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Introduction It is apparent that the emergence of new media has created a new society. Technological changes in the media arena have made the general public adapt and be receptive to the new inventions. One major way in which the society has shifted thanks to the emergence of new media is globalization. The technological advancements in the media front have made it possible for people living in different corners of the globe to know what is happening in other areas. Similarly, the society has become more conscious of the events in far-flung areas as the new media has made it possible to access information in a swift way. Body Section Another reason that justifies that new media has managed to create a new society is the uptake of the concept of pay TV in many parts of the globe. Apparently the recent technology in the television industry is kind of a shift from analog transmission of signals to digital. In this migration, pay-tv decoders have come in handy. This means that more and more people are finding themselves purchasing these gadgets so that they can enjoy the services of television service providers. Several decades ago, people were not able and willing to dedicate a chunk of their income on the sustainability and reception of quality television signals (Gifford 15). Currently, people do not have qualms spending a fortune so that they can acquire quality television signals. The emergence of new media has resulted in increased communication especially between people from different corners of the globe. The new media has been able to penetrate and expand the boundaries of nations as people from different nationalities clamor to communicate with one another. The scenario has resulted in decreased prejudices that people from different background inhibit towards one another. Essentially, the new media has made many people become liberal with regards to the manner in which they communicate and interact with strangers. Technological advancement in the media arena has helped to introduce new norms and behavior in the society. The ease with which the new media can transmit information across the globe has harnessed interaction and exchange of ideas among people of various nationalities and background. It is common to see that a society that was originally known to be conservative has gradually become liberal in the way people think and conduct their affairs. The new media has helped the society to wean off its conservative side and become more open minded with regards to accepting the norms and ideas of other people. The new media has also shaped and transformed the society on the education front. Modern technology, especially in the television industry, has provided a platform whereb
Introduction Ancient observers had a problem with the planet’s odd movements that did not match with normal movements known by men. The Ptolemaic system shows that with the earth at the center, all other things were moving in circles and were held together by heavenly spheres. These were referred to as “wandering stars” in Greek and the problem that the astronomers were facing was to establish an account for their motions. However, Alexandria managed to come up with systems that at least shed some light on the movement of the light in the sky by placing the earth at the center of the universe. His model was later called the Ptolemaic system. Nonetheless, the Ptolemaic system was contested against by another astronomer called Nicolai Copernicus who unlike Alexandria placed the sun at the center. His was based on reducing the number of epicycles a factor that made it impossible for his theory to succeed. Main text Commonly referred to as the scientific revolution, the transformation of intellectual thought in the 16th and 17th centuries is a historic event (Pg56). This is what led to the division of the early new world and the medieval world. As a result, the new world came in as well as setting foot for the religious transformation in Europe. However, the new world and the religious transformation are more seen to have happened in the 16th century while the scientific revolution is more evident in the 17th century (Pg68). These changes especially the scientific revolution happened in different areas as we classify them today. In the scientific revolution, there are two areas of change which are; biology and astronomy. Biology is mainly concerned with the issues to do with psychology and anatomy while astronomy is concerned with the solar system. As the planets revolve around the sun they form geometrical angles creating a geographical relationship with the earth. Tarnas prides on his discovery of the system of connections that put together widespread progress in history and culture. In as much as the western cultures are held in the global view to be superior over all the other cultures, other philosophers hold a different opinion. The disparity is on the meaning of the idea of the western culture because some countries such as the United States of America and Japan are very different cultures wise but both are influential in the global scene. Asian values on the other hand are considered inferior and uncivilized behaviors. As he relates the connection between human behaviors and planets, Tarnas shows the importance of his study. He believes in his course and does a wonderful job in his research in this very successful book, “The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View.” His explanations although in some instances appear contradictory and tend to draw controversies among other philosophers, research is carefully done and accurately presented in an easy to comprehend outline. He considers platonic thought as being significant in the structuring of the western world view. He described the
Introduction Majority of the organizations have acknowledge the imperative of organizational learning and the concept of a learning organization has been the fundamental orienting summit in this. Researchers have tried to recognize the superlative forms that authentic organizations could try to imitate. This means that learning organization is an ideal, towards which organizations require to develop so that they can retort to various pressures. As a result, the definition of ideal learning organization is indescribable. On the one hand, it is where people persistently expand their ability to construct the outcome that they truly desire, where novel patterns of rational reasoning are natured, where there is freedom of collective aspirations and where people are constantly learning to observe the whole as a group. On the other hand, the learning organization is an apparition of possibility, which does not occur by just training individuals but through learning as a whole at all organization levels. This implies that a learning organization facilitates learning of every person as it transforms itself continuously. Therefore, system thinking, personal mastery, mental model, shared vision and team learning characterize an ideal learning organization and consequently, the manager should strive to achieve these characteristics by determining and alleviating all the barriers against these characteristics through development of focused strategies that will enable the organization to exist in the competitive business environment. Characteristics of ideal learning organization System thinking is a conceptual framework that involves an approach of reasoning about, as well as the language for illustrating and understanding the forces and the relationships that mould behavior of the system (Serrat, 2009). For instance, system thinking assists the managers and the employees to know how to change the system effectively and acting in line with the economic world. Personal mastery is the commitment that an individual makes to t
Is there a need for change? HTC Corporation is in a precarious situation. The corporation is challenged with three major problems. The problems of HTC Corporation include weak organisational structure, misplaced objectives, and employee’s performance (Triggs 2013). Strategic operations management influences a strong organisational structure. A major turnaround will be determined by employee’s inclusion in change management. The corporation must align its visions with market trends (Triggs 2013). However, communication is the major tool in the decision making process. Thus, there is a need for change in HTC Corporation. Organisation development practitioner   * Organisational change can be structural, group, or individual.   * Organisational change can be internal or external.   * Internal change can be technical, political, and organisational.   * Technical change includes quality, innovation, and quantity.   * Political change includes succession, leadership change, and company policy.   * Organisational change includes culture, values, the socialisation process, and norms.   * External change is influenced by social, market trend, technological, and political stimulus.   * Thus, change management will improve performance and market growth.   * However, organisational change comes with resistance. Practitioner and client relationship As a development practitioner, I would ensure that the organisation meets five requirements.   * Define the strategic change.   * Employee’s inclusion in the decision making process.   * Feeling of the employee during change.   * Attitudes of employee during change.   * Perception of employee during change. Organizational problems   * Bureaucracy in the firm’s internal and external operations restricted its growth potential.   * Lack of multidisciplinary skill affected the employees.   * Talented employees in HTC Corporation lost their relevance (Wagstaff & Jim 2013).   * Employee dissatisfaction led to mass resignations. Organizational problems in HTC Corporation Talent management was not a priority in the organization. Inadequate marketing strategy affected product sale. Thus, to facilitate change I will educate, communicate, negotiate, participate, and manipulate all the agents of the organisational change (Wagstaff & Jim 2013). HTC Corporation had three major issues. The corporation had an inefficient leadership structure. The operations manager could not align the company’s objectives with daily transactions. Consequently, a weak organisational structure will affect daily operations.   * Poor sales in HTC’s products reduced the company’s revenue.   * The inefficiencies cause several resignations and layoff by the management.   * The reduction in sales was influenced by component shortage.   * Shortages in HTC products reduced HTC’s client base by 13 percent.   * Consequently, the monthly revenue for the organisation fell by 23 percent (Capron & Chatin 2008). Causes of organisational problems HTC Corporation had three major issues. The corporation had an ine
Strong communication skills are essential to a nurse working at the bedside or with nursing interdisciplinary team members. Effective communication leads to patient satisfaction and good health outcomes. Moreover, it allows nurses to share critical information and create a positive work environment (Jankelova & Joniakova, 2021). Good communication skills involve cultural awareness, compassion, personal connections, presentation skills, active listening, trust, verbal and nonverbal communication, and patient education. Compassion is an important leadership trait in nursing. Compassionate nurses can prompt recovery from acute illnesses, relieve patients’ anxiety, and enhance the management of chronic diseases (Papadopoulos et al., 2016). Nurses can develop compassion by putting themselves in their patients’ or team members’ place and trying to feel what they feel. Moreover, a compassionate nursing leader will try to influence their colleagues, encouraging them to perform some actions but not frightening them with authoritative control. Accountability in nursing leadership is readiness and desire to take responsibility for one’s actions. This trait is associated with better patient health outcomes and healthcare quality improvement. To develop accountability, nurses should identify and deal with various problems as they occur, promote direct communication, and discuss all issues professionally. Inspiring is another essential characteristic of a strong leader. Inspirational leaders inspire their patients at the bedside, encouraging them to struggle to survive and giving them hope. Moreover, such leaders can motivate other workers, cultivating such personal values as honesty, courage, integrity, and care. Inspirational leaders realize that mentoring is critical to success in nursing, so they educate others and encourage them to stay knowledgeable about nursing practice. Finally, they set realistic goals and demonstrate an enthusiastic and respectful attitude toward their colleagues and patients to create a positive environment and stimulate them. Reference Jankelova, N., & Joniakova, Z. (2021). Communication skills and transformational leadership style of first-line nurse managers in relation to job satisfaction of nurses and moderators of this relationship. Healthcare, 9 (346), 1-9. Web. Papadopoulos, I., Shea, S., Taylor, G., Pezzella, A., & Foley, L. (2016). Developing tools to promote culturally competent compassion, courage, and intercultural communication in healthcare. Journal of Compassionate Health Care, 3 (2). Web.
Out, Out, by Robert Frost, is an emotional poem that talks about the heartbreaking end of a young boy’s life. A commentator who watched the death event narrates the story of what transpired. There is dawning on the sister that life is fragile, as death can occur at any time (Frost, 1916). The sister’s mood in the writing suddenly changes upon her arrival at the scene, making the readers more attentive because of the unfolding developments. Her brother was operating the rattling, snarling, and buzzing saw peacefully before the sister arrived. She witnesses the painful event, as her brother scums in front of her eyes. It tore her down, seeing her brother begging the doctor not to amputate his arm. The tragic events make the sister seem helpless and regretful for calling the brother for dinner; if she had not arrived, her brother would have lived. The sister stood helplessly, watching her brother groan in pain after the saw had cut his hand. The poet describes a sunset evening in beautiful imagery language to lure the reader into the poem. “Call it a day, I wish they might have said,” the poet uses these words to set the poem (Frost, 1916 line 10). The sister arrived and found the brother working in the garden, cutting wood using the saw. She was about to watch the heartbreaking event that had befallen her brother. She stood next to the brother to inform him it was time for dinner. Suddenly, the events that happened
Introduction The primary mission of the National Intelligence Managers (NIMs) teams is to serve as consolidating and integrating power for a national intelligence investigation, collection, plans, and measures within Intelligence competencies and performance. The NIM process promotes complex solutions to deal with critical IC mission and enterprise opportunities, challenges, and gaps. Such a management process is focused on engaging the broad spectrum of IC expertise, well-timed response to policies’ standards, determining knowledge deficiencies, and efficient management of collection and analysis. In addition, it aims at managing functions and resources according to prioritized and contingency precedencies of national security. The Assessment of the NIM Process in Risk Management In terms of global threat management and prevention, the NIMs serve as a delegated authority within ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence). According to UMUC, its management approach enables the IC to leverage Community-wide knowledge about particular countries and issues, timely react to policymakers’ Intelligence needs, and determine a lack of expertise within the Community. As such, the ODNI’s designation of a NIM South Asia/Afghanistan-Pakistan allows the intelligence community to attract a broad range of resources and opportunities to counteract the Administration’s particularly pressing national security challenges. Furthermore, the NIM process is pivotal for ODNI since it is responsible for coordinating all the operations related to its portfolios. The national intelligence managers perform the critical functions as senior advisors for DNI (Director of National Intelligence) in terms of community control and coordination of their specific operational area. They provide the whole set of informational needs concerning their mission area by maintaining high-level relations with the Intelligence, policymaking, and warfare communities. The NIMs also design and implement Unifying Intelligence Strategies, schemes, and campaigning to incorporate the community’s activities. Another responsibility implies integrating the IC’s collection, analysis, counterespionage, and financial approach. The NIM process proves its effectiveness in addressing the global threat environment to provide warning and situational awareness by adhering to the aspects defined by the Director of National Intelligence Mission Managers (2005), such as:   * understanding of customer requirements
Introduction As requested by the Chief Executive Officer, we hereby present a micro and macroeconomic analysis on Mexico, one of the many potential markets that the company is willing to start supplying solar panels and appliances. This undertaking is of vital importance to the company; it provides a view of short run costs that will have to be paid for the company to gain in the long run. In order to explain Mexico’s economic conditions fully, the analysis is subdivided into three sections. The first section explains the basic macroeconomic indicators of the country. The second section stipulates regional and national governments policies towards entrepreneurial environment in the country. The third section compares Mexico’s business environment with those of other countries and consequently provides some recommendations. Macroeconomic Indicators Robust economic growth has catapulted Mexico from low development levels to middle-income countries. Indeed, the country is on a fast rise to becoming a fully industrialized country. Economic liberalization that has taken place since early 1990s has been instrumental in the country’s growth (Barry 2002). Continuing with the same vigor would lead to the country improving the living conditions of its people, some of still live in destitute poverty. The current economic conditions in the country is helping place Mexico as one of the fastest rising places to do business, especially in labor intensive industries that uses Mexico’s most abundant resource: labor. The proximity to the Unites States has also made it possible for Mexican goods to get access to one of most lucrative markets in the world. Mexican competitiveness over other countries has been increasing with time. Mexico is poised to becoming a key player in the international market. Due to this reason and many others that would be stipulated in this analysis, it is important that the company starts preparations of providing its services in the country of Mexico. The population of Mexico currently stands at 100 million people, with 24 percent of them living in rural areas (Carmichael 2004). The 24 million individuals living in rural areas are potential consumers for solar equipment. This size of a market cannot be ignored. This is considering that the country has been experiencing robust economic growth, meaning that the people are ending-up with extra pesos to spend. Owing to the fact that power is a not all available in Mexico’s rural areas, the 24 million people do need some other sources of energy. The other 74 million that live in cities may need to have extra sources of energy, especially those living in fringes of the country’s major cities. The entire country receives enough sunlight year-round, meaning that solar panels are some of the most ideal alternate energy sources. Other than the sunlight, our company’s solar panel and accessories are affordable by sizable n
Gender Equity Response The article “Using Queer Theory to Rethink Gender Equity in Early Childhood Education” attempts to underline the applicability of the queer theory in not only understanding and challenging persistent gender stereotypes, but also in questioning the supposition that there is any “normal” expression of gender. The authors of this article demonstrate a fair attempt to provide a review of research studies that utilize the queer theoretical framework to rethink gender in early childhood education, particularly in terms of correlating the creation of children’s gender identities and predisposition with the powerful influence of heterosexual normative values. Indeed, the article provides a balanced and well thought out analysis of how children make sense of gender and how they construct gendered roles in early childhood education through the use of the queer perspective to negotiate their own gender identities. The first section of the article attempts to explicate how feminist post-structuralist theoretical perspectives have changed the deliberation on early gender identity from a nature-or-nurture construction to a more comprehensive understanding of how children’s gender is developed and how children make sense of gender. Here, the concepts of active participation in the development of gender, discourse, and power are used appropriately to demonstrate to readers how children identify with their gender. Gender discourses, in particular, are seminal in regulating the children’s gender behaviors by not only ascertaining what might be considered as “normal” or “appropriate” in the community setting but also making a determination of what is desirable and hence acceptable according to the dominant gender discourses. This way, it becomes easy for readers to understand how children in early education setups make sense of gender by using popular gender discourses at the community level and school level as a motivating mechanism that catapults them to get their gender “right” and also to develop a deep sense of satisfaction in internalizing the specific gender characteristics enshrined in the dominant gender discourses. The other sections of the article underscore how gender equity can be achieved in early childhood education through the use of the queer perspective to negotiate the gender identities of children. Previous experiences with children in early childhood settings reinforce the assertion made by the authors to the effect that it is difficult to think about gender without concurrently thinking about sexuality. Children have been known to engage in play within the framework of heterosexuality, whereby it is common for boys to follow the overarching heterosexual discourses of masculinity to assume male-related roles and for girls to follow the dominant heterosexual discourses of feminity to assume female-related roles. Although the terminologies used by the authors to describe these relationships are rather confusing and inadequately described, it is evident that the queer theory is applicable in demonstrat