Essays on Visual Arts and Film Studies

This essay declares that the reward for working is increased revenue.... Therefore, the extra work an individual works translate into increased revenues.... However, working for reduced hours and for this matter, two hours lesser will result in decreased returns.... .... ... ... According to the paper, holding £ 1000 in £100 notes for a year is basically holding liquid cash....

The paper "GrainCorp - Compensation Package" is a perfect example of a finance and accounting case study.... Compensation packages are essential for the enhanced performance of the key personnel in an organization since the KMPs are responsible for controlling, directing and planning all affairs of the company that bear critical significance to its tremendous performance in the market....

The paper "HSBC's Key Performance Indicators Analysis" is a perfect example of a case study on finance and accounting.... HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world.... Founded in 1865, the company has over 6,300 offices in both established and emerging markets and aims at being where the growth is experienced....

The L-W-F gym has set its goals at providing exceptional quality services at affordable costs, and to set environment, which is comfortable to both the clients.... ... ... The paper 'Role of Planning Manager in the Realization of Business Idea' is a sage example of the management case study.... The L-W-F gym business idea is aimed at providing the best full-time gym services to the clients to their satisfaction....

Managing an organization successfully is not an easy task since it requires a combination of managerial skills that should be coupled up with a high level of professionalism.... The managers need first to understand the organization upfront before they can embark on a mission of.... ... ... The paper 'Organisation and Its Competitive Environment and Recommendation of a Strategy - Proctor and Gamble " is a great example of a management case study....

The following paper under the title 'Marco Polo's Travel through Asia' gives detailed information about Marco Polo who has been regarded as one of the greatest travelers in the world that opened the doors for innovation and modernization of the Western Culture.... ... ... ... His journey through Asia that lasted for more than two decades provided him the knowledge and skills to develop new industries that are unknown at the time in his native Venice....

he case study approach relying on data collected from social media platforms, online newspapers and other informal mediums of communication have been widely used in several public relations as well as crisis management case studies.... Similarly this approach has been used by various university studies carried out to address issues related to loss of reputation and personal as well as brand image of those concerned, whereby data was collected using newspaper articles and college journals....

From the paper "The Return on Equity" it is clear that service firms are the best fit for the 'combined strategy' to sustain with skill and experience-based product derivation, which may lower the performance upon complete dependence on the traditional business model.... ... ... ... Approach best fit with 'Combined strategy' where premium growth rate and profit retention rate get higher in rate increases with the right combination....

This case study "The Bargaining Power of IKEA Buyer" focuses on a Swedish company established in 1943.... Its headquarter is located in Leiden Netherlands.... It mainly conducts in all kinds of furniture including resident furniture, office furniture, and evenly infant furniture for sale.... ... ...

Overview, history and shareholders ... empur-Pedic International is a global firm that produces, markets, and distributes first-class mattresses and pillows.... Its sister company, Sealy Corporation, manufacturers bedding in a global scale.... .... ... ... Strategies and Synergies of Tempur-Pedic International's plan to acquire Sealy Corp ...

The system is extremely costly to implement and there are mix feelings about its effectiveness.... The performance evaluation system has a cost of $1.... million per.... ... ... The company has to find a way to successfully implement this new evaluation program without negatively impacting the corporate culture of the company....

Several studies show improvement in HbA1c with weight loss.... Hence, reduction of the risk of cardiovascular disease upon weight loss is evidenced by various studies.... studies show that weight loss is highly effective in the management of Type 2 diabetes in the early stages of the disease process (Jenkins et al.... Several studies, however, evidence that lower levels of carbohydrate intake diets have improved markers of insulin sensitivity and glycaemic control (Brehm et al....

This case study "A Danish Company Oticon Company Review" is about Change management deals with three principal sections: self, team, and larger system, and in Oticon, all three sections are applied.... Heralding and managing change refers to making changes in a planned and systematic fashion.... ...

This paper "The Customer Experience of the Werribee Park" presents the Park that is located in Melbourne Australia and is one of the biggest tourist attractions providing adventure, fun and Cultural knowledge for those who love to know more about the Church and the life back in the 1880s.... ... ...

The paper "Organizational Behavior in Emirates Airlines" highlights that teams have not just a higher collaborative skillset and perception of the problem, but are better at creating new ideas and managing communications across functional boundaries.... ... ... ... Employing teams, the diverse skill set and the experience of the team members can be employed by Emirates Airlines for the purpose of issue resolution to not just solve the problem, but resolve it in an effective, efficient and cost-effective manner through peer pressure based productivity motivators (Patterson et al....

The paper "Tech Data Corporation - Strategic Managers" states that commitment by the top management and board to convene more meetings would help in faster decision-making.... This is a encouragement to the employees, seeing their superiors working as hard to contribute to the success of the company....

"The Sequences of Events in a Homicide Case" paper aims to give a detailed understanding of the theory learned in class and as per the level of understanding and how to apply in a practical context, in this case, the homicide investigative case at hand.... ... ... ... This paper emphasizes the fact that in every homicide case what is very essential is the evidence as this will lead the investigators to track out the suspect....

This paper "Life in General and the Economic Conditions of John's England" discusses the quote 'It is better to have a world united than a world divided, but it is also better to have a world divided than a world destroyed.... that said Sir Winston Churchill, at the time of II World War.... ... ...

The paper "Texas v White Case of 1869" states that as a practical matter, efforts at formal political separation have not arisen in the United States since 1865.... However, a number of states have recently enacted legislation asserting their residual rights under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution....

The following paper 'The Court of Appeal of England and Wales' focuses on the High Court at the first instance which deals with all the high value and high importance cases, and also has supervisory jurisdiction over all subordinate courts and tribunals.... ... ... ... Appeal from the High Court in civil matters lies to the Court of Appeal and thence to the House of Lords, except when the High Court is sitting as a Prize Court when appeal lies to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council....

This discussion will focus on housing law issues relating to seven students of the University of Westminster namely; Ben, Mohammed, Melissa, Rashid, Mary, Jim, and Joanne.... The study provides an evaluation of the rights relating to tenants and landlords in all the types.... ... ... ... In general, the tenancy can be defined as the contract between a tenant and a landlord which allows the tenant to live in the landlord's property as long as the tenant follows the rules and pays rent (Cowan, 2011, p....

After studies undertaken by Beer et al (1990) they concluded that if work is the focus of change then it will be successful.... (1991), "An Analysis of Strategies for Announcing Organization-Wide Change," Group and Organization studies, 16, 5-24 ... In the report 'Pearl Group of India' the author analyzes Pearl Group of India, which is a leading Apparel Export House with several manufacturing units and a large number of worldwide clients....

For students who already have young families or who have not acquired post-secondary studies, they prefer taking a job with their high school education so as to earn some income.... The paper 'The System of High Education in the USA' presents the United States as a great nation and is the home to the world's several best educational institutions....

Recent studies have suggested that some patients may not obtain the full benefits of aspirins antiplatelet effects.... The paper "Stroke or Cerebrovascular Disease" discusses that stroke or cerebrovascular disease is caused by a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain....

Five of the identified studies were based on CBT, one on exercise-based programs, two on mental health prevention programs and one focused on hands-on intervention.... However, studies reveal that interventions aimed at entire population are the best since they can reach more individuals at the workplace and selected groups without screening requirements, which is usually an expensive exercise.... The study could not identify the type of psychological that is the most effective since it identified a limited number of related studies....

studies indicate that a widespread recognition that the mental health services failed most of the ethnic minority patients particularly the African-Caribbean men (Keating et al.... The author of "A Current Trend and Development within Mental Health" paper examines the benefits, rationale, implementation of personalization, and social inclusion as the new trends or developments within the mental health Trust practices as the case of study....

The paper "The Issue of Ethical Consumerism as a Business Strategy in Starbucks Corporation " is an outstanding example of a case study on business.... The concept of Ethical Consumerism refers to the preference by most consumers to purchase goods that have been produced and manufactured following good ethics and with respect to the environment....

As a matter of fact, a Spanish film director named Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) called tobacco a loyal friend through fair weather and foul while Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), an Irish poet, playwright, and wit, addressed cigarette as an exquisite and perfect type of perfect pleasure....

The paper "The Library Organisational Project" discusses that coordination and cooperation are the two pillars of effective team management.... Moreover, I learned to manage time wisely in order to complete all tasks effectively and to be prompt when we have to perform an array of activities.... ...

"Helping the Company to Meet Customer-Service and Cost Objectives" paper designs an inventory control system for Consolidated Electric based on the case and describes how the system you have designed will help the company meet customer service and cost objectives.... ... ... ... In terms of cost, the new system leads to the following benefits: a) the stock is kept at satisfactory levels; only products that are actually promoted to the market are bought by the organization, b) suppliers can make more effective discounts since they are aware of the actual needs of the organization....

Recent memory of the injustices of colonization was a fresh sore point with Indian consumers at a time the multinational giant Coca Cola was attempting to break into the market.... This coupled with their blatant disregard for environmental laws and/or sustainability worked to.... ... ... Furthermore, Coca Cola did not win any friends by the hostile and combative manner that they denied the allegations that were brought against them....

The case study "Welfarism and Economic Prosperity Are Synonymous" points out that Welfarism is associated with the economic concept of welfare.... It is based on the view that actions and policies must be evaluated based on their impact.... In essence, it is a set of government policies and actions....

The paper "The Salbutamol" tells us about selective short-acting beta 2 adrenoceptor agonist and was the first B2 receptor.... The introduction of the drug shows an instant success and has been used ever since.... ... ... ... This case study is aimed at discussing mainly salbutamol in relation to the pharmacological effects on the human body as a whole and how the drug could be put to use in various treatment plans of the patients....

The paper "Advertising and Promotional Activities of HTC Corporation" is a perfect example of a case study on marketing.... The paper is carried out with the objective of analyzing the current position of a leading mobile handset manufacturing company.... ... ... ... The paper "Advertising and Promotional Activities of HTC Corporation" is a perfect example of a case study on marketing....

The paper "Public and Private Finance of Liberty International Plc " states that the companies are suffering from liquidity crunch so severely that short term solvency is at stake.... Liberty did not have profits to cover dividends and even fixed interest liabilities in 2007.... .... ... ... Liberty International Plc and its competitor Hammerson Plc are sailing in the same boat....

The paper 'Corporate Financial Management at AstraZeneca Plc' is a useful example of a finance & accounting case study.... In detecting the random walk of the stock returns the first approach will be to get the autocorrelation.... This will measure the relationship between the return of the portfolio at the current period with its value in the previous period....

The paper "The Failure of the Merger and Acquisition of AT & T and TCI" is a decent example of a Finance & Accounting case study.... AT &T is a telecommunications firm, and in particular, AT &T is the largest international and domestic long-distance telephone carrier in the U.... .... The company offers telephony services to government, business, and residential services and it operates in well over 250 territories and countries across the globe....

It conducts a number of consumer studies in which the customers are invited to participate in a number of ways; the research is divided into site visits and laboratory studies.... In lab studies, consumers are invited to experience new product testing and contribute ideas while in remote surveys consumers are engaged by telephone, asked questions concerning products, and also invited to test new design concepts online.... Carrying out successful consumer studies among these young customers requires the company to understand their behavior perfectly....

This paper 'Drucker vs Porter - The Personality" focuses on the fact that Peter Drucker is renowned in the management circles for his role in devising management strategies and theories which have shaped up the business operations and the same will continue to be the same in the years to come.... ....

Biology and chemistry are fields of studies concerned with metabolism and bio-chemical reactions.... Performing arts such dance and theatre are about movements and requires physical exercises to achieve the energy level for a performance.... From the paper "Physical Education, Changing Domain and Its Challenges", health and physical fitness are twin concerns in modern America as the rise of obesity cases necessitating reorientation of priorities and giving an impetus to greater research in physical education in a multidisciplinary way....

The author of the current case study "The Issue of Psychodrama for Therapy" points out that music therapy has proved a blessing to the septuagenarian patients.... But there are other significant psychological therapies, which can cure them of their dysfunctional state of mind.... ... ... ... The author states: "Psychodrama is what I would like to focus on my second case study....

The paper "Leading Cultural and Organizational Change at the Royal Conservatory of Music" describes that the major issues raised in the study are incorporation of environmental changes within the broad goals and objectives of RCM and meeting the challenges of time with creative inputs.... ... ... ...

In the paper 'SQL Server Column Level Encryption' the author analyzes sensitive information and data to be protected for two major reasons.... Firstly, sensitive data can be harmful to the company's investment if it is accessed by rivals or unauthorized personnel who can use it against the firm.... ...

This essay demonstrates that еourism cluster is defined as the entire geographical location, where tourism activities are conducted.... It involves the coming together of organizations, that deal with a common set of activities.... The clustering of companies considers the availability of resources....

This paper 'How Financing is Important for the Success of the Company' tells that to run a business a company needs money.... The act of arranging money for the business is termed as Financing.... A company can avail mainly two sources of finance for its business.... One is debt and other is equity....

This paper "Purchasing and Supply Management" examines an e-website that offers several products placed for bidding.... Among the products set for soliciting include Office Furniture.... Also, the paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the e-procurement website.... ... ... ... The opportunity numbered PolkACSBJB0001, requires office furniture for the Department of the Army....

The paper "Links between the Three Functions Which Made Apple Inc Very Successful" discusses that Apple's success is finally a function of its generic strategy.... In its strategy to outdo its competitors, Apple employs a strategy based on differentiation and differentiation focus.... ... ... ... Apple Inc....

The author of the paper "Sunshine State Share Dealing Service" states that the application of information technology systems in the operations of Sunshine State enabled the conversion of the organization from a building society into a public limited company.... .... ... ... Sunshine faced very many problems in the development of the management of Information Systems Development....

) How does the change in No: CASE studies IN HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY This case study focuses on the relative concentrations of sodium (Na+) in the hippocampus(associated with memory) detectable using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) — which usually is based on the magnetic behavior of hydrogen ions (H+) from water in the tissues.... here are many documented studies that have employed the use of sodium imaging to detect cell death and cell viability.... he initial studies have established that the loss of memory experienced in alzheimers disease means the hippocampus has been affected either by cell degeneration or cell death....

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Research A traditional setting and paradigm in research would usually associate quantitative methods to studies on topics such as mathematics, physics, medicine and other topics that are affected by a host of different variables (Griffiths and Byrne, 1998).... On the other hand, qualitative methods are associated with studies and researches on social science, behavior, psychology, culture and language.... More and more health studies, for example are utilizing qualitative methods to improve healthcare and medicine (Borreani et al....