Essays on Uphill

Introduction

Culture is the shared traditions, norms, values, arts, and the history shared by a certain group of people, and which is usually passed from one generation to another. These cultures may influence how these people access services and resources from professionals. Culture changes how people view the world and the role they play in the world. Culture shapes personal and group values and attitudes. This also includes perceptions regarding themselves their beliefs, myths and misconceptions (Murtha & O'Connor, 2011). Understanding culture helps professionals to avoid typecasts and any biases that may arise in their line of duty and may undermine ...

Introduction

The main role of the human resource department is to ensure that a company has a reliable, skilled, and committed workforce to deliver the tasks of the company. The HR department hires employees on demand, trains them for the various organizational tasks that they may be assigned and chooses to retrench some employees when such a need arises as per the strategic objectives of the company. However, with a fiercely competing business world, it has been tough for companies to retain their most talented employees. The current paper identifies the challenges that companies face as they seek to retain ...

Search and Rescue (SAR) is a practice done to salvage people from disasters. This practice is done by professionals who are specialized in particular disasters, for instance, following a hurricane or earthquake. These professionals serve to protect life to the best of their ability in each and every operation they encounter. As such, they need as much information before venturing into a potentially life-threatening disaster area. A mechanism is, therefore, required to provide all the necessary information to the SAR professionals. An excellent solution is this scenario would be an unmanned aerial vehicle that can record and relay real-time ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Introduction Bicycling is one of the most sustainable modes of transport and plays an important role in the transport system. Cycling has a number of benefits that include improving the quality of life, reduction of traffic congestion in cities, positive health outcomes due to the exercises involved, providing a suitable form of transport for short distances and environmental conservation among many other benefits. A number of cities have adopted bicycle master plans as they try to capitalize on the cycling opportunity (Litman et al., 2005). This has meant that bicycle ways are being created and existing roads are being ...

Business

Corporate branding is the use of a company’s name and already-built reputation and general perception to market oneself. This usually happens when a company has many branches to tap different markets, or when a company franchises its brand and name to interested companies. From the case study, Lilypad’s Hotels Company has been in business for two decades, and has branched out in the USA, Middle East and recently in San Francisco, South America, and has 12 boutique hotels worldwide. When a company spreads out its wings to branch into many sub-units, there is always the temptation to break out into ...