...finches. The finches, many species of them, were distinguishable by differently shaped beaks, suggesting adaptations to particular diets. The tortoises, island by island, carried differently shaped shells. These clues from the Galápagos led to conclude that Earth's living diversity has arisen by an organic process of descent with modification or evolution, as it's now known, and that natural selection is the mechanism. His theory developed slowly, secretively, and his book, The Origin of Species, didn't appear until 1859. Many scientists, along with some Victorian clergymen, resisted its evidence and arguments for decades afterward. The reality of evolution became widely accepted during Darwin's lifetime, but his particular theory, with natural selection as prime cause, didn't triumph until about 1940, after it had been successfully integrated with genetics. Apart from those clarifications, the most interesting point missed by the simplified tale is this: Darwin's first real clue toward evolution came not in the Galápagos but three years before, on a blustery beach along the north coast of Argentina. And it didn't take the form of a bird's beak. It was a trove of fossils. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage, start with Darwin's armadillos and giant sloths. In September 1832, during the first year of its mission, the Beagle anchored near Bahía Blanca, a settlement at the head of a bay about 400 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. A certain General Rosas...
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...expanded considerably in the past several decades. In response, the international community has created a vast array of international legal instruments, specialized organs, and agencies at the global and regional levels to respond to identified problems in each of the three areas. Often these have seemed to develop in isolation from one another. Yet the links between human rights, health and environmental protection were apparent at least from the first international conference on the human environment, held in Stockholm in 1972. “Man is both creature and molder of his environment, which gives him physical sustenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. . . . Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential to his well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rights even the right to life itself.” Therefore, it becomes very important to study the impacts of industrial pollution and threats to bio diversity closely while studying about Human Rights. Industrial pollution is one of the main causes of pollution worldwide. Industrial activities are a major source of air, water and land pollution, leading to illness and loss of life all over the world. The World Health Organization estimates that outdoor air pollution alone accounts for around 2% of all heart and lung diseases, about 5% of all lung cancers, and about 1% of all chest infections. Apart from health hazards, water pollution due to...
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...productive purpose. The financial system is characterized by the presence of integrated, organized and regulated financial markets, and institutions that meet the short term and long term financial needs of both the household and corporate sector. Both financial markets and financial institutions play an important role in the financial system by rendering various financial services to the community. They operate in close combination with each other. Financial System; |[pic] | The word "system", in the term "financial system", implies a set of complex and closely connected or interlined institutions, agents, practices, markets, transactions, claims, and liabilities in the economy. The financial system is concerned about money, credit and finance-the three terms are intimately related yet are somewhat different from each other. Indian financial system consists of financial market, financial instruments and financial intermediation Role/ Functions of Financial System: A financial system performs the following functions: * It serves as a link between savers and investors. It helps in utilizing the mobilized savings of scattered savers in more efficient and effective manner. It channelises flow of saving into productive investment. * It assists in the selection of the...
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...So, what are we to make of the chaos and disorder that swept through London and other British cities last week like scenes from a JG Ballard novel? For some, the violence and mayhem brought back memories of the riots that tore apart Britain’s inner cities in the late seventies and eighties. There is, in fact, no comparison. In the 1980s, British cities exploded in response to mass unemployment, entrenched racism and, in particular, oppressive policing. The rioters were part of no organized political movement but they had a sense that they were taking collective action against racist police. They were driven by a burning sense of social injustice and a desire for social change. Last week’s riots were different. There was no sense among the rioters of being part of a collective, no desire to transform society, just an inchoate, nihilistic desire to cause mayhem and to profit from the looting. The riots were not ‘protests’ in any way, but a mixture of incoherent rage, gang thuggery and teenage mayhem. There was certainly looting in the 80s riots but such looting was incidental to the confrontation with the police and the authorities. Last week, smashing up stuff, and stealing it, was what defined the mayhem. In the 80s, people living in Brixton, Tottenham, Handsworth and Toxteth, in the very places wrecked by the disorders, nevertheless supported the rioters. They recognized that the violence and the destruction were not ends in themselves but part of a necessary challenge...
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...Description of marketing strategies applied by Nike Air Force 4.1 Challenges Forcing Nike to Focus More on Marketing Sportswear is defined primarily as apparel and footwear made for sports participation, though is now also includes casual clothes worn by people for daily activities (E. Ko, C. R. Taylor, et al., 2012). The sportswear market is one of the most price-competitive markets throughout the globe. Within the UK, items of sportswear are purchased by almost 90% of people under 35 years of age, and by 76% of the population as a whole (Mintel forecasts, 2006). The international sportswear market is worth nearly 41.5 billion US dollars at the wholesale level, with Nike, Adidas, as well Reebok comprising some 14% of this market (Jeroen, 2004) and more details are shown in Figure 1. International Athletic sportswear market: Share by brand in Millions of US dollars (Source: Sporting good intelligence, 2003) 4.1.1 Overview of sportswear industry through Porter’s Five Forces analysis Before the study regarding the marketing strategy of Nike Air Force, it is important to have a clear view of sportswear industry as a whole. Based on Porter's Five Forces model, the general characteristics of the industry can be described in the figure as follow. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that the sportswear industry as a whole can be characterized as competitive and easy for new entrants. Such truth has raised challenges for existed companies, such as Nike. In addition to...
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...Its sources are diffused and disorganized. For medical practitioners, sources of information could include the medical and popular media, or recommendation of professional, political and legal bodies, output from educational campaign and programs, as well as marketing material from commercial sectors allied to health care, the pharmaceutical and medical appliance industries. These are quite apart from internal day to day information generated within the medical practice environment. Social media has made the dissemination of information easy and accessible, making the public aware about new and relevant information about certain diseases, symptoms, treatment and control. The importance of social media in health care information technology cannot be overemphasized, even though social media it has its own disadvantages. However, when it comes to health care, it is important to achieve an effective flow of information between the source which is the health care practitioners, and the public. This is very important so the process of information flow is not haphazard. It’s also important that the process of information flow should be planned...
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...does not understand our customs”: Narrating orality and empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Jarica Linn Watts To cite this article: Jarica Linn Watts (2010) “He does not understand our customs”: Narrating orality and empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart , Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46:1, 65-75, DOI: 10.1080/17449850903478189 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449850903478189 Published online: 27 Jan 2010. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 501 View related articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rjpw20 Download by: [Indiana University Libraries] Date: 24 February 2016, At: 16:43 Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2010, 65–75 “He does not understand our customs”: Narrating orality and empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Jarica Linn Watts* University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Downloaded by [Indiana University Libraries] at 16:43 24 February 2016 jarica.watts@utah.edu Jarica 0 100000February 46 2010 &Article OriginalofFrancis 1744-9855 (print)/1744-9863 JournalandPostcolonial 10.1080/17449850903478189(online) RJPW_A_448194.sgm TaylorLinnWatts 2010 Writing Francis This article delineates different strains of Achebe’s narrative technique in Things Fall Apart, arguing that earlier critics have failed to account fully for two fundamental principles in...
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...relates to the sense of personal character, inner strength or personal integrity. It is this definition of virtue that I consider to be the core of good leadership especially in the field of social work. Tafvelin (2012) found: Social work leadership has attracted growing attention in both social work practice and research. As social service organisations have changed in a variety of ways during the last decades, knowledge of how leaders should act in these transformed organisations is crucial. However, few empirical studies have examined what kind of leadership these changed organisations benefit from and how the continuing organisational change might affect the impact leaders have. Clinicians who become supervisors may find it challenging to transition into a leadership role. It is imperative that the new supervisor understand the agency's mission, vision, goals and culture as it relates to their new responsibilities. In order to be an effective leader who inherits managerial responsibilities, the supervisor will need to choose and develop a leadership style that closely reflects their personal values and personality. The leadership style will serve as a...
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...The past decade has witnessed a huge shift in the development of mobile technology which has led to privacy issues, murmurings of which started surfacing only in recent years. A lot of research has been carried out by academicians on mobile technology and its impact on society. There have also been comparative studies on how privacy has changed for people over the years with the boom of social networking sites and smart phones. But, there has not been a substantial study or analysis conducted on how people's privacy has been directly affected by the ever-increasing population boom of mobile-phone users. This comparative study analyzes the concept of privacy with respect to mobile surveillance and draws upon prior work in the field of mobile surveillance, ranging from popular press on government surveillance in India and USA and case studies in these two countries related to people’s view on privacy, to the works of ACLU (American Civil Liberty Union) in USA and Stop CMS (Central Monitoring System) in India. The study is built around the analysis and comparison of the issue of mobile surveillance in both the countries, how people dealt with this, and the role of culture in determining people’s view on privacy. It also proposes suggestions for how future research can be carried out in the field of mobile surveillance. Keywords Privacy, surveillance, culture, mobile technology, society, ACLU, CMS Introduction The widespread use of mobile phones in the past decades have led to...
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...Communist China * Browse essays using search option * Access free essay links resource page * Need help with paper writing services? * Bookmark our site for future reference Communism in an Economically Developing China The future of communism in China is unknown, as the world economy becomes more international. Communism has been in China since 1949 and is still present in the country’s activities. Presently China is undergoing incredible economic growth and promises to be a dominant power early in the next century. China’s social tradition has come under heavy pressure from forces of modernization generated in a large part by the sustained contact with the West that began in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Western incursion, not only refined China militarily but brought in its course new ideas- nationalism, science and technology, and innovations in politics, philosophy, and art. Chinese leaders have sought to preserve the nation’s cultural uniqueness by promoting specifically Chinese blends of tradition and modernity. China has undergone several major political transformations from a feudal-like system in early historical times, to a centralized bureaucratic empire that lasted through many unpredictable changes till 1911, to a republic with a communist form of government in the mainland since 1949. Economic geography and population pressure help account for the traditionally controlling role of the state in China. The constant indispensability...
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...AMITY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH BRAND JOURNAL SUBMITTED TO- PROF. KOKIL JAIN SUBMITTED BY- ANUJ DIWAKAR ENROLLMENT NO- A1802011097 SECTION-C * Will Cinthol's new ad campaign be able to capture youth's attention? If Karen Lunel bathing under a waterfall gave Liril a shot in the arm, Vinod Khanna running on the seashore did the same for Cinthol. After Khanna, the other heartthrobs who lent their face (and other body parts too) to Cintol were Imran Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan. However, what Lunel did for Liril, Cinthol could not quite duplicate with all the hunks put together — perhaps because shopping trips in large parts of India are still a male domain. But times have changed and so has Cinthol. The new advertising campaign for the brand, conceived by Creativeland Asia (CLA) is devoid of any wellknown face but has a bunch of young people bathing in several unlikely, improbable parts of the world. There's a good reason for that. "Our consumer research showed shifts in lifestyle and that every individual wants to live life to the fullest. Personal grooming plays a very important role in a person's life, and we found a good opportunity there," explains Sunil Kataria, EVP - marketing & sales, Godrej Consumer Products LtdBSE -1.12 % (GCPL), which owns Cinthol. Launched in 1952, Cinthol was...
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...she is obese (ibid). Obesity is increasingly spread all over the world and becomes a global health issue. According to WHO (2013), the population of the obese is twice larger than that three decades ago and more than 500 million adults are obese currently. Obesity can give a rise to the likelihood of getting other serious illness such as diabetes, cancer and CVD. Therefore, over 2.8 million lives are claimed by obesity directly or indirectly per year (ibid). Both developed and developing countries are experiencing this increasing obesity epidemic, but there are distinctions in the factors in these two kinds of areas. In comparison, the reasons in developed regions are more common problems and are more familiar to people living in urban areas. Investigation into the causes for the increasing obesity epidemic in developed countries gives the public a deeper understanding of obesity causes and helps governments make policies to tackle obesity crisis. Causes of this increasing trend are grouped into three categories in this essay, which are unhealthy food, excessive food consumption and lack of physical exercise. Unhealthy food Unhealthy food, food with high energy but poor nutrition, takes a toll in rising obesity epidemic. The disorder of current food market structure is closely related to increasing obesity epidemic. Under the drive of considerable profits, food companies aim to the unhealthy and processed food market, and lay out enormous resources to produce it, giving a...
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...TITLE: IMF POLICY INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Policy Involvement in the Developing Countries Mohd Hafiz Bin Mohd Hussin Kolej Poly Tech MARA Malaysia ABSTRACT During the last two decades, the focus of IMF involvement in the developing world, and especially in the low income countries, has shifted. IMF involvement became more long term, but also oriented toward policy reform, rather only assisting with a macroeconomic crisis. This paper explores the deficiencies in IMF policy prescription and implementation in the developing countries. The information was collected using a library research where books, journals, articles and online resources were used. The paper further clarifies reasons behind the failure of structural adjustment programs and the danger of neo liberal based economic policies imposed on low-income countries. The research concludes IMF’s enormous financial and political power should be used in the betterment of people in the developing nations. CONTENTS 1. Title page…………………………………………………………………………….…1 2. Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………2 3. Content………………………………………………………………………………….3 4. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..4-5 5. Argumentation………………………………………………………………………….6-9 6.1. Mismanaged lending and debt crisis in the developing countries………….6 6.2. Counter argument and Refutation………………………………………………7-8 6.3....
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...Minorities in Prison, Why So Many? Jennifer A. Spry ENG 122: English Composition II Ava Hardiek January 7, 2013 Minorities in Prison, Why So Many? Introduction Racism has been a part of history for many years and is a very real problem in the world, not just in the United States. For example, New England colonists fled to a new land, later to be known as America, for religious freedom from European dictators, early settlers of the United States enslaved African-Americans, Adolf Hitler murdered millions of Jewish people, and Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists destroyed the World Trade Towers killing thousands. In the United States, before the Civil rights movement, African-Americans were severely discriminated against. They were not allowed into certain restaurants, they were given restrooms and water fountains that were only used by “colored people”, and they were forced to sit in the back of the bus. Schools and neighborhoods were segregated and interracial relationships were forbidden. Racism was considered socially acceptable and the judicial system upheld arrests and convictions of those that did not conform to the laws. It was impossible for a person of color to receive a fair trial. Today the judicial system is designed to punish criminals for the crime not their minority status, but the truth can still be twisted by racism. Some people argue that the law is flawed and the courts are biased because we are judged by a group of people who are randomly selected to decide...
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...Y V Reddy: Fiscal policy and economic reforms Address by Dr Y V Reddy, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, 26 May 2008 (edited transcript). * * * Respected Professor Govinda Rao and distinguished scholars, I am honoured by my friend, Prof. Govinda Rao’s, kind invitation to me to visit the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). I had the opportunity of working very closely with the NIPFP on several occasions. Apart from my personal affinity to the NIPFP, there is a close relationship between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the NIPFP, from an institutional point of view also. For instance, Prof. Govinda Rao is a Member of the Southern Local Board of RBI. Initially, I thought of speaking on fiscal policy and economic reforms from a central banker’s perspective. I realised later that while I have been working as a central banker over the last one decade, I had worked for most parts of the three decades prior to that in the Ministry of Finance, in the Government of India as well as in the Government of Andhra Pradesh. So it was a difficult choice for me as to whether I should give a fiscal view of the monetary policy or a monetary view of the fiscal policy. I have worked for a short period in the World Bank, which gives a global governments’ view and also in the IMF, which gives a global monetary authority’s view. As a via-media, I have opted to give a practitioner’s perspective...
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