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Charles Xavier and Magneto are two powerful leaders of the mutant movement in the X-Men universe. However, while both protect the interests of mutants, they utilize different views on the future of their kind. For Charles Xavier, the harmonious and productive coexistence of humans and mutants is the ultimate goal. Magneto, on the other hand, argues that such an approach is inherently flawed since it aligns with the existing systems of power and, as such, does not improve the situation for mutants. The following essay analyzes Magneto’s viewpoint using the evidence from God Loves, Man Kills . It should be pointed out that some of the events of the graphic novel are consistent with Magneto’s point of view. An example of such an event is the television debate during which Xavier confronts a fundamentalist minister William Stryker. Stryker is an influential and powerful individual and is exceptionally eloquent. Throughout the conversation, he uses a number of tactics that seemingly add credibility to his negative stance on the issue of mutants. While the impact of the debate is not specified, it is referred to by the studio crew and some of the mutants Stryker’s victory. The outcome is attributed to the speaker’s understanding of the media and the ability to play on the fears of the audience (Claremont and Anderson 13). Xavier, on the other hand, tries to appeal to the listeners’ rationality, an approach met with skepticism even by his supporters. The described scenario is an excellent case
Introduction Virtual stock exchange (VSE) is a trading practice that equips individuals with valuable investment ideas. It allows students to gain credible knowledge on stock trading through imaginary investment procedures that are undertaken professionally. The procedures ensure high level of efficiency and effectiveness in terms of resource allocation to potential holdings. This is evident since they are economically viable and result oriented. Indeed, stock trading that has just ended has been instrumental in enhancing student’s knowledge power on stock investment issues. It has made the participants to understand how stock markets operate and key parameters that influence investment decisions in various settings. The participants affirm that the trading demonstration that was a success from its initial stages has enabled them to develop strong stock trading knowhow that will see them succeed in life. That is the knowledge acquired seeks to give them ahead start in the business world that is characterized with immense competition. It is imperative to note that the initial capital injected in the stock market for unit purchasing was $1,000,000. The amount was invested in the growth fund stock portfolio that was vibrant and promising. The portfolio was favorable since it had effective stock holdings that were recording high returns on daily basis due to high demand. The money was distributed to the stock units that included GCI, GMT, KDN, GCU, GAM and KCLI effectively. This resulted to positive growth in terms of earnings and cash available that stood at $25,027 and $1,025,027 respectively at the end of the trading period. Positions that exceeded my exp
The ancient Chinese innovations have greatly impacted the world. There are four major areas through which China has contributed to modern civilization. These are technological innovation, development in science, art as well as literature. These four areas of innovations contributed greatly to the growth and massive transformation of China up to the current time (Bunch & Hellemans, 2004). This paper offers a succinct discussion of major innovations and inventions/contributions by China. To begin with, it is imperative to note that the major inventions that were made in ‘Hang dynasty’ during the time period of AD 78-139 included the compass, paper, Fireworks/gunpowder, silk cloth, printing, abacus, architecture, medicine and archaeology. The compass played vital role among the Chinese people especially when there was need to fulfill certain religious functions. Additionally, it was an important component or requirement during constructions of buildings and other structures. The compass was made of a magnetic needle and looked like a wooden spoon. It has significantly impacted the world to date especially in the field of navigation. The development of paper was crucial towards the growth of literature. This invention came about due to high demand in the use of different symbols in Chinese language. Some of the main sources of paper were wooden strips, bamboo, silk rags, helms and clothes. The use of Fireworks/gunpowder has changed the face of the world in regard to warfare. Several weapons and fireworks equipment were made from gun powder. These were rockets, fire arrows, cannons, firearms as well as bombards that were used in landmines. These technologies have been embraced to the present times in various countries of the world. In terms of silk cloth, ancient China first discovered the use of Chinese silk as its first variety. It was the first country to harvest silk from the silk worms. The harvested product was then used in manufacturing papers, clothes, fans and kites. This has also precipitated growth in literature. This also went a long way towards the development of printing technology. Book printing was invented in 7 th century. However, this came after the invention of printers and printing skills. In addition, printing designs on clothes was also embraced during the same period of time (868 AD). An abacus is a counting object that has been used in the field of mathematics for long. It was one of the earliest Chinese contributions in arithmetic. Alongside with the shadow clock, the Chinese made and recorded observations and successfully documented the first solar system (Bunch & Hellemans, 2004). Additionally, development in architecture was first manifest when the ‘Great Wall of China’ was erected. Most of the skills and architectural designs that were employed in this construction have been embraced all over the world. Moreover, during the middle ages
Executive Summary The present paper studies the unsolved mystery that is the case of Jonathan Luna, a US federal prosecutor who was found stabbed to death in Brecknock Township stream in 2003. Even though the police vowed to find the murderer, after more than a decade of inquiry and investigation, the case has turned stone cold. Four hypotheses have been developed, with none of them confirmed: suicide, death at the hands of someone from his social circle, assassination, and death due to his connection to Attorney Ravenell. The murder of Jonathan Luna has opened a difficult conversation about the faults of the security system in the US. Namely, after following in Luna’s steps and examining the crime scene, the investigators could not find sufficient evidence. It is argued that to this day, the US remains in need of better surveillance tools that would aid the justice system significantly. Introduction Despite the tangible progress in the legal field, investigating so
Introduction The prices of houses in the UK and Ireland are fundamentally affected by an arrangement of supply and demand factors. The circumstances that perpetuate the supply and demand are slightly or completely different in Ireland and the UK but the eventual outcome is the same. Both the UK and Irish economies have been performing comparatively well for the past decade with a constant increase in the number of individuals capable of buying a house. This has led to a consistent increase in the prices of houses since the year 2000 in both UK and Ireland. However, from 2008 there was a significant change in the performance of both economies which greatly affected the prices of houses. Availability of mortgage is essential if the housing sector is to effectively survive since mortgage is the foremost option for first time house buyers. During the peak of the housing boom between 2003 and 2007, banks in both the UK and Ireland were liberal in giving mortgages. There were for instance self-certification mortgages, interest only, 100% mortgages, mortgages 5 times salary among other creatively constructed products aimed at increasing the number of people to buy houses. After the 2007 to 2008 global credit crunch, the availability of mortgages fell sharply since most financial institutions had incurred significant losses due to bad mortgages. The result was that fewer individuals were in a position to buy thus a decrease in demand and eventually a fall in prices. Supply The scarcity of houses in the UK is responsible for rising house prices in particular when the scarcity is persistent for a prolonged period of time. In the UK, long term shortages of supply have increased the house prices and it is expected that a significant increase will prevail. According to Rae & Van den Noord, the long term supply of housing is determined by various socio-economic dynamics as well as legislative factors (25). The availability of planning and construction rights is one of the major factors mainly because planning authorization is difficult to obtain especially in rural areas. Consequently, houses outside the city tend to be expensive since a great number of resources go into acquiring these rights considering the limited supply. Opportunity cost for builders is also a determinant to long term house prices in cases where investors leave the housing industry because there are improved returns from other forms of investment hence leaving a short supply of houses. An increase in the costs incurred when building a new house will also reduce the number of investors hence reducing the supply (CSO 1). In addition, existing houses which are or poor condition thus rendered unsafe to live in m
Introduction One of the characteristics of Aristotle’s philosophy is that he based it on real-life things as opposed to abstract ideas. It is this approach to philosophy that probably earned him the title of “ father of science ” (Socio, 2009). He became the first philosopher to realize that there is a connection between matter and form when he suggested that the two were in fact inseparable (Lloyd, 1981). This was a result of his efforts in trying to unravel the mystery of the process of change. Traditionally, it was known that for X to become Y, then A must be the same as Y. The contradiction was that if X is the same as Y, then it would not be possible to turn into Y. For instance, we can’t say water is ice because it changes into ice. Aristotle’s philosophy on the process of change is what shed light on this (Socio, 2009). Theory of Form Aristotle’s main problem was in the theory of being and becoming as had been suggested by Plato (Savitt, 2006). He had a problem with the concept of subdividing the world into two. He observed that the idea of dualism left a big gap between the two sides. His view was that the world should be looked at as one entity (Woods, 1991). He further observed that separation of form from content usually happens only in the mind and not in practice. As an example, though mankind can tell the difference between color and shape, there aren’t any tangible colorless shapes or shapeless colors. By so doing, Aristotle sought to correct the discrepancy in Plato’s theory for he believed that “ intellectual analysis ” should never be mistaken for “ ontological status” (Jiyuan, 2001). According to Aristotle’s school of thought, everything had two traits. On one side, anything that can be considered had the same general property that is shared with something else. For instance, man shares the property of procreation with any other mammal. On the other hand, there is a basic trait that a thing shares with another thing. For instance, even though mankind shares the characteristic of procreation with other mammals, man only shares certain characteristics like humanness with fellow man. In the same way, a mammal-like elephant has some characteristics that are absent in man (Charles, 1993). The choice of Aristotle to base his assertions on natural life and not theories and scientific ideas is what made his ideologies palatable to many scholars. It is easier to identify with a philosophy that borrows from real-life issues as opposed to one that is based on
Market failure refers to a situation in economics whereby there is inefficiency in the allocation of goods and services in a free market economy and is seen as a situation that entails unsatisfactory outcomes for the economy as a whole due to the pursuit of self-motivated interests by individuals and companies. Often the intervention by governments in free-market economies in influencing the trend of market forces is the result of such outcomes in the economy, and economists use different theories in the analysis of the cause for the market failure in attempts to bring out corrective measures as and when such situations arise. These strategies work in situations where public policy plays an important role and decisions are taken in this regard to managing the market forces. However in implementing these strategies by the government, whereby interventions are used such as subsidies, taxes, price and wage controls, regulations, and bailouts, may result in the inefficient allocation of resources thus triggering the failure of the government in managing the markets. It is in this context that choice has to be made in regard to imperfect government outcomes and imperfect market outcomes. It is a common belief that market failures occur because there are inefficient mainstream outcomes that justify intervention by the government by way of the several tools at its disposal in influencing the flow of the economy (Sara Connolly & Alistair Munro, 2005). There are several sources of market failure which primarily occur due to reasons related to unfair market practices being adopted by different players in the segments. Firstly market agents assume the power of the market which gives them leverage in preventing mutually beneficial profit from reaching other traders, which results in inefficient market conditions due to the conditions of imperfect competition created by such tactics. Such practices are of various forms such as cartels, monopolies, and monopolistic competition. The second source of a market failure relates to public goods whereby certain goods are in the nature of being unrivaled by others and cannot be excluded in terms of their being no substitute for them. Examples of such goods and services relate to police, defense, public health, and medical care. Externalities often influence market conditions and lead to failures due to initiatives taken by individuals and companies, which may not affect other firms directly but there is a reflection of such actions on them by way of conditions such as road congestion, pollution, and intellectual property. Often there is asymmetric information and imperfect information so that buyers and sellers do not have adequate information about the extent of risk involved, or there are circumstances whereby the concerned parties have different levels of information, which creates an imbalance in disturbing the market performance. This kind of problem is faced in activities such as legal services, insurance, secondhand cars ,and dentistry. The tendency of increasing returns working to decrease costs with the inc
A bond rating represents the grade assigned to a company to show its credit quality. Independent rating agencies offer an assessment of credit issuers’ fiscal strength and their capacity to cater to a bond’s principal, in addition to its interests, timely (Almeida, Cunha, Ferreira, & Restrepo, 2017). The main rating agencies in the US include Standard and Poor’s, Fitch’s, and Moody’s. Standard and Poor’s expresses bond ratings in terms of letters that range from AAA, the highest rate, to C or D (referred to as junk), the lowest possible level. Different rating agencies have been found to use similar letter designations but with varied arrangements of lower and upper-case letters, which is the factor that differentiates them. Some of the major aspects that make corporations experience changes in their credit ratings include the worsening of financial situations, high debt rates, inflation, and a company’s sales level. Deterioration of the financial situation signifies that companies might be unable to service their debts according to the given period, or in some instances, end up defaulting (Oikonomou, Brooks, & Pavelin, 2014). Characteristically, the lack of improvement in the cash flows of a business that has huge debts has been found to result in the downgrading of its credit rating. There is a strong relationship between a company’s credit rating and the merit of investment in its bonds. A credit rating acts as the report card that helps investors to find out a corporation’s credit risk. Successful companies, which are considered safer to invest in, have high credit ratings, unlike risky companies on the verge of collapsing. Nevertheless, investors are not supposed to depend merely on the credit rating but ought to supplement it with their own research, for example, often reviewing ratings in the course of the life of a bond.
There is no use denying the fact that the issue of relations between parents and children is one of the most important in human life. Since childhood a person is influenced by his/her parents and all his/her future life depends on these relations and qualities which will be obtained due to the interaction between a child and his/her parents. Resting on these facts, it becomes obvious that people should understand the best way of communicating with their children and caring about them. It is especially vital in the period of infancy as a child depends totally on his/her parents and its is due to their care he/she will be able to become a member of society. The chapter Parenting infants and toddlers from the book Parent-Child Relations by Jerry Bigner is devoted to this issue. The author tries to investigate the main peculiarities of relations between parents and an infant. First of all, the author outlines the main needs of an infant, which are very important at this stage of his/her development. The author determines infancy as the “period of life span that extends between the birth and the first year following the birth” (Bigner, 2008, 146) and outlines its great significance. The author underlines the main landmarks of this period, explaining importance of all factors. He manages to explain clearly why some issues are important for an infant. That is why, it becomes obvious that great attention should be given to a child at this stage of his/her development. Additionally, the author also tends to show a reader importance of the issue of breast feeding and different attitudes which exist towards it. It should be said, that the language, in which the chapter and the whole book is written, is rather clear and it is easy to understand the authors idea. Though he cogitates about different issues which sometimes are rather complicated, a reader can follow his thoughts. Nevertheless, the chapter also suggests different ideas connected with mental and physical development of a child, suggesting several ideas for parents to be able to control their baby and create opportunities for his/her development. It is obvious, that there is a great number of different approaches to the issue of development of an infant and the author suggest only some of them. However, it is possible to say that ideas suggested by him are supported by clear evidence as the author uses some credible sources in his book. Additionally, great number of other scientists have similar approaches to the issue of the development of an infant. Moreover, it should be said that at the end of the chapter the author suggests several ideas which serve as the conclusion and which seem to be very important within the framework of relations between children and parents and their role as ed
Executive Summary The National Gallery of Victoria is a fascinating gallery located in Melbourne, Australia. The Gallery has an assortment of world-class fine artifacts that has attracted domestic and international travelers in droves. The Gallery aims to promote its status as the global hub of the richest treasury of fine art in the Southern region of Australia where visitors can explore, value and take pleasure in the visual artifacts in the entire media, right from ancient times to the current era. This report has used interviews and secondary data to assess employment needs of NGV and give recommendations of how the Gallery can address them. Some of the employment requirements highlighted in this report are: demographics and gender issues at workplace; employee issues; skills and training issues; and occupational health and safety hazards. The report has also suggested a number of recommendations to address these issues. For example, NGV needs to recruit more staff with language skills to address communication barriers between the staff and visitors at the Gallery; training programs also need to be introduced to help the staff improve their skills at workplace. The Occupation Health and Safety committee need to convene on regular basis to evaluate the safety and health concerns of employees. Finally, NGV must introduce Anti-discrimination policies to alleviate incidences of discrimination against workers by age, gender or culture. National Gallery of Victoria Overview The National Gallery of Victoria is an artifact gallery and museum located in Melbourne, Australia. The gallery was established in 1861 and it is the oldest and biggest public art and museum center in Australia. The central gallery is situated in St Kilda Road, Southbank Victoria, which is the hub of the Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank. The NGV has also a branch gallery at Federal Square. NGV has a modest, but striking assortment of artifacts that attract tourists from all parts of the world. Given its global appeal, there are a number of challenges that the Gallery face as it dispenses its services to customers. Therefore, the purpose of this report is to assess employment needs for NGV. The Gallery offers different types of employments. For example, full time contract is offered to administration positions. The part-time contract is the most common type of employment offered to majority of NGV employees. Casual employment is offered to support staff such as hospitality floor staff, cleaners and security personnel. Volunteering is also a form of employment that NGV use to create awareness of the value of the Gallery to the community. The Gallery also offers work experience opportunities for secondary and college students. Finally NGV runs a Youth Access program that enables youth to interact as art producers, art audience and art emissaries via a varie