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This response is to the short science fiction story “Beyond Lies the Wub” by Philip K. Dick. It begins when a crewmember of a spaceship purchases a pig-like creature from Martian natives, who call it a wub, and smuggles it aboard the ship. The crew suffers food spoilage, and the captain begins considering the animal as a food source when it reveals itself as intelligent. The wub objects to being killed and declares that it has decided to make contact with humans to learn about their culture. The captain kills it, partially because he fears its telepathic abilities, but it is then revealed that the wub has taken over his mind. It is apparent that Dick draws parallels to the ships that traveled between Europe and America in the early days of the colonization. The spaceship’s discipline resembles that of the marine vehicles of the era, and the relations with natives are similar, as well. He also raises the moral question of killing and eating an intelligent creature. The wub does not display aggression and admits its weakness, though its ideas are decidedly alien. However, the ambiguous ending is the central point of the story, as it surprises the reader. It calls the entirety of the story into question, suggesting that the wub baited the captain into killing it so that it could obtain a better body.
Introduction In 1547, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) was officially crowned the first Tsar of Russia. Officially, from his time the rule of the Tsars commenced. With the monarchy, continuing history of Russia saw a drastic alteration. From a minor monarchical state, Russia emerged as a major world power owing to the visions of various tsars who ruled during that period. Serfdom The Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia was the predecessor and most significant of all moderate reforms affected during the supremacy of Alexander II of Russia. The transformation in concert with a correlated reform in 1866 led to the eradication of serf dependence experienced by Russian provincials until that time. The Emancipation Manifesto decreed the liberation of the serfs on private estates and the domestic serfs. Owing to this proclamation, over twenty-three million were granted emancipation. Serfs were given the status of free citizens with the conformity of all civil rights, in the likes of the privileges to marry with no obligation to seek approval, to have possession of personal property, and to be the owner of a business. The policy laid down the decree that enabled peasants to procure the properties from the property owners in exchange for some form of payment. However, the serfs employed for domestic purposes were the most affected. They were only liberated and were left with no property of their own. On the other hand, State-owned serfs were liberated in 1866 and benefited from superior and better plots and lands. Role of Tsars in the lives of citizens With the rise of Tsar Alexander I, the initiative of transforming Russia’s po
The Great Depression can be fairly supposed to have been the harshest time in the history of the United States after The Civil War. The effect of it was distinctly felt in every American heart and every American family. Beginning with the stock fall on Wall Street in October 1929, the increase of the problem was growing gradually surpassing the whole area of the United States. The features of this negative phenomenon were as such: poverty, deflation, high rates of unemployment, etc. It was a time that shocked everyone living in America at the beginning of the 1930s. It was aggravated by ineffective governing provided by Herbert Hoover. The desperate mood of the American society was being deepened perpetually, for no efficient initiatives were taken by Hoover’s government despite bare “cheerleading” (Conlin 659). The economy was in decline, the social, scientific, political, and other processes were at the stage of delay. The hardest burden fell on the future of capitalism and democracy. Americans were trying to survive while solely having work and the means to be supported physically. It was the total crash of all hopes. John Steinbeck described it as Grapes of Wrath coming from people nationwide in his well-known novel. People were more depressed morally than somehow else (Rothbard 186). Every year since 1928 Great Depression was strikingly reflected in all spheres of American society. It was so until Franklyn D. Roosevelt came into office. Hoover administration left him corporate profits decrease from $10 billion to $1 billion; bankruptcy of 100,000 businesses; 13 million idle workers and millions employed part-time across the US (Norton et al. 709). Taking these data into consideration, there is no doubt that the threat to capitalism was extremely high. It is applicable to note that the affection from the Great Depression made the contemporaries of that time annoyed and desperate about economic insecurity. “Those who were adults during the 1930s would be haunted by the dread of economic collapse until they died” (Conlin 659). In fact, the history of this period gives lots of examples of when people went insane after losing huge sums of money and opportunities to work. However, due to the efficient plan of Roosevelt people were eventually given the possibility to work for food (Rothbard 75). It was the time that motivated people to work for the well-being of the nation. As a result, more than 60% of present-time buildings and roads were built due to brigades of workers across the US during the last period of the Great Depression (Norton 710). Hence, the situation had stabilized before World War II. To my mind, the experience of the Great Depression showed Americans the pitfalls of capitalism that should be predicted in time from being dropped into them. In fact, the mora
Introduction The story “The Drover’s Wife” written by Murray Bail and Henry Lawson has several similarities and differences in the way the “wife” is presented. Both stories have some elements of bush life and define the hardship that families go through. Similarities In both cases, the “wives” seem to be bush people. This is proven by their characteristics, decisions, and actions. The Drover’s wife as presented by Henry Lawson is an accomplished bush woman. She is accustomed to bush life such that she understands how to deal with the dangers that occur in the bush. She has skills of killing snakes, mounting her defense and that of her children as in the case when a mad bullock held her hostage in her hut, and withstanding hardship as she is left alone to fend for the family as her Drover husband stays away from home for a long period. According to Lawson, the drover’s wife is comfortable with bush life and does not harbor any ambitions of leaving that life for the exotic life of urban areas (Lawson 742). In Murray Bail’s “The Drover’s Wife”, the “wife” displays several bushes woman’s characteristics that result in incessant conflicts with her husband. In an urban setting, she displays the rural bush life characteristics such as chopping wood, she has great courage and unlike other women in urban areas, and to her husband’s dismay she kills a snake at the beach shack and feels comfortable with the bush campsite although her husband was uncomfortable with the heat and the environment (Bail 791). The representation of the “wives” in the two stories is symbolic of the inferior position of women in terms of making independent decisions and gender roles. In Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife”, the wife has an obligation of undertaking her traditional gender role of staying at home and taking care of the children even though her husband takes long before returning home. She does not have the freedom of moving from the bush and seeking alternative residence in an urban area or living with her husband. It is her husband who makes the final decision on whether to take her for holidays to an urban area or other magnificent places (Lawson 747). The “wife” in Murray Bail’s story is in constant conflict with her husband because he does not give her the freedom to do what impresses her. She is happy with splitting wood but her husband is not amused with the action and expects to change her behavior according to his wishes (Bail 792). This shows that women do not have a chance of making an independent decision and their actions are governed by men’s desires and interests. Differences The “wife” in Henry Lawson’s story values her family and is interested in realizing the wellbeing of her family. She guards her sleeping children against snakes. She ensures that her children are disciplined by teaching them good values. For instance, she
The company will provide longer hours for employee lunch breaks in their routines. All employees will be fed by the company. This is geared at ensuring all persons have the right energy levels required to perform effectively (Naidu & Rao, 2009). In addition, clean drinking water and other refreshments will be availed to the employees at regular intervals. This will be done to ensure they are free from fatigue, making them available for longer periods. Employee shifts will be monitored rigorously, to ensure that people get ample sleep and satisfactory resting periods. In addition to these nutritional needs, the company will ensure they work in a clean environment, by repairing all chimneys and ventilation systems. This will guarantee a clean environment for all employees. Employee contracts will be introduced by the company. This will ensure employees are assured of their job security (Agarwal, 1983). They will also have the privilege of negotiating for a suitable remuneration package with the human resource section prior to signing the contracts. It should be noted that employees will receive fully paid medical cover for themselves, their spouses, and any of their children under the age of 21. This will assure them of their family’s medical security in the course of their employment period. To ensure friendships are maintained at the workplace, the company will organize quarterly retreats to encourage team building among the employees. The venues for these functions will be chosen by the team leaders in charge of the various employee shifts. This will enhance team spirit and the feeling of belonging, which is necessary for productivity to be realized. Employees will be allocated ample breaks, to bond with their families and intimate friends. This will help them achieve emotional stability required for optimum production in the course of the job since they will have gained social security (Zeiss & Zeiss, 2005). In order to ensure employees maintain the requisite esteem levels, the company will ensure they are properly recognized for all their efforts. Moral and material support will be given to outstanding performers and achievers in front of their peers, in a bid to encourage them. Under performers will also be noted, and motivated accordingly, as will be decided by the team leaders, in consultation with the management. Strict measures will enforce measures to ensure employees maintain decorum and conduct themselves with self respect. They will be accorded reasonable autonomy to discharge their duties, as long as they maintain professionalism in the course of their endeavors. This will give them experience, hence morale boost (Zeiss & Zeiss, 2005). Summarily, the following measures will be enforced in an attempt to address the lowered morale and decline in productivity as exhibited by the kitchen staff. Physiological Needs   * The firm will eliminate the costs incurred on food and water by the employees.   * The firm will enhance the wor
Main text Coca-Cola utilized total quality management principles to establish a quality training cycle that is on par with the needs of the organization. An example includes the Coca-Cola training in Health and Safety. The training aimed to reduce work-related injuries. The following training cycle was used:   * Setting objectives: The objective set by internal trainers was to reduce work-related injuries. This was approved by the senior management as the company had recorded a relatively high number of work-related injuries in the previous years.   * Identification of the training need: Does the firm’s present position indicate the presence of gaps in the existing skills, knowledge, and attitude? A greater number of work-related injuries were reported.   * Choice of training method: Several training methods are usually employed, and they include live drama boot camps and a learning management system (Hill 2017, para. 14)   * Evaluation: An evaluation is usually conducted to measure the effectiveness of the training delivered, i.e., whether the learning acquired brought about required changes (Oakland 2014, p.319). It was observed that the proportion of severe injuries and accidents reduced and the company is experiencing lower Lost Time Incident Rates since the implementation of the program (The Coca-Cola Company 2018, para. 9).
Guest Experience The primary feeling that Elle will try to impart to our clients is a feeling of relaxation wherein they can feel that they can leave all their worries at our front door and collect them later on. From start to finish the entire experience is meant to emphasize that our clients can and should relax when entering our store. After picking out which type of dessert they want from the counter our customers can head to the deck of our restaurant where they can take in the view of the surrounding lake and landscape. Once they are properly seated they will be provided with a complimentary cup of coffee while they wait for their order, and if it’s a Sunday they will also be given a free newspaper to read. Our waitresses are not only kind and pleasant, but they greet every customer as they are seated with phrases such as “I hope your day goes well,” “take care and have a nice day,” or other such phrases that are meant to elicit positive emotions from our clients. All of our furniture has been specially picked out to emphasize comfort yet still look ergonomically quaint and pleasing to the eye. Our shop does not utilize any garish colors, rather, it uses soft yellows and pastel colors to help not only our customer’s minds to relax but their eyes as well. Combined with the crisp and noiseless atmosphere of the surrounding lake environment and the delicious cakes we provide our clients are sure to have a quiet yet pleasant experience (Verespej 1993, p. 29). Atmosphere What makes the atmosphere at Elle unique is that it combined delicious sweet pastries with an exquisite lake view. When customers enter the shop they are exposed to not only the sweet and delicious aroma of waffles and cakes baking but are treated to an exquisite view that overlooks the nearby lake at Monteux. The air will be saturated with the crisp clean scent of a pristine lake with the sweet overtones of delicious pastry as well as nice soft classical music (Music at Inspirational Shops: Inspiring Inner Peace and Balance 2011, pp. 222-227). Visually, the entire experience will seem slightly surreal to them as they view the lake from the deck of our shop. As they walk into the shop, they will be treated to rows upon rows of delicious pastries in their refrigerated display cases with the stone walls painted in a light yellow color with lacquered cabinets, tables, and chairs in the background. The outside deck itself will be a dark brown color that accentuates the surrounding trees and lake. As such, as soon as a customer has selected a nice cake and possibly some coffee to drink with it, they can wait for their order on the deck while viewing the spectacular lake view. It would almost seem like a fantasy setting for them, especially when taking into consideration the enclosed spaces and polluted air that most modern-day people are exposed to. The open atmosphere of the deck combined with the sheer expanse of the surrounding environment will instill into our custo
Introduction Undoubtedly, modern technological advances have become a detrimental part of any healthcare institution. Therefore, electronic devices assist staff in gathering information from the analysis, controlling the storage of medication, and arranging meetings with the patients. Needless to say that technology is mainly the patients’ outcomes after surgeries or severe diseases, considering that equipment used to sustain the health metrics is highly crucial for patients’ conditions. Main body Health departments of different purposes usually opt for using dissimilar technology. For instance, skilled nursing facilities tend to adopt safety monitoring systems to ensure high-quality treatment or enhance its effectiveness if needed (Ko et al., 2018; Net Health, 2021). My department also provides the employees with convenient tablets for accessing the medical cards of each patient to control their health metrics and condition on daily visits. In addition, the devices seem helpful for communication with my colleagues: when older people are transferred to different doctors, the previous specialist can send all the patients’ necessary data to the newly-appointed doctor. Furthermore, the health data is safely stored on the devices and is used to analyze the patient’s condition if some metrics seem inappropriate or unhealthy. By and whole, the easy storage and retrieval of this data are of detrimental value as it assists in employees recognizing their responsibilities regarding each older person. Summary To sum up, the technology is beneficial for healthcare institutions, considering that it allows easy storage of the patients’ health data. Accessible medical cards assist doctors in preventing possible health problems and starting the treatment before the illness progresses. Such a conveniently organized medical system is effective for ensuring positive results within the department and sustaining patients’ healthy metrics, having conducted critical analysis and diagnostics.
As organizations and researchers strive to determine the impacts of their activities on energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the environment, Koonin asserts that the world is extremely far from the knowledge required to make good climate policy. Therefore, the popular notion that ‘Climate science is settled’ is a misguided claim. Koonin observes that such a claim has poorly altered both public and policy discourses on matters related to “energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the environment” (Koonin). Besides, it has also affected any meaningful scientific and policy discourse about the future of climate change. The major scientific issue that Koonin raises is the potential change in climate “ over the next century under both natural and human influences ” (Koonin). Any possible responses to this question and other complex interrelations between ecosystems and human activities should guide future decisions about energy and infrastructure. However, these have been the hardest questions to solve climate change. These questions, in a critical manner, challenge what the current scientific knowledge can inform us about climate. First, Koonin observes that while human influences may cause severe impacts on the climate, such effects are generally minor relative to the entire climate structure (Koonin). The climate system is highly inconsistent and therefore, such minor impacts could create an extremely high bar that may affect any significant attempts to project human consequences on climates. Second, it is difficult to comprehend the future climate because of challenges in discerning the oceans. The oceans bear the most warmth and have a significant effect on the environment. Regrettably, accurate, inclusive data on oceans are only available for the past few years. Hence, the limited data cannot allow for an effective understanding of future changes in the oceans and potential impacts on the climate. Third, there are inherent challenges with the feedback that is received. Feedback can alter the course of human and natural influences on climate. Feedback, however, tend to be uncertain. This implies that it must be evaluated for precision, details, and any other missing values. Koonin asserts that beyond the three drawbacks above, there are critical challenges posed by the intricate computer algorithms used in the predictive analyses for potential climate patterns. Different computer programs have aimed at describing the dynamics and interactions of different elements of the Earth system, which include “the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, the ice and the biosphere of living things” (Koonin). While some of the algorithms are based on well-evaluated fundamental concepts, othe
Introduction Islamophobia is a complicated and multifaceted phenomenon that has appeared in Western culture for a long time. It is a product of many historical, cultural, and psychological forces that all intersect to alienate a group of people based on shared characteristics. Islam is a religion that has spread to many corners of the world and rooted itself in very different nations and communities with a rich history and a fascinating culture. In spite of that, Muslims often get bundled together and seen as an enemy, the other, the invading force. Racialization An essential factor of Islamophobia is the process called ‘racialization,’ which is explained in detail by Garner and Selod in their paper “The Racialization of Muslims: Empirical Studies of Islamophobia.” The concept of ‘race’ has always been determined based on phenotypical and cultural similarities. The determination of a person’s race has historically been done at the behest of the dominant Western culture (Garner and Selod 14). The people that get thus racialized often either have little in common or are not very different from the other, previously established, racial groups, save a few notable aspects. Sometimes, just one characteristic is enough to determine a race, such as religious faith. It is the case with Muslims, as they are an ethnically diverse group that shares much of the phenotype with other established races. Muslims have become a race in the eye of the Western public, despite not technically being one, and that racialization has led to the emergence of unfair treatment. Similar processes have happened with other groups over the years. Ethnicities that belong to the broad Caucasian race have been singled out and ostracized in the Western nations, such as Eastern Europeans, the Irish, or the Jews. The process of racialization itself relies on there being a culturally dominant group of observers, which set the status quo. In the case of Islamophobia, Europeans and Americans have historically been that cultural hegemony, which racialized Islam and labeled it “the Other.” The othered group is assumed to be homogenous, and all individuals in it are discriminated against based on one characteristic. The exact mechanisms of discrimination are sometimes grounded in politics. The state can often create a discourse that denies Muslims their ability to integrate and simply be normal citizens. The most common racial stereotype tied to Muslims in the West is terrorism, but there are also others. They all add up to the perception that being a Muslim and being a Westerner are somehow irreconcilable. Due to being ‘anti-Western,’ the Muslims are often treated dismissively or abused by the a