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Introduction Modern technology has led to the development of various aspects of exchanging ideas among people. Human beings have taken advantage of the high rate of the invention to improve performance at work. Exchange of ideas and access to useful data is easier and quicker courtesy of computers (Kolaczyk 2010). A person can buy goods from the comfort of his house; save money, and time by not visiting shopping malls on the streets. The use of social networking sites for individual and cooperate reasons has led to the development and improvement of databases and data communications. Today, there are millions of trading activities going on around the world. This essay evaluates three bookstores including Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and Books-a-million.com and their use of databases and data communications. Body Data communication refers to the distribution of information (messages, pictures, songs, diagrams, charts and figures) through communication networks courtesy of modern technology. Networks are set of computers linked electronically to provide internet services. A server is a remote computer that has network and provides internet services to other computers. Data networks originate from workstations of the given company and links to a network that serves other computers (Taylor 2012). Amazon is the world’s largest online bookstore with millions of client base. Barne and Noble and Books-a-million.com are United States of America online book sellers with various retail outlets situated in many parts of America. The use of modern technology has made the operations of these book stores easier than they use to be. These stores have websites that offer almost all information required by clients. These sites are developed and networked for clients to get books they need. The transactions are done through websites and other service providers that facilitate payments and shipment of goods. Clients are able to know whether the book they need is available, its price and discounts (Taylor 2012). The websites offer vital data on the types and qualities of goods available, their prices, discounts and shipment information. In addition, they provide all relevant shipment and delivery information for clients to monitor the movement of their purchases. There are open links for contacting staff of these firms to ensure they offer the services requested by their clients. This ensures their clients have access to quality services. Security of the client’s purchases and the stores products is guaranteed due to the verification process that ensure transactions are shown to clients. This practice aims at fighting cyber crimes and ensures all dealings are genuine and have consent from the client. These procedures include online orders, payments and delivery of books purchased. Clients are sure that their personal details and purchases are safe. If a customer is not comfortable with the order delivered, there is room for presenting dissatisfactions to the customer care departments. These stores have online customer care staff that respond to queries that arise during purchase, shipment and deliver
An offspring of the first African American migration from the South to North and Northwest, the Harlem Renaissance spanned roughly twenty five years (1910-1935). With literature, art, and music as the primary vehicle, the epoch was characterized by racial pride and desire to “uplift” the race (Bean, 1991). Proof of humanity, the demand for equality, perseverance, belief in self and ability, teamwork – the corresponding counter-balance racist circumstances – permeated the ideological core of this movement/ era. The Harlem Renaissance birthed many iconic African Americans figures with Zora Neale Hurston being among the cadre. Hurston’s literary repertoire comprised four novels, fifty plus short stories and plays as well essays with her 1935 short story “Mules and Men” and novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) as her magnum opus. An ardent folklorist of African American culture, her studies in anthropology and ethnography exude her work. Hurston’s extensive travels throughout the American South and Caribbean furthered her folkloric scope/lens. So called unrefined speech patterns or dialect permeate her work. Use of such idiomatic dialect as well as lack of political and even racial focus placed her at odds with Renaissance contemporaries and intelligentsia such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Hughes, etc. who felt it was stereo-typical and fueled racist fodder. The conflict was only indicative of the dualistic nature of the era in terms of depiction of the African American experience in the United States and the Diaspora. A travelogue – whether in the form of documentary, film, literature, or journal – describes a journey. Chronicling her ethnographic journey in Haiti and Jamaica is Hurton’s 1938 travelogue Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. Opinion divided among literary critics and devotees, Tell My Horse is deemed her worst and most insignificant work or a fascinating guide and invaluable resource depicting Jamaican and Haitian culture, in particular the mysteries and horrors of voodoo. The fascination element is intensified because Hurston provides a vivid and authentic depiction in part due to not being a mere observer but rather a participant/initiate. Irony intertwined with allegory and incoherency characterizes the underlining message/theme and aura of the work. In the first chapter, Hurston provides a list of thought provoking and witty proverbs in which the surface meaning has an encoded dormant meaning. For example, the proverb “ Rockatone at ribber bottom no know sun hot ” Hurston translates as “ The person in easy circumstances cannot appreciate the sufferings of the poor (Hurston, 9).” The proverbs and her interpretations have a duel purpose – they illustrate irony, humor, and most importantly the richness of the Jamaican philosophic culture
Introduction Virgin Blue Holdings Limited is a low-cost Australia-based airline company headquartered at Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, Queensland. The company that was started in 2000 with only one route and 200 staff currently operates across 24 cities within Australia as well as South Pacific and South East Asia regions e.g. New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga with over 2100 weekly flights with an average of 15 million passengers annually (Virgin Blue, 2008a, par.4). With significant share of 28% of the Australian domestic market, Virgin Blue is in a position to mount a substantial competition against earlier established locally owned airline companies, Qantas and its subsidiary counterpart company Jetstar who both own 68% of the market share. However, there is a fierce competition among the existing companies and the recent entry of new players such Regional Express and Tiger Airways within the same routes has worsened situation (IBIS World, 2009; Ledwidge 2007, p.7). The company’s continuous effort to maintain and increase their market share is seen in its strategies such lowering air fares and going into direct competition with QANTAS and Jetstar through innovative approach to service provision that has pushed the market boundaries (Sadler 2007, p.9). With this approach, the company has branded itself with low airfare and better services packaged together for its customer to gain competitive advantage in the Australian domestic market (Virgin Blue, 2008; Asia Travel 2007, par.3). Some of the unique human resource issues at Virgin Blue are:  1. their ability to retain their employees through a change in job offerings at a time when many airline companies are laying off their staff to make their workforce as lean as possible in response to the global economic crisis.  2. Maintaining culture fit through recruitment, i.e. all their employees go through a five-stage recruitment stage thus instilling their culture of ease at job place.  3. Further training and development of their employees at all levels. This paper seeks to identify and analyse the Virgin Blue’s current human resources system and position, with emphasis on their change of job offerings and adopting cultural fit through unique recruitment process. It also offers critical recommendations on the areas to be addressed and emphasized in order to maintain and continue expanding their market share. A change in job offerings Since financial crisis takes hold and many companies has suffered and affected badly. To save the face of their employees, Virgin Blue has decided to retain as many of their employees as possible. This they have done by switching their employees to part time and letting them take voluntary unp
Content The main goal of any physical therapist is to provide a patient with an opportunity to restore all the necessary functional abilities and appropriate qualities (Erggelet et al., 2008). It is not always easy to help people with certain disabilities as much attention, care, and professionalism are required. Still, the quality of services offered as a result of physical therapy may be considerably improved utilizing special equipment. As a healthcare manager in the physical therapy department, I have to control all aspects of care and the ways in how help is offered to people in need. Being aware of the fact that the received orthopedic chairs are out-of-date and out of service for necessary repair, I have to inform healthcare staff about the shortages of new products, and our administrator is one of the first people who should know this news and be ready to take some actions. Some so many people hope to receive proper treatment and care to develop necessary skills for living as well as improve the damaged musculoskeletal system. A number of investigations prove that properly chosen orthopedic chairs for patients define the quality of services; this is why it is wrong to save money on human health but become more careful with patients’ needs (Rados, 2003). The current government provides the healthcare system with the necessary conditions for patients’ care, and we, the representatives of physical therapy, should consider all aspects of care to help people in the right way. Argument Orthopedic chairs are one of the main elements of the system that aims at imp
The Paragraph Rhetorical strategies used  1. Rhetorical strategies are some of the most commonly used writing tools in literary works.  2. This style is more common when writing fiction than it is when writing research reports or historical books.  3. Griffin finds this tool very viable in her writing.  4. It helps her to ensure that her readers remain alert when going through her work.  5. It enables her to bring her readers on board in terms of contributing their opinions to this report.  6. Graff and Birkenstein (2007) say, “What then occurs if the soul in its small beginnings is forced to take on a secret life?” (p. 240).  7. It is not a question that needs an answer from the reader.  8. It is a style of writing that the author uses to demonstrate how dismaying it is that children were forced to lead lives that did not befit their age.  9. It helps her in emphasizing the fact that during the war, young boys were recruited as soldiers, some of whom did not even understand the meaning of the war itself. 10. It also surprised her that some young boys were thrilled by the fact that they will be combating foreign enemies. 11. In her perspective, she does not find a reason good enough that can make underage boys find fun joining the military. 12. Graff and Birkenstein (2007) say, “Is this the way he will finally prove himself?” (p. 244). 13. According to her, the young boy in question only wanted to prove himself by joining and actively participating in the military. The Analysis The claims and evidence of my paper 2 draft appear to form a system. For example, the introduction consists of claims that are developed and supported by evidence in the body of the text. Some of the claims (for example, the work being a research paper, albeit unusual) are supported throughout the work; some of the evidence can be used for different claims (for example, the method of information gathering is used to prove severa
One of the ways to persuade your opponent in your rightness is to use the fallacies. The use of fallacies often results in misunderstanding. The use of fallacies is based on the rhetorical patterns that make the argument sound obscure and, in such way, the fallacies are often hard to identify. Sarah Palin is a “master of fallacies” in the interview with Katie Couric, as she based almost all her answers on particular fallacies and backed up her claims on illogical presentation of evidences and obscure facts. In this paper, we are going to describing the fallacies used in the Sarah Palin/Katie Couric interview (in particular, circular reasoning, slippery slop, flashy generalization, single cause effect, red herring oversimplification) and provide the evidences that they affected negatively on the arguments and made her answers unconvincing. Thus, the fallacies which have been used are circular reasoning, slippery slop, flashy generalization, single cause effect, red herring oversimplification. While making use of these fallacies, Palin resorted to different Aristotle’s appeals to persuade the audience in the validity of her claims. In particular, she use the Ethos appeal when talking about Rick Davis: “And I would hope that’s the case because, as John McCain has been saying, and as I’ve on a much more local level been also rallying against is the undue influence of lobbyists in public policy decisions being made” (Interview n. p.) Furthermore, she also appealed to the audience’s emotion using pathos when talking about examples in John McCain’s 26 years of pushing for more regulation: “I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today” (Interview n. p.) However, she failed to use these appeals as her evidences were not supported by concrete examples. In this two statements by Sarah Palin, we can see the samples of circular reasoning (the 1 st one), as she tries to use lobbying efforts as part of her proof answering the question about Rick Daviss’ stake in the company. Oversimplification (second statement) as she resorts to American needs that are hardly related to the point of the question. Furthermore, she uses flashy generalization: “The interesting thing in the last couple of days that I have seen is that Americans are waiting to see what John McCain will do on this proposal…” (Interview n. p.) In fact, this sample is not relevant to the question again and when asked to give some examples, she fails. The red herring can be seen when she talks about Great Depression and skips to the reforms on Wall Street. Pious fraud is noticeable in the phrase: “That’s something that John McCain and I have both been discussing – whether that … is part of the solution or not. You know, it’s going to be a m
The American automobile industry is a large segment of the American national economical growth. In this respect in the United States, this industry is the domain of three major automobile corporations, namely: Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors. The main indicators of stability and efficiency in work were the factors for the oligopoly of the automobile market in the United States. The concentration of great amounts of financial resources provides an obstacle for new firms in this industry. To be precise, these are national auto leaders of the country. First of all, the kit is vital to mention that the automobile branch in the economy of the United States has a long history. In fact, in the 1920s the United States dominated the world’s automobile market. Since that time three giants in the industry began to compete. The governmental programs supported them. Just in the middle of the twentieth-century observers stated that the American policy in vehicle building is considered with domestic production and foreign trade (Leontief 332). American companies achieved high rates of inefficiency, and this made the decrease of prices possible. The national approach was strategically necessary. Consumers were pleased and bought cars. The term “mass market” was concerned with the decrease of prices for mass sales of cars (Studer-Noguez 16). Another point of view is the place of corporations in terms of the process of globalization. The facilities of the American automobile companies are concentrated throughout the world. The point of the assembly line is important. The thing is that companies decided to decentralize their facilities, so that to produce cheaper parts for the automobile but with the same quality. Thus, the competition among the leaders grew. It touched upon several constituents such as price, quality, share in the market, position on new markets. The increase in production costs was a huge problem for American automobile companies in contrast to, for example, Japanese and German ones. Low import costs made the penetration into the American automobile market possible (Rubenstein 1). Thus, the companies should act immediately in the sphere of reorganization. This is why the plants in the United States were closed in the 1980s, and new ones should be opened in Asian countries (Rubenstein 1). Hence, the strict rules of global integrity were taken into account by American producers. Works cited Leontief, Wassily “Domestic Production and Foreign Trade; The American Capital Position Re-Examined.” American Philosophical Society , 1953. Rubenstein, James M.
Summary of the case Siemens, a large electronic firm headquartered at Munich in Germany, had developed a culture of corruption in its dealings. This firm’s customers are organizational buyers who make huge purchases once they make approval of the firm’s products. Most of these clients were governments all over the world, or other large organizations. Siemens had formed the habit of giving out bribes to the decision makers in these organizations in order to win tenders. Top managers of this firm supported this corruption, and even after the German government enacted stricter laws, this firm did not stop its corrupt dealings. This went on until a Saudi Arabian who was demanding for his share of the bribe blackmailed the firm. When the issue was finally brought before the law, several top executives of this firm were found guilty of authorizing the corrupt dealings. They were forced to resign, faced graft charges in court, and had to pay huge fines. The firm was also forced to pay fines to various governments because of its unethical acts. The board had to hire new top officials to who would bring new changes to this firm. Ethical issue In this case, the ethical issue that comes out is the illegal manner in which this firm was securing tender in various countries. This industry is very competitive, and other firms have a right to win these tenders if they are able to prove that they can offer the best value at the most competitive costs. When Siemens uses bribe to win such tenders, it blinds the decision of the tendering board and this will give them an upper hand in winning the tender even if their product is not of the best value. This amounts to unfair business practice in the market. Why this is unethical This practice is unethical because it denies other firms a fair chance to win such tenders in the market. It is unethical to break the law. When the law states that it is illegal to bribe officials in order to win a tender, going against this law in itself is unethical. It is important for this firm to appreciate that influencing the decision of the tendering board in their favor may have negative image on the firm in the market. The market will start doubting its ability to meet its demands. This means that the ultimate victim of this practice is the firm when these dealings are finally revealed. This is what finally happened to this firm. The affected parties A number of parties are affected by this unethical practice. The first party affected by this practice is the firm itself. The exposure of this practice did not only harm its image in the market but also made it lose $ 1.63 billion dollars in fine. It was also barred from bidding in some tend
As of today, it became a shared assumption among many educators that the one of foremost keys to ensuring a particular high school student’s reading proficiency is providing him/her with the appropriate set of incentives to strive to excel in reading (Shuman, 2006). In their turn, these incentives are usually being concerned with motivating students by the mean of making appeals to their sense of rationale, on the one hand, and by the mean of exposing them to the prospect of an academic punishment, in case they fail remaining fully committed to studying, on the other. In this paper, I will analyze and comment on two studies, the authors of which had conducted a research on the subject of what may account for the qualitative essence of an interrelation between the low level of reading proficiency, on the part of high school students, and the affiliated levels of academic discipline in these students’ schools. The foremost thesis that is being explored throughout the entirety of Guthrie, Coddington, and Wigfield’s (2009) study, is that the particulars of students’ racial affiliation do affect the qualitative subtleties of their academic attitude towards reading-related tasks. Whereas, the extent of Caucasian students’ reading proficiency appears to correlate with the measure of their perceptional sensitivity to the affiliated intrinsic motivations, the African-American students’ varying ability to excel in addressing different reading-tasks appears to be indicative of the teachers’ ability to expose these students to the environmentally appropriate external reading-enhancing incentives. The implications of Guthrie, Coddington, and Wigfield’s study are clear. As opposed to what it is being the case with Caucasian students, African-American students will be much more likely to benefit from improving their reading skills in the thoroughly disciplined academic environment, because it is specifically ensuring these students’ ‘reading non-avoidance’, which authors exposed to be the most effective method of increasing the level of Black students’ reading proficiency, “A non-avoidant, disciplined, conscientious reading for school purposes reaped more rewards in achievement for African American students than for Caucasian students” (2009, p. 346). Nevertheless, even though Guthrie, Coddington, and Wigfield’s study does offer a few qualitative insights into the researched subject matter, the authors had failed at specifying what may account for the effective methodology of increasing the extent of reading proficiency, on the part on Caucasian students, on the one hand, and on the part of African-American students, on the other. This study’s apparent drawback, however, should not be thought as the indication of authors’ lessened analytical abilities. Even though that the earlier mentioned study contains an extensive empirical evidence as to the fact that the factor of race plays a significant role in how students go about addressing their reading-related academic assignments, this evidence is being discursively inconsistent with the foremost theoretical premise, upon which the educational approach