Essays on Lessons Learned from WWI, WWII and Vietnam War

I am most comfortable in this role because I am more introverted and prefer to stay away from people in terms of leadership.... The paper "The Extended DISC" analyzes that the Extended DISC was a fascinating assessment to take because I feel that it actually helped me understand myself as a supervisor and gave me some great ideas for areas where I can improve or pick up skills....

Once the model had been validated as far as possible, sensitivity analysis would be used to determine what effects inaccuracies in parameter estimates would have on NPV estimates from the model, and on the ranking of management policies (experimental treatments) compared in the simulation experiments.... from the CDF, the decision-maker can gain an idea of the overall range over which project financial performance is likely to vary, and can read off probability estimates for various sub-ranges of project performance (Shim, 2010). ...

60% of manufacturing was off shored by German companies from 2001 to 2006 which represented a loss of 188,000 jobs from Germany to Eastern Europe.... In 2007, Nokia announced that it would commence the Romania operations right from the scratch with an initial investment of € 60 million and 500 people.... Nokia explained that it had offered 3200 jobs on an average from 2001 onwards....

This is availed of mostly by people who otherwise would not get a mortgage from banks and other financial institutions.... The sub-prime borrowers are essentially "walking away" from the property and allowing foreclosure, despite the impact to their credit rating.... These lenders range from as diverse a pool as Citigroup to ICICI bank in India.... hat impact has there been on the GCC and UAE from the sub-prime crisis?... There are others who argue that the UAE is immune from the sub-prime crisis....

This book mainly addresses fashion stylists from a perspective that is more inclined on the career aspects.... The fact that this book features interviews from influential fashion stylists provides us with first-hand information from where we can deduce the role of influential fashion stylists in the fashion industry. ... There will be no threat to validity of the research because the researcher took information from authentic sources. ...

Different variations are created from the different activities that are driven out of the different set of data.... The final step is extracting the data from the vibration app and use them in MATLAB.... Two figures were taken from MATLAB, Pie chart and Stairs graph.... The project was interesting in all of the stages from brainstorming to finalizing and analyzing the results.... Both of the graphs plotted showed different results we were seeking, the stairs graph clearly displayed acceleration of the body due to time, while the pie chart showed the time taken by each activity in percentage from the total time recorded....

The device will start from the ground and the shelf has a hole in order to clear the pole.... This will be made possible by advanced and well designed mousetrap powered elevator device that will have the ability to deliver the payload from the bottom to top thus accomplishing it function.... The device will start from the ground and the shelf has a hole in order to clear the pole.... rom the above design 2 will be taken to detailed Design and production made due to highest score from the evaluation criteria above....

Implementation of parental involvement may vary from one system to another, but they all recognize that parental involvement is essential for students' success in school. ... iii) To ensure democratization of school management and governance through engagement of parents from diverse populations in the community. ... Parental involvement in children's schooling can be carried out in many different ways which range from formal to informal....

from the design it was established that there can be production of a wide size range of biscuits from 50 to 80mm.... 23506kg as can be seen from excel sheet ... Po – required output power from the motor (W) ... " Design of Biscuits Production System" paper looks at how a biscuit manufacturing company can improve production to meet the ever-rising demand....

The paper "Benefits of Student Debt" student loans are channels to offer better lives from higher education, and access to better jobs.... Student loans reduce the pressure on parents to provide better education for their children offering children from poor backgrounds a chance for equality in accessing better education despite their disadvantaged backgrounds.... Subsidized loans are also available for students especially from the schools of higher learning and Federal government benefiting the students can access higher education at a subsidized cost. ...

He argues that people are naturally drawn to pictures and that gratuitous graphics can distract users from critical content.... ) The colour used for the links is not uniform and resembles some of the non-link texts making it difficult for the user to differentiate links from normal text.... ) The design should place external links separate from internal links to avoid leading the users from the website ... Retrieved Nov 19, 2012, from Web Design Library: http://www....

The porter five forces model will evaluate the intensity and level of competition from five perspectives.... The Apple Company is reigning as the market leader because they face economies of scale that prohibits new entrants from the market.... This is a manifestation of economies of scale that bar competitors from accessing the market.... This creates a medium threat of substitute from other products.... Relatively, the cost of downloading songs from platforms such as iTunes is low....

from the paper "National Health Service Improvement Planning" it is clear that the NHS Improvement Plan stated that in order to deliver choice, the NHS would need to innovate - and that the blurring of professional boundaries provided scope for creativity.... As its budget has grown from 33 billion to 67.... billion, the average spending per head of population has gone up from 680 to 1,345 (Department of Health, 2004).... The proposals drew sharp criticism from the Tories, who said Labour had already failed to meet many other pledges to improve the NHS....

In reference to the provided case involving the transaction between Roland and Belle, G Shepherd and Co, David from Pitt and Bull solicitors and Basil the assessor, four key legal issues are evident.... n reference to the provided case involving the transaction between Roland and Belle, G Shepherd and Co, David from Pitt and Bull solicitors and Basil the assessor, four key legal issues are evident.... Given the fact that the real estate agent had disclosed in the contract that the asbestos insulation had been removed from the property in 1989, they can argue that there was no promise made in the contract pertaining to the asbestos insulation14....

Your full Nov 17, A Food Advertisement Analysis The advertisement, the image of which is given below (“Burger King vs KFC vs McDonald's Print Advertising”), is from the company named Burger King.... I believe that this specific advertisement is very effectively selling the product by manipulating young minds into getting away from healthy food and turning toward junk meals.... Despite FTC's laws against exaggerated advertising to children, the truth is that children by no means stay away from being affected....

However, with the rise of Protestant reformation and the subsequent liberalization of Christianity, Catholicism has received opposition not only from the Protestants but also internally within the church.... The view of salvation among the Catholics is one that has received criticism from the modern Christian denominations.... They also appreciate the foundation of the church as from Peter who was designated by Jesus as its foundation....

It is observed that the scholar uses evidence from credible researchers such as those from Harvard Medical School, NIMH and UCLA and peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Neuroscience and Journal of Psychiatry to make his arguments.... On the other hand, opponents raise valid points on the reliability, validity and generalization concerns of scientific evidence and argue that the criminal justice system should shy away from un-cautioned application of such evidence in decision-making and rulings....

Below this layer are those who are comfortable and can access some but not all of the advantages that a society offers, and at the bottom of the heap are the poor, who very often struggle to meet basic needs and are excluded from many of the benefits of society.... he theory of critical criminology shares some of the views about the lower classes that are present in the cultural deviance theory in so far as it agrees that exclusion from middle class opportunities causes a shift in values amongst those who are excluded....

The problem is how to take into account a document the user does not expect to share with someone but wants to store it in the cloud in order to create room for his computer; or access the data from another machine.... Google does not agree, purporting that cloud computing is an ECS requiring a warrant from the law enforcement agents.... Further the regular search subpoenas or warrants, enforcement agents from us government can also make use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants....

The young scientist Victor Frankenstein finds himself isolated from society due to his all-consuming passion for the sciences of the natural world and the desire to create the life.... Notably one of the key points is the process of their alienation from society and family.... The main idea lies in Victor's purposeful and voluntary escape of social life for the sake of his scientific activity and Frankenstein's forced departure from people's community and hiding from people's eyes because of his nature....

This includes providing new mothers and pregnant workers with protection from unfavourable treatment and providing them with a minimum period of maternity leave and rights during leave.... In UK, EU law provided pregnant women with protection from discrimination.... Chances are that she might have to change from full time work to part time work.... Not a lot can be gained from by new mothers from taking much longer leave....

ost debates on the female convict emphasize on the need to pay more concentration on the female convicts who had largely been neglected or ignored and thought of as a group that was separate from that of the male convicts.... Evidently, most of the convicts that were largely transported to Australia were ordinary Irish and British working class women who initially were not habitual and professional criminals that were largely recruited from a divergent class and constantly trained to perform a crime from the cradle (Nicholas and Shergold, 1993)....

"Similarities and Differences between Greek, Biblical and Near Eastern Creation Myths" paper argues that all myths emerge from an abyss and all are centered on a human being's quest to be God-like.... here are at least a dozen 'stories' contained in The Old Testament, as told in Genesis 1 and 2, apart from the Job 26:7-13 fragment and Job 38, which even though not being consistent with each other hold some similarities to Greek and Near Eastern creation myths....

The making of a criminal from different perspectives.... What you and I think is a crime, may not be an earthshaking event for a third person from another community or culture.... The word' crime' comes from the Latin word ‘crimen' meaning ‘judgment'.... ny person contemplating a similar crime will be aware of the consequences if caught and will restrain himself from such wrongdoing.... criminal is differentiated from the public in that the amoral nature of his intent coupled with the need for instant gratification is what leads to his contemplating and executing a crime....

As I am a user of a social network too from time to time I try to think of myself as a part of this big virtual community and I see what a huge part of my life it occupies.... from one side the opportunity to get to know either your acquaintances or unknown people better satisfies human curiosity about other people's being.... Still psychological researches on people with low self-esteem showed that usage of Facebook makes them feel even more uncomfortable and miserable for many reasons such as seeing somebody else's success or receiving unpleasant feedbacks from other users of social network services (Forest & Wood 595)....

Several transitions take place from the first stanza to the very last, initially the sea looks very beautiful under moonlight but it becomes hostile as the poem progresses.... The opening of “In Memoriam” is quite different from “Dover Beach”, Tennyson talks about faith in the opening stanza of the poem; he believed that faith is the only thing which can help human beings reach God since no one has seen God only faith can work for human beings.... Arnold uses some fine adjectives to describe the sea in his poem, words like Coast, vast, tranquil, eternal note of sadness, ebb and flow, distant northern sea, strand, line of spray and so on were used in Dover Beach to describe the sea, this makes it different from Tennyson's In Memoriam, another difference is that there is no hint of personal loss in Dover Beach but there are several hints of personal loss in Tennyson's In Memoriam....

lbeit various researchers have pointed out the benefits accruing from smartphone technology, there has been criticism of the negative impact of this technology on society.... "The Popularity of the Smartphone Technology" paper focuses on smartphones which are relatively new devices in mobile technology with advanced features such as computer processing capabilities and Internet access....

For example, nurses are banned from disclosing the information relating to gamete donors to the third parties (McHale & Gallagher, 2003).... Such consent does not only make the disclosure ethical and legally acceptable, but also it protects the hospital nurses from legal liability....

There have been many different beliefs from religions to primitive cultural belief that have claimed healing using anything but modern scientific medicine (Weatherford, 181).... It sees the body from the bio medical model which looks at the body as a machine with a broken part.... annis, Well known People who Happen to be Canadian, Retrieved April 5, 2007 from ... Retrieved April 5, 2007 from http://www....

This essay "Henry David Thoreau and John Locke: Does Thoreau's Views of Nature Stem from Locke's Writings" is about the writings that may bear resemblance to the thoughts of different authors.... Does Thoreau's Views of Nature Stem from Locke's Writings?... Does Thoreau's Views of Nature Stem from Locke's Writings?... To see through him from the perspective of an individualist thinker in comparison with some other individualistic ideologists is interesting....

Inclusion also encompasses a very hands on and interactive environment where stations may be set up about the classroom allowing students to move from station to station in a learning capacity which is proven to maintain their constant attention and interest, “Students spend a lot of time in learning centers where they make a lot of choices about what theyre working on.... More importantly, the fantastical idea of aliens in cereal will most likely appeal to all of the children in the classroom which is critical but the fact that the book features a male protagonist, may detour girls from being as interested in the content as one might find with boys. ...

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.... Seen from this angle, we can say that Wordsworth's verses describe a special state of happiness caused by his memories, the state, which some prefer to call “heaven” or “paradise”.... "Tintern Abbey" is all the more powerful for breaking away from Wordsworth's intention....

from the paper "The Copyright Act 1968 and Australian Consumer Law " it is clear that generally, under the Australian Consumer Law consumers have equal protections as well as expectations concerning business conduct irrespective of their location in Australia.... Although, the information may be accurate since it came from Carey's mother, Sam failed to act professionally when collecting this information.... As indicated earlier, the original work belonged to Sam and Tom reproduced the same work in a different version without authority from Sam....

f Hilary Clinton indeed becomes President of the United States two years from now - she will not only make history to become for the first woman to become the most powerful person on earth - but perhaps who succeeded on her own terms, winning on both counts - personally and career-wise.... In the book, Meg, the main character, not only saves her little brother from evil clutches of IT and got back her father to their home - through the old good thing called love - but discovers that her faults, her imperfection saved the day....

In fact, from the excerpts in the book she describes her dad as smelling of alcohol and cigarette when he came to pick her from hospital.... Moreover, it is ironical how high life people would escape from hospital without paying for the hospital bills.... She says that when she returns home from hospital, she fixes a hot dog for herself.... She tells a story of a neighbor who says that Jeannette should want to run from fire after getting burnt to which she replies why the hell she should run away from fire while she had already fought it and won (15)....

Non-monetary compensation includes different forms of psychological and social rewards such as recognition, respect from others, enjoyment from doing the job, opportunities for self-development, facilities available in and around the workplace etc (Werner, Schuler and Jackson, 2012, p.... A marketing managers, for instance, will be able to undergo several different stages of personal and professional development from the beginning of his job until his retirement....

ome of the main management accounting issues that can be learnt from this prior to the disaster happening can mainly be attributed the fact that the courts found the management of the UCIL(Union Carbide India Limited), the parent company responsible to be liable for negligence.... ngrid (2005) notes that prior to the happening of the disaster, the demand for pesticides that are made from the gas had fallen.... Archived from ... Archived from ...

It helps the consultant understand the goals of team building and how it differs from team training.... Individuals learn the value of being willing to give, solicit, and utilize feedback from their colleagues.... This paper ''Key Parts of a Successful Team'' tells that A team is a group of people who are commonly reliant on one another to achieve a common goal....

ccording to Equity theory, a person compares his or her inputs in a situation and outcomes from the situation (Outcomes A/Inputs A) with a similar ratio of another referent (Outcomes B/Inputs B).... "A Study of Employee Motivation in a Retail Company in Hong Kong" paper states that finding an effective combination of rewards to motivate a sales force may be easier if the sales manager understands some of the behavioral factors involved, but not just looking into anyone theory alone....

During the last few years, most of the major banks in America were provided with bailout money so that they would be saved from the danger of insolvency and thereby liquidation.... The general public of the nation largely suffers from the bank bailout since it leads to the downturn of economy.... The money from the treasury is used to carry out fund operations, if the banks have not repaid the money (pp.... McKay also indicates that the banks generally utilize the cash deposits from the customers to ‘purchase mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt, and loan obligations....

A part from that a strong Retirement and Pension program would also be provided to the KMO which will pay them substantial sum of money in annuity in the near future. ... The compensation system of expatriates significantly differs from the compensation of local people.... e can deduce from the above report that designing the compensation package is the most vital element of human resource management especially for an organization like Organizational Med which is entirely dependent on the skills of its workforce to satisfy the requirement of its customers....

Starting from any physical objects to designs, paintings, figures, etc.... The novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, written by Peter Handke, is about a former goalkeeper of a football team and his life after he is ejected from a game for foul play.... Starting from any physical objects to designs, paintings, figures, etc, motifs could take different form.... The novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick written by Peter Handke is about a former goalkeeper of a football team and his life, after he is ejected from a game for foul play....

This paper "Theme of Madness in the Novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville" focuses on 'Moby Dick or The Whale' which is one of the finest gems from the treasure of literature by Herman Melville published in the year 1851.... The ship is controlled by Captain Ahab who has a different intention in this voyage of taking retribution from the white sperm whale named Moby Dick.... ??Moby Dick; or, The Whale” is one of the finest gems from the treasure of literature by Herman Melville published in the year 1851....

The authors argue that succession in management is smoother where new managers are sourced from among the employees of the firm as opposed to outside the firm(Belcourt, McBey, Yap, & Hong, 2013).... First, both see the benefits of outsourcing from the point of view of the organization.... Srivastava alluded to this fact when they stated that more benefits that can be derived from outsourcing training, other than saving money.... from the analysis of the article, it appears that harmony exists between the principles of HR planning as set out in the textbooks and the practice of HRM....

I have spent several years in South Africa as a volunteer and I was able to acquire an understanding of the legal system and learn to interact with people from different backgrounds, which helped me to gain the confidence to help and support others.... I've also been involved in organizing charity events, where I have interacted with people from various age and ethnic groups and this has provided me the opportunity to exercise my interpersonal skills and face up to the challenges of dealing in a capable manner with difficult situations....

part from being an individual health issue, obesity is also a health issue that affects the public since its effects affect the society.... Those who suffer from obesity have a high likelihood of developing other diseases that are the prime causes of preventable death, which include type 2diabetes, stroke, heart disease, and some types of cancer.... The New York Department of Health point out that, more than half of the NYC inhabitants suffer from obesity....

After subjecting the data set from 1957 to 1994 (using the Japan economy) to various statistical analyses, the results were displayed.... Our objective was to convert the qualitative statement (hypothesis) using data from Japan into quantitative statements.... After subjecting the data set from 1957 to 1994 (using the Japan economy) to various statistical analyses, the results were displayed in Table 1 below: ... Adjusted R2 is the coefficient of determination adjusted for degrees of freedom, s is the regression standard error and F(R2=0) is the F-test for deleting all slope coefficients from the model....

The book does not have a specific caliber of readers in mind but it can be used everywhere from home, to business application and academically.... This edition (second) contains 70% new material from the first meaning there is a paradigm shift in technology to warrant the additional information.... Professionally, she holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Brown University, Rhode Island and A Bachelor of Modern History from St....

The product features include edge-lit LED black light, 3D compatibility, conversion from 2D to 3D, 240 Hz refresh rate, and interactive capability with Samsung Internet @TV and Samsung Apps (CNET editors take). ... he Samsung 3D TV is compatible with multiple 3Dstandards, which include both half and full resolution 3D, the blue-ray disc association's “Blu-ray 3D”, conversion system from 2D-to-3D, and adding depth and dimension to the screen images.... Yahoo widgets) and Samsung Apps, from Samsung's new proprietary content portal, connecting to one's favorite digital content like videos, sports, games, social networking and much more....

dditionally, from the viewpoint of the workers, mergers and acquisitions result in huge lay-offs or pay cuts because of the fact that heath care is no more viewed as a public service, but as a profit making industry (E.... lso, it is important to consider that apart from all the affects on the healthcare workforce, the impact the health care has on patients also plays a crucial role in the healing of the diseases the patients have. ... In closing, perhaps the most important point to take from this research is that, health care organizations, while being conscious of their profits, at the same time must not forget the human element of what they're doing to avoid catastrophe. ...