...Prior to each decision that has to be made, the management team has to set realistic goals. By setting realistic goals we will be able to strategically figure out which direction is most suitable for the direction that we are aiming towards. Realistically as we analyze the world and make comparisons on how businesses functioned 15 years ago to now we would see many differences. By figuring out ways to remove the middleman, that opens doors to create new opportunities. For example, enhancing technology within manufacturers in our various markets. While looking at different companies, their management teams notices that they are valued differently. These changes occur especially within different time periods. The results are mainly due to the way that their operations are being handled. There are many different scenarios in which various situations weren’t handled properly. By properly, I mean that various problems could have occurred that was previously unforeseen. For example, while looking within the Economic times, I noticed that Bank of America Merrill Lynch lowered its forecasts for crude oil prices for 2016 as well as 2017. The main reason for this was due to their global glut in supply. There seems to be an overabundance expected to take place and cause a swift depreciation to occur in China. As a result of the supply being higher this will most likely lead to a decrease in prices overall. As the demand starts to increase then the price level will begin to level out. Now...
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... Conservatives is a group of people is who averse to change and holds traditional values and attitudes, typically in politics. Conservatism defends liberty, good character, the important of religion, economic growth, free market and national defense. They consider themselves as individuals and not in a group, a class meaning rich, middle or poor, or gender terms. They believe that the role of government should be to provide the necessary freedom to pursue their own goals. Their policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve own problems. Here are my reasons as to why Conservatism is a more realistic to human nature 1) Affirmative Action: Individuals should be admitted to schools and hired for jobs based on their ability. It is unfair to use race as a factor in the selection process. This is more realistic because you can’t base a person’s ability based on their race. Its sad that people still make policies that take race, ethnicity or sex into consideration to promote equal opportunities. Isn’t everyone equal, why do people have to make these kind of measurement’s? Those who are qualified for a job opportunity and have the right education for the employment, should be accepted, as their skin color shouldn’t be a factor. Current law protects equal rights for all races, and it’s up to individuals to work hard and succeed according to their abilities. It creates reverse...
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...Realistic Love Love is as fundamental an element of life as of literature. Many would expect love to be noble and moral, but it does take less conventional forms in reality because love is involuntary and, like human nature, cannot be controlled. Different types of love may enlighten or consume people, yet it is beyond doubt that the beauty of love lies in its inevitable power of changing people. And the complexity brought by reality does not impact any of it. In “The Lady with The Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov, the extramarital love between Gurov and Anna is exhibited by the transformation of Gurov in terms of his perspective about women and about life. In the very beginning, Anna is described as “nobody knew who she was, and they called her simply ‘the lady with the little dog’”(361). This is, when Gurov is still a chauvinistic man who has been trapped in a loveless marriage for years. It may disgust the reader when it is indicated that he is an experienced seducer. His affairs always end badly, but he cannot resist starting new ones. His doomed adulteries have made him cynical and bitter. Gurov is unfavorablely characterized with manipulation, misogyny, and immorality, and yet Chekhov refuses to simplify his protagonist as a stock villain. Gurov is a creature of contradiction. For example, his way of belittling women, indicated by “almost always spoke ill of women”, “an inferior race”(362), accompanies an inexorable preference for their company. Gurov can...
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...Breaking Bad Was Realistic Breaking Bad Was Realistic Perhaps some of what was written in Breaking Bad was over kill. A story of an average now middle class family, with a full time mother, and a father that works two jobs, goes haywire. Walter discovers that he can cook meth and make more money in a short time than he could in a full career as a chemistry teacher. Setting a dollar amount on his new career choice, telling himself he will quit when he reaches that amount. Yet every time he has a new reason to continue. All the while keeping his new life hidden from his family, essentially living a double life. It can be said that Breaking bad accurately portrayed today’s society in regards to families suffering from the economic decline, health care system, money laundering, greed and self-destruction from power. Success is sometimes measured in different ways and Mr. White’s story is an example of this fact. He started out as a successful scientist and business man with a promising future. He was persuaded to believe that the company he owned with is partner was failing and he decided to sell his portion to get out only to find that he would struggle to replace his former income. Working two jobs to support his family, neither of them what he imagined he would be doing with his master degree in Chemistry. He was over qualified by his standards to be a Chemistry teacher in a local high school by day and a car wash cashier by night. Mr...
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...Jessica Blaine Professor Stevens English 002 4 March 2014 The Optimistic Shepherd and the Realistic Nymph Carpe Diem has this beautiful and romantic connotation that no optimist can help but become giddy at the thought of the endless possibilities. These words to a realist however would cause a rolling of the eyes and the thought, “it must nice” going through their mind. So, which is right, to live the fantasy of only thinking about this moment or to take off the veil over your eyes and to take on life head on? In his poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Christopher Marlowe writes about a young shepherd in love. Marlowe main focus is on the argument that the shepherd is trying to make to his love, pleading with her to come live with him and enjoy the pleasures of the life. In his poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Sir Walter Raleigh uses the young girl as the speaker responding to the shepherd in direct response to Marlowe’s poem. The young girl thinks realistically and points out the flaws in the perfect life the young shepherd has proposed to her. The shepherd seems to be very much of an optimist, whereas the young girl is a realist. Looking closely on both poems you can see the first one presents dreams, hopes, material goods, and objects while the other poem presents reality. The arrangement of these two poems is the same where both have six stanzas containing four lines each. In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" the young shepherd largely uses nature...
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...Radical Reconstruction was not realistic because a sweeping change in only about 12 years this was not long enough to make the change America wanted for herself. There were a few successes in the Reconstruction such as unifying the United States and the confederate states acknowledging the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments as well as pledging loyal to the United States Government. However, many historians have deemed Radical Reconstruction a failure. There were major social and political changes however; many of these changes did not yield the results many had hoped. A major social change happened for African Americans when they were freed from slavery however they were still treated like slaves (black code) and many more steps had to be taken...
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...Fair Trade is Not a Realistic Trading System For fair trade to work in a global world economy a lot of change must take place. These changes aren’t small either. One of its biggest obstacles is free trade. That in itself is a monumental task in changing the mind set of big businesses and in some cases entire countries, especially third world countries. Free trade in a global economy only allows those with the power to determine what kind of compensation and benefits the employee will receive. Such is the case in third world ands communist countries where the government dictates the values. To change this, businesses that trade with these countries for goods and services must insist on fair trade. For the global economy to embrace fair trade, which means that the work you put in, and the goods and services that you are acquiring, must come from a source that is trading fairly with its farmers and manufacturing companies. There is no way that this is going to happen in a company that operates in a third world country. The governments in those countries are the ones setting the standards, brutalizing businesses to the point where they have to lie to protect themselves and say yes, they are getting fair trade for their goods, when it is not true. Then there are the countries that have embraced capitalism and with capitalism comes free trade. Free trade is not free for most businesses and farmers. Free trade is exploitive by nature, where companies and countries will make the biggest...
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...INTRODUCTION The theory of organisations attempt in providing Realistic Job Previews (RJPs) has drawn extensive consideration for both educational scholars and practitioners concerned with human resource (HR) recruitment and selection. Organisations use RJPs before a candidate has accepted a job offer, it is used in order to provide job applicants information on both negative and positive aspects of the job (Breaugh 1983). For the rationale of this literature review, we uphold Schreurs’ and Syed’s (2011) explanation of RJP seeing that demonstrates the important position of recruitment practices in enhancing to achieve an organisation’s strategic objectives. This literature review aims to address this through the research conducted by various authors. This review will begin with emphasizing on the purposes of all the findings, subsequently, investigating the current theories in the literature on RJPs by communicating how they are conventionally treated as divergent proportions of the recruitment process. Following the methodological study, outcomes will be discussed, with explicit consideration of RJPs limitations and recommendation to expand on a more effective realistic recruitment processes. PURPOSE Considerable amount of research has been performed on the impact RJPs have on job applicants’ expectations, satisfaction and employee turnover. Schreurs and Syed (2011) show the importance of RJPs in the recruitment function. RJPs meet the expectations of job applicants (Breaugh...
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...Find and discern the appropriate data to determine a realistic assessment Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/find-discern-appropriate-data-determine-realistic-assessment/ Find and discern the appropriate data to determine a realistic assessment of the weighted average cost of capital for a firm of your choosing. Search for data from several sources, use subjective judgment to determine which data to use or discard, use subjective judgment to determine which calculation gives a more acceptable estimate and make some simplifying assumptions. Organization of the paper should be as follows: ( I only need 4 through V7) 1.Title page 2. Table of Contents 3. Introduction/Background (2-3 pages) This section should include background on the company that has been chosen. 4. Pages showing equations with data and brief description There is no page length given for this as it can vary greatly. This section is to be divided up based on the topics. In each section, you must show and explain the equations that are used. In addition, you are to draw any conclusions on the company you can from this data. Please note that detailed worksheets showing all of the calculations for this section are to be included in an appendix. • Cost of Equity (Common Stock) • Beta from Regression and two Betas from analysts • Beta Chosen for CAPM and why • Capital Assets Pricing Model (include how determined RF and[ RM or (RM – RF)] • Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) (only if...
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...The Realistic Outlook on Life When we were young and our future was a distant object that was the least of our worries, we all had ambitions, dreams, and hopes. In "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns, one famous line is, “the best laid schemes of mice and men go aft astray, and leave us not but pain and sorrow for promised joy". This quote represents how all of our plans can seem perfect until something unforeseen appears and unexpectedly ruins them. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck George and Crooks are two examples of characters suffering tragic hardships when their “best laid schemes” don’t go as planned. George had an unstoppable ambition and longing to have his own farm and live the American dream. George's mind begins to wander...
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...News media from its inception has stood for only one thing - Free Speech. From its early days of spreading government proclamations to exposing corruption underneath, they have come a long way in becoming a reliable standard for truth around the world. Yet, inefficiencies have crept in. The world has shaken by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. scandal. In India the situation is different. Deeply rooted corruption is gnawing through the system insidiously, leading to not only a lack of transparency, but questions pertaining to the authenticity of it. Dr. Subhash Chandra, Chairman of Essel Group, opines about the irony of the shackling of news agency by external elements, the same of which were founded by freedom fighters like Raja Ram Mohan Roy to "inform and empower people”. Transparency in the ownership nullifies the basic assumption about news, i.e. the absence of biases. Furthermore, the hunger for TRP's have driven television programs, including news media to focus not only on impertinent matters, but also have led to sensationalization of matters with no productive value. With these points in mind, three courses of action are recommended. Firstly, the lack of transparency in news media has to be addressed by news media coming under the ambit of Right to Information Act, 2002. Even though private bodies are exempt from this act, a body that concerns itself with the functioning of the Government of India and carries so much clout as to controlling, more importantly swaying...
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...Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Realistic Saga of Black Female Slavery by Vaseem G Qureshi Margaret Atwood in The New York Times Book Review says about The Beloved by Toni Morrison as thus: In the book, the other world exists and magic works, and the prose is up to it. If you can believe page one – and Ms Morrison’s verbal authority compels belief – you’re hooked on the rest of the book. (Atwood, 1993, 35) Toni Morrison’s fifth novel, Beloved (1987) explores the degradation imposed upon all African slaves of America. The novel is about matrilineal ancestry and the relationships among enslaved, freed, alive and dead mothers and daughters. The text is so grounded in historical reality that it could be used to teach American history classes. The protagonist of the novel, Sethe’s character is based on a factual slave woman Margaret Garner in an exaggerated way. For Random House project, The Black Book (1974), “scrap book” of three hundred years of the folk journey of Black America, Morrison had to gather details for the text. A fugitive from Kentucky, Garner attempted to kill her children rather than having them re-enslaved when they were all captured in Ohio in 1850. She succeeded in killing only one, however, whose throat she slashed. Acknowledging that she had indeed conducted research while writing Beloved, Morrison told Martha Darling: I did research about a lot of things in this book in order to narrow it, to make it narrow and deep, but I did not do much research on Margaret...
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...P3 Explain possible influences on dietary intake There are many influences that may affect an individual and their diet. There are various amounts of factors that may affect an individual factors such as medical disorders, personal preference, lifestyle and socio-cultural factors. There are many underlying health conditions that result in an individual having to alternate their dietary intake. It’s always important that an individual eats healthy, but because of not being able to eat certain foods because of medical disorders eating balanced and even healthy becomes more complicated. An individual can be having a medical disorder that can determine their diet; this could be anything from allergies and intolerance. For example, person that is lactose intolerant will not be able to eat dairy products as this can skill up reactions in which they can be prevented. There will be a person that is lactose intolerant will be deficient in calcium. They are not receiving enough calcium in order for their bones to keep strong. Medical disorders – Anorexia nervosa Dahlia smith is 19 years old female experiencing anorexia nervosa, was admitted to a mental health centre inpatient unit weighing 60lb with liver, kidney and pancreases damaged. Dahlia was hospitalized for 59 days. All privileges had to be earned. Access to food was controlled by the staff. For pounds gained privileges were arranged, for pound lost privileges were shortened. Dahlia eating behaviour was viewed as an unconscious...
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...How realistic is it for the UK government to think nuclear power has a role to play in plugging the energy gap? Introduction In recent years there has been much debate about the energy gap in the UK. According to Black (2005) the “energy gap” is the shortfall of fossil oil, natural gas and other fossil fuels, and this phenomenon is due to there is an increase trend for the need of fuels in Britain. However, we must face the phenomenon that fossil fuels will run out in the near future. Due to this energy gap, we need to look for alternative sources of energy, and the UK government wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, so they believe that nuclear power can close the energy gap. However, critics have pointed out the dangers of using nuclear power. This report will examine how realistic the UK government is being in believing that nuclear power can successfully close the energy gap. It will begin with a literature review highlighting the main advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear power. Next the key issues will be analysed and discuss. Finally, a conclusion will be drawn. Literature Review One of the main arguments in favour of using nuclear power to close the UK energy gap is that are 70 per cent of our low-carbon electricity comes from nuclear energy in UK. (Nuclear Industry Association, 2012) In addition, the Nuclear Industry Association (2012) have showed the nuclear stations reduce 7% to 14% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, and...
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...Latatsha Keeten Eco / 561 July 28, 2014 Genevieve Turano Introduction The United States health care system relies heavily on private health insurance, which is the main source of coverage for most Americans. According to the Center of Disease Control, approximately 58% of Americans have private health insurance. The primary public programs are Medicare, a federal social insurance program for seniors and certain disabled individuals and Medicaid, also referred to as Medical. These two are funded jointly by the federal government and states but managed at the state level, which covers certain very low income children and their families. Health advocacy companies initiated to become visible to assist patients muddle through the complexities of the healthcare system (Wikipedia, 2014). In 2010 President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This Act includes individual mandate that every American must have medical insurance or pay a fine at tax time (Obama Care Facts, 2014). Before the enhancement of medical expense insurance, patients were presumed to pay health care costs out of their own pockets, which is known as the fee-for-service professional standard. Hospital and medical expense policies were introduced during the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, individual hospitals began offering services to individuals on a pre-paid base, eventually leading to the development of Blue Cross organizations. The predecessors...
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