Miscellaneous Essays

Issues on the origin of the solar system have long been debated, and perhaps will stay with us as long as we live. In search of a valid explanation for such a phenomenon, scientists have formulated theories to support their speculations. Among these theories are as follows: 1) the nebular theory, which ascertains that hydrogen and other gases swirled around and condensed into our sun and its planets (or our solar system.

Renewable energy sources are environmentally friendly, the energy produced will reduce the number of fossil fuels and this will help reduce environmental degradation, extensive use of fossil fuels has led to an increase in greenhouse gases which lead to global warming, by increasing the use of renewable energy there will be a reduction in environmental pollution.

Let us first define racism. What is racism Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person's social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another.

Another issue raised by the news article was the presence of 130,000 troops in Iraq. Whether or not there is an immediate need to pull them out. Their presence could not at all guarantee "to quell the violence at that point. At a minimum, we'd have to pull back certain military bases and try to keep working the politics," as Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California advised.

Class, in these terms, is the way economic power is distributed when economic activity is organized in an instrumentally-rational manner to the greatest degree. The problem of exploitation the extraction of labor effort from workers is treated, in this framework, primarily as a problem of technical efficiency and economic rationality.

Mesopotamian and Biblical stories of creation have been compared to determine elements of similarity and difference. Many Western societies are founded on Christian principles, and so insightful reading of the Bible requires knowledge of the ancient societies and cultures that produced the literary forms of Bible creation stories that guide many of the Western principles in 21st-century society.

The twenty-first century is seeing an unprecedented shortage of qualified nurses worldwide. While the causes for this calamitous shortage range from the availability of other more attractive jobs for women to the aging of the existing nurse population. With the nonavailability of freshly trained nurses, the burden of work falls on the existing nurses who are already overworked.

is its ability to offer year-round services, especially to tourists that want to take more than just a run-of-the-mill holiday. Depending on the personal preference and time of year, vacationers can ski, snowboard, sail, or dive. Geographically secluded from the more commercial areas, Merryweather Sailing hotels were a preferred destination for the more intrepid holidaymakers, catering to both beginner and advanced sailing enthusiasts.

the ability to produce the goods and services at lower costs. An example of Multinational Corporation is the Coca cola Company which is the largest beverage manufacturing company in the world. The company has been in existence since 1892 and manufactures, distributes and markets non-alcoholic beverages and syrups globally.

At present, there are a lot of internet websites that can be utilized to gain health-related information. Everything from researching, as well as placing orders for prescription medications, to learning about the disease, or even having a conversation online with trained medical doctors can be now done by the internet.

Computer deals can involve hardware, software, and other services. Courts assess the customer software cases under the current tests which include element tests, bi-figuration tests, and final product concrete and movable test. The tax law has not been greatly affected by computers as canned software is handled as touchable and taxable.   

It is important to state that during a period of credit crisis the IMF has helped the countries to recover from the rescission and the body of the essay will entirely focus on the validity of the instruments that the IMF has used during that period. It has been reported by the BBC that the IMF will be reintroducing most of the emergency instruments that had been used during the Asian crisis.

The rise and fall of delinquency rates may be due to the ebbing and waning of social ills and pressures. The media has been blamed for the violence among teens and 50 years ago a congressional investigation blamed delinquency on, "... comic books and other types of printed matter; the radio, television, and motion pictures".

The barriers to entry that characterize the identified industry represent another source of DaimlerChrysler’s competitive advantage.  As earlier noted, these barriers include access to technology and the size of the requisite investment.  DaimlerChrysler has the technology and, insofar as Daimler is concerned, much-coveted technology as which gives it a competitive advantage over its rivals. 

Consumerism, in this context, is one expression of past successes in the left's efforts to 'liberate' the majority from constraints of class, gender and poverty. It facilitates the desire for autonomy which stems from ideas of democratic and independent government.

According to Searle, Pinker claims that there are two aspects to the debate between empiricism and rationalism. This is a psychological side (where the rationalists, unlike the empiricists, were "obsessed by combinatorial grammar") and an epistemic side (where the rationalists thought "knowledge comes from making deductions using theories").

The company strives for continued unit expansion as well as same-store value sales growth. McDonald’s strategy is to focus on its customers and maximize system profitability by capturing opportunities within five fundamental drivers – people, products, place, price and promotion. Each fundamental is intended to maximize customer relevance.

This gave him the right to veto any trade the Mariners might want to make to ensure that they would get the most for his services. He was a leader not only on the field, but off the field as well. The Mariners were interested enough in retaining his services that they had offered him a new eight-year contract worth an estimated $138 million dollars.

“The Strange New World within the Bible”, an essay that appears in the book The Word of God and The Word of Man written by Karl Barth, begins with numerous questions relating to Bible and its efficacy. The second paragraph of the essay takes the readers into a world where they are with Abraham in Haran, as well as they are able to listen to a call from the Lord, who orders them to leave the land and makes a promise to them of a great nation.

"Common law defines bribery as "a receipt of anything of value where the intent is to influence" someone "in his official capacity."" (Mintz, 1996) If the intent of giving "gifts" was clearly to influence someone to receive favors then the act is certainly bribery and is thus considered a crime under the law of the country.

Those that advocate nature as the ruling force believe that genetic predisposition takes priority over environment, upbringing, discipline, and free will. Advocates of the nurture argument contend that we are a product of our learning and the environment that we grow in, which is merely influenced by opportunistic genetics.

Yum! Brands owns 3,400 multi-branded restaurants offering consumers more choice and convenience at one restaurant location from a combination of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, A&W or Long John Silver's brands. In 2005 Yum! opened an average of 3 new restaurants each day outside the USA.

The firm is said to be the largest employer in the country, employing around nineteen thousand people. The firm is also a very profitable entity, and reported revenue of $5 billion in the fiscal year ending 2008. Within the UK, the firm has its presence in the major metropolitan cities of UK.

For ten years he was carrying on with the company with his small fleet of aircraft and at the end of the first quarter of 1950, he transformed his business into a private shareholding company with the name of Gulf Aviation. Therefore, it can be regarded as one of the oldest air carriers performing operations in the Middle East.  

The perception of a “flat tax”, a simple tax system that charges a single rate of tax on all income, is rising in fame. It difference is apparent by the current systems operated in main countries, by dissimilar tax rates depending on the level and type of income or on the individual circumstances of the personage taxpayer. 

Consequently, the police car crashed onto another vehicle and caused the death of the other driver. The rookie officer faced an ethical dilemma after a lawsuit has been filed against the senior officer and an inquiry has been initiated (Schafer 2002). These events are recounted by John Schafer (2002) in his article 'Making Ethical Decisions: A practical model for police personnel' in which the author likewise discusses our basis and sources of ethical codes and guidelines.

Generally, Mercury was probably known in very early times, though it seems likely that it was discovered after silver, gold, copper, tin, and lead. Mercury played an important role in the early work of the alchemists since it was regarded by many as one of the elements of which all matter is composed.

In his research, Forrester concluded that commercial transactions in the electronic world are worth US $12.2 billion in 2003 in the United States alone. In the UK, the highest reported figure is 2 billion per month. In e-commerce, the basic rules of contract law usually apply to contracts created either via electronic mail (email) or a web based contract.

The Republicans were better able to judge the public mood and manipulate domestic opinion in order to secure their objectives at the international level.  The final outcome was that the United States never joined the League of Nations as Congress felt that the United States was already too enmeshed in European affairs.

The previous week, I bought a new shampoo advertised by one of the local stores. My decision to purchase this new product was influenced by a counter salesperson. She recommended I try a new product because of its unique characteristics and low price established by the manufacturer for this new product.

The Dell Company faces major competition from other companies, this include Apple, Sun Microsystems, Gateway, Sony, Asus, Toshiba and Hewlett Packard which is also referred to as HP. All this companies are its competitors but HP is its major competitor, competition increased when HP merged with Compaq in the year 2006, this meant stiffer competition and the company lost its market position to become the second largest seller of computers and computer appliances.

Value creation because of more information disclosure is greater than any potential reduction in value because of the release of negative environmental information. It should be noted by firms that environmental disclosures will be updated rather than being a standardized process. It will involve corporations, their managers, governments, and society.

The future of some of the industries related to transport is in doubt, owing to the susceptibility of the sector to global rises in fuel. As such, rises in fuel prices not only affects our quality of life, but also our lifestyles, such as the choices that we make with regard to our preferred mode of transport.

For these criteria to be met, it is imperative to design the actual organization spaces such that they accommodate the efforts and provide ample opportunity within the premises to promote a healthy coordination between the four factors of production. Let us delve deeper into this.

Employer’s Duty of Care. In the recent case of Jones v BBC, 2007 WL 2187023 (QBD), Jones, a freelance sound recordist for defendant BBC, claimed that he suffered a personal injury caused by the negligence of the defendants. During a recording of the lowering of a windmill mast, and while Jones was walking under the inclined mast, the windmill rotor fell onto his back causing severe spinal injury rendering him paraplegic. 

Non-experimental research is required as there exist many independent variables, which cannot be manipulated for some reason or the other (e.g., for ethical reasons, for literal reasons and for practical reasons). Non-experimental research studies what naturally occurs or has occurred; and how variables are related to each other. It lacks manipulation of the independent variable.

The very term "ergonomics" was introduced in 1949 in England, when a group of British scientists started an organization called Ergonomic Research Society. In the USA, this branch of science is often called Human Factors (HF). The science itself, however, had been for several decades in the making, and did not emerge all of a sudden.

This is governed by the action taken by a person in the face of a complicated condition and thus tests the morality of the person. Nonetheless, personal ethics and universal ethics have a stark difference. Universal ethics happen to be predefined norms and convictions about the kind of behavior expected in a specific situation.

Where company shares are redeemed or purchased wholly out of a company's profits, the amount by which the company's issued share capital is reduced on cancellation of the shares which are redeemed or purchased or on cancellation of shares held as treasury shares must be transferred to the capital redemption reserve (CRR).

‘Britain remained detached from the 1867 International Monetary Conference’s bid for a world currency’ (Cottrell, 1992). In contrast, a decade ago the most recent half-century looked very much less laudable. The pound sterling that would be abandoned with euro membership, was created as a definite weight of silver of a specified fineness.

Both Marceline and Leon have gone in over their head financially, as they purchased a home to later walk away from it because they were not able to afford the bills that came with the purchase of the house. Now, she and Leon reside in a studio apartment in substandard living conditions. The toilet constantly runs, and there is peeling paint, which can become a safety hazard to the baby.

Execution methods currently used in the United States are lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber and firing squad. The writings of European theorists started the abolitionist movement. Cesare Beccaria's essay, On Crimes and Punishment, which theorized that there was no justification for the state's taking of a life, had a strong impact throughout the world.

Unocal corporation et al, September 18, 2002: This decision can make a binding precedent). 2. Prof. indicated that the fact that "general principles of law recognized by civilized nations" are a source of international law rules does not mean that legal rules existing in a majority of national legal systems are binding on the minority.

While Aberdeen has the mindset of a modern, intelligent organization seeking to enhance continuous learning opportunities for its employees so that they too grow flexibly with the ever-changing needs of the market, Green River persists in a strictly role-based model offering little room for career enhancement, and instead, plenty of room for employee discontent.

The Web has completely restructured traditional relationships between the sellers on one hand, the buyers on the other and the entire distribution channel that acts as an intermediary. The Information Technology revolution has resulted in making certain services or products relatively redundant while others which were earlier passive have now boomed.

Calatrava refurbished the entire main Olympic complex, including the stadium, using his trademark style of arches and white color. Refurbishment involved the construction of an arched roof to cover 95 % of the seating of the concrete bowl of the stadium. In the following pages how the stadium's renovation turned out an enormous technical challenge and became a milestone for the city will be described.

Though their motives were laudable, the ways they took to bring about change have been criticized as unfair and inappropriate. The committee altered the process in April 2006, after they selected two qualified candidates for the prestigious position. They reopened the process for additional applicants and in doing so created more questions than they answered.

The immediate response to the poem is that it is a simple, nostalgic reminiscence that portrays the trust and love that exists between the characters. Moving from man to boy, then adult to child, it returns to father and son together in a shared moment in time.

Generally speaking, the intervention did not realize its objective of ensuring that Kosovo remained a peaceful country. However, the people who view that the west should impose its ideologies on the rest of the world viewed this as a successful intervention, and these feelings were asserted by Tony Blair himself.

Hence, the nursing interventions in a community that addresses and manages its problems can minimize the health related problems. The interventions depend on the problems faced by the community and effective nursing interventions depend on building and effective community nursing.