Essays on Collapse

Analyze and discuss the Bretton Woods Agreement and state what the agreement was for and why it was created. Include any difficulties they faced in getting society to agree with their proposal. Briefly describe the 'gold standard' evolution and collapse. Response: World War II was over. Europe and Asia was in shambles, both in term of governance as well as from an economic standpoint. In order to resurrect Europe from the state that it was in, the Bretton Woods Conference took place in July 1, 1944. Apart from replacing the gold standard with the American dollar, the conference also ...

Introduction to Business and Society-Persuasive Essay

Introduction In his book titled The Short Story of Progress, Ronald Wright analyzes civilizations that have witnessed rapid growth and supremacy. He also elucidates the fatal fall of many such civilizations and enjoins that over-exploiting the environment can lead to ecological catastrophe. By finding answers to questions relating to human origins, reasons for existence and destination of the progress pursuit, Wright warns the society from traversing through progress traps, created by humans themselves, blinded by a short term urge to modernize. “We can go to understand the reckless aspects of human nature and circumvent the danger of arrogant self-destruction, ...

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Neutron Stars: The ‘Death’ of a Death Star

Introduction: Neutron stars are dense, compact masses of subatomic particles (called ‘fermions’) compressed by great gravitational forces (Reisenegger 1). They are classified into three groups: the radio pulsars, which are rotating neutron stars that are predictable pulsators of radio waves due to its fast (Landau n. p.; Reisenegger 2) although sometimes slow (Fuller, et al. 1) rotation; magnetars, which neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the universe and violently burst high-energy X-ray and gamma rays (Landau n. p.); nonrotating binary neutron stars, which are emitters of x-rays (Reisenegger 3); and PSR ...

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This paper deals with two different models of stress theory; namely the response based model of stress which is known as the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) and the Transactional model of stress known as the interaction theory. The General Adaptation Syndrome was developed by Hans Selye while the interaction theory was developed by Lazarus and Folkman. This paper discusses these theories in detail along with the frameworks of coping with stress and its impacts on the subject as developed by these theories. First responders are personnel of different departments and institutions that respond to emergency events and situations to ...

Around the world, there are roughly 1500 potential active volcanos. Most of these volcanoes are around the Pacific Rim also referred to as ‘Ring of Fire.'

Volcanic ash has minerals within it when incorporated into the soil; it adds nutrients.

Volcanic mountain slopes are steep in nature. It makes it inaccessible to both animals and human beings. It provides habitat for rare plant and animal species away from human manipulation. Gases that erupt from volcanoes provide water and atmosphere. Regardless of the slow processes involves I making them it is significant over an extended period. Most volcanoes exist on the brink of tectonic plates. Amongst the tectonic plates, the largest is the Pacific ...

What is a 'Ponzi Scheme', how it Works and How does it Collapse?

A Ponzi scheme represents a fraudulent investment trick where the promoter pays return on investment to previous investors from the money invested by new investors instead of the money earned through profit or gain. Customers are promised to receive higher investment returns, compared to market averages, with no risk at all since they will be paid from the money provided by new clients. This investment scam requires an ample flow of clientele for powering the whole fraudulent system. A Ponzi scheme comes into existence when the promoter is able to cllect initial investment funds from a person. This scheme ...

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This paper aims at studying the role of engineers in the society and the industry. It also focuses on appraising the role that engineers play to change human lives and the world. A general definition of the engineering profession helps in understanding them better. The research aims at assessing the ethical and social responsibility that engineers are bound with. This is achieved by studying the education and training criteria set by the governing and accreditation bodies pertaining to the engineering disciplines. With the help of case studies, the paper seeks to explore the sort of ethical and social responsibilities. ...

INTRODUCTION

With the collapse of the USSR towards the stretch of the last decade of the last century, the Cold War – that delicate seesaw balance of power between the United States and the Union Soviet Socialist Republic – ended resulting significant changes, especially in the areas of intelligence and espionage. Russia’s standing in the international community as a superpower has diminished and presumably, its capabilities in intelligence gathering. Prior to the end of th4e Cold War, Russia closely competed with the US in terms of intelligence gathering and collection. Russia’s chief intelligence arm is the notorious KGB known for ...

The two thousand and eight financial crises resulted in significant economic turndowns. Before it began in two thousand and seven, prices of housing rose, new investment options emerged, and risk diversification increased. Following the crisis, house prices fell by huge percentages. It exposed economic weaknesses of the United States. Additionally, it led to an increase in the unemployment rate by ten percent (Mishkin, 2011). Approximately, nineteen trillion dollars of household wealth were lost. Lehman Brothers collapsed in two thousand and eight affecting the global financial system. Taxpayers had to bail out various banks to stabilize the system. This paper ...

Market discipline has evolved from the real need to address the financial concerns that brought on the last few financial crises. The international economy is tied deeply to the financial sector, and international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been tasked with providing ease of liquidity throughout the world, while also helping to protect the flow of capital across borders to facilitate trade. These financial institutions are remarkably limited to what they can do because they hold little sovereignty over the independent nation-states that compose them; only the World Bank is effective when ...

This paper will discuss the idea of sovereignty after the Cold War, it will examine how the idea of sovereignty has changed as the world becomes more globalized and why the concept of non-interference is no longer acceptable in a world that is becoming more global. Sovereignty is the dominion over a territory. There are four different types of sovereignty. These are Westphalian, which refers to the authority within a country and disregards external factors, interdependence sovereignty or the ability of the country to control the migration to and from their country, domestic sovereignty is the ability of the ...

Introduction

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a set of standards that work as guidelines to promoting and maintaining the highest levels of safety in varied conditions of work. The guidelines facilitate the formulation of policies that safeguard the health and safety of the employees as well as other people who may be present at the workplace such as customers and members of the general public. In the provision of bounce house rentals alongside other party supplies such as chairs, tents, tables, and decorations, the company is faced with a number of safety and health issues such as ...

Out of several things determining the success of the business, the ability to manage the financial risk is also an important factor. Failing to manage the financial risk has lead to the failure of many big companies. MF Global bankruptcy is one of the greatest examples of failure where the company made several attempts to raid the customers’ account to meet the financial obligations (heartland.org, 2012). The company's inability to manage the financial risk caused the loss of million dollars to the customers, and the company turned out to be bankrupt (Till, 2012). This paper explains about various techniques ...

The latest global financial crisis of 2007-2008 years was merely forecasted or expected. Furthermore, no one could predict that it will actually start from the collapse of the real estate and later financial markets of the United States. By that time, globalization processes have occupied not only trade and service industry, but also labor, financial and banking segments. In the modern world, globalization is inevitable, due to fast spread of the information, constant movements of the human resources, development of the international companies, emergence of new economic and trade unions, etc. Definitely, globalization opens new horizons and helps to ...

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Literature review Russia has a very large number of hospitals, physicians, and health care workers as compared to any other country in the world. In spite of this, the medical care fraternity has failed to offer standard and acceptable health care services to its people. Russia has faced a health care system crisis for an extended period since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Significant transformation in the social, economic, and political environment has adversely affected the health care system (Britnell, 2015). The poor health care system in Russia has been precipitated by the lack of medical and technical ...

BOP Assignment

A firm’s internal and external environment affects its performance in the market. It is worth noting that there are several tools of analysis used to determine the manner in which a given organization performs in its environment. Business operations take place within an environment. The environment factors are classified into internal and external factors depending on the type and ability of the firm to control. In this case, BHS is an example of an enterprise that was bought by an investor and merged into his wider business. After a while, it was on the verge of collapse, and ...

Thesis: Social media is increasingly becoming a fundamental tool for fostering political awareness and action in Saudi Arabia.

Introduction Saudi Arabia has one of the most repressive media regulations in the world with a score of 83/100 in the most recent survey by the Freedom House, where 0 represents the best score while 100 represents the worst score. The authorities mugged the freedom of the media, further, in 2014 with the passage of the antiterrorism legislation and a series of arrests that silenced some of the most vocal critics (Freedom House). The fragile environment from which journalist operate from has led to a high level of suspicion on the mainstream media which is controlled by powerful government ...

Investing in Saudi Arabia Market: Oil and Gas Services

Dissertation Proposal Rationale of the Study The rationale of the study is stipulated by the necessity to extend the analysis of the investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia market, the greatest oil, and gas supplier on the Arab Peninsula. The role of Saudi Arabia in the global economy is determined by the significant amounts of raw hydrocarbon deposits – the explored volumes of oil and gas equal to 40,3% and 22,7% of the world deposit accordingly. The experts estimate the financial assets of public and private Saudi Arabian structures in around $4 trillion. Economic and political processes taking place ...

What lessons should Kazakhstan learn from the collapse of the real estate market?

When the real estate market burst in Kazakhstan in the summer of 2007, it caught the country by surprise. There were signs that were missed or grossly underestimated; these signs could have assisted in the mitigation of the effects of the burst of the construction bubble. There are very many lessons from the events that led to the collapse of the real estate market. First, the introduction of mortgages into Kazakhstan played a key role in the creation of surplus demand for the already booming construction industry (Griffin & Pustay, 2015). This in turn led to an increase in real ...

A Report on Internet Misuse in Business Firms

Business organizations rely heavily on internet enabled systems in the present age. This has necessitated unrestricted use of internet in business firms, especially in creative area like graphic designing. This report addresses the same issue in a graphic design firm where the author works as an account manager. The firm is doing well and currently has a strength of 14 employees. However the owner is concerned about the unregulated use of the internet which allows the employees to download almost anything or view inappropriate web content in the workplace. The concern of the owner is justified because the irresponsible ...

[Your College & University Name] [Date Here] Introduction: The roof of Hartford Civic Center Coliseum, in Connecticut, USA, collapsed in the early morning of January 18, 1978, during a freezing rain storm after a period of snow. Any loss of life or injury was averted, as the building was empty at that time. However, six hours earlier, on the evening of 17th January, the coliseum was filled with around 5000 basketball fans. Thus, a major disaster was averted (Gammell,B., n.d.). Though the snowstorm was strong, heavy snowstorm occurs in Hartford, Connecticut. The failure of the roof after only 3 ...

Introduction

Economic performance is an important aspect that every country needs to consider if it intends to monitor its progress development-wise. Conducting this performance reviews involves reviewing the Gross domestic product values that a country registers every year and formulates a trend upon which certain conclusions can be drawn. The information obtained from this process is very reliable which means that decisions can be made based on this. Therefore, the essence of this paper is to apply various macroeconomic concepts to the economy of Singapore. From the information, it is possible to extract significant information such as unemployment rate in ...

Fed fund return is the term used in the United States of America. Fed fund return is the rate of return or the interest rate at which the financial institutions especially the depository institutions like credit union and bank lend the excess of its balance, often known as reserve balance, to the other similar kind of depository institutions without having the collateral. The fund that is deposited in the Federal Reserve to maintain the reserve requirement as specified by the regulatory body is called reserve fund. Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers did not collapse in a single day. The ...

William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written in the 18th century. Blake used parallel versions of his poems to construct an ideal form of human existence which he later compared against the contemporary society. His works, which were sometimes considered deeply spiritual, caused some of his critics to dismiss him as a Lunatic and his work as the rantings of a lunatic. Blake was also an artist and his images accompanied most of his poems. Blake used parallel poems to respond to the decay in the human values in the society (Vines 116). Many ...

This paper will look at the similarities and differences in the Presidencies of Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt became President during a trying time for America. The Great Depression was in full swing caused by the fact that Wall Street and the banks had collapsed causing millions of people or about 25 percent of the population. to be without jobs or financial security (Miller). When Roosevelt came into office he put together an economic package known as the New Deal in order to help alleviate the crisis and get men back to work. Almost seventy years later in ...

Charismatic leadership in relation to Weber’s theory is the perception of the sub-ordinates that a leader has an attractively inspired gift, which will change their lives extraordinary (Sendjaya, 2015). It is based on the characteristics of the leaders like passion, confidence, and high level ability to influence people. However, these abilities of the leaders sometimes contribute to dysfunctional attitudes, such as high level egoism and self-centralism (Van Wart, 2014). In other words, a leader can be positive charismatic leader or negative charismatic leader. The leader with positive charismatic leadership abilities is oriented to others, whereas the leader with ...

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The given case study discusses the rise and fall of Nortel Networks Corporation, which was one of the world’s largest telecommunication corporation. Nortel was a Canadian global organization that was at its peak in the early 2000s and apparently, it botched due to inefficient echelon management, inflated earnings and costs, dysfunctional directors’ board, as well as, illusion of constancy and stability. Although there were numerous possibilities that could have been adopted to prevent the fall and demise of the company; however, those roads were unfortunately not traveled. Nortel’s downfall began when it fails to live up to ...

Introduction

The Caucasus is a region, characterized by diverse ethnic and religious composition and the high number of ethnic conflicts and separatist regions. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states of this region witnessed and suffered numerous confrontations on the ethnic ground and faced several claims for separation and independence. Azerbaijan and Armenia confronted each other because of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory; Chechnya was a problematic region of Russian Federation, striving and fighting for independence, as a result, suffered two wars; and Georgia – a tiny mountainous state that shares borders with Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, witnessed a ...

Prior to the Great Depression policy makers in the United States generally tended to accept that business cycles happened and in accord with Adam Smith's "invisible hand," tended to be self-correcting. The stock market crash of 1929, and the more general problem of massive unemployment forced a reconsideration. Smiley (2008) and Bernstein (2016) both point out that the human face of the Depression left no choice but for some government intervention. Jahan and Papageorgiou (2014), discussing Keynesian Economics put it plainly: “The central tenet of this school of thought is that government intervention can stabilize the economy.” The centerpiece ...

The global financial crisis of 2008 has left its indelible mark on history. A series of explanations, which appeared along with difficult economic terms, abbreviations, and other puzzlingfactors were published in every newspaper. It is impossible to explain all this in a few words, so the media began to fill long texts with detailed explanations of economic phenomena. And seven years later comes the picture of Adam McKay's "The Big Short" which sets itself the task to tell the real story as simple as possible for the viewer in a simple language. Adam McKay managed to create an impressive ...

The Fall of Tesco Plc 4

Introduction 4 The aim and objectives of the research project 4 Rationale 5 Literature Review 5 Research Methods 7 Research Questions 7 The chosen methods for primary data collection 7 Findings 8 Manipulation of suppliers 8 Accounting Scandal 8 The rise of discounting stores across the United Kingdom 9 Horsemeat outrage 9 Failure to add customer value 9 Discussion and Analysis 10 Conclusions 12 Recommendations 12 Directed at the organization 12 Areas for future research 13 Reflection 13

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The Fall of Tesco Plc Introduction A Statement of the Problem The choice of this research owes its motivation and driving ...

Executive Summary

British Petroleum (BP) has to design and implement a change management program with immediate effect. This is to convince the workforce that the proposed massive job cut is vital for the survival of the organization. As part of this program, the BP management has to make some key changes to its HR policies and practices. The organization should rely specifically on mobile-based e-learning platforms and social media learning in order to promote HR training and development. In addition, the company may use tools such as recognition, perks, and gifting for rewarding employees who go beyond their responsibilities. Finally, the ...

The end of the Second World War saw the escalation of the rivalry between the United States and the USSR over world dominance. The supremacy battles were caused by differences in political ideologies and the economic development thus leading to the cold war. The totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union held many nations in Eastern Europe together for almost 70 years. According to Prados (2011), the disintegration of the USSR brought caused political and economic instability in addition to civil unrests in separate member states. The collapse of the USSR on December 8, 1991, hampered the coordination of the ...

The journey towards the European Union (EU) integration has experienced several turnings. This section of the essay will detail some of the core turning points in the EU integration. Establishment of a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was a major turning point in EU integration. The Treaty of Rome defined the specific objectives of the CAP. The CAP was introduced in 1962 (Folmern.p). The establishment of the CAP was enshrined to the state of food shortages after World War II. The aim of the CAP was to build a common European Community market and to cut off tariffs on agricultural ...

Introduction

The Meaning of the World Being Flat Additionally, this concept was first created during Friedman’s journey in Bangalore, India. He realized that the aspect of globalization has changed many essential economic terms which businesses were already accustomed to over the past 15 years. Friedman also believed that the flattening of the world happened to be a product of the convergence of computers which has a fiber optic micro cable since this created a new era of efficient work flow process and its software. This creation was perceived as Globalization 3.0. It is important to understand that the flattening ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

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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. ...

Does History Matter?

Social ideas and ideals of humanity pass through US history. It is in the struggle for social justice and equality finds its most vivid expression of the social nature of man. As in public life, and accordingly, in the social sciences, the problems in the social justice and equality are inseparable, they are often mixed, identified, although in reality each of these concepts has its own special meaning, its content. Social justice and social equality are the objective quality of social forms of relations of society and citizens. Sami social networks are a set of relations between people as ...

Identify the cause of the collapse of the Hittites and the Assyrians by comparing and contrasting the weakness of their military and political structures Ancient civilizations have formed the basis from which we take our own heritage; despite their age, they can be considered exceptionally complex in terms of their economies with progressive technologies, delicate political structures and organizing military on a large scale. It comes naturally that civilizations’ embrace these in different ways and become more successful than others, with some changing throughout the ages whilst retaining some societal identity such as Egypt, whilst others including the rival ...

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The research topic is relevant due to the ongoing discussions about the historical role of Abraham Lincoln in the national history of the United States of America. Since now there have been absolutely opposite assessments of the presidency of Lincoln: from the openly apologetic to almost offensive. In the first case, the 16th President of the United States appears before us as the Savior of American democracy, the liberator of slaves and statesman, to prevent the collapse of the United States. In the second case it is absolutely "gray" politician who is guilty of inciting four-year Civil war that ...

Many people got used to understand the bankruptcy as process over. This term is associated with lesions in the business market. However, very few people know that bankruptcy may be a unique tool for solving various problems. For example, the bankruptcy procedure can successfully carry out the liquidation of the legal entity. Therefore, it is possible to identify a number of objectively positive and negative aspects of this method of the “disappearance” from market. Advantages of this procedure include (Elliot and Elliot 64): Bankruptcy is the only currently legitimate way to relieve the company from debts before the ...

Introduction

Jessops was founded in 1935 by Frank Jessop Simmons well known around the world for its broad expertise and experience in the photographic industry. While Jessop was a leader in the industry for many years, technological and market changes over the last few decades led to a significant decline in its sales and profitability. By early 2013, it stores closed and it stock ceased being traded. However, soon after this British entrepreneur Peter Jones invested millions of pounds into the business and reopen 36 of the Jessops stores (BBC News Online a). He hoped to turn the business around. ...

Introduction

Market economies constantly change depending on the demand and supply of goods. The demand and supply of a particular service or good is dependent on the unique characteristics of the product that determines the quantity that individuals in the particular market are willing to consume. Other important determinants include the price of the product, the consumer’s preferences; the price of other related products as well as the demographic and income characteristics of the population (Rittenberg & Tregarthen, 2012). The concepts of supply and demand studied in the course are crucial concepts in economics as they are the backbone of ...

In her documentary, 9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions, Sofia Shafquat argues against the myth that the temperature of the fire and the impact of the planes are what caused the collapse of the buildings. Shafquat mentions that the maximum temperature of an open-air, uncontrolled hydrocarbon fire is 1200° F as it was seen at the 9/11 fires, and that the jet-grade kerosene as it is an example of it should have shown the same kind of temperature. She argues and uses as an example the kerosene heater which runs on the same jet-grade kerosene, in that it does not cause any ...

Atari Rapid Growth

Atari’s rapid growth is attributed to the decision of its founder to transform the traditional gaming machines into a smaller home machine. Bushnell compressed the coin-operated Pong game into a smaller home system. The Atari 2600 was the most successful home based gaming system that used cartridge.

How Did Ninitendo Successfully Recreate the Home Video Game Business Following the Atari - Era Boom and Bust?

After the boom and bust of the Atari, Nintendo focused on a diversification strategy. Initially, the company focused on the production of playing cards before the diversification to the production of the video game business. As such, the organization acquired a licensing to produce video games from Magnafox, which led to ...

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESS: CAIFU

Executive Summary Caifu, in an effort to maintain its growth and sustainability, looks to invest its money in a credible organization that has a sound management system and trustworthy leadership. Currently, the companies at its disposition include H&M and Next. Prior to committing any initial capital outlays to one of these companies there is a need for a very thorough analysis in relation to what choice would be lucrative to Caifu especially in the long run. As an employee affiliated to Caifu and its interests, I have been asked to come up with a management report to forward to ...

Canadian French nationalism is a complex issue that has its roots in the settlement of the country by French explorers. It has been a highly emotional issue that has affected the politics of Canada over the years. The eye of the storm is the province of Quebec where 81% of its people spoke French as opposed to the 90% of Canadians who spoke English in the rest of Canada during the early stages of the secessionist movement (Fenwick, 1981). The current Separatist movement has lost power and is no longer the threat to Canadian political and social stability it ...

Article Reviews

The newly developed SASB allowed companies to take into consideration external events (Eccles, 2016) that cannot be controlled such as the effects of climate change. The reason for the accounting standard addition is that governments cannot ignore the effects on industrial markets and their investors (Eccles, 2016). The value of accounting standards is that it allows individuals, companies, and governments to generate wealth since it allows financial performance comparisons (Eccles, 2016). The problem is that there was no previous standard developed for nonfinancial performances (Eccles, 2016) especially on environmental and social activities.

Areas of Agreement

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The American Economy has faced one of the most destructive economic crises in 2008. The crisis started in the sub-mortgage markets has expanded to the financial markets, and the largest financial institutions have declared their bankruptcies. Subsequently, the collapse of the financial markets has spread to all the industries in the country. What the American lost in the global financial crisis and what made the recovery from the crisis tough was the loss of trust for the American Economy among the agents in the economy. Until 2008, the economic development in the US was based on the consumption economy. ...

The film confirms the universal power of faith and belief in yourself. Whoever you may be, your trump card is your faith. Fatalists believe in the inevitability of fate, Gatsby believes that the fate of his was just that, which he invented himself. He achieved the greatness that all was prepared for him since childhood (Churchwell). The film is about how to love, loyalty on his dream. Of course, it is not easy, even dangerous, but maybe we should try it. As long as the person is alive, you can correct any mistakes; realize any dream, even a return ...

Capitalism was the main driving force that led to creation of colonial empires. It began to spread during the time of the Middle Ages and was that impetus due to which market relations started to develop rapidly. Mainly construction and plundering of the colonial system became the basis of such empires. It is obvious that such system largely depended on overseas territories and could last as long as these territories remained obedient and had enough resources. During these historical developments, the main ways of trade and economic centers of Europe gradually shifted from the Mediterranean lands to countries which ...

The biggest scandal of the early 21 th century was that of "Enron". The financial collapse of US energy giant happened with the participation of offshore companies. In the 90s the company began to trade, not only gas but also electricity. The Corporation has entered the stock market, which allowed it to have room for financial maneuvering. "Enron" was the largest trader in the electricity market in 2001 and reached TOP-10 in the "Fortune 500" list. Naturally, there were close links with major policies - it is the "Enron" has become a sponsor of the longwall-George W. Bush in ...

According to Miller, Hess, and Orthmann (2013), a majority of community problems often affect a targeted population or geographical location. In this regard, this trend calls for the need to implement a similar problem-solving tactic, one that focuses primarily on the affected region or population. This concept is managed through application of the SARA Model, an acronym that stands for Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment. The application of this tactic assists in managing problems in a logical and sequential manner, hence increasing chances of success in solving the issue at hand. This paper will apply SARA as a problem-solving ...

When Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan, Christianity was an inferior religion to Judaism, and did not receive recognition. Many Christians faced persecution for their faith as was the case with those who Pliny the Younger killed. According to Tacitus what made the Christians very disagreeable to the Romans was that Christians did not supplicate to the Roman gods. His accusation was that all libels sent with no author must have come from the Christians, and by that claim, Tacitus meant that only Christians wrote libels. For that reason, the implication of the same is that ...

Critical Infrastructure Risks and Vulnerability

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) consists of control systems deployed to monitor and offer surveillance of critical equipment with manufacturing or industrial sites. Such industrial components are the critical infrastructures whose collapse due to interferences is adverse to entire sectors of the economy. Examples of such infrastructures include telecommunications, water, transport, gas and waste control. The SCADA systems collect and interpret instant information for monitoring and control of the systems. The processed data is then continuously reviewed by the administrators SCADA systems in the USA are prone to threats by outsiders from different locations around the globe (Igure, ...

When one looks back through the lens of time at the 9/11 attacks, it is easy to reduce one’s response to those bombings to hatred for Muslim terrorists. It is also easy to reduce one’s response to a belief that the federal government somehow pulled off a hoax in order to motivate the public to support war against al Qaeda and, eventually, Saddam Hussein. However, Dom DeLillo’s “In the Ruins of the Future” and Falling Man pull the reader back to the fear of those days after the attacks. For the first time in the history ...

Research Paper

Introduction The social world is as complex as the physical world. Due to such complexity, sociologists have made considerable efforts to explain various social phenomena through different sociological theories. One of the major sociological theories is functionalism, which has its origins in the works of Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim. The functionalist theory explains how societies survive and maintain social stability. It also explores dysfunctional events like suicide. This paper argues that functionalism can provide a reasonable and accurate explanation of the phenomenon of suicide since social factors, like excessive social cohesion or the lack of it and extreme ...

Introduction

Throughout this discussion, we will analyze the history of life insurance companies, any major events which impacted the life insurance industry, including the Great Recession of 2007 which lasted for two years, rules or regulations proposed by Congress that govern the present operation of life insurance companies, including any changes of insurance laws, the current Presidential candidates plan on implementing for the life insurance industry and future expectations of the operational life insurance environment.

History

The life insurance industry began in the ancient city of Rome around 100 B.C. The Roman militant leader named Caius Marius, had created a certain ...

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There is no denying the fact that nowadays humanity lives in the age of an amazing technical revolution. Our society spends a lot of time and resources in order to build smart homes, vehicles, and gadgets. However, this progress makes people blind to another important issues of the modern world. One of such problems is bees disappearing. In fact, humans know a lot about these beautiful and important insects. Nevertheless, most of people do not understand that bees are extremely valuable for our future because of their main features. For instance, they produce propolis that is ...

Explain significant international and domestic challenges that the United States confronted since World War I.

A. Explain the major causes of the Great Depression: The Great War, now known as World War I, had a profound impact on the international political and economic system. The fallout from this upheaval left many countries economically and politically devastated. A variety of industries and businesses were effected by the destructive violence that was brought by the war. In order to maintain their resources a variety of nations had bankrupted themselves, turning to borrowing or even printing their own money to continue. Furthermore, the war disrupted the generally stable patterns of international trading routes, leading to the dissolution ...