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Introduction The world which is termed or described as a global village is constantly changing and so is a man who is perceived as a social animal with social interaction rules ingrained in him naturally, also changing. This means that, in this jet age of ours where most people are chasing bigger salaries, bigger perks, and a lot more, employees jumping ships to new jobs or companies seems to be the order of the day. This makes loyalty the most unique and important criterion in an employee (Maxwell, p. 451). Main body While most of the other criteria like professional skill, ability to learn, intellectual level, and fast reaction are attainable and easily obtainable through specialized training, loyalty is hard to come by but it is by far the most important. Companies are usually more eager to invest thousands of dollars in specialized training of loyal employees instead of the normal skepticism experienced when a nonloyal staff is involved. This is because most employees quit their jobs after undergoing such training thus causing these companies great losses. Loyalty’s importance can never be over-emphasized especially in a situation where a new employee comes into an organization with an attitude of, “I’ll take any job or anything that comes by with a better offer”. Such an employee is usually apathetic which in turn, is detrimental to the employer because even the lowest level employee can either help build an organization or help destroy it (Almond, p. 143). Having altruistic behavior is what is needed in any organization. Being human involves reaching beyond our immediate needs and greed to help others. This behavior or attitude is needed most especially in organizations of human endeavor which can not operate or function without loyalty. Organizations or companies also reach out to award innovative and loyal employees. A personal relationship is also developed between employers and employees. This commitment tends to encourage employees to give more diligence and work harder like the company was theirs. An example of such an organization is the military. No paycheck no matter how big can equate to the services rendered by the military personnel who give as much even their lives in certain cases for their countries (Maxwell, p. 610). Another example is the humanitarian aid societies like the Red Cross. If the hectic nature of the work and the dangers that come with it are taken into consideration, it will be clear that employees of such organizations render their services to humanity for free without getting tired because of loyalty to such a society (Almond, p. 413). The global economic meltdown which put many big corporate organizations’ bank accounts in red is another example. With salaries dropping drastically by about 30%, only loyal employees hung on with their employers through such turbulent and trying times (Maxwell, p. 415). To enable companies and organizations to attain financial growth, larger market shares, and emba
Parenting is one of the most important activities that many adults engage in. Through parenting, children are raised and taken care of in a protected environment until they are able to live independently. While the impact of parenting on children is in general positive, its effect on parents is debatable. There are claims that on average, parenthood makes individuals less happy than they were prior to having kids. In my opinion, this claim is true and Jennifer Senior, the author of All Joy No Fun, would agree with this assessment for a number of reasons. To begin with, children use up a significant portion of the time resources of their parents. When the child is in his infant stage, he requires attention at all time. This causes strain on the parents who have to wake up at odd hours of the night to take care of the baby. Most individuals suffer from sleep deprivation during the early months of parenting. As the children get older, the time demands do not decrease. Parents are still expected to spend a significant amount of time playing with their children, teaching them, and taking care of them. As a result, the individual does not have enough time left to engage in his personal interests. Parents are therefore less happy since they do not have enough time to engage in activities that previously gave them pleasure. In addition to this, raising children causes significant conflict among adults. These conflicts occur as the parents try to determine how they are going to go about the task of raising the children. There are disagreements over the role that each individual in the family will play in parenting. Differences might also occur over how to deal with the various issues that the children might face. This is especially evident during adolescence where parents have to regulate many of the children’s activities. The author agrees that the presence of children causes parents to fight frequently, and with more aggression. This fighting reduces the level of happiness in the individual. Finally, parenting causes significant emotional pressure on the parents. This emotional strain is evident over the whole phase of parenting. When the parents bring forth a child, they have to adjust their lives to accommodate the child. The emotional demands imposed on parents are increased as they raise their children. The mother and father both experience significant anxiety over the well-being of the children. The author explains that most parents endure worry as they seek to provide the best life for their children. From the discussions given in this paper, it is clear that children have a negative impact on the happiness of their parents. Individuals experience less happiness due to the time and emotional demands of children. Children also elevate the number and intensity of conflicts experienced in the family. It can therefore be concluded that on average, parenthood makes individuals less happ
Equilibrium , also known as Cubic , is a movie which dwells upon absence of human feelings. Having watched this movie for the first time, I was not very impressed with it. However, after the second time I looked differently at it. I considered the problems discussed in the movie deeply, I understood how the issues highlighted in the movie were related to our world. Emotions are considered as one of the main reasons of wars. New leaders after the Third World War decided to eliminate emotions from this world in order to reduce the possibility of the Fourth World War. Having created a special emotion-suppressing drug called Prozium, Tetragrammaton Council makes all people consume injections of it to be sure that they are unable to experience any emotions. All the works of art and other stimuli which may cause human emotions are destroyed. People try to create an emotion free society without the possibility to repeat the Third World War. However, there are those who disagree with the regime and try to protect at least the smallest pieces of art to remain emotive. Watching the movie, I could not understand how people who govern such a society manage to remain careless about everything, what principles they pursue. Emotions are the basis of human life, leaving a person without emotions one leaves him/her dead. What should people do without emotions? The whole human life is based on emotions, from the very first minute up to the final breath. When a person is born, he/she cries, either from fear, or from cold, it does not matter. During the whole life a person experiences love, gratefulness, hatred, fear, desire, delight, pain, glory, and many other feelings. When a person dies, he/she feels satisfaction from release and joy for leading his/her life. After death a person remains emotionless. Therefore, it seemed that trying to eliminate emotions and punishing everyone who show emotions for “sense offence” government wanted to create the society without desires, an ideal society under which one may have unlimited power. I was not even surprised when it turned out that Tetragrammaton Council is the main “sense offender” and that its only desire is to maintain order and personal power in the world. This movie impressed me greatly, as I saw what people could do in order to gain power. I understand that human emotion is a great force, all wars are created because of emotions. Still, the desire to be powerful, the desire to rule others is the strongest emotion. The feeling of superiority always governs people. Therefore, it is impossible to create the world without emotions, it is practically unrealized as there will always be one who rules the whole process. Still, watching this movie, it reminded me our world. Having become too emotive because of working stresses, because of specifics of our lives, movement, etc. many people start c
Why Germany Lost and Why It Took the Allies So Long to Win As the World War II began, in 1939, most of the European countries were forming alliances to gear up for the war. Most of the Eastern Europe countries ganged up with Germany to form a stronger alliance. Germany was the favorites in this war and proclaimed to be the strongest contender in the whole of Europe. German had conquered nearly half of Europe thus making it easy for them to pursue the other countries in war. With Adolf Hitler in command, he led his army to brutally fight and conquer what he termed as enemies of Germany (Overy, 1997). Germany’s strong point was that they used heavy artillery and had a remarkably stable air force. With a total number of 6000 tanks and 4000 aircrafts, the Germans foresaw early victory in this war. They had a grand master plan on how to win the war. They engaged massive tank battles and destabilized most of the eastern front forces. Nazi forces conquered Denmark, Sweden and Poland which was a vital process to Hitler. This conquest assured him that he would win the war. After a series of wars, Germany managed to defeat Holland, France and Belgium hence the Nazi’s continued to push further and attack Britain (Overy, 1997). In the pacific waters, the Japans were fighting on behalf of the Germans. They had the same ideologies as the Germans hence led to Hitler ordering the massive massacre of the Jewish. Germans were in the fore front in production of armories, hence gave them an upper hand to control the distribution of army resources. Germany and Japan were well prepared for the war hence they had initiated recruitment process of recruiting young soldiers and engaging them to vigorous training (Overy, 1997). The Germany’s fighting front faced some weaknesses. Hitler was not certain on what decision to take. When engaging the soviet forces, he took so long to decide whether to attack or not. He wanted to use his new fleet of tanks known as panther tanks. He was extremely confident that the panther tanks will grant him victory. The soviet forces caught them unaware, and defeated them in this battle. All his hopes of using the panther tanks went down the drain since most of this tanks broke down at the battle while a good number of the tanks fell into his opponents’ hands. Another weakness is that the Germans underestimated the capability of their enemies. In the battle against Britain, the German forces had planned an operation Sealion. They were to destabilize the Royal Air Force altogether. However, the Royal Air Force with the help of the Soviet Union overturned Germany’s plan and defeated them. This infuriated Hitler, and he decided to invade Russia (MacDonald, 2009). Another outstanding setback came after Adolf Hitler’s suicide mission. The Nazi had to fight for their lives and without anyone to lead them thus they gave up on the war. The Nazi’s encountered a lot of challenges like
Introduction This report will assess the external and internal business environment of Germany to identify and explain the current drivers affecting SMEs; to do so, this paper will consider globalization, internal political, economic, social, and technological drivers, gross domestic product (GDP), foreign direct investment, exports from Germany and so on. Demographic Overview According to the report of Indexmundi (2013), the total population of this country was about 81,305,856 in 2012, the death rate was more than 1.104% and the Birth rate was 0.83%; however, the following table will provide more information about the demography of this country–                              Sex Ratio 2012  Age Structure for the year 2011        Male                         Female          % of the total population        Male   Female      Ethnic Group  Percentage under 15 years               1.05            1                                13.3%  5,569,390   5,282,245     German      91.5%, 15-64 years: male(s)/female  1.02            1                                66.1%  27,227,487  26,617,915    Turkish     2.4%,  65 years and over:           0.76            1                                20.6%  7,217,163   9,557,634     Other       6.1%    Table 1: Population pyramid dynamics for the year 2012. Source: Self-generated. Political Factors of German CIA (2012) argued that the Federal Republic of Germany is the second-largest nation of Europe situated in Central Europe bordering with Netherlands, Poland, and Denmark, Baltic Sea with sixteen administrative divisions; historically, the country is known as the German Empire, German Reich, and the German Republic and attained its independence on 18 January 1871. German is the largest economic power in Europe, which engrossed with two distressing World Wars and occupied by the triumphant allied forces that ultimately resulted in the division of the country into two parts in 1945 with two different political ideologies, one is FRG 1 with a capitalist political economy, and the other is GDR 2 with the economics of socialist ideology. During the cold war era, the FRG was a part of NATO for economic and strategic security while GDR aligned with the Warsaw Pact backed by USSR; at the declining temperament of the communist rule in the world in 1990, both German decided to establish unification of them, in 1999 unified Germany aligned with the EU with a common currency. WEF (2009) added that political stability is a major indicator for socioeconomic progress and business entry for which the position of German is at 7 th in the global ranking and it scored exceptionally for social stability, infrastructural development, market growth, the flexibility of wage and strength of banking sector that delivered Germany with highly sophisticated businesses environment to attract new entries. At the same time, the wave of globalization fortunate the business communities of German to keep their increasing influence in the global economy especially in the Asian emerging market, as a major voice of the EU German has th
Introduction and Background Good health is the most important aspect of an individual’s life. Studies have shown that the health of a person can be affected by many different factors. At the advent of science and the development of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, only the physical/environmental factors were thought to influence the health of a person. Thus, the health promotion activities that were developed mainly advocated the prevention or enhancement of physical determinants of health. This was boosted by the scientific studies which identified a significant link between the physical factors such as microbial agents and health of a person. Measures have for a long time been developed and are still being researched to address the environmental factors that adversely affect health. The healthcare system in place is sufficiently equipped to address the healthcare needs arising from a person’s interaction with environmental factors. However, more recent research reveals that the greatest cause of ill health does not lie in the disease-causing agents or other environmental factors, but rather in people’s minds. It has been identified that the way people react to different stimuli in their day-to-day life determines the state of their health. This now creates a difficult situation for a healthcare system that is deliberately skewed towards western medicine. The real challenge now is how to change the people’s perceptions about their health. It is important that they understand the underlying mechanisms that lead to poor health as revealed by research and be able to select the choices that are available for them to promote their health. Statistics indicate that up to 80% of individuals who visit hospitals are not really “sick” but are suffering from stress-related conditions. However, when these conditions are left unattended to, they result in actual sickness with real symptoms that cannot be treated by conventional medicine. Thus, there is need to utilize other non-invasive treatment methods that are available for this kind of conditions. But how do you change people’s perceptions about western medicine and its final word of authority? How do you let them understand that they can actually get healed without swallowing a single tablet? For a long time though, the mind was thought to play a part in the health of a person, however, this has never been taken seriously enough. This is due to the fact that there are no means with which studies can be conducted to ascertain the how the brain influences the health of a person. Feelings and emotions cannot be quantified or measured and thus cannot qualify for a scientific inquiry. People have been made to believe that if you eat right, exercise and have regular checkups then good health can be guaranteed. New revelations indicate that t
The ideas of free will and the abilities to choose something in accordance with personal ideas and interests are considered to be one of the major ones in many Sartre’s works and writing. He made wonderful attempts to unite his unbelievable and captivating ideas concerning free will and all those outside sources which may influence this will and human choice in some way. Jean-Paul Sartre introduced one of the most idealistic understanding of freedom and the relations which happen between people under different circumstances. His ideas, suggestions, and lessons may be tracked in many popular fictional novels, and one of them is the famous Stephenie Meyer’s book Twilight . This story is full of many interesting characters, and one of the most appealing to me is Isabella Swan also known as Bella. Her story and situation may be analyzed from Sartre’s existential perspectives in many ways: though she is free and able to make certain decisions, she is still bound by some conditions, rules, and different opinions which prevent her own happiness and love. In her Twilight, Meyer tries to unite the ideas of freedom and choices and represents a captivating story about love, relations, and circumstances which always play a crucial role; its main character Bella and the ideas of free will have much in common with Sartre’s teachings because her freedom of choice cannot be destroyed by numerous external circumstances but vice versa be improved and strengthened. To evaluate Sartre’s ideas about free will and the freedom of choice, it is very important to find the story that touches upon all these issues carefully, without a certain passion or predictions. The idea to analyze a popular novel by Stephenie Meyer Twilight seems to be rather powerful indeed due to several reasons. First, the author introduces the situation when the girl, Bella, has to make a decision and choose whether it is right to develop relations with a “bad” guy, whose reputation, future, and past are not as clear as they have to be. Bella spends much time in order to evaluate hew possible relations with Edward, their future, and her destiny. Second, the author underlines that many characters spend certain time to think over their actions, thoughts, and words before make them noticeable by other people. And finally, the main characters have to decide according to their personal demands and desires whether it is correct to develop the relations and cope with all challenges offered by this life and their destiny. Sartre was one of those existential philosophers who paid much attention to freedom of choice and actions. To make his ideas clearer and more attractive, he admits that freedom is “known without proof and merely by our experience of it” (Hoven and Leak 79). People are free just because they feel this freedom inside; they cannot be deprived of this freedom as it is already inherent to humans. Bella knows that she is free from everything and from anyone. She can do anything she wants because even her par
In an interesting correlation between technology and university culture, Stephen Marshall presents the notion that it is the very culture within universities that ascribe to a set of strict fundamentals and organizational practices that limits the ability of technology to be sufficiently innovative in implementing new practices and organizational change within institutions of higher learning (Webley, 2012). Marshall explains that technology acts more like a tool that reinforces current practices and implements already intended changes yet still conforms to the very same unperturbed internal culture (O’Brien et al., 2011). While the views of Marshall are somewhat accurate, as seen in the case of online distance learning courses that attempt to emulate the educational experience of a university, it cannot be stated that they are 100% correct. For example, Coursera.com, which is a new development in providing a free online learning experience for students around the world, was a direct result of inter-university collaborations by Ivy League institutions in order to innovate the current way in which teachers and students approach the concept of education. From this example alone it can be seen that the assumptions of Marshall are not entirely correct since that there have been legitimately fruitful efforts established by universities to utilize technology in a way that is completely outside of their internal cultures in order to create an entirely new teaching and learning experience (Young, 2012; Kamenetz, 2012). On the other hand, when examining the case of the methods utilized to teach English and I.T. (information technology) to students in grades 5 and 6 within the U.A.E it can be seen that technology was used a means of speeding up the process through the distribution of course materials and the creation of computerized learning tools but the basic format by which students learned was still the same regardless of the technologically based methods used to teach them (Autio, Hietanoro & Ruismäki, 2011; Maria et al., 2011). This is in stark contrast to the achievements accomplished by collaborations such as Coursera.com wherein students actually become participants in the discussion and teaching process through the establishment of student forums for discussion, the implementation of lessons wherein students check each other’s papers as well as the establishment of online social groups where students actively participate in offline study groups in order to better internalize the lesson material. Such practices can be noted as a use of technology in a way that Marshall intended (Patterson, 2012). Within the context of my own experiences as an educator of English and I.T. within the U.A.E, I have to say that a similar strategy as presented by Coursera.com may become a viable model for future practices in education. For example, students could take various class modules online and discuss the