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Introduction Media has great power and potential to influence the behaviors of the people by keeping them informed about any issue and forming their opinions in a particular direction. The media can draw the attention of the general public towards any specific issue by highlighting it more than the others. The news media especially can play more important and defining role in determining the social behaviors and perceptions regarding some particular issues. There are several important social issues that get wide coverage of the news media and this coverage allow the issue to get noticed by the people as well as authorities at different levels. The following discussion aims at discussing the role of the news media in framing one of the important social problem of homelessness. In this regard, the paper analyzes different news features and examines their contents to judge the credibility and authenticity of the provided information and the due coverage given to each aspect of the issue. Homelessness – A serious Social Issue The most dangerous intersection and one of the most critical situations, which is now increasing day by day is homelessness. There are many homeless people who are asking for help. These people are in very critical situation and need help. The commission in order to end this homelessness situation has no doubt responded to these pleas along with an unprecedented collaborative and mutual effort in order to provide housing, training and treatment to those people who are in greatest need. But apart from this, the commission’s report itself has also landed on another and a very precarious intersection which is where individual community and behavior’s responsibility cross. What they are doing? What is their responsibility? (Iyengar, 45-90) This tension often plays a great role in familiar media accounts known as “Big government handout”. Apart from this whatever the weakness or merits of the commission’s plan are, there also exists a great and a huge gap between the policy’s level and the ways for an ordinary citizens in order to understand the critical situations and all the complexities of this issue, so that they can talk with each other face to face and directly about this issue and also to become involved in the creative solutions at the local level. This situation requires a lot of attention and along with this it can easily be resolved by mutual cooperation and by resolving this issue collaboratively. (Cress and Snow, 30-90) The government plays an important role in solving this issue because they are in majority and they are responsible to solve this issue. Whatever happens to any citizen is the responsibility is of the government so that they can fulfill their citizens each and every single requirement. (Smith and McCarthy, 20-80). According to the 2005-point in the Time study, there were about 10,268 people who were living without shelter in Denver Metropolitan area as of 24 th January 2005. While on the other hand,
MFI-B was an NGO micro finance organization that was dealing with community development activities and formation through the advancement of loans to its clients. MFI-B got its funds from different organizations. Its main business strategy was an expansion in the form of its loan portfolio. With this, this organization could increase its borrowing capacity to its clients and ultimately alleviate poverty in the community. The leadership of the organization was very weak and inexperienced in matters to do with financial planning and budgeting. This is because; the community leader overtook leadership role without scanning the situation in which the organization was facing, and took up major financial decisions that could adversely affect the organization. I would term the decision to expand the organization’s lending base as a bad move because of its weak accounting system and lack of internal control systems. Introduction of MFI-B in planning (definition, planning, problems, and solutions): Human resource planning involves activities of the organization. The activities make sure that the organization has a work force with the right number of employees now and in the future. It is a management strategy that ensures that the organization achieves its objectives by employing a wok force that is capable of performing its job well. The problems faced by MFI-B are that the organization has a poor planning system of its employees, compensation management, organization structure, staff motivation, training and development. From the case study, the organization is facing labor shortages and this affects the motivation of its employees. The solutions to the problems the organization is facing regarding human resource planning are; first to create a need of human resource planning as part of its core activities. Secondly, the organization has to conduct a demand forecast to know exactly how many staff it needs and if there are any shortages. Thirdly, the organization has to carry out supply forecast analysis to determine whether the organization has to recruit labor force from within or from outside the organization. The final step is to determine whether a gap exist between the demand and supply. An action has to be performed in the case where there is a shortage of labor or excess of labor. If there is a shortage of labor, then the organization has to consider recruitment, training and development, motivating, and improving the work environment to retain the existing employees. If, on the other hand, if supply is more than the demand, the organization has to la
Discussion The academy winning movie, The Aviator , created and directed by award-winning director Martin Scorsese and starring an award-winning actor and Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio, tells the real-life experiences of Howard Hughes, one of the country’s most controversially interesting billionaires and his rise to world wide fame. The film characteristically opens on a scene set in 1914, where a young, nine-year-old Hughes is being bathed by his mother who secretly insinuates that he has a strange illness telling him, “you are not safe” (The Aviator). Fast forward to 1927 as the now 22-year-old Hughes is directing the film Hell’s Angels, constantly calling on perfection from both himself and his cast and crew members. Two years after the movie is complete, Howard insists on re-shooting it, as he is convinced that the sound-mixing is not perfect enough, costing him an extraordinarily large amount of money and nearly driving him bankrupt. Luckily, the movie is a huge hit and intimately dictates the course of perfection that Howard would always take throughout his life. Throughout the film, he is romantically involved with then Hollywood actresses Katharine Hepburn (played by Cate Blanchett) as well as Ava Gardner (played by Kate Beckinsale) from whom he demands perfection as well as protection from the prying eyes of the outside world. After some time, Hughes develops a liking for commercial aviation fueling his interest in buying stock of the Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) Company. He is obsessed with becoming the “fastest man on earth” constantly crashing the company’s planes and almost ending his own life (The Aviator). As all stories, villains are always out to thwart the progress of any rising star and in this case, they are played by Pan-American board of director Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin) and Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda). They are concerned over Hughes’s rising popularity and are afraid that he might just beat them in the production and design of passenger avionics. They decide to out Hughes’s obsessive compulsive disorders as a form “disquieting rumors” in a bid to dethrone him and make him unpopular with the press and the public (The Aviator). Howard is faced with numerous troubles all of which are caused from by the two villains need to destroy him. He reaches rock-bottom when he cannot come outside, constantly fearing that he might get infected from the numerous germs that he feels are just waiting to get him. To the astonishment of many, he triumphs over a senate hearing set by the two villains colluding to take TWA away from him and seems to come to terms with his disorder. However, a
The Karamazov Brothers is a heartbreaking novel of a dysfunctional family (Dostoyevsky 2). As such, the family comprises of a father, a daughter, two wives, and three sons. The sons are Dmitri Karamazov, Alyosha Karamazov, and Ivan Karamazov. Fyodor Karamazov is an acquisitive and a negligent father. Their relatives, rather than their parents, have been raising the four siblings. In the story, the three siblings return home to stay with Fyodor. The return marks the first time the three brothers have been together. On the other hand, The Stranger is a story focusing on the absurdness of life (Camus & Matthew 3). As such, the book was published in the year 1942. Meursault is the key character in the story. After the funeral of Meursault’s mother, he murders an Arab man. In the novel, the author illustrates that the value of human life is perceived with respect to mortality. Through the novel, Camus portrays how death can have an impact on an individual’s understanding of life (Camus & Matthew 4). Camus argues that the awareness of death makes people to be informed of the value of their lives. The following events offer a comprehensive description of the sense through which Ivan is guilty of assassinating Fyodor. At the start of the story, Dmitri steals money from Katerina, his wife-to-be. He spends the 3,000 rubles financing, Grushenka, his mistress. Later, Dmitri expends several days trying to borrow cash to pay Katerina her dues (Dostoyevsky 34). No one is prepared to loan him the cash. The situation is made harder because he has no property to sell. Later, Dmitri goes to Grushenka’ homestead. There, he is surprised that his mistress was not around. He is convinced that she was with Ivan. He rushes to their father’s homestead searching for them. He fails to find them at their father’s homestead. While marauding at the homestead, Dmitri assaults his father’s old domestic worker leaving him bloodstained and knocked out. Thereafter, Dmitri escapes to Grushenka’s homestead. There, he is informed by a house cleaner that Grushnenka had eloped with her ex-boyfriend. At that instance, he resolves that his only option is to commit suicide. However, he convinces himself to meet Grushenka before killing himself. Minutes later, he enters into a local shop with his bloodstained clothes and a hefty wad of money in his hand (Dostoyevsky 32). He purchases foodstuffs and liquor and boards a bus headed to the ex-boyfriend’s residence. There, he finds Grushenka and her ex-boyfriend together. At that instance, Grushenka becomes conscious that she actually loves Dmitri. They manage to lock the ex-boyfriend in privacy. Thereafter, they plan how they were going to undertake their wedding. Before ending their plans, the law enforcers unexpectedly burst in and capture Dmitri. The police blame him for killing Fyodor. Owing to the bloodstained clothes and unexplained sources of money found in Dmitri’s hands, the police detain him. In jail, he insists th
The media plays a major role in accelerating economic development by meeting and solving the problems of the citizens. The media promotes development via the free flow of data, increasing the government accountability and transparency, improving the implementation of public strategies and increasing the political consciousness of citizens (Pal et al, 2011). In addition, the media plays a major role in promoting political development through announcements that help the citizens to understand and gain knowledge about their nation (Wilcox, 2007). On the other hand, media may inhibit development through various means including creating false ideologies and propaganda, concentrating on advertisers, covering wrongdoings in the society and destabilizing development of women. This paper will argue that media promotes development but at the same time, it inhibits development in some ways. Effects of Media on Development Media detractors claim that the mass media managed by a few multinational corporations have turned to an antidemocratic force the status quo. Despite the media news updating on several issues, it mostly deliver information concerning gossips, sex, scandals and violence. Most of the political news concentrates more on personalities than focusing on their ideologies and perceptions. Due to this upholding, the voters are left with political misinformation including worthless mottos making them to lose interest and become skeptical about politics. In this case, media inhibits political and social development (Fog, 2004). Media plays a big role in portraying the important people in authorities who are do not perform their duties well. The media goes to an extent of giving live eyewitness accounts of similar proceedings. These proceedings make everyone in the country to be aware of the challenges facing the world. In addition, this has made the policy makers to think before taking any actions that will make them to regret later and it has made the activists to speak the truth (Eash, 2011). This clearly implies that the media helps in implementation of major public services by keeping watch on the policy makers and other government officials in charge of public money. Media aids in improving the responsiveness of the ruling system by making the government to be more accountable to the public. In turn, this helps to decrease the chances of ethnic, social and religious violence that may occur. The media also play a role in overcoming the principal-agent problem that typifies the association between the citizens and the government. In the absence of a free media, the government will try to evade and hence there will be inadequate information. Therefore, free media accelerates political development and aids in improving the relationships between the governments and their citizens (Pal et al, 2011). Fog (2004) argues that media inhibits meaningful development since most of the radios, TV and newspapers get their income from the advertisements. In order to achieve this, the media will seek to
Abstract Laser communication is the fastest form of data transfer, known to humankind. A laser beam transmits electrons in a narrow path in a straight line, which can then be caught by a receiver and interpreted as data. Low-frequency lasers are commonly used in high-speed internet cables in order to avoid various shortcomings of an unprotected laser beam. Lasers are also used in ground-to-satellite and satellite-to-satellite communications. However, numerous issues and complications make laser communications in space less feasible. Some of them include the accuracy of the impulse, energy requirements, and data losses along the way. Mathematical formulas and explanations are given to explain each of these phenomena and provide a framework for understanding and calculating their impact in a space communications project. Introduction Light is the fastest form of energy known to humankind. Because of the speed which greatly surpasses that of sound as well as electric and magnetic impulses, it is frequently used in communication. On the ground, due to the Earth’s curvature and a multitude of solid and gaseous obstacles, beam communication is used only for short distances. 2 Long-distance communication is done via optic fibers, which are wires made out of strands of glass that help conduct light and use it to transmit data and information. Although the light’s speed is severely reduced due to a multitude of refractions from the walls of the glass fibers, it remains the fastest mode of communication available. 14 However, when it comes to space, matters are different. There are numerous satellites orbiting our planet. Communication with them is done primarily via radio signals, as those can ignore the clouds and other visual obstacles that may greatly reduce the effectiveness of lasers launched from the ground. 9 Nevertheless, ground-to-space laser communication shows much promise as a faster and more accurate way of controlling satellites. Inter-satellite laser communication is also a great prospect to explore, as there are no obstacles in space that could impede or reduce the effectiveness of a laser beam. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the use of lasers in communication and provide mathematical data on the mechanisms behind their use. What is a Laser? LASER, or lightly amplified by stimulated emission of radiation, is a concentrated beam of electrons launched in a single direction. 5 It is different from normal light in that it is concentrated and has a singular wavelength, meaning that some lasers are invisible to the human eye. Lasers are usually generated using special glasses, crystals, or gas lamps, which contain atoms with electrons, which are then ripped off and funneled into a single bea
Introduction to Church The early Christian era was major characterized by various vessels of which every vessel constituted of wholly or incompletely churches which the face of many was characterized by various setbacks of the ecclesiastical plate to the mainland at the moment of social and religious woes (Old Church Plate, 1907). The Church as a social institution plays a major role in helping the members of the society to overcome several problems e.g. conflict resolution and bonding the family members together. Positive Impact Of Church The social correlation that has greatly emerged among aged people in modern society has been greatly contributed by the church which has created a strong belief that the single believers who have developed the attitude of going to church have actually had a greater paradigm shift. Social groups such as the sick have recently had improvements to their health situation and therefore proved that the church has had greater concern towards change in their life. However, having a Minister based social relationship is of greater importance as compared to other social group associations (Krause N). Negative Effect Of Church Institution Church as an institution has hindered individual goals an individual abandons his goals and responsibility on behalf of the church. Above all, our children’s future has been greatly affected by the church in that they tend to forget the social norms and follow the church. Church has also stood as a prophetic critic with a lot of effects of guilty feelings which is stressing towards negative criticism. There are several schools of thought of which using critical Autobiography to explain sociology is based on institution. Sociology of education highlights school as a community that you grew up in and gained your experiences from. Thoughts can also indicate the detained knowledge which a person has especially after applying your sociological imagination. There are several conflict theory including class and social conflict which major involve substantive analysis. Use of symbols in the church The symbols which are used in the church serve the purpose of showing to men Gods’ presence and unite men with the divine nature of God. Some of the symbols which are used in the church are the cross, vestments used celebrations, there are different colors used in the church with various meanings, the use of candlelight which is for showings us the way to Christ, and also the use of natural light (Orthodox Church in America, 2008). There is also the use of incense, wine, bread, water, and oil to show God’s mercy and love. The functionality of church. The latent functions of the church are to help people be friendlier towards one another. When people go to church, the summons has the effect of making them kinder to others. The manifest functions on the other hand are to help people read the bible and become more kn
Cooperative marketing is considered as one of the most viable marketing techniques and it is applied by most of the organizations throughout the world. This paper analyzes the scenario of cooperative marketing and how it benefits GGI. In the similar manner the value of these relationships are discussed and certain other aspects that are also related to cooperative marketing are discussed in detail. Cooperative marketing is actually termed as a distribution system and it is implied by many organizations throughout the world. The marketing system that is based on cooperative marketing revolves around the scenario of people working together in order to gain a collaborative goal. Cooperative marketing as it is implied by the name is based on helping others in both the short and the long run. The cooperative marketing efforts are members owned and they are member controlled and ultimately they actually generate member-benefit (Winer, 2006). If two individuals who are neighbors are selling certain products along the road side then this scenario is considered as cooperative marketing. There are wide and varied benefits of cooperative marketing like economies of scale, bargaining power, preserving the target markets and access to professional expertise. In the similar manner there are certain challenges that are associated with cooperative marketing and these challenges are the partners or in certain scenarios the organizations agreeing on one scenario, sharing of information and development of trust and the costs associated with this marketing efforts. Furthermore the lack of trust that is associated with the members can also be considered as one of the biggest challenges of cooperative marketing. In the branding terminology it is also considered as co branding strategies. The scenario of cooperative marketing can also be evaluated by the example of Visa and Marriott offer. The holders of Visa card can experience fabulous discounts at Marriot hotels and for this campaign certain valuable coupons are offered to the loyal customers of Visa card. However, it can be analyzed that both the organizations benefited from this approach and this is actually the power of cooperative marketing (VISA, 2003). Another example of cooperative marketing is the co op plans of small businesses that actually link business owners and the governments. In this scenario the local entrepreneurs were offered to sell their products to the state and the federal government. In the similar manner it can be said that cooperative marketing played its part and it actually benefited both the parties (NFIB, 2009). In the scenario of GGI cooperative marketing can be very beneficial and the organization can easily coordinate with suppliers and other players in the market when they are entering into the housewares section. The collaboration with the suppliers can be extremely beneficial for GGI because in this manner both the parties can share their risks and profits at the same time and in this way it ca