Market changes over time; predominantly, its approximate development could be known via the prognosis done by business analytics. As a response to these changes and the availability of data about them, corporations’ leaders and top management decide to pursue definite strategies. Some companies choose to merge with others to create...
In Atlanta, Georgia, the Coca-Cola corporation was formed in 1886. From coffee to soft beverages, Coca-Cola is among the world’s major producers and suppliers of non-alcoholic drinks. Coca-Cola is also the owner of a slew of iconic soft drink names like Sprite, Fanta, and Diet Coke. Coke operates in various...
Summary The recent COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in certain changes within organizations all over the world. This is why leaders chose to have a different approach to mitigate specific factors that were negatively influencing the workforce and overall productivity. Researchers found that flexibility is one of the leaders’ traits that...
Cattle farming is quite a popular activity area since meat, milk, wool, and other products are always in great demand. Beef production and dairy production are two important areas that generate income in animal husbandry (Phillips 15). This low-cost industry allows efficient production of meat products in regions with extensive...
A digital marketing strategy represents a plan outlining how businesses can reach their marketing goals using the online channels that are available to them. The plans can range from social media campaigns to growth marketing strategies that use social media and email to increase customer loyalty (Chaffey and Smith, 2017)....
Background Larry Rossy, a third-generation shopkeeper, and Canadian entrepreneur, launched Dollarama. It all started in 1992 with one store in Matane, Quebec, and after twenty years, it became a household name and preferred shopping destination for Canadians from coast to coast. Dollarama is currently a preferred Canadian embrace retailer with...
Introduction By analyzing all the splendor of the animal and plant world, it is clear that leadership is at the very foundation of life. Only in plants and animals does it appear in the form of simple dominance. But this does not prevent it from reflecting the main essence of...
Procurement Cost Best Buy has over 1,000 stores within the United States with several in-store displays. The company teamed up with the Center for Sustainable Procurement in 2012 to look into methods to improve its display procurement process and develop guidelines for keeping them more ecological in the future. The...
AT&T Report Organizational analysis is one of the most effective methods to determine a profitable development course. Strategic Factor Analysis Summary (SFAS) and Threats, Opportunities, Weaknesses, and Strengths (TOWS) matrix are the two primary frameworks that are frequently utilized for such purposes. Both methods allow determining the most significant factors...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the program I would like to discuss. The Veterans Health Administration system is designed to serve a particular patient population: individuals who have served in the military on active service (McFarland et al., 2020). Yearly appropriation acts fund the program, thus unlike a benefit...
Introduction Strategic alliances differ from joint ventures in their complexity. This is because in joint ventures a completely new business entity is formed. Strategic alliances are formed to enable each firm to achieve organic growth faster than if they had not allied. Businesses utilize strategic alliances to get access to...
Introduction Lack of identity, disconnection, anxiety about the future, fear of becoming a responsibility to others, and persistent bodily and non-physical ailments, all contribute to suffering especially towards the end of life. Many origins of suffering can be addressed and alleviated with excellent medical treatment, notably state-of-the-art healthcare services. Patients...
Effective leaders are in very high demand globally because they are crucial in managing company resources and influencing organizational growth. However, there is a scarcity of such individuals because the existing managers lack extensive skills and qualities to convert their authority into staff motivation. There is a need to conduct...
Background Communication and decision-making play a proficient role in the management of the manufacturing industry. The sufficient flow of information enhances the optimal delivery of services and the production process. It is the responsibility of the managerial team to establish key approaches that enhance the significant sharing of details concerning...
Introduction to Leadership Theory Leadership encompasses a diversity of human makings and traits of character. A qualified leader sets a role model for their colleagues to follow. Stress resilience, tolerance, and the ability to anticipate company members’ emotional conditions and advance their promotion are paramount and fundamental insignia of a...
Introduction Every enterprise, small and large, strive for its development, and all its activities are directed precisely along this vector. The theoretical foundations of business development are often of a specific nature that meets financial performance requirements, including aspects of marketing and economics, but not global environmental factors. Previously, many...
Summary Airbnb is an online platform that allows people to rent accommodation for a short period. The platform has expanded through partnerships with car rental services, restaurants, entertainment, and travel sites, including becoming a one-stop travel site. They position themselves as an ‘online travel community that allows guests to experience...
Introduction A company’s organizational culture is composed of values and behaviors. Culture is more critical than ever in employees’ lives and affects performance at all levels of the organization. The process of shaping corporate culture attempts to influence personnel behavior constructively. It is possible to stimulate, plan and predict the...
Introduction There is a stable trend of manufacturing companies in the US moving to outsource production. On the one hand, this is a reasonable decision, since the production of products abroad reduces their final cost. On the other hand, when implementing the transfer of production to outsourcing, it is necessary...
The Influence of Big Business on Agriculture Monsanto Corporation is the international Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) seed and herbicide supplier, and although their products help decrease the costs of various foods, the company remains the subject of large business, ethical, and social discussions. With the decisive competitive advantage of developing...
Outline Business and corporate-level strategies are significant elements in a business organization. An organization that operates in a single geographical location does not necessarily require a corporate-level strategy for the diversification of its product. However, an organization that diversifies requires both the business strategy and the corporate level strategy to...
Apple is a renowned American multinational company that deals with high-tech products. During its initial years, the company mainly produced computers but expanded to other technological products, including mobile phones. Currently, Apple focuses on designing and producing electronics that meet ever-changing consumers’ needs. The iPhone SE 2020 model is the...
An expense is a cost incurred by the business to generate revenue. Essentially, it involves the total costs of doing business, and it is the addition of all the activities that take place in a company, which will eventually and hopefully generate income. Given that the Corneasha business organization deals...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a mental condition that has a detrimental effect on individuals’ day-to-day life. Notably, MDD impedes social mobility, worsens overall well-being, and often corresponds to other mental issues. The risk of depression is connected to genetics, sex, negative experiences, insufficient support from the surroundings, and even...
The national security exception in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), passed in 1996, was one of the crucial milestones in healthcare legislation in the US. This healthcare reform focuses on broad categories of change, such as a rise in the number of individuals with health insurance and...
TÜV SÜD Overview The legacy of TÜV SÜD began back in 1865 when a series of unfortunate accidents and fatal consequences from the faults of the steam engines during the Industrial Revolution gave rise to an entirely new global industry. Specifically, the Mannheim Aktienbrauerei boiler explosion in January of that...
Zurich North America (ZNA) is a leading enterprise risk management and commercial insurance firm, the regional affiliate of the international insurance conglomerate Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. As a company of such scale, Zurich North America employs over 10,000 people and seeks to create a professional, diverse, and inclusive environment. Human...
Business is one of the fast-developing industries that introduces many new technologies and innovations based on the past experiences. Many strategies that have been used several years ago might not be credible these days as the expansion of the industry does not stop. Nevertheless, it might be complicated to build...
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a Mexican-style restaurant where customers obtain quick, somewhat nutritious and healthy cuisine. With the recent trend of health being a priority for practically every American, people seek a quick and healthy way to meet their hunger amid their hectic schedules. Chipotle can regularly produce high-quality meals...
Throughout the whole history of humanity, some people were trying to belong to more than one social entity. Generally, this choice was made unintentionally, and such individuals were named “marginals,” which describes them as the intermediary between two social organizations. Starting from the end, Gloria Anzaldúa represents such people in...
The novel Pachinko by Min Jin Lee offers numerous topics that can be discussed. Women’s suffering is one of the most important ones. It is expressed by using Sunja, one of the main characters of the whole story. Her life shows that females have to overcome numerous barriers to be...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted us all immensely and caused irreversible damage to the country. The virus originated in China, so it is easy to understand why some individuals blame Asian and Asian-American people. However, this behavior is unacceptable and only promotes racial discrimination and hateful attitudes. No American should...
In the opinion piece Becoming Parents, Leder presents a premise that society should form a mechanism through which for parents to legally have children, they must receive a license from the government similar to that of a marriage union or a driver’s license. At first, this idea seems shocking but...
Factors that Determine New Venture Outcomes In today’s post-industrial innovation-driven economies, entrepreneurship has become a significant driver of job creation, economic development, technological growth, and innovation. New ventures or entrepreneurship refers to the process of starting and managing one’s own business to enter the social and economic mainstream in a...
Introduction The global non-alcoholic beverages market continues to grow due to increasing demand for soft drinks, juices, tea, coffee, water, dairy drinks, and other products. The Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola), Keurig Dr. Pepper Inc. (KDP), and PepsiCo Inc. (PepsiCo) are among the leading companies in the market. The purpose of this...
After introducing motorized vehicles to the general population in the 20th century, roads have become profoundly dangerous. The danger imposed by cars moving at high speed involves injuries and fatal accidents among both pedestrians and drivers. In response to the public health threat, the government has applied various rules and...
Consciousness is one of nature’s most enigmatic phenomena. However, admittedly, it is just a part of the natural environment. It must have developed at a certain point as a result of biological processes occurring inside the causally linked system that everybody calls nature. Throughout decades of philosophical and scientific studies,...
Supply chain of effectiveness and efficiency describes two processes by which an operation manager successfully supplies a customer with a product. Supply chain efficiency refers to the internal standard of performance of the supply. Essentially, supply chain efficiency is defined as a measure of the company’s ability to gather resources...
Introduction It is not a secret that communication is a complicated process of interaction and relationship-building between individuals. Since it includes many details and is influenced by different factors, misunderstandings and conflicts are almost inevitable. For this reason, when talking about communication in business, which also has its characteristics and...
Catharsis is one of the ways to rethink life, immerse oneself in emotions, and change important principles and habits. Aristotle noted the educational and purifying significance of music, thanks to which people receive relief and are cleansed of affects while experiencing harmless joy. This is one of the manifestations of...
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood is a story written by Charles Perrault in 1697. The work presents a dark origin of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale popularized by the Disney cartoon with the same title. While the story is similar to its Disney alternative, it is known for confusing...
Society exists in a world that obeys the fundamental principles of human relations, which are formed, among other things, by the economic system. As a developed and popular governing concept, capitalism provides individuals in power with control over the lower-ranked classes. Utilizing the disadvantages of capitalism, a phenomenon that is...
Social changes are more than imminent in the current society, with cultures, social institutions and functions significantly shifting and transforming with agents of change in society. The change is visible given the wide variations between the cultural practices in the previous societies and the current ones, and how social institutions...
Have you ever thought of the fact that at this moment, someone is thinking about killing themselves? Unfortunately, too many people who appear fine and happy with their lives at the same time have to deal with depression or personality disorders that cause suicidal thoughts. According to the American Foundation...
In the modern era of the fight against inequality, prejudice, and discriminatory standards, many people remain unaccepted by society, colleagues, or even family members. This problem is even more topical in the second half of the 20th century when Alice Munro, Flannery O’Connor, and John Updike created their prominent short...
Introduction A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two stories that affected American literature in the late 1800s and early 1900s, respectively. Both stories have a lot in common, as well as some differences. Both are called feminist literature since they...
Ethics is a framework that highly influences interactions among people within a social setting. It is an individual’s responsibility to decode the necessity of an engagement based on the moral and virtue essence. However, in some cases, it may be challenging to make an unambiguous ethical decision. I witnessed such...
When hearing about femicide, people commonly envision impoverished nations living under highly intolerant or religious laws. One can think of the honor killings in Afghanistan or India occurring to this day, or the massive casualties of cartel drug wars in Mexico in the 1990s and continuing in modernity. However, only...
Introduction The history of mankind has been characterized by multiple major wars that have had detrimental consequences for all the parties involved. Consider, for example, the first and second world wars, where millions of people died. Other instances of major conflicts include the American Civil War, Russo-Japanese War, the Russian...
The article “Letting go: My battle to help my parents die a good death” was written by Kate Clanchy and published in The Guardian. The author writes about the moments leading to the death of her parents. Her parents, Joan and Michael, were elderly, sick, and wished to die. Joan...
Gender equality is a concept implying the achievement of equality in rights between men and women in family and other legal relations. Gender equality is a necessary condition for achieving balance and harmony in the world. In the modern economy, there are processes that reduce gender inequality, such as the...
Methamphetamine is an illicit drug that has serious adverse effects on people’s mental health and psychological state, as well as their social lives. This is an “extremely addictive stimulant amphetamine drug” with the only commercial medication Desoxyn® that requires a prescription (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services [HHS], 2016,...
The theory of sociological imagination was first introduced by pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959. Griffiths et al. (2015) describe it “as an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions” (p. 6). Overall, in order...
Introduction For centuries, women have struggled with oppression and evident discrimination based on gender in terms of the rights allotted to them. Even as the world became more ‘equal’ after the industrial revolution, many remnants of the previous era remain to this day. Society has always placed artificial barriers for...
Introduction Literature as a cultural phenomenon and an art form has existed for over two millennia. Talented writers have developed many literary genres and styles during this time, creating new literary structures and models. Nowadays, each type of this art category has a defined set of both unique and shared...
The situation of women in the Arab world seems challenging from the outside and almost consistent throughout the region. In fact, Arab countries are very different from each other, and many of them are changing significantly, including the issue of the status of women. For example, in Lebanon – the...
“The Things They Carried” is a series of connected short tales by American author Tim O’Brien about a battalion of American troops ground fighting in Vietnam during the war. The weight we all bear is the central topic of the novel “The Things They Carried.” The fundamental theme of the...
I think the article by Johnson makes an extremely relevant and necessary point that differences between people on the basis of race, gender, orientation, disability, and other aspects are a matter of cultural choice, what he indicates to be ‘social construction’ (9). Reading this made me think of the old...
Healthcare as a Right, Financial Implication, and Additional Responsibilities Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, and socio-economic background, an individual’s health is the most essential and fundamental asset. Therefore, access to health care by people is a right, and every person receives treatment tailored to their needs and preferences. The right...
Racism and slavery have always been a problem in the United States. In the United States, one’s race defines one’s living position. Because of their skin color, African Americans were forced into slavery. Therefore, slavery and racism in the United States were linked by the fact that a person’s race...
The methods used by white slave owners to guarantee their slaves would remain devoted to them were inhumane yet effective for the intended purpose. The easiest way to enforce slavery was through physical beatings. Any person in servitude who did anything that remotely resembled insurgence would be severely whipped in...
Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace is a fantastic short tale on dissatisfaction. The plot revolves around a lady called Mathilde who desired items she could not have due to a lack of funds. She had been asked to a ball and needed to purchase a lovely gown. She also mentioned...
The events of the book A Rose for Emily by author William Faulkner unfold in the American South. Faulkner managed to convey in a few paragraphs the desperate situation in which Emily found herself. Left without a dominant father figure, she finds herself in complete mental isolation. The surrounding people...
Abstract The study of the effect of anxiety on decision-making is essential to the psychoanalytic disciplines. It was expected that an individual’s anxious state had a negative effect on choice. The present experiment was a qualitative study of the relationship between the respondent’s anxiety state and decision-making. Data were collected...
Gender inequality has been one of the characteristic principles of interaction between people for millennia. Despite significant changes in modern society, people continue to treat men and women differently. In my opinion, people of different genders are indeed prone to different activities, but this does not mean that they cannot...
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a three-act play written by Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald in 1988. Constance is an assistant professor to Claude Night at Queen’s University, and she uses her thesis writing to understand her life. She has a fountain pen with green ink that she uses to...
Chinua Achebe, in his short novel “Things Fall Apart,” managed to tell a very exciting story. The author plausibly described the arrival of missionaries who brought with them a new religion and their own orders. He excellently portrayed the savages: he drew for the reader a vivid and imaginative picture...
Introduction Gender is a concept that causes a fairly large amount of reasoning and even controversy in the scientific community and modern society. Gender is not the sex of a person itself but rather the idea of gender, that is, the perception of oneself as a person belonging to one...
Spoken communication is different from written one, and each of them has its own distinctive features. Both spoken, also known as oral, and written, non-oral, communications are two types of verbal communication which refers to the use of words to convey a message. Yet, spoken communication is often used informally...
In this work, Renato Poggiolio offers a comprehensive analysis of Dante’s work, highlighting numerous stylistic elements that aid in understanding whether the piece is a tragedy or romance. The approach used in the analysis of statements and quotations from the play and their consideration from diverse perspectives. Based on the...
In life, destiny is the future shaped by one’s choices. It is not predetermined but rather influenced by the changes someone makes. In order for someone to successfully fulfill their destiny, they must be patient, reflect on their situations and feelings. This is demonstrated in the play Hamlet by William...
The thesis of this paper is to examine feminist disability studies and their place in the current feminist theory. To do that, the author discusses several literary sources collected, and how they retrieve, reimagine, and rethink feminist disability. While acknowledging the issues and communities related to the broader concept of...
Centuries of oppression and dispossession have deprived Indigenous peoples of the ability to exercise their fundamental human rights. As a result, Native groups are among the most disadvantaged, destitute, and frequently mistreated elements of society in every continent globally. Indigenous populations in Canada, for example, bear a disproportionate burden of...
Introduction Katherine Dettwyler wrote Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa according to her fieldwork on children’s health in Mali. It is crucial to note that this book has received an award from the American Anthropological Society (Inside the mind of Kathy Dettwyler). Katherine Dettwyler’s main goal was to...
Abstract There exists a prevalent hypothesis of the existence of a correlational dynamic between socioeconomic status and the likelihood of substance abuse. I believe it is an important area of social work discipline since it involves a prevalent problem and links it to an already socially vulnerable group. Social class...
Considering parenthood-related liabilities, women exit the work market, procure more minors, and are more averse to be employed or advanced. The parenthood punishment influences women’s vocations and builds up sex disparity in the work market. The investigations show that people higher in altruistic and antagonistic sexism acknowledge women who agree...
For many centuries, people have been studying such an important and valuable science as sociology. A special place in it is occupied by the problem of social influence. It studies the influence of the social environment on a person’s life. An invaluable contribution to this science was made by the...
Introduction Marks is a poem by Linda Pastan about a youthful spouse and mother. There is about a decade difference between this work and the poem Daystar by Rita Dove. However, they are both straightforward stories about a conventional lady, a spouse, and a mother having tiring daily propensities and...
Michael Rynkiewich is one of the leading experts in anthropology, the science of the study of man and his existence in natural and cultural environments, and missiology, the science of the mission and the church. Until this book, Rynkiewich’s writing was notably found in two exceptionally great articles appearing in...
Robert Dallek is one of the foremost American writers of our time, having written more than one historical work. The writer’s favorite genre is biography, in which he takes a certain historical figure and carefully studies it, trying to convey to the reader both the image of the hero and...
Introduction The topics of interest and ambition are highly prominent among various writers and philosophical thinkers. Numerous authors addressed the ideas of aspiration, its characteristics, and possible consequences for both the engaged individual and their surroundings. The novel The Great Gatsby, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, is a perfect example...
The place of women in society has changed significantly in the last centuries. In many countries and communities throughout history, the central role of women was believed to be one of a wife and a mother. The 19th century saw an upsurge in the feminist movement that demanded equality for...
In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates, the characters’ symbolism and behavior are illustrated as something natural. A clear illustration of the meaning of the story’s finale is a quote from the character Friend. He tells the protagonist that “the place where you came...
Public relation is an idea that all levels of enterprise must address. From online reviews to satisfying consumers, business personnel is involved in the public relations business if they run a company dealing with the public. Part of the public relations deals effectively with negative business news and events (Kim...
This paper will provide a critique and response to the article “Many Migrants Are Quickly Expelled, but Others Can Stay. Here’s Why,” written by Eileen Sullivan in The New York Times. She discusses how the new U.S. immigration policy affects immigrant adults and children due to the pandemic (Sullivan 2)....
Ever since speech became an indispensable instrument of human interaction, its use has been given considerable importance. Speech, whether written, spoken, or digital, allows the transmission of semantic constructions and meanings embedded by the author. This property also manifests the main danger of speech, namely its overly persuasive influence. When...
Superhero costumes usually emphasize their athleticism through the clear illustration of their unrealistically perfect body features. In particular, in the comics, one can see an open highlighting of physiological gender differences, especially with the example of female characters. Undoubtedly, the costumes reinforce gender and sexuality, as they are usually tight-fitting...
Introduction The literature of the 20th century is characterized by the diversity of themes and issues touched upon by the authors. The radical shifts in people’s mentalities promoted by the two World Wars, civil rights movements and increased importance of humanistic values resulted in the emergence of new values and...
Jataka tales are a vast body of literature based in India concerning Buddhas’ birth and early life. In these tales, Buddha appears as an animal, king, an outcast, or even as a god. In all these forms, the story teaches good moral and religious values through the life of the...
Bastard Out of Carolina is a novel by Dorothy Alison written in 1992. It describes the events that were happening to Bone and her mother Anney in the 1950s. The author tells the story of a little girl, who lived through poverty, and the physical and sexual abuse of her...
At all times, it has been common for a person to exhibit certain qualities of character. However, not all of them are positive and kind. There is a vast number of human vices, which are those qualities of personality that bring suffering, hatred, and even death to the people around...
Medieval poetry is filled with literary meanings, the interpretation of which is an essential step of artistic analysis. Often the characters in the author’s works are endowed with incredible powers, magic, or superpowers, which, at first glance, can be used to attract more reader attention. However, a deeper analysis of...
“The Red Convertible” Louis Erdrich The Red Convertible is a story about two brothers in which a red car plays an important role. This is a story about the trauma and difficulties that war can bring to people’s relationships and how it affects the personality of those who have visited...
Introduction The theme of poverty is one of the most common topics of short stories written by African American authors, and Toni Cade Bambara, with her piece “The Lesson,” is no exception to the rule. In this work, she reflects on the perception of a less privileged position in society...
The evolution of literature is accompanied by the changing attitudes towards specific themes, which are commonly discussed by various authors, and the monstrous is no exception to the rule. The idea of portraying characters, which negatively affect the development of protagonists, adds to the readers’ interest. Therefore, the selection of...
Introduction The incorporation of universal ideas into writings is often used by prospective authors in order to demonstrate their opinions on various subjects. Addressing the problematic nature of distinct positive and negative concepts becomes possible through the creation of a comprehensive narrative that covers the desired topics, simultaneously presenting specific...
Known in the realm of American literature as the unparalleled creator of macabre and horror, Edgar Allan Poe kept his stories both gripped and captivating by introducing a unique flair of fear into them. Building his stories on the premise of primal terror that is coded into the instincts of...
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee depicts the story of Scout Finch during The Great Depression. The novel portrays dramatic episodes, unleashing the roots of racism and the consequences of prejudice regarding minorities. The book is a coming-of-age story demonstrating Scout’s maturing and the life lessons she learned during...
In the introductory chapters of Outlaws of the Marsh, the main characters try to do what they consider right. Marshal Hong was trying to do the right thing when he arrived at the mountain to ask the Divine Teacher to conduct a prayer service to stop the plague. Although Marshal...
In a world that is full of different people and varying opinions, there needs to be a framework that helps to avoid or work through conflict. Some may bring up the idea of respect as a foundation of human relationships. Respect can be described in many ways, as it is...