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Overview of the Company’s Position in the Market First of all, it is essential to introduce the company and provide an overview of its position in the market. Macy’s is considered to be one of the oldest and most profitable retailers in the United States. According to Hallal-Negishi, the company is a merchandise retailer, operating in the U. S., which provides its customers with men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing apparel as well as accessories, cosmetics, home furnishing, and other consumer goods (para. 1). Therefore, it should be concluded that Macy’s has a considerably diversified business approach, as it owns two brand-name department stores in the United States, which are considered to among the most popular (Hallal-Negishi para. 1). Also, with the development of e-commerce and e-shopping, the company strives to expand its influence and revenue from its online retailing shops. Such diversified and considerable large market positioning along with the necessity to maintain the brand’s premium quality and popularity poses significant challenges for Macy’s. However, it is possible to state that they meet these challenges successfully. Macy’s Financial and Market Measures Further, it is of high importance to discuss the company’s financial and market measures to provide statistical information about the organization’s performance. One of the most recent and better-organized reports on the financial performance of Macy’s is found on the Business Wire website, in the article “Macy’s, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and FY 2017 Earnings and Provides 2018 Guidance.” Here is the consolidated statement of income, retrieved from the article: It is possible to state that the company’s level of success is evidently shown by these financial measures. The company operates more than 690 department stores in the United States with the estimated number of employees of 130 000 (“Macy’s, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter”). It should be observed that a company of such level is highly responsible for its decisions on business and corporate-level strategy development. Current Strategies for Business Level On the business level, Macy’s implement numerous strategies to improve its efficiency and profitability. One of the most effective customer-oriented strategies, which were implemented by the company, is described by Touryalai. The strategy’s primary goal was to increase and deepen the understanding of the needs and demands of the Macy’s customers in the context of various geographical areas. Through the process of collecting the data about the most demanded products in each particular local store, the company was able to improve its customer service by focusing on delivering specific products to distinct stores. Hallal-Negishi also mentions that Macy’s employs merchandising strategy to r
Introduction Recruitment exercise is the process by which organizations communicate information to the public regarding the vacant positions available that they would wish to fill (Berman et al. 2009). In order to handle this process, an organization welcomes applications from qualified persons who would wish to work for them. This process takes place in three steps:   * The first step is to plan and approve the positions to be advertised. In any organized institution, the planning process takes place in two ways; the first way involves carrying out a strategic analysis of the anticipated challenges, predicted future needs and opportunities that the organization can take advantage of. Secondly, the organization puts into action the strategic plans that were developed, any time that concrete positions become vacant.   * The second step involves making the necessary preparations to advertise the positions that have been approved by an organization’s top decision making organ. A standard advertisement should have the following types of detailed information: The title and organization affiliation, the salary range which basically should inform about the starting salary, job description and roles, minimum qualification for the position, and the procedure for application. On top of that, the organization should show commitment towards equal opportunity and gender balance. Conclusion Finally, an organization performs an evaluation and assessment task of all the possible strategies that can be applied in the specific recruitment process. The organization then selects and uses the ones that best fit the specific scenario. The recruitment strategy can involve posting of advertisements or announcements at public places. On the other hand it can also be through electronic means whereby posting can be on agency websites that have been specifically developed for job seekers. The sole purpose of the recruitment exercise is to
Nowadays, the world is experiencing the most widespread and influential Ebola outbreak since the first outbreak of the disease observed in 1976. The whole global community is involved in discussing the problem because of the active spread of the virus among continents. The problem is in the fact that at the current stage, the global public cannot control the spread of the Ebola virus effectively, and there is the necessity to find the efficient strategy, according to which it is possible to stop the spread of the Ebola disease in the world. The authorities understand that the efforts of only one nation are not enough to respond to the widespread problem (Dhillon, Srikrishna, and Sachs 1409). Thus, can the Ebola outbreak be effectively addressed with the focus on international cooperation and the global public’s participation in researching and overcoming the issue? The research on the following question is important because the World Health Organization (WHO) labels the Ebola disease as the 21st century’s major health threat to the global community, and the search of the effective solutions to address the threat is the priority for the public (Mishra 364). Although there are many barriers to coping with the Ebola threat in the African countries associated with social and political factors, the Ebola outbreak can be effectively addressed only with references to the international cooperation and global public’s participation because the global cooperation leads to the immediate response to new cases; to the open sharing of resources, knowledge, medicines, and technologies; to improving the health industry’s infrastructure in the countries where the outbreak started; to the governments’ collaboration; and to the improvement of global prevention campaigns. In order to provide the context for discussing effective solutions to the Ebola menace, it is necessary to focus on the background of the problem. The Ebola virus causes the hemorrhagic fever which is not studied enough because of its complex nature, and the effective treatment is not developed or proven (Feldmann and Geisbert 850). The global public paid attention to the problem only in 2014, when the virus was spread from Guinea to Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Senegal (Mishra 364). In August 2014, the WHO warned the global community that “the number of people affected by Ebola virus could rise to 20,000 within coming 9 months” (Mishra 364). The rate at which the Ebola disease spreads provokes concerns about the status of the pandemic. Nevertheless, there are still debates on the necessity of the international cooperation in resolving the Ebola issue because medical workers from many countries become victims of the Ebola virus, and there are only a few positive results in addressing
Psychosocial theory in nursing focuses on patients’ well-being through maintaining their mental health stability. Some physical conditions like hypertension requires control for the blood pressure of a patient. The most effective way to do it is to manage their stress level and reaction to external events. This essay analysis how social support relates to Practice Improvement Project that applies the teach-back method to assist patients with hypertension understand the condition and maintain their blood pressure. Patients should rely on social support whenever they feel that they need some help. It can be both in the form of a group or an individual support. According to Centrella-Nigro and Alexander (2017), teach-back method is a useful tool in the patents’ education. By this, nurses can explain to patients the importance of social support and the ways of how they can call it. Nurses can show that social support is not only asking for the help but also having a good conversation, sharing experience and discussing some issues. With such approach, patients may significantly reduce their stress level and anxiety that will contribute to their successful manage of blood pressure. For example, Byrd et al. (2021) through analysis of 602 African American adults aged between 48 to 92 found that positive social support experience has a positive effect on blood pressure of the adults. As such, nurses should ensure patients that social support is not just a method of dealing with mental health issues but also an effective way of stabilizing blood pressure. Therefore, teach-back method applied by nurses should be done in a proper way to provide all the necessary information to the patients and convince them to rely on social support more than in ordinary life.
Presentation Script  1. Introduction to the event;  2. Experience influence;  3. Key concepts;  4. Engagement with diversity;  5. Challenges and Strategy;  6. Positive and Negative Emotions;  7. How to deal with negative emotions;  8. Steps to advance human rights and justice. Introduction to the Event   * “Black Lives Matter” in the USA;   * Hillsborough, NJ made a statement on June 6, 2020;   * More than a thousand citizens joined a protest;   * The theme of racism cannot be ignored;   * The silence “spoke” that moment. The “Black Lives Matter” movement continues to spread across the United States, provoking a number of positive and negative emotions. Many American states have already joined the idea to support racial equality in society. On June 6, 2020, the citizens of Hillsborough, New Jersey, organized a peaceful protest to demonstrate their solidarity. Despite the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 situation, about a thousand citizens came to the intersection of Route 206 and Amwell Road, one of the busiest parts of the town, to discuss the theme of racism in the country. In addition to people’s stories and memories, a remarkable feature of this cultural event was the silence that lasted more than eight minutes. Experience Influence   * It is possible to change something;   * The effect of the crowd is impressive;   * Black people do not want to ask for help;   * White people experience fear because of prejudice;   * Nothing should be based on color. Is it possible to change someone’s mind in several minutes? The experience obtained during the Hillsborough protest proves that everything is possible – to make the loudest street keep silence, to be heard by the globe, and to learn how unfair human judgments could be. It is enough to gather and exchange public experience. My perception of diversity and differences was never distorted, and I believed that equality is something people cannot be lost. I was wrong, and this cultural event in my community shows the real situation. Many black people are not able to ask for help because they have already lost hope. Many white people feel fear not because it exists, but because they are Americans, and it is their nature to be afraid of something. This event is an opportunity to prove that nothing should be based on color. Key Concepts Race   * Blacks are inferiors;   * “fear ruled everything around” (Coates, 2018, p. 134);   * Discrimination is a denial of equal access (Zastrow et al., 2019); Gender   * Gender issues usually mean women’s issues (Katz, 2012);   * Male domination predetermine women’s and girls’ role in society;   * Sexism provokes new inequalities. Class   * Class debates are “stripped from popular culture” (Mantsios, 2018, p. 173);   * Global comparison hides the American truth;   * Wealth and power are related. After visiting the chosen cultural events, the worth of such concepts as “race,” “gender,” and “class” has been con
Introduction Fathers are the subject of much poetry, and these two poems, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, are two of the best. The poems are as different as their subjects, though they are both memorable images. In the first, the poet relates a memory from childhood, when his working class and whiskey drinking father used to have fun dancing with him just before bedtime, and then waltz him off to bed. Roethke’s father taught English at the grammar school, but had grown up working class, and kept his friends. The second poem is written for the poet’s dying father, begging him to fight for life and not to simply give up. Thomas points out that life is precious and also lets his father know that he does not want him to die. Both poems are strong in emotional content and imagery though they use different forms and the primary emotions are different. The background difference shows in these poems, as Roethke was from a small, rather poor town in Michigan, while Thomas came from Wales, though both their fathers were educated men. Both poets are talking to their fathers, and had strong feelings of love for them, but Roethke remembers his father’s rough playful affection and Thomas remembers his father’s strength and dignity. Main body To begin with, both forms used in these poems are lyrical, though the forms are different, and the differences suit the difference in content. Roethke uses four quatrains with the song-like abab-cdcd-efef-ghgh rhyme scheme. Thomas opted for the more rigorous and confining villanelle form, which emphasizes the feeling that he considered his father to be very dignified and conservative. Roethke’s poem feels less powerful on reading, because it is a happy memory for the poet, but the strong images he paints for us have good staying power. Roethke’s poem uses shorter lines in a rather fun waltz like iambic trimeter with the even lines adding an unaccented extra half foot. This matches well with the rather happy tone of the poem, telling us about a cherished memory “romping” with his somewhat drunken father while standing on his father’s feet, “we romped u
Armstrong says that Richardson’s Pamela has been received with such acclaim at a time when novels were considered as immoral and that the author makes his novel a different one as not to be seen in the derogatory sense of the term “Novel.”. Throughout the novel, Pamela is portrayed as the lady of virtue reflecting the culture of the time and it has been demonstrated that she would not fall prey to her master’s sexual advances in spite of her poverty. She would rather die than submit to him if that is her fate. The author characterizes her as a poor woman to demonstrate that women would not lose their virtue even in the most abject living conditions. According to Armstrong, with Pamela “novel” itself gets a dignified recognition that reading novels is no more an immoral activity. Armstrong notes that the author has brought new meanings for social relations with certain moral values attributed to them. Pamela’s defiant reactions to her master’s demands are deemed to represent the legitimate self-defense of a woman of virtue and not of that of a maid servant disobeying her master. The author of Pamela has been credited with upholding the integrity of the female body without being relegated to an economic commodity. The depiction of female body something beyond money value actually marks the beginning of the rise of women power in the 18 th century, retaining at the same time the role of a person commanding the household without traces of servitude. This is seen by Armstrong as major event in the political history. She considers that Pamela has managed to raise herself to the intellectual and social level of her reader, remaining a poor young maid servant by occupying the majority of the space in the novel by constantly questioning the arrogance of male chauvinism. She considers this as somewhat democratization of humanity. Armstrong herself notes that Pamela’s letters of virtues are what uplift her position where she is able to win the heart of a gentleman and reform the interior of his house. Armstrong highlights the steadfastness of Pamela in her virtue even in her trying times of economic dependency on her master in order to supplement her parents’ need to fulfill the debt obligations of her brother. Pamela novel has also been seen by Armstrong as part of conduct literature by which Richardson is regarded to have contributed to the idealogy of domesticity for the emergent middle class. She shows Pamela’s story as one of sexual history. She insists that sexual discourse is a modern form of pleasure and her claim is that the Richardson’s is not a wayward novel. However, she claims that theorists of the time failed to answer how a female writer (feminist writer) could become so prominent in the 18 th century. To conclude, Armstrong has written the role of literature in shaping our cultural norms and id
Introduction Ancient people always moved from one place to another and made the current emigration map of the world. However, compared with the ancient time, the term emigration has not changed a lot because people’s aims of emigration are still the same: to seek for job opportunities, to find a better job, to enroll in a better learning institution among other reasons. Currently, the geopolitics of the world is changed and states are trying to form unions due to the benefits which come with forming such unions. For example, the European Union (EU) might be the best example of these kinds of unions. The European Union has its own rules and regulations which govern the relationship and interaction of the member states. The union has many regulations with one of the main regulations being free movement within the union by citizens belonging to nations of the union. It is not only a right that a citizen of a union member state can travel, but also he/she can move, stay and find a job within the EU. However, from time to time there have been rising some controversial issues related to the free movement of union member citizens within the EU. The new entrant states do not have the same ‘freedom’ and ‘right’ as the 15 main countries which have played a huge role in the EU formation. It is expected that with time the new members in the union will be allowed to enjoy all the privileges that are enjoyed by the old members. Just like any flexible market, labor mobility is a key factor in production. Free labor movement will ensure that the changing conditions of labor demand are well countered; therefore, free movement of labor is considered a cornerstone of the European Union developement. The Enlargement of EU The major enlargement of the EU was witnessed in the year 2004 when ten countries became members. These countries were majorly from the Eastern and Central Europe safe for Mediterranean countries like Cypress and Malta. There was a potential concern over the flow of workers within the EU. The free movement of workers is a fundamental feature of the EU’s internal market and is defined in the treaty of the European Community. The treaty states that every individual has the right to take up employment and to respond to job offers within the EU. The principal of free movement of people was not ratified by several leaders and countries but this free movement of workers has been ratified by Sweden, UK and Ireland (Hofman 3). In the years 2004 and 2007, the enlargement of the EU was unprecedented in certain aspects of the economy and policy. There is a lot of evidence that this enlargement had a lot of impacts on the flow of migrants from the new states to the older states. Despite the existence of restrictions, the flow of migrants could not be stopped a
Introduction Industries present one of the most severe climate change actors and air pollutants. Toxic substances released by plants and factories in large amounts are detrimental to both humans and the planet as a whole. In order to fight these negative effects, environmentalists need to find solutions that will allow combining industrial development with minimized disastrous influence on people’s health. So far, industrial air pollution is a highly dangerous factor impeding positive living conditions and deteriorating the health of millions of individuals. Main body Whether it is noticeable or not, air pollution is a frequent occurrence nowadays. Technological breakthroughs have made and continue to be making existence easier and more comfortable, but they come with a price. Carbon dioxide, smoke, soot, and other harmful substances undermine citizens’ health on a daily basis. The image by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which was taken in 2016, offers just a small part of a large picture (see fig. 1). The rationale behind selecting this photograph is to show that although emissions do not always look menacingly grey or black, they are pervasive. The director of the Clean Air Project, John Walke, notes that the largest amount of air pollution comes from energy production and use (Mackenzie). An “especially destructive feedback loop” causes an interconnection between air pollution and climate change (Mackenzie). On the one hand, air pollution reinforces climate change, and on the other hand, climate change aggravates air pollution. According to the NRDC, soot and smog are the most common air pollution types (Mackenzie). Since these substances are the result of industrial production, it is crucial to analyze the possibilities of reducing their amount. Fig. 1. Industrial air pollution (Natural Resources Defense Council). The World Health Organization (WHO) pays much attention to investigating the causes of air pollution and finding solutions to them. One of the most effective measures of air quality in the USA is the Air Quality Index (AQI), which estimates air conditions by concentrations of such pollutants as particle solution (particulate matter), nitrogen and sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ground-level ozone (Nunez). Particulate matter is composed of microscopic particles of dust, chemicals, or allergens in the form of solids or gas that are released in the air (Mackenzie). Statistics provided by the WHO indicate that in 2016, nearly 4.2 million premature deaths were caused by poor-quality outdoor air (Nunez). Industrial air pollution is connected with severe health issues as heart disease, increased risk of cancer, stroke, and asthma. According to data collected by the Amer