Essays on Gillan

Background

Enron case study dwells upon one of the most known scandals in business ethics and financial world. Founded in 1985 as a result of the merger between Houston Natural Gas and Internorth, Enron Corporation starts trading natural gas commodities in 1989. Throughout the 90s,the company was considered one of the most innovative and attractive for investment companies in the country. Renown for its unique business model and trading businesses, the company benefitted from a positive image, shareholder trust and external financing (Li, 2010). With a number of changes in leadership from Jeffrey Skilling to Kenneth Lay, who occupied ...

Introduction

The short story Country’s Lovers by Nadine Gordimer and the poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith are masterpieces in terms of their content and the themes that both pieces present to the readers. The overarching theme within both stories is the plight of the black woman in her social life. Country’s Lovers for example explains the vulnerability of the black woman in her romantic life. On the other hand, Smith’s poem explains the social hardships experienced by the black woman right from her tender age. This shows that there are ...

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The movie, “smoke signals” is an oral traditional movie that was directed and co-produced by Native Americans. It is a story that centres on the actor Victor Joseph (Adam Beach) and Thomas (Evans Adams). This movie gives a clear image of the American native culture through its talented actors and actresses (Gillan 10). It brings out the exact effects of true friendship and the consequence behind betrayal as victor father turned to a staunch alcoholic. It strongly brings about the picture of unfortunate events that surround the daily lives of individuals and their families in the native life of American families. ...

And Their Application to Human Computer Interaction

How Addressing the Cognitive Processes Can Improve the Usability of a Software Application 9 3. Conclusion 10

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1. Introduction More and more organizations now acknowledge their human resource as their greatest asset. As Laplante (2006) states, “empowering users with IT boosts the bottom line.” However, IT is useless if it’s too complex and complicated to use. It is then important for employees to be provided with tools that they can quickly and easily learn to use and that they can use to effectively and efficiently complete their tasks. In this ...

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Children’s knowledge of earth possesses the potential to unravel their understanding of scientific concepts in the young age. Researchers have claimed that children prepare earth’s mental models which are coherent in nature. However, the understanding of earth of children is related to their age as has been indicated in recent research and the older children demonstrate improved understanding of the spherical shape of earth whereas younger children believes earth to be disc shaped. This study establishes this fact by testing 214 children, out of which 107 were of age group 5 to 6 and 107 were of ...

Abstract

Children’s knowledge of earth has the potential to shed light on their understanding of scientific concepts in the young age. Researchers have claimed that children construct mental models of earth which are coherent in nature. However, the understanding of earth of children is related to their age as has been indicated in recent research and the older children demonstrate better understanding of the spherical shape of earth whereas younger children believes earth to be disc shaped. This study establishes this fact by testing 214 children, out of which 107 are younger (5 to 6 years in age) and ...

Arguably, strategic management is one of the modern establishments in all economic sectors, especially in large firms. In U.S most large firms have advocated for development and use of strategic systems which include planning, implementation, organizational capacity, customer’s linkage, as well as pragmatism. Over governance and under governance of U.S large firms by corporate governance still exist. The mechanisms affect firm value, organization of the firm, markets, and market liquidity. Most of the firms in U.S have been over governed by corporate governance, while others have been under governed. The corporate governance mechanism has led to diversity ...