...The Lamb and The Wolf Once there was a naughty lamb. His mother always loved her child so much that she worried about the safety of the child. His mother always warned him, “Be careful! You must not go into the forest. Wild animals live in there. They may threaten you. Sometimes they would eat you.” But the mischievous lamb never listened. The lamb casually went into the forest and played there for a long time till it turned dark in the evening. One day, as usual the lamb wandered far off into the forest. There he saw a spring. “I am thirsty. Let me drink some water,” he thought. He decided to take water from the spring for his thirsty. While the lamb was drinking water in the spring, a wolf watched from behind a tree. “A lamb! My lucky day!” the wolf thought, approaching the lamb. The lamb was not aware of the wolf for some time. There was no one besides these two animals to save the lamb from the wolf. “You know this forest belongs only to wild animals like me. Why have you come in here to take water from this spring?” asked the wolf. The lamb knew that wolves were dangerous animals. “Mother has warned me about wolves. I am sure this fellow wants to eat me for his lunch. This fellow is ferocious. I must escape from this animal,” he thought. The wolf continued, “You are also dirtying water. How will I drink this polluted water now?” “But the spring flows from where you are standing down to where I am standing, Sir!” said the lamb, in a meek voice. The wolf...
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...Japan in Asia: A Hard Case for Soft Power by Thomas U. Berger Thomas Berger is an associate professor of International Relations at Boston University. he concept of ‘‘soft power’’—defined by Joe Nye as ‘‘the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than through coercion’’1— has proven a seductive one for Japan. Since the concept was popularized in the 1990s, Japanese scholars and policymakers have enthusiastically taken it up, eagerly exploring how Japan’s soft power resources could be exploited to burnish Japan’s image in the world and help reshape its environment in subtle but important ways. Some—perhaps encouraged by the new attention given to the popularity of Japanese anime and manga, and by the general buzz about ‘‘Cool Japan’’—have even described Japan as a ‘‘Soft Power Superpower.’’2 It sometimes seemed, in more overheated moments, that Pokemon and Sailor Moon would conquer the world, succeeding where the Imperial Army and Navy had failed.3 That soft power would prove attractive is unsurprising. Although Japan has considerable hard power resources, it has shown great reluctance to actually use them in the way that students of international relations would T 1 The idea was originally advanced by in Joseph Nye, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 1990). He has since expanded on the concept in Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). 2 See the very useful volume by...
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...1.Synopsis This investigative report will examine six of the key inventors who ideas formed the basis to the evolution of photography. The report will also focus on photography as an internationally recognised art form and how it has not always been perceived as art. This report will discuss one of Australia’s most famous photographers, Bill Henson. The key finding in this report is that photography has developed from a need of scientists to document into a key communication tool in todays society. This report finds that photography is now readily available to most people. The results in this report have been researched through appropriate texts and credible Internet sources. The writer also added to the report by giving his own experiences and knowledge that he has acquired by studying photography and working closely with a photographer. 2.Table of Contents 3. Introduction 3 4. Findings 4 4.1 The Birth of Photography 4 4.1.1 Joseph Nicephore Niepce 4 4.1.2 William Henry Fox Talbot 5 4.1.3 James Clerk Maxwell 5 4.1.4 Richard Leach Maddox 6 4.1.5 Eadweard Muybridge 6 4.1.6 George Eastman 7 4.2 Photography as Art 8 4.2.1Bill Henson 8 4.3 Photography in Communication 9 5. Conclusion 9 6. References 10 3. Introduction Man has been creating images since the first cave paintings over 20,000 years ago. The invention of photography allowed mankind to create an image in a fraction of the time it would take to recreate the same picture by drawing...
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...The United States continues to spend significantly more on health care than any country in the world; however, even though with this statistic the United States has a lot of uninsured and does not have the healthiest citizens. The lack of universal healthcare coverage in the United States has been a forefront issue. With the overwhelming amount of uninsured Americans and the past unsuccessful efforts of health care reform, the possibility of universal health care seemed to be very unlikely. The new healthcare reform bill that was recently passed under Obama’s administration anticipates covering 30 more million of the uninsured (Riegelman, 2010). However, this bill does not offer universal healthcare. While excellent medical care is available in the United States, the rising cost and the U.S. health care delivery system present many challenges for the consumer and lawmakers. This paper addresses four dimensions that are pivotal to the successes and failures of the system: cost, efficiency, quality. The cost of the U.S. health care system is higher than any country in the world. Its efficiency is also under heavy scrutiny. If it were not an emergency most physicians would require insurance verification. Therefore, patients would be delayed of treatment. Moreover, The healthcare system in the U.S. should be redesigned in terms of prevention rather than treatment when people are already sick. Insurance should not go higher for people that have pre-existing conditions or with more...
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...FISCAL POLICY What is fiscal policy? The policy that * Represents the actions of the chancellor * Which involve * Raising taxation revenue, * Government expenditure, * financing government borrowing * For the purpose of * Reducing the National debt… * …To improve economic performance Types of taxation in the UK Direct Taxes 1. Income tax 2. National Insurance contributions 3. Corpration tax 4. Inheritacne tax 5. Council tax Indirect taxes 1. VAT 2. Excsie duty 3. Customs duty Direct versus indirect taxation Direct taxation | Indirect Taxation | * Tax on wealth or income * Usually paid directly to the govt | * Tax on consumption or expenditure. * Paid to govt via another source. | 1. Progressive 2. Good automatic stabilizer 3. Easy to collect 4. Quite slow to change 5. Often distorting eg.tax allowance favouring home purchase 6. Unfair (favours married) | 1. More income intact – freedome to choice 2. Efficient market allocation 3. Fewwer disincentive (discouraging) effects 4. Can change quickly 5. Encourage savings 6. Regressive 7. Efficient but not necessarily equitable (fair) | Rates of taxation – Progressive, regressive, proportional Proportional * Tax is given as a proportion of income. * Rich pay more than the poor, but they both the pay same percentage of income tax. * EG – Hong Kong * ART (Averare tax rate)...
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...Last updated 16.09.2014 Leicestershire Police Registration Form for students at University of Leicester or their dependants (Each family member over 16 who is required to register needs to complete a form) (Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS) PERSONAL DETAILS Family name: ____________________________________________________________________ Forename(s): ____________________________________________________________________ Nationality: __________________________ Date of Birth: (dd/mm/yy) ___________________ Place where you were born: (town / city name) ____________________________________________ Are you: SINGLE MARRIED Date of Marriage: (dd/mm/yy) ________________ Partner’s Full Name: _______________________________________________________________ Names and Birthdates of children under 16: _______________________________________________ Address in the UK: ________________________________________________________________ Address outside the UK: ____________________________________________________________ E-mail address: _______________________ Mobile / telephone no PARTNERS AND OTHER DEPENDENTS WITH A REQUIREMENT TO REGISTER Does your partner or any dependent have a requirement to register? Yes No (If Yes please enter further details below) Partner / Dependent(s) Full Name and Birthdate(s): __________________________________________ Dependents Police Registration Certificate number(s) (if known): _________________________________ PURPOSE OF VISIT TO UK Studying...
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...Scientific Research and Essay Vol.4 (11), pp. 1260-1270, November, 2009 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE ISSN 1992-2248 © 2009 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The role of science and technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement Gazi Mahabubul Alam Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel: +6037967 5077. Fax + 603-7967 5010. Accepted 25 September, 2009 Education is supposed to play a vital role for the development of a nation. Many countries made progression through education. Nevertheless, some of them also failed to retain the development achieved since these countries failed to supply required skilled workforce for emerging economics caused by globalization and rapid change of economic pattern. This now forces policymakers to prioritize the production of skilled manpower that can contribute for sustainable development. The countries that achieved sustainable development have given a high priority to science and technology education in formulating education policy. Bangladesh has no more alternatives in order to gain development, except properly utilizing its population. Bangladesh’s economy and human development could have grown faster than its actual progression in the last 25 years (that is, since independence in 1971), if it had earlier taken substantial steps in educational...
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...QUESTION #2) A1) What is the typical economic growth path described as “modernization” for a developing country? How is it achieved? (You can discuss a particular country’s example). The typical economic growth path described as “modernization” for developing countries presented by the article runs from agriculture through manufacturing and only later to services. As the author explained, the logic supporting the conventional path towards an advanced economy is straightforward and development typically involves moving workers from low-productivity activities such as farming to high-productivity sectors, as industry for instance. The Asian miracle followed this pattern, when cheap labour, raw goods, and lower business costs offered by Southeast Asia countries were key factor in attracting global capital and a shift from agriculture economic-based to manufacturing. However, “the Asian Miracle” faced a serious crisis in 1997 and interrupted the cycle. Nowadays, they started to enter on the service momentum. A2) How is India’s growth apparently refuting usual trend? India’s growth is going straight from agriculture to services, leapfrogging manufacturing, thanks to technology and outsourcing, which allows modern services such as software development, call centers and insurance claims, use skilled workers, exploit economies of scale and export those services worldwide. Going deeper in this case, Ejaz Ghani (2010) explains that the growth experience of India and other...
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...Cost Structure It is easy to increase raw materials, labor and supplies to meet demand but not so easy to buy a new forklift since they are capital investment which require large financial outlays and time for completion A proper understanding of cost structure hinges on the fundamental distinction between fixed costs and variable costs. Fixed costs can be classified into two categories: - (1) committed fixed costs, p - (2) discretionary fixed costs. Committed fixed costs are costs associated with investments in basic organizational assets and structure (e.g., depreciation, insurance expenses, property taxes, and administrative salaries). Such costs are long term in nature (several years) and cannot be significantly reduced in the short term even during periods of diminished activity. In contrast, Discretionary fixed costs (e.g., advertising, repairs and maintenance, research and development) are short term in nature (one year). Such costs can be altered by current managerial decisions with minimal damage to an organization's long-term goals. As a result, these costs are generally the first to be cut during bad times. In terms of per unit and total comparisons, fixed costs that are expressed on a per-unit basis will vary inversely with the level of activity. In other words, unitized fixed costs will decrease as volume increases and vice versa. However, in total, fixed costs remain constant within the relevant range. For example, rent will not increase if a factory...
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...Faculty of Business and Technology Departament of Business and Ecnomics Course Paper: “Economic development in Pogradec through tourism” Student: Kristina Prifti Coach: Vilma Tafani Abstract Zhvillimi ekonomik ne ditet e sotme mbetet prioritet i cdo qeverie per vendin e vet. Cilat jane burimet qe ndikojne ne zhvillimin ekonomik dhe sa trajtohen keto burime per te perfituar maksimalisht prej tyre? Ne kete course paper trajtohet pikerisht zhvillimi ekonomik i qytetit te Pogradecit ne 5 vitet e fundit. Gjithashtu ne te trajtohet jo vetem zhvillimi ekonomik por edhe problematikat e shumat qe hasin bizneset dhe qytetaret ne administrimin e burimeve ekonomike nga bashkia e qytetit. Fokusimi i kesaj teme eshte tek menyra sesi mund te administrohen me mire burimet ekonomike ne te ardhmen dhe cfare masash duhet te marre bashkia per zhvillimin sa me te mire ekonomik te qytetit te vet. Ne fund te ketij course paper jane dhene disa rekomandime sesi mund te permiresohet zhvillimi ekonomik ne te ardhmen nepermjet menaxhimit sa me te mire te burimeve natyrore dhe sektoreve te tjere te ekonomise. Rekomandimi primar eshte qe zhvillimi ekonomik te jete i fokusuar tek ushtrimi i veprimtarise turistike gjate gjithe vitit. Kjo course paper nxjerrdisaperfundimeterendesishme se simundtepermiresohetzhvillimiekonomik...
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...Executive Summary Starbucks is an international coffee corporation which is a special corporation. In the past 40 years, Starbucks gain a huge success. However, in the process of gainning success, Starbucks also faced a lots of challenges. So what the difficulties it suffered and how it solved the problems are very improtant to our corporation’s success. Introduction Starbucks is an international coffee corporation. When Howard Schultz, the chairman & CEO of Starbucks, attended the Commonwealth Club, he said that “ Starbucks is a special company, not a company better than other companies, but a company different from other companies.” Starbucks creates a third place between working place and home which can provide the sense of community and human connection in every Starbucks store. At the same time, Starbucks provides high quality coffee at high price, so the market target of Starbucks should be the middle-class. Background According to the Starbucks Offical Website we can know that the first Starbucks store was opened in Seattle at 1971s. At that time, Starbucks just sold coffee beacons and coffee equipment for people and only has four stores. In 1987s, Starbucks creates its coffee culture. In 1990s, Starbucks expanded beyond seattle and first to the rest of the America. In 1992s, the stock of Starbucks was traded on the NASDAQ National Market. In 2000s, Starbucks has 6,000 stores over 30 countires. In 2010s, Starbucks has 17,000 stores...
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...Principles of ManagementIn the 21st century, oberservers find it increasingly difficult to subdivide management into functional categories in this way. More and more processes simultaneously involve several categories. According to Harold Koontz, “Management is an art of getting things done through and with the people in formally organized groups. It is an art of creating an environment in which people can perform and individuals and can co-operate towards attainment of group goals”... browse notes.Managerial EconomicsManagerial Economics is economics applied in decision-making. It is that branch of economics that serves as a link between abstract theory and managerial practice. Managerial economics is concerned with the business firm and the ecnomic problem that every management need to solve. Economics provides us with a number of concepts and analytical tools to help us understand and analyse such problems. Managerial Economics may be taken as economical applied to problems of choice of alternatives of economic involves analysis of allocation of the resources by the firms. In other words, managerial economics involves analysis of allocation of the resources available to a firm or a unit of management among the activities of that unit... browse notes.Finance or Business AccountingAmerican Accounting Association defines accounting as "the process of identifying, measuring and communicating economic information to permit informed judgements and decisions by users of the information"...
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...1. Why are multinational enterprises (MNEs) sometimes criticized for their activities in host countries, particularly in the Third World? Identify and evaluate these criticisms. A multinational enterprise “owns and controls operations in more than one country.” The headquarters of the MNE are based in the home country and it is referred to as the parent firm. The parent firm has one or more affiliates in a foreign country. The affiliate is known as a foreign affiliate and the foreign country is called the host country. There are many MNEs present throughout the world and the largest include Wal-Mart in the USA, BP in Britain, and Toyota in Japan. In the developing countries PDVSA is the largest MNE. Multinational enterprises use “flows of foreign direct investment” to finance their foreign affiliates. These capital flows change the industrial composition of production and employment in both the home and host countries. The flows are usually small compared to the total financing of the affiliate which also come from lenders and investors. The multinational does not only finance its foreign affiliates through flows of foreign direct investment but also provides affiliates with intangible assets for them to use. These include proprietary technology, “skills specific to the organizational function of the firm”, product differentiation and brand names and large amounts of financial capital. There has been much concern over whether the activities of multinational enterprises...
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...Marketing Plan 2nd Progress Report MKT- 402 Industrial Marketing – J Winter 2014 Semester Presented by: Abrar Salim Rafil Zulqarnain Ramsha Khan 28th September 2014 Situational Analysis Internal Analysis Information technology is globally recognized as a vital tool for accelerated ecnonomic growth, efficient governance and human resource developement. Punjab Information Technology Board [PITB] has taken numerous initiatives to deploy swift, effecgtive and innovative IT solutions in Pakistan & has attained massive accomplishments. Plan 9 is an up and running successful project of PITB. Plan 9 is Pakistan's largest tech incubator. Tech incubators are business assistance programs that serve entrepreneurs that deal with technology. Incubators share office space and administrative services but the the core value that they serve is the incubation program to the start up companies. Plan 9 benefits a variety of economic and socioeconomic policy needs, which includes * creating jobs and wealth * Fostering a community's entreprenuerial climate * Technology commercialication * Diversifying local economies * Encouragin women or minority groups Jobs are created as if a team of 5 people successfully incorporate a startup then they would require more workforce and hence more job opportunites would lead to better economic conditions of the country. Plan 9 gives the opportunity to programmers and software developers and other IT personnel...
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...[pic] Name: Meryem Guessous ID: L0088MIMI1012 Class: Manegirial ecnomics Date: 18th April 2012 Lecturer: Ellie Samsar [pic] Computer Market The free market is one in which producers are free enter and exist. Free market is a modern concept that facilities buyers and sellers by limiting their restrictions. The advantage of free market for consumers is that they can get products at inexpensive prices. The free market is characterized with intense competition that results in price reduction. In the computer industry, manufacturers are facing the challenge of technology advancements. However, the technological advancements do not allow producers to increase the price of their product because the technology becomes obsolete quickly. Product price is an important element of purchase decision as well as of marketing mix. In developing countries where prices of products form a large role in influencing the consumers, price is prevailing among other elements of marketing mix which are product, promotions and distribution. Before setting the prices of product, there are various factors that must be considered by marketers, the most important among them is enviornmental factors which includes competition. From the viewpoint of competition, the firms must consider the impact of their pricing strategies on the prices of competitiors or they must set prices keeping in mind the strategies of competitors. There are different pricing strategies which includes skimming...
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