Essays on Encountering

The aim of this paper is to discuss the fraud that took place in the Bayou Hedge Fund Group and its impact on the organization’s investors and creditors. The organization was established in 1996 as Samuel Israel III and a gathering of foundations and hedge funds were united as the originator encouraged them to in the long run bring $450 million up with the expectation that the fund would develop to more than $7 billion in a ten year time span. The way that the organizer utilized a portion of the cash for individual use alongside critical exchanging ...

Identify the key external and internal strategic issues and forces impacting upon WGF.

William Garden Furniture is a small business that is owned and established by Martin William twenty years back. Since its origin, Mr. William is the managing director and sole owner of the business. William Garden Furniture principally serves the high-end customers and manufacturers up-market wooden chairs, tables, and benches for gardens. William Garden Furniture had fought very hard to develop a sound market reputation, and the underpinning factor for its success is its highly skilled craftsmanship. Unfortunately, after 8 years of its start-up, William Garden Furniture started encountering a number of internal and external strategic issues that are still ...

Executive Summary

Allstar is one of the most recognized names in the packaged food industry across the globe. Allround is the most successful brand of the Allstar group in the allergy and cold relief market. Allround brand is a consistent brand success in terms of sales and profitability and along these lines, it has become the most crucial component not only for the pharmaceutical division of Allstar but for its entire business. For the reason, cash flow of Allround can facilitate them to take increased opportunities offered by the emerging markets. However, Allround has increasingly become a concern for the pharmaceutical ...

Executive Summary

This paper discusses KFC, also referred to as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Specifically, the paper examines how the company is proposing certain changes in its menu offerings and the removal of antibiotics from its chicken. The paper looks at these proposed changes through the Lewin model and describes the challenges that the company will face both internally and externally in terms of these changes actually remaining given the context of the company being that of serving home-style cuisine.

Recommendation

The paper makes recommendations of how the company can effectively make sure that it does not falter on the proposed changes in ...

In short, not everyone who experiences traumatic episodes is diagnosed with PTSD. It is really a situation that depends upon the individual. Some individuals, for example, can go through a traumatic episode and never experience symptoms of PTSD. At the same time, some individuals can experience what many would consider to minor stress related issues in life, yet encounter PTSD with a vengeance. When many people encounter a traumatic experience, they will feel sad, frightened, disconnected, or possibly anxious. These feelings are quite normal within the span of human emotions. For many people, these feelings will be short lived ...

Questions and Essays

Question #2 It might be argued that the character of Ned Kelly is a Robin Hood-like character. A 19th century outlaw, Carey illustrates him as the conventional bad guy with positive qualities. This is why it can be said that Kelly is a Robin Hood like character, as Robin Hood executed certain aspects that were not necessarily morally correct, or ethically right - but nevertheless allowed for positive outcomes. Much of the novel consists of Ned encountering bad luck and being manipulated and lied to. As such, he is forced into the seemingly bad guy lifestyle ending up in ...

Immunology

The rearrangement of T cell receptor (TCR) genes g and d occur in series of cells expressing variable Vg and Vd gene segments. The lymphoid precursor cells originate in the bone marrow and move to the thymus. Preliminary T cells are devoid of TCR, CD4 and CD8 molecules and are called double negative thymocytes . These double negative T cells may be further categorized into four phases of differentiation (DN1, CD44+CD25-; DN2, CD44+CD25+; DN3, CD44-CD25+; and DN4, CD44-CD25-) . CD44 is a cell adhesion molecule and CD25 serves as the IL-2 receptor. Passage into the DN2 and DN4 stages ...

Encounters between the self and other have a profound impact on both the identity of the individual and how they perceive the world around them. Fear, and the psychological conditions associated with it, can have create lasting repercussions that create problems for both the individual and society. What happens to us when we label things or people we fear as “monster” can only be understood in relation to the associations that can be assessed when making inferences concern others people or things. These inferences are often inherently disconnected from reality and can be seen to establish social and cultural ...

Scenario 1

What theories of team behavior might assist GS in taking on his new role? In the given scenario, GS has been given a team of 24 employees who all have been working in the office for more than 5 years. This shows that all the team members are completely familiar with the organizational culture and norms, and are also well adjusted to their job roles. Furthermore, GS’s active interest in promoting conformity and harmony is also well-liked by all the team members, which also indicate that everyone is on the same page. These factors indicate that the team ...

Cohen, Eli B. Growing Information, Part I. Santa Rosa, Calif: Informing Science Institute, 2009. Print.

Cohen in this peer reviewed article has given an insight on a well researched paper. Cohen gives the essential components of a well researched and articulated work through giving the best research problem statement. The article provides practical example for new comers into the world of research (Cohen, 2009). The elements of scholarly research are also a basic component of the article. This article is essential for a starter due to the fact that, it provides insights on how to create a research statement in order to obtain a ...

A comparison of the poems “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” by Emily Dickinson and “The Slave’s Curse” by John Whitman

Emily Dickinson and John Whitman are two prominent figures in American literature. Both poets are considered innovators of poetry as their ways of writing, although different from one another in various aspects, inspired people to write by following their own style and unique way of expressing themselves. Also, their forms of writing showed a departure from the British model which was traditionally used by most poets of the 19th century and gave birth to what is ...

Dante Cicchetti and Stephen Hinshaw scan how collaborative efforts in the “Prevention and Intervention Sciences” (2002) can do better than the present conditions. Naming diagnoses, specifying developmental processes, discussing psychopathology is not what the article is about. The authors’ interest is bringing our attention to what we know about published studies. Not the studies themselves but the tests. And the not tests themselves but the making of them: how they come together; whose coordinating them; at what costs.

Test subjects are “children, adolescents, and families”, human beings we know and love; they could even be us, who ...

Information systems

The company that I have chosen to undertake my research is Senior Care Company which is a healthcare system company. Senior Care Company requires an Enterprise Information System that will totally robotize its business operations. The organization has been encountering a few challenges with the current framework. The current framework is included an electronic framework for some of operations, for example, preparing of the solution requests, treatment of requests, stock, and charging administration methods. The majority of these procedures are incompletely paper-based. Senior Care Company utilizes a blend of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and Microsoft Access database and obsolete exceptionally conveyed charging programming ...

The culture that we live in needs to rediscover the selfless spirit. The cultural selfishness revolving around "what's in it for me?" has replaced the view that the act of giving is blessed rather than the act of receiving (Skinner 2011). Jesus Christ was a messiah who sacrificed himself for the greater good of mankind. He embraced death for the salvation of men to deliver them from all their sins. While reflecting upon the question as to how Jesus provided an antidote to cultural selfishness, there are plenty of episodes to choose from the gospel according to John. However, the ...

Introduction

Islam is the next largest religion worldwide after Christianity, and the second largest religion in the United States. In the United States, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the country. In any part of the world, Muslims are everywhere as neighbors, co–workers and fellow citizens. Some Americans and Europeans think that Muslims are different, strange, and frightening, even worst, they are associated as terrorist individuals. It is necessary that people change their perceptions of the Muslims. This is will only happen if the public will be provided with better information and deeper understanding especially in the teachings ...

1.0 Introduction Today, plurality of religion is the fact of life, and must be accepted as such (Pachuau & Jorgensen, 2011). Almost everyone have their own views on religion, perhaps as varied as the sands in beaches or the stars in the sky. Globalization and technology have brought nations and culture closer; different perspectives of life, rarely compatible approaches to living. In this one global village, Christ continued to call all Catholics to be missionaries to His people. Christians are called to treat people of any faith, even those of no faith, with genuine respect in their act ...

When Jesus Christ rose he told his disciples to be his witnesses in Jerusalem and in the whole of Judea as well as Samaria as seen in Acts 1:8. In fact, the book of Acts covers how the church carried out this commission and this included apostles Peter and Paul. In the first twelve chapters of the book Paul plays a key role in the preaching of the gospel to both Jews and Gentiles and as from chapter thirteen Paul takes over. These two apostles shifted from exclusively preaching to Jews to involve Gentiles because now they had to preach ...

JetBlue Airways Corporation is an American airline which provides low cost, but high quality services by imposing advance technology and effective customer service. The airline was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Long Island City nearer to New York City (JetBlue Airways). The fundamental business strategy is cost leadership and differentiation. JetBlue Airways has aggressively cut down the cost without neglecting the quality and comforts that customers want. Company aimed to develop efficient cost structure which supported low fare rates with standard quality services. The fares offered by company are almost 50% lower than other airlines. For ...

Discern how a more effective ethics programs and a more viable code of conduct could have mitigated the ethical issues faced by Nike. An effective ethics program helps an organization establish a culture that has concern for their employees well being (Mullan 2010). The organization will consider employees as an important part of their business and strive to ensure that they are working in safe conditions. In the case of Nike a more effective ethics program would have ensured that they do not hire children to work for them in their factories. It is not ethical to hire children, Nike would have ...

Research Objectives

Background One of the major issues experienced by nurses is grief. This grief is experienced as nurses start caring for the patients and it is more when the patient dies. The extent to which the nurses experience this grief depends upon their bonding with the patients. Grief is one of the major problems affecting the lives of nurses and ultimately the quality of healthcare. Unfortunately, healthcare professionals and hospitals do not provide the nurses with the necessary support system to cope with the losses. This has a negative impact on the social life of the nurses. Also the quality ...

Introduction

In thinking about death one is likely to come up with two inescapably true and mutually excluding conclusions: certainty and unknowing (Orbach, 1999, p.9). On the one hand, each of us seems to be convinced that death is inevitable and inescapable, while, on the other hand, nobody of the living is able to confidently predict the time of his/her death and provide a clear vision of what is going to happen to what can be called a soul after the body is dead. Since ages lots of people have been dreaming to invent a way to either escape or at least postpone ...

The book explores the history, role, and contribution of Rosa Parks, a human activist on modern social and economic transformation and changes. Rosa Parks, a renowned African American activist was born on February 1913. Many professionals and researchers refer Rosa as the first lady of civil rights due to her contribution in fighting for human right and equality in America. In an effort to recognise the role and contribution of Rosa Parks in America, the country commemorates her birth and the days she was arrested for her intensive effort of fighting for human rights in America. The day is especially common ...

Business and Organisation

Organization. Apple store is a chain of retail stores supplying computers and electronics under the apple computer, Inc. it has connection worldwide approximately 13 countries with 417 stores.

Introduction.

Firstly, the external factors, which shall be analysed using the PESTEL model, are long-term problems that entail variables that keep on changing with time. According to the contingency approach, the organization should be flexible to cope up with any change or situation. The variable affect the organizational structure; the apple store should conform to the changes and consider how the organizational structure is affected. The main variables affecting the organization are ...

Historical Background

Healthcare institutions in United States and France have been encountering challenges of unprecedented scope. The increase in the number of elderly in the two countries has not only threatened to increase the cost of managing the healthcare sector, but has also led to the inflation rate. In reference to the current trend in the two countries healthcare systems, researchers and other healthcare professionals have raised their fear that the ever-increasing technologies and expensive medical treatment are likely to wreck havoc on public spending priorities. The increase in healthcare spending in United States of America is also likely to interfere ...

Introduction

This report draws attention on asthma because it is a common lung disease in American affecting millions of both old and young people. However, it is important to conduct much research on this disease because the rate of people suffering from it is continuing to increase. This is so because research conducted in 2009 indicated that 1 out of every 10 children had asthma while 1 out of every 12 adults had the disease. It was essential for this report to focus on asthma because dissimilar studies indicate that more than 8.5 million children in America suffer from the disease ...

Abnormal psychology is a branch of psychology that tries to concentrate more on what people term as abnormal in life. This is mainly in terms of behaviors which are considered as deviant from the expected code of conduct. In any case, any strange or rare experience in behavior makes one to be treated as abnormal. Most of these disorders are extremes of the normal circumstances and are mostly caused by imbalance in some physiological processes, biological factors or even some physical factors. Several symptoms can be used to describe the disorders whereby some of the factors are unique to a disorder ...

Undercover Parent

In the article of Coben entitled “The Undercover Parent” that was featured in New York Times, the topic is the limitations imposed on parents when stepping in the privacy world of their children. The main thesis of the article is that the act of installing a spyware of parents on their children’s computers is considered appropriate if the children are still minors, but for children who are aged 18 and above, such act of the parents is considered a violation of the right to privacy. The initial reaction of Coben is commendable since he believes that it is appropriate for ...

American zoologist Dian Fossey made it her life’s work to study the gorillas of Rwanda’s mountains; while there, she became a strong anti-poaching advocate. While she worked tirelessly to not only understand and study the gorillas, she dedicated her efforts to prevent poaching, which had reduced the dwindling gorilla population to less than 250 specimens. Dian Fossey, an American naturalist, was killed in Rwanda on December 26, 1985. The identity of the murderer is still a mystery; all that is known is that she was killed by a machete. She is interred at Karisoki, in the graveyard that sits behind the ...

In Ross Dunn's The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century, famed Muslim traveler and legal scholar Ibn Battuta's account of his journeys is contemporized, updating this tale for a modern English audience. Starting from Tangier and traveling across Northern Africa and the Middle East, all the way to China. In this way, Battuta explores the "kingdom" of Islam, looking at each culture's Islamic practices and traditions, finding something new in each one. Ibn Battuta's journeys in the Muslim world demonstrate Islam's great religious diversity through his own sense of wonder: while Battuta travels much more ...

Chapter I

The stereotypes and micro-aggressions suffered by a Black woman in a toxic workplace leads to deleterious effects. The effects reported here include oppression, shame, and isolation. Internalizing these feelings of isolation systematically caused the body, mind, and spirit to suffer physiologically and psychologically. The overall strategy is termed disconnection; this concept is reinforced by the “power over” (Jordan, 2010) by a dominant group who wantonly exercise shame and isolation to discourage mutually empowerment relationships (Jordan, 2010, p. 105). This Black woman is me. The terms Black and African American are used interchangeably. It is my preference to identify with the Black ...

Chapter I

The stereotypes and micro-aggressions suffered by a Black woman in a toxic workplace leads to deleterious effects. The effects reported here include oppression, shame, and isolation. Internalizing these feelings of isolation systematically caused the body, mind, and spirit to suffer physiologically and psychologically. The overall strategy is termed disconnection; this concept is reinforced by the “power over” (Jordan, 2010) by a dominant group who wantonly exercise shame and isolation to discourage mutually empowerment relationships (Jordan, 2010, p. 105). This Black woman is me. The terms Black and African American are used interchangeably. It is my preference to identify with the Black ...

List of Questions

The following are seven open questions that I used in exploring the life of the person I chose to interview: 1. What activities do you spend your time on? 2. What are your roles in life at present? 3. What gives you a sense of fulfillment or happiness? Have these changed from when you were younger? 4. What problems or challenges are you encountering right now? 5. What are the things that are important to you now? Have these changed compared to the past? 6. What are your goals in life and why? ...

Conflict Resolver's handbook

Conflict Resolution

Increased tensional levels at intergroup, interpersonal, inter-organizational, and intercultural levels has intensified the need for understanding the aspect of conflict resolution. Many a researcher have studied conflict resolution using theoretical approaches and practical inquiry strategies, and thereafter coming up with appropriate strategies or models for addressing issues under conflict. According to Schelling (1980), the study of conscious, intelligent, or sophisticated behavior to unearth the rules for guiding the behavior amounts to strategy. As such, the process of resolving conflicts is largely dependent on the strategies employed in the conflict resolution process. Schelling further argues that strategies employed in ...

In most writings, there is always a contention as to who is speaking in the text. Barthes in his works gives a description of transition in the role of the author from traditional to contemporary day’s demise of the author in texts. This paper seeks to compare how the ideas in Barthes’s work, “the death of the author” have been used in Montaigne’s work, “on cannibals”.

In his work ‘the death of the author’ Barthes argues that a person could never take up the obligation for a narrative in traditional societies. This was the role of a mediator who could only ...

1. Is my primary audience external or internal?

My primary audience in this case is Jeff Clarke who is an employee at the hotel. This necessarily makes him an internal audience, as he is part of the organization’s operations (Snell & Bohlander, 2012). In addition, unlike the external audience, the organization has direct control over him.

2. What are some key demographics about my audience, such as age, gender, family situation, etc.?

The most important demographics of my audience can be focused in two categories namely the primary and secondary audience aspects. The demographics of Jeff Clarke include ...

The plot of The Epic of Gilgamesh deals a lot with the world of nature. Considering the fact that Enkidu, the best friend and companion of the main character, was created as a wild man and lived in the forest before encountering Gilgamesh, it seems especially interesting to speculate on the question of how the natural world was presented in this epic poem. In the beginning of the poem when the reader comes across the first mention of Enkidu, one may notice that the author opposes the ingenuousness of Enkidu to the habits and actions of Gilgamish who belongs to ...

Abstract

The way in which CEOs are paid today is often at odds with the actual success of the business, leaving many executives being well-paid even when their ideas and their business acumen fail. In the case of individuals like Michael Eisner, the CEO of Disney in the late 1980s through the early 2000s, he enjoyed unprecedented wealth and pay, despite a less-than-stellar output and profits for the company. Though his pay was justified at the time, due to the tumultuous period that Disney was encountering, his eventual mistakes and overabundance of power left him with too much pay and control ...