Miscellaneous Essays

DPWN has is a major player in the European Union. Having experienced a successful turnaround from a loss-making state-owned organization to a privatization-oriented profit-generating enterprise on its home grounds in Germany, DPWN has the experience and resources to make path-breaking forays on its home ground and the rest of Europe.

Community policing, which involves the police and public in a dialogue to discuss styles of policing, is being increasingly adopted by the police authorities. It is a better means of increasing police accountability. Agencies like National Reassurance Policing Programme go to a large extent to reassure the public about the ability of the police to reduce crime and order and thus instill trust.

The time sensitive nature of business and product development are prompting organizations to choose the best people for these projects, regardless of their location. Timing no longer allows for the tedious process of documenting contributions from around the globe and then trying to distill this information in a central location.

In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, for instance, the characters, the setting, and the themes reflected the tensions of this historical period much more than it did a more carefully crafted, independent world of fiction. In Irving's work, for instance, issues such as culture and politics were incorporated directly into the story rather than marginalized or excluded.

A series of specific guidelines on issues critical to correct interpretation of such accounting ratios is included along with specification of pitfalls. A variety of ratios are used in financial analysis. Without specifying these ratios in detail we can classify their broad financial grouping under short-term solvency or liquidity ratios, long-term solvency or financial leverage ratios, coverage ratios, profitability ratios and market value ratios.

Because America is a pluralistic society, its stories are many and exist side by side. These stories influence each other as cultures blend and change; they also influence society as a whole, including members of American society who do not believe all (or any) of the creation stories.

The studies indicate that courts and the Probation Service have also shown a disparity in sentencing and professional practice. that could be explained in terms of unfair treatment, racial discrimination, or prejudice by magistrates, judges, and probation officers, although the evidence has not always been conclusive.

While other children were playing video games and soccer, I would be huddled over a computer keyboard experimenting with the latest computer programming language or newest database concepts. This early foundation in the interest of engineering has been encouraged by my family and has driven me to achieve a higher degree to be able to compete in the age of globalization.

The real estate industry is fast evolving. Market forces compel the industry to rethink and develop measures to suit the changing preferences of consumers. Additionally, Governments of different countries have put various checkpoints that compel the house builders to reconsider the way houses are built.

Generally, as defined by Kotler, a marketing mix is the set of controllable tactical marketing tools –product, price, place and promotion that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market. We have chosen Cadbury Dairy Milk for this analysis, which can be called a convenience product.

Offshoring refers to the location of the work while outsourcing refers to who does the work. It is possible to offshore work without outsourcing if the company sets up a captive unit or its own office in another country. The basic outsourcing decision is one of reallocating production (both services and manufacturing) from one location to another (Schniederjans & Zuckweiler, 2004).

If the company goes bankrupt the common stockholders will not receive their money until the creditors and preferred stockholders have received their respective share of the left over assets. This makes common stock riskier than debt or preferred stocks. The upside to common stock is that they usually outperform bonds and preferred shares in the long run.

In fact, while the Men become more and more valuable and productive with the passage of years, all the other factors keep depreciating in value. This singles out the human resource factor for special consideration and deep study and research. Such studies have led us to the realization that all human beings are not equally valuable as others but everyone can be suitably trained to become reasonably valuable like others.

International academic assessments like “The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study “(PIRLS) and the “Programme for International Student Assessment “(PISA), confirm what educators around the world have suspected for a while now. Boys do not perform as well as girls in reading and writing (Ontario Education 2004, p.4).

This strategy is beneficial to the proper administration in an organization, because it helps a lot in proper planning and other administrative process. Listed below are the few of the benefits of this strategy: It is important that all levels in an organization (i.e.

Regardless of the keenness and safety that is observed when manufacturing these instruments, one cannot think of their sterility without thinking of the safety observed when packaging. The development and design of a packaging system for sterilized medical devices is a complicated issue and a critical endeavor.

Uncontested, however, are the facts that indicate that when loading and storing into the ship’s hold, crew members did not report this and, as a result, a clean bill of lading was issued.  As a direct outcome of the stated, therefore, and consequent to the passage of risk, the seller’s possible liability dissipated.

The Library Automation System is the online management system for library resources. The standards-based system provides an interface for remote public access and inter-library operations like ILL. The main features of the library automation system are described as Online Catalogs – Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.

Mngers hve the responsibility to crete the right culture nd communl vision for their employees, to select employees nd define their roles nd responsibilities, nd to crete mesures tht led to innovtion while offering effective incentives for ccomplishing the orgniztion's mission.

W1 will testify that on two occasions in March 2005 he saw A and another person whom he does not know packaging a white powder in a suburban home in Canberra. W2 will testify that in March 2005 he heard A tell a third party that: ‘B and I will be selling some big quantities of the stuff in the next few months'. In April 2005 he accompanied A and B.

The foreign exchange rate is simply the price of one currency in terms of another. Not surprisingly, this price can be viewed as the result of the interaction of the forces of demand and supply for the foreign currency in any particular period of time. Under the floating exchange rate mechanism, the country’s currency is valued through hundreds of thousands of international transactions that take place.

The Indian experience of the handling the methyl isocynide tragedy must certainly act as an eye opener for all the administrators. The inability of the local bodies to handle a sudden intervention could result in the escalation of the catastrophe. The effort of the US Environmental Protection Agency to list the potentially hazardous materials in the local region and hence to develop regulation and guidelines for addressing the response, prevention and tackling the accident release of the materials listed by the agency is the guideline.

The history of theater worldwide necessitates not only the spectacle of the drama itself but also, and more importantly, that of the performer in his or her capacity to play a role. We now popularly refer to this as a theater, a specific area where an audience can gather together and assemble to view a performance.

In the course of our analysis, we discover that the two companies are quite profitable though their activities for the year 2008 have been affected by the global financial crisis. The first part of the report provide an overview of each of the two companies under review, section two of each section analyses each of the companies by focusing on the profitability, liquidity and solvency ratios.

According to National Research Council (2002), nowadays schools operate within a "complex system . . . where it is difficult to focus on any particular component without considering how it is influenced by and, in turn, influences other parts of the educational system" ( p.

Theatrical and cinematic productions of plays have been a reality from the period this genre was introduced in the history of English literature and they influence the interpretations of the plays. Significantly, Shakespeare and the other great dramatists of the Elizabethan period wrote their plays primarily for the stage.

The purpose of the survey will precede the survey paper as given in the annexure. This would brief the purpose of the survey and will request the participant to take part in the survey only if he or she accepts the statement made there. Arabic translation of the same will also be made available for people who are of Sudanese origin.

A high current concern in the sources and basis of neoclassical theory and marginalist revolution itself is rationally motivated. For instance, Philip Mirowski (1988) formulates three fundamental reasons for investigating the topic: The first is antiquarian: it is concerned with tracing the intellectual antecedents of a given innovation.

This is a great threat which has to be dealt with, during outsourcing. On the other hand, the impact of outsourcing is evident from multi-faceted existence as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), and Information Process Outsourcing (IPO) and so on.

Sales, surveys, production, and budgets, have been identified as possible areas of improvement. However, the improvement of the manufacturing process meets business requirements. Profits have decreased in the past couple of years causing stakeholders to be leery of investing any more money into the company. 

The products that are successful in the market segments carry an finite "satisfaction value" from the customer perspective which needs to be studied by the marketing experts before the product is designed, manufactured and distributed. This fundamental theory drives the larger frameworks of market research on customer buying behaviours such that minute details of customer choices can be used to enhance the overall value of the products.

Hume reiterates this point by using the works of past masters like Homer, Virgil, Cicero, and Terrence whose appeal is timeless and eternal. Kant stresses that “universal assent” is needed to deem a work of art agreeable. Bell has described this beautifully, “It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal”.

It is not necessary that every person with such emotional and physical background will develop PTSD. It varies from individual to individual and depends mainly on the duration and intensity of the event. The main issues are how the first responders of PTSD reacts after any stressful event and how can the victims of PTSD be managed through coping mechanisms and by applying one of the widely practiced method known as Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.

Debbie should make Ronnie see that each employee in the company is an important factor in the functioning of the whole business organization. Cohesion and good communication are essential to promote efficiency and working relationships. Debbie can foster harmonious relationships through team-building seminars.

Generally, life can be hard; it doesn’t come with instructions in a nice, neat little papered box with a ribbon on top.  Personal experience has taught me that in order to understand where you really want to get in life you have to first fully comprehend where you have come from, and where you have been.

It also produces an urge in a reader to review this research work. Abstract summarizes an article. It facilitates a reader whether to read the whole article or not. A good abstract is brief but comprehensive enough to capture all the important aspects of a research work.

The assigned essay is entitled "Toward a Policy on Drugs," written by Elliott Currie, a lecturer in the Legal Studies Program at the University of California in Berkeley, and vice chairperson of the Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, D.C. This essay first appears in the journal Dissent in 1993, and is a modification of the first chapter of Mr.

“Counseling prisoners involves multiple ethical and therapeutic choices and risks. Prison environments emphasize external control and security. Thus, work in such settings challenges the role of the counselor as a facilitator of client responsibility for independent decision making.” This was no less true of me as I sat down to talk to a prisoner about his situation.

Both writings express something of the ‘self’ that is determined by both internal actions and external ones. For the better part, Kings personal changes precipitated the collective change necessary for global change while Walkers change dealt specifically with the female response to beauty and our perception thereof. 

Other people, living and breathing human beings like us, live other, wholly different versions of life elsewhere. Jonathan Kozol achieves just such a goal with his eye-opener Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995). Kozol takes one on a journey to the dark, bleak and hitherto unheard of, Mott Haven in the South of Bronx.

In Russia, the head of state is the president. This is as per the constitution. He directs Russian policy in the internal arena and internationally. In fact, his position is superior to that of the three parts of the government. Then the government is under the prime minister. The ministries are headed by the prime minister.

John, a 24 years old man has been mentally disturbed due to certain events in his life. Two years ago his parents died in a motor accident and until now he finds it difficult to come back to his former happy and fulfilled life. Having been raised up in an atmosphere of love and care, John has never faced the loss of close people and did not previously deal with such kind of hardships.

"A million dollars is a lot of money, Ms. Everly. You can go wherever you want and do whatever you please". His pleas were getting more desperate. As property consultant for Boxy Smart Discount Stores it had been Chad's job to purchase the land tracts they needed to open a store in Seymourville and time was running out. No land and no store.

From this research, it is clear that the plans for the devastating nuclear attack on the U.S have been under development for more than a decade. It is designed as a final deadly blow of defeat to the U.S which is seen by al-Qaida and its allies as ‘The Great Satan’. At least half the nuclear weapons in the al-Qaida arsenal were obtained for cash from the Chechen terrorist allies.”

The SDQ refers to a small-scale testing questionnaire designed to measure emotional and/or behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents. There are several methodologies used for SDQs to meet the specific purpose of surveys. The rationales adopted for carrying out particular studies are broadly categorized into three major parts.

Yet when viewed from another angle all we see are smoke and mirrors. We love the idea of fantasy, but the possibility that we may come to grips with the realization that it is only a fantasy scares us. We may abhor sexuality as unnatural, yet we are drawn to it. It is not that we either love it or hate it, it's that we love it and hate it.

The spectacular growth of internet and network system has lead to an increased awareness of, and keen interest in, various security issues that are affecting the entire virtual spectrum. Though most of the internet and networking protocols are designed with utmost security in mind, many other applications and programs have been designed or being planned to designed, with very little attention paid, towards the basic issues of privacy, confidentiality and security.

C/S ratio C/S = (£320,000 - £240,000) / £320,000 = 0.25 Denoting fixed cost as F, then, Break Even Sales in £,  BEP_Sales = F / (C/S) = F/0.25 Implies, £240,000 = F / 0.25 => F= £60,000 Therefore, Profit, P = C – F = £80,000 - £60,000 = £20,000

According to Wikipedia, “strategic alliance is a formal relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed-upon goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations.” In simple terms, a strategic alliance is an arrangement between two companies that have decided to share their resources in a particular project.

For its history courses, students are taught about cultural, social and physical relations comprising man-made structures.  There are also technology courses provided so as to orient students regarding the synthesis of innovative construction methods and design. At the heart of the School’s learning environment are the studio and design & build courses.