...Franklin 1. The claim Franklin makes is in paragraph 1 “I wish’d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into.” which explains that he hopes for a life of perfection; or to lead through a fault-free lifestyle. 2. The counter-argument is in the last paragraph, Franklin states how concentrating on one thing may cause a weakening in another, eventually leading oneself into imperfection. 3. One of his grounds are when he makes a “little Book” to record any faults made to later examine them so that he can improve towards perfection. Another ground he makes is the list of thirteen virtues that he has picked up from other writers and made into his own so that he can follow and perfect them daily. 4. An objection to his book records that he keeps is that he cannot be entirely perfect because of the daily obstacles that he does have control over which can cause him to be at fault regardless of how careful he is. 5. The rebuttal is presented after he explains how focus on one virtue can lack attention to another by counterstating that he can extend his concentration for all the virtues, which can predominantly keep him free of any faults. Didion 1. The essay “On Self-Respect” claims how self-respect is key to guideline a responsible and successful life. She states, “Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect...
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...Introduction: Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States of America – USA from 1912 through the first world war – WW1. At the end of the war in 1918, he distinguished himself as the greatest political figure in the international arena with his vision for strong international peace body which he elaborated in his fourteen points speech. (UNOG, Online: 2009) The fourteenth point of his speech was the formation on League of Nations which will usher in justice, peace, freedom and concord. The major participants in the formation of the league of the nation were the Great Britain, France, and the United States of America to preserve the future global peace and forestall such conflicts like first world war. (University of Virginia, Online: 2009)The League was based on the covenant which was written into the Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties and provided for an assembly, a council and a secretariat with each section vested with a task to help the league maintain peace (UNOG, Online: 2009) Franklin D. Roosevelt the President of the United States of America, Winston Churchill the Prime Minister of the Great Britain and other notable leaders reasoned that the destructive consequences of WW2 warranted the call to form an international organization which would play a vital role in achieving the global peace. (US Department of States, Online:2005 and National Archives, Online: 2009) Hence, the United Nations replaced the League of the Nations after the...
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...In this essay I will be discussing the impact and significance of the Depression as a barometer of governmental success and failures. I will also explain how the harsh economic times impacted the governments of Europe as well as the maintenance of international peace. In order to support my views I will provide multiple examples to support my views. The Great Depression was a horrific economic depression that impacted countries all over the world in the 20th Century. Some of these effect were long lived and took years to recover. Some of the effects from the Great Depression still happens in today’s society such as rise in unemployment, crime rates and prostitution. As well as the lack of funds for healthcare and public education. The US Great Depression lasted from October 1929 until Franklin D. Roosevelt became President in 1933. The Great Depression disrupted the lives of the Americans because for many years the government and the American people had been on a high for so long and within a blink of an eye the world as so many had grown to know came crashing down. One success which came from the government after the Great Depression was it improved the economic system of the United States. President Roosevelt faced the economic depression head-on once he was elected in office. Within his first 100 days in office, he and his administration created numerous institutions which had been neglected for hundred of years. Alot of the programs that were created were very appreciated...
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...Introduction This essay introduces that Human Resource (HR) is the most important asset of an organization. The essay will share with the reader insights on why the human resources, or mostly referred as employees, are the key to successful organizations. This paper will cover on how employees’ contribution will impact companies’ competitive advantage and help achieve their goals and performances; and how employees play a vital role in productivity and improve processes through their skills, expertise and experiences. This in return contributes to the overall organizational success. Employees as a Competitive Advantage Employees are the heartbeat for companies. According to Armstrong and Baron (2002), a company can leverage on their people and their collective skills, abilities, and experience, coupled with their aptitude to implement the interests of the company, thus producing a competitive advantage for the company against its competitors. Each employee contributes differently to the company across the various departments and functions that they are in. Therefore, it is the employer’s responsibility to recognize the value and the quality of each employee, and to be able to see them as valuable and not a liability to the company they are part of (Goessl 2013). As a result, the company will cultivate its effort to ensure that their employees are valued and retained. Retaining a steady pool of employees will contribute greatly to both short-term benefits and long-term...
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...An Essay: An evaluation of how workplace practice is influenced and directed by a specific social policy. Social policy is “the theoretical pursuit of norms about how we think society ‘ought’ to behave” (Alcock et al. 2008) in action it consists of plans and interventions put in place by the government and social services to improve the wellbeing of society. There are five main areas influenced by social policies derived to improve services for the classic welfare state namely, education, housing, social security, health and social work. Social policy is intimately concerned with how to address and ameliorate social problems and with the analysis of the success or failure of policies designed to improve welfare and wellbeing (Alcock et all. 2008:2-3) Historically social policy can be seen as far back as 1388 when “attempts were made to fix wages and to limit the mobility of labour which may cause wages to rise” (Alcock, 2008:9) a more methodical system of poor relief was introduced in Victorian times, the Elizabethan Poor Law Acts of 1598 and 1601 to house and provide work for the poor under the direction of local parishes. Following this the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 set the foundations for social policy and the modern welfare state today by changing the way that poor law was dealt with, it was streamlined into universal laws and principles that towards the end of the 18th century prompted formation of the English government. The...
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...[More Titles by Allen] "He was a mere amateur; but still, he did some good work in science." Increasingly of late years I have heard these condescending words uttered, in the fatherland of Bacon, of Newton, of Darwin, when some Bates or Spottiswoode has been gathered to his fathers. It was not so once. Time was when all English science was the work of amateurs--and very well indeed the amateurs did it. I don't think anybody who does me the honour to cognise my humble individuality at all will ever be likely to mistake me for a _laudator temporis acti_. On the contrary, so far as I can see, the past seems generally to have been such a distinct failure all along the line that the one lesson we have to learn from it is, to go and do otherwise. I am one on that point with Shelley and Rousseau. But it does not follow, because most old things are bad, that all new things and rising things are necessarily and indisputably in their own nature excellent. Novelties, too, may be retrograde. And even our great-grandfathers occasionally blundered upon something good in which we should do well to imitate them. The amateurishness of old English science was one of these good things now in course of abolition by the fashionable process of Germanisation. Don't imagine it was only for France that 1870 was fatal. The sad successes of that deadly year sent a wave of triumphant Teutonism over the face of Europe. I suppose it is natural to man to worship success; but ever since 1870 it is certainly...
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...Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions 4 Why some Microfinance are not sustainable Solution Evaluation Conclusion References Introduction Microfinance has existed in various forms for centuries, and even longer in Asia, where informal lending and borrowing stretches back for several thousand years. However, the birth of ‘modern’ microfinance is said to have occurred in the mid 1970s in rural Bangladesh. There, in the midst of a famine, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, professor of economics at the University of Chittagong, was becoming disillusioned with the abstract theories of economics that failed to explain why so many poor people were starving in Bangladesh (Jacques, 2010). Dr. Muhammad Yunus saw this challenge, determined to find a practical solution he lend money with zero interest, and Grameen Bank Project was born, it grew rapidly with more than six million borrowers as at 2006. Inspired by the success of the Grameen Bank, the 1970s and 80s saw rapid growth in the number of new micro-finance institutions appearing around the world, many of them started by NGOs and funded by grants and subsidies from public and private sources. The future of microfinance is hard to forecast, but several estimates suggest that 500 million to 1.5 billion people still lack access to financial services that could strengthen their economic situation and improve their life conditions (Jacques, 2010). Additionally, 2.5 billion young people will become adults within...
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...Curriculum Design Word Count: 3300 Introduction: This essay serves as a guide to my Enterprise Market Stall Short Course. This is a Six-week course with the purpose of providing learners with the experience of forming, planning and then running their own business. This guide will begin with an overview of the course, its structure, aims and objectives. Next, the need for the course will be examined alongside the significance of the environment that has created the need for such a course. The curriculum approach will be discussed in order to determine the validity of the course. Finally, the feasibility of the course will be revealed, bringing the essay to an end with a conclusion that will confirm the future of such a course. Experiential Learning will be recurring theme throughout this guide, as the emphasis on the need for practical learning will be promoted. About The Course My proposed course is called, the Enterprise Market Stall Short Course. The aim of this course is to equip learners with the skills needed to contribute to the running of a project, including the planning, delivery and review phases. The course will cover resource planning for a project, communication with stakeholders along with individual and overall project performance review. Students will be challenged and will develop transferrable skills by engaging in real time live business opportunities and in most cases experience the realities of planning and launching their own enterprise...
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...Realism of the 20th century was peculiar with the influence of modernism and psychologism. However, it was characterized by its attention to details, as well as its attempt to recreate reality as it was, without any decorative language. It tried to reproduce the most detail and objective life of Great Britain before and after World Wars. Realism represented the social life and paid much attention to domestic problems. Its representatives showed tragic vision of life using satire and dark humour, but still their vision of life is much more optimistic than the modernistic one. Talking about their characters, they were social types depicted in their everyday life dealing with their virtues, morals, profession, relationships, worldview etc. Narrative form used by realists is characterized by several narrative characters in order to create an objective vision of life. The most prominent among the writers who continued the traditions of realism were: J. Galsworthy, A. Bennett, H. Wells, B. Shaw; and their followers R. Aldington, G. Orwell, J. Priestley, and E. Waugh. The Novel is certainly the most important literary form of the period. The realistic novel is represented by such novelistic forms as: the social and social-psychological novel (J. Galsworthy, E. Waugh, R. Aldington) the social-domestic novel (A. Bennett, H. Wells) the comic or satirical novel (E. Waugh) family chronicle or epic cycle (J. Galsworthy) science fiction (H. Wells). Despite all this...
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...| Historical Essay: | Confederation and Constitution | | Jason Sherman | | | The Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, was adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. However, sanction of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781. The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, which resulted in most of the power residing with the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The present United States Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789 (Researchers, 2013). Some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that ultimately resulted in failure were the fact that each state only had one vote in Congress, regardless of size, Congress did not have the power to tax, Congress did not have the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce, there was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by Congress, there was no nation court system, Amendments to the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote, and laws required a 9/13 majority to pass in Congress. Under the Articles of Confederation, states often argued amongst themselves. They also refused to financially support the national government, who was also powerless to enforce any acts it did pass. Some states began making agreements...
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...The Haitian Revolution was influenced initially by events in France, especially the French Revolution of 1789. According to Yvette Taylor Kanarick in Caribbean History Core Course, “The events unfolding in France were to profoundly affect the course of the St.Domingue revolution.”1 On August 26, 1789, the newly convened Estates General passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. France was divided into a rigid oppressive social class system just as St.Domingue. The first and second classes were made up of the clergy and the nobility, the third class was made up of all others from lawyers down to peasants. This unequal class structure created the atmosphere for the oppressed persons to fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. Upon the outbreak of the French Revolution, the people of St.Domingue, who were also French subjects, demanded their share of the slogan of liberty, equality and fraternity. This demand resulted in several conflicts between the different classes, which will later impact the revolt of the enslaved persons in the colony. The different classes were fighting for different reasons. The white plantocracy wanted equality with the whites in France and to rid themselves of the royalist bureaucracy to which they were subjected. The free coloureds on the other hand wanted equality with the whites politically and socially as well as an end to discriminations against them, while the enslaved people just simply grasped the opportunity to seek their freedom...
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...The Confederation and the Constitution | | | | | Shortly after Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the delegates at the Second Continental Congress agreed that a new government was necessary to govern the now-independent colonies. After much debate, they drafted and adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777. Although the Articles were not officially ratified until 1781, they served as the actual constitution until that time. Under the authority of the Articles, the states created a national Congress comprised of annually elected delegates from all thirteen states. Each state had one vote in Congress, and, in most cases, decisions were made based on majority rule. The National Congress’ powers over the states were specific and definite: it had the sole power to negotiate treaties, declare war, and make peace. It also reserved the right to maintain an army and navy and regulated interaction with Native Americans in the West. The delegates also granted Congress the power to resolve interstate disputes, grant loans, print money, and operate a national postal system. Eventually, Congress was also authorized to govern western territories until they achieved statehood. All powers not granted to Congress were reserved for state governments. Congress had no power to levy taxes. For example, it could only request that the individual states raise revenue to cover their share of national expenses. Furthermore, any amendments made to the Articles...
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...by Wilkie Collins THE AUTHOR William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London, the son of a successful landscape painter and member of the Royal Academy, who was also very strict with both his religion and his money. While his son inherited much of his father’s parsimony, he rebelled against the strict morality of his upbringing, and against Victorian morality in general. After the death of his father, he scandalized his family and friends by setting up housekeeping with Caroline Graves, a young woman who already had a daughter, and presumably a husband. Even when the opportunity presented itself later in life, he refused to marry her, encouraged her to marry another man, and then moved in with her again when that marriage failed. In the meantime, he kept a mistress on the side, Martha Rudd, by whom he had three children. At his death, he divided his estate equally between his two mistresses and two families. Through much of his life, he was plagued by bad health. He was small and somewhat deformed, and rheumatism contracted in his thirties caused him to take increasingly-large doses of laudanum. He himself admitted that he was a bit of a hypochondriac, and eventually became a recluse much like Frederick Fairlie in The Woman in White. To please his parents, he tried the tea business for five years and later studied law, but had no love for either pursuit. He was drawn to the arts, as was his brother Charles, who for a time worked among the Pre-Raphaelites...
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...Wal-Mart Case Study | | Aneesha Radia | | 09466782 | 1/28/2013 | | Contents 1. How attractive was the discount retailing industry in the USA when Wal-Mart first began operations in the 1950s? 3 THE THREAT OF ENTRY 3 THE DEGREE OF RIVALRY 3 THE THREAT OF SUBSTITUES 3 BARGAINING POWER OF BUYERS 4 SUPPLIER POWER 4 2. With reference to the key components of its Business Model, describe the sources of Wal-Mart’s competitive advantage in the USA 4 FIRM INFASTRUCTURE 4 HUMAN RESOURCES 5 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 5 PROCUREMENT 5 INBOUND LOGISTICS 5 OPERATIONS 5 MARKETING AND SALES 6 3. How sustainable is Wal-Mart’s competitive advantage in discount retailing in the USA? 6 IMITATION 6 SUSTITUTION 6 SLACK 7 HOLD-UP 7 4. With reference to Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm of foreign direct Investment (FDI), compare and contrast Wal-Mart’s entry into the German market in 1997 with it’s subsequent entry into the UK market in 1999. Why was Wal-Mart unsuccessful in Germany, withdrawing in 2006, and relatively successful in the UK? 7 FIRM SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES 7 LOCATION SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES 8 INTERNALIZATION 9 APPENDICIES 10 APPENDIX 1 10 SOURCE: GOOGLE IMAGES 10 APPENDIX 2 10 SOURCE: GOOGLE IMAGES 10 APPENDIX 3 11 SOURCE: GOOGLE IMAGES APPENDIX 4 11 SOURCE: GOOGLE IMAGES 11 REFERENCES 12 1. How attractive was the discount retailing industry in the USA when Wal-Mart first began operations in the 1950s? Wal-mart evolved...
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...economy and became widely recognized while he was still alive. The man who 75 years ago wrote an essay “The Economic Possibilities for our Grand Children” brought very important issues to our attention. Keynes wondered what kind of world our children would live in, and what sort of tools would they need to succeed and be happy. So what do we know about this extraordinary man, and how did his economic views change our lives? In order to know why Keynes was a successful economist, it is important to know where he came from. John Maynard Keynes was born June 5, 1883 in Cambridge England. His father was an economist and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and his mother was a local social reformer. With the assistance and coaching of his parents, Keynes was successful throughout his time in school. Many people were not surprised that Keynes became an economist since his father was a professor of economics. He was good at managing his own finances. His investments with foreign money made him a wealthy man. This allowed him to sponsor the classic ballet along with his Russian wife, a classic ballet dancer. In Grossak’s (1978) article he explains how Keynes did not plan on becoming an economist. He did not study economics until his senior year at college, and although his professors encouraged him to continue on with economics he chose a job in civil service. Keynes felt that when it came to economic theory, there was nothing more to be taught. (Grossak’s,...
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