...Call of the Wild,” “Martin Eden,” and “White Fang.” Survival plays a major role in “To Build A Fire,” as Jack London tells the story of an inexperienced young man versus extreme weather conditions in the Klondike, Yukon. In “To Build A Fire” by Jack London, there is a continuous conflict of man versus nature, in which...
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...response were poorly coordinated and limited since there were little-known knowledge, attitudes, and practice related to Ebola. When responding to an outbreak public education and engagement of community is an important factor since it can be used to help stop an outbreak. In 2014 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) conducted a small-scale public knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) study using a small sample of Sierra Leone. Within less than one month in the study, the KAP study was an important tool used in 2014 by the Sierra Leone National Social Mobilisation Pillar, supported by Catholic Relief Service (CRS), and US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to inform public and community engagement strategies on Ebola prevention, control and treatment in Sierra Leone. As the outbreak widen the focus of the community was to improve the public knowledge, practice, and attitude toward Ebola until the help arrive. Such may include isolating infected patients, washing hands, handling...
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...COMPANY BACKGROUND Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin, Texas, when four local businesspeople decided the natural foods industry was ready for a supermarket format. Their founders were John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy, owners of Safer Way Natural Foods, and Craig Weller and Mark Skiles, owners of Clarksville Natural Grocery. The original Whole Foods Market opened in 1980 with a staff of only 19 people. It was an immediate success. At the time, there were less than half a dozen natural food supermarkets in the United States. It has grown in leaps and bounds since then. Today, they are the world’s leader in natural and organic foods, with more than 310 stores in the North America and the United Kingdom (About Whole Foods Market). During its 31-year history, Whole Foods Market has been a leader in the natural and organic food movement across the United States, helping the industry gain acceptance among growing numbers of consumer concerned about the food they eat (Thompson, Strickland, & Gamble, 2010, p.C-2). The company seeks out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintains the strictest quality standards in the industry, and has an unshakeable commitment to sustainable agriculture. Add that to the excitement and fun they bring to shopping for groceries, and you start to get a sense of what they are all about. John Mackey, the company’s cofounder and CEO, believes that Whole Foods’ rapid growth and market success has much to do with its having “remained...
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...COMPANY BACKGROUND Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin, Texas, when four local businesspeople decided the natural foods industry was ready for a supermarket format. Their founders were John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy, owners of Safer Way Natural Foods, and Craig Weller and Mark Skiles, owners of Clarksville Natural Grocery. The original Whole Foods Market opened in 1980 with a staff of only 19 people. It was an immediate success. At the time, there were less than half a dozen natural food supermarkets in the United States. It has grown in leaps and bounds since then. Today, they are the world’s leader in natural and organic foods, with more than 310 stores in the North America and the United Kingdom (About Whole Foods Market). During its 31-year history, Whole Foods Market has been a leader in the natural and organic food movement across the United States, helping the industry gain acceptance among growing numbers of consumer concerned about the food they eat (Thompson, Strickland, & Gamble, 2010, p.C-2). The company seeks out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintains the strictest quality standards in the industry, and has an unshakeable commitment to sustainable agriculture. Add that to the excitement and fun they bring to shopping for groceries, and you start to get a sense of what they are all about. John Mackey, the company’s cofounder and CEO, believes that Whole Foods’ rapid growth and market success has much to do with its having “remained...
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...scares Pi, after taming him, the two learn to coexist. At the end of the novel, when the two reach land, Richard Parker runs off into the jungle without a farewell. Through the way Pi speaks to the tiger and as the story develops, it becomes apparent that Martell intended Richard parker to symbolize Pi’s will to survive and his primal state. Although he is ferocious and fearsome, Richard Parker’s presence is what drives Pi’s will to live. Pi faces many issues on the lifeboat: lack of water and food, dangerous sea creatures, harsh weather, and exposure to the elements. The overwhelming prospect of new responsibility and his fear of dying leaves Pi immobile and distraught. It is Richard Parker’s presence that motivates him to take action when he realizes that the tiger is his most immediate threat. With his knowledge from his father’s zoo, Pi tames and trains Richard Parker and the success of this gives Pi confidence, motivating him to tackle his other obstacles which now seemed less difficult. Wild animals such as Parker must learn to survive everyday regardless of what may be necessary to do so. In Pi’s situation, if what becomes necessary is killing and consuming another creature despite it being part of religion, he must do it. An example of this is when Pi throws the rat at Richard Parker who consumes it, "I suppose I was partly responsible for the rat's death, but I'd only thrown it; it was Richard Parker who killed it. A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood between...
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...mentioned dimensions have been elaborated in details below. First, globally, the environmental dimension of wellness determines which kind of life a certain area can harbor. This in turn helps to develop different characteristics of the people and animals. The settlement of human life in an oasis found in a desert-like environment depends on the health of the planet. No human life can avail in the tropical rain forests, because of the abundance big trees, wild inhabitants and a concentration of billion insects. However, food security, water and the presence of penetrable areas enables human life to settle in many parts of the world. Furthermore, the current threat of the environmental pollution scares life and hence determines the environmental dimension of wellness as a strong area to debate. The second identifiable dimension is social. The way people interact determines how socially they live. Once a person is not happy the way he or she lives in a social life, it can affect his or her social surroundings. This can lead to lack of...
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...notion of the absurd as something that expresses an essential disharmony in our existence. He emphasizes that this is product of a clash and "confrontation between our man and his own obscurity" (Camus, 494) . In other words, Camus explains that we are free agents in this life, and that we live by a sense of meaning and purpose, and under this acceptance, we feel at home. However, everyone, at some point in their life, has experienced the feeling of absurdity, whether its during moments of uncertainty or depression. This is when we are unable to find our values and realize that there is no purpose to do anything we do. This gives associates us with a feeling of exile, a feeling that we do not belong in this world if it lacks meaning. Without values in our lives, the world is meaningless, and without meaning, people feel lost and exiled and tend to...
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...In section IV tells the reader how the men are frustrated of the unknown, they are not sure if they see the house of refuge, Crane's biggest dilemma was the lack of knowledge. “It is fair to say here that there was not a life-saving station within twenty miles in either direction; but the men did not know this fact, and in consequence they made dark and opprobrious remarks concerning the eyesight of the nation's life-savers. Four scowling men sat in the dinghy and surpassed records in the invention of epithets” (Crane 5) The barriers to human community was in fact the mind and the reality of all. This statement shows how the men lack in their knowledge, and how the readers are more certain to understanding the situation of the men not knowing what is the unknown. It's not in the way that they interpret the signals but if the signals are the right facts; “As part of the human reality of their situation, the men are sometimes mistaken, baffled, or uncertain, just as they are often perceptive, skillful, and above all cooperative. Against great odds they row, bail, have their hopes raised and dashed, see colors, shapes, and shadows exactly, somehow...
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...[pic] Contents Introduction 2 2. Personal development from PALS 3 2.1 The futures of PALS and what I’ve learned 3 2.2 Benefit from visiting speakers programme and organizational visits 6 3. Professional development from PALS 7 3.1 Commercial awareness 8 3.2 Communication skills 8 3.3 Leadership 9 3.4 Foreign language 10 4. Help in the future 10 Conclusion 11 Reference 12 LEARNING LOG 13 Introduction In this text, I will retrospect to the period doing the assignment and reflect how I developed professionally and personally. The first chapter gives a review of the group assignment and presentation. We took DHL call centre as the development subject, and analyzed the importance of establishing a new call centre based on the theories about the reasons of building call centre. Based on existing literature about call centres, we summered up the advantages of call centres and examine the current status of DHL, thus our analysis gives a theoretical and practical ground of building DHL new call centre (Bruce et al, 2010). Latter analyzed the factors influencing the success of call centres so that we can adapt right strategy and avoid big failure (Chiara et al, 2006). The main concern is to promote service quality in all dimensions and by scientific means. In the second chapter, I draw a line between what I noticed and perceived from visiting and interviewing activities and what...
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...rship Case Study – Leadership Lotfi Saibi Group 7 PricewaterhouseCoopers Elaborated by: • Amira Athimni • Hassine Echatti • Imene Dachraoui • Myriam Belaifa • Rym Belhadj • Zaki Krichi Introduction ● PriceWhaterhouseCoopers in few words: PricewaterhouseCoopers, also known, as PwC, is a private accountancy practice, its global professional services firm is headquartered in London. The firm was formed in 1998 by a merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. The trading name was shortened to PWC in September 2010 as part of a major re-branding exercise. PwC is considered one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms in the world. PwC operates in 757 cities across 156 countries and employs over 175,000 people. PwC is the n°1 Firm in training, and n°1 Firm in technology in Tunisia. ● Why PwC? As we mentioned previously, PwC is well known worldwide and is the N°1 firm in training in Tunisia. We were curious to understand the factors behind this success especially in the concepts of management, teamwork and leadership. PwC emphasizes the principles of leadership to develop their services and make their teams more efficient. Their bases are founded on two pillars, which are: leadership and teamwork, through which they enhance their performance and deliver excellence. In PricewaterhouseCoopers, leadership is part of their culture and day-to-day work, and this helps them to demonstrate their leadership role as a...
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...I would categorize my senior year as one of wild progression when it came to my writing. Senior year mirrors my sophomore year almost exactly when it comes to just pure progression. In that sophomore year, I greatly improved in an area that had irked me for years, the organization of content, and I grew in other critical areas throughout the course of this year. While I would consider my writing far more refined than it was in 10th grade, there are still multiple core elements that I always work to improve. The first few journals last semester echoed the thoughts of a teen who refused to take risks in his writing, who couldn’t be told his faults without a fear of personal attack. Last year the majority of my writing was for AP courses, and...
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...which the fish stock is collapsing” (UNEP, 2009, p.14). According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the reason of concern for sea food is due to increase in number of overexploited, depleted and recovering stocks (FAO, 2010). The complex causes of wild fish stocks crisis include: overfishing, managing poor fishing, unsustainable fishing practices, and illegal (UNEP, 2009).The demand increased in fishing has exacerbating these issues. Worldwide per capita consumption of marine fishes has almost doubled since the 1960s as like world’s population (Jacquet et al., 2009). The consumption and value of trade of fish product is increased by aquaculture has surged over the last 20 years. Yet, aquaculture demands fishmeal threatens coastal environments to pressure rather than alleviating (UNEP, 2009).As like other products, seafood trade has been growing internationally over the years. The trade of fish has grown from US$51.5 billion in 1998 to US$102 billion in 2008 (FAO, 2010).The supply of seafood has lacks some transparency of ‘underlying facilitator’ of every aspects of the negative fishing sector (FAO, 2010, p.105).It is much difficult purchase fish products responsibly with lack of transparency. Challenges of Wal-Mart’s supply chain: Wal-Mart’s also faces some challenges like other large global companies. There is lot of problems faced by many firms. One main problem faced by global industries is mass production organization and the problem is...
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...country to experience the world and many take great pleasure getting involved in different cultures. Countless of people spend many hours trying to learn a foreign language, so they can become fully integrated in their new host country. It is often said that the best way, to get to know a foreign culture and language, is ‘learning by doing’. Still, not everyone agrees that this way of achieving knowledge is the correct way, since it can result in some incorrect speaking. David Sedaris discusses this problem in “Me Talk Pretty One Day”. The text “A Modest Proposal” is written by David Sedaris in 2005. A theme explored in the text is the interest to learn a foreign language. To shed some light over this topic Sedaris uses his personal experiences, as he moved to Paris to learn French. At 41-years-old he wished to speak French fluently and he attends an international language school in Paris. From the very first day, the new French teacher overwhelms Sedaris. The teacher picks on every single student in the class and they all become targets of her belittling. All of Sedaris confidence disappears throughout the classes and even outside the classroom, the teachers influence is seen, since Sedaris suddenly avoids all situations that involve speaking French: “When my phone rang, I ignored it. If someone asked me a question, I pretended to be deaf. I knew my fear was getting the best of me when I started wondering why they don’t sell cuts of meat in a vending machine.” (p. 2 l...
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...Who Are You When No One Is Looking? COM-156 6/17/2012 Who Are You When No One Is Looking? The Internet is today’s equivalent of the Wild West. Ryan was not aware of this. He didn’t know that when he logged in to play his favorite online game, he was running the risk of encountering a “Black Bart” or “Curly Bill” –like character. –An insult-slinging, proverbial pistoleer who would be out to hurt him at random. He dealt with bullying at school often, but the Internet was his escape from all of that. On the Internet, he could be whoever he wanted to be, for just a little while. So when the bullying started in the one place he felt safe, Ryan decided he had had enough. He did not turn around and become a bully himself, as many others resort to in these situations. Ryan simply gave up (Associated Press, 2007). Ryan’s case is unfortunate, but it is not the only one. In an online environment, people can be particularly cruel. This destructive behavior, which led to Ryan’s death, is a growing phenomenon known as the “Online Disinhibition Effect.” By increasing awareness of the Online Disinhibition Effect, cyberbullying can be discouraged, which may have a positive effect on the interactions of the online community, including people just like Ryan. What is “Online Disinhibition Effect”? If you have ever interacted with someone who has been overly aggressive, opinionated, or simply outright hateful in an online environment, you have experienced cyber bullying - a result of...
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...The purpose of this paper is to respond to philosophical questions in numerous categories. First I will address metaphysics which deals with what is and is not real. Secondly, epistemology addresses the study of knowledge. Next, I will discuss ethics and the right and wrong of different scenarios. Further, in the category of aesthetics, I will delve into the idea of beauty. The role of government will be discussed in political philosophy. Finally, I will talk about my beliefs concerning social philosophy. PHILOSOPHY 201 IP UNIT 1 When pondering the questions outlined in the instructions for this assignment, I found the metaphysics section to be one I was comfortable with. Soloman & Higgins (2010) state that an individual who is religious accepts that God is real and everything else flows from Him. I am in complete agreement with that statement. As I was struggling with my coming of age, I questioned “what is real?” In searching for the answer to that question, I came to realize that everything is real and a creation of God. Being a Christian, I just accept this in faith and do not look any deeper into it. I believe the physical and psychological world is just as real as the spiritual world. Without question, everyone has a soul. While we are alive and inhabiting this physical world, the soul does not exist outside of the physical body. However, once the physical body dies, the soul then moves into the afterlife, which in my belief, my soul will enter into...
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