Essays on Looming

The article "Despite Recession, High Demand for Skilled Labor" by Louis Uchitelle highlights the need for skilled labor despite the soaring unemployment rate. The unemployment rate has risen to 9.4 percent, the highest in 30 years (Uchitelle np). This increase is mainly due to a recession. Interestingly tough employers are looking for qualified workers even during the hard times according to the government's standard employment data. These jobs take years of experience to attain the required skills. For instance, it is tough to find an experienced person in welding. It takes a minimum of ten years to produce a ...

Introduction

Every parent envisions a future where their children and grandchildren live in a rich and resourceful environment that essentially provides them with everything that they need to survive. However, what if parents were informed of a pending doom where their children will live in an extremely toxic environment where there aren't enough basic resources such as fresh drinking water or where the climate is comprised of harsh conditions that threaten their lives on a daily basis? What if they were informed that by the time their children are adults, a diverse range of the existing species of animals will ...

First Entry: My name is John Claude a thirty five years old male working as a Parish Priest of the First Estate. I have not married and I am not expected to marry because as a career priest I have vowed to abstain. We as the members of the First Estate believe that the Third Estate need to be taxed because they do not have power, they are in the lowest rank of the social scale and they consume significant resources. However, we cannot be taxed because people look at us for religious growth and education and we heavily ...

At the brink of war, America, which has distinguished herself as a world leader and a responsible country knew that she would be at the center stage of the showdown. The war eventually came with anxiety and patriotism contemporaneously looming across the country. The media shifted interest in the war. Countless patriotic books and artistic artifacts were born during and after the time of war, but nothing has done much for the history of war than the picture taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at times square after the war. The image quickly found its way to magazine front pages and ...

Negotiation is the most basic method of conflict resolution. It is backward and forward communication between the parties of the argument with the objective of trying to find a solution. It is a process of combining diverging viewpoints in order to arrive at an agreement. Negotiations can prevent or end a conflict while guaranteeing that both parties get at least fraction of what they desire. When both parties obtain major advantages, the negotiation is considered most successful. Nonetheless, any negotiation involves the risk of making a bad deal, and sometimes, a failed negotiation can worsen the existing conflict (Zartman ...

Views on Humanity

The effort of speaking definitively upon what humanity would resort to in the event of an apocalypse is akin to divining the true purpose behind life. Every last person in the world knows the idea exists, but is unsure of what course to take. Cormac McCarthy takes readers along a particularly dreary path towards the realization of what might happen should the world as humanity knows it ever end, sparing no sensibilities along the way. The question of what will befall humanity should the world as it is known ever end is one that offers many different answers. As ...

Abstract

The impacts of an enterprise’s dividend policy on share prices wield considerable significance to the investors, economists, and corporate officials. The economists try to appraise and understand the operations of the capital markets, the corporate officials institute the guidelines, while the investors plan the portfolios. Throughout the process, several queries arise: Do the firms with substantial distribution policies sell their premiums over those with negligible payouts? If yes, under what circumstances? Is there a standard series of ratios or payouts that can maximize the share prices? The three questions have been the focus of various studies, but the ...

General background

The western supremacy which has persisted for the past two hundred years is slowly depreciating due to the shift of power towards the eastern region. The western states are losing the authority to sustain a multilateral order based on the set rules. In 2008 during the wake of great brash, the G20 leaders took initiative steps to reinforce the multilateral order, which included the reinforcement of the IMF and the World Bank governance. This was to reflect an increasing weight of the economy of the developing countries. It will be shown that the reforms at the IMF and the ...

Communication is a vital tool in handling critical issues in an organization. The essence of globalization has made the world get firsthand information as it happens elsewhere in microseconds. The advancement in technology is accredited to the continued looming crisis experienced in offices and business. Similarly, the digital word has experienced particular content going viral often shared in social media, for example, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Clients raise such complaints. The article highlights the plights client and individuals go through in trying to solve communication crisis. Further, different scenarios are presented to reinforce the author’s main argument and ...

Abstract

Mitigation emphases on decreasing damages of life and property while the recovery empowers the community to regain its normalcy and cope with the situation to continue with their lives. From that avowal, it is without a doubt that they are both central and fundamental phases in the management of adversities that might arise. The two play an essential role in helping the society members to respond and bounce back despite the loss of life and damage to properties. An attempt will be made to expound the mitigation and recovery disciplines of the disaster management plan as well as the ...

Recently, China has recorded a remarkable growth in its economy of nearly 10% per year. The bulk of this growth comes from the banking sector characterized by poor asset quality, low capitalization, and massive state intervention. For this reason, the government introduced sweeping changes to the financial sector to boost its stability. These changes included transforming the banking sector from a policy-driven, state-owned, non-performing system to a profit-driven, multi-ownership, competitive system. Although the sector has recorded marked improvements in its operation and efficiency, additional efforts is needed to deal with problems revolving around non-performing loans and shadow banking. The ...

Plato is one of the most remarkable writers and philosophers who ever lived. The reason that his writings have lived on for so many years is that they debate fundamental themes of human existence that transpire over the ages. An example of this can be seen in the Trial of Socrates in Plato’s Apology. One of the principle themes that is debated in Plato’s Apology is the notion of death as a deterrent, (“Apology: Theme Analysis,” 2016). Socrates, in his monologue, debates whether he should escape his execution for merely fearing death and abandon his principles and ...

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Abstract The period of the World War 1saw changes in perception of the society concerning the gender roles. This work intends to examine the effects of the World War 1 and the way the interaction of the society changed the dimensions in the workplace. Importantly, this analysis depended on the secondary materials. The written literature in the various thoughts of the war was very central in this analysis. The information is then employed to help in determining the transition in the public views of societal relationship. For instance, the work looks at the periods, before, during and after the ...