950 Word Essay Examples

In low and middle income countries, burns pose a significant dander to children and adolescent groups with statistics indicating that up to 95% of burn victims within this group ultimately die from the effects. Apparently, the management of burns in this group has been limited to the period immediately after the burn incident with no continued physiotherapy programs for the victims. This paper seeks to focus on the PICOT question “For children and adolescents who are victims of burns, does continued physiotherapy until full growth and development as compared to standard care reduce the risk of scoliosis and future ...

The motto of enlightenment is “Have courage to use your own reason.” Philosopher Immanuel Kant described enlightenment as a path that all of us have access to, but few of us take advantage of. It is defined as “a man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage” (Kant, 1). That is, enlightenment is self-incurred because most of society adopts the dominant feelings of the popular majority. However, Kant presents it is difficult for individuals to reach a level of such enlightenment because they lack the courage to do so. It takes courage to stand out on one’s own faith, ...

Introduction

The behaviorism approach in psychology entails the suggestion that behavior can be studied through scientific research without delving into the inner mental states of the mind (Fridlund, Beck, Goldie & Irons, 2012). It is an approach considered as inclined to materialism such that, it opposes the fact that the mind acts independently. This particular approach to psychology assumes that human or even animal behaviors are heavily influenced by the immediate environment via reinforcement or association. One of the pioneers of this approach to psychology was the Russian psychologist, Ivan Pavlov who carried out extensive studies on classical conditioning (Fridlund, Beck, ...

For years, government transactions and contracts have been kept from public who may wish to review where their taxes go and how their elected officials act in their behalf. However, with the creation of the internet, classified government information is slowly leaking to the public and sites such as WikiLeaks reveal a darker picture of known government decisions that remains controversial even at the present time. Arguments from supporters and opposition of WikiLeaks have grown throughout the years, posing a question as to whether or not WikiLeaks is beneficial or detrimental to the public. Although some may see WikiLeaks ...

Preferred Program of Study:

My Personal Statement to Take Up BS in Accountancy I was born in a traditional Chinese family. Likewise, I attended a very traditional Chinese school. The lesson that my family and school taught me is that “practice makes perfect.” The only way I can improve my grades is to listen to lectures carefully and do more practices after class. The idea helped me to progress in my studies and I felt mostly interested in the accounting and economics disciplines. Afterwards, when I saw a website about the benefits of studying in an American Community College for students who do ...

Introduction

Price discrimination is a strategy usually followed by a monopolist or even oligopolist where different consumers are charged different prices. Price discrimination can take three major forms, first degree price discrimination, second degree price discrimination and third degree price discrimination. In this paper we demonstrate how third degree price discrimination is practiced by the Airlines. We begin with a brief description of third degree price discrimination in the next section. In section III we discuss the methodology and data source of our research. In section IV we present the outcome of our research. Section V concludes the study.

Concept of Third Degree Price Discrimination

In ...

Outsourcing manufacturing activities from a local community to the developing countries is a decision that raises different opinions for varied organizations, community members as well as the workers in the foreign nations. The ethicality of the whole process needs to be considered in such a way that the process does not have adverse consequences to the progress of the community. Several scholars have related the process of outsourcing manufacturing to a developing country with the need for an organization to reduce on the cost of production as well as exploit the labor readily available in the developing nations. This ...

A vision and mission are very critical elements in an organizational strategy. They serve as the foundation guidelines in the establishment of the organizational goals and objective. An organizational mission statement is a statement of purpose. It is decision-making guide for an organization. It helps the employees in ensuring that all the activities of the organizational align with the mission. To the employers and the managers, it offers them insight in seeing the need to be in business. The work of a vision statement is to provide direction to the company. It takes the mission and adds some corporate ...

(1.) While the streets, courthouses and jails are the areas and locations that are commonly associated with the workings of the criminal justice system; two less recognized but equally relevant locations are the labs, examination rooms and computers of the criminalist and the criminologist. A criminalist, more popularly known as the forensic scientist, is a person that employs science, technology and expertise to identify, examine, and analyze criminal evidence and present their findings to a range of information consumers (Kaci, 1998). For example, a criminalist’s analysis of evidence at a crime scene can assist police officers in determining ...

Intellectual Property

Information system plays a very important role in our society. There are the ethical aspects of the information system in regards to intellectual property that arises with the use of information technologies. These can be piracy and plagiarism of resources where another person's knowledge and work are used without giving due credit to the owner of the information. This happens when someone presents an idea that taken from another source as their own. This paper is going to discuss ethical issues that arise from piracy of resources, patents, and copyrights in the world through the internet. Information ethics issues ...

Introduction

Hart Hospital Equipment, Inc. manufactures and sells care medical equipment, surgicenters as well as emergency rescue teams. Hart’s philosophy is to develop very innovative products as well as excellent services. This has placed Hart in a strong position both in the monitor as well as in the defibrillator market.

Sales Force Strategy

Hart’s main vehicle for production is the field force. Hart’s sales force has proven to be among the best in the industry because of the high customer review in regards to product awareness, acceptance as well as the excellent quality services. This strategy has attracted customers as ...

Blitzkrieg is the theory of conducting brief war, according to which victory is achieved in the period calculated in days, weeks or even months, before the enemy will be able to mobilize and deploy its main military forces. During the World War II, European military theater have seen a lot of successful and not blitzkrieg acts and plans. For the first time in practice, the German military strategists at the beginning of the Second World War when capturing Poland successfully carried out blitzkrieg. The campaign in Poland was the first demonstration and successful implementation of the theory of "quick ...

Introduction

Diabetes and other health factors have been a growing concern in recent years amongst food-insecure individuals and families. This review includes the concept of finding ways to overcome this issue. Low-income families already have numerous issues to deal with outside of health problems, but the inclusion of health issues makes the situation for these families worse. Within the past ten years research has been dedicated to this problem. Researchers have dedicated time to finding ways of overcoming the problem by using new tactics like motivational interviewing. It has become known that diabetes is a concern of lower income families ...

____________ University In recent times, Americans have experienced an increase in health care cost which has made it difficult for many citizens to gain access to medical care. Furthermore, the recession has raised the number of Americans who do not have access to health care because they are uninsured due to the reduction in their benefits or the loss of their jobs. Experts predicted that the number of uninsured citizens will continue to increase if there is not a solution in place that would help struggling Americans. As a result, America would face an economic crisis if there was ...

Sjogren Syndrome(SS) is an autoimmune disease that causes lymphocytic infiltration of exocrine glands, primarily lachrymal and salivary glands. Simply put, it is a chronic immune disorder in which white blood cells of the patient attack saliva and tear glands. At times, glands that keep the vagina moist are also attacked resulting in vaginal dryness. In normal cases, humans' immune system generates antibodies to attack harmful material as virus and bacteria. Putting the cart before the horse, the immune system in SS patients starts producing autoantibodies and autoreactive cells that start attacking those very body parts that they are ...

Marketing 300 CORE

Al Golzari Homework Assignment 1 25 points for each question. Partial credit will be given. Please type directly into this file and save and return with your last name as an extension to the file name. Please refer to the article I posted on Flipboard on Dec. 26 titled “Offering breakfast is a made-to-order success for McDonald’s.” As a consumer, I’m sure you know that for the past few months, McDonalds has begun offering breakfast all day in most markets. So far, this has led to initial success and appears to be working. What target markets is ...

Part one: Click and Mortar vis-à-vis Dotcom retailers The advent of information technology significantly revolutionised the retail business and the supply chain networks. Technology put pressure on business to develop platforms that would allow customers to purchase various goods and services online. This revolution resulted into traditional physical warehouses developing parallel online consumer platforms to increase profits (Bozarth & Handfield, 2015). This model of business is called click and mortar model and involves brick and mortar business to open an online store. However, this reverse of this model (click and brick) involves online stores developing physical presence. This paper ...

How to Manage Diabetes

Managing diabetes is a daily challenge that is worth the effort. The most important thing in managing diabetes is to ensure the blood sugar maintains the levels recommended by the physician (Yee Cheng et al. 3). Eating the right foods and substituting regular soda and juice with drinking water, eating foods such as bread pasta, rice, and whole grain cereals since they contain more fiber helps maintain the right blood sugar levels. Also, it is advisable to avoid high-calorie foods and instead, choose foods like vegetables, whole grains, cereals, and skim milk. It is also important to be active ...

Touted as solution to globally access patient safety, healthcare records and support and enhancement of quality measures for evidence based care provision, electronic medical record advent began with less reviews from all healthcare practitioners sectors. Nurses, who have been protecting their paper documents, have shown resistance to the change of abandoning papers for computers. We have many reasons for the difficulty of this transition, providing educators and administrators with both opportunities and challenges to expand comfort levels and knowledge base of nurses. Therefore, methods for enhancing computerization skills together with clinical software systems development and implementation involvement of staff ...

Introduction

Six Sigma, ISO 9000, and Baldrige are all quality measurement systems used by different organizations trying to achieve excellence to increase customer satisfaction through improved performance. These three are some of the most popular approaches used today and offer different emphasis but there are some similarities that can be observed between them. This makes them compatible with each other and some organizations use all, part or some of the approaches together (SRI Quality System Registrar).

Six Sigma

Six Sigma uses a set of strategies developed by Motorola in 1985 to achieve work process improvement in organizations. The approach does this by ...

Adolescence is one of those periods when significant physiological changes occur in the body of an individual. Firstly, adolescence is a time of sexual maturity. Adolescent girls experience the beginning of menstruation, different changes in their body. Boys experience their voice changes, and also, there are some changes in their appearance. Teenager’s body can have an unpleasant smell due to the development of new sweat glands. Teens begin to experience sexual desire and increasing interest about individuals of the opposite sex. During this period, there are significant hormonal changes, which can affect the emotional state, behavior and well-being ...

I, Rolihlahla Mandela, was born on July 18, 1918, in the Mvezo village, Transkei. I was born in the family of the chief counselor to Jongintaba Dalindyebo, the Acting King of the Thembu people. In the age of 12, in 1930, I became a ward of Jongintaba at the Great Place in Mqhekezweni as my father died. On hearing the stories of my ancestors, I dreamed of contributing to the struggle for freedom of my people in South Africa. The school I attended was located in Qunu. I was bestowed with my name Nelson by my teacher in the ...

Today, there is a broad consensus among policymakers and mainstream economists in developed countries and international institutions that a secure property rights regime (defined in terms of the transparency, impartiality, and competence of the judicial system) plays a critical role in economic development. Yet this view is a recent phenomenon; it is only in recent decades that the importance of property rights has entered the economic literature. Of course, throughout much of the early history of modern economics, the existence of private property rights was a presumption that underlay the work of leading economic thinkers. It is no wonder ...

Before Sunset

A city is a natural habitation for people in the 21st century. People are born, they study, work and die in cities. A place, wherein people spend most of their time should be both multi-functional and convenient. Thus, city planning is of outmost importance for people to live in a comfortable and friendly environment. There have been numerous attempts to improve urban planning and to create a dream city. Some of such attempts remained to be theoretical developments only, while others were realized, for example, such utopian projects as Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow or Le Corbusier’s ...

Hip-Hop is considered to be of the largest and the most popular cultures in the whole world. It took its roots in the 70s and had undergone a long way before gaining its popularity and becoming one of the most influential cultures. Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash are known as the founding fathers of hip-hop music. Their talent and dedication to what they were doing definitely brought hip-hop on a new level. All in all, it is essential to learn their history in order to understand the process of the development of hip-hop culture. Surprisingly, but it ...

Introduction

In today's business atmosphere, employees have found that the capacity to investigate, sort out, and compose different kinds of writings is a basic segment of numerous positions, including those that are essentially specialized in nature. Organizations anticipate that representatives will speak plainly and effectively with both partners and colleagues. As a SVSU student I am provided with great opportunities to achieve development in personal and intellectual ways as well as learning highly professional and cultural programs. The University contributes much to the improving leadership skills and advancing the ability to adapt to every sphere of social life. The ...

Introduction

Over the years, there have many cities within the United States that have been developed in terms of infrastructure and housing facilities, leaving the case for landscape and sustainability of the natural resources behind. Historically, Los Angeles is one of the big cities that have been developed on the basis of utilizing the natural resources of the nearby region and focusing on building an urban metropolitan city. Sustainability has been put on the backfoot, for the past century as urbanization and incoming flow of population has seen investment in every form of infrastructure, leaving the once naturally beautiful region ...

Parthenon is a Greek temple dedicated to the Greek Goddess Athena. The temple was built by two architects; Iktinos and Kallikrates (Cartwright et al.). The temple was erected with the aim to preserve the monumental statue of Athena. The statue was made up of ivory and gold. The statue of Athena is surrounded by 23 small Doric columns. They are arranged in a two storey. According to Neils (88), the Parthenon is a remarkable building. . The huge construction of this architecture has used mainly the limestone, while the columns are erected in marble. The Parthenon is an exquisite specimen ...

The Final Project intervention which I have identified is about intervention in health issues of Native American community. The success of this project require heavy financial investment and I do not have sufficient funds to implement on my own. I have been looking for external funding from public and private organizations. To date, I have identified two sources of funding. One of them is First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) while the other is the National Institute for Health (NIH). FNDI is RFP while the National Institute for Health is FOA. The NIH is American public research agency involved with ...

Introduction

Professional ethics is an inseparable part of every profession. According to the definition, professional ethics encompass the personal, organizational and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. To clarify and assure ethic rules disciplinary codes exist for specific fields. These codes are required, because professionals often have to operate private data of their clients to apply their skills for making judgments and decisions unobtainable for the general public. One of the exemplary set of professional ethic rules is the Hippocratic Oath to which doctors have been adhered for about 23 centuries.

Professional aims, that engineers should do:

Firstly keep the safety, health and wealth of ...

Current Event Review: November 2015 Paris Attacks

Summary of the event and background The event took place on November 13, 2015. It was a night when thousands of Paris residents and tourists were busy revelling and the fans enjoying a soccer match where France national team was playing the world champions, Germany. In this event, gunmen and suicide bombers carried out a series of attacks in the French capital, Paris. The attackers were able to hit a concert hall, a major stadium, some restaurants and bars almost simultaneously. The outcome of the event left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. The nation went to tears, with ...

All humans lie. I do believe that. Can you tell when someone is lying? What do you do when you are lied to? Do liars have different brain structure? Why do we choose to deceive ourselves? The Radiolab broadcast entitled “Deception” addresses each of these questions. The broadcast consists of three sections: Catching Liars, People Who Lie, and Lying to Others. Each section explores deception through interviews with various professionals. In each section, many psychological perspectives can be detected. Although I found each section intriguing, it is the last section that really brought up thought-provoking questions in the area ...

It is with tireless exertion and perseverance that the individual must work in unification with their fellow human to fulfill the destiny of living in a world that has realized the beauty and harmony of the truest form of human equality. To live in a world that no longer sees diversity as a threat, but instead celebrates and grows in the gifts that can be offered to one another through our unique contributions. A planet where the love for our human brothers and sisters is so strong, that no individual will tolerate seeing another hungry or homeless man, woman, ...

The theme of Tradition change in “The Lottery” and “The Destructors."

Change in traditions is a topic that both Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and Graham Greene’s The Destructors. Although written in different historical times and using different settings to pass the messages, the two short stories share a common theme of change. While Greene creates his chief antagonist in T (Trevor), who is determined to destroy the only house that reminisces tradition in London after the bomb attack, Jackson uses the event of a village lottery to indicate the changing society, but barbarism is persisting. In both stories, the theme of tradition erosion is presented to the audience. The ...

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Introduction

Quality control program for computed tomography (CT) scan is defined as a process or system that is designed to ensure that the performance of the scanner is still within the set standard (Seeram, 2015, p.432). This is accomplished using quality control tests. The result of a specific QC test for a given CT scanner is compared with other brands of CT scanners in the market. The purpose of quality control testing for CT scans is to ensure that every image produced by the machine is of good quality—clear, and readable, while still ensuring the lowest dose ...

Abstract

The paper will examine the health care insurance it the United States, their benefits and costs to the employers and companies that provide health insurance to the workers. With rising concerns and raising the costs of the health insurance the companies have made various schemes on which to work on. Some companies provide health care, some do not. The others provide health care, but have different policies and different premiums related to the health risks among the workers. The best way to get into the issue is to look at the broader picture not just on the health care ...

Introduction

Projects are critical aspects of any venture in the business or public institutions. The project manager is tasked with ensuring the tasks constituting the project are accomplished in timely manner and in sequential manner. Projects are broken down to interrelated tasks that must be completed by different teams. The project manager coordinates the various teams to work in harmony for the success of the venture. The manager must possess good communication and team building skills to perform the tasks effectively (Malinowski, 2011).

Good Communicator and its Relevance to my Projects

A project manager must possess good communication skills/should be a good communicator. Communication is critical in running ...

Criticism entails proper analysis, judgment, and inferred thoughts on a person’s opinion. The main aim of criticizing other people’s opinion or publication is to shed light on the work. It should compose of opinion, personal view and both positive and negative thoughts about the literature. A good critic should be free and fair without necessarily forcing points or views. The paper looks into one of Shakespeare’s outstanding works Othello. It will focus on the general plot, its flow, the characters and their skill set. It concludes with personal opinion and perspective towards the writer’s symbolic ...

Communication

Communication At work, employees frequently encounter certain problems that interfere with convenient conditions. Therefore, they should be able to address the issues with the management to prevent undesired consequences. Moreover, a supervisor can consider the working environment to be convenient and productive. However, the case “In the Vapor” shows that specific management approaches can disturb collaboration. Considering Linda’s situation, it is essential to inform the supervisor about her concerns and offer several suggestions to convince the management. A possible memorandum to Thomas Hale aims to express Linda’s concerns about approaches that cost great efforts (Appendix).

One can ...

Abstract

The essay summarizes the arguments of Greenberg and Rosenberg's ideologies on art. Different art critics have supported various art movements, shaping the understandings of the artists' work. Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg have put forward their own interpretations of the art movements and their view were contrasting and opposed. Greenberg essay reflects on the social and historical context and the notion of modernism. On the other hand, according to Harold Rosenberg, it is almost impossible to define the movement in art. For the first time, the idea of acceptable art in the society is discussed upon. Greenberg focused on ...

Walmart stores and TNG CORPORATION

Walmart is the largest retailer around the globe with over $400 billion of the total revenues from its stores as at 2009 (Corporate.Walmart.com, 2016). This revenue is ahead of its competitors such as Costco, Best Buy, and Target. Similarly, both retail and consumer manufacturers of the products have realized the importance of selling through the retail channel of Walmart Stores. Consequently, this has given Walmart a good leverage that has influenced the suppliers to make their sales at lower prices. The stores have strong power over its suppliers and good credit quality thus it is efficient in managing its ...

The eighth and ninth Byzantium was one of the most unfortunate in the history of art and architecture. The growth of art and architecture was partially stunted due to the desire to attain political correctness. In that period, political correctness meant following the edicts issued by the emperor. During that time, the emperor issued an edict banning the use of icons. One of the icons that would have drawn a lot of controversy in the eighth and ninth-century Byzantium is the icon of the Virgin and Child Enthroned between Saints and Angels. The Icon is found in the Monastery ...

Interesting points learned and Interesting Questions generated from the Social Business by Design on Chapter Eleven and Twelve

This paper herein presents an exhaustive summary chapter eleven and twelve of the managerial text, The Social Business by Design, co-authored by Hinchcliffe and Kim in the year 2012. In an overview, chapter eleven has dwelled on an in-depth exploration of the origin of social media and its incorporation in business setups and organizations and the major functions of workforce collaboration. Chapter twelve on the other hand extensively discusses social business supporting capabilities and how organizations can effectively manage social platforms and media for the benefit of the organization as compared to traditional conventional approaches. Below are the three ...

INTRODUCTION

This paper outlines Marxian concepts in Workfare Street Cleaner, Crime Scene Cleaner, Poultry Factory Worker, and Stripper as in Bowe J Bowe’s book Gig: Americans talk about their jobs. The paper will use case studies drawn from Bowe’s book to explain the concepts. The study shows how Americans feel about their jobs and then relates their opinions to the concepts of Marxist theory.

CRIME SCENE CLEANER

Neal Smither is the owner of Crime Scene Cleaners. Their work involves cleaning up death scenes like homicides, accidental deaths, and suicide. He started the job after he lost his job at a mortgage-banking ...

Sophocles’ classic tragedy Oedipus Rex demonstrates one of the most prominent and fascinating examples of a tragic hero in its protagonist, King Oedipus. When his city of Thebes falls under the spell of a mysterious plague, he embarks on an investigation to find out who killed the previous king and brought the curse on them. By the end, however, he finds that he himself killed the king in a series of circumstances – who also turned out to be his father. Throughout the play, Oedipus himself fights against a sense of destiny that has written his fate since childhood, Sophocles ...

Description of the Social Problem: Student Debt in America:

The total outstanding amount of student loan debt in the US amounts to $ 1.2 Trillion. This is an astoundingly high amount of debt that not only directly affects the indebted students, but also has an effect on the economy of the country as whole, as well as the soundness of the fiscal system. There were around 37 million student credit borrowers with exceptional understudy advances in 2013. By Federal Reserve Bank of New York accounts, remarkable student debt obligation in the United States lies between $900 Billion and $1 Trillion with around $850 Billion in Federal understudy advance debt. ...

Introduction

The existence of increasingly more cost-efficient and powerful technology has been a tremendous enhancement for small enterprises of all streaks. It has also translated to enterprise owners facing a necessity to sort through an incredible amount of technology options and seek the most improved ways to employ technology to attain business purposes. Entrepreneurs will have to encounter a series of business technology issues in the course of the ventures ranging from managing upgrades, applying the social media tools to conducting research. Practically, every enterprise is challenged with the risk of disintermediation by the internet. Virtually everything to do with ...

Age of Patient: 10 years five months

Gender: Male Parent/Guardian: Magdalene Ekaterina Subjective The patient has been experiencing a fever, weak joints and night sweats associated with malaria infection over the last two days. The patient’s parent confirmed that he was not able to eat as much as he used to an indication of loss of appetite. He feels dizziness after a long sitting position and general weakness implying poor oxygen supply, a symptom associated with malaria and anemia, however, he has no headache, stomachache, nausea, earache or diarrhea.

He says he is feeling like vomiting now.

The patient has travelled over the last two weeks over a long distance and has confirmed ...

Selecting the appropriate family of statistic

Introduced to the case study and the statistical requirements, we believe that amongst all the family of statistics, regression analysis will be the most appropriate data analysis method to achieve the desired outcome. Important to note, regression analysis belongs to family of statistical techniques and includes methods which are used for forecasting, variance analysis, et cetera. Henceforth, considering the two requirements laid down by Mittra for his operations head as part of which she is required to forecast the sales and explain the past variance, regression analysis and related tools will be the most appropriate statistical tools to perform ...

Every person has strengths and weaknesses. In both professional and personal life it is important that a person is able to distinguish his/her strengths and weaknesses, make best use of his/her strengths and, ideally, convert weaknesses into neutral traits or even strengths. As far as I understand myself responsibility, belief, activator and self-assurance are my major strengths. I developed responsibility in course of studying at school, having experienced that the lack of one’s responsibility may lead to highly negative consequences (e.g., quarrels with classmates, failing projects). On the contrary, belief is my inherent strength. Even in childhood, when ...

Investigating Business: Sainsbury PLC and John Lewis

The organizational structure to a large determines the extent to which the same given organization meets its operational objectives. It is the organization structure that determines the entire internal hierarchy as well as interpersonal relations within the organization and thereby providing the foundation onto which all other activities are established. This paper thus highlights some of the key functions of organizational structures with a case reference to Sainsbury PLC and John Lewis Partnership LTD. The two companies implement a similar organizational structure; matrix organization structure, which is often perceived to be a blend of both divisional and functional structures. ...

The problem facing the organization is to select the optimal strategy regarding development and marketing decision for Ski Right Helmets. The options presented in the scenario from with the organization can select the optimal are five (5) in number. First option is partnering with Progressive Products (PP) to develop the product and share profits evenly; second option is giving the contract the making and marketing to Leadville Barts (LB) and Progressive Products (PP); third option is a combination of TalRad (TR) and Progressive Products (PP) to make the product; fourth option is contracting the production and distribution to Celestial ...

The food justice movement can be understood as a network of people who are concerned about corporate control and the deterioration in quality of our food supply which has resulted in a range of public health crises. For the most part, the leaders of this movement are white and upper middle class academics, journalists and other activists who speak with each other. A problem is that the main victims of the global food supply chain are actually a majority low income populations in urban and rural areas. An overwhelming proportion of this demographic, especially in urban areas, are racial ...

The advertisement of Skyy Vodka, in which a man is standing above a woman holding a glass in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other hand, is controversial even today, although it was published in 2000. The woman is objectified in this advertisement, but the final result is effective and this campaign is a success because it does not cross the line between what is right and what is wrong, it just tackles the issue of how gender roles could be perceived in the society. The advertisement depicts a woman as a sexual object at first ...

Doug Baldwin’s article, A Study in Social Control: The Life of the Silver Miner in Northern Ontario, presents a complete sociological examination of the relationship between capitalist enterprises and the social hierarchy that it serves. Baldwin’s work, although overly historical in the preface of the article, thoroughly explains the causal dependencies in regard to the development of a micro-culture. The article demonstrates that similar mechanisms also propel larger groups to societies and that there are analogous instances that can be seen through each stage of development. Baldwin is an academic writer who does express the intended ideas ...

Introduction

Porter's Model consists of five forces that are used to analyze the external environment of an organization. The forces include competitive rivalry, the threat from new entrants, the suppliers' power, the buyers' power and the threat of substitutes. This paper evaluates the car rental industry in the USA using Porter’s five forces.

Competitive Rivalry

The competition in the USA, car rental industry, is intense because the number of companies operating in the industry is substantial. In the last years, the fleet sizes have been expanding, and most companies in the industry focus on profitability. For example, car hire companies such ...

The main professional issue presented in this case is intimidation (bullying) of a junior employee by his supervisor. Janice intimidated John to have him comply with her orders or face low performance rating. Janice’s orders were that John allows her to use his program and present it to her boss as her own. In effect, Janice’s boss could never get to know that it was John’s effort and therefore John could not get due recognition for searching the program. In essence, Janice wanted to benefit unfairly from another employee’s efforts, which is unethical. According to ...

Grocery Station was started off by Michelle Frogman in 1972 as a single store mom-and-pop shop for selling groceries. The Grocery Station, at that point, attracted clientele because of Frogman’s vivacious nature and the quality of groceries that the store offered. It was Wendy’s travails as a single mother, who was balancing home, job, and baby, when this need of groceries delivered at home, created the Grocery Station’s USP (unique selling preposition) of convenience delivery. Convenience delivery was a service offering wherein customers could place an order over phone and pay for it using a card, ...

Information Technology

The case can be summarised as an initiative by Intel to allow its employees to bring their own devices to work. The devices will be allowed to access the company’s information and data and thus lead to security issues within the organisation. This idea is fuelled by the fact that employees were already bringing their own devices to work and using them during office hours. The chief information officer is faced with various dilemmas in the implementation of this proposal. The issues that arise might be beneficial or detrimental to the organization while employee privacy will come at ...

Ethics is a fundamental issue that provides a framework for every human relationship, including people involved in politics, business or public relations. Every decision, negotiations or other elements of interpersonal communication that directly or indirectly affect people should be considered through the lens of ethics. Recently, it has received due attention as it turned out that ethical issues appear very often in every working environment and they have a great influence on the course of actions in the country, company or family. As James Brusseau (2012) writes, business ethics is about “providing reasons for how things ought to be ...