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Abstract Music festivals work as powerful mediums for inspiring, motivating and stirring transformation for an improved world. These can be observed as a common platform for gathering, making relationships with other people and celebrating with others. Music festivals are sources of entertainment and pleasure, and they provide opportunities for actuality and being in the right place. Hence, music festivals are important in the way that they add to the conversion of sustainability. The prime objective of most of the festivals is to fulfil the specific needs of a community and provide entertainment. Students’ choices for travel and leisure destinations are followed by a wide array of motivations. These festivals provide them opportunity to interact with their friends and fellow students and share their experiences with them. Music festivals are very popular among the Chinese students and China’s music festival industry has enormous potential. However, the growing competition in this sector has made it necessary to understand the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction of the visitors with the music festivals. The present research is an attempt to understand and analyse the relationship between Chinese university students’ motivations for attending the popular Strawberry Music Festival in China and the satisfaction gained from their experiences. It is found in the survey that the festival image, destination image, experience opportunities, cost and trip quality are the more common factors that are observed to be motivating the Chinese students for coming to the music festival, and they can increase students’ satisfaction. The research may help the music festival organizers to determine what makes the Chinese students attend music festivals and how to provide them the utmost satisfaction with the music festivals. Introduction Festivals and celebrations have been a part of recreational program from ancient times. During ancient period, these festivals and celebrations were mainly in the form of leisure activities with religious essence (Celik & Cetinkaya 2013). People involved in different religious and cultural activities celebrating mainly the agriculture harvesting for getting retreat and break from their mundane work routines. Later, the transformation of rural labour into urban labour generated different groups in the society that demanded leisure as a necessity. Main factors contributing to the growth in leisure activities were: technological advancements, growth in the average age, improved revenues and significance of time. According to Karakucuk (1997), “The recreational activities that are done voluntarily on personal choice with an aim of protecting human body which is seriously affected by the intensive work of human being, routine life style or negative environment effects, regaining, protecting and keeping the mental health and getting pleasure providing personal enjoyment in the leisure time are defined as events” (as cited in Celik & Cetinkaya 2013, p. 2-3). Events are an integral part of the tourism development plans and play an important role in the
Today one can hardly argue that IT investment is a significant aspect of a company’s strategic planning. Recent technological outbreaks have enabled managers to collect and handle any amounts of data records. The question, thence, arises, whether the informational interpretation might present any significant value for a firm’s performance. Thus, the necessity of developing efficient measuring tools such as the Return on Information metrics is explicable. Applying technologies for data analysis can either increase or decrease the information value depending on the efficiency of the selected approach. Thus, current research shows that the usage of the most modern and advanced machinery devices does not essentially guarantee the data cost advance. Nor does the type of data collected determine its utility for the improvement of a firm’s performance. Analysts tend to consider management functioning to be the key factor that preconditions the success of the ROI policy. Thus, managers of huge corporations claim that the vast digital data volumes are highly problematic to be turned into valuable insights that can be further used as the basis for budget scheduling. According to the results gathered from several case studies, effective ROI is only possible on condition that one deals with “the right information, from the right sources” (Mattocks 2013, par.5). Nevertheless, while modern technical equipment is not a pledge of successful information managing, poor IT policy is apt to decrease the value of data available. Return on Information analysis is to be preceded by profound targeting that will help to turn the relevant metrics into significant marketing indicators. As far as the success of Return on Information metrics application is determined by the objective setting; it is logical to suppose that ROI is to be managed by the strategy marketing department likely to handle the issue most efficiently. It is crucial that the company invests enough money in the employment of high-qualified analysts able of performing a precise evaluation of the data operating. Even though modern technologies are capable of processing any amounts of digital data, human factor still plays the key role, as it is a person responsible for the critical analysis of the received results. Whereas, the machinery sorts out the necessary statistics, a good specialist turns it into the materials valuable for the company’s performance. Thus, ROI performance requires organized cooperation between the head management that is supposed to define the objective and the professional analysts that can provide the demanded r
One of the best ways and most pleasant ways to learn more about culture of a particular country is to watch the movie depicting its culture and directed by a director originated from this country. One of such films is Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate). It is a film that gives a deep insight into Hispanic culture and traditions. It tells about relationships between people, family traditions, national food and customs. The film was screened in 1992 by a Spanish director Alfonso Arau. The film is based on a famous novel with the same title by Laura Esquivel. It is a romantic love story that was interfered with strict national traditions. The story is set in Mexico, it times of the Mexican Revolution. Two young people are falling in love, but they cannot be together because of a tradition that presupposes that the youngest daughter in the family should not get married and stay with her mother doing housework. The film is filled with magic related to cooking. So, the main characters of the film are young people that experience a forbidden love. Tita (protagonist) was born the third and last daughter in the family. According to old superstition, Tita has no right married, she must live with her mother and help her. She becomes a family cooker. However, one cannot escape one’s fate and girl falls in love with a young man Pedro, a very nice local boy. He also loves her and makes a proposal. However, Tita’s mother refuses. Pedro has to marry Tina’s sister to be closer to his bellowed girl. Two people live close to one another, but they cannot be together. At the end of the film, they finally find a way to be together, but after marriage Pedro dies and Tita kills herself. As it has already been mentioned, the film is filled with mysticism. There is an allegory to food. This allegory comes for the first time in the scene of Pedro’s and Rosaura’s wedding. When Tita prepared a wedding cake, she cried and her tears filled the cake. All guests in the wedding were crying as well when they were eating it. Thus, Tita understood that she could communicate with her dear Pedro through food. The film is very rich in metaphors, as well as in symbols: dishes and their ingredients are symbolic, the name of Rosaura’s daughter – Esperanze (which means hope), and even the title of the movie is a symbol of Tita’ and Pedro’s love. There can be two explanations to the title. The idiom “como agua para chocolate” means passion and love “people melt as chocolate melts in hot water” and the second explanation relates to the marriage of Rosaura and Pedro “the chocolate made with water instead of milk has the same look, but the taste is not that good”. Analyzing film is a great activity that not only develops your critical thinking, but gives you the possibility to learn more about people, their lives and feelings. In addition, if this film depicts foreign culture, you broader your intellectual horizons.
In many cases, businesses have to determine whether they should expand domestically or globally. This question is extremely relevant to growing companies that want to improve their financial performance and increase their share in new markets. This paper is aimed at discussing the advantages and disadvantages of global and domestic expansion. In this case, one should focus on the size of an organization, the degree of an organization, and other factors that are important for decision-makers. First of all, organizations decide to operate at an international level when local market become very saturated and it is difficult for a company to improve its profitability because of intense competition (Hill & Jones, 2009, p. 252). This is why the senior managers try to seek new clients in other countries. The main advantage of this strategy is that it enables a company to increase their revenues, especially if their brand is familiar to clients (Chon, 2012, p. 156). It should be noted that businesses choose to work in countries with growing populations, and they expect to attract a great number of clients within a relatively short time (Pearl, 2001, p. 102). These are the main benefits that a businesses can derive from global expansion. These goals cannot be achieved if an organization decides to stay only at a domestic level. As it has been said before, the intensity of competition can pose significant for businesses. Furthermore, their target audience will be limited only to one country. These are the main factors that should be considered people who take strategic decisions in organizations. Global expansion has several drawbacks in comparison domestic approach. It should be noted that an international company may have to operate in countries with different languages or cultures. This is why they may have to adjust their commercials so that they could appeal to new clients (Pride & Ferell, 2011, p. 250). This is one of challenges that businesses should not overlook when developing their strategies. When operating in a domestic market, they will not encounter such difficulties. It should be taken into consideration that customers can feel some affiliation to local producers, and they can give preference to a foreign company only if it offers superior products. Additionally, business administrators should bear in mind that their organizations may have to work in countries with different legislation and their corporate rights may not be properly protected by a foreign state (Segal-Horn & Faulkner, 2010, p. 2). This is another limitation that should not be disregarded. Additionally, it is important to remember about the size of an organization. As a rule, start-up companies have fewer opportunities to enter global markets in part because their brand is not recognized, especially by people living in a foreign country. In contrast, larger corporations that have already established their positions in a domestic market can benefit from global expansion. Overall, the decision to expand globally can have profound implications for a business. Certainly, this s
Introduction The middle ages witnessed the commencements of a renaissance in literature. Books during this period were solely hand-copied and bore illustrations from monks. Paper was a rare commodity (Lambdin and Lambdin 12). The medium used for writing mainly consisted of vellum and parchment. The former was gotten from calf’s skin while the latter was derived from a lamb’s skin. Students who were eager to learn how to write used wooden tablets. These tablets were covered in green or black wax. Many of the books produced during the medieval period were bound with plain wooden boards. Alternatively, tooled leather was used to bind volumes that were more expensive. This paper examines one of the manuscripts of the medieval era as well as how such literature was disseminated. Medieval literature is a comprehensive topic that entails all written works from Europe and other regions, which were written during the middle ages. The literature of this era consisted of religious writing and secular works. Similar to modern literature works, medieval literature is a broad field of study, which covers the extremes of sacredness and profanity, as well as the topics in-between. Medieval literature was mainly in Latin because it was the language of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church had dominion over most parts of Europe including Western and Central Europe (Thomas 23). The church was mainly the source of education; hence, Latin became the language of most medieval literature writings. Nevertheless, Eastern Europe was under the influence of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. As a result, the main written languages in this region were Greek or the Old Church Slavonic. Although Greek and Latin were the language of the elite, the common people went on using their vernaculars (Thomas 24). Changes in the Medieval era In the medieval period, in the Western world, literature and science were aligned in many questions and struggles. For instance, writers wondered on how to disseminate their work or keep it secret, whether to write in Latin or the vernacular, whether to follow the style and content of the ‘ancients’ or ‘the moderns’. Other issues troubled writers such as reconciliation of the natural world with Church doctrine, and how to present their works so that it pleased a patron and garners support (Cels 31). The medieval era is the period in which the arts and sciences began to become the disciplines, as they are known today, developing subfields, new literary genres, and countless new technologies. This is also the period when Islamic learning migrated to Europe and contributed significantly to scientific and literary thought. This era also saw schools move out of the Church and into universities, as well as court workshops. Nevertheless, the influence of the church in controlling the production and dissemination of knowledge continued to be strong (Lambdin 31). The Middle Ages is also the era when transmission of information took a revolutionary step with the invention of the printing press. It is the era when the ‘new world’ was discovered and ignited literary and scientific imagination
All married couples would wish the old adage, ‘and they lived happily ever after’ to come true; unfortunately, to over 50% of married couples, this remains that; a wish. Behavioral researches confirm that, 50% of all marriages end up in divorce, an unfeigned but a deplorable fact. During the first days of marriage, everything might seem blissful until the reality sets in and the couples realize they have different likes and dislikes. Even if a couple appears to be a perfect pair, differences soon emerge and this worrying trend calls for resolute ‘treatment’. Just as an infectious disease will keep on recurring unless the proper immune system is developed, divorce will keep on occurring unless proper steps are taken to counter this unrelenting social thorn. Fortunately, research assures that, premarital counseling can cut down divorce rates by up to 30%, a significant percentage. Premarital counseling equips couples with invaluable information about what to expect in the uncertain world of marriage. Murray and Murray (2004) posit that, “Pre-marital counseling is a wonderful way to prepare…for your life together…a few sessions of counseling gives you a chance to look at what you want as a couple” (p. 14). Premarital counseling develops skills required for couples to stay together. Like a business, which requires a concrete plan and implementation strategy, marriage requires unhesitating plan and execution strategy to improve its chances of survival. Fortunately, premarital counseling offers the strategy together with its implementation criteria required for marriage prosperity. Six factors define premarital counseling as a valid tool of cutting down divorces. Setting specific, measurable, ac
Most Potentially useful Suggestions for Improving the National Security Policymaking Process Perfect goal setting is a useful suggestion that can aid in improving the policy making process. Goals should be articulated in a clear and concise manner. Clear goals should consider the vital priorities of the people in the country. A deep analysis and selection of the best options should be done to ensure that the government uses the best and the most effective approach towards the policy-making process. The other vital consideration would be a clear articulation of policy and rationale after the analysis. This refers to the process of making plans, programs and decisions needed in the policy making so as to ensure that the choices made cannot influenced by political malice and prevailing mindsets 1 . In addition, effective execution of the process is extremely vital. In most cases, there are problems concerned with breakdowns of communication and organizational issues about politics and media. There is a need to follow an honest way of executing the policymaking process and its implementation 2 . Without an effective execution, the goal of the policymaking process can be lost, and the results may become disastrous to the country. In addition, the policy making process should be monitored and appraised as required by law. There should be standards set to ensure that the process runs smoothly without distractions. There should be no rigidities during implementation, and this enabled by the use of monitoring mechanisms. After finishing the policymaking process, there should be clear feedback loops to assess the results of the policies concerned 3 . Another vital way of improving the national security policymaking is creating reliable memory storage and an ability to recall the most vital information. Memory storage ensures that policy makers learn from experiences, and they use the experiences to make the best decisions in every step of policymaking. For example, a newly elected government can use information from the previous governments’ archives to create a perfect learning ability based on the experiences. The high technological improvement sweeps the world at large in storage of data and information for later retrieval. The above suggestions improve the security policymaking process in the country 4 . The least potentially useful suggestions for improving the national security policymaking process Making the president be in control of the policy making process is not as vital as the above-mentioned suggestions. Policymaking needs contr
The aftermath of the Second World War had several significant impacts in the United States, especially in California (Schoenherr, 2017). The US entered the war following an attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces, thereby acting as a turning point in the immense conflict of the 21 st century (Schoenherr, 2017). As such, the long-standing dispute would bring monumental transformations to the Golden State, which had not been experienced since 1848. Therefore, the subsequent revolutionary event in California’s history following the Gold Rush was “the war.” irrespective of the challenges faced by some Asians and Europeans in the battle, a majority of Americans were unwilling to join the war. Many Californians, akin to their fellow compatriots, realized the significance of isolationism and escapist media of the time (Schoenherr, 2017). Still, some recognized the inevitability of conflict and started to prepare the nation and its citizens for its eventual outbreak. This paper explores some of the factors that contributed to California’s increasing population, economic, cultural, and political strength and also explains the American state as a birthplace of both progressive and conservative politics. Reasons for California Rising Population California experienced exceptional military, industrial, and technological growth during and after the long-standing conflict. As a result, this contributed to monumental proliferations in migration, employment, industrialization, population, and urbanization. While employments were abundant in cities during and after the batter, housing was a problem (Monaghan, 2020). As such, the need for an accommodation was satisfied by military barracks, quick-built facilities, and Quonset huts. Before the Second World War, the Golden State’s population had already increased since the 1920s to near 3.4 million (Monaghan, 2020). However, by 1970, the number of people living in California had grown to approximately 19.95 million, becoming the most densely inhabited region in the union (Monaghan, 2020). Following the three decades after the war, about 6 million housing blocks were built attributed to the government regulations, increasing job opportunities and wealth, and innovative techniques of construction. In essence, California emerged as one of the most famous regions in the world, with hundreds of kilometers of freeways and tremendous growth. California After the War Growing Economic and Technological Strength The increasing economic growth of California after the Second World War is attributed to several fact