...is so far in debt, that the government is deciding where they need to cut back the federal budget. What better place to do that than taking money away from the military. This cartoon is displaying a military U.S. fighter jet in the sky with a person (President Obama) straddling the plane behind the cockpit holding a chain saw. It shows that the President just got done cutting the end or the back of the fighter jet off as the back of the jet is falling. There is a phrase that the President is saying, it says; “You Won’t Even Notice The Defense Cuts.” Thesis The most logical area to cut the national debt is by reducing the amount of money that is put into our military branches, but is this the best way to shrink our debt? There are those who think that we do not need our military. But I truly believe this is not the way to fix our problem. We need our military whether we like it or not. I know, and I feel much safer knowing that I have my fellow brothers and sisters from the military protecting me from arms way. So, is this a wise thing that our government is doing by cutting our national debt? I believe that just the words that are described in the cartoon say’s it all. We all know we have a problem with parts of the budget and the national debt. But just having the cartoon displaying the President sawing the jet in half, so our...
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... YOUR TEAM WILL COMPLETE AN APPLIED RESEARCH PAPER. THE FINAL PRODUCT WILL BE A 1,750- TO 2,100-WORD ESSAY ON A SPECIFIC TOPIC. Your team is to select from the following topics: • To forecast possible cultural changes inside Worldwide Telecommunications, Inc., prepare a study analyzing how a multicultural workforce might affect teamwork and communications in large companies. • Prepare an assessment for Lotus Rental Car’s CFO on the feasibility of adding alternative fuel vehicles to the fleet. • Report to your company’s Board of Directors on the cost and value of offering domestic partner benefits. • Research and report on how to fund a non-profit community book festival for a major United States city. Consider recent changes in the economy. • Formulate a proposal for Artemis Sportswear Company for cutting operational expenses to increase profit margins. Include the effect on workers and productivity. Incorporate information from at least five sources including at least one primary source. The information gleaned from the primary source will enhance the information gained from the secondary sources. The paper should be consistent with APA guidelines and include a thesis statement, in-text citations, conclusion and/or recommendations, and reference list. Please refer to the text, The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, for more information on shaping the essay. Your instructor may require the team to submit a rough draft of your paper in Week Three. Refer to your...
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...ESLW 310 At Home ESSAY TWO Spring 2011 Prof. Thomas For Essay Two, you will write a full essay with an introduction, body, and conclusion. The type of essay is cause/effect, so you will need to organize your analysis to show the cause and effect connections carefully. Write a well-developed essay, with at least three good body paragraphs. These essays must be typed. Be sure to answer the question completely and stay on topic. Check carefully for grammar errors before you turn it in for a grade. *NOTE: Do not plagiarize (use the words and ideas of others) and do not get help to "make it perfect". PROMPT: California’s economy is in very bad condition, with an imbalance of over $25 billion dollars. The government will have to consider both cutting spending and raising income by taxes. One of the many cuts is the community college budget, and our own district & college are going to lose millions of dollars no matter what. One of the many ways to increase income is to raise tuition fees (currently they are $26/unit for residents and $234/unit for non-residents & international students. Proposals range from $36/unit to (in the worst case) $66/unit. TOPIC: What are the most important effects of a tuition fee increase? In other words, if Los Rios college tuition increases, what effects will this have? Explain the cause-effect connections to show HOW these effects will happen. In this essay, first consider the many different types of effects...
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...ESSAY 3: The author of the memorandum infers that during the last five years, the number of city residents watching television programs about visual arts has increased by 15 percent and also those going to the arts also risen at a similar rate. Then he is making the assumption that this is link to the fact that the corporate funding is supporting the public television channel where the visual arts program are appearing. The author strongly think that if we cut this budget, the number of people watching arts TV programs will decrease, and say that it will affect the number of persons visiting arts museum too. First of all, I would like to point the fact that there is a mistake in the comparison, indeed television and museums are too different thing, even if both got program about arts. I think that the people who are interested in arts, will continue to watch television or either going to museum. If the city residents like arts, even if there is less program on TV about arts, will still go to arts museum, maybe it wiil even increase. So first point, there is a wrong link between television and museum. Also there is data missing, as we don’t know if people been to museum after having seen arts program on the tv or if it they do it on the other ways. On a second hand, the last phrase of the text is telling us that they should relocate some of the fund of the city arts museum to public television in order to counter-balance the cut in public television fund, and this...
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...The Channel Tunnel (French: le tunnel sous la Manche), widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest civil engineering projects, is a 50.5km underwater rail tunnel connecting Folkestone, Kent in the UK with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in France under the English Channel. Even though it began construction in 1988 and was opened in 1994, the idea to have a cross-channel tunnel was first mooted more than 200 years ago but did not materialize due to political, national security and cost considerations. However, with the tremendous increase in traffic growth, better and alternative means of communication, convenience and speed was necessary and hence the need for an alternative transport route was clearly evident. The need for such tunnel was further compounded with Britain joining the European Community and the cross-channel traffic doubling in the last 20 years (leading to the project), reflecting improved trading between the Britain and rest of Europe. The Channel Tunnel would also be able to provide an alternative competitive link between the transportation systems of the UK and France, providing both speed and reliability to freight deliveries. With the strong endorsement from the governments of both sovereigns, the decision to build the Channel Tunnel was thus made. In April 1985, the British and French governments issued a formal invitation to potential tenderers for the fixed Channel link and eventually the contract was awarded to the consortium Channel Tunnel Group Limited-...
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...occurrence of competitive environment for it ultimately led it to the result of a shrinking profitability figure. On the other hand, with the more competitive environment for electronic products, such as computers, PDAs, corporations which ask for outsource have to survive by constantly remain competitive by squeezing cost which in turn, squeezing the ODMs. Thus, from both the direct pressure coming from client and competitors, Inventec could not realize substantial abnormal profit. Q2. Is this Essay helpful? Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 350,000 just like it! get better grades Normally speaking, the drivers of the average profitability of the Original Design and Manufacturing industry would be as follows: * The efficiency of the product and software design * The efficiency of the manufacturing process * The effectiveness of the manufacturing process * The availability of the skills required by the design procedure * The availability of the funds * The progress or upgrading of the skills Q3. Key factors for companies like Inventec to earn abnormal return should be as follows: * Remain competitive * Being able to differentiate either by quality or lowering cost * Remain open minded with new opportunity * Be active in acquiring the...
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...Is Fairtrade a form of sustainability marketing? Nowadays, Fairtrade is a new trend in the world’s market and become a powerful competitor toward mainstream brands. According to Belz and Peattie (2010, p29): “sustainability marketing may be defined as building and maintaining sustainable relationships with customers, the social environment and the natural environment.” Fairtrade is also author concept that it aims to provide fair price to farmer in developing country and help them to live better life. This essay considers 3 elements of sustainability marketing: social-ecological problems, sustainability marketing strategies and sustainability marketing mix. It argues that Fairtrade is a form of sustainability marketing. The rest of essay is organized as follows. The second paragraph explains what the elements of sustainability are. The third paragraph presents Fairtrade tends to solve social-ecological problems. The fourth paragraph discusses how Fairtrade makes sustainability marketing strategies. The fifth paragraph reports Fairtrade completes sustainability marketing mix. The sixth paragraph concludes. Belz and Peattie (2010, p29) consider that compared to transaction marketing sustainability marketing is a long-term market theory. They also maintain that sustainability marketing could be included in the macro economy. Belz and Peattie (2010, p29) believe that “It embraces the idea of sustainable development, which requires a change in the behaviour of virtually everyone...
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...7/20/2010 Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth September/October 2009 ESSAY Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth How to Salvage the Climate Conference Michael Levi MICHAEL A. LEVI is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. This December, diplomats from nearly 200 countries will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which for the first time bound wealthy countries to specific cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Most of these emissions come from burning fossil fuels -- coal, oil, and natural gas -- for energy, from deforestation, and from the agricultural sector. They must be cut deeply in the coming decades if the world is to control the risks of dangerous climate change. Most of those devoted to slashing the world's greenhouse gas emissions have placed enormous weight on the Copenhagen conference. Speaking earlier this year about the conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was emphatic: "We must harness the necessary political will to seal the deal on an ambitious new climate agreement in December here in Copenhagen. . . . If we get it wrong we face catastrophic damage to people, to the planet." Hopes are higher than ever for a breakthrough climate deal. For the past eight years, many argued that developing nations reluctant to commit to a new global climate-change deal -- particularly China and India -- were simply hiding behind the United States, whose enthusiastic engagement...
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...Ecotourism Essay INTRODUCTION : Thesis Statement : Ecotourism brings more benefits to the local communities such as conservation, government funding, booming of local business and cultural exchange. BODY : i. Idea 1 : Conservation is a term that is becoming increasingly more popular due to the gradual depletion of Mother Earth’s natural resources. * Ecotourism's principal objective is to neutralize the adverse effects of human development. * People who live in cities often choose to visit pristine jungles, mountains and beaches to enjoy their beauty. * As local communities begin to realize their natural resources as foundations of tourist income, the communities may work harder to protect those resources. ii. Idea 2 : Government Funding is one of the most fundamental ways to control, boost and stabilise an economy. * As ecotourism in an area matures, the local government often identifies the economic flourishing and seeks to sustain it. * Ecotourism's popularity led to the establishment of numerous national parks and reserves * Governments must have the capitals to preserve their parks and keep hunters, poachers and loggers out of them. iii. Idea 3 : Flourishing of local businesses will occur as more and more demand from the tourists grows. * Craftspeople, innkeepers and restaurateurs all offer facilities that help tourists discover native features. * Once ecotourism has improved an economy, people stop cutting trees because...
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...practical and feasible solutions to some real issues they experience in their work, though not required. The article should describe well the background of the problem and each of the steps in solving the problem. The length of the article should be within 1500 words; visual aids, such as tables, charts, graphs should be included where necessary. Some business statistics applications example include • Select profitable stocks • Detect fraudulent claims • Score an applicant’s credit • Discover cross-selling opportunities for products • Quantify drug efficacy • Forecast new product sales • Discover new customers • Recognize objects in images • Verify identity through biometrics; and • Anticipate shifts in market sectors for hedge funds • Set individual health insurance premiums • Evaluate effectiveness of a government program • Improve human capital management through predictive analytics etc. Students are encouraged to explore others and consult with the faculty before start writing if necessary. The quality of the term paper will be graded based on the degree the following requirements are met 1....
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...experience in their work, though not required. The article should describe well the background of the problem and each of the steps in solving the problem. The length of the article should be within 1500 words; visual aids, such as tables, charts, graphs should be included where necessary. Some business statistics applications example include • Select profitable stocks • Detect fraudulent claims • Score an applicant’s credit • Discover cross-selling opportunities for products • Quantify drug efficacy • Forecast new product sales • Discover new customers • Recognize objects in images • Verify identity through biometrics; and • Anticipate shifts in market sectors for hedge funds • Set individual health insurance premiums • Evaluate effectiveness of a government program • Improve human capital management through predictive analytics etc. Students are encouraged to explore others and consult with the faculty before start writing if necessary. The quality of the term paper will be graded based on the degree the following requirements are met 1. Completeness...
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...Ford Essay #6 The Affordable Care Act is Driving a Wedge Between the Socio-Economic Classes. Question at Issue: Will the Affordable Care Act exaggerate the difference between socio-economic classes? Argument Sentence: The Affordable Care Act is exaggerating the difference between socio-economic classes because the ACA encourages employers to cut employee hours. Premise: Any law that encourages employers to cut employee hours will exaggerate the difference between socio-economic classes. The majority of college students hold jobs while studying so that they can pay rent and phone bills, and occasionally go to the movies or out to dinner. We get the money for these bills and activities through bi-weekly paychecks. We work hard, usually for thirty to forty hours a week, and are compensated near minimum wage. Although miniscule, it is still enough to cover the daily expenses in our lives and to have a bit left over for extraneous items. Corporate employers, big business for example, are often the ones who disburse paychecks to people attending college. They offer entry-level jobs that are easy to come by, are continuously expanding, and have a high turnover rate. Large corporations, such as Regal Entertainment Group, Five Guys Burgers, and PetSmart, are cutting employee’s hours down to less than thirty a week. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates employers to provide health insurance to employees working full-time (thirty-plus hours weekly). By cutting the hours,...
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...Anderson Illustrations, 2004 A Change Apparent Can reform driven by cost make a meaningful and sustainable change? GV6503 – PUBLIC SECTOR Word Count (excluding bibliography and cover page): 2532 The Current Government proposals for reforming the public sector are driven more by the desire to cut expenditure than to genuinely reform the system. Like countless reform initiatives before, it could turn out to be a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes disguising the fact that underneath, all of the old problems and weaknesses remain. Introduction The contributing reasons for Ireland’s financial crisis are many and complex but the fact is Ireland found itself with insufficient operating funds towards the end of 2010 and entered a ‘Bailout’ programme with a troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission. The purpose of the Programme was twofold; first, and many would argue very much foremost, to re-capitalise and restructure the banking sector. Second, €50 billion of the Programme’s total €85 billion loan was to cover “Safeguarding Public Finances” (Department of Finance Ireland, 2010). In return for the €85 billion facility the Troika demanded austerity measures and reforms that would ensure a sustainable economy within the European Growth and Stability fiscal guidelines by 2015 (and later extended to 2016). The achieve the 3% spending deficit required under these guidelines, the Irish government was obliged to implement a series...
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...Asmar Ali Shah Microeconomics Essay Assignment. 10/23/15 Social Security What is social security? What is the importance of social security in a citizen’s life? Different type of questions occurs when we discuss about the social security. This is one of the problems that United States has faced is their economy, but then again every country faces these kind of problems. Social security future solidity is one of the major issues in United States. What are the requirements for receiving social security benefits? How long do they prolong? Technically social security is a government program that helps workers and retired people and gives them benefit to spend the rest of life. Social security has different types of branches or different types of benefits we can call them. It is not only for retired people, it also helps people with disability, and people with no jobs. The benefits that come with disability and unemployment are limited. For example, its common sense if you find a job back you won’t be getting unemployment benefits, and if people that are disable start to show improvement in their health, their benefits will be terminated. Is the working population big enough to support the social security program for the future? However, there are costs and benefits for keeping this program. Is it possible that something else can be added to the social security program to help people more? Issues A lot of people these days’ worry about how to fix the social security issue....
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...During April 2010, BP was involved in the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill brought about plenty of pollution to the marine wildlife and destroyed Gulf’s fishing and tourism industries. Accordingly, the government established a panel to look into the accident. The investigation result indicated that the accident was unavoidable because of serious of blunders involved in drilling the well. In this essay, I will examine the communication problem that occurred and explore key causes and symptoms related to the problem. Bad management and communication breakdown by BP and its partners are partly to blame for the oil disaster. However, it was BP who was the main culprit for failing to ensure its cost cutting measures did not further increase risks in a dangerous environment. All involved companies were struggling with poor communication between each other, as they failed to share important information. One of the major questions being asked was who was in charge of the command portion of the operations. Some assumed it was BP and its partners while others concluded it to be the government. This confusion lead to all parties pointing the finger at each other rather than finding a plan to control the situation. One of the causes for the oil spill was an engineering one, as many equipments were failed to be inspected on schedule. Poor communication was another cause, as no one had a big picture of what was going on. No structure or plan was put in...
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