Essays on Rubin

Discuss the reasons why a social scientist would do an exploratory study, and descriptive study. Select a research topic and show how it would be addressed through the 2 research designs. Bryman, (2015) enlightens that research designs helps in formulating adequate research methods to help a researcher to achieve the objectives of his or her research project. To this end, a social scientist is likely to select the research design to utilize in a certain project based on the unique needs of the research project in consideration. Babbie (2015) argues that exploration design is best when a research intends ...

1. Balanced literacy is a comprehensive approach that focuses on phonics, otherwise referred to as word study, reading and writing. The fundamental goal of this program is to include the strongest aspects of each. The balanced reading strategy includes the following major elements: independent reading and writing, guided reading and writing, shared reading and writing, reading and writing aloud, modeled reading and writing, interactive reading and writing as well as word study and reading and writing workshops. According to Policastro and McTague (2015), the paramount goal of a balanced literacy strategy is "to teach reading not as a skill ...

The modern day business environment has numerous dynamics that present organizations with both opportunities and challenges. To this end, Babbie (2013) provides that managers are always striving to understand the business environment to track any changes and trends to develop and implement the appropriate responses where necessary. In this regard, social research has become an essential business practice as it helps organizations to keep track of the market environment. Shipman (2014) advises that it is essential for business managers to utilize the appropriate social research methods to ensure that they get an accurate view of changes and trends in ...

Introduction

In the modern day, competition has led organizations to re-evaluate their strategies and identify new approaches to enhance their competitiveness. The need to improve the competitiveness of businesses has to the identification of efficiency improvement measures to enhance efficiency that leads to increased productivity and profitability of the organization. Junction Hotel is strategically located and it has operated for a long period. However, with the changing trends in the business environment, there is an increasing need to enhance their efficiency strategies to enhance their competitiveness in the business environment. Organizations adopt strategic approaches through effective management of human resource ...

Led Case

The plagiarism case of Led Zeppelin is significant because of the band’s iconic character. As for the side of the Spirit, the band who accuses Led Zeppelin of an alleged plagiarism, it is fair to raise such legal concern due to various reasons. First, the opening of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin is closely similar to the Spirit’s Taurus (Rubin and Lewis, n.p.). The latter deals with the situation as if something was stolen from them, in which case, the construction of Stairway’s opening part. On the other hand, Led Zeppelin’s attorney claimed that ...

Introduction

Emergency management has a place in the history of not only the US but its environs as well. The period between 1900 and 2010 has seen disasters that have ranged from earthquakes, drought, and hurricanes just to mention a few of the natural disasters that have marred the country. There are those disasters that have faced the country only that this time, they were deemed to be artificial in the sense that human factors had a hand in them. These include oil spills, terrorism, and human arsonists. It is critical to note that in the earlier times when disasters ...

Rubin a professional writer living in New York City is a mother of two lovely daughters. She woke up one morning to a realization that there was a need for her to improve her level of happiness. According to the Rubin statement, "I was in a danger of wasting my life" the author at this point gives a hint on what life entails. In as much as each and every individual has various unique elements that give meaning to a description of life, happiness is a standard feature in every person because human beings are social beings. According to ...

Rubin is a married woman, a mother of two daughters and living in New York City as a professional writer. Despite having a loving, handsome husband Jamie, good relationship with family members, there are several instances in her life that she feels dejected, insecure and frequently drifting away from old friends. At some point in April, the author says she was in danger of wasting herself. It is important to come to a realization of what is the purpose in life from a personal perspective considering that everyone has unique elements that keep them happy. Rubin's happiness project offers ...

The issue of gene patenting is an interesting one, bringing up concerns about the extent to which we ‘own’ our cells, and what rights we have with them. While some believe that, for instance, organ donors do not have the right to tissue that they have donated, others think that there must be some sense of bodily ownership that must be accounted for in issues like these. To that end, the work of Schleiter (2009), Caplan (2010), Satel (2008), and Rubin (2010) will be examined in order to see the ways in which organ and tissue donation intersect with ...

Introduction

Dealing with natural disasters entail that a country have prepared itself and its citizens, even for the worse case scenario (Rubin, 2012). Furthermore, a country should also have the capability to respond when their preparations to reduce casualties have failed. Likewise, when Hurricane Sandy hit the United States and caused severe damages, there were recommendations that were provided by in order to ensure that emergency preparedness and response to natural disasters in the United States will be significantly improved. Among these recommendations is the “community-based planning and communication” that aims to improve emergency preparedness and response by seeking out ...

Introduction

Among the eight areas that were identified that need policy changes so that FEMA can improve its capabilities is their procurement. Many may overlook this aspect when talking about how FEMA may improve or how it can affect operations in times of emergencies, but this aspect is essential for FEMA. Its improvement will help FEMA’s ability to respond, aid and reconstruct when dealing with emergencies, particularly Hurricane Katrina, to improve (Bea, 2007). This paper will likewise analyze this particular area of change (procurement) and determine how changes in this area can improve FEMA’s capability.

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Theresa May might be the latest entrant in the pool of high-positioned women, but it does not subside the ongoing debate revolving women style of leadership and negotiation. The conflict management style of May might be the subject of discussion among management honchos in the future. Researchers proffer differing perceptions concerning this issue; while some accede that women have different negotiation styles than men, some authors counter this by saying that gender has a little role to play in conflict handling. Furthermore, savants are not unanimous on the efficacy of women's style of conflict management. This paper has referred ...

Question one

When the items of the audit are unpaired, the ordinary operational course of the IRS will issue a 30-day letter of the IRS findings (Rubin, 2010). This letter will ask the taxpayer to agree with the IRS results. In such a scenario, the taxpayer can either agree or not, and in the IRS will send a notice of deficiency. Therefore, the 30-day letter acts as the ticket of taxpayers to the office of appeal to get more favorable findings as compared to the level of the agent. That is the appeals officers can consider the likelihood of settlements of ...

Article Review

Article Review

Graphical analysis provides a visual presentation of data (Terpening, 2011). The authors use boxplot for the graphical analysis. Box plots are used to show differences in the means as well as the dispersion for different groups (Rubin, 2012). In the study, the boxplots show the concentration of various mineral across the different location as well as the dispersion of the concentration for each group. The important features are the dispersion measures and central tendency measures. Dispersion is shown by range while the central tendency is shown by mean (Jackson, 2012). The graphs clearly show the means and ...

Introduction

The paper is intended to apply and synthesize the concept of management information system to the case of Primus Idea of McGraw Hills for text book publication while considering its future implementation. The management information system is considered as critical for the decision making within the business. The management information system must be protected and secured to complete the system development project successfully. For this purpose, each step of the development must be well managed and secured. The steps of development of information system include system analysis, system design, system implementation and system maintenance. The purpose of the paper ...

Executive Summary

The report is prepared to identify the reason Touch Screen Marketing and Research (TSMR) is not able to gather proper responses from the surveys they conduct. The main scope of the company is to conduct market research for its clients are providing them with the details about the market. The company is generating weak responses from the respondents who are likely to affect the business of the company. The report will help TSMR to identify the reasons behind such responses and the steps that the company can take to improve the responses from the market. To analyze the current ...

I believe that the enjoyment that comes to poetry is not dependent on the poem, but on the poet who presents it. Many people who have been to a poetry class or a spoken word concert are likely to agree with me. Poetry, according to Emily Dickinson, a well-known poet, brings people's thoughts and emotions into being. It resonates with those emotions so deep that they cannot be uttered in the absence of poetry. My love for poetry has been a lifelong experience. I grew up in a family where intellectual growth was more important that our own physical ...

International Production Strategies

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the emerging strategies of companies moving their facilities offshore and going more international with their strategies. What are the reasons behind this trend? Who are the companies following this strategy? Is it beneficial? We are going to discuss the answers to those questions in details. There are multiple factors that contribute in the decision making of moving facilities abroad; the major ones are lowering taxes paid, finding cheaper labor abroad and seeking less crowded markets for some industries. This provides a larger profit margin for the companies and open up new ...

Hi, social determinants come from every sphere of life whether environmentally as you said in your response or genetically, socially, politically, financially, etc. All the elements interfere with the individuals’ wellbeing or the abilities to access health care (Healthy People 2020, par. 3). Personal experiences assist in developing a better understanding of health issues that will assist a professional to deal with difficult circumstances in the future. From your experience, social determinants affected the livelihood of two households to the extent that they lacked food and basic resources for daily living. Your mother intervened to assist the two families. ...

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Dear Dr. Eugene, My name is [Name]. I am a student at [College/University]. I am concerned regarding the budget cuts proposed by Mayor Bill De Blasio, particularly those effecting the summer programs for youth in New York City. It is my belief that such programs are essential in providing young people with supervised settings in which they are able to not only achieve further education, but personal development as well. Many working parents rely on these programs to feel secure that their children will have a safe and secure ...

Business Analytics

Executive Summary This study sought to assess whether customers who bought the African adventure will be willing to provide feedback. The study revealed that there more customers who are unwilling to provide feedback compared to those who are willing to provide feedback. A regression analysis was used to determine the factors that influence WOM intentions. WOM intentions were modelled as a function of age, income, trust and attitude. The analysis revealed that the demographic characteristics (age and income) do not influence WOM intentions. However, trust and attitude influence WOM intention. The paper recommends that smart marketing and advertising should ...

The study will use a quantitative research design. A quantitative research design allows for a faster collection of data compared to a qualitative design. It is also suitable for studying large population because it allows the researcher to use inferential statistics (Rubin, 2012). Therefore, the findings from a sample can be used to generalize information about the whole population. This study seeks to assess whether the high prices that Starbucks charges for its coffee drive consumers to its competitors. Therefore, the study is interested in all consumers of coffee at Starbucks. The population of interest is large. A survey ...

Introduction

Employment at will doctrine enables an employee to ensure that a different employee is executed for any provided reason aside from an illegal motive or no reason without any legal capabilities. The same legal decision or no provided support by organizations allow employees to drop positions in jobs at any given time without any provided reason annulled of penalties that are considered legal (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012). Employees, with employment at good doctrine, have the capability to transform its terms as well as the policies of an organization without giving notice. Benefits, as well as wages, can be integrated at ...

Public Policy: Health Care Policy Issues

Health care policies refer to the decision, actions and plans that are done in order to achieve health care goals within a society. There are several different explicit health policies in order to achieve different things as it defines an idea for the future of the people. This in turn helps establish targets and points of reference for other short term and medium term goals. These policies outline the urgencies and the likely roles of different groups and department in the government and the private sector. It also builds consensus and helps inform the people about how the government ...

Answer # 02

The managers play a significant and dynamic role in the function of emergency management in order to encourage the sustainable recovery, but it also requires the adoption of the effective roles in order to ensure the sustainable recovery in a strategic manner. The emergency managers are required for the effective execution of the emergency plan and overlook the emergency functions so that the strategies planned to recover from the emergency situations can be implemented. The prevalence of disaster makes the emergency management teams to engage in the activities that are not part of their function, however, managers are required ...

Quasi-experiments are research designs that attempt to mimic an experimental design. However, the researcher cannot control the assignment of study participants to groups: a key feature for true experiments (Wadsworth, n.d.). This paper explores quasi-experiments as a research design.

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Advantages of Quasi-experiments Firstly, quasi-experiments, as the name suggests, are not true experiments. They contain elements of both a true experimental and correlational research (Jackson, 2012). Therefore, they allow the researcher to obtain stronger conclusion compared to when they conduct a pure correlational research. Secondly, quasi-experiments are useful in circumstances when conducting a true experiment is either infeasible or very ...

Art refers to a broad range of human activities in the creation of visual, auditory and performing artifacts. Such activities might include, but not limited to music, poetry, literature and painting. They express the author’s technical or imaginative skill. The authors who partake in these acts often aim to get an appreciation for the beauty and attractiveness of their works or emotional prowess. In general, art entails the production of artwork, history of art and its aesthetic dissemination. History enables lovers of art, and cultural studies understand how various artistic components came about. They learn about the philosophies ...

Marriage vs. Military Service Member

Military service is typical in the current world, where crimes and terror attacks have increased. Some of the servicemen may be involved in battles for long durations, leaving their families worried about their safety in the war. Married people who go out to war leaving their partners and kids at home are not settled because they are always thinking about the welfare of the family. When family members are left at home, they do not know if their members will be back from the battle in a healthy condition, and this causes panic among the kids and partners. Balancing ...

Emergency management is facing a lot of risks ranging from political tensions, social and demographic changes and emerging risks. The future of emergency risk is bright but needs to be tuned to feature in that future. In this super digital age, technology is becoming community based (Rubin). It has been designed for communication and collaboration. Therefore, professional operators need to use technology to predict behaviors. Such technologies enable managers to know events before, during and after disasters and how to avoid them (Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola 45). Understanding the economy will enable emergency managers to identify which economies they ...

Introduction:

The Media platform is a changing landscape. It has continuously evolved over the last few decades from print media to online platforms. Online media viewership has increased many-fold since the advent of easier access to the Internet and faster Internet speeds. People prefer accessing their favorite media content on the Internet since it gives them the option of watching their shows at their own choice of time. This rise in Internet usage for streaming video and audio content must have brought down the usage of one of the most frequently and widely used media platform in the past two ...

Introduction and Brief History of Ibrahim

Childhood trauma is a stressful condition experienced by children and adolescents for being exposed to intensively abusive or very painful events that they cannot cope with on their own. The events threaten the child’s physical and emotional health or that of a loved one (Arnold, & Fisch, 2011). Ibrahim, a ten-year-old boy, lives in a subsidized house in Minneapolis with his mother and siblings. The family emigrated from Somalia when Ibrahim was only four years old, and his father regained his Somalia citizenship and went back to Somalia. In a special summer, Ibrahim and his elder siblings attended a ...

Over time the amount of different tribes and parties who have controlled and or tried to control Afghanistan have created an environment where control is almost impossible. The lack of a stable central government for so many years has caused a power vacuum where no one central power can effectively control the country due to long-standing rivalries and tribal relationships creating the fractured state that we see today. Tribal rivalries and feuds are one of the main reasons for the power vacuum and lack of a central government that exists in Afghanistan today. Afghan tribes have been conflicting with ...

Godiva is an international company that specializes in the manufacture of chocolate. Currently, the company has over 450 stores worldwide. Over the years, the company has undergone difficulties that are attributed to the following:

• Most customers have been suspicious of the quality of the product

• Recession caused a drop in the sales volume Despite the odds, Godiva has lived up to the expectation of its loyal customers by providing products that suit customer needs. One of the ways of maintaining the customers’ base is by keeping up with the market trends and getting feedback from the customers. Godiva’s customers are the greatest assets of the company because a drop ...

Abstract

This paper is a discussion of a leadership project. It examines leadership experience of leading a team at Sentara Healthcare Organization and the leadership approach employed in leading this team. It further analyzes assertiveness leadership conundrum and the insight gained from the interviews with leaders on how to acquire and rightfully apply the skill in leadership. The paper posits that assertiveness is a crucial skill that every leader should possess as it influences team success. However, leaders should know how to employ effectively the skill as extreme levels of assertiveness are detrimental to a team. Additionally, the paper provides ...

Homelessness among military personnel is a sore thorn in United States. There are several programs aimed at alleviating this problem veterans, but as fate would have it the various efforts placed forth to help the veterans are inadequate to deal the homelessness crisis. This paper takes a deeper look at the problem of homelessness among veterans, examines the living conditions of homeless veterans and also identifies the current initiatives aimed at addressing the menace of homelessness among the veterans. Homelessness in broad sense is a challenge faced by people who lack a place to live that can be considered ...

Management of the Future

Introduction Most global economies have emerged from the downturn brought about the financial crises in the early twenty-first century slowly and for a longer time than expected. However, the emergent growth cannot be denied (Rigby & Bilodeau, 2015). Executives had to slog through years of recession and even stagnation, feeling finally triumphant with the recovery. However, despite their organizational skills and business acumen, they cannot shove away the serious challenges posed by employee diversity, which is hounding them through the years without remission. The most notable of these challenges involves the surface level of diversity. The surface dimensions of diversity ...

The proponents of the Affordable Care Act allege that it will transform the American health care system, but I do not think so. In her article, “Obamacare’s problems get worse,” Jennifer Rubin demonstrates why the Act will not transform the country's health care system by examining its problems. According to her, the Affordable Care Act is expensive, not accessible, and an unequal health care coverage. She maintains that the critics of the Act understand that it did not do anything to reduce the healthcare insurance prices. She also claims that the Act is promoting inequality through expanding a ...

Introduction

Failure to regulate the derivatives market during President Bill Clinton’s and President Bush eras contributed to the economic crisis that hit the U.S in the year 2008. “The Warning” is a documentary that was aired on PBS Frontline in 2009.In the documentary, a former Chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Mr. Brooksley Born talks of her attempts to control the derivatives market while she was at the helm of the CFTC. She says that these attempts failed and legislation was passed to prevent her and the CFTC from regulating the derivatives markets. The passing of this ...

Seton Hall University

Abstract Introduction Politics has been a major driving force in the US economy and arguably all other economies in the world. It is therefore of little surprise that much of what is covered in the media and by journalists revolves around politics. The mainstream media has been the main means of communication between politicians and their supporters. For years on end, politicians have been using print, visual, and audio media to send messages and agendas to the people. These forms of media became instrumental especially during elections periods. They were the main means of reaching out to a large ...

Walt Disney Company has been a pillar of excellence within the international business community for being innovative in every aspect of their business. Aside from their wonderful and precious films, Walt Disney has operated with the notion of making a difference in the world and using their branding to help implement change. For example, Walt Disney could have just kept their business to the industry of film making; however, Walt Disney decided to opt for something more that is giving joy to children and families all over the world. What has made their business model so special is that ...

In the past, people lived in towns, and traveling and communication with the world were complicated. Therefore, people had little or any choice of food, goods, medicine, leisure activities, or job. The XXI century is characterized by the fast-paced development of communication, technologies, and transportation. As a result, people can meet, communicate, travel, and even run business with partners who live on the other side of the globe. Therefore, the volume of information and the number of choices which people have to deal with have increased. People have to make decisions and choose every day. In the world of ...

There are probably very few people who have not heard the words from their wife or husband, “How much do you love me?” There are uncounted numbers of poems and song lyrics dedicated to the topic of the breadth and depth of undying passion. A constant stream of books such as “Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus” and “Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships” tout philosophies for providing understanding and excitement for couples. Romantic love may lead to the life-long commitment of a monogamous relationship, but it is generally known that the first ...

The problem of water resources of the Mekong River threatens to escalate into a serious conflict between China and several Southeast Asian countries. The origins of the Mekong, which occupies the 13th place among the longest rivers in the world (about 4350 km), are located on the Tibetan Plateau. The Mekong flows through China (Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. China is already having on the Mekong (China calls it the Lancang River) two operating hydroelectric power stations and at the beginning of September 2012 announced the launch of the third one called ...

(Institution Name) It is emphasized by the global peacekeeping organizations that countries resolve their conflicts through table talk and that they should refrain from carrying out full on offense against each other. The reason behind this is that when conflicts go violent and turn into wars, then they bring devastation to the public of the related states. No matter how weak or feeble one of the competitors seems, there is always potential for it to hurt the stronger opponent hard. The illiterate and weaponless militants of the most devastated and unstable region like Afghanistan were able to bring down, ...

The connectivity of a computer to other of networks that allows communication with other computers presents many risks to the computer. According to Kallol Bagchi, (2003), internet security involves mechanisms and procedures taken to protect and secure files and data in the computer connected to the internet against intrusion by other internet users. The internet being insecure mediums of exchanging information presents high-risk attacks which results in loss of data or files, destruction of computer software or access of information by unwanted or unknown computer users. To protect the transfer of date via internet several methods such as encryption have ...

Summary

This research is aimed at getting in depth to the agenda of war between Israel and the Arabs. The Middle East conflict between these two nations has been growing larger with time. The impacts and relevance of this cold war cannot be overlooked by the international community and other nations, especially the Western countries. As a result, these countries have made certain endeavors in trying to end amicably this war. The big question however, concerns their collective mode of operations and efforts in relation to the levels of success achieved or yet to be achieved.

Literature Review

The fact that the Arab-Israeli ...