Essays on Arriving

An example of something that was counter-intuitive

Some countries try to stimulate their economies by increasing the money supply. When people have a lot of money, you would expect them not to be poor since they can buy whatever they desire. Economists have tried to explain what happens in most countries where such policies are implemented. In most cases, it is found that people tend to become poorer despite the availability of money. The common intuition is that the economy will get stimulated, but economists describe this as a country being in a liquidity trap. People demand more than what is the productive capacity of their ...

In this case, there are serious ethical issues pertaining to the withdrawal of life support. The first ethical issue pertaining to this case is based on the fact that medical practitioners have a calling to sustain the health and life of patients, but this case calls for a decision that goes against these duties. The second ethical issue is that the decision to refuse medical intervention (in this case life support) and effectively end an individual’s life should rest with the individual and not anybody else. In this case, the patient has delegated the right to make this ...

It is necessary to consider welfare of employees, their salaries or wages, pensions, benefits, and administration of contracts of employees in accordance with their grievances in order to allow employees to work in most effectual manner. However, this is also essential for ensuring satisfaction of employees. Union movement started in Canada as there was fight for wage cut, workers were discriminated, and labor conflict was increasing because of arrival of immigrants from Ireland, Britain, and Scotland, who became involved in the crowd behavior for protesting alleged injustices of employers. Further, in 1990s, variations in trade agreements, economic system, and ...

Rational choice model is a multi-step models that policy makers employ in arriving at decisions and policy choices that offer a range of alternatives to choose from. The rational choice model provides policymakers with steps that include formulation of goals, identification of the criteria for decision making, identification of alternatives and performance of a grouped analysis before making the final decision of what choices to make among the provided alternatives. According to Birkland (105), economics is one of the disciplines that that constantly employed the rational decision model to arrive at amicable solutions among alternatives. Today, politics and politicians ...

Final Essay: Robert Bresson’s Dictum & Film Analysis of “A Man Escaped”

Introduction The modern film-viewer may anticipate feeling abashed, or risk feeling bored when scrutinizing an old, black-and-white movie that lacks an action package. However, Robert Bresson’s film made in 1956, A Man Escaped, offers a compelling example of filmmaking skills which captivate the attention of its audience. One of Director Robert Bresson’s favorite dictums asserts that “What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear” (“Notes on Sound”). Control of narrative space, and command of sound perspective strategies in the film demonstrate an exercise of the filmmaker’s philosophy. The film analysis herein, ...

It is an interesting aspect of history and that prior to the 16th century Europe and its various nations were merely a barbaric and insignificant periphery on the world stage. Great Asian powers dominated most of the known world, both militarily and economically. Following Columbus’s voyage in 1492, Europe slowly shifted to become the geographic, economic and military center of the entire world. In no small part due to its superior ships and superior seamanship, Europe was able to use its newfound capabilities to tap into the riches to be gained from both the New World and Asia. ...

Andrew Carnegie and the Making of US Steel

Background Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835, to his parents William and Margaret Carnegie. They moved to the United States of America in 1848, when Andrew was aged thirteen years. On arriving and settling in the Allegheny City, near Pittsburg, Andrew's father secured a job in a cotton factory, with Andrew playing the role of a bobbin boy in the same organization. One year after arriving in the United States, Andrew got a job with the Pittsburg Telegraph office as a messenger, a job he did very well, so well that he was promoted to the position ...

Philosophy

Introduction Man has always gazed at the stars and attempted to answer the question about the existence of any life anywhere else in the Universe apart from Earth. While for the better part of the first two thousand years After Christ, there was a popular assumption that Man is unique in the Universe, the acceptance of the ‘Copernican Principle’ (Tyson, 2003) in the 1500s, when Nicholas Copernicus put the sun back in its proper place at the center of the solar system, propelled the notion that man may not be unique after all. Given the fact that the three ...

Executive Travel Report

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (Israel) Fast Facts Status Financial center of Israel and 2nd most populous city Time zone UCT/GMT +3 hours

Political system Democracy

Main religion Judaism Language(s) Hebrew, Arabic, English Currency exchange rate 1 ILS = 0.26 USD; Inverse 3.76 USD

Arriving to Ben-Gurion International Airport (Tel Aviv)

The airport is located 20 km (12.5 miles) outside the city. Equipped with 3 terminals, the airport is designed to service approximately 16 million travelers a year. You will arrive to Terminal 3 that accepts international flights. Inside the terminal you will find an emergency clinic, post office, currency exchange centers, 24 hour banks and a number and of ...

(Thames Tunnel) Projects, as learnt from multiple sources, are one of the primary ways by which we change our world. Whether the aim is to separate an atom or tunnel under the English Channel or introduce new software or make plans for the next Olympic games in Brazil, the only means to achieve all these activities remains relatively the same: via project management (Anon, 2016). Project management has been in existence for many years. Many people tend to think that it is a new venture for development. Project management was and still is involved in planning, coordination, monitoring and ...

The Great Migration occurred in 1916 when African-Americans sought rescue and did not leave the country. They had no leader and there was 6 million people involved while the incident was happening at night. This was a family tragedy as well and it left trace on the future generations. The freedom of black people today has been affected by the gruesome experiences of their ancestors. Mamie Carthan Till got married in Chicago where she lived with her son Emmet who was raised to respect white supremacy. “That August, he was kidnapped, beaten and shot to death, ostensibly for whistling ...

ABSTRACT

Brenda Spencer, at age 16, killed two people, injured a police officer as well as several school children when she opened fire on an elementary school across the street from her home while students were arriving for class. Brenda made startling proclamations about the school shooting. She claimed the shooting made her day better, and that the shootings were fun. After being sentenced to twenty-five years to life, she has been denied parole since the incident and remains incarcerated today. There is no comprehensive explanation for the crime of Brenda Spencer. Yet, her mental condition and the positivist theory ...

Decision-making is a cognitive process that aims at selecting a course of action that is best among several alternative possibilities. Every decision that is made ends up producing a final choice that may or may not prompt an action (Kohlen et al., 2015). The decision-making process should be logical if the best alternative option is to be arrived at. During the decision-making process, a nurse manager must weigh both the positive and negative alternatives associated with each available option before arriving at the best decision. Consequently, a nurse manager must also be in a position to forecast the outcome ...

Communication

During every sporting event there is always positive and negative communication. At a local sporting event, featuring a peewee league of young boys, I observed how fans communicated with each other and found it was primarily based on which team they were for, as well as if they felt their favorite player was being treated fairly. I assumed before my observation began that positive and negative communication would be relatively equal throughout the day. My hypothesis was based on the idea that if fans of the same team acted positively toward one another and fans of opposing teams acted ...

Executive Summary

Apple Inc. is a multinational information technology company that designs a number of IT products such as Mac Laptop, iPod, iPad and iPhones among others. The company employs a vertical integrated strategy hence able to control its operations. The company over the years has recorded major profits and this can majorly be attributed to its motivated employees, leadership structure, negotiation and change management strategy. The company’s continued success mainly stems from its motivated employees. By considering the hierarchy of needs, Herzberg’s two way theory and expectation theory, Apple’s employees are wholesomely motivated. With regards to leadership, ...