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The world we live in today is a world of competition, especially in the business sector. However, many issues such as globalization have emerged. Globalization in business terms involves the overall movement of people, goods, capital, as well as, ideas around the world. This is due to the increasing economic integration, which leads to an increase in trade and market investments. As such, the high technology has also increased the speed at which things take place globally, hence, leading to a great deal of competition in many institutions of different countries. Due to this high competition, firms in some countries may find themselves being out thrown from the business world. This mostly happens to those firms that have decided to venture into common business opportunities (Ulrich10). Globalization and the competition present today are completely throwing out all cases of monopolistic ventures. This is because many people have come up with new ideas for performing the same type of business but in a more efficient manner. When we look at some of the businesses in the world that are on the forefront in the world of successful business, we find businesses such as the banking institutes, medical providing institutions, academic institutions, clothing retailers and fast-food restaurants. The issue of globalization and high competition is continually affecting these businesses. Considering the internet as an emerging trend of technology, we are meant to believe that the internet has widely affected many businesses such as those mentioned above (Ulrich 22). For instance, in the banking sector, the internet has emerged as a key competitive measure for the future of financial services. According to Cronin, only American banks were offering banking services on the internet by the 1990s. Today, almost all countries are performing services that were only done by banks, with the help of the internet. Moving financial services to the internet has created a new competitive landscape and instead of operating within clear service boundaries, well-established banking institutions are finding themselves competing for customers (Cronin 3). Many services of banks including, money transfer, loan application, bill payments among others are now being conducted through the internet. In the next five years, competition in the banking institutions will be so high that, only the banking institutions that will have faster and efficient internet banking services will survive. Thus, in the forthcoming years, it will be advisable for banks to integrate all their services on the internet such that every type of transaction will be a click away for easy access (Cronin 4). With computers everywhere, the services of banks are also being brought nearer to the customers. It is undoubtedly that in the next five years, almost everyone will be accessing banking services within their area of residence, a condition that will greatly improve many banks (Cronin 5). Demographic issues such as population size, race, gender, employment status, as well as the location of people continue to influence the banking sector
As one thinks about the new life in college, it helps students to be clear on some of the ways that college is unique from the outset. If a student has just graduated from high school, one is likely to find some distinctive differences. For instance, one will probably be a part of a more diverse student body, not just in terms of race, but also in terms of age, religion, political opinions, and life experiences. Essentially, high school students spend endless hours choosing a college. They use guides to contrast schools. They surf the internet, evaluating websites and getting a feel for each college’s personality. Choosing a school is the first big decision of college life. College life is what I can consider to be the supreme privilege of the youth. The privilege of joining college admits to the privilege of deserving college. College life belongs to the great things, at once joyous and solemn, that are not to be entered into lightly. Preparing for college life is a challenge and an opportunity at the same time. This is because to prepare someone for college is a problem that no teacher and no school have ever been able to solve. In the widest sense, the transition from school to college is almost coincident with the transition from youth to adulthood, it is often a period in life when the physical being is excitable and ill controlled, when the mind suffers from the lassitude of rapidly bodily growth, and when the youth’s whole conception of his attitude to other people is distorted by conceit. Sensitive to his own importance, just beginning to know his power for good and evil, one is shot into new and exciting surroundings, out of a discipline that drives and holds him with whip and reign into a discipline that trusts him to see the road and travel on it. The best school is the one that prepares a person for this struggle, not the schools that guard students most sternly or most tenderly, nor does the schools that guards them, but the schools that steadily strengthen the students to meet new environment. The best college is the college that makes a young person into a full adult. The first feeling of a freshman is confusion, the next one is often a strange elation at the discovery that now at last his elders have given him or her a head start. In a person’s life, at the beginning of a college course, there must be, as everybody knows, a perilous time of going out into the real world. To m
According to The Politics of Vision by Linda Nochlin, people rely on specific individuals to initiate a revolution and an idea. Previously, society mainly depended on the artists for the opinions, especially those engaged in painting and sculpturing. As a result, the artists became essential people in the community since they initiated an idea and made people believe in their concepts. Through their works, they expressed the people’s feelings, and as a result, they engaged in politics where a lot of persuasions were needed, and they could perfectly do it using their artistic and political skills. As a result, art played an essential role in the revolution, and therefore, it becomes associated with freedom. History plays an essential role in ensuring that people can understand ancient times and predict the future. In most instances, generations only focus on current events; however, the future should be a critical point in shaping the politics and the relationship of people and societies. As early as the 1840s, artists realized that they should focus and predict the future to remain relevant in their fields. As a result, they produced art materials that had their missions for the future, which made them appropriate for both the present and future generations. Although arts evolve from one form to another, the themes of the arts remain the same. For instance, incorporating politics into the arts was conceived several centuries ago; however, even though politics has changed much and the players are different, the ideas of politics advocated for by ancient artists remain the same in the modern era. The main idea that is portrayed in the article is the issue of political radicalization. As politics began to revolve around most alliances formed across the world and the nations, there was a need to start extreme politics. But since art was critical in politics, it was essential to reform it because politics was already radicalized. Therefore, the paintings and the sculptures that were being displayed portrayed extreme and violent events taking place. Radicalization is mainly being realized because the world had militarized its politics, and evolutions were witnessed in every corner of the world. Although several ideas have been witnessed in different artists, radicalizations are still evident in most types of arts. For instance, cartoon painting across several articles in contemporary society portrays several extreme events and ideas. The theories of social ideals are widely discussed in the reading. After the revolution years of 1848, artists began to incorporate social ideals into their works. The social standards include humanity, education, human rights, fairness, among other social requirements needed to achieve peace. Artists still use these social ideals in their daily act
The period of the 1960s can be discussed as the decade of significant changes in the history of the British Television because of the intensive growth and development of television for the society and principles of broadcasting. Many changes in the nature of the British Television and in used technologies which were observed and developed during the 1960s are associated with the effects of the Pilkington Report on the government’s vision of the role of broadcasting in the British society. The Pilkington Report was published and presented in 1962 as a result of the Pilkington Committee’s work. The committee was organised in 1960 in order to explore the situation related to the development of the British Television regarding the impact of broadcasting on the society and the television’s possibility to respond to the public’s interests. The chapters of the Pilkington Report presented the range of improvements proposed by the committee to be realised in relation to the most significant aspects of the British Television’s development. In spite of the fact that the main ideas presented in the Pilkington Report were actively criticised by the broadcasters, government, sponsors, and by the public, the effect of the report on the further growth and development of the British Television in the 1960s was significant and rather positive because the necessity of the third television channel was stated and the BBC2, which was launched later in 1964, responded to the new needs of the television audience; because the focus on the development of colour television on 625 lines was stated; because the attempts to reform the independent television were realised and led to the improvement of the television quality; and because the more obvious focus on the television quality was proclaimed in contrast to the spread of ‘triviality’ on television. The Origin and Main Points of the Pilkington Report The Pilkington Committee is the Committee of Inquiry which was organised in 1960 in order to explore the situation associated with the development of the British Television, to provide the ideas on the future of broadcasting, to advise on the definite television services, and to present important recommendations on improving the quality of television. The committee was headed by Sir Harry Pilkington (Milland 2004, p. 76). Thus, the Pilkington Report included the thoughts on the future of the British Television in relation to the allocation of the third channel, the development and re-organisation of the Independent Television (ITV), and the rejection of the general principles of the commercial television. Moreover, the Pilkington Report presented the detailed discussion of broadcasting as the important factor for the development of the British society. This factor influenced the development of the British Television significantly because the concepts of the broadcasters’ social and moral responsibility were re-thought. Therefore, the authors of
Loyalty refers to a state of being faithful and devoted to an individual or an institution. For one to be considered loyal, there should be a clear demonstration of the need to obey all the set rules. Different people attach their loyalty to various people and faiths among other things. Loyalty requires one to have some sense of duty or responsibility towards that which one is loyal. Disloyalty, on the other hand, is the act of being not devoted to somebody or something. It refers to a state where one is unfaithful, not trustworthy, tells lies and other related vices. ‘ The Great Gatsby’ book is a narrative of life experience of a young man who leaves his hometown for another one in the east in search of academic prosperity and success in life. The young man comes from a relatively rich family, and he thinks that he has the responsibility to continue the legacy that was started by his great grandfather’s brother. He understands and appreciates the fact that his family expects him to be like his entrepreneurial uncle who died several years ago. He never saw him, but he is determined to live his legacy as expected by the family. He knows that this may be not easy, but holds on to the pieces of advice that the father would give him frequently. To pursue his education goals he moves to the east where he meets his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom, an old friend from college. Streetcar Named Desire is more of a play where we meet several actors like Blanche. This paper seeks to compare and contrast the loyalty and disloyalty of Tom and Blanche as demonstrated in the two books respectively. From the two books, it is clear that both characters are loyal to their families. Tom feels it is his duty to work hard to provide for his family. He also works hard to ensure that his wealthy status continues even to the generations to come. When Daisy comments on Tom’s reading habits, Tom says, “It is up to us who are the dominant race to watch out for these other races will have control over things.” This statement describes Tom as not only being loyal to his family, but also to his race at large. He feels that if not serious, their dominant race might be overthrown by another race. Like Tom, Blanche in the book of Street Car Named Desire , is loyal to her sister who is the only member of her family that we come across. Blanche is so much concerned about the relationship of her sister with Stanley. She is worried about her and tries to help the sister in every way possible to meet her needs. Seeing the miserable life her sister Stella is living, Blanche persuades her to leave her husband and venture into a field that would give them money to meet with the life expenses. Blanche hopes to persuade Stella to leave Stanley. It is true that both characters are loyal to their jobs. The narrator
In this paper, I will analyze communication techniques utilized by Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino) during the course of his speech to the members of the Miami Sharks football team. D’Amato addresses the audience as a coach while striving to boost up the team’s competitive spirit and to help Sharks to regain their professional self-confidence. During the course of his speech, D’Amato draws parallels between what he understands as being the most important challenges of one’s existence and what accounts for the hardest challenges in the realm of professional football, thus enabling the audience to emotionally relate to speech’s semantics. The intent of D’Amato’s communication is best defined as being particularly practical – he wanted to instill Sharks with the team spirit, as he considered it to be absolutely crucial, within a context of Sharks being able to succeed in the game. After having listened to D’Amato’s speech, one can have no doubt as to his supreme talent as an orator, as he appears to be well aware of what represents the most effective method of triggering the audience’s strong emotional response upon being exposed to essentially rational considerations – relating these considerations to listeners’ subconscious anxieties. This is the reason why at the beginning of his speech, D’Amato refrains from making any definite statements – by suggesting that an individual’s chances succeed in life directly correspond to his sense of self-discipline (“one inch at the time” theory), by intentionally describing himself as “too old”, and by adopting a non-imposing posture, D’Amato establishes a sense of mutual trust between himself and the audience. Apparently, he understands that it is only when the speaker and the audience achieve an emotional oneness that the spoken word can serve as a particularly strong motivational factor: “I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I pissed away all my money. I chased off anyone who ever loved me” (Peace by Inches – Pacino, 1999). Thus, D’Amato prompts listeners to think of what he was about to say as being fully supported by considerations of logic. By doing it and by observing the audience’s first reactions to his words, D’Amato is also able to figure out what listeners actually want to hear because it is namely person’s ability to address the audience’s psychological anxieties, which accounts for his effectiveness as an orator. In its turn, this also explains the particularities of how D’Amato strives to appeal to listeners non-verbally – apparently, the coach knows perfectly well that every individual member of an audience must experience an emotional affiliation with what is being said, which is why he strives to establish brief eye contact with every listener while continuing to talk about the team issues. However, D’Amato never looks at every particular individual for too long, as it would deprive his speech of collective ethos. This substantiates the validity of Mohan’s thesis as to the utter importance of the speaker’s ability to properly utilize non-verbal methods of communication while addressing the crowd: “Most people agree that eye behavior is o
Introduction Conservative politicians normally place much emphasize on the importance of family that has to be the main unit of community. In their opinion, the disappearance of nuclear families can produce an adverse effect on contemporary Australian society (Zastrow, 2009). However, they can often advocate laws or reforms that often put much strain on many households in the country. This is the main thesis that should be discussed in this paper. In particular, it is necessary to focus on the attitudes, claims, and actions of conservative politicians in Australia. It is vital to focus on their views about work and employment status because these issues profoundly affect the life of many individuals and families. So, one should also pay close attention to some of the policies and reforms that conservative parties want to introduce. This discussion can throw light on the conflicting nature of modern-day politics and the principles of conservative ideology that usually resists the transformation of the society and its core values. Overall, this issue is of great interest to modern sociologists who try to understand how people’s attitudes toward family change and what factors drive this change (Giddens, 2010). Furthermore, researchers want to understand the structural changes in families. By analyzing the policies of conservative parties, one can better understand social processes within a community. This is why these questions that should be examined in more detail. The underlying principles of conservative politics First, it should be noted nuclear family is one of the main issues that are often discussed by political leaders who hold conservative views about the community, its development, and the rights of individuals. In their opinion, a family with heterosexual parents and a child can be regarded as a major source of strength for a person; moreover, it is the most important building block of a society (Zastrow, 2009). Sociologists note that traditional model of family is no longer the most widespread one, and this argument is relevant to such a country as Australia. For instance, researchers note that the proportion of couples without children gradually increases in the country (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008: 217). Furthermore, there are many sole parents (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008: 217). Conservative politicians believe that these changes can produce an adverse effect on the society, but they usually mention family only when speaking about such contested issues as gender roles, same-sex marriage, legal status of abortion, sex education, and so forth (Zastrow, 2009). These are the trends that conservative usually oppose (Zastrow, 2009). Very often, they blame liberals or feminists for the so-called decline of the family values (Gilding, 1997). One of their goals is to reinforce laws that help to preserve a conventional nuclear family. In contrast, sociologists argue that this transformation of family is already inevitable and one sho
Introduction Abortion has been a vivid debate since the late 19th century, but a legal issue since the early 5th century. The question that arises in my mind is not “why has this problem not been eradicated,” though that question often appears, the question that arises in my mind is “How long has the autonomy of a woman been controlled by the presiding government?” Autonomy is, as defined by The World English Dictionary, “freedom to determine one’s own actions, behaviour, etc.” So, why then, do governments feel that it is their duty to rule over a woman’s body, more specifically the fetus growing within her? So, from this point on I would start a paragraph with a detailed history of all political involvement in abortion. After that, I would rip apart that history and place some of my observations or opinions in there. I would then write a paragraph concerning America’s perspective on abortion and a brief history of that. Afterwards, I would insert a detailed account of all the people who tried to change these rules. Lastly, I would end with an overview of the information I presented and hone in on the specifics I thought were important. Historical Background Early Accounts As has been mentioned above, abortion has always been a disputable issue. In Ancient Greece, there were two views on the matter. Some philosophers regarded it as a murder while others claimed that embryos were “of a different moral order” and, therefore, abortion was not homicide (Luker, 1984, p. 11). In the Roman Empire, abortion was not considered to be a murder at all. Though it was regarded as something negative (but permissible), there were no specific laws on the matter. Interestingly, early Christians had rather similar point of view. It is well-known that people were “actively pro-natalist” and they were against contraception, abortion, homosexuality, etc. (Luker, 1984, p. 12). At the same time, if the pregnancy was a result of sinful actions (prostitution, adultery), abortion was permissible. In the 12 th century, church scholars agreed that abortion at early stages of pregnancy was moral and sinless. In the nineteenth century, early abortions were also permissible in the United States (Luker, 1984). However, the twentieth century brought certain changes. America’s Perspective in the Twentieth Century The development of medicine brought the issue to the fore in the late 19 th century. When the mother’s life was at stake, both parties agreed that it is important to save the woman’s life. However, while people were accumulating knowledge on the development of the embryo, people (especially physicians) became more convinced that abortion was homicide. The second part of the nineteenth century was the age of the movement “right-to-life” (Luker, 1984, p. 14) It had been believed that the embryo was not “alive”, but in the late 19 th century people started thinking that embryos were “morally speaking, simply not as alive as the mother” (Luker, 1984, p. 25). Apart from this, physicians did not have appropriate techniques to conduct the procedure, which led to many deaths of women. The abortion was banned. The devel