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Introduction International development cooperation is a very important aspect in this twenty first century. Since the past two decades, there have been developments in various sectors of different nations. These include developments in transport technology and information communications. There has been great rise in globalization since the beginning of the twenty first century. There is great movement of information sectors across borders of nations and great interdependence between nations worldwide. International cooperation has had developments and benefits to people worldwide. The major aim of international cooperation for development is to see to it that there is progress in needy nations. However it is evident that international cooperation for development has not been very successful. This paper basically suggests policy reforms towards international cooperation for development. (Dick, 2006) Reforms Research reveals that international organizations have in the past conducted development assistance to nations using their own ways. This is however no longer effective since there is quite inadequate coordination. This is the coordination between programs in the international organizations and the individual projects. The other major reason as to why they have been ineffective is due to poor capacity on the part of the recipients of aid to actually take in the assistance. A good example is Japan in relation to its security force. (Professor Goto) Research carried out in the year two thousand and seven indicates that sector wide approach has been proposed especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa. This is whereby both the multi-lateral and the bilateral agencies carry out the overall formulation of programs in specific individual sectors. After the developmental programs are formulated, they are then executed. Examples of these sectors include education and health. This in most cases is carried out in alliance with the needy nations or rather the nations that are to receive the aid. Research also reveals that some nations are not in favor of this program. This includes Japan. Policy reforms towards international cooperation for development are very necessary. This is in political management. In order to attain the overall results, it is very important that there be implementation of sound management especially of the economic policies therein. Research also reveals that there is so much delay in the implementation of the policies. This is clearly illustrated in the existing current account deficits which actually depict arrogance in the whole scenario. It is therefore very important that reforms be made in accordance to policy management. (Foster, 2000) One of the major reforms that are needed in international cooperation for development is self controlled analysis. Refor
Coping with the unwanted life events and the resentful feelings connected with them is not an easy task. However, people may improve the situation or change their attitude to relieve the pain since there is solution for any trouble. There are multiple examples from the literature proving this simple truth. In the following paper, three characters from the works of literature considered during this mid-term will be addressed with a purpose of making an analysis of reasons for their bitter feelings and offering suggestions to improve the state of affairs. In “Hill like White Elephants”, Jig feels alienated on the reason of her social and economic situation. Her lover is a rich man while she is a poor and disadvantaged in life. This creates an abyss between them. The difficulties in communication between genders are another reason why the heroine feels cut off from her partner. To cope with such feelings, Jig could concentrate on the pros of the situation. She could think about the benefits she could gain from her relationships with a wealthy man. In addition, she should become stronger than her feelings because in this way, her mind will be free to create a strategy helping to build more rewarding relationship with the lover. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” tells about the poet’s feelings toward his troubled father. The poet, Theodore Roethke, feels alienated from his father because of his rambunctious behavior. Being an alcoholic, the father treats his son poorly, which creates extreme pressure between the poet and the antagonist. To overcome those resentful feelings, the main character could choose to solve his father problem or could find a way to change his life and way of thinking. With regards to the first suggestion, the son could unite his efforts with the mother to force the father to treat his alcoholism. Addressing the second variant, the son could find another place to live as soon as his circumstances would allow that. He could also ask the specialists from social services to help. The only solution not available for the protagonist in this case is changing his attitude since there is no opportunity to get along with an alcoholic. The main protagonist of “A Doll’s house”, Nora, is a woman unhappy in her marriage. She is oppressed by her husband and she feels that he treats her in a wrong way. This situation creates tension that makes the heroine feel alienated and miserable. To change the state of affairs for the better, Nora should strive to establish a closer contact with her husband. However, Nora’s actions may not be enough to affect her husband’s way of thinking. Therefore, Nora’s final decision to leave him is probably the best option for her. Revealing different aspects of the plot conflict, the author of the play seems to suggest the same conclusion. Reflecting on the above-mentioned, Jig in the story “Hill Like White Elephants”, Theodore in the poem “My Papa’s Waltz”, and Nora in the play “A Doll’s house”, all these characters feel alienated and oppressed because of people who make their lives paltry. Still, all of them may cope with the unwanted feelings by changing their way of thinking or finding a way to change
Research carried out shows that internet use contributes greatly to the success of an organization. It connects employees hence enhancing the success of an organization, for instance, survey carried on the department of labor showed that use of internet contributed 65% of the annual hires. However, with availability of the internet, majority of the employees alongside with numerous contractors need appropriate controls over the use of the internet to prevent cases of improper use of the internet in the department or an organization. Internet guidelines The internet use guidelines at the departmental level need to have some similarity with the guidelines used at the organizational level. This is because; departments as well as organizations have one goal in common, success. Therefore, application of organizational guidelines in the running of a department will enhance its success, this is because many organizations’ success is entitled to the following of their set guidelines. Employee’s responsibility However, it is the responsibility of the employees and other staff members within the department to ensure that they have followed the internet guidelines to the latter. This is because; they are the ones who get access to the daily occurrences within the department that dictate for accuracy and validity. In addition to employees and the staff members contributing to the success of the department, their right decisions enhance accuracy of the exchanges that take place within the department. On the other hand, failure of the employees and the staff members in complying with the set guidelines may lead to regrettable disciplinary action. Factors to consider when forecasting the value of a new-networked system In order for an effective implementation of a networking system in a department to be accomplished within a two-year budget, four key factors have to be given priority, and they include having careful planning, effectual configuration of the network, regular maintenance of computers, and installing impenetrable security. In carrying out careful planning, a competitive individual will ensure that all requirements for networking are available and in effective conditions to enhance the success of departmental networking. (McLaughlin, 2008). It is also essential for an individual to employ effective configuration when linking computers to avoid communication problems among computers, this because incorrect configuration of the routers and hubs in connecting the computers cause communication problems. Regular maintenance of the networking system is also appropriate in order to have the computers run effectively and for long. Implementation of maintenance tools,
The concept of organizational culture as in the case of Disney during the tenure of Michael Eisner faced some difficulties as he was more inclined to knowledge focus as opposed to information focus. Most of his decisions created conflicts that ended with most of the company’s talented managers being forced to leave the company. His ego would not let him be perceived as anything else but the winner. To him he was the most intelligent and talented person in the company. His lack of compromise drove many valuable players in the company away. One such a person was Jeffrey Katzenberg. He left the company under unfavorable terms after realizing Michael Eisner was not going to give him the position he coveted. During his tenure Eisner oversaw many changes in the company. Some of the changes brought huge loses to the company. Acquisition of ABC, which performed dismally, is one of the organizational failures that eventually lead to his departure from the company. The organizational climate during his tenure diluted greatly the company’s brand and employees moral. According to him he believed that leadership was a unique trait in every company or in a group of employees. His four rules of leadership; leading by example, being there to control and nudging of other managers as well as being the only source of new ideas affected the company’s growth and organizational culture. Recommendations to improve organizational climate at Disney According to the company’s critics, especially the media, they pointed out that Eisner was not a visionary leader, did not have the prerequisite skills and was not expansive enough for the company leadership. His choice of leadership was wanting and had to change. His mode of employment, where he employed architects as a movie director and a school teacher to the board of the company exposed the company to more problems. What the company needed to appoint experienced and independent movie directors to manage the company growth. Restoration of the company’s creative history would improve on its share holder equity as well as improve on the company’s earning. The company essentially required Eisner to retire for it to make fundamental changes. Eisner’s presentation of bloated and optimistic projections on financial performance, which continuously failed, had to change and new initiatives in the management put in place. Strategic implications of Michel Eisner leadership Although Michael Eisner may have failed to live to his expected goal of improving the company financial p
It is always a matter of taste to wear the colour you like. It may be red, yellow, grey, blue, black or white. No one will say anything to you as far as your colour preferences are concerned, but traditionally there are such colours as blue and white that define not the palette colours only, but in combination with the word ‘collar’ start bringing up the socioeconomic characteristics. I mean the traditional century-long devision of workers into blue collars and white collars. First, it is necessary to stress that these notions denote completely different things; people do the jobs that are not similar at all. Moreover, here, I think, one may say that the work of a blue-collar worker is harder. It can be explained by such characteristic features as the type of their work, the money these workers are paid for their job, the preparation needed and the field of applying their knowledge. First of all, the blue collars, who were traditionally considered to wear blue working robes – the fact that gave the nickname to this socioeconomic class – though now one can find this hard working people in grey and red as well, perform the manual work. Who can disagree that digging, constructing something, repairing the trucks is easier than non-manual work? No one, I guess. Second, as the white-collar workers are occupied in the service sphere and in the majority of cases have a calm, permanent office work with documents, the blue-collar class representatives have to fight for their life while working in dangerous construction places, plants. Their work is unexpected, as well as health killing. Though it is the age of technologies and the machines do lots of work, still it is much cheaper to use the work of a blue-collar. This reminds a bit of the medieval times with their slavary, in this case it being the technological slavary. Third, the blue-callar workers who perform the worst and the most complicated work (I mean physically) do not get regular salary. They are like part-time workers, like freelances: if they
The cardiovascular system, also known as the circulatory or vascular system, takes responsibility for a transformation of oxygen, nutrients, and other by-products of metabolism and promotes the required exchange of substances between cells, blood, and the environment (Klabunde 1). It consists of the heart and several types of blood vessels such as capillaries and arteries. The aorta is the largest and the main artery in the system. It arises from the left ventricle and runs down to the abdomen. The distribution of the oxygenated blood through the body is one of the main functions of the aorta (Klabunde 4). The structure of the aorta is complicated indeed to make the possibility to complete its functions in a human body. There are several sections with their functions and structures that promote an appropriate work of this type of blood vessel. The aortic root is the beginning of the aorta. It contains two coronary arteries through which the main function of the aorta is complete. This section ends with an ascending aorta that is defined as the most defenseless aorta’s part. The curved aortic arch transports blood to the heart. The descending aorta is the next section following the arch that contains the arteries that promote the work of the spinal cord. The diaphragm is the place where the abdominal aorta begins and the descending aorta ends. The abdominal aorta provides the majority of organs with blood. All arteries have several layers, and the aorta is not an exception (Mitchell 484). In the aorta, there is the intima layer (a smooth surface that makes the flow of blood possible), the media layer (muscles and elastic fibers make expansion and contraction of the aorta possible with each heartbeat), and the adventitia layer (the additional support to the aorta consists of irregularly arranged nerve fibers and muscles). There are situations when the blood vessel’s functions undergo considerable changes, and the disturbance of the organism takes place. As soon as a pathogen enters the body, malfunctioning is possible. Aortic diseases are the possible health problems that lead to morbidity and mortality (Sech et al. 99), and aortic dissection is one of the most frequent types of this disease people may suffer from. Aortic dissection happens when blood “separates the laminar planes of the media to form a blood-filled channel within the aortic wall” (Mitchell 504). It may be classic when blood moves from a true lumen to a false lumen (Sech et al. 99), traumatic, and rupture (that is usually catastrophic for people). As a rule, men between 40 and 60, who have antecedent hypertension, and younger adults, who may have systematic abnormalities such as Marfan syndrome, are under threat of having aortic dissection. For example, a higher pressure could l
Introduction The paper discuses a viable empowerment project for youth in a slum set up in Kenya within the ages of 15-18 years who are idle and now causing security concerns. It provides an initiative that starts of as a garbage collection centre to clean the slum area that lacks clear sanitation laws but later set the targets into a movement that acts as a bank of professionals for hiring and a centre for training youth with empowerment skills. The challenges of poor youth policies and their attitudes are discussed, and strategies to deal with the challenges outlined. The paper uses the collaboration approach in youth affairs where the solutions to their problems are based on a holistic approach and not provision of knowledge alone. The Background The year 2010-2011 has been declared by United Nations as the International year of youth. Statistics in the world show that more than half of the world’s population is made up of the youth. In Africa in 2007, for example, 60% of the entire population was made up of young people between 12-14 years. The challenge facing the world is that, globally 130M youth cannot read and write with half of the world’s unemployment approximately being the youth. To adequately deal with these, there is a need to create more than 100M jobs to cope up with the high numbers of the youth seeking employment. Although United Nations in declaring 2010-2011 as the year of youth stresses on dialogue and mutual understanding through creating awareness and mobilizing youth to engage in development, there is still rising rural urban poverty and growing gaps between the rich and the poor affecting mainly the youth. The youth have been neglected in decision making and hence have not been in position to contribute to socio-economic developments. Unfortu
Moral lessons in the past and present are presented in humorous ways most of the time in order to lessen the seriousness of the event but still make it memorable to the people who witnessed it for years to come. My guess is that this is how idioms were born. One of the most popular idioms around is “The person who laughs last, laughs best”. Indeed, this sounds very cliche-ish but often proves as a puzzlement to those who hear it. After all, why should the person who laughs last, laugh the best right? It sounds like the last person to understand a joke or a funny incident must have slow comprehension skills. Actually, this belief cannot be farther from the true explanation for this idiom. Having Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, and other language counterparts, it is believed that this idiom originally appeared sometime in the 1500s and was originally used to describe how one can always manage to successfully reverse the results of past mistakes regardless of the situation or circumstances surrounding it. In modern times, however, it is mostly used when discussing sports events and competitions. Oftentimes, sports commentators can be heard using the phrase to describe events stemming from a negative event during a past competition that has driven the losing team to push itself to produce a positive or winning outcome for their team this time around. Once it happens, the now winning team tends to leave the losing team to wonder as to what they did wrong this time around. In effect, it has the now winning team laughing at the former who usually is constantly ribbing the other regarding how one team will win a competition only to have a taste of defeat in the end. This cliche is actually about never giving up. Never let other people influence you with their worries or ridicule as you strive to reach your ultimate goal. It is all about a person’s confidence in his own abilities and possibilities even when others do not. Usually, the person who eventually succeeds against all odds will enjoy the satisfaction of watching the non-believers scratch their heads while he reaps the rewards of his hard work. This is an idiom that most people use as a mantra in their lives. We will all make mistakes for the duration of our lives. But life is always full of changes that will allow us to correct any errors or overcome past shortcomings in order to produce a better present and future for one’s self. Such successes usually leave detractors wondering how it was done because nobody expected the person to ever succeed at what he was doing due to all his failures along the way. In which case the person can then say “He who laughs last, laughs best.”
Introduction In quantity management practices, firms employ various quality management tools and techniques. Examples of these tools are cause and effect diagrams, histograms, check sheets and so on ( The 7 Basic Quality Tools For Process Improvement , 2015). Companies usually use different combinations of these techniques. The choice of the combination is dictated by the companies’ goals, culture and needs. DHL’s History DHL is the world’s leading company in freight services and it operates in more than 220 countries. Larry Hillbom, Adrian Dalsey, and Robert Lynn founded DHL in 1969. DHL is the initialism consisting of the first letters of these names. The following decades saw a continuous growth that involved establishment of numerous DHL branches around the world ( History , 2015). The services that DHL offers focus on the third party logistics. Some of the services provided are transportation management, warehouse storage and inventory management. It delivers parcels by air, rail and road (Camila, 2010). The four primary products of DHL are mail, freight, express service and supply chain/CIS (see fig. 1). Quality Management Tools and Techniques used by DHL Flow Charts at DHL Three quality management tools and techniques used by DHL are considered in this paper: flow charts, brainstorming, and productivity improvement. Flow charts are diagrams that show the flow and nature of steps in a process. For instance, a workflow chart shows the flow of tasks and information when processing a package delivery. Below is one of the flow charts employed by DHL (see fig. 2). Flow charts are used by DHL to promote the understanding of a particular process. Customers benefit from the use of flow charts as they better understand the supply chain of DHL. DHL uses the flow charts as tools for managing the supply chain. Figure 1. DHL’s four main products and their respective revenues for the year 2010. The Workflow at DHL Hence, it is possible to take a closer look at the workflow at DHL with the help of the workflow chart provided below. The order is seen as the basis of the information flow. It is necessary to note that order processing consists of six main stages. The initial stage is order transmission ( Information flow from the order to delivery , 2015). The following technologies are used to accomplish this stage: telephone, mail and e-mail, fax, electronic data exchange. In other words, this is the phase whe