...WHO The book describes a strategic alliance as a cooperative strategy in which firms combine some of their resources and capabilities for the purpose of creating a competitive advantage. Cedarhurst is a dedicated company determined to properly assist the elderly and needy, but is also always looking for ways to improve the quality of life they can provide for its residents. After some careful research we found that some great opportunities and potential business lie within a few companies located near our prospective locations in which to expand. We proposed that one of new locations should be Farragut, Tn. There is a company in Farragut called Summit View which strives to provide exceptional and innovative senior care and share many of the same goals and ideas that Cedarhurst boasts. They have a talented staff with state-of-the-art facilities which enable them provide exceptional memory care which is a main focus of the Cedarhurst family. Summit View works hard to rehabilitate its short-term patients and to get them back into their own homes. This is a refreshing example of not only caring for their residents, but also seeking their long-term happiness. Summit View relishes on having high customer service and high quality of life for its residents and this resides closely to Cedarhurst and how they instill a family oriented atmosphere throughout their business. Cedarhurst could have a very successful business-level cooperative strategy with Summit View and could greatly...
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...Businesses of all sizes can add to the standard of living and or the quality of life in the communities where they do business. They often accomplished this by paying taxes to the governing body of these communities and by their interactions within the communities. Some communities with a good business base have the potential to alleviate much of the tax burden on the local homeowners and can also enhance the number of community offerings in the form of parks, recreation and relaxation. Since 1946 Target has given 5% of it’s’ income to support and enrich the communities they serve. Today that equals more than three million dollars every week to support education, arts, social services and volunteerism. (Tar10) Chevron’s three primary focus areas for community investments are improving access to basic human needs, enabling education and training opportunities, and promoting sustainable livelihoods. Each element helps contribute to socioeconomic progress. In 2009, Chevron invested $144 million in our global partnerships and programs: 48 percent in North America; 20 percent in Africa; 14 percent in Asia-Pacific; 14 percent in Eurasia, Europe and the Middle East; and 4 percent in Latin America. (Che10) These are large corporations with a great deal of assets and people to devote to increasing the quality of life in the communities they serve but it is possible on any level. Each business added to a community pays taxes to the local government. If the business has employees they...
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...Females Living In The Community A Research Critique of the article The article of Cheryl A. Krause-Parello was a great article on the relationship between loneliness and general health in older woman. The study sought to determine a decrease in loneliness and general health in older women when a pet attachment support was used as a coping mechanism. Woman in the ages of 55-84 who resided in independent or senior citizen communities with pets were given an informed consent that was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Rutgers (Krause-Parello, 2008). The study instruments included; PGWB schedule, a general health subscale, The Revised UCLA loneliness scale and the Pet attachment scale. The scales used various psychological tests measuring depression, loneliness and psychosomatic symptoms. The data were analyzed using Pearson product-moment (questions one through three) and regression analysis (question four) (Krause-Parello, 2008). It also used the two-tailed test, which determined the level of significance at the .05 level (Krause-Parello, 2008). The third regression analysis, the mediator (PAS) did not have a significant effect on the dependent variable’s general health; which showed a decrease demonstrating a mediating effect of pet attachment between loneliness and general health (Krause-Parello, 2008). The result of this study does support the mediating effect of pet attachment between loneliness and general health in older females living in independent...
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...rise of the suburbs, planned communities with high economic growth, low crime rates, and nice roads came about. Living in a planned community has many rules and regulations. The movie Pleasantville creates a dramatic view of the cookie-cutter, plastic, perfect life living in the suburbs is supposed to provide and how sometimes the so called “perfect life” is not always quite what it may seem. Some may think living in the suburbs, in planned communities, with many rules, is worth living in because it is safe and gives people the sense of unity they may crave. It can also be thought, rules of living in a planned community should not be taken to the point where people are not able to be true to themselves in order to live in the suburban area. The suburbs are a district lying immediately outside a city or town, and are usually a smaller residential community. The movie Pleasantville depicts a dramatized version of suburban living. In Pleasantville, all is black and white, everyone is perfect, and all houses are the same. The entire town of Pleasantville acts the same, dresses the same, and no one ever steers out of the box. Residents living in the suburbs demand perfection; this is usually found in planned communities. Planned communities have socially diverse populations and conform to a single master plan that seeks to produce social, environmental, and economic benefits that a great deal of planned developments have not achieved (Planned Community Archives). Author of Moving:...
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...IS LIVING IN A SAFE COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTES TO HAPPINESS Name: Institution: Introduction There is a lot concerning what makes people contented with how they handle their private lives, occupations, and jobs, but much less about what makes them contented with the areas that they stay. Selecting the place where to stay is the distinct most vital resolution that people can make in their private lives. Consequently, this is because the places where the people live structure their entire decisions. Happiness concerns people’s lives completely: it comprises the changing feelings that individuals experience in their daily lives as well as the entire fulfillment concerning life. It is also influenced by human growth along with peripheral circumstances like health and occupation. It is apparent that if an individual feels susceptible or does not feel protected in their locality then there is no chance of being happy (Benfield, 2012). Thus, this argumentative paper is going to explain the notion whether living in the safe community contributes to happiness both in the psychological as well as economical point of view. Most people think that a safe community contributes to happiness. The researchers established that individuals are happier when they are with alternate persons than when they are alone. Therefore, this applies to both the extroverts...
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...to what they know, what has been normal and passed down to them from generations and apply these things to their own lives. Communities are simply afraid of change and afraid of the way it may affect their ways of living for the worst. Change will always affect different people and communities differently, whether it is positively or negatively. Following old traditions within small communities has both costs and benefits. The question is whether or not change could overcome both the benefits and costs of following old traditions within the community. According to Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropologist and the author of The Anthropological Looking Glass, communities, such as small villages from Ireland like Ballybran, need to accept change to be able to learn the more modern ways of looking at situations. Scheper-Hughes critiques the Irish villager’s ways of living and, whether or not she actually noticed, compares this village to American way of living. Villages such as Ballybran may have a different way of living, but this does not necessarily mean it should be looked at as uncivilized or the wrong way, though change may have been a wise choice for the villagers, which Scheper-Hughes was trying to imply. Furthermore, Maxine Hong Kingston, the author of No Name Woman, emphasizes on the risks and effects of change when born into such a strict community such as a woman born into Chinese customs and their role within the family. Kingston provides background on the costs and benefits...
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...choice in what community he or she may be a part of geographically, it is the members’ responsibility to create a functioning place to live, both authors implement contrasting tones in order to represent the effects that a healthy or unhealthy community has on its members. Through the appeal to pathos in both Radio Milwaukee’s audio and the Neighborhood News Service’s article, both illustrate that it is the responsibility of the members of the community at large to dictate what norms must be established in order to maintain a functioning community. In Radio Milwaukee’s audio clip, “Bringing Play Back to the Playground,” the author Dori Zori exemplifies that it is the duty of the community to keep even the smallest members of the community, children, feeling safe and welcome through the use of pathos. For instance, at the introduction of the audio clip, Zori places the sounds of children on a playground singing nursery rhymes. Zori utilizes the sounds of children playing in order to directly affect the way in which the audience listens to this recording. Children themselves are the image of innocence and thus, their voices and songs too reflect an ease and level of comfort. All adults and listeners of this clip can connect and relate to what it feels like to be a child. In other words, the sounds of the children evoke the feeling of not only joy, but also the sense of longing to once again reach this level of enjoyment in one’s life. Listeners want to create a community in which the...
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...achieving their hopes and dreams and doing so by receiving supports in the least restrictive environment possible. The goal of deinstitutionalization was to develop a full range of community services that would take the place of institutions. Several driving forces were behind this: the development of psychiatric drugs, the belief that people should receive treatment as opposed to institutionalization, and federal policy and funding. Many hoped that these factors would greatly reduce and perhaps even eliminate mental illness. The individual transitioning from institutions, their family, and society were all impacted by this new direction. Most were not prepared for this move. The lack of planning and adequate treatment led to many unforeseen consequences such as homelessness and incarceration. A shift to community based care was encouraged through the Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. Various services were offered but unfortunately they focused more on helping people who did not present a serious mental illness. Mental health reform has come a long way since the start of deinstitutionalization. Today, individuals with a mental illness or intellectual developmental disability have a much larger option of services they can receive to assist them with remaining active members of their community. History of Deinstitutionalization One of...
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...generations have less community spirit than previous generations? Community spirit refers to people’s concern for the welfare of their local community. It is exemplified by participation in charitable events and volunteer services, as well the existence of a feeling of neighborliness among people living near each other. The current generation has been accused of not showing the same level of community spirit as that demonstrated by previous generations. There are several reasons that have led to this situation. First, the high cost of living across the world is causing young people nowadays to work more hours compared to previous generations. As a result, there is no time left for them to participate in community activities. As long as the cost of living keeps rising, the number of youth engaging in community services will continue to decline. Secondly, today’s neighborhoods consist of people from different cultures some of whom do not share a common language. Because of the language barrier, it is difficult for people living in such communities to participate in joint activities like community service. Multicultural communities were not very prevalent in older generations and, therefore, language barrier was not a problem. Thirdly, governments’ participation in social causes has increased in modern times than during the previous generations. Consequently, people now believe that it is the responsibility of the government, not community members, to help the...
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...Environmental justice is based on the principle that people have a right to be protected from environmental pollution and to live in, a gleam and healthy environment. It has not been the case for the people living in the Coal River Valley, West Virginia. About half of the electricity in the US is produced from coal. It has been no surprise that the communities living in certain regions where coal is abundant are impacted in ways that are detrimental to their well-being. This documentary shed a light on how communities living close to mines have negative consequences. I think Mountaintop removal mining can be detrimental to communities living next to the mines. In the documentary we could see some of the consequences which were brain tumors,...
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...rural broadcasting programmes, we have to understand the meaning of a community radio and how it works. Community radio can be defined as a medium of communication that is owned, controlled and runned by the people in the community it is for the people, by the people and of the people. We must also understand the meaning of a radio broadcasting it means transmitting content to a particular area. In other words you give the people in the community what you think they need, and you can also go and find out what the people in the community needs. Always note that the main basic objective of rural broadcasting is to have nation development. You can use rural broadcasting programmes to develop Asong by getting a very active and energetic staffs of the rural broadcasts department to broadcast special programmes to the indigenes of Asong, such as the farmers, the fisherman and most especially the women in the community, this agents would ensure that these indigenes practice what they hear on the air, so as to get a desired result. The languages that would be used in these programmes must be in line with the Asong indigenes, they must be able to understand or decode the messages disseminated, so as to avoid a situation whereby the indigenes would have to wait for the person to help with the decoding process the person. As an important branch of rural broadcasting is creating rural radio forums, where people living in Asong would have the opportunity share...
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...defines “community” as “a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage”. A virtual community consists only of people that use their computers as the means of communication; however, they never meet personally. People discuss various ideas, share common interests, and find friends and partners with the help of virtual communities. Virtual communities exist, and there are a lot of them nowadays. People like communicating on-line, thus, virtual communities also have some advantages in comparison with real communities. Both real communities and virtual ones serve the same purpose – communication, which creates lasting relationship between people. There are many obvious distinctions between “real” communities and “virtual” communities. The most noticeable is the difference in communication, including the lack of physical presence within the “virtual” communities. In a “real” community, messages include much unspoken communication, such as body language, which can dramatically change the meaning of the message. “Virtual” communities have nothing more than their words and “emoticons” to portray emotion within their messages. This can be either a benefit or a detriment. Emotion may get in the way of the necessary communication, but it also might be a critical part of the message. The basic idea of a community is a group of people, which is characterized by common place of living, religious...
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...Clover Living in Chinatown, Calgary, Alberta Intro – General Clover Living in ChinaTown, in Calgary, Alberta, stands directly behind the historic Calgary Chinese United Church and is an integral part of Calgary’s Chinatown, a community with more than 100 years of history. Clover Living in Chinatown has established a deserved reputation as a highly desirable retirement home, designed for Chinese and other Oriental people who wish to age in a space of Chinese culture. Intro - Retirement Homes To retire is to move into a new chapter of your life, it is time to take joy in meaningful activities and leave the tiresome responsibilities of home ownership behind you. At Clover Living in Chinatown, we offer exceptional staff, accommodations that are second to none and a philosophy that puts you, and...
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...In 1848, John Humphrey Noyes founded a community that’s primary goal was to create, in a sense, heaven on earth; the Oneida Community. This community did indeed have good intentions for reaching this goal in life, but it is merely the means of how they attempted to reach this goal that are non-practical and lose focus on the essence of family. The founder and leader, Noyes, believed that he himself possessed divine authority over the Oneida Community, which was directly given to him by God. This belief of his was not only of Noyes, but was truly shared among all the members of the community, which allowed for his rules to be followed without question or concern. These unique “rules” included the process of mutual criticism, being granted by Noyes and only Noyes to give birth to a child, the required form of birth control: coitus reservatus, communal living, gender equality, and the practice of complex marriage. By actually visiting the Oneida Mansion where the community resided during most of the 1800’s, I was able to obtain as close as a first-hand experience as I possibly could by taking a tour of the Mansion accompanied by tour guides that were well-educated on the topic and readily answered the questions that I had. Through visiting their former residence and reading Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community, one would be able to determine which perspectives and policies of the Oneida Community were strong or weak, and whether or not it would be practical...
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...How would you feel if you got kicked out of your own neighborhood after living there for all your life? Gentrification is fixing up fixing up poor neighborhoods for the rich to live in. It is a huge issue that is affecting communities negatively rather than the positives that everyone hoped for because people are being forced out of homes that they lived in for decades. New York City is one of the places where we are seeing a lot of gentrification happening. East Harlem and Part of Brooklyn are suffering culturally and socially because of the sudden rise in the cost of housing. Strolling down from 96th to 125th streets one can easily feel that they have been to several different continents just by listening to the surrounding music and by looking at the murals on side of buildings. This is East Harlem, more commonly known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio. This neighborhood is alive with history and culture because of the diversity of Puerto Rican, African American, Mexican, and Italians living there. Unfortunately, the continual displacement of many Harlem residents is forcing the long and rich culture/community to be separated. Increasing housing cost is the reason for this displacement of communities in East Harlem. This is especially affecting older residents (residents who lived there all their life) because...
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