Miscellaneous Essays

At the most basic level, communication has been described as an act or action performed to impart or transmit information. A job is well done when there are clear instructions, or in other words, the communication is clear. Messages have to be delivered in simple, clear styles, keeping in mind the mental and social make-up of the target audience.

He develops the vision of the organization, the targets and understands the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. He/she tries to remove the weaknesses and increase the strengths. At the same time, he/she sees the opportunities that the organization has and clearly understands the threats to it. With the picture clear before his/ her eyes, he/she develops the marketing strategy.

The endeavors on the part of developed countries to enhance the prospects for economic development in less developed countries play a crucial role in shaping the direction of these economies. Assistance provided by these countries mostly takes the form of aid or trade openness. Protectionist developed countries are reluctant to open their borders.

Hilary Clinton who, until the emergence of Barak Obama as formidable opponent, had a very strong chance of winning her party's candidacy for the 2008 presidential race, needs to exert all the more effort in her campaign. Certainly, as Patrick Healey (2007) quite rightly points out, former President Bill Clinton's popularity will function in favor of Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton's bid for her party's nomination.

Talent, strength, intelligence, willpower, and above all, a “never give up” mentality are the key fundamentals to success and victory; but success has been defined as something more than just hoisting the championship trophy at the end of a glorious season. We need the efforts to curb college sports gambling blocked by congressional opponents.

Taking on the perspective of different thinkers and researchers on the issue, it attempts to provide as many viewpoints and angles as possible. This paper starts with brief references to the many definitions of the term and proceeds to address issues like -- Where and how terrorist organizations secure their funds; how these radicals/fanatics transfer money; what steps have been taken by governments to stop terrorist financing; the difficulties in tracking down terrorist financiers; and the important question of how regimes and governmental agencies combat terrorist financing.

For some time now I have been watching the physical scenario. Overall our children are doing all right. We have good grades. There is discipline. The quality of teaching is also good. However, one look at the physical condition of these children makes you think.

A change in the official rate is instantaneously conveyed to other short-term authentic comprehensive money-market rates, both to money-market instruments of different maturity and to other short-term rates, like interbank deposits. But these rates may not constantly go by the precise amount of the official rate change.

Each question has been answered very briefly explaining every relevant financial term and the earlier developments that took place in the International trade and thereby relating these to the company. The paper answers four different questions about the company in brief.

The last nine years of Calvin’s life (1555-1564) were relatively calm and marked by his almost uncontested authority. During this period Calvin finally enjoyed the fruits of his toil and tears: his name was widely known all around Europe as the name of an outstanding reformer of the same caliber as Martin Luther, another key figure of the Reformation period.

(Schatt, 2005) E-micropayment technologies have been left largely isolated due to several reasons explained subsequently. These technologies need the support to grow and become as successful as the online purchase of more expensive items. The chain of money transfer of a usual online merchant (in this case is MOL) is explained in the diagram below.

In the article "On Trying out One's New Sword", Mary Midgley an important attempt to introduce a short way of dealing with the difficulty of realizing the cultural practices of strange cultures, with the support of theoretical thinking. "It consists in simply denying that we can ever understand any culture except our own well enough to make judgments about it.

A franchise can be defined as an accord or a permit between two lawfully independent parties which present: an individual or a group of individuals the right to market a product or service using the ,brand name of another business ,the right to market a product or service ,using the working methods of the other brand name ,the obligation to pay the brand name fees for these rights , the franchisor the obligation to provide rights and support to franchisee1.

The neurons have long been considered the basic structural and functional unit of the nervous system, while astrocytes or glial cells, despite being present in larger ratio than neurons, have not been held in significant light. This article is a preview to the recent information brought up by experimentation that astrocytes are not just "gap fillers" which help in propogation of the nerve impulse, but can modulate and regulate the nerve impulse conduction associated with release of glutamate and neurotransmitters.

As to the purpose of this letter: I am currently a graduate student and have been instructed to send a letter of thanks to a prominent caregiver. While I admit that this assignment has prompted me to compose this letter, it has also forced me to realize how truly I, and all of New Orleans, value your efforts in both helping everyone involved and in bringing attention and direction to the reconstruction of New Orleans.

But particularly, this solid biography gives a just and balanced portrayal of a complicated man, who has won more games than any other football coach ever. The writer offers a good read for Alabama and all college fans of all ages. The coach's faults are not glossed over or sensationalised; instead the book gives a detailed and interesting account of his life as a coach for the longest years.

I feel it is crucial for us to overlap our Migation Phase with the other phases of our Emergency Management Plan if we want to achieve success. The main goal of the Migation Phase is to try and preemptively prevent any hazards or problems from developing into full out breaks and disasters.

Chips has no grand ideas about himself, but focuses instead on ensuring his boys are equipped to do well in the wider world, and to be good and honorable people. His subject is Classics, which may seem dry and unnecessary in the modern world of the 21st century, but it could be anything from art to astrophysics - the principles of devotion to duty, making learning a pleasure and finding contentment in doing the best job, still apply.

The newer technology will be leaner, thus streamlining the company and making it quick to react to changes in he market. Innovation and diversification into other technologies will be required to maintain market leader status. Change in attitude towards distributors is needed to convince them that the company is not abusing its market leader position.

It started off with family problems and seeing my father drinking it influenced me to start with the habit of drinking. Emotional distress and parental influence was the main reason to start off with the habit. In order to handle the increasing misery which was caused due to many problems (financial and family) I resorted to the drinking of alcohol.

Sufism has evidently caused widespread rejections and disapprovals among experts and religious sects all over the world especially the Muslims, Sufism still has the right to exist as an independent body of knowledge no matter how chaotic or confusing their teachings may be. There is no valid reason why Sufism must be eradicated from this world.

At the onset of the exercise, since ready energy materials are used, lactate is not formed. Later, lactate is formed, since the energy is obtained by breaking down the glycogen without oxygen. Lactate thus formed, is eliminated by the buffer systems of the organism. However, when lactate production is excessive, it accumulates in the muscles and the blood.

Conteh discussed the value of Sierra Leone as a rich country with diamonds. As a country Sierra Leone found itself rich in diamonds. This novel represents recent happenings, when Gibao, a strong and determined man, feels forced by his circumstances, his wives and his inner greed to become wealthy.

The second assumption is that - going by the words and the sacrificial deeds of Christ, culminating in his death on the cross and subsequent resurrection - there is in fact no other means to gain salvation and reconciliation with God. India is a multicultural and multiethnic country with a rich heritage of history and culture. 

In the competitive environment of the business world in the XXI century, change management has become a must for every company. Nowadays, the constantly changing market requires every company maximum flexibility in organizational culture, HR management, structure, thinking, as well as spheres of interaction with other companies and customers.

Although I do not consider it necessarily an exceptional hardship, as this is by no means a unique situation, I have only been in the United States about three and one half years. When I first arrived here it was somewhat difficult for me to become acclimated to life in the states.

The company that will be dealt with in this paper is the Anukul Group. This company basically manufactures exclusive designer furniture, stained glass and patchwork linen. It is a company owned by Dipti Mahapatra in India and has been in the business for close to two decades.

His thesis was called, "The Contact Metamorphism in the Kristiania Region," later this same thesis became a classic in geological literature. (Bob Weintraub) Victor was named after his father's teacher, Victor Meyer. In 1901 the family moved to Norway where Victor's father took a position as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Christiania or Oslo.

Therefore, we will make use of the ideologies of understanding human behaviour portrayed in works of two notable filmmakers. These two filmmakers include Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi. This paper has endeavoured to study the above premise through an analysis of the function and meaning of film composition as portrayed in the film making of these two filmmakers.

In the course of employment as a machine operative which lasted for one month, with the respondent company, Mr. Jones born to a white mother and a black father was subjected to various physical harassment and also was subjected to verbal harassment by his work colleagues calling him by different undesirable names.

Every engineering equipment is subjected to some kind of maintenance as it is bound to fail at times. The maintenance can be done by a technician or by the computer owner. It is necessary that the manual be used for purposes of repair. This is a guide that shows a technician how to perform different operations on machines.

This paper will examine two subcultures - evangelical Christians and Gothic (or "Goth") lifestyles - that can commonly be found in classrooms in Georgia. Traditionally, sociologists and cultural anthropologists use traits such as race, religion, and geography to define the world's cultures, but the notion of subcultures takes this segmentation a step further.

Although prison should not be a place that someone would want to go too, neither should it be one making up an environment that is almost uninhabitable by humans if in fact any form of humane treatment is going to be considered. Prison is ultimately used as a last resort, especially in Japan and other foreign nations. It is the goal of this research to bring evidence that prison actually does work to decrease crime in any culture.

In the case of IBM company, their production methods of software development, which are the following: methodologies, techniques, and tools that become available, or sometimes disappear at a never-increasing rate. Meanwhile, the social processes of the people who are developing the software are susceptible to change slowly, for instance, in the stream of software development methodologies, like the object-oriented, clean-room, and/or rapid-prototyping methodologies; techniques such as participatory design, and requirements engineering; and software development tools such as computer-aided software engineering tools, often reflect a production focus on software development.

The FDA role as an agency includes approving drugs for use that have gone rigors test and have been prove safe for human consumption just as it has done for a cardiovascular drug Dronedarone (Multaq) which will now be used fro the management of arrythmisias (atrial fibrillations and atrial flutter).

In their attempt to understand the world and its beginnings, stories of creation were devised by people in ancient times. To the people of Mesopotamia, this beginning of the world is explained in the seven tablets of the Enuma Elish, which literally means “when (enuma) on high (elish).” The Egyptians and the Greeks also have their versions of the creation of the world.

All investments are characterized by the expectation of a return. In fact, investments are made with the primary objective of deriving a return. The return may be received in the form of yield plus capital appreciation. The return from an investment depends upon the nature of the investment, the maturity period, and a host of other factors.

Every Church of Scientology is independently integrated and has its own local board of executives and managers in charge for its own activities and interests, both mutual and religious. The church has been the theme of many arguments and has been found guilty in unlawful activities such as stealing important papers from government offices.

It was part of the political game, domestic as well as international. America is a happening place for the Native Americans as well as the migrants. People from outside US have made the country their home in search of prosperity and in turn they have been partners in the development of America and its culture and economy.

This paper, however, will attempt to focus only on the divine aspects of supernaturalism in prehistoric and ancient civilizations. Before discussing the different supernaturalist viewpoints found in civilizations, it is important to speculate briefly on the contradictory perceptions.

Second is the knowledge-definition claim where, for any concept (C), if a person knows what a table is, then they know a Socratic definition (D) of that concept. I agree with the Platonic claim because concepts generally have characteristics which are observable and, once seen and synthesized, allow the viewer to classify the concept based upon the presence or absence of those characteristics.

by having its own mining company to supply steel materials. Integration may also vary in degree depending on the number of stages in the value chain over which it decides to exercise greater control. Vertical integration is about controlling parts of the value chain so that costs can be minimized and/or profits maximized in any of three ways.

To avoid such results, different techniques were developed to assist the executive bodies in making a well informed budgeting and investment decisions. One powerful budgeting, investment and project evaluation approach that is employed by a number of financial institutions is the "Discounted Cash Flow" (DCF) technique.

The next move by the synders was the investment in a drag strip which proved to be a success, and further established In-N-Out’s association with the roads. The fries, the burgers and the races proved to be the perfect combo. "I'm not sure if it was the atmosphere or what, but they tasted better there than anywhere,” recalled Valerie Althouse.

With Australia's origin as a warehouse for criminals, it should come as no surprise that compassion for the criminal is an historic component in Australian culture. This sympathy is best shown in the still famous case of Ned Kelly. Kelly was a highway burglar with none of the redistributive morality of a Robin Hood and yet he very quickly became and has since remained a folk hero.

To attain success in the long term and attain success an organization must look into issues that would help the organization in the long term. One such issue is to maintain sustainability over a long period of time and to attain sustainability the most important variable related to an organization is Trust with a capital T.

Yet underneath there were strong currents of discontent and a new idealism based on the growing influence of the European middle class. The supremacy of Austria in Germany had been re-established by the Treaty of Olmitiz, which was humiliating both to the national idealists represented by the Frankfurt Parliament and to the Prussian monarchy.

The test result will be according to my self assessment as I know that my result is based on strong judgement. I am extrovert who mainly depend on thinking not on feeling and thus according to my thoughts each single person chooses the profession in which he/she has more skills and experience rather going in a profession of which he/she do not have any idea.

The experience as a whole provided me with an opportunity to know myself better, and to have a greater appreciation for others with whom I share this world. The appendix of this document is comprised of curriculum artifacts to provide evidence of my personal and academic development.

Some ideas are better than others, some values more enduring, some works of art more universal. Some cultures, though we dare not say it, are more accomplished than others and therefore more worthy of study." (Henry, 1994, pg 14) In my opinion, he is right.