Essays on Build-Up

In 399 BC, one of the greatest ancient thinkers, Socrates, faced the trial upon the accusations of his corrupting influence on the Athenian youth, rejection of gods recognized by the Athenian state and invention of new gods. In the course of the trial, the philosopher was given an opportunity to defend himself, and his speech interpreted by Plato under the title Apology has survived until nowadays as a prominent example of rhetoric and argumentation. Socrates moves from explanations of his actions to critique of the values and misconceptions of his accusers (particularly, Meletus). Although one would expect a person ...

In Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Hansen argues that Moscow’s central tenet has always been “to prevent an adversary from discovering Russian intentions by deceiving him about the nature, scope, and timing of an operation,” conceding the idea that there exists a pattern of covert political or militaristic tactics at work in the world. The clandestine affairs nature of world affairs, politics, and strategic military moves between superpowers has always raised curiosity of how individuals act, plan, and engage behaviors that intertwine uncertain outcomes. In the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to the ...

Whenever there rises a conflict, the contending sides may be attempted settling on one-sided choices on key issues due to the conviction that negotiating with the other side will be a deadlock. There exists thenegotiation technique which may pay off in the short term, yet it's critical to consider the long haul costs as far as determination of contention. In the year 2012, there were union negotiations by the Chicago Teachers Union and the City of Chicago. The negotiations prompted a ten-day strike in September. Subsequent to being chosen the chairman of Chicago in February 2011, Rahm Emanuel, Obama's ...

Executive Summary

The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) primary point is to build up new bookkeeping gauges and enhance past bookkeeping norms of monetary reporting and money related bookkeeping identified with nongovernmental elements, so they gives exact data to speculators and different clients of budgetary explanations. The paper portrays the FASB current venture identified with protection identified with focused enhancements to the representing long-span protection contracts. The fundamental point of this anticipate is create focused on upgrades to exposures necessities identified with long haul and brief length protection contracts.

Introduction

The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) has been built up in 1973 ...

I would like to start my analysis by introducing a little bit the movie background and how it was filmed. Almost all members of royal family of Jordan are Arabs related to the Hashemite dynasty, who consider themselves to be direct descendants of Prophet Muhammad. The exception is Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein which is maternal Circassians. Sometime ago he came up with the idea to make a film about the Circassians living in Jordan. Choosing the director for the movie, Prince did not hesitate for too long. He called Mohy Quandour, who was living in London, known as many-sided ...

Introduction and Background of Organization

JetBlue Airlines was founded in 1998 by the former executives of the Southwest Airlines led by David Neeleman. The company specializes in the low-cost travel, but it is very different from the other competitors, because it was able “to bring humanity back to air travel” (Dess, Eisner, McNamara, 2012, p. 148). In particular, the company offers in-flight customer service; the booking and check-in systems are user-friendly, and the multiple routes and low flight fares provide JetBlue with the strong competitive advantage. However, the quick growth in the 2000s meant being exposed to many risks that existed in the external ...

. According to Frayn Florence was one of the main sources of the renaissance (9). The city was armed with wealth that was created by a strong trade of Wool and an efficient banking system. In essence, Wool industry in Florence Italy was known to uplift many banking institutions for many years in Italy for many decades. The investment made on the textile industry specifically from wool carried over 10% of the industry. Beyond any doubt if similar to Weber or Sombart, one wishes to describe the period as a sort of financial structure, in correlation with the kind displayed ...

LEGO is a Danish company that was founded in 1916. Now this company is very popular around the world thanks to the legendary bright construction toys that develop imagination of the children. However, LEGO has been experiencing a very large number of problems since the late 1990s. In the case study the central focus is given to the LEGO’s business strategy that failed to respond to the changed buying habits and globalization issues that significantly reshaped the toy industry. Some of the reasons of the LEGO’s failure include the decision to open one more own plant in ...

Roofing Ventilation

The need for ventilation in roofs and attics became apparent after it was observed that moisture inside attics, caused by the phenomenon of condensation, was deteriorating a large portion of the roofing materials and in extreme cases the insulation of the ceiling. Adding to this grief, wet attics became the breeding place for a variety of fungi and moulds . From then, wet attics had become the nightmare of many house owners. If roofing ventilations were a fancy contraption in the early days, in the modern world they are an integral part of any roofing solution. And gladly, there are ...

1. In class (and in the text) we discussed the use of incentives, such as tax credits, to help develop the video game industry in Ontario, BC, and in Quebec. Discuss how these types of programs are structured to encourage investment in the industry and discuss why/why not you think these programs are a good idea. Can you relate the video game industry incentives to the film tax credits that used to exist in New Brunswick/Nova Scotia? What other industries rely on incentives? The video and TV generation industry in Canada keeps on growing. In 2015, its yearly volume ...

There many different occupations in the humanitarian filed that are focused on helping other and improving the modern society. This essay will discover and describe two of them – social work and psychology in order to clarify, what are their specific characteristics, and how they similar or different are. Social work is considered to be a helping occupation, the main goal and role of which is to improve the society’s and people’s well-being with a specific focus on vulnerable groups of population. Social work applies a systematic way of helping groups of people and individuals in order provide ...

The Crystal Palace is a massive and very impressive building in London that was constructed from iron and glass in 1851 in Hyde Park in London specially for the Great Exhibition of that year. The Palace received its name from the magazine Punch, in which the playwright Douglas Jerrold called it in 1850 as “a palace of very crystal” . Though the building was very beautiful and seemed to have a promising future, after the end of exhibition the Crystal Palace was taken down and moved to Sydenham Hill, the place not far from London. The building there was kept ...

BSA 343

1. Change is the introduction of something that is unusual in the normal way of life. There are different types of changes such as change in an organization, changes in the way of life, and many others. The introduction of change in any institution commonly faced with many challenges as it usually result in a different mode of doing things that an individual is not used to doing. In order to identify the barriers to change, an individual should first look on how other people perceive the change, how willing they are adopting it, the effects that are associated with ...

INTRODUCTION

Professional and personal achievement is optimistic, distinguished and refined. This Personal Development will facilitate me to evaluate individual development requirements, set explicit targets and goal opportunities to meet up these objectives. This achievement of my overall personality will, eventually, benefit me as a person, my family and my learning organization.

Intended for moving up in any type of career an appropriate choice of career development model is must. While following the model, one can go far in his career and climb ladder of success. The most frequently worn process is a 5- step career development model. It takes account of five ...

Migrating from the home country to another country is often a stressful process for many individuals, but if seen with a positive attitude, immigration plays a major role to invest the skills and talents of an individual in the right place. One of the main reasons for immigration is poverty, which is common in the third world countries such as the African and a few Asian countries . People are forced to leave home in search of good job opportunities that pay higher wages so that the economic condition of the families is improved. I want to migrate to one of the most economically strong ...

Scenario 1: Teaching a newly diagnosed type II diabetic patient the importance of monitoring his/her blood glucose level.

This scenario will require applying connectivism theory of learning to help the patient effectively comprehend the importance of monitoring blood glucose level in the body. Connectivism theory is relevant in this scenario since it requires that the patient needs knowledge to assimilate the importance of monitoring his or her blood glucose level. The patient has to be active and learn as the process of learning is carried on. James states that, “Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning” (2013). The theory makes learning contextual as the patient has to connect the information he has concerning ...

Introduction and Background

There has been a lot of evidence that working on health benefit and environmentally friendly projects may have both healthy and economic advantages. In itself, such projects have a positive influence on physical and emotional well-being and health of individual’s. However, essentially the possibility is to have an impact on single representative health which entirely relies on the attributes of the environments that may be universities, industries or other areas. This impact is applied through a few distinct ways amongst individual’s/students: 1. The nature of the exertion as far as demand and control is concerned. 2. The impact ...

Business Ethics

Business Ethics are the moral values and principles that guides businesses the way, they should behave. These ethics help organizations to make right decisions by distinguishing between the right and wrong. The common ethical business practices equal employment opportunities, follow rules regarding child labor, bribery, and copyrighted materials and processes. However, it is not always easy to decide between the wrong and right or to follow an ethical behavior. Since, organizations also have to make competitive profits for their shareholders, carry out fair practices for employees and also perform other important set of responsibilities. Ethical behavior also requires ...

Justification for the choice of the topic

The topic was arrived at following to extensive consultation of the available literature on the costs incurred by insurance firms in the treatment of musculoskeletal issues. Having read the available literature, the following conclusions were arrived at: to begin with, one of two adults in the United States of America currently suffers from a musculoskeletal condition. 7.4% of the nation’s budget is dedicated to the treatment and management of musculoskeletal conditions. With a population that is aging fast and a sedentary lifestyle, the burden of musculoskeletal care is expected to rise with time. Insurance firms have to bear the bulk of ...

Literature gives a reflection of the society we live in, authors are able to get their ideas from the issue that face the society and organize these ideas to come up with plays, novels, poems and even songs. Once one can connect what an author presents to the contemporary society, it is very easy to understand the themes and the ideas that the author reflects. 1. Compare and contrast the depiction of female characters in Oedipus Rex, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Glass Menagerie. What does each author suggest about the role of women in his society ...

We have at our disposal credible information from our intelligence personnel based in Tucson, AZ, Mexico and U.S. that a new drug cartel is setting up business in Tucson, AZ. The leader of the largest drug cartel in Mexico was arrested last week following concerted efforts of the Criminal Investigation Agency, the Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), office of the Inspector General, the Internal Revenue Service, DEA’s Aviation Unit and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We have also used our undercover agents to buy some drugs from the business based in Tucson. Our agents confirm to us that the ...

Credit unions can be said to be depository institutions that make loans as well as accept deposits. They are smaller than other depository institutions, for instance the bank. However, they have registered significant growth over the past few years. Although they are smaller than the banks, credit unions operate below the banking statutes and their laws and rules are identical to those of the bank shifts (Mishkin 45). One of the reasons why credit unions are smaller could be because they are owned by the members. Therefore, each member would be entitled to vote while selecting their board ...

The text, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the war that took place in Greek and that involved numerous instances of conflict and cooperation between the feuding political units. This paper seeks to examine the frequent conflicts and cooperation between the political units, the causes of such occurrences; the principal actors and the consequences of this phenomenon. In the second part of the paper, we make an assessment of both the causes and the conduct of the War and make the case whether the same is applicable to the 21st century or not. The ...

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Iraqi forces represents yet another critical milestone in Iraq’s turbulent recent history. The policy options available to the United States are complicated by the regional dimensions of the conflict and the divergent interests of key players, most notably Iran, Syria, Russia, a loose coalistion of Western countries and Sunni-regimes in the region. While most of the policy options may be framed as a search for the “least bad” policy to address this quagmire, there may be a path worth exploring to transform the situation into a rare opportunity ...

Somali Community

Nutritional habits among members of the Somali communities are normally influenced with the religious values, traditions and family habits, education, and ensuing healthcare counsels from the area. However a small section of the community also involves in drug abuse which can at some extent influence their nutritional habits. Under the religion of Islam, certain foods are prohibited while others are allowed. In this regard, the Somali people may avoid foods such as baby formulas, cheese and yoghurt due to the concern that they may contain pork. During fasting, people normally eat foods such as samosas, manadazis, homemade cakes among others ...

Literature Review

Literature Review: Introduction There is a vast literature available that explains how brand image should be develop? Moreover, how image of a brand should be created? In order to understand the importance of brand image and methods and strategies to create an image of any brand, the literature review will provide strategies and examples. The literature review contains information that will be collected from various studies that are based on research done by scholars and authors for the development of image for any brand. The airline companies are also using concepts related to brand image creation. Therefore, airline brand ...

“Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’ “The Birth-Mark” and “The Cask of Amontillado” – A comparative study Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two important contributors of the nineteenth-century American literature. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated authors, posthumously though, of the past century. Some of his stories are almost autobiographical, and though he lived in a previous era, his ideas were far ahead of his time. Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author, whose works are even today cited for seeking ethical guidance. His stories urge the reader to analyze his moral confusions. This essay is an attempt to compare and ...

Part 1: Schooling models

Presently in USA, several models of schooling are prevalent. These are - public schools; including charter schools, magnet schools, public schools choice programs, private schools, independent schools, parochial schools, proprietary schools and home schools. As a stakeholder to the development of society, it is important for everyone to be aware of the different schooling models in existent . Through this presentation, the focus is on the establishment of a concise comparative picture of relative success of these models.

Types of schools selected

Government’s policy, ‘No Child Will Left Behind Act’ ensures all students irrespective of race, custom, gender, disability status, migrant having limited English knowledge ...

English

Introduction Plastic and cosmetic surgery is a growing trend in the medical industry and widely influences the growth of medical tourism. The various procedures classified under plastic and cosmetic surgery encompasses the reshaping and altercation of appearance of the human body. The objective of cosmetic surgery is to change the aesthetical condition of the part of the body that does not look pleasing, but performs its intended function normally. However, plastic cosmetic surgery also has its risks and complications. The discussion will highlight the different forms of cosmetic and plastic own surgery along with the risks that come along ...

Tinham, B. (January 01, 2005). Visibility gives thought for food: Lean and agile multi-site supply chain operations are being delivered at Grampian Country Food, following implementation of new systems. Manufacturing Computer Solutions. The article involves a study on implementation of Lean and agile multi-site supply chain operations at Grampian County Food, a leading European chicken industry. The business has multiple businesses, and in different geographical locations with dependencies on each other. Each of the businesses was acquired over different times, with its unique systems market routes and business processes. The article provides a program on the appropriate time to integrate the ...

Review of Collapse: Prologue, (2005) Viking Press, New York Summary: The prologue of the book is the part wherein Diamond summarizes the contents of the entire book in just one whole paragraph. The comparative methods employed by Diamond on his book aims to better understand the reasons for the collapse of previous civilizations, as well as the direct relation over the environmental issues. The prologue enumerates the five fatal reasons that contribute to the collapse of the society. By studying the civilizations of Norse, Vikings and other ancient peoples, Diamond was able to lay out these five reasons ...

Right atrium temporarily carries deoxygenated blood from body tissues. It receives deoxygenated blood from the upper portion of the body via superior vena cava. In addition, deoxygenated blood from the lower portion of the body enters the right atrium via inferior vena cava. Upper portion of the body carries the head, neck, and other organs situated superior to the heart while lower portion carries legs and other body parts situated superior to the heart. As more blood enters the right atrium, it fills up. This makes its walls to contract causing pressure to build up. The pressure causes the ...

Stress in the Mid-West Region of the United States

Stress is defined as a tension or pressure exerted on the emotional or mental capacity of a person due to very adverse or demanding circumstances. There are various sources of stress. They include emotional problems, health issues and relationships. Others include lifer changes or stresses and strains in the family. These issues affect the mental or psychological well-being of a person. People commit suicide, murder and other social vices in a community due to stress. Others get into drug abuse so as to forget the things that give them stress. Some causes of stress are, death of a loved one, relationship break up, dismissal ...

Arguably one among the rarest disorders, pyromania is complicated, both in diagnosis and treatment. Categorized under the impulsive control disorders, pyromania is complicated by the fact that it has quite a number of common characteristics with such ICDs as compulsive gambling, kleptomania, trichotillomania and a few others. The name pyromania is derived from two Greek words, pyr (meaning fire) and mania (meaning madness). While this disorder was the latest to join the list of known ICDs, it has for a long time been associated with social insanity. Before the disorder was scientifically identified, people considered all fires to be arson. Pyromania is ...

Every single person on this planet has its own values, interests and the certain path to follow. Choosing the road is the most difficult trial, but once the choice is made – no one should be able to stop you. Your personal environment, your inner world is being constantly formed by your beliefs and relations with others. Build up your soul and body, state yourself as a person and never forget of people who trust you. With the time passing, I have learned that there are three most important values that one has to educate himself with: optimism, belief in others, ...

Just in time production systems are based upon the simple concept that excess work in progress is a waste of company resources. This is a part of a “Lean” manufacturing system. Toyota is one of the pioneers of this manufacturing style. It uses a “push” or a “pull” style assembly line and kanban cards to ensure that there are no excessive resources wasted on building inventory that is not needed. As with a classic assembly line, the product moves down the line and receives an additional part at each assembly node on the line. In either the push or pull style there are assembly stations ...

Question 1: Plot

Look carefully at each act of the drama. What is the function of each? What important event or situation is developed in each act by Shapespeare? Each act or scene or act of drama when intergrated in a play or drama plays a major roe in the build up of the play. It is therefore imperative to note that the playwright uses each part to build up the major theme he or she intends to communicate to the reader or audience. It is for this reason tha it can be said that Shakespeare in his play Hamlet, uses all the ...

(Name of Professor) SmokingSmoking is considered as one of the health risk factors that could result in the development of chronic diseases. The use of tobacco has been described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a risk for increasing deaths and the growing prevalence of lung and heart diseases. There are different causes why smoking could adversely affect the body’s normal function and alter its healthy state. As a consequence, there are significant effects produced by smoking to the body. While smoking is considered to be a behavioral health risk factor, it is highly preventable. It is ...

Introduction

Over the years, there were two main contending theories in the United States concerning the emergence of life: evolution and creationism. Evolution characterized science’s view of how creation began, and creationism presented the religious elucidations. Later, came the intelligent design theory, also referred to as the design theory. This is the opinion that nature displays concrete signs of having been devised by a preexisting intelligence. The intelligent design concept purports that an unsystematic natural process could have developed life by no chance. Rather, only the direction of an intelligent power can explicate the intricacy and diversity evidenced today. Since ...

Dear Mr. [Name of Addressee]:

As the Vice-President of HR Department of the company, I feel proud in stating that our company started its operation in year 2000 and since its inception, it has gradually progressed through time and currently the working strength of the company is 75 full-time employees along with 25 part-time employees which brings a total of 100 employees working in the company. The Human Resource Department at the company has efficiently managed the working requirements of the production deadlines through introducing effective working and leave scheduling system. The deployment of each employee is according to their expertise and skills which further ...

Pressure Ulcers

According to Frankel & Benett (2000), a hospital acquired condition (HAC) is a detrimental condition or situation that influence a patient, which occur during a reside in a medical facility or hospital. A pressure ulcer refers to area of contained damage to the underlying tissues and skin, which is caused by shear, friction and pressure and or a mixture of these. The vital determinants of pressure ulcer growth are the duration and intensity of pressure and the lenience for pressure of the outer skin as well as it is underneath structures. Pressure ulcers are avoidable or preventable with high-quality essential nursing care, with nothing unusual, ...

Introduction

Diverse cultural background in the work place focuses on issues such as religion, race, ethnicity, gender, and social values. Having a diverse workforce or employee in terms of cultural background is requires that the employers take into account the various needs of their employee. For instance, some of the needs that have to be considered include: dressing, religious practices, customs, social value, family obligations, and non verbal behaviors (Rugman & Collinson, 2009). Different cultures have different expressions for these aspects. For example, some cultures require specific dressing code such as wearing turbans at all times, while other cultures may require ...

The company is a partnership of five owners who equally own and manages its running. The managerial responsibilities will be divided for the efficient management of the administrative operations. The farm and its offices will be open from 6.00pm to 8.00pm weekdays and Saturday. On Sundays, the enterprise will be closed apart from its eatery, which will be open from 12.00pm to 6.00pm. A website will be launched in line with its e-services, and the Chickenya domain is yet to be secured.

Business Description

Chickenya Poultry Limited is a start-up business venture that seeks to provide quality eggs and chicks, to farmers ...

Communication is the key that people communicate with each other, which is also a very important way how do parents educate their children. From the moment when the parents holding the cute little baby who was just born till the moment of the parents saying “goodbye” to the “baby”, the parents play a significant role in the baby’s” life of being caring, supporting, loving and most importantly—educating the “baby” through communication. Recently, I have been through an awful depression which I had had got out days ago. During that time, I called my parents numerous times seeking for help, ...

Outline Thesis: Conversably, chocolate is good for human health as it improves cardiovascular healthiness, heart functioning, prevents cancer, as well as brain stimulant.

Arguably, human health is the most important issues in the globe today. Therefore, people in the world would like to know entirely everything that can be good for their health. In this case, chocolate is very good for human health. Chocolate is a substance prepared from the seeds originated from a plant known as cacao. Several products of chocolate are accessible on various markets. Undeniably, the products range from cocoa, which is powdered to white chocolate. ...

Question One

Undoubtedly, the terrorist events attendant to the Terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 provided the instantaneous spark or rather excuse for what has been referred to as the War on Terror. This represented a coming to a head of the development of many theories in security studies to explain the events before and after 9/11. The three theories selected to explain the explanatory power or lack thereof when applied to 9/11 are Realism, Social Constructivism, and Liberalism.

Realism encompasses as a sequence of methods in security studies that are used to examine ...

IN RECRUITING NEW EMPLOYEES, NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE

Human Resources HR353

The Effectiveness of Online Social Networking in Recruiting New Employees, Negative and Positive

The introduction of the internet into the field of business has improved many of the traditionally done functions of the human resources department and one of them is recruiting new employees. Traditionally, recruiting new employees are done through mailed applications or walk-in applications then the applicant is called into a series of tests and a final interview. The procedure is longer as it would take months before companies would select the new employee. With this style of recruiting, not only does it cost a lot of ...

The cycle of household violence is a recurring pattern that often occurs in most people who are violent in their affairs. The supposition that domestic violence occurs repetitively was developed by Lenore Walker after conducting a study in the United States in the year 1979 (Donaldson, Flood & Elaine 28). This theory shows how and why a person who commits family and domestic violence may change his behavior so significantly over a period of time. This theory helps the victims understand why they are affected by family and domestic violence.

There are various stages that are in this cycle of violence. After one identifies ...

Introduction

This is a social structure which is made up of individuals connected together by some interdependency like friendship, common interest or any kind of relationship that can make the individuals share something in common. A typical social network is composed of individuals called nodes and the connections called ties. The ties involve the interconnections between the individuals. In our study we are going to carry out a research on social network and how it has impacted the society. We are also going to look at its benefits and analysis of various social networking sites with an evaluation of their statistics ...

Introduction

Quality of air is a determinant in the quality of life, indoor air is important as people spend on average 80-90% of their lives in door (WHO, 2007). Indoor air quality began a long time but only been a health concern decades ago when awareness of contaminants presented in the air. The problem begins when the construction of building are highly insulated to conserve energy, which caused a trap to air intoxicants inside the building (E. Willard, 2005). This causes the exchange of outdoor to indoor to lessen and therefore the indoor air pollution builds up.

Indoor air quality is a complex issue as ...