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Introduction As the world ushered in the 20th Century, it’s evident that global economies are divided according to economic ideology. The most prevalent economic systems are Capitalism and Communism. These two ideologies have been the driving force that determines the level of cooperation between world economies. As a matter of fact, these two ideologies were the most influential factors during the cold war (Gabriel). On December 11 th , 1964 Che Guevara delivered a speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations outlining various ways in which the Third World countries experienced onslaught from Capitalism in the form of Colonialism. This paper attempts to explore that speech and its relevance in today’s global economy. Capitalism versus Communism Before proceeding with the speech details, it’s important to have a look at the traditional and modern meaning of Capitalism and Socialism. Traditionally, capitalism has been defined as “the ownership and control of the means of production by a class of “capitalists” and an economic and political system that favors this” (Clore 3). Today, capitalism has been redefined to mean “private ownership of the means of production, and more generally the absence of central planning by the state” (Clore 4). Private means that there is no government involvement. According to Dean Clore, author of Socialism and Capitalism, “Socialism means the ownership and control of the means of production by the workers themselves, whether as individuals, cooperatives, collectives, communal groups, or through the state, and an economic and political system that favors this system” (7). The modern meaning of socialism is “the ownership and control of the means of production by the state” (Gabriel). The Speech Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary, gave a speech in the United Nations General Assembly, on December 11, 1964. The speech titled; Colonialism is Doomed has become exceptionally prominent due to the ideological ideas and its relevance to the global economy. In this speech, Che talks about the manner in which Colonialism, Imperialism and Capitalism “have reduced the world into an imbalance between the haves and the have-nots” (Moore 67). The speech was based on issues affecting Latin American, Asian and African countries, that by then had survived decades of ambush from colonial powers. Che’s speech was an attack to the United States, especially when he refer America as “Imperialist that ensured that Third World country bows down to them” (Moore 87). He gives examples of Puerto Rico, where United States made huge effort to infuse English as part of the Spanish culture resulting to a hybrid culture. In spite of this, Che is quick to note that “Puerto Ricans have safeguarded their unique culture and heritage, without
The Goals of This Presentation This presentation is aimed at achieving the following objectives:  1. To discuss various stages of service encounter and show their applications to a particular situation;  2. To describe the main characteristics of a certain service company;  3. To identify its organizational deficiencies and offer recommendations for improving their work;  4. To explain why the knowledge of consumer behavior is essential for service organizations. The Main Characteristics of the Company Airticket24 is a web-based company that helps people who want to buy airline tickets, make a reservation in a hotel, or rent a car. This firm has several features:  1. It is a low contact company which means the customer does not have visit them in person.  2. Their website enables clients to make purchases without having to deal with the service personnel.  3. Their functioning is strongly dependent on their business partners such as airlines or hotels. The Website of This Company and Its Interface. The service encounter stages At first we should single out three stages of service encounter.  1. Pre-purchase stage when the client becomes aware of his/her needs and evaluates the options available at the moment.  2. Service encounter stage when the customer requests the company to assist him/her and receives the services. These interactions are also called the moment of truth.  3. Post-encounter stage when a person evaluates the company’s efficiency and forms his/her attitude toward it. Visual Representation of Service Stage Encounter. My experiences at the pre-encounter stage  1. I had to refer to this firm, because I needed to buy an airline ticket. This sub-stage can be called need arousal.  2. I decided in favor of an online company because it could save me time.  3. This particular service organization was chosen because it received more or less favorable reviews from their customers. Service Encounter Stage The encounter stage represents the moment of truth when the company provides service to the clients.  1. I had no difficulty in purchasing the ticket; yet, my flight was postponed.  2. The company warned me about the change in schedule by email.  3. The organization compensated me the cost of the ticket. Post-encounter stage   * During this phase the customer evaluates the organization and decides if it can be relied on.   * This company did not live up to my expectations due to the following reasons:       + They did not notify me in person about the change in the schedule. They did it only by email;       + It took them too long to reimburse me;       + They did not manage to find a flight that could fit my schedule. The problems that should be resolved   * This discussion of service encounter stages relative to a particular situation can point to some important problems o
Introduction The company Brand Jordan is a large shoe and apparel goods producer. Its main market is the high-end consumer segment with its main product being Air Jordan a shoe that fetches a price of more than 120 dollars a pair. The company was founded on the success of Michael Jordan who dazzled the world with his sporting talent in basketball. In 1984 when Jordan was just out of university, Nike signed him to an endorsement deal. The year 1985 marks a significant place in the history of Brand Jordan as this was the year the Nike first produced Air Jordan shoes. This shoe brought a big debate in the sporting industry. Following Jordan’s appearance on the court with the shoe, the NBA at the first prohibited wearing of it on the court. This they based on the current league dress codes rule. After the ban, a lot of debate was started and this helped the shoe get national coverage. Eventually, the shoe was admitted into the sporting industry and after a long successful sporting career in the year 1998 Brand Jordan was born as a subsidiary company of the larger Nike Inc. (Sarah 176) Questions What is the key-brand attribute of Brand Jordan? Brand Jordan is attributed to the jump man logo that is printed on all their products both shoes and apparel. In 1998, Michael Jordan retired from professional basketball following his earlier retirement in 1993 to try his hand in playing baseball. It was in this year that Brand Jordan was born. Having replaced Nike Swoosh™ on Air Jordan shoes with the new logo Jumpman in 1991, the company now also produced apparel with the Jumpman logo. The Brand since its beginnings has had famous athletes endorse it. The brand has seen many great sportsmen endorse it such as Ray Allen who is a basketball player, Derek Jeter a baseball player, and Roy Jones a professional boxer. By the year 2006, the list of athlete endorsee included thirteen individuals and was known as Team Jordan. The team consisted of two footballers, one musician, a boxer, and seven professional basketball players. Besides this list of professional athletes endorsee, the brand has had some celebrities endorse its products unofficially and unpaid. These celebrities include Eminem, Fat Joe, and Mike Epps. The use of famous athletes to endorse the brand has not only seen the company’s sales increase but has helped in creating loyal customers. After learning from the previous mistake of producing a large number of shoes, the company in 1986 began producing limited quantities. This strategy was an original business model and very successful. This can be seen even after the passage of 20 years where fans anticipate the release of new Air Jordan. The fans pitch tents outside the retailing shop’s world and eagerly buy them despite their high prices. Brand Jordan has remained relevant in the shoe market in product design and both innovative packaging and technical features. This is another attribute of the brand producing limited quantities of their products especially shoes. Another attribute of the brand is its marketing model that ca
A critical overview of Karl Marx’s ideas in The Manifesto of the Communist Party is a good chance to comprehend and learn better the conditions under which society had to live when the power of capitalism was evident. The Manifesto of the Communist Party is a powerful source of information about the most crucial force in history that is the attention to social and personal interests, the peculiarities of the bourgeoisie with its powers, the power of revolution and money, and the role of the proletariat, and the impact of the capitalism geographical expansion. The historical background of this document highlights the concept of social classes comprising mainly of the oppressors and oppressed, and the consequential class struggles across hitherto societies. The oppressors possessed property and means of production, while the oppressed provided workforce labor. Class antagonisms prompted conflicts, and, as history evolved, the triumph of one class eliminated the rule of the other. The victors would rule for an era only for another class to rise against them and promote the succession of revolutions. Marx writes that the process of overriding societal interests is considered to be the most significant force in history. If the society feels that no one is considering their interests, they will revolt to have their pleas heeded. The document concurs that revolution is a real and inevitable process, caused by class antagonism and helps restructure society. During these transformations, more accommodating political, economic, and social institutions come into play. The bourgeoisie is introduced as the ruling, dominant class in the contemporary modern industry epoch. It consists of manufacturers and enterprise proprietors. They employ proletarians in th
The modern media is associated with the entertainment industry, and visuals are more important than words today. This idea is presented in the book Amusing Ourselves to Death written by Neil Postman which was firstly published in 1985. Nevertheless, the points discussed in the book are still relevant to speak about modern media and the effects of visuals on people’s minds (Postman). The role of entertainment in the people’s life can be also analyzed with references to the philosopher Jeremy Bentham who states in his book The Panopticon Writings that people are oriented to the life full of pleasure and happiness, but it is rather difficult to represent these feelings in the forms of words (Bentham). Thus, people prefer entertainment and pleasures along with visuals because it is often problematic for them to represent their feelings and emotions in the forms of words. Referring to the specialization of the modern television and the general trends in the culture development, it is possible to state that the role of the written, as well as spoken word, is not significant today in comparison with the role of images which directly evoke definite public’s emotions. The concepts presented in the works by Postman and Bentham can be applied to the content of the movie Gamer (2009) because it is a vivid example of the discussion on the future of the people’s society in the world focused on unreal images rather than on words in arguments or real activities. The main ideas or concepts discussed in Amusing Ourselves to Death by Postman are associated with the notions of entertainment and the role of visuals in the people’s life. Entertainment and visuals are closely connected concepts because it is easier for people to entertain themselves while focusing on definite images which present the information directly in the context and without referring to hidden meanings. The information presented in words makes people think and analyze it, producing definite images in minds independently. That is why the modern media are only the metaphor for the information provided (Postman 20). It is important to evoke the people’s emotions and reactions with the help of symbol, metaphor or visual effect. All the facts discussed in the media are presented in the form which is easier to perceive by the public, and these facts are often presented as entertaining (Postman 87-90). From this point, the life represented with the help of television seems to be similar to a kind of a playground. As a result, the modern culture is based on the effective and vivid images accompanied by music which are developed to attract the public and entertain without providing definite information. In spit
The youth is the period when a person asks the question “Why I am who I am?” oftener than earlier or later in life, and the reason is that the answer to this question allows for determining the goals and perspectives for the future. It is important to answer this question at the stage of choosing a career, a college to enter, and a place to live among other important milestones (Akdeniz and Stark 36; Sedikides and Brewer 12-18; Van der Werff et al. 627). When responding to this question, I should state that I am who I am because of the impact of my family’s values and traditions, social norms and widely accepted moral norms, as well as my vision of education and career. The first important aspect that predetermined my development as an individual is family values and traditions. My parents and relatives influenced my vision of the world, my approach to treating other people, and my interest in learning and developing myself. In my childhood, I always knew that my relatives love me, my opinion is respected, and my needs are addressed. In this supportive environment, I learned the importance of keeping faith with close people, setting goals, and achieving them. My parents also demonstrated how important it is to be honest, persistent, and motivated. The second factor that contributed to my personal development is moral norms and principles adopted in the society where I live. In spite of being focused on the values followed in my family, I also interacted with my friends, peers, and educators in a specific environment, and these surroundings also taught and formed my personality. I learned how to communicate with other people with the focus on respect and integrity. I also learned how to be empathetic and sensitive. Furthermore, I became more flexible and tolerant, and I view these qualities as associated with maturity. The third point that is considered as influential in the context of my development is the accentuated role of education and career in my society. In my childhood, I began to understand that knowledge is one of the individuals’ powers (Friedman and Schustack 87; Reichard et al. 138; Tyler et al. 78). Thus, I started to pay more attention to learning and setting goals for my education. Later, these goals became formed as specific objectives for the career progress. As a result, now I can describe myself as a goal-oriented, self-educated, self-regulated, highly motivated, and skillful person who has a personal development plan for the future. I should conclude that I am who I am because of a range of factors. Still, it is possible to determine the most influential ones among these aspects. I believe that my care environments and surroundings significantly influenced my vision of myself and goals while leading to the development of a person who is adapted to live in the modern world, who follows moral norms, and who values family traditions. Letter Dear Mom and Dad, I would like to thank you for all your support and help provided throughout my
The advertising represents one of the most important concepts in marketing and is considered as the vital mean of making customers aware of the product. The fact that the marketing first appeared in practice and its theory was formulated only after the accumulation of the practical experience gives us an indication to study the advertising on the real examples. The TV commercials are the popular types of advertising encompassing broad audience and memorizing the product image in the people’s minds. The aim of this essay is to characterize the TV commercial from the marketing point of view stressing its main features contributing to the competitiveness of the product. In 2013 Coca-Cola Co. presented its new commercial which is aimed at the maintenance of the Coca-Cola beverage position on the market. On the one hand, the video shows a kind of an ideal world where all people are friendly and kind (Skahelyos). On the other hand, it gives us an idea that this ideal world will not be fantastic at all if we think about the surrounding reality in a positive manner (Skahelyos). However, the situations presented in the commercial encourage helping others, being brave, free and easy going. In order to capture consumers’ attention, the advertiser uses the perceptional principles. In particular, the music in the commercial is rather enthusiastic and motivating (Skahelyos). Obviously, the advertisers used a sound as one of the five senses of consumer behavior. Taking into account that the Coca-Cola beverage has been on the market for a long time, it is a product at a mature stage of the product life cycle and the maintenance of sales requires additional investments in its modifications and advertising. That is why the top-down way of proc
Introduction Information technologies are known as a combination of computer systems usage and framework support, resulting in information receiving, storing, and delivering. To be more particular, video conferencing is one of the most frequently used forms of communication since it involves organizing a live video meeting amongst concerned parties. Therefore, video conference technology might be considered highly efficient since it synchronizes both audio and video. In addition, it seems advantageously versatile since it can accommodate up to two hundred and fifty users in a single meeting, depending on the application. This information technology allows users to deliver messages through video, audio, text, or slide presentations during online sessions. As a result, video conferencing’s diversity in use accommodates a large social group, including differently-abled people. Overall, virtual meetings are conducted using video-enabled gadgets, such as computers with webcams or mobile phones. Multiparty video calling also allows users located in different geographical areas to communicate in real-time. Transformations in My Life Achieved by Video Conferencing Technology has dramatically improved the quality of education for all students in general, not only for me. To be more exact, I can now save up a significant amount of time I used to spend commuting before. As a result, the process of learning has become less challenging and much more comfortable for me and my groupmates. Furthermore, since video conferencing is used as an education tool, my peers and I now have the opportunity to study in our residential areas (Correia et al., 2020). Therefore, video conferencing helps me enhance my grades considerably and makes my learning experience more effective and fruitful. Another critical point is that I only need to have access to the internet and have a webcam-enabled device to study from home comfortably. As a result, online studying makes my learning process more affordable, considering that extra costs for commuting are not incurred in my studies now. Additionally, daily travels in the early mornings and late evenings used to be common for me when studying at school. Consequently, commuting tended to increase the possibility of me experiencing various problems in dangerous areas after dawn. Nevertheless, now I can comfortably attend both my early and late lectures with video conferencing from my residential area. Studying online using
A Human resource manager is famously known for his major responsibility of looking after the welfare of the company’s personnel. But as global market competition increases, the role of human resource manager has diversified to an extent of supervising the quality of a firm’s products so as to enable the products to compete in the world market. The emergence of the importance of quality as a tool for competition has lead to the existence of aspect of total quality management in any company. Total quality management is aimed at satisfying the customers by making sure that the products and services released to the market are free of any defects (Walker, 1998, p. 7). This trend of assigning the human resource department with the responsibility of managing quality is due to the fact that this department is majorly respected for its ability to train and develop human resource. Therefore, for successful implementation of total quality management in a firm the Human Resource Manager must play a pivotal role as an agent of change. The Human Resource manager can promote the improvement of quality of services and products of a firm in many ways. From his known responsibilities of sourcing for high quality personnel, training and development of these personnel and development and maintenance of systems of rewarding well performing employees (Stoner, et al. 2003), the Human Resource manager controls important processes that can be a driving force for the realization of a firm’s total quality management. These enable development of the culture of total quality. The Human Resource manager has a role of linking the employees with the senior management (Yuki, 1994). In this way the HR manager establishes avenues of communication between the employees and the senior management. This enables the HR manager to enlighten the employees of their importance to the organization in achieving total quality management. The HR manager builds trust through dialogue and exchange of ideas. This helps to dispel fears to changes in their roles played by the employees. These changes in roles of different employees are needed by the total quality management. This can be the basis of offering training to all personnel to perceive their fellow workmates in other departments as immediate customers. The personnel can only realize this by being a role model to these workers. He can show this by instilling the attitude of customer first throughout the organization. Since the HR manager is an expert in surveying and monitoring the attitudes of the workers (Melcrum, 2008), he gathers information on latest performance by the employees. This information on performance can be critical in starting off well. Therefore the HR manager carries out surveys to establish areas facing problems as far as operations are concerned. This is because failure to realize improvement in quality of product can aff