Miscellaneous Essays

It is a well-known fact that all cultural groups have sets of values, beliefs, and patterns of accepted behavior. People across different varied cultures, therefore, may have difficulty understanding the cultural parameters of another. This is specifically true in regard to mental illness. In some cultures, the prevalent beliefs and values view it as a condition for which the ill person must be punished and debarred from society.

At the similar time, appraisal of the building regulations is being conducted with the aspire to remove barriers to pioneering and green building plan. These proposal focal point not only on new buildings but also on redevelopment of old and decaying buildings in the urban rekindling process (Aboul Naga, M., 2001, 553-563).

The law of succession, which includes the rules of intestacy, is perhaps the most universally applicable of all laws. It is also the most archaic of civil laws and a subject of reform in many countries in recent years. Apparently, eight law reform agencies, including Law Reform Commission (England) and Scottish Law Commission and other jurisdictions based on English common law, have addressed the inadequacy of their intestate succession laws.

Over the past decade there has been an overwhelming increase in graffiti and how people are using it to communicate their own personal message. Graffiti is derived from the Italian word 'sgraffio', which means to scribble, and has been around since the beginning of time.

Currently, coffee has gained the reputation of being the most widely drank beverage. The popularity and proliferation of coffee houses and specialty coffee distributors like Starbucks and Green Mountain is concrete evidence of its wide acceptance and patronage. You might have noticed how enjoyable it is to sip a cup of coffee at the start or even any hour of the day.

Peter and Valentine, Ender's siblings, use these names as pseudonyms in the story, to possibly influence and cause a debate between important leaders and citizens in the world. Locke and Demosthenes were superb choices of aliases for use in the international forum.

It is the question of sustenance and creating a distinct identity in the domain of media that every industry chooses to turn the audience into a prospective commodity. The audience, who has gradually accepted this common practice curbs his habits and alters his demands rather inadvertently as dictated by their chosen form of media.

(WHO, 2005a) As is usually the fate of high profile conferences held in beautifully exotic and remote locations, the conference participants were inspired to establish an ambitious target of reaching the goal of "Health for All by the Year 2000." In their final declaration, the conference participants agreed on an idealistic and kilometric definition of primary health care as "care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible through the people's full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford, in each and every stage of development, with a spirit of self-responsibility and self-determination

Revitalization of enforcement within the state through amplification of the powers of the secret police and military in Vladimir Putin's imperial authoritarian restoration has been a disappointment to many who foresee the line between right-wing political preference and entrenched bureaucratic authoritarianism well known in other parts of the world.

Rococo was known to be ‘an aristocratic art’, an art of the upper-middle class. People who were intellectual, who loved freedom and good taste, were drawn by this style. It was also known as the ‘frivolous art’ since the subjects using this style were parties, ladies, love affairs, and the like, unaware of social problems. ( Bergerfoundation, 2008). 

He argued that it was false to say that an economy will always be in equilibrium pointing out that while this may be true for an economy in the barter stage, there will ultimately be a change in scenario when the economy shifts to becoming cash Based, in which case the supplier is no longer pre-occupied with thoughts of whom to exchange his produce with but can now convert his produce to cash and save it for a later use.

The bank's functioning is rather successful, although there are some insufficient lacks in its business organization: the consulting process should be improved, as well as the interactions between the manager and the employees. But in general, the bank functioning is on rather a high level. In the car lot, the organizational structure should be improved.

Bias may be defined as the delivery of opinions, values, and views as if they were universal without looking at other points of view. In this research, bias could either be introduced by the researcher's strong allegiance to their sponsors or could be introduced by the researcher’s own perspectives.

devoid of a fine indulgent of the rule, mostly professionals may not know a lot regarding LAN. So it is critical that a Networking route hit equilibrium among standard and lab carry out. In this study, this approach to understand LAN, using a grouping of examples, simulation tools and experiments.

Ultimately, in situations where the job responsibilities are not properly documented, even if the parties decided to take the matter to the court there would be no detailed consideration as to how to start the process and where the problems are. In the present circumstance, there is the need to find the problems and then find ways to solve them.

In other words, after providing themselves a well-defined plan, they should choose the best strategy on how they will convert it into action. One of the chief aims of businessmen in this time of very fierce competition is to gain competitive advantage. Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage model is one of the most used concepts on gaining competitive advantage.

It was this year of June 2009 wherein the World Health Organization (WHO) declared H1N1 as pandemic flu; affecting more than 70 countries. This pandemic flu started in Mexico last May 2009 with a toll death of about 90%. It attacks young and middle-aged adults leaving the highest mortality rate and a lower mortality rate for the elderly.

This paper will review the historical and contemporary trends of domestic terrorism within the United States as a means of establishing the similarities that exist between domestic extremist/terrorist groups. We will then discuss the ways in which military personnel may be influenced, involved or utilized by extremist and /or terrorist organizations or groups in pursuing and accomplishing their ultimate goals through these service members.

How bad was the hyperinflation in Germany It was not as bad as Hungary in 1946, where prices doubled every 15 hours, an inflation rate of 41.9 quintillion percent. Germany's inflation rate was merely 3.25 million percent, which meant that prices of goods doubled every two days.

Modernism can also be thought of as the demotion of tradition. Traditional society is characterized by a prevalent dependence on magic, religion, superstition, and an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude. The modern period can be considered to be roughly the whole of the 20th century up to the present.

“Selling and buying of a product “turned to be a situation that we all come across every day, including having your milk delivered, getting a tap fixed, your car repaired – in fact, any situation where someone is doing something for you, rather than just handing over a product. As with buying goods, the law has decided that the consumers need some extra protection from the sellers.

The importance of bisexuality in mental phenomena was accentuated by Freud, throughout his career, although it was based on anatomical and embryological data. He wrote, “a certain degree of anatomical hermaphroditism occurs normally in every normal male or female individual, traces are found of the apparatus of the opposite sex” (1905 141).

An estimated 14 million people in the US either have been diagnosed with or currently continue to abuse alcohol, drugs and other illicit substances (Austin, 2005). The almost epidemic situation with substance abuse and dependency has negative health consequences and impressive economic costs.

The alluring materialistic and physical aspects of life often provide only physical happiness, while spiritual pleasure is attained only through the knowledge fo the truth attained by the quest for spirituality and enlightenment.

The natural human rights are determined by the government and it is different in each country. These rights are formulated based on the country's economic situation and the democracy. The government proposes certain laws and it expects the people to follow it.

Extensive studies for the control and exclusion of disease-causing microorganisms resulted to the discovery of immunology and vaccination. This methodology utilizes the body's natural defenses against viruses through immune activation towards prevention or amelioration of the effects of infection.

The Jewish immigration experience has been no different. (Parrillo, 2002) The colonial period saw the majority of Jewish immigrations happening in the United States. These Jews came from the Eastern European states of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and most notably, from Russia.

Earned Capital is the capital builds up through the lucrative functioning of a company. Earned capital is unlike the associated theory of paid-in capital. For any company, the basis of earned capital is the net profit.  If there is a satisfactory net profit as the dividends have been paid, the corporation may settle to carry on with the earned capital in the shape of saved earnings.

Nike, "one of those global companies targetedas a symbolic representation of the business in society", is at the forefront of this growing concern (Baker). Nike is hailed as a beacon of corporate responsibility by some, and targeted as one of the principle's worst violators by others.

The decision to include any particular writer into the literary canon lies with the teachers, scholars or any person whose has a renowned reputation regarding the judgments of a literary work, therefore granting a writer an access to the literary canon is a subjective decision.

Definition of research objectives, determination of the sampling group, questionnaire writing, administration of the questionnaire, and lastly interpretation of the results. As stated earlier, the major objective of the research is to determine whether the case study Bank PHB will benefit from the improvement of service quality.

Daniel C. Dennett in his story "Where Am I" suggests that the nature of a person depends not only upon the mind or the brain but also on the body. There is a common conception that the mind controls the behavior or nature of a person but many times a person reacts to a situation without being controlled by his mind, rather on the basis of how his body is reacting.

Various studies suggested that the interest rates are positively correlated with the average inflation rates in long run however short-run relationships between the two variables vary between countries as individual economic variables behave differently to the short-run policy measures of the monetary authorities.

Prior to addressing the variety of issues associated with occurrences of skin cancer, it is important to put parameters around the definition to establish a frame of reference. According to the National Cancer Institute, “skin cancer is a disease in which cancer (malignant) cells are found in the outer layers of your skin” (National Cancer Institute, 2008).

The implementation of new global IS/IT technology not only has reduced the operations cost throughout the organisation but also provided the organisation with enormous profit. The Organisation's flexible and adaptive strategy has made it the leader in all the three industries in which it is competing and also improved the market share.

It is easy to understand, after reading this, why centre and other political parties in Britain have failed to have a greater impact on British Electoral politics, especially since the 1940s in particular, as there have really been no major improvements or even changes in regards to some of the most significant and critical issues.

This research is conducted for the purpose of developing a simple and secure web-based application sign-on method in order to increase the security and reduce the risk of identifying theft by reducing the passwords number of the web-based applications. The scope of this paper is limited to the security solutions by using SSO.

Descartes like Kierkegaard is a highly respected philosophical thinker. His most famous work is Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (Meditations On First Philosophy). Published in 1641, poses the main argument that “Every belief based on the senses (beliefs about the external world) is such that we could conceive it to be false (Descartes, p1).”

When setting up a business, individuals have several options on how they want to form their organization. In other words, there are a number of forms of organization, namely, sole proprietorship, partnership, private limited company and public limited company. As individuals move on the list, the forms get more complex.

In a very general term, we can say productivity is the essence of any country's economical growth. When it rises, also helps in development in economical standards. There are different measures of productivity, as capital productivity and multifactor productivity.

The differences between men and women in politics are based on the perception that males and females have a different degree of influence in meeting societal needs. The American society has an assumption that men are more able to fight for reforms successfully, while women tend to give up if something does not work out.

Consequently, the earth’s terrains have been transformed as mountains rose and fell. Life also arose and the traces of the early earth’s features gradually disappeared. But scientists contend that there are clues to be gleaned from the earth’s early beginnings – clues that could also be found even in the moon’s rough craters.

For example, the cost of production per bike is the same for all levels of production. The rate of increase in the quantity demanded of the bike increases with a relative decrease in price. It is to be noted that the demand for the bike remains a constant with price changes, other factors remaining the same.

139-142). This paper discusses Calvin Geneva and his influence on European Reformation in a concise and comprehensive way. Thompson (pp. 65-68) discusses that through the areas of Lutheran missionaries and trade, the evangelical movement broke away to France where he won many converts, among whom was John Calvin.

Drug addiction has brought many of these kids to miss classes, totally quit school, and commit crimes such as shoplifting and burglary and more dangerous crimes such as rape, homicide and murder (UK Drug Policy Commission, 2008). It is therefore inevitable to study abatement of drug addiction especially among the young in the search for crime reduction.

Khomeini is perhaps best remembered by the outside world for the infamous fatwa he issued against Salman Rushdie, for "blasphemies" against the Prophet contained in his book, The Satanic Verses. The fatwa, which offered a bounty for any believer who succeeded in assassinating Rushdie, virtually forced the Indian-British author into hiding.

The terms e-recruitment, e-cruising, cyberwriting, and e-recruiting Internet recruiting, imply the formal sourcing of job information online. It is a fairly new practice. The first references to e-recruitment appear in articles of the mid-1980s, while systematic reference to e-recruitment in HR journals begins almost a decade later.

The other form happens to be man made even through acts of terror. Disasters that happen through acts of God consist of natural mishaps such as storms, floods, famine, earthquakes, tsunami, bird flu, etc. The other form of disaster occurs due to man-made mishaps or terrorism.

I was taught the value of money at a very young age. Football was the game I loved as a child and have not missed a single telecast of the World Cup since I was five years old. At school, I have held the responsibilities of both Vice Captain and Captain. We won all the matches that we played against neighboring schools!