Essays on Caitlin

Introduction

Costco, the third largest retailer chain in the U.S. and the seventh largest retailer in the world, has significantly grown in the last ten years, a critical period disrupted by the great recession, e-commerce revolution, and global competition. Although a big number of retailing enterprises failed to survive the difficult challenges of the decade, Costco demonstrated an outstanding revenue growth performance over its key competitors – Wal-mart (includes Sam’s Club), BJ’s, Target, Sears, and JC Penney. However, based on an analysis of the 10-year financials of Costco and its key competitors, the profit performance of Costco has not ...

The world has been facing numerous outbreaks of diseases in the recent past. The most pressing outbreak posing a threat to the world now is Ebola. The Ebola virus first emerged in Zaire and Sudan in 1976. It’s from this region that the name Ebola came to be. Ebola a river found in Zaire where the virus was detected. In that year, it infected about two hundred and eighty-four people. The mortality rate was 53%. Later in the same year, about three hundred and eighteen people were infected with a mortality rate of 88% in Zaire. In 1989, imported monkeys from ...

Work of art, a gallery

A work of art that under discussion is one that was is known as the An Index of Saskatchewan Fauna and Other Curiosities. The exhibition was done or was curated by Caitlin Mullan. The project was coordinated by Jennifer Matotek, who is the director or the Curator of the Dunlop Art Gallery. Apart from Matotek, the exhibition was also directed by John Smell, who is the Manager, Public Programmes in the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. I visited the museum on December 6, 2014. The art was quite appealing to the eye, and I was attracted to it. The caption of ...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." This a famous quote chiseled in stone on the main entrance of New York Post office. In the current time, the job of carrying mail is no longer as lofty as the quote. United States Postal Service is plagued with multiple problems including fall in revenues and dysfunctional post offices. There are 31,272 post offices in the country with more than 8 million employees. Clerks, mail carriers, truck delivery personnel form the core of the postal service. USPS ...

The United States is one of the countries in the world with the highest rate of obesity. Indeed, it is second only to Mexico, the country with the highest rate of obesity in the world. Obesity is higher among adults than children. Gavin and Mcbrearty outline that in 2010 35.7% of adults and 17% of children in the US were obese (4). In this essay, the author attempts to explain why the rate of obesity is high in the United States than in other countries. Some of the factors that cause a high rate of obesity in this country include ...

In numerous ways, the human body can be regarded as chemical dispensation plant. In that, chemicals are ingested, processed via a variety of types of reactions, and then dispensed all over the body to be utilized instantaneously or accumulated for later utility. These chemicals utilized by the body can be separated into two wide groups: the macronutrients, those that we require frequently and in great quantities, and micronutrients, those that we require merely in small amounts. Among the macronutrients, there are three major classes necessary to living organisms: carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

Simple Carbohydrates vs. complex carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are referred to as the major energy ...

1. Discuss how aquamarine forms and explain the chemical composition (elements)

Aquamarine gemstones are members of the prominent beryl group of minerals. Beryl crystals are among the valued gems that occur naturally. Aquamarine and beryl in general, is composed of atoms of beryllium, aluminium, silicon, and oxygen. The chemical formula for beryl is Be3Al2SiO6 (Scheper 12). Aboriginal rocks facilitate the growth conditions for aquamarine formation. As the plutonic plate condensed, minerals were crystallized to create gemstones like aquamarine. The dimension of the crystal is proportionate to the cooling rate. Large crystals are created when the pace of cooling is extremely slow. In addition, Aquamarine is found in naturally occurring geological ...