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Introduction According to Larry English, the principles and strategies for information quality management have been in existence for decades. Any quality management process begins and ends with the consumers. It starts with understanding consumers’ needs for the product, initiating quality parameters to attain them and culminates with assessing whether consumers’ requirements are attained (English, 2004). I will discuss how quality management systems are used to improve the quality of a product/service and satisfy customer needs. I will evaluate how the Toyota Motor Corporation has employed quality management systems to improve the quality of their Corolla products. I will also talk about how the Australian Airline use its modern mobile messaging system to provide quality services to passengers at affordable prices. Quality management system used by Toyota Motor Corporation The Toyota Motor Corporation is the biggest car producer in Japan. It has been the largest automobile producer in the world since 2004 (Leney, 2004). Since 1999, Toyota has made aggressive marketing campaigns to encroach into the European Market (Bodevin 2010). The company hired European designers to develop cars that matched the needs customers from Europe (Vries 2001). Toyota also aimed to expand its production capacity in Europe. For example, it launched two new manufacturing plants in 2004: the Polish plant for manufacturing manual transmissions for Avensis, Corolla and Yaris; and the Valenciennes plant in France for producing Yaris. In 2002, the company set up Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey, to produce Corolla sedans for export purposes (Prebil 2010). Toyota Corolla has many competitive advantages when compared to other automobile competitors. For example, the 1998 Corolla model offered superior power with admirable economy, a comfy interior and reliability. The current model is evolutionary, fixing shortfalls without reducing Corolla’s strengths. For instance, it is now easier to handle Corolla S than the previous Corolla LE model because it offers a well-cushioned ride. The poor air condition system has been enhanced especially in the 2004 models compared to the 2003 generations. The interior space has been enlarged to accommodate five passengers comfortably. In addition, the current model has a superior acceleration with an automatic transmission. The gas mileage is also very efficient (about 38 for highway and 29 when driving in the city). Even the small irritations seen in previous Corolla have been rectified. For instance, the fragile-feeling door handles have been swapped with pull and it opens handles to enable people with gloves or bigger hands open the door easily. Moreover, the exterior of the Corolla S model has been upgrade
Introduction Ernie Davis was an African American football player born in New Salem Pennsylvania on 14th Dec 1939. He was an exceptional player born ahead of his time, as he stood out on the football field as the first African American to win the Heisman trophy in 1961, and to be chosen for the NFL. He played for Syracuse University during his college years, where he gained popularity through his achievements as a player in the football team. One such achievement was the 1959 Cotton Bowl Classic where his team won 23-14 over the University of Texas (Gallagher, 2008). In the following year, he was selected as the Cotton Bowl Classic’s most valuable player, and he continued with this outstanding record, to be the third leading rusher country-wide during his junior year at Syracuse University (Gallagher & Little, 2008). His career flourished in the late 50’s and early 60’s, lasting from 1959-1962 and dying in 1963 from Leukaemia. His premature death occurred after he had signed a lucrative professional football deal for a beginner, and robbed him of the chance of experiencing football as a professional player. Main body Unfortunately, Davis died without ever playing a match with his role model Jim Brown of Cleveland Browns. He had set his career in the footsteps of Jim Brown and he wore Brown’s jersey, number 44. He eventually got the nickname ‘Elmira Express’ attributed to his speed (Gallagher, 2008). However, Davis managed to achieve more than his role model did, as he became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. His role model Jim Brown had only ranked fifth in 1956, despite his outstanding year as a senior in Syracuse (Mieczkwoski, 2008). Brown had complained that his loss of the title was due to racism within the University that led to his unpopularity in the voting. Overall, Davis achieved in his sophomore year more than his role model ever did in his football career in college. Just like Jim Brown, Ernie Davis’ career existed at a time when racism was still rampant in America, and there was heightened awareness with the civil rights movement and other anti-racism demonstrations at their peak. When he won the MVP trophy, the organizers informed his team that he could only attend the banquet to receive the trophy, but he would have to leave soon after (Selim, 2008). There are contradicting accounts about the banquet, with his fellow player John Brown narrating that they all attended the banquet, while others refute this claim and state that they rejected the invite on racial grounds. However, it was a more enlightened time unlike the era of Jim Brown, because Davis mana
The story The Lottery continues to bring forth heated debates since its publication. The story touches the nerves of people as they try to interpret its meaning. The focus of this paper will be on a Marxist criticism of the story. Kosenko (1985) posits that the story employs Marxist undertones. According to him, the story symbolises an attack on capitalism. The story attacks the ideology and social order of the town. One Marxist explanation for the story lies in the symbol of the black dot made on a paper for the lottery. The black color of the dot represents evil that is linked to business, which in turn stands for capitalism. For example, Mr. Summers who draws the dot is involved in the coal business. He represents the powerful class in capitalism that has the control of the town both politically and economically because Mr. Summers also administers the lottery (Kosenko, 1985). Moreover, the location of the lottery at the town square between two buildings- the post office and the bank represents the political and economic power of the government and those in power such as Mr. Graves and Mr. Summers. The common people stand no chance against the capitalist order. The lottery is an old tradition that represents the rigidity of a capitalist society. The ritual of the lottery has been in the town for so long that the people no longer know its origin but continue to practise it annually. When some people suggest that other towns have abandoned the ritual, the Old man rebukes them and says that the ritual must go on because it is tradition. The old man represents people in a capitalist society who opt for maintenance of the status quo. They are afraid of abandoning the way they do things to continue benefiting at the expense of the majority. The people are deluded by the lottery that the society is democratic hence they will not criticize the ruling class. The people in the society are made to believe that the lottery is democratic and anyone stands an equal chance of selection. There is a possibility that Summers knows the paper with the black dot and his family members are safe from being stoned at the lottery. Thus, we can say the lottery is an election for the powerful but a random selection for the common people. The story also depicts the social order in a capitalist society in which few powerful individuals control the rest of the society. For example, the powerful people in the lottery are Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves the postmaster and Mr. Martin the grocer respectively. These three individuals are powerful in the small town due to their position. To illustrate this point when the lottery is picked it is asked who has picked it, was it the Watsons or the Dunbars. The two families mentioned are not powerful in the town. Why did they not ask whether the Graves or the summers had it? This shows that the powerful are in control of the lottery and have no chance of being victims of stoning. In addition, the women in this society are low in status. They have no power and only the m
Introduction Diversification of portfolios attempts to reduce systemic risks. However, even with the best portfolio diversification, these risks can only be reduced at best. The main risks that affect stocks are the general market risks, which have a direct bearing on the output, while the individual stock risks can be significantly reduced by wise investment (Beach, 2006, p. 17). To ensure that the risks are reduced, investors need to diversify not only between the different classes of assets, but also on the respective industries that are potentially rewarding. To ensure that the reduction of risks is achieved through diversification, the returns that are anticipated must be weighed against the probable risks. This paper provides an example of portfolio diversification. It will achieve this goal using different classes of securities. The investments will be in different industries to allow more diversification in addition to the different securities used. The initial investment stake is $50,000. The closing prices used will be for 31 st of December 2012 with a settlement date of 10 September 2013. The major assumption is that there are no transaction costs in the portfolio creation. Where they exist, they will be ignored. Investment Strategy As stated above, the investment strategy to allow minimum risk bearing will involve investment in more than one field. The fields will be the banking sector, the motor manufacturing sector, and the software development sector. The classes of securities to be incorporated in the portfolio to achieve a minimum risk bearing include the acquisition of stocks or shares and investment in the United States treasury bonds. The maximum amount to be spent in the setting up of the portfolios is $50,000. At least 95% of this will be incorporated into the portfolio. The stock acquisition will be the main type of security, with the buying of shares in Apple Smartphone Company, The Bank of America, and General Motors. The next type of security will be the investment in the United States Government Bonds. The choice of the above variations in securities was informed by the desire to establish a portfolio that is relatively free of risks and that can guarantee the maximum output from the least of the inputs. The assessment of the willingness to bear risk is also carried out in the portfolio, with all the investment securities being scrutinized for the same before the decision to proceed with the investment. Risk bearing was assessed via a number of ways such as using the previous fortunes of the respective companies. Description of Securities Bank of America Corporation is one of the securities in which a fraction of the $50,000 will be invested. The corporation is one of the most successful of the American banks, as it is ranked second in terms of the banks holding assets in the US (Ahn, Denis, & Denis, 2006, p. 328). The company has also been ranked among the largest companies in the US, with the past few years seeing it make the top five companies in terms of revenue and among the top five largest companies in the world (Ahn, Denis, & Denis, 2006, p.
Introduction Nearly seventy-five years have passed since the end of World War II, and that is enough time for several generations to change. No matter how carefully and in detail historians, writers, and veterans who survived the war preserve the facts of the unjustifiable horror and tragedy of the six-year conflict, the memory is slowly waning. Many young people today are unaware of the events that their great-grandparents experienced. Nevertheless, what is most horrifying is not the disappearance of a bloody episode from human history, but a conscious denial of actual events. Some historians and archivists claim that there was no Holocaust as a phenomenon. From their positions, there are arguments in favor of that spreading rumors about the destruction of the Jewish people is dictated by conspiracy theories or lack of real data. This essay is aimed at discussing the phenomenon of the Holocaust, including from the position of opponents of the existence of this fact. Brief overview It is worth noting that almost immediately after World War II and the Nuremberg Trials, which condemned the Holocaust and other crimes of Nazism, publicists, doubting the criminal actions of Hitler’s army, began to appear. It is interesting to note that such anti-Semitic supporters have met with every generation: among the most significant figures are Arthur Butz, Florian Abrahamowicz, Katsuya Takasu, Robert Faurisson, and David Irving. Their views on the problem have not only become widely known to the world community but have also been publicly condemned. Holocaust It should be noted in advance that this section includes an official historical picture of this phenomenon. The Holocaust in the narrow sense represents the persecution and mass extermination of Jews who inhabited the German lands, the territories of Hitler’s allies, and the areas occupied during the war (“What was the Holocaust”). It was a long process of deliberate annihilation and suppression of European Jews. The conflict resulting in the persecution of Jews in Germany began with acts of terror, a social and economic boycott, legal discrimination, and the expulsion of Jews of foreign origin who had settled in the country. Inspired by the fascist views of Adolf Hitler, the Reich policy was systematically pursued by the party apparatus, state, and public institutions in Germany with the active support of anti-Semitic authorities. The Holocaust was laid with a policy of racism as the central core of fascist and then neo-fascist ideology (Landau, p. 7)
Richard Price’s The Convict and the Colonel takes on pressing anthropological issues, while further stressing their importance and relevance. Price’s unique combination of accounts portrays through a variety of mediums serves as a reflection on how to interpret social theory while creating the setting. Price reveals his comprehension that it is hybridity that plays a role in the power relationships of colonial settings. Through these new senses of identity are created while society suffers some losses as a result. Price inquires how to go about the most effective manner of analyzing the complex relations between fiction versus fact, present versus past, and fantasy versus reality. Price considers experimental data in ethnography compared to memory and asks how anyone can accurately portray accounts without losing at least some meaning. He also inquires how one can actively involve themselves and express their wants and memory of the past, combined with the lingering faith in notions like “genuine” culture while we are actively involved in when we realize how culture is influenced by non-genuine entities. Price’s story is somewhat of a historical account of Martinique to the present time from the 1920s, while it is a leading example of how philosophical inquires can be applied to the field of anthropology. Certainly, the advances in anthropology demand an increase in situational perspectives, self-reflexivity, innovative documentation processes, and moral and political involvement. Overall Price’s writing incites more thinking processes than it answers. For the most part, the story flows like most novels, all the while informing the reader of the amount of effort required to get answers in the field of anthropology, specifically (in this case) in colonial Martmiquan culture. Sometimes the past of some cultures is regarded as fabricated, and in these cases obtaining information is exceptionally challenging. The book is an account of the life of Medard Aribot, who is a man considered to be a folk artist and criminal, according to different perspectives. He is regarded as nearly or mentally ill and fighting against cultural changes. The man has lived in caves and stolen from the wealthy while donating to the less fortunate. He would eventually be kicked out of the land and isolated on an island, as a result of his accused part in a rebellion movement. While the book opens with these events, it soon follows into the resultant issues of an election scandal. The events of a local federal socialist group played a role in this, while the revolutionaries were against the Bloc Republic. The colonel the novel refers to is Colonel de Coppens, a prominent part of the Bloc Republic. T
The emergence of large not-for-profit healthcare networks across the US has contributed to the rapid development of various public health trends and overall improvement of health care in the country. According to Rapfogel and Gee (2021), the rapid development of nonprofit hospital networks may serve as a significant community health benefit due to the fact that these networks are not obligated to pay taxes, and all the donations and money collected could be allocated directly to the ways of benefiting the community. One of the most popular and commonly recognized nonprofit organizations in the US is the Dignity Health network. With the core belief of the company being embodied into the slogan “Hello humankindness,” Dignity Health operates in 21 US states and has an employee network of more than 60,000 people (“About us,” 2021). Hence, the organization itself is interested in promoting accessible health care to different community groups through free healthcare programs and fundraising events. According to the 2019-2020 annual report, the Dignity Health network managed to collect nearly $3.5 million on health care. The aforementioned sum was subsequently allocated among such healthcare categories as COVID-19 support fund, maternity support, community research, education, and other (Dignity Health Foundation East Valley, 2020). In order to understand whether such a strategy is acceptable in terms of potentia
Introduction The use of death penalty has been debated by many legislators and policy-makers who find the most optimal solutions to different social problems. Various professionals attempt to determine whether capital punishment is an effective policy or a costly mistake. This is the main issue that should be discussed in this paper. Overall, it is possible to argue that this policy should be abolished because it is not an effective method of crime prevention. This is the main thesis that should be illustrated. In particular, one can say that this policy does not deter people from committing felonies, especially homicides. There is no relationship between such variables as capital punishment and the level violence in the society. Secondly, this form of punishment can pose a threat to innocent people who may be falsely convicted. Furthermore, the economic costs of this policy should not be overlooked because in many cases they are excessive. Yet, one should consider the arguments of people who support capital punishment. Much attention should be paid to the claim according to which death penalty is the only possible punishment for some crimes such as genocide or mass killings. These are the main questions that should be discussed more closely. Death penalty and deterrence of crime The supporters of death penalty argue that this policy can be viewed an effective deterrent of violent crime. To some degree, this argument is based on the premise that individuals always evaluate the positive and negative consequences of their decisions. Therefore, a person is less likely to commit a felony if he/she knows that this action may lead to his/her death. The validity of this argument has been examined by many scholars. First, they note that many homicides do not entail capital punishment (Fagan, Zimring, & Geller, 2006, p. 1803). For instance, one can mention the murder that can be committed in the state of emotional distress or intoxication (Fagan et al., 2006). Therefore, one should not include the statistical data about such felonies when speaking about the deterrent effects of capital punishment (Fagan et al., 2006). In turn, the use of this policy does not contribute the decline of homicides that are condemned by the community. Among these felonies, one can mention the killings of police officers or children. The main issue is that the use of capital punishment does not deter such felonies (Fagan et al. 2006, p. 1803). Researchers have not found any evidence suggesting that the use or abolition of death penalty can influence the level of violent crime in the community. This is one of the details that can be identified. Furthermore, in many cases, the murders that are punishable by death do not involve premeditation or rational choice (Hance Kay, Larson & Lewis 2013). In other words, a person does not always consider the consequences of his/her decision which is often spontaneous. These examples indicate that death penalty can deter crime in a society. So, it does not serve its intended purposes. Finally, it is critical to remember the level of violent crime in a community can depend on such factors as the economic situat
Abstract This paper is meant to discuss how to assess the different personalities of individuals. These individuals live in a world where they have to relate to each other and at times this becomes impossible because of the different personalities that each possesses. We even become ignorant of trying to understand our own character traits to co-relate with our colleagues. This paper will outline the importance of assessing our personalities and the instruments that can be used for assessment. Each person possesses different characteristics or personalities and thus common to find one person who is extremely happy at all times and the other one who is always moody. That is why an individual’s personality assessment is conducted to discover his traits; the instruments used are psychological tools and are of different types and they can be in a form of questionnaire or pictures. We shall look at examples of instances that require and use the personality assessment instrument. Users of Personality Assessment Test Users of personality assessment are countless. Each person should know what his personalities are. However, there are various specific instances that require an individual to evaluate himself to know his personality or character traits. The following are some of these instances: Career searchers Job seekers take this test to assess their personality before applying for a particular job in any organization. It is highly recommended where there are job requirements to be met and the job seeker is in doubt whether he has the specific personalities required. It also guides one in selecting the appropriate career; this type of user mostly uses three personality assessment instruments. The Myer-Briggs assessment tool that evaluates the psychological way people looks at the world and how it influences their decisions. The other method is Birkman assessment which, a questionnaire is used to combine the behaviors and interest of an individual and the Holland assessment tool by John Holland which is a preferred instrument also used by job seekers. Knowledge seekers Evaluation in class is done using the personal assessment instruments. Psychologists use this tool to determine different personalities of students in class. This is especially common where there are slow learners in a class. DISC assessment tool is one of the tools used to evaluate the communication skills and the productivity of the student. Self-individual assessment When one needs to know their personal traits, they can assess and evaluate their personalities through this assessment instruments. Popular magazines assessments instruments are mostly used by these users. This is when one wants to know their relationship with other individuals. Personality Assessment Instruments As noted above, there are several personality instruments used to evaluate the personal character traits of a person. However, we shall discuss the three major instruments commonly used in assessment; the Myer-Briggs instrument,