Essays on Professional Essays and Research Papers

The paper shows that the two disasters, Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 attacks, had different origins, but their impacts upon the psychology of mankind were similar.... Disaster of any type will have an identity of its own and it will affect the people in different ways.... Apart from mass destruction, a psychological void is often generated among the victims....

This study examines the history of piracy.... It looks at how piracy existed at different points of time in history.... It covers the various eras in seafaring and how piracy has existed on various popular commercial and transport routes on the oceans.... ... ... ... The paper tells that piracy refers to a person who is involved or has a history of robbery and plunders on the sea....

Banking and banks are not new to history, whether it is the history of the United Sates or the history of the world.... The first transactions exist in ancient history, without written records, in a time before the arguments of recessions and depressions, before the complexities of a Federal Reserve existed or any sort of a national banking system....

Source: http://papers.... Source: http://papers.... om/sol3/papers.... Source: http://papers.... om/sol3/papers.... The extremely famous and somewhat revolutionary decision of Salomon v Salmon & Co Ltd [1897]1 introduced and upheld the corporate personality doctrine which was then defined in the Companies Act 1862....

“The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze River at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China.... Construction began in 1993” (Wertz).... It is one among the biggest hydroelectric power projects in the world with a capacity to produce 18200 MW electric power at present.... ... ... ... Chinese authorities describe this dam as a multipurpose dam since it can prevent floods, increase shipping capacity, etc apart from producing huge volumes of electric power....

Operations Management for Competitive Advantage ... Operations management is one of the significant areas that are of great importance for any organization as the production and manufacturing of goods and services of the ... company is the prime objective of this sector.... ... ... ... Amongst the numerous concepts and tools that can come under application for the problem related to the facility location and layout, centroid method came under consideration as the best applicable tool for the company Eldora (EDC) who were leading manufacturers of bicycle in the U....

Snow White was the Disney Studio's first feature length animation.... Thus, it is useful to compare this cartoon to later cartoons, in that the spectrum of movies which came out of the studio represents an evolution of sorts.... There are many similarities between this first animated effort and later ones....

United Colors of Benetton is a well-established brand of UK.... Present in more than 120 countries worldwide, the brand has used its global presence to formulate its global image in the minds of the people from all over the world.... ... ... ... United Colors of Benetton do not focus on any one country or any single culture or a group of individuals when it comes to building its brand image (UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON 2011) Whatever the advertising strategy of United Colors of Benetton has been so far, it is unquestionable to doubt its success....

In the paper 'Microbial Behaviour: Herd Immunity' the author discusses herd immunity in terms of a chosen immune parameter and the number of individuals in population observed to be positive for the parameter referred to herd immunity of that population.... ... ... ... The author suggests that a closely related and often confused term is herd effect....

Older adults are more vulnerable to experience postoperative complications like cardiovascular, pulmonary, and neurologic aberrations due to the effects of aging on the physiological capabilities of their body systems.... For instance, they tend to have lower levels of plasma proteins and decreased plasma osmotic pressure....

The first estate comprised of high-ranking religious leaders or clergymen, who had the privilege of paying no taxes to the monarchic government.... The second estate comprised of nobility that were primarily landowners and paid no direct taxes.... .... ... ... Causes of French revolution ... rom a historical overview, French revolution is seen as the result of political, economic and social turmoil in the country....

Running Head: HUMAN NATURE AND WAR 1 Human Nature and War: Is Peace an Achievable State for the World?... Name Class Date Abstract World peace has been a goal for the 20th century with the emergence of peace movements in the 1960s supporting the need for understanding war towards the hope of ending it....

Various innovations influence the evolution of the automotive industry such as fuel, vehicle machinery, manufacturing practices and societal transformation.... Other influences outside the industry include changes in the markets, changes in business structures and suppliers.... ... ... ... Industry Analysis....

Name: University Course: Instructor: Date: Abstract The paper dissects the success story behind Continental Airlines as one of the leading players in the industry.... Considering the radical change of fortunes for this airline from a wave of interminable challenges to an efficient service provider, it certainly raises several questions on what actually accounts for this success....

Wall Street Collapse ... his paper is aimed at providing a detailed analysis of the legal aspects of the initiators of the Wall Street Collapse of the year 2008 and scrutinizing whether they should face criminal charges.... .... ... ... As researchers have gone to the press during the fall of 2011, economic prospects have been dim....

Multinational corporations are also part of the International organizations and include Coca Cola Company and Toyota.... International governmental organizations are otherwise known as intergovernmental organizations.... ... ... ... An organization with an international scope, membership or presence is known as an International Organization....

Technological developments especially in respect to cyberspace have been inarguably beneficial to human beings and have positively impacted on how they conduct business and how they live (Ditzion, et al.... 2003).... .... ... ... The rapid internet growth has enormously expanded the means of communications....

Surprisingly, video gaming did not attain a mainstream popularity until sometimes in between 1970s and 1980s when game consoles, home computer games, and arcade video became available to the public.... This paper will seek to provide a basic analysis of evolution of video gaming and computer networking....

Final Paper: How Victimization Evolves into Empowerment Victimization and empowerment are two mutually inclusive social variables.... It is a victim who is in need of empowerment.... Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X, two titans of black liberation movement, have shown through their writings and speeches, how victimization can demand and lead to empowerment....

Immigration into Europe In the past two centuries, Europe has come to be regarded as the continent that ‘absorbed' the foreigners.... Before the Second World War, the Europeans flowed into various countries like the United States of America, Canada, and Australia.... ... ... ... What different kinds of immigration to Europe have there been since World War II, and why?...

This paper brings together the elements of a new marketing paradigm that requires marketers to see consumers as partners who change products' meanings and values to suit their own contexts and needs.... ... ... ... Marketing has entered a post-modern era of fragmentation with a new emphasis on the creation of meaning through consumption....

hough Jihad is considered as one of the essential elements of the Islam as a faith however, its portrayal especially after 9/11 has presented a very bleak and negative picture of Jihad and its overall interpretation in Islam.... ... ... ... The events leading to 9/11 and after the event have been mostly linked with the Islam and its concept of Jihad and jihadism....

“Accounting provides useful information to decision makers, thus as the business environment has changed so have the accounting standards that govern the presentation and disclosure of information.... International Accounting Standards are central to this concept”.... ... ... ... Starting in 1973 until the year 2000, the IASC introduced the International Accounting Standards....

There are challenges impacting the Muslim religion of Islam, and those impacts influence the family and its function in the Middle East.... This paper will analyse how globalisation is impacting the religion of Islam, and how that impacts Muslim's family life, with specific focus on Middle East.... ....

Ready meals is a company which supplies fresh foods to Strutt which is a grocery retail chain operating six distribution centers and several retail stores.... The system of ordering and delivering the inventory at first is cumbersome and results into losses for all companies and lack of end customer satisfaction....

This paper examines the link between under-development and colonialism, looking at two countries in particular: Mauritania, which is a former French colony located in North West Africa, and India which is a former British colony located in Asia.... ... ... ... Many centuries of domination and exploitation followed, until the end of the nineteenth century when the former colonies started to gain their independence, partly through revolt and resistance, and partly because the European powers were exhausted and both militarily and economically, and severely weakened after two World Wars....

College Name Program Name Impact of organizational culture on employee performance Academic Year – Semester Group Names and IDs with Students' Signature Table of Contents Introduction 4 Organizational Culture 4 Organizational Culture and Employee Performance 4 Internal and External Cultures 8 Motivation 9 Motivational Theories 10 Conclusion 11 Organizational culture plays an important role in employee performances....

Economic Crisis in the United States POL 201 Janice Hodge Professor Dovie Dawson March 19, 2012 Analysis of the 2008-2009 Economic Crisis in the US: The Root Causes and the Policies Implemented The magnitude of the US economic crisis in 2008-2009, having affected millions of peoples' lives not only within and outside the nation, is comparable to 1930's ‘Great Depression'; thus it is dubbed the ‘Great Recession' (Katkov, 2011, p....

The term “Market Leader” refers to those companies and industries that accomplish a superseded place on the basis of their products and services which are adopted by majority of customers and become market standards.... ... ... ... Three distinctive categories of companies transpire as leaders, and area that extricates them from their competitors is the way they deal with their consumers....

The world politics is dominated by struggle for power between states each trying to maximise its national interest through balance of power mechanisms (Baylis et al.... 2008).... According to this realism view, war is a natural condition of world politics.... ... ... ... The world politics is dominated by struggle for power between states each trying to maximise its national interest through balance of power mechanisms (Baylis et al....

In 1818, a young woman wrote a disturbing scientific horror novel which has since become a seminal part of English-language literature.... .... ... ... This paper will look at the third chapter of Shelley's masterpiece both closely and as part of a wider picture to show that this early section of the novel, written in the early years of the larger Gothic movement, is full of prophetic detail about not only the rest of the story but the rest of Gothic literature....

WEB PAGES A Levin and PS Abril, ‘Two motions of privacy online' (2009) http://papers.... om/sol3/papers.... Over the years, application of tort law relating to privacy in the UK has proved to be confusing despite the law being fairly simple.... Recent events have added credence to this view;....

Running head: SUBSTANCE ABUSE Substance abuse in the workplace (name) (school) Substance abuse and its impact on the workplace Introduction Substance abuse is one of society's major ills.... It is a problem which is pervasive among the younger generation and it is extensive in its impact within said population....

The main objective of the following paper is to analyze the commonly implemented management models in the Australian business sector.... Furthermore, the paper discusses the issues in employee relations throughout the development of this sector.... The writer focuses on the concept of Unitarianism....

RACISM OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES Instructor Date Introduction The attempts of abolishing racism in America against the African American community should begin from the understanding of its origin.... This will enable us to develop an effective plan of making the current racist situation in the United States better than it was before....

Experiment 4: “Appetites” Every relationship has something representative of the unique dynamic of their relationship.... Well, for Sebastian and Kate there were four simple rules.... ... ... ... 1.... e must eat every meal together.... 2.... Never talk about what happens at meals.... 3.... Never eat a meal with someone else in a one-on-one setting....

The paper seeks to examine the performance of the Australian government and Reserve Bank of Australia in the past two with emphasis on their macroeconomic policies.... The main purpose of the Australian Reserve Bank is to 'conduct monetary policy,' maintaining a strong economic system.... ... ... ...

The essay explores The racial and gendered messages in Henry Robert's Paintings.... Over the course of Robert Henri's career he produced more than 200 portraits of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States and Europe, producing a catalogue of racial types.... ... ... ... This researcher of this essay discovers Henry Robert's Paintings....

In recent decades, environmental degradation has gotten quite out of hand, especially in Third World Countries, such as Nigeria.... The main problem stems from the fact that there is no proper government control and no implementation of proper environmental problems.... ... ... ... In recent decades, environmental degradation has gotten quite out of hand, especially in Third World Countries, such as Nigeria....

By enabling the firm to take advantage of the economies of scale as well as operating in a wider market the investments in prospective third.... ... ... However such investments turn out to be a complex issue for the management to consider several risk factors before deciding on the investment.... Especially when the investment is of large capital nature, there are veral risks associated with the social, economical and political characters of the country, in which the investment is proposed to be made, as these will have a direct bearing on the growth and profitability of the firm concerned....

One of the main reasons behind such popularity of the topic is the huge acceptance of it in the industry.... Today, each and every company spend significant amount of resources in the.... ... ... Kellogg, being one of the most successful companies in the world has also adopted several strategies to gain and maintain the market leadership strategies. ...

This discussion is an attempt to understand, access and analyse the economic, social, environmental and investment elements of restaurant business in London and their impact on the city.... The analysis is supported by relevant examples from the industry.... ... ... ... As the report declares London has all that you would need as a person....

This research paper, Feral Children - Making Up for Lost Time, presents feral children, as they are called, who have lived isolated from human contact from a very young age.... They have had no, or best-limited opportunity for human care or contact.... .... ... ... The first feral children were usually victims of war, running away from their potential captors, hiding in forests for years....

In the essay 'Child, Adolescent, and Family Development' the author critically compares and contrasts the learning theories of two key child development theorists.... He discusses how an understanding of the theories can help to meet the learning needs of young children.... ... ... ... This paper shall critically compare and contrast these two learning theories....

The paper describes the basic building blocks of a language which are words.... When decisions are made on task-based activities, one must include sentence patterns, tenses, constructions, functions, topics, etc.... There are three key concepts in learning the language.... .... ... ... The main aim of second language learners is to acquire interlanguage competence....

This paper "Europeanization of Islam in European Countries" focuses on the fact that Islam as a religion first emerged during the early 7th century, under Prophet Muhammad in the Arabian city of Mecca.... In 622 AD, Muhammad and his followers were forced to leave the city of Mecca.... .... ... ... After 100 years from its conception, Islam spread rapidly in the middle-east regions, and soon many newly converted Muslims started migrating from the Arabian Peninsula to other neighbouring countries....

This paper 'Moonsnail Strategic Management Accounting' aims at discussing a few aspects of the strategic planning of the company and provides recommendations to the company to improve their current market position and overall quality of their products.... ... ... ... The author states that the first most essential aspect of the company that needs to be understood is the strengths....

The Commission and the Court are the two supranational bodies that have the power to enforce EU Law.... The paper "The Foundations Of European Community Law" discusses what steps can the Commission take in order to enforce EU Law and what remedies are available to them.... ... ... ... The next step possibly the Commission can take is the second infringement procedure under Article 228 if a Member-State fails to comply with Court's order pursuant to action taken under article 226....

om: http://papers.... The focus of this research is to shed the light on the importance and the responsibilities of the company director in business activities and management.... The writer of this paper claims that the role of company directors has been mainly based on their fiduciary duties....

The objective of this paper, Situational Business Ethics, is to analyze and discuss a case which presents ethical dilemmas for all stakeholders.... The case is all about a waitress, Ruth Hatton, who was dismissed from her post because of stealing a guest-comment card.... ... ... ... According to the study the subsequent reaction of the customer and the management to Hatton's actions contributed to the ethical dilemmas that the company has to resolve through the peer-review process....