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In the world of anime, there are countless quantities of varied series. As an American, it becomes somewhat difficult to see as much anime as desired, because it mainly is created in Japan. The word anime is Japanese for animation. This type of cartoon became attractive at a young age, and therefore I will examine one of the most popular anime series to date, Dragon Ball Z. Firstly, this television series had three versions, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball involved the main character at a young age, was light-hearted and more appropriate for younger views as well as adults. Dragon Ball Z was focused on the adulthood of the protagonist, was darker and increasingly violent, and thus aggrandized my interest. The last, Dragon Ball GT, although somewhat unfamiliar to me, had many of the characteristics of Dragon Ball Z, but had the original protagonist’s offspring as the focus, although many of the traditional characters made appearances. One of the reasons that Dragon Ball Z had so much popularity was that it moved away from the innocence of its prior series Dragon Ball. The predominant character in both series is Goku, who is an extraterrestrial being with astounding abilities. He comes from a race that is called the Saiyan. In the Dragon Ball series, Goku is a child and has many adventures, which introduce many pivotal figures in the series. I always felt that Dragon Ball was too childish for my taste, but was informative and introduced many important themes and character histories that were somewhat intriguing. When Dragon Ball Z started, Goku had become an adult and honed his talents to become one of the greatest fighters on the earth. By utilizing teachings in the Dragon Ball series he can fight at super speed, fly, release energy, and other incredible feats. Additionally, he has married his wife, Chi-Chi and has produced a son, Gohan. When the series begins, some of its best qualities are immediately noticed. This television program does not hesitate on the action, and fights are prompt, lengthy, and violent. The viewers are quickly introduced to Piccolo, who is a Namek, a race that has the qualities of green
The spontaneous potential method is one of the oldest ways of recording rock formation properties. It utilizes small electric potentials between the surfaces of the borehole and the electrode (Glover). The differences between the electronic potentials on the surface of different formations caused by the presence of pores and permeable beds allow determining different layers based on spontaneous potential and resistivity of the fluids. This practice report will provide the analysis of the lithology logs made using the spontaneous potential method. Measurements used in this report were taken by the company UNOCAL, Offshore county, Louisiana state. Coordinates and characteristics are as follows: latitude: 28 o 16’13.7906’’, longitude: 91 o 19’6.6031’’, well OCS-G-21116 No. 2 ST-1, ship shoal block 295. Elevation: DF=107 feet, GL=-245 feet. Date of excavation and measurement: 14 March 2000. The type of fluid used at the excavation site was Ecoflow 200. According to the charts of spontaneous potential and resistivity received from the site, different layers and openings present the lithological formation. The area between 9000 and 9100 is permeable sand and saltwater, followed by what looks to be permeable sand with fresh water. Layers of permeable sand, freshwater, and impermeable shale continue up to the 9500 marks, after which there is a large chasm with saltwater. It returns to impermeable shale after the 9600 marks. As it is possible to see, the distances between the spikes are frequent and high. The example charts represent a much more stable shale-permeable bed pattern. It could be concluded that the number of layers and beds filled with sand and water is very high. Either the ground at the location of the excavation is extremely unstable, or there is something in the clay that affects the results of the research. Works Cited Glover, Paul. “ The Spontaneous Potential Log. ” The University of Leeds. Web.
Change occurs in different ways depending with situation, location, setting and the goals of transformation. The way changes occur in organizations differs with the transformations occurring in communities. As such, managing change in the two different scenarios is different. Within the communities, changes are developmental in nature. In some cases, community transformation involves the alteration of the general perception of particular ideologies or norms of the society. Most transformations taking place in communities focus on the general belief system, norms and cultural values as well as behavior patterns (Capraro, 2004). Because transformations target the tenets of society, resistances to changes are inevitable. The resistance to changes taking place at the community level explains why community development workers perceive management of change as essentially about managing conflict and accepting compromise. Change management in community development Community development workers face various challenges particularly in change management. In most cases, changes are planned. However, some changes occur spontaneously. Planned changes are based on particular concept, observation and precepts. The needs to have some changes in the community result in the desirable outcomes that can only be achieved through proper change management (Zartman, 2008). According to the community development workers, managing change depends on the level of conflict management and the capability of compromising during dispute resolution. However, conflict management and compromise in change management depend on the community levels of understanding. Even though issues always emerge, the degree to which each member of the community perceives particular concepts differs. The different levels of perceptions on emerging issues among the members of the community are the source of conflicts. In addition, conflicts often arise f
Introduction The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been one of the greatest obstacles to development in America and the rest of the world. Since its discovery around three decades ago, the disease has claimed more than 20 million lives with 60 million infections being all over the world (Coriat, 2008). These figures prompted the government to take some agent measures to fight the disease. There have been great gains made in the last decade in the war against HIV/AIDS. These gains have however been slowed down by economic and social hurdles present in many countries. The youth and women are the most affected with only a few victims having access to antiretroviral treatment (Coriat, 2008). Most governments and donors have come up with programs to fight the disease but the increased rate of infections makes the programs fall short of the real projections on the ground. This paper will discuss the policy topic on the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the United States and the rest of the world. Main body The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S is estimated to be almost one million with 40,000 new infections being reported annually. There are great challenges in healthcare delivery in most of the affected areas around the world. The HIV/AIDS policy needs a serious review to make it comprehensive (Stolley, 2009). The most surprising thing is that some countries do not even have the HIV/AIDS policy as a guide to fighting the disease. These governments do not provide the right initiative and leadership to develop the national policy on HIV/AIDS. According to health researchers, the United States’ strategy to fight HIV/AIDS is not comprehensive enough to support treatment and prevention strategies (New Zealand Nursing Association, 1994). The national policy on HIV/AIDS should pay much attention to addressing the issue affecting healthcare delivery affecting the HIV/AIDS victims. Most countries around the world have well-drafted policies bu
Executive summary Toy World Inc was a company that manufactured plastic toys for children. Some of the company’s products included toy cars, rockets, satellites, and spaceships. David Dunton was responsible for the formation of Toy World, Inc in 1973 after the navy released him from service. Together with his assistant Jack McClintock, Dunton established Toy World Inc. Dunton owned 75% of the capital stock while McClintock owned 25%. To enhance the operation of the company Dunton served as the president and McClintock was the production manager. In 1991, Dunton retired due to health issues and McClintock became the president (Harvard Business School 1). Toy World Inc experienced rapid growth after commencing its operation in 1973. By the year 1976, the company was already enjo
Written by William Shakespeare, Othello is a fascinating story, whose setting is on a street in the provincial capital of Veneto, Venice. Shakespeare has employed one of the literature elements by using major characters like, Othello, a hero and the head of armies, Desdemona, Othello’s covert wife, Michael Cassio, Othello’s deputy, Lago, ranked below the lieutenant, among others. Following Cassio’s promotion by Othello, Lago has not been in his terms because, according to him, he deserved the promotion. He declares his hate to his boss, Othello, and secretly manipulates a way of bringing Cassio down from that rank. Cassio later gets the demotion! This story is rich in lessons for all people, but Shakespeare seems to have dedicated it to lawyers. In his works, Shakespeare likens Lago to a lawyer. Shakespeare wanted them to learn that manipulation, as expounded below, is a vice, and ought to appear nowhere in their services to people. Othello’s secret wife, known to be more than a friend, is compassionate enough to assist in whichever situation one is in, provided she is able to. Lago’s plan to have Cassio demoted succeeds. Cassio is demoted, not because he has offended anybody, neither is it based on his job performance. However, he is demoted anyway! Lago is a fox, whose words seem well organised and sensitive as if they are true, but hardly are they. “This is a key Lago tactic. One of the ways he is so successful at controlling others is by leveraging their positive qualities to serve his own ends” (Maslanka October 7, 2010). Lago intentionally approaches Othello’s wife and owing to her sympathetic attribute, he convinces her that if she raises Cassio’s issue of demotion before her husband, he (Cassio), will be restored. This happens, a case that induces questions to Othello, who wants to know why his wife should be the one talking on behalf of Cassio. He imagines an underway relationship between the two, a situation that forces him to kill his wife. In this case, Lago is responsible for the death of the innocent Desdemona, because of his manipulative trait. It is a lesson to lawyers who bear the same character that whatever they do, will affect them at some point. In addition, the issue of rationality, as portrayed by many lawyers, is quite sensitiv
Define the business research and its purpose Business research is a systematic inquiry that gives data and information to guide managerial decisions. It covers the process of planning, acquiring, analyzing, and disseminating relevant data, information, and insights to decision-makers in ways that mobilize the organization to take appropriate actions that in turn maximize business performance (Cooper et al. l, Chapter 1). The following figure shows the process of business research. Figure 1. Business Research Process (Cooper et al. l, Chapter 3, p. 55) Explain the business problem(s) under investigation The business problem under investigation refers to the introduction of a wine drink by Coca-Cola into Phoenix, Arizona. The question that needs to be answered is will the Phoenix, Arizona market be able to support a wine drink made by Coca-Cola. The wine drink will be a sweet red wine available at a mid-level price. The only size available for the new wine will be one liter. The study aims to determine if the management of Coca-Cola should expand beyond their soft drink market and enter into the wine segment. Ti take this decision; the management need to have extensive research that would answer questions such as who, what, when, why, where, how. With the answers to this question, the management can decide if the new product introduction will be successful. Identify the parties involved in conducting the research. The parties involved in conducting the research are the management of Coca Cola who would be responsible for introducing the wine product into the market. Then there would be the researchers who are involved in carrying out the work of desi
The purpose of this report is to determine the optimal pH of the enzyme invertase, compare the amounts of sucrose in three beers, and create a protein purification table. Carbohydrates are grouped into four classes based on their chemical configuration: monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides (Tymoczko et al., 2019). The most common disaccharide is sucrose, which is made by joining of glucose and fructose (monosaccharides) via an alpha 1-4 glycosidic linkage. This bond can be cleaved through the enzymatic action of invertase in the presence of water to liberate equimolar concentrations of glucose and fructose. Glucose and fructose are reducing sugars due to the presence of free aldehyde and ketone functional groups, which can be detected using the 3,5-Dinitrosalicyclic Acid (DNS) Assay. Reducing sugars form a red-brown color with DNS whose original color is yellow. The extent of color formation can be used to quantify the activity of invertase. Invertase has industrial applications such as the sweetening of substances in the food and beverage sectors. Being an enzyme, its activity is affected by factors such as temperature, pH, substrate concentration, and product concentration. Furthermore, biotechnological advances have made it possible to obtain pure forms of the enzyme from cultured transgenic bacteria engineered to produce the enzyme (Bhalla et al., 2017). Therefore, several protein purification techniques such as salt fractionation, ion-exchange chromatography, molecular exclusion chromatography, and affinity chromatography can be used to obtain a pure version of the protein from cell lysate. The key findings were that the optimum pH for invertase was 5. Beer 3 had the highest concentration of sucrose at 15.25 mM, whereas the percentage yield of invertase was 112.50%, representing a 48.94 purification level. Results The endpoint of the enzymatic reactions involving a reducing sugar and DNS in the experiment was indicated by the formation of a red-brown precipitate in the positive controls (tubes containing glucose). Tube 5a with citrate buffer at pH 5 had a higher A540 value than tube 10a with tris buffer at pH 9. Therefore, the optimum pH for invertase was 5. These findings are summarized in Table 1. Figures 1 and 2 indicate the reducing sugar standard curves for glucose at pH 5 and 9, respectively. A separate standard curve (Figure 3) was de
Ever since the start of America’s war on terrorism, anyone who would provide any criticism was stifled and shunted. The images of reason, balance, or openness were rearticulated excessively within rhetorical critique and positioned as separate from prevailing political positions through administrative dishonesty, manipulation, and propaganda. Therefore, there is a need to find a rhetorical sense of balance between the leadership-enabled opinion and policy juxtaposed by the underlying culture of beliefs, values, and accepted behaviors. “Negotiating the precarious line between division and identification is the constant but crucial challenge of sustaining a rhetorically viable Other” is a sentence intended to summarize the argument put forth by Robert Ivie (2005) within the exploration of rhetorical critique (p. 284). Dissent, which is the central notion within the argument, plays the role of the medium between the productive competition between parties. Without the rivalry, there would be no differences and no ways of holding the limited perspectives accountable to each another. Within the study of rhetorical criticism, which refers to the process of using rhetorical theory for understanding rhetorical practice and theory generation, it is essential to define critical rhetoric as a crucial influence on the notion of dissent. Critical rhetoric is considered to have a “critical spirit,” which is concerned with the issues relating to power, rhetoric, and ideology (Borchers & Hundley, 2018, p. 282). Also, it attempts to provide a demystification of sources of power in society by showing how the connection between knowledge and power is concealed. Furthermore, critical rhetoric is never impersonal and is rather used by an individual to provide an argument against something based on personal views and considerations for future action. A dissenting opinion is also not impersonal and represents a difference in views that are being divided by the hypothetical line between division and identification. Dissent is represented as a practical, though underappreciated necessity in the complicated world. It is seen as normal and often common in healthy democratic practices as well as a sign of genuine political health rather than failure or dysfunction. While it is often complicated to maintain, dissent is modus operandi, the way of operating, in an all-encompassing and transparent political system filled with passionate debate and deep deliberation. Whether in the form of demonstrating or protesting, the channels of rhetoric dissent struggle with articulating the contract or convergence points that exceed the established boundaries. If the political actors, groups or individuals, were not divided or separate, then there will be no need to find the middle ground or achieve sufficient cohesion for avoiding explicit antagonism. Thus, dissent, as
Epidemiology is the study of prevalence in health- matters affecting a population and the risk abound to such health events. Electromagnetic radiation has almost become part of our everyday’s life (Perry). The environment we live in is filled with considerable levels of radiation all around exposing us to such health situations as childhood leukemia. This is a condition that affects the children and is categorized into acute (that develops rapidly) and chronic (develop slowly) leukemia (Perry). Childhood leukemia is the cancer of the blood that destroys the white blood cells. These conditions prevalent to children exposed to prior radiation including chemotherapy to diagnose for other types of cancer (Perry). Direct or indirect exposure to radiation poses the risk of a child developing leukemia. Power lines passing over a residential area where kids spend their time playing exposes them to an overwhelming risk. Exposure to radiation leads to tissue damage through ionization as the body looses electrons to the electric environment. For the body to fully function, it requires these electrons. The accumulation of radiation in a child’s body may alter or deform the DNA pattern (Perry). Prolonged exposure to radiation leads to the development of tumors, destruction of the mucus lining of the intestines, stomach irritation. Radiation is therefore the main start for leukemia. Leukemia as a cancer that destroys the white blood cells which are the defensive cells is a dangerous condition that leaves a child vulnerable and defenseless from other infections (Perry). Children leaving nearby high voltage power lines have exhibited symptoms associated to leukemia like alteration of the DNA make up by restraining its repair. Infants exposed to these radiations are more likely to suffer from this condition more often than not hence the government should put on a perimeter check on the distance that the public should keep away from the electric power lines to avert the dangers involved (Perry). Noise pollution The health effects of excessive noise exposure especially by aircraft are little known or heard of in by the vulnerable yet innocent public (Stansfeld and Matheson, 243-257). It has been established over the years that noise has a direct effect on the flow of blood hence altering blood pressure. More to this, noise changes other normal functioning of the body like sleeping and digestive patterns. High blood pressure caused by noise pollution activates coronary heart diseases as well as stroke (Stansfeld and Matheson, 243-257). Kids living near airports also have been found to exhibit high levels of blood pressure compared to their counterparts in other areas. Rapid exposure to noise in children leads to impaired ability to understand and loss of memory. These are symptoms associated to high blood pressure as well as secretion of catecholamine. Catecholamines are hormones rele
A radical or disruptive innovation is one that creates a new market and value network with the view of expanding gradually to displace the established market players (Smith 2015; Chulu 2015). In other words, radical innovation brings new approaches to doing things and conducting business. On the other hand, incremental innovation gradually improves existing processes and business approaches to make them more efficient (Smith 2015). For example, incremental innovation in a company may present itself through small, gradual improvements such as the upgrading of services, products, processes, or methods. The United Arab Emirates is striving to become the world’s technology and innovation center by 2050, and it has successfully attracted innovators who invest greatly in research and development. This investment has also led to many innovations, both disruptive and incremental, over the last decade (Smith 2015). One recent disruptive innovation to come out of the UAE is the so-called global brain, in which people around the world can combine and integrate their intelligence by means of a digital communication system. With this innovation, an engineer who is based in the United States can offer a product design explanation to a company in Saudi Arabia. For example, the change of TECOM to the Dubai Creative Clusters Authority was the result of a well-calculated plan designed to encourage the rise of innovative and creative businesses that would attract valuable investors to the region. Such investors are especially important because they are willing to fund outstanding innovations. Although this strategy has not yet taken over the market, it is growing very fast and undoubtedly disrupting a sector dominated by more conventional banking institutions. Along with such disruptive innovations, the UAE has experienced various incremental innovations, which have gradually improved how processes and business are conducted in numerous segments of the economy. For instance, the country’s building and construction industries have experienced many improvements in technology, all of which have led to the ability to construct better buildings. Such milestones have made been possible through the incremental innovations of companies such as the Danube Group, a major building and home interio