Oxford Course Works Samples For Students

- In Luke 1:43, the Holy Spirit first works in the form of Elizabeth (Oxford). In this moment, she proclaims the coming birth of the Lord through her sister and exalts Mary as blessed.

Without the presence of the Holy Spirit, Elizabeth would not have known these things. The Spirit then appears in Simeon to proclaim Jesus as Lord to both his parents. Unlike the first passage, this one further expounds on the baby’s purpose to be “a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel (Oxford Luke 2:32). He then further predicts the ...

Letters to My Son are letters written by Lord Chesterfield to his son whereby he praises and criticizes him. Chesterfield uses a number of literary devices in his letter such as metaphors, imageries, anastrophe, tonal shift and many others. In addition, Chesterfield uses rhetorical devices such as logos and name calling so that his son can heed to his advice. Chesterfield uses different tones, and language devices to make pass his intended information to his son. He changes his tone, and uses different language styles to be able to convince his son to follow the values, and advice in the ...

The use of language in the contexts of society and culture is denoted by the term sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics examines the relationship between language use and the social world, particularly how language operates within and creates social structures. Sociolinguistic studies have looked at speech communities based on social categories such as age, class, ethnicity, gender, geography, profession and sexual identity. (Coulmas 17; Spolsky 28). Trudgill defines Sociolinguistics, as “that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and cultural phenomenon. It investigates the field of language and society and has close connections with the social sciences, especially ...

How convincing is the proposition put forward by both these writers that coordination and motivation of business activity is achieved predominantly through organizations rather than the market and what relevance does this have for you as a student of

Management

Introduction
Coordination is the synthesized manner in which many related items are joined together to create a larger item and in unison have semantic linkages that are similar with the rest of the neighboring aspects (Olson et.al, 2001).

Taking for instance the Nigerian government, it has changing phases of governance. This is because of the poorly performing political parties that face ...

Introduction

A contract can be defined as a relation between two parties, who enter into an agreement that will be bidding to them and enforceable by law. The consent of the parties should be a voluntary affair. There are various categories of contracts. The following cases studied below fall under the category of a sale of goods contract. For a sale of goods contract to be legally binding to the two parties, it must fulfill all the legal requirements of a valid contract. This means that there should be adherence to the requisite elements which include an offer, an unequivocal acceptance, and intention between the ...

The North Sea Petroleum Province is made up of Northern and Central North Sea. This is the greatest oil producing region in the world. It has been, for the last 30 years, playing a major role as Britain’s resource base and a contributor to the country’s wealth. This region also touches Norway and the Shetland Islands which are part of the Northern arms of the Late Jurassic system. This report gives an account of much of what is already known about Petroleum geology, Palaeogeography and tectonostratigraphic development of the Upper Jurassic, Middle Jurassic and the Lower Cretaceous rocks in ...

Management

Equality and diversity are important in all organizations being it health, business or even education. Diversity and equality matches’ promotion of human rights since equality brings treatment of everyone as same and diversity dealing with different people of different backgrounds, statuses and views. Every organization would want to be leading in promotion of equality and diversity (Carnwell, Ros, 2008). Modernity has brought reflections to diverse communities within general populations and tackling all forms of discrimination. Commitment to taking equality and human rights into account in all we do is important irrespective of the activities and services. Equality and diversity ...

- Basing my argument on the maxims advanced by Kantian ethics, the banks in the United Kingdom did not act ethically. The tree maxims advanced by Kantian ethics are used for vetting the ethicality of actions. Under the first maxim, ethical actions reflect an underlying principle that can be followed by everyone. Under the second maxim, ethical actions are those that treat people with dignity rather than as means. Under the third maxim, all ethical actions are universally accepted by all human beings. An ethical act should satisfy the threshold set by the three maxims (Crane & Matten, 2010, ...

Italy’s political environment

The nature of the political environment of any nation influences investment decision, to the large extent. There are different ways through which the political divide of any nation or region is deemed to affect the operation of globally originated firms that invest within its boundaries. For any global company to accept to invest in a foreign country, the political environment should be encouraging. Conducive environmental factors that are deemed to attract ambitions to invest in any place within the global divide incorporate the political stability. Ideally, a country that is muddled with crime-hosting environment, nationalism as well as regional disagreement is ...

Even though slave marriages were not allowed in the Southern States, some historians argue that slave owners often encouraged monogamous relationships in the slave community in order to make them exercise control over these slaves. They considered that a married slave was less likely to show rebellion or run away to leave their beloved family behind, considered to a single slave. Nevertheless, these families experienced rapes, whipping and were often separated through the sale of the wives and children. Despite these factors, the family retained its traditional functions, majorly child rearing: the family ensured that children were brought up, even though ...

Introduction

Global warming and pollution has led companies to rethink their activities concerning green methods of production. Carbon dioxide emissions are the leading cause of global warming and the dangers of global warming have been documented for a long time. Governments have come up with restrictions on emissions, which have forced companies to re-think the way they do production. Quest carbon capture and storage project is one example of how companies are re-thinking their strategy and practice towards carbon emissions. This project is developed by Shell for its Athabasca oil sands project (AOSP) in Alberta. It is the first carbon capture ...

- What is Lipinski’s Rule of Five and why is it important to drug design?

Lipinski's rule of five is popular as the Rule of five (RO5) or Pfizer's rule of five. It is a standing rule that evaluates drug likeness in determining whether chemical compounds that have certain biological or pharmacological activities have properties that make it a probable orally active drug for human consumption. This rule is on observing that many medication drugs have lipophilic molecules (Anastas 56). This means that the rule is applicable in drug discovery when lead structures that are pharmacologically active optimized. This increases the activity and compound selectivity insuring proper maintenance of drug-like physicochemical properties as illustrated ...

Introduction

Housing associations construct and manage homes on a non-profit basis. Most of the housing associations available all across the globe are charity based. Some of the housing associations have a specific role such as one for providing homes for individuals with special support needs or those from specified ethnic backgrounds. One may apply directly or even indirectly to a housing association. However, one first begins from the council’s housing registration. All properties have the same advertisement on them just like the council homes. There are various and different ways of acquiring property. One of those discussed in this paper is lettings. ...

Bahrain economic performance slowed down in the year 2009 and 2010, after enjoying economic prosperity. The slowdown tends to affect the finance sector and constructions. The political unrest in 2011 led to decline of merger and acquisition, as well as equity. The most targeted sector in Bahrain was the financial sector because it accounted to approximately 34% of the country activities. Despite the adverse economic climate in the region and political issues, various, merger and acquisition were completed in the region. For example, the merger between Al Salam Bank Bahrain BSC and Bahraini Saudi Bank BSc (Coyle, 2000). The ...

Criminal justice may be defined as the art of ensuring that human rights are respected and credited accordingly. Contrary to this, action in form of justice is in return employed. Criminal justice is an extremely critical in development of public policies. There are various issues that are associated to justice with vehemently many questions being raised. However, the main question is on the ability of criminal justice to exist without values. The answer is that criminal justice cannot exist without values.

The first element that may be used to defend this answer is concerned with the fact that human ...

Introduction

Organized crime refers to a network of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals in an organized manner and who are engaged in illegal activities. Such criminal organizations are well organized with a clear chain of command and segregation of duties among its members in much a similar way to a lawful organization or government. The only distinction between organized crime organizations and other lawful organizations is that they are engaged in illegal activities. It is organized crime organizations that are usually responsible for transnational crimes. Transnational crimes denote crimes that have significanteffects in more than one country. This is because such transnational crimes ...

Question one

Individualism designates the realization of individual projects while communalism means the realization of projects determined by values of collective group whose members have internalized the values. The internet provides technological resources for the purpose of socialization empowering the projects of various individuals of a particular network with similar subjects towards realization of either individualism or communalism. The internet causes the social life to continue indefinitely and thus the transition to and reliance over a network society. For example, individualism is evident when a person develops a personal website page which has the content of that individual for the purpose of constructing personal projects. ...

The impacts of closing and relocating the operations of a company could disrupt the organizational culture and environment of a company. Restructurings and relocations could result in the physical changes in the locations of company headquarters and distribution centres, change of company leadership, merging of some operations into one centre among other changes (Flecker, 2005). HS Engineering is a UK based firm that deals in making engineering tools. The company, mainly run by the founder’s family members, has been in operation for the last 40 years.

HS Engineering has a hierarchical structure of management where the three plants-Leeds, Wolverhampton and Oldham are ...

The application and admissions system for higher education in the United Kingdom has a certain reputation for being easy to get into; many students graduate with A-levels or even A* levels, thus granting them the ability to get into the nation’s top colleges, such as LSE, UCL and Imperial. However, given the large number of secondary school students who end up graduating with such high scores as to get into the most prestigious universities, there is a concern that this affects the quality of the student body in these universities. In essence, the chief question being asked is whether or ...

Question 1

A contract can simply be defined as a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties or entities. It is an agreement which places different obligations on the various parties to the contract. The breach of the obligations created by the contract would amount to a violation of the contract and the aggrieved party would be entitled to the various remedies that as per the terms contained in the contract . For an agreement to be considered as a contract and thus enforceable in law, it must have some certain characteristics. These are referred to as the elements of a contract. The elements of a ...

The impacts of closing and relocating the operations of a company could disrupt the organizational culture and environment of a company. Restructurings and relocations could result in the physical changes in the locations of company headquarters and distribution centres, change of company leadership, merging of some operations into one centre among other changes (Flecker, 2005). HS Engineering is a UK based firm that deals in making engineering tools. The company, mainly run by the founder’s family members, has been in operation for the last 40 years. As a result of the dynamics in the engineering tools industry, HS Engineering plans to close ...

Introduction

There are many contracts between different people regarding different contexts, which range from implied to express contracts. These are agreements between two parties regarding a specific action which are based on legal obligations thus enforceable by law. Contacts are based on several principles which should be satisfied by all the parties to ensure it passes as a legal contract. The absence of any of these elements can lead to the disqualification of the credibility of the contract thus making it illegal.

The benefit of a contract is to ensure all the parties are willing and aware of the basics thus acquisition of ...

Contract refers to the agreement of having a lawful element entered through voluntary actions between two or more parties. These parties may be individuals, groups, states among other groups. The parties have an intention of creating one or more legal obligations among or between them. There are elements in every contract that must be respected by all parties involved in the formulation of the contract. The law of contract stipulates respect for all principles in an agreement. Since the contract is not embedded to one party, honoring the stipulations for the contract is a core requirement. This means that all parties ...

Abstract

This study focuses on how education and the level of unemployment are related. In our daily activities, education has proved to be inevitable. Most of the knowledge acquired by people comes as a result of having education. Education is known to solve many problems in the world. That is one of the major reasons why it is treasured as a basic commodity in our daily activities. Education may be in two forms: formal and informal. These two types are distinct since they involve different methods of teaching. Formal education may involve going to modern schools in order to attain quality education. ...

STARBUCKS REPUTATION

In the pursuit of their objectives organizations become so uncompromising that they only realize the importance of goodwill once it is lost. The same is the case with Starbucks. First, it took advantage of the loopholes in the accounting standards and taxation laws to minimize corporate tax liability and when caught doing so they actually admitted it by announcing that they would pay more corporation tax in 2013-2014, regardless of whether the company is profitable or not. (Armistead, 2012)

The company has not been successful in managing its reputation after the tax avoidance scandal. In fact, it is among ...

Piaget, Vygotsky, and Erickson all held different yet highly influential views about human development. Malcolm Gladwell the author of “Outliers” embraced many of these theories to write his book about America’s educational system. By looking at concepts of child development he determined that America has it all wrong in regards to providing education that compliments developmental milestones.

Gladwell stated, "the biggest misconception about success is that we do it solely on our smarts, ambition, hustle and hard work." (Gladwell, 2008). He feels that family and cultural influences play a large role in how successful a person will become. ...

PART 1

In my own words, I explain sociocultural theory as the theory that the things around individuals (notably social factors) influence their cognition. Lev Vygotsky, the proponent of sociocultural theory, stated that development in every individual’s culture occur in two levels: on the social and the individual level (1978). Individuals (especially children, in consonance to Vygotsky’s emphasis) such as parents, mentors, peers and the like can affect people’s cognition (Vygotsky, 1978). In highlighting the influence of society to individual development, James Lantolf reiterated Vygotsky’s “zone of proximal development”, which is the variance of an individual’ ...

1.) Break-even analysis is an important tool, which helps to define the level of sales needed for the company to break even. The basic formula for calculating the break-even point is (fixed costs)/(selling price – variable cost per unit), however in some instances this formula is further adjusted for noncash items, in order to evaluate the break even position from the cash flow prospective only. The independent variables in this calculation are selling price as well as fixed and variable costs, while the dependent variable is the level of sales, needed to break even. This relatively easy ...

1. Summary of the Paper
The paper Expanding the Subject: Violence, Care, and (In)Active Male Citizenship by Sylvia Fuller, Paul Kershaw, and Jane Pulkingham discusses the proposed policy reorientation of active citizenship. The authors argued that the current social policy orientation is too focused on employment and dismisses violence against women as well as disregards men’s neglect of child-caring responsibilities. Their paper calls for the re-conceptualization of active citizenship to address and take into account these male dysfunctions (183-185).
Using qualitative data from semi-annual open-ended interviews of seventeen mothers receiving income assistance in Vancouver, Canada, ...

This analysis will use the top companies in the food and beverage industry. In a the past three years, PepsiCo Inc., Tyson Foods Inc., Nestle and the Coca Cola Company. All of these companies portray exemplary performance, they are all not as consistent in their competition. A few of these companies make very inconsistent profits that fluctuate each year from high profits to also large losses. PepsiCo Inc. is among the companies that are very successful and consistent in the market. The company has continually provided good quality to its consumers. Tyson Foods is also a well performing company, but which ...

In “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky made a famous claim that establishes the link between the existence of God and morality. Apart from the controversy related to the scope of the quotation, the discussion on the proper translation and interpretation of the words of Ivan Karamazov. For instance, in his article “Dostoevsky did not say it” D.Cortesi claims that Dostoevsky did not make such claim (Cortesi 1). However, the research by Russian-speaking authors shows that the original text of “The Brothers Karamazov” contains the statement under study (Volkov 1). Coming to the scope of the claim, one should concentrate ...

Introduction

In the present business world the assumption is that firms would like to maximize profits, but in the real life maximizing profit has a great impact on the society and the economy (Wigley 1996). Firms are classified according to the type of market structure they belong to. There are four types of market structure; perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic, and oligopoly. The main factors that influences a market structure are; the number of buyers and sellers, the degree of product differentiation, the knowledge of buyers and sellers regarding a commodity and the strengths of barriers to entry and exit. Different industries ...

Lead placement during an echo

During echocardiography, the leads placement occurs at different positions of the body. The leads during the process are placed depending on the type of echo that is supposed to be conducted on the person. In relation to this, there are two different types of echocardiograms among the usual four that are conducted to a person. These types of echocardiograms are transthoracic echocardiogram and transesophageal echocardiogram.

On one hand, during the transthoracic echocardiogram, an echocardiographer places the leads or transducers on the back of the chest and on the wall of the chest (Leeson 56). The position of the leads ...

Art is a collection of different human events and the results of those events. This project emphasizes on the paintings done by different artists in America and what the artists had in mind during the time when they did these paintings. The paintings are found in the statutory hall. There are varied emotions depicted by the artists that define the history of America before independence. These paintings are of much importance even to the current generation and help one to understand better the history of America by just having a look at the images. These places the images in their immediate ...

Question 1

The U.S had a strained relationship with the South Vietnamese president. The U.S opposed Diem leadership since it supported nuclear war. In a very unlikely event, the U.S supported the corrupt regime to avoid Ho Chi Minh coming into power. Later on, the U.S government planned and supported a coup to bring the leadership of Diem to a downfall so that they could fight the emergence of the illegal National Liberation Front.

Question 2

Lyndon advocated for the end of poverty since he was unhappy by the population who lived in absolute poverty. As a result, he introduced the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which aimed ...

The big five traits have a remarkable universality aspect. Studies focusing on people across different cultures indicate that these dimensions are accurately applicable in describing personality. With this research, psychologists believe that the character dimensions share universality and have biological origins (Ashcraft, 2011). It is proposed that the evolutionary explanation for core personality characteristics suggests that the personality characteristics are representative of the important qualities shaping the social landscape.

Behavior involves interaction between the underlying character of a person and the situational variables. Situations that people find them in have a major role in the way they react. In most cases, individuals ...

Introduction

Regarded as the icon of German militarism, Paul von Hindenburg was one of the most popular field marshals, politicians and the second president of Germany. Hindenburg, a man of discipline and fortitude, served gloriously in the Prussian army retiring from the military in 1911. However, during the World War I, he was called back in service to serve the nation and he, with the help of his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, fought the Russian army victoriously bringing glorious victories in the eastern front of Germany.

Because of his immense popularity as a war hero, he was nominated to run for the German ...

Introduction

After reading Rousseau’s “state of nature” and how Diderot constructs “natural man,” we are left with a number of questions. For one, we ask ourselves the meaning of human nature. Secondly, we ask ourselves how the two thinkers, Diderot and Rousseau locate as well as describe nature. We also ask whether Rousseau’s “state of nature” map onto Diderot constructs of the natural man.

Rousseau is comparable to Diderot in that his intention was essentially to critique his personal society. The similarity between Rousseau and Diderot is that each one of them uses nature as a ...

Language psychology is a unit that involves the study of the processes in development of words and expressions used in making a speech. This sub-discipline can be categorized into cognitive psychology and neuroscience of the human brain. It explains the relationship and interactions that exist between memory and language formation by an individual. This is significant for a person in communicating and conversing with others. Information is stored and retrieved from the memory element, which is vital in understanding what has been said and what is useful in a discussion. The adaptation of an efficient language to pass information is a process that an ...

History plays a very important role in the development and progress of humanity. Social, cultural and political religious factors play a crucial role in shaping a society. All these factors evolve in a particular way throughout the history to give the society or world a particular shape. The world of today has also experienced such historical evolution. The economy is becoming increasingly global, in which an idea of uniformity and global culture is embedded. But on the other hand, despite the increasing move or evolution towards uniformity, the extremism in the world is also increasing. The reason for that is hidden in the past ...

Federal, State, and Local Governments Communication

Communication among the different levels of government is important for the running of a country. In the United States of America, communication flows from the federal government to the state and the local governments. Information from the federal government follows regulations given under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Enacted in 1966, the law provides that any level of government or person has the right to accessing information from federal agencies. The federal government is therefore required to provide records to the state and local governments upon receiving information in written form. However, the federal government reserves the rights to ...

DQ1: Exchange Rates.

A. I spent my recent holiday vacation in South Africa, which is quite an inexpensive destination with various world class financial institutions that offer attractive exchange rates. Upon arrival at the O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, I found a forex bureau that offered forex exchange at 0% percent commission to travelers. I exchanged 2000 US dollars and received 21,400 South African Rand (R).
During the next four weeks of my vacation, I exchanged currency once at a forex bureau that charged 5% commission and later found out that I could exchange currency in Automated Teller machines at ...

In my view, the four students acted against the ethical principles and theory of the nursing practice. This is true given that the students violated the principle of beneficence, least harm, as well as the theory of deontology. According to the principle of beneficence, the nursing students are expected "to do good" both for patients and the society in general (Benjamin & Curtis, 2010). It aims at ensuring that people obtain the greatest level of good. Another principle, which is almost similar to that of beneficence, is that of least harm where the student's actions should result ...

Intervention Strategy

The proposed intervention strategy is centered on improving English language proficiency within the Gulfton community. The premise behind this strategy is that improved language proficiency will facilitate better communication skills that will lead to (better) employment, improved knowledge around legal status and rights, better healthcare and other amenities, and improved outcomes relative to children’s education.

This is a multifaceted strategy that aims to reach out to multiple groups of residents. In laying out an intervention strategy it is highly important to determine up front how to articulate a plan, implementation, refinement, etc. This will be laid in greater detail in ...

Criticism involves the utilization of standards in order to make a judgment for the purpose of bringing positive change. Critical theory argues that we should be inquisitive about the production of enlightenment its dissemination and its connection to influence and how this impacts on the individuals; how it limits and contributes to the enhancement of our freedoms (Art 2011). Are we bound to a dominating freedom system or does it offer us a liberating system of government? The theory originates from the Frankfurt school in Germany.

Critical theorists begin with the thought that men and women are essentially enclosed in a world that ...

Introduction

Marriage counseling is indeed an important function which enables the couples to identify the root causes of problems existing in the marriage. Couples often experience challenges in their marriage at some point in time and may, therefore, decide to seek professional assistance. The existing problems in the marriage are usually caused by a number of factors including disorders and also the socio-cultural differences existing between the individuals (Dattilio, 1998). Conversely, the therapists need to examine the issues critically in order to guide the couple effectively, thus assisting them come up with viable solutions (Dattilio, 1998). The paper provides information on ...

Introduction

Employee layoff is one of the tedious tasks that managers may face during their tenure. Not only it impacts a particular employee but also the organization as a whole. Leaving aside the cost-cutting that is often the primary reason behind dismissal, it spurs negative emotions thereby affecting flow of work in the company. Researchers have opined that an effective communication with employees can assuage the downbeat to an extent.
This paper aims to highlight the impacts of an employee's termination on the organization. Also, it recommends some ways to handle the layoff in the most-effective manner. The paper presents a ...

Atmospheric carbon emissions in the United States have elicited a myriad debate on the effective policies, which should be enacted to save the economic global change. Proposed policies are essential curbing the menace. Primarily Energy efficiency policy is vital. The mentioned policy encompasses providing consumers with tools to effectively monitor and adjust their energy use. Notably, cap and trade system policy is also vital. The mentioned system employs financial inducement in encouraging reduction of carbon dioxide by companies. Here, a regulatory body set maximum annual limits of carbon emissions (Turk & Bensel, 2014). Also, a carbon tax policy connotes to a tax on ...

Symptoms of schizophrenia

The existence of non-bizarre delusions is the greatest indication of this disorder.

Hallucinations

Seeing, hearing, or sensation of non- existing things. For instance, patients are probable to contend they hear sounds that nobody else can hear. Now and then they hear noises, sometimes they are troubled by seeing or sensing things that others do not

Delusions are untrue beliefs or misapprehensions of occasions & their meaning. For instance, a person may be stimulated by sound from his neighbor’s house & may choose this is an intended attempt to disturb him. Everybody tends to personalize & misapprehend happenings, particularly during ...

Introduction

The report includes a speculative summary which is highly rendered by the project submitter. The report includes the rules and exemption to work with an accommodated job in United Kingdom. The summary and the report includes the rules and regulations which are necessary as per working in the UK company, and it also discuss about the Tax redemption charges as per the incomes basis of an individual. The report even includes the taxation of any employee working in a UK based company. The rules and regulations are also jotted down to make the project analyst know about the main factual finding ...

Abstract

The dream of an information-based global society is attributable to the flawless integration of the information and communication technologies with the traditional one, merged with proactive government policies, technical skills-set, strategic learning approach, an inclination towards improvements in efficiencies and, promotion of modernization in a caringly and an environmentally sustainable way. This paper researches the variables of an information society that impact on information services through a scalable structure presentation that encourages information society analysis, comparison of varied information societies and propose new frontiers for scholars and decision-makers.
Keywords:

Information society, knowledge society, information services

Background

The early forebear of humankind around ten thousand years ago ...

All teachers need to use positive psychology in the teaching and learning process. Positive psychology can be used by a teacher to model and instill nonviolent behaviors, as well as pro-skill character. Together with a good learning environment positive psychology can be used in a number of ways in order to ensure that the best comes out of all learners. Some of the possibilities that a teacher can explore include class layout, use of classroom partners, encouraging positive attitudes as well as gratitude and optimism.

A teacher can use and teach classroom relationships through use of partners in order for students to appreciate ...

In the case of Nova Mink v Trans Canada Airlines , the High Court ruled that airplanes that are governed by the Air Traffic Rules which are ruled by competent authority shall be subject to common law duties of care, unless otherwise excluded by legislation that expressly provides for an exclusion. This is regardless of the fact that they cover a wider range of mobility, both in vertical and horizontal settings. In the case of aeroplanes, they cannot be analogous to railways since the latter is excused when operating in accordance with statutory rules including accidents which occurred in level crossings ...

List and discuss at least three positive and three negative impacts of information systems.

Information systems (IS) have enhanced communication significantly. Effective communication is important for all organizations, societies and even individuals. Data and information can be distributed to millions of people around the world despite geographical locations in real time using IS (Kenneth, Jane 1997). This saves on costs, allows quick response to changes, better customer service and exploitation of new opportunities. IS have made it possible to access new service efficiencies. Automation of some services has lead to more effective and satisfactory services, for example ATMs, and telephone systems. IS have supported advances in research in various fields, for example in ...

Beliefs that distinguished Orthodox Judaism

At the beginning, all Jews were traditional and hence automatically classified as Orthodox. In and around the beginning of the twentieth century, the reform movement in Judaism gained impetus led by the Jews in Germany, which slowly spread throughout most of Europe. It was this reform movement that distinguised the beliefs of Orthodox Jews from the Non Orthodox Jews. The Orthodox Jews were less open to change in their beliefs and practices compared to the Non Orthodox Jews. Presented below are the five main practices that distinguish Orthodox Judaism.

Belief 1: Prayer services to be conducted only in Hebrew ...

According to International Monetary Fund (IMF), China recorded $6,747 nominal GDP per capita and $9,844 GDP per capita (PPP) in the year 2013. China's population approximation is at 1,392,472,656 people; its fertility rate is 1.58 births per woman, and life expectancy is approximately 73.49 years. Population growth rate of republic of china is at 0.46% per annum. China engages in international trade with countries all over the world, therefore, it experiences open economy (Cypher, 2014, p.237).

China has overtaken Latin America countries in competitiveness in international markets. Its well structured economy and strategic ...

What are some ways the Christian gospel is perceived in our culture?

Most youths consider Christianity as judgmental, enslaving and unnecessarily strict. The most common reason cited is the anti-gay aspect. In the present world, where there are more rights, privileges and freedom given to people than any other previous times, homo-sexuality is, among other previously considered unnatural deeds, legalized by the government. The legalization of homo-sexuality is spreading rapidly across countries globally. In a study conducted by the UnChristian revealed than out of a sample of 867 young people (404 non-Christians 305 active church goers), the vast majority of non-Christians (91%) asserted that Christianity painted an anti-gay picture. 83% of them said ...

In many capitalist economies, the production of goods and services is controlled by the few who are able to produce the goods with minimal of without any competition. Such an economy is controlled by a few individuals who are able to produce or have been protected by the legistation. Such people who are able to produce goods for production are referred to as the monopolists. Monopoly in the marketplace indicates the existence of a sole seller. This may take the form of a unified business, organization, or it may be an association of separately controlled firms, which combine, or act together, for ...

Genetics has progressed over the recent years. Very sophisticated methods of studying genes and researching how species have evolved from one cell into complex animals. The purpose of the research by Lee, Lai, Malik, Saldarriaga, Kelling, and Slamovits at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University was to observe and gather more information about The Oxyrrhis marina (O. marina). The species is very good for studying about the development of two taxonomic groups of “protists, dinoflagellates and apicomplexans” (1). The molecular structure is simple, so it is at the ...

Genetic epidemiology in the developed countries

In the recent past, there has been a renewed interest in genetic epidemiology given the urgent need to understand the trends in non-communicable diseases worldwide and consequently map out mitigation measures. The countries in Europe have been forerunners in such studies. This is mainly attributed to technological advancement and availability of resources in Europe. The high incidences of genetic conditions such as hemophilia and Down’s syndrome in Europe could also be a motivation for more research to be carried in an attempt to find cures for this condition. In a recent study, Czech Republic and Slovenia were found to have the ...