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My culture, my personality Every human being has complex mental and emotional characteristics that make them unique from other human beings. The unique characteristic s includes patterns of thought and emotions that cause us to do things in a certain manner. These characteristics are expressed by our moods, tone, beliefs, expectations, and values. These characteristics are known as personality (Dennis 7). Heredity and culture are the two basic factors that shape personality. A person inherits certain qualities from his/her parent, and in turn, these qualities shape who we are. These qualities are inborn. A person may also acquire certain characteristics from the cultural environment and socialization that they grow up in. just like in the case of heredity these culturally acquired characteristics shape us significantly (Watson 10). This essay will highlight how cultural socializing has shaped me as a person and how that has affected my world view. I grew up in a busy and densely populated rural area. Having been brought up by parents who were teachers, I learned from a very early age how to be obedient, humble, and respectful to God and the authorities. Outside the family setup, I had to compete almost for everything with other boys. This kind of culture influences a lot of aggressiveness and exertion to survive in a group (Simmons 23). There were so many boys such that at playtimes we had to be in the field of play well in time to gain a place in the team. During the game, one had to do their best to be useful to the team, failure to which one had to be replaced. We played so many games, but soccer was more popular with the boys. It was a game where masterly of ball artistry skills was revered. The boy with the best skills was respected and always found a ready place in the team. So we had to practice during our free time to impress our mates. It was the beginning of my love e affaire with soccer, which runs to date. Today, most people who have interacted with me confirm that I am an aggressive person who gets things done. In my previous employment, I was in charge of other co-curricular projects such as preparing school teams for competition, sorting out small matters both in and out of school, and acted as an assistant administrator. This acquired aggressiveness has propelled me to such positions. I enrolled in nursery school at the proper age of 6 years. I was put in the senior class because of my potential. ‘Children are not responsible (and self-reliant) by nature. It’s something they have to learn…’ (Pantley 19). My teachers started creating an environment conducive for all of us to learn how to be responsible and self-r
Executive Summary Cemex is the most profitable multinational enterprise in the cement industry. Cemex has now a free cash flow of more than US$2 billion in a year and it possesses solid, stable investment-grade credit ratings. Cemex’s financial condition and system strengthen its balance sheet, access low-cost capital, and creates an attractive field of investment. The key factors success of Cemex’s success is-  1. Entrepreneurial team and strong management;  2. Product and services;  3. Advanced marketing,  4. Business ideologies or philosophy Cemex believes that open and honest interaction with stakeholders will help to develop its business. Thus Cemex regularly communicates with its shareholders to keep the investors informed and provide all information about its activities. Cemex encourages employees to provide information and opinion for improving its operations and evaluate employee satisfaction and make them a world-class employees. Cemex maintains a relationship with global organizations focused on the role of the cement industry in achieving sustainable development. Cemex conducts many surveys with customers to distinguish their needs in order to identify the process to improve products and services and it follows a well-communicative strategy to help, maintain and create strong relationships with suppliers and understand their concerns. Cemex is also concerned with environmental and social factors. Thus Cemex Co-processes wastes use alternative raw materials and fuels, takes part in Climate change and GHG emission reduction, Eco-efficiency Programs, and Environmental Protection and Environmental Culture Market share is the factor that ensures the return from the investment. Market means the customers and expanding market means the increase of customers. For the existence, in the long run, multinational companies are always fighting to capture market share and those, who can do so more, become the market leader. Cemex is thinking globally in order to succeed in multinational business. Thus Cemex is trying to capture the market share to ensure its continuous growth and take the best position in the cement industry. Introduction Cemex Cement Company was founded in Mexico in 1906. It did this through a combination of internal growth and global acquisitions. Cemex has maintained a higher level of profitability than other cement companies. Cemex has grown from a small, regional cement firm into a top global building solutions company. “Throughout the course of history, Cemex has set up new plants in many parts of the world. Series of acquisitions and increased produc
The hospitals that earned Magnet recognition demonstrate better results regarding patients’ satisfaction, and Mercy Medical Center is no exception to the rule. The people who use services of such medical facilities are more likely to recommend them to others (McCaughey et al., 2020). For Mercy Medical Center, the Magnet recognition program indicates that “years of dedication and hard work” led to excellent results regarding patients’ feedback (Collins, 2016). In turn, it initiates the change in the personnel’s attitude towards patient-oriented care and promotes awareness of its importance. In this way, Magnet status leads to the increase in the facility’s attractiveness for people and the necessity for its personnel to maintain the existing quality of services through “delivering innovative and compassionate care” (Collins, 2016). In this situation, the hospital’s officials become concerned about remaining a Magnet facility by promoting patient satisfaction. Therefore, the experience of Mercy Medical Center proves the dependence of a hospital’s status on the successful implementation of a patient-centered healthcare model. In this way, the current policies of a medical facility and its change from earning Magnet recognition is an interdependent process. Another positive outcome of Magnet status is the sustainable development of such hospitals as Mercy Medical Center resulting from a lower turnover of registered nurses and a higher level of satisfaction from work among them. This fact is explained by a better work environment provided by these health institutions (Park et al., 2016). Indeed, the results of Mercy Medical Center evidence that the focus of the hospital authority on the work conditions for nurses produces good results (Collins, 2016). The medical facilities that earn Magnet recognition are the ones with effective nursing policies as this criterion is the most critical when it comes to evaluating their activities (Collins, 2016). It evidences that the nurses are satisfied with their work, and the current nursing excellence priority of the medical institution enhances its sustainable development. The change resulting from the achievement of such a high status for Mercy Medical Center is in the necessity to keep a lower turnover of nurses as well as their level of satisfaction. Thus, it is impossible to overestimate the role of nurses in the healthcare facility in earning Magnet recognition.
As humans grow and mature, they go through various stages between infancy and adulthood, and in these transitions, they invariably experience negative emotions and sometimes tragedies, which profoundly affect their lives. As a child, some of the major causes of grief are violence and abandonment. Violence can be inflicted on a child directly when he or she is violated directly or indirectly by their being witnesses to violent acts. It has been found to have detrimental impacts on their mental health, a result of which they may develop antisocial or even psychotic tendencies in adulthood (Copping, Campbell and Muncer 2013). One the other hand, teens are especially emotionally sensitive owing to their surging hormones and it is during this time that they are at their most adventurous and often foolhardy. When dealing with stress, they are likely to try a myriad of risky and irresponsible acts including the abuse of drugs and excessive intake of alcohol (Wang 2009). Such lifestyles can lead to addiction and other negative habits that may ultimately compromise their health and wellbeing as they develop self-destructive tendencies. In addition, the psychological impacts of addiction may follow them for the rest of their lives and negatively affect their careers and ability to engage in healthy interactions with other people. As one grows into adulthood, risk factors and stressors multiply with the pressure to be economically productive and support themselves and their families. These stress factors aggravate their propensity for developing unhealthy lifestyles characterized used by alcoholism and unwholesome dietary choices. Furthermore, it is at this point that one becomes most likely to lose their loved ones especially parents and older relatives and the subsequent grief can easily lead to depression (Hall 2008). However, as one edges past middle age into old age, they begin to confront a new form of stress, which is in essence a culmination of what they have feared their whole lives (Rauch, 2014). They are faced with the reality of their own mortality and their health will in most cases begin to falter as they realize that their death is imminent, which leads to fear accompanied by depressive thoughts. Kubler Ross’s model describes the various stages of grief that people undergo as part of trying to cope with the knowledge of that their life is almost over (Lancaster 2011). However, it can also be applied to other events when people are forced to deal with difficult situations and grief such as the death of a loved one or the loss of a job and others. The first stage is denial in which they refuse to believe what has just happened or is bound to happen and it is followed by anger and then depression after which one seeks to bargain with fate or God as the case may be. Finally, there is acceptance a
Introduction Supply chain management refers to “the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers”. It involves movement, as well as, storage of materials, stock of work-in-progress and final goods. Consequently, supply chain management involves several actors which include suppliers, retailers, and transporters among others. The effectiveness of the supply chain is contingent on the extent to which the businesses involved in it are able to plan and coordinate their activities. Coordination of supply chain activities is enhanced through effective and efficient flow of information. This means that participants in the supply chain must be able to share all the relevant information in order to enhance the competitiveness of the supply chain. Thus, a lot of technologies have been developed in the last two decades to enhance the flow of information in supply chain systems. Effective sharing of information in supply chain will be the focus of the proposed study. Purpose The proposed study will focus on the use of information technology in supply chain management. In particular, the broad objective of the study is to investigate the use of modern information technology to enhance effective and efficient sharing of information within a supply chain. The specific objectives of the study include the following. The first objective is to identify the technologies, currently, being used to enhance flow of information. The second objective is to investigate the factors that determine the use of modern technology to enhance sharing of information. The last objective is to analyze the benefits of using information technology in su
Importance of phonemic awareness Phonemic awareness is essential to children because it enables them to learn how to read languages that can be written alphabetically. Phonetic awareness is also important because it enables learners to connect the links between letters and phonemes. That is, learners are able to associate written words with spoken words. Importantly, phonemic awareness allows learners to discover the units that underlay both spoken and written words (Hoover 1). It should be noted that learning to read requires much more than learning the language because the former is done at the phonetic level while the latter is done at the conscious level. Moreover, past research has established that children with good phonemic awareness have been found to have superior reading skills. In addition, phonemic awareness has the capability of forecasting future spelling and reading ability in learners. It should also be noted that phonetic awareness enables learners to isolate, identify, categorize, blend, segment, delete, add, and substitute phonemes. In essence, phonemic awareness is a precondition for children who intend to learn how to read (Block 5). Strategies used for phonemic awareness Based on past correlations that link phonetic awareness to effective reading skills, organizations such as National Reading Panel (NRP), among others, have identified various strategies that can be used to improve student’s ability to read. Effective phonemic strategies should entail all the eight guidelines for phonemic awareness. These include phonetic isolation, identity, categorization, blending, segmentation, deletion, addition, and substitution (Block 5). It is also essential that teachers increase learners’ desire to read for them to have phonemic awareness. Learners’ desire to read can be increased by ensuring that instructions are enjoyable. To achieve these strategy learners should be engaged in activities that highlight the fact that sounds go with letters and that letters have names. Moreover, Learners should be involved in activities that stress the fact that print has a sense (Moats and Tolman 1). Ways to develop written language with young deaf children Interestingly, it has been established that people who cannot read well have difficulty in writing (Robertson 171). Moreover, it has also been established that children, whether deaf or not, like to write for meaningful reasons. Moreover, this enables them to progress effectively. Essentially, engaging deaf children in interactive writing can help them to develop writing skills when the approach is managed appropriately (Robertson 172). When teaching deaf children, it is paramount that teachers establish regular, meaningful oral interactions with them. In addition, it is necessary that technology is adopted to provide access to listening for the children to achieve effective involvement (Robertson 98). Teachers should also assess deaf children to observe their progress in written language. For deaf children, reading is quite essential in enabling them to develop written language (Dea
The title of the dissertation under analysis by this essay is The Effects of Teacher Mentoring on Teacher Retention . The methodology used by this particular study is quantitative in nature. For example, the study relied on a non-random convenience method of sampling. Some 15 original novice teachers were interviewed (Hill-Carter, 2010, p. 2). In terms of data analysis, the study made use of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 15.0). This is an indication that the study was quantitative in nature because SPSS is a quantitative tool of data analysis. In addition, the fact that the study attempted to identify the existence of a correlation between teacher mentoring programs and teacher retention blends well with the use of the SPSS tool for data analysis. In addition, in terms of instrumentation, the study has made use of the Likert Scale. Statement of the Problem The author talks of how at the time when the study was being carried out, the ABC inner-city school only had 15 teachers in their first and second years of study. In addition, the author indicates how from a historical point of view, the schools have been characterized by an exceedingly higher turnover rate for both the first as well as the second-year students (Hill-Carter, 2010, p. 8). Accordingly, the author indicates in the study that the goal of both the school and the school district was with the intention of ensuring that teachers in their first and second years of study were retained during the 2009/2010 academic year and beyond. Purpose of the Study The purpose of the study was to evaluate whether an association exists between, on the one hand, quality management program and, on the other hand, the ability to retain teachers at the ABC inner-city school. In this regard, the establishment of a quality mentoring program could often entail such diverse areas as the planning and implementation processes (Hill-Carter, 2010, p. 8). In addition, there is also the issue of mentoring in retention instructions. Other areas that have been examined by the study include orchestrating and organizing a productive and positive environment. In addition, such other areas as an evaluation of the instructional and learning program, as well as peer collaboration, have also been addressed (Hill-Carter, 2010, p. 8). Besides, by conducting research, it is possible to develop a program with various elements of a comprehensive and workable mentoring program capable of being duplicated by other districts and schools to ensure the retention of novice teachers. Research Hypotheses Research hypothesis 1: there shall be a 40% improvement in the rate of retention of teachers in their first and second years of study upon their exposure to a comprehensive mentoring program in comparison with the previous year (Hill-Carter, 2010, p. 9). Research hypothesis 2: there is a higher likelihood for teachers who are
One thing that struck me the most was the immense variation in relatively small areas of the continent. Although the southern regions are well known for their rough terrain and mountainous features like the Alps; there are still a wide variety of other features that occur in relative proximity to one another (DeBlij and Muller, 2009). Many sub regions that contribute to the complexity of the Europe exist. For example, one can find river valleys or even plateaus in these areas so this is quite surprising. Furthermore, even though one would expect the south to be a general lowland area, there are still several characteristics that can be found in different regions that defy these expectations and those are what make the continent quite unique. Why the physical regions of Europe support so many culture variations This can be attributed to the events in the history of the continent. First, the collapse of the Roman Empire was one of these(DeBlij and Muller, 2009). Once the latter society ceased to exist, then new people began filling up that vacuum. For instance tribes of Germanic descent established small hegemonies like the Saxons of Britain, the Ostrogoths of Italy and the Franks in Gaul. The latter groups later formed their owned identities and later became what we now know today. However, in some areas Roman land owners were allowed to stay as long as they accepted the rule of another overlord. These groups maintained Roman characteristics and were responsible for the cultures in modern Italy and Spain(DeBlij and Muller, 2009). There were also several kingdoms formed after the collapse of the Roman empire such as Neustria and Austrasia in Gaul. Leaders of these latter kingdoms were in constant wars against one another thus leading to intermingling of cultures. Additionally, this period in history was responsible for numerous migrations. In certain circumstances those migrations led to serious clashes. Examples of groups that latter came to leave their mark in the continent of Europe include Magyars, Angles, Franks, Vandals, Petrarch, Slavs and many others. A series of empires followed after and because most of them were established based on lineages then frequent conflicts arose that often led to separation and amalgamation of various groups. These historic political events contributed to current patterns of European culture. Also, the European continent was home to most intellectual developments and contributed to the agrarian as well as the industrial revolutions(DeBlij and Muller, 2009). These factors gave many people of the world a reason to stay in Europe. They knew that they could benefit more from the continent if they remained hence the reason for such a wide array of cultures. On the other hand, there are still ethnic minorities within the continent who have forged an identity for themselves. These groups can be understood owing to the latest set of immigrations into the continent. Examples include persons from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (DeBlij and Muller, 2009). Where the Eastern boundary should be fixed The issue of boundary fixing can be a complex one especially b
Abstract This report is based on the research that has been conducted to investigate the effects of the secondary education and banks credit rates per capital gross domestic products. Motivated by an assignment to advice the minister for finance on policymaking, the research used regression analysis and test of hypothesis to analyze sets of data. The research established that secondary education has higher positive impacts on per capital gross domestic product as compared to bank credit rates. It, therefore, concludes that the available finances are allocated to the secondary education. Introduction Gross domestic product is defined as a measure of a country’s total productivity level. It refers to “the market value of all finished goods and services” within a territorial boundary and in a specified period (Mankiw, 2008, p. 496). Elements of gross domestic product include “consumption, investment, government purchase, and net export” (Mankiw, 2008, p. 496). Investments are monetary value of resources that are used for production of goods and services. Realized through individual citizens, corporate bodies and governments, investment rates and levels are the factors of availability of resources and the capacity to acquire such resources through savings or loans. Another element of the gross domestic product is government expenditure through such avenues as central and local governments and their agencies. This category of expenditure includes payments to civil servants and payments for public service utilities such as education and healthcare among other services that are provided by either state or federal government. Consumption as an element of the gross domestic product as well as net export also depends on availability of resources and disposable income in a country. High levels of disposable income correspond to relatively high consumption and trade levels (Mankiw, 2008, p. 496). While real gross domestic product measures a country’s productivity level, per capital gross domestic product measures the value that is attributable to an individual citizen. The per capital gross domestic product is a factor of population growth and size and has an impact on living standards and utility levels in societies (Boyes and Melvin, 2007, p. 389, 390). Brooks (2008, p. 502) explains that one of the fundamental pillars of the economic growth is the availability of resources for consumption, investment or government expenditure. Financial institutions which are sources of loans the expenditures are, therefore, instrumental factors