Miscellaneous Essays

The given website is definitely a rich source for the legal information and data pertaining to the issues related to the gender and sex discrimination at work. This website also provides legal information and data associated with many other cases that are very similar to the Collins case.

In terms of rebellion, blacks have the most contentious and polarized image when seen in the light of the dominant power group, the white male. The use of a black slang term can give the user, audience, or advertiser, an immediate identification as a rebel of unique and non-homogenized quality.

Since the area of the present writer is social science, a topic in social science would be worthwhile with a goal to improve practice in a given area of problem. The aim of choosing a relevant and appropriate topic for research is not only to know facts and to understand relations for the sake of knowledge, but also to discern some practical outcome of the topic.

On the other hand, not all managers are good leaders. The main functions of managers include planning, organizing, directing, coordination and control. The role of the managers is to coordinate and execute the productive functions by engaging in certain basic managerial functions.

Marxism is used for political philosophy and practice, which are mainly inspired by the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism is present in many disciplines including media studies, history, sociology, economics, literature, etc. The Marxists disagree on a few things and one of those things is the scale to which they see a worker’s revolution.

The legislation states that all members of the United Nations are to settle international disputes in a manner that shall not endanger international peace, security, and justice. Article 33(1) of the United Nations Charter also discusses the direct and peaceful settlement of international disputes where states are to settle their disputes using negotiation.

The problems associated with aging populations, low birth rates and skilled worker shortages are not exclusive to the four countries that currently have established immigration plans: Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Other industrialized countries such as the members of the European Union and Japan are also reconsidering their position regarding attracting foreign workers into their countries.

Technology is linear in succession where any invention is potent, improved, and lethal compared to its predecessor (Creveld, 89). Technology has been rebuffed earlier by strategists like Clausewitz due to the assumption that there has been no enhanced technological revolution that has developed to extent of its influence and functionality.

Under the law, a resulting trust is where although the legal title is vested in a trustee, equitable the title becomes vested in the settlor.2 Based on the decided case Vandervell’s Trusts (No. 2) (1974) ch. 269 it suggests that it is not correct to talk in terms of the equitable title remaining with the settlor.

If any policy or change is resulting in a negative impact on people, the HR Assistant should immediately attend to that and take appropriate action. The creation of a peaceful and pleasant academic atmosphere for learning and teaching can be created with improved human relationships and communication. This will definitely contribute to improved efficiency in the work.

The religions of the Caribbean and Latin America, including Creole regions such as Haiti, Trinidad, the Bahamas and Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica, and landed areas such as Honduras, Guyana and Venezuela, Columbia and parts of Mexico which are known as the Diaspora, is commonly viewed through observation of the most well-known religious observance in the area: Voodoo.

The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.

It is quite essential to state that social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing, and social security. In an academic environment, social policy refers to the study of the welfare state and the range of responses to social need.” (Wikipedia, 2006).

As is common in many of Shakespeare's comedies and later plays1, the burden of the story rests on the disparity between reality and performance, truth and lies, appearance and disguise. It is thus by employing the tools of theater in a commentary on theater that Shakespeare reveals the true nature of Iago's character, hidden from the characters in the play, but revealed in particular through soliloquies and asides to the audience.

Abortion is immoral; anti social and cruel human act therefore it should be declared immoral. Those who plead in favor of abortion do not have enough legal or moral grounds. This inhuman act kills a premature baby who is innocent and needs to survive at any cost.

This study will use qualitative field research to investigate elderly user perceptions of ADs in general, their usefulness, and perceptions of satisfaction or dissatisfaction. It is anticipated that this research will contribute to the ability of adult nursing to support the independent living and quality of life for the elderly person.

E. Jerome McCarthy, a professor and a well-known marketing consultant, divided marketing into four set of activities. He named them as the Four Ps (www.wikipedia.org). The Four Ps includes Product, Pricing, Placement, and Promotion. Other than that, marketing is also concerned with other factors such as advertising, distribution and selling.

The traditional gender roles they have had instilled from their own country is gradually made flexible by the influence of female empowerment in their adopted country. Through the course of the years, they learn and carry on a certain order of power through distance.

SCM aims to satisfy customer needs efficiently through the planning, implementing, and controlling of operations from the point-of-origin to the point-of-consumption (Agrawal, 2001). The best practices would embrace systems thinking and do away with the silo mentality of isolated departments in an organization, i.e., marketing, accounting, sales, etc.

Yet in the depths of tragedy, unexpected kindness from the least likely places can help ease the pain. These relationships may arise over time or suddenly, but in either event, prove supportive in moving beyond the tragedy. This argument can be more closely examined by studying the relationship of Frankie and Maggie in F.

The study found that less than half of classroom staff are positive about inclusion and feel that they do not have the knowledge, skills, support, and resources to make it work effectively. Whilst she admits that much progress has been attained in implementing inclusive education for pupils, problems remain that could be solved only if the school head is able to offer fresh perspectives to school practice and provide support for inclusion.

The report begins an overview of the tools and techniques of the Macro branch of the Power school, the University's mission, visions and goals, and identification of current alliances and goes on to propose two strategies that can be adopted by the University in order to formulate its strategy for a competitive edge.

However, there are concerns privatization has hurt the socio-economic welfare of the majority since the problem of applying UK company law has become problematical with the whole privatization process. Privatization in the UK has been part of a broader strategy to increase the role of markets in former state industries.

In the following study, we seek to determine whether the practices they described are still relevant in today's manufacturing surroundings. The author of this paper reports on research aimed at operationalizing the Hayes and Wheelwright four-stage model describing the strategic role of operations management.

"A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehensive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order."

Johnson’s Life of Savage is a deviation from the normal practice of the biographic tradition of the 18th century, which celebrated the achievements of men who became successful in life. A unique aspect of Johnson's narrative is the fact that it is a documentation of a man whose life was a total failure throughout.

According to the article, this phenomenon called sexting is the sending of almost-nude images by teenagers through phone or e-mail. This quite recent trend among teens have caused great alarm to parents, schools, and most especially, the government. A considerable number have cried foul and claimed themselves to be victims of this unscrupulous trend.

I thought 90% of the brain represents a huge untapped reservoir of capabilities that can irrefutably be developed when individual aims to surpass the average human being. Even though this is already dismissed and disproved by scientists, I believe that extraordinary individuals who excel in their careers and introduce revolutions in their professions are ordinary individuals who push their brains to work to their maximum potential.

Further complicating the violence in the Middle East are the immediate sources of conflict. Violence is perpetrated by terrorists, terrorist organizations, armed quasi-legitimate militias, and governments. Each of these initiators of war has their own agenda, their own reasons for fighting, and they often vary widely between groups.

Management plan links the environment context, control types, and consequences, showing how these contingencies influence the selection and use of marketing controls. This framework offers useful conceptual material for the further development of strategy implementation propositions for emerging enterprises.

This short essay presents the perspective of consumers in evaluating brand extensions by a company. The author has presented discussion on the theory by Aaker and Keller (1990) and self perspective about this subject.Aaker and Keller presented the original work on brand extension theory that triggered multiple researches in many countries.The primary task of marketing strategists is to mitigate the risks associated with launching new product lines that are associated with the original brand by convincing the customer about the relevance of the new products with the original brand.

Thus nurses' expanded roles at this time appeared to be task orientated, and served the needs of doctors rather than necessarily those of patients. In 1992 the publication of the Scope of Professional Practice (UKCC, 1992) appeared to redress the balance, removing the need for certification and placing patient need at the centre of development of nursing practice.

These foreign organizations have been using the country as logistical base for these terrorist groups and provide heavy funding to support terrorism. The criminal justice system of the United States has certain elements that are not encountered in other western countries in today's world.

Luca Pacioli can be called the father of accounting as we know it today. The major concepts were first published in Italy in 1494. Incidentally they were discussed in a book he wrote on applied mathematics entitled “Summa de Arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et Proportionalita”.

For the training program evaluation, the cost and benefit analysis was chosen as the best strategy to select the optimal solution. Thus it can often be very time consuming and expensive. Optimizing techniques include such methods as linear programming, decision analysis, and various forecasting techniques.

History becomes a reductive, exclusionary and harmful grand-narrative that threatens to erase those stories from the periphery and only propagate an illusion of reality that is sane perfect and comfortable. By the 1950's, the American Dream became an object of enquiry because the illusion was threatening the nature of reality.

Beatrice, depending on the type of acid involved, possibly has a claim for personal injury against Chaudhury based on wrongful treatment. Chaudhury and Doris (the "co-employees"), on the other hand, have a claim for damages against Beatrice for psychological damage they have suffered and against the employer, the co-employees may have a claim for psychological damage under the principle of vicarious liability and for damages in respect of the employer's breach of its duty to provide a safe system of work.

Safety starts with management commitment. For example, Dupont’s accident rate is lower than the other chemical industries as a whole. Its good safety record is due to the organizational commitment to safety. Each morning at the Dupont Polyester and Nylon plant, the directors and their assistants meet at 8.45 to review the past 24 hours. 

IKEA is an international home retailer dealing with diverse customer targets. In this company, ethical problems arise when a man's assignment forces him to emphasize a single job objective--say, maintaining the profit margin on a particular product. But suppose that to meet this objective his only alternative is to sacrifice quality.

Obesity is not a simple case of lack of control, poor eating habits or lack of physical activity. Nor is it a simple case of heritability. Unfortunately, because the underlying causes for the disease are poorly understood, an effective treatment to cure the disease has yet to be defined.

10. The overall rate of reaction in a multistep reaction is determined by the rate of the slowest reaction in the complete mechanism. This is due to the fact that the reaction would not be complete till this step is complete. 15. Rate of the reaction is dependent on the activation energy for the reaction.

We assume the units of output represent a quantity of goods produced. e.g. one unit might represent 20,000 details! To find the company's profit equation, we need to find its total revenue and total cost equations and difference them! (Notice how the signs of the TC equation changed when we removed the brackets!

Instead, morality has been utilized to protect society. However, society is not necessarily as ideally moral as it may preach, which can bring about the problems nations create through war, prohibition, and tyranny. When this occurs, ironically, these immoral deeds are executed in the name of morality.

 In the nucleus, DNA is associated with the histone proteins and is linear in shape whereas in organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts, DNA is circular and is not associated with histone proteins. The DNA from mitochondria and chloroplast is responsible for cytoplasmic inheritance or maternal inheritance.

To have absolute power is to master the circumstance and all it encompasses. Zeus, the recently appointed God of all Gods, reigns supreme over the lands of man and is quick to punish those who defy him. Prometheus, God of forethought, denied that Zeus held an absolute power because he envisioned the overthrowing of the God.

Businesses are not solely economic institutions. Regarding social, political, and legal issues, society wants businesses to get involved in social issues. Corporations have more than a social obligation. They should be much more than responsive. As a public entity, corporations should feel a responsibility to enhance public goods.

They don't actually need to show up to class but should because it will helo them succeed. This freedom is much anticipated but without some organization can prove to be a disaster. I have not fallen trap to this but have kept myself on my choosen path. I have a very ambition education goal and know that with my attitude and perseverance I will be a great success.

Attending a day centre grants advantages, but one must understand the elderly person's confrontation to change in the suggestion of a new day by day routine. Likewise his or her independence must be the main concern in preparation for access to an old age home, and not the postulation that the family knows best.

The principle of Ratio Decidendi is very important in judgments and can make the difference between justice being dispensed and injustice being perpetrated. In the case of R v AS, a serious travesty of justice transpired, and but for the timely and effective judgment of the Supreme Court of Queensland would have not been set aside. 

The Italian industry can, with these forms of cooperation, illustrates effective solutions for the improvement and enforcement of integration of firms, providing ways to overcome some of the most relevant problems facing SMEs: expansion into new international markets. The creation of innovative products and ideas is the most important step.