Arab Revolt Affect on World Economy

â€Å"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. † (Freud, 2011) As the above quote describe the revolt took place when the citizen of the country are left unsatisfied and there are demands and rights ignored by the government or the king/queen or by the monarch for their benefits and luxury it triggered the citizen to come on the roads or even to pick up the arms for the their freedom to breath in their country. This is what the world has witnessed from winters of 2010. When the citizen of the Middle East countries and North Africa mainly Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen came together to throw away the rule of the old tyrants which are ruling them for years and suppressing their lives for the lavishness in their own countries by exercising the their power on them. But once the revolt got the spark it turns into the fire and it burnt the all the ruler rules and even some ruler also have to loose their lives. The revolt which took place in the Middle East countries and North Africa was named as Jasmine revolution and Arab spring. The revolt was first triggered from the North Africa country Tunisia, and from there the demand of democracy travel to Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Facebook was one of the major tools for the revolutionary, which united them collected them and helps them to share ideas for finding the way to achieve the democracy dream. The youth played the major role in the revolt and it was fueled by the seven metrics which include price rise, corruption, income disparity, unemployment, repression, external (NATO) support and internet and mobile media support. Anderson, 2011) The Jasmine revolution or Arab Spring started from Tunisia on 18 December 2010 where the Tunisia citizen which turn out to be the revolutionary in the end for their right for democracy. Tunisia citizen was very unsatisfied from the rule of their dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali who was ruling the country from 1987. In the 23 years rule zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has never thought of the citizen of the country and only thought o f his luxurious life, which resulted into the high unemployment, low income, corruption and food inflation. The balloon which was filled with hot air of the problem and concerns for their and their children life from 23 years exploded. The Tunisia citizen came on the streets on 18 December evening demanding Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to leave the throne. The vendor Mohamed Bouaziz who killed himself by setting himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid to demonstrate Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali that it is more easy to do suicide by setting himself on fire then to live with his family in Tunisia under the rule of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali which has only giving him problem life food inflation, poverty, no liberty and no right to even ask for his right. The death Mohamed Bouaziz work as a catalyst in the Tunisia revolution the demonstration and protest started to get more fierce which was shaking the 23 years rule of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali tries his best to safeguard his rule by using power of police and security force. Police and security forces open fire on the demonstrators. Thousands of demonstrators got injured and hundreds of demonstrators were killed by the forces. After 28 days of Mohamed Bouaziz death On 14 January 2011 Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has to resign from his post and to save his live he has to leave Tunisia and fly to Saudi Arabia. After the demolition of the rule of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali a state emergency was declared. This inspired the other Middle East countries and North Africa countries to fight for the problems, rights and their freedom. ( Chick,2011) As the revolt has not only impacted the Tunisia economy itself but also the European union, Arab league and western countries. As Tunisia has very good trade relation with the European Union, United States, China and many other Asian countries so it also going to affect the economies of these countries. Tunisia is very close to European union economically and commercially, On 1 January 2008 European Union and Tunisia signed a association agreement in which all the trade barriers and custom tariffs was lifted for both the countries on manufactured goods which made free trade for both the European Union countries and Tunisia. Tunisia used mainly deals in manufacturing goods, textiles, footwear’s, petroleum and electrical and mechanical goods. Tunisia exports count of $ 16. 416 billion which is mainly clothing, semi finished goods and textiles, mechanical and electrical goods and hydrocarbons. The main importers of the Tunisian goods are European Union countries, European Union import more than 76% of Tunisia goods which are export from Tunisia to other countries. Asia, Africa and Americas are the next major importer of the Tunisian goods. So the revolt has significant affect on the European Union countries market. Tunisia is not only the supplier of goods to European market but it is also very good market for the European Union countries as the European countries export more than 71% total import of the Tunisia which accounts for $ 22. 08 billion, Asia and African next two major exporter for Tunisia. (European Commission Trade,2010) The United States of America has also signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in October 2002. Tunisia has also signed a Agadir Agreement with Saudi Arab, Jordan and Morocco In 2004. (U. S. Department of State,2011) Egypt was the next country which got inspired by the Tunisia revolution and was ready to do the same which Tunisia citi zen has done for their democracy and right because Egypt was also suffering from the same disease from many years name dictatorship. Egypt economy was growing under the rule of Hosni Mubarak but some factors that triggered the Egypt citizen to fight for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak was the corruption, low incomes, high unemployment, food inflation, emergency law and no right to speak. These were the factors which was the cause of the end of the Hosni Mubarak rule over Egypt. Hosni Mubarak got the power to rule Egypt in 1981 and he ruled Egypt for 30 years by imposing the continuous state of emergency in the country. On 25 January 2011 young generation of Egypt decided that they are going to fight against the corrupt government of Hosni Mubarak by using the social networking sites like Facebook and twitter. The social media and television media played very big role in Egypt revolution. On 28 January 2011 thousands of people came out of their houses on streets for the peaceful demonstration in Cairo. President Hosni Mubarak tried very hard to cling on the power by giving speeches to the nation, by promising he want stand for election for next time and by forming a new cabinet. But on 3 February in Cairo on Tahrir square the tsunami of protestor has been witnessed by Egypt and then riots broke out in which many people died and got injured. After the 18th day protest on 11 February 2011 Hosni Mubarak step down from the post of the president and the Egyptian Armed force took over the control of Egypt. (Amar, 2011) Egypt is not a oil exporting country but it play a very vital rule in providing the oil to the other through the gift of Suez canal. Suez Canal is 102 mile long canal situated in the red sea. Through Suez Canal and overland pipelines in Egypt nearly 3. 6 % of total oil production passes to the world which is 3 million barrels of oil every day. 2700 crude oil tanker ships passes through the canal and if the revolt continues and it disrupted the canal then it will directly lead to the price rise of the oil which will be the strong reason for spreading the food inflation in the world. (Dadwal, 2011) After Tunisia and Egypt it was turn of Libya which was suffering from the rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Libya citizen was facing many problems during the 42 years rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi like unemployment, corruption in government office, no right speech, human right violation and food Inflation. But after the success of Tunisia citizen Libya got the new hope that they can fight for their right and they can win they rights. The protest was started on 15 February 2011 and turn into civil war when security force fire on the crowd. After that rebellion group was formed. On 20 February rebellions captured Tripoli which is the capital of Libya. In this fight the rebellion also got the support of the NATO forces which was bombarding on Gaddafi army. After capturing the Tripoli the one and only aim of the rebellion force was to capture Muammar Gaddafi and kill him. On 20 October Muammar Gaddafi rule ended on Libya and his life to he was killed by rebellion army when he was trying to escape from Libya. On 23 October 2011 the civil war of Libya ended. (BIX, 2011) Economically Libyan Civil war has many major impact on the global economy as Libya is one of the oil producing country in the North Africa and it’ s oil production counts for 1% or 2% of total oil production of the world. But Libya export more than 85% oil to Europe and 5% oil to US. Because of the Libyan Civil war the oil price have rocketed in global market. Libya produces 1. 7 million barrels a day on the normal day of Libya but after the protest started the oil production has gone down more than 50%. In the revolt time Libya is just producing half of the oil compare to normal day which is less than 400000 barrel a day. The production has gone down because the foreign workers which work in oil refinery have to flee to their homes to safe their life and because of which in the oil refineries few worker are left. The energy export of Libya has been completely stopped after the revolt which has given the new jump to the oil in the world market. Italy imported 25% of oil and 15 % of natural gases from Libya. Greenstream pipeline which carriers’ natural gases from Sahara field of Wafa to Mediterranean port which ship to Italy for meeting the energy requirement of Italy. But during the Libyan Civil war it was under the control of rebellion forces because of which Italy has to suffer from energy shortage. Because of Libyan civil war the oil futures rises to $120 barrel in London and $100 in US which was the highest since the global slowdown of 2008. ( WATSON,2011) And the oil will have more price rise because the Libya output might be vanished for some time from the global market. Saudi Arab have also announced that it will cover the oil production from Arab nation by producing more oil which will cover for the lost of oil production of Libya. And they will ship extra barrels to European countries through Red sea. Saudi Arab has also convinced the West African countries to divert the shipment of oil from Asia to Europe. But the high quality oil of Libya which has low sulphur contain and which can easy be refined will created problem for the European small refineries to refine the heavy sulphur Saudi Oil which will also increase the cost of the European countries and which will be seen on the price of the product of goods in the long run. But it not all about Libya export it also about the Libya Import as the Libya Import account for more than $ 22 billion. The goods which is mainly imported by Libya are machinery, transport equipment, food, manufactured goods and consumer products and the major countries which export these goods to Libya are Italy, China, Turkey Germany and South Korea etc. These countries will be also being facing problem because the market where they were selling the goods it is completely destroyed by the revolt. (Reddy,2011) Syria is also included in the name of the countries which are fighting for their freedom like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The causes for the Syrian revolution was quite same with the other three countries like corruption in government, dictatorship, no human rights, unemployment and inspirational success of the revolt of Tunisia and Egypt. In Syria this war is not for one person this war is against the corrupt government of Syria which is ruled by Ba’ath Party who’s Hafez al Assad ruled this country for 30 years and after his death his son Bashar-al-Assad succeeded him and capture the throne of Syria. On 15 march the Syrian decided to protest against the Assad family which is ruling them from 1970 by using their terror and power. Assad family have many examples of brutality on Syria back but on 15 march citizen of Syria called it â€Å"Day of Dignity† and thousands of people came out to protest against Bashar-al-Assad demanding his resignation. Bashar –al-Assad is clinging to the power by security forces and police. Security force and police has killed many protestors during the protest to safeguard the crown of the president of Bashar-al-Assad. Bashar–al-Assad has fired his old government but he remain in the power and he formed a new government to manipulate the people of Syria. But the protest is still going on and Bashar–al-Assad is using army to suppress the revolt. Blanford, 2011) Economically Syrian uprising will also affect the world and first it will affect it neighboring countries mainly Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iran. Turkey and Syria has the trade of $2. 27 billion last year it is definitely going to hurt Turkey badly. Firstly the demands for the Turkey goods are decr easing in Syria after starting of the Syrian uprising. The sources have estimated that the demand of the imports and Turkish goods which used to be high has decreased very sharply. The percentage decrease in the demand of Turkish imported goods in Syria has fallen between 30% to 40%. nd it is expected that the percentage decrease may also drop more than this. Both Turkey and Syria are not even having the desire to renew their contracts because of Syrian Uprising. In 2010 Turkey exported goods to Syria which account for $ 630 million while Syria exports goods to Turkey which account for $ 1. 6 billion. Turkey has invested around $ 260 million in sector such as lighting industry and construction industry. Second country which is going to get affected from this revolt is Lebanon. Lebanon is going to affected by Syria in two ways. Firstly the Syria and Lebanon has very good trade relation with each other. In 2010 the trade between both the countries is valued around $ 1. 3 billion. Secondly Lebanon got cheap labour from Syria and because of Syrian uprising the movement of labour will become difficult which rise the labour cost in the Lebanese economy. But because of this revolt Lebanese bank will have benefits, as Syrian merchants and businessmen use Lebanese banks to keep their deposits. And because of the revolt and instability in Syria the banking activity of Syrian merchant and businessmen will increase in Lebanese bank. Iraq is primary destination of Syrian exports as the Syria export goods to Iraq which account for $ 2. 5 billion which is the 18. 8% of the total Syrian export. (Saif, 2011). Syria is not a major oil producing nation. Two Asian emerging economies China and India has also invested in the Syria Al-Furat Petroleum company in 2005. India OVL and China CNPC jointly bought a 37% stake in the Syria Al-Furat Petroleum Company, which own 39 oil and gas fields in whole Syria. Share of OVL (India) was 0. 72 million tones in 2009- 2010 in the production of the crude oil in Syria. In 2009 OVL (India) founded oil on onshore block of North-Eastern Syria which are under the commercial development. So India and china also might get affected if the revolt continues in Syria. Syria uprising will also have impact on Russia and the European Union countries as they are one of the important trade partner of Syria. ( Balakrishanan,2011) Yemen Upspring 2011 started on 27 January when 16000 demonstrators came on to the streets against the president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh and start demanding the resignation from the post of the president, which he was holding from 1978. After Tunisia revolution success Saleh was aware of the protest is going to happen in Yemen too. So Soon after the Jasmine revolution success he increased the salaries of military officers and civil servants by 25%. On 3 February 20000 people of Yemen protested against Saleh in Capital of Yemen Sana’a. On 18 march Saleh force killed 52 and injured hundred of protestors in Sana’a. But people of Yemen are still fighting for their human rights and against corruption. Ali Abdullah Saleh is evacuated to Saudi Arab Because he got injured in Bomb blast in the presidential compound mosque. And he hand over the power to vice president Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi and revolt is going on and on. (Economist, 2011) Economically Yemen uprising impact will be seen mostly in the Asian Countries China and India. As China and India has very good trade relation with Yemen from many years. Yemen is a one of the largest market for Chinese product. Yemen export nearly account for $ 7. 5 billion which is mainly petroleum products, liquefied natural gas and refined oil products and the major market for the Yemeni goods are China, India, Thailand, South Africa, South Korea and United States. Yemen Import accounts for around $ 9. 2 billion and the major supplier are China, India, UAE, Saudi Arab and Kuwait. As the revolt goes on these are the countries whose market might suffer in the future. (U. S. Department of State 2011) Before the start of the Arab spring the Brent crude oil price was $100 per barrel. International Energy Agency has shown an astonishing figure of the growth by 2. 7 billion barrel per dollar, and has also predited that the growth will have a pace of 1. 5 million barrel per day for the world. The Arab Spring 2011 has had its major impact on the oil prices. The prices have risen in all parts of the world as there has been the unfavorable condition of more demand than the Arab countries can supply. The risk is greater in the emerging economies of the world than on the developed economies, because the developed economies have the money and they hold some power in these Arab economies which the emerging economies cannot enjoy. The main countries which are facing the revolt are Tunisia Libya and Egypt. As Libya is the 13th largest oil producing country and Egypt also control the supply of oil in foreign countries by Suez canal. The price of Brent crude oil has increased to $115 per barrel and on 24 February the price of oil got increased to $120 per barrel because it was realize that the world have to manage without or less supply of oil from Libya which accounts for 2% of worlds need. During the period of oil embargo in 1972, Iranian revolution and invasion of Iraq on Kuwait the world had witnessed a recessionary period and had also suffered from high oil prices to the low supply of the same. The world economy is very sensitive to oil price. As the price of Brent Crude oil had jumped 25% in last year which $23 per barrel. IMF has recognized that 10% increase in the oil price will decrease the GDP of economies by 0. 2% to 0. 3% in year. Increase in the oil prices may send back US and UK economy in double dip recession in the future. Every dollar increase in the oil price leads to the increase in US gas price by 2. 3 cent per gallon and which leads to the consumer taxes to $ 1. 2 billion per year. Emerging countries like India and China will be hard hit from the rise in the oil prices. The higher oil price may increase the inflation rate in the Emerging countries as China was targeting the Inflation rate of 4% but it rose well above the target which is 4. % and India inflation has been more than 9% in this which. The higher oil price may jump inflation rate in the near future. The increase in the oil prices may also result in higher unemployment as the rise of the oil price will increase the price of manufacturing which will lead to layoffs which will cause the stagflation in the economy. (Economist, 20 11) As the Arab Spring was for the democracy and for the Human rights of the citizen of MENA countries but the fact can’t be neglected that it had hurt the world economy quite badly and it may also worsen the current situation of world, hich is already suffering from other wounds like recession, Euro zone crisis, Japan crisis due to tsunami and earthquake and occupy wall street and many more events. But â€Å"You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exist prior law† (Neylon,2011) Reference List 1. Anderson, L (2011), ‘Demystifying the Arab Spring', Foreign Affairs, 90, 3, pp 2-7. 2. Amar, P (2011), ‘EGYPT AFTER MUBARAK', Nation, 292, 21, pp. 11-15 3. Blanford, N (2011), ‘Could Syria see an uprising like Egypt's? Not likely', Christian Science Monitor. Available at: http://ehis. ebscohost. com/ehost/detail? vid=6=121=f6bf370c-a90d-4f69-a3a9-eecc26d597ec%40sessionmgr115=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph=57765811 4. 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Should people in the military who are underage be allowed to drink Annotated Bibliography

Should people in the military who are underage be allowed to drink alcohol - Annotated Bibliography Example On the other hand, the opponents point out that the existing law prohibits underage drinking. Such division warrants a deeper examination of the issue from a multi-faceted approach. The US law espouses that the youth below the age of the twenty-one years should not take alcohol while serving in the military. Many states in the US have enforced the laws restrict the underage from drinking. Article XXI of the US Constitution bans the underage from possessing and consuming alcohol. Statistics indicate that heavy drinking and substance abuse is a huge problem that has plagued the military. The personnel use alcohol to relieve boredom, stress, loneliness, and lack of recreational activities. The US laws that control the underage drinking is applicable even on overseas deployments. Hence, the youths should comply with the US laws, even if the host country allows the underage use of alcohol. A good example of the application of the US law is evident at the US-Mexican border. The Mexico laws allow people less than twenty-one years to drink alcohol. However, the military ensured that the US youths did not take the alcohol by enforcing the existing laws that prohibit underage drinking. The people below the age of twenty-one years are not mature enough to exercise the responsibility of their lives. Hence, allowing the youths to drink alcohol can affect the delivery of duties in the military. The application of the law is on equal measure to all the US citizens. The laws are clear that people under the age of twenty-one years should not possess and consume alcohol. The choice to join the military does not imply that the youths are above the law. Joining the military is a choice that one makes. The fact that the youths have enlisted in the military does not mean their brains are mature enough to take alcohol responsibly. In fact, studies have shown the people under the age of twenty-one years cannot make conscious decisions. It is not advisable to

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Tax Law Worksheet - Research Paper Example Rulings in agreement with administrative rules together with court rulings permit for the formation of public agencies that regulate and govern statutes and judicial decisions. The purpose of these administrative agencies aid in administering rulings that are being geared towards implementation of the duties and powers of the laws stipulated. Additionally, it prevents against impunity regarding the violation of laws and regulations enforced by these administrative agencies. Administrative rulings and court cases have helped in the design of a system of checks and balances that aims to minimize the risks of bureaucracy (Tax Law, 2003). In many occasions, there has been inconsistencies and conflict about court rulings. If I had a choice to choose the judgment to go with, then I would rely on the hierarchical rule between the two court rulings. The hierarchical rule will dictate the case ruling that will dominate over the other and that is the position I will take. It is because a court case ruling based on the internal revenue code will always prevail over a case ruling basing on other tax law. It is because the code is supreme over the other tax laws (Tax Law, 2003). It is possible to use timing strategies to have an impact (AGI) Adjusted Gross Income deductions, tax credits, itemized deductions and dependency exceptions. It is possible by strategically timing when the year ends. It means that there will be less uncertainty to the short-term viewpoint for tax law as opposed to the beginning of the next year. With this brief tax reprieve comes the opportunity to form a tax saving plan that is sound. It is essential to time strategically the moment to implement the plan. For example, one can reap benefits on tax retirement savings by making a maximum amount allowable at the end of every year. On the other hand, income shifting strategies impacts or alters these deductions by reducing the central income tax

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Holden Caulfield Is an Island Essay John Donne’s quote, ‘No man is an island’ connects quite directly to Holden Caulfield in ‘The Catcher in the Rye. ’ Holden’s character is very relative to themes such as isolation, loneliness and non-conformity. Holden has a very distinct character; he has many features, which would describe him as quite a lonely, cynical young man. It is evident that a past of his has had such an effect on him that the adolescence he has become quite a rocky journey for him; the death of his brother Allie, and the suicide of one of his schoolmates included. How is Holden Caulfield an island? Well, the quote itself – ‘No man is an island’ – can be interpreted that no man will thrive in isolation, such as an island. Holden has isolated himself from the conforming ways of society. This explains why he finds it so hard to be close to people, and why people find it so hard to get close to him; because he is so different. Holden’s character can be described as one that is flying off the rails. Some events throughout the novel regarding alcohol and drugs, relationships and Holden’s whereabouts show that he is simply trying to be something he isn’t. Holden Caulfield is an island, throughout the novel, a word to describe him best would be ‘alone. ’ Those who attempt to help him, guide him and be there for him, such as Spencer and Mr. Antolini, generally fail as Holden makes a quick escape from their guiding hands. In some ways, Holden can be seen as a hero. It is much harder to go against the grain alone, than to follow along in the footsteps of others. Holden can be understood as a leader, rather than a follower. Although his purpose is not quite evident, his journey is still worth so much. Holden’s personality includes features, which define him as a very judgmental person. He often uses the term ‘phoney’ to describe people who aren’t true to themselves and who according to him, squeezing into a certain cut out. Holden is very set in his ways, and will generally not take on the opinion of anyone else, and will stick to his own very closely. An example of Holden preferring to be alone is when he informs his sister that he will be leaving home. He organizes a meeting with her before he leaves. She arrives with her belongings and asks to go with him. It is not that Holden loses his temper, and refuses to take her along. After Holden leaves Pencey Prep at the beginning of the novel, he makes the decision to find his way around Manhattan alone, with out telling his parents; for a few days before he is due back home. To most sixteen year old teenagers, to make this decision would be a big move, but to Holden, a stunt like this doesn’t concern him. This just shows how far he goes to prove himself to be an individual, who can take care of himself, Holden feels he doesn’t need anyone but himself, as he is left alone by the end of the story. Throughout the novel, is it clear that the story is about Holden’s journey, and Holden Caulfield being an island. The events and occurrences that happen to Holden along the way prove this statement to be true. Holden has a very strong character, that of which he remains tough; he does his own thing, in his own way; without the need for approval from anyone. Holden Caulfield has isolated himself from the conforming ways of society. Therefore, Holden Caulfield is an Island.

Theme Of Sterility In Poem The Wasteland English Literature Essay

Theme Of Sterility In Poem The Wasteland English Literature Essay The Waste Land was first published in October 1922 in a magazine called The Criterion. The magazine was edited by Elliot himself in England till he closed it in 1939 on the eve of Second World War (Bloom p.19). A few weeks later the poem was published in America in a magazine called The Dial. Eliot began work on the waste land un early 1919 but much of the work was done in late 1921 as he was staying on the coast of Margate in England and later on at a sanitarium in Luassanne, Switzerland where he was taking a rest after suffering a nervous breakdown as a result of his fathers death in 1919. On two occasions Eliot passed through Paris, on the way to Luasanne and on the way back to London. On the two occasions Elliot and his wife stayed with his friend Ezra Pound and his wife. Ezra Pound looked at Elliots work on both occasions and edited it, cutting away half of it. The Waste Land combines overwhelming erudition of debased speech (Bloom p.20). Quotations from other languages from great literatures of the world and from pop songs and music hall are woven into one fabric making it possibly the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century. This poem can be said to be Elliots greatest work of literature. All through the five cryptic segmented sections of The Waste Land, confront the problem sterility and at the end tries to offer a solution, though of little help. In the poem Eliot asks a question what branches grow out of this stony rubbish. Through this imagery, branches and stony rubbish Eliot suggests that the poem examines the lives of people (branches) and the culture (stony rubbish) in which people live. The lives of people are interconnected to their culture. Like the ground where trees draw their life, the culture is a life stream of people. Branches can never grow if the roots cannot clutch if the soil is stony rubbish. The same way people cannot live well if their culture is broken, rough and can longer support them. It is also impossible to bring about a civilization worthy of mankind or better make mankind wholesome and create a worthy culture, if the environment in which the mankind grows undermines life instead of nurturing life (Blossom p.26). The Fire Sermon The tittle of this passage is taken from a Buddha sermon given to Buddha followers. It urges them to give up earthly rages symbolized by fire and instead look for freedom from earthly things. A turn away from the earthly actually occurs in this passage. Series of debased sexual encounters are depicted and finally closes with a river-song and religious conjuration. The passage opens with a desolate riverside scene. The speaker is surrounded by rats and garbage as he fishes and muses on the king my brothers wreck. Through this description the poet is able to develop the theme of sterility. Unlike the desert that is characterized by bareness, the riverbank that should be full of rejuvenation of life just but a dull canal that only rats a seen moving around. This shows the pessimism because what is hoped to bring about regeneration of the people only rats are found there. As the speaker muses in the king my brothers wreck, with the king my fathers grave before him, he thinks about the death of kings that leads to loss of significance of life. The sound of rats rattle personifies the lethal plaque ruining the human spirit. London according to Elliot had become so unreal in the sense that the dwellers of the city have lost touch with basic reality of olden pulse of germ and birth. Eliot shows sterility in a heterosexual encounter in London. The speaker is invited by a one-eyed merchant of Madame Sosostrilss tarot pack, Mr. Eugenides, to a meeting place for homosexual assignations. In this situation the speaker proclaims himself as Tiresias. Tiresias is an ancient mythology who possesses both male and female reproductive organs, old man with wrinkled female breasts. He is also able to see into the future. The speaker in this encounter as used by Eliot is only an observer of the events of this encounter as they unfold. The speaker witnesses an encounter between a typist and a small house agents clerk. After a long day of work, the typist returns to her house and prepares dinner. Her underwear is seen drying on the windowsill, and the divan on which she sleeps is strewn with other lingerie such as a stocki ngs. A young man, a small house agents clerks, who is described as having a bold stare, arrives in the typists house. On eating dinner, the young man starts making advances towards the typist which she does not resist. She readily gives in and they are involved in a sexual intercourse which the speaker sees as an alienated sexual exchange. After they are done the young man walks out of the house finding his way through the dark. This signifies the state of moral and vital darkness that he lives in. The typist on the other hand, adjusts her hair and says to herself glad its over. This sexual encounter symbolizes the degradation of the central model of love and fertility. It was neither an act of procreation, nor a rite performed ceremonially for a fertile earth. There was not even an expression of love. The sexual encounter is a conceited assertion of destitute self on the part of the clerk and an example of accustomed submission on the part of the typist. Sexual intercourse has been turned mechanical just like how machines work. The poem therefore represents the narrators consciousness of his anguish in relation to history, culture and even time. Throughout the poem infertility is felt with little hopes of the future. What the speaker sees in this encounter is one of the highest examples of barrenness, egotism and disaffection. A Game of Chess The title of this section is derived from two plays by an early 17th century dramatist Thomas Middleton the one in which the moves in a game of chess denotes stages in seduction. Two opposing scenes are depicted. One of the beau monde and the other of lower social class. The first part of the section exposes a wealthy, well groomed woman surrounded by recherchà © furnishings. The woman waits for a lover and in the process her neurotic ideas become frenzied with no meaningful cries. Her day then climaxes with plans for an outing and a game of chess. In the second part of this episode depicts a scene in a London barroom. Here two women discuss a third woman who is not in the barroom. As the bar is about to be closed, one of the women recounts a discourse with their friend Lil. Lils husband had been dismissed from the army. Lil has refused to get herself false teeth and she is told that her husband will seek the company of another woman as a result. Lils husband does not seem to appreciate her even on bearing five children for him which has led to current appearance. The narrator says that her husband wont leave [her] alone. The two women, Lil wealthy woman, represent the two sides of modern sexuality. One side of the sexuality is dry, barren interchange inseparable from neuroticism and self-destruction. Eliot likens this woman to Cleopatra in the manner of her luxuriance of language and surrounding. She is defeated, excessively emotional but lacks intellects. Eliots association of this woman with Cleopatra, who committed suicide due to frustration stemmed from love, shows her irrationality. However, unlike Cleopatra, this woman is not and will never be a cultural standard. Lil on the other hand represents sexuality as fertility associated with a deficiency of culture and speedy aging. Despite doing everything right; married right, supported her husband, bore him children, yet her body lets her down. She no longer looks appealing to her husband. Age had already set in and there was no way to reverse it, not even false teeth. This shows how possibility of regenerating sex both at the cultural and personal contexts diminishes further. The Burial of the Dead This is the first passage of the waste land. Eliot derived the title of this passage from a line in the Anglican burial service. It is constituted of four sketches, apparently from different speakers. The first is an autobiographical snipping from a childhood of an aristocratical woman called Marie. She tells the poet as they take coffee of her past in Austria and of her cousin, who was the Archduke Rudolph and the heir to be of the Austro-Hungarian throne. She also narrates to the poet in fondness how she used to go sledging in the mountains and sometimes Archduke would take her sledging. Marie mingles a meditation on the seasons with comments on the desolate state of her current being. She says I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. Marie claims to be a German and not a Russian. She is a member of the lately defeated Austrian royal family. The poem being written after the First World War it shows how peoples lives were disrupted and left desolate as a result of war. People, like Marie could no longer feel part or even enjoy being part of the social fabric as they did before the war. As the speaker walks through London which is populated by ghosts he faces a figure that he once fought with in a battle and this seems to mix the clashes of the First World War with the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage. Both wars were futile and led to massive destruction. The speaker goes ahead to ask the ghostly figure, Stetson, on the fate of a corpse established in his garden. At the time Eliot was writing the poem, he had started gaining interest in Christianity. It was difficult for him to believe the Christian belief of resurrection. This shows the pessimism with which Eliot looks at degraded human culture of post-world war I. This hopelessness is depicted in the character Sibyl, a woman possessing prophetic powers who ages but never dies. This woman looks into the future and finds no hope in it and therefore prefers to die. Eliot sees himself in the same predicament as Sibyl. The culture in which he lives in has decayed and dried-up. The worst part of this culture is that it will not expire, and hence he is compelled to live with memories of its former glory. Through memory of the dead, a confrontation of the past and the present is created. Through memory, the past and the present are juxtaposed showing how things have worsened and decayed. Maries memories of her childhood are painful. The worlds of her cousin, and coffee in the park, and sledging on the mountains have since been replaced by complex political and emotional consequences of the war. She now prefers to read late into the night because there is not much she can do. In summing up, the poem The Waste Land is Eliots best work of literature. Written after the First World War which he describes as futile and cause of massive destruction, Eliot explores changes that occurred after the war. One of these changes involves the culture becoming sterile. Through different passages he has been able to develop this theme of sterility. Sterility is both in the culture and individual people. The culture has become so decayed that it can no longer support existence of a wholesome mankind. As a result people have lost touch with their culture and turned to doing evil things. Despite the sterility of the culture, human beings are forced to live in this condition. Just like Sibyl who despite seeing no hope in the future only ages and never dies thus forced to continue living in an already hopeless condition. Like Sibyl, Eliot sees little hope if any for the culture and the people to be regenerated.

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Applying Social Network Analysis to the Information in CVS Repositories Abstract The huge quantities of data available in the CVS repositories of large, long-lived libre (free, open source) software projects, and the many interrelationships among those data offer opportunities for extracting large amounts of valuable information about their structure, evolution and internal processes. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of that information renders it almost unusable without applying methodologies which highlight the relevant information for a given aspect of the project. In this paper, we propose the use of a well known set of methodologies (social network analysis) for characterizing libre software projects, their evolution over time and their internal structure. In addition, we show how we have applied such methodologies to real cases, and extract some preliminary conclusions from that experience. Keywords: source code repositories, visualization techniques, complex networks, libre software engineering 1 Introduction The study and characterization of complex systems is an active research area, with many interesting open problems. Special attention has been paid recently to techniques based on network analysis, thanks to their power to capture some important characteristics and relationships. Network characterization is widely used in many scientific and technological disciplines, ranging from neurobiology [14] to computer networks [1] [3] or linguistics [9] (to mention just some examples). In this paper we apply this kind of analysis to software projects, using as a base the data available in their source code versioning repository (usually CVS). Fortunately, most large (both in code size and number of developers) libre (free, open source) software projects maintain such repositories, and grant public access to them. The information in the CVS repositories of libre software projects has been gathered and analyzed using several methodologies [12] [5], but still many other approaches are possible. Among them, we explore here how to apply some techniques already common in the traditional (social) network analysis. The proposed approach is based on considering either modules (usually CVS directories) or developers (commiters to the CVS) as vertices, and the number of common commits as the weight of the link between any two vertices (see section 3 for a more detailed definition). This way, we end up with a weighted graph which captures some relationships between developers or modules, in which characteristics as information flow or communities can be studied. There have been some other works analyzing social networks in the libre software world. [7] hypothesizes that the organization of libre software projects can be modeled as self-organizing social networks and shows that this seems to be true at least when studying SourceForge projects. [6] proposes also a sort of network analysis for libre software projects, but considering source dependencies between modules. Our approach explores how to apply those network analysis techniques in a more comprehensive and

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Iago's Revenge in Othello      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Iago has a large appetite for revenge.   In his perspective, he believes that it is he who should be in charge, not Othello the moor.   This creates an anger in Iago, who entraps Othello in a web of deceit.   He does this through a series of suggestions and hesitations that entice and implant images in Othello's head that lead to his demise.   But what is more important is that he gives Othello the motive to murder innocent Desdemona.   Iago is constantly like a puppet master, pulling the strings of the people around him.      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   There are many instances in the play where Iago is left by himself.   He utilises these opportunities by telling his future plans to the audience.   It would seen that he likes talking to himself about himself, which suggests he has much inner turmoil that he harbors close to his chest, but when the opportunity arises, he describes his deeds with a passion.   In the first of these monologues, he makes his intentions perfectly clear.   He implies that Othello has had an affair with his wife by stating "I hate the moor, And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets He's done my office".   The irony of this statement is that in the next line he says that he does not know it for a fact, but because he suspects it, he will act as if for certain!   This gives me the impression from the beginning, that Iago is insane and exceedingly paranoid, going so far as to set up a cache of murders, just on the suspicion of adultery.      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Iago was also jealous of the open and loving relationship that Othello had.   When Othello and Desdemona are reunited after the journey to Cyprus, he kisses her in full view of everyone.   Iago treats his wife as an object and she knows it.   In Act three, Scene four, she tells Desdemona "They are but stomachs, we are but food, and when they are full, they belch us".      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   In Iagos' racist mind, he views his superior, Othello, as being of an inferior creed.   He sees him as possessing an evil mind and soul, and having no right to marry the very white and very naive Desdemona.

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Idling Engine Ban

1. To what extent do you agree with the idling engine ban? A few years ago, the Environmental Protection Department proposed to legislate the idling engine ban, under which all vehicles must switch off their engines. I totally disagree with the idling engine ban, for I think that this policy not only cannot bring benefits to pedestrians in air quality, but instead brings harm to drivers and passengers. To start with, the idling engine ban brings inconvenience to drivers. As the idling engine ban proposes that a driver has to switch off their idle engines immediately, drivers had to switch of their engines even if they had to wait in a place for as short as 3 minutes. This abrupt switching off and on of the engine is not only bothersome to drivers, but may lead to a shorter lifespan of motor vehicles. Apart from the harm to the driver, a problem of poor ventilation is caused by the idling engine ban, which affects both drivers and passengers. As stated by the government, vehicles are the second largest local source of air pollutants. In the middle of the road where traffic is intense, if a driver has to switch off the air conditioner and open the windows, the driver and the passengers will breathe in harmful gases which will affect their health in the long term. Also, when the temperature reaches above 30 degrees in summer, drivers and passengers have a high chance of suffering from heat strokes if the air conditioner is turned off. To maintain a driver’s good condition of health is crucial when driving, therefore the idling engine ban is not feasible. Moreover, from the government’s perspective, it is difficult for the idling engine ban to be implemented. Firstly, a fine of $320 may not be severe enough to stop drivers from switching on their idling engines. Secondly, as there are many exemptions to the ban, the police will not be able to identify violating vehicles effectively. The usefulness of the ban would be greatly decreased. The government stated that the idling engine ban can reduce air pollution in Hong Kong as vehicles are a main pollutant. I agree that the ban can improve the health of Hong Kong citizens and pedestrians in particular, though only in a small extent. However, statistics show that emissions produced when vehicles are idle are only a small part of gas emitted by vehicles. In fact, running vehicles produce a major part of pollutants. Thus, I think that the idling engine ban is not significant enough; the government should consider alternatives to tackle the major problem of the increasing number of private cars to reduce air pollution. To conclude, the idling engine ban would cause inconvenience to drivers and affect the health of drivers and pedestrians. It would be difficult to implement and ineffective to reduce air pollution. Therefore, I totally disagree with the idling engine ban as it brings harmful effects to all stakeholders. 2. What can individuals, private organizations and the government do to ease the costs you have identified in Q1? In Q1, I have identified the costs of the idling engine ban as inconvenience to drivers, poor ventilation during hot weather, difficult implementation and insignificance in reducing air pollution. Firstly, if the idling engine ban was implemented, individual drivers can develop more self-discipline and abide to the laws so that gas emissions will decrease. They can also report on cases of violating the ban. The effectiveness of the ban would increase and implementation of the ban would be more successful. Individuals can also ride on public vehicles more often, so that the major source of air pollutants would be cut down. Secondly, private organizations such as environmental organizations can tell Hong Kong citizens the benefits of the idling engine ban through large-scale functions or advertisements, so that more drivers will see the meaning behind the ban and will not complain that it is inconvenient. They will obey the ban more strictly. Thirdly, the government can ease the poor ventilation during hot weather by changing the ban to allow exemption of all vehicles from switching off the idle engine when the temperature is over 30 degrees. Also, the government can increase the fine so that drivers would not violate the ban easily and it would be easier to implement the ban.

Fatalistic World View Essay

I do think there are a large number of people who have a fatalist world view, though they might not even be aware of it. It seems to be the growing trend in the United States that a lot of people think even if there is a God he doesn’t have anything to do with them, or they only think about it in times of trouble like foxhole prayers. There also appears to be a large number of secularists, which is kind of a spin-off of fatalism, and they believe in nothing other than man’s ability to endure and overcome problems. I remember before I became a Christian I would never think about God or pray or go to church only when my life was falling apart would I think about God, and that was usually to blame him. Anytime I would start thinking about God or try to attend church I would get extremely uncomfortable. I realize now that was because the closer I drew to God the more my shortcomings were exposed not just to others but also to myself. That reality kept me running from God for many years until I had nowhere else to turn. I believe that is why there are so many with a fatalistic view of life because until self-sufficiency runs out, and our unaided human will fail us completely many people will not honestly seek God’s salvation or help. It is my prayer that fatalist and secularist alike would like me come to see their need for God’s salvation and help in their everyday life.

Case Report of Six Sigma at Academic Medical Hospital Essay

Six Sigma is a business management strategy designed to meet customer needs and process capability. Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a systematic project-oriented fashion through define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC) cycle, including statistical tools, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization (like â€Å"Black Belts†, â€Å"Green Belts†, etc.) who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified financial targets (cost reduction, profit increase, etc). Overview: Project name: Six Sigma at Academic Medical Hospital (AMH) Problem: Patients with potentially life-threating injuries and illnesses are waiting for over an hour for treatment in Emergency Department at AMH! Although long wait times seemed to be readily excuses by many physicians due to complexity of managing emergency room and processes and clinical staff, it is still unacceptable for the patients. Targets: help Emergency Department (ED) at Academic Medical Hospital (AMH) to reduce the wait time Method: instituting Six Sigma at AMH and establishing a Six Sigma Foundations Teams, which undertake an application practicum on an assigned AMH project with, cooperate trainers acting as coaches. Six Sigma Foundation TEAM: Champion: Dr. Elbridge (establishes business targets and creates an environment within the organization to promote the Six Sigma methodology and tools) Sponsor: Dr. Terry Hamilton (key communicator and approves final recommendation) Owner: Nancy Jenkins (implementation and accountable for sustaining long-term gains) Black Belts: Jane McCrea (project leaders who are experts in Six Sigma methodology and statistical tool applications) Green Belts: Dr. James Wilson (trained by six Sigma methodology from hospital) The Foundations Team: (a group of local experts who participate in the project) &4 people (Nancy Jenkins, Patient Care Manager; Georgia Williams, ED registration Manager; Bill Barber, senior Clinician; and Steve Small, Senior Clinician and Quality Improvement Coordinator) Seven Process Steps and Activities for patients at the Emergency Department: Triage: The Nurse complete a preliminary assessment of the patient’s condition and ranks his criticality accordingly; Register: The Nurse obtain demographic and insurance information; Lobby: The Patient wait for the nurse call your name; Tx Room& Nurse: The patient do testing and get the results; MD: The patient wait for doctors. Questions: Q1.Describe how Six Sigma Methodology (DMAIC) is implemented in the â€Å"ED Wait Time Project.† As stated, Six Sigma is based on a 5 phase, step-by-step process that was used in the â€Å"ED Wait Time Project.† In the Define phase the team identified expected benefits of the project including expedited medical care delivery, improved patient satisfaction, reduced patient complaints, increased patient capacity and improved operational efficiency. Moving on to the Measure phase, the team determined the baseline measures and the target performance of the original process as well as defined the input/output variables. They collected 2 groups of data sets as well as administered a patient satisfaction survey, which produced the maximum wait times for pa tients. During the Analyze phase the team then analyzed the baseline study and found that two processes mainly influenced the wait time; the waiting room time and the time spent waiting on the MD. As the ED Wait Time Foundations team moved on to the Improve phase it was decided that they would improve: Patient flow, Care Team Communication and Streamlined Order Entry and Results Retrieval Process. By changing procedure by which the Priority Level II patients were moved, it resulted in less or no waiting room time and allowed patients to proceed to the examination room. Modifying ED zone assignments within the patient- care team and using new communication boards would reduce patient complaints and improve satisfaction. This change will also help with new central clerks that will help entering patients and decrease the amount of time that physicians and nurses are occupied. Lastly, in the Control phase the team ensures that the new standard operation procedures for moving patients through the ED are maintained. They compared the performance of the Emergency Department before and after in order to note their progress and set guidelines to preserve their advancement. Q2.Access the pilot results from the process changes. What should the team say to the Project Sponsor, Dr. Hamilton, and to the Project Champion, Dr. Elbridge about the results? According to the results, the pilot Lobby Wait Time mean value came in under the acceptable target of 15 minutes, and the MD Wait Time measure was improving(pilot mean was 8.9 minutes against a study 1 baseline of 16.1 minutes and a study 2 baseline of 11.2 minutes). Although pilot MD Wait Time didn’t reach the target set at 8.0 minutes, it was apparently improved. Pilot Lobby Times were better than established 15 minute target, the defect rate dropped, and the 95% confidence interval test on the study 1 median and study 2 median vs. pilot median validated statistical significance of the improvement in wait times. Results of MD Wait Times were stat istically significant in one of two Mood’s Median tests (study 1 vs. pilot). Positive trending was demonstrated in the comparison of study 2 to the pilot which showed that the MD Wait Time became shorter and the detect rate decreased. The outcome looked promising. However, the Hawthorne effect came into play, particularly in the study 2 data collection activities. Due to unreliable automated data-gathering procedures in the ED’s information systems and the need to use intra-departmental manual data surveyors, the presence of bias was recognized. The team needed to decide whether to redo some aspects of their work in the Improve phase. The data was not convincing enough, and the result of improvement in MD Wait Time was not very apparent. Q3.What are the obstacles to AMH adopting Six Sigma? The equation [Q*A=E] is the cornerstone of successful Six Sigma improvement implementation. It infers that the quality of process solutions multiplied by the Acceptance level of stakeholders is equal to the effectiveness of those results. In this case, the primary obstacle is the acceptance level of the hospital. NO matter which solutions result from the analysis, the potential for success will be limited without the acceptance of the people affected and involved. Getting people to embrace six Sigma reforms in ED was going to be an uphill battle. There are 3 reasons: 1) Physicians are not hospital employees, but independent contractors of a sort from the Medical school. It is almost a disincentive to participate since their incentives lie with research, education, and patient care specialty. 2) Dr. Hamilton who is the sponsor of the project was hesitant to get involved in anything that he was unfamiliar with or which would add to his already full plate. Also, Nancy Jenkins, who is the project owner, implementing significant process and behavior change were not among her strengths. 3) Last, it was noted that the Hawthorne effect came into play. The Hawthorne effect refers to a phenomenon in which participants alter their behavior as a result of being part of an experiment or study. It is hard for the team to get reliable automated date-gathering procedures. Q4.Consider whether or not the team should recommend a change in the Project Sponsor even at this late phase of the project. The project sponsor is supposed to be the reque stor of the project and is committed to its solutions. He/She should also be responsible to identify project goals, objectives and scope; remove barriers and aligns resources; serve as a key communicator of project progress and status and approves final recommendations. However, in this case, Dr. Terry Hamilton, the project Sponsor, had a lot of work in his own domain to focus on (busy vice-chair of the Medical School’s Emergency Medicine Department, active in several other department initiatives and responsibilities) and he was also an involved father and husband. As a result, he was so reluctant and kind of indifferent to this project. We would like to recommend the project team to change the Sponsor. Who’s elective? Dr. George Calhoun, the Emergency Medicine Department Chair, had remained at arm’s length throughout the team’s work. As the chair, Dr. Calhoun was in a position of influence over faculty and long-term changes that could result from the ED Wait Time Project. And we also learned that Dr. Calhoun’s interests and incentives were linked to achieving national emergency medicine program recognition and publications. So Dr. Calhoun is the appropriate candidate for the Project Sponsor. Q5.Based on what you k now of the project’s results, limitations, and key stakeholders, what would you recommend as the next step for McCrea in her role as the Black Belts of the ED Wait Time Project? According to the results and the analysis, there are many improvements we can do. There are four aspects of improvements: Eliminating interference factors They should reduce the Hawthorne effect recording the Wait Time without being observed by the staff. They should think of new methods to record the MD Wait Time more accurately because there were some bias and errors in the measurement. Perhaps we can use video camera to observe staff’s actions to make sure they comply with the rules of Six Sigma and to record the MD Wait Time. 2.Increasing the Acceptance level The equation, Q x A = E, is the cornerstone of successful Six Sigma improvement implementation. No matter which solutions result from the analysis, the potential for success will be limited without the Acceptance of the people affected and involved. I think increasing the Acceptance level is the most important mission for the next step. The tools and techniques are referred to as â€Å"The Change Acceleration Process,† or CAP. Several CAP techniques were used throughout the ED Wait Time project, including Process Mapping, Elevator Speech, Extensive and Creative Communication Plans and The Stakeholder/Resistance Analysis. 3.Quality Improvement Considering that the Pilot MD Wait Time apparently didn’t decrease, I suggest the team should look for some other methods for improvement. The current methods seemed not very effective. Changing some key members As the article mentioned, the project Sponsor, Dr. Hamilton, was not very active. He was very busy and was not interested in Six Sigma project. The project Owner, Nancy Jenkins, was not good at implementing significant process and behavior change. It’s less likely that the implementations will be sustained after the Six Sigma experts leave. Perhaps the two members mentioned above should be replaced by more competent people. As mentioned above, Dr. Calhoun may be the right person for the Sponsor. I also think that Dr. Elbridge should be more positive in this project.

Different forms of budgeting and their purpose

The intent of budgeting system is the set of processs used to function the demands of direction maps of planning and control that refers to the importance of communicating and motive as an facet of direction to which direction accounting should lend or develop. Budgeting systems have five ( 5 ) primary intents which include ; planning, easing communicating and coordination, apportioning resources, commanding net income and operations and measuring public presentation and supplying inducements. However, be aftering and control are the major activities in most administrations and budgets are at the Centre of these activities. The footings planning and control are used to propose that they mean the same thing, but they are two different constructs. Planing involves on persons who make up an administration to be after in front in other to accomplish those aims, whereas control involves in set uping budgets for different sections giving duties to single directors in the addition that the aims set down at the planning phase are all working toward that end through the parts of administration. Therefore, budgeting is important portion of planning and control because they both plan for the hereafter. A company public presentation determines by budgeting as a direction tool to back up motive, planning, communications and determination devising. Budget is a elaborate degree program which sets out, in money footings, where companies plan and maintain budget on either an accrual or hard currency footing. A budget is besides refers to as a fiscal footings or quantitative footings used to project future income and disbursals such as labour hours, stuff purchases, or units of gross revenues. Budgeting helps administrations implement specific schemes to run into ends and aims. Budgets are of class internal to the administration and like most direction accounting information, does non organize portion of the administration ‘s published fiscal statement. Hence, non everyone is responsible for fixing budgets, but everyone within an administration will be affected by them. ( Hugh Coombs, et.al, 2005, pg91 ) . Many senior direction duties are to enforce different budgets on different sections. Hence, if the readying of the budgets involves the employees in the administration at a lower degree so budgets is more likely to be accepted. These will do people work as a squad ensuing in increased motive. Employees will be more motivated with increase engagement and encouragement as this could besides be more good to hold a wages system such as addition on wages, publicities etc. All this will hold a large impact to the company and enables the company turn hence, if employees do n't acquire what they requested so, employees may disregard the system holding small importance to the concern and this could impact the aims of the company. In order to hold a successful budgeting, a good communicating should be efficaciously in order to run into marks and aims. Different types of budgets serve different intent. The type of budget includes maestro, capital, operating ( for income statement points comprised of gross and disbursals ) , fiscal ( for balance sheet points ) , gross revenues, capital, production and undertaking. These budgets are briefly explained below. Master Budget is the chief end product of a budgeting system. It is normally prepared yearly or quarterly. The maestro budget has three ( 3 ) constituents: the budgeted net income and loss history for the twelvemonth, the budgeted hard currency flow statement and the budgeted balance sheet. Operating and Financial Budgets the operating budget trades with how operations are carried out to bring forth an administration ‘s goods or services. The fiscal budget accent on how an administration will get fiscal resources during the budget period. Gross saless Budget is used to make company gross revenues ends that show the jutting gross revenues in units and the projected gross revenues gross. Capital Budget shows a anticipation of company demands in respect to capital assets, such as land, equipment, vehicles, edifices, and machinery. The capital budget helps the company program for acquisition and disposal of assets that include the usage of available hard currency or outside funding. Production Budget indicates the figure of units of services or goods that must be produced each budgeted period to run into gross revenues demands and to supply for the coveted stoping stock list. Undertaking Budget shows the anticipation of the costs associated with a peculiar company undertaking such as labor, stuffs and other related disbursals. The readying of budgets forces directors to believe about and program for the hereafter, which assumes to be the most of import characteristic of a budgetary planning and control system. This planning procedure encourages staffs from a administration to lend on regular footing to the formation of the overall program and to place possible troubles at an early phase. People ‘s personal budget allows them to cognize how much money they have to direct, how their financess are allocated to be after for the hereafter. A budget is tool usage to supply a agency of pass oning direction ‘s programs that guarantee all parts of the administration are kept to the full informed of the programs and of the policies. For illustration, if a household are traveling through a trouble with their budget, a good communicating will be a good tool to give a better apprehension of their budget. Furthermore, benefits of budget allow you to take the chance to cognize your exact fiscal place that kee ps the lines of communicating unfastened. Budgeting is one of the most of import direction constructs in modern concern administration. Harmonizing to Dawn ( 2003 ) , approximately 69 % companies in Europe still operate their twenty-four hours to twenty-four hours activities with formalistic traditional budgeting systems. This has develop the hereafter an administration and its environment, organizing activities and undertakings, advancing communicating between sections and actuating employees ( Webber & A ; Linder, 2005 ) & lt ; hypertext transfer protocol: //www.jcuedu.au/tldinfo/writingsskills/models/papers/ CO5103essay1.pdf & gt ; . Budgeting consumes excessively much clip and dearly-won to little concerns. For illustration, it could take 60 yearss for a large company to be after their budget.

Privacy and surveillance in the Information Age Essay

Privacy and surveillance in the Information Age - Essay Example According to Nissenbaum (1998, p.4), information technology has not only affected communication, but has actually led to a need to redefine privacy. With increasing surveillance and information recording, personal privacy is taking a new direction. According to Nock (1993) the cost of surveillance is personal privacy and the American public has to trade between privacy and security. The biggest turn in information technology came at about the mid of 20th century with the invention of the electronic computer. As soon as the computer was invented, it was used by governments and large corporations for information capture, storage and analysis. Information technology did not only help in increasing the way information is captured and stored, but also in the way the same information can be analyzed as well as manipulated (Hughes, 2004, p.78). As a result, the role of the government and private corporations can in safeguarding information has increased and has also taken a new course. Information stored in computes is easier to disseminate and can be accessed from remote access points. This leads to the risk of losing this information to hackers and this can lead to private information being disseminated by unauthorized personnel. Information and communication technology has changed the way people communicate and carry out their daily social, political and economic activities. With the arrival of computers and the internet, communication has always increased, and people are today better able to communicate. Business transactions have taken a new route as private firms can now easily capture, analyze and disseminate different formats of communication and information. A good example of this is the US based international retail giant Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has been able to develop a system based in computers and wide area network that is able to capture information from all the retail stores and then sending this information to a central database where the

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Source evaluation - Essay Example This book helps in improving participation in the making of policies that will direct schools as well as the public when it comes to drug abuse as well as determine the effects of programs created to avoid the abuse of drugs. Throughout the book, the authors of the book who are Richard Wilson and Cheryl Kolander insist on the role which parents, teachers and the broader comminute play in dealing with problematic issues that are related to drugs. The authors have also looked at different aspects that influence the use and abuse of drugs, as well as factors associated with both social and physical environments. There are different ways of planning and implementing an effective drug abuse prevention program through a public health methodology of a classic nature explained to educators, guidance counselors, and educators in public health as well as social workers. This book combines different ways for the prevention of drug abuse together with an outline of information on drugs, the Second Edition of Drug Abuse Prevention makes available the complete variety of resources needed in the preparation of students for the professional environment in relation to the preventing drug abuse. The authors advise that abuse drug should be organized in an environment which provides a comprehensive health education. In the process, they have created teaching environment with methods necessary for health professionals while at the same time remaining practical about the use of the already established methods. The authors have tried to present different drug abuse prevention programs after assessing the legal and illegal drugs and their effects. This book is co-authored by Richard Wilson and Cheryl Kolander. Richard Wilson is based at Harvard University and is a professor of physics, while Cheryl Kolander is an associate dean in-charge of Academic Affairs in the college of education and human development as the University of Louisville. She is a

Fast Food Restaurant Business Plan Term Paper Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 3500 words

Fast Food Restaurant Business Plan - Term Paper Example This paper deals with the marketing plan of Minnesota Fast Food Restaurant which is a small fast food outlet at Minnesota and has been in operations for last five years. The unit is intending to transform itself into a proper fast food restaurant by means of innovative and resourceful strategies. This marketing plan is based on both the qualitative and quantitative approaches to the collection of data. The qualitative approach will include the use of observations and focus on statistics regarding fast food industry. The quantitative approach will involve the use journals, magazines, and online stuff from different websites. Presently the point is offering few local fast food items to the general public of Cottage Grove. This business plan has been made after making a comprehensive research and evaluating a variety of issues concerning fast food restaurant industry in Minnesota in the city of Cottage Grove. The main purpose and scope of this plan is to provide particular information a bout the industry and to highlight the critical areas for successful launching of a new fast food restaurant in Minnesota. The data discussed in this business plan is based on some certain facts and has been collected through number of sources. A careful attempt has been made to present real time data, however, this information may change at any time due to occurrence of any changes in the target market, and thus the actual outcomes may differ from the projected results. 2. OBJECTIVES Major objectives of Minnesota Fast Food Restaurant with respect to financial, marketing, and societal perspectives are: To increase the recognition of brand image of Minnesota Fast Food Restaurant To increase the market share of Minnesota Fast Food Restaurant To make the target market aware of the new brands and make sure to convince them to come and enjoy these brands time and again Objectives Market share (in Cottage Grave) 2013 to 2014 05-07% By the end of 2015 07-10% 3. MISSION STATEMENTS Generatio n of revenue and profit is the main purpose of any organization and same will be for Minnesota Fast Food Restaurant. Since it’s a service provider unit, therefore, customer service is the base of its existence. Our aim is to become the first choice of the customers and make them staying with us time and again. We believe in PEARL strategy as our core value i.e. Passion for excellence in doing everything Execute with positive energy and urgency Accountable for growth in customer satisfaction and profitability Recognize the achievement of others and have fun doing it Listen and more importantly respond to the voice of customer 4. KEY TO SUCCESS The key points for successful launching of our products and services are: Developing of a corporate strategy regarding the management of fast food and meeting the changing tastes of consumer behaviour Unique and innovative menu that may give us a competitive edge on

Humans Create Powerful Symbols - Hornbill Figure Essay

Humans Create Powerful Symbols - Hornbill Figure - Essay Example They also believed this entity allowed energy flow from one being to the next in a cyclic process. This connection between mankind and the rest of all living things inspired men to associate the image of nature to the theory of the existence of a higher being with supreme powers. These connections could be either supernatural or spiritual. This symbolic connection has been passed down through numerous generations throughout history. Different cultures and religions use the symbolism in the ways that are adapted to suit their beliefs. The specially skilled Ibans of Sarawak, whom are known for their carvings include an exclusively designed hornbill figure. This is an example of the combination of religion, nature, and art. The ‘Hornbill Figure,' known as 'Kenyalang,' has essentially been the chief subject of interest among the Iban carvers of Sarawak, Malaysia (Davenport). It was between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the Iban people began to show their culture by sc ulpting images of the hornbill. This also become a very important part of sacred ceremonies conducted by the Iban community. With a standard length of over 33 feet, the Hornbill Figure is traditionally created using wood, paint, cotton thread, plant, and wool materials and textiles. At the Fowler Museum, a person can take in the details of the art form of the hornbill sculpture. Its sharply pointed bill draws a huge curve and the painting on the body uses various strokes and pigments portraying how colorful the Iban festivals and culture are. Hornbill carvings are recognized as an art form but also is an indicator of the way of life of the Iban people. The unique portrayal of the carvings are associated with Iban’s greatest festive celebrations with religious rituals (Davenport). The Hornbill Figure typically is a special embodiment of a bird believed to possess knowledge and wisdom. Aside from bringing a prophecy to which Iban communities deeply relied on in the past, it is also considered a fundamental medium. This allowed for the blending of a spiritual dimension with the world of humans so they may possibly pass on their freedom to interact with spirits and supernatural beings for many reasons (Davenport). To achieve victory during war, the hornbill symbol and faith in its image was believed in to help aid in obtaining extraordinary power to intimidate and eventually subdue enemies. In particular, the custom of Iban’s Gawai Kenyalang had such strong meaning that it was used for the purpose of reaching success in raiding and headhunting (trophy-taking). During this, the heads taken from the enemies were claimed to have powers that could potentially add to the overall strength or invincibility of the victorious community (Davenport). Looking at the figure of the hornbill and evaluating the different features, one can feel the depth of the strong Malaysian history and culture. There is an aesthetic feeling that is brought out in its design that is highly representative of the culture of its people. Regardless of the complex processes of politics and the changes of culture for the Iban people through history that has impacted their lifestyles in several ways, the Ibans still believe in the hornbill image. The carved figure of the bird reflects the symbolism of courage and power of the Iban people. The artist takes the approach of providing exquisite carving as well as adding vibrant colors. The bird's eyes contain an intense yet subtle look. Unlike other icons of religion, the Hornbill Figure is more influential than many other types of symbols. This in turn makes the believers in its powers very strong. As the making of hornbill images increased