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Eventually, every couple meets obstacles, no matter how close the partners are. However, all these misunderstandings should not be perceived as insurmountable problems because they help to make a relationship stronger. The thing that makes relationships successful is an ability to discuss these misunderstandings with respect to each other. Both partners should be attentive and ready to sacrifice something they need to achieve a compromise. There are different classifications of what makes a relationship successful. According to Robert Sternberg, the author of “Triangular Theory of Love,” this component of a relationship is called Intimacy (Sternberg). It supposes that partners can always openly talk to each other, so they would sustain their emotional proximity. The other two components are Passion, which means physical manifestation of love, and Commitment, the pragmatical part of a romance that makes it commonly beneficial. The attainment of these three factors makes a relationship successful, healthy, and strong in every aspect. The form of love relationships has changed throughout human history. For many ages, people have been married because it was mutually beneficial to both of the families and helped to achieve material gain. As a result, people could not fit each other due to different principles and values, which caused problems to the relationships. In modern times, the situation when people get married due to romantic interest in each other is more prevalent. However, the fact that people have more opportunitie
Introduction Although the significance of semiotics may be taken for granted in everyday life, it defines the choices that people make in the realm of the global economy regularly (Belk 1988). Allowing one to explore the impact that a certain combination of signs and their visual elements produces on target demographics because of the appeal to their cultural specifics, semiotics serves as the foundation for developing a deep understanding of the factors that compel people to define a particular symbol or logo as appealing (Mick 1986). By applying the specified theory to the images that have patented themselves as extraordinarily memorable and incredibly appealing, one will be able to define the reasons for global brands to have their staying power. Even though the branding philosophies of Disney and the Penguin Publishing are quite different from each other, both companies have managed to cement their unforgettable images in the minds of their audiences, thus, creating an opportunity to make their products both relatable and unique. Creators and Realities The initial Penguin logo was created by Edward Young, a 21-year-old employee at the Penguin Publishing Company ( The tale behind the Penguin logo 2013). The Drawing was inspired partially by the Albatross Library that was about to cease to exist at the time, and partially by Young’s personal experience at the North Sea. Therefore, despite the lack of connection between the image and the company’s products, the logo had a clear and strong legacy (Ng & Lee 2015). The image of a castle, which has become inseparable from the Disney Company over the years, in turn, a
Detroit is the largest city of the Michigan state in the U. S. and twenty-third most populated in the whole country. It has the thirteenth largest economy in the United States, one of the major ports, and can be called one of the main centers of the automobile industry. Yet in the twentieth century, Detroit experienced a few ups and downs, being an extraordinary case of a big industrial center. Its huge importance was followed by the total destruction, making it the biggest and most well-known city to file for bankruptcy. After the civil war, Detroit became the fifth most populated city in the U. S. Detroit’s economic success was predetermined by its beneficial location. It was connected to other areas by railroads and had access to natural resources. By the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit was successful at shipbuilding and railway business. It was known as the Motor City, being home to the For
The Albertan region represents one important region in the Canadian economy. Ideally, this region, endowed with numerous oilfields, is among the main drivers of the Canadian economy. While this region is of economic importance, it comes with its social and environmental challenges. As such, in this article, we ask: what significance is the Albertan region to the Canadian economy? Crude oil and its products are among the world’s most traded commodities. The majority of exporters come from the Arabian realm; however, Canada’s oil reserves come second and third to Venezuela’s and Saudi Arabia’s, respectively, with respect to size. The Canadian oil comes in liquid form or oil sands- “a mixture of sand, water, clay and bitumen” (McKee 2). Bitumen is a highly viscous tar-like oil that can only flow once it’s heated or diluted. Oil sand is majorly exported to the US and has its major reserves skewed in northern Alberta. An analysis of the estimated quantity of the available deposits puts it at a figure of 174 billion barrels, dwarfing those estimated as non-sand oil (6 billion barrels) (McKee 4). This implies that most Canadian oil is derived from oil sands (97%). Canadian crude oil exports account for 2.6 million barrels per day, and it accounts for 5% of the GDP (McKee 5). Economic-wise, the northern Alberta region represents a region endowed with large deposits of oil sands, a single-most important source of Canadian oil accounting for 98% of the total oil reserves (McKee 5). The important major deposits are found in the Athabasca-Wabiskaw, Cold Lake, and Peace River regions of Alberta. The major consumers of Alberta oil sands are the US refineries. The rate of consumption in the US has constantly increased since 2005. By the year 2013, its consumption had increased by 102%, which accounts for 60% of the total production in Canada (McKee 6). The cost of crude oil varies depending on the technique used in mining, a function of whether it has been mined from shallow deposits or gotten from in-situ reservoirs. The cost has been rising from $34-35 per barrel in 2005 to $88-90 in 2010 (McKee 6). This is projected to increase as the number of consumers increase. The US refineries opt for oil sands as opposed to crude oil from their region, citing that their systems were initially designed to handle denser raw materials. These systems are very expensive to reverse to suit their lighter raw materials leaving them with no option but embrace the Canadian oil sands. The petroleum industry benefits more than half-a-million employees, either directly or indirectly. The co
Introduction Over the years, from the Stone Age era up to recent times, animal farming has been a prominent activity carried out by individuals of a given society for both personal and commercial purposes (Cregier 197). The methods used as well as techniques applied in the area of animal rearing have greatly advanced and improved efficiencies, especially with the introduction of modern technology (Peter 36). Discussion One major concern that has been brought to the attention of animal farmers, in general, is the issue of whether or not it is appropriate to confine all or certain farm animals (Kitchell and Erikson 59). Over time, animal farmers have been made aware of such farm production methods which include rearing certain animals within confined areas for instance cages or other spaces considered restrictive (Cregier 199). This concern has led both governments and industries to come up with guidelines to ensure that farm animals are properly handled and taken care of (Kitchell and Erikson 62). To make it illegal for individuals to be cruel to animals, the government has put in place such laws as state law. This law ensures that if animals are kept in confined enclosures, ample exercising space, as well as proper access to basics such as water, shelter, and food, are provided (Peter 37). Mistreatment or mishandling of animals is also banned under the state law and anyone found guilty of violating the rules is prone to be fined, imprisoned or both (Cregier 201). An example of a state where such strict laws concerning farm animals are being applied is the state of California. A measure known as Proposition 2 (Prop 2) was passed and is to be implemented starting 1st January 2015 (Peter 41). This Proposition is meant to curb and stop cruelty as well as inhumane treatment of animals. As a result, caging or confinement of animals is dealt with. With the start of the year 2015, Prop 2 states that confinement of farm animals, with certain omissions such as calves, reared for beef, broilers (egg-laying hens) as well as pigs that are pregnant, will be prohibited (Kitchell and Erikson 65). This will be applied especially in cases where such animals do not have enough space to move, stand or fully make use of their limbs. Anyone found guilty under the law of Prop 2 will be fined up to $1,000 or face imprisonment of up to six months in county jail (Cregier 209). When Prop 2 gets to be applied at the start of the year 2015, certain steps and actions will occur. Since Prop 2 will prohibit the confinement of animals in an enclosed area, an
Christianity in the contemporary society has been completely watered down to an extent it is extremely difficult to differentiate between a Christian and a pagan. As the word suggests the word Christian is derived from the name Christ, meaning that a Christian is “Christ-like,” and anything else than this is not true Christianity. The modern day Christian is a bored fellow with a life that lacks meaning and is only content with going to church every Sunday nothing more than that. Christianity today is defined by more the church one attends rather than following in the footsteps of the person whose name the term is derived from. “Christian Discipleship is radical living”!! (Laurie p 7) It is a life that is beyond mediocrity and comfort, it is a life of great sacrifice and self denial, ultimately it is a life that attracts persecution and sometimes will cost your life. Jesus and most of His disciples were killed because of their convictions, they died rather than denouncing their faith and they were happy to do so, a very good example is Jesus himself who did “not retaliate even though he had the power to do so when he was insulted and humiliated” 1 Peter 2:23. Just as Greg Laurie points out “All believers are disciples but not all believers are disciples” (Laurie p 7), so who is a disciple? The name disciple was derived from the name “discipline” meaning that a disciple is a follower of someone else, accompanied by great commitment and discipline. A follower of Jesus is called to “take up his cross daily and follow Jesus” what this scripture means is that anyone having the desire to follow Jesus must be ready to even die for the sake of Jesus.(Luke 14: 25-28). In Luke14:25-28, we notice a very “scary” lifestyle that Jesus is calling for those who would wish to follow Him, he tells them thus “if anyone does not hate his mother, his father, his children, his brothers and sisters… even his own life he cannot be my disciple”. For me this scripture summarizes who a disciple is supposed to be. It is so easy to misinterpret this scripture to mean that Jesus was calling his disciples to hate their relatives and families; this in actual sense was not what he really meant rather he meant that the love we have for him should supersede any other. In a radical Christian life the a major hindrances to effectiveness are destructions by life demands, it is so easy to love our lives and families more than we love God, which would be tantamount to idolatry, which God would not tolerate. As a disciple one is called “to love God with all your heart, with your entire mind and with all your soul” (Matthew 22:37). But what does loving God with all your heart and with all your soul and mind entail? This question is answered in John 14:15 where Jesus said that “if you love me you will obey what I command”. In essence then, to love God calls for us to obey all the commands he gives. These commands are not found in magazines, movies or journals, but are found in the Holy Bible!! To love God is to obey the Bible! To be a Christian disciple one has to be committed to obeying what th
Introduction This is a review of a video clip which covers a period of 25 years starting around the 1760s. The clip covers a very exciting time whereby there is a change in the manner of thinking among the Americans from classical conservative thinking to liberal thinking. This article is a subject of discussion of this transition in thinking among the Americans. The Conservative Thinking In the early 1760s, the American manner of thinking was significantly conservative. This is shown in the manner that they particularly viewed the King of England and the noblemen with great awe. This is substantiated by the words of Benjamin Rush in the third second of the clip – all men’s passions, all men’s hopes aspire to nothing higher than this throne (Crafa, 2012). The colonies in American revered their King and admired everything English, they considered themselves blessed to be part of the greatest Kingdom and consequently wealthy Virginia planters sent their children to study in England; New Yorkers read British books and news paper. England formed the central part of the American way of life and the colonies were grateful for that. This especially came out well after the French, who were viewed to be tyrannical, were driven out of America and thus Americans viewed this to be a great blessing to their way of life. To the colonies, everything English was superior. Even the rich in the colonies knew that the noble in England looked down upon them. Transition to Liberal Thinking The transition from conservative thinking to liberal thinking started among the rich in the colonies. They were able to travel from the colonies and viewed life on the other side. This transition can be traced in the words of Benjamin Franklin in the 9 th second of the clip … I am beginning to suspect that the deity is not nearly as angry at the offense of breaking the Sabbath as your average New England magistrate (Crafa, 2012). The cracks in the conservative thinking of the colonies started to appear strongly when the stamp act came into effect. The Stamp Act, in my view, assisted the colonies to think in a liberal manner. It was more of a wakeup call to them that they were being treated as servants, people who didn’t have property, women, and children . The colonies knew the stamp act was a bad idea and a liberal way of thinking was the only way to stop it. This started in Massachusetts and spread to other colonies – stamp distributors resigned all over the colonies as their lives were threatened. This
Introduction There is a way to follow the key developments that emanated from two government reports about the crucial need of improving the UK’s mental health practice. The first report was dubbed as “a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy” for all UK residents (Department of Health, 2011). The second report was known as the “implementation framework” that was produced after the government collaborated with groups like the Royal College of General Practitioner and the Local Government Association (National Health Service, 2012). It is imperative to find out the possible outcome of these reports in upgrading the country’s capabilities when it comes to mental health information and communication. It is also important to discover how these developments affected the process of information dissemination for public awareness and public service. One way to analyze the impact of these two government reports is to determine its possible influence in shaping the content of three leading websites that specialize in helping UK residents that are suffering from the consequences of mental health problems. Background Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health and Paul Burstow, the top executive for the Minister of State for Care Services placed their signatures on a document that outlines an ambitious plan. The same thing can be said of the “implementation framework” signed by Sir David Nicholson, the Chief Executive of the National Health Services, and Duncan Selbie, the Chief Executive of Public Health England. The report from the Department of Health and the National Health Service outlined an endeavor to enhance the nation’s health care system by fixing the shortcomings of the mental health sector. Any attempt to improve a national health care delivery system is always perceived as an extremely difficult task (The UK’s Faculty of Public Health, 2016). The challenge of improving the government’s health care program is rooted in the high demand for quality care and the spiraling cost of treatment and prevention programs (Roche, 2016). In other words, government leaders and health care workers are always struggling against the consequences of managing finite resources (Economic and Social Research Council, 2016). From this perspective, it is easy to make the pronouncement that the most prudent thing to do is to aim for cost-efficiency and not initiate an attempt to create something grand (The King’s Fund, 2015). However, the aforementioned ministers of health and top executives of key government agencies, those who were responsible for the UK’s present-day health care system expressed a desire to set lofty goals (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010). In the two government reports mentio
Introduction Whistleblowing is defined as the act of an employee or a former employee disclosing sensitive information about the employer, which he/she believes is unethical, to the public. Whistleblowing happens in cases where an individual feels that an employer or organization is engaging in activities that are wrong or which may cause harm to others. In such cases, the whistleblower feels that he or she has an obligation to disclose this information to the public to resolve the issue. It is important to note that not everyone agrees that whistleblowing is right and some people condemn whistleblowers even branding them as traitors. Whistleblowing is, therefore, characterized by two opposing sides that both argue about the ethical lines on whether the practice is right or wrong (Grant, 2002). The ethical perspective of Edward Snowden’s Whistleblowing activities In his whistleblowing initiatives, Edward Snowden revealed that the government of the United States was carrying out illegal surveillance activities on private information of both US citizens and non-US citizens. He revealed that under the NSA surveillance program, the government of the US as a data collection and spying network in place which is responsible for collecting data regarding the private communication of non-US citizens through their mobile phones, emails, and social networks. The NSA program also collects private communication data of some US citizens who are of interest to the government (O’Neill, 2013). The program collects private data without any warrants to do so and does not need to provide any reason as to why the government targets a particular individual whose communication data is collected. The NSA surveillance program is, however, given legality by a clandestine court that hears government requests and then gives a go-ahead to carry out the mass surveillance without considering any arguments from other non-governmental parties. The problem with this program is that it infringes on the privacy rights of individuals since all individuals are guaranteed the right to privacy by the Constitution (O’Neill, 2013). Whistleblowing is an issue that revolves around ethics due to the fact that it involves an individual’s deep conviction that what the organization is doing is wrong and is an infringement of other people’s rights. This means that the individual feels morally obligated to expose the wrongdoing of the organization so as to prevent the results of such activities from harming others or from interfering with their values and beliefs. Another issue is that for a person to decide to blow the whistle on their organization, he/she must be morally upright and possess good virtues. This is due to the fact that whistleblowing requires a person to have the courage to stand up to the organization for the common good of the society even if the results will not be favorable for them as individuals (Grant, 2002). It is important to note that even though some organizations support whistleblowing and laws have been formulated and implemented to protect w
Interpersonal communication is a relatively new interdisciplinary area of studies that aims at evaluating the interactions between individuals within the organization. To the current understanding of the matter, the communication is one of the key prerequisites for a successful and efficient organizational processes. The aim of the following paper is to analyze the interview with the real estate company manager in New York and determine the current level of the company’s interpersonal communication, locate the shortcomings of the system, and suggest possible solutions to improve the situation. The interview focused on two questions: the manager’s experience resulting from the feedback provided by the customers and employees, and the examples of techniques that had a positive effect on business. The answer to the first question was primarily focused on the customers’ negative feedback about the previous property management companies. The most common complaint was the inadequate level of communication. In contrast, the company in question has a well-established infrastructure of technologies responsible for communication, including the service segment (emergency numbers) and a variety of electronic channels, such as texting and email. However, the response notably lacks the information about employee feedback. This can be interpreted in two ways. There is either poor or no communication channels established between management and workers, or he deliberately concealed the unfavorable feedback. The latter is unethical and may potentially lead to a backlash from the staff and the general public once the fact surfaces. The former, however, is more likely, as it is not uncommon for the management to focus on consumer communication while paying insufficient attention to the internal affairs (Ryan 108). At the same time, this is an alarming possibility, as such state of events often leads to the decline of the healthy workplace environment. There are two main reasons for this: the manager either decides to deliberately ignore the critique and complaints received from the staff, which will inevitably result in the growing feeling of unfair conditions and inequality, or simply has poor listening skills. The latter is one of the crucial interpersonal skills and is required for efficient and productive company function and timely detection and addressing of the issues in the system (Phillips and Gully 260). Either way, it is highly recommended to look into the issue more thoroughly, search for the proof of this assumption, and facilitate the needed communication channels. The second question was mostly answered by recounting the communication channels providing the means for electronic transmission of information. The main tool named by the manager, aside from the already mentioned emergency phone numbers, is Microsoft Outlook. While it is true that its versatility and timely update schedule provides results in an excellent tool capable of tracking the status of emails, among other things, it is only acceptable for use in the small businesses. Once the organization has a sufficient cus