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When I was still a child, I only used to hear about deaths that had struck other families. I never paid much attention to such bad news because I assumed it was just a normal thing in life. My Sunday school teacher taught me that people went to heaven once they died. My father was the last born in their family, and therefore, he was instructed by his siblings to accommodate our grandpa in our home. When grandpa moved into our house, I was only ten years old. Since grandpa spent most of his time at home, I was very close to him than anyone in our family. The death of my grandpa happened several years ago, but it still haunts me because I have never come to accept his departure. His death came when I was in my mid-twenties, and it struck when our family least expected it. Grandpa did not suffer from any chronic diseases as most elderly people do; hence my family was caught unaware. His death was an eye-opener to me because before his passing on, I thought death occurred only to certain people. It was during his burial that I realized that death is a must for all living things. In my mind, I never expected grandpa to depart from us, and when he finally did, I felt that God was so unfair to me because He should have left grandpa to see my children. I also felt like I was too young to deal with this situation. My parents did not seem to grieve for longer than I did. From their conversations, I could tell they were celebrating grandpa’s life, but then there was nothing to celebrate for me because I had lost my closest companion and counselor. I was not content with the advice and wisdom I had earned from grandpa because I felt there was still room for more of his counsel. What made me cry the most was the fact that grandpa went down with so much knowledge, and there was no way I could have retrieved this knowledge or otherwise stop his death. This grieving and mourning fell on me immediately after his funeral. Before his burial, there were so many people at our home, but when we laid him to rest, that’s when reality dawned on me. I used to visit his grave quite often and expressed my feelings for him. I used to hear that the dead could communicate with the living through dreams; therefore, I expected grandpa to communicate with me when I was deep asleep. When this failed to happen, I was confused because I could not understand why grandpa could not do like the other dead people. It took me a very long time to get used to life without grandpa. My family was very supportive because my mom and dad understood the bond that existed between grandpa and me.
Bluetooth is a new technology, which is being adopted at a global scale in a rapid rate. This technology provides innovative and unique services to groups of workers or professional workers while using portable devices. As such, the rapid developments in this technology will lead to a replacement of clumsy wires and ensure that automatic transfer of information takes place. This will occur effectively when both software and hardware for the Bluetooth technology are synchronized automatically. Bluetooth is a new wireless technology, which enables an effective transfer of data over low bandwidth connection. This technology received its name from Harold Bluetooth who was the Danish King of the 10 th Century. This technology has the ability of overcoming the challenge of synchronization since it has the potential of connecting a myriad of devices. Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body, which has the mandate of managing Bluetooth. This body comprises of approximately 16,000 companies, which operate in technology related fields such as computing, telecommunication, electronics for consumers, and social and corporate networking. As such, this body supervises and manages specification, as well as qualification program. As such, Bluetooth technology was selected for this proposal. This is because the intended project seeks to use a technology, which is protected and quantified for use. The proposal focuses on ensuring that modern technology is applied and implemented effectively. That is why Bluetooth technology was selected as the main form of technology for the intended project. The project proposed will involve the development of an efficient autonomous guidance system, which has the ability to orientate users who are sightless. This will grant an opportunity of eliminating the undue congestion, which is caused by the sightless users on the streets. This system gains the term autonomous since it relies on the solar panel as the key source of power. Therefore, the energy source for the system is based on renewable energy source (solar), which makes the system energy sustainable and contributes towards reducing the global energy crisis. The major compositions of this system are a guide and a user unit (PDA) components. The user unit depicts the Palm PDA, which is a device for personal enabled Bluetooth. This unit has the ability and potential to receive and request only 16-bit code. On the other hand, the guide is described as a Bluetooth device, which is regarded small and can be installed on several strategic locations easily. These locations include corners of streets and corridors among others. The key components of the guide are the microcontroller and one Bluetooth module that are interlinked. The working principle of this system is that Palm, which is a hand-held device and contains normal standard Bluetooth option, will be used
Why do governments want to curtail imports? They do it to endorse internal businesses and agronomy and limit the influx of resources from un-preferential countries, that is why some administrations decide to enforce particular barriers. The prices, which could be observed as the three R’s of worldwide trade: rules, rate agendas, and regulations are forced by governments as well. Responsibilities and obligations could be forced on items and facilities, thus creating an obstacle not only for traders to import but for customers to obtain. A Harmonized Tariff System (which is also referred to as HTS) has been established by the preponderance of interchange countries, under which traders and exporters possess the ability to regulate the accurate cataloging quantity for an assumed merchandise or facility that will come through borders. This arrangement assists in the classifying of the merchandise and applicable price. A nontariff (NTB) could be enforced as well; it is whichever extent other than a tariff, which is a preventive or difficulty to the trade of merchandises in an external marketplace (McDonald and Keegan 79). This measure contains shares, prejudiced attaining strategies, preventive customs measures, uninformed fiscal strategies, and limiting protocols. A quota is “a government-imposed limit or restriction on the number of units or the total value of a particular product or product category that can be imported” (Schlegelmilch and Keegan 264). Furthermore, prejudiced obtaining strategies can obtain the method of administrative directions and organizational principles by postulating that native merchants or traders get precedence deliberation. Imposts measures are also deliberated as preventive if they are directed in a manner, which turns amenability problematic and affluent (Keegan and Green 17). Prejudiced exchange rate strategies are enforced in order to alter trade in much the similar method as discriminatory importation obligations and export subventions. As a final point, preventive organizational and procedural principles can generate barriers in commerce. These principles can take the custom of antidumping guidelines; produce proportions protocols, and security and health code of practice. Some of these principles are envisioned to exclude foreign products; others are focused towards genuine internal purposes (Gillespie and Hennessey 134). Why does the tariff system vary from country to country? Tariff systems deliver either a solitary amount of obligation for every element pertinent to all nations or more rates that are pertinent to diverse nations or alliances of nations. The single-column tariff is the one of the most transparent categories of the tariff. It contains an agenda of obligations, where the r
Andrew Marvell’s poem “To his coy mistress”dates back to the 17 th Century but hit is still popular in the 21 st Century. Most likely, the poem was written by Marvell even before he served as a minister in the government of Oliver Comwell.This paper seeks todiscuss significant reasons and premises behind the fact that the poem remains popular up to nowadays. The paper also investigates the reasons why Marvell’s poem is still popular,and why it is used by many authors in the 21st century (MacLeish, 198). The persona in the poem refers to a woman who, according to him, is slow in responding to his sexual advances. The persona spendsand lives his life for decades doing nothing but just admiring her body part by part.The woman’sfailure to comply is never putting him off. In the first stanza, he makes a description of how much he is able to cherish and love this woman if only she could spend some unlimited timetogether with him. He remembers the manner in which human life is short in the second stanza, and states that once this time is over, there would not be the opportunity to enjoy life with one another. However, the persona appeals to this woman to comply with his advances in the last stanza and asserts that when people love one another, they actually make use of the most short human life they live together (Marvell, 02). This poem “To his coy mistress” has been popular since the 17 th Century because of the composite elements and va
Introduction For any organization, the quest for competitive advantage requires that the company adopts a strategy that can decide the direction of business growth. Michael Porter proposes a model of three generic strategies that can be applied in understanding the makeup of business organizations. This paper compares two different organizations, Carrefour and Emirates Islamic Bank using Porter’s value chain analysis and Porter’s five forces model. Description of Emirates Islamic Bank and Carrefour Using Porter’s Generic Strategies A competitive strategy is perceived as a comprehensive blueprint for business growth and competition. Porter outlined three generic strategies for the attainment of competitive advantage. These include cost leadership, the focus business strategy, and the differentiation strategy. Carrefour makes use of its size to implement the differentiation strategy and offer discounts on its products. Though Carrefour is largely based in Europe, the firm boasts of stores in four continents including the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The giant retailer focuses on entering new markets and has a considerable presence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Carrefour functions in a diversity of retail structures such as hypermarkets, automotive centers, mini-markets, warehouse stores, and supermarket. The main household goods sold at Carrefour include household electronics, consumer goods, foodstuffs, and clothing. The company uses economies of scale to offer attractive prices and discounts to maintain a competitive advantage. Emirates Islamic Bank provides all types of financial services in line with Islamic sharia, which outlaws usury. Emirates Islamic Bank implements a focus business strategy and aims to become a reputable provider of financial services. This strategy suits the Emirates Islamic Bank since it seeks to fulfill a specific need in the financial services sector. It, therefore, focuses on a narrow segment of the financial market. Carrefour, on the other hand, provides a range of household goods and services, including family apparel, electronics, shoes, photo processing, toys, and fabric. Emirates Islamic Bank uses the intranet, an interactive website, extranet, and a web-based e-CRM system to improve its leveraging of information technology and obtain a competitive advantage. The ability of Emirates Islamic Bank to stand out from the crowd of organizations that provide financial services relies on its strategy of enhancing business functionality, service quality, and good customer relationships. The Emirates Islamic Bank has partnered with the National Bank of Dubai to offer the best services to its clients. A safe, accessible, and reliable financial partner is what Emirates Islamic Bank seeks to become to set itself apart as a unique financial service provider. Carrefour’s strategy i
Workforce diversity as a factor of globalization The whole world is a community. The basic unit of this community is an individual with unique features and characters. Individuals differ in both the visible and unseen features. The visible features include gender, race, ethnicity, religion culture and even sexual orientation, amongst many other variables (Mannix and Neale, 2005). The non-visible features may include talents, abilities and disabilities, and experiences. All these factors are what constitute global diversity. A community should recognize diversity, ensure the accessibility of resources and uphold equity in the treatment of its constituent individuals with complete disregard of race, ethnicity, abilities and even sexual alignments. Workforce diversity is a necessary topic since globalization, as an issue, carries with it an element of diversity. It involves diversified interactions in culture, economy, social aspects, ethnies and many other areas of human interactions (Thomas, 2001). The workplace, being part of this diverse community, has to reflect the same values in its operations and very importantly, its human resource. The current political, social and economical events induce managers, entrepreneurs and politicians to regard diversity management as a priority of their agenda. Workforce diversity implies the inclusion of individuals from all walks of life into the workforce. It also acknowledges that people vary in abilities, gender, socio-cultural, age and experiences (Hind and Moss, 2005). Personal impact and appropriate analysis As modern organizations and companies are coming up with new technologies, there is even more pressure upon these companies to beat competition. Companies have to evolve and strive to provide new and better products and services. One tested and proven way of putting up or even beating competition is through installing an efficient workforce (McCuiston et al. , 2004). This can be achieved through employing a diverse workforce with a rich source of knowledge and ability. Globalization has been perceived as a major economic phenomenon and one that needs additional integration and interactions (Sheen et al ., 2009). The workplace entails handling of clients from diverse backgrounds and with different characteristics. Since this is so, then it would be important that the human resource or rather the employees be enabled to handle the diverse clients. Organizational impact of this issue Just as in specialization and division of labor, individuals have been proven very resourceful in their areas of expertise and ability. The optimistic view holds that diversity leads to an increase in the variety of perspectives and approaches brought to a problem and to opportunities for knowledge sharing. Therefore, this leads to greater creativi
Today many sociologists and psychologists discuss the phenomenon that contemporary women express more and more masculine features when men are inclined to act atypically to their gender role and appear to have some feminine features. Is it the tendency affected by the peculiarities of the development of modern society or the result of the movement for equal positions of men and women in it? Equal social positions of men and women are the intense intrinsic desire of the feminists in the 19th century. It is the fact that men always were considered as the dominated class because of their social status and rights, and those women who followed the active social position were inclined to lead the struggle for their civil and legal rights. It was the first wave of feminism when equal civil positions, rights, and freedoms were discussed as the way to the total social equality. Contemporary feminists pay more attention to the role of women in society because the problem of equal rights is solved, but in general, the positions of men and women did not change. Christina Hoff Sommers belongs to the contemporary wave of feminists whose approach to the main issues of the movement is rather controversial. She accentuates the fact that today the principles proclaimed by the equity feminists are not current because the equality in civil and legal rights was achieved, but the major social structure is still based on the peculiarities of distributing the gender roles between men and women (Sommers, 2008a; Sommers, 2008b). At the end of the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton emphasized the necessity to struggle for equal civil rights and for acquiring equal education and labor opportunities (Stanton, 2008a; Stanton, 2008b). The problem of rational education for women was also discussed by Wollstonecraft who made accents on the position of women in society and the necessity to give them adequate education (Wollstonecraft, 2008). However, could these alternations in the principles of the legal and civil sectors change the situation of men and women’s inequality? It is important that Virginia Woolf among the possible solutions to the problem of men and women’s inequality determines only the issue of sharing the labor (Woolf, 2008). Was it enough to speak about equal rights and positions? Developing the problem further, Kate Chopin focused on the oppressive character of marriages for women, their dependence, and sufferings from the men’s domination (Chopin, n.d.). The issues emphasized by Chopin can be discussed as the closest ones to the modern situation because of their connection with the problem of gender. Thus, it is possible to state that the equity feminists of the 19th – 20th centuries created a great platform for achieving the goals of their movement (Rauchut, 2008). Today women have the opportunity to vote, to get the education which they want, to take the career positions of their dream, to be independent in having property and income. However, the i
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States of America. He was in office from March 4 eighteen-sixty one to April 15 eighteen-sixty five. Lincoln was preceded in the Whitehouse by President James Buchanan and was succeeded by President Andrew Johnson. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12 eighteen-hundred and nine and died on April 15 eighteen-Sixty five after he was assassinated. A lawyer by profession, Lincoln led the United States in one of the most difficult times. He was the President when the United States went into Civil War. This was the most difficult time constitutionally as he insisted on preserving the Union. The moral and military crises had reached its apex. Abraham Lincoln was a moderate who vehemently opposed to the expansion of slavery. He was elected into Whitehouse in eighteen sixty on a Republican Party ticket. Abraham Lincoln’s Influence Abraham Lincoln was the most influential figure in the American history and the greatest hero due to his charisma and implausible impact following his only one of its kind appeal. The best of the training for him was embedded in his humble history and the steady political rise where he tasted both defeat and success. His life served as a lesson to most citizens. His moral life was worth to be emulated having been brought up in a religious family whose fundamentals opposed immorality and slavery. He understood the problems of landlessness, as sometimes in his young life their family was quartered in Indiana. It was very easy for Lincoln to appeal to the citizenry once his life history became an open book because Americans understood Lincoln as a firm and principled man. Throughout his life, he never changed his vision that centered on the unity of the United States and service delivery to humanity. The other reason why Abraham Lincoln was influential was that he saved the Union flag and emancipated slaves. Lincoln’s human personality that was outstanding saw him take a leading role in the fight against slavery. This was the backbone of his legacy. Led by South Carolina, most states in the south felt that they would secede when Lincoln ascended into the highest office in the land because he opposed slavery. However, Lincoln believed in the unity of the United States and that saving the union was an embodiment in the principles of democracy. As much as Lincoln despised war, he clearly warned the south states that attempts to secede would be met by war as the only option of saving the union. Finally, Lincoln freed the slaves in the famous Emancipation Proclamation of January 1 in eighteen-sixty three. This was used to send a strong message that the Civil War was between the anti slavery crusaders on one side against those who wanted to perpetuate slavery. The line of separation was drawn by the speech. His famous quote “ In your hands, fellow countrymen who are not satisfied, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you, you have no oath regis
Thinkers have affected the society in many positive ways. However, one of the significant ways that have made thinkers popular is their contribution to societal concerns and the nature of human life. Based on Ebrey’s writings, bad governance was rampant in the society, and ignorance made the people support it fully. As a result, the author quoted that ‘those who use knowledge to govern the country are a plague on the country. Those who do not use knowledge to rule are the country’s blessing’ (Ebrey, “Daiost Teachings,” p. 29). On the other hand, early Chinese thinkers were interested in making the society a better place. The view is clear as written by Ebrey in the Daiost teachings. One of the views that make it clear that thinkers were out to teach the human race quotes that ‘the highest good is like water. Water benefits all creatures but does not compete’ (Ebrey, “Daiost Teachings,” p. 28) From the observation quoted, it is clear that the thinkers were out to educate the people. In addition, they advised on what opportunities are good for exploration and how to fit in the society without straining. In a society, human beings need to live with each other in a good and trouble-free way. According to Daiost teachings, ‘if a man can practice five things in the world, he is a man of humanity’ (Ebrey, “Confucian Teachings,” p. 19). The five things include ‘reverence, generosity, truthfulness, diligence and kindness’ (Ebrey, “Confucian Teachings,” p. 19). As a result, the thinkers wanted to make sure that the society is a better place by advising the human race on how to live according to expectations. However, the thinkers expressed their concerns mostly through the writings. Most of the intellectual content in the Chinese society originates from earlier thinkers. Despite the fact that their works are ancient, they still hold a place in the society and are taught to the current generation. However, there are central concerns identified as having been addressed by the thinkers. To start with, the early Chinese thinkers stressed about humanity and how human beings should behave to one another. For example, Confucius once said ‘a person with honeyed words and pious gestures is seldom a man of humanity’ (Ebrey, “Confucian Teachings,” p. 20). As a result, he put across a clear message through the quotation and showed that humanity is vital in the society. Governance and leadership qualify as other central concerns for early Chinese thinkers, and they wrote a lot about the issues. For example, the Master noted that ‘lead them by means of virtue and regulate them through rituals, and they will have a sense of shame and moreover have standards’ (Ebrey, “Confucian Teachings,” p. 21). However, this is not the only philosophical extract that talks about governance but the thinker has written a lot of intellectual and profound knowledge on the issues as a way of ensuring that the society is properly alerted. From the Daiost teachings, early Chinese think