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The issue of prison inmates being allowed to take college classes has over the years sparked a lot of controversy. In this report it the benefits that can be accrued from allowing prisoners to take college classes will be detailed and a conclusion drawn from the discussion. These benefits include the fact that that access to education is a human right that everybody is subject to irrespective of their current social situation. Providing inmates with education opportunities will also serve to reinforce the notion that prisons are intended for character reform and not punishment aside from providing proper time usage. Certificates earned are also important in the inmates’ life after prison. This essay seeks to illustrate that college classes for inmates are extremely beneficial and that they should definitely be allowed. Body Human rights as stated by conventions by the United Nations convention for human rights (UNCHR) cover each and every individual regardless of their situation. Prisoners are no different and as such are subject to the clause that allows all persons the freedom to access and gain knowledge should they develop the interest. Therefore denying prisoners the chance to take college classes is basically a breach of one of their basic human rights. Prisons are generally seen as punishment to law breakers by the state. However, a deeper look into the concept behind imprisonment reveals that prisons are meant to reform the characters of offenders so that they can be better individuals once they are released back to the public. This in essence means that whilst imprisonment may legally deny an individual the right to freedom, the time that the person spends in jail can be well used to reform the character of the individual as well as give him life skills that will keep him/her away from the world of crime once they are released. Once individuals are released from prison, they are expected to continue with their lives as usual. This basically entails getting jobs and picking up from where they left when they were arrested. A college certification will increase the chances for any individual to secure meaningful employment. College classes can also serve to increase an individual’s creativity to the extent that if they cannot get jobs on account of their criminal records, they can start successful businesses. It is not uncommon for persons to publish best-seller books while in prison and for others to come out as powerful motivation speakers. When an individual is imprisoned for a number of years, this can be seen as time wasted. However, because a person’s commitments are reduced as his/her daily needs are taken care of by the state. The individual can therefore choose to use this time meaningfully, so that by the time he/she lives prison he can count that as a time-out taken to gain certification. In this regard, the time that individuals spend taking college classes while in prison is therefore generally time well spent and this will reflect well on their personal growth as they will channel thoughts of revenge to their books. Individuals who gain college certification while in prison can come out to secure
Toxic masculinity is the sum of values and behaviors that are traditionally viewed as “masculine” in many cultures and includes several crucial characteristics that allow calling it toxic. First of all, toxic masculinity suppresses feelings and refuses to display them because it is viewed as a sign of weakness (Salam, 2019). Secondly, it requires a man to maintain the appearance of hardness and toughness at all times so that no one could doubt his manhood (Salam, 2019). Additionally, toxic masculinity views aggression and violence as a sign of power and the main grounds to decide whether someone is worthy of respect (Salam, 2019). Finally, it is also related to misogynistic views: while it praises supposedly male characteristics, such as toughness, it also despises supposedly womanly qualities, such as emotionality or concern for others (Baldoni, 2017). Put together, these qualities can harm those around a man who believes in toxic masculinity. Moreover, they can harm such a man himself because they make him more likely to get into trouble or on the receiving end of disciplinary action. Eddie Carbone may serve as an example of toxic masculinity, which does him much harm by the end of the play. He convinces himself that Rodolfo does not truly love Catherine because he thinks that openly displaying one’s love for a woman as unmanly – therefore, it must be a trick. In this sense, Eddie demonstrates a disregard for emotions typical for toxic masculinity (Salam, 2019). He does not care about what Catherine wants for herself, showing the toxic masculine disregard for women (Baldoni, 2017). He tries to physically dominate Rodolfo under the pretext of teaching him to box – and, as such, use violence and aggression to assume his power (Salam, 2019). Finally, he attacks Marco with a knife, demanding that he would clear his name, even though Marco has already proven to be stronger (Salam, 2019). It suggests that appearing tough and uncompromising in matters of honor is more important for Eddie than the actual chances of winning a fight against Marco. As a result, Eddie’s fate by the end of the play is a clear illustration of how toxic masculinity can be
Competitive Advantages of BNP Paribas BNP Paribas is one of the most comprehensive international banking networks. It offers a wide range of services ranging from asset management and services, retail banking, corporate and investment banking. The bank operates in more than 85 countries across the world. The company has 150,500 employees. Among these employees, 5,700 are found in India, 14,800 in North America and about 118,700 in Europe. In Europe, BNP Paribas Group boasts of four domestic markets that are Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and France. In the United States, the bank has a strong presence in the western part of the country, whereas, in Asia, it has fixed a secure and fast-growing business. Discussion All contemporary businesses have to face tough competition from their competitors in almost any market. However, having an advantage over the competitors is not a surety of sustaining the business position on a competitive ground. A consistent evaluation assessment of the market and its volatility is needed to keep the business informed and updated on the necessity of improving the quality of services and ensuring superiority over the rival’s products or services. In this sense, BNP Paribas Group has aimed to challenge its competitors by setting up effective strategies which grant it favorable opportunities to strengthen its products and services to its customers. Technology One of the competitive advantages the bank has embraced is data protection. Data forms the basis of any business establishment. It is a basis for key decision making, and fitting strategies adopted on how the business should be managed. Three years ago, the business units within the BNP Paribas examined the need to exchange information securely with its business partners. They wanted a flexible system that could address the demanding needs of enterprise data protection. The BNP Paribas partners included the investment firms and regulatory institutions such as the central banks, where BNP Paribas has a presence. Thus, the bank realized that protecting data was essential to avoid the risk or effects of data breaches. Besides protecting the customer’s data, the bank understood the necessity of protecting their data during the exchange with other financial institutions. By this, it complies with security and privacy regulations in more than eighty-five countries where it has a strong presence. Thus, the bank adopted
Executive summary Service quality is a very critical aspect of any business. The paper carried out researches on five service-providing firms. The firms included one bank, three restaurants, and a hospital. Many theories and models have been put in place to explain the subject of service quality. The paper links theories such as the attribution theory and equity theories, among others to the specified service encounters. The researcher rated the service provided on a five-point rating scale. CERVICAL model also comes in handy in terms of analyzing the aspect of service delivery and quality. The paper also explains the researcher’s expectations together with what he thought the firm would have done at that point. The journal also required the researcher to recommend how employees or the firm would have improved on its service provision. These journals were later on analyzed to give an insight into the practice of service marketing. First Service Encounter Various entries were made in a study of service marketing conducted on Joapick hotel on July 22, 2013, at 10.00 am. The researcher had a personal encounter with service providers in this restaurant. The entries were therefore likely to give accurate information about service provision in the restaurant. In this encounter, the researcher had purposed to understand the events and behavior of various front-line operators and employees that result in client dissatisfaction. The researcher had purposed to visit this restaurant to evaluate how it offers its service. In this entry, the service encounter involved one-on-one communication between the customer and the service-providing officer. For improvement of the delivery of restaurant services, the management should offer close employee supervision. Service provision could also be improved through increased employee commitment. Second Service Encounter The second journal entry was made at ANZ bank. The industry offered banking services to its clients. The entry was recorded on June 15, 2013, at 11.00 A.M. The encounter was also entered through a personal visit to the bank. The researcher decided to visit the bank due to its location. The bank was in proximity to the point where the researcher was working. It would therefore, easy for him to reach the bank. The researcher rated satisfaction with the service encounter at one in a five-point rating scale. The rating depended on the feelings of the client. The researcher felt that way because the front office operators had no organization ability, which resulted in delays in service delivery. The client felt that there were delays in service delivery. On the question of what the employee or the firm would have done to increase the level of client satisfaction, the journal indicated that the employees of ANZ bank would have been more orderly in their service provision. To improve the service system of ANZ bank, bank management should apply job subdivision. The bank should also restructure its job design in a way that employees who are offering any service feel at the right positions in a bid to maximize their input and hence the overall yield of the bank. Third
The film has developed over the years to become part and parcel of the everyday life of many people in the world. In many households, you will find people talking about a certain movie they watched or heard people talk about. There has been a lot of emphasis, especially among the youth on the necessity of watching movies, going to cinemas, or following certain programs on various T.V channels which in one way or the other have a captivating theme. There has been debate on the influence that film has on society whether positive or negative, while other people argue that its society influences film, since producers of the film must include in the movie content what the audience wants to watch. This paper seeks to elaborate on what influence film has on the day-to-day lives of individuals and the general society. More often than not, the film producers give their audience what they think is attractive, and they tend to include in their output some scenes which, according to the producers, will cause anxiety to the audience to watch more. Various aspects have to be covered in the movie in a very limited period; this necessitates the need for exaggeration to make sure the intended meaning is brought out as clear as possible within the timeline available. Although the film producers will most of the time want to give to the society the themes that occur in real life, they are sometimes pushed by the obsession for money, hence presenting not want is beneficial for the society, but that content which will attract a lot of customers giving them good income in return (Marcus 18). Most people especially the youth will want to associate themselves with the movie stars, consequently imitating the behaviors exhibited in movies not bearing in mind that film is fiction, and end up demonstrating these behaviors in a real-life situation. It has particularly been noted that film has influenced the culture of smoking among the youth who will always seek to be similar to the movie stars (Nelmes 264). In conjunction with that, it has been trendy among most people to copy the haircut styles used by movie stars no matter how ugly they may look. Furthermore, some movies exhibit too much violence in a manner likely to suggest that violence is a way of life, and is necessary for self-defense. Kids who watch a lot of movies with violent scenes have been noted to be rough to their colleagues, and exhibit various acts of violence in their school campuses in an act of practicing what they see in the films (Nelmes 251). In a move that is intended to beat the timelines that the films have, movies depict some sudden swings in moods of their actors; for example, the actors seem to be provoked by very tri
Analysis of AVS shift from providing social service to fostering civil society development and factors that contributed to the shift Change of Leadership Styles Agency for Volunteer Service (AVS) experienced a temporary management catastrophe in 1997, when the executive director passed on. It was not clear who would be the immediate successor. Managerial styles were a major blow to AVS. A good example was the tenure of office by Mr Frederick Lee Jr. His style of leadership was centralized and remained unchanged throughout the seven years he was in office (Wong and Chan, 2007, p.2). A panel of management committee members was required to make most of the major decisions, but the CEO made all resolutions independently. The committee was thus just a formal body, whose roles were honorary as opposed to administrative. The executive director was thus the epicentre for the years he was in office. His demise was a sudden call for change on the management’s structure as well as managerial style at AVS. Nobody was ready to take over because the previous regime had no procedures of delegating duties. The board of directors had to take over management, assign directorship and find ways of organizing administration. Change of Donors’ Support As a non-governmental organization, AVS was dependent on the government’s social welfare department as their main sponsor. The department was a major benefactor with over 80% of AVS funds. The department however shifted goals in year 2000 to become a home affairs bureau. Considering that, the department was the main donor, AVS’s Commitment thus changed from social services to align with the bureau’s role of nurturing development of the civil society. This translated to change of management strategies to cater for bureau responsibilities. According to Wong and Chan (2007, p.9), the organization had to change its operation strategies. The government was considering community development, achieved through empowering the society as opposed to the reactive model of delivering social services to the needy. The government was ready to work side-by-side with the organization; therefore, AVS had to change its operation strategies to fit the new needs of the bureau. “International Year of Volunteers” The NGO also faced new challenges due the strategic review of 2001, which saw the organization engage new vision of establishing competence and partnership to promote sustainable development through volunteerism campaigns (Wong and Chan, 2007, p.9). Change of organization strategies was eminent during the campaigns in order to improve service quality for volunteers internationally. The organization required a plan to come up with a public study over perception and reception of the volunteering services. The organization also needed to ensure that new services were in line with the overall objectives, mission and vision of the government (sponsors). This meant that AVS had to change the overall values at the managerial level to measure up with the new requirements and objectives of the government bureau. Although the operational level would remain practically the same, the management would need clear directi
“A tiny parasitic wasp had invaded several ChickieNobs installations, carrying a modified form of chicken pox, specific to the ChickieNob and fatal to it. The installations had had to be incinerated before the epidemic could be brought under control” (p. 216). The events in the book occur in a world controlled by giant corporations and struggling for power and dominance. From this perspective, all actions and decisions that might guarantee income and stable revenues are considered appropriate and are viewed by corporations as the possible way to improve their current position. The creation of a parasitic wasp invading ChickieNobes installations and fatal to it can lead to the generation of benefits for corporations which might provide the method to resolve the problem or which might become stronger because of the failure of another one, controlling the creation of this product. “A new form of the common house mouse addicted to the insulation on electric wiring had overrun Cleveland, causing an unprecedented number of house fires. Control measures were still being tested” (p. 216). Giant corporations have their compounds which can be described as areas with the infrastructure needed for people to survive, while other individuals, who do not work for these corporations, have to live outside these regions. Creation of a house mouse with unique features and causing fires might result in growing safety concerns and people’s desire to move to such compounds to feel safer, which will bring additional power to corporations. “Happicuppa coffee bean crops were menaced by a new bean weevil thought to be resistant to all known pesticides” (p. 216). The story shows that corporations employ various insecurities and weaknesses to sell medicines, various tools, and means to resist new dangers. From the given perspective, the emergence of a new threat such as bean weevil resistant to pesticides will lead to the need for a method to struggle with it, which is motivating for corporations as they can acquire benefits. Moreover, it will lead to the emergence of a competitive advantage if a firm manages to struggle with it. “A miniature rodent containing elements of both porcupine and beaver had appeared in the northwest, creeping under the hoods of parked vehicles and devastating their fan belts and transmission systems” (p. 216). The central motivation is to cause the reduction of the population to solve the problem of overpopulation. Corporations might struggle with the growing number of people by causing new accidents and new deaths as people will use broken and unsafe cars. This genetic experiment might also show how to use new opportunities to improve control over populations and attain global dominance. Another motivation is the destruction of comfort and infrastructure peculiar to the existing society. “A microbe that ate the tar in asphalt had tur
Peter Flagstaff’s concerns about inefficient knowledge management are closely associated with the pitfalls in organizational learning. Therefore, in order to improve knowledge sharing among the employees, the top managers should pay attention to developing learning capability of their subordinates. Motivating workers to engage in learning is essential for efficient information sharing because it can help them incorporate ideas about learning and invent more affective strategies. In addition, a variety of approaches should be developed for employee to acquire knowledge so that each person has a wider access to accumulating his/her experience. Finally, knowledge distribution is an essential condition for solving problems and, therefore, managers should focus on this issue as well. The reluctance of information exchange among the accountant managers are explained by their concerns with the freshness and originality of the ideas. Committed to the old stereotypes, they mistakenly believe that the idea shared with another manager is not valid anymore and, therefore, it cannot be called a creative one. However, these assumptions are not valid because the employees fail to realize the actual purpose of knowledge management. The task of Flagstaff and Gibson is to convince their employees that knowledge management significantly contributes to the welfare and performance of their firm. They should introduce new organizational culture and face the diversity within the employed environment. In this respect, high-impact learning is an effective approach favoring knowledge sharing and minimizing the fears of information stealing. Establishing the right priorities and creating new knowledge will promote a healthier environment and provide new prospects for development. Filling in the gap between knowledge and performance, the managers will focus more on performance rather than on technical outcomes.
Regardless of the principles of its organization and level of functioning, the main task of any health care system is to provide a guaranteed opportunity for every citizen of the country to live a long, healthy, and productive life. Medical professionals face an essential task – to provide timely assistance. The importance of making a correct diagnosis is obvious – even the most correct treatment for a false diagnosis can cause serious harm to health. The diagnosis of a fifty-year-old man can be pneumonia. Most likely, the patient is suffering from viral pneumonia, as the man mentioned the recent illness of a neighbor. For a mild degree of this disease, a light state of intoxication, light fever with a temperature up to 38°C, normal arterial pressure, and a heartbeat less than 90 beats per minute, no difficulty in breathing, and the insignificant inflammatory phenomenon is found (Marchello et al., 2019). In most lung diseases, the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, which doctors call pneumococcus, is to blame (Weiser et al., 2018). The peculiarities of the duration of pneumonia are defined by the seriousness, the features of the causative agent, and the existence of harmful consequences. Their occurrence is hazardous for elderly patients, therefore timely treatment is necessary. The exact cause of respiratory diseases, accompanied by a cough with green sputum, is designed to establish diagnostics. Such studies as biochemical blood tests, respiratory tract examinations, and bacterioscopy sputum smears are required. Azithromycin, a macrolide group antibiotic,