Holistic Management of a Patient’s Symptoms

Introduction John is suffering from an advanced and progressive disease, which is lung cancer, and this is the reason his general practitioner referred him to the community palliative care service where he will be able to receive holistic care. ‘Palliative’ is a Latin word derived from the word ‘pallium’ which...

The Impact of a Car’s Technology on the Purchase Decision of a UK Customer

Background: Study Justification and Knowledge Gap Identification People buy cars for various reasons: some do it to confirm their social and economic status, and others do it to address personal or business-related transportation needs. However, given the numerous car brands, models, and shapes, selecting one option is never an easy...

The Investigation of an Arson Attack

Introduction This is a case of an arson attack that occurred at around 11:30 pm at a semi-detached dwelling of 17 Hill Lane situated at the outskirts of a market town in a rural district. The act of arson claimed four lives of occupants. The investigators suspected Mike Golding as...

Oil Industry in Saudi Arabia: Analysis and Strategy

Executive Summary The oil industry of Saudi Arabia forms a practical situation to which the paper analyses Porter’s Five Forces model. For any industry, the magnitude of each of the Five Forces varies with the industry structure. This paper presents the barriers of entry as a significant force that dictates...

Voestalpine Group in China’s Steel Industry

Executive Summary The aim of this paper is to assess the options of operating business within an emerging economy; in order to do so; the paper will focus on the steel industry of China and the aspects of market entry by Voestalpine Group, an Austria-based business. To carry out a...

Procter & Gamble Company’s Marketing Audit

Executive Summary Marketing audit has become a common practice among many businesses as they undertake strategic planning in their marketing process. The audit aids in measuring an organization’s marketing capability as well as environmental threats and opportunities. This type of audit report is made up of a structure with detailed...

An Analysis of the Company Entrepreneurs Alliance

Introduction Entrepreneurial organizations are by far the most challenging to establish and sustain. This is because they are mainly grounded on the aspect of bringing new ideas into the market; ideas that may not readily be accepted by the consumers. Most entrepreneurial establishments face somewhat similar problems and it is...

Routine Activity Theory and Crimes in Washington

Introduction The routine activity theory was developed by Felson and Cohen in the 1970s and created a subfield within the crime opportunity theory. What makes routine activity theory stand out is the fact that the researchers were among the first criminologists to shift the focus from the criminal to the...

Growth in Public Sectors of Major Economies Over the Past 60 Years

Introduction The public sector is the main service delivery point for most nations. Citizens obtain basic services from this crucial part of the economy. The control of the public sector is mainly by the government that is in power at any particular time. Traditionally, authorities were charged with the delivery...

Analysis Homeland Security Act of 2002

Overview The Department of Homeland Security was created by the federal government in a bid to tame domestic security, this being one of the largest overhauls in security systems and structures ever experienced in fifty years. The rationale behind this monumental task was to harness and consolidate the federal government’s...

Leadership and Communication in Healthcare Setting

Introduction Leadership in healthcare is one of the most important issues which helps medical staff to ensure effective and high quality services delivered to patients. Task forces consistently identified significant and interdependent elements of leadership that are in dangerously low supply in their organization. An ineffective leadership process and the...

Miami Drug Wars of the 70s and 80s

Introduction Drug use and the resulting implications for the social, economic, and political wellbeing of the people is a subject that has raised controversies for decades. Countries like the United States of America have been plagued by drug crises and the fight against drugs is far from over. Researchers and...

Ethical and Legal Regulation of Human Tissues and Stem Cells Research in the European Union

Introduction Major advances in biological sciences have yielded new ways of tackling various environmental and health problems. According to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), novel areas of research such the stem cells continue to reveal enormous potential health benefits such as development of clinical therapies for degenerative diseases such as...

Nursing: Life Cycle Change Theory

Introduction The radically changing environment in the field of nursing calls for urgent solutions to challenges that nurses come across as they perform their responsibilities. One of the problems that have been prevalent is the shortage of nurses in hospitals. Unfortunately, studies postulate that this shortage is likely to exacerbate...

Public Air Travel and Pets Analysis

Introduction Airline management can be particularly challenging because managers have to find a balance between customer satisfaction, safety, and regulatory compliance. Traveling with pets is growing more and more popular, as people found that they can enjoy new destinations or visit their loved ones without leaving their pets at home...

Maritime Transportation and Security Act of 2002

Introduction To protect the U.S. ports and waterways from the terrorist attacks the Maritime Transportation Act was designed and signed by President Bush on November 25, 2002 (Protecting America’s Ports, 2003). “This act is a means for the United States to address the increasing concerns in homeland security, especially due...

Rem Koolhaas “Junkspace” Review

Rem Koolhaas explores different theories of architecture whereby he manages to intertwine history and its relevance to modern day architectural activities. He relates human debris to the concept of space-junk. There is a lot of human remains which have spoilt the universe as he narrates “If space-junk is the human...

Comparative Urban Political Systems

Introduction Globalization is the broad outline of the places where most of humanity now chooses to live and work-cities. These cities are the engines of growth for their countries and gateway to the resources of their regions. They are the biggest; most interconnected cities help set global agendas, weather transnational...

Electrical and Electronic Systems Principle

Most of the electronic systems contain amplifier as a major component. The major function of the amplifier is to boost up the weak signal into a strong signal suitable for transmission. The transistor acts as an amplifier when it is in active region, that is, emitter base junction is forward...

Godrej Interior and Haworth Firms’ Product Strategies

Introduction Modern-day business environment is ever more challenging and complex. Dramatic shifts are constantly altering the business landscape. In today’s fast-paced markets, business organizations are required to constantly revitalize themselves for long-lasting success. Unlike the conventional business environment, modern firms’ focal point is on the construction of successful strategies that...

Ethics and Audit Risks of Auditing Fraudulent Financial Statements

According to section 110 of Responsibility and Functions of the independent Auditors states that “The auditor has a responsibility to plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatements, whether caused by error of fraud”. This section clearly provides guidelines...

Women Sexuality Regulations by Government, Religion, Society, and Schools

Introduction Practice of issues related to women sexuality in public is still considered as immoral, dirty and thus unacceptable by the entire society. Women still face oppression on matters pertaining abortion, birth control, sexual abuse and female circumcision. Various disciplines such as religion, government and society continue to oppress women...

Corporate Governance and Ethics: Evaluation of Real World Ethical Problems

Introduction The proper functioning of an organization requires control and monitoring. Corporate governance comprises one of the ways of controlling and enhancing the monitoring of organizational operations (Caldwell & Karri 2005). At the heart of corporate governance is the need to mitigate or implement mechanisms of controlling and preventing conflicts...

Nursing Practicum Experience With Focus on Infections

Introduction Over the decades, there have been increasing cases of adverse health practices and cases of deaths, which have prompted healthcare systems to seek appropriate solutions. The practicum experience is an evidence-based solution to ensure that nurses are competent in their medical practices to avoid the occurrence of adverse health...

The 2007–2008 Kenya Post-Election Crisis

Introduction The 2007 -2008 Kenya’s post-election crisis arose from the disputed 2007 presidential results. Kenya’s general election which was held on December 27, 2007 was marked with a lot of irregularities. Lack of fairness and transparency in the voting exercise with the associated default tallying procedures created a loophole for...

Living Foods Company’s Business Plan

Executive Summary The proposed business is ‘Living Foods,’ which will produce and sell microwaveable healthy grilled-food items in the UK. The business owner is Mr. XYZ who has worked for more than seven years in different food companies. He has mastered the art of cooking and has developed amazing recipes...

Web: Ready for Assistive Technology or Not

Abstract This research paper’s major purpose is to discuss and research accessibility issues in relation to websites. The paper questions whether enough is being done to make websites suitable for people with disabilities and from that look at what could be done to improve the area going forward. Do individuals/...

Intersectionality of Gender With Race, Culture, and Politics

In contemporary world organizations, race, culture, and politics are keys to an individual’s personality. However, politics, culture, and race are intersected with gender to form inequitable and discriminatory world structures, thus, affecting life experiences. The intersectionality provides a theoretical context of learning through examining the dissimilar coinciding world classifications and...

North Korean Nuclear Proliferation

Introduction In Manhattan in June 1993, sixteen U.S. and North Korean delegates met to chat the way forward concerning the North Korean Nuclear Program. The delegates had never met before; they were led in the meeting by a chief negotiator (Robert Gallucci). The North Korean delegates arrived in the meeting...

Speaker Recognition: Literature Review & Research Proposal

Speaker recognition refers to the process used to recognize a speaker from a spoken phrase (Furui, n.d. 1). It is a useful biometric tool with wide applications e.g. in audio or video document retrieval. Speaker recognition is dominated by two procedures namely segmentation and classification. Research and development have been...

“Ius Commune” and “Ius Proprium” Relationship

Although already in the sixteenth century there had begun to perceive the need for radical reform of the system the sources of law, the eighteenth-century structure of these modeled, essentially, albeit with differences. Once substantially from country to country, the medieval model, represented by the stratification of very hetero-normative sources...

Ethical Issues and Research Participation

A number of ethical concerns exist in the research literature. One such is the fact that people should not participate in research by force. This is the principle of voluntary participation (Trochim, 2006). Allowing participants to choose to participate in a research study or not has some benefits including offering...

Digital Marketing in the Fashion Industry

Introduction Today, the development of marketing strategies and ways of business development is impossible without considering technology. The most common marketing technologies are online sales, digital marketing, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud storage, robotic process automation, and robotics to collate data. The fashion industry is a massive segment of the global...

Nursing Theories of Watson, Nightingale et al.

Jean Watson’s Nursing as Caring Theory Meaning A description of the main ideas of the theory (assumptions) The Jean Watson nursing theory is based on the caring relationships that characterize humanity and life experiences in general. Specifically, Jean Watson’s theory is concentrated on relationships between caregivers and patients (Lukose, 2011)....

Railway Contributions to the Canadian Economy

Introduction Boasting a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of more than $1.7 trillion, Canada’s economy is ranked among the ten largest economies of the world (Toly & Segbers, 2016). A combination of different forms of transport is largely responsible for this performance. The health of the Canadian economy is linked to...

Negotiation Concepts. Opportunities

Introduction Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties with attached interests on a matter at stake attempt to reach a common ground of binding behavior that is beneficial to both parties involved (Nieuwmeijer, 1992). Negotiation is appropriate in a situation where a dispute exists between two or...

General Motors Company’s Operations Improvement

Introduction General Motors (GM) specializing in manufacturing automobiles has always been a symbol of American culture and a representation of the high level of competitiveness of the United States in the global economy. It was founded in 1908. Its plants located in more than 30 countries all over the globe...

Canadian Housing Market

Introduction The Canadian government spends money on social housing through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The CHMC has for a long time played a key role in implementing the government’s objective of investing in the housing market in order to provide affordable housing to Canadians. Over the last...

Road Network Infrastructure: Public Private Partnership

Introduction Government constructions and renovations of infrastructure by the contractual agreements with Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) have become the most adopted processes in developed and developing countries (Abdullah et al. 2014). Infrastructure refers to the fundamental organization of the physical structures and facilities that are needed by the public. Project background...

Strategic Marketing in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector

Introduction Strategic marketing involves the use of analytical tools and techniques to find the optimum balance between the realization of a company and the consumer’s objectives and goals. The concept has been applied in different business fields, but its role in the rapidly evolving tourism and hospitality industry is still...

Domestic Violence Effects – Psychology

Introduction Domestic abuse or violence involves the expression of certain patterns of behavior that are abusive towards another party in a marriage relationship or any familial affair. Domestic violence is acerbated in a number of ways, including assault, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, economic deprivation, domineering, and intimidation, among other forms...

Organizational Behavior Analysis: Japanese Soccer School

Introduction Japanese Soccer School A is a world-class training and learning facility that pioneered soccer coaching in Japan and has a wide net of schools and training facilities in the country, with the total number of offices being 154 and 46 franchise licensees. The school is currently training over 21,000...

Google’s Corporate Governance

Executive summary The manner in which organisations are governed or controlled coins the concept of corporate governance. Essentially, corporate governance can be described as the administrative procedures of the corporations. In other words, the corporate governance is the administrative structure, design and the management of firms. The process of corporate...

Lidl: Leading Grocery Discounters in the European and Global Markets

Lidl is one of the leading grocery discounters in the European and global markets. The retailer’s worldwide volume in sales was €62.7 billion in 2014, which made it the ninth top grocery retailer in the world or number one in Europe (Schmid et al., 2018). The company was established in...

Stabbing in the UK and the After-Effects: Case Study

Introduction Although stabbing appears to be a major crime across the world, there is no evidence that research discuses this issue exclusively. A lot of research generalizes stabbing as an assault crime (SpotCrime, 2011), and studies the effects of stabbing on victims in this respect. Different assault crimes have different...

Implementation of Capital Budgeting Techniques

Introduction Investment appraisal is very crucial before making commitment to huge capital investment. The appraisal process is characterized by two major activities. The first one is the assessment of the level of expected return accruing from the expenses incurred. The second one entails the estimates of future costs and benefits...

Child Labor in Fashion Industry

Introduction Globalization is regarded to be a significant process in our everyday life; it is more than just a simple technological process because it touches upon different spheres at the same time. The successful process of globalization is all about changes and improvements in the ways of how business works....

Benefits for Teachers: Social and Medical Insurance

Introduction Teachers have benefits which he will use for pre and post retirement protection. The most commonly used by most teachers is Teachers’ Pension Scheme which is abbreviated as (NUT). The teachers’ pension scheme covers all types of members who are in the teaching profession and members benefit when they...

Arguments for and Against Qualitative Research as Against Quantitative Research

Several arguments for and against both quantitative research and qualitative research exist in debate. Generally, critics regard quantitative research as positivism in nature; as a science and being objective, while qualitative analysis is taken as non-scientific (Howe, 1988). There is an argument that the two must not work together. However,...

Project Management and Important Skills

Introduction Necessity of developing project management skills and knowledge. To succeed in the project planning, it is necessary to apply specific management approaches and techniques to develop a set of skills and talents. Indeed, numerous organizations make a gross mistake by allowing their best technicians and computer managers to handle...

The Prestige Company: Reward and Motivation

Introduction Human Resource Management [HRM] has undergone extensive changes over the past decades. Salvendy (2001) emphasises that developing economies of scale and leveraging on technology were considered as conventional sources of competitive advantage. However, changes in the contemporary business environment have reduced the competitiveness of conventional sources of competitive advantage....

International Business in the UAE

History of Dubai The economy was initially based on pearl-fishing until oil was discovered about 50 years ago. The economy became heavily reliant on oil that was discovered in various islands, and given the ready market in the world, the country’s economy was boosted. However, this did not last forever....

The Problem of the Air Rage

Introduction For the last couple of years, air rage has been on the rise; however, not much attention has been accorded to it, neither is there accurate statistics that have been developed. Air rage is bad conduct of plane passenger that may result in physical torture, emotional harassment or any...

Reformed Schooling for Migrants. Cabinet Submission

Program Context The proposal to reform the existing educational system in Australia for the children of migrant and refugee families stems from current Government aims and to provide improved learning access tools to these disadvantaged groups. Not only would such a move have long-term impact in terms of reduced government...

Simon Forman, a Late Sixteenth-Century Magical Practitioner

Introduction Several medical practitioners have risen with various unique events surrounding their lives, but none, at least in London, has been as controversial as Dr. Simon Forman. This man was involved in astrology, physiology, herbals and their interconnection with witchcraft also called polypharmacy.In addition, he did botched anatomy and other...

The United Arab Emirates: Environmental Issues

Introduction The developing countries all over the world are facing various challenges in the social, economical as well as environmental sectors. The invasions on the diversities of a nation are of much importance in the contemporary world. The different types of biological life on the earth are often referred to...

Negative Effects of Divorce on Children

Abstract With divorce rates being more common in the 21st century more than any other time in history, children are increasingly on the receiving end for decisions made by their parents. While it may be too complicated for the younger children to understand, those aged between eight to eighteen years...

Barriers to International Outsourcing in Sysco

The research paper relates to Sysco Corporation. The firm’s background information has been given with reference to the products that the firm deals in. A set of objectives for research paper are outlined. The core objective of the research paper was to conduct an analysis of the barriers that Sysco...

Importance of Globalization on International Business

Introduction International business may refer to all money making deals that occur amid two or more countries and it be private or governmental sectors. This is normally done with the aim of making profit. The government is however not only interested in the profit making, but also on political bases....

The Behavior of the Young Toward Luxury Brand

Introduction The consumption process is a learning experience that affects and is affected by perception. Perception influences the selection and interpretation of marketing information, symbols, and products. Because it affects the expectations of potential results from various customer choices, it is a significant factor in individual and group reaction. In...

Economy Warm-up and Supply Chain

Introduction Supply chain management forms one of the most important components of the management of any one organization. However, just like any other part of organizational management, it is greatly faced with the risk of the changing business environment particularly the PESTEL environment. Specifically, the oscillations of the general economic...

The Theatre of Absurd History

Introduction The theatre of absurd is attributed to the origin when a French philosopher Albert Camus through his myth which he wrote in 1942 did outline that the humans situation sand surroundings are in basic terms on no use, lacks meaning and are literally absurd From the movies that followed...

“The Difference of Being Human” by Francisco Ayala: Arguing

Ever since the application of the notion of political correctness to theoretical and empirical research, in various fields of science, began to undermine its intellectual soundness, we can no longer assume the results of such research as being objective by definition. Reading Francisco Ayala’s article “The Difference of Being Human”...

Theorist in the Field of Child Psychology

Jean Piaget made great contribution to child psychology and development of the new approaches and concepts in this sphere. The benefit of Piaget’s theory is that young children are far more able than the theorist gave them credit for. Though, it seems that there is also a hazard of overestimating...

Value Chain Management: Inventory Management

Introduction Today, business operations have become too complex. Everyday there are new changes in methods of operation and management. The interrelationship between competition, consumers and convergence in business has resulted to great challenges in business management across the world. The level of sensitivity of the economy to external environment together...

North American Indian Native Art

Introduction Indians is the name of the indigenous population of America (with the exception of the Eskimos and Aleuts). The name arose from the erroneous submission of the first European navigators, who considered that they discovered transatlantic land of India. Scientists have begun to interest the Indians, as soon as...

Television and Violence in Children

Abstract The value, attitudes and behavior of individuals are usually influenced by the type of television programs that they watch. Children are more likely to be affected in a negative way by viewing violent television programmes, in comparison with their adult counterparts, owing to their inability to distinguish between reality...

Records Management and Documents Destruction

Executive Summary Information is one of the most vital assets in any one organization. Policies and decisions in organizations are made based on the information available. In addition, security of the organization’s information is crucial as its exposure to unauthorized persons or its loss can be a deathly risk to...

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini Book Report

Introduction Betrayal is a universal human experience that we don’t typically think about, but that permeates the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Although we are all likely to experience betrayal at some point in our lives, Hosseini also provides us with a means of defeating it through loyalty...

Street Walk Essay: Socio Quiz

This paper is an elaboration and analysis of social problems observed during a late night stroll around Toronto. Numerous observations were made and a few people were also interviewed to acquire a more direct and accurate observation of the scenario. In the following paragraphs, each observation made during the late...

Strategic Management and Logistics: ASDA Case Study

Introduction Recently there have been a lot of emphasis on both strategic marketing and logistics on research and business academics literature, illustrating a growing but confusing body of knowledge (Chernatory & McWilliam 1990, p112). Both strategic marketing and logistics disciplines have played significant role in the establishing basis for business...

Euthanasia – The Essential Right to Die

Proposal The right to die has been known from ancient times. Some primitive tribes have a custom according to which the elderly, who burden to the family, chose death to care for the tribe. Self withdrawal from life was promoted in Sparta, Ancient Greece, was allowed in ancient Rome but...

Good Mark Precision Industrial Company’s Organizational Structure

Introduction An organizational structure is a model under which hierarchical units pool resources and contribute in an institute and they do so to achieve a common goal to contribute and serve a regular aim. Organizations can be said to be clustered entities with a modification outlook. There are many approaches...

Parker Pen Company’s Marketing

Introduction Parker Pen is a preferred writing instrument for older generations. Its quality and craftsmanship are unquestionable to many “patrons” who are mostly identifiable to afford a luxury such as Parker Pen. Parker Pen launched a globalization approach in the 1980s that sent its reputation and sales backward. Globalization is...

Balancing the New York City Budget

New York State’s Budget Gap originated from Wall Street and dot.com financial bubbles that led the economy into a recession. Other activities that activities that led to financial gap are the September 11th attacks , natural recession and overly ambitious multi-year tax reduction that could not be sustained through a...

Marketing Channels and Logistics

Executive summary Marketing channels and logistics are very essential for the survival and success of any business organization. This is because they are the corner stones in supply chain when carrying out business activities. The Saturn Corporation has its own supply chain that involves production as well as sale and...

Wood as a Construction Material: History, Properties, Use

Introduction For as long as mankind has been civilized, wood has remained an important material for the construction of housing and boats. Up until the close of the nineteenth century, virtually all the boats were constructed using wood (Hoadley, 1980). Today, wood is still a common material in the building...

Cross-Cultural Human Resource Management: Work-Life Balance

Introduction In any organisation, the HR department has the objective of handling issues that relate to employees. Functional responsibilities of the HRM include training and development, recruitment and selection, employee conflict resolution, deriving employee motivation and job satisfaction programmes, and taking active roles in the establishment of remuneration programmes (Kramar...

American and Canadian Price Levels Comparison

Introduction The United States and Canada are the largest economies in North America. According to Pete (2015), there has been a raging debate as to which of the two countries is best to call home. Factors such as income and cost of living are some of the most important factors...

Performance Management in Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Introduction Stimulating employees to work effectively with the necessary level of dedication is one of the most significant areas of activity for managers whose business is based on using the workforce. Implementing the necessary strategies to increase motivation, creating sustainable systems of control over diligence, and similar organizational tasks form...

Rational Choice and Social Control Theories Comparison

Introduction The understanding of crime and its occurrence is limited without the development of theories, which represent useful tools for explaining the world around us. In criminology, theories help scholars understand the critical processes associated with the workings of the criminal justice system and relevant actors. To be used for...

Sustainable Marketing Application in IKEA

Abstract This paper explores the marketing tools and techniques used by IKEA, a global retail company that has an excellent reputation and is favoured by many customers. The analysis is based on a wide range of marketing concepts, which allow painting a comprehensive picture of all IKEA’s activities related to...

Sport Investment Analysis

Sports and physical culture have been developing rapidly in recent decades, turning into a whole industry of sports and spectacular events, which, from a business perspective, is a promising object of investment. In modern society, these are the most important factors in maintaining and strengthening people’s health, improving the technical...

Digital Marketing in Fashion Industry

Introduction The fashion industry is one of the most competitive yet very lucrative businesses in the developed economies. According to Kingsnorth (2019), it is estimated that about 1,875 fashion retailers in North America and the European Union were forced to shut down because of their inability to sustain their operations....

Young Learners Early Learning Centre’s Shift Plan

Introduction The Young Learners Early Learning Centre is an organization specialized in early childhood education. However, it is currently failing to attract children due to a variety of issues, and so, it is unable to perform its duties satisfactorily. Its current primary needs are increasing its occupancy rate and changing...

Collaborative Partnerships in Early Learning

Introduction For young children, early learning is a prerequisite of success in future academic life. Appropriate educational strategies can help young children to develop basic skills and abilities that are necessary to progress to school-level education. While developing teaching plans and delivering instruction to young learners, educators must consider a...

Situated Learning vs. Networked Learning Approach

The educational system is constantly evolving in order to address the changing challenges societies have to face. The contemporary educational contexts are now characterized by the focus on such aspects as diversity, collaboration, knowledge construction, and the development of skills necessary for the successful integration in the society (Gee, 2008;...

Situated and Networked Learning Approaches

Introduction Critics have over the years debated on the benefits and limitations of both situated and networked learning approaches. Some have gone further to argue that the two approaches can complement each other for the benefit of the learner and the educator. This essay seeks to analyze the two approaches...

Collaborative Partnerships with Young Children

Introduction The days when formal education was regarded as the process of knowledge transfer from older to younger generations characterized by teachers’ instruction and learners’ passiveness have passed. Moreover, the number of actors involved in this process has been extended considerably. The relationships between the teacher and the student gave...

Madness in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Introduction/Thesis Ever since Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea has been published for the first time in 1966, it had instantly gained fame as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Victorian novel Jane Eyre – a classical work of British literature. This does not represent much of a surprise. Given the...

Emotional Attachment Theory in Childcare Settings

Abstract Emotional attachment is more than a normal feeling in young children. It is vital for the healthy development of children. Robbins and Zacks (2007) define attachment as “a reciprocal relationship formed between a child and a care giver” (p.457). It constitutes the bond that exists between a primary care...

Accident Investigation and Incident Reporting

Space Shuttle Columbia Report Investigation of any serious air accident demands an in-depth analysis of the root causes that preconditioned the emergence of the unexpected situation and failure of a flight. It helps to avoid the repetition of similar accidents and increases the level of safety in the future. For...

Business and Management Research Methods

Understanding business and management research methods Research is a very important discipline for scholars. Scholars with superior research skills are always placed at an advantage because they can use these skills in their career fields (Creswell 1994, p. 3-15). It is therefore highly important to know that as a scholar...

Housing Bubble and the Financial Crisis of 2008-09

Abstract This paper explains the mechanics of how the so-called ‘Housing Bubble’ (believed to be the actual cause of the financial crisis of 2008-2009) came into being, and explains why, contrary to what many people believe, this crisis is best described as having been deliberately triggered by bankers. Introduction Nowadays,...

Dangers of Texting While Driving

Abstract According to a study conducted by LaVallee (2009), about 1.6 million auto accidents are directly linked to cellphone texting while driving. Even though people acknowledge that texting while driving is a major cause of accidents, they are not willing to restrain from such behavior voluntarily. In a bid to...

Marriage Equality: LGBT Couples’ Constitutional Issues

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) couples get married for most of the same reasons that lead straight people to get married. These reasons include love, a desire to start a family, a rite of passage, and to celebrate a union. Nonetheless, if the discourses surrounding LBGT marriage equality and...

Religious Manipulation: “The Female American” Analysis

Introduction The religious memoir, The Female American, was first published in 1767 and it gives an account of Unca Winkfield, who is the main character/narrator. She comes from a bi-racial marriage living in 18th century America. Unca’s bi-racialism generates tension within the novel, as she appears to advance Christian views...

London Crossrail Project Management Principles

Introduction Over the past years, the global construction industry has been characterized by an increment in the number of challenges faced. The complexity is mainly associated with the increment in the degree of financial and operational risks. Dikbas and Scherer argue that the “construction industry has many problems such as...

Intellectual Property Law in Architecture and Design

Introduction Pleasure in intellectual and efficiency by architects is considered normal in modern life, in today’s world, it is advisable to use goods and develop innovativeness in view. The law concerning Intellectual Property has been erected to safeguard the main architects and their skills. Intellectual property can be described as...

Cross-Cultural Marketing and Hofstede’s Model

Introduction Marketing has taken a completely new approach from what it was some time ago. Immediately after the Second World War, The world was turned into a global village. Communication was made easy with the invention of telephone. Movement was also made easy with the invention of air transport. The...

Assessments and Screening in Family Therapy

Information-gathering strategies Information-gathering is as crucial as the actual writing of the report. This is because the final report will only refer to the methods employed in the process of acquiring relevant information (Neukrug & Fawcett 2010). The choice of inappropriate instruments or carrying out a poor interview usually results...

Proactiv, Its Qualities and Advertisement Strategy

Introduction Justin Bieber fans must have been happy to the max when their beloved appeared at their doors with a cameraperson and a box of acne treatment medication. Whether there was some casting for the most pimple-faced Bieber fan or not, it was an all-round ad campaign launched by Proactiv...

Mandatory and Discretionary Access Control and Security

Identify and contrast two different approaches used to categorise access control methodologies. List and critique the types of controls found in each Access control methodology Approach Mandatory Approach and Discretionary Access controls can be either mandatory or discretionary. A mandatory access control approach allocates a specific security mark or label...

Diabetes Type 2 Self-Management Education

Diabetes Self-Management The concept of diabetes self-management comprises several activities aimed to alleviate disease symptoms: medication intake, physical exercise, and diet. Additionally, it implies patients’ knowledge about various manifestations of their disorder such as elevated blood glucose levels (GarcĂ­a, Brown, Horner, Zuñiga, & Arheart, 2015; Orly et al., 2017). In...

Roche Diagnostics Oman: Organisation and Sector Leadership

Introduction Roche Diagnostics Oman is one of the leading medical institutions in Oman. It offers a wide range of diagnostic services. The company has made impressive progress in penetrating the local market by offering a wide range of services to its clients (Beck & Cowan, 2014). Despite the high quality...

Literature for ESL Students’ Language Skills

Findings in previous studies about the ways that literature can improve the language skills of ESL students Literature has been used over the years as one of the ways of teaching English as a second language. The literature has been incorporated in modern-day technology, such as videos and audios that...

Secularism Period in Iran: Lessons Learnt

Introduction It could be stated that the issue of relationships between religion and politics is a considerably difficult question to solve. There are numerous examples of the religious institutions’ direct influence and integration into the political life of a country from various historical periods. Not only this issue is highly...

Importance of Nurses Professional Self-Development

Introduction Nursing is the profession that changes many lives, improves the quality of a human life, and promotes the development of personal and professional skills. Nursing is also a discipline that should be organized in accordance with some principles and rules. Therefore, it is important to identify and understand nursing...

Related Protein in Arabidopsis Thaliana

MKK3 Experiment for Protein-Protein Interaction To confirm the related protein with MKK3, the Yeast Two-Hybrid (Y2H) assays would be performed (Teige, Scheikl, Reiser, Ruis, & Ammerer, 2001). The Y2H experiment is used to identify physical interactions between proteins via downstream activation of the reporting gene. The reporter gene generally influences...

Child Labour in Canada

Introduction From a general point of view child labour is described as a sustained and regular employment of children’s effort in both formal and informal work. This is an exploitative and harmful practice which is strongly abhorred by governments across the world. In a more specific approach Hindman (2009) defines...

US Ethnic Communities’ History and Culture

Introduction This is my experiential essay that focuses on communities. From a personal point of view, a community is a social unit of people with common characteristics and values. Therefore, communities can be a small or a large group such as local, national or international communities and lately the virtual...

The Asthma Risk Factors Among Adult African Immigrants

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the risk factors predicting asthma among adult African immigrants in California. The research problem is founded on the failure of many health studies to include African immigrants as a minority group in health studies that investigate the relationship between risk factors...

Clinical Concierge Services Organization’s Strategy

Introduction To establish a successful nonprofit, it is important to develop a comprehensive strategic plan which is the basic blueprint for the actualization of the plan. Reflectively, the strategic plan is inclusive of the SWOT of the business environment, stakeholder analysis, goals, values, and mission. Thus, this analytical treatise attempts...

Enterprise Resource Planning for Small Business

Introduction The following is a discussion on various strategies used by the Enterprise resource to market the enterprise resource software to the small and medium enterprises. The following essay discusses how the reasons why small business enterprises have become the target market for most of the enterprise resource vendors. The...

The Wiggles Musical Group: Marketing Strategies

Introduction The Wiggles is a children’s musical group formed in Sydney, Australia, that mainly deals in children entertainment. It was formed in 1991 by four members namely: Anthony Field, Philip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt and Greg Page although later other members joined such as Sam Moran who replaced Greg...

Wells Fargo & Company’s Human Resource Consulting

Wells Fargo & Company (simply known as Wells Fargo) remains one of the most respected brand names in the global finance industry. It is currently a revered “financial services holding company” (Wells Fargo, 2016, para. 3). The company’s human resource (HR) practices are critical towards empowering more workers. However, there...

Business Law: the Becker v. Pettkus Case

Introduction Family law litigations have exposed the strengths and weaknesses of various judicial systems in society. Over the decades, family matters regarding business have taken surprising turns, owing to the judgments made by the court. Litigated in 1980, the Pettkus v. Becker matter is one of the interesting family law...

Galanz Enterprise Group’s Organizational Structure

As a private company, Galanz consists of 14 production facilities that operate across China. It is one of the largest companies in the world in the microwave business. The structure of the company is based on three main segments. The first structural segment deals with Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM). It...

Walmart Company’s & Dunkin’ Donuts’ Sustainability

Introduction Walmart Company and Dunkin’ Donuts have been used in the sustainability reports analysis. The sustainability reports will focus on economic, environment and social issues. Under the social issues, the reports dwell on gender inequality at the workplace. It is evidenced that the main differences that are often witnessed in...

Congestive Heart Failure and Evidence-Based Therapies

Background Congestive heart failure, also known as CHF, is increasingly becoming a major health problem in the United States. According to Thomsen, Nicolaisen, Hasvold, and Sorensen (2017), CHF is a condition where the heart fails to pump enough blood to all body cells, making the nutrients and oxygen insufficient in...

Onion Prices’ Rise in India: Demand and Supply Factors

Introduction Demand and supply forces are often expected to determine the prices of a product in the market. However, sometimes these forces may lead to unprecedented price increases in the market that makes it necessary to have other forces to help regulate the market prices. In India, during the period...

New York City’s Sociology and Infrastructure

Introduction New York City has the highest population in the world for it has enormous amount of resources that facilitate social growth and development. The city has diverse races, which mainly comprise Europeans, Africans, and Asians. The major challenges in the city are congestion, housing, crime, and racism. Both the...

Finance: The Currency School-Banking School Debate

Introduction The period of the 1840s in the history of the economic thought is characterized by a significant controversy observed between the Currency School and Banking School. The debate influenced not only the British monetary system but also the approaches to the monetary policies in the United States (Block 15;...

Outsourcing, Its Importance, Pros and Cons

Introduction Every business from baking to banking depends, to some degree, on others for producing its products and services. The process of acquiring products and services for running one’s business is called ‘outsourcing’ in the business world. Though, outsourcing is not a new phenomenon for the companies, but in recent...

Emirates Airline Company Analysis

Introduction Emirates Airlines is a company based in Dubai. The corporation is owned by the government of Dubai. Since its founding in 1985, Emirates has grown to become the leading airliner in the Middle East (Taneja 2014). The reason why it tops other carriers is that it generates more revenues...

Cultural Diversity in the Workforce

Introduction With the global boundaries becoming more and more irrelevant owing to increasing international migration, the United States is gradually becoming multicultural. Individuals from all over the world have over time appreciated the United States as the land of opportunity. Hence, many persons ranging from professionals to unskilled individuals are...

Poor Living Standard and Its Effects on Education

Introduction Education has been the most hankered aspect of life in the contemporary world with the governments’ urge to increase their support towards equitable education gradually augmenting. This constant educational urge has provoked international controversies on equal access to educational success and its related resources. However, the social and economic...

Corporate Fraud as an Ethical and Leadership Dilemma

Introduction An ethical dilemma is a situation presenting conflicts of interest or a paradox while choosing the right cause of action among a set of alternatives. In such situations, making choices between two alternatives is difficult as choosing one means losing the benefit of the other. Ethics refers to standards...

‘ABC Graphics Company’ Publishing Firm Business Plan

Executive Summary ‘ABC Graphics Company’ is a home-based desktop publishing company, which started its journey to offer creative and innovative products; however, the initiator of this firm has higher proficiency in graphic designing. The estimated start-up capital is $70000, among this fund, principal’s equity is $10000, and borrowed capital is...

Health Promotion Strategies for Obesity

Overweight and obesity have instituted numerous health complications that has risen steadily over the last two decades. For example, recent data shows that adult overweight and obesity in most European countries has risen alarmingly, with 27% and 38% of men and women respectively considered to be obese (Sallis & Glanz...

Crime Commission: Legal and Social Perspectives

Introduction Crime or criminal activities are intentional in most cases. However, accidental cases of crime have also occurred in the past where an individual has no express intention of committing a crime. When committed intentionally, varied reasons may be given by the defendant or their accomplices as what led to...