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Introduction Canada is one of the developed countries in the world. It has an established system of education. On average, the living standards of people are high. According to Milbourne (13), Canada is one of the countries in the world considered the best when it comes to offering basic needs to citizens. Properly treated tapped water is supplied to various residential and business units in various areas in the state. As Milbourne (21) notes, Canada is advanced both socio-economically and politically. However, behind all these successes, an ugly closet hides the sufferings of some nationals of this nation. It is shocking to note that some Canadians have no access to clean water. The researcher realized that some people staying in the reserves use untreated water, which is a threat to their health. Westhues (59) reports that several previous researches have proven that water used in these reserves have EColi , which is a virus that is very dangerous to human health. The sanitary conditions of this nation are also under contentions. People living in these areas are poor. They cannot afford to treat drinking water. This puts them at a very dangerous position of contracting various diseases caused by viruses. Because of their limited economic capacity, they may not be in a position to seek proper medication, a fact that may put their lives in danger. The Aboriginal Communities living in reserves are the worst hit by this unfortunate phenomenon. They are unable to access clean water in various regions where they stay. A region in specific that was noted was Kashechewan reserve in the Northern Ontario state. The research therefore seeks to uncover issues relating to unsafe water in this region, the health concerns associated with the same, and recommendations on how this issue can be arrested to save lives of several Canadians staying in these regions. This would prevent them from eminent danger they face. Issues Pertaining Clean Water Clean water is a necessity to every human being. As Milbourne (28) states, water is life. Water defines every activity of a person. One needs clean water to drin
Introduction In the modern world, technological innovations play a central role in fostering the growth and development of different societies. Despite facilitating the propagation of a positive change in the modern settings, technology triggers an array of adversities that undermine the well-being of the global population. Notably, technology poses considerable risks to the environment, thereby undermining the sustainability of the surroundings (Kroesen 272). The remarkable triggers of environmental degradation facilitated by technology include the increased travel, excess power consumption, deforestation, increased waste production, and the excess use of gadgets. Undoubtedly, global warming is a portrayal of climate change in the modern world and hence the need for appropriate interventions to foster the sustainability of the environment. Surprisingly, technology can be applied to facilitate the management of climatic changes across the world through an array of approaches. Some of the ways of mitigating climate change through technological advancements include the generation of renewable energy, the development of energy-efficient machines, and the establishment of greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies (Santamouris 87). Besides, the integration of technology towards influencing a socially just adaptation to the global climatic changes is also relevant. In this respect, this paper concluded that technology has indeed negatively influenced climate change. The paper argues that although technology has undermined the sustainability of the environment by triggering pollution in different forms, thus resulting in detrimental outcomes such as global warming, it plays a crucial role in fostering a socially just adaptation to a climate-changed planet. A Brief Highlight of Technology and Climate Change The 20 th and 21 st -centuries have witnessed a wide array of technological innovations that influence the lives of people in the world in different ways. Importantly, technological innovations seek to improve the daily lives of people. Such advancemen
Abstract Nintendo is a games manufacturing in Japan. It was started a long time ago in the late 1800s (1880) by a man named Yamauch as small company producing playing cards for the Japanese market (Iwata, 2006).It was until 1970 through to 1985 that Nintendo started producing electronic toys and video games. Nintendo was the dominant player in the video gaming industry for decades soaring in the success of both consoles and hand held games. This lasted until the entry of other players who saw an opportunity in the gaming business. Sony launched its PS in the mid nineties while Microsoft came in with Xbox in 2001.This completely changed the face of the gaming industry because there was increased competition in terms of quality and innovativeness. Introduction Nintendo had been in the gaming industry for many decades without any reasonable competition; they had almost total control of the market and therefore had conventional marketing strategies that perhaps were not as sophisticated as present day marketing strategies with so much competition in the market. This analysis therefore seeks to critically look at the strategies employed by Nintendo before, upon the entry of competitors and any foreseen strategies that maybe employed. Microsoft and Sony’s strategies and mistakes will also be looked into and the some insight put on the way these strategies have changed the industry. Stakeholder analysis S
On September 16, 2013 the City Council of Denver, Colorado decided to adopt the law for the legalization of retail marijuana. The economy and finance from the very beginning were anticipating that this law will bring the largest income to the state’s budget and create plenty of job opportunities under the rule of law (Marijuana Legalization and Regulation). The first official stores selling legal marijuana were opened in January 2014. Colorado is the first among all the United States to adopt such a law. In Colorado now marihuana can be bought like alcohol, it is prohibited to sell marijuana to citizens that are younger than 21 years of age. The legal limitations only allow buying an ounce of legalized marijuana. The prices for this product are, of course, very high. The new law, just like the experts expected, truly turned out very profitable for the state. Only during the first month of being active, the legalized marijuana sales have brought millions of dollars in taxes and fees (Rittiman par. 1). According to the data from the Department of Revenue, Americans have purchased the amount of legal marijuana worth around fourteen million dollars only in January. A smaller part of it was from the retail of medical marijuana. The legal marijuana excise tax is now registered to be fifteen percent. The financial prognosis says that the state budget predicts to receive up to seventy-seven million dollars of income from legalized marijuana through the next fiscal year. Even though the state leaders expect that the law legalizing retail marijuana will completely take this business out of the control of cartels and illegal organizations, pot from the Black Market is still popular. There are many reasons why the legalized distribution of marijuana did not harm the Black Market businessmen much. First of all, the prices in official stores selling pot are extremely high. Illegal weed can still be purchased from the dealers for less than fifty percent of the official price. Secondly, the number of official stores is not big yet, besides they all have to be closed after seven o’clock in the evening – these conditions make access to the legal pot much more complicated, while illegal pot traders are easy to find and reach. Another very important aspect of marijuana as a purchase is its quality. The product bought in legal stores does not seem to be of satisfactory quality due to the growing demand for it (Hunter par. 5). Judging from these facts, the Black Market did not
Introduction For many years, capitalists and organizational managers have been focusing on the most appropriate strategies to produce a wide range of products for their consumers. This kind of practice has created a linear economy whereby raw materials are used to deliver goods that are eventually disposed of. The outcome is that most of the available natural resources have become depleted and incapable of supporting sustainability objectives. The predicaments of global warming and climate change have encouraged environmentalists and economists to consider evidence-based models that have the potential to improve people’s experiences and maintain the integrity of the natural environment. The purpose of this paper is to give a detailed analysis of circular economy (CE) and the current literature or academic thinking on the topic. It goes further to use the examples of companies that have successfully adopted this system to highlight the potential barriers and best practices for delivering positive results. Concepts and Approaches The main idea behind the CE concept is to promote evidence-based practices that have the potential to deliver sustainability and society-wide gains. The consumption of finite resources and raw materials is incapable of supporting the needs of future economies. This means that CE is a notion founded on the attributes of renewable energy and waste recycling. These principles have become the cornerstones of CE: keeping materials and products in use continuously designing out different sources of pollution and wastes, and regenerating all-natural processes and systems (Sassanelli et al. 2019). From this understanding, it is evident that a CE has been introduced to improve how waste products are eliminated from the natural environment and ensure that available resources are used continuously. The major concepts or processes underpinning this model include sharing, repairing, refurbishing, reusing, and recycling (Banaitė & Tamošiūnienė, 2016). Such initiatives are capable of minimizing the quantities of waste materials available from different manufacturing processes. Citizens are also guided and encouraged to recycle different products and materials. These initiatives are essential since they will minimize carbon emissions and make every region sustainable. Banaitė and Tamošiūnienė (2016) go further to indicate the societies or people who pursue this system will ensure that infrastructure and equipment remain in use for the longest time possible. Different products will be purchased and utilized for more days or years. This kind of practice will ensure that additional raw materials do not have to be acquired and consumed throughout the production process. Another principle is the idea of producing regenerative resources that can make it possible for more people to achieve their potential. For example, Banaitė and Tamošiūnienė (2016) reveal that farmers can consider the importance of using compost manure since it is less expensive, cleans the environment, and promotes the idea of sustainability. One of the outstanding issues regarding the power and effectiveness of this kind of
Waking up early in the morning is not an easy task, and even with an alarm set, one may oversleep by simply pushing a button on the device or ignoring the sound. However, by introducing a tactile irritant into the mix, one may be certain to wake up within several minutes. An innovative product, a pillow with an alarm built in is bound to revolutionize the target market and become an instant success. The product is primarily targeted at students, who usually have issues with scheduling their day and, therefore, tend to oversleep as a result of going to bed late. However, because of its convenience and unique design, the pillow alarm may be used by anyone, who feels that they may sleep too heavily to hear the sound of a traditional alarm clock and need an additional boost to wake up on time. As far as the design of the product is concerned, the pillow is symmetrical and has most of its controls in the back. The specified feature allows for waking up faster to locate the controls and turn the alarm off. It should be born in mind that the term “vibration” does not actually reflect the process that occurs once the alarm goes off. As soon as the time for the owner of the alarm to wake up comes, the pillow starts to emanate a soft glow, illuminating a sensual feeling. The resulting sensation allows the owner of the pillow to wake up. The combination of simplicity and innovation is what makes the product so outstanding. Production System As it has been stressed above, the product incorporates two key elements, i.e., the actual pillow and the alarm that is built into the former. The above-mentioned specifics of the object define the production process, making it twofold. The first and the essential step presuppose the design of the pillow; it is only after a detailed outline is crafted that the procedure of making the pillow can commence. The beginning of the actual production process involves the creation of the material for stuffing the pillows. For this purpose, raw materials are mixed and compressed so that a soft homogenous substance could be retrieved at the end of the mixing procedure. The foam that is obtained after the mixing is over is transported into the contained, where it is cleaned properly, and then is transferred into the heater, where it undergoes a thermal treatment (The Foam Shop para. 1). Once the filling is ready for use, the alarm agent is introduced into it so that the device could be incorporated into the design of the pillow. The vibrated pillow pad is connected to the timer, several sensors, including the ones for detecting smoke
State-Based and Universal Healthcare Programs The state-based health programs are very important in ensuring that health facilities concentrate on areas that affect their regions. This means that in this case they do not have to develop measures to manage issues that do not affect their clients. Therefore, state-based medical programs are objective and based on the needs on the ground and not just general assumptions (Bern and Wilensky 2007). Secondly, they are readily available since they are established within the local premises. It does not require other states to verify and approve the estimates and projections of a health facility if they are not within its jurisdictions. For that reason, state-based medical programs offer readily available services to their clients and reduce time wastage while saving the lives of those in danger. On the other hand, universal programs are better than state-based ones since human needs are similar irrespective of their age, occupation or environment. For instance, all old people experience almost similar health complications that are associated with old age (Bern and Wilensky 2007). For that reason, designing a universal health program for all states ensures patients get similar services from all hospitals. This reduces chances of offering poor medical services to patients in one state while others are offering standard services. In addition, it is a cheap way of ensuring all the needs of patients are addressed once and this reduces expenses and time wastage in consultations and repeating what has already been approved by medical authorities. There are other issues in the society that demonstrate state-based treatment including house rents, business permits, and property valuation and insurance covers. This means that states must be given opportunities to decide what is good for them and how they can achieve their goals based on their populations, abilities and resources. Justifications of Medicare Programs Medicare refers to medical programs that ensure the poor and old get quality and affordable healthcare services from public hospitals. This program was established to alleviate cases of death and disease outbreaks among the poor in the society since they could not afford to pay their hospital bills (Bern and Wilensky 2007). In addition, it enables them to make monthly contributions to their health insurance companies and this allows them to get quality services from health facilities. Therefore, this program is helpful in ensuring both the poor and rich get quality medical services. In addition, medical issues are universal and cannot be said to affect an individual. This means that the health of a poor person also affects that of a rich family because human beings are social animals and depend on one another for survival. Most poor people participate in various sectors (construction, agriculture, manufacturing, sales and distribution) that contribute to the success of the rich. This means that richness and poverty have a lot of things in common though this cannot be seen directly (Bern and Wilensky 2007). In addition, i
Introduction Despite nations across the world seeking solutions to the international health care problems to ensure a universal access to health care, the unequal distribution of the ill health burden continues to affect the medical sector. The high cost of medical care, the increasing disease complexities, and the unequal distribution of wealth due to the varied degrees of determinants of health, are regular health care concerns (Baldwin, 2003). Social and economic factors, physical and environmental issues, and individual characteristic factors are important determinants of health that sometimes determine health care equality. This essay analyses the unequal distribution of the health burden between nations and within populations, and focuses on the several determinants of health as the considerable factors that determine health outcomes. Unequal Distribution of the Ill Health Burden between Nations The distribution of ill health is disproportionate across the world because the severity of the health complications depends on several economic, social, and environmental aspects. Coupled with poverty and inadequacy of health care facilities, developing countries easily face health care dilemmas from simple disease outbreaks (Baldwin, 2003). In the developed nations, only the chronic health care problems such as cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Ebola, cause extreme fear. International health inequalities arise from the economic unfairness. In countries with low economic stabilities, patients can easily contract simple communicable illnesses and die in the millions, because the local health care practitioners have limited expertise and health care facilities to avert the health care menaces (Bezruchka, 2010). Patients in the developed nations that have stabilized economies and competent health care workers, achieve superior health care outcomes. While malaria is capable of causing millions of child mortalities in the developing nations due to the ineffective prenatal care and environmental issues, developed nations control this infection with ease (Bezruchka, 2010). Communicable diseases tend to cause more fatalities than non-communicable diseases in the developing and the underdeveloped countries, because the levels of transmissions are sometimes unpreventable (Bezruchka, 2010). Since the doctors in the developing and immature nation
Forewords Competitive advertisement is one of the most common business communication methods in the business world today. Characteristically, the media (both outdoor and in-house) are typically awash with advertisement as competitors try to create an impact to the customers via effective passage of the message concerning the product that they offer and objectively win the market. To achieve efficiency in advertisement use of graphic designing in passing on message in creative appeal has virtually taken center stage. This is evident in most of the advertisement that are targeted to the market all over the world today (White 8). Consequently, creativity in commercial advertisement that is greatly rooted in the ever advancing skills and expertise in graphic designing has become a major tool for competition as rivalry in the market place continues to intensify every other day. Furthermore, massive computerization coupled with the ever advancing technological environment and positive trends in the incorporation of technology in marketing has made use of graphic designing in advertisement the in thing in today’s business world. Irrespective of the fact that it is hard to measure the direct impact of advertisement and ascertain in empirical terms the response level to creative advertisement appeals, marketers upholds great trust in advertisement as a method of marketing communication. Consequently, use of graphic advertisement continues to increase as creative appeal marketing become more and more widespread. Being a relatively recent development in corporate marketing however, use of this approach makes it a less researched and documented area. The purpose of this paper therefore is to provide an in-depth review of the use of graphic design in advertisement. Graphic design in advertisement Graphic designing is use of an individual’s creativity in the packaging of a message in a way that draws the attention of the clients and communicates the intended message to the latter in the most effective way. In fact graphic designs are intended to draw, in the most captivating way the attention of the targets audience with an objective of communicating the intended message to them to generate the most positive response (Bucknam 48). In attaining this objective, the designer’s creativity and appeal in communication, as well as the ability to draw and hold the audience attention throughout the communication processes takes the central point. Ideally, it is critical as lack of it would mean failure. Examples of graphic designs includes but not limited to the cover of a book design, creative advertisements, designs in magazine, posters products packages, environmental graphics, logo designs to name but a few ( Barringer, 4 ). Typically, graphic designs are-by