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The present article dwells upon the environmental issues Indonesians face and the issues indigenous people in this area are facing (as well as issues they are about to face). Kuhn reveals major controversies existing in the region (n.p.). The author notes that Indonesia, which is still regarded as one of the most forested areas, is at risk of complete deforestation as the economic boom requires such resources as land and wood. One of the major controversies is the lack of a proper legislature concerning land. Kuhn states that the government owns the land (n.p.). However, it is also noted that indigenous people regard land as their own as they claim their ancestors lived there for centuries. The government seems to ignore such claims as a lot of lands is being sold to entrepreneurs. Kuhn states that land is often sold without concession of indigenous people who live on the land. Sometimes indigenous people do not even know the land has been sold. Kuhn claims that future generations of Dayaks may become homeless or criminals as they will not have the right to live on the land of their fathers (n.p.). It is noted that the problem is unlikely to be solved soon due to corruption, which is a characteristic feature of the Indonesian government. Reportedly, some Indonesian officials claim that the situation is not as serious as it may seem, but a number of anti-corruption incentives have been launched. It is also noted that Indonesian officials have different views on the future of indigenous people. Some state that indigenous people should assimilate and become a part of the mainstream culture (economy, etc.). Others stress that indigenous people should choose their path on their own. They should decide whether they want to preserve and develop their culture, and in this case, they should be assisted, i.e., deforestation should be stopped. Article Attached The present article dwells upon the use of indigenous knowledge in water and land management in Australia. Notably, the Australian government recognizes the rights of indigenous people and their right to manage their land. McGregor et al. note that nowadays, people understand that Western civilization has failed to work out proper management of natural resources as environmental issues are becoming more serious over time (721). It has also been acknowledged that indigenous culture that has been developed throughout centuries contains specific techniques that can help develop proper natural resources management. The authors reveal a number of effective techniques that have been used by indigenous people. These techniques are also used now. For instance, the authors depict the use of fire in wetland management. The technique is depicted in detail. Par
What suggestions can you offer Peter Flagstaff and Lindsay Gibson to improve knowledge sharing at the Flagstaff Marketing Group? Transfer of knowledge and information sharing is very crucial for both the employees’ benefits and the organization. Therefore, Peter Flagstaff and Lindsay Gibson should work the best ways for improving knowledge sharing at the Flagstaff Marketing Group. The organization can improve information sharing by encouraging those employees who have high potentials of knowledge to voluntarily transfer important information to facilitate the participation of those employees who have low potentials of knowledge to actively participate in sharing knowledge. This is important in the sense that it helps in creating some additional utility, which is essential in making sure that both the organization and employees achieve their goals and ambitions. The information of knowledge sharing should be enhanced through a gradual process and can involve some incentives. Though, some of these incentives can be costly to the organization, they inspire the employees to work hard. The process of sharing and transferring information and knowledge can be improved by intensifying some of the consistent interests that exist between the employees and their employers. This positive role would encourage and help in promoting the transfer of knowledge and sharing. How valid are the points made by the account executives
Internal Environment Being one of the largest private investment company, Edward Jones Company has an opportunity to obtain more patents through various acquisitions. One of the company’s strength includes its vast source products and services. Since the Edward Jones Company is organic in nature, its services are of premium quality and focus on bringing a solution to consumer needs without necessarily attracting any negative environmental externalities. The services offered provide excellent customer experiences. The other strength is in their financial situation, whereby Edward Jones Company is ranked amongst the most profitable companies in the world (Edward Jones, 2014). As a result of being an organic company, it has strong patent portfolios, which grant superior intellectual property forming the key to a competitive advantage over other companies (DuBrin, 2008). Industry environment The company faces stiff competition from other companies such as the FMR LLC, Charles Shwab Corporation, and Morgan Stanely, and Raymond James Associates. These companies have the ability to offer perfect substitute products to customers targeted by the Edward Jones Company. Besides, companies such as the Charles Swab Corporation has been in the market for a longer period than the Edward Jones Company. Thus, they have a larger market share. However, the company has managed to overcome the competition and currently control 14% of the market share (Edward Jones, 2014). Unlike the Charles Swab Corporation, the Edward Jones Company has numerous products, within the company’s product portfolio, that do not generate positive returns for the company. At the same time, the company’s involvement in patent litigations consumes a lot of the company’s time and resources, hence distracting the company from innovation activities (DuBrin, 2008). General and Global Environmental Factors General Factor The financial consulting industry within the US is currently experiencing growth by an admirable proportion. The reported growth at the end of the 2013 financial year was 7%. Thus, the company is in a position to benefit from the industrial growth by expanding its scope of operations and the number of financial products and services across the US (Edward Jones, 2014). Global Factor The current global economic stability is predicted to remain stable for the next ten years, following the previous global economic market swings. Thus, the company’s financial focusing will remain within the desirable levels. This is an opportunity for sustainable financial planning and project implementation (Edward Jones, 2014). Transition Fr
Introduction Qantas airways Limited is the national carrier for Australia with its headquarters located in Sydney. The main hub of the carrier is at Sydney airport. It is well known for being the largest in Australia as well as being the oldest to have continuously operated in the world. Qantas operates Jetstar, a low cost carrier which has proven to be a great success. The airline has succeeded in the operation of this two differing airline brands which have been termed to be very strong yet very distinct. Qantas is among the worlds most prominent full service airlines. Having operated for over 90 years now, it has been grossly profitable and also has been growing at good rate with improvements on its premium standards in its products and also services. At the same time Jetstar has grown over the few years and has been in operation from domestic flights in Australia to flights within intra-Asia and now across the Asia pacific. The airline has been garnering a lot of profit and it is also among the best low cost airlines in the world (Jetstar Airways 2006). Strategies The main competitor of Qantas domestically is virgin blue with its brand of “a new world carrier”. The chief advantage of Qantas is that it has been able to meet the needs of its entire customer base in a profitable manner. The main reason as to why the airline decided to engage in the dual band strategy varies in aspects. Australian aviation industry is the most liberalized in the world today. Some airlines started the low cost airline business earlier on in the year 2000. The companies in this case are virgin blue and impulse. This was after other entrants had tried to get into the market prior to them. This called for a dire need to protect the position of the company in the market, such that it could be able to maintain a competitive position in the market. This was fallowed by the acquiring of Impulse just before it was declared bankrupt, thus having an upper hand over the competitors. After the collapse of Ansett and the halting of international travel owing to the September 11 th attacks, the company increased its domestic base and the customer number increased as well. At this time, the competitors being still small and the market share being so large, maintenance of the domestic share proved a bit expensive to Qantas thus the need to go low cost came into the limelight. Jetstar came up to compete with Qantas in low cost routes that would also have an impact on the profits of Qantas. The biggest issue was to surpass the notion that this was bound to fail, as it had been so in other prior competitors. In the company’s strategy, Jetstar was based on principles which were learnt from the past failures of the other carriers. In the first place, the airline was bound to have different industrial arrangements and management of operations. In this way, the operation of the airline was veered off the full service boards. This was supposed to be a totally low cost carrier and not a bridge between the two, as was the case of Australian airlines. At this stage, the company went ahead to introduce a domesti
Introduction The dilemma of a difficult and dramatic moral choice has long been known to captivate the human mind, and writers know this well. The short story The Lady or the Tiger? By Frank R. Stockton is a perfect example of an almost quintessential dilemma on the most thrilling of choices: the one which involves love and death. The story is set in an unspecified land ruled by a semi-barbaric king and describes a peculiar legal procedure invented by him based on his own understanding of justice: an arena where the convicts are tried. Instead of the trial by battle, the accused are offered to choose one of two doors: behind one, a fierce tiger awaits to kill the unfortunate human, and behind the other – salvation in the form of a lady who would become his wife. However, once the lover of the king’s daughter is given the dreadful choice, the princess secretly interferes with the chance and gives the man a hint to open the door on the right. And while it is tempting and comforting to consider the possibility of her sparing his life instead of directing him to his death, upon closer inspection there is little doubt that she has guided him to the tiger. Analysis It is tempting to imagine that she wanted to save him. But this version is mostly driven by the reader’s humanity. The text, on the other hand, offers little backing to the happy ending. We know that the princess loves the man dearly. We also witness her hesitation at the end of the story. She hesitates to imagine the “cruel fangs of the tiger” (4). However, these are not her thoughts. Instead, they are speculations by the author. And this short part is the only proof of her compassion. She is passionate, there is no doubt about it. But her passion is burning, not heart-warming. She is determined, but mostly for her own sake, not for him. On the other hand, her barbaric nature is prominent throughout the story. She is resolute about making things go her way. For instance, she obtains the secret of the doors with “gold, and the power of a woman’s will” (3). A whole paragraph is devoted to her anguish and jealousy triggered by other girl’s mere glances at her man. She thinks he even returns them. However, she acknowledges that all this may exist only in her imagination. Besides, she did not come to the trial to support the man – she was “terribly interested” (3). There is even a phrase “She had lost him, but who should have him?” (4). It clearly shows that for her there is no happy ending. She does not show any respect for his life. In her eyes, the choice is between redemption and a tantalizing “justice”. The latter will become the salvation to him and the torture to her. The princess is truly the daughter of a barbaric king. She displays all the features that suggest power,
Jesus was killed on the order of Roman authorities on the reason of provocation by Hebrew religious leaders. The later ones were afraid of Jesus’ growing popularity among his compatriots, and feared that Jesus could overthrow them from exalted positions because of their blasphemous conduct. Jesus knew that his murder was many times foreshadowed in Holy Scriptures as the main part of Creator’s Universal Purpose. On this reason he did not oppose the actions of Hebrew leaders, did not try to escape, and warned his followers against any acts directed to saving him from arrest. Early Christians thought that Jesus’ death was very important for all the sincere believers because it was a ransom for Adam’s sin leading to imperfection, death, and sickness. Jesus was killed by Roman soldiers on Pontius Pilate’s order. Pontius Pilate, in his turn, was provoked by Hebrew religious leaders. Famous historian Josephus Flavius witnesses that Pilate did not want to execute Jesus Christ because after examining the case he did not find any faults in the arrested person. According to Hall (n. d., par.4), Jesus’ “brand of non-violent resistance, his manner of stirring the people and empowering the poor, were correctly judged to be challenging the political power structures of his day”. This commentary shows that Jesus was seen as a real threat for the state of affairs existing in Hebrew politics those days. Because of rebellious spirit of Hebrews who constantly initiated new uprisings against the Roman Empire, Pilate did not want to object the rulers of this nation, and permitted them remove their political opponent. Jesus’ approach to his death would be marked by the same attitude that constituted his entire life which means that he did not fight against it. He did not show any resistance during his arrest, he did not encourage his follower to raise and save him, he warned every person trying to prevent his execution against such measures because he said that his death on a torture stake was a part of God’s will concerning him. The will of his father was among Jesus’ primary concerns which meant that he could never reject it (O’Collins, 1999). Initially, early Christians such as Mary Magdalene, Apostle Peter, Mark who wrote one of the Gospels and many more were very upset because of the events that happened to their master. However, later, as Jesus was believed to appear before his disciples, first Christians started viewing his death in a different light. They thought that the value of Jesus life was a ransom for people’s sins which entered the world through the first perfect man Adam who disobeyed God and lost his perfect life as a result. In his letter to early Christians in Galatia, Corinth, Ephesus, and so on, Apostle Paul encouraged his
Introduction Capitalism is a three-level system of governance consisting of an economic aspect, an administrative aspect, and a political aspect. It allows for the amassing of wealth by individual members of society or corporations without regard for those who cannot. The administrative phase of capitalism ensures that society is kept under control through the military, courts, and the police (Azmanova, 2020). The coronavirus pandemic has presented the world with a chance to examine the role of this system in governance and evaluate its hold in activities for better decisions in the future. The pandemic has ravaged the globe laying waste to human lives and civilizations. There has been a need for people to adapt differently and orient their lives in an unfamiliar way in their jobs, education, and activities in general. Everything has been redefined by the pandemic and capitalism, the prevailing governance solution, cannot lag behind. There is need to evaluate the positive gains presented by capitalism alongside its disastrous effects and how this has impacted the world’s ability to combat the pandemic. Economy The capitalist flow of goods and services across the world and the role of governments in this was a major setback in the fight against the pandemic. Many governments globally delayed closing their borders hence stopping the spread of the disease to their countries. Closing of borders and grounding of flights would make it difficult for these countries to import and export various goods and services hence jeopardizing various economies (Zanoni, 2020). The effect of this hesitation was the spread of COVID-19 to all countries globally and millions of deaths. Many people lost their lives in avoidable circumstances where governments would have disrupted the flow of goods to protect their people. Capitalism also necessitated that people continue going to work so that dependents could be well nourished. Interactions at the workplace were a major means of spreading the illness, and this led to the loss of many lives. Medical Service Inequality in the distribution of essential health requirements amongst countries and various individuals has been a glaring issue since the onset of the pandemic. Some countries were unable to access sufficient personal protective equipment for their healthcare workers since the start of the pandemic. This is while other countries could produce this equipment in large numbers, surpassing their need (Scambler, 2020). This is because capitalism advocates for amassing of wealth and political power regardless of who losses. The distribution of the vaccines that are hugely from western countries is also an issue. Some poverty-stricken countries have been unable to access them and protect their people (Robinson, 2020). The focus of capitalism is mainly a few affluent members of the society or nations with
My teaching philosophy lies in enhancing the development of critical thinking in students. I believe that the learning influence originates from the urge to find information about different life concepts. Since humans are naturally curious, it is relatively easy to support learning by guiding them to get answers to their questions. My teaching philosophy lies in the values of rational thinking. I believe in delivering legit information to students and reaching beyond their immediate questions in different subjects. I strive to teach through example and influence students to hunger for information beyond the classroom. Teachers require the development of curiosity to learn from their adult students to control effective learning. Teaching philosophy My teaching philosophy banks on some core values, including effective communication, teaching through words and actions, and ultimate honesty. My aim in teaching is developing the urge for students to look for answers by asking questions. I strive to trigger problems to create an environment where students keep searching for solutions for the unknown. It does not matter whether I am in a classroom or outdoor setting; I always avail time for people to ask questions. This way, curiosity guide the learning process in students, and it focuses on the objectives of the curriculum in use (Pratt 16). Beliefs about adults as learners I believe that human beings create challenging situations in their daily lives, problems that need the employment of rational thinking to find viable solutions to counter the challenges (Rogers and Horrocks 5). I also believe that learning is a continuous process that is guided by environmental factors. For instance, companies employ learned people, but in their respective careers, they have to keep learning new ways to go around challenges in their work. Natural learning is also a constant system in active minds, and it goes on from childhood through to adulthood. I believe education should be an integral part of society. This form of learning should focus on developing unique relationships between the teacher and students because, unlike teaching children, adults have the knowledge of their specific learning objectives (“What is adult education?” par. 3). My teaching policy on children incorporates giving students detailed dreams about what they should look forward to learning. Using an adult-learning-perspective in teaching enables a teacher to focus on preparing students for life. I believe that adult learners should be preparing for energy rather than looking for knowledge to guide them to success. Adult learning should focus on instilling knowledge and skills that the learners can use to become innovative in developing solutions to life’s challenges (Mezirow 8). Beliefs about aims The main aim of my teaching philosophy is to influence students to keep seeking answers. I believe in using an individual-based teaching approach; hence, allowing students to pose questions is the most feasible method of identifying their personal needs in learning. My goals in teaching include delivering quality information to clarify the principles that answer the