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Introduction The two statues symbolize leaders with military power. Also, they bestow leadership upon men. The statues also portray religious practices in the period between 704BC and 580BC. Furthermore, they define the military features of the period. However, it is necessary to note that the two statues show differences in the development of the areas represented. For instance, the Romans used bronze to model their statue while the Nubians used granite. This shows that the Romans were more advanced in the field of sculpture than the Nubians. Other differences include cladding, among others. For instance, the Nubians clad their statues better than the Romans. Additionally, the Nubians’ statues were more aesthetic than the Romans’. Also, the bronze statue is more realistic than the granite one. Moreover, the bronze statue is more dramatic than the granite one. Also, the former is more concerned with narrative than the latter. However, the Nubian statue represents history more than the Roman statue. Statue of King Aspelta, Egypt, 600-580 BC, granite Aspelta was the most famous king of Kush. His rule was characterized by the development of numerous carvings, which included statues, pendants, beads, cylinder sheaths, and cartouches, among others. King Aspelta’s statue is 11 feet in height (about 3.3 meters). The statue was made during King Aspelta’s reign (between 600 and 580 BC). The statue was reconstructed after its breakage into different pieces. It was buried at Jebel Barkal. The statue was made of granite gneiss. It was curved in the image of the king standing in his crown. The statue was carved to show a masculine king with his breastplate on the chest. The statue stands on a rectangular base, which is about 3 feet high. Also, the crown has a rectangular plate, which is about 3 feet high on top of the head with inscriptions on it. The image is curved with both hands holding a cylindrical sheath. Moreover, the statue is endowed with curved clothing, which is painted in gold. The wrapper starts from its waist right to the statue’s feet above the knees. Also, the statue has beautifications on the upper right hand and both feet. It is also necessary to note that it has carvings on the forehead, which protrude in the shape of animal heads. The rectangular cartouche on the top of the crown is suave, and there are four semicircular shapes at its top. The cartouche is placed on a circular base above the crown, which is in the shape of the helmet. The whole statue is smooth right from its head to foot. Moreover, its face is made to simulate a smiling king. However, the statue is dark, which may be attributed to the dark countenance of the Nubians. Hercules, 704-
Introduction Several researches have showed that spreadsheet errors are quite common and difficult to eliminate even after careful development of spreadsheet. Generally, errors are more pronounced in spreadsheets containing numerous formulas. These errors are sometimes undetected because of some of the constraints experienced during spreadsheet development. Spreadsheet errors significantly affect the quality of organizations’ reports and consequently lead to wrong decisions being made. In order to address the effects of corporate failures, in the year 2002, U.S. Congress ratified the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which makes it mandatory for all corporations to put in place well-controlled financial reporting systems. These systems facilitate independent inquiry into the affairs of corporations by auditors which lead either qualification or disqualification of corporation’s reports. Scope of spreadsheet errors Reports from a large number of consultants have showed that, about 20% to 40% of all spreadsheets contain errors. A report from Dent (Dent, 1995) revealed that an audit performed in a certain mining company discovered errors in approximately 30% of all the audited spreadsheets. In addition, report from Freeman (Freeman, 1996) revealed that data from a consulting firm in England, Coopers and Lybrand, found that, about 90% of all the spreadsheets which contained more than one hundred and fifty rows contained numerous errors. Moreover, according to the author Ditlea (Ditlea, 1987) an audit performed on four large spreadsheets by a Price-Waterhouse consultant found one hundred and twenty eight errors. Exposer to the risk of spreadsheet errors With the help of spreadsheet programs, end users develop analyses covering multiple cells. End user developed spreadsheets are more exposed to errors because few users implement the disciplines necessary for the
Education in school or college has a number of unique characteristics and requirements. However, the success or failure of students in education is usually explained in terms of their abilities to develop skills, use the material, and conduct research. Unfortunately, such an assumption is made by many people. Students are not the only cohorts that should take responsibility for their education. There are many leaders who have to develop special programs, think about new strategies, and support all participants in a learning process. Nowadays, a demographic category may have different definitions that make it vague and problematic for many facilities (Davis, 2010). However, leaders can introduce effective strategies in order to improve access, retention, or persistence of students. For example, Patterson Silver Wolf, Butler-Barnes, and van Zile-Tamsen (2017) create an article that contains several strong recommendations on how to increase retention and avoid dropouts. The model under discussion is not an individual but rather a systematic (campus-level) approach that includes the necessity to support living and learning communities, promote belonging social interventions, and develop self-regulated learning. The increase of retention levels in schools and colleges in the modern goal teachers, leaders, and governments are interested in. Among the existing variety
Literary critics commonly suggest that for a particular short story to represent much objective value, it must be capable of enlightening readers on the previously overlooked aspects of the theme, concerned with the story’s subject matter. Moreover, it must also contain some in-depth insights into what should be deemed the discursive significance of the issue, around which the story’s plotline revolves. The short story A Party Down at the Squar e by Ralph Ellison illustrates the validity of this suggestion. The reason for this is that A Party Down at the Squar e does not only allow the readers to experience the unsightly authenticity of one’s “Southern living” in America during the 20 th century’s first half (the period through which the described lynching-event supposedly takes place), but it also provides them with a better understanding of the innermost essence of White racism as yet another extrapolation of people’s deep-seated bestiality. This particular quality of Ellison’s story is best explained with regard to the fact that just about every scene in it is highly allegorical. Hence, a certain paradox – despite the story’s fictional character, it is nevertheless thoroughly accurate, in the historical sense of this word. What is even more – because of the story’s allegorical clues, concerned with the author’s portrayal of “Bacote nigger’s” burning by the crowd of White Southerners, readers are hinted at what may be the ultimate consequence of the fact that many White people continue to experience racial prejudices towards African-Americans, as well as to the representatives of other racial minorities in this country. Before proceeding to discuss Ellison’s story, we need to outline the main qualitative aspects of lynching, as the method of applying the concept of extrajudicial justice in practice. Even though the origins of lynching in America can be traced back to the American Revolutionary War, it was specifically through the Reconstruction Era (1861 – 1865) that the concerned practice has attained its notoriety. After having sustained a considerable decline in popularity during the 1870s – 1890s, lynching once again began to exert a strong influence on the public domain in the South since the beginning of the 20 th century well into the 1930s. In fact, there have been some isolated incidents of lynching as recent as through this century’s sixties. The term refers to what used to be the practice of catching a presumed perpetrator of a particular unsolved crime (most commonly an innocent Black man or woman) by the angry mob of self-proclaimed “vigilantes,” dragging the person to the place of execution, and killing him/her in broad daylight by either hanging, drowning or burning. Back then, lynching used to be commonly discussed in terms of “civilized, restrained, God-fearing people taking decisive action to restore social and moral order” (Adler 308). It is understood, of course, that such a point of view on lynching did not have anything to do with the reality while helping the affiliated individuals to escape punishment for having committed the most heinous crimes
Legal Plan Services, Inc. is a company whose nature of business is based on services rendered to people who face any law suits. In order to avail the service, a person has to become a member of Legal Plan Services. The membership fee ranges between $14.95 to $26.00 per month, depending on the schedule of benefits allowed under state laws and regulations. So basically it is a sort of intangible business because there is no actual product or service that is being sold or rendered presently. It is meant for the future. Further, the members are offered legal assistance free of charge up to a certain number of hours, after which they are charged by the providing law firm with a 25% discounted rate. For rendering this kind of service to the members of Legal Plan Services, Inc. the provider law firm is entitled to get a fixed fee based on per capita system. The provider law firms get a commission of 34% of the membership fees. It is noticeable that the commission mentioned is for all the law firms and not for any single law firm. The hours for which the law firm has to give free service are fixed. Beyond that, the law firm can charge on an hourly basis, but it has to offer a discount of 25% on its normal charges. The company’s main objective is customer satisfaction. The company has several sales associates also who procure business (members) for the company. A new sales associate has to pay a non-refundable one-time enrollment fee of $65. There is an option of training also for the sales associates, the charges for which are $184. These sales associates are commission based and can opt for one of the two commission systems available. According to the first option, commission is paid as and when revenue is earned from the members. The second option allows the sales associate to take commission in advance for a period of three years. Assessment There are a few concepts that Legal Plan Services should change in order to gain more profit. First of all, by the present payment system for the law firms, there are chances that the law firms become discontent because they have to give a discount of 25% to the members. Secondly, the advance commission being paid to the sales associates is not a good practice. It is understood that in case any member discontinues in between, the commission pertaining to that particular member that has been paid in advance to the sales associate is recovered from future income of the sales associate. This unnecessarily creates multiple entries and confusion. This also proves that the company is trying to exaggerate the figures in its financial reports in order to increase its transactions. If such commissions are included in the account books, the financial results will not be correct. Moreover, since Legal Plan Services pays advance commission for three years, the same will carry on reflecting in the accounts for the next three years. It is noticeable that such commissions are depicted in the assets. Three years is a long period and anything can happen. In case of any mishap with the sales associate, the advance commission that has been paid cannot be recovered. The present accounting system is very complicated. If the c
Posters for films have long become a special genre of art: it combines painting, photography and cinema, as well as the fantasies of designers and screenwriters. The evolution of the film poster has been long: from an ordinary sheet with a list of actors and directors to a collage with frames from a film; to a familiar, unusual, and sometimes bold design solution that calls for time and attention to be given to the film. Although the visual style of posters for films of various genres is noticeably different, it is possible to find similarities between them. In this paper, the similarities and differences of the visual style of the posters of the films Inception (2010) and Geo Storm (2017) will be considered. Both films belong to similar genres: science fiction, action and thriller. One can only add that Geo Storm, moreover, is a disaster movie. It is possible to start with the fact that the compositional balance on both posters is asymmetrical. Balance is the result of tension in the frame, the juxtaposition of elements, giving balance and a sense of harmony. The desire of the eye to balance one force with another lies at the heart of visual perception. On these posters, it is possible to notice the preponderance of the scale of what is happening in the background. The details of the background seem almost intimidating compared to the small human figures. Nevertheless, the central attention of the audience is focused precisely on the characters that are opposed to the reality surrounding them. To achieve this goal, the heroes of the films are located exactly in the center of the poster and seem to be framed by the details of the environment. As mentioned above, the background on both posters is intentionally depicted as frighteningly large and approaching the viewer and the characters. This makes the audience immediately understand that the main characters are faced with something beyond their understanding, as in the movie Inception, or with something they cannot cope with, as in Geo Storm. The background on both posters seems to be fraught with danger for the viewer, and makes the audience cringe internally from the destructive power of the human mind or the natural elements. Moreover, the background is depicted in dynamics, which makes the viewers unwittingly want to recoil from the screens in order to avoid this imminent danger. In order to create a sense of three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface, the perspective technique is used (Melendez 5). On both posters, it is possible see the road going into the distance, which gives the image a sense of depth and volume. Moreover, the images are rich in detail of high-rise buildings that go somewhere beyond the visibility of the audience. Both posters depict an empty and distorted or destroyed city, which causes rejection or involuntary fear. It is possible to see how the cities in both images are absorbed by something unimaginable. In fact, the entire background is the most destructive and frightening thing that threatens to engulf the heroes of the film. Both posters use a similar color scheme consisting of white, black and blue. The color scheme of the image
Abstract This paper presents the dynamics and aspects of the impact of regulatory framework in the respect of health and safety standards as defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States of America. The paper explores the implications and impact of the OSH Act on manufacturing companies. The theoretical framework constitutes the tenets of institutional theory which has been sued to the delineate the aspect of the interaction between an organisation’s internal factors and external factors, enunciated in the PESTEL framework that has been used to characterize the external environment within which companies and any organisations function. The most important of the factor to the scope and objectives of this as entailed in the PESTEL framework is the legal paradigm. The paper takes a significant thrust in outlining and the safety and health regulations of a featured case company compared against the standards of the OSHA. The paper culminates in a coterie of recommendations for safety and health compliance enhancement plan for the features company. Introduction Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a United States of America entity formed by Congress in the auspices of the occupational Safety Health Act ratified by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970. The administration focuses on enforcing health in and safety measures for workplace safety as well as health. The act has brought some transformations and changes in the various industry spheres as the protection of employees at work take center stage. The ASH statute is also premise for the establishment of national Institute for Occupational Safety (NIOSH) a research entity that specializes on occupational health and safety. The entity is nonetheless not an establishment of the U. S department o labour. OSHA regulations drafted by the Federal Government are design d t for the protection of workers largely in the private sector. The OAS allows states to alter passed blueprints that focus on covering public sector employees in providing the kind of protection which is equivalent to that offered by the Federal OSHA regulations. The Mission and commitment of OSHA is to assure safe and healthful work environments for male and female employees. The values of OSHA are founded on the principle of respect which advocates for the treating of all persons with respect in cognisance of individual’s differences and contributions. The vision of the OSHA is hinged on arriving at an effective health and management system in every workplace in America. Aims and Objectives of paper The aim of this paper is explore the impact of the legislature on industry domains particularly those which directly fall under the implications and target of the OSHA statutes. The adherence to the ASH guidelines and regulations is expected to promote as well as assure workplace safety and health and also the eradication of workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses. In light of the foregoing the paper aims to draw comparisons between the OSHA standards and the health and safet
Introduction Relationships play an important role in all types of narratives, including novels, films, musicals, songs, and poems. In the film industry, relationships between two or more individuals are often used to drive the plot. The purpose of this paper is to analyze relationships in films from two perspectives- the creation of relationships and breaking down of relationships. The paper will review the American film “West Side Story” to examine the theme of relationship creation and its role in the plot. The paper will also review the theme of relationship breakdown by examining the film “Mrs. Doubtfire.” Topic outline and explanation Creation of relationships is one of the most common themes expressed in most films. In most cases, relationships between characters help in revealing the content of the narration. The entire narrative may revolve around some relationship between characters. In western societies, love is believed to be a driving force for relationships. In literature, romantic love is often displayed, but it is difficult to develop its concise definition. According to Jamieson (478), love and romance are used to justify marriage as well as partnerships. They also validate sexual activities between individuals, despite the prevailing social and cultural conditions. According to Langford (129), people are conditioned to think of love as a power that liberates or answers dissatisfaction. Thus, love in most western societies, as conceptualized in the society, is believed to be a driving force that creates and maintains relationships. Closely related to this theme is intimacy, a factor that is widely understood to be a desirable or an ultimate goal for relationships, especially between members of the opposite gender. However, men and women differ significantly in terms of their views, perceptions, and reaction towards relationships based on love and romance. For instance, Nelson and Robinson (279) argue that men are more idealistic about love than women because women are realistic, practical, and realistic about the power and nature of love and romantic relationships. In film work, these aspects are often portrayed in various ways. For instance, most films depict love and relationship as a binding factor, not only between individuals but also between members of different and sometimes rival factions within the community. The relationships developed in the film “West Side Story” provides evidence of the use of love to create relationships, whi
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance which was founded in April 1949. It was formed through the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 th of April the same year. It has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. NATO comprises a system of collective where all the member states are in agreement to mutual defense in situations where a member is attacked by a non-member state or states. In its early years, NATO was more of a political association than a military alliance. However, it took its real direction during the Korean War when member states integrated the military structure, and built it around the US commanders to help the US and its allies in the war. This document discusses the history of NATO, the military operations it engaged in, its membership and cooperation with non member states, as well as, the structure of NATO. History of NATO The signing of the Treaty of Brussels in March 1948 by five European countries which included the UK, Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg marked the beginning for the formation of NATO (Gheciu 161). The Treaty of Brussels and the Soviet Blockade were the basis for the formation of the Western European Union’s Defense Organization which was formed later the same year. Talks between the Western European Union and the US began almost immediately to form a military alliance which could effectively respond to the USSR’s military power. The signing of the treaty took place in 1949 in Washington, D. C. The treaty was signed by the five members who were already bonded by the Treaty of Brussels, the US, Italy, Portugal, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway ((Hendrickson 82). The member states involved in the treaty agreed to respond to an armed attack by an external party on a member state or member states. It was agreed that a member state could individually or as a united front assist in defending the member state(s) under attack. The member states maintain the freedom to decide on the nature of its response. The agreement in the North Atlantic Treaty was not unanimous since some Icelanders had preferred to neutrality. The creation of NATO also called for the standardization of military technology, terminology, as well as, procedures among NATO members. This meant that the European NATO countries had to adopt the US military practices. Cold War The Korean War which began in 1950 was very significant in NATO’s history is it formed the first military test for the military alliance. It compelled the alliance to restructure its military to make it solid. The Lisbon conference held in 1952, established NATO’s Long-Term Defense Plan (Kamps and Isby 127). The Post of Secretary General of NATO was created. Baron Hastings was a