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Introduction It is notable that even with the outstanding advancement of the Information Technology and the widespread use of computer science and internet services in the regular works of individuals, the use of Strategic Information System or SIS had not been very widespread in the business organisations even before two decades. Rather, SIS was considered parallel to the commercial data processing systems, and so, it was merely used at the very low-level operational works to help ordinary works; nevertheless, there has been a mounting awareness to construct information systems of strategic magnitudes at all firms; therefore, at present, “Strategic Information System Planning” is a decisive factor at all levels. It is important to note that planning for information systems, must, at any stages, start with the detection of the key requirements; however, for effectual outcome, generation of IT-based arrangement must be a reply to the requirement at the convoluted corporate stages; it must be kept in mind that planning for SISP is similar to strategic management planning. In addition, proper management of SISP also requires aim, preferences, and agreements for information systems to be formalised; moreover, the plan should be sufficiently explicit to facilitate perceptive code of conduct; the users must know about the exact sequence of generation of the idea; additionally, the plan needs to be supple so that the preferences could be accustomed where essential. SISP is the examination of a firm’s IT procedures by the use of gracious and convenient models; it is also the assessment of hazards and present needs; it generates an action plan indicating the requirements, which are indispensable to line up data use with strategic direction; in addition, SISP could recognise the best targets for buying and settling new SIS. In order to conduct the research on strategic information system planning, this paper focuses on reviewing SISP, discussing the Strategic Information System Planning, analysing the strategic IS planning techniques, evaluating information system planning techniques, methodologies regarding SISP, recommendations, and conclusion. Review of Strategic Information System Planning: Pant and Hsu (1995) pointed out that strategic information system is computer system, which put into practice corporate policies; however, to be more specific, these authors have noted that Strategic Information System Planning (or SISP) is more often practised to react more quickly and smartly to regular trading activities. Rogerson and Fidler (1994) and Pant and Hsu (1995) pointed out in their respective research papers that Strategic Information System Planning helps a firm to automate its regular operational activities in order to attain higher competence, control, succe
The Pain and the Itch is a comedy by playwright Norris, who skillfully demonstrates the hidden truth that prowl underneath the carpet of an ideal family. On the 31 st of February 2014, Custom Made Theatre took to the stage to perform The Pain and the Itch with Dorian Lockett, Eden Neuendorf, Gabriella Jarvie, Jean Forsman, Justin Gillman, Karen Offereins, and Peter Townley, assuming the roles of main characters. The play’s setting is in a modern living room where the host family in the company of visitors jointly partakes Thanksgiving dinner. The hard-to-tolerate, but funny, mocking play takes place in an amply selected and well-furnished apartment in an undisclosed town. The visitors seemed pleased with Kelly and Clay, a well contended, left-leaning open-minded couple, and their closest, but not so dear relative, Cash, a surgeon who preferred to use Martini as painkiller. The setting of the play was in identical, but with separated time frames for purposes of enhancing its dramatic effect. The central theme of the play is greed with the playwright ingeniously employing humor to ridicule societal ills. Norris’ satirical crackers target the arrogant, left-leaning middle-high class people and their fantasies. With the exception of Cash’s Russian girlfriend, Kalina, a survivor of cruel childhood, everyone was well-informed, smart, and successful, despite Clay being a conservative dad. In the play, Norris demonstrates that despite the knowledge, wisdom and wealth that these people had, they were still the capitalist characterized by nothing but self-centeredness, insincerity and bath faith. The green walls and the wooden furniture created a calm environment for the audience. The apartment appeared warm and relaxed, and this made the performance enjoyable. The gentle and soft lighting suited the living atmosphere, and their adjustments, which varied between darker and brighter as the play ensued, ensured that the audience followed every plot. In the play, the characters are smartly dressed in fancy costumes, and this was deliberately meant to connect the play to the contemporary audience. The mood was successfully expressed through the employment of sound effects, and this made the audience comprehend the dynamics of the play. Largely, the performers successfully created an assembly, whose interaction was nothing but effective, although there were a few parts, which were confusing. The stage movements of the characters enhanced the overall performance and believability of the narrative since they instilled the aspect of liveliness. With the exception of Mr. Hadid, who seemed a nervous bystander and failed to meet the audience’s expectations, all actors fully fitted the play. They excelled in creating a self-centered gathering that Bruce Norris had imagined. One of the outstanding performances was the fight between Cash and Kalina, and particularly where Kalina was corrected by her boyfriend on how to pronounce the word perspective. Despite the countless efforts to help her pronounce the word in the right way, Cash bore not fruit. Another interesting performanc
Introduction Environmental deterioration is the degradation of the environment by exhausting the available resources like soil, air and water; the damage of ecosystem and the extermination of wildlife. The drastic increase of the environmental pollution cause harms to the natural world and also accelerates the corrosion and degradation of the matters utilized in technical work and artistic or historical value. Rapid population growth is perceived as one of the most oppressive world-wide challenge that contributes to deterioration of the environment. Though population growth is closely related to environmental deterioration, the relationship between population increase and the quality of the environment is composite. The type and quantity of pollutants emitted are not only dependent of the total number of individuals residing in the world but it is also determined on the technologies generation and pattern of consumption. Therefore, an increasing population does not basically contribute to the rising degradation of the quality of the environment (Jost, Quaas & Schiller 4). This paper will examine the environmental deterioration in Kenya in relation to the poverty level. Environmental deterioration in Africa Approximately half of the land that is cultivated in Africa is semiarid and arid comprising mainly of desert soils (entisols and aridsols) that contain less organic matter components. Thus, most of the Africa’s land is deteriorated. Almost 30 percent and 65 percent of the pastureland and cropland respectively in Africa is faced by deterioration or degradation with consequential decrease in crop production and constant food insecurity. In addition, 14 percent of the deteriorated soil is as result of the removal of vegetation, 49 percent resulting from overgrazing, 13 percent as a result of overexploitation and 24 percent as a result of agricultural activities (World Research Institute 54). All over Africa, reducing or abbreviating poverty level of the poor individuals has been the most priority of most of these countries. Poverty is the great cause and consequence or effect of the degradation of the environment and depletion of the resources that pose threats to the present and future growth of the economy. Improving the living conditions, health and income of the poor individuals persists to be the top policy and political essential if African countries will make progress towards the development that is socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. African continent is rich with natural
Skills and knowledge anticipated out of the assignment Unit HSN202 will provide me with skills and relevant knowledge for the derivation of practical solutions to resolve nutritional challenges. I will also gain knowledge on linking skills and knowledge acquired in the unit to various workplace nutritional problems. In the current unit, I expect to extend this knowledge to acquire knowledge in devising ways for handling nutrition-related challenges at a national level. In this quest, this assignment will provide an opportunity to explore various programs together with patterns and prevalence of food insecurity problems within Australia. Successful identification of the challenge will give me room to make proposals for solutions to such problems based on scholarly evidence both presently and in the future. Causes and prevalence of food insecurity Nations seeking to maintain healthy populations place critical emphasis on food security. Food insecurity has a direct correlation to malnutrition, which is an enormous contributing factor to malnutrition-related ailments. Radimer (2002) defines food security as the “access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life” (p.860). Drawing from this definition, food insecurity occurs in a situation of limited access to safe foods possessing sufficient nutritional values through mechanisms that are socially acceptable with certainty. According to the World Health Organisation (2011), a nation is food secure in case it is able to fulfill three essential components of food security: “food access, food availability, and food use” (Para 4). Food access refers to the ability to acquire and/or enhance the consumption of foods that are nutritious through reliable transposition, storage, and provision of information to consumers on diet choice. Food use refers to “the appropriate use of food based on knowledge of basic nutrition care” (Turrell & Kavanagh 2005, p.379). Before any program enacted by the government of Australia can claim to have ensured food sufficiency and security, it needs to reflect all these globally acceptable requirements for food security. Australia has not yet fully dealt with the challenge of food insecurity. However, the prevalence levels of the problem vary. Statistical findings released in 2001 by Strategic Inter-Governmental Nutrition Alliance of the National Public Health Partnership (SIGNAL NPHP) indicated that 30 percent of indigenous people were worried about vulnerabilities of situations of food insecurity (SIGNAL NPHP 2001, p.6). Communities living in rural areas report higher incidences of food insecurity (Browne et al. 2009, p.9). However, local persons who stay in towns also record high food diffidence because of challenges such as “poor income, poor accessibility to transport, overcrowding, poor storage facilities for foods, and poor facilities for cooking”
Introduction Thompson offers a unique perspective and modern view of the incorporation of faith and justice. It is very difficult to exist in a world with quick economical advancements and globalization works without considering the aspect of spiritual belief. This paper discusses the history of colonialism according to Thompson together with the effects of multi-national corporations on host countries. History of Colonialism The history of colonialism, as described by Thompson, bases its argument on the social cohesion in countries of Africa. During the pre-colonial times, there was little social cohesion due to ethnic differences. Africa, as a continent, consists of fifty four countries. Each country is rich and diverse in its own culture. There diversity in culture is brought about by the numerous tribes, for example, Kenya is known to have forty two different tribes. Colonialism in Africa first started at around the eighteenth century. Ethnicity, which has been described as a subjective conviction of commonality, was used to make policies during colonization. The lack of social stability and harmony presented opportunities for exploitation. Policies of divide and rule were invented resulting in constant wars and feuds between the different ethnic groups in the countries. During the early twentieth century, literacy began to gain weight and value among the inhabitants of the countries. By about 1920, college education was introduced in several countries. It was not until the 1950s that the countries under colonial rule began to awaken from their divide and conquer rule. They realized that it would be better for them to unite against their oppressor
Innovative Voices in Education: Engaging Diverse Communities by Eileen Kugler depicts the stories collected throughout the world, of teachers or activists in the community sharing their small but significant success and lessons learned. The book has a great value when it comes to its application in the education field. Along with the changes that occurred in the demographical area of the United States came the new resources for involving diverse students into the narrative. The demographic shifts that have occurred in the recent years suggest the need for discussing the diversity. Thus, the student diversity has increased which leads to a greater requirement for individuals who will educate these students as well as engage them in the interactions within the diverse communities. The stories told in Innovative Voices in Education: Engaging Diverse Communities help in “bringing innovations in diversity out into the open” (Kugler 16), as well as inspiring those heavily involved in the educational sphere (parents, teachers, administrators, and members of the diverse community). The book is divided into nineteen chapters that are further divided into five parts that relate to different topics. For example, the first part called “Building Respectful Schools” is a great introduction as it provides value for those people that have an influence in the field of education. The vice president of Cook Ross, Inc., Howie Shaffer comments on the value of Innovative Voices in Education : “it is clear that we need to muster the courage to both explore and repudiate our collective willingness to relegate
NATO was developed from the 1948 North Atlantic Treaty , which stipulated that member states should defend one another if they were attacked (Collins 1). NATO is a military cooperation of “Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Collins 1)”. The vast NATO membership has grown since the formation of the organization in 1949. The latest entrants into the military union joined in 2009 (Collins 1). NATO’s headquarters is in Brussels and its roles in international politics have been prominent since its formation. Due to NATO’s dominance in international politics, this paper seeks to analyze its formation and the roles it has played in international politics. Formation NATO’s formation can be traced to the era of communism where Western states tried to stop possible attacks from Russia (Collins 1). Notably, the US was a pioneer in this strategy because it sought to defend itself from attacks by Russia. However, the 1948 treaty of Brussels, which saw the participation of France, United Kingdom, Belgium and Netherlands, is considered to lay the groundwork for the formation of NATO (Collins 1). This treaty saw the formation of the Western European Defense Organization , which was designed to protect western European powers from any attacks by its aggressors. At the time, US had no role to play in the union. However, after the formation of the Western European Defense Organization , the US was invited to the union to balance Russia’s power (Collins 2). Soon after this development, NATO was birthed. The NATO treaty outlined that any attack on any member state would amount to an attack on all member states (Collins 1). Therefore, retaliation attacks were to be undertaken by all member states. At the time of the first formation, NATO was only comprised of “United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland” (Collins 1). The protection of member states included the use of military power. Nonetheless, the use of military power is not always the first course of action to be pursued by member states. The resolve to use military power only surfaces if there is a need to do so. Military power therefore only stands as an option. NATO’s mandate is only limited to states which are above the tropic of cancer. Therefore, any conflicts that occur out of this zone are avoided. Comprehensively, the formation of NATO saw the standardization of military procedures, such that, the US adopted most European military practices and European member states adopted some US military practices. So far, NATO has remained a force to reckon with in world politics. NATO Roles Afghanistan Interventions NATO’s role in international politics has especially been brought to fore by the war on terror. For instance, the September 11 atta
Abstract The question of whether women should be in the military or not is debatable and many arguments can be presented both, in its favor or against it and this paper presents such arguments in a precise manner. The paper starts with a historical background on the presence of women in the military and how they evolved through various traditional roles to their current roles over their time spent in the military domain. The paper also looks briefly at the military status of women in different countries and moves on to discuss the U.S. military policies related to the subject. Different statistics and surveys have been presented, followed by an argument presenting both sides of the issue and finally a conclusion, which is based on my personal opinion. Introduction Men and women are two separate genders that together make this world go round. Both have their roles and jobs to perform, they have their characteristics as part of their nature which define their core personalities and help them perform their tasks in a particular manner. Men are the stronger gender and are designated to play the stronger roles in life, both mentally and physically whereas women are the fairer sex who is not as strong as men and therefore differences exist between both by many different means. In earlier days, the roles for both genders were well defined but now the boundaries are growing blurred with time, this is also valid for the different professions that they adopt. Typically, the women were formerly more likely meant to be teachers or doctors because of their caring nature, and men were more likely destined to be engineers or pilots because of their low emotional involvement with tasks but now things are not that way any longer. Now, women and men both perform a variety of tasks and the presence of both genders is equally visible in different professions. This provision of equal opportunities for both genders has been further promoted by laws against discrimination and practices that encourage diversity. Besides, there is a call by women for their liberty and empowerment. Today, women are very much a part of the world where once only men prevailed and they are trying their best to fulfill the demands of their new roles. Yet, there are some roles and professions that prefer to continue with the traditional genders that were meant for them because of different reasons which make that particular gender more preferable and one such profession and role that remains to be decided is that of women in the military. Background of women in American military Women have been assisting in the military even before World War I but chiefly as nurses and aids except for a few who were directly involved in the operations of the battles. In World War I, the first enlisted women served as operators of radio and telephone, clerks and translators. The first time when women became members of the regular military was in World War II when each service had its own women’s corps under the direct s
Smoking is considered to be one of the most burning problems of modern society. Cigarettes kill so many people each year that it turns out to be very difficult to present concrete numbers concerning how many Americans die because of smoking. People know a lot about the risk of dying because of lung cancer, caused by smoking, however, they still continue smoking and do not pay attention to really useful information and warnings. To my mind, observing the effects of smoking by means of pictures should help to evaluate how dangerous smoking could be and what should be done to prevent deaths because of smoking. Picture #1 The approaches, I choose to evaluate the problem of smoking, present a clear picture of smoking and its effects on people. A smoldering cigarette (Picture # 1) does not present certain danger; and even when a person smokes (Picture # 2), people do not feel any fear or loathing. However, when we see an embryo with a cigarette (Picture # 3) and comprehend how smoking is dangerous to unborn children, some terrible emotions appear, and smoking does not seem so simple and harmless. This is why the only thing people should do is to quit smoking and start smiling (Picture # 4). Picture #2 A smoker promotes own life’s end; this person does not have a face or even gender (Picture # 2). Smoking is dangerous to people and deprives them from a chance to live long and happy. The tone of my message by means of these photos is not about fear, but about the reality that is around people. It is about smoking as something integral to this life, as something that has a certain impact even on not yet born people. This is why, in order to prevent a disaster, we should quit smoking, become healthy, and start smiling. These photos create a kind of emotional imagery that demonstrates how influential smoking can be. Picture #3 The audience for these photos may be rather different: teenagers, who find smoking not dangerous; mothers, who should care about their future and current children; old people, who should serve as good examples and promote young people to drop this terrible habit. In fact, these pictures can be interesting and useful