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Executive Summary The present research paper delivers an overview of Saint Lucia that will be beneficial for foreign investors who would like to start a business in that country. The paper addresses the cultural, economic, and political peculiarities of the country, as well as the potential challenges business people may face when leading the business. The paper also contains the historical background of the country that explains the majority of its cultural characteristics. The report provides the readers with the current information concerning the economic growth and business potential Saint Lucia currently possesses. It reveals such economic characteristics as the country’s GDP, investment profits, employment, unemployment rate, and the data on the export and import of goods and services. Another classification the report contains concerns the Saint Lucian model of cultural development that will allow the potential investors to establish the most effective and less harmful ways to promote their business in the country. It may also help develop the business strategy regarding the peculiarities of the national culture and organize work in the most effective way. Introduction St. Lucia is an island in the Caribbean sea that attracts not only by its nature but also opportunities for business development. The country is situated on Saint Lucia island between St. Vincent and Martinique. It is bathed by the Caribbean Sea and by the Atlantic Ocean. The country’s square is 616 sq. kilometers, and more than 180 thousand people populate it. The native population of the island is almost gone (Dalphins, 2019). Nowadays, there live mostly people from Africa or India, and the European population constitutes no more than one percent of all the people who live there. The main religion of the country is Catholicism, as almost sixty percent of the population confess to it. The capital of Saint Lucia is Castries. The official language is English, but a lot of people speak French. Background and Culture St. Lucia was discovered by Christopher Columbus at the end of 1502. Up until 1814, the country was a disputable territory of England and France. However, later the island has become the object of British jurisdiction (Dalphins, 2019). St. Lucia became an independent estate in February 1979. However, it remains a member of the British Commonwealth. Saint Lucia is a parliament monarchy, so the country’s head is the British Queen, represented by Governor-General. Since the country is not very famous, its culture is not so well-known worldwide. One of the most prominent citizens of Saint Lucia, one can single out only Derek Walcott. He was a poet, dramatist, and Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1992. The country’s location and climate enable the government to promote tourism, which is one of the main sources of revenue for Saint Lucia. Then go the agricultural sphere and construction industry (“Saint Lucia: Economy”, 2021). The realty market in Saint Lucia remains the market of consumers. The majority of the deals are consumer-oriented since people buy the realty to have rest th
Executive Summary The report presents the activities I accomplished at the Capital Investment Realty Group, located in Los Angeles, California. I was an intern in the department of finance and auditioning as an asset management analyst. The company falls within the property management industry. The Capital Investment Realty Group specializes in the sale and lease of a commercial and residential building. I was engaged in job-related roles such as preparation of presentations, supporting administrative tasks, researching market trends/competition/pricing, creation of relevant financial analysis reports, and supporting the underwriting/due diligence phases. The company should improve its financial reporting by incorporating different sustainability indicators. Company Overview History Founded in 2013, the CIRG operates in the real estate sector and has focused on selling or leasing commercial and residential houses targeting the entertainment and sports sectors. The company is known for its high performance in the record-breaking leases and sales (CIRG, 2018). In the last three years, the company has expanded the service bracket to offer customized real estate products to global and local customers (CIRG, 2018). At present, the organization operates under the full-cycle service charter, which merges the client’s resources, roster, and an impeccable network. As a result, the company functions as a powerful brokerage firm with a diverse service charter. Products and Services The primary service charter for the company is categorized into a commercial for lease, a commercial for sale, residential for lease, and residential for sale. The services are further categorized into real estate brokerage, asset management, vocational rentals, commercial lending, and commercial brokerage (CIRG, 2018). The company also offers other specialized real estate services such as property searches, conducting due diligence, and paid consultation. CIRG credits itself for the ability to source real estate deals that are not easily accessible to the open market (CIRG, 2018). Real Estate Asset Management Industry CIRG operates in the dynamic, expansive, and multifaceted real estate management industry. Focused on the Los Angeles market in California, CIRG has become a primary player targeting the sports and entertainment celebrity market segment by offering this unique customized real estate services (CIRG, 2018). This industry is characterized by high competition, expansive customer needs, and unpredictable market swings. It is estimated to be worth more than $1 trillion in the US (CIRG, 2018). The real estate management industry is further segmented into brokerage, asset management, and planning/construction sectors. Fortunately, CIRG has expanded its operations to capture all the sectors and is currently among the market leaders in the California
The Notion Of A Moral Client This entails why we humans are worthy of moral consideration i.e. why we are proper moral clients and what makes ethics possible. Therefore an action or practice can be morally wrong if performing that action or practice is in some way contrary to some individual’s true interest i.e. the only creature or individual who is worthy of a moral consideration is the one that may be said to have true interests.(The Moral Project, pg 2)The necessary condition for being a proper client therefore, is being a creature or an individual conscious mind since to have true interest in his case is to be capable of having states of awareness or consciousness, for instance it is un intelligible to speak of doing something morally wrong to a rock, a heap of or even a mountain hence we can commit immoral acts to rocks and mountains by doing things to them which are contrary to the true interests of a moral client for instance in this case it would be wrong to throw rocks at someone or to blow up a mountain since by doing so there will be destruction of important resource, object of beauty, and habitat for proper moral clients.( The Moral Project, pg 5) There is no nonliving thin g that has interest that is conscious hence there are no known nonliving things that are proper moral clients. For instance, trees are very important to us humans and animals as well. If trees are not conscious and have no interests, they cannot intelligibly be said to be proper moral clients. Though we certainly both value and are interested in their survival, trees have no interests and cannot be said to value or be interested even in their own survival. Moreover, dogs and rabbits are said to be conscious and clearly do have interests i.e. interest in living and engaging in other various activities. we may speak of both rabbits and dogs as suffering and experiencing pleasure. Avoidance of suffering and attainment of pleasure are things that are truly in the interest of rabbits and dogs. Evaluation Of The Notion Of A Moral Client Given that having true interest, is a necessary condition of being a proper moral client it is argued that it is not sufficient there are other necessary conditions that must be met in order for some creatures to count as proper moral clients. It does not follow that all such creatures having true interest should be regarded as so. Therefore rabbits and dogs do not satisfy those additional conditions; for example, do indeed satisfy only one necessary condition of being a proper moral client (The Moral Project, p. 3). An additional condition is that of an inherently evil creature i.e. suppose there were some creature , individual or being whose highest true interest was to cause suffering for , diminish and destroy all other forms of life, including and especially, human life. This is very common to humans and all other forms of life since the highest in
Tensions between the whites and the blacks arose because of the discriminatory nature of the law. The blacks felt they needed a law that was equitable and non-discriminatory, whereas the whites viewed the situation in the context of black being obligated or supposed to obey the white. Tensions were evident in the editorials aligned to the two cultures supporting each of their culture’s points of view. This paper will look into the various difficulties surrounding the law, which brought the differences between the two cultures and their interpretations of the same. These differences lead to the rising of riots at Greenland in Oklahoma which led to deaths and property damage. According to a weekly black newspaper named Muskogee Cimeter, measures that would seek to improve the black man’s wellbeing, mentality, and his industry were not taken thought of, and yet there was the passing of laws that could control and punish the blacks. The statutes that were enacted in the law were primarily meant to provide for discrimination of the blacks, for example, the Oklahoma legislation law that would keep them from registering as voters, which was passed by the Oklahoma legislature after the striking of the Oklahoma grandfather clause by the court in 1951. Black men’s editorials featured complaints about how blacks faced capricious arrests and unequal treatment from the police officers and the attack and insults of the blacks from the white community. There was a different understanding among the two on “law”. According to the blacks, anything that was against justice and so different from the Constitution’s promise of equal protection could not be law. They did not view the statutes and the dictates of law enforcement officers as law. Sometimes, the black would win the day such as the striking down of Oklahoma’s discriminatory voter registration statute in 1915 by the United States Supreme Court, but other times they had to wait for another day. The blacks sought to communicate the injustices against them through the newspapers, but others were becoming violent as they demanded equal treatment. The blacks were also against lynching (p. 26). The reaction against lynching sparked important discussion on justice ad some people were even forced to act to band together to protect themselves. The Tulsa Star urged the blacks to protect themselves and chastised the blacks for not defending Chandler, a prisoner who had been lynched earlier on. The editorial viewed that the proper time to protect any prisoner was before or during the execution of lynching. There was a division among the black community between those who wanted to pitch battle with the police in response to Chandler’s lynching and those who wanted to use violence to protect the community members against lynching. The lynching of Belton under witnessing of Tulsa Police Chief John Gustafson taught that no one was safe in the hands of the Tulsa officials, while the lynching of Chandler by being taken from the prison sparked the need for a community spirit to protect the black communities as it was perceived that the police would not do so. A group of blacks freed John Mc
Introduction Maintaining good body weight is highly recommended by medical doctors as a way of promoting a healthy status of the body. This is to say that there is allowed body weight, which a person is supposed to maintain. Extreme deviations from this weight expose a person to several health complications. While being underweight is not encouraged, cases of people who are overweight and increasing effects of this condition have raised concerns over the need of addressing the issue of obesity in the society today, where statistics are rising day and night. What is obesity? This refers to a medical condition in which a person’s body has high accumulation of body fat to the level of being fatal or a cause of serious health complications. Additionally, obesity is highly associated with one’s body mass index, abbreviated as BMI. This denotes the value obtained when a person’s weight in kilograms is divided by the square of their height in meters (Burniat 3). According to medical experts, obesity occurs when the BMI exceeds 30kg/m 2 . While this is the case, people who have a BMI of between 25 and 29 and considered to be overweight. Obesity has a wide-range of negative effects, which may be a threat to the life of a person. Laziness as the Main Cause of Obesity The fist effect of obesity is that it encourages laziness in the society. It is doubtless that obese people find it hard and strenuous to move from one point to the other because of accumulated fats. As a result, most of these people lead a sedentary lifestyle, which is usually characterized by minimal or no movement. In such scenarios, victims prefer being helped doing basic activities, including moving from one point to another. Moreover, laziness makes one to be inactive and unproductive. For example, a student who is obese may find it hard to attend to his or her homework and class assignments, thus affecting performance. With regard to physical exercises, obese people perceive exercises as punishment, which is not meant for them (Korbonits 265). As a result, they do not accept simple activities like jogging because of their inability to move. Social Effects of Obesity In line with this, obese people cannot participate in games like soccer, athletics, and rugby among others. Based on this sedentary lifestyle, obese people spend a lot of their time watching television, movies, and playing video games, which worsen th
Introduction Discussing the relationship between socio-political concept of people’s cultural identity and the degree of their susceptibility to mental illnesses represents a certain challenge, especially given the fact that the etiology of such illnesses has not been thoroughly studied yet. In Chapter 1 (Criteria for Assessing a Classification in Psychiatry) of a study book “Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification”, Assen Jablensky and Robert E. Kendell state: “Current classification systems mainly remain “descriptive”… Our knowledge today, with a few exceptions, does not allow us to elucidate the underlying mechanism as to what actually constitutes the disorder or produces the symptom. The path from appearances to essence depends on the progress of scientific knowledge” (Jablensky & Kendell, 2002, p. 26). Nevertheless, in recent years, it has been assumed by overwhelming majority of psychiatrists that various genetic factors play a crucial role even in triggering comparatively mild mental disorders. The groundbreaking discoveries in the field of genetic biology, which had taken place over the course of last few decades, point out to the fact that it is namely the “prevention”, rather than “rehabilitation” techniques, which represent a key to effective combating mental disorders. In its turn, this allows suggesting that it is only the matter of comparatively short time, before the code of medicinal ethics, concerning the treatment of mentally ill patients, will be thoroughly revised. In their article “Genetics and Medicine: An Evolving Relationship”, Charles Scriver, Claude Laberge, Caroline Clow and Clarke Fraser suggest that just about any study on the subject of mental illnesses and its effects, ca
Introduction When examining what company has lost touch with its consumer base, the best example that can be seen at the present is the fall of Blockbuster and the subsequent rise of Netflix within the past 10 years. What is notable in this particular case is that Blockbuster originally had a dominant position in the U.S. market. It has 3,000 stores and controlled 95% of the video rental market, but it is interesting to note that its business model did little to change over time (Knee, 2011). Blockbuster stores were notable for their large selection of movies and games. However, they tended to be overly spacious and placed in an equally large parking lot with few surrounding stores. Such a scheme resulted in high sales over a period of 15 years. However, it must be questioned whether the sales were a result of its business model or just the sheer proliferation of its stores and the dominant position it enjoyed in the market (Gandel, 2010). When examining how Blockbuster dealt with local competition, it was obvious that they did so by offering a wider selection, cheaper prices and more attractive looking stores in order to gain more consumers. Not only that Blockbuster also enjoyed a rather healthy relationship with several studios which enabled it to release movie rentals faster than its competitors could have which resulted in more consumers coming to Blockbuster as a result. The fall of Blockbuster By the late 1990s, it was obvious that Blockbuster was competitor centered in maintaining its dominant position that it neglected to examine changes within its consumer base (Gandel, 2010). By this time, faster internet speeds were becoming available to the general public which, along with the proliferation of home computer systems, resulted in more people turning towards the internet for their needs. In fact, it was at this point that online e-commerce systems which enabled consumers to make purchases online started to proliferate which enabled new companies to enter into previously hard to enter markets due to the flexibility and low cost nature of online sales and consumer marketing. When Netflix began its online video rental service in the latter half of the 1990s, this gave consumers a faster and more convenient method of video rental which subsequently eroded away at Blockbuster’s market position till by 2005 to 2009 when Netflix released its online video st
Education has always been considered an important part of life, which leads to a higher quality of existence and better understanding of the surrounding environment. Many writers, philosophers, thinkers and psychologists have argued that not only the amount of information matters but also, the way it is understood and used. Schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions provide a vast amount of knowledge that directs and helps anyone in life and choices being made. An important argument of many philosophers and thinkers is that arts and liberal education adds another very important component to the mindset and understanding of a person. The comprehension of the surroundings and structure of the world depends not only on bare reasoning but also on feelings and special sensing. In order for any information to be useful, it must be understood and used practically, to the best of ability. A large amount of information by itself is useless, if a person cannot apply it in the real world and demanding settings. One example of more in-depth and comprehensive thinking was made by Stephen Gould in his “Nonmoral Nature”. He talks about the way nature runs its course and the laws that govern the order. He compares it to the world that humans have created and how much it is different from the animal kingdom (Gould 37). This creates a perspective for humans that they are not the rulers of the world and nature. There are forces that are at work, which are very hard to comprehend and quantify. People are not the ones who made these laws and so, people just follow them, trying to figure out best solutions on the way. This fact cannot be taught by simply remembering vast amounts of information. People must use their soul or the part of mind that answers to the “liberal arts”. Machiavelli is another person who has deepened the human understanding of the concepts in the world. He teaches ethics and gives qualities of a leader that must be present for him to be successful. His specific statement that the way a certain result is reached must be unimportant, comparing to the end result, raises questions of morals and justice (Jacobus 36). This is crucial to human reasoning because people must understand how far they are prepared to go to reach a goal and what rules and laws they are prepared to break. The key concept here is the greater good and what it is for different people. Everyone has their own perspective but in reality, truth is one and the same. Something that causes pain to anyone who is not deserving or unaware of its causes is considered unjust,
Organizational behavior is a field of study that deals with comprehending, relating, forecasting and controlling human conduct in an organizational situation (Nahavandi and Ali, 1998). This discipline principally deals with; how persons relate to and take part in groups, how institutions work, how management is applied and how transformation is achieved in organizational situations. Justification of why Engineers have to Study Organizational Behavior It is essential that engineers broaden their understanding and skills in the area of organizational behavior, part of their management training, for the following reasons:   * Having accomplished their technical degree, learning organizational behavior enables engineers to understand the psychology of workers and other members in the organization. For instance, they get to understand the impact of motivation on rates of production, the significance of planning employees’ tasks early enough and the impact of timely and fair payments of wages on levels of production (Nahavandi and Ali, 1998). This results to efficiency in completion of tasks and promotes a good relationship between engineers and employees in the organization. Consequently, engineers acquire a chance to swiftly advance in their career, typically through hasty track endorsement into extremely senior management positions.   * The role of the engineer is rapidly shifting in industrial organizations (Robbins, 1998). In these organizations, the engineer is expected to be the director who has to execute new technology and new practices. Therefore the engineer frequently becomes the chief manager of transformation within the organization. Since implementing change involves interaction with different entities in the organization, it is important for an engineer to be equipped with the right knowledge and skills regarding organizational processes, group behavior and organizational structure (Robbins, 1998).   * Studying organizational behavior gives engineers a broad foundation of organization dynamics that lacks in their technical degrees (Robbins, 1998). Those graduate engineers who study organizational behavior in their management course while still working in industries get to share their work experiences, that relate to human behavior and organizational processes, during tutorial classes.   * Studying organizational behavior as part of management course gives graduate engineers a chance to understand the functioning of organizations in larger depth, in parts that are never taught or learnt in their engineering tasks. Typically, relating theory to the field of work is a prerequisite to taking organizational behavior coursework. Graduate engineers analyze personal behavior, group behavior, organizational structures and organizational processes in their respective companie