Miscellaneous Essays

In the late 1980s, communities in Western Australia became concerned about a number of environmental issues that they felt were being mismanaged by government agencies. The main areas of concern included widespread clearing of native bush for agriculture, eutrophication of water bodies, salinization of land and water, erosion, and soil degradation.

Turning a blind eye to specific consumer requirements would not only stunt the project's success, it can devastate the company's fortunes in the long run. The Indian market, like all others, has certain specific requirements that have to be fulfilled. A consumer market which is perhaps the largest in Asia, India's consumer community is a perfect mix of the choosy, open-minded and liberal sorts of people.

Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana or ganja is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States of America (NIDA). It is a psychoactive drug obtained from the plant Cannabis sativa. Various parts of the plants like seeds, flowers, hemp, and even leaves are used in dried and shredded form. Thus, marijuana is basically a mixture of dried plant parts which is usually green or brown in colour.

Tracing the history of harassment in the workplace leads back to the incidents of harassment in the school. The usual behavior of young students is to have offensive actions against students of the opposite gender and more often than not these actions are dismissed as being normal for young people of their age ("Every Teen Counts" 1997).

Governance has also been described and dealt with, particularly in the past two decades, in terms of how to improve the functioning of the actual political/administrative system extant in a particular country. The term used has been "good governance." This has typically meant concern about civil service reform.

The main issue that comes into effect in this case is that, within a period of three months after signing the contract, X undergoes a physical injury, which renders him unable to use the health facility for a period of 6 months. Further, X's brother is not able to make use of the health club facility since he has relocated to Phoenix, Arizona which is a place more than 25 miles from the present vicinity of the health club, and moreover, he cannot make use of his present membership in Silver's Gym in that place.

Wade case back in 1973. (U.S. Supreme Court, 1973) In line with the purpose of this study, the researcher will discuss the social problems that is significantly associated with abortion. As part of the main discussion, the researcher will discuss how the society as a whole contributed to the development of these social problems followed by discussing some recommended solutions that could effectively address the negative social impact of abortion.

The author states that as with many terrorist organization, the FALN had as one of its goals the drawing attention to the political status of Puerto Rico and the movement towards independence. Their tactics and strategies were effective at gaining attention, and the low level of deaths was acceptable to many sympathizers.

While the book does not detail where he obtained his information, it can be assumed that most of it was general knowledge and from his personal observations of the area. The account was written not long after Hannibal crossed the Alps it is more of a detailed re-telling of the events than a historic accounting.

Technology has helped in this process by providing a way for businesses to work together. Through technological advances, people are able to communicate and share information in unprecedented ways. Globalization has been assisted by technology, though some see globalization as an economic force rather than a technological one.

Many issues have arisen during the approach to this problem (Horonjeff, R and McKelvey, F.X., 2004). Many experts on the topic have different views on the size, causes and resolution of substance abuse and relapse prevention among female substance abusers.

The experiment aims to test the hypothesis whether learning of spatial context of targets within their distractors reduces the time needed to find targets within repeated or old arrangements of distractors when compared with time needed to find targets within newly created arrangements of distractors.

The events of September eleventh 2001 are largely to blame for this. There was a need to provide the people of the United States with greater assertions that they were safe in their own country. That same event caused the formation of some security agencies to solve this security threat; terrorism.

According to the essay, there is a vast difference between the representation of females in fairytales and their portrayal in the Disney film versions of the same stories. “Cinderella,” as an example, indicates a tremendous difference between gender representation in the Disney film versus the fairytale itself.

In any environment, especially in public sector management, it is necessary to make the business reconcile with human values, and thus corporate governance becomes a challenge for many companies in the public sector, as finding the correct strategy of corporate governance often determines the financial and other indices of the company.  

The aftermath of the love for narcotics and lust for the human body have resulted in many deadly diseases like cancer, AIDs, STIs and STDs, cardiovascular complications and so on. Perhaps, because of the ancestry link with the ancient monkey, man has never felt shy of getting infected by the viral strains from the rhesus monkey.

Since the Land Registration Act 2002 (“LRA”), it has been argued that rights over property have become much easier to deal with and ascertain. Whilst this is true for registrable interests such as leases over seven years, certain overriding interests are unregistrable. Broadly speaking, any third-party interests against registered land will either be deemed an overriding interest, or a minor interest.

This report outlines my transformation from a hesitant group participant to a productive, involved member with leadership responsibilities. This is fortunate for me since the field of nursing is turning to team based systems more and more (Wood, 2007). Teams usually develop in four stages; forming, storming, norming and performing (Blair 2008).

Thesis In their stories, Bierce and Chopin create similar characters which possess emotional and physiological strengths, but try to escape reality and death in dreams and memories. The main similarity between the characters is their desire to escape reality and find happiness in dreams and memories.

Apart from helping consumers to print, edit, enhance, share and store digital photos of a personal nature on the web, Shutterfly also sells consumers products related to digital photography such as printed mugs, photos, playing cards, puzzles etc and has a strong commercial orientation to it service, offering basic photography as well as secondary services by selling some of its products.

Supervisors form the backbone of any organization, be it a manufacturing unit or a trading company. It is the duty of every supervisor to maintain staff discipline and decorum. One of the basic forms of work that a supervisor does is staffing. The staffing activities of a supervisor begin with recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, and finally implementing it at the workplace.

What is more of them Jay, James, Eckert, and McConnell-Ginet state that men have the upper hand when it comes down to profanity (Eckert et al. 2003; James,1998; Jay, 2009). Eckert-McConnell Ginet (2003) put it as something women are being denied referring to Lakoff’s assertion that access to profanity is gender privileged “depriving them (women) of resources they need”.

It will be needful to deal with a non-sellable product line. Preference should be given to stock with a higher stock turnover because this will mean higher rate of return. Holding of stock is associated with stockholding of costs which include security of the stock; insurance; rent and even pilferages.

This research aims to analyze and present how Louis Vuitton and Gucci might use the concept of dynamic competitive advantage to develop its strategy, to evaluate Louis Vuitton and Gucci's positioning strategy in its current markets and to sSuggest different positioning strategy that they should adopt for different geographic markets.

This protein also shares a significant amount of sequence similarity with platelet-derived growth factor A (PDGFA) which binds to a receptor tyrosine kinase (PDGFR) and causes the activation of various different signaling pathways that lead to cell proliferation.

Strategic control over the business is important to ensure that the hotel industries marketing objectives, strategies and systems are suitably adapted to the present and future marketing environment. (Dr. Padma Srinivasan)2 As Korea is turning out to be a major tourist destination, the demand for hotels has increased incredibly.

To allow federally-funded abortions would be: morally wrong; socially reprehensible; and fiscally irresponsible. However much a person is in favor of pro-life and a woman's right to choose, fundamentally, one knows that at the core of abortion is the ending of a human life.

In a manner not easy to describe, an emotional spontaneity is also conveyed by the painting. These are the first reactions. On closer observation and reflection, the portrait reflects many other subtle things as discussed in the paper. In the portrait, it can be noted that less attention is given to details and that there is less attempt to maintain physical proportions of the subject.

The profession of policing is difficult in itself but when the idea of ethics is introduced it makes this concept even more demanding and hard to control.In society there has to be order and there are times when enforcing these societal norms of order have to be done by means that are questionable,and sometimes are considered unethical as well.

This jar is an example of the red-figure Greek terracotta vase technique, and it portrays the last episode of the Greek myth about Perseus' journey to rescue Andromeda. The monster has been slain, Andromeda and her parents restore their relationship, and Perseus, Aphrodite, and other people look on with admiration.

Most of the Catholics are raised in such a way that they believe they knew it all. However, this small book of about 200 pages can be read easily and quickly, because it uses simple and understandable language, yet one that conveys the concepts of Catholic faith and what they have in common and what ideas they did not share with Protestants and Orthodox Christians.

The bailout has enabled private capital to flow back into the system, which results in the big businesses being able to borrow money again. In addition to these wonderful improvements, small businesses will be able to look forward to having credit extended to them, so they will be able to expand their operations (Associated Press).

The NIJ project comprised of a four-part scheme, which scrutinized the Kevlar fabric, and whether the fabric could prevent a bullet, the needed number of layers of fabric required to stop a bullet, factors that could cause degradation of the armor, tests that could measure performance level of the vests and evaluations of the armor's wearability and efficiency.

Leaders in the organizations help the vision penetrate at all levels. "Practically speaking, a vision, in organizational settings, is a concrete idea that describes what needs to be achieved by the organization's members and how this should be done (Creemers, 1997).

Even in today's world, paper continues to be an influential medium. It is still the most popular medium of reading and most of the information is stored in the form of paper documents rather than using other mediums. However, electronic mediums such as the computer are being used as part of various attempts to reduce the dependence on paper.

This type of work also coincided with an assortment of other smaller jobs such as sweeping and picking up trash after the show had concluded. As this paper will demonstrate, I have learnt a lot from this experience and I believe that every aspect of your life, no matter how good or bad, can always be learnt from and new abilities arise when you are faced with obstacles that attempt to get in your way.

She as an artist has constructed a world of images and sculptural objects which investigate the way in which cultures meet, collide and hybridize. Tuggar examines the role of women and the influence of technology in a world driven by development. With the help of computer, she manipulates images collage photographs from rural Africa with modern advertisements and high-tech artifacts which create images where things seem surreally out-of-place or displaced.

Immigration continued to weave the tapestry of America for over 300 years after the Mayflower brought the first European settlers to America’s shores. The new country needed new inhabitants, skilled labor, workers, and new ideas. Immigration was encouraged and the country maintained an open-door policy for people from all over the world.

In large economies, if these four types of markets are strong, then there will be the healthiest economic growth in the country. For the good economic structure, it is necessary for the country to have these markets. With much strength nearly all the economic structure of different countries depends on the financial markets of the country and these financial markets are associated with the financial institutions.

Urban Land Prices in a Market System We refer to factor of demand as the willingness and the ability of businesses to employ the factors of production and put them to productive use. On the other hand, factor supply is the willingness by the businesses to offer these factors of production so that they can be put to productive usage further.

Their analysis for giving loan to companies includes: The bank for providing loan to small firms and companies would analyze many things including spreadsheets of the balance sheets and income statements for two to three historical years and two projected years as well as a pro forma balance sheet at loan closing that reflects the post-closing status.

"Completion point" HIPCs: 23 countries that have reached the completion point under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, So Tom and Prncipe, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda Benin, Bolivia, Cameroon,Guyana, Honduras, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Senegal, Zambia

Dr. Luthan's dead patient was the victim of one of these experiments. Myrick attempts to defend his actions as being necessary in the interests of medical science, with a few having to be sacrificed in order to benefit the many, but these attempts at self-justification.

We believe in total comfort of our customer, providing him the kind of ambience he requires e.g. a young couple prefers solitude blended with light music, a family wants entertainment for kids while business meeting groups require a business like feel from all sides.

Online access to Benefits Administration for self-service functionality – A self-service function will be available on the company’s intranet where all the employees can have secured access to their benefits administration records. They should also be able to communicate with relevant vendor personnel to resolve any queries they might have.

As we know that the basic steps in the manufacturing of ice-cream are generally as follows: The red part comprises the procedures engaging raw, unpasteurized blend, the fair azure part comprises the procedures engaging pasteurized blend, and the dark azure part comprises the procedures engaging iced ice-cream.

This increasingly globalized market environment forces Korean local marketers to face more and more international competition. It also signifies that international marketers have greater opportunity to tap into the Korean market with imported clothing across the price spectrum.

As Grunwald, (20003) states a more strategic and tactical approach is required in formulating and then implementing effective global, national, and also regional policies regarding food security. In dealing with the reasons, the fundamental of increasing structural disparities ought to affect better acknowledgment of the long-standing manner of adjusting approaches relating to food security.

Forecast Hollydazzle’s operating income for the year ended June 30, 2000, if sales grow by 50% over forecasted sales for the June 30, 1999 year. We will assume that Hollydazzle’s prices and cost structure and relationships remain the same as in 1998, and as before, 1,200 new customers make purchases each month.

Globalization of Innovation is the key for the production as well as processing of knowledge in an organization for last few decades. Indeed organizations ability to convert knowledge into wealth and social good through the process of innovation determines its future.