Crisis Article Reviews Samples For Students

The belief by the Chinese that an eclipse emanated from dragons that devoured around the sun made the Lydian and Medes soldiers declare peace between their communities. The members of the two communities had an obligation to bang pots and drums in order to startle the dragons. The decision of the congressional leaders on to solve the crisis between the tribes left the citizens muddled. The men in power had to make a choice so that the community members could follow. The economy of the community was negatively affected by the crisis, which affected the Lydian and Medes community. Consequently, ...

General Motors (GM) has a new CEO - Mary Barra. She has joined the multinational at a time when it is facing a crisis for selling cars with faulty ignition for a decade, which has resulted in accidents and deaths. Considering there is a global outcry, she must save the reputation of the firm by addressing the ignition problem. This will be crucial for her legacy as a leader. To remedy the situation, Barra accepts responsibility on behalf of GM instead of blaming her predecessors. She also appoints a global vice-president to deal specifically with safety issues and pledges resources and all other support needed to ...

Fred Moseley. "The U.S. economic crisis | International Socialist Review." N.p., 20 Jan. 2009. Web. http://isreview.org/issue/64/us-economic-crisis
In 2009, the U.S economy experienced its worst disaster since the Great Depression. The article discusses the causes of the crisis, how bad it was and the various policies the government implemented to end it. The major cause of the crisis was the decline in the rate of profits. The rate of profit declined from 22% in 1970s to 12% in 2009. This resulted to high inflations and unemployment rates, therefore reducing the consumers’ purchasing power. As a result, the government had to adapt ...

Management

IMF gives a warning that much efforts is needed by banks to lower their risks
The article is talks about the alerts made by that the International Monetary Fund for banks to come up with solutions to their own problems. It is said that, “when you fail to plain, you plan to fail.” The article’s author is Douwe Miedema and the source is Bloomberg BusinessWeek newspaper. In the paper below, the crisis of bankruptcy in big banks is discussed and their over dependency towards the government. The paper goes further to discuss the improper handling of taxpayers’ money ...

A mixed methods approach incorporates quantitative and qualitative elements in ways that the information gathered complements each other (Creswell, 2007). Using a qualitative approach, the researchers collect in-depth descriptions and information about the research topic. In most qualitative studies, researchers ask questions beginning with how, where, when, which that elicit descriptions and narrations of situations, places, people, events among other issues (Maxwell, 2012). Qualitative information may leave out bits of information about numbers. The quantitative approach complements the research by asking questions such as how much/how many? What is the frequency? These questions elicit numerical answers which when incorporated into ...

The research topic has been an investigation into the contribution or the effectiveness of crisis management to the well-being of differently sized companies. This study can be conducted in a quantitative or quantitative manner. Moreover, the study can be conducted using the mixed methods (where principles of quantitative and qualitative methods) are applied in equal measure. Creswell (2003) states that a mixed method study can respond to both open and close ended questions. Moreover, it presents multiple forms of data drawing on the statistical and text analysis. It is imperative to consider a couple of existing mixed methods studies or articles and ...

Comparing the 2008 Us Crisis with the Japan’s “Lost Decade”

Both the Japan’s lost decade and the 2008 United States and the world financial crisis were caused by excess savings and inflation of huge asset bubbles. By 1980s many Japanese resorted to a lot of savings on their income as they expected to retire. This translated negatively on the economy as it lowered the Gross Domestic Product and weakened local demand of commodities. Furthermore, much savings simply meant that the Japanese citizen had foregone consumption. However, this problem was disguised in the Japanese poor finance policy as well as financial technology. Inflation therefore arose from poor regulation of the ...

There are countless social problems in countries all around the world, but arguably there are more in developing countries, such as those in Africa. Furthermore, what can begin as a problem caused by nature, such as a drought, can soon become a social problem with many facets. In her article, East Africa Food Crisis 2011, Shah describes how the worst food crisis is taking place in East Africa, namely in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Published on July 31, 2011, on the Global Issues website, the piece explains how in spite of consecutive futile rains, the emergency has been assessed as unnecessary and ...

“If you can have everything in 57 varieties, making decisions becomes hard work”

These standing out words at the very outset of the article say it all about how intriguing yet a minute fact of modern life this article addresses, and from what angle. Starting with the crispy crispmaker example, the author explores the mechanism of psychological, economic, business, and social aspects, forces and tendencies in action, in defining how growing options distort practical human expectation, resulting in a never ending internal and external crisis that is demanding a rigorous fight back today.
The article is finely divided into four major thematic sections. The first section depicts, through factual data and reference, the evolution ...

2007 Economic Crisis Review

Abstract

This article is an academic review of the economic crisis that struck in 2007 whereby the world economy experienced deep and long prolonged recession with the crisis being considered as the worst to be experienced since the Great Depression . This article largely lies its basis on the U.S experience during that period with the effects, which resulted from the crisis in the overseas markets outlined. Also, the article brings an understanding of some of the conceptual underpinnings of the issues lying at the heart of the economic crisis. The underlying causes of the economic crisis ...

The recent financial crisis and its causes.

Financial crisis is a situation whereby people lose confidence in the banking sector and therefore their investments in many countries is affected. The value of the assets owned by the financial institutions and other investors reduce in value to a great extent (WIEDEMER, 2012). This has adverse effects in the economy of many countries. The recent financial crisis has resulted to many problems in the whole world. According to the article by Gordon and Metric, the major cause of the financial crisis is the increase in debt of various countries. Both public and private debt was behind the cause of the ...

The economic crisis that hit the global economy in 2008 is often compared to the Great Depression. The crisis has caused hundreds of thousands of small tragedies, depriving people of homes and livelihoods. Knowing about the events that occurred in the last century, one could not help drawing an analogy with the current global financial crisis. All began in the United States, again everything started with the financial sector and then spread to the real economy, the stock market collapsed, consumer demand plummeted, unemployment increased drastically, money devalued. Although the past events are reminiscent of the current situation, are ...

In her article, “East Africa Food Crisis 2011,” Shah describes how the worst food crisis is taking place in East Africa, namely in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Published on July 31, 2011, on the Global Issues website, the piece explains how in spite of consecutive futile rains, the emergency has been assessed as unnecessary and man-made, as the situation had been foreseen numerous months prior by a global early warning system. Both international and local governments have been blamed for taking little action in the approach to this emergency. Furthermore, high food prices have caused many people to not be ...

Communication is a vital tool in handling critical issues in an organization. The essence of globalization has made the world get firsthand information as it happens elsewhere in microseconds. The advancement in technology is accredited to the continued looming crisis experienced in offices and business. Similarly, the digital word has experienced particular content going viral often shared in social media, for example, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Clients raise such complaints.
The article highlights the plights client and individuals go through in trying to solve communication crisis. Further, different scenarios are presented to reinforce the author’s main argument and ...

Summary

Germany Chancellor Merkel is facing a tough economic decision of trying to balance the interest of her country and that of European countries facing an economic crisis. Influential leaders across the world like the Pope are calling on the powerful to help the weak in an attempt to convince Merkel to soften her position and lend more money to countries like Cyprus. The leaders of countries facing crisis think Merkel need to support them and show solidarity with them in their difficult economic situation (MARCUS, 1).
Germany is proposing a variety of austerity policies that cannot gain any political ...

In his “ on the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008-2009”, Roger Congleton argued that the decision of the United States government to provide financial aid to the financial institutions stricken by the 2008-2009 global mortgage crisis was rather an ill-conceived move, in the both political and economic contexts. His ideas were further explored by the Alan Montague, who emphasized that the very idea government aid to the large financial institutions was hardly compatible with the ideas of welfare state (Montague, 11). During the global recession, twenty millions of the Americans were not capable of finding ...

Introduction
Huey Long was a Senator of the United States (US). At the time when he delivered his speech “Every Man a King” on radio, the US was in the midst of the Great Depression, characterized by a nationwide financial crisis triggered by the crashing of the stock market that sent the national economy plummeting to historically low levels. Long, a popular figure in the US Senate, has gained immense fame due to his policies and proposals aimed at solving the Great Depression. It is in said speech wherein he embodied his thoughts on the ...

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Introduction

Employee motivation is one of the most crucial components of the success of any business or organization. Employers invest in their human resource in order to build an organization’s capacity to overcome adverse effects on its operational capacity especially with regards to periods of low business operation or absence of business opportunities. (Glassvisage; Hacker; Herubudiarto; Holt, M; Demand Media, present some major communication methods through which an organization’s executive committee can promote good business ethic and professional management of internal issues in order to promote internal relationships that form support structures necessary for overcoming an organization’ ...

Who: The Article Is About The President Administration And Homeowners Suffering From

What: The topic is housing crisis

Where: Twitter town hall meeting

When: Housing crisis has began a long time ago and isn’t going to end in the nearest future

Why: Decline observed in the housing market hasn’t been solved as soon as the President expected and now it received special attention from people at press conference.
Summary: This article focused on President’s answers to questions asked by Tweeter users at town hall meeting considering the housing crisis, its reasons and possible solutions.
Connections ...

The first reading on the “Less for Less Yet" is important because it articulates the idea of creativity in the architectural field. It argues that the modernist has been having the problem concerning the beliefs held about the architectural ideas and how these ideas are being perceived in the society. It is important because it helps to identify and consider architecture as an idea of being creative in the society. The article puts across that the architectural creativity is the chief gift to society, and thus, it is important for the people to understand its importance. As compared to ...

Article Research

Introduction
In the late 1820’s, the Northern Carolina became more industrialized as the Southern remained non-developed. The Congress had passed a high protective tariff in 1828 that made the southern states more furious because they thought the tariff only benefited the northern states. The southern claimed that high tariff on imports were imposed to them leading to increased costs of importing products. Bradley Hays saw the Southern states sympathy to South Carolina’s position on the tariff rejected as the cause of federalism (Hays 221). Eventually, the doctrine of nullification was introduced that provided an insight to the ...

This topical article written by Matthew Chance and Oliver Joy – two London-based British CNN journalists – covers one of the latest manifestations of the extensive unrest and disquiet evidenced in more than one European country. This is because of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Eurozone, which comprizes those European countries having the Euro as their currency. Greece is the worst affected, with the most critical national debt situation, although other countries such as Italy and Spain also have a major debt problem, and may – like Greece – have to request a “bailout”.
The article reads as though the readership is ...

The author attempts to put a case that would essentially place liability on the bondholders that finance banks upon the occurrence of financial crisis. This would depart from the common practice in which the bank bondholder is protected and safe from the adverse effects that hit the financial world upon collapse of the system. He equates this latter practice to impunity and signals its end in the events that characterize the Spanish financial system where the bank financiers are likely to suffer losses. The developments in America and Europe have seen the attempt by policy formulators to amend the law ...

The falling oil prices have increased the purchasing power of the American people because the oil is one of the most eminent product for the American families, and thanks to the decreasing oil prices, they will spend less on the oil, and they will have opportunity to save relatively more, or they can consume relatively more from the other products and services.

What are the macroeconomic effects of falling oil prices?

The decreasing oil prices will decrease the production costs in the US, and also, it is expected to influence the domestic demand positively. Considering that the increasing domestic demand might play an essential role in stimulating the ...

Is Risk the Best Theory for Capitalism?

Issue summary
James Kwak and Simon Johnson asserts that the risk is a crucial component in making profit. When imprudent risk is taken, the outcome can be harmful. Despite the negative consequences of risk, the value of risk in business remains vital. Barry, on the other hand, assert that much focus is put on risk as an essential component yet risk was the main cause of economic collapse in 2008. Risk entails undertaking various issues in business. In most corporations, risk is a critical factor in achievement of objectives, goals, and mission.

Risk is a condition that is always present in ...

A Summary of

The reviews on Africa’s solar based enterprises are quite recent and cover a majority of related topics. He has reviewed the factors that provided an impetus to solar power based enterprises and the existing opportunities. However, the need for some more reviews on the reasons addressing slow development in the field is evident. Nevertheless, it is successful in drawing the readers’ attention on the gaps existing in the current review of scholarly works.
The three basic research questions raised in the study clearly underline its problems and the purpose. Through these questions the author seeks to address the ...

In 2015, American workers began finding new jobs at a time when the United States economy was supposed to take off. However, Americans were not able to find employers who were willing to contribute to meaningful pay increases. Data suggested that unemployment was at a seven year low and the economy was at a steady pace when it came to job growth. This data was released at the same time the Federal Reserve was considering a raising interest rates. This would be the first time in almost a decade the Federal Reserve considered making such a decision. In the ...

International crime event

The immigrant crisis in Europe is interconnected with the international smuggling of people. The crisis in the Middle East has resulted in various migrants taking a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea. The smuggling is facilitating the illegal migration.
The European Union has decided to stop the international crime on people-traffickers in the Mediterranean. BBC (2015) has reported of involvement of various member states in the operation. The focus is on the shores of the union, which receive a vast number of immigrants daily. Prior to the event of catching part of the people who were actively smuggling people ...

In his book information and the Crisis Economy, Herbert I. Schiller contends that the current proliferation of information activities and increasing sophistication of information technology they demand are the result of efforts to control the political, economical, and cultural strains produced by a general crisis in the world market system. This is a review of chapter seven of the book ‘The prospect for democratic communication.’ Schiller opens the chapter by stating that the communication process could serve constructive motives if it could draw the attention of people to the problems they face as well as offering a channel for the presentation ...

The Effect of Medicare and Medicaid on the Social Work Field

Introduction
The American society is at the cusp of transformative change. With Baby Boomers of the sixties now reaching retirement age, the proportion of older people in society is going to increase. A smaller base of working population will have to support a larger slab of older people. As a result, existing frameworks of social security, Medicare and Medicaid would prove inadequate. New ways and means need to be explored to sustain the concept of an equitable and caring society that has been built in the USA. In this context, it is essential to explore the effect of the changing ...

The September 30, 2013 news article in the Voice of America namely “UN seeks action on Syrian Humanitarian crisis” states that the United Nations having arrived at a consensus with the Syrian authorities over the elimination of the stockpiles of chemical weapons, the UN Security Council is developing a strategy to enhance humanitarian access in the war torn nation. Over the recent past, Security Council members; Luxembourg and Australia have been documenting the humanitarian issues in Syria. As Besheer states, the council finally ended the two year deadlock on Syria through the unanimous agreement to a resolution which demanded the Syrian authorities ...

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Article Number 1: “India’s Foreign Policy Crisis” by Harsh Pant (29 October, 2013)

This is an article on South Asian affairs published on YaleGlobal Online titled “India’s Foreign Policy Crisis” (Pant ). The overall purpose of the article is to analyze and evaluate the position of India in context if of its past 10yrs performance against the background of change world scenario. The author argues that India has failed to capitalize on past 10yrs environment. And when the role of America in world affairs is receding, it is finding lacking in depth in formulating an effective foreign policy. He further argues that the current Prime Minister, though a capable ...

News reporting comes in various forms. Some may be in the form of newspaper articles, a television broadcast, or a radio broadcast, among others. Of the three news media, the newspaper offers a more direct and straightforward manner of news reporting, whereas the television and radio broadcasts are presented in a light manner in order to retain the attention of the audience. For newspapers, news are presented using the inverted pyramid style, which means the more important information are already mentioned to engage the reader at the beginning of the article. Thus, if a reader finds the article engaging, the tendency is for the ...

The article Fun with Numbers: Disclosing Risk to Individual Investors by Cristian Weller discusses the topic of investors’ awareness of the risks associated with various investment opportunities and the challenges related to quantifying those risks. The author claims that information is key to making better investment decisions that is why it is important for the governments and financial institutions to provide more relevant, accessible and concise information. Unfortunately, in the majority of cases it is impossible to achieve all the three characteristics of information quality, therefore the decisions made based on imprecise information can be inferior to those made ...

Scientific Method is a process which researchers utilize in exploring observing and carrying out the necessary experiments in a bid to ascertain the reliability of collected information relating to a specific phenomenon. Accordingly, the methodology usually entails four major steps. These steps include observation, hypothesis, predicting and experimenting. Observation is basically the studying and describing a particular trend while the second step involves the formulation of a theory that seeks to explain the experience.

Observation may, in most cases, take into consideration previous studies. Consequently, the prediction phase relate to using the hypothesis formulated to make a prediction with reference to the observable facts. The ...

The article is a discourse on criminal justice, assessing the role of the bourgeois intellectuals who have in time over assigned contradicting explanations to criminal justice and prescribed prejudiced proposals on the role and extent of punishment of petty offenders. The paper covers the role of the political economy in influencing the views of these intellectuals, and the interplay between politics and the world view of these realists. It also looks at the investment made in criminal justice and the role of law enforcement in protecting the middle class from crimes and victimization resulting from such inter-class prejudice.
According ...

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The article “Divorce Trends and Patterns in the Western World: A socio-legal overview”, written by Tony Fahey, contains a profound overview of all the patterns and trends in divorce in the modern world in developed countries of the Western World. It regards the definition of the world “divorce” and its meaning, the causes and reasons of divorce, the legal process, and usual consequences thereof. Tony Fahey has made a deep investigation of marital breakdown in the modern society over half of a century. The author indicates that though the number of divorces has radically increased recently, the reasons of ...

Corporate decision makers and governments have subscribed to the view that cashflow is a reliable indicator of a firm’s health.usually, cash flows are pragmatic yardsticks. One need not look into other sources of information, but in the level of cash coming in versus the amount of cash being spent, to determine the feasibility of a business.
However, Gentry says that cashflows, particularly operating cash flows are not as reliable as they seem to be. Taking off from a study done by Casey and Bartzack, it has been found that operating cashflows do not provide significant information on the ...

Stock market is a set of financial institutions, the leading securities trading. It consists of stock exchanges, as well as a vast array of other institutions that form the OTC market. The increase of the value of stock markets in both the national and global economy, happened due to important functional role of these markets. According to the stock market there is a transformation of accumulated savings into real investments, carried out capital mobility between sectors and countries, and securities courses provide investors with the necessary information about the direction of efficient investment.
World stock market is divided into ...

A Review of “The Importance of Asset Allocation”

The article talks about the importance of asset allocation policy, and how much of the total return comprises of return due to asset allocation policy.
The article starts off by illustrating the previous studies done by Brinson, Hood, and Beebower (BHB 1986), Hensel, Ezra, and Ilkiw (HEI 1991) and Ibbotson and Kaplan (2000). These studies are considered one of the main milestones in determining the role asset allocation plays in achieving a higher return.
The article points out that although BHB study had pointed out that over 90% of the variation in total return is due to asset allocation, ...

The debate on the liability of a product from an ethical position is a very controversial issue. Damages related to products are often a dilemma on who should take the responsibility. In the case of Mr. Shabeev, he did not perpetrate the attacks. However, he wrote the code that eventually led to the creation of the said virus. The virus, targeted towards Target Corp customers, caused irreparable damage not just to the company’s financial aspect but also its reputation as a trendsetter. While Mr. Shabeev could claim to have no dealings ion the actual attacks, he is solely responsible for the whole ...

The recent shift in the healthcare system, which implied the reduction of the specialized facilities in dealing with mentally disabled patients, has increased the incidents numbers that police forces to handle. This situation has led to the need for understanding the preparedness of the police officers to answer the deviant behavior of mentally disordered individuals involved in public offenses or criminal action. Four articles will be reviewed for developing an integrative literature review on this topic, which will be critically synthesized for reaching solutions for dealing with the current situation. Hollander, Lee, Tahtalian Young and Kulkarni’s article “Challenges ...

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In the presented quote from a journal article “Violence, crisis, and the everyday” (2013) by Das, the author is guilty of stereotyping as an informal fallacy. The author groundlessly suggests that the ideas of masculinity are correlated with young men changing provisional jobs instead of having a regular one. This stereotyping, especially given in the context of the problem of rape by boys and men living in very poor districts, can have dramatic impact on the perception of masculinity, its dependence on the job status and its effect on men getting involved in rape. The research has shown no credible evidential ...

Overview

The wall street journal has over the years been a trusted center for business news and events, and this is a fact that cannot be brushed aside. A number of interesting business events are ever reported by the journal to the extent that insights and future developments are derived. In 2014, WSJ reported about a conflict between the farming industry in the United States and China (Bunge, 1). The gist of the matter was that China had refused the entry of GMO products into their market, stating that it would be injurious to their businesses and by the extent of their economy. ...

Introduction

Financial markets are subject to market factors including those that affect demand and supply for money. In that respect, this discussion refers to an article on US debt crisis to demonstrate the effect of such factors by analyzing the effect of US debt ceiling crisis that include foreign financial institutions hoarding funds and their refusal to accept US treasuries as collateral.

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- Financial market’s debt ceiling impact on interest rate and private investments without an agreement that US was no longer able to borrow.
With a debt ceiling but lack of an agreement that the US government could ...

Protests have over the years been used as a means of people expressing their disapproval of certain issues within societies. The protestors undertake to organizing demonstrations in a bid to enable them show their dissatisfaction through objecting to events that are of a particular nature of which they find different from the ones they are comfortable with (Denver, 42-67). Protests do take place at different levels and in different places. These include places like social organizations, schools and even the general population that might undertake to demonstrate against the elected authority. This paper looks at the concept of protest with an aim ...

What did you learn from this article?

The United States currency has for a long time been used in the international monetary system to facilitate cross border trade transactions. However, the global economic and financial crisis experienced in 2009 exposed the vulnerabilities of the U.S. currency. The effect of the crisis on the United States economy sent an array of fears among many users of the currency. On the other hand, China has emerged as a powerful participant in international trade.
The Chinese government facilitates a significant volume of trade across its borders. The Chinese government has openly challenged the reliability of the U.S. currency as a ‘key’ currency ...

History

Part 1
The Coming Insurrection is a product of the failure of the earlier models. As depicted from the article, the earlier models offered a way of resolving the social conflict, experienced in the society, between the working class and the owners of the means of production. Like explained by Marx in his theory of Capitalism; the owners of production, who consist of the upper class in the social strata, use their economic power to oppress the working class. Consequently, the working class comes together and organizes strikes and other forms of resistance to the exploitation. Eventually, the strike becomes a ...

Editing Form

Use this form and the paper of your choice (not yours) and email them to me . You will be graded on whether or not you know if the papers are cited correctly and if you can recognize the use of first or second person and contractions. Answers must be clear yes or no.

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Use of Second person: No
Use of contractions: Yes
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Bilateral relations between countries, especially neighboring ones are essential to economic growth and peaceful co-existence and are mostly mutually beneficial especially in the areas of commerce and tourism. Seeing as China and Malaysia are both Asian countries they both stand to benefit from good neighborly relations.
Relations between China and Malaysia formally began in 1974 this was in a bid to increase trade ties between both countries that were mutually beneficial. This article seeks to examine the changing faces of Malaysia’s policy towards China from the cold war era, through the post cold war and up to 2004 ...

Article Review

Article Review
The article, diversity in IMF management ranks seen falling short of targets written by Sandrine Rastello faults the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for failing to make its management ranks balanced in nationality and gender. According to the article, IMF has not achieved its self-imposed diversity targets. A report released by the organization shows that despite the increase in share of women and staff from East Asia and Africa in management jobs, the figures are still below the set targets. However, the target set for staff from the Middle East reached the fund’s target, while that ...

Article 1: Marketing to Teenagers: The influence of Color, Ethnicity and Gender

Summary
The teenage market is an important customer segment in the US as well as global market. Teenagers usually don't have any financial responsibility on their shoulder and that gives them a significant buying power. Most of the teenagers spend their money on clothes, jewelry, food, entertainment and beauty products. Teenagers are usually more tech savvy than the previous generations and spend a considerable amount of time on the internet, video games, phones, television and social networking sites. They accrue money for spending by getting paid for jobs and receiving allowances and monetary gifts. Brand loyalty is very important for ...

The period discussed in chapter 34 is characterized as “age of anxiety”-(1920s-late 1930s)-since it was the period after the great depression in Latin America as well as the end of the Great War. Anxiety ranged when political activists and intellectuals in the affected nations (Africa, Asia and Latin America) begun to challenge the economic and ideological underpinnings of neo-colonialism and European imperialism (Bentley and Herbert, 356-362). This gave anti-imperialists and nationalists’ movements the opportunity to prosper and gain momentum and support in these nations. The United States and European became disillusioned and pessimistic as their culture ...

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Nursing research critique
Many nurses believe that they offer holistic care to the patients at the hospitals yet the level of holistic care that they offer remains unknown to most of the nurses. No known variable can attach to the relation between the family, friends, nurses and the patients during the medical attention and the holistic care (Geri &Haber, 2003). Nancy baumhover and Linda Hughes undertake a research into the spirituality and support for family presence during invasive procedures and resuscitations in adults with the view of bringing a solution to the existing dilemma in the relationship circus and the ...

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This article gives an analysis of the recession and the youth unemployment in EU. This gives much focus on the economy of countries like Spain, France and Italy in relation to their budget and the impact on the youth unemployment and the general effect on the economy. The article also shows measure taken by the European Commission in trying to curb the economic recession with help of various monetary and fiscal policies.(Basci,2007:19) The commission also gave the measures taken in relation to the debt crisis in Germany and the EU in general without much alteration of spending ...

Healthcare Class: Comparison and Analysis of Two Critical Articles

Introduction
This paper reviews the two critical articles written on American healthcare system. The author, David Goldhill, has narrated his personal experience of American healthcare system in his article “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (Goldhill 2). Whereas the other article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us” written by Steven Brill is essentially a critique on the current US healthcare with much of its emphasis on current US President Obama’s healthcare policies recognized as ‘Obamacare’ (Brill 7).
The complexities of US health care system has raised countless debates and discussion in the American social ...

- What are the potential benefits and problems associated with providing foreign aid to countries? How might foreign aid be helpful or harmful according to the two theories discussed in the paper? What does the evidence suggest?
It is a common assumption of Benign Dollar Hypothesis that when poor countries are supplied by financial aid from rich countries, they grow economically and alleviate the living conditions of their people. However, the assumption has been falsified by Bauer (1972, 2000) as in his view, foreign aid does not contribute towards economic alleviation of any poor country; rather it prevents any ...

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This is an interview between Miller and Stephen Mosher about the impacts of population growth in a given country. Miller asks a question while Mosher answers the questions asked. In the first question, Miller is asking Mosher the reason why the imminent population have not materialised and where the mistakes could have come from. However, Mosher says that the consequences of overpopulation in some instances from Malthus and Paul Ehrlich’s are deliberately exaggerated in attempt to frighten individuals into having not more than one or two children.
The second question Miller asked was if the projections about ...

Article: “Getting Practical on Social Business Process Design”

Synopsis: Social Media business process design is beneficial given that the right process was applied to enable risk avoidance, cost effectiveness and quick response in dealing tough situation. Triage, social media workflow and general process helps increase the end goals and eliminate inefficiencies. The article provides the walk through steps in creating a process using four principles namely recognize, identify, plot and practice. It also appears that crisis process is among the essential keys in social media process that should also be taken into consideration. There is no time to step back when a crisis occurs in the social media process ...

The Lost Generation, Bloomsberg Businessweek, October 8, 2009, Your Name
Peter Coy in his article “The Lost Generation” analyzes high unemployment among young people, starting their career during or right after the economic crisis. This trend does not only refer to high school drop outs, but also to college graduates, and MBAs. However, it’s not the unemployment itself that is frightening but its consequences both for businesses, not hiring young talented employees, and for the whole generation of people, forced to work in positions below their abilities and. The author stresses, that actions should be taken both ...