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Economic Issues The economic issues that the company is likely to encounter in its global expansion are stiff competition especially on prices, seasonality issues, and high capital requirement. This calls for different strategies of entry into the market. In general, the goal is to seek mixed strategic alliance. The best option would be a strategic alliance with the goal of acquisition of a subsidiary. The advantages of strategic alliances are significant not the least of which is the opportunity for even greater economies of scale. Mixed Strategic alliances are effective at managing uncertainty, risks, and sharing cost (Barney, 2007). Before this strategy is implemented, there is need to conduct a marketing mix. An effective marketing mix ensures that goods are available to the target customer, when they need them and at an affordable price. In France, before the company decides on the particular market, the first point is to collect adequate market data and analyze it. The company uses business intelligence tools to collect a wide range of data essential for its operations. Data is then interpolated in terms of age, sex, region, education, income, and lifestyle. This assists the company in identifying the products that it will develop if it has to remain competitive. Its research centers offer great assistance in ensuring that all is set in terms of data availability for decision making. The painting company will have global customers. To meet the special needs of global customers, it will have to hire, and assign global account managers based on industry. Global companies often have multiple needs. The global account manager will serve as the single point of contact for the client. Industries to target would be consumer sales companies for its products. There are specific resources and methodology that are needed to attain the broader objectives of a company within a given market domain. A systematic plan of these requirements is all under the umbrella of strategic market planning. Price competition as it is evident in this case requires a strategic marke
Introduction The administration of blood is considered to be a very sensitive medical procedure and one that must be handled with extreme care. It results from the exercise of professional medical judgment composed of carrying out a diagnosis in order to decide the need for blood and administer a therapy involving the actual administration of blood (Pozgar 85). Ordinarily, the principle that is most likely to be jeopardized in cases that involve blood testing is that of respect for autonomy. Even though it is argued that a physician must get consent in order to carry out a blood test on a patient, research indicates that this may not be a major requirement in some situations. According to Peckham and Hann, ethical dilemma regarding consent and blood testing have, over the years, been a major concern in the field of medicine and nursing (112). In past rulings of the Supreme Court in the United States, there have been indications that a patient’s blood can actually be tested with or without his or her consent. This is typically done in order to avoid dilution of evidence that may be used in court proceedings. Where a person is to be tried for drunkenness, for example, the Supreme Court directed that samples should be taken soon enough. This paper will examine Breithaupt versus Abram, a New Mexico case on involuntary manslaughter to show that ethical considerations in blood testing are not, after all, compulsory. Other cases will also be discussed to strengthen the argument further. Description of the Case In the Breithaupt versus Abram case, the petitioner got involved in a serious road accident with an oncoming passenger car while driving in New Mexico. Although the petitioner survived with serious injuries, three occupants in the passenger car died instantly. The bottle of whiskey lying inside the petitioner’s truck left the onlookers wonders whether he was guilty of drunken driving. When he finally got to hospital, one of the physicians sensed that he was smelling alcohol. Immediately, the police asked the physician to take a blood sample from the petitioner. Based on these instructions, the physician used a hypodermic needle to draw blood from the petitioner’s body. On analysis, the blood sample was found to contain about 0.17% of alcohol content. Consequently, the petitioner had to be charged for murder. Discussion on the Case In this case, the Court decided that a blood alcohol test requested by the police and administered by a physician under medically protective conditions on an unconscious suspected driver did not constitute an outrageous conduct, measured against the interests of other users of the highway. The action of the police was, therefore, not seen as a violation of the due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. In this scenario, no issue was presented with regard to the further protections of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments involving search, seizure and self-incrimination. The limited determination in Breithaupt’s case was occasioned b
This paper is focused on comparison and contrast between the two specially selected paintings. In the paper, the differences and similarities between the two artworks will be identified, discussed, and analyzed. The paintings chosen for this essay are “The Bridge at Grez sur Loing” by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and “The Seine at Bougival” by Claude Monet. The first painting was created in 1850-60 and the second one in 1869. Both of the paintings belong to Western tradition masters coming from Europe, namely France. Both artworks are significant works of their creators and are rather well known in the sphere of art, so the two equally meaningful exhibits are compared in this essay. Besides, both works are landscapes and belong to two famous landscapists whose techniques are still admired in the world of nowadays. The first glance at “The Bridge at Grez sur Loing” and “The Seine at Bougival” makes it obvious that even though both works depict similar landscapes, they are incredibly different. The works by Monet and Corot feature bridges and rivers, trees, and sky. One of the fascinating features of both paintings is light. Corot and Monet were the painters well known for working outdoors, viewing their chosen locations directly, coming there at a selected time of day, and capturing the surrounding areas the way they looked at that very moment. Even though the work by Corot belongs to the realist movement and Monet is a famous impressionist master, the chosen paintings are equal at capturing the transitional time between day and evening due to the special impression of light being both dim and bright at the same time. “The Seine at Bougival” by Monet “The Bridge at Grez sur Loing” by Corot If one puts Corot’s “The Bridge at Grez sur Loing” and Monet’s “The Seine at Bougival” next to each other, the difference between the moods of these two works would be striking. First of all, the artworks employ very different color palettes. “The Bridge at Grez sur Loing” looks much darker, placed next to “The Seine at Bougival” it would seem almost lightless and rather plain as its main colors include shades of dark green, black, grey, and brown. The lightest areas are the sky and its reflection in the water. They are painted with the use of white and light blue colors. At the same time, put next to “The Bridge at Grez sur Loing,” the work of Monet would look amazingly bright, sunny, and warm. This is understandable because the most popular colors of its palette are very light shades of yellow, white, grey, and blue, together with bright green. Secondly, Monet’s work includes many more details as it features people, various buildings, fences, and complex shadows. These qualities make it look much more full of li
Introduction GoodStuff is an organization that has evolved from a downtown retail shop into a medium organization, which is attempting to entering the global economy. Having built server pages based on C#, the company, however, has not been updating its technology ever since. Although several alterations have been made in order to retain the firm’s position in the target market, no significant improvements have occurred; as a result, the company is facing problems, which may evolve into a major crisis unless radical measures are undertaken soon. Problem The fact that the organization has failed to update its current system in accordance with the technical requirements of 2015 can be viewed as the main problem (Gomzin 72). One might argue that the current technology-related issue can be viewed as the side effect of a poorly designed management approach. Indeed, studies show that issues jeopardizing an organization’s existence do not typically emerge spontaneously, and the mismanagement of the technical aspects of the firm’s operations should be interpreted as the manifestation of a significant internal issue (Caytiles and Lee 214). Analysis Business Risks The organization is facing major business risks by resorting to the use of an outdated PoS system. Particularly, the drop in the quality of security and data transfer, which the specified decision is going to trigger, is likely to cause an immediate reduction in the organization’s cash flow. The risks for the company to lose a significant amount of its revenues are, therefore, very high. Particularly, there is a high possibility for the company’s liquidity rates to drop; to be more exact, people may become reluctant to buy GoodStuff’s assets. Moreover, slow information processing, which must occur due to the flaws in the PoS system, will also slow the pace of the company’s assets trading process down significantly (Frisby, Moench, Recht, and Ristenpart 2). Financial Risks The aforementioned changes in the organization’s business operations are also very likely to upset GoodStuff’s financial processes, introducing the latter to an increasingly large number of risks. The credit risk is also very high in the specified scenario, as the company is most likely to default on its payments as a result of the reduction in the number of customers, the number of sales, and, therefore, the annual revenue. Additionally, the equity risk is going to grow out of proportions unless GoodStuff leaders decide to adopt a different approach towards information and security management. Seeing that the misuse of security options may affect the safety of the customers’ personal data, people may cease to trust the organization (Pepe 72); as a result, the price of its stocks will decrease inevitably. Herein the threat of failing to comply with the current information safety requirements lies. Technical Risks Apart from the financial and business risks, using an old PoS system m
The concept of the human self as one of the central phenomena of Social Psychology appears to be complex and multisided. Striking discrepancies might occur between the public presentations and inner processes in human mind. Appearance is always deceptive and attempts to see the private realities of somebody’s self are not always crowned with success. Cognitive dissonance defining the simultaneous co-existence of contradicting ideas takes place in everybody’s inner struggle depends upon the processes of self-monitoring and impressions management and has a significant impact on my attitudes and the process of decision-making. The process of balancing the cognitive dissonance is complicated with human desire to control and improve the impressions they produce on others. These techniques and well-planned strategies aimed at improving the public opinion of a person are referred to as impressions management. One’s aspiration for making friends and gaining authority in the community is quite natural. Being aware of the behavior that is most likely to be socially appreciated, people try to predict the attitude of the community to their actions and make the appropriate decisions. For example, trying to socialize in a new community, I pay attention to the system of relations adopted by the members of this social group. In case if certain schemes do not coincide with my accustomed beliefs, it may result in cognitive dissonance. I may have certain doubts, whether it is worth to take the initiative and contribute to the successful work on the project or to be led by others. On the one hand, this uncertainty is caused by self-monitoring trying to detect whether my skills and knowledge are sufficient for taking the lead. On the other hand, as an impressions manager, I have to take into consideration the public opinion of my behavior trying to predict the community’s reaction. At the same time the impressions management techniques might be easily detected by others and have negative effect on their impressions. “High self-monitoring individuals may be especially fond of those who avoid strategic posturing” (Snyder 107). No matter how long the process of making the choice takes, I proceed to actions only after weighing all pros and cons of my decision and estimating possible consequences. Effective self-monitoring and reaching a compromise between inner self and impressions management is required for balancing of the cognitive dissonance and making the appropriate decision suitable for a certain situation within it context. Besides the strategies aimed at creating the socially appreciated image of one’s self, balancing the contradicting ideas in one’s mind is important for acquiring the appropriate attitudes to the events of the surroun
Coffee Manufacturing Company (CMC) needs to consider several factors before accepting or declining the acquisition and expansion proposal presented by the head of marketing. This is one of the most crucial roles of a finance officer or advisor since a single decision may plunge the company in a financial crisis or boost its financial position (Lyndon 2008, p. 65). The management needs to consider the payback period of the proposed project. Payback period is the amount of time an investment takes to repay back the initial capital invested in the project. Payback period is calculated from the cash inflows and outflows generated by the company for estimated life of the project (Hunt 2009, p. 34). CMC should not accept a project with a long payback period or a project where the cash inflows cannot cover the initial invested capital. Coffee Manufacturing Company payback period can be calculated using the following formula: Initial Capital (Io) – Annual Cash inflows and its unit of measurement are years. The CMC project will not recover the initial investment considering the annual cash inflows for ten years cannot cover the cost of purchasing the new machine and in 10 years, there will be a cost balance of $455,000. The operating cost, repairs and maintenance cost are not included in the calculations. The management needs to analyze the internal rate of return for the machine, which this can be used as a tool of determining whether the new production machine should be acquired or declined for the project. Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is used to determine the productivity of a project by converting the estimated future cash inflows into present value and equating them to zero. The size of the internal rate of return is not of concern provided the project produces positive or greater than zero internal rate of return. For CMC’s project to be approved, the present value cash inflows must be positive or greater than zero; a contrary result should not be approved (Kimmel, Weygandt & Kieso 2011, p. 56). Calculation of PV Year   Cash inflow  PVIF (Present value Interest factor) 0      $1,300,000   $1,300,000 (Io)                      1      $40,000      $34,782.61                           2      $55,000      $41,587.90                           3      $70,000      $46,026.14                           4      $80,000      $45,740.26                           5      $100,000     $49,717.67                           6      $100,000     $43,232.76
Introduction The chronicle of the hip-hop music in Japan can be traced back to 1983 when following the arrival of Hiroshi Fujiwara in the country with hip-hop music versions. This period saw the playing of hip-hops in the form of break dance in Tokyo, Japan. It was presented through live performances and films. At this time, people began to play hip-hops in discos though many of them could not understand it. They just liked its dancing moves. The Japanese learnt the art of hip-hop from a movie called Wild Style (Condry, 2007, p.61). When the movie became very popular, many artists who featured in it travelled to Japan where they performed as a way of promoting it. From the African-American culture, the Japanese hip-hop music developed. The Japanese hip-Hop culture was greatly influenced by the African American style of soul dancing and break dancing. This made some Japanese fans of hip-hop darken their own skins by wearing afros and dreadlocks to look like the African-Americans (Wood, 1997, p.40). Globalization, Political, and Cultural influence of Hip-hop Music in Japan The culture of the Japanese was greatly influenced by Hip-Hop music. The hip-hop music emerged because of the global cultural changes that happened through interaction of people. Although the hip-hop music was first ignored by the famous music production houses in Japan, it found its way to the masses. The African-American break dancing style championed the desire by individuals to learn Hip-hop music besides taking part in it. The Japanese culture was later influenced towards dancing moves that were not common in their music. The moves were so captivating to many since they made it easy for one to understand the music visually hence breaking the barrier of language expression. According to Condry (2007, p.62), break dancing formed the basis of the extensive globalization and acceptance of Hip-Hop music. The prevalence of soul dancing in Japan in the earlier years also formed the basis for the wide acceptance of the hip-hop culture into the Japanese culture because soul dancing was common in the streets since most of the first generation hip-hop music artists in Japan began by street dancing. For example, artists like crazy-A performed on the parks drawing many fans to the Hip-Hop music. Another influence of hip-hop music on the Japanese culture was the development of DJs in the 1980s. The DJs formed the first club of hip-hop artists in 1986. Such clubs were never common in the culture of Japanese. The culture of the Japanese was also greatly influenced when some hip-hop artists began rapping in the Japanese language. During the inception of the hip-hop culture, many Japanese thought that it would be impossible to rap in their language. This was proved wrong especially the DJs. The problem of rapping in Japanese language was because it
Literature writing is an expression of the happenings in society. Authors in the sphere of writing echo their opinions on eminent events that constantly shape the society through artistic application of thematic references. The various themes are intertwined in the periphery of action oriented presentation of behavior, belief, and social position of a character on issues at hand. Irrespective of a writing style, authors share baseline ideas on the society and often form the alternative voice of reasoning into what is occurring in a society. Thus, this reflective paper attempts to openly display different religious views and beliefs of characters in the book, “One Amazing Thing” by Divakaruni Chitra. Religion is a very important factor which plays a role in development of one’s identity in terms of race, gender, family relationships, and social status. Every individual’s sense of character is vulnerable to control by others when their religious beliefs are shallowly rooted as the author notes. The disagreeing aspects of Uma’s character present a typical flexible religious perception of her being a person who is very fearful in distress. She is considered a traditional toddler by followers of her native India religion. Therefore, she is neither ‘a true westerner nor a true easterner’. She appears to be mistreated by western ideas which are strange to the tradition and ends up in a self predicament. As a matter of fact, Uma is surprised by mixture and realizes that her name seems to be at turning point on moral duty and public behavior. Besides, she is suffering from lack of concern in her thoughts and is trying to put together a ‘split-off’ female part. The self regulating society offers a facilitated explanation for common support on religion as a fundamental ruler of perception on doctrines of its members. The author is intrinsic on the above idea and is consistent in exploring possible reasons behind specific doctrinal inclination of different characters. Reflectively, Uma talks about her frustrations concerning the fearful deep hole between her and other people which causes in her a ‘disease’ that makes her unfit in the society. For instance, the author asserts, “It was not uncommon, in this city, to find persons of different races randomly thrown together” (Divakaruni, part 2). Based on this argument, it is clear that unfulfilled desires stop proactive thought arrangement that is often responsible for aligning beliefs to realities of life, especially when the point of disagreement is of religious nature. For instant, Uma is a prisoner of religious doctrines that have bound her to uncertainty. Divakaruni suggests that when a people appreciate the essence of power in religious clandestine of the society, then it is without doubt that the entire society will strive to belong together which must balance with religious beliefs. As a matter of fact, Uma becomes socially mad due to unique nature of the group’s impatience illness. The madness sets her apart from the local religious society. Subsequently, she is left in ‘her own world’ of depression and uncertainty on identity sequence. Her beliefs are considered unaccep