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Introduction In September 2015, Game of Thrones became a part of history when it won 12 of 24 possible Emmy Awards. Among them, the top awards, such as the best drama series award and the best direction, deserve specific attention. There is no doubt that the results above are inseparably associated with high ratings in viewership. While many people are surprised by the popularity of this Home Box Office (HBO) series, others understand that its reputation in the whole world is a result of both the filming process and effective marketing strategy. Thus, Game of Thrones is an example of an integrated marketing strategy that has contributed significantly to the success of this series. Highlights of HBO’s History HBO was founded in 1972 and soon became the first television network that delivered its services via satellite. It took a few years for the company to account for almost 10 million subscribers in 1982. At first, HBO specialized in broadcasting various movies, but then, it started producing its own content and broadcasting sports and cultural events. In the 1990s, the company created its first series and comedy shows, including Sex and the City, The Larry Sanders Show, and others. An ad-free business model is another peculiar feature of HBO that has made it popular among numerous subscribers. Furthermore, it was in 2015 when the company launched “HBO Now,” a web-only subscription service. In other words, people did not need to have a cable subscription to watch HBO programming. Consequently, this company is considered a leading TV company that is famous both in the US and worldwide for its innovative decisions. The Beginning of Game of Thrones Game of Thrones was created as an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George Martin’s fantasy novels. These literary works impressed David Benioff and Daniel Weiss, and the two wanted to turn them into TV series. Martin agreed to let them adapt the books only when Benioff and Weiss managed to name John Snow’s mother. Then, they contacted HBO that decided to purchase the rights of the novels and deal with filming. The production process began in 2010, and Season 1 accounted for a staggering budget of $60 million. Separate episodes of the series were filmed in Northern Ireland, Iceland, Spain, the US, and other world countries, which contributed to the excellent scenery of the work. As a result, the show debuted on television in 2011. Integrated Marketing Strategy and its Components As has been mentioned, Game of Thrones is an example of an effective marketing strategy that has contributed significantly to the popularity of the show. The principal goal of such an approach is to make the audience engaged in the series and its continuation. Thus, the correspo
The first product, which is coffee, its main competitors, are Seattle’s Best and Folgers. The other breakfast cereal products, its principal competitors, are Kellogg, Post, and General Mills. There are still other competitors in the market, but Star bucks uses a strategy of quality and diversification, to remove the upcoming competitors. Another strategy applied by Star bucks against its competitors is concentrating its outlets at one point. According to the reports that were obtained in 2005, Star bucks had a net profit of $494.5 million, Kellogg $980.4 million, General Mills $ 1240 million, and Folgers $2546 million(Avlonitis 113). 4P’s of Star bucks As mentioned above, the major products of this company are breakfast products such as coffee and cereals. The company used this strategy, as a way of placing itself at a more competitive edge than its competitors’ place. The product uniqueness of the two main products is ranged as medium. The nutritional value of coffee is categorized as low while that of cereal is high. The taste of Star bucks coffee is ranged as high, while that of cereals is medium compared to that of competitors(Grant 98). The pricing of Star bucks coffee is relatively low compared to that of some competitors, as away of making it hard for other competitors to survive in the market. The company lowers this price intentionally, as their competing strategy. However, the price of cereals compensate for coffee, as it is medium price(Grant 102). Star bucks insist that quality of their products comes first. Through provision of quality products to the customers, customers have build brand loyalty. The company has made extra efforts in ensuring its products reach the intended customers at the right place and condition. Star bucks have ventured in more than fifty countries with so many outlets. The company has even introduced online selling of its products, whereby the customers can purchase the products anywhere, and anytime. This has created much convenience for those customers, who are always busy (Avlonitis 174). They also have a tendency of reaching the customers by concentrating their outlets at one point. Star buck is known to promote its both nationally and internationally levels. They have used various media services to reach the customers through placing adverts for their quality products. Severally, they hold promotion for their products, where people are given chances to taste their coffee, as an effort of building brand loyalty to the customers. Star
Introduction The women of the early church did not have much recognition despite their immense contributions towards the growth of the church. The early church was dominated by patriarchal power and hence women were relegated to mere subordinate levels. Men have been recognized as history makers in the church, they have portrayed as the builders of the church of Jesus Christ yet they did not work alone t o accomplish such noble tasks. But the history of the church is full of great women like Magdalene, Priscilla, Donna Vella and Macrina amongst many others. This newsletter dedicates its discussions on the early women of the church. It will particularly focus on their Christian work and influence and how they remain relevant to the contemporary society. The Biblical Women The bible contains historical accounts of women who had significant contributions to the development of the early church. Such women, amongst others, include Mary Magdalene, Naomi, Phoebe and Esther. The contribution of women in shaping the Christian world began almost immediately after the church was first established. For instance, taking the case of Phoebe, she was amongst the deacon of Paul. In spite of the strong patriarchal society where women were not given much recognition, Phoebe played, amongst other early women, played powerful roles in the society. It is important to note that the patriarchal society continues to exist and while as much as some gains have been made towards equity between men and women, women are still regarded as being surbordinate to men. Given that the women in early church managed to rise above social patriarchy, they are able to serve as role models to women of today. The women of the early church can then be seen to as rising up and taking vital positions in the society despite the cultural odds. Notably, initially, the church was not comfortable with the role of leadership played by women. However, the church has been becoming more receptive and recognizes women’s participation in the religious circle (Guy 165). With such contributions the women of today can be inspired by women of the early church to rise above the culture of patriarchy, both in the church and the society at large. It means that, despite the fact that they are not alive now; the women of the early church can still influence women participation in various activities as they experience the effects of patriarchy (Guy 165). Inspirations of the Women of Early Church Women of the early church had lots of inspirations th
Outline The definition of health encompasses the physical, mental and social factors as the standard measure. Therefore, a well-crafted universal and broadly inclusive measuring instrument is necessary for the management of healthcare services. This is because it has been noted that physical therapy result alone is not the best way to understand whether a patient is wholly satisfied with the services or not. The most common instruments used to measure whether a patient is satisfied are Satisfaction with the environment (location and infrastructure), available physical activities, Doctor’s expertise satisfaction, and nurses’ services- patient satisfaction instruments. However, it has been observed that the latter is the best as patients relate more with the nurses more than any other hospital staff due to the nature of their work. It is this instrument that would boost the morale of the nurses as they will feel like part of the hospital’s success. Patients will also feel valued when asked questions and engaged to participate in the improvement process. It is therefore expected that the services will improve substantially, hence bringing satisfaction not only to the patients’ side but also to the staff in general and boosting the management strategies of the hospital. Introduction Health definition has been noted to be abstract in meaning such that measuring it quantitatively alone does not bring a complete aspect as may be needed. However, the need to get some physical, mental as well as social indices of a person’s health standards to work with in the health management systems has prompted the need to devise other methods of measuring the health status of individuals. It is its unquantifiable nature and the absolute need that makes the choice of measurement instrument different from other forms of physical measurements a mandatory phenomenon (Bethel& Ridder, 1994). That is to say that measuring health requires three- dimensional rather than two- dimensional approach. While physical measurement of patient satisfaction would be required to get the patients improved physical health status, which would, in turn, prove the success of the applied physical therapy, the overall patient satisfaction would be necessary to gauge the overall rating of the services the patient received from the health facility. This is because more hospitals and health facilities are required to show their commitments to ensuring that the patients get satisfied by their services and to meet the minimum levels of standard satisfaction set by the standard-setting organizations that use such indicators as the source of measuring the quality of healthcare (Gonzalez et al, 2005). Physical therapy results Vs Patient satisfaction The physical measurement techniques have been applied to get the physical outcome of the therapy process provided. This is done in order to diagnose, predict the possible progress, and do the evaluation after the physical therapy process. A practical example is weighing the patient after some treatments or testing a patient’s body fluid before and after the therapy or treatment. However, h
In this article uses game theory is used to illustrate how the Iraqi Conflict may become more dangerous for U.S. & Alled forces. How does game theory help us understand and prehaps predict solidarity among ISF and DI forces? Do you think this is accurate? In the article, the game theory has been specifically used to assist us in understanding and even predicting solidarity between indigenous security forces (ISFs) and domestic insurgents (DIs) in the Iraqi conflict. This has been achieved by demonstrating how ISFs and DIs, the two players within the simple form games (SFGs) of the model, will cease from attacking each other due to failure to achieve Pareto optimal positions and instead seek cooperative relationships referred to as Pareto improved positions. According to the game theory, both ISFs and DIs will be pushed to start cooperating not only due to their ever constricting expectations in the Iraqi conflict but also because of the destabilizing influence initiated by strange attractors led by the United States (US) and coalition forces. To avoid losing everything in the Iraqi conflict and upon the realization that neither ISFs nor DIs have the capacity to achieve optimal outcomes from the conflict, it is predicted that the two major players will commence cooperation at a greater level as they reach a point of mathematical corruption, effectively making the US and coalition forces to suffer casualties at a mounting rate the longer they remain engaged in the Iraqi conflict. Consequently, as the two players become increasingly frustrated and as the US-led strange attractors continue to preempt any effort by the two players to achieve the preferred equilibrium, the Nash response between ISFs and DIs will be hastened to ensure that the two players gain more outcomes by conspiring rather than attempting to combat each other. In my opinion, it seems that the prediction of solidarit
Characteristics of NVOCCs Non Vessel Operating Common Carriers (NVOCCs) are third party logistics provider. They are intermediary in freight business, similar to the Freight Forwarders. They operate by providing scheduled ocean shipping services to other logistics providers, without operating ships. Working of NVOCC NVOCCs, work by, fulfilling the role of carrier for the shipper and the role of shipper for the carrier. Typical NVOCC guarantee a vessel operator a certain amount of freight in a week or month and purchase space on their vessels, on wholesale basis for shipment of cargo to and from a port. They have their own tariff, issue their own bills of lading and receive and consolidate less than a container (LCL) cargo from different shippers for transportation to the same port. Many Freight forwarders often use NVOCC for movement of LCL goods over the ocean segment. In the US, NVOCC handle about 10 percent of the total shipping volume per year (Enterpreneur.com, 2000). Competitors of NVOCC NVOCCs are facing tough competition from other combined shipping companies. At the turn of 21 st century, the shipping industry consolidated and a number of small parcel shippers have purchased various freight forwarding firms, offering a number of advantages over NVOCCs in a combined form. This has put NVOCC future in a doubt. Further shadow is casted by fact that the combined companies were quick to adopt new technologies and offer services, like consignment tracking, over the Internet to manage freight in transit which NVOCCs were very slow to adopt (Wood, 2002). Possible Gaps in Security of Air Freight Services with Regards to Terrorism Post 9/11, the threat of terrorism has been prominently highlighted throughout the world. This threat has also affected logistics industry including air freight services. While air transport organizations, around the world, have tightened their regulations regarding the security of passenger baggage on aircrafts, less attention has been paid to freight that is transported through air, via passenger or cargo aircrafts. Though steps are being taken on air freight security as well, gaps still exist in the current system for handling air cargo which can be exploited easily. Some of these gaps are highlighted below. Incomprehensive background checks of employees Current standards of security for cargo handling do not require comprehensive background checks and screening of the workers handling cargo and have full access to the aircraft. This pose a serious threat to security of air cargo as this flaw can used to pass weapons inside the secure area of the airports, which could eventually used by terrorists. There is also a great danger of sabotage of the aircraft by anybody who is able gain access to it. Absence of Air Marshals on All Cargo Aircrafts The lack of importance giv
Introduction In order for ordinary people to be able to understand the truth about the war, feel what the soldiers involved in it do, and also learn from the mistakes of the past, great writers devote their literary works to the meaninglessness and horrors of war. George Orwell, who took part as a volunteer for the Republicans’ POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War, was not an exception (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Seven months after returning wounded from the war (Orwell 1), he decided to write a novel to tell people about the horrific reality of the war and his own gradual disappointment with communism, defining this regime as repressive and totalitarian. Overall, “the book chronicles both his observations of the drudgery of the daily life of a soldier and his disillusionment with political infighting and totalitarianism” (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the sense of futility that Homage to Catalonia is filled with and also talk about the inevitability of the victory and rise of Marco and its meaning to human nature. The Sense of Futility Throughout the Novel Futility and meaninglessness are those feelings that make people doubt their actions or think of giving up because of the belief that any of their efforts are not going to be effective and useful. At the same time, this sense is, even more, destroying and depressive if it belongs to a person in a war. When fighting for any ideas, it is essential to be certain of one’s actions, beliefs, and objectives because human lives are at stake, and dying for something meaningless is terrifying. Throughout Homage to Catalonia , a sense of futility and even disappointment grows in the narrator with each chapter because some factors that were not noticed before continue to appear. Wandering bullets, deaths, fighting, words, and the war itself become meaningless, making the whole situation seem strange (Orwell 11, 18, 26). Overall, the main concepts in which futility is the most strong and evident are discussed below. Futility in Joining Any Fighting Party It is hard to disagree that most individuals need to be united with other like-minded persons to make their actions more effective and successful. In a war, people are typically on different ideological and political sides, which logically means the necessity for them to join a party to combine efforts and contribute to a possible victory. Generally, persons join parties based both on the similarity of goals and priorities and the perspectives of the party itself. Nevertheless, in Homage to Catalonia, it seems that joining any fighting political organization is pointless and futile for several reasons. First of all, consideri
How do childhood experiences affect adulthood? The essay on this page discusses this question. Introduction Childhood experiences are the ordeals or bringing up conditions one undergoes through as a child. These experiences could be emotional, psychological, physical, cultural or even sexual. Childhood experiences play a significant role in shaping our views as adults in many ways, for instance, the way we behave, thinking, feel, act, associate and many other ways. Psychological experiences To begin with, a child who never had time to interact with other kids or locked up during his/her childhood will portray anti-social behaviors. Children who never experienced love from their parents and other family members will depict irresponsible behaviors in adulthood, as they are unable to express the same feelings. Contrary, a child who experienced affection from the parents will feel the need to act the same way as their parents did. Cultural Experiences Secondly, culture experiences also play a role in shaping a person. A cultural environment where black is a symbol of evil will affect the feeling of an adult towards black skinned people. Some cultural experiences have men as superior and women inferior. This culture, therefore, shapes a girl child to a submissive woman. Physical and emotional experiences Thirdly, a child who experienced physically and emotionally understanding relationship with parents and other siblings can express out his/her feelings in a relaxed and positive. On the other hand, physically and emotionally abusive and hostile family experiences shape a child to a criminal, as he will act violently to confront situations. Lastly, sexual experiences affect how adults behave, view and feel about sex. Sexually abused children view sex as evil and shy away from it in adulthood (Duck, p.46). Conclusions How adults feel, behave, and view this is generally out of childhood experiences. Positive experiences bear positives traits while negative experiences comprise adult well-being. It is therefore essential for parents or guardians to provide necessary conditions for positive experiences. Works Cited Duck, Steve. Human Relationship . London, UK: SAGE Publication Ltd. 2007. Print
Main text Martin Luther King lived in the middle of the 20th century facing the problems of the American society of that time. First, the primary issue was open racism against African Americans that was supported by law. For instance, on March 2, 1955, a pregnant African American woman refused to give up her seat on a public bus, which was a violation of the law in Montgomery (Ling, 2015). This led to Martin Luther King starting a boycott to fight for women’s rights. Second, the US society was segregated, and children studied in separate schools for whites or African Americans (Ling, 2015). Third, the majority of African Americans in the south considered themselves deeply religious (Ling, 2015). These three features are common to the society of the middle of the 20th century. Today, the situation has changed considerably as racism is not as open. First, the USA no longer supports laws discriminating against race. Second, schools and public places are not segregated, and white people study with students of different races. Third, according to personal experience, black people are no longer associated with being religious. Conclusion However, there are still some similarities between today’s society and people’s lives during the time of Martin Luther King. First, people still discriminate against racial minorities but less openly (Ballard, 2019). Second, African Americans are still seen as people with fewer possibilities, as whites are more prosperous in general (Thorpe, Simonsick, Zonderman, & Evans, 2016). Third, there are still churches only for African Americans where white people can be hardly seen. In summary, even though the life of an average American has changed since the middle of the 20th century, some similarities can still be traced in the life of communities.
Introduction The modern society could be considered an extremely complex entity that incorporates numerous social institutions, values, beliefs, requirements, etc. For this reason, to be successful and remain that part of any community, an individual has to be able to meet a great number of requirements and follow a specific code that encompasses all above-mentioned aspects. This means the high level of stress that appears because of the fear of discrepancy or inability to accomplish the most important tasks and remain successful. A number of stressors also appears because of this fear. That is why the mental health of a person or his/her wellbeing might suffer. Under these conditions, the need for counseling becomes obvious as it is a powerful tool that could be used to help a person to cope with stressors. Wellness & Prevention For instance, wellness counseling is one of the most important spheres today. Counselors provide individuals with the tools and motivation needed to achieve their emotional, physical, mental, and other goals (“What does a health and wellness counselor do?” n.d.). Their work encompasses numerous spheres of human activity and should also be considered while assisting an individual in his/her recovery. It is also crucial to predict the appearance of certain crisis and use prevention methods to assure that