Embrace Article Reviews Samples For Students

Hard work is essential to the success of an individual. In fact, lack thereof compromises the possibilities of one’s accomplishments as it leads to mediocre performance or complete failure. In the article, What is Inspiration, David Brooks seeks to convey the essence of making an effort to achieve what one wants through hard work. He makes reference to multiple authors to enforce the credibility of his arguments. In a large section of the article, he integrates inspiration with hard work and explains how these aspects are interdependent. Specifically, a lot of dedication on the completion of a task ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work:
Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

Section One

Wyandotte County is situated in the US and is bordered by Johnson on the shores of river Missouri. The county has an average of 156 miles and is one of the smallest counties in the city, and this reason has forced residents to work or reside in the neighboring areas. As indicated by the county's population statistics, it is evident that the county had a steady growth but later declined during the ‘80's and ‘90's. However, it is worth noting that the decline in population growth negatively affected the economy of the county, but its revival in early 2000 ...

Gender is a term that can be interpreted in various ways. Initially, gender was known to be a synonym for women. The main reason behind this reasoning was the fact that the term gender and all gender studies carried out were mainly done to study women. They all had a feminine touch. Gender studies mainly began as a result of traditional invisibility associated with women. Their role in the society was limited. They were not involved in politics or any kind of leadership. As a result, women wanted to overcome this traditional invisibility, and this led to the beginning ...

Hallstead, Ted and Cobb, Clifford, “The Need for New Measurements of Progress,” in Mander, J., & Goldsmith, E. (1996). The case against the global economy: And for a turn toward the local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Short synopsis of the article: The authors seek to discover why people and politicians are still focused on the obsolete economic measurement, GDP. Beginning by discussing the economic boom of the 1990s, Hallstead and Clifford explain that while Allen Greenspan was assuring the media that the economy was in great shape many Americans were wondering why they were working longer hours with seemingly ...

Watching television by children and teenagers has brought a controversial discussion on the effects it has in childhood development. This has further been researched by many scientist giving opposing results hence leaving parents in trepidation on which side to take. The scientists have come up with opposing opinions that have been agreed by people depending on individual point of perception. Seth Mullins in his article An Argument against Television for Children provides strong and concretive evidence as to why watching television is bad for children. Conversely, Samir Vermani, M.D convinces his readers that television has no bad effect on children in ...

Who will say that technology has not made life easier? I guess only the backward minded persons might say that. Before the emergence of technology, with the various technological development, the world has been a better place. Technology in many industries has made life livable. It has made life adopt the very meaning of. Assume that the world was with no technology, how could we be surviving. Probably might have adopted to the situation by then but would not be as efficient as it currently is. A technology free world would be boring with very little to do apart from ...

Introduction and business situation

In today’s complex business scenario, leadership has become a topic of intense discussion and scrutiny. Leadership in a small organization is quite different from leadership in a complex, global organization. This article deals with the question of how leaders of large, complex organisations require building teams that can accomplish any outcome of the desired strategic objective. Today’s global organizations need leaders that can simultaneously thrive across different business environments, including emerging economies, turnaround situations and start up operations (Peslter, 2013).

Key Management Issue- How to lead people?

The globalisation of the business has compelled the leaders to tackle several situations simultaneously. The leader must make sure that ...

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool
1 Introduction
This paper is a critique of the research traditions utilized in the ‘”Like” and “Check”: How hotels utilize Facebook as an effective marketing tool’, written by Kelly V Phelan, Hsiang-Ting Chen, and Matthew Haney, and published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013. The critique will explore the philosophical background of the article and the logical approach followed by the authors in the process of conducting the research. It will also evaluate the research ...

Introduction

Money is not a source of happiness in one’s life. This means that money should not be a motivating factor in career happiness. The opportunity to grow in responsibility, to learn others while recognizing your achievements and contributing to other people’s welfare is a powerful motivating factor in life. A high level of self-esteem contributes to contentedness in the working environment free of frustrations, exploitation, and unappreciated by colleagues or bosses.

Happiness in one’s career lays on satisfaction he or she finds in the career and the relationship with colleagues such as recognition after a valuable achievement. Learning new things ...

Leadership style

Being a leader can pose significant challenge to an individual and it also offers an interesting experience that determine activities outcome. Leaders ought to put into practice personal strengths together with skills to lead any group efficiently. Leaders may utilize different styles of leadership and the followers have a role to play in the decision making process. This paper evaluates the type of leadership exemplified by Dr. Cook in leading his team. Although Dr. Cook portrays some personal interest in the excavation process, he approaches the process with an open mind and this shapes his style of leadership. In his management ...

A Reflection by Your Name

Innovation is a buzz word in modern day businesses and in fact it never went out of style. It is innovation that has enabled certain companies to stay ahead of the rest and command a premium in the marketplace, products, services and stock value. However, the lack of innovation process and management in an organization leads to underutilization of its most valuable assets in namely: knowledge, ideas, experience and judgment of the workforce. The article represents a framework of Innovation Management 2.0, incorporating the development of both tools and philosophies that enables the employees to be engaged much more fully in the ...

Ignoring trends, Elie Ofek and Luc Wathieu

A reflection by Tamim Alruqayb

The authors of ignoring trends are sending a very crucial message to the reader. They begin by saying that the ignored trends could shake up a business. This very strong statement leaves everybody wanting to discover what the mentioned trends are. The authors go ahead and give the surprising new things that can affect the product strategy. The authors concentrate more on the digital products and services and say that the products play a big role in every day life of the consumer. The authors do not forget to mention that the great recession has made consumers more ...

According to Shaner (2011), pollution is something that is created unconsciously everyday with US hospitals alone producing about 1% (over 6000 tons) daily. The major pollutant in the health care field is the medical wastes incinerators which produce dioxin, a chemical compound that can potentially cause cancer, damages immune system, cause hormonal imbalance as well as reproductive and development complications. It is for this reason that most hospitals in Vermont no longer prefer having onsite incinerators prompting the setting up of Safety Medical Systems which specializes in incineration of medical wastes products together with steam sterilization of medical wastes as ...