Essays on Alderman

The 2015 Paris attacks inflicted tremendous losses upon the French hospitality market, resulting in the lowest level of customer turnover for some hotels over the last twenty five years. The Paris and Nice attacks caused economic damage, equivalent to damage caused by the 2008 Great Recession (Alderman, 2016). On a global scale, the global tourism industry demonstrated 3 percent growth prior to the 2015 Paris attacks (LaGrave, 2016). Moreover, the global tourism industry employed 7.2 million people more in 2015 alone, providing income for about 284 million people all over the world. Global tourism generated about one-tenth of the ...

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The Walker Within: How Zombies Define Humanity Since it first hit comic store shelves in 2003, The Walking Dead has captivated readers, gaining even more prominence when it was made into a television series by the same name in October, 2010 by AMC. The allure of zombies as a trope is strong; they offer an antagonist that is truly unrelenting and impossible to reason with, while their ability to carry on despite massive and traumatic injury allows for high levels of blood, guts, and gore, appealing to the horror fans that are the zombie genre’s main audience. ...

Adjusting process is the method of analyzing and correcting the accounts at the end of the period before the preparation of the financial statements while the journal entries that always update the accounts at the end of every accounting period is the adjusting entries (Godwin & Alderman, 2012). Firstly, it is important to make the appropriate journal analysis of each transaction during the adjustment procedure. Secondly, post every transaction to the respective ledgers. However, at the end of the accounting period, several balances in the ledger account can be reported without any change in the financial statements. For instance, the ...

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Large and small businesses in all industries face particular risk, which is either perceived or unknown. The risk can occur at any time during the firm operation cycle and lead to the collapse of the particular business. Importantly, the management of various companies includes risk management as part of their strategic plan. Known risks are easy to manage than unforeseen circumstances. Regardless of the risk, every management is keen to implement proper ways to ensure the business doesn’t suffer negatively. Some companies choose to avoid the risk while others control the loss. In some instances, a company may ...

The items I found the most interesting while researching Transnational Corporation (TNC) website are the acquisition of other companies and corporate regulations. While researching Verizon Wireless there was an interesting article about how Verizon has acquired AOL (AOL). This was interesting because these two companies were competitors at one point for internet customers, but now Verizon is overtaking the market. The research into the Wells Fargo Corporate website had an interesting section about corporate regulations on the financial industry, because it seems that the increased regulations cause the company to be less profitable (Wells Fargo). When looking through the ...

Research is a systematic process. It is not a process which is done in an ad hoc manner. Therefore conducting a research requires a certain approach. However, prior to commencing the research process, one has to do a number of things. One of the most critical items during the early stages of research is choosing a topic. Alderman (2014) contend that when it comes to doing a research, finding a good topic is one of the most difficult things. In his view, figuring out an area to research on is usually not a great problem. According to him, narrowing ...

Many educators believe that motivation solely lies fully within an individual student which is not the case. To many students high school is a low point in student engagement despite being a vital time for nurturing the skills necessary to succeed in the adulthood stage. Learning becomes associated with drudgery or hard work instead of delight. This lack of desire to engage actively in study is a great hindrance to attaining good grades or successful completion of high school education.

According to a past research by Stephanie V. Wormton “Motivation in High School” cite that so many students express utmost reluctance to ...

Many educators believe that motivation solely lies fully within an individual student which is not the case. To many students high school is a low point in student engagement despite being a vital time for nurturing the skills necessary to succeed in the adulthood stage. Learning becomes associated with drudgery or hard work instead of delight. This lack of desire to engage actively in study is a great hindrance to attaining good grades or successful completion of high school education.

According to a past research by Stephanie V. Wormton “Motivation in High School” cite that so many students express utmost reluctance to ...

A relationship can be defined as a connection between two people, either through blood, kinship, marriage or by sexual involvement. In this paper, the relationships discussed are those of a romantic or sexual nature. As the world becomes a global village, the differences among people have blurred away, and similarities have become a bonding factor. For this reason, relationships have sprouted between people of different races, ethnic groups and cultures; there are referred to as interracial relationships. In the past, the word interracial meant people with different skin color living in the same country. It also meant people with different cultures and ...

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The LLD 100A is one of the courses that I am taking this semester. I am currently pursuing an undergraduate course majoring in Graphic Design. Many have questioned me about why I chose this particular field but from a young age, I was captivated by art. I use to draw little pictures around out house and even paint my mother’s beautifully decorated walls, something that drove her mad. This interest persisted in me until college when I decided to major in Graphic Design. Recently, the professor of this LLD 100A class recently gave us a discipline investigation assignment where ...

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Computers play a significant role in our lives today; however, no one single person has credit for its invention. The man who had a vision that one day a general-purpose computing machine would exist was Charles Babbage in 1834. The breakthrough came when the use of binary system in electronic was initiated by scientist (Richards & Alderman, 2007). A German mathematician, Konrad Zuse, invented Z1 in 1938, a machine that had a binary-based operating method, a processor unit and memory and thus historians consider Z1 as the first computer. In America world war two, Presper Eckhart and John Mauchly invented ENIAC in 1945, a machine that weighed ...

So how bad is music sharing? Music sharing in the 21st century is something that anyone can do with a computer and blank CDs. In the past, people had to buy music by going to a music store. Today, with technology advancement, sharing of music is as easy as copy and paste (Kaplan). Free music became very popular in the late nineties and early two thousand. With the help of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, illegal music copying was affecting record companies’ sales by huge margins. The music industry began to sue P2P applications that supported sharing of illegal audio. Around the same ...

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One of the most controversial and most-talked issues in the field of medicine is the topic about the use of complementary and alternative medicines. Apparently, there are two sides in this story. Can it really help improve the health outcomes of the patients or it is just a form of a make-believe drug just like other drugs that only offer placebo effects to users? Some people believe that complementary and alternative medicines have positive effects especially when treating specific diseases. On the other hand, some also believe that it cannot heal diseases like most approved, proven, and tested medications. Let ...

The article is about the report of the death of the late former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi in the Guardian media. In the article are allegations about the location of killing of Gaddafi, the possible killer and the likely time when he was killed. The allegations came from different sources around the world. In one source, it was said the Gaddafi had been killed by a NATO strike on his escape from his loyal home town of Sirte. Another report from a representative of Libya in the United Kingdom claimed that Gaddafi was captured alive when on an escape from Sirte ...