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People are inclined to find the definitions and characterizations for almost each situation, aspect or phenomenon. That is why, there are always a lot of questions about different objects or concepts, and it is important to find the answers to these significant issues. In his book The Doctrine of the Christian Life, John M. Frame discusses the most controversial aspects of ethics from the point of the Christian tradition, stating that all the ethical questions are based on the religious or biblical fundament (Frame 2008). Having concentrated on the opinions and explanations in relation to the most controversial ethical questions provided by the author in Part I and Part II of the book, I determined several points significant for their further discussion and analysis. These key points are the question of good works which is discussed in Chapter 3, the problem of understanding the Bible, and the issue of atheism discussed in the chapter about the connection of ethics with religions. The argument of John M. Frame is not difficult to follow because all the concepts and explanations depend on the basic idea that ethics should be discussed with references to the Bible. From this point, the concept of good works is based on the personal desire to follow the biblical principles. Thus, according to Frame, the definition of ethics is correlated with the notion of God’s blessing when only definite persons, their acts, and their attitudes can be discussed as good or ethical because they respond to God’s will (Frame 2008, 10). It is rather difficult for me to correlate the difference between good and bad actions with biblical principles which can be discussed as liberal or conservative. However, Frame draws the readers’ attention to the fact that good works depend on the right motive, right standard, and right goal which are associated with God’s control, authority, and presence (Frame 2008, 26-28). That is why, I understand good works in their connection with the virtue ethics, basing on the inner personal qualities, and with references to Frame’s explanation of living the ethical life and doing good works. Thus, to follow the ethical life means to be biblical (Frame 2008, 6-7). The next problematic question which I could answer with the help of Frame’s work is the problem of understanding the Bible and, as a result, ethics. Thus, “a person who understands the Bible is a person who is able to use the Bible to answer his questions, to guide his life”, and the author explains the issue of understanding the Word of God and its reference to ethics as the active usage of moral principles which should guide the person in his or her life (Frame 2008, 31-32). Now, I can consider the ethical life as the life which is built according to the principles presented in the Bible because they emphasize the devotion to God. Many people who study the problem of ethics and its connection with the issues of Christianity are inclined to discuss the question of atheism as rather controversial. Having started the reading of the book, I was interested in the author’s opinion o
SWOT Analysis SWOT analysis gives an internal assessment of an organization by exploring its weakness, strengths, opportunities, and threats resulting from outside environment. Thus, this reflective treatise attempts to present an explicit review of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the business environment of National Music Studio. Strengths The main strength of National Music Studio is presence of a well established marketing network. As a result, the school is able to reduce cost of advertisement since it depends on referrals from the experienced pool of staff to widen its catchment. National Music Studio has adopted a state-of-art teaching system to carry out its operations and services with clients and visiting persons. Through the use qualified teachers with good personality, the school has been able to increase confidence levels of its clients. The school operates two branches in Halifax-Dartmouth area. This gives the school an upper hand in controlling operations and offering balanced services. Besides, the school has strong reputation and favorable network of teachers who double up as its marketers. Due to its strong brand name, the school is well positioned to further its goal of establishing a new branch within Halifax-Dartmouth area, especially in the Central Business District. Weaknesses Numerous views by the respondents of the survey indicate that the school has minimal amenities such as parking spaces and shopping outlets. This has a substantial chance of minimizing the number of students who can be admitted there. A major challenge that the school faces is managing a large network of students with different needs. Reflectively, coordination is required among its teachers, marketers and administrators to manage these needs. Apparently, coordination
This is a study by E.G.Andersen in 1925 of the genotypic constitutions of broad echinus daughters of Drosophila Melanogaster, the fruitfly, where the crossing over of heterozygous genetic matter in the attached X chromosomes in primary non-disjunctional females, who gave exceptional offspring, was investigated. It was found that the crossing over occurred at the four-strand stage, only two strands crossing over at any one level, the crossing-over occurring freely between any two strands and random assortment of strands occurring at reduction division at the spindle fibre end with a disproportionate crossing over seen at times to join its complement (complementary crossing over). The possibility of tracing the parents is small when offspring are exceptional but the chances of regular offspring arising when the detachment of the X chromosomes occurs and who may be crossovers or non crossovers is larger. When scute apricot crossveinless tan, forked fruit fly was crossed with a broad echinus cut garnet, one non disjuntional daughter (a broad echinus) who gave the exceptional offspring was the result; this female giving rise to broad echinus and bar males when mated with a bar male. A.H.Sturtevant and G.W.Beadle studied chromosomal inversions in 1936, have discussed seven of them in the paper and concluded that homozygous inversions show the crossing over that is seen in homozygous individuals, the distribution of crossing over being less close to the spindle attachment and more when further from it, the crossing over being less in heterozygous inversions. The selective elimination of crossover chromatids is expected in a meiotic process where most of the four products are eliminated as in the oogenesis of animals and megasporogenesis of most seed plants resulting in a decrease in the rate of production even though fertility is not reduced. However this is not seen in Drosophila as there is no crossing over in the male but inversions are seen more than translocations and fertility is decreased with single chromatid exchanges. At the first division of meiosis, the Y chromosome disjoints from the attached X chromosomes.
Thesis statement Ever since David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club was released to the theaters, it had almost instantly attained the status of a cult movie. And, there are many objective reasons to believe that the actual explanation, as to this film’s popularity with movie-goers, has to do with its clearly defined anti-consumerist spirit. As it was pointed out by Dussere (2006): “The film (Fight Club) suggests that American culture is entirely suffused by commerce; there is no need to go to the supermarket because the supermarket is everywhere” (24). In our paper, we will aim to explore the validity of this suggestion at length, while analyzing the essence of anti-consumerist themes and motives, contained in the movie. Analytical part The close watching of Fight Club reveals an undeniable fact that it was namely due to narrator’s continuous exposal to American consumerist culture, that caused him to succumb to depression. In the memorable scene where, prior to having met Taylor Durden, Jack/Protagonist (later revealed as the actual Tyler Durden) expounds on the particulars of his lifestyle, viewers are being taken for the walk through Jack’s apartment that features pieces of furniture with price tags explicitly displayed above them, as if his apartment was nothing less of a store. And, as it appears from the context of Jack’s monologue, the fact that he kept on buying ‘trendy’ things for his condo had very little to do with his genuine desire to own them (due to their sheer impracticality), but rather with the fact that he was made to believe that by owning these things, he was proving his ‘sophistication’ in its own eyes: “Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct… If I saw something clever, like a coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it” (00.04.48). Nevertheless, the harder Jack strived to embrace consumerist spirit, the stronger were becoming his mental anxieties, sublimated in his inability to enjoy healthy sleep. As Diken and Basse (2002) had put it: “As a spectator of his own life, he (Jack) paradoxically lives in inertia in the midst of a mobile network society. Jack also s
In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare who is one of the most influential writers in history has elaborated the contemporary themes in society into a piece of literature as revealed in the drama. Due to his universal way of creating themes, he has been able to influence the western literature. In the contemporary theatre of the western, they still view Shakespeare’s work being relevant. Shakespeare therefore uses the stylistic device of a play within a play to pass his information to the audience as well as helping him develop his plot. Shakespeare has in this case therefore used the main actor Hamlet in portraying this device. Hamlet who is a character in the play is again seen in another play within the play, which he acts in order to be in a position to kill Claudius. Hamlet is a play that depicts a vivid drama of melancholy and insanity as well as famous of its ghostliness. In this play, Shakespeare has used various elements of literature to develop the plot of the play. In this case, the writer has used characters, settings, symbols, themes, characterization and other elements of literature in the development of the plot. The writer has used these elements correlatively to achieve his plot. Themes are used to develop characters in the play. For instance, the writer has used the theme of betrayal to develop the main character Hamlet in the play hence the development of the plot. The writer used the name of the play as the name of the main actor while other characters in the play helped in development of the predominant theme in the main character. Therefore, four main characters have greatly contributed by playing major roles. Hamlet experienced character development through the betrayals of Ophelia with whom he is romantically involved. Gertrude is his mother and Claudius’ wife while Gildernstern and Rosencrantz were his friends from the University of Wittenberg. When the scene begins, there is a very close relationship between Hamlet and the mother, which later fades off when Gertrude remarries his uncle Claudius two months after his father’s death. This culminated the distrust in women since his mother was the most important female in his life. He therefore uses mockery phrases like “such dexterity to incestuous sheets” and “frailty, thy name is woman”. Such phrases illustrated how disgusted and disappointed he was towards his mother and women as well as depicting how isolated he was as a young man. The theme of madness has also played major role in the development of the plot. Insanity was used in many revenge tragedies like in the first revenge tragedy of Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus. Unlike in the case of Hamlet where the madness is ambiguous, other revenge tragedies in the character have been unambiguous. In the source of Shakespeare’ plot in Hamlet, the main protagonist feigns his madness to be in the position to revenge without being suspected by the king (Claudius) whom he plots to kill. In the play, Hamlet’s madness tends to distract him from accomplishing his mission as it is depicted in the play as being with very little interest in accomplishing the mission of the ghost even after proving
Home Depot Incorporation was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in the year 1978 by Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus. Both Arthur and Bernie had been fired from a small company that dealt with home improvement products thus the decision to start a retail store providing these products. At its commencement, Home Depot had a warehouse stocked with a wide variety of home improvement products at very low prices. From then on, the company has grown to be the largest chain offering home improvement items in the world. At the start, the company grew at a much slower pace but with time the business picked and today Home Depot is a successful enterprise. With over 2,000stores across the globe, Home Depot is a booming enterprise with Lowe as its main competitor. With reference to the case study, this paper will assess Home depot’s growth strategy, its current business environment, the industry, competitors, the strategies used, and how the company can address the challenges it is facing. The business environment of a company includes the various aspects of its surrounding which affects the operations in one way or a
Characters of various literary works are often placed in such circumstances where their life perception, moral principles and values are checked. The author intentionally creates such problems for this or that character to face with where firmness of his or her behavior either reveals or never shows itself. Depicting characters caught between colliding cultures is one of the mechanisms that the author may resort to in order to study his or her personality deeply through. Barbara Kingsolver is known for this technique. She often explores the problems of race, family, politics, environment and other burning issues of the society that is constantly changing through depicting characters caught between colliding cultures. Her novel The Poisonwood Bible (1998) deals with various problems, among which the problem of colliding cultures is one of the dominant ones. Barbara Kingsolver’s formidable literary talents gave birth to the story of one family which is torn between two cultures. This is a novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 moved from Georgia to the Belgian Congo. As a result of this drastic change in the life of the family two different cultures collide: the Western and the African. Unstoppable forces of nature and history that accompany every undertaking of the family deepen the gap between cultures and the desire of the members of the family to adjust themselves to the new environment. The novel is built around the exploration of the tragic destiny of the missionary family whose head, the patriarch Nathan Price is a silver-tongued tent revival preacher who tries to get salvation to the heathen of a remote African remote village Kilanga. Nathan Price has dragged his wife Orleanna and four daughters: Rachel, Leah, Adah, Ruth May to the squalid African outpost for this purpose, but because of his being blind to the realities of the surrounding culture, Nathan never admits the complete and utter failure of his enterprise. Though the story of the family is narrated throughout the novel by one of the Price women and Nathan is not given the functions of narrator we are empowered to judge about this character through the facts at our disposal and make corresponding conclusions about this character’s relevance to the work as a whole. We choose the character of Nathan Price as the one that has his own assumption of the cultural collision presented in the work and responses in his own way to it. But before we get dow
Introduction The case study vividly portrays that global corporations exploit developing countries and leave no chance for local companies to compete on the food market. Mergers and acquisitions allow giant companies like Wal-Mart and Nestle to concentrate power and dictate marketing rules. In MNCs, the systems approach turns on the central theme that marketing reality occurs in systems. A business, part of it, or its connection with others, can be represented by some suitable system that may culminate in a physical replica, chart, flow diagram, and series of equations, simulation model, or just a concept. While stressing coordination, it also recognizes conflict and competition among units, the necessity for subsystem concessions, and the fact that resources must be used to maintain the system itself as well as to attain goals. Marketing managers have the major responsibility of recognizing the relationships among the elements of the systems. In developed countries life Canada, farmers are unable to decrease prices and compete with global food corporations. They must comprehend their potential combinations, and coordinate and integrate business factors so that goals are achieved effectively. Largely the adoption of a systems perspective depends on the individual manager and his perception of the factors of variability in the system, the interaction of inputs, and the predictions of outputs resulting from the inputs. Consumers and states should be concerned about quality of food and policies introduced by giant food companies. It is important dimension in modern marketing, because it can lead to food crisis, famine and exploitation of developing countries by global food corporation obtained a monopolistic position on the market, Development The governments and global community are responsible for the mergers and acquisitions, which affect lives of customers. Freidman and Hayek are right stating that local communities and developing nations should introduce protectionist policies and introduce their own way of national development. They should resist strongly international occupation and exploitation of global corporations. Nevertheless, objectives are common that lends cohesiveness to systems components to the extent. Both Plato and Marx support government intervention in economy and propagate a strict state power in trade and commerce. This cohesiveness is more readily achieved among different functions within a firm than among firms. As firms become conglomerates of companies, this distinction tends to disappear. Although the systems-perspective direction tends to prevent sub-optimization, it does not preclude the analysis of subsystems. Since management cannot analyze everything at the same time, it must digest smaller pieces. TNCs-supplier relations shows that a business organization as the pr
Introduction Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in the Bronx, New York on June 16 th 1971 (Hoye, 2006). He was the second child to Afeni Shakur. Tupac was raised by his stepfather, Mutulu Shakur. By the time he was two years old, Tupac had a baby sister, Sekwiya. During most of his childhood, Tupac and his siblings relied mostly on their mother as their sole provider. This came after the arrest and conviction of Mutulu, Tupac`s stepfather. He was arrested on the grounds of armed robbery and was sentenced to six years in prison. As a child, Tupac had a difficult and challenging childhood. He was raised in the life of poverty and sorrow. It was a tedious job for her mother to support her family. Afeni Shakur was a member of the Black Panthers, a black activist group that fought for the rights of Africans Americans and equality between the 1960`s and 1980`s (Fields, 2004). Despite the right cause that the group had, its members were always involved in gang related activities such as homicides, robberies and violence. Most of the members were therefore arrested and incarcerated. Tupac`s mother was not an exception. She had been imprisoned as a result of Black Panther`s activities and was only released a month before Tupac`s birth. Due to the criminal record that she had, it was difficult for her to get a formal job that would give her good income to support her family. Fearing for the safety of her children and trying to make ends meet, Afeni Shakur moved from one place to the other within New York. Specifically for the protection of Tupac, she named him Lesane Parish Crooks on his birth certificate so that no one could trace him (Forman, 2003). As a strategy to surviving and earn a living to support her family, Afeni Shakur and her family moved from Brooklyn to the Bronx, Harlem and a number of homeless shelters within New York and its environs. As a child, Tupac could feel the pain and suffering that his family was going through. However, things were not any different to other black families too. It seemed like a burden of suffering that specifically affected the minority communities in the United States. It was thus difficult for Tupac to fit in and mix with other children in the neighbourhoods that they lived in. This is because they were always on the move. By the time he and his family settled down and started to make friends, they would always move again. He therefore did not have as much friends as other children, never had a chance to enjoy his childhood and interact with othe
Music has been recognized as a powerful stimulus affecting people’s mood and even health since times immemorial. Realizing the potential of using the music elements in advertizing for affecting the consumers’ perception and purchasing behavior, marketers use music in supermarkets and as a background feature in commercials. The findings of the latest empirical studies have revealed a positive relationship between the use of music elements, concentration of attention and proper perception and interpretation of commercial messages by consumers. The music in the supermarkets helps to create the consumers’ favorable mood and encourages them to make purchases. Taking into account the findings of the previous researches, this study will conduct semi-structured interviews and test the hypothesis whether there is a positive relationship between the use of music elements in advertisements and their brand preferences and purchasing decisions. Literature review Modern marketers view music as an important background feature which can be effectively used for enhancing the viewers’ arousal and effects produced by advertisements. Even though most consumers denied the impact of music upon their brand preferences, the findings of empirical studies have shown that there are significant differences in the brand attitudes, purchase decisions and emotional responses of viewers to the advertisements of music and non-music groups (1). The results of experiments conducted by Gorn have shown that pleasant music, humor and attractive colors are important background features which can influence the consumers’ perceptions and attitudes (1). Even though Gorn’s experiments were criticized by other scholars, the conclusions regarding appeal of music upon viewers remained unchanged. Kellaris and Cox who replicated Gorn’s experiments admitted that his findings could have been influenced by demand artifacts (2). However, Gorn’s premise regarding the positive relationship between product choice and music appeal was not disclaimed. Additionally, Kellaris and Cox measured the strength of different unconditioned stimuli by using different sets of classical and popular music but did not receive any significant differences in results (2). A more in-depth investigation of music characteristics and their impact upon the consumer’s emotional responses, brand awareness and purchasing decisions was conducted by Park and Young (3). Assuming that music can activate the brain and affect the mood of listeners, the researchers attempted to develop a complex taxonomy of music elements, including tempo, pitch, texture and duration and their impact upon individuals’ emotional reactions. The findings of empirical research have demonstrated that there is a positive relationship between the music tempo and its emotional appeal to listeners (3). Particularly, music with low pitch can arouse the emotions of sadness in listeners, whereas the music with high pitch can be associated with happiness. Lou