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My chosen business falls under the textile industry. The name of the store is Zara which was founded in 2003 with its headquarters in Spain. It has over 380 stores spread in 36 countries (Tungate 40). It deals with general merchandise of a wide variety of clothes and beauty products which it sells largely in retail. Various brands are found in the store such as Alexander Wang, ASH, Rebecca Taylor, Reg bone and Very Trendy among others (Bessant and Joseph 295). It also provides some beauty services such as hairdressing for both men and women. It is situated in an affluent neighborhood where almost all the families belong to the middle class (Hanan 42). The mission of the store is to enable people save money so that they can live better while its vision is to be a leader in the textile industry. Its overall strategy is to sell its goods and services at relatively low prices as compared to others, but sell large volumes of goods and services within a short period of time (Badía 180). In terms of marketing, the store heavily relies on the electronic media and the internet because most of the customers have access to either the electronic media or the internet. It also has in place an online shopping platform where customers can log in and shop online (Plunkett 3). A typical customer is the one who frequents the store. Since the store deals with general retail merchandise, the age bracket of the typical customer is 25-45 years. This age bracket is typical of a customer who goes to the store to do general shopping and get some beauty services. The gender of the customer is female because mostly, it is women who combine shopping with other activities such as hairdressing. The business is located in an urban environment and therefore the typical customer is an urban dweller. In terms of lifestyle, the typical customer has a good paying job most likely a management position either in a private or public corporation. The customer probably has held other jobs before but her current job is better than the previous ones. This customer is well educated and holds at least a first degree and may even hold a masters degree especially in a management field. In terms of leisure, the customer likes partying around with colleagues or workmates, who in most cases are male. Sometimes she may go to play golf and some other times she may spend her leisure time in a gym to lose some weight since she does not walk because she owns a car or two and has employed a driver. When she is at the house, she can spend her leisure time watching the latest movie which she has heard her colleagues talk about. She may also spend her leisure at
The history of Latin America is full of contradictory events related to the interference of foreign powers in its affairs. The United States had the most significant impact on Latin American history. The majority of historians have an opinion that both the impact of the United States and the impact of the other foreign powers have played a negative role in the history of Latin America, and Latin Americans have failed to understand how significant that role has appeared to be. The following paper aims to evaluate this position. Overall, the facts prove that Latin Americans did suffer a lot from foreign powers including the United States, and Latin Americans truly failed to understand and contain the abuses by people from the other countries. Beginning from the foreign intervention to Latin America, the native people started suffering from the abuse of the newcomers. There are many examples of this bad tendency including the European Conquest, the age of piracy, the U.S. intervention during the period of Roosevelt’s presidency, the period of the spread of communism in the world, and the modern-day foreign intervention. Below, particular facts of the abuse and bad influence by foreign powers will be addressed in more detail. During the European Conquest of Latin America, which took place in the 16th century, native people had to suffer from endless and bloody wars taking away the lives of millions of people, destroying countries, and wiping out entire nations and cultures (Kirkpatrick 21). Spain and Portugal managed to provide themselves with the gold from the New World for a few centuries ahead, but that was done by the price of Native Americans’ lives. Local people were cruelly deceived by the treacherous conquistadors who wanted their land, their riches, and their dissipation (Kirkpatrick 22). This period in the history of Latin America is by far the most eloquent with regards to the question of whether foreign powers had a bad impact on its development. Reflecting on the facts of the European Conquest, there are no doubts left that foreigners brought grief to Latin Americans, and robbed them of their riches and even their lives. The age of piracy also left its bad trace in the history of Latin America. Foreign pirates from England, France, and Denmark wanted a piece from a nice Latin American pie as well. They hoped to take away the gold that was left after the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors. Again, the territory was subjected to cruel acts of violence by foreign powers; this proves the fact that is under evaluation in this paper. The massive U.S. intervention into the affairs of Latin America began in 1823, during the presidency of James Monroe. The Monroe Doctrine issued as a part of the foreign policy by the United States in the region restricted European countries from their access to Latin America, but it established the U. S. monopoly there (Cole 25). Beginning from this year, the United States started their active interference to the affairs of the Latin American countries. Such state of a
Introduction For the academic community of past centuries, it was common not to listen to women’s views and keep them out of scientific work. For a long time, it was thought that women could not bring new knowledge to science, and therefore their presence in universities and laboratories was undesirable. However, the history of the world has consistently sought to show otherwise: Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Wu Jianxiong, and hundreds of other women from around the globe have contributed to specific fields of knowledge comparable to men. One of the most striking examples of gender bias in academia is the story of the French female mathematician Sophie Germain, who made significant contributions to differential geometry and number theory. This essay evaluates this contribution and describes the significance of Germain’s figure for the mathematical sciences. Main body Primarily, it would be helpful to briefly discuss the biographical details of Sophie Germain’s life, without which a study of her academic weight is incomplete. Sophie was the child of a liberal jeweler who disapproved of his daughter’s pursuit of mathematics (Flanders, 2018). The girl’s parents can be understood: society did not recognize a woman’s intellectual capacity, so an earlier investment in a child’s development of scientific knowledge might have been ultimately detrimental. Nevertheless, Sophie used her father’s library and studied math books on her own, one of which was Montucla’s “History of Mathematics” (Swetz, 2017). Growing up, Sophie was aware that she would not make meaningful progress in science because of her gender, so the woman had to adopt a male pseudonym: Sophie began using the name Monsieur Leblanc (Flanders, 2018). Sophie used this name in her business correspondence with the eminent mathematicians of the time, namely Dalembert, Lagrange, Fourier, and Gauss. Her secret was soon discovered, but it was followed by public recognition and landmark awards. Thus Sophie always used the opportunities and tricks available to her to do herself, which ultima
The customers are usually provided with the ability to return the product in case it does not satisfy their needs or was defective. The rights of the buyers are protected and regulated by law. However, the customers are not the only group that can return the product. It is worth highlighting that the company can itself recall the product, in case the life or the health of the customers is dependent on the product, and some issues were discovered after the product was manufactured and delivered to the buyers. There is hardly an enterprise in the world that did not face the problem of returned or recalled products. Tesla Motors Incorporation is not an exception. The primary purpose of the paper is to discover the reasons the customers return the cars made by Tesla Motors and what is the purpose of recalling the product. Tesla Motors is famous for combining innovations with the current market needs. It is worth noting that they are successful in it and have become popular nowadays. Although the majority of people drive fuel cars, Tesla Motors aims to foster the transition of the world population to sustainable energy and provide people with affordable and innovative electric cars. Globalization strategies and flexible marketing ideas help the company in the way of their goal accomplishment. Despite the fact, that the cars developed and manufactured by
The restrictions of nurse-practitioner collaborations place Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in a challenging position in regards to advocacy and career development. In Alabama, NPs are not recognized as primary care providers in the legislation (Scope of Practice Policy, 2020). This implies that nurses are placed lower than physicians on a scale for wages, opportunities, and responsibilities. Apart from that, this lack of recognition of NPs as professional care providers puts a strain or nurse-physician working relationships. The opinion of the NP may be undervalued in a discussion with their supervisor. Furthermore, conflicts can arise and harm the nurse more than other medical workers at a higher level. Therefore, as noted in the original post, the participation of nurses in nurse-advocacy organizations (such as the discussed AANP) is a crucial part of strengthening the position of this profession in the industry. Furthermore, one may present the findings from states with the limited and full practice of NPs to raise awareness about the dated restrictions and call for policy change. According to Hart, Ferguson, and Amiri (2020), the most recent data demonstrates an apparent divide in quality and access to care among such states. NPs with the Master’s level of education are able to provide help in areas where physician shortage leads to poor access to healthcare. Thus, advocacy should concentrate on educating the public and demanding from the government to recognize NPs as primary care providers. This policy improvement will provide benefits for many involved communities, including nurses, underserved populations, and other groups of patients (Hart et al., 2020). NPs should be engaged in the political and academic spheres to modernize care in states with limited practice, such as Alabama.
Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are not as prevalent among children as they are among adults; however, a number of factors that children are exposed to during their development predispose them to the diseases in adulthood. This report focuses on three major factors: unhealthy dietary patterns, passive smoking and traffic noise. Multiple effects and interrelatedness of the factors that cause cardiovascular diseases Microsystems The ecological model of child development places the child in the middle of the analysis. Microsystems are made up of the narrowest contexts that affect the child. These encompass the immediate family members, peers, teachers and child care. Traffic noise has been identified as one of the factors that may lead to the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases. Traffic noise tends to lead to vasoconstriction, which increases blood flow rates and eventually causes a rise in blood pressure. It also affects stress hormones thus indicating that this factor stimulates the endocrine systems. Traffic noise is particularly different from other kinds of noise that children may be exposed to because it disturbs their cognitive functions. Furthermore, it does interfere with mental tasks, sleep or other forms of relaxation (Di Nisi et al., 2001). Children may be exposed to traffic noises through a number of avenues, and these normally stem from entities in the microsystem. Their schools may be far from their homes, so they may need to tr
Research Proposal There is no doubt that those whose professional activity is related to creativity and art do their best to find sources of inspiration from things that may seem usual and ordinary. Indeed, in searching for an inspirational topic, many writers and artists prefer to exceed the scope of more common themes that are known to cause positive emotions in people and, instead, use topics that could be considered shocking, unpleasant, or disgusting. With particular regard to the latter, it is interesting to pay focused attention to the use of graphic or verbal means to represent the worst aspects of human nature, such as a propensity towards violence. In the proposed paper, I plan to analyze the means used for the representation of violence in one of the famous graphic novels of the twentieth century – From Hell . The book was written by Alan Moore, and the illustrations were drawn by his colleague, Eddie Campbell. To better understand the range of means that help an artist illuminate a written story through producing detailed images, this paper aims to compare and contrast From Hell with another work by William Hogarth, The Four Stages of Cruelty . This work is from the eighteenth century and presents four engravings devoted to the life of a fictional character who gradually becomes a criminal. The initial question that will serve as the basis for this literary analysis asks how violence is represented in these two works created in different centuries. Specific aspects that will be analyzed include the use of color and color contrast, shape, the ways characters are depicted, both physically and emotionally, and the landscape. The secondary sources used to strengthen the analysis include Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud and Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty by Piers Beirne. Literary Analysis There is a range of human emotions that can be used as sources of inspiration by people whose professional activity is related to art and creativity. When it comes to representations of emotion and feelings that characters demonstrate, it is possible to divide most artists into two categories based on how they present human feelings in their works. There are those artists who focus more on the positive and those focusing on the negative feelings of their characters based on their mindset. As such, some artists tend to think in positive terms and pay more attention to positive aspects of a situation, whereas others focus on the negative aspects, which is reflected in their works. Even though harming people and animals is deemed unacceptable within many cultures, aggression that results in violent actions such as torture, rape, murder, or assault, have always accompanied the development of human society. Images depicting aggression and violence can be found in all cultures. Still, the specific way such actions are presented differs according to the significant differences associated with accepted systems of taboos and draw
Introduction Identity is marked out by differences in the surrounding or context within which an individual or thing is found. Differences are what make an individual or a group of people identifiable or definable. The identity of a person and what he uses, his culture and language are closely connected. Language and culture act as symbols which mark or delineate an individual’s identity characteristics. Difference in identity makes an individual or a group of people see themselves as belonging. The differences outline the demarcations of in-groups to which individuals belong. The basic differences between in-groups are enshrined in the language and symbolic systems that they use. Identity definitions make individuals or a group of people to see themselves as being better than others. Hall (1997, p. 8) provides a case of a Serb militia man who claims that Serbs are totally different from Croats even in the cigarettes they smoke. Due to the kind of identity definition they hold, the Croats think themselves to be better than Serbs (Hall, 1997, 8). The language one speaks is a powerful symbol of identity and through it, others can tell one’s nationality or culture. A person can encourage positive identity practice when he accepts and learns the identity of a particular community. Inversely, if one rejects or vilifies the cultural identity of others, he or she encourages negative identity practices, which if unchecked are likely to result in full blown conflicts. Through language we are able to present to people who we really are and it’s also a way for others to make their own assumptions of who we are. We have different languages and this is what marks an individual’s or a group of people’s identity. For example, the common English language the Australians speak is different from the ones Americans speak. The differences in the English spoken in America and the English spoken in Australia results or is a consequence of difference in accents. Therefore, the difference in accents distinguishes these two groups although they speak the same language; Eng
The festivity of the “Day of the Dead is a concept that demonstrates strong respect for ancestors, the continued love for the departed ones, the strength of family relationships, and humor in death” (Kaplan and Norton 5). It was started by the early inhabitants of Central Mexico, who believed in life after death (Kaplan and Norton 2). During this joyous and sacred event, families invite the souls of their departed ones to offer them warmth and comfort. In other words, the festival symbolizes triumph of life over death (Kaplan and Norton 45). The Day of the Dead is celebrated during the month of November, specifically on the first and second days of the month. The souls of the departed children ( Los angelitos ) are commemorated on November 1, whereas the souls of the departed adults are remembered on November 2 (Kaplan and Norton 13). Just prior to “the first day of November, families gather around graveyards at nights to stay with the visiting souls” (Kaplan and Norton 23). Children sing and play, men chat and drink, and women sit with their young ones. There is a “spectacular sight of cleaned graves that are beautifully decorated with flowers, food, and lit candles” (Kaplan and Norton 34). There can be one or more bands of musicians playing in close proximity and family members dancing with the spirits of their loved ones (Kaplan and Norton 15). In preparation for “the arrival of the souls of the departed ones, many Mexican families build ofrendas in their homes” (Kaplan and Norton 76). Ofrendas are special holy altars built mostly by Mexican women. They are used for welcoming souls to households. Flowers are mainly used at the gravesites and on altars. Indian Mexicans, for instance, are known for their use of the yellow marigold ( cempasuchil ), also known as the flower of the dead, to decorate graves and altars. Other flowers that are “used are the coxcombs, white amaryllis, and the wild purple orchid” (Kaplan and Norton 76). In addition to the Days of the Dead bread, graveyards are typified by delicacies for the dead to eat. From a personal reflection, I think that Mexicans believe that people continue with life after they die. For instance, the departed ones are offered food at gravesides due to the fact that they still need to obtain good nutrition. Towns in Mexico are characterized by very many people during the last days of October for the reason that almost every family member rushes to purchase materials needed for the decoration and preparation of altars. Special commodities are in adequate supply during this period to meet the relatively high demand. They include clay candlesticks, plain or elegantly decorated candles, beautiful burners, skeleton figures, toys, and miniature dolls. Additionally, colorful paper cutouts are sold in shopping centers because they are special components in the preparation of altars. The significance of the paper cutouts is to appease and entertain the returning souls. Most families prepare/bake special kinds of loaves of bread, called the bread of the dead, which are in unique shapes and sizes. The most amazing fact that surrounds the festivity and Mexican people is the lac
The influence of religion on the everyday life of society cannot be underestimated. However, religion is nothing without followers. Sometimes, it is used as a tool for changing the lives of ordinary people. However, in such cases, it requires particular changes in the primary postulates and strong leaders. One of the examples of such heterodox religions is the Nation of Islam. Sometimes referred to as the Black Muslims, its followers became involved in the struggle for racial equality and social justice in the United States. The Nation of Islam has a spectacular history, but it began with a single person, whose name was Wallace D. Fard. The development of the sect began in 1930 when he appeared in the black ghetto in Detroit. Fard was interested in the health and wellbeing of poor African Americans and gave them guidance on improving the quality of their lives through religion. His messages were based on both the Bible and Qur’an. Pointing to the fact that a similar combination of Christianity and Islam is the true religion of the black people brought from Africa and Asia made it unique and appealing. The foundation of the promoted belief was the fact that white people were blue-eyed devils, who became dominant through cruelty, injustice, and murder (Palmer 1620). Such postulates attracted numerous followers. Desiring to make a new religion even more popular and influential, Fard designated his assistant, Elijah Muhammad, to lead the branch of the Nation of Islam in Chicago. When Fard disappeared in 1934, it was Elijah Muhammad, who became the key figure in the rise of the organization because he made his Temple of Islam in Chicago the headquarters of the Nation (Fishman and Soage 60). The role of Elijah Muhammad in the evolution of the Nation of Islam cannot be underestimated because he ruled the organization for more than forty years, and it was Muhammad, who made the postulates of the new religion clear and the sect influential and popular among African Americans (Soage 61). Before joining the Nation of Islam in 1931, he was an unemployed autoworker with three-grade school education, but it was his intelligence and the desire to improve the lives of his black brothers and sisters that made him a leader (Clegg 21). Except for the central belief that the whites were devils from nature, who did not respect anyone but other whites, his doctrinal lineage was based on the idea that the blacks were the chosen people, and Allah was also black. Moreover, the whites were considered the force of evil, and the blacks were the forces of good. So, the struggle between the good and the evil obtained the racial foundation. During his rule, the followers of the organization managed to turn it into a nationwide network of the sect with more than one hundred temples all over the United States. The primary guidance of the Nation was the necessity t