Essays on Adapting

1. Describe the company in terms of industry, size, number of employees, and history Amazon was founded in 1995, now it is the largest bookstore in the world that operates in 185 countries. In 2011, Amazon employed 30 thousand employees. Amazon expected that earnings will increase at the expense of the volume of business, as the company works with a large number of clients and offers many diverse products. Amazon has distribution channels, which are provided by a network of giant warehouses located around the world. Amazon takes the goods from the seller to their warehouses located throughout the ...

Introduction

The Ebola virus has existed for centuries. Like all life forms and viruses, it has been changing and adapting since the beginning of time to survive. Despite this the disease did not make itself known until the twentieth century. However, once the virus revealed itself only three major outbreaks have occurred. There were two in 1976 and one which took started in 2014 (CDC, 2015). The latest outbreak has been the longest and worst, effecting numerous countries such as, Mali, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal in West Africa (CDC, 2015). This paper will look at the scientific aspects of the ...

Millennials

Today Millennials, or Generation Y, as they are sometimes called, catch a lot of negative energy from previous generation for being obsessed with technology, unwilling to find jobs, and outright lazy. Generation X, and primarily Baby Boomers wonder why Millennials did not play more outside, or walk seven miles both ways in the snow to sit on a dirt floor in school. They are touted as being too sensitive, whiny, overly-politically correct, and at times are blamed for ruining the country. While there is some truth to these claims, there are explanations for why Millennials live their lives the ...

Societies have their base on human interaction. For many years, human evolution has depended on communication for fulfilling needs and setting new challenges. The migration of tribes, the first forms of commerce, the birth of civilizations were all possible thanks to communication. One may see the evident impact of communication on the evolution of the world, which has obviously changed from the pre-historic times to the present. Even though communication has not always led to positive outcomes, humans have proven that only good and effective communication leads to success. The transformation of tribes into empires depended greatly on who ...

How does cultural intelligence differ in India and the United States?

Cognitive Skills and abilities: The paper “Social Skills Intervention for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A Literature Review from the American Perspective” by Kaili Chen assesses the relationship between social skills and behavioral difficulties for students in special educational programs. The author contends that social skills are a necessary element in the learning environment due to the capabilities that they provide to learners in interacting and communicating in order to help determine their difficulties and to help them function more successfully. Difficulties with these faculties is often discovered to be a primary factor in the inability for an individual to ...

Introduction

For a business to grow effectively, it must have a good strategic plan which states what its wants to do and evaluate on that strategic plan. This strategic plan should be aimed at achieving business objectives, measures, and targets.

Marketing and information technology strategies and tactics

In the current world, technology is growing each day, and for a business to be competitive, it has to adapt to this technological changes. Some of the ways to do this are by making use of the social media to embrace and advertise the business, adapting to the new technology and applying it to the business, making use of the ...

Introduction

As one of the fastest growing markets within the leisure industry, cruise tourism bridges the gaps between exploration and comfort, providing an alternative way for individuals to envisage the world around them. Due to its increase in popularity, the cruise industry has had to adapt to trends in consumer needs; balancing luxury, exploration and expectation in order to create a unified package that can compete with rival companies within the cruise industry. Focusing on the Viking cruise company specifically, this case study shall illustrate how companies within the cruise industry perform when adapting to pressures and demands by consumers ...

Vid30 complex participation in the degradation of CDC25 in yeast and their role in Ras/ cAMP/ PKA pathway

Background: Unicellular organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae in its total life cycle is exposed to diverse and changing nutrient conditions. Thus, in order to survive and achieve a competitive advantage, it has adapted itself such that it not only uses the wide range of available nutrient sources but also the sources that are nutrient rich. It mainly uses fructose and glucose by rapidly fermenting to alcohol. In response to these nutrient conditions, the intracellular trafficking transcription and turnover of protein from nutrient transporters (e.g. Hxts) get regulated. Therefore, when the availability of the glucose increases, the expression of low- ...

A rhetorical analysis of language is not a summary or an interpretation of what the author meant. Rather, it is a treatise on how the author presents his or her material (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 16). At issue are the rhetorical features of the text-the author's purpose, the intended audience, what kinds of claims he makes, and the way he uses evidence (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 16). That evidence is used to show how an author attempts to persuade whatever audience he has chosen. The rhetorical plan is to analyze the text in terms of with the grain reading, ...

Introduction

The process of learning in animals and humans come through a series of situations that come together to motivate, and ignite the brains and enable them to repeat specific actions in the face of certain circumstances. The basic logic presented by psychologists and biologists is that there is intrinsic motivation based on the brain which controls the nerves and models of an animal or human being. This implies that an external variable triggers an extrinsic motivation that gets the organism to ignite the internal or intrinsic motivation in order to undertake certain actions and internalize it in order to ...

Novel adaptations into a film are quite a common practice seen these days. Cardwell (11) defines the term adaption as the process of adapting one text into another text. It is a process of modifying a thing so as to suit new condition. Many beautiful and award winning novels have been adapted in the films periodically by the Hollywood directors. It is a question of debate whether the original one is better or the adapted version is better. Among these several novels, one famous novel and the film adaptation is The Color Purple. A comparative analysis is done between ...

There are three strategies to achieving goals in the organizational context; doing nothing, doing nothing differently and doing something differently. Each of these three strategies is appropriate for different scenarios. Doing nothing refers to refers to both abandoning what an organization is currently doing and not adapting new strategies to meet its goals. Despite the efficacy of this strategy, conventional wisdom dictates that all organizational challenges must be met with action of some sort. However, busyness does not necessarily translate to productivity. Doing nothing allows for creativity that if channeled correctly will result in productivity. Evidently, this strategy is ...

Women’s health is an important area to consider. Particularly, the critical stage in their life is the stage when they achieve the motherhood. Numerous care specialists investigated this specific stage so as to gain insights of clinical importance. In such context, the present description deals with a topic, Mammography-Literature review on Breast compression. Briefly, a breast compression refers to ‘breast flattening’ such that the adequate quantity of tissue could be visualized through imaging and tested, during a mammographic examination (Breast Compression,2015) Rationale: Breast compression, at the time of mammography, is one of the various fundamental technical approaches ...

Carrillo defines cultural competence as the abilities possessed by medical practitioners in adapting to different cultures (23). These medical practitioners have the knowledge and skills, which help them, understand how different cultures work, and are able to balance the diverse cultural orientation. In medicine, like any other profession, cultural competence is important due to the cultural exposure doctors are subjected to; for instance from one country to another. Cultural competence course has imparted three lessons that are practical to my doctorate profession. Firstly, the course enhanced understanding of the challenges doctors undergo in adopting cultural competence. Doctors need to ...

Executive Summary

In the year 2008, Boffi was considered to be among foremost companies of Italy in the production of the high-class kitchens with a combined turnover of around seventy-one million euros. Boffi Spa won the award in kitchen sector named "Compassod'Oro", which was a significant design award given by “Italian Industrial Design Association” to the companies and the products that eminent themselves for design philosophy and hard work. At the very beginning, Boffi was just a gigantic dream that emerged from a small laboratory; after seventy years of its foundation, product lines of Boffi were dispensed in more than sixty ...

In short, not everyone who experiences traumatic episodes is diagnosed with PTSD. It is really a situation that depends upon the individual. Some individuals, for example, can go through a traumatic episode and never experience symptoms of PTSD. At the same time, some individuals can experience what many would consider to minor stress related issues in life, yet encounter PTSD with a vengeance. When many people encounter a traumatic experience, they will feel sad, frightened, disconnected, or possibly anxious. These feelings are quite normal within the span of human emotions. For many people, these feelings will be short lived ...

David Mayom's description of his experiences as a lost boy and life afterwards

The movie entitled Lost Boys of Sudan certainly talks about a number of boys who were compelled to flee their residential homes for various refugee camps, USA as well as the European nations States during the civil warfare that took place in Sudan. An astonishing voyage across Africa took away the lives of some people. David Mayom, who is the writer of the film, points out that those who survived were frequently left having no family as well as no optimisms for going back home. However, the Lost Boys did not disregard their mother country, Sudan or rather their ...

Introduction

Counterinsurgency refers to any efforts initiated by either civilians or governments; that are geared towards quelling or thwarting an uprising or a guerilla insurgency within a given jurisdiction. Since many insurgencies present very novel circumstances; it is imperative that the counterinsurgents are appraised with these situations and that they adjust to the given situation accordingly. The process of seeking a thorough understanding of the processes of the adverse party and conforming to the newly tailored measures of countering these processes is what is prominently referred to as learning and adaptability. Here is a concise analysis of the importance of ...

I.0 Introduction The Farm Bank, just like any other organization must enhance its capabilities to be able to cope with the growing demands of the banking institution. While the top management came up with the right decision in adopting a new Management Information System (MIS), our analysis revealed that the managers should have made the decision after taking every aspect related to the new MIS (Ahmed and Omotunde, 2012) This is especially so in the banking industry where there are complex processes involved in the collection, analysis, summarization and presentation of valuable information that are needed for decision making. ...

Innovation in Health Care

Abstract This paper explores innovations in healthcare and the barriers involved. Research includes the trials of political and managerial influences and how they promote or delay the execution of innovative health care. The benefits of innovative healthcare will be outlined as well as the challenges faced through barriers on many levels throughout business and political operations. Ultimately, the paper is in favor of innovative healthcare and advocates to enrich the reader on the overall importance of effective and rapid innovation in the medical sector. The paper also explores the weak points of the American health care system and references ...

Executive Summary

Jack Welch is one of the formidable American chief executives of all times. Staying at the helm of General Electric for more than twenty years, he managed to increase total value of the company on 4,000%, eradicate corporate bureaucracy and create a completely new business philosophy of the corporation. This research analyzes the core elements of his leadership style. In particular, it speaks about the methods, which Jack Welch used for transforming the company and the challenges, which he faced in this endeavor. The case study specifically focuses on analyzing re-structuring of the top-management of GE, his approach ...

Religion has been the foundation of arrangement and strife of social orders, where both viewpoints make a noteworthy commitment to our comprehension of society. However, a new form of religion known as capitalism religion has developed which is now the source of hope and fulfilment for people in the modern world. This exposition will look into a structuralist and interpretative position on the effect of the capitalism religion on society and how religion can be used to help people understand it as a false hope. The scholars that will be utilized are Karl Marx, Max Weber, and David Loy. ...

Introduction

Anxiety and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are two closely related disorder that affect children and youth between the ages of 1 and 14 years. The condition has been prevailing among many minority groups in the Australia and currently it affects the majority groups. The Australian Bureau of Statistics recorded an estimate of 115, 500 of Australians, which represents 0.5 percent of the total population, had autism in 2012. The number recorded a 79 percent increase from statistics collected in 2009. The age of the victim determines ASD prevalence with high cases affecting children between ages of 5 to 9 ...

In a globalized world, it seems as though culture shock is inevitable. Essentially, people “encounter culture shock whenever they uproot themselves from a familiar setting an move to an unfamiliar one,” (Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2011, p. 93). With millions of people traveling as tourists, finding work in other countries, and students studying outside of their homeland, culture shock is an experience that will ultimately affect so many. For some scholars, what it really boils down to is how a person handles their culture shock, and how their reaction to culture shock will affect their ability to adapt to a new ...

Immersion in Morocco

I encountered Rachid, a Moroccan, international student on a visit to his lifelong friend studying here on campus. Rachid, whom I met over in a social gathering organized for celebrating a friend's birthday at a nearby restaurant, was as active and as open a person as one could imagine. Before I met Rachid, I had never met a Moroccan before. Our first encounter was, if anything, a particularly fulfilling one and hence more encounters in subsequent days. In our first encounter, I was introduced to Rachid by a distant friend who spent last summer in Casablanca, Morocco. There, our ...

Question 1

Migrants have faced a significant problem settling or rather adapting to their host countries. Nonetheless, there are different ways they can use to adjust to the host society, for instance, ethnic pluralism, assimilation, and transnationalism. Assimilation is whereby two distinct groups of people from different cultures merge to share a common culture. When migrants move to new countries, they have to assimilate with the natives by learning their culture and social life. On the other hand, there is pluralism whereby a group of people come together and decides to maintain their identity and culture. For the case of the ...

Personal practice theory

Abstract This paper sheds light on some of the requirements for the Theories of Personality and Counseling class. The writer’s stand is that as individuals have different and evolving needs, a therapist should integrate different techniques and have a clearly stated approach. This paper discusses theories that include multimodal counseling therapy, existential theory, and person-centered counseling. The paper also discusses how each approach is used in accordance and how the three approaches can be integrated to achieve the desired results.

Introduction Researchers discovering the connection between educators' beliefs and their class activities realized that educator's knowledge and skills ...

“Successful international firms frequently introduce standardized products covering most market needs, thereby replacing many specialized products"

Introduction The globalization and internationalization has increased the concerns of international business and international marketing. The firms have been involved in developing themselves into the Multinational Corporations (MNCs) rather than local and national firm. It has resulted in various MNCs across the world such as Coca Cola, McDonalds, Pepsi Co., KFC, Wall Mart, Zara, Unilever, Nestle etc. Marketing strategy is defined as the development of the decisions for the resource allocation, relationship of the company with the investors and the timings for the actions. With the growth in the internationalization, the management of the companies is now more concerned ...

Adapting Sports for the Younger Performer

Introduction Many kids want to be famous athletes when they are young and will work towards that faraway goal depending on how long their desire persists. Some will realize the hard work and dedication that is required is too much and will seek an easier or different course in life to follow. Others will try even harder, but only a select few will find that they possess the skills to transcend to the next level of competition. For all young performers that compete it is important to recognize that kids are not to be treated as adults despite their ...

It is vital for any person, particularly a manager, to understand himself. As I read through the chapter, I was very interested in how the different areas relate to each other – no one component functions alone, neither giving nor receiving influence from the other aspects of self-awareness. I can humbly state that I have experience in self-evaluation in all areas and have consciously considered my shortcomings when I recognized them. For, while I value myself as a unique and beautiful person and tell myself I value others in the same way, I sometimes find myself judging someone else. They ...

Abstract

All over the world economic challenges have deeply affected the lives of millions of immigrant families and the hardest hit are the children. Skyrocketing economic disadvantages have led to job layoffs and lack of the basic necessities in life and the immigrant children have consequently suffered from immense mental health problems and constant abuse. Low levels of income are inextricably linked with rising levels of homelessness and lack of other basic needs and the immigrant children are particularly affected by these adverse conditions. Thousands of immigrant children have been reported to have a wide variety of mental problems which are ...

Macy’s is the miracle of United States’ retail industry and the largest chain of department stores in the world. However, it is not a mere store - it truly is the embodiment of priceless experience and traditions of American nation. Macy’s Inc. is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and New York, New York. As of January 30, 2010, the company operates a total of 800 shops in the U.S (Macy’s Inc., n.d.).

During 150 years Macy’s Inc. has been doing impossible things to continuously surprise their customers care (Grippo, 2009, p.23). Their department stores have absolutely everything for ...