Essays on BOP

GE Healthcare’s Venue 40 changed the healthcare industry and allowed the company to bring healthcare to developing markets that were otherwise not accessible without a product that could be used with little to no training. Unlike the more expensive imaging devices such as CT and MRI, Ultrasound (US) offers detailed image quality at a fraction of the cost. US is also simple to use which makes it easy prey for non-healthcare practitioners that have non-treatment purposes as its intended use. The Venue 40 is portable and lacks knobs, keyboards and other germ collecting surfaces, therefore, making it ideal for ...

Balance of Payment overview

Balance of Payment is a record of an economy’s transactions with the other countries over an economic period which is mainly one year. The records include trade transactions for both exports and imports of services and goods as well as financial transfers and financial capital. In that respect, the Balance of payment between America and Australia for the period 2006 – 2013 is a summary of transactions between the two economies over those economic periods.

- Current Account Balances Among the key components of a balance of payment is the current account which records goods and services flow between the ...

Analysis of human failure contribution to process risk – The Case of Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico

Abstract

The Gulf of Mexico is considered to have accounted for roughly 90% of the complete offshore drilling in the United States of America in terms of the oil volume that is extracted. This number can be further equated to approximately one-third of the total production of oil in the United States of America. There are more than 50, 000 wells that have been drilled here since the year 1947 and of these 4,000 wells were dug deeper than 1, 000 ft. of water. As of date, more or less 80% of the total offshore drilling happens at a ...

Question 1

Should private prisons be used as a way to reduce prison overcrowding? Why, or why not? What do you feel should be done to help mitigate prevention of prison overcrowding? Provide detailed examples, and explain why these would benefit the corrections system.

Response 1

Yes, private prisons should be used to reduce prison overcrowding. In 2006, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an Emergency Proclamation that authorized the state of California to transfer prisoners to private-out-of-state prisons . The transfer of some inmates to private prisons mitigates prevention of prison overcrowding and it benefits the correction system; however, to the families and friends ...

Introduction

Miles Davis is vital figure in the 1950s music as he drew together different trends in hard bop and cool jazz. His career travelled from cool jazz and bebop into the heroin addiction since his return at the 1954 caused the shifting to hard bop. Miles emerged a hero of jazz because of the magnificent change that he brought to jazz. From 1949 to 1969, he changed the rules of jazz five timers. Just as Coltrane, Miles’ organized a continuous music growing group that their music styles and concepts were very dynamic for the better. The two artists are considered ...

Miles Davis and John Coltrane are commonly considered to be two of the greatest musicians of their time. Innovators, performers and artists, they contributed significantly to both the music and culture of mid-20th century America, at a time when civil rights was a hot-button issue and popular culture itself was experiencing a crossroads. The free jazz movement started in the late 1940s, as jazz musicians began to experiment with world music influences and other genres, creating new opportunities for composition and performance. While Miles Davis helped develop the concepts of cool jazz, both he and John Coltrane were extremely influential in developing ...

A good fraction of prisons in the United States are privately run (National Institute of Justice, n.d.). Because of the growing concern for the privatization of prisons, the National Institute of Justice run a cost and performance analyses in 2007, and was termed the Taft Studies. The two-edged sword of a privately run criminal justice organizations is it has to comply with a certain standard set by the private funder. While BOP-operated prisons trust their program review. No one can tell whichever is better, but until a single standard is created, we cannot say for sure which is better – a private or BOP-operated organization. ...

Recent U.S. BOP Performance: Is the Sky Falling?

In the case, the sky is falling has two theories that involve the statement that US economical industries are non-competitive in the international market and foreigners are taking the step of buying assets in the US which are valuable and making a country a debtor in the history of world economy. In this condition, everything seems so wonderful from the top, which also has a meaning, that foreigners are much fascinated with the US market’s future prospects. It also depicts the democracy of economy that the investors are eagerly investing in US ...

1956 – Hard Bop. Hard Bop developed from Bop and spread through the East Coast. Adherents of this style believed that cool jazz was too “European” and wanted to return more blues and Afro-centric elements. Hard Bop was an assertive style that characterized by more active drummers, improvisations, darker and heavier ambience. Style was preferred primary by urban musicians from Philadelphia and Detroit (“Cool Jazz and Hard Bop”). In 1956 Sonny Rollins with different musicians created several significant albums: “Tenor Madness”, “Volume one”, “Colossus”, “Plus Four” and other. Rollins also became a tenor saxophonist of Miles Davis Quintet that was ...

Jazz is a diverse art so attending a concert is always an interesting event. I managed to squeeze my way into the Hard Bop Jazz Ensemble Group to attend a concert they gave at the South Florida University campus some weeks ago. It was an interesting event, since this group is renowned as amongst the best in the area and is packed with several emerging musicians of the highest calibre. The Hard Bop Jazz Ensemble performed at several events of note, and these include major jazz festivals held in Switzerland, Italy and Holland where they always garnered considerable praise and critical ...

Bip-Bop Technology Solutions

P.O. Box 220

Dasman, Kuwait

For the attention of: Bob Jones, CEO WEB SUMMIT CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE Dear Mr. Jones, This morning, I have been invited to attend a major technology conference called Web Summit, held annually in Dublin, Ireland. Each year, leaders in technology meet at this conference to network and create partnerships across our industry. Web Summit presents a remarkable opportunity for Bip-Bop Technology Solutions to create new partnerships, increase our market share, and improve our bottom line. Based upon my leading sales records and recent performance reviews, I should attend this conference to accurately present our company's goals ...

The period between 1900 and 1940 witnessed huge growth and development of jazz leading it to become a widely popular genre of music not just in the United States but the entire globe. However, as is with any other type of music, this genre saw a lot of transformation in terms of style and structure. As time progressed, new forms of jazz that deviated from the traditional style and structure started to emerge. A perfect example of this is the bebop style that started gaining popularity in the 1940’s. The bebop style began to become popular at the onset of ...

The swing era was marked by the introduction of jazz to the world. This genre of music started for the Southern states of the US. New Orleans in Louisiana is particularly considered to be the home of jazz music. During the swing era, this genre of music started to be acknowledged not only throughout the country but throughout the world. It was so influential that even some composers of classical music started borrowing some components from it. In the 1940’, there emerged a new sub-genre of jazz music that was referred to as Bebop. Jazz had been increasing developing ...

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me---we two---you, me talk on this page. (I hear New York too.) Me---who?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn’t make me NOT like the same things other folks like who are other races.

So will my page be colored that I write?

Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, ...

Jazz is just one of the genres of music and just like other genres; it has its own set of subgenres too. One of the most popular and romanticized subgenres of jazz is hard bop. Some of the most popular hard bop artists include but may not be limited to Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Health, Clifford Brown, Horace Silver, and the hard bop artist who will be the focus of this paper, Charles Mingus Jr. One of the most popular works of Charles Mingus Jr. was the Fables of Faubus. Having heard to the song numerous times, ...

United States and China

I. Legal System The United States criminal legal system is based on the British Common Law system. Common law refers to those laws that are created and imposed by judges in the absence of specific a specific code or applicable statute defining the law (LaFave, 2000). Accordingly, during the early years of the nation when a judge was faced with a criminal activity that was not covered by a statute, he would use precedent, or refer to the decisions of similar cases, for guidance. Absent statute and precedent, the judge would simple use his best legal, professional and personal judgment to make ...

Wynton Marsalis is a truly unique figure in the world of jazz music. He is internationally acclaimed as not only a musician, but also as a composer, bandleader, and educator. He is arguably the first musician in the world to compose and perform music over the complete jazz spectrum including compositions that characterize the roots of jazz in the New Orleans tradition, bebop, modern jazz He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz Similarly, the characteristic skill and sound specific to Marsalis ...

Introduction

The imprisonment of women with serious mental illness captured the interest and concern of the public. The prisons or jails are not designed to provide services to mental health issues. However, the issues in mental health are one of the priorities of the Federal Bureau of Prisons or BOP. The BOP encourages the women inmates to highly participate in programs to improve their personal growth and to reduce their problems through the effective guidelines of the program. The necessities of women in the detention only received less attention and neglected by health systems and prisons authorities, as well . The ...

Many companies have been interested in the development in countries with a large number of middle-class people. These groups of people can be able to afford basic services and products. I think BOP market development does raise ethical issues. I am of the belief and opinion that it is not ethical for companies to deny services and products to persons of BOP. This is because the BOP people have slimmer profit margins as compared to middle class or top of the pyramid. That being said it was my belief that ethical issues can rise the BOP market depending on the ...

Management

Question 4 The management of every company requires an integrated system to make sure that its services and products are conveniently accessible by current and prospective customers. Michael Porter first conceptualized the value chain analysis as a strategy for companies and organizations to attain competitive advantage. Additionally, the strategy enhances both financial and service delivery accountability. Doo-Bop Group drives its customer satisfaction on a cultural diversity agenda where every woman has an opportunity to select and find beauty products that match the nature of her skin.

Inbound Logistics

All requested orders between Monday and Friday are processed on the same day ...

The bottom of the pyramid is an economic term that was used to denote the greatest population that was comprised of the poorest people both economically and socially, who were living in a very low income per day. It is the most segregated group that contained a very invisible potential and market that was never served for a long time. Because of the many barriers and challenges that faced this group, it was cut from enjoying the privileges of the globalized economy and the technologically advanced world because it was claimed that they could not afford commodities enjoyed by most of the ...

Music is an individual process of describing a composer or musician`s feelings and thoughts, that`s why every music masterpiece is so much different from another one. Let us take two great jazzmen, Earl Hines and John Coltrane, who worked in different times, depicting different life of people. They lived and worked in time, when everything was full of jazz as the contrary to classical music, jazz was considered immoral and inappropriate way to play and compose. Everything has changed in time and jazz has become one of the most popular genres of music of the time. Let us ...

"Work out like a star! Play seventeen stylist game! Enter a style war!" (Seventeen) These are just some of the headlines that daily attract a vast number of teenagers to read this magazine. Based on the some of the most popular magazines for teenagers it may be said that the message that is sent is mainly aimed at the physical appearance, love life, fashion and music. What are the messages that these magazines send to the young population? In order to be one of the popular girls of boys, a person has to take care about every part of its body, to be ...

Module/course Name

General Electric Healthcare with worth of $17 billion was a separate division of General Electrics. It was recognized for its high end medical instruments and medical solutions for developed countries. GE Healthcare entered into a joint venture with Wipro operating in India to realize the benefits of low cost, educated and talented technical staff available in India and to overcome the regulatory limitations and operational complexities. This essay will analyze the strategic shift taken by GE Healthcare to exploit mass market opportunity available in emerging countries. It also entails the challenges GE Healthcare faced while operating in the emerging markets and ...

Poverty is a bitter truth which exists in our society and after the current economic crisis, the amount of poverty and people live below the poverty line has increased heavily. The market in which poor people, who have limited income and very low level of literacy exists is known as Bottom of Pyramid Market (BOP). Companies, especially multinational companies always try to have some sort of challenges in entering in the region of BOP. - In mitigating and managing the challenges related to the product development for BOP market could be resolved by the multinational companies (MNCs) by launch ...

Introduction3

Statistics.3 Offshore oil drilling4 Effects on the environment.7 Recommended solutions10 Conclusion.13

Works Cited14

Abstract Today, the United States has over 5600 offshore gas and oil platforms; there are also over 27,000 miles of pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico area alone. This shows the extent to which offshore oil drilling occurs in the United States. In other developed parts of the world, the situation is the same. Oil is a product on high demand; this facilitates efforts in extracting it form its deposits deep in the sea floor. The retrieval requires the use of sophisticated equipment ...

China-US External Imbalances

Current economic surplus of China was in the focus of attention of economic policy discussion as well as academic studies on external imbalances for over a decade. The core of this discussion is the relationships between the growing trade and the country radical exchange rate regime. Modern economic environment in China is often blamed for taking jobs away and slowing down economic growth in its major partner, the United States. The statistics presented in the Appendix 1 reflect the relationships between the level of the U.S. BoP and global economic crises over the past 2 decades. The reality of ...

In the early 40s many creative musicians began to feel acute stagnation in the development of jazz, which arose due to the emergence of a huge number of trendy dance and jazz bands. They did not seek to express the true spirit of jazz, mass-produced and used blanks and techniques best teams. Trying to break out of the impasse was made by young, first of all - the New York musicians, among whom alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, drummer Kenny Clarke, pianist Thelonious Monk are included. Gradually they began to emerge experiments with a new style, with a light hand ...

Keeping Prison Drug Treatment an Option

Keeping Prison Drug Treatment an Option

Introduction

Understanding the social benefits of keeping prison drug treatment an option as part of prisoner rehabilitation engages increasing support in the ongoing debate about its efficacy. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of the 211,150 total prison population, over 50 percent have drug related convictions (2013). From 1990 and well into the first decade of the 21st century, America's controversial "war on drugs" contributes to the continued overcrowding in the nation's prisons (VanderWaal, Taxman, & Gurka-Ndanyi, 2008, p. 127). According to van Wormer and Persson (2010), " A large percentage of inmates ...

Facilitator:

Harlem Renaissance is one of the most prominent artistic trends of 20th century American history that affected music, art and literature to an extent of changing the American cultural setting. This period describes a revolution in 1920s in which African American musicians, artists, writers and philosophers attempted to promote the black culture and heritage within the American community. A trend that inclined towards a more political aggressiveness and self-confident perspective of identity and racial delight prompted the establishment of the idea of the ‘new negro’, essentially popularized by Alain Locke. The 1920s witnessed a progressive migration of the African Americans from the ...

Law and order – have always preserved the world from total chaos. From the dawn of the civilization special rules, which were later developed into laws were created to regulate the relations between different individuals within the state. This is the only way to keep things in the society under the control. Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine the world without jurisdiction, modern criminalistics and forensic science and other essential bodies that control order and justice within the country. As a result specific correctional institutions were created. There are two main types – jails and prisons. The only difference between them ...

- What ethical issue or dilemma was Bob Hopkins facing? Bop Hopkins faced various challenges, he had gotten a job at a commercial bank, the bank is too bureaucratic, and makes his career to appear to be on a stone face. When he interacted with Stan, he is in dilemma since he was not in very aware of the requirements of pinks; the rule of the scaffold pinks shows the extent of them being restrictive hence hard to venture into the business environment available. He was not in agreement with Stan, as he did not consult; he only found a note that ...

The poem, Theme for English, by the eminent poet, Langston Hughes, gives the impression that it has been penned in a stream of consciousness and the readers readily connect with the speaker who goes on to describe his meandering thoughts and questions. The speaker in this poem is a young black person of 22 years who studies in an institution. In an age riddled with racism, this individual comes across as open-minded and intrepid enough to face the status quo. He stirs the heart of the readers with his challenging question and his courage of conviction looms large all through the ...

The Federal Bureau of Prison Fundamental takes the responsibility of protecting the community from offenders. The offenders are confined in a community based and controlled environments that are cost effective, secure, humane, as well as safe. As a matter of fact, the environments provided by the Federal Bureau of Prison Fundamentals present criminals with an opportunity to change their behaviors and be citizens who abide to the laws of the community. The core values that work in the Bureau are respect, integrity, and correctional excellence. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is one of the critical models in public administration. It always ...

In this context, Bop is a dialogue excerpt between simple and an unknown writer. Be-bop is defined as the opposite of Re-Bop. The present application of Be Bop in real life is referred to as the black boys play. On the contrary, Re Bop is the white boys play. Additionally, Bop was an expression of the sound produced when a police hit a Negro using his old club (Langston 76). The club produced an entertaining sound Bop, Bop. Langston was a black boy whose parents lived as slaves in a white family. Therefore, he was very conversant with slave beating using clubs. Bop ...

Introduction

This kind of music began in the 20th Century in areas such as the New Orleans, Kansas City and Chicago. It was first sung by the African American who combined the European harmony with African beats. Through the years, the jazz music has also included the American popular music. The jazz music has been one of America’s greatest successes because it is there that it was started and it began to spread throughout the world. The music is able to unite people from various backgrounds such as race, countries, age, and religion. Through the music, people are able ...

The Robert Courtney Case

- Discuss the rights and expectations that a patient has when interacting with an organization or person providing some level of healthcare services.

There are several rights which every patient receiving medical care has and should expect compliance with. These rights are:

The right to be treated with respect, that means that they will not be discriminated against for any reason by the providers, practitioners, or even the payer. The patient has a right to obtain their medical records as enshrined under HIPPA in 1996. HIPPA furthermore enshrines a right to privacy of medical records except where excepted by the act. The right to make a treatment choice, meaning, the right to define the course of medical care and choose alternative treatment ...

Introduction

Humans are peculiar creatures endowed with ability to think, reason, socialize, and make rational and logical decisions. This aspect differentiates human beings from other animal species living in the universe. Unlike animals, human beings have formulated and enacted laws that guide their daily activities. Nations across the globe have formulated and enacted criminal laws through the act of parliament with the aim of maintaining status quo and social order (Engdahl, 2010). Although criminal laws differ across nations, they remain effective in deterring crime; promote coexistence and unity among the people. Under the provisions of the constitution, members of the ...

- Is it exploitation for a company to profit from selling soaps, shampoo, personal computers, and ice cream, etc., to people with little disposable income? It is not supposed to be considered as exploitation for a company to profit from selling such commodities as shampoo, ice cream, soaps and personal computers to the poor people, especially when the company takes some appropriate steps. These commodities need to be affordable to the people with little income and be obtained by this group of people in a most convenient way possible. Suitable illustrations of these can be seen in the case presented. For ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is classified as a high income non-OECD economy by The World Bank. It is an oil-based economy and the leading producer of oil and natural gas in the whole world. In 2011, oil production is at 10 million barrel per day. As reported in BBC.com, Saudi holds more than 25% of the world’s oil reserves and owns the largest hydrocarbon reserves (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14702705). To date, the country is considered as the world’s leading oil exporter. With strong government control over the major economic activities, the Kingdom’s economy is heavily sensitive to developments in the ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has come up as a highly important and one of the fundamental features of the globalized economy in the past two decades. The Global FDI inflow statistics show big rising figures from 1990 to 2009, rising to $1.1 trillion from $208 billion which resulted in a cumulative stock of approximately $18 trillion by the end of year 2009. The positive trend of International investment has gained as double the importance as of trade of goods and services across borders. FDI has grown faster than the world GDP and is a result of comparatively relaxed policies of the home ...

Prisons are perchance the most important instructions, second only to the court, with regards to the judicial system of any nation. Served with the chief duties of rehabilitation and punishment, there are a plethora of programs in use in the prisons to help them meet their mandate. However, it is a common occurrence that a good percentage of released prisoners always get rearrested for similar or variant crimes within three years of release. To this effect, a plethora of programs have always been devised to help in preventing released prisoners from reverting to crime (recidivate) with a good number of measures also taken with ...

Jazz

Introduction: Jazz is a genre of music that begun in the 20th century as result of a mixture of African and American music culture. For over a long period jazz has included 19th and 20th century’s music. West African jazz has a unique characteristic that uses blue notes, improvisation, syncopation, polyrhythm, call-response and the swing note. The Latin fusions further included afro-Cuban which lived from 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from 1970s, acid jazz from 1980s. Acid jazz merged both funk and hip-hop features. Afterwards Nu jazz preceded acid jazz later in the 1990s. Jazz has no clear definition up ...

Introduction

The term art has diverse description based on the area of application. It originates from the word artificial meaning man-made therefore considering everything that has been built by man and has an emotional link to an artist and the audience is art. Art plays a major role in our daily lives; a deeper imagination of the world without arts is simply not possible. The world we live in today is full of arts from the shoes we wear to the desk in our offices. It involves designing of an object or an activity to solve a particular problem. Musicians sing to pass ...