...Wesley Davis Whitten English 102 7 March 2012 Global Domination or Justified Accommodation From the end of World War I in 1918 to present day, the United States of America has not proceeded one decade without being involved in some sort of foreign affair. In today’s society, the thoughts of an ongoing war and the immense outreach of the United States government linger in far distance of the American public’s minds. Why is this possible? Is it because Americans do not care for foreign policy and the rest of the world or is it maybe the absence of information provided by the mainstream media? Whether the deficit of media involvement or the lack of interest of many citizens, the United States’ foreign policy is of relevant importance when handling the world and its issue’s. These issues and the toll of repairing them are strenuous on America’s economy. How can we help others when we cannot help ourselves? The United States foreign policy is outreached, overextended and needs to be revised. Since the end of the “Great War” in 1918, the United States has accumulated a great number of military bases around the globe. It seems that the U.S. military posts and maintains military presence in every country it has ever had affiliations with. This occupancy is outdated, unnecessary, and is draining billions of dollars from American taxpayers. “As of 2010, the United States government has spent $700 billion yearly for national defense” (Lutz p. 9). The United States needs to stop...
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...Netflix in Action The Netflix rise had many factors but the greatest was that the CEO Reed Hastings decided to invest in his streaming technology and did not want to follow the same business strategy that others used. It was this kind of innovative thinking that has made Netflix the conglomerate giant that it is today. This story is a great example of Management in action because like all businesses Netflix was a tiny company with very small revenues and within 5 years had a tremendous amount of growth, now it dominates the online streaming market. Blockbuster was very successful for many years and a firm control over the market. With over 25,000 employees and over 8,000 stores and valued at $8 billion dollars in 2005 it dominated its industry. Since 2000 when only a few Americans had broadband, Hastings knew that cassettes would be a thing of the past. His mailing DVD system was good but he knew what the future would bring. He knew that he needed something universal and that would be user friendly. He had originally designed a box but it required 16 hours of download time and knew this would not be as popular and later abandoned that project. Once broadband became faster Hastings knew this was the perfect time to favor his online streaming creation. Blockbuster who was aware of this upcoming threat, decided to focus on sales and expanded its stores to sell other merchandise as well. Hastings took a different approach and wanted to save operating costs and decided no retail...
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...What is the business case that is driving LeasePlan’s interest in managing diversity? Discuss. Based on the fact that in LeasePlan there is more women than man employees (450 employes), but for the top executives is dominating by man. There is a basic diversity in LeasePlan which is gender, that’s why LeasePlan began an effort to transform its corporate culture changing the old system and promote more women. Executives hired a consultant to offer women career counseling, revised the company’s pay plan to stress performance over longevity, and displaced some longtime managers. Compare and contrast the extent to which LeasePlan is using principles from affirmative action and managing diversity. Explain your rationale. Affirmative action is a good way to avoid discrimination in the workplace, however this method really hard to brought the maximal performance of the company like LeasePlan that dominated by women employee. The affirmative action mostly suitable to employees that don’t want to get out of the comfort zone. Managing diversity in other hand give the solution to make the employees especially for women to give their maximum potential. To avoid the unstable structure that will created if the attention mostly to the managing women potential the LeasePlan does not manage it directly but they hired Pathbuilders, Inc., an Atlanta human-resources consultancy that focuses on women, to craft a program that includes a skills assessment, career guidance, and tips on communicating...
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...Themes and motifs in"Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Themes The Injustice of Existence Unfairness dominates the lives of Tess and her family to such an extent that it begins to seem like a general aspect of human existence in Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Tess does not mean to kill Prince, but she is punished anyway, just as she is unfairly punished for her own rape by Alec. Nor is there justice waiting in heaven. Christianity teaches that there is compensation in the afterlife for unhappiness suffered in this life, but the only devout Christian encountered in the novel may be the reverend, Mr. Clare, who seems more or less content in his life anyway. For others in their misery, Christianity offers little solace of heavenly justice. Mrs. Durbeyfield never mentions otherworldly rewards. The converted Alec preaches heavenly justice for earthly sinners, but his faith seems shallow and insincere. Generally, the moral atmosphere of the novel is not Christian justice at all, but pagan injustice. The forces that rule human life are absolutely unpredictable and not necessarily well-disposed to us. The pre-Christian rituals practiced by the farm workers at the opening of the novel, and Tess’s final rest at Stonehenge at the end, remind us of a world where the gods are not just and fair, but whimsical and uncaring. When the narrator concludes the novel with the statement that “‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals (in the Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess...
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...rung. He is simply blinded by his mistress’ beauty; unable to describe anything other than her appearance and subsequently treats her as an object as opposed to an intelligent being. Unlike much of Donne’s other poetry which tends to prefer pure and platonic love as opposed to lust, making this poem unusual amongst his other works. This may seem to establish the narrator as subjectively superior and thus the lovers unequal. However on closer analysis this may be found not to be the case as the poem points to the mistress having an unassuming power over the narrator. The woman’s role is established even before the poem begins as Donne describes her as “His Mistress”. The use of the possessive “His” implies ownership and foreshadows the domination that the narrator will lord over her throughout the poem. The term “mistress”, because it is not clearly defined who the woman is in relation to Donne, forces readers to make assumptions about the connotations behind the word and how it reflects upon the unknown woman. To a contemporary audience the word would most likely be interpreted as her having a sexual role in the play and as she is not his wife she is simply there for the narrator’s entertainment. This ambiguity about her identity leads to her being reduced to a stereotype with a set role to play rather than an individual that the narrator must interact with. One could even argue that it dehumanises her and allows the narrator to act this way with little to no remorse or empathy...
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...everybody, especially for girls who are generally less active than boys. There is barrier that makes girls tend not to take enough of an active role in sport both in school and in adult life. Popular sport dominated by men. Football, basketball boxing or Motorsport is exactly to be male dominated. That make the barrier to participation in sport is that sport itself. I believe that popular sport has been defined, organized, promoted as a male activity. For example, some women/girls are turned off sport altogether because they see it as a male dominated activity. It is just not seen as feminine to be interested in sport and for many girls, being sporty is felt to be odds with being feminine. Women and girls are often reminded of this male domination by others who are surprised to see them participating or competing in sport. Working in a sector where they are a minority can make them feel that they don’t belong. They tend to prefer the social aspects of physical activity like having fun and making friends. So it is very important to find the right sport for girls, because a girl is not participating in a sport she likes, she probably cannot stick with it. Girls must find out what she likes to do and what she thinks she's good at doing outside the popular sport. Also, parents and their teachers must expose her to a variety of sports such as aerobics gymnastics, tennis, or golf and encourage her to find the right one then support them with facilitating the sport she likes. In conclusion...
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...Role and Functions of Law LAW / 421 July 18, 2012 Role and Functions of Law Law has a vital and important role in our society. Law is somehow rules created and applied by the government system for peace and order in the society. Law is intended to be interpreted and applied as correctly it was intended to, reasonable and just. Every law has its purpose, and there are many laws for every situation. This also applies to business. There are many laws addressed for the business environment and for every situation in it. The purpose of this laws in business, are intended to ensure that all business related issues and situations are running properly, without affecting their businesses and customers, and/or any consequences in between. In the case of companies, laws are addressed for them to comply correctly and properly with the function and purpose of their business, employees and customers. There are also in the business environment, the labor area, laws that are intended to protect the employees and their right as workers. And there are also many laws addressed to protect and ensure the best interest for the customers. But in business and more importantly addressed to companies, there are laws that prevents them to dominated markets too aggressively and/or completely, or controlling it at all. These laws are mostly as monopoly’s laws, which are addressed directly to prevent any monopoly action or state from any company. These normally are intended for bigger or larger...
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...How has Marketing at P&G changed from the time of the scope case to now? First of all I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to meet and have lunch with Marc Pritchard. It was an amazing and educational experience. The food was pretty good too. Marketing at Proctor and Gamble has changed significantly since the time of the scope case. They are no longer dealing with what to do with a new product entering the market. Something like that is the least of their concerns today. Today they are dealing with how to effectively use each and every platform available in order to get the idea of Proctor and Gamble’s different products into the consumer’s heads. Whether it’s the multiple different networks or the numerous blogs and websites, marketing has certainly become a lot more complicated since the scope case. I think that one of the most interesting things Marc said during his speech was a prediction. He said that there will never be another medium that completely dominates advertising. This is so true. He said as soon as one platform rises another one bumps it off. Constant change is where the world is at today. This is both scary and exciting. So what’s next for marketing? Customization. Being able to get a certain message to a certain person at the exact time that they are thinking about purchasing the type of product that you offer. That’s where marketing is heading and where marketing is now. “The art of creativity is not to reach everybody on a single dominant...
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...thought. It is even possible that the roles of the dominant and submissive parts are actually switched. The following will show how both the male/female and dominant/submissive combinations may be interchangeable, depending on which aspects are considered. In the stories “The Closing Door”, “The Sleeper Wakes”, and “Sweat”, male figures appear to be the ones that are in control, or dominant, in the situations. The women take direction from men. Throughout their stories it is pervasive that society is male dominated. Although there are many similarities between the stories in this regard, some of the differences are due to social, economic, physical, and moral divisions. These divisions, or aspects, become important in how one may look at domination in these stories. In the story “The Closing Door” by Angelina Weld Grimke, the two divisions that become important in respect to who controls things are physical and economic. Grimke describes the male character, Jim Milton, as being a “brown, good-natured giant” and also “He would reach her, it seemed, in one stride and would pick her up bodily, apron, money and all” (Grimke 94). These two are good examples of how the physical aspect with Jim Milton controls the marital situation. Agnes Milton would not be able to physically stop or dissuade Jim from doing anything that he wanted to do. The other way that Jim Milton dominates the marriage is financially. He is the bread winner in the family, while Agnes Milton is a homemaker. Being...
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...around us Following the basic negotiation steps Having some necessary negotiation skills st 1 Part Vital benefits and advantages We should be able to recognize the co-negotiator’s strategy. explain the co-negotiator’s emotions. understand the co-negotiator’s power limits. Accomplish and gain our demands Following the right negotiation methods and having the proper negotiation skills: we follow our strategy and our schedule. we continuously adjust our aims. we lead the negotiation process. Part moves of body parts How to Locate the Honesty give either the one or both of our palms to the other person putting our palms in our pocket or we will hide them behind our crossed arms How Infects Domination and Control our palm is facing the ground The Submission Handshaking our palm is facing the sky How to Create Equality both of the palms are in vertical position How to Create Sympathy both our and the other person’s palm are in vertical position give back the same pressure we are taking nd 2 Part moves of body parts nd 2 Hands How to Disarm a Dominant Character The Upper Hand Technique give your hand back in the palm up position and then put your left hand over his right hand The Step To The Right Technique 1. make a step forward with our left foot...
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...Hop On the Superego Express “Ok class, raise your hand if you want to meet Barney in person right now!” says the high school teacher. “I love Barney! But I can’t raise my hand in front of everybody. They will think it is strange to like Barney if you are in high school.” thinks the student to himself. Have you ever made decisions, or not made decisions, based on the pressures of society? A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a story about a woman named Blanche, who is an extreme example of the people in this world that live their lives the way society dictates. She has a young, predetermined wedding, feels pressured to take over responsibility for a farm, and develops personal/mental problems in the process and is ostracized from her hometown. She desperately goes to her sister for help far from home, but things are not much different for her there, as most people here also judge and live based on society or “peer pressure.” She begins to find hope in a newfound relationship with her sister, a chance for love with her new boyfriend, and a chance for happiness to start over; however, all these dreams are quickly crushed by the menacing forces of people’s fear of not fitting in and doing what’s accepted, as well as Stanley, the main person who is opposite of all this. In this world, most of the characters, mainly Blanche, made the mistake of living and making decisions the way society would expect them to, meaning Freud’s third part of the subconscious, the element...
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...Total Quality Pioneers Paper xxxxxxxx Quality Management and Productivity MGT/449 xxxxxx xxx Introduction People are confronted with scenarios concerning quality nearly every day. The word or notion of quality can be defined a number of ways. Some think quality should be determined by individual standards and expectations, while others believe quality is an ever changing state. Goetsch and Davis systematically broke down the elements of quality and determined that “quality is a dynamic state associated with products, services, people, processes, and environments that meets or exceeds expectations and helps produce superior value (Goetsch and Davis, 2010 p.5).” Whatever ones interpretation of quality might be, the intent of this paper is to more clearly define quality and its elements as well as describe how the quality pioneer's use of the total quality elements made the pioneers successful. Furthermore, this paper will explain why the elements of quality are useful in today’s environment and offer some insight as to what the future of quality might look like. Quality and its Elements Quality is defined with a variety of distinct explanations. Nevertheless, understanding quality is the key. End use consumers that are businesses explain quality unmistakably through the use of standards, specifications, and other measurable features. For instance, an individual in search of a new automobile will make his or her final purchase decision based on the quality...
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...correct patients so that no other competitors steal valued material. This actually makes their products perform better than other competitors. Politically Under Armour needs to promote good and safe work habits. They do not want a negative view like Nike obtained after they were seen utilizing sweatshops to make a deeper profit in the Industry. Even if a few customers find out they are using bad practices, then it shatters the whole reputation and brand image. Socio-cultural and Global Under Armour and other competitors can and have been using a global image to win the customers over. It is very important that Under Armour utilizes the global image of their quality product, for instance, showing their products on a global scale such as providing gear to the NFL and MLB. People are likely to wear what the professionals wear because they want to be like them. It also utilizes product placement in movies, TV shows, and video games that places their product on a global scale. It can also reach a global scale by endorsements made with worldwide know people, such as people participating...
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...with products from manufacturing to cultural resources that promotes worldwide exchanges of ideas, economic impact and global interaction. The major factors which have contributed advances on an exponential scale include transportation in the air, sea, and ground, and the international infrastructure in telecommunications, from fiber optics, global thinking and the World Wide Web2. The processes in globalization has affected small business to large corporations, economics, social cultural resources, including politics from the migration of ideas with support and criticism from cultural differences intertwined with competition. The creativity and innovation from the diverse cultures has exploded into popularity that affect all civilization and lifestyles. Diverse knowledge and the ability to compete on a global scale has changed the way businesses and individuals interact. The advances in technology, with faster cell phone,smartphones, tablets integrated electronics, multi-CPU architect, faster bandwidth from fiber optic infrastructure will continue to integrate businesses and individuals in globalization for years in the future. The consumption of a product, either electronic gadgets, power tools, food or grains, and intellectual property from the east coast to west coast or United States to China or any other country will affect the supply or demand on a global scale instead of locally from state to state, or neighboring...
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...TM-Chapter 1 (Motivations, Means and Mentalities) In this chapter, a number of important questions that companies must resolve before taking the leap to operate outside their home environment. 1. What market opportunities, sourcing advantages, or strategic imperatives provide the motivation for their international expansion? 2. By what means will they expand their overseas presence-through modes such as exports, licensing, joint ventures, wholly-owned subsidiaries, or some other means? 3. How will the management mentalities – their embedded attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs- that they bring to their international ventures affect their chances of success? Operating in an international rather than a domestic arena presents managers with many new opportunities. Having worldwide operations not only gives a company access to new markets and low-cost resources, it also opens up new sources of information and knowledge and broadens the options for strategic moves that the company might make to compete with its domestic and international rivals. However, with all these new opportunities come the challenges of managing strategy, organization, and operations that are innately more complex, diverse, and uncertain. What is multinational enterprise? * Multinational enterprise has substantial direct investment in foreign countries (Not just the trading relationships of an import-export business), and actively manage and regard those operations as integral parts of the company...
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