Transformation Research Papers Samples For Students

Abstract

With the rapid growth of e-commerce and changes in consumer behavior, the importance of efficient digital brand building has come into a sharper focus. Marketers are in constant search for effective methods of brand developing and promoting. This writing reviews the literature on brand marketing, analyzes the modern tendencies of brand building and proposes the best digital opportunity for leading brands relying on their effectiveness for digital marketing.
Key words: E-commerce, brand building, Internet, customer value proposition, operating model

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- Review the literature on brand marketing and analyze the modern tendencies of brand building.
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Introduction

Medicalization is the development of medicine into a social institution. Medicine then became an institution of social control. (Scrambler, 2005) Medicalization moves the viewpoint from some moral failing of an individual to a medical diagnosis and quantifiable or qualifiable reason based in medicine. Medicalization influences the way that society perceives and reacts to physical characteristics and social behavior of an individual. Medicine as institution can be viewed in light of how and for what conditions human are treated. With medicine as a social institution it redefined social policy, resulting in therapeutic treatment, decriminalization, and decarceration of abhorrent social behavior ...

Religious transformation is the awakening or understanding of the religious knowledge in the case of a human being who had no knowledge or belief of spiritual existence. The spiritual awakening leads to the transformation of lifestyle and other things that humans do that are inconsistent with the spiritual beliefs that they hold, after the transformation. Transformation is the fundamental meaning of religious conversion from one denomination to another. However, the transformation is affiliated with special rituals that are symbolized depending on the religion the human being is affiliated with after the transformation.

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Introduction

The purpose and scope of this paper is to evaluate the leadership potentials that assisted Barack Obama to become president of United States in the year 2008. During, American antiquity there has been many significant leaders who have carried impartiality, self-determination, and transformation to its country. Several great leaders and lastly the head of the state of the USA Barack Obama, there have been many countless individuals who have completed history. As the first Black culture to turn ...

The 20th century saw a wake in the, in modernization where change embraced all forms of institutions in the world. The societies in the west and the east were no exceptions as seen from the literatures of these regions. Since the literature is a representation of the society, it is apparent that all societies in the 20th century were undergoing some form of transformation be it social, economic or political. From the novella, ‘Love in A Fallen City' witnesses a social change in family relationships and matters of love. The Drowning of an Old Cat depicts a political transformation and western influence in ...

Historical Background

Healthcare institutions in United States and France have been encountering challenges of unprecedented scope. The increase in the number of elderly in the two countries has not only threatened to increase the cost of managing the healthcare sector, but has also led to the inflation rate. In reference to the current trend in the two countries healthcare systems, researchers and other healthcare professionals have raised their fear that the ever-increasing technologies and expensive medical treatment are likely to wreck havoc on public spending priorities. The increase in healthcare spending in United States of America is also likely to interfere ...

Introduction

Organizational change is a common the corporate world because every company wants to improve its services, increase productivity and profits. Changing an organizational set up can take various forms depending on the objective of organizational change and the industry or sector that the organization operates. Some of the reasons why most organizations resort to change include; development of new technology, restructuring of products, market repositioning and or to transform leadership within the organization. Therefore, the reason for undertaking change could be motivated by internal factors or external factors. Over the last decade, there are several companies that have undergone internal ...

The Hollywood industry has faced tremendous changes since the beginning of operations. The industry deals with movie production and has moved from the times of high theater movie attendances, for instance, by the year 1929, four-fifth of all American population, which makes up around ninety-five million people who attended the movie theaters, weekly (Epstein, 2009). The Hollywood industry is therefore controlled by the movie producers, the film owners, the directors and the movie stars themselves. The concept of popcorn economy on the other hand, revolves around productive resources being limited. As a result, Hollywood is in the process of ...

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In the recent past, there has been a tremendous decline in the use of the newspapers. The trend seems to be accelerating everyday and it is estimated that the use of the newspapers could hit a decline in 50% in the year 2020 as compared to its use in the 1990s. Many factors have been associated with the decline of the preference and the use of the printed papers. Among the most significant one is the latest developments in technology that has brought the introduction of Internet accessible to over one billion people across the globe. The larger ...

Introduction

Sustainable development has become one of the major concerns in the modern world due to its holistic approach that includes economic progress, environmental conservation, and social considerations. However, slums have emerged in various parts of the world despite the fact that they promote environmental degradation, poor economic progress and social afflictions in the society. As such, this paper will focus on the challenges incurred in Asian slums and specifically India where the population is very high whereas the economic development is very low. Guiding factors of Development of Sustainable Agenda in Real Estates
Life in the slums is ...

Abstract

Theory of evolution as proposed by Darwin has for long hinged on the fossil records to prove the process of evolution. However, the prevalent gaps in the fossils led way to the development of the punctuated equilibrium theory that was proposed by Eldredge and Gould as an alternative to Darwin’s phyletic gradualism theory. The punctuated equilibrium postulated that speciation occurs in an isolated peripheral subsect of population as a rapid change after a period of stasis. Unlike the anagenetic speciation of phyletic gradualism, punctuated equilibrium promotes the concept of cladogenetic speciation. However, punctuated equilibrium does consider rapid anagenetic speciation as a ...

Introduction

As it was shown in previous sections discussed in class, the set Mmn of all m×n matrices is a vector space under the operations of matrix scalar multiplication and addition. In this paper, we will describe the set of all linear transformations of an n-dimensional vector space V into an m-dimensional vector space W, which is also a vector space U. This is the vector space under two defined operations. The relationship between Mmn and U will be also described.

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Consider V and W – two vector spaces of the dimensions n and m, respectively. Let the following linear ...

Business

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In John P. Kotter’s book, Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail, he stated his beliefs that an organization can succeed by using his simple eight steps. He also lists the reasons why organizations fail and how to prevent these failures by following his simple steps. He draws from experience of observing different companies who have failed in the past. By these situations, he has gained insights as to why these companies failed and how the managers could have avoided such failures.
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Book: The count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and was first published in the year 1844. The plot of the story was expanded by Dumas in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. Along with the ‘Three Musketeers’, this novel is one of the most anthologized works of Dumas, and as critics opine the novel has become a permanent fixture of Western literature.
Dumas was a French novelist and dramatist, and during his lifetime he produced a number of literary outputs like dramas, novels, memoirs, travelogues and historical studies. Mostly self-educated, Dumas actively ...

Leadership is the ability of a person in charge of others or a specific group to provide guidance and direction to those that he or she commands. The group works with a common objective in mind. In executing leadership roles, the person in charge does not only depend on his or her ability to give direction, but also depends on social control. Social influence goes beyond individual effort to the engagement of the subjects in the accomplishment of a given task. At most times, leaders assume the support of the people they are leading. However, success in leadership depends on others, as well; ...

Culture and Management

Modern institutions operate under organizational models that are informed by a collection of normative orders, organisational goals, and communication system. Moreover, the essence of an organisation relies on the development-shared assumptions, meanings, values, and beliefs that reinforces and guides organisational behaviours. Although employees are critical players in modern organisation, cultural aspects have a critical role in influencing the success of the organisation. Organisational cultures have an all rounded roles that shape all aspects in an organisation including human capital. Studies have confirmed that profit-making organisation utilises employees’ abilities, competent, and skills in fulfilling their objectives and goals (McShane, & von Glinow 2008, ...

Quality Management and Performance Improvement: A brief and concise summary of the health care quality challenges as discussed by the authors.
“Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century,” is a report primed in the year 2001. It was prepared by a team of professionals drawn from various professions within the health care sector. The team of professionals comprised of clinical officers, hospital administrators, managers, doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and surgeons to mention but a few. The main objective of this task force was to evaluate and analyse the state of health care in the United States. ...

CLASSIC ENGLISH LITERATURE

Classic English literature
The twentieth century ushered an era of myriad changes in the life of humanity. The spread of the industrial revolution boosted by technological advancements had phenomenal impacts on the social, economic, and political life in Europe, and the world. However, its impact on society is inevitable. During this period, modernization set the pace of transformation of society into a new form of civilization characterized by urbanization and high levels of technological development.
Scholars in various fields recorded this happening, and their debates rage on as society incessantly undergoes astonishing changes. Europe is appreciated for the ...

Post-feminism is a very complicated term in the sense that it encompasses contradictory and pluralistic discourse within our modern society. Both authors Portwood-Stacer and Arthurs focus on the relationship between feminism and consuming behaviors that are depicted through television. Portwood-Stacer argues reality makeover television both reflects and perpetuates the ideology that individualist consumption is an important means of feminine empowerment. (Portwood-Stacer 196) Both authors also agree on the fact that the physical appearances are often emphasized as an empowering device for women in the television shows and for audience viewing the show. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, Post Feminism ...

Today, in the era of high technologies and scientific improvements, humanity is still trying to understand what is happening and how to predict future. From the point of international relations, this discourse is relevant for understanding of motivations behind states' behaviour. In this paper, realistic theory of IR is used in order to explain conditionality of NATO transformation after the end of Cold War. In this context, attention will be paid to explanation of changing political and security environment in the world and shift in the international system.

Key Words: the Cold War, NATO, realism, international relations, national interests.

The Post-Cold War Realism of NATO Transformation
In the history ...

History is part of how humanity has transformed from its previous levels of development to its current state of technological achievements. Humanity has grown through the: Renaissance and reformation period; closely followed by the industrial revolution; to the present humanity and all the current developments. These changes over time have changed some of the perceptions and changes that have been witnessed over time.

During the renaissance period, there was a lot of creativity being showcased. This was highlighted both in the cultural and the business aspects of the societies that were present at the time. This would pushed by the ...

North America

Object 1:
Medium: Wood and abalone
Current location: Provincial Museum of British Columbia
Image sourced from: Historica Canada . (2015, March 4th). Indigenous Art in Canada: Frontlet. Retrieved July 7th, 2016, from Historica Canada : http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-art-in-canada/
A product of the Tsimshan culture, this Frontlet features as one of many examples of North American aboriginal artistry. The frontlet has been suggested as one of the most noted art forms of the Iroquois civilization that occupied large swathes of Canada. The Iroquois created various abstractions of these Frontlets, also known as False Faces, and they were typically created to feature as sacred ...

Finance

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Introduction

This paper is devoted to the possible spillover effects between the usual banking and existing shadow banking systems and the impact of regulatory policies on the shadow banking system. The usual banking system consists of the banks and regulatory agencies. In comparison, the shadow banking system is a set of financial institutions, which are not banks, but perform their functions. The issue of the shadow banking system has become more important after recent global financial crisis. The Financial Stability Board has been established at that time. According to experts of this organization, various aspects of the shadow banking ...

In Promoting ASEAN Tourism Growth

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The purpose of the paper is to analyze the tourism sector of ASEAN countries and understand the challenges of newly formed ASEAN Youths Organization in promoting tourism in the ASEAN region. Research refers to evidence that the Asia-Pacific region is one of the fastest growing regions in the world. That notwithstanding, the flow of tourism to the region is still not as high as the influx of tourists to Africa, Europe, and America. ASEAN Youth Organization’s mission is to reveal a sharp curiosity about ASEAN countries and on each other as far as the issue of tourism ...

Information Technology Effects

Abstract
The objective of the paper is to analyze the effects of information technology on interpersonal communication. Technology advancement and continued economic development have both positive and negative effects on interpersonal communication. The topic is one of organizational development studies that investigate effects of technology on communications. The paper reviews both positive and negative effects of information technology, its effect on interpersonal communication. With the preamble of a new communication and information age, techniques of social communications continue to change. The project analyzes the effects of information technology in the love or relationship cases, workplace, and for recreational purposes. ...

INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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GIS has been given several meanings over the years in various disciplines and areas of study. Interestingly, all these definitions of GIS attest to the uniqueness of spatial data since geographic locale is an essential peculiarity of strategies, plans, policies, and activities. Below is a sum up definition: GIS can be defined as a computer-based methodology and technology used to collect, analyze, model, manage, and present geographical information or data for a vast dimension of applications (Tyler pg. 210)

Components of GIS

People- Individuals are by far the most fundamental part of a GIS. The procedures and task definitions that are ...

Introduction

MasterCard became a public entity in 2008 when it embarked on a process of selling shares to the populace. The momentous occasion intimated that a different strategy had to be established to deal with the challenges of being a public corporation. The employees who are spread on a planetary scale had to be taught in the new ways of handling the company based on its current status. As a consequence, the executive members wanted to ensure that all the employees of the company are trained to ensure they understood the essence of such a change to the organization. The Road Map to The Future was the ...

How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction
The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity.
While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone. Millions ...

Introduction

The BRIC nations, made up of Brazil, Russia, India and China have been projected to be the world emerging economic powers. These countries account for close to half the world’s population. In recent times, the BRIC nations have contributed to most of the world’s GDP growth. These nations have been regarded as powers to watch as regards to world economic growth. These countries have not only been observed to be emerging economic powers but have also shown signs of gaining control of the world economy. These emerging nations have an advantage over other nations of the world ...

Introduction

Talent management is the systematic attraction, identification, engagement, development, retention and deployment of the individuals who have a particular value to the organization through their high potential and because they fulfill the firm’s objectives. It therefore includes recruitment, goal-setting, induction, performance management, compensation management, assessment, learning, succession planning and career planning processes (Fulmer, 2004). These processes are aimed to retain employees and foster their continuing development of skills and competencies in order to achieve the organizational short term and long-term goals and objectives. Talent management is the key to success to any companies. According to research by Mckinsey and ...

Introduction

This paper is an endeavor to explain the rights and freedoms of people around the world, as they (such freedoms) cut across the social classes and prejudices. The arguments of the paper are based on the presumption that the concepts of freedom and equality are sometimes being suppressed in some parts of the world including the Middle East, Russia, and Canada (Charlton 18). Such inequalities in the application of freedoms and rights is what makes it hard for the Middle Eastern and Russian people, for instance, to extend greater tolerance and share the same social privileges. That is why ...

Executive Summary

The reason of this research was to enhance education and knowledge of diabetes and its types for the good wellbeing and encourage healthy way of life actions to decrease diabetes base on the community in developing states with a comparatively high occurrence of diabetes. The occurrence of diabetes was measured by the questionnaire methodology distributed in community to know the information level of diabetes and its occurrence. The expansion of these factors of diabetes diseases reveals the main reasons enforcing cultural, economic and social transformation in the community of developing states. These similar reasons are enforcing the epidemiological background with ...

A brief analysis of goals and challenges

ABSTRACT
The contemporary world of today is faced with several environmental problems that increasingly threaten our continued existence. At the heart of all such environmental effects is pollution, primarily carbon based emission. Realizing the need to reduce these emissions, the world nations have together decided on the transformation to a low carbon society. Power generation and transport are particularly the main sources of emission and the world therefore has to consider moving away from fossil fuels to renewable sources through technological development. In order to achieve this, the world nations have decided to reduce emissions and have also put ...

Abstract

A number of different psychological perspectives based on well established theories are used in understanding and managing individual behaviors. Knowledge of the psychological principles and relating them to psychological perspectives contribute to a well informed response to an individual’s behavior. Different people show different behavioral characteristics that depend on the environment, culture, and personal understanding of an individual. The following research analyses the psychological behavior of Darth Vader. The analysis represents three main perspectives that describe Vader’s behavior. These are cognitive perspective, behaviorist perspective, and humanistic perspective.

Introduction

Different people demonstrate different behavioral characteristics that determine analyzed using the ...

The systems that can adapt in reaction to unanticipated external disturbances and events during their operation are called autonomous systems . These systems have capability of self-adaptation, self-configuration, self-monitoring, tuning, and other kinds of adjustment without requiring external control input . Autonomous systems are also referred to as self-managed systems due to their independence from external controls. These systems are built such that their components satisfy the design intent in the presence of small perturbations, external disturbances, noise, or other environmental changes.
In realm of control systems theory, autonomous systems carry the similar concept mentioned above. Talking in terms of state ...

Social housing project

The social housing program of TOKI Company is targeting the low and middle-income group that are not able to own a housing unit, particularly under the current market conditions. Similarly, when considering the distribution of the housing projects that are realized by the company, about 15% consist of the fund raising method of revenue sharing while the rest of the percentage are the social housing projects (TOKI Housing Programs).
On the other hand, the project that is targeting the low income earning people have increased the monthly instalments depending on the increasing rate of the public wage index sector, ...

No two black leaders stand out during the civil rights movement of the 1960s as much as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Whereas the two men were polar opposites in achieving their respective ends – equality for African Americans – they both died much too young as the result of an assassin’s bullet. Malcolm X, best known for his separatist ideology, wanted “black power”, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s integrationist ideology preached peace, and the brotherhood of all men, regardless of color – conflicting philosophies that yielded both desirable and undesirable results.
Certainly, these two civil rights leaders’ ...

Industrialization after the Civil War in America

Industrialization after the Civil War in America
Industrialization after the civil war was a great turning point in the history of the modern America. It marks a period of great transformation in a country. The United States realized and underwent through a rapid development. This was a period whereby industries were being built and there was availability of more jobs for the American people (Rees, 2015). During this period, the political arena also faced corruption. After the civil war, the industrialization process took on a tremendous and an unpredictable change on many sectors in America. These changes as a ...

Issues in East Asian Studies

Deng Xiaoping is the Chinese revolutionary and politician, unofficially – he is the head of the country. This man became known throughout the world due to his political and economic ideas. He played a very important role in the development of the country. Since the late 1970s and the early 1990s, he proclaimed the policy of economic reform and the building of socialism with the "Chinese characteristics." During his campaign, the Celestial Empire became a strong and developed state. He put forward the idea of ​​China and Taiwan's unification on the principle of "one country – two systems". In the world, ...

Introduction

It is noteworthy to study about the past labor and political economy of Japan, as its transformation to what it is today is too different from what it was in the past. Japan has successfully reinvented itself, from one that used to be a closed political economy, into a country that is now open to world economic integration. Despite its economic stagnation in the past few years, Japan remains to be one of the world’s greatest powers, and this can be attributed to decades of political and economic choices that fostered its miracle growth. One of the critical ...

There can be no denial of the fact that literature is the true mirror of the society of the world. Indeed, there are innumerous examples of seminal literary works penned by various literary artists that have come to reflect the picture of the individual and the society with utmost perfection and artistic skill. As such, one can take into reckoning the short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor that can very well be taken to be an exploration of the degeneration of the individual self and the moral values of life in the ...

Gene replacement refers to a technique which utilizes homologous recombination (Carter & Shieh, 2010, p. 265), to make alterations by either adding a gene, deleting a gene or including point mutations. Gene replacement attempts to cure most of the genetic diseases at molecular level. A successful gene replacement prevents a protein from causing harm, giving new functions to proteins, and recovering or enhancing the normal function of a protein. This technique is commonly used to prevent, treat or improve animals. This is a permanent process that is very beneficial to animals. The process of animal gene replacement involves several processes ...

Abstract

“Song of Solomon” is the third novel written by Toni Morrison and is a very remarkable and rich piece of fiction. Its power lies not only in the representation of African Americans century but also the author’s insistence on the necessity of healing the alienated and broken protagonist, Milkman Dead. His journey to the recognition of the cultural past can be viewed in the context of the mythic quest, as he follows it, first for gold, and then for knowledge about his ancestry. Significantly, in the novel, the writer employs classical myths, specifically that of Icarus and the ...

Leadership vision

Effective leadership is a necessity for every company, enterprise, or organization that wishes to prosper. Mainly, it involves being in charge of the other members. Although trait leadership theory suggests otherwise, I believe that leadership is a skill and one can learn it at any level. Leaders are not perfect individuals; instead, they are people who have committed to be responsible for a team. A leadership development plan (LDP) is an outline that enables an individual to achieve his or her leadership goals. The plan comprises various elements will help a person to accomplish his or her leadership desires ...

The History of Banking System in India.

The banking system in India has taken tremendous revolutions in the past years. Trade and commerce have been part of the Indian social organization since the times of civilization. The trading organizations were initially organized into social systems that mostly based their relationships on the exchange of goods and services. Banking is important for the economy of a country to grow at the global pace. The changes that these institutions have made for the Indian commerce are quite significant.
Trading activities were formerly held by various social groups and run by the wealthy merchants of the time. Trade and ...

Van Helsing as a Protector: The Role of the Vampire Hunter the Present-Day Vampire Culture

Abstract
The vampire culture grew out of the Gothic genre and became extremely popular throughout the world. The first and most famous representative of the vampire cast is Dracula, who first appeared as a protagonist in Bram Stocker’s book with the same name. Dracula was created as a predator that hid within his threatening castle, and attacked helpless women. The author also introduced Van Helsing, the hero who acted as a protector of women and fought to destroy the monster. However, Van Helsing remained a less popular and well-known character as compared to the monster he hunted. In ...

In a neoliberal, globalized world, no country can exist on its ‘own’. In some way or the other every country is interlinked with the rest of the world be it its economy, its culture or politics. Neoliberalism, technology and increased globalization has transformed countries in a manner that was rapid and unprecedented. While some countries adapted themselves to the new ways of trading and conducting relations with other countries, some did not, resulting in the breakdown of their economies as well as their traditional systems of governance and living. The neoliberal policies originated in the developed countries of America ...

Introduction

Beowulf, the heroic poem first published in Old English is presently finding a common place in modern media. However, Beowulf is portrayed as one eponymous conqueror who is not only hot headed, but dim-witted as well (Haydock 9). Conversely, in Old English literature, he is depicted as an iconic epitome of social intelligence as well as personal restraint. As much as Beowulf is described as having the power of 30 warriors and crowned on numerous occasions for destroying Herculean monsters, his actions as well as a form of dialogue exhibit both deference and modesty (Allard and Richard 76). In ...

Industrial Revolution

Thesis: Industrial revolution has shaped the world history by causing a changeover in technologic, political and social effects.
Initial accumulation of capital and the formation of manufacturing industry represented the initial stage of the development of capitalist relations. This was the period during which the preconditions for the transition to an industrial economy were prepared. The condition of this transition was the industrial revolution, during which there was a radical restructuring of the technical base of production, forms of organization of production and the whole system of socio-economic relations.
The industrial revolution is a fundamental qualitative restructuring of the material ...

Individual Resistance to Organizational Change

Introduction
Effective and efficient change management is critical to the continued organizational success. Initiation and effective management of planned organizational changes remains one of the most important aspects of strategic management, but despite the existence of a wealth of empirical and theoretical information on organizational change, the rate of success for such initiatives remains dismal. According to Kotter (2007), upwards of 80% of organizational change initiatives end in failure, with an estimated 50% of such plans collapsing before the actual implementation stage. Erwin & Garman (2010) observes that less than 38% of planned organizational change initiatives were successful, while only ...

Executive summary

This paper purports to dig into affordable, sustainable housing through a project in which both the environment and affordability are key factors. In an all-encompassing effort to abridge the environmental impact of building, this paper assays that both affordability and sustainability can complement each other in a project to establish an eco-friendly environment.
Part one of this paper, “Sustainability and affordability in the design” lunges a functioning distinction between affordability and sustainability and proceeds to proffer a fabric of green building objectives. Additionally, it is discovered that the green building program excels in the following areas: durability, indoor environmental quality and efficiency. ...

Introduction

Entities of health care recognize revenue for which a little portion of the total amount is billable or billed or the final collection is not assured reasonably at the time the services are rendered. There have been concerns raised by the constituents that these kind of accounting practices lead to gross-up revenue for unexpected amounts to be collected in the end. To add to it, due to the fact that entities of health care make their own decisions as far as bad debts and adjustment to revenues is concerned, the decisions are different from one another and it is not ...

Introduction

Poverty is a phenomenon of socio-oriented order. It is projected on the economy, social relations, politics, and culture, directly affects such basic characteristics of a person’s life as health and education. Therefore, it is important to understand what constitutes poverty in recent decades and what will happen to it in the near future.
Between “gold” and “hungry” billions there is an old abyss, they have contrasting levels of quality and lifestyle. In the era of globalization, social and economic polarization of humanity at the extremes increases. At the beginning of 21st century the share of the most developed countries ...

Robert Green Leaf coined the phrase ‘Servant Leadership.’ Servant leadership model is something that is not really new in today’s world. The Chinese ruler Lao-Tzu was said to be one of the earliest servant leaders living between 570 and 490 B.C. Tao Te Ching says that the highest type of rulership is one whose existence is barely known to the subjects. The Indian book on political science ‘Arthashastra,’ authored by Chanakya says a king is someone who is not to please himself but his subjects, and that a king is a paid leader enjoying the resources of the state and the ...

Introduction

Robert Alter stated it rightly by reading Dickens, we can read "all sorts of other things at the same time—plot, character, moral dilemma, historical predicament, and so forth" (Alter 1996). Charles Dickens was not only a great novelist of all time; he was also one of the important social commentators who through his novels criticized the social, economic, and moral abuses of the Victorian period. He was a versatile genius and master of style who through his words woven magic transporting the readers into the realm of imagination. Born on 7th February 1812, he was the second child to his ...

Introduction

Prior to the widespread adoption of community based policing in the United States, police management followed a bureaucratic model. Traditional models of police management during the early nineties was “a bureaucratic, rigid chain of command, characterized policing in the USA” (Holian, 2007, p. 24). The traditional model characterized police management as reactive instead of the opposite and also slow and inefficient because decision making was bureaucratic and relied heavily on management. Due to the negative outcomes of the traditional model, experts urged the transformation of police management to bring about improvements, particularly the reduction of crime. The cornerstone of this transformation ...

Although Russia did reasonably well to survive the global financial crisis of 2008, however the recent Bi-Annual ranking issued by a London based Research House has put Russia on 65th position out of the total 79 Financial Centre of the World. However, the Government is making consistent effort to establish Moscow as a Global Financial Centre. Below discussed are some of the positive and negative aspects relating to Moscow turning to be a Global Financial Centre:
i)Improvement in Infrastructural Facilities:
Since many years, Moscow was criticized for having poor infrastructure facilities in the form of high traffic and non-modernized buildings. ...

A werewolf is a person presented in folklore, superstition or in mythical stories as a human being who is capable of changing into a wolf, at the complete rising of the full moon, while retaining human intelligence. Throughout the history, the myth of the werewolf was used in a lot of stories having different interpretation of the creature. For a better understanding of this evolution, I will pick two different stories regarding werewolf, in different historical periods, medieval and modern and, I will discuss how time passing influences the aspects of the werewolf.
For the medieval period I have chosen one of the ...

- THE OCENTRIC PERIOD:
- 500BCE – 0
- Middle Age – Byzantium
- ARISTOCRATIC PERIOD:
- Renaissance (1450-1550)
- The Age of Enlightenment (1550-1789)

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RESEARCH JOURNAL
I. OCENTRIC PERIOD:
1. 500BCE – 0:

Ancient and modern have the following characteristics:
- Art was not the beauty residence: it is not the definition of beauty with art.
- Reasoning about art theory and beauty developed independently of each other.

Socrates

Socrates was born in Athens in 470 BC. His father, Sofroniks, was a stonemason and his mother a midwife. From his father, Socrates learned the craft ...

Thesis

Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ and Eudora Welty’s ‘A Worn Path’ are contrastingly different yet similar in some ways. While one is a poem, the other is a short story; however, they both seem to reveal a similar sentiment and expression of the protagonists. In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the narrator, while waking on a road reaches a point where the road splits in two different directions. He stops to ponder which road to take and opts for the road less travelled. He was far from the madding crowd and close to nature. In ‘A Worn Path,’ the story revolves around ...