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Introduction The issue of the American Dream cannot get out of the picture of most Americans and aliens alike. People have come out to criticize or support it; however, Edward Albee gives it a rare treat. The satirical style of lamenting the illusions surrounding the American Dream makes Albee’s work a masterpiece. The essay shall analyze the setting, plot, writing style and main themes in The American Dream by Edward Albee. Even critics would find this piece of art, both interesting and informative. According to Popkin, Albee admitted that, this is “an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen” (26). The work is rich in elements of fiction, among them theme and imagery. The play is performed in multiple theatres of the country. The American Dream As the title suggests, he American Dream is the most prominent theme in this drama. The American Dream play is an apologue of how American life has turned awry under the pretext of the American Dream. Mommy is sadistic, Daddy gelded, and Grandma acerbated. This play unveils what the American Dream left behind after its ‘timely’ death. Albee goes straight to the point and uses the Young Man to represent the American Dream. Though the Young Man is physically perfect, he is incompetent, especially after losing his twin brother, whom they separated at birth. It is important to note that Mommy and Daddy have adopted the Young Man, who is the opposite of his brother, who is headless, feetless, and spineless among other deformities. The description given to the Young Man perfectly describes the American Dream. It was and still is perfect on paper but unattainable in practice. Many Americans thought the American Dream would bring them joy and satisfaction; however, it brought them misery. Mommy and Daddy see the Young Man as “bumble of joy” because joy and satisfaction are what they expected from him. Unfortunately, the Young Man fails miserably. As aforementioned, the Young Man is physically perfect; however, he cannot do anything correctly. Finally, he resorts to doing anything and everything that comes his way as long as he gets money. At this point, he becomes a symbol of ‘satisfaction’ to Mommy and Daddy. Is this not what the American dream turned out to be? Americans quickly forgot what the dream was all about, corrupted it with materialism, mutilated, and killed it befo
Introduction The idea that the current paper discusses is the utilization of quantum computing for the decision-making and problem-solving processes. The difference between personal computers and their innovative counterparts was addressed in detail by the CEO of D-Wave named Alan Baratz. He proposed to pay more attention to the possible startups that could utilize software to resolve fundamental physics and business problems at the same time. This approach was found to be rather useful because it broadened the horizons for conventional developers who only worked with non-quantum computers. 1 Owing to Baratz’s efforts, quantum computing quickly became the most important area of development for D-Wave, as the CEO also realized that it could be crucial to utilize the advantages offered by the quantum medium. The most important point about the idea of quantum computing at D-Wave is that the company quickly realized the marketing potential of it and took over the quantum computing market. The essential advantage of quantum computing is the presence of dedicated cloud services that make it possible to store and pull data from the online database at unbelievable speeds. 2 The strength of cloud-based initiatives makes quantum computing practically unreachable because each effort exerted by teams interested in this innovative technology allows them to overcome the skepticism and advance both in terms of hardware and software. Potential of the Idea The first reason why the quantum computing technology has potential is the ability to translate common physics into hardware and software solutions that allow researchers to combine particles and achieve incredible results where such particles may turn into anything of interest to the developers. The benefit of quantum computing, in this case, is that particles may assume the superposition when not observed, allowing the developers to increase the number of potential combinations of particles. The second reason that validates the potential of quantum computing is the advent of qubits that can store much more values than their conventional counterparts (bits). All 16 combinations within the qubit can be effectively accessed at any moment, while also creating a link between two qubits that react to one another’s transformations in real-time. 3 Therefore, the limited capacity of conventional cloud-based services comes to an end with quantum computing and qubits. The utmost reason to perceive quantum computing as a technology of the future
Businesses have different ways of advancing their goals. It is also important to have good strategy formulation procedures. It enables them to make significant sales. The three-dimensional business definition model is an example of Dereck Abell’s contribution to strategy formulation. The Abell Business Model The three-dimensional business definition model examines an organization through the eyes of the customer (Mun, 2002). The belief that an enterprise cannot exist without the buyer of its services and goods is strong. It has three main questions that every business must seek to answer: Who are the customers of the organization? What are the client’s needs? What technique are used to meet the buyers’ needs? The buyers can be represented by the groups or individuals (Mun, 2002). This makes it easier to identify a segmented market and thus to meet the customers’ needs. Dereck Abell developed his the model in the 1980s. It is still called the Abell’s Framework (Mun, 2002). He developed a framework in which he summarized the three questions. The horizontal axis comprises of the customers. On the vertical axis he positioned the buying needs of the customers (Mun, 2002). The other axis was inclined. It indicated the technologies that would support the organization to produce and deliver the desired products to the customer. The framework gives the overall picture of the model for the organization’s strategy. One example would be when a furniture house delivers furniture that the customer can easily fit at home using available knowledge (Mun, 2002). The technological needs would be the modern joinery equipment the company uses to fix the furniture. It would also include transport mechanisms. The firm can segment its customers by classifying office furniture and household furniture (Mun, 2002). One can divide the market even further based on the income levels of the customers. Reader’s Digest Association publishes the Reader’s Digest magazine that had the largest circulation in the world in 1992. It has more than twenty brands that are leaders in their segments or groups (Mun, 2002). It has managed to source for markets all over the world but mainly in North America and Canada. Other Products The company sells magazines, condensed books, videos and compact disks. Many customers believe in the company and its brands. The company can easily use the same segments and groups to introduce and sell other brands. The organization can begin selling diaries (Wang, Li, Zhang, Xie, & Gao, 2014). The customers would see this as an additional favorite product to satisfy their needs. It would go a long way towards helping them to keep a record of the magazines and books they have read from the company. It would also help them to maintain a record of their day to day activities. As a result, it would increase their reading habits. Abell’s distribution channels would be available for this new brand. Most of the people who read these magazines and books also have personal daily activities (Wang et al., 2014). Some go camping during weekends and holidays. The organization can link up with the solar energy suppliers. The aim is to acquire and label the read
The article reviewed in this essay concerns a virtual exercise that involved medical workers and first responders. The effort simulated an influenza pandemic, which had led to the declaration of a state of emergency and an overwhelming surge of patients at hospitals. As such, the hospital featured in the exercise activated its emergency response plan, which involved the performance of triage (Beedasy & Ramloll, 2010). The participants were first responders and hospital workers tasked with performing the activity to help sort the patients. The novelty of the exercise was in that it was performed entirely virtually and online, without requiring participants to physically attend or endangering people. The hospital’s reception areas were simulated using software specifically designed for the purpose, and the participants demonstrated their abilities there. The primary point of the article is that modern technology enables new training modes that are comparable in effectiveness to traditional physical training while taking a fraction of the time and effort to complete. They do not require the usage of physical resources, which enables larger-scale simulations than those possible in the real world. At the same time, the authors allege that these methods do not necessarily result in lower-quality training than what physical experiences would provide. While practical knowledge is essential to many aspects of medical treatment, triage relies more on the understanding of procedures and symptoms, especially in emergency workers. To that end, the authors test the methods developed by reviewing the participants’ knowledge of relevant topics before and after the training. The expectation was that their understanding would be improved considerably, establishing the training’s effectiveness and competitiveness with traditional approaches. Overall, the participants’ responses to the exercise were positive, with most rating it highly. The only participant to view the exercise negatively commented that they had to leave to attend to a real patient during the drill, so this score is not necessarily valid. The trainees remarked that their knowledge of how triage is implemented had been improved considerably by the exercise. Additionally, they claimed that the training was an opportunity for members of different organizations to cooperate, which were usually difficult to obtain due to the commitments required. However, there were also issues in the exercise, notably one involving computer usage. Some participants lacked the competencies required to operate the simulation, while others’ computers were not powerful enough to r
Process map The paper will attempt to explain the issues that are faced by Health Management Organization (HMO) pharmacy and come up with possible solutions to the problems. In order to identify the problems at a pharmacy, it is important to first come up with the process map of the prescription filing process (Snee & Hoerl, 2005). The process map is presented below. The map above is categorized into four parts, that is, ordering, transliterating, allotting and administering. In each of the four stages, there are potential areas for errors to occur. A closer review of the entire process shows that the most profound errors are incorrect drug, dose, patient, time, route, labelling, and drug interaction (Snee & Hoerl, 2005). In summary, it can be noted that the entire process lacks quality control checks that ensures that patients receive the correct medication. SIPOC Model At this point, the SIPOC model will be used to analyze the HMO’s pharmacy business process. This model will assist in finding all important elements of the prescription filling process. SIPOC is an abbreviation for suppliers, input, process, output, and customer (Britz et al., 2000). The SIPOC model is presented below. Root causes of problems The first main cause is unreadable handwriting. This arises when the handwriting of the doctor cannot be understood clearly by the pharmacy clerk. The second cause is
Nursing Education and Career Options Education is very important to our lives. For instance, an individual can be a nurse in various ways; such as diploma, associate, baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs. The most general way of becoming a nurse is through degree programs. The minimum level for beginning professional practice in Nursing should be the baccalaureate degree in Nursing (American Nursing Association, 1965). Moreover, (Aiken, et al., 2005), argued that patients who are cared for by the nurses who have achieved the baccalaureate degree have better outcomes. Concerning issues of entry into the nursing practice, there are certain forces at work in nursing education. The shortfalls include the shortage of nurse educators or instructors that has resulted in a lack of nursing education for qualified students. It is fundamental to consider how an educational experience influences beliefs on education. Other options may include enrollment in online courses. It is important to develop a career option early enough since every individual has a personal story. Some individuals make choices early enough to become a nurse or a registered nurse. This is a wise decision followed by the decision to obtain a baccalaureate degree. Others may consider it a personal goal, while others consider it as a stepping-stone to the future. Knowledge and experience acquired by a nurse in practice provide a foundation for the nursing career (Benner, 2001). In addition, the professional contact that a nurse makes provides more avenues for career development. Finally, it is important to understand that education is the basis for career development. Some career opportunities may be available due to educational achievement. For instance, a baccalaureate degree is necessary for a community-nursing course, while a masters’ degree is necessary when one needs to move into a teaching profession. Cultural Influences There are cultural influences in assuming the role of a Community Health Nurse. The diversity of the world’s populations contained in individual’s psyches as illustrated by the Race- The power of illusion. The race is an important issue because it explains the difference between men. These differences include genetic variations that provide a common challenge to the assumptions of our common
Executive Summary The change anticipated in the selected university seeks to support the reduction of plastic consumption while managing waste efficiently through the utilization of compostable packaging materials. This report will present the results obtained after undertaking research aimed at revealing the implications of the suggested initiative for the university. The paper will describe how the measures implemented to support the introduction of single-use plastics could impact the beverage and food outlets’ human resources, economic, financial, marketing, and supply chain procedures. For instance, the workers would be empowered to complete their duties much faster, maximize coordination among departments, support or streamline supply chain and procurement operations and transform financial management procedures. The completed study indicated that such a move is capable of promoting the university’s sustainability agenda and maximizing profitability. Context The presented case study reveals that the targeted university finds it hard to recycle plastic cups in its catering outlets. Plastic cutlery and polystyrene containers make it impossible for the institution to achieve its sustainability objectives. It has gone further to introduce bamboo-based reusable cups at additional costs. Corn-starch cutlery is also becoming common (Allen 2017). The university has introduced new changes to transform waste management and plastics consumption initiatives. Some of them include the use of cans for fizzy drinks, getting water from SmartWater, and purchas
Whenever a man obsessed by the idea of a piece of art living in him, starts expressing his understanding of the world, and the people living in it, and him living among those people, there must be the new masterpiece coming. In spite of the fact that, as a rule, one indulges into art to find the shelter from the reality, the author of the book called The Soloist explores quite a different issue of the man who uses his art as the only way to cling to the world that is slipping through his fingers. However strange and confusing that might sound, music and only music both takes one away from this world into another sphere of self-cognition and helps to get through in the world of the ordinary. To Make a Snapshot of the Book Exploring the issue of a man getting crazy because of the twists of fate and playing a violin to stay sane, Lopez provides quite a case for the psychologists from all over the world. It seems unbelievable what music can do to a person who has problems with surviving in the world. Amazingly, it can help both people with deeply psychological problems and the disabled. There must be some invisible material that makes music the one and only language understood by everyone, despite the differences in the age, education, culture or whatever. Music unites and makes people share everything what they have with the rest. It provides a quiet resort for those who need to be distracted from the surrounding cruelty, and links things and people that might never collide together. It is impossible to predict the turns of destiny that night lead one to the state if insanity. As Lopez put that himself, Mental illness doesn’t choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams. (Lopez 116) It is extremely important to figure out the way Lopez sheds the light on the problem. To him, it is a conflict between a man, art and society. This has always been an issue for heated debates, and the question of whether music or any other kind of art can help one to integrate into the society and become a part of it, understanding it better with the help of music, or, on the contrary, be thrown away as a weirdo that is prepossessed by the art that no one needs. Indeed, one can dissolve in music so fully that it will take long time to crawl back to the world with its daily-routine issues and the growing lack of beauty. So the question is how on earth music can be a link between the world of a single person and the one that makes the other universe? Can the music support the one who feels an outcast among the people who have repeatedly pushed him away and now are not willing to take him as a part of their universe? This is the problem that has been brewing in the society since the day it was born. Thus, the importance of the subject is beyond any reasonable doubt. Is it possible that the
Background The point under discussion is Dr. Deming’s concept of “breaking down barriers.” This point puts a particular emphasis on the important role of the coordinated cooperation of all the corporate departments. Thus, it is assumed that the key barrier to successful performance is the lack of a shared vision of the company’s goals and values. As a result, each department acts as a separate team the interests of which are often irrelevant to those that other departments pursue. Dr. Deming proposes eliminating the described barrier and promoting the harmonious collaboration of all the groups. The finite goal, therefore, resides in establishing such a working environment that implies a consistent operation flow carried out by a united team that comprises employees from different departments such as production, sales, and research to name but a few. Dr. Deming assumes that such collaboration helps to perform an accurate evaluation of the outcomes and foresee potential problems in the production process. From a long-term perspective, the realization of the described principles is likely to lead to a significant change in the corporate culture, as well as to optimize the organizational structure. Current Condition It should be admitted that the “break down concept” is not fully applied to the operation flow in Costco. Even though the company has implemented the practice of multifunctional teams that comprise employees of different specializations, the collaboration between the departments is still inconsistent. Hence, it mainly exists among team leaders. The latter participate in common seminars and training. They also attend shared meetings regularly. The extent of other employees’ inclusion is, meanwhile, low. Thus, for instance, the decision-making process in the production department is carried out without involving professionals from sales or research division. The top-down managerial approach applied to all the levels of the company’s functioning excludes the possibility of consistent interactions. Project managers in the production department sometimes try to involve specialists from the research division, though they fail to offer powerful motivation drivers so that the employees’ participation is rather perfunctory than task-focused. Likewise, the achievements of one team are never assigned to the shared effort of other specialists. Therefore, it might be concluded that the managerial approach to task management should be revised to eliminate the existing barriers to the effective collaboration of the entire workforce aligned with the company’s goals and values. Target Condition It is proposed that a new goal is set by Costco’s management to apply Dr. Deming’s principle and improve the corporate culture from a long-term perspective. Thus, the management should focus on eliminating barriers to effective collaboration between departments and establish an environment within which each employee will feel like a significant part of a large mechanism. Adopting this principle implies numerous advantages for Costco. First and foremost, it will help to improve the quality of the decision-making process as more prof