Essays on Contemplating

The Epic of Gilgamesh is regarded as one of the earliest extant written works and is in many ways the foundation for every story that would come after it, from the Biblical story of Noah and the flood to today’s action-adventure superheroes. The Epic of Gilgamesh tells a tale of gods and monsters, and of two heroes—King Gilgamesh and his companion, Enkidu—whose impossible feats of strength, bravery, and cunning would fit easily alongside those of figures like Perseus and Hercules. Like the myths of other well-known heroes, Gilgamesh and Enkidu undertake quests, first killing the Humbaba, ...

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Team based approach is considered to be one of the main concepts that may lead to positive developments in an organization such as increased productivity, high levels of efficiency in operations and reduction in the cost of operations. The San Francisco General Hospital is contemplating to use the team based approach in order to attain these objectives. Therefore, the organization has to embrace specific training programs such as on the job training technique, the instruction training technique and the job rotation techniques. Despite these techniques being associated with different training issues, effective measures can be put in place to ...

The issue of prolonged life has been debated for centuries. In fact, Ponce de Leon spent his life’s work looking for the Fountain of Youth all over the globe. The century long limit of human life has essentially created the fantasy of those who wanted to live longer. This curiosity of these individuals has led to the fantasy of seeing history when it transpired rather than reading it in a book. For this reason, many television shows and books have explored the possibility of a human living beyond their one-hundred-year timeframe. For example, vampires, warlocks, and the like ...

According to Hao in the case Datavast Inc.: The Target Segment Decision, Datavast had been established five years ago to offer cloud-computing services. The firm had just adjustments to its original product and, therefore, the management felt it was the right time to gain penetration into the market using their refurbished product. However, the challenge that was eminent was the target market choice considering that the general manager was contemplating whether to focus on small-to-medium segments businesses that would be sensitive to the set prices or to focus on big corporations segment that allowed quite higher unit contributions.

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The car market in China is facing a massive slow down in recent times. The car sales have dropped to a two year low. There are three major reasons for this break down in the volume of sales. First of all, there is a general economic slow-down that the country is experiencing at present. Secondly, the competition from international field has increased immensely in the last few years and thirdly, the environmental concerns have given rise to the necessity of new legislations that restrict the number of cars owned by a person. It is worthy of note that the major losers in this ...

Literature reflects the values and issues of the culture that produced it. Reading stories and poetry from different generations helps one to gain a better understanding of the period it was written, and offers a glimpse into history. Throughout American history literature has been used as an outlet for analyzing or commentating on societal issues and promoting change. Reviewing the literature produced at different times during America’s history can offer an enlightening perspective of the changes that occurred in American culture as well as which values and societal topics were important at different times. For example, American literature offers a creative ...

Over the years, FedEx has been one of the leading courier and services in the United States of America and around the world. FedEx enjoys massive and huge customer base around the globe because it has been efficient in deliveries where it delivers huge parcels by road and in good time and shape. As the old adage goes, that change is the only constant aspect in the new human life, so has FedEx been exposed to adjustments. In the recent past, there has been push and pull in the in the customs delivery business with companies and related firms ...

International trade is the skeleton of Brazillian prosperity rests. Free trade system have created a high competition in today's open market. It is marred with continuous innovation and leads to better products, well paid jobs, fresh markets, and increased profits and investment. Free trade lets the cotton growers produce more products to reach international consumers at lower prices, thereby hugely increasing their standard of living. Moreover, the benefits of FTA extend well beyond borders. Free trade helps to spread the value of freedom, reinforce the rule of law, and foster economic development in poor countries. The national debate over ...

effect of stereotypes in society? Stereotyping from a sociological perspective is a social construction derived from a thought pertaining to a group of individuals with specific social characteristics, which can be linked to certain behavior types (Cox, Abramson, Devine & Hollon, 2012). Often there is no or very little accuracy linking the perceptions people or individuals may obtain regarding others for whom the stereotyping is alluded. When stereotyping is viewed from a psychological premise scientists argue that it emerges from prejudice and discrimination, basically. Therefore, in reality if stereotyping were to be associated with one’s social conditions there may be insufficient evidence for ...

‘The undertakings: Life studies from the dismal trade,’ is a book by Thomas Lynch, who is a director of an undertaking company that is owned by his family. Thomas has first hand information on death, life and loss that people experience after their relatives or close ones has passed on to the afterlife. It is sad because he says in a short period of time he had to bury so many people, which was so sad as most of them were children. However, the issue or the statement in his book was not about the cold or the lifeless but on the ...

Did I Promise Never to make any Mistake? I remember making a promise not to make any mistake in my life. However, the experiences I have had, have prepared me to be keener than I used to be before. It is true that I have made a lot of mistakes which have cost me a great deal. Honestly, I became conscious of my memory when I got an opportunity to meditate. This is when I sat down at a beach hotel and started contemplating on what fate my life was following. I felt like laughing or crying but none of the feelings ...

Frederick Douglass

- Describe Frederick Douglass' early childhood. What kind of relationship did he have with his mother? Who was his father? Why did Douglass believe that slaves of mixed parentage suffer[ed] greater hardships than other slaves? Provide specific details that support your response. According to Frederick Douglass’ own account, he had no authentic record of his age. For him, it was his source of dissatisfaction not to have learned how old he really was (that is, just like most of the slaves his age or older). According to him, it is improper and impertinent for a slave like him ...

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Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869 at the apex of British rule in India. A native of Gujarat state in western India, his life would follow the arc of British colonialism from its late-19th century Victorian golden age through its 20th century descent to the downfall of the Raj in 1947. Gandhi’s life spanned a century of remarkable socio-political change in India. Born just 12 years after the bloody 1857 revolt, which ended in a hardening of British rule, he witnessed a change in his country’s consciousness that mirrored a phenomenon that was unfolding throughout British Empire. “His life ...

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Ancient Greek philosophers had very different concepts of happiness and pleasure from the more materialistic and hedonistic ideas of the modern world. For this reason, many contemporary students read their books without really being able to comprehend their main message, which really viewed philosophy as a kind of religion. Indeed, Plato’s followers did start their own religion, which lasted for centuries and was incorporated into Stoicism and early Christianity. All of them rejected the idea that happiness came from money, material success, sex or physical pleasure, which are the basis for the modern mass consumption economy. That simply did ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

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Abstract In modern business world characterized with competition, acquisition and mergers are dominating main company’s games. In fact, major companies in such as food sectors and banks are acquiring smaller firms in order to ensure that control competition and assets are strengthened. Just like numerous other decisions, there is need for careful prognosis and study before taking this important step in analysis of assets in a company, business performance, and acquisition overall viability. Embry Investment Group is a company that is exploring for a company to qualify for acquisition. This report is aimed at gaining a deeper comprehension on the viability ...

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The term retirement is the stage where a person discontinues employment totally but an individual may perhaps as well semi-retire by reducing the work hours. Numerous individuals decide to retire while they are qualified for public or private or public pension benefits, even though a number of them are obligated to retire when physical circumstances do not permit the individual to continue working any more either because of accident or illness or as a consequence of legislation with reference to their position. In the majority of nations, the thought of retirement is of recent derivation, after getting commenced in the duration of ...