Essays on Crane

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to outline a framework to ensure the sustainability of UK aircraft carrier. It outlines some of the challenges that face the industry. Additionally, it presents a framework which can be used to address these challenges. The project also highlights a measurement regime which can be used to assess the proposed framework. Mainstream media have repetitively documented the impact of seaway transport and their eco-efficiency concerning a sustainable future. By minimizing operation and manufacturing impacts, airbus aims at optimizing their services and product towards an eco-efficient technology to minimize their environmental impact. Throughout the ...

The growth of Amazon to a global retail company is basically due in part to the management practices by its Chief Executive Office and how such practices affect the planning, control, and management of a company. Most CEOs embrace unique Organizational structures towards the operations of their companies. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination, and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a company has ...

(the author’s name) (the institutional affiliation) Currently, the population expresses interest in the influence of companies’ activities on modern life. In turn, companies feel inclined to legitimate their practices to society. The interest is connected with the moral aspect of pursuing profit and implementing regulations of companies’ activities. Such practices reveal the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) which presents a complex area as it centers on issues of humanity, sustainability, and environmental responsibility (Crane, Matten, and Spence, 2013, pp. 3-4; Fleming, Roberts, and Garsten, 2013, p. 340; Wright, 2010, p. 1). In this regard, the following social ...

1.0. Introduction Gone the days when merely price tag and quality were the main determinants of the buying decision for any consumer. Today’s consumer based on growing awareness is much more concerned about the ethical status of the tools and methods utilized to produce, handle, and deliver a product or service. This emerging category of judgmental customer has also influenced the theoretical background as well as several practical considerations in the domain of business. One of the most important contributions of this tendency is the emergence of ethical consumerism on part of customers and corporate social responsibility or ...

Introduction

Over the last few decades, there have been several changes in the roles of audit companies notably due to challenges that have affected the ethics and integrity of the institution of auditing. Traditionally, audit companies are mandated with the responsibility of analysing the financial systems, financial records as well as the compliance of companies’ financial reporting procedures with the specific national regulations. The effectiveness of audit companies in implementing these duties is extremely important in the public trust in business organizations around the world. Local and international investors rely on the accuracy of audit reports produced by audit companies ...

For Nella Larsen’s Crane being a product of interracial sex is not an easy one as she spends the novel searching for the place she belongs. In the end Larsen’s protagonist is disappointed as she comes to realize that there is no place for her in the world because she is not one race but a mix of two (Larsen 1969). This negative outlook is just one example of the attitudes Americans adapted towards miscegenation and interracial sex for while there were those like Larsen who saw those who were born from parents of two different races ...

Issues addressed by the authors and their relation to the value of customer relations

Porter and Kramer (2011), in their article Creating shared value, pointed out that the assumed trade-off between economic efficiency and social progress may not be real. The authors describe some initiatives from companies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that bridge the apparent gap between business competitiveness and social advancement, as they define the concept of ‘Shared Value.’ One of the most striking suggestions of the authors is that companies miss business opportunities as they fail to fully consider the most critical customer needs. A clearer example could not be offered as Porter and Kramer (2011) mention food companies focusing on ...

Business and Law

BUSINESS AND LAW Introduction The breaching of contracts and denial of human rights have risen over the past few years due to the lack of enough knowledge. The paper covers several cases whose judgment is based on the Australian common law and consumer acts in the IRAC format

Question 1

Issue: Does Brenda have an action against Steven for the breach of contract? Rule: According to the Australian contract law, an anticipatory breach of contract can occur from time to time. An anticipatory breach of contract refers to where one party informs the other that they will not deliver what was ...

Introduction

The case dwells upon the situation, in which a new Major Accounts Management, Zain, who recently joined the organization Zoro Stationary, found himself, ones trying to adjust to the new environment. The reality demonstrates that the previous experience of this professional, which encompasses over ten years in one of the major regional clothing and household retailers allowed good insight into the purchasing and customer behavior. The challenges, associated with the change of the industry, corporate culture and personal diversity, however, built on a number of difficulties in adapting his skills to the new role. The learning process within the ...

Business Ethics

Business Ethics

The managers are responsible to the prevalence of ethical misconducts due to their extent of authority. Managers ensure that employees do not incorporate any unethical practices and understand the organization’s ethical conducts. The prevalence of ethical misconducts among the employees is observed by the managers due to which the managers take necessary actions in order to ensure that the occurrence of such misconducts is hindered. The employees are observed in accordance with the organization’s ethical standards and these standards help in the shaping the organizational behavior and hence, ethical conducts are set (Crane & Matten, 2007). ...

Abstract

The current discussion is aimed at the dissection of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability of British Petroleum (BP) by taking the case of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in to consideration. By commencing the discussion with an overview of the externalities present in the oil industry, the pressures on oil companies are examined which is further evaluated through the application of stakeholder theory and the theory of utilitarianism. In the case of BP, it is revealed that the resort to CSR was primarily a reactive measure to correct its tainted brand image and save it from reputational risks. ...

Marital Satisfaction and Work-Family Conflict

The purpose of this paper is to present a proposal for a study on the topic of marital satisfaction and work-family balance. The paper presents the proposal under the subsections objective, subjects for the study, ethical considerations, measurement, data collection methods, and data analysis. 1. Objective The concept of work-family balance refers to the assessment of the whether or not family and work resources are sufficient to satisfy both work and family demands (Voydanoff, 2005). Family and work are central social institutions in an individual’s life and both absorb considerable amounts of an individual’s time. Balancing the ...

American Literature

One of the most charming and striking characteristics of the American literature of the nineteenth century is its naïveté. The protagonists regardless of being positive or negative heroes have a unique trust to the world and people surrounding them. This naïveté adds to the romantic and sincere nature of the poem or short story. It usually enhances the idea mentioned in the story and is intended to emphasize the meaning of it. To a certain degree, it may be taken as a symbol of American literature of the nineteenth century as naïve ideals and naïveté ...

Nursing is basically defined as an act of protection, optimization and also the promotion of abilities and also health, the act is promoted by nurses who are professionally trained on how to prevent injuries and illness as well as aiding in the alleviation of suffering on patients by clearly diagnosing and treating various human responses. In addition to this nursing as a profession serves as an advocacy in the care and protection of different individuals and even families. Therefore the basic elements and characteristics of nursing revolve around the practical professionalism of offering care for those who are either ...

Ideally, forensic health nursing entails the practice of nursing regardless of the region on the global map especially when legal system and health intersect. As such, forensic nurses make a tremendous contribution to the integration of law and medicine. In fact, they are tasked with the provision of specialized care to patients who in most instances are perpetrators or victims of trauma. I agree with the post that the fact that hundreds of employees are always in and around the building reduces the risk of occurrence of crime (Simmons, 2014). However, the presence of the many corners of the ...

Dear Editor,

I am a regular reader of National Geographic magazine, and I am writing this letter to express my praise for including articles related to animal behavior. I was excited to read the article, “Why an Eagle Really Grabbed a Kid” by Rachel Becker, published on 12/7/2016. It was about a wedge tailed eagle swooping down to prey on a young boy, at the Alice Springs Desert Park in Australia’s Northern Territory. It was an interesting event and I wished the author provided a more elaborate account of the events, rather than passing around what is already known from ...

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The process of globalization makes many companies worldwide think about becoming international. There are many reasons for it, such as going to the international markets, increasing sales, reducing costs of manufacturing and research & development by means of outsourcing, engaging skills and talent from other countries, increasing company’s revenues, and etc. Lewis Globalworks Co., Inc. has been working in the market for many years and now would like to expand its activities to the other countries in order to optimize its operations and financial results. This research paper is focused on evaluation the possibilities and ...

Human beings are social creatures, and they usually co-exist in a dependence manner within a community. The individual ability to depend on community members can have a positive or a negative impact. Relying on community members has far reaching effects in that, one has to trust the community members with a high degree of confidence and in most cases subscribe to their ideologies. In some instances, some of the ideologies are for ill motives or rather they are misguided by traditional myths. Some ideologies are also enshrined under radical religious misconceptions. On the contrary, some of the ideologies are ...

Introduction

The modern way of doing business in the current different market structures has proved that ethics is of great importance. Ethical undertakings within the frameworks of the different corporations and businesses make them more apt to gain the trust of their employees, customers, stockholders, and potential stakeholders. Failure to uphold greater heights and undertakings of ethics by any organization render the organizations a blurred future of survival in the competitive global market (Crane, A., & Matten, 2014).

Importance of ethics in business

Holding a greater standard of ethical value within our institutions and organization give encouragement to the employees and stakeholders to think beside the ...

Question 1

In A Journal of the Plague Year, the narrative depicts a nonlinear description of the Great Plague that took place around 1665 in London. The novel highlights common experiences during the. The influence of Defoe’s experience as a newspaper editor can be seen through the combination of journalistic and literary writing skills and Defoe’s own understanding of fictional writing. It can be argued that Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year depicts an extraordinary literary work since it portrays a mix of data and statistical representation of reality and a fictional narrative. The graphical details presented ...

It needs to be reckoned that one of the main aspects of a fictional literary work is the characterization that goes on to bind the entire text together accentuating its affective appeal to the readers. Literary artists too have come to exude their aesthetic and literary quintessence when it comes to the question of penning characters in their respective stories. For the purpose of proper comprehension of the matter in context, one can take into reckoning three very popular short stories that have come to gain the accolades of the literary critics as well as the avid readers all ...

Stories written based on writer`s experience have always been of great demand. To satisfy the readers with an interesting plot and breathtaking scenes, some people use the literary technique, even if primordial aim of the story was to inform readers about some events. The eagerness to make their life-stories popular clouds their minds and they begin think over fiction events or adventures to diversify the plot. This paper is to analyze the ways used by Stephen Crane in his “The Open Boat” to blend journalistic and literary techniques in the story and in his daily newspaper account. The ...

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Recreational adolescent use of marijuana can result in adult cognitive problems including learning, thinking, and memory problems (Crean, Crane, & Mason, 2011). Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is known to humanity for thousands of years. It is obtained from the hemp plant, known as Cannabis sativa. Marijuana is one of the most popular, easily obtained drugs, and controversial drugs. It contains psychoactive chemicals such as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, which was obtained in the mid-1960s. This is the key chemical behind the development of controversies in this and the last century. Certain others aspects of the endocannabinoid system including cannabinoid ...

Sophocles’ was himself a political writer using universal themes. Things can get messy when we consider the cultural, social, and religious context of ancient Greek era. First of all the play upraises the gender related social issues as the hero of the play was Antigone herself, then the role of King Creon directs the audience towards law of ruling and the sentiments and draws a fine line between the two for punishing his own niece for the disobedience. The play raised issues over the representation of a woman as a strong ideal character brave enough to act in breaching ...

Introduction

Antigone is a dreadful tragedy written around 441 BC by the Sophocles. It was the last of the Theban plays but chronologically written first. The other pieces of Sophocles have attracted more controversy and nothing has inspired people more than Antigone (Lewis, p. 35). It is an outline of achievements of man, modern in its tone deceptively, has impressed many, and most probably, it is said if it is attached with, choral odes would turn to this poem. It was written at a time of a national intensity or fervor. When the play was performed, Sophocles was known to ...

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to analyze the different social responsibilities and ethical responsibilities of businesses to the society. Apart from the main objective of maximization of profits, businesses should have other objectives that ensure that their practices promote the welfare of the society. In this report, Walmart is analyzed. Walmart is an American multinational company considered to be the largest employer with 2.2 million employees (Walmart.com). Apart from the United States, it has branches in United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and India. It usually operates general chains hypermarkets, grocery stores, and discount department stores. The company’s ...

Ethics and Governance

The concepts of ethics and corporate governance are unceasingly becoming importance in the modern day organizations as they play a great role in addressing key issues. In that respect, the two concepts take varying approaches and their application varies among firms (Elms et al., 2010). Regarding the ethics issue, it relates to the norms and morality of a given community and what is right or wrong draws from those norms and morality values. In the modern world, the issues of ethics have been popularized given the increased cases of organizations that have been judged on the ethical basis (Cannon, ...

Conflicts in the African continent are notorious with their complexity. There are host of reasons for that. These include the complicated history of Africa, especially of the last several centuries when existing divergences were accentuated by the presence of colonists who imposed new circumstances and conditions. These also include many natural reasons stemming from climate conditions and geopolitical situation of Africa. These include as well the ethnical and tribal divergences that turned out to be the major fueling factor in the conflict that set it ablaze for almost fifteen years. There is one thing I am going to make ...

The film Citizen Kane was produced on September 5th 1941. The lead actors were Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton and Dorothy Comingore. The film was directed by Orson Welles who was also the lead actor in the film. The head of cinematography was Gregg Toland. Charles, the lead actor in the film, is depicted as a man who is so engulfed in his search for material things that he loses his humanity and soul and becomes a greedy man . The plot of the film is developed through the eyes of the young Charles, giving the audience a window into the ...

The process of inhalation or inspiration can be explained simply by the intake of air. In some cases, this process is further described as the transfer of the oxygen to the bloodstream and then to the blood cells. Further, this is followed by the release of the carbon dioxide from the cells to the bloodstream and pumping it to the lungs, from where the waste carbon dioxide is expelled to the environment. The oxygen enters into the body from the outside environments through inspiration. This process of inspiration includes the contraction of the diaphragm along with the internal and ...

The most crucial part of correcting non-speakers is by starting with the understanding that they are learning, and it is a process that has to take time for them to become conversant with the language. It is significant for them to take it step by step. Learning few words at a time, then moving on to phrases. Keep the sentences as brief as possible to avoid getting lost on what to say next. Learning, in this case, is not just about speech but also an adjustment to a new culture. The teacher does not just start teaching. They need ...

Stephen Crane, the author of A Dark Brown Dog, weaves a short story filled with vast amounts of imagery and symbolism. He creates an in-depth comprehensive description of an adopted dog, a young boy, and the growth of their relationship. Although the title suggests that the story will be about a dog, it does not reveal the cycle of abuse that plays out with the characters. Therefore, the seemingly innocent title of the story does not lets the audience know that there is an underlying theme within the story. This essay will examine the various literary devices that Crane ...

Refuting

Ban violates the rights provided by the Second Amendment Handguns are more threatening than assault weapons Aggressive ban will produce the creation of black market Defending Violates the rights provided by the Second Amendment The recently mass shooting necessitates ban of the assault weapons The potential destruction caused by assault weapons illustrates the need for the ban Assault weapons should be banned The prevailing deadliest mass shooting in the United States necessitates the control and regulation of the military-style and other assault weapons. Some of the recent mass shooting include San Bernardino shooting that occurred December 2015 living 14 ...

Since time immemorial, the issue of Gun rights vs. Gun control has been a hotly debatable topic across the United States. The issue is divisive since it is faced with sensitive arguments between those advocating for gun rights and the supporters of gun control. The supporters of gun rights believe that the constitution guarantees the right to purchase a firearm as stated in the 2nd amendments. Contrariwise, the advocates of gun control believe that the private ownership of guns contributes to a high crime rate, and also, careless deaths occur as a result of gun rights. The debate becomes ...

For people to understand fashion trends and their evolution and presence in the modern world, they need to have a keen understanding of fashion in the previous eras. Men’s and women’s clothing has changed and evolved from a particular kind, to what it is today, because of many fashion giants working together to make them work. It may seem that it is women whose dresses and attires have evolved the most; however men are not behind in this too. The typical dress code for men since the past century, up till now is the suit. The suit ...

Health assessment in Altamonte

PART- A Introduction Obesity is the act of being overweight both in children and adults as a result of poor eating lifestyles and no proper maintenance of the balance of diets. The trend in obese children has increased both in the U.S and other industrialized countries like Australia and the United Kingdom (Crane and Jeffrey, 2005).The result has led to a national data analysis by most of these countries so as to enable the healthcare organizations there to analyze and know the solutions that can be used to help the next generations.

National Data on Obesity (USA)

In the early 21st century, America ...

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Introduction: The importance of the topic. Purpose, method and scope of the paper. A detailed outline of the topics to be covered in the final paper is described below:

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Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1.1: Background: Facts about Mars and about earlier missions.

Section 1.2: Goals and Objectives: Statement of goals and objectives

Chapter 2 : Mission Overview Section 2.1: Land site selection and Gale Crater: Criteria of selection and geological characteristics of gale Crater and Mount Sharp. Section 2.2: Technical Details: Details of science payload, spacecraft, rover, communication system, and rocket. Section 2.3: Mission Timeline: Shows the timeline of events from prelaunch.

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How can reporting near-misses prevent harm and improve outcomes?

Particularly near-miss refers to an unplanned event, which did not lead to sickness, injury or damage even though it had the potential to do so. Basically, the event was about to happen, but fortunately, a break in the chain of events prevented its occurrence, in other words, a near-miss is a miss that was nonetheless near (Crane et al., 2015). Majorly the cause of a near miss is a faulty process or management system.

Reporting near misses helps in the prevention of future harm related instances and improve outcomes in the following ways:

First and foremost, with a well-established reporting culture which eventually communicates that every opportunity that a hazard is identified and controlled contributes positively towards reducing ...

I. Introduction

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released the iconic film, Psycho, to an unsuspecting audience.

The film broke with narrative and cinematographic techniques that had been the Hollywood standard for decades. Produced and directed on a shoestring budget, the film garnered few positive reviews. However, it still stands as the most powerful influence on the suspense, and even horror, genre. Because Psycho debuted in 1960 (when theaters were much more popular), the film is best analyzed through the lens of mass communication theory. In James Kendrick's "Psycho and the Priming of the Audience", it is argued that the mass communication model is most effective at informing an astute analysis of the film. ...

Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane has a grotesque and ironical depiction. Starting from his mocking name Ichabod which in translation from Ancient Hebrew means ‘unfortunate’ which more than enough describes his life and ending with his last name which is also aimed at revealing his grotesque appearance that “one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.” (Irving) Although he is educated man who “had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather’s history of New England Witchcraft” and influential, respected teacher but ...

The poem “The Race” by Sharon Olds and “In the Desert” by Stephen Crane are the poems chosen for the poetic analysis. The first one is a blank verse that in details describes the thoughts of the main hero, the second stands out as a perfectly concise dialogue, which encourages own independent self-analysis. They are unified with the similar topic, which depicts the importance of human soul and neglects everything material. Nevertheless, there are also a lot of differences in poetic form, linguistic and stylistic devices chosen. For sure, some of them are predetermined by the time when the ...

Introduction:

Unethical behavior in organization has become a common and important practice in order to enhance the revenue and achieve the targets and sale employees are more involved in this unethical practice as compare to other employees. In order to be competitive, it is essential to maintain good relation with customers and for this reasons banks have to follow the ethical behavior. Objective of this study is to enhance the understanding of business ethics through utilizing the theories. In order to gain the objective, paper has been divided into 4 major sections. In section one, the personally evident problem has ...

Vignettes

Vignettes The interaction of social, psychological, and biological aspects make up the biopsychosocial perspective. This perspective attributes complicated events or phenomena to a number of causes.

Florence should be depressed and ashamed (psychological) about having her children in foster care. She can only visit them with supervision. She most likely is lonely and without friends because of her negative reputation of having been in jail (social). Since she is renting a room and not living with the family members, and is still on probation, the connections with family and friends is very minimal or absent. The Hispanics believe strongly ...

Hart Crane's "To Brooklyn Bridge" is a rare poem that effectively uses diction to convey the immensity of something as large as a bridge. "To Brooklyn Bridge" is much more than a dedication to the famous bridge. The poem's word choice represents the grandiosity of the bridge itself. Its diction and tone combine to achieve a quintessential work that accurately depicts the size and importance of the Brooklyn bridge to New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers alike.

In the first stanza, Crane asks a question in a rather inquisitive tone. "How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest/The seagull’ ...

Organizational culture is important for every healthcare organization. Organizational culture consists of various components including shared values, attitudes, meanings, norms governing work behavior, practices, behaviors, rituals, stories, attitudes, etc. Formalization of organizational culture is important, but alignment between organizational values and persobal values of all the employees is even more important. Organizational culture has a huge impact on organization’s ability to manage human resource and provide quality care to its patients (Wooten, Crane, 2003). According to various studies, there’s strong relations between organizational cultural values and norms and employees’ satisfaction, turnover intentions, knowledge sharing commitment (Tsai, 2011). ...

IBM as a company engages in software creation, struggling to be leaders in creation, innovation and designing of technologies more advanced than their counterparts in the industry. IBM offers professional technological services to their customers universally. IBM as adopted a system that allows its employees to work from home. Providing job opportunities for than 400,000 people across the world, IBM experiences various human resource challenges (Crane, 2009).

One of the profound challenges experienced by this company, results from the heterogeneous nature of the labor force. Unlike past years company’s today hire various individuals from all over the world who ...

- Basing my argument on the maxims advanced by Kantian ethics, the banks in the United Kingdom did not act ethically. The tree maxims advanced by Kantian ethics are used for vetting the ethicality of actions. Under the first maxim, ethical actions reflect an underlying principle that can be followed by everyone. Under the second maxim, ethical actions are those that treat people with dignity rather than as means. Under the third maxim, all ethical actions are universally accepted by all human beings. An ethical act should satisfy the threshold set by the three maxims (Crane & Matten, 2010, ...

Introduction

Housing associations construct and manage homes on a non-profit basis. Most of the housing associations available all across the globe are charity based. Some of the housing associations have a specific role such as one for providing homes for individuals with special support needs or those from specified ethnic backgrounds. One may apply directly or even indirectly to a housing association. However, one first begins from the council’s housing registration. All properties have the same advertisement on them just like the council homes. There are various and different ways of acquiring property. One of those discussed in this paper is lettings. ...

Organizational culture is how the employees and they behave based on the principles and beliefs founded when the organization was started. The culture determines how things are done in the company and how each employee plays his or her role. There are different models of organizational culture that apply to the Vermeer Exeter organization. One of them is the role model culture as described by Charles Handy who claims that the decision-making in the organization remains at the top most level like the directors and the owners of the organization, (Frost, 1991 p. 67). This is the case with ...

Abstract

The God squad group, mainly made of boys in junior and senior years, uses the 9/11 attacks as a rallying point for combination of white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, ant-Islamic, anti-immigrant, ant-gay, nee-fascist dogma mixed with a good dose of anti-abortion and fundamentalist Christian diatribe. The group catches the attention of the administration when they show up at school all wearing their uniforms and distributes the first edition of their weekly "newsletter". The” newsletter” contains highly offensive diatribes on how it is the "the duty of all true Americans to fight against the forces trying to destroy our country". The ...

Living organisms depend on biochemistry to power various chemical reaction cycles which are important for the overall biological functioning of an organism. Chemical reactions occur at a specific rate in certain conditions and require input energy (activation energy) to be supplied before a reaction can begin. Since a reaction cycle consist of many consecutive step, slowing one step slows down the whole cycle. Enzymes are proteins which act as catalysts in biochemical reactions and speeds up reactions to rates that are high enough for biological functioning. Enzymes manage this by providing an alternative reaction route with lower activation energy.

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The following paper talks about the trends that are emerging in the IT systems and applications that are being used in the medical field. It also includes the advantages of using different technologies so that optimum results can be achieved to benefit healthcare.

Introduction:

Visionaries in health care have predicted a revolution in information technology within the world of medical care since the late 1950s. This revolution was predicted to transform the health care industry as the finance and retail sectors had been transformed. The individuals who pioneered informatics in the medical field had a vision for literally changing the face of ...

Q. 1. Why have private pension plans grown so rapidly since the 1940s?

Although the formal introduction of private pension was made a hundred years ago, it is only in 1940 that the private pension industry has emerged as a major social and economic driving factor in the economy. The early pension plans were initiated by large companies between 1900s to 1940 and some of them were implemented through the help of labor unions. However, most of the companies are not in favor of idea, thus making private pension discretionary and, therefore, unfunded and noncontributory. The growth of the industry have doubled covering four million people paying 100% of the premium. The government realized ...

In this short story, Stephen Crane recounts the shared experiences of four survivors from the sinking of the steamer “Commodore” during their efforts to row in a small boat to a safe landfall on the coast of Florida. The four are the (injured) captain, the cook, the oiler and a fourth man, referred to as “the correspondent”.

Early in the story, Crane describes the captain’s mood in terms of his changed circumstances. He writes that the captain “was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and ...

We have read such a wide variety of texts that it hard to pick out with confidence those that have influenced me the most or had the biggest impact on me. On reflection though, I have realized that there are some texts which I will remember for a long time – and those texts are ones which use language in a significant, interesting and original way.

So for me a very memorable text is Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” which uses fairy tales elements – even in the words she uses – and yet also manages to evoke a modern setting in ...

Stephen Crane spent about thirty hours in an open boat on 1 January 1897 and years later he published the story that became a reflection of his experience. “The Open Boat” wasn’t just a description of those thirty hours; it was a short story that related to Crane’s main beliefs and concerns about the society (Spofford 316). There are some main points of interest in the story – its motifs of nature’s indifference and brotherhood that unite in the face of it. At the center of the story Crane puts indifference of the universe and the nature of human ...

The humor in Stephen Crane’s ‘The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky’ derives largely from the fact that the story is a parody of similar stories about life on the lawless American frontier, and through his parody Crane mocks the stereotypical conventions of such stories and also defeats the reader’s expectations by ending the story in an original, unexpected and comic way. The first sequence of the story which describes Marshal Potter and his new bride on the train to Yellow Sky is full of subtle social humor. The narrative implies that they are a slightly odd couple: he ...

Thucydides wrote about the desire for power by the human beings as one of the human natures that has existed among the Greeks. This human nature existed even in the ancient Greek especially among the Athens. His arguments have however supported in Plato’s argument has they appear in the Plato’s Apology (Farrar, 1988). Some of the other aspects of human nature that have formed the backbone of Thucydides’ quest to give an explanation as well as interpretation about human desire for power include judgment, passion, chance and desire for security (Connor, 1984). The Athenians appeal to these ...

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On my desk, there is a glass vase full of paper cranes. They tumble out of the open top of the vase, poking tails and heads into the air, the vibrant reds and blues of the origami paper catching the light from the desk lamp. The vase is incidental, a square-ish, open-topped glass candleholder from some long-forgotten candle; the cranes were made in an anxious fervor, one after another, until they reached the top of the vase and required a new vessel. There are other jars around the room full of cranes, but this is the first and the biggest. The ...

(Insert Author’s Note) I am here to explain, respond and analyze the wonderful poem, “The Bridge”, by Hart Crane. This poem was first published in the early after the great depression, or 1930 to be more specific. It was first published by the Black Sun Press, and was also Cranes only attempt at writing long poetry. Cranes motivation for this piece came from the notorious Brooklyn Bridge. He was inspired to write the poem during his residence at 110 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, New York, in which, had an extremely sensational view of the bridge. Sadly, by ...