...America’s People Problem The United States is a world superpower known for its military might and booming economy. This is all largely due to its abundance in financial, manufactured, social, natural, and human capital. The latter of which is key to maintaining a developed country, for without it, a nation would be unable to utilize their other resources. Nations that lack human capital find themselves in the “developing” sector of economic categorization. This means that citizens of developing countries have no choice but to enjoy a lower standard of living than that of a citizen from a developed country. For many people living in developing countries, deserting their native land for a life in the U.S. is the only way they believe they can...
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...new documentary, “Fed Up”, Maggie is occasionally overwhelmed, tears trickling down her cheeks: “My weight is not really going the way it’s supposed to go.” America’s obesity problem is hardly news. Indeed there are some hints that, among certain groups, it might be abating. But more than one in three American adults and one in six children are fat. Who is to blame? “Fed Up” is directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric, a prominent American newscaster, and Laurie David, who made “An Inconvenient Truth”. That film helped to popularise the fight against climate change. Ms David and Ms Couric hope to do the same for fighting flab. Obesity is a global problem (as “Fed Up” mentions in passing). But on its surface it would seem the most personal of failures: an individual eats too much and exercises too little. This ignores the work of behavioural economists and biologists. Humans have evolved over millennia to ensure that weight is hard to lose. It is too simplistic to blame obesity merely on lack of willpower. That would let both food companies and politicians off the hook. “Fed Up” is determined to hold them to account. Food companies are keen for children to eat their junk foods, which are available not just in shops but in schools. America’s politicians, “Fed Up” argues, are complicit. Notoriously, America’s school-lunch law counts the tomato paste on pizza as a vegetable. This film lambasts many, from Coca-Cola to a less obvious target, Michelle Obama, for waging...
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...America’s Drug Problem: Trafficking Effects By Harry Jenkins Eng 122 Dr. Nelson August 29, 2011 Some things are simply not going to ever go anywhere because of the nature of them and the nature of people. Some harmful substances that people are addicted to will not be vanquished by the government as long as they have an illegal option to procure such substances. The issue at hand is drug trafficking in the United States and how to handle it. The government spends billions of dollars each year trying to fight the war on drugs and drug trafficking rings still come away with 321.6 billion dollars from sales. The DEA alone has an annual budget of two billion dollars, but they only cut the drug money profit by 17.7 billion over the past five years (Agency, 2004). While losing a war by such a wide margin, it is hard to believe anyone thinks things are getting any better. The government tried prohibition in the 1920’s and the crime rates spiked because people produced, smuggled, sold, and consumed the banned substance. The same goes for drugs. The argument about legalizing drugs has a push-pull correlation and always will. However, the reasons why drugs should be legalized have a stronger defense than why they shouldn’t be. The most heated argument out about drugs as of now is the legalization of marijuana. The financial benefits of legalizing marijuana alone are worth it in the eyes of the right person. The state of California would generate a tax revenue of...
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...discuss and justify their significance to the survival of the inhabitants of my community. 1. Good Toilet Facility: I look at this as a major issue owing to the fact that most of the houses in my community do not have inside or private toilet. They instead, depend on the community government toilet for daily and regular defecations. This is the one and only public toilet facility in the Newport Community, which is very messy and deplorable. This single area bears the service of about 3000 person per day. A good, modern and will taken of public toilet facility, if erected in my community, will serve a major purpose. It will be significant to the Newport Street Community in such that there will be a huge reduction in health related problems such as, Chloride, Malaria, Typhoid, and other infection. If I were to volunteer in my community as a student of Service Learning Program (SLP), I...
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..."Pull in the Jib". "Sit farther inside the boat". "Roll more in the tacks". These are all things I hear on a day-to-day basis from my superiors during the school sailing race team. In the beginning of the season, commands being tossed at me just flew right by and I never had any idea what they were talking about. Now, as the sailing season comes to an end in only a few weeks, I actually know what people are talking about. I have sailed since I can remember, starting in Essex and working my way up to MSA, but never would I have realized how meticulous and precise you have to be with everything to achieve maximum speed going through the course. If the boat is leaning too much one way you lose speed. If you move the rudder too much you lose speed. If you don't recoil yourself back into the center of the boat in roll tacks you lose speed. It is incredibly annoying how easy it is to lose speed and how hard it is to keep going fast. Which is why I like it. I think what makes me like it is that sailing has always been a relaxing experience and now that I realized that it is actually one of the most taxing physical and mental sports out there, the difference between what I thought it was and now what I know it is just intrigues me. Part of me wants to just chill on the side of the boat with a lemonade or jump off for a swim every once and a while but another part of me wants drysuits and constantly bruised shins from hitting the centerboard box during roll tacks. Maybe I can have...
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...Q 1: The big 5 personality factors are Emotional stability, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Openness. Let’s Analyze the Larry Ellison in details on each of these. Emotional Stability reflects the calmness, poise and stability in their interpersonal dealings. Larry does not score very high on Emotional stability. He does not hide his irritation at others. He is not resilient as he does not accommodate others of different view. Though, he is surely a confident person. He does have high degree of confidence in himself. He believes he can be success without others help though it may not be entirely true. No one person regardless of how smart he or she is can be success all alone. There should be lot of contribution from other people at all levels. He does not seem to realize or recognize this. He may have a lot of arrogance. He definitely is an effective leader. Starting a small company and turning into one of best companies on the planet takes great personality. He has knack for success and he has demonstrated it. All that reflects He is quite Emotionally Stable person. No man is perfect. He has some weakness as well. Agreeableness is the capability of getting along others. This is Larry’s biggest weakness. Really intelligent and capable people are often hard to get along with others as they have their own independent ideas and opinions about everything. They feel they are right always. Others may think of him rude. On Extraversion...
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...Case Study: The Business Strategies of QVC Group 2: Michael Kenlan Karen Maxwell Brian McKearney Tara Murphy Zach Smith MIE 480, Spring 2010 Dr. Washington Abstract John Segal founded QVC in West Chester, Pennsylvania in June of 1986, two years behind the launch of its predecessor, the Home Shopping Network. Despite this later emergence onto the cable scene, QVC surpassed its competitor quickly and has maintained a dominant position in the television-retail industry ever since. Never relinquishing its strong commitment to quality, value, and convenience, the company has strategically gained consumer confidence, brand loyalty, and a competitive advantage in the market. Today, QVC has shipped over a billion packages to customers worldwide, and generates an estimated $_________ in annual sales. There are many reasons that led QVC to become the industry leader in televised shopping. Entering the market in the shadow of The Home Shopping Network actually proved to be advantageous to the new company. The founding management of QVC was wise in examining its competitor’s strengths and weaknesses, and learning from these mistakes. QVC set out to break the existing mold and capture a larger audience with quality products. Another wise decision on the part of leadership was to employ experienced TV producers with expertise in the field which resulted in a professional and well-produced...
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...The extract under the title “The Eyes of the Dragon” was written by one of the outstanding American writers in the modern literature – Stephen King, known for his huge contribution in horror fiction, compared with such names as Balzac and Dickens. The extract under the study begins with the description of a young boy called Peter destined to be a king. It comes as no surprise he had a great number of servants to take care of him, but the most tender and vigilant of all was surely his mother – Sasha. She took it for granted to bring up her child in a manner worthy for kings only. Naturally she used all her talent, all her love and all her wit to raise the heir as well-bred and smart as possible. She was the only perfect teacher for him. To the boy’s mischief she died when he was only five and couldn’t realize everything properly, but those lessons she gave him stayed in his heart for ever. They say “the child’s soul is blank as a white sheet of paper, what you write there will be kept till the end.” I guess this statement suits the text precisely and comes as the controlling idea of the whole narration. Indeed, who knows better teacher and mentor for a child than its mother? Who knows all the specks and all the sores on a young body better than the woman who gave birth to the infant? No human creature. Small wonder that mothers love their children with all their heart, no matter what kind of child it is. The child is their flesh and blood, that’s the only sufficient reason...
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...“Reality” television [738 words] Summary of When Reality TV Gets Too Real by Jeremy W. Peters [153 words] In When Reality TV Gets Too Real, Jeremy W. Peters debates the ethics of not stopping dangerous situations from happening on Reality Television. For this, several examples of such occurrences are cited, first when a participant took up drunk driving in the show Intervention, as well as similar episodes in Breaking Bonaduce, The Real World and Road Rules, and citing lawsuits against Big Brother, Kid Nation and Extreme Makeover, the last one getting sued for something else entirely. A number of occasions is also named where the producer of Intervention stops dangerous situations from developing, namely when to prevent suicide, drunk driving and to call paramedics in the event of an overdose. The article also states that the practise of simply filming while not stopping developing catastrophes are not technically illegal but somewhat unethical. The text ends with the comment “It's a very, very delicate balance”, leaving the issue open for interpretation. Outline of text 2 through 4 [252 words] In When Reality TV Gets Too Real, it is debated that Reality TV has a habit of creating dangerous or traumatic situations for viewers, simply because doing so is legal and gives higher rating. At times, some producers might draw the line though, and try to stop some situations from spiralling out of control, but those a more often the exception than the rule...
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...Influence of the Entertainment Media Entertainment media has held a foothold on American culture. Lule, J.(2012) stated, “Today, as Internet technology and satellite broadcasting change the way people watch television, the medium continues to evolve, solidifying its position as one of the most important inventions of the 20th century”(p.603). Everything from the ideology of becoming a star to product placement has had an effect on the society. Lately, the pauper to prince dream has swept the nation (nobody to “somebody”) with shows like Jersey Shore, Keeping up with the Kardashians, America got talent, So you think you can dance, American Idol, and the list goes on. These shows have “made” commoners into stars.. That goal has had people seek other applications on the internet rise up to cash in on the benefits. The Years of Fast and the Furious had people deck out cars with the dream of being king of the road. Street racing, however dangerous, had become a lasting fad since the days of “chicken" in the 50’s and 60’s. Product placement on shows and commercials has helped Coca-Cola stay in the refreshment top spot since 1886. Other companies have found their way in to the American Culture like sport teams memorabilia, sponsors, and events for advertisement. Michael Jordan has a net worth of 650 million (90 million coming from his career with the Bulls) just for his name thanks impart to Nike and the shoes that keep on selling out. Rappers have taken names of known criminals to...
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...an organization is thinking of implementing a New It Initiative they must ensure that they are well organized and fully understand the length and time a project may take. According to Cook “ Project failure occurs when a project is significantly over budget, takes must longer than estimated timeline, or has to be terminated because of so many problems have occurred that proceeding is no longer judged to be viable.” With Memorial Health System failed implementation of a CPOE system they had many problems including an over budgeted project, Lack of belief in project, Insufficient leadership support, Failure to respect uncertainty, Failure to anticipate short-term disruptions, and initiative undernourishment. In this paper we will discuss all six of these problems along with give possible solutions to each of them. Failure to respect uncertainty: When the system was finally implemented it was had a lot of bugs in the system. They implemented the system at all of facilities. Because of this as well as a few other issues such as lack of training the system was taken offline and they continued with the old system. The solution to this problem would have been to implement the system in one location instead of the entire hospital. This place can be used as the test facility in which you can do two things. One you can work all the bugs out and the other would be to use it as a training facility where you can send employees to get training on a system that is up and running. This will...
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...SUMMARY Recently there is something wrong with the performance of our company and I think what we should do is to upgrade the office furnitures. Because more and more of our employees claimed about the poor working condition. We can reduce the surgery fee and the sick days from the employees after the upgrade. Therefore, we can increase our productivities a lot. THE PROBLEM 1 Increase health problem- More of our employees are having health problems because of the uncomfortable furnitures. 2 Sick days increase-Because of their health problem, employees asked for the extra vacation day. 3 Surgery fee increased- Three employees had to have carpal tunnel surgery, and another had back surgery 4 Insurance fee increase- The insurance carrier was threatening to raise its premiums. 4 Productivities reduce- The day-to-day productivity of the office reduced THE REASON The problem came up from last year. If we don’t care about the problem, it will cost us a lot. For example , we already have three employees need to do carpal tunnel surgery . Cost of surgery and rehabilitation is in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 (data from :http://www.mycarpaltunnel.com/surgery-release-carpal-tunnel.shtml).And we have one employee need to have back surgery. According to the data from www.ehow.com. This procedure costs an average of $12,000to$15,000. So far the maximum cost is approximately $45000. And if we ignore that, the number of employees who need surgery would double in the next...
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... VII Appendix 7 1. Introduction- a The purpose of this survey is to gain a prospective view on what goes on inside a alcohol anonymous program and the benefits and experiences people gain from it. I also want to see how the community gets involved with people who have alcohol problems and the actions taken by the community to get help for these people. b The epidemiology of the program i surveyed is to study; the patterns that go on for people with alcohol related problems, the causes of these patterns and the problem itself, and the effects this problem has on the person and people related to that person. c. The intent of this survey is to collect all the necessary information need by someone with alcohol related problems therefore allowing them to access this information and receive help. II. About the organization: St Joseph's Gift Of Life Walk in or Phone St. Joseph's Chruch Rev. Jon Murry 208 South Main St. Attleboro Ma 508-226-1115 III. About the Program A.The program takes in people from the community with alcohol abuse problems to try and help cope with these...
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...Buenavista Plywood Corporation The Problem The problem confronting Mr. Antonio Garcia, the Plant Superintendent of Buenavista Plywood Corporation is how to deal with the absentee rates of the employees from Bohol such that the production of the plant will operate at capacity, with adequate workforce and the interests of the company and employees be served. Objectives More specifically, the problem resolves itself into the following objectives which Mr. Garcia has to achieve in the course of action he has to take: 1. To maintain a stable and reliable workforce; 2. To protect the company’s reputation by avoiding confrontation with formal union groups; 3. To address production problems and costs; 4. To meet the rated capacity of the plant; 5. To safeguard the long-run profitability and stability of Buenavista Plywood Corporation. Situational Analysis The Buenavista Plywood Corporation was organized in Cagayan de Oro City in 1950 by the Santiago Family. Don Jose Santiago, the present head of the family, was well qualified to carry the traditions of this prominent family. The Santiagos have been involved in politics in nearby Bohol, the ancestral home. They had been pioneering industrialists in the plywood business. Don Jose had been an early advocate of local processing of lumber as opposed to the shipping of log abroad. VISTAWOOD, the trademark chosen for their plywood, was one of the first export plywood production in the Philippines. Late in the...
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