Miscellaneous Essays

In assuming that states are rational and unitary, realism helps one in imagining how any nation-in general or in particular--is likely to act. In a sense, subnational politicking can be focused on the utility-maximizing entity known as a state. There are many advantages to realism.

The main duty of our generation is to reduce global warming and environmental pollution. While the current generation enjoys a rather high living standard from the combustion of fossil fuels, future generations will have to suffer from global warming, diseases caused by environmental pollution, and other problems related to atmospheric concentrations.

These models serve as a means of summarizing and exposing the mortgage contracts which are complex in nature. The models also explain the implicit options the mortgage contracts contain for borrowers. One of such options is to terminate the contract prior to maturity.

Organizations like Visa International that operate on a global scale, need to be proactive and responsive to the changes in the environment taking place, especially, owing to globalization and the need to meet the growing demands of the international market.

The major influence in the early colonial period was from the immigration of Puritans into the colonies. Under the early rule of John Winthrop, the newly elected governor, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Company. The Puritans lived a strict religious life that was based in thrift, hard work, and piety.

The capitalist system is there presented as a self-reproducing whole, governed by an underlying law, the ‘law of value’. But this law and its consequences are not only not immediately apparent to the agents who participate in capitalism, they are concealed from them. Thus capitalism is a deceptive object.

He may or may not be right according to the CSR (company's social responsibility) concept (Daz, Alexander F, 2007). He is willing to take the risk. That the product or services are counterfiet does not concern him. He is solely content on the end result.

As a result, she spent most of her younger years with a disfigurement that followed her until high school, when the problem was corrected. She worked well in school, despite her handicap, and was distinguished at the end of her high school career by the title of valedictorian (Women's History).

Following the example of other functions of the organization, human stock management has to create value by adhering to the reinforcement of key competencies likely to generate products or services innovatively and competitive. The role of Human Resources Management (HRM) is not only to ensure an adjustment in the short and medium term.

The bed is 'made'. Mr Richards tells him he charges 75 per week. No meals or other services are provided, but Mr Jagger can share use of the bathroom and toilet facilities in the house, but must keep out of the other parts of the house, which are for the sole use of Mr Richards and his family.

Human Resources has become an indispensable part of the organizational culture of contemporary times. Its importance could not be undermined by anyone. Human resource is theoretically the part of the organization that takes care of the staff and the labor aspect of the business. It includes the recruitment, firing, agreements, and payment conditions amongst other things.

Service quality is generally viewed as the output of the service delivery system (Wakefield, 2001). In particular, it is the difference between expectations of service and perceptions of service actually received. Duff and Kenchand (1998) added that service quality refers to customers' appraisals of the service core (i.e. the provider of the service) or the entire service organization.

In both The Wars and King Lear, animal imagery is used to deride devious conduct in humanity which violates the natural social order. In Findley's novel, The Wars, the animal world fills the scenes through the novel, drawing the conclusion that the only aspect where human beings differ from animals is the strange penchant of humans to pointless brutality.

The law is the instrument by which governments govern, while ethics is what guides the journalist in the practice of printing and broadcasting. Ethics is a value system based on sensibility and vision as determined by human experience and reinforced by the superego.

Yet, it is a pragmatic fact that all stand to gain, including China, if it abides by the international desire for respecting intellectual property rights. The Asian giant like China well understands that foreign direct investments in its economy and infrastructure are utterly propitious for its skilled labor market and its booming economy hungry for latest technologies.

Analysts and others in this division work more as a team not only within IB but beyond it, collaborating with their colleagues in Corporate Banking. This kind of work will call for a large amount of information and knowledge sharing, trust and teamwork. There will be a need for synergy in the working of individuals in this team.

Indeed, reconsideration led many to the borders of insanity and pushed many beyond it. As Peter Wright and Andrew Treacher have noted in The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the Social Construction of Medicine, we currently live in a world in which "the precepts of religion and ethics .

Generally, in DNA, one side of the double helix terminates in a 3' end while the other side, aligned in the opposite direction (antiparallel), terminates in a 5' end. To these projecting 3' ends, a short series of identical nucleotides containing adenine were attached through the activity of another enzyme.

A situation where the actual income would be less than the expected income by more than twenty-five percent has been considered. The Foundation can recover the difference by conducting a Fund Raising Show. The artists’ agency that has agreed to perform in the Forum has also volunteered to work hand-in-hand with the Foundation in the future.

What an amazing thing our childhood is!  Everything around us seems so magic, fantastic and fine... That year I got a wonderful puppy. Who has made this excellent present remains a riddle for me. I've heard the melody of our doorbell, and have gone running to open. I've seen a small beautiful box tied in a bow on a threshold.

According to Porter, there are five competitive forces in the environment of a business entity namely the suppliers, buyers, customers, potential entrants, and product substitutes. Thus, environmental analysis helps managers come up with strategic moves in response to the trends and changes in the current environment.

The elderly, children and the poor also have insurance coverage by some healthcare program. It is mandatory as per the federal law for providing emergency medical care to any person in US regardless of his ability to pay. The main issues faced by the US healthcare include the access, efficiency and quality.

Whereas some support sign language as the most obvious method of communication and education for the hearing impaired, several others consider that deaf people ought to learn spoken and written language so that they can be included into the mainstream of the society.

The other objective was to analyze if the company has achieved its vision of becoming the leader of the worldwide alcohol industry. France which was the main target market for the company over the past few years has been faced with decline in consumption of alcohol products.

The relevance of the work is in the fact, that there still exists a serious gap in describing the problem and offering possible solutions. The literary sources, related to the problem of documentation in nursing, is full of examples and descriptions of the cases, when the inaccuracies in the nursing documentation caused serious misunderstandings, failures in medication and care for patients, and could possibly become a subject of litigation.

DP World aims to enhance customers' supply chain efficiency by effectively managing container, bulk and other terminal cargo. The company constantly invests in terminal infrastructure, facilities and people, working closely with customers and business partners to provide quality services today and tomorrow, when and where customers need them.

The policy earlier received flak from university based scientists. They were arguing then that closing a small marine area to any kind of activity offers little consolation to the marine organisms that usually travel long distances to search for food. Lundy Island can be found in the Bristol Channel of Great Britain.

By using the World Wide Web, people's perceptions are greatly affected on the information they gather from internet. It could be in the form of internet articles, broadcasted journals, websites entirely focused on a cause, discussion forums and etc. Discussion forums in particular, are web based applications that facilitates discussions among users.

Six million Jews were murdered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and yet the faith of the Jewish people still holds. Writers like Elie Wiesel lived to tell the stories of the Nazi atrocities, and many of them emerged from the ashes of the war with their religious faith intact.

The role of white-collar proteins is very important.  They act as transcription factors at the level of transcription.  The two WC1 and WC2 bind to form a white-collar complex (WCC).  This complex binds to the promoter of frq gene and facilitates the process of transcription.  This favorable action continues in the de-repression phase when a high quantity of FRQ proteins is produced. 

This scenario also affected the Canadian provincial Government of Ontario, which embarked on an aggressive public infrastructure construction program called the Alternate Finance Program (AFP) and obviously this initiative had been derived from the United Kingdoms PPP/PFI model.

Every organization has certain obligations. The main aim of an organization can be anything ranging from profit to gaining market share, but the way it achieves this goal matters a lot. There are certain responsibilities and obligations that the organization has towards various groups and situations. It is impossible to discuss every ethical obligation.

For the reason that most positions of supremacy are detained by males within countries like Sweden as well as Iran, we may perhaps finish off that mutually are focused to the issue, yet not many would contradict that the circumstances of females in the present day within most of the countries is far better than the ones within the developing countries.

Their obsoleteness causes more than the normal problems of defunct equipment. Containing contaminable lead and mercury, the electronic items shall fill landfills in heaps, if the problem is left unchecked. Section 1 of the 'Georgia Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act' has admitted that there "is a rapidly growing stream of used computer equipment which should be recycled or disposed of in an appropriate manner.

Eventually, the first attempts at growing crops were made. The oldest food sources grown in the Americas are squash, corn, and beans. They were "once known as the "Three Sisters" by our native peoples-sisters who should never be apart-sisters who should be planted together" (Miller-Sanford, 1).

The net income has also increased throughout the years 2001 to 2005 thus giving increased dividends to share holders. This also points to expansion in company and better utilization of assets to result in increased sales and profitability. We also see that return on equity for the last 3 years is in the range of 20 to 29% which makes Chevron a prized stock to hold and trade in.

It is the sacred statue of Jesus Christ that people can see at the gate of the cemetery. There are also other images that can be found inside the cemetery. These are the Brown Madonna and the Blessed Virgin Mary. I have known that most of the users of Eternal Gardens are Filipinos.

As I pointed out in section one of this paper.  During school breaks, there are no interns available to provide therapy to the outpatient clients of St. Luke’s. This results in one counselor seeing about 10 to 13 clients per day.  Approximately 30 clients visit the section daily. Each client usually has a session lasting about an hour. (Program Description, 2008)

In the early part of last century, however, women appeared in all countries who claimed the right of their sex to participate in the government of democratic countries. The period 1900 to 1918 was remarked as the “Age of Social Reform” as in this period the country was changing from agrarian to an urban society.

Qualitative and quantitative research is a must in developing a system for marketing analyses. Qualitative research is more of collecting data, conducting interviews, using documents and understanding and explaining social phenomena. Quantitative research involves is of development of natural sciences to study natural phenomena.

The care taken for MRI in pregnancy is the same as for MRI in general but the only difference is that fetus may be more sensitive to the effects, especially to the heat and noise. Also the use of contrast agents; gadolinium compounds which are known to cross the placenta and enter the fetal bloodstream. Hence, these compounds should be avoided.

The media becomes too intrusive in almost all walks of life, and many such instances have come to light where the ‘Fan community’ has gone out of the way to go for the desired product or service. When Apple launched its iPhone in June 2007, fans of the Apple products formed long queues outside the stores, so that they are counted as the first one’s having the innovative gadget.

r = -0.16, -0.12, -0.188, -0.443, -0.235 respectively. Similarly we observe that there re some more negative correlations like Household public transport miles per week verses total city CO2 emissions per household per annum, number of household members, average household income per annum, number of cars per household and household car miles per year i.e.

Abercrombie & Fitch is a specialty retailer operating in the USA and Canada. Positive and appealing brand image played a crucial role for the company’s success and profitability. For a long time, Abercrombie & Fitch’s brand created a complex bundle of images and experiences in the customer's mind.

By carefully considering relevant cases, since the coming into effect of the Human Rights Act 1998, this paper attempts to analyze the degree to which Lady Hale endorsed in relation to the role, functioning and powers of Mental Health Review Tribunals. Mental health refers to a level of cognitive or emotional wellbeing or an absence of a mental disorder.

The move to just-in-time marketing involves significant changes across the business system, from product development to marketing to retailing to after-sales service. Active brand management requires painstaking consumer research, and expensive promotion--activities that are already on every car company's "to do" list.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) poses a serious threat to public health in the United Kingdom. It has been established that HIV is a persistent ailment that must be treated and managed using several interventions. Empirical studies document that there are an estimated 80,000 HIV patients in the United Kingdom. 

Concepcion (2002) describes the “standard view of responsibility” whereby “it is unjust to hold a person morally responsible for that which she did not control. Agents deserve to be morally appraised or held liable only for that which they controlled”. The problem this poses is that at some level it can always be argued that a situation was outside of a person’s control.