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Introduction This paper contains a report for senior managers of Genco, a pharmaceutical company involved in selling and distribution of HIV/AIDS drugs in Malaysia. The management of Genco Company has entered an agreement with Eurodollars Investment Bank to open up distribution networks in Malaysia in order to have market dominance in the area. There are many legal issues which are involved in the transaction and which should be addressed by Genco Company when investing in Malaysia. The fundamental issue that the company should consider is the laws of the country in which the business channels will be situated. This is because the legal systems of any nation are very critical in determining whether a company is going to be successful or whether its operations will be terminated by the relevant authorities due to failure of conforming to a certain procedure. The first step for Genco Company should be determining whether the business is authorized to operate in Malaysia. If the business is legally accepted in Malaysia, the management of Genco Company should then proceed in determining the type of business it should set up in Malaysia. There are many types of business options, which the company can open. These include setting up a partnership with local companies through a common firm, setting up an association, operating as a single entity, setting up a foundation, and setting up a private limited company. A private limited Company would be the best option for Genco limited because it would ensure that the branch, which is opened in Malaysia, is limited by the shares but the original capital, which has been invested, is secure (Jennings 78). As a private limited Company, Genco shares will not be traded in the Malaysian Stock Exchange becaus
Background Acumen is a microfinance institution that provides analysis and recommendations for businesses toward their investments, capital, and social impact. The company has used the RCT model for the investor-driven recommendations concerning the social impact made by Acumen’s clients. According to the company’s investigation, the convenient analytical tools and evaluation models had little effect on social investment and did not represent the full spectrum of possible implications or issues that businesses and communities might face. The Lean Data model was developed by Acumen as the solution to the discovered analytical roadblocks and recommendation pitfalls. This model is based on the accurately developed survey techniques that collect data from communities affected by business so that the survey outcomes can show how products, services, and investments affect people’s welfare and value-added demands (Cole et al. 4). What is more, the new methodology shows how companies can improve their social responsibility and deliver more value-added products and services to their consumers. In this case, Acumen introduced a significant change that allows communities and businesses to collaborate and contribute to each other’s sustainability. Problem Identification The development of Lean Data methodology has become a resourceful project for Acumen; namely, it has accomplished its objectives and achieved desired outcomes. Furthermore, Acumen conducted several successful evaluations and “sprints,” which proved that the model functions well and can provide insights about the business’ real impact on consumers’ welfare and quality of life (Cole et al. 9). Nonetheless, the company has been facing a new dilemma as Lean Data results should be transformed into change strategies and recommendations, which is not an easy task. The prior RCT model allowed Acumen to conduct an evaluation based on investors’ perspectives, making emphasis on numeric data, financial reports, and market activity. Lean Data offers an identical view; however, from a consumer-centric perspective, compani
Technology can be utilized in diverse ways to facilitate collaboration, co-teaching, and recordkeeping between special and general education teachers. Such tools as audiobooks, the alternative mouse, and speech-to-text features can be implemented to provide a better understanding of the given material by students with disabilities. For example, children with bad eyesight or retina stratification, who may be considered disabled, should be provided with audiobooks or transcripts of the lecture instead of making notes. This feature could be supported in recordkeeping through the creation of informative versions of apps for people with bad eyesight. Additionally, collaboration and co-teaching require a profound examination of students’ cases; therefore, the personalization of tasks and the division into working groups based on certain criteria can be implemented. Moreover, co-teaching and collaboration require sharing of personal student data; hence, ethical and legal norms should be taken into consideration. For example, collaborating teachers should not share students’ personal data or utilize this information for their own sake. In this case, both special and general education teachers should operate on only the relevant information. One of the strategies of ensuring confidentiality is the division of data into relevant and irrelevant topics based on the topic of co-teaching and collaboration. Only the information that can be utilized for finding a personal approach to the students should be shared and discussed among collaborating teachers. In my future practice, I would like to implement the Station teaching theory where stations are set up and both teachers teach at a station and provide instruction to students. Such a strategy allows students to gain access to the teachers’ help easier, involves asking for help, and provides students with the opportunity of obtaining different explanations. This cooperation strategy helps both teachers establish a successful study plan, collect relevant resources for students, and individualize the educated material according to the needs of their students. For example, in the case of teenagers with a strong retina stratification, cooperating teachers could find a better solution for the enhancement of motivation and productivity in such students. Young adults with eyesight problems might be given special material (video or audio recorded or developed in a better online version) provided by their tutors.
Introduction Background Information According to Kristin Henriksen (the author of Statistics Norway ), female immigrants make up a large portion of the Norwegian population (Kristin, 2011). She points out that by the year 2010 the population of immigrants in Norway was close to 400,000. The number of female immigrants in the country is slightly higher than that of their male counterparts-close to 205,000 compared to 195,000. 170,000 of the female immigrants in the country are first-generation while 35,000 are second generation (Kristin, 2011). Kristin (2011) posits that female immigrants of Pakistani descent form the largest group of immigrants that are not from a western nation. In total, approximately 8 per cent of all female immigrants in the country are from Pakistan. Approximately 7,500 of female Norwegian-Pakistani immigrants were born in Pakistan while 6,300 are second generation. Figure 1 below shows the population of female immigrants in Norway by the beginning of 2011. Female second-generation immigrants from Pakistan form the largest descendants group in Norway. Less than 5 per cent of the descendants are beyond 30 years of age. Figure I. Female Immigrants in Norway. Source: Kristin (2011). Pakistanis immigrate to Norway
The article to be summarized is tilted ‘Business Ethics in a Global World: India’s Changing Ethics’. The author of the article is Margaret Steen and the article is part of Markula center for applied ethics. The ethical issue in this article is that of the ethical conduct by many firms in India. The author of the article argues that India and China are gradually overtaking countries in the west, especially the United States in terms of economic progress (Steen). According to the author of the article, India’s economic progress can be attributed to its business ethics, which embraces what is referred to as collectivism instead of individualism. Many corporates in India believe in employee development which they do through continuous training. Due to collectivism, the employees in Indian firms are well-motivated because they work as teams, which are valued by the managements. Team work leads to a cohesive organizational culture which leads to increased productivity and economic progress. I chose the article because I have a lot of interest in understanding various perspectives and views regarding the issue of cultural dimensions for various countries. This understanding is very useful in shaping my perception to employees from various cultural backgrounds, given that I have ambition in working as an expatriate manager in the future. My opinion on the issue of whether collectivism enhances employee motivation is that I do believe that for any organization to maximize on its human resources, it must be ready to motivate them. One of the ways of motivating them is through instilling good values such as team work, group work and collective efforts. The argument that India and China will soon be the world’s super powers therefore should not be taken lightly. Works Cited Cline, Austin. Ethics as Obedience to Duty and God: Is Being Ethical just being Obedient?. About. Com. 2011. Web. Steen, Margaret. Business Ethics in a Global World: India’s Changing Ethics . Markula center for applied ethics, 2005. Web.
Introduction Creative writing is vital in the field of literature. This form of writing entails using convincing and appealing imaginative skills. Creative writing involves giving fabrications in the quest to unearth some underlying truths about the world. On the other side, nonfictional writing is based on the truth, and it seeks to reveal some given realities. Joyce Oates, who is a literary icon in the United States, outlines essential subjects that are crucial to designing narratives and the techniques that writers ought to embrace while writing prose, plays, and poetry among other genres. This essay analyzes the writing techniques used in Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, and it demonstrates how to implement the nonfiction tips acquired from the novel. Plot In Cold Blood highlights a real story concerning the murder of the Clutter family that resides in Holcomb. The family is made up of Herbert Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and their teen children, Kenyon and Nancy. Clutter inspects the farm one morning while Perry Smith and Dick Hickok meet at the same time to plan on how to undertake robbery at the protagonist’s home. The two killers drive to the Clutter’s home later in the night and kill the four family members in a theft attack. Perry and Dick flee to Mexico to avoid arrest by the police. They use hot checks passed by Dick while crossing the border to Mexico. Susan Kidwell discovers the bodies the next morning while detector Dewey and other three investigators launch a probe into the murder. In Mexico, Perry and Dick spend most of their time enticing German tourists, but eventually, they run out of money. The investigation on the assassination case takes a new twist after Floyd Wells, who is a former Dick’s cellmate and an employee at the Clutter’s farm, confesses the murder to the authorities. Dick and Perry steal a vehicle and return to Kansas City where they settle in Miami. The police eventually arrest the two in Las Vegas before be
Introduction An RFID (Radio-frequency identification) chip can considered an ingenious device due to its overall simplicity yet wide applicability in a variety of fields and applications (Nikitin, Rao, Martinez, & Lam, 2009). The chip, no bigger than a grain of rice, works via system of query and transmission wherein the chip releases a coded identification number when it is queried by a reader device that produces the necessary type of signal (Nikitin, Rao, Martinez, & Lam, 2009). The result is a method of tracking and identification which enables companies, medical institutions and even government agencies to immediately identify and track a particular object or person based on the RFID signal transmitted by an embedded chip (Harris, 2006). For example, the Verichip, a small innocuous device no bigger than a grain of rice, was debuted in the latter half of 2004 as being a safe and efficient way for hospitals to access the medical history of a patient so as to speed up treatment and recovery via an embedded RFID chip in their arm. In a way the advent of this particular type of technology could be thought of as a medical milestone, the future of medicine so to speak; wherein doctors, EMTs, nurses and various other medical personnel can quickly and accurately diagnose a patient’s current condition based on their medical history should the patient be unconscious, unable to speak or is relatively unaware of their own history of medical care. From the point of view of medical practitioners the use of medical “chips” is a positive facilitator of medical care since not only can doctors respond quickly and efficiently to a patient’s condition but they can avoid utilizing particular medicines, procedures or methods of treatment should the patient’s medical record reveal a possible adverse reaction to the intended procedure. Aside from their use in medical institutions RFID chips have been utilized extensively in the transportation industry via installed electronic toll way collection systems. Such devices are commonly seen on commuters who utilize highways or other locations that have tolls in place. These systems allow drivers to pay a select amount beforehand allowing the toll readers to identify the transmitted code attached to the driver’s RFID systems and automatically allow them to pass through while at the same time deducting the amount utilized in the toll within their systems. Other more subtle methods of RFID technology use has been their implementation in passport systems and large scale agricultural operations. The technology in effect has made it easier to easily track both people and animals as they are transported from one location to another thus f
Two acts passed by the British Parliament on British North America include the Stamp Act and the Townshend Act, which caused the Boston Massacre. These two acts are the most significant acts passed by the British Parliament as they played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. The Stamp Act and the Townshend Act were turning points in North America’s quest for independence. The Stamp Act was passed to help the British government replenish its finances and pay off war debt after the seven years of war with France, which was costly and led to severe financial losses (Skalenko, 2020). Furthermore, part of the revenue from the Stamp Act was purposed to support the British army to ensure peace between the colonists and the Native Americans. The Stamp Act required the colonists to pay for a seal or official stamp whenever they bought paper items. However, the effects of this Act did not favor the British government as the Act outraged the American colonies, who immediately protested against it and established a secret society known as the Sons of Liberty (Skalenko, 2020). The Townshend Act caused the Boston Massacre, which infuriated the colonists. The Boston Massacre had a negative effect on the British as it had a major impact on their relationship with American colonists, which resulted in riots and tension between the British soldiers and the colonists (Brown, 2020). This roused the American colonists, who were already wary of British rule to fight for independence. The Declaration of Independence was fundamental to the development of the American Revolution as it contained the grievances the American Colonists had against the British king. It also outlined the arguments used by the colonists as to why they wanted to be free of British rule (Corbett et al., 2015). The declaration also stated crucial ideals such as equality and liberty and analyzed the American colonists’ motivations for independence.
Introduction To begin with, it is necessary to mention, that Following innovative federal immigration policy and procedures implemented in the 1960s and particularly after incidents of political turbulence in the early 1990s there has been a quick augment of settlers from Asian states such as India, China, and Hong Kong. Though this phenomenon has outlined in positive financial growth in Canada there are lots of fundamental complexities that immigrants usually have to challenge when immigrating to Canada comprising the underdevelopment of community services, difficulties in policing and surrounding security, and modifications in employment practices and estate allocation. Immigrants from all over the world can assist Canadian proliferation in lots of ways. Given that recently arrived immigrants are able to offer essential sustain expressively and culturally, it is probable to make a welcoming and friendly environment for everybody. (Buenker, 2002) The fact is that not all inhabitants supported multiculturalism. For instance, in English-speaking Canada, some were anxious that multiculturalism would separate Canadians rather than join them. Others were afraid that multiculturalism would corrode the rich British inheritance of English-speaking Canada. Lots of Quebec inhabitants complained that multiculturalism was emphasized to destabilize Quebec nationalism. Ottawa, they claimed, would apply multiculturalism to frustrate Quebec’s ambitions by connecting it with “other” national groups in Canada. But lots, particularly in metropolitan English-speaking Canada, maintained the regulation. They regarded it as an opportune acknowledgment of pluralism that was a detail of Canadian life. When the strategy was proclaimed in 1971, the Canadian ethnic assortment was still greatly governed by those of European inheritance and was created to distinguish their donation to Canada. Nevertheless, as migration to Canada from the developing world amplified, the multiculturalism procedure had to contract with the troubles and anxieties of noticeable minorities. These innovative and increasing societies were less anxious on the matters of recognition of their inheritance in Canada. They followed the multiculturalism approach, not to sustain ethnic improvement but rather for assistance in the exclusion of racial intolerance and segregation. They wished to guarantee equivalent employment conditions to jobs, accommodation, and education. (Richmond, 1999) The government adequately reacted. In 1981, officials who were engaged in the solving process related to federal multiculturalism stated a unit dedicated to race contacts in Canada. This was later increased to make race contacts a principal center of the multicultural approach. Most regions and lots of bigger administrative units have followed suit within their spheres of authority, principally education, policing, community services, and human rights protection. In Quebec, which still had troubles with the notion of multi
Pilgrimage refers to purposeful travel often done to demonstrate devotion to sites or places that adherents consider holy. The journey can be short or lengthy – as near as the neighborhood church or as far as another hemisphere. It can take a day, weeks, months, or even years. Bonnie Wheeler argues that pilgrimage is a manifestation that “life is the struggle of restless against rest; this piercing into life exiles us from our quiet roots” (Wheeler 36). The argument Wheeler makes is that the purposeful travel to sacred sites affirms human agency, and that people often use pilgrimage as a way to arouse and contain desires that are otherwise fulfilled only in the devotee’s paradise and satisfied in their thoughts and imagination. Meaning is volitional and a gift that individuals with conflicting yearnings, such as pilgrims, give themselves and one another. Wheeler seeks to balance Victor W. Turner’s pilgrimage thesis with his confluence model of pilgrimage. The former views pilgrimage as a social undertaking and emphasizes the liminal nature of pilgrimaging communities. According to Turner’s understanding, the social experience of pilgrimage consists of communitas. Put differently, while hierarchical political structures differentiate people by positions and social roles, communitas often comprise communities of equals who recognize each other wholly. According to this view, pilgrimages are occasions for experiencing communitas. Therefore, the Turner thesis views pilgrimages as journeys to a sacred communitas source that can be a source of renewal and healing. Contrarily, Wheeler’s confluence theory views pilgrimage as communal as well as fragmented and private or personal. This confluence model makes it possible to see how opposing ideologies are felt and heard, and how people experience differences in the pursuit of fulfilling personal desires. These desires fill all spatial dimensions as pilgrims move confluently and ritualize what wheeler describes as “common space” (Wheeler 29). He uses the example of the Mecca pilgrimage – which is open to all Islam denominations and where prayer is situated in space – to illustrate how such journeys sometimes happen at the confluence of leisure (tourism) and devotion. Wheeler’s confluence model offers a new understanding of the concept of pilgrimage by characterizing groups with divergent beliefs and needs traveling and sojourning to sacred sites. It also accounts for individual people whose private and frequently competing needs, identities, and desires align and go beyond the fringes of the corporeal into the collective. This way, confluence delineates the common space. At the core of Wheeler’s confluence theory of pilgrimage is the argument for the distinction between the communal or collective and the private or personal. In other words, the theory makes a case for pilgrimage as