Trends Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Summary

The article of Baller & Richardson explains that the theory of Durkheim regarding suicide can be attributed to geographic space, social integration, and imitation (Baller & Richardson 873). The risk of suicide is high that can be based on the neighboring areas since it is man’s reflection of how he perceived the behaviour of other people that has a tendency influence his own actions. The replication of another person’s action is the powerful force that will drive another to act in a certain way. The article has shown that the hypotheses of Durkheim and Tarde are correct to a certain degree. The ...

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 trend, ...

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 ...

Article Review-1

Summary
This article analyzes declining economic growth of China. Additionally, it tells about several forecasts that predict even stronger slowdown of China’s economic growth in future, and discusses possible reasons of this decline. According to the article, average economic growth rate of China from 1980 and until two years ago was equal to approximately 10%. However, during the third quarter of this year, Chinese economy grew by only 7.3% year-on-year. Several sources, including experts from the Harvard University and the IMF, assume that the growth rates will fall to 6.3% by 2020.
One possible explanation for ...

The Construction Cost Trends for 2014 September/ October2014 issue

The BNi@ Building News and Design Cost DataTM are regarded as important American magazines used in the construction industry. They are the leading providers of the industry intelligence. The articles are mainly devoted to delivering the industrial critical information to help in providing reliable cost estimates to all the industry concerned bodies. The article is quite helpful for the construction professionals’ on matters such as projecting future building cost and the building trends (BNi@ Building News 24).

Authors and Audience

The Construction Cost Trends for 2014 magazine contributed by BNi@ Building News, shows how the housing trend is recovering from many parts ...

Assignment

Richard W. Robins, Samuel D. Gosling, and Kenneth H. Craik
Psychology is a science, and as such, it uses the scientific method to explore previously unknown areas, while elaborating written reports to share with fellow peers and the general community, in order to guarantee its own progress. An important component of a modern psychologist then, is the ability to accurately read and interpret the works of others. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to critically analyze the paper entitled An Empirical Analysis of Trends in Psychology (Robins, Gosling, & Craik, 1999).

Research Question

Introduction
In the introduction section, the authors perform a ...

‘Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S.’
Life is generally considered to be the greatest gift to all of mankind. This is why the birth of a human being into the world is usually received with tremendous joy and happiness. However, the value of the same life is put under scrutiny when incidences of individuals taking their own lives are observed to be on the rise. Over the previous decade, it was observed that cases of suicide particularly among middle-aged persons had been on an upward trend. This has raised serious concern particularly since the modern society is exposed to ...

The article summarizes the current trend of companies to outsource their operations to low-wage countries. The trend has been proven effective with the success of General Electric, and British Airways in the 1990s. And with this advantage, other companies have followed the same operational strategy. With the advent of globalization, market labor has been smaller and more accessible. Technology has also led the way to minimize communication costs and help bridge employer-employee transaction.
It has been said that not all companies are drawn to this current trend of outsourcing. Even with their efficient international operation, outsourcing must be ...

Rushkoff uses a lot of military language in this essay. What is some of this language? Identify some of the key words and phrases?
It is evident that in the essay “A brand by Any Other Name” the Rushkoff has used a lot of military words. For instance, in his earlier paragraphs, he has utilized the words “Defense Mechanism” where he is addressing the general audience regarding, how the companies are spending million for the development of strategies to identify the children’s predilections. Moreover, in the next paragraph has utilized the words such as “Battle” and “Radar” while describing ...

Developing a Leadership Competency Model

This article by Husain al Ansari and Othman al Khadher highlight the leadership qualities required by librarians and people heading information centers in Kuwait. The study does not only rely on theoretical information but it identifies characteristics which are deemed necessary by actual leaders for attaining success in their tasks. The study has classified leadership competencies into six broad categories; managerial effectiveness, cognitive skills, social skills, motivational, personal, and occupational. These categories are widely applicable to other professions as well but since they have been analyzed in the context of librarians they may not be as important as they ...

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Review of the article “Developmental Patterns in Small and Large Groups” by Susan Wheelan and Robert McKeage (1993)
The group behavior is has been always attracting attention of the scholars. Comparison of the groups of different sizes play an important role, as the results have wide real-world implication helping managers organize the groups in the most efficient way. As Wheelan and McKeage demonstrate in the literature review section, small and large groups had been compared by many criteria, from cohesion to productivity, with results often being contradictory. However, the previous studies had mostly concentrated ...

David Meer

Reflection by
Mona Abu-Amr
Theory is the starting point:
In this part, the author addresses analysts who will quickly be overwhelmed by the amount of data available about customers’ preferences. Relatively, random data analytics will not lead to any improvement of certain services if it was not theory-based. Theory provides a clear strategic pathway to follow on data analytics in order to come out with new feasible trends that attract new customers, and work on improving certain provided services. However, to widen the circle of target customers, there should be a clear hypothesis to start with about customers’ ...

Article Review

The meta-argument in this article is that there has been an increasing embracement of social networks by different marketing personnel who include both market practitioners and the academia. The authors of this article claim that research has become a fundamental entity in the field of marketing, citing the Marketing Science Institute as being among the top areas of study in the recent decade. Considering that the Market is diverse and heterogeneous marketers have to understand the system so as to be able to enhance the acceptability of goods and services across cultural frameworks. However, understanding the social system cannot be ...

The author, David Pearce Snyder, begins his article, Five Meta-Trends Changing the World,” by giving a clear definition as to what constituted a meta-trend. He explained that his definition came from communication between himself and a client requesting his input and which they had agreed upon the definition. The meta-trends would be free-standing global trends of the future. This definition helped to establish some clarity for me as I began to read the article. The author uses subheadings to answer each of five questions in a clear and succinct manner. Yes, I think the article was written in a clear manner.

Although the author ...

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 ...

I agree that two possible reasons for failure of team collaborations is ego and introvert persons. These two affects the team’s communication which is very essential to have a successful team. With ego and introvert persons, the contributions they may give to the success of the project like their ideas may not be fully blown. They have a tendency that they may not voice out their ideas even if these are good because they may be afraid that other members will not like them.

Building Trust Among Virtual Teams

I agree that trust takes time to establish and reliability and consistency are two helpful characteristics ...

The writer of this article Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher and currently teaches at Princeton University. The author is remembering the culture and history of the Ghana and remembering several aspects of the Ghanaian society. In this article author is discussing a festival that took place in Kumasi and also describes the historical derivation of the festival and the city. The article focuses on the broad spectrum of cultural, economic and other differences between the rich and poor countries. The author analyses the relation of western and native countries and also the relation of rich and poor in the same ...

The article discusses the unemployment statistics in 2011 and compares it with the previous year. Although the overall numbers indicate a positive employment dynamics, in comparison with 2010 the growth of employment was much slower. Moreover, the wage cost increase per year has exceeded the wage growth, which may suggest further decline in the employment in the upcoming years.

Globalization: Progress Or Profiteering?

The benefits and costs of globalization depend solely on the prospective, as it is stated in the article. While the rich welcome globalization as a tool to increase margins and reduce costs, the poor and unqualified workers see it as a direct threat ...

Family homelessness is an issue that has been discussed in lengthy in this article. It is very credible considering the process it has taken in summing up the articled. In essence, It is an article that appropriately displays its research in the issues involved in homelessness. It accurately put on views objectives of the study, which is later discussed at length the findings regarding the issues that causes family homelessness and later the article exhibits the solutions to the findings of the family homelessness (Zamprelli 1).

Some of the reasons that the article has reasonably given out as trends ...

Article reviews

Article reviews
5 Big Data Technology Predictions
Olavsrud, T. (2014). 5 Big Data technology predictions for 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2016 from http://www.cio.com/article/2862014/big-data/5-big-data-technology-predictions-for-2015.html

Article overview

The article by Olavsrud (2014) is dedicated to five major trends in the field of big data technologies. Before investigating the trends, Olavsrud (2014) claims that new big data initiatives continually move from test to production, especially in cases it can be used in the real time. The first development, mentioned in the article under study, is that the data agility becomes a key focus of big data technologies, because usual databases and data warehouses are ...

Chapter 1 – Perspectives

The 5 × 7 Business Technology Strategy
The 5 × 7 Business Technology Strategy is a consulting practice which aims to help the organizations to optimize their technology investments. Going through the strategy I found that some of the steps can be particularly effective. Segmenting the operational and strategic layers of business will surely help in effective management of resources. Decentralization and private hosting of the website will also help in the daily and easy upgrade to the website. One of the steps which I feel the most important is assessing the present as well as future security threats and being ...

INTRODUCTION

Poor quality of daily diet intake makes one out of every two adult Americans victims of chronic disease of one kind or another. The Federal Government, in addition to issuing dietary guidelines to the public, sets various benchmarks that would help Americans to streamline their eating habits towards living healthily. This research studied the current consumption patterns of the American public and the dietary value of the food intake, and compared the data with the benchmarks set for achieving the Healthy People 2020 target. In light of the Health and Human Services and the Agriculture Departments of the US ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

Abstract

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 ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

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Introduction

Childhood obesity is considered as a serious healthcare problem affecting children, from a very young age. As childhood obesity could lead to early death and other serious health issues in future, the issue requires greater attention from the healthcare authorities at various levels. Though the intensity of the problem might vary, childhood obesity forms a serious concern for almost all the nations across the world and so appropriate policies need to be taken at national as well as international levels for dealing with the issue. De Onis, Blossner & Borghi (2010) in the study on the global trends in child obesity ...

Nepali Art currently embraced modernism, in a way that the local culture accepts art ideologies from foreign lands, particularly in Europe (van der Heide 227). Moreover, this new innovation incorporates the traditional Nepali culture, as evidenced in the artworks of the artists from the young generation (“Modern Trends and the Local Traditions” 149). This evidence only proved that it is next to impossible that the local artworks of Nepal can never be separated from its cultural past, despite the introduction of the modern art from other continents.
Cultural identity is always been the main reason as to why the ...

Chapter 2 – Organization

Five Flavors of Alignment
Alignment for a company in its simplest terms will mean streamlining its present business and being operationally prepared for implementing any future changes in its products and services. Alignment generally feels like a huge and unachievable task. Author has simplified this process by differentiating between different types of alignments. He has divided the whole alignment process into five different parts or flavors as he calls it; Strategic, Infrastructure, Operational, Innovation, and People. I think the author has taken the right approach here. Differentiating between the flavors of alignment will help a company to properly understand ...

IMPULSIVE PURCHASING BEHAVIOR

1. What is the purpose of the article? Why did the author(s) conduct the research and/or write the article?
Impulsive purchasing is unplanned purchasing that depends on a rapid decision-making. There are many variables influencing the impulsive purchasing behavior such as demographic factors, income, cultural orientation, price promotions, and many other varying variables. The previous studies on the impulsive purchasing analyze the influence of these factors on the purchasing behavior. However, the previous studies miss an important point in analyzing the influential factors on the impulsive purchasing behavior: the influence of the social environment and the social relations ...

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Chapter 4 - Acquisition and Measurement
Many Happy Returns
It is essential for organizations to assess the financial impact of the investment in a new form of technology. This can be best achieved through evaluation of the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the returns on investment (ROI). This can be achieved through simple calculations, payback data and economic value analysis. The lack of a proper quantification method can lead to tremendous losses.

Concepts to Clusters: The Real Technology Chasm

Investment in appropriate forms of technology can yield tremendous success for any company. Since constant evolution of technology enhances its quality and overall service delivery, it ...

Lydon and Garcia in “The Next American City and the Rise of Tactical Urbanism” provide captivating information about the phenomenon of Tactical Urbanism and its features in America (63-86). It has to be noticed that, though the trends described within the book by the authors are rather familiar for me, the term “tactical urbanism” has been rather new for me. The authors smartly define four primary trends influencing on city life: returning of people to the city, Internet’s rise, the Great Recession, and increase of disconnection between citizens and government; all these tendencies indeed take place in modern ...

Publication Date: January 13, 2014

Source: Ticketing Trends (http://ticketingtoday.com/2014-ticketing-industry-trends-where-is-the-event-marketing-vertical-headed/)

Summary of Article.

The article deals with the changes that can be expected in the event marketing industry during the year 2014 and beyond. The author discusses the advancements in the ticketing process during the events. According to the author, event marketing industry is getting complex, especially for people who are on the cutting edge of the vertical. A new and promising trend in event marketing is the use of augmented reality during the ticketing process which was hitherto unheard of in the industry. Augmented reality tickets improved the fan experience during the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament ...

Summary

Article One: New Consoles on the Way, but Gaming Isn't the Same
Physical and console sellers form a significant value as it regards sales that entail stock. In this case, they make approximately thirteen percent of all the sales made in a year. However, this trend does not come from the blues; it originates from efforts garnered by console sellers. However the case, their activities are frequently hurdled by the existence of arising instances of overstocking. It is in response to this that research has been developed, and efforts towards curbing such instances have been placed in the scope so ...

Online marketing is also known as internet advertising. It involves using the internet to promote products and services. It also uses the internet to deliver information and promotional messages to consumers. This form of marketing involves email, social media and search engine marketing. It displays marketing information to both potential and current consumers.
The internet has a very huge effect on marketing. Many organizations nowadays use it to make their products visible to consumers. Since the brand name is very unimportant to consumers, most businesses have known this and have therefore, used the internet as a marketing tool. Following are ...

Terrorist financing involves providing funds for terrorist activities. This may include funds that has been raised from various legitimate sources for instance personal donations, gifts, business profits and also from charitable organisations, as well as funds from illegitimate or criminal sources such as kidnapping, piracy, drug trade, money laundering, extortion and smuggling of weapons. Terrorist have been using these and other techniques especially through money laundering and disguise as charitable organisations so as to evade being caught by the relevant authorities and also as a way of protecting the identity of the sponsors as well as that of their beneficiaries ( ...

The Culture of Fashion

With special attention to decadism, Breward overviews the changes in fashion trends in the beginning of the twentieth century (184-185). Here, decades are characterized not only by specific preferences in clothing, but also by cultural and social features of the time. In other words, fashion is determined by sociocultural movements. The author highlights the importance of fashion’s temporality in organizing the chronology of the history of fashion. Particularly with this art, time frames may be easily outlined by months, years, or decades with high degree of accuracy. Therefore, fashion is described as a “cultural clock”, which is unconnected ...

What better way to find out about what is trending in the travel industry than asking the travel agents themselves! That is what Benchmark Hospitality International did to get an idea of the travel industry’s current trends, to anticipate future ones and somehow gain insights on how two of their newest consumer brands are gaining foothold in the industry.
The survey, which was engaged in by over 20,000 travel professionals, clearly showed that technology has the most impact when it comes to travel decisions nowadays. Five out of the 10 travel trends are influenced by technology and ...

While it appears to be an opinion article about media productions that generated specific trends about confused gender identity, sexuality or race, Wesley Morris’ New York Times article “The Year We Obsessed over Identity” raises complex social concerns and voices personal preconceptions. Morris criticizes the 21st century gender shift that saw the transformation of women in breadwinners, as portrayed in “The Intern” comedy, while also harshly rebuking the transgender phenomenon popularized across media, and the racial shedding that allows whites to turn into blacks.
The tone of the article is very condemnatory, as the author is blaming the social ...

Management

1. Why It's Worth Divorcing Information Security From IT
The article provides an informative view of the changing technological environment and the need for the adoption of viable security practices that remain independent of IT. In most organizations, information security has been recognized as a subset of IT, which for the last two decades developed into a viable union as the growth of the IT sector and consequent adoption of IT processes influenced the adoption of security measures geared towards maintaining information security within the organization.
Increased technological advancements and the rise of cyber-attacks in organizations have highlighted the ...

This paper is an article review of the “Contract Workforce Outpaces Growth in Silicon-Valley Style ‘Gig’ Jobs” published on March 25, 2016, in the Wall Street Journal and authored by Ann Louie Sussman and Josh Zumbrun.
The contract worker trend has extended beyond the Silicon Valley businesses. This labor shift has invaded the American economy and is evident in sectors such as transport and healthcare. Uber has popularized contract workers using drivers on demand. Drivers are summoned using an app and are paid according to the rides they take. Industries that previously offered permanent jobs are now increasing the ...

The e-commerce trend in marketing

The digitalization of nowadays world is on the highest level of all times. This trend is connected to each segment of business and marketing is not an exception. Globalization processes and deep diving into the digital world changes business models even in huge multinational companies. One of the brightest examples of digitalization is e-commerce segment, which become a real leader of retail industry in the last few years. People love to buy online because of simplicity and higher level of comfort (the main principle is “anytime + anywhere”). Moreover, e-commerce segment become one of the main fields for international marketing ...

Article Reviews

Article Reviews

Article 1

As the author rightly claims that many literary scholars do not take hip-hop and his texts as an important chapter in modern poetry. However, rap lyrics, though being quite provocative, often represent significant social issues and problems, which in real life remain uncorrected and disturb many people.
Knowing this, there were many attempts to create a book about the features of the hip-hop language. One of the most revealing and successful one is Jay-Z`s "Decoded". He says that people need to understand that there are several layers of meaning in the rap texts. The first, of ...

This article provides a comprehensive review of the article by Lin (2002). This article addresses how media portrays racism and its influence to lifestyle and health. A sociological approach to the problem of racism is applied, arguing that the society needs to understand the different forms of racism, biological origin of racism, and its meaning in the society. Therefore, sociological concepts such as ethnocentrism, race, and ethnicity can vastly influence media’s perception on racism. The three concepts have different meanings, but are all related and can influence health practitioner’s ability to evaluate media’s coverage of racism issues. ...

Blog: http://www.home-designing.com/2011/06/a-beautiful-high-tech-home-2
The article A Beautiful High Tech Home examines the impact future technology may have on interior design. As humanity takes a greater interest in technology, homes have begun to reflect this desire for a usable, modern, and still comfortable environment. The article points out several trend in interior design that have become more popular due to the culture’s obsession with technology.
The first trend the author points out is the need for environmentally safe and sustainable products. The choices also often reflect the influence of the community, including practical and recreational needs. Many windows allow for ...

Executive Summary

Company A and company B have very similar as well as very different financial statements. Both the companies are showing positive sales growth. While company A seems to be growing at a very high pace, company B is growing at a steady but slow pace. However, even upon growing at a higher pace company A’s profit has declined due to not being able to manage the input cost for production appropriately (cost of goods sold). On the other hand company B is also feeling the impact of the increasing input cost but it has managed it better than Company A and ...

Introduction

In every democratic society, a country cannot survive on its own .It requires its neighboring countries to enhance its economic growth and development. To avoid conflict, all neighboring countries demarcate their borders to safeguard their resources and self-interest. Foreign policy relations enable countries to interact with each other especially in trading affairs and international policy discussions. To enhance a country’s external economies of scale dominance, it is necessary to observe the policies of other nations. Some countries advance their relations further to form a single union with common interests. For instance, United States of America was formed as a resolution of harmonious ...

Supply chain managers may see decline in warehouse vacancies

The article “Supply chain managers may see decline in warehouse vacancies” talks about the decline of vacancies in warehouses across the country, highlighting that this trend is a sign of revival of the U.S. economy after a few years of post-2008 recession. The momentum is strong both in leasing and absorption, as well as in the level of construction, indicating that warehouses may no longer remain vacant, as it was the case during the previous years.
The news about higher activity in the commercial real estate market seems to be a sign of the overall economic recovery. The demand for warehousing space ...

Occupational risk factors for shoulder pain: a systematic review by Daniëlle A. W. M. van der Windt, Elaine Thomas, Daniel P. Pope, Andrea F de Winter, Gary J. Macfarlane, Lex M. Bouter, Alan J. Silman

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Occupational risk factors for shoulder pain: a systematic review” written by van der Windt, Thomas, Pope, de Winter, Macfarlane, Bouter, and Silman presented results of a study with reportedly aimed to determine risk factors within the work setting that are potentially associated with shoulder pain. The authors initially presented a brief overview of the common incidence for shoulder pain in the occupational setting; where ...

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2013, Volume 18, Number 1, Pages 40 to 42

Summary of Article
The article entitled “A ‘good death’ at home: community nurses helping to make it possible” was written by Elizabeth Adamson and Susanne Cruickshank and published in the British Journal of Community Nursing in 2013. The authors presented relevant concerns regarding the increasing trend of addressing end-of-life choices of patients, particularly opting to die at their respective homes. This trend was allegedly supported by thrusts in government policies which acknowledge adherence to conform to patients’ preferences for addressing end-of-life situations. The authors have emphasized that the role of community nurses were seen as instrumental in attending ...

- Introduction: Older Workers and the paradox
An older worker refers to that worker aged over 44 years. Most employers have adopted the image that such a worker is ageing and has reduced workmanship in their jobs or have a low value in the employment sector.
For this reason, and with the complete disregard to their strengths and worth, these workers are deemed as unemployable in the society of today that constitutes of an ageing population and reducing birth rates that would need to retain and sustain the older people.
- Summary of the Article
The authors’ ...

Article Review: Trying Children as Adults

This 2002 paper by Allen discussed the increasing recent trend by many U.S. states to amend laws so that juvenile offenders can more easily be transferred to adult courts. Allen saw the trend as regrettable, focusing more on punishment and less on rehabilitation, following recent Federal legislation reducing state-level independence in the juvenile justice processes.
In his Introduction, Allen commented that whilst America allegedly holds its children in high regard, it nonetheless increasingly heads towards trying juveniles in adult courts for more and more crimes. He stated the country has gone “full circle”, starting from a justice system with ...

Description

The article at hand refers to the thoughts and ideas of scholars who observed the process of analytical reasoning and found some useful tips and suggestions for making it effective. The first thing that the article pays attention to is that it is better to find approximate answer to the correct question than completely correct answer to the wrong one. The degree of information loss and misleading is far much in the last case. The choice of the problem is crucially important for the effective reasoning and qualitative analytical work.
Another striking point is that evidence is crucially important ...

Thesis: Small businesses rely on marketing philosophies and creativity and need relevant knowledge to excel. The following articles on small business operation enforce this statement.

Article One: Small Business Adoption of the Marketing Concept vs. Other Business Strategies

Small and established businesses alike adopt styles of doing business to achieve their goal as an entity. These goals are geared toward the prosperity of business, hence the need to a department handling the idea and practice: the marketing department. Businesses tend to adopt a set of ideas that can offer the greatest value to the business. This article refers to theses sets of ideas as business philosophy. This article is expressive of the ...

In their coauthored article, Kim Tallbear and Deborah A. Bolnick write about a relatively new practice of determining ancestry by employing DNA tests. As of 2004, there are at least fourteen companies that provide Native American DNA tests, reflecting the growing trend of people using this method in order to validate their ancestry (Bolnick, Tallbear). In their article, the two scientists discuss several negative implications of these tests as well as their harmful effects on Native American tribes.
The one prevailing motivation for taking these tests seems to be their supposed power to validate people’s ethnic identity and ...

Key learning from society’s efforts to create meaningful environmental shifts

One major lesson from society’s efforts is the need to be able to adapt to black swans. Black swans, as Taleb calls them, are big events that are both unanticipated and highly consequential. Typically, nobody sees them coming, but when they arrive, they immensely shape our world. Events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed the way the world views security issues and terrorism. Furthermore, the internet and Google have revolutionized the way we communicate and obtain information in ways never imagined before. The two have opened up new opportunities and jobs that nobody ever predicted. On the ...

Effect of Monetary Policy of Canadian Economy

The monetary report of January 2016 brings to light the performance of the global economy and the effect to the Canadian economy. Shifting terms of trade dominated the economic outlook. While major central banks in the world continue expanding their monetary stimulus, the U.S Federal Reserve started withdrawing it. This shows an improvement of the labor market hence inflation rates will reach the two percent target. The global economy forecasts a decline in oil prices which over time would boost global activities in the economy. The report also showed that China is transitioning into sustainable growth.
Global low economic ...

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The article investigates human capital and its correlation with investing and financial planning. Successful asset allocation highlights a stock/bond question that human capital is associated with bonds and stocks, and that a holistic view of assets is needed when planning. In this regard, a stable job relates to characteristics of a bond, but a volatile and unpredictable area of work stresses those of a stock. Our life stage indicates different trends in terms of both human and financial capital. The young have a lot of human capital, but not much financial capital. ...

The attempt to control drugs in the United States has its roots in the 1960s. There have been numerous attempts and approaches that have been used to deal with drugs and try to control its usage and movement in the country. This has come with some failures that suggests a new system must be implemented to improve and enhance the status quo. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze and review two chapters of a book which describes the relationship between race, drugs and incarceration. This will evaluate the main narratives of the chapters and evaluate the ...

Article Critical Analysis

Article Critical Analysis

Article Title:

Nicole Fortin, David A. Green, Thomas Lemieux, Kevin Milligan and W. Craig Riddell

Article Citation:

Fortin, N., Green, D.A., Lemieux, T., Milligan, K., & Riddell, W.C. (2012, June). Canadian Inequality: Recent Developments and Policy Options. Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 38 (2), 121-145.

Abstract

The article which is the subject of this review seeks to examine the income inequality trends in Canada and the factors responsible for this development including what can be done about it. Its main finding is that there are still huge income disparities between the educated rich Canadians and those in the low income ...

Introduction

Milner et.al (2013) article attempts to examine the well-being of the South Korean elderly to assess how the prevalence of suicidal attempts is connected to the poverty rate and economic growth. The piece derives most of its evidence from previous manuscripts and national reports such as The Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging and the National Pension Scheme. Their empirical evidence is also obtained from research done by authors like Feldstein, Becker, and McGarry. The writers of the previous articles discuss the inequalities that exist in South Korea and the citizens’ sensitivity towards cultural, economic, and social contexts. This article ...