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Outline   * Introduction   * Green Building and Operations Management   * Importance and Role of Operations Management   * Conclusion Introduction Green building depends upon effective management process and resource allocation. Project managers tell what they do is to create such things as good home environments, provide for leisure and tourism, save buildings, the countryside and landscape, improve the natural and built environments, make sure that developments are well served by transport systems. Coordination is one of the operations management activities essential to the green building. The nature, intricacy, and magnitude of the management task, especially in conglomerate organizations, complicates the problem. These burdens are eased by greater use of renewable resources that include people outside the green building project, the addition of personnel to green building staffs, and the establishment of coordinating responsibilities such as research and development, product planning, and market planning. Green Building and Operations Management Operations management help green builders adjust to changing market situations, marketing organizations are faced with the necessity of developing agreement within the total system while allowing divisional units great autonomy. Operations management functions such as budgeting, planning, resource management, layout design permit speedier decisions and adjustments, authority to act at lower levels, the development of a supply of green building managers, and recognition of both the latitude accorded specialized or independent functions and the diversity of company activities (Johnston 32). Operations management facilitates the performance of specialized units in green building process, welds independent divisions into a total complex, sets goals for the entire project, allots each unit its role and appraises its functioning, strives for organizational balance, and fits all the departments into a system. Operations of green building projects vary, and some companies now want it close to the marketplace. This affords greater autonomy for project managers and an advisory position for central planning staffs. As greater authority passes down the line closer to markets, operations management, including location and inventory management decisions, brings a need for marketing specialists at the branch level, thereby creating problems of coordination (Naylor 76). Importance and Role of Operations Management Operations management is crucial for green building projects as it include sales forecasting, product planning, marketing control, physical distribution, credit, manpower development, planning and analysis, and industry research. Breaking out occurs when functions are separated from each other so that they are performed in more efficient and logical manner. Important project issues arise in the process: when to break out functions, how fast they should be developed, and how they should be organized in multidivisional projects. The operations management places emphasis on adjustment to a dynamic exter
Introduction Education enables students identify and use their talents to make their lives better. In addition, it shapes their perceptions and beliefs regarding various issues of concern in their lives. However, people have various degrees of integrating their class work into meaningful activities. This may be caused by nature in individuals born with slow learning abilities and may also be caused by diseases that affect their minds. Regardless of the cause of mental retardation students ought to have adequate education through attending schools. This is a critique of “Differentiation and Curriculum” article by Margaret E. King-Sears. Research Question This article explores two learning possibilities. The first question explores the possibilities of students with learning disabilities are able to acquire knowledge through the general education system. The second question examines the impacts of differentiation as a way of promoting learning among students with learning disabilities. Theoretical Foundation Learning takes place when students have access to learning materials and techniques despite their disabilities. The value of education is based on the level of knowledge generation rather than completion of syllabus. Methodology Margaret discusses two approaches that guide knowledge generation in learning institutions that offer their services to students with disabilities and normal ones. She presents her discussion by outlining fallacies and facts regarding generalized and differentiated education systems. A generalized education system is one which uses one curriculum to offer education to all learners without considering whether they are disabled or not. Alternatively, a differentiated education system is one that addresses students’ needs according to their learning abilities. Margaret analyses fallacies and facts on learning abilities and efficiencies brought about by these education systems. Results Disabilities and Education Curriculums Margaret presents a general belief that students with disabilities cannot make any meaningful use of an education system. This is one of the greatest fallacies that limit learning and make parents reluctant to take their disabled children to school. This fallacy is based on the belief that since these students are disabled they cannot learn. However, this belief is wrong and misinformed since everybody is capable of learning (King-Sears 2008). This fallacy ignores the fact that people train and educate animals to do various activities. People should know that animals do various activities through training, and so human beings too can learn various aspects and improve their lifestyles. This fallacy is retrogressive and denies students a chance to learn and develop their skills. Education does not only focus on passing examinations but also on imparting general knowledge on various crucial issues that affect human beings. Students with learning disabilities can compete well with other students if teachers use proper approaches to teach them. Since these students
It is evident that the healthcare industry defines the quality of human lives in terms of health conditions. As a result, it is vital to seek professional candidates for positions in this sphere, especially in pediatrics, so that people are provided with good treatment. Therefore, the competencies and practical skills crucial for pediatrics require investigati
Introduction Toni Morrison wrote her first and famous novel, The Bluest Eye , in 1970. The author tells the story about the tragic fate and death of Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl whose mother knew that her dark-skinned child would grow up ugly. The Bluest Eye “portrays the tragedy, which results when African Americans have no resources with which to fight the standards presented to them by the white culture.” 1 The novel was banned in many American schools because of vulgar and obscene language, as well as sexually explicit descriptions. Nevertheless, this book addresses some crucial issues, such as appearance stereotypes, racism, and femininity, and depicts complex relationships between the main characters. Summary of the Book The story begins in 1940, it is told on behalf of nine-year-old Claudia MacTeer, Pecola’s only friend, who is younger than the main character for two years. Pecola Breedlove, a dark-skinned girl, lives in a world owned by whites. She believes that her life would be better and easier if she were white, too. Blue eyes are a symbol of whiteness for the little girl. She watches her father, Cholly Breedlove, who becomes increasingly violent and frustrated as his dreams are shattered. Moreover, he suffers constant humiliation because of the color of his skin. Her mother, Pauline, fends off the problems by an orderly life, continuous cleaning, and working as a maid in a white family. One spring evening, Pecola is raped by his drunken father. She gets pregnant after he rapes her a second time. 2 The traumatized girl loses touch with reality and goes to the priest and swindler Elihue Micah Whitcomb, nicknamed Soaphead Church, with a request to make her eyes blue. He claims that he can help, but in exchange for a favor. Soaphead Church wants to get rid of the old, sick dog and gives Pecola the poisoned meat, saying that only feeding the dog will show if her wish comes true. When the dog starts gagging and limping, Pecola believes she will get her blue eyes. The rape and the incident with the dog drive Pecola crazy. More than that, her baby dies, which finally leads to destroying her connection with reality. The girl believes that her eyes have turned blue, and she invents an imaginary friend who is always there and tells her that her eyes are the bluest in the world. Pecola Breedlove, who could not see herself figuratively before, has solved the problem. Now she literally sees herself in the most perverted and tragic form. Main Characters Pecola Breedlove The protagonist of The Bluest Eye is a young dark-skinned and poor girl growing up in the early 1940s. Almost all people repeatedly call her ugly, from other pupils to her mother. This continuous bullying and criticism, that Pecola has to suffer, lead her to seek escape from her misery. That is
Introduction The socially constructed types of class, race, and gender not only locate groups and individuals within, national, local, and global social structures but specifically establish social identities that ultimately shape cultures and experiences of people. The prevalence of poor and underprivileged people, people of immigrants, and gender along with increasing concern about class and race, situate the overall work of the field in an interlocking system of oppression and power (Lorber, 2005). Social inequality is experienced and described along with lines of class, race, and gender supports to determine who requires literacy instruction, who acquires it, how these learners ultimately experience it, and how does it affects their lives. Both policymakers and individuals in the society of the United States anticipate literacy as a remedy that overall impacts and eventually reduces economic and social inequality. In this paper, we shall discuss the role of educators and how education contributes to the enhancement of people’s cognitive growth. The paper argues and probes the phenomenon; can education play its due role to eliminate class, race, and gender inequality. It is pertinent to mention that educators may be authorized to teach in different ways that, in fact, reinforcing instead of transforming inequality and differences of class, race, and gender orientation that impact the life chances of different learners. This social background along with the social locations and identities of learners and teachers, the political economy of finances for its programs, and typical differential reward its learners gain from educational accomplishment- increases concerns especially for adult educators in the areas of curriculum policy, and pedagogy. The Dynamics of Class, Race, and Gender The dynamics of class, racism, and gender inequality affect the lives of people in the United States. Educational research on inequality read as if class and racism impact only those in different minority groups. The racism experienced by individuals of color in the school of the United States could not exist in the absence of simultaneous privileging of whites by the same educational institutions. Class, race, and gender impact the power of people to negotiate educational institutions for reaping benefits and rewards. This is specifically reflected in the poverty and predominance of individuals of color among those with a low level of education. Socioeconomic conditions are the robust predictors of educational accomplishments across gender and race, and educational accomplishment is a strong indicator of employment success. In the last five decades, a series of educational policies and reforms, initiated particularly at the national level, have been implemented into domestic school systems. All such reforms focused to move education much closer to the theme of equality of educational opportunity. Given the signific
The following description highlights various aspects of the Human Genome Project that are thought to be connected in a series of events in influencing the cloning of the PARK2 gene. The Human Genome Project (HGP), begun in 1990 and completed in 2003, has achieved many milestones. It has especially made a significant contribution in unravelling the mystery of genetic diseases. HGP has permitted the usage of prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression vectors for cloning gene libraries representing one chromosome. To this end, it has employed the usage of Bacculoviruses artificial chromosomes (BACs) as cloning vectors because of its large insert size of 100 to 350 kbp. In the year 1996, it has established a Mapped BAC/PAC resource for studying gene isolation, sequencing and mapping. 100 BACs have been mapped to single bands in the mouse genome. So this strategy was being applied to the PARK2 gene cloning. In addition, 100 BACs have been mapped to single bands in the mouse genome. One of the important areas of HGP is chromosome mapping, which was achieved in September 1994. Here the goal was to augment the developing chromosome maps with markers for genes. Hence, with this information, linkage analysis was applied, and polymorphic markers were identified and employed that are located 17cM apart. These are markers D6S305 and D6S253. Next, one important area of HGP is functional and comparative genomics. Scientists have always preferred animals as it was believed that a homology exists between them and humans. As such, animals that mimic the functional biology of humans were employed as ‘model organisms’ for gene sequencing experiments by HGP. As identifying all the 30,000 genes was one of the goals of HGP, the researchers might have come across many candidate genes; and this probably might have influenced the identification of the parkin gene, the PARK2 on chromosome 6. It can also be perceived that as HGP has contributed to the knowledge of vital gene functions, research has commenced studying deletions of specific genes to know the exact consequences that might build. Hence deletion mutations have gained research significance, and finally, the parkin gene deletion mutation was connected to the aetiology of a rare form of Parkinson’s disease (PD), known as autosomal recessive –juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP) (Matsumine et al.,1998). This disease is also known as ‘familial PD’, is known to affect people of increased genetic predisposition below 21 years of age (Daniel Weintraub et al., 2008). Therefore, HGP seems to have controlled the detection of the PARK2 gene by promoting the knowledge of genetic databases. Further, HGP also may have pressurized the need to understand the mitochondrial genome fu
Introduction Given the fact that, due to specifics of today’s highly dynamic and secularized post-industrial living, more and more people grow to perceive psychological therapy as the key to ensuring their existential well-being, it represents the matter of foremost importance for psychologists to be able to choose in favor of a proper methodological framework when it comes to counseling. This, however, often proves challengeable, as of today, there exists a certain dichotomy in how councilors, affiliated with different schools of psychology, address the task. For example, according to McGraw, Zvonkovic, and Walker (2000), it namely the utilization of feminist approach to counseling, which appears to be most suitable when helping married couples is being concerned, as positivist methods of counseling are being procedurally inflexible: “Traditional positivist (counseling) methodologies lack an imaginative capacity to transcend present social arrangements” (p. 69). Nevertheless, since most Western societies remain rationale-driven, which presupposes its members’ tendency to address life’s challenges in essentially rationalistic manner; there are good reasons to believe that the deployment of positivist approach to counseling is being perfectly adequate. As it was rightly pointed out to by Egan (2010): “Rational models help clients bring much needed discipline and order into their chaotic lives” (p.16). Apparently, the extent of just about any psychotherapeutic model’s suitability can only be measured in regards to the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of its practical deployment. In its turn, the extent of psychotherapeutic model’s effectiveness largely depends on counselors and clients’ eagerness to treat each other with respect, in the personal and professional sense of this word. In my paper, I will aim to explore this thesis even further, while making references to specifically Egan’s ‘Skilled-Helper Model’, as such that is being based on a rationale-driven approach to providing clients with psychological help, which in its turn, implies the high degree of model’s qualitative measurability. Main part When dealing with clients who seek help, it represents the matter of crucial importance for councilors to be able to gain a comprehensive insight into the very essence of clients’ psychological anxieties. In its turn, this would require them to act as particularly attentive listeners, while being exposed to how clients articulate their problems. According to Thompson (2003): “Listening is an art. Full attention is given both to what the client is saying and to other nonverbal cues such as posture and facial e
Introduction Lomnitz affirmed that nationalism does not form a single fraternal community because it distinguishes between various categories of people 1 ; indeed these assertions hold to be quite true in Argentina. Argentineans have been struggling with the concept of nationalism for a long time because no basis for commonality actually exists 2 . Nationalism and the lack of a single fraternal community in Argentina The debate over nationalism and its constituents have often led to bitter if not violent confrontations 3 . This has been the result of various political and historical events in the country. Argentina is an amalgamation of various cultures that range from European immigrants, Indians, Spanish descendents, indigenous Argentines as well as Afro Argentines 4 . Furthermore, the country’s affiliation to its Catholic heritage further complicates this definition of nationalism 5 . Political control of the concept of nationalism has also added to this complication. At one point, emphasis was given to the links between Mother Spain and Argentinean nationalism. However, when threats of foreign domination emerged, Argentine authorities soon rejected associations with western cultures by postulating the very notions that they had banned prior to these anti-colonial sentiments 6 . Now that a description of the Argentinean historical and political discourse has been given, it is crucial to link this to the divergent occurrence of nationalism in the country. Lomnitz explains that nationalism in Latin America has often been defined by the elite classes 7 . In the nineteenth century, they were the ones that determined the elements of modernity which were desirable and the ones that were not. They were patriotic and had great taste. However, their foreign contacts made them appear less patriotic than indigenous Latin Americans 8 . In fact, certain powerful figures such as the 1976 President – Arturo Frondizi asserted that foreign ideological influences and customs were detrimental to the national roots of Argentina 9 . He believed that the country’s citizens had the responsibility of saving their traditions and cultures 10 . This understanding of nationalism (one that is defined by social classes) delineates the upper classes from the lower ones. It creates greater division between these two categories of people because the majority of the population may not belong to the elite classes 11 . Concepts of nationalism in Argentina possess certain cleavages that make some citizens appear less associated with the nation than others 12 . Indeed, concepts of race and ethnicity have been acknowledge
Introduction This report will provide an overview of the findings of the business environment of Jumbo Safari. The results are based on the use of such techniques as SWOT analysis, Porter’s model of five forces, and STEEPLE framework which are useful for identifying the main factors that influence the work of this company. Furthermore, the paper will outline the strategies that this business should adopt in order to improve its financial and organisational performance. To a great extent, the proposed strategies reflect the major trends that have emerged in the tourist industry. Moreover, these recommendations are based on the use of the best practices that are related to change management. Additionally, the document will include guidelines that can show how these strategies should be implemented. Overall, the proposed changes are supposed to improve the marketing strategies of Jumbo Safari as well as the labour force of this company since these aspects are vital for the ability of this business to attract and retain clients. The findings related to the business environment External forces The company Jumbo Safari offers the services which are related to eco-tourism, and this choice of the market segment is very beneficial. It should be noted the global expenditures on this particular activity are expected to increase (Center for Responsible Travel, 2014). Currently, a great number of people are willing to visit areas that have been undisturbed by human activities. To a great extent, this trend can be explained by the changes in the lifestyles of many people who are no longer attracted only to the urban areas of foreign countries; in particular, many of them do not want to spend time in amusement parks, night clubs, boutiques, or museums (Wearing & Neil 2013, p. 121). Such entertainments no longer appeal to them (Wearing & Neil 2013, p. 121). In turn, as the company, which operates Malaysia, Jumbo Safari has the opportunity to benefit from eco-tourism. In particular, there are many sites that can be of great interest to tourists; for instance, one can mention Mulu Caves, Cameron Highlands, or Royal Belum State Park (Hutton 2000, p. 136). Thus, one can say that the geographical location of this company can be critical for its growth. Furthermore, Malaysia has a well-developed infrastructure that can also be of great importance to travellers. For example, one can speak about information technologies which enable travellers to communicate with their friends or relatives. Thus, the company can able to benefit from these opportunities. Furthermore, the government of the country pursues policies that can increase the inflow of tourists. To a great extent, this strategy can be explained by the need to diversify the economy of Malaysia. This is why policy-makers take several steps to improve the experiences of tourists. For example, one can speak about the simplified visa regime. In particular, every foreigner, who intends to stay in the country for less than 30 days, can receive a visa without reference