...A New Society From the reading there are various dimensions of social change which represent the “new society.” Firstly, is the new technological concept, based on the idea of growth, development and constant expansion. It can be seen as the development of an individual or society in a direction considered more advanced than the preceding level. Society and technology are two aspects of humanity that are constantly progressing because of one another. Technology shapes society and social change drives technology, “new information technologies allow the formation of new forms of social organization and social interaction along electronically based information networks.” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2655234) It is a variable in a compound factor in the history of society. The second dimension of social change is globalization. It has become identified with a number of trends, such as the “technological, organizational, and institutional capacity of the core components of a given system.” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2655234) Globalization is the flow of social change. It refers to the “rapidly developing and ever-densening network of interconnections and interdependences that characterize modem social life.” (http://www.pacificdiscovery.org/credit/SEAreadings/Globilization%20and%20Culture%20-%20Tomlinson,%20John.pdf) Globalisation suggests “a world full of movement and mixture, contact and linkages, and persistent cultural interaction and exchange.” (http://www.academia.edu/531131/Tracking_Global_Flows)...
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...billion (x66bn or $90.2bn) together with profits of £3 billion (x3.3bn or $4.5bn). After a dramatic decade-long transformation from purely domestic operator to multinational giant, Tesco now had a remarkable 64 per Source: Getty Images. cent of its operating space outside the UK, was developing increasingly strong businesses across 11 Asian and European markets, had a rapidly expanding ‘start-up’ subsidiary operating in the western USA, and had announced its entry into the Indian market. Moreover, as signalled in both the title of its Annual Report (Value Travels) and the prominence given in that report to its international profile, the firm was publicly expressing its confidence that it had mastered the art of international expansion, so long a weakness of UK retailing. Tesco’s emergence as the world’s third largest retailer, operating 2025 stores and employing 183,600 staff outside the UK by 2008/09, represents one of the most successful examples of strategic diversification by any UK company and offers insight into the role of the ‘corporate strategist’, the CEO. International expansion – from the UK to Central Europe, Asia and North America In the early 1990s Tesco was the UK’s second largest food retailer, lagging behind the market leader Sainsbury’s in terms of sales density, turnover growth and profitability. Over the next decade it managed a remarkable transformation – repositioning itself from its discount roots into a mass market customer-focused retailer serving all segments...
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...ABSTRACT “We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something”- Mark Zuckerberg. With the launch of Facebook, the success and its reach to pinnacle was never doubted. . Initially started by the transformation of Face books; Harvard's paper-backed students directory with the entries regarding bio-data of freshmen, into an online website called Facemash where two photos were randomly being put to be voted who is best, that turned out to be serious business with significant profit potential. As the idea of Facemash was decreed by the school authority an insulting act prompting Zuckerberg to pull the site down, this fall had made Zuckerberg look for a plan to elevate the website to yet another level i.e. by entering into the then nascent social networking arena. This led to the major breakthrough for Facebook’s development. The social networking site introduced initially with the name 'The Facebook' within no time garnered huge amount of signups and registrations, accompanied by downpour of requests from various other schools asking Zuckerberg to avail them with the similar networking site for their school or the license to use the platform established by Facebook for the development of their own networking website for the school. Every development comes with its own flaws Facebook was not an exception. The success triggered various opportunities and problems that were required to be handled...
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...Apple has been listed as one of the most successful electronics companies in the world (Apple’s 2013 10-K). With Steve Jobs back in control at Apple, The Company did anything but rest on its laurels. Of these primary areas in which Apple focuses, the most important of these is its communication and media devices division. AS Suman Chatterjee (2013) writers in an article published on SeekingAlpha.com, “With the release of the iPhone 5 and strong ties with Verizon (with a US market share of 31.9%) and AT&T (with a US market share of 35.4%), Apple’s share in the smartphone market has shown remarkable rise in the recent quarters.” When assessed in terms of market capitalization, Apple is the world’s most valuable company. For the fiscal year ending on September 30th, 2012, Apple’s revenues have vaulted to $156,508 million (Sheehy, 2013). “This quite remarkable transformation was possible because Apple has been instrumental in precipitating...
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...Over the past several decades, Malaysia has experienced remarkable rates of economic growth. Indeed, the real growth in GDP per capita in the period since 1980 has averaged over 3.6 percent, a rate that results in a doubling of income levels in just a 20-year period. By way of comparison, the industrial countries of Britain and the United States realized an average growth in GDP per capita of between 1.3 and 1.8 percent during their own respective periods of industrialization. Yet, relative to the more advanced Newly-Industrializing Economies (NIE) of Singapore; Taiwan, China; and the Republic of Korea, the record of Malaysian growth appears more sobering.1 These countries recorded real per-capita growth rates of 4.4, 5.7 and 7.5 percent, respectively, during the same period. As shown in Figure 1, Malaysia was at a similar level of development as Korea and Taiwan, China in 1980, and yet while these countries have made the transition from middle-income to high-income status during the subsequent decades, Malaysia has found such an evolution more difficult. In addition, Malaysia’s absolute productivity gap with high-income (OECD) countries has also widened; in the case of the industry sector, the productivity differential nearly doubled from $21,786 in 1980-1985 to $38,946 in 2000-2004 (Felipe et al, 2007). After markedly reduced rates of productivity and growth after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, there is a growing concern that emerging markets like Malaysia might fall...
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...Purpose, Focus and Perspective Historians did not give enough attention to the Know Nothing Party which deserved, even though it once was the most prominent party in American history. In contrast, they were inclined to deem the Know Nothings as a negligible footnote to the historical event of a vicissitudinous decade. The Know Nothings superficially advocated protecting the nation from influences of mass Catholics and immigrants, which had drawn a little attention from scholars of American nativism. However, these studies had not clarified the pivotal role of the Know Nothing Party in the political transformations of the 1850s. Besides, fragmentary information regarding the Know Nothings either from state or from local chronicles, which could...
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...the recent years, the Korean entertainment companies are now heavily depending on the YouTube as a key medium for the purpose of spreading of the Korean culture. K-pop music has actually been, and is increasingly music for charlatans. There always been a place for those who are unable to neither play instrument nor sing. This has been ironically 'dressed up' or otherwise inflated with something that is remarkable and excellent. After making a close scrutiny as pertains to the type of music the current K-pop plays, it is apparent that a lot has been neglected and the original test for the music has actually been lost. This may however been highly influenced by the current generation and the fact that many youths are not very keen on the kind of message passed by this particular music but the physically attraction and the kind of costumes by the dancers. Pop and rock music has been, and is increasingly, music for charlatans. There has always been a place for those who can neither sing nor play instruments and this has been "dressed up" or inflated as something remarkable and excellent. Apparently it is certain that the term discipline never exists in the rock musician's existing vocabulary. It requires a couple of years of distinguished in order to be conversant with how to write the kind of music that is composed by Beethoven or even Stravinsky. Not in Korea but most of the pop musicians tend to let amplification to replace the well...
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...and cross state behaviour of the growth ,poverty and inequality and also to examine the relations between them and to see whether the temporal behaviour of the incidence of poverty is compatible with the policy evolution followed since independence Further we re-examine whether the conventional hypothesis that growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the reduction of poverty across the states hold. Finally, we try to find out the proximate explanatory factors for the crossstate and temporal variations in the incidence of poverty in terms panel regression analysis. We find that our economy has indeed achieved a high growth trajectory such that it has been conspicuous during the post reform period with a remarkable structural transformation on an unconventional path which has been accompanied by a tremendous increase in service sector driven growth path. Almost all the states have experienced increase in the growth rates of their real per capita NSDP in varying degrees over the period and the post reform period marks a phase of achievement of very high growth rates for almost all the states. The nature of the growth experienced by the states is found to be divergent .We do not find any uniform relation between temporal behaviour of the growth rates and the Gini inequality across the states Interestingly almost all the states have experienced declining trend in the incidence of poverty in varying degrees during the pre reform period and also over the period...
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...dynamic contexts which demand constant adaptation. In such environment, firms necessitate an effective leadership to guide them through changes that are likely to become difficult for the organization Firms need a vital transformation in order to reinvent themselves. In this sense, organizations require revamping their organizational cultures in order to affect the necessary changes. Transformational leadership is about renovating an organization; it is about transmuting the firm following a new vision which will lead to the evolution of the organization’s culture (see Tichy and Ulrich, 1984). The key attributes of the transformational style of leadership are trusting relationships, and shared vision. These attributes are required of a transformational leader because leaders will be able to create a team environment and have open communication with every employee. This allows the leader to share the vision of the company which makes the leader seem more trustworthy and transparent. A shared vision will also allow the leader and the employee to have a clear understanding what the vision is and know that the vision is focused on the company and the leader. From my personal experience or through observation transformation leadership. Nelson Mandela changed in his country’s political arena all that seems rather minor. But what allowed him to succeed against utterly improbable odds were the same characteristics...
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...dinoflagellates, it has, since the origins of life, evolved and spread to other deep-sea organisms. It is incontrovertible as to whether or not this acclimatization has altered life. However, there exists a dispute as to how it has done so. Some scientists believe that bioluminescence exists solely as an offensive trait, used to attract. Others believe that it is employed only in defensive situations. Regardless of recurrent controversy, it is lucidly demonstrated that rather than one or the other bioluminescence refines all aspects of deep-sea marine life. Final Outline I. Introduction A. As one ventures into the depths of the ocean, the expansive spectrum of the transformations of marine life rapidly emerges. At 100 meters…(Schrope, 2007). B. This is where the most startling and extraordinary transformations of evolution occur. C. In an abyssal world of darkness more than 1,000 meters under the sea, bioluminescent creatures have transmogrified to chemically generate lights within their bodies refining all processes of everyday life. II. Body A. Bioluminescence is chemically produced light, existing predominantly in deep- sea marine creatures. 1. The earliest form of this adaptation was found in simple organisms such as bacterium, plankton and dinoflagellates. 2. While the plankton and dinoflagellates have sustained their inter- luminescence, bacteria have symbiotically spread to the other...
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...Evolution has always been a big question; it is said that we all started from one single ancestor but still unknown to it. When watching the film, it opened my eyes to transformation, I always believed animals came out of the water to explore but it says that they started as land mammals to water animals due to their hands/ find. I have never given much thought to how similar whales are compared to people. Whales having similar characteristic made me wonder how is that possible? Something that looks nothing like us; is the complete opposite of a land mammal still share common ancestors with humans. When Philip Gingerich went to the Sahara Desert, which was once known as the southern Mediterranean Sea, in the Valley of Whales, to find more discoveries...
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...that accompanied the global financial crisis of 2009 initially hit China hard. But they stand strong their economy and quickly returning to growth. In 2011, China formally overtook Japan to become the world's second-largest economy. Todays, the connection between China's economy and global economy is becoming tighter. In addition, more foreigners have expressed their admirations on China's economic achievements. They generally believe that the global economic development cannot go without China. The healthy and steady economic development of China is a huge contribution to the world. As the globalization is accelerating, the mutual dependence between China's economy and global economy has also strengthened. China is developing its transformation of economic growth mode and its economic structural adjustment. China's economic development is also becoming steadier and injecting new energy into the regional and global economy. The negative impact caused by the international financial crisis still has not completely solved but China's steady economic development gives the world's confidence on the early recovery of the global economy. China is categories as the fastest growing country in East Asia. Between the year of 1979 and 2001, Chinese real GDP grew from $177 billion to $1.16 trillion regarding to 2001 prices and real GDP per capita grew from $183 to $920. Besides, the U.S GDP is$10.19 trillion and GDP per capita is $36,840 which respectively 9 and 40 times the comparable...
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...From the Heart: Healthcare Transformation from India to the Cayman Islands From the Heart: Healthcare Transformation from India to the Cayman Islands My immediate thoughts as I began to watch the movie, From the Heart: Healthcare Transformation from India to the Cayman Islands (Horstmeier, 2014), took me back to the time I spent in the hospital for my first born. My daughter was born with a birth defect and lived at University of North Carolina hospital until she passed away at five months old. I was not given a bill and forced to make an unethical decision like many parents around the world before she received any treatment or any of the five surgeries. After she passed away we received a bill for a half a million dollars. This bill was sent to me by mistake and was soon covered entirely by my insurance company. While losing my daughter was heartbreaking, I know that I am blessed. I was blessed to have insurance that covered the bill. The thought of paying for such a large expense and not even having my daughter is unfathomable, but yet this is the case for many parents who are faced with enormous healthcare expenses. The Impact of High Cost Many parents are faced with the inability to pay for critical heart surgeries. The video From the Heart: Healthcare Transformation from India to the Cayman Islands (Horstmeier, 2014), shows the extreme problem with healthcare systems around the world, and the changes Health City is making to the systems in India and the...
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...farms for the expanding urban factories. The mass production of goods by machines heavily increased throughout this period. It was a remarkable period for workers, with wages increasing and conditions improving. By working in a factory people could work all year round, whereas, on a farm, production depended on seasons. This was a massive achievement in America. There was no longer the struggle and unknown of whether or not there would be work that year due to the weather, and this was the major reason for the shift. An innovation that was a major achievement in America was the discovery of new forms of transportation and communication. Changes in transportation allowed cities to spread outward, it allowed factory workers to commute to the factories. Electric streetcars ran from neighborhoods to downtown. This made it easier for people to get around. Changes in transportation also allowed cities to spread outward, they did this by building skyscrapers. Bridges also brought cities closer together. Transportation also made better communication for people. By allowing people to travel more effectively they, in turn,were able to find jobs farther from their homes. For example, if someone was from a small town that only had 20 jobs, he could now travel 20 miles away to a larger city that provided ample opportunity to find a job. With the transformation from rural to the industrial economy there was a major need for workers in the labor force. Although women and children were working...
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...letters showed the strength, courage, and motivation from the men in the Fifty-fourth company. This division was the first all black regiment in Massachusetts during the Civil War. This group consisted of African Americans willing to fight and die for the Union. At first the United States government was undecided about the use of black soldiers in the army and used them in demeaning tasks. Shaw was able to extort higher military officers to persuade them to use his regiment in combat at James Island, South Carolina, and Fort Wagner. His goal was to prove black men are as qualified as a white man on the battlefield. The film presented heroic transformations from men who had nothing to everything to gain. Glory proved an army of colored soldiers could be relied upon to fight with the same persistency and spirit as white soldiers. The remarkable scene of prayer between the soldiers showed there fight was bigger then fighting in war. There fight had to do with men of all colors being treated as equals. In addition, two memorable scenes were when Shaw declined his paycheck and demanded proper clothing for his division. He understood that the war had more to do with acceptence then winning or loosing a battle. The inspiration of Shaws loyalty to his men demonstrated he is a man of character in war and on the battlefield. This inspirational film established that a mans color does not effect his ability to fight in...
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