Essays on Onyx

Forecasting Techniques

The modern day business environment is quite competitive and dynamic. The majority of businesses that succeed are those that can streamline their operations to match the changing environment while at the same time making profits. In order to do this, a business should be able to offer a product or service that rivals its competitors in price but still guarantees profits after expenses. A marketing strategy acts as a blueprint with which a company can design its marketing plan. At Onyx Corporation, the company does not have a sound marketing strategy; as such, its marketing plan is both ineffective and inefficient. Forecasting refers ...

As a teacher in an Australian school with a particularly high number of low-income citizens and students, I am completely aware of the importance of cultural awareness and diversity when it comes to dealing with underserved populations, particularly aboriginal and indigenous students. One of the concepts I try to bring forth in my own teaching is transformational leadership , in which teachers provide a more collaborative and engaging environment for learning, cultivating skills instead of acting in a transactional, one-sided manner with students (Painter-Morland, 2008). When applying this to my particular education context, I believe transformational and emergent leadership can provide a greater level of ...

The Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Rohe

The Barcelona pavilion was designed in 1928 by a German architect by the name Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe. The building design was established as a show of transformation in the German architecture after the First World War. The actual design was implemented in the following year (1929) and the building was built of simple structure which consisted of marble, red onyx and travertine (Berger, 2007). This building had certain unique features that attracted architects in the century. Though the building was destroyed in the year 1930, it was later re-constructed and its attributes, concepts, materiality and spatial distribution were used. ...