politics. This include; new technologies, conflict transformation, new superpower and multi-stakeholder dialogues. These trends will gradually shape the politics of the future for the nations of the world.
Multi-stakeholder dialogues as well multi-trek dialogues involve; media, religious groups, nonprofit activists, business people and the officials of the government. These groups hold discussions to solve political issues. These include; corruption, gender representation among others. During these dialogues several ideas are generated. These influence the future by drawing various perspectives on how political practices are to be shaped to suit the

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The article reported on the upward trend in health spending growth in 2011. In 2011, per capita and total spending on health care increased. For instance, between 2010 and 2011 estimated per capita expenditure for claims filed under employer-sponsored health insurance rose up to 4.6 percent (Roehrig, 2011). Based on age group, health spending increased significantly for children reaching 7.7 percent increase over 2010. Based on the region the HCCI report indicates that the Northeast had both the highest dollars spent per capita and the highest growth in spending. According to the producer price index, Medicare prices increased by

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Over the years, elections have formed and played an integral role in the America’s political life. Elections provides the people with the opportunity to elect their preferred leaders, forms a favorable platform to shape and influence the political discourse and trends in the country and promotes the establishment of an effective electoral system. The house election of 1992 remains one of the historical elections in the American calendar that marked the end and the beginning of a new trend in the America’s political arena.
The 1992 house election coincided with presidential election that involved two presidential candidates-

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Introduction

Educational psychology is the study of human learning that encompasses the studying of instructional processes. It relies on majorly on testing, measurement, assessment, training as well as evaluation so as to enable the enhancement of educational activities and other learning processes. As an applied field, educational psychology has continued to grapple with and struggle to define and fulfill its mission against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world. This paper seeks to analyze the perspectives as offered by the author on the status and future directions of educational psychology as an applied field. Whilst doing this analysis and reflection

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Introduction: The Theory

Gamblers fallacy is an argument that bases its argument on the occurrence of random events, in that if the occurrence of a certain event is frequent currently the there will be an infrequent occurrence in the future. The fallacy depicts that if something happens more often or if there is a positive performance, there will be a rare occurrence in the future, or the performance will be negative. The fallacy is based on independent events where the outcome of one event does not influence the other also called random events. The fallacy argues that if a certain outcome is

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Aggressive Jingoism and chimera are two significant components of Vietnamese cinema. These two interesting components have been portrayed extensively in movies having Vietnam in the centre. This paper intends to discuss Asian cinema with perspectives of two abovementioned components.
These two subjects are favorite topics of Vietnamese and American movie makers. Almost every movie revolves around these two subjects with a different angle to the story. Vietnamese filmmakers give a twist to these subjects with an intention to present their version however other filmmakers present their version of the story having these subjects as the centre theme of the

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Introduction

Headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, Marks and Spencer Plc. is one of the leading British multi-channel retailers of garments and high quality food products. Founded in 1884 by Thomas Spencer and Michael Marks, the company has 766 stores in the UK alone with 361 more stores spread across globally in over 50 nations (M&S #3 2014). With about 82,000 employees worldwide, the company aims to provide an excellent shopping experience to its customers, whether in stores, by phone or online. The company seeks to follow a green way of doing its business and hence it has

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Impact of Globalization on State Sovereignty

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It is a rather difficult to provide an absolute definition of globalization. However, this worldwide trend can be described as an original, multifaceted, vibrant, multidimensional, and global phenomenon that has various meanings for diverse people and communities. Globalization has brought significant changes and has impacted almost every aspect of life including health and medicine, sciences, IT, etc. It has also provided innumerable opportunities for the improvement of production, output and efficiency (Eberstadt 2010).
As far as state sovereignty is concerned, the phenomenon of globalization has impacted it as well. However, there are two viewpoints

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In our contemporary, scientifically-influenced world, technology is seen as being essentially good. Nevertheless, as “The Travel Habits” by Joseph P. Schwieterman points out, this has led to an exacerbation of individualism, where everybody is set into a trance by their own personal portable devices. The fact these artifacts allow you to access whatever you want, entails a rupture of communication with the outside world, leaving individuals to face their own, self-made reality. Another important component in this process is the modern push for everyone to strive for their own goals, which are always set farther, and thus alienate them

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Individual Leadership

Introduction
Leadership occurs as one of the primary factors that have generated varied interpretations across various contexts. This can be accredited to the fact that there are various features that define the leadership traits of an individual. Many at times, leadership refers to the ability of an individual to influence and support others in accomplishing tasks assigned to them. For this purpose, leadership in business contexts refers to the ability of the senior staff in any given business firm to influence their sub-ordinates and help them in accomplishing and making adequate decisions regarding the tasks assigned to them (Maxwell

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Oil Prices: Breaks and Trends

The paper organized by the author also has an in-depth relationship with other literature works on the subject of Oil Breaks and Price Trends. Firstly, it has used the Kejriwal and Perron’s sequential procedure to determine the multiple structure changes in real oil prices. However, the author avoided the circular testing problem. In fact, the Kejriwal and Peron model allows the repeated use and selection of a number of breaks in the trend and in the level of a univariate time series without any prior knowledge as to whether the noise component is stationary or not. Thus, the

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Research Report: School Shootings

Introduction
Incidents of school shootings have been recorded in the United States since 1700’s. The 20th and the 21st century are especially notable because of the sharp increase of school shooting incidents in the U.S. Despite the previous occurrences of school shooting in the past, authorities recognize the huge gap in understanding such occurrences. Apparently, school shooting is quite a random incident of which “lie outside of specific crime issues such as terrorism, drug trafficking, gang activity, and domestic violence that have federal policies, law enforcement structures, and laws tailored in many instances to specifically address them”. Because

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Introduction

Information systems have developed in its use in organizations. There have been developments and issues that have been implemented for the purpose of iadopting information systems in organizations. This paper will focus on the concept of databases in organizations.

Overview of database concept

Database concept has been used in organizations to present data and information so that it can be accessed and organized in the right way and manner. The database concept has played a key place in improving data management and access. Database systems have been there for a long time in organizations. Database management systems developed to the current state from

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Book Review

Introduction
Cycles: The Science of Prediction by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin, published March 1947 by Henry Holt & Co. NY. This is a much-criticized book but it is very importance in the field of economic development. In this book the authors have tried to shows that the 54-year price-production cycle of commercial activities and the 18 1/3 year Real Estate Cycle have much more importance than any other cycles in forecasting the situation of the economy presently. The authors have name the 54-year price-production cycle as a "Kondratieff Cycle" and the "long wave" because its length is

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Qualitative and quantitative research applies different research strategies both in the ways they analyze the information and the information is collected. The qualitative research involves non-numerical data such as research information that is collected from different journals, scholarly research articles, visual materials, etc. that is analyzed by the researcher paraphrased in his own words. On the other hand, the quantitative research involves collecting the numerical data and analyzing the data with the use of financial software such as Excel and SPSS. Both research methods share their own set of advantages and disadvantages along with similarities and differences. Both the

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In the contemporary business environment, the management of information and data forms a critical component of the business entity. One major role played by the management systems is the ability to provide information that can be used to develop trends. Upon these trends lie the capability of the business entity to come up or predict the market abilities and the opportunities. At a time when competition is at peak high in the market and the market share is under threat of diminishing every day, there is a need for the business entity to have a clue as to what

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Introduction

The 60s are considered as one of the most renowned times when people gained awareness of fashion trends. As far as dressing fashion is concerned, there were a number of diverse fads and clothing staples that composed the trends in 60s. The women's fashion went through a complete transformation. In contrast to the previous times, the 60s surfaced up as a trendy time that introduced urbane and informal dressing sense. Women started wearing bold prints and bright colors, embracing the change with modish finesse and flamboyance. A lot of the trends were the result of the social

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STEP 1: Create variables

Run frequency tables for the new variables to check that they are accurate
Run a frequency table of your dummy variable to check that it is accurate
Run a reliability analysis using the following 10 variables:
COMPUTE FEAR=q25afearmurder + q25bfearrape + q25cfearweapon + q25dfearhome + q25efearcar + q25ffearmugged + q25gvandal + q25hconned + q25ibeggar + q25jbeaten. EXECUTE.
measures of central tendency and dispersion for this new variable
o Dependent variable:

Punitive attitudes additive scale

 Run a reliability analysis for the following 8 variables
The alpha coefficient for the eight items is .832, suggesting that the items have relatively high internal consistency. Cronbach's alpha is a measure of internal consistency, that is, how

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Introduction

SONY is an internationally known and well-reclaimed manufacturer of electronic goods. Their product line consists of batteries, CDs, cameras, music soft ware, mobile phones, game soft wares, televisions and semiconductors. Their business operations are based upon the designing, development, manufacturing and then selling their products. Many people are unaware of this that SONY also provides few financial services such as credit financing and banking. They are currently operational in Japan, China, Asia, Europe and North America. The head quarter of this company is situated in Tokyo, Japan so basically by origin this is a Japanese organization. Unfortunately, they faced

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Food is normally seen as an engine that drives many societies in the world. It is very hard to find a given food that serves in a given state as their stable meal. Different states seem to have a taste for a given food. A selection of a specific food can never be possible as people within a state come from diverse cultures. People from diverse cultural background always have their own taste and preference. For instance, the people of Arizona are of mixed cultures and different backgrounds. It is difficult to find an official food served in Arizona,

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Article Review

Travel and Tourism in a Fast-Changing World: New Trends for 2014
Euromonitor's WTM Global Trends Report identifies Emerging Travel and Tourism trends
In the United Kingdom, the trend is the travel happiness index. The Airlines are employing this initiative to measure the satisfaction through the happiness scores. The airlines are moving away from the commoditization of the air travel, and the schedule only and price decisions. The trend in Europe is the Peer-to-Peer travel of the next generation. Most of the Europeans are seeking cheaper options of travel to counteract the continued austerity. As such, the range of accommodation

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Our parents and grandparents often keep telling us how easy it was to live and work back in a day. How living costs and groceries were not this hard to afford. We have been witnessing increased pressure at work, and we try not to break under that pressure. However, the work is not very rewarding anymore when we keep struggling to keep up with living costs and it is not very fair to us. The economy of the United States has been soaring when we compare statistics of today to those of 1973. The costs of food, living and

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Trend could be defined as a general direction in which a particular item, subject or object tends to move. It could also be used to mean a style of doing things that would be currently acceptable as new and attracts everybody. That is, trend is a style that everybody would wish to be associated to. Trend prediction would, therefore, imply the ability of a person to be able to forecast a specific line in which a chosen field would likely to move in the foreseeable future. Burning fabric was a specific textile line whose trendy nature could also be

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It is certain that the tourism sector is one of the largest industries globally, and has been forecasted as one of highest growing global sectors of the century. The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economics in Indonesia has done a great deal in marketing the state’s tourism industry. This can be supported by the number of tourist arrivals in the country in a span of the past one year. For instance, the number of tourist arrivals in the country for the year 2013 alone hit a record 8.8 million. This was a 9.5% increase as compared to that

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Early origins of folklore-knitting

Knitting is a popular art form that has been practiced and practiced by societies all over the world for ages. It originates from the human need for clothing to protect them from the weather elements. However, studies have shown that the term "knitting" was not in Europe language before the renaissance. Recently, knitting has become more of a hobby than a skill due to the mass production of clothing by industries. This art has been passed from one generation to the next from as early as the 3AD in Egypt when it was still a colony of the Roman

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Interpreting Market Trends for BMW Dealership in Sydney, Australia

Specializing in the sale of automobiles in Sydney’s BMW dealer has been a top premium brand choice. However, with an ever-changing environment and new trend factors, the General Manager, Helga Schmit would seek to re-think the dealership’s marketing strategies in order to assist it produce batter sales results. Thus, there will be a need for collecting data on various market factors that are specific to the Sidney’s BMW market. In that view, the collection of data will be focused on the capital city of Sydney, Australia. The data factors are summarized as follows:
- Disposable income:

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In this paper we will consider basic statistical concepts and hypothesis testing. The first step is to calculate mean, median and standard deviation of all variables in the given data sample. This means that we have to calculate descriptive statistics – measures of central tendency and measures of variance.

Descriptive statistics and graphs are able to present data in the most convenient form for analysis.

Descriptive statistics allows summarizing the initial results obtained by observation or experiment. All calculations are reduced to descriptive statistics grouping data from their values, their frequency distribution of construction, identification of central tendency and distribution, finally, to the assessment of the spread of data in relation to the central tendency found.

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Introduction

Rapid changes in the way we communicate across the world have brought about significant changes in the last two decades. As an individual or as a professional, one can see and experience the effect of this globalization in our lives everywhere. Food, culture, art and fashion provide outlets for the reflection of a variety of cultures in a single setting. As a fashion designer, one has to be conscious of these influences that emanate from all parts of the world. As the world grows closer together, cultural influences from one or more parts of the world are

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Changes in Black Friday Ads in last several years

Black Friday is considered as one of the key dates in the shopping calendars in the western countries. Black Friday is speeding up the online spending revolution and changes in spending habits. In 2013 the shopping approach changed dynamically during Thanksgiving because of the Thursday night openings, which was continued by more specials on Friday that was later followed by heavy discounts on the items as a promotional offer by many stores . In the past years there

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Introduction

Culture comprises of both tangible objects and non-tangible attributes like values, norms and knowledge systems which can vary from one culture to another. In practice, the terms society and culture are often used synonymously. However, while society is a composite of interpersonal interactions, culture is an abstract notion that comprises of beliefs, value systems and norms, in addition to symbolic components like, signs and languages. All contemporary modern societies are evolving towards multiculturalism a term referring to a sense of equality among all subcultures in the society. For instance, U.S. culture ascribes to the dominant values of democracy, equality

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Introduction

The 60s are renowned as a decade that saw the first emergence and popular awareness of fashion and fashion trends. One of the main reasons this era was so unique was that it catalyzed a complete transformation of women’s fashion. In contrast with the previous, modest and symmetrical styles of the 40s and 50s, the 60s brought back some of the risk and emotion that the 1920s had begun. The 60s established themselves as a trendy era not to be forgotten with its urbane and informal dressing style. Women wore bold prints and bright colors, embracing

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Management

Heading I: Control Processes and Systems
Key Concepts
The first key concept in control processes and systems is resiliency. Managerial control encompasses various methods of making sure that the operations of the organization are proceeding in the right manner and direction. Resiliency in management refers to the success of managing in the operations of the organization. Other key factors of control processes and systems include managerial control, the control process and the control tools and techniques.
The managerial control involves other key concepts that include the significance of controlling in the society. Additionally, the managerial control includes various types

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There are three ways to solve the problem of North-South. Supporters of the liberal approach believe that the main problem is failure of developing countries to adopt in the national economies modern market mechanism prevents these countries to overcome backwardness and take their rightful place in the international division of labor. According to them (Moon, 2007), developing states should adhere to the policy of macroeconomic stability, economic liberalization and privatization of state property, in other words, Washington Consensus. Liberal approach can be quite clear found in the positions of many developed countries in the multilateral negotiations on foreign issues

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