Miscellaneous Essays

The funding by these two foundations is most welcome, as interest in crop science has been dwindling, with biotechnology becoming a profit-driven enterprise and skewed research. The agricultural revolution pioneered by Norman Borlang in the 1970s, somehow failed to make an impact in Africa although it was a success in Asia, where it was an important social issue.

French Canadians opted not to join the American Revolution because of two major reasons. First of all, the American representatives did not do a good job of convincing them to join in. Secondly, the French Canadians were covered by the Quebec Act of 1774 which protected their religious as well as their social rights.

Regrettably rising health, insurance, and drug prices have made a lot of people feel that good health is not affordable. The fact that the need has arisen can be supported by the data of a recent Harvard study found that illnesses and medical bills caused half of the 1,458,000 personal bankruptcies in 2001 (Medical Bills Leading Cause of Bankruptcy 2005).

The act of creating an appropriate punishment does not usually involve any type of victim compensation, or direct retribution, from the offender. The state assumes the responsibility of paying for the prosecution, defining the terms of punishment, and executing the sentence. This relieves the victim of any responsibility in regard to the offender.

The Home Office has overall responsibility for the Government's policy on ASB. CLG works closely with the Home Office and has lead responsibility for ASB policy as it specifically relates to housing issues. That has included significant legislation to provide social landlords with the tools and powers they need to tackle ASB.

The spokes person for this woman’s group Mrs. Linda S. Feldman, has written to the President of Dixie Industries to explain to him their concerns of their future promotional opportunities within Dixie Industries due to the company’s promotional practices.

This helps them face the challenges of medical care through the use of technology and to understand the ethical dilemmas and principles concerning about medical care. According to a certain scenario, consider Alex, an x-ray technology student who has never performed procedures on emergency room patients.

Countries within the same continent have also undergone different paths in socio-economic and political growth. America’s economic experiences are radically different from the economic experiences of other continents such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Different countries on different continents have used different economic approaches and theories.

The world has not been kind to Sasha, but she is trying to make it better. But it soon becomes obvious that here is a witty, ironic realist, who veers from a woeful lack of self esteem, as portrayed in her behavior with the English owner of the dress shop, to reckless, adventurous power play.

“The HCG diet consists of a very low calorie diet and treatments of HCG that is administered through oral suspension or injections. It has been said that the diet actually helps people to understand the consumption of food and why it is important to only consume proportion sizes. HCG is what women produce in the placenta during pregnancy”. 

Knowledge of the causes of past failures may just set the perspective, but it does not dictate measures of current performance. While change management is concerned, all changes are intended to improve performance. By performance of a firm, or organization, or a corporate body, it is meant that it is a conglomeration of certain interdependent parameters, and thus this neither measurable nor observable entity.

A conscious effort to systematize the effort and to manage its evolution is preferable to an unmanaged and haphazard evolution. The basic planning problem is how to allocate the organization's limited resources. The major benefits to be expected from planning include an improved sense of direction for the organization, better performance, increased understanding of the organization and its purpose, earlier awareness of problems, and more effective decisions.

In any business 'customer satisfaction' should be the first motto. Hospital industry is also falls under this category. Clearly, there is a trend towards consumer attention as far as amenities, design and features within the hospital industry. It makes people feel special.

Both the prisoner’s physical and psychological care should be taken care of by the health care authorities. In the UK women represent 6% prison population. There has been a huge increase in the number of women prisoners and there are half of the prisoners from Jamaica to be imprisoned in the prisons in Britain.

The channels that the products go through between the producer and the ultimate consumer involve people called middlemen also known as retailers. Retailing is hence described as the convincing set of activities or events that ensures a product is sold to the consumer for their final use and to satisfy their needs.

lfred begins selling his software via his website, using an online ordering form. He sells his software both via direct download and, primarily for those with slower Internet connections, via DVD sent through the post. Alfred uses written standard terms of business which include a term "Alfsoft Ltd is not liable for the results of using this software".

This is the very reason why there is a so-called “American dream”. Many have been planning and/or aspiring to live and work in the US. Many have been thinking that living in the US could bring so much glory and happiness. Government officials and policymakers of the US have imposed stricter guidelines on its immigration processes.

In "The Making of a Book," an essay was written not long after the publication of his novel Wolf Whistle, a fictionalized reimagining of the Emmett Till murder, Lewis Nordan explains the difficulty that he had in approaching his material and the eventual solution that he found. Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago, was murdered for allegedly wolf-whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi, in 1955.

Traditionally ethics followed two major schools. Utilitarianism, majorly propagated by John Stuart Mill & Jeremy Bentham, suggested that what is moral is what leads to happiness or pleasure. The principle of utility is sometimes summarized as "the greatest good for the greatest number" (“Methods of Traditionally Applied Philosophy: Utilitarianism”).

Developing countries are faced with low standards of living, underdevelopment, and high poverty levels, weak and unstable currencies, low capital levels and low GDP. All the above problems faced by developing countries are caused by debts which affect not only those who acquire loans but also generations that follow.

Greater stability was part of the Soviet aim in advocating for the conference. Several East European areas—Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia - had been scenes of attempted uprisings against Communist rule in the 1950s and 1960s. With the Soviet’s political sphere of control acknowledged in all of Europe, things would hopefully remain quiet.

The rollout will be communicated, both to participants and to the wider community - fitness center users, member's online visitors, etc., The details given in the Implementation Plan to deal with issues for rollout have to be cautiously observed during this phase for any technical and nontechnical details.

In Etuahdleuh Doanmoe's drawings and sketches, the follies of that strategy are much more subtle and even sublimated as self-representations, but are made all the more tragic and compelling as a result. Representation is often less about re-presenting reality or accurately copying it, but it is about striving to illustrate a belief or a cause in a visual way that expresses a particular "truth".

The fictions o this tradition is especially noted for the environment it creates taking the readers from the ordinary, commonplace world to an unimagined, extra ordinary world where they can live with the characters and fly in the wings of fantasy. Gothic can be understood as a genre in which the particular mood created helps the reader to be taken to the sublime world of imagination. It is "a literary style popular during the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th. This style usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, the grotesque and other "dark" subjects.

In 1949, Orwell placed his novel in 1984, showing us his vision of a post-nuclear world with televisions that watch our every move. The best sentence in this chapter is "Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold". In a short, pithy line, the author captures the complete horror that Winston is feeling, which makes it a very powerful sentence.

The First World War accelerated the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its takeover by a communist-led Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The governments of the capitalist nations feared that the “infection of Bolshevism” would spread to their people, so, the government of the United States had its reaction, some would say rather violent.

Globalization has done a world of good to both, the developed countries as well as the developing countries. The phenomenon has advantages and disadvantages. Some of the prominent advantages include: increased trade between countries, better opportunities for foreign investors to invest in the developing world, and better flexibility to operate.

The approach suggested does not initially involve any theory. Skull casts (dated or not as appropriate) are presented to the students, who must examine them closely in order to answer various questions put to them. One such question might be which skulls are human' To answer this question students must firstly make a judgement of the criteria for humanness' and secondly assess the casts against these criteria.

Globalization is a subject that has been discussed repeatedly on social, political, environmental and economic fronts. It is the myth of the modern corporate structure and is considered to be driving the contemporary business environment in conjunction with technology.

In the fourth century, a group of men called Theologians articulated the doctrine of trinity. Doctrinal treaties were not composed for a long time. Those were difficult days for the Church with persistent persecution. During Constantine's rule, persecution reduced and slowly an extensive ecumenical change started taking place in the church.

Within the novel, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway utilizes his characters as examples of this post-war attitude and set of ideas that came to pass in the 1920s.  Hemingway’s “ex-patriots” journey as 30 something’s in France and Spain, fulfilling their every wish and whim with no true direction in life.

Tracking trends also enables a company to easily determine which aspect of the marketing mix needs to be utilized to accomplish targets, thereby saving company resources. Three of the current trends that companies and marketers need to be aware of and consider in their marketing initiatives are the following: First, marketers need to take into account the increasing importance of information technology in consumer's lives and its immense impact on consumer buying behavior.

Making judgments the leader doesn’t remember or know which theory is being applied or how, more concerns are about its outcome, such theories are also called contingency theories. It is a theory that is defining the relationship of stress to the task, but also says that experience and intelligence can overcome stress.

The increase in expected return to the common stockholders that results from financial leverage created by debt will be exactly offset by the Market capitalizing those higher expected earnings at a higher rate. In other words, as the debt ratio rises, the stockholders required rate of return increases just enough to offset the higher expected return.

Holocaust is one of the most tragic and puzzling events in human history. It presents us with more questions, than answers. The reason for such unawareness in the course of the Holocaust's history may lie in the fact, that huge numbers of Jews have been murdered, while they could shed some light on the events taking place at that time;

The behaviorist approach views the student as a passive and reactive organism that can be programmed with new knowledge by way of instruction from an expert. Whereas the constructivists take a learner-centered approach, advocating that the student interacts with their social and physical environment, and so actively engages in the learning process.

As an anti-slavery activist, he wrote a powerful autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, which became a best seller in the changing atmosphere. It is a moving story, a dreadful account of human brutality on simple, powerless people, who had no strength to retaliate against merciless economic and military power.

Strategic tax planning is a common occurrence in the business world because of its ability to help companies maximize their after-tax value. Businesses need tax planning to help implement strategies that would lessen their tax liabilities for the year ahead. There are numerous tax planning strategies available to business owners.

A lounge singer and Sacramento native, Mr. Muerton is currently unable to work because he suffers from recurring panic attacks, clinical depression, and paralyzing stage fright.  He claims that these serious conditions are the result of Barnett Productions’ duping him into participating in a reality television show called “Regular Guy”.

The number of children classified as learning disabled (LD) has increased substantially over the last 20 years. For example, 783,000 children were identified with learning disabilities in 2000, but by 2001-04, the LD population was about 2.3 million. These children currently comprise almost 50% of all placements into special education.

The implementation of the resource management requires skills in advising & guiding the teachers. For successfully handling resource management, funds & its sources has to be identified and allocated, including determination & tracking costs, acquiring funds, distributing and controlling funds, tracking costs and obligations, reimbursement procedures and cost capturing as well as establishing management control process.

This research focuses on what techniques are best to try and curtail behaviors such as these. Deviant behavior among the youth needs to be controlled and prevented to ensure a normalcy in society. The relevancy of this subject is contained in the following pages.

The automobile industry is one of the most lucrative and productive sectors in any given economy. With vehicles being manufactured and purchased every day, the income generated is indeed very high. The progress realized in this field is no doubt something worth admiration. The future looks bright in relation to the new developments made in regard to car capability, and models, among other things.

In the opening sequence of the movie, the director's sister Dina takes her son Nabeel to his first Eid. During prayer, the 10-year-old's gestures are still out of sync with those of his fellow worshippers. In response to the mullah's sermon appealing to close ranks (since "they" want to wipe out "us"), the director is prompted to offer her nephew an alternative to the dominant post-9/11 Clash of Civilizations rhetoric.

The investments of Warren Buffett are being handled by his company Berkshire Hathaway as a holding company. The investments of Warren Buffett at some point of time included investments in companies like Coca-Cola, American Express, and Gillette. Buffett had the clairvoyance not to invest in the stocks of dot.com companies, which was proved a successful strategy, as there was a crash of the values of shares of these companies subsequently.

The documentary credit transaction is responsible for the administration and execution of the terms and conditions related to documentary credit transaction. A documentary credit transaction is registered to one or more trade partners, “who are responsible for administering and carrying out the terms of the documentary credit transaction".

Companies tend to this by way of choosing the high performance approach to business running. Firms choose to develop a work force by way of rigorous training and development programs for its employees so that their ingenuity and problem solving abilities are increased manifolds.

With retirement can come uncertainty with the removal of earned income that many grow accustomed to over the 40 or so years that they invest in the work force. "Millions of Americans are approaching one of the most important financial decisions of their lives: to begin receiving Social Security benefits at age 62, or defer those benefits until older," (Dalton, 6/06).

It was extracted from a plant leaf known as the Enythroxylon of a coca bush which is grown in Peru and Bolivia. It was developed with the objective of treating people who were suffering from different kinds of illnesses. The drug is abused by the young people in the society, but on the other hand can be administered by a doctor for medical uses such as treatment of local anesthetic for the eye, ear and throat during surgeries.

Although I migrated from Pakistan to the States 3 years ago, I’m still adapting to the different lifestyle each day. You, I believe, would also be experiencing the same difficulties with language and culture that all people coming from other countries face during the early days of adjusting to the new environment.