Miscellaneous Essays

Motivation has been defined as the psychological process that gives behaviour purpose and direction (Kreitner, 1995); an internal drive to satisfy an unsatisfied need (Higgins, 1994); and the will to achieve (Bedeian, 1993). Motivation is the fuel that drives people towards achieving their goals and objectives (Bhat, 2007 p.

Some of the global educators have included the study of global issues into curriculum and sought the interaction with the other global educators. Kenneth Tye in his article "World View: Global Education as a Worldwide Movement" has investigated what exactly has been done recently to include the global education into school curriculum.

A child is identified to have a learning difficulty or with special needs if he or she finds it difficult to do the activities a normal kid of the same age would do. There are different kinds of children who can be identified with learning difficulties – those who have a physical disability, sensory impairments, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, or intellectual disability.

This report presents PeopleSoft (PS) Strategic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation Plan for Actavis Pharmaceutical Group. It includes brief information on Actavis and its global operations, literature on ERP benefits and failures, the current state of Actavis and possible practical solutions to the problems worrying the group.

Nicene Creed was made with the primary purpose to identify who has the real faith in the Christian principles and who does not. It was a sense of quality consciousness that ensured a definition for what is acceptable quality and what is not. This would eliminate those people who are actors in the theatre of religion.

He is also considered an agent of divine achievement. One day as one of the Arab tribes was traveling to the north from Mecca, they happed to meet a Hermit. Some of them stopped to talk to him as the hermit were believed to be very wise in Arab tradition and were a source of advice as well.

Organisations may differ in the priority they attach to the human resource component, in their efforts toward achieving high productivity and competitive advantage. Yet, they all recognise the value of a qualified, motivated, stable and responsive team of employees.

The power developed by the two stroke cycle engine is twice than that of the four stroke engine for the same engine speed and cycle volume, since two stroke cycle engine gives one working stroke for each revolution of crankshaft, while in four stroke cycle engine gives one working stroke for every two revolution of the crank shaft.

At his funeral, his son Biff says, "He had the wrong dreams."(Miller 138) It would be more truthful to say that Willy has many dreams, and suppresses those he thinks are too ordinary, while stressing ideals that will remain out of his reach. Willy's insistence on pursuing the wrong dreams causes unspoken discontent in his home, and leads to his unfortunate death.

Digital transmission systems make use of signal regeneration as opposed to the signal amplification of analog transmission systems. This makes digital signals more resistant to additive noise. Additive noise is the noise produced by electronic circuits. It is named so because this type of noise accumulates with the addition of electronic components

This paper presents a five-year marketing plan for a start-up car wash company Wash Avenue Incorporated. This plan encompasses both internal and external analysis to come up with an efficient strategy that will help the company succeed and survive in its current market. After laying out its marketing mix, it also offers an implementation plan, financial projections, and evaluation and control.

A fall has been functionally defined as any involuntary or unintentional change from a position of being supported bipedally in an upright posture to one in which there occurs resting of a body part or the entire person on the ground (Means et al., 2005; Nowalk, et al., 2001).

Any increase or decrease in the value of the partnership on any valuation date shall be credited or debited, respectively, to each partner's capital account in proportion to the sum of all partner capital accounts on that date. 8. Management. Each partner is shall participate in the management and conduct of the affairs of the partnership in proportion to the value of his/her capital account.

Most of the immigrants are youngsters from third-world Muslim countries and as newcomers are able to cope with many international origins and a wide range of cultural, religious, linguistic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Whether they challenge a nation's sense of unity or not, it is obvious for the West to consider them a pain in the neck.

The main thing is the intention of the conversationalist or demagogue in either influencing or deceiving the audience. However there is a difference of opinion among various experts as to the forms of persuasion employed like for instance those applied in the political or advertisement campaigns.

Supporters originally advocated mothers' pensions as "justice for mothers" and a reward for maternal service, but the program quickly became a partial subsidy for children. Fiscal politics, conventional ideas about race and morality, and skepticism about government activism tightened the connection between welfare and wage-earning.

Perhaps death as a central dynamism underlying life, power, vigor, vitality, philosophies, religion and art, should be held ransom for the innovation of health communication paradigm. However, receiving & understanding health information is not a guarantee that people employ the knowledge to guide or change their own behaviors.

Speciation occurs when gene exchange become restricted. Thus, one of the isolating mechanisms with regard to speciation and macroevolution is temporal isolation in which species show activity at different times or different seasons, and thus, species avoid mating. One example of this is the temporal cicadas.

Colonizing nations generally dominate and take advantage of resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, Sometimes colonism also displays the economic motives of colonizing nations. It is also a system by which a powerful nation dominates the weaker one to establish its political hegemony over the weaker country by use of various measures which also include economic and socio-political factors.

Whilst my creative and inquisitive mind may engage me on chemical explorations; truly, it's my heart, that seeks to connect such explorations with the larger purpose of life; which is, to serve humanity with zeal! I am in fact, deeply fascinated with the healing powers of chemistry.

Organizations such as banks, financial institutions, supermarkets, pharmaceutical firms, government departments, corporations, and individuals face disastrous repercussions in the advert of information loss. The encrypted information is also vulnerable to attacks as key generation using state-of-the-art computers exposes this information.

Many health freedom experts feel that to increase its profits and offset the losses Merck suffered for its Vioxx drug, the company is using its political power to leverage a profitable position. After all, the vaccine could bring in a lot of profit. Being patent-protected, Merck would be the sole producer of Gardasil.

the apes. Cultural Anthropology: studies the differences in human behavior and psychology in the past and present. Cultural anthropologists are required to travel to foreign lands and live within foreign communities in order to understand the people and their culture.

Consequently, their confidence is coupled with assertiveness. One people in an organization is confident and assertive due to rewards, praises and other positive factors that boosts their self-confidence, then they are empowered. In the work environment that I am presently involved with, I can say that not all people are empowered.

Calculations such as one’s angle to one’s opponent, how far one is to the net, and the speed with which one will hit the ball, are vital considerations to winning a game. In addition, if one pays for the time one plays on the court, math helps one wisely budget the money for the payments and choose the appropriate schemes suited to one’s needs. 

With numerous strange but believable encounters between characters who, in ‘normal’ circumstances, would have no point of contact, Shakespeare explores the aspects of love, portraying a “series of accidental meetings…and a resolution involving implausible transformations of character and divine intervention” (Johnston, 5, 2001).

Issue of mass killing written down in the history during Justinian ruling, known in the quantity of trillion. In Libya's reckoning that thousands of Vandals were killed, and repeated with the almost as same amount in Italy. His wrong decisions put at risk his many soldiers battling many barbaric tribes and warriors in different countries that border the Roman Empire.

This shows that company has no problem in paying off its debts. The position of Jones Corporation is also good and it will have no problem in paying off its debts. Since, both firms can pay-off their debts easily given the situation let's now eliminate the illiquid current asset factor from our ratio calculation.

The company that is being studied is a photocopier design, manufacturing, sales and service organization. The organization has got global presence and has organized its divisions geographically namely the United States of America, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia.

These factors created multi-faceted changes in the different functional areas of companies, especially in the way they manufacture the products and commodities they offer to customers. Current trends emphasize world-class manufacturing (WCM) which highlights maximum manufacturing efficiency in businesses, and customer and workforce satisfaction.

The concept 'insurable interest' first surfaced in the lex mercatoria of the Middle Ages (Reinecke et al General Principles of Insurance Law (2002) par 102 referring to the work by De Casaregis). At that stage insurance was understood to be of a pure indemnity nature covering the insured only for patrimonial loss or damage caused by the peril insured against.

However, society had yet to connect the criminal acts against an individual to the larger picture of terrorist acts committed against a society or its institutions. In line with this, the perpetrators of the harassment, intimidation, and violent acts against the victims were perceived as criminal acts, as there were no federal statutes at the time to appropriately address these acts as terrorism.

Dependence on drugs and other activities arises from a normal instrumental learning mechanism that operates outside conscious awareness. Drugs such as heroin and nicotine reward behavior that leads to them. Addictive behaviors become difficult to stop through a process that can occur without the individual being aware of what is happening.

Poe composed 'The Cask of Amontillado' in 1846, set in Italy. An insane narrator enveloped in revenge, tells his story with much pride of how he cleverly lured his victim to a grotesque death of being buried alive. Three years later, Poe composed 'Hop-Frog' or 'The Eight Chained Orang-utans' in 1849.

If the person concerned is a guy, he will surely be admired by the whole male community and even earn their respect. He will make a good impression with girls which breeds attractions and desires. He will be receiving compliments and be labeled as a "player." On the other hand, a girl will receive a very different treatment.

Human resource management was initially termed as personnel management because of the fact that it entirely involves the management of human power. With reference to the management of human power, human resource management employs people and develops and moulds their abilities to suit the firm's objective.

Spend a great deal of time in the seated and sedimentary position. When in this position, there is a tendency for fatigue to set in. In so doing, the Executive Assistant may become less alert and even sleepy. In attempting to ergonomically adapt the workspace of the Executive Assistant to accommodate the need for postural flexibility, it is prudent that the workspace be designed in such a manner as to promote an optimal range of comfortable position [from sitting in different positions to standing].

Three groups of students will select one each. Try to present the students how the past wars can be related to the present wars. How wars are started and the positive and negative effects of a war. An equation between quantum of loss incurred and misery caused to the population due to wars as against the benefits and allow the students to analyse.

1.2.1 This ratio determines the ability of the company to pay interest on its outstanding debt. Both Cobham and BAE show adequate values of Interest cover. However Cobham was less burdened by debt expenses and more capable to meet interest expenses other than BAE.

One of the articles discussed is written by Jim Bolt and titled “Developing The 3-Dimensional Leader”. Both articles relate to the modern theory of path-goal leadership, developed jointly by Martin Evans and Robert House and emphasizing that a leader has the function of clearing the path toward the goal(s) of the group, by meeting the needs of subordinates.

For purposes of this study, a hypothetical job seeker looking for work as a software engineer in Massachusetts was utilized. On each of the sites, there were some unique features that were helpful and some bells and whistles that were generally not helpful.

Where a neat and clean environment gives an excellent look to the hospital where proper diagnosis is carried out by able doctors without any mishaps and where he feels as if he is the leader of that place. It's almost a healthcare systems responsibility to take care of its patients.

The word has therefore been used to describe culture in certain instances. People engage in practices that are correctly identified as traditions, beliefs and cultural ethics. These habits develop over time to become traditions of the named societies and certainly comprise the people's style of living.

The word McCarthyism has been generated on the famous Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. His rise to fame was his anti-communist ideas and the need for defense against the rebellious communists that worked in the US government as policy makers. US has always been a capitalistic country and it has openly rejected any ideas of communism in its ranks.

But it has come to pass that as history evolved to advance in its present stage, ways of convergence including cross-cultural communications through the use of a prevalent language have also evolved, and English became, although never imposed in such a way that individuals were forced to learn it, a commonly accepted form of communicating.

Torts are a category of law that deals with personal injury.  There are several types of personal injuries, to be sure—both intentional and unintentional, dealing with the issues of negligence and so forth.  Basically, there are six types of torts. There are intentional torts against persons, which deal with very specific charges that are incurred when one person injures another. 

Since all the family members are at different stages of their life; their choice of channels are totally different. None of the members share a common choice of TV or radio channel. Two members of the family (Ms. B and Miss C) live outside the home throughout the day. Little D, a child of 7 influences the decision of which channel to watch.

Many people are nothing like we think they are. Work is an example. We meet people at work or school who we think are and then we run into to them elsewhere and they are not anywhere near the same. Who you really are is a combination of those things, who you think you are and what other people think you are.

After his wife (played briefly by Thandie Newton) left him, Gardner was evicted from his apartment and became homeless. The challenge unfolds when he has to tow his five-year-old son, Chris Jr. (played by Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith) to a dodgy daycare center during the day in a suit and scour for a safe place to sleep at night.

Over sedation with PCA has followed repeated use at the end of every lockout period, mistaking the PCA handset for the nurse-call button, and family, visitor, or unauthorized nurse-activated demands. Negative aspects of PCA have also been identified, some of which might constrain the use of PCA and, hence, its effectiveness.