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Introduction The world’s appetite for technology has grown tremendously over the years. Everyone wants to lay their hands on the latest technology or at least one that is within their means. This has had a great impact in the electronic and communication market in which the Nokia Corporation has for many years maintained leadership (Nokia 2011). The value of the company has grown and matured in the stock market and secured a position for the company in as far as investor confidence is concerned. There have been numerous alternatives of finance available for the company one of which has been equity futures. The consistent current financial profile has enabled the company convince their investors to invest their properties in the company. Argument The company’s shares have for the longest time fallen below the 6 euro mark in share value with the margin of change being below 20 %. The company has undeniably been on a down ward trend with figures falling to 4.5 Euros an all time low. The quarterly outlook has shown a consistent drop in the share price (Yahoo Finance 2011). This situation cannot be criticized since Nokia has made its move into the smart phone production. The level of sales has dropped due to the change in consumer taste in favor of Smartphone technology. This has caused the company to partner with other companies such as Microsoft to try and restore the market leadership as well as recover the 18 % plunge in profit margins (Yahoo Finance. 2011). The share price will be expected to remain the same come next year due to the slim margins of sales that have been experiences these year. The consumer base will take time to embrace the new changes in the mobile software and therefore the shares will take time to get back to normal. This will proceed on to the first and second quarters of the year since during this time the company will be experiencing the recess period. The third quarter will however bring in improvements in share value owing to the change in the price earnings ratio that is expected to increase. The fourth quarter will definitely record a substantial growth due to the high season of holidays and ceremonies around the globe (Arthur 2011). He company’s risk portfolio stands at a positive side for the investor since the level of volatility of the shares against the stork markets index has a positive trend. The market share returns have a high level of sensitivity to asset returns. This ,makes the shears more risky but much more profitable for an investor who purchases futures. Level of sensitivity. For instance, the company has made an 11.6 billion euro deal with Microsoft for the acquisition of the right to use their windows mobile software’s along with othe
Ideal couple The Ramayana is an epic Indian tale about the Indian life. It offers an example of dharma. The protagonists Rama and his wife Sita are an ideal couple who lived their lives according to dharma. They are an example of how married couples should be as Rama was an ideal husband to his wife and she was a faithful wife to him. For many years, the epic has been passed down from one generation to another and young Indians told to emulate Rama and Sita. Sita’s capture After marrying Rama, he was banished to live in the forest for fourteen years by his father at his stepmother’s word who wanted her real son to inherit the throne. Sita refused to remain behind in the palace and became adamant about following her husband to the forest as she said that a wife’s place is by husband’s side. Unfortunately, she was captured by the demon king Ravana. Later, Rama and Lakshmana rescued her. However, Rama was in doubt of his wife’s faithfulness and purity because she had lived under King Ravana for a year. She had to go through fire to proof her purity and she was found to be innocent. The treatment that Rama gave his wife after her rescue is questionable because he is supposed to be a man of dharma hence of good thought. However, he doubts his wife and makes her go through fire, which she accepts (Hess 2). Sita’s innocence Rama knew his wife was innocent but demanded for a proof for the sake of his subjects. In the second instance, he knew she was innocent because she had already passed the first purity test. However, he gave in to rumours about his wife’s impurity after hearing people question his taking back of Sita after she had been with King Ravana. The culture of the Rhaghu Dynasty did not allow a man to live with an infidel wife and many people in the kingdom were wondering if Sita was faithful after living with King Ravana. Tradition demanded banishment of such a woman. He banished his wife because he felt he had a bigger duty towards his subjects than his personal life (Duiker and Spielvogel 62). Sita’s anger Sita was angry at her husband’s treatment concerning her purity. She wept and rebuked him for behaving like an ordinary man and treating her as an ordinary women yet she had already proved her purity (Hess 6). She felt betrayed because during all the time she was in captivity her mind was with her husband constantly. Her anger and humiliation made her request mother Earth to swallow her to find some peace. Lakshmana’s Death The two sons of Rama Lava and Kush injured their uncle Lakshmana in battle of the horse not knowing they were related. Fortunately, he did not succumb to the injuries as he was revived using a certain herb. He died later after being expelled by his brother Rama and God Indra took him to heaven. Works Cited Duiker, William and Jackson Spielvogel. World History Volume 1 . New York: Cengage Learning, 2009. Hess, Linda. “Rejecting Sita: Indian Responses to the Ideal Man’s Cruel Treatment of His Ideal Wife.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 67.1 (1999): 1-32
The parable of cloth originated from a certain Buddhist monk called bikkhus, who narrates his encounter with the Blessed One. It states that the Blessed One gave bikkhus the parable saying that if unclean garment is absorbed in any dye regardless of its color, the cloth will still contain initial dirt and stains. The Blessed One was communicating that a bad life in the future must be expected when the mind is not pure. He also puts in that if a cloth is perfectly clean, it would look as beautiful as the colors, an indication of cleanliness. This parable contains deeper meaning that was a caution to the Buddhists. This parable clearly shows that being dirty or of bad morals will always reflect even on the outside. The parable continues to bring an understanding that bad morals may corrupt the good ones. The beautiful colors of pink, blue and, red represents some good and beautiful characters. However, when the dirty and soiled cloth is immersed in the dye, the beauty of the colors is not represented well because of the uncleanness. This parable evidently refers to people whose character is spoilt, as they tend to influence the good people with their temperament. This well suits an English saying, ‘bad company corrupts good morals.’ The parable also clearly states all the bad things that the dirty cloth represents, calling it the impurity of the mind. The parable is significant to the beliefs of the Buddhists because they believe that any change in people’s heart or mind always lead to change in external situations, and they affect the people who are around. They believe that enlightenment summons the people’s image practicing severity in the pursuit for extraordinary powers, which are beyond the reach by ordinary beings. Nichiren said that enlightenment could be referred to as the fusion of wisdom that was subjected to people with objective reality, a complete knowledge of the truths of this world. In addition, any individual cannot reach enlightenment because it is not in a fixed point. It would also mean daily challenge, constant as well as the people’s determination of being renewed to impose positive impact other people’s lives. The parable of cloth is one that the Buddhist would passionately embrace because they believe in change and impacting others with the changes or enlightenment. A bikkhus can share the choicest rice with all manner of sauces and curry without causing any harm to his spiritual life, when he shuns all the bad and impurity things and embracing what is considered as the source of truth. A bikkhus is capable of attaining this state of virtue in wisdom and mental discipline. As the parable explains, when the dirty and soiled cloth is dipped into the clear water, it becomes pure. Moreover, just as the way gold is refined through the furnace becomes clean and pure, the bikkhus with this state of virtue cannot be harmed. The d
Case Vignette Marylyn is a 17-year-old African American girl. She lives with her mother, grandmother, and 11-year-old twin sisters. Three weeks ago, she was attacked by a group of young men while returning home after her theater class. They were bullying and beating her. They were going to take the girl into their car and could probably rape her, but a man who was passing by called the police and made them go. At present, the girl has recovered physically, and the bruises have almost disappeared. However, her mental condition is unsatisfactory. She has been depressed since the day of the accident. She experiences nightmares in which the sex offenders did what they intended to do. The girl gave up her theatre class and did not leave the house alone. In fact, she stays in most of the days. She threw away skirts, bright tops, and dresses. She believes that she should become less noticeable and blames herself for everything that happened to her. At the same time, she suffers from a lack of self-realization because she had an active life before the accident. She wants to come back to college and the theatre class, but the symptoms she observes do not let her do so. During the treatment of the patient, the Target Memory (T-ICES) is the day the girl was attacked. The Image that appears most often is one of the offenders trying to make her get into the car. The Cognitions in her mind are that even the neighborhood can be dangerous, and it is better to stay at home. The Emotions she experiences are fear, mistrust, and loneliness. The Sensations she remembers are danger and panic. The unmet needs include the lack of psychological stability, deficiency of self-confidence, and the lack of feeling of safety. However, her strengths, which include the ability to concentrate, creativity, and strong motivation, will be helpful in the interventions that are aimed at meeting the needs of the patient. In her treatment, it is necessary to eliminate the feeling of guilt for the accident. Moreover, it is important to cope with the nightmares because they do not let her sleep normally and make the situation even more complicated. Finally, the symptoms of depression should be removed to let the girl return to her usual active life. Treatment Plan At present, the primary goals of the girl are to be able to leave the house without fears and to sleep without nightmares. Thus, the treatment plan is concentrated on minimizing the existing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and eliminating nightmares, thus providing normal sleep. Big Behaviors  1. Nightmares and bad sleep  1. The unmet need for psychological stability results in the interruption of sleep because of trauma.  2. The TF-CBT Intervention applicable for the patient is the development of a self-relaxation technique that will allow the young girl to calm down when she becomes hypervigilant.  3. Strength: the major strength of Marylyn is her ability to concentrate on her actions, even being stressed. It can be helpful in developing the self-relaxation technique.  1. Self-accusation  1. The unmet need for this symptom is the lack of self-confidence.  2. The TF-CBT Intervention tha
Introduction IPScape is a private company that offer contact platform to companies with their customers. The firm was founded in 2005 in Australia and it has employed over 40 people across the world. The firms uses the new cloud technology to offer its services to customers these services include customer contact where the services can be customers according to client needs like minute-by-minute needs. IPScape products are common solutions for call centre services. They help them to minimize issues of cost repression, incorporate enhanced problem of communication such as the social media, provide real time insight and faster access to the market. In the age where customer have become more demanding in terms of their expectations and the need of service companies to aggressively adapt to competition, companies no longer rely on their intelligences alone. The concept of outsourcing is offering opportunities to offshore services to low-cost companies like in India. National Bank of Australia – NAB The National Australia Bank has earned the reputation of being among the biggest financial organization and banks in Australia. This status is rated based on the company capitalization and the number of clients it ahs. In the worlds, NAB is ranked number 17 biggest bank based on the same variable of market capitalization (Hoover, 2008, p. 43). The bank now has its operations in over 10 foreign nations and serves about 8.3 million clients and bank customers. About 2.3 million of these clients are wealth management clients based on its 2008 annual report. Internationally, NAB runs over 1808 branches and service centres in different nations plus over 4,600 ATM. NAB has realized that outsourcing is one of the best ways of generating sales and assisting the clients with technical support and customer support matters (Hoover, 2008, p. 45). While the company has money and time to invest in its own call centres, it has opted for streamlined strategy and chosen to outsource these services (Oxelheim & Ghauri, 2008, p. 222). The NAB has offshore outsourcing strategy where it has given up some of its call centres services to international firms. One of them is the Virgin Mobile, a Canadian company. The company ensures that NAB customers are satisfied, offer services at a cheaper cost, and reduces other related expenses (Oxelheim & Ghauri, 2008, p. 222). Another company to which NAB has outsourced to is beCongent in the United Kingdom. This company manages the customer contact activities of the bank based on mutual trust relationship. Customers like NAB are benefiting from specialist services and quality hence does not need to employ similar talent on its premises (Oxelheim & Ghauri, 2008, p. 222). Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) This bank is commonly referred to as ANZ and it is one of the biggest banks operating in Australia and it is currently ranked number four based on its market capitalization. Most of its operations are mainly in Australia where the bank provides commercial and retail banking services as the main services (Hull 2002, p. 5). The bank is the largest in New Zealand and it is slowly expanding its
The innocent drinks is a United Kingdom-based company that produces smoothies and flavored spring water products that are sold to supermarkets, coffee shops, and various outlets such as the Republic of Ireland, Amsterdam, France, Brussels, and Copenhagen. It was formed in the year 1999 by three friends who were referred to as Richard Read, Adma, Balon, and Jon Wright. The company has a 71% market share of £169 million United Kingdom smoothie market and the company sells over one million smoothies per week. The company’s vision is to be Europe’s favorite juice company in the world that produces healthy products for its citizens so that it can be in a position to compete effectively with its competitors… The implications of the continued fast growth of innocent drinks for the different functions of the business The company’s success has been attributed to the production of products that are nutritionally good for human consumption, the company also pays 30% premiums on the pineapples that are produced by the company, it has also spent over four years developing recyclable bottles that are cost-effective to use so that the company doesn’t incur a lot of expenses in developing other bottles for holding the contents of the company’s products. The company also gives away over 10% of its profits so as to assist the community and this has contributed to the growth of the company since assisting the community is a positive move since it motivates the customers to purchase the company’s products which increase the sales volume of the company’s products. The management’s utilization of its 90% profits in managing its activities effectively has contributed to the success of the company According to Jane Burkits the head of logistics of the Innocent Drinks company she stated that in order for the company to achieve its goals and objectives it had to identify the key hurdles that would lead to the effective implementation of the demand planning that would facilitate the company’s growth in the futur
Introduction Glenn Murcutt, one of the most internationally famous architects in Australia, is a master in the current architectural world. Born in London, Glenn grew up in the Morobe district of New Guinea. While growing up, he learned to value simple, vernacular and primitive structures. Through his father, Murcutt learned the philosophies of Henry Thoreau, who believed that people should live in a simple manner and harmony with nature’s laws. As a child, Murcutt identified the two essential things that he still insists a house must provide: prospect and refuge. He went to school at Manly Boys’ high school and later on studied architecture at the Sydney Technical College, where he graduated in the year 1961. Glenn Murcutt’s works are not large-scale projects, he works with ordinary materials and he works alone. His modernist inspiration goes back to the works of Mies van der Rohe. He has also been inspired by many other architects and designers such as Chareau. He never builds skyscrapers nor does he design showy structures. In addition, he never uses luxurious materials to build or design these houses. He uses his creativity in designing smaller projects that let him work alone and come up with economical buildings that conserve energy and are environmentally friendly. The Southern Highlands house is located in Australia. Glenn Murcutt was the architect of this house that was built back in 2001. In the Southern highlands house, there is a reduction in the idea of the roof plane and the box. There is increased simplicity that characterizes his work. This project reflects a very intimate connection with nature. Murcutt selected corrugated iron sheet as one of the major materials to be used. He uses materials that can be found easily and economically, for example, stone, concrete, brick and corrugated iron sheets. The corrugated sheet was used in colonial Australia as roofing material and cladding of the barns. This house is defined by the architect’s ideas, structure and functions. Summary of the details about the house in the Southern Highlands Architect            Glenn Murcutt         Contracting company  James Taylor          City                 Southern Highlands    country              Australia             Region               Oceania               Climatic Condition   Temperate             Housing type         Single-family         Number of stories    Single-story building  Architect’s ideas as portrayed in t
This case study focuses on the public admistration and issues covered in this case study were centered on the snow removal activity within the city and the fact that all residents in the city deserved equal treatment from the public offices no one place was more important than the other. As observed regularly snow storms have paralyzed the everyday activities in many states. Snow removal is an activity that is mandated on the local authority administration, whereby as the bylaws dictate, the City council has an obligation to provide the services efficiently without bias to all residents of the city. However in carrying out its obligations, the Manhattan public authority, which was in charge of the exercise failed to do so in a number of ways (Cheshire 1997). First as indicated above, the Authority failed to provide services equally to all residents according to Le May (2006), a public Authority ought to carry out its mandate without bias to the public, however the administration failed to do this whereby, in reference to the “electronic hallway case study on snow removal”, the theory of public administrations is to give and provide equal services to all citizens and residents affected by the snow storm, but the practice is that some parts of the city are favored and given preferential service while the rest of the city is left to suffer and the citizens are left and forced to fend for themselves. Thus as the case study indicates, Manhattan was highly favored during the snow removal exercise at the expense of the whole city. As a result of this biasness, the residents of the other cities, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island accused Mayor John Lindsay for misusing the city’s snow removal reserves and showing preferential treatment towards Manhattan at the cost of the rest of the city. Personnel Administration and Unionism in Public Administration Apart from that where the city local administration displayed open bias, there are other issues that touch on Personnel Administration the Public body undertook various activities that were in contradiction to personnel administration these include: less staff which resulted to in adequate labor to tackle the snow removal process however the city administration resulted to hiring more personnel after an outcry fry various stake holders so as to have enough personnel to fight the snow. Another issue was that the snow removal equipment was also always breaking down but it was proposed that more mechanical staff to be hired to keep the equipment in use in perfect condition for such situations. In addition, the snow removal equipment was not enough for the whole city so more equipment was suggested to be bought, and hiring of private owned snow removing equipment when an urgent situation concerning snow arose. This was however solved as the Mayor and the relevant authority authorized for the purchase of more equipments hence showing according to Le May (2006) that public administration bodies should be autonomous in order to deliver its services and mandate without external political, economical and socia
Bonds and common shares constitute two choices most commonly available for investors. Government bonds effectively constitute a loan made to the government, one that will be paid in full with the percentages promised (around 2-3% per year) (MissBeHelpful, 2017). It is a safe kind of investment, as countries (unlike companies) are much less likely to become bankrupt or disappear from the face of the Earth. Common shares, or stocks, are securities that represent the ownership of a corporation (MissBeHelpful, 2017). Their prices depend on how well the company is performing in the market (MissBeHelpful, 2017). Thus, such an investment is by definition riskier and more volatile than buying bonds (Konecny, 2018). At the same time, the propensity for rewards is much greater with common shares – investing into a company with high growth rates can promise great returns much quicker when compared to bonds. As an investor, I would much more likely invest into common shares rather than bonds. While bonds are safer, the percentages offered by them are often low, meaning that it would require much larger sums to be put into bonds in order for the profits to have any substance (Konecny, 2018). At the same time, the long-term nature of bonds makes the deposit more susceptible to inflation (Konecny, 2018). Common shares, while riskier, allows a much lower barrier of entry, and a much greater likelihood of obtaining rewards (Konecny, 2018). It is the reason why bonds are largely invested into by large institutions, such as insurance companies and pension funds, among others (Konecny, 2018). Stocks, on the other hand, present many opportunities for large and small investors, making them a better option.