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Executive Summary Texas Religious Music Company is a non-profit making company that shall market and promote gospel music genres and Christian activities and festivals. The Company will also offer free consultancy services on logistics. It is a sole proprietorship company. The Company will open its main office in a suburb location within Texas City, Corpus Christi Texas. The Company will target individual musicians and institutions. These include religious organizations and renowned personalities in Christian faith like T.D Jakes. Texas Religious Music Company will use market research to leverage all elements of marketing mix in order to achieve its marketing and sales objectives. The Company’s key success factors include nationwide consumer awareness, affordable services, consumer education, free consultancy services, and professional services and customer experience. Texas Religious Music Company’s short-term goals include creating awareness and acquiring at least ten clients every week. The Company intends to spread to other states within three years after inception. Texas Religious Music Company will recruit professionals and train them on their respective jobs. This would ensure that employees provide the best services to customers. The Company will provide adequate resources and leverage on modern technologies in order to deliver superior services to the market. Texas Religious Music Company has different sources of funds, which include bank loans and overdrafts, share capital, contributions from families, friends, and other associates, who may opt for shares in the Company. The Company’s financial projection indicates that it would be able to sustain itself over the years. Income statement. As at 30 July 2014                Amount ($) Net sales      353,717    Cost of sales  239,083    Gross profit   114,634    Net profit     114,634     The Company shall ensure smooth management and operations. It shall recruit only qualified employees and reward them based on their performances. Texas Religious Music Company will create a supportive work environment that minimizes employees’ stress and turnover. All employees will adhere to the Company’s code of conduct and ethics. The Company strongly advises its employees to avoid conflict of interests and consult when in doubt. Texas Religious Music Company will operate within the state and federal laws. The Company will protect itself against unscrupulous businessmen. It will avoid risks associated with pirated music and other illegal activities within the music industry. General Company Description Texas Religious Music Company (The Company) is a non- profit marketing company located in Texas City, Corpus Christi Texas. The Company’s mission is to provide the best professional marketing services to the gospel music industry and religious institutions. Its goal is to be a successful company with leading professional services. The Company would market gospel music, related services and products for institutions like Christian churches, conferences, and gospel singers. It targets renowned personalities and groups like the Women of Faith and T.D J
Japanese culture is unique and rich in diverse aspects. National culture plays a pivotal role in determining how people behave at work. It influences their attitudes and values. Most people perceive Japanese culture as complex. Therefore, it is imperative to work assiduously to understand the key and unique banquet of Japanese culture. As Dale (1990, p.14) reckons, “experiencing just a unique nibble at the Japanese culture is essential, as it will aid in understanding the complex nature of the culture.” This research paper addresses a 25-year-old male in a Japanese culture based on the available cultural dimensions and norms that represent the culture. The research paper then utilizes information gleaned from the analysis of Japanese culture to explain how a manager/team leader should behave in the presence of a person from the Japanese culture. For a manager working with a person from the Japanese culture, understanding how the cultural dimensions apply to the culture will help the manager to work well with the other individuals. As Adler (2010, p.50) posits, “Problems often arise when managers from a culture interact with employees and managers from other cultures”. Therefore, it is imperative for a manager to understand other people’s cultures in order to avoid violence. The aspects of the cultural dimensions that best represent the Japanese culture include collectivism. As Adler (2010, p.51) observes, “Tight social networks in which, people strongly distinguish between their own groups and other groups characterize collectivism”. It characterizes the Japanese culture, as people hold strong social relations or networks and common goals that condemn individualism. In the Japanese culture, people follow the will of the group with which they associated (Dale, 1990, p.38). Consequently, the beliefs and behaviors of Japanese people mainly rely on the group in which they belong. The cultural dimension of uncertainly avoidance also represents the Japanese culture. According to Adler (2010), “uncertainty avoidance reflects the extent to which people in a society feel threatened by ambiguity…trying to avoid ambiguous situations by providing greater certainty and predictability” (p.55). Japanese people believe in a stable career that offers excellent benefits that commensurate with the responsibilities of peoples. For instance, as Keeley (2001, p.29) observes, “Majority of Japanese people will like a job opportunity that offers lifetime employment”. The cultural dimension of career success also represents the Japanese culture. As Alders (2010) astutely reckons, “Career-success societies emphasize on assertiveness and the acquisition of money and things, while not showing concern for people” (p.57). The Japanese culture has exorbitant roles for both men and women. It emphasizes on career success. In this culture, majority of society members expect women to take care of children performing other home duties. The cultural dimension of Confucian dynamism is also evident in Japanese culture. According to Adler (2010, p.60), “Confucian dynamism measures employees’ devotion to the work
Introduction The Balkan crisis that began in 1989 was a revolution that put to an end the Soviet-mode Communism in socialist states of East European nations beginning from the Baltic to Balkans; these proved to be both spectacular and largely unanticipated. The Balkan crisis that that began outgrew from collapse due to economic failures, the arms race and the availability of options to Communism. The crisis started at the time when Slobodan Milosevic ascended to the presidency of Serbia, in 1989 when the country held its first democratic elections since the aftermath of the First World War. He turned out to be the president of Yugoslavia in the year 1997 (Gallagher 201). The Balkan Crisis After president Slobodan took over the presidency of Yugoslavia in started making vicious attacks on the Albanian ethnic group inhabiting the province of Kosovo. This led him into military contest with the NATO forces in 1999. The government of Slobodan Milosevic continuously engaged in violence and would only bow to threats of severe military intervention. It is important to note that the Balkan crisis led to the ultimate disintegration of the republic of Yugoslavia. The disintegration led to realignment of forces which consequently resulted into tensions that were premised on ethnic, religious and political origins. This became intense as Slobodan Milosevic became president and swiftly began consolidating power and coming up with strategies to preserve that power. He initiated the oppression of the Albanian ethnic people who inhabited Kosovo. It is recorded that the ethnic cleansing began in the summer of 1992 throughout Bosnia. The Serbian nationalists were in involved in ethnic cleansing with a clear objective to create a purely Serbian republic by killing and driving away non-Serbians (Gallagher pp. 202-210). During the periods of ethnic cleansing, the non-Serbs were attacked by snipers and their villages were destroyed. Thousands of these non-Serb nationalists were tortured, expelled from their residences, executed, detained in camps and some raped, especially women and young females. It is posited that rape and executions were tactically utilized to destroy the ties that existed in families and also communities. In July, 1995 the civilian women were separated from civilian men by the Serbian forces that then started the campaigns of killing non-Serbian men and even hunting those who were trying to escape through various forests (Gallagher pp. 202-210). Bratunac killings (1992) that claimed more or less 350 (Muslim) men remain the largest known (mass) killing. Several confrontations ensued between Bosnian Muslims and Serbs of Bosnia in which the town of Srebrenica was interchangeably controlled by the two conflicting group. During the conflict period, the residents of Bosnia converged in the town which had been declared by the United Nations as safe. Unfortunately, the Serbian forces continued to attack the town despite the United Nation’s claim. The Dutch military personnel tried to protect the Muslim men from the Serbian soldiers but were overwhelmed and could not stop the massa
Kitty Tsui writes, “I grew up in my body, but she was a stranger to me, I wanted to be a girl with curly hair and blue eyes, not the skinny Chinese girl with straight bangs who stared at me out of the mirror” (66). In order to get the full impact from this poem, one has to understand something about the poet and the culture in which she grew up. It is difficult in the North American culture, certainly, for anyone who is different in any way. In Hong Kong, it would have been almost unbearable to grow up lesbian. The British influence would have marginalized Kitty because she was Chinese, and her family would simply not have acknowledged her as a person. In fact, her family might have actually disowned her, but her mother, instead, chose not to hear when she said she was lesbian. In the 1960s, China would not have allowed anyone to be that different. Even though Kitty was in Hong Kong, which was a British colony, there would have been ties to mainland China through family before the Cultural Revolution split them up. Her choice to become a writer would also have been unacceptable, since only men did that and only in Chinese. It would have required many years of study for her to become a poet in Hong Kong as she would have had little access to the English publishing world and none to the Chinese unless she were willing to conform to the philosophical and political requirements of the market. Kitty’s most grave sin to her family was not to marry a man and produce children. Family, especially children, is everything in China. More difficult even than the pain she felt from being marginalized by her birth country and culture, and also hot ever fully accepted by her adopted country and culture was this idea that she did not exists for her family. The one who was not invited was, of course, Kitty’s significant other, her female companion. In the first verse, we understand that the poet is different. She does not wear a long gown or a corsage. She probably works pants and was only allowed, because she was family. The occasion must have been a wedding. We get a clue from the mention (twice) that her mother no longer asks when she is getting married. 26 was the age at which Chinese women were expected to be married and have children. The family is affluent and educated. One uncle makes enough
Introduction The Great Gatsby is a novel of vibrant characters, and paradox is one of the main themes of the book. Nick, the main character, has contradictory feelings when it comes to Gatsby, his rich and showing-off neighbor. He dislikes certain things about him, while, at the same time, he admires him. He represents everything that Nick has come to hate about the people who live in the West Egg. He also symbolizes the things that Nick and the other people around him would love to have, yet it is beyond their reach. Thesis Statement: Nick admires Gatsby because of his persistence in pursuing his dream despite the overwhelming odds against him. Nick’s contradictory feelings Nick hates the way the people in the West Egg love to display their wealth. He dislikes their poor tastes in clothes or fashion, vulgar speech, excessive lifestyles, and their lack of social connections. The people who live in the East Egg, on the other hand, have aristocratic connections and pedigrees. They are also conservative. Nick is disgusted with the rotten crowd composed of Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. They do not exercise any restraint when it comes to alcohol and illicit sex. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, yet he is married to Daisy. He rents an apartment where they can meet for their clandestine activities without any disturbance. They engage in wild parties and get drunk on most occasions. Tom takes Nick to a pa
Introduction There have been low levels of enrollment of women in science, math, and engineering fields of study for an extended period in history to the extent that these fields have been considered to belong to men. This emanates from the precedent number of men in these fields of study, which is far much higher compared to the number of women who pursue courses or careers in these fields of study (Phipps 125). One question that comes out here concerns whether these fields of study are hard for women to pursue or whether this is part of the gender mainstreaming debate where women are made to believe that it is only men who can prosper in math, science, and engineering related studies. This paper explores the subject of women enrollment and progress in the field of math, science, and engineering in North America, especially the United States. Of critical essence in the paper is bringing out the challenges and opportunities that are presented to women as it appertains to their enrollment and progress in these study fields. The paper assesses the structures of the society; the legal system, the norms of the society, and practices in the professional realms and their impact on women enrollment and
Bernard Russell is now being commonly referred to, as one of the 20 th century’s greatest philosophers. Such his status appears thoroughly justified, because it is not only that Russell succeeded in discovering a number of principles, which define the way of how language relates to the objective reality’s emanations, but he also elevated the Western paradigm of logic to an entirely new level. Probably the main philosophical idea, with which Russell is now being closely associated, is that, in order for people to be able to gain an in-depth insight into the very fabric of the objective reality, they must strive to adjust the workings of their minds to be consistent with how the universe actually works. In its turn, this idea is based on the philosopher’s assumption that the way, in which people go about reflecting on the particulars of the surrounding environment, cannot be discussed outside of what this environment really is. Therefore, it represents the matter of a crucial importance for people to be able to build logical constructions in such a manner, so that the concerned predicates would never cease being discursively valid. After all, the structural characteristics of one’s cognition/language create preconditions for the conveyed ideas to deviate from the actual subject matter, which they supposedly denote. As the philosopher’s namesake Russell pointed out, “Logical construction is the substitution of a symbol whose denotation is given in sense-experience or is continuous with and similar to something given in sense-experience for a symbol whose denotation is neither given in sense-experience nor is similar to and continuous with something given in sense-experience but is postulated as an unempirical inferred entity” (1945, p. 175). In its turn, this has led Russell to suggest that it is specifically the language of a mathematical logic, which should be used, in order to ensure the integrity of the reality’s verbal descriptions. Russell’s rationale, in this respect, can be outlined as follows: In the reality, there are no ‘molecular’ substances, which may be consistent with the ‘molecular’ manner of how one goes about constructing phrases. All that we perceive, as the reality, consists of what Russell used to refer to as the ‘atomistic facts’ – the universe’s most elemental blocks. It is understood, of course, that these blocks do interrelate. However, the way in which we tend to reflect upon the concerned interrelationships linguistically, is essentially misleading, because it presupposes the factor of a perceptual biasness, on our part. The Russell’s realization of this fact, allowed him to formulate the famous paradox, christened after the philosopher’s name. This paradox is concerned with, “The contradiction that
Romantic art is a composite style of art that spans its origin from the European and American society. Romantic art such as paintings are normally portrayed as visionary and imaginative having some emotional feelings as opposed to Neo-classic art which posses a single style or attitude. Although the Romantic art is deemed as dealing with things that are “romantic”, it has very little to do with love and romantic relationships because this subject is only applied occasionally. Whereas Neo-classical art is deemed as tranquil and confined in emotion and very open and complete in its expression, Romantic art strategically attempts to depict by implication states sensation too intense, elusive, or even mystical to be defined literally (Brooklyn). Thus, artists like Francisco Goya (1746-1828, displayed their love of nature in their choice of theme, mainly the mystifying aspects of nature which are likely to probe the wonders or passions in humans. In this light, the following paragraphs discuss the various works of Goya that made him fit into romanticism. Goya was an artist who started his work as a court painter for the Spanish Crown. His paintings were predominantly sarcastic and thus raised social commentary on the evolution of realism movement. He was commissioned to paint the royal family of the then Charles IV of Spain. His main themes were concentrated on cartoons, war scenarios, and corpses. One of his works is The Maja – 1804 , which comprises of The Nude Maja and The Clothed Maja . The printings show a lady in the same pose although naked and dressed respectively. The first painting depicted a nude woman in the Western art and the second painting was painted after controversial thoughts from the Spanish society over the meaning of The Nude Maja. (Deviant Art).These paintings visualize the unattainable power, beyond the limits of society anticipations and human adaptability, thus romanticism. In his work, The Third May – 1808, Goya recorded the unprecedented shooting of Spanish citizens who were suspected of complexity. The painting depicts Spaniards as praying with covered eyes and eyes, hence a Romanticism touch. Although, Goya did not witness the incident, the work was used as a commentary to give expression of one of the most triumphant moments of the country’s struggle. It served as a commemoration of the Spanish resistance to the armies of Napoleon in the year 1808. In essence, this painting’s presentation and emotional touch preserved its status as an extraordinary image of the disasters of war (The Art World). In this context, Romantic art is seen as representing the mind’s attitude rather than a set of certain traits in styles and thus entails the expression of an idea that seems to posses a verbal origin as opposed to a visual one. Another most ground taking work of Goya is A Dog (1820 – 1823). It is one of the Black Paintings series and thus the work can be analyzed as his vision to the end of an error and a start or rather prediction of another. In this painting, all the elements of the universe or matter are dissolved, leaving a dog’s head. In addition, the painting is divided into two sections: an upper
Introduction International marketing is a form of marketing that is conducted across borders (Doole & Lowe, 2001, p. 25). This marketing cuts across national boundaries. The principles of marketing used in the home country can be applied in the international marketing with slight adjustments or improvements. Therefore, international marketing aims at retaining markets in foreign countries besides expanding their markets to gain a competitive edge over their competitors. In international marketing, it is imperative for multinational companies to put into consideration various environmental factors in executing their marketing strategies (Johansson, 2000, p. 21) because every country has different dynamics that must be observed to survive in the market by remaining competitive. In this case, Vodafone Company, which is a multinational company, needs to consider these factors in the various countries it operates. The company is one of the fast-growing telecommunication companies. This paper delineates on two countries namely the UK and Egypt where this multinational company operates. Overview of Factors There are various environmental factors including culture, politics, economic situation, and government regulations that affect smooth operation of multinational businesses. The factors may affect the marketing management strategy of the company (Cateora & Ghauri, 1999, p. 6). Therefore, the strategy to be adopted to ensure that the company remains competitive in these two countries will be different. According to Zhilin, Su and Fam (2012), it is important for those firms that manage international marketing to conform to or work as per the local business practices of the countries to gain social acceptance, also called legitimacy (p. 41). The claim is valid because the marketing strategies used face a different institutional environment that requires conformity to the local practices. Furthermore, Magnus, Katsikeas, and Robson (2011) assert that international marketing allows exportation of products and services in other competitive markets thus helping to cut on expenses while maintaining flexibility of the company at the same time (p. 17). Therefore, to achieve positive results, putting into consideration these environmental factors is important. Some similarities, as well as differences, will be experienced in the marketing management strategy for the two countries. Similarities The marketing management strategy in these two countries will have some similarities in the plan and objectives that the company wants to achieve. The managers in the countries are different though they are headed by one executive manager who overseas the functioning of the company in all countries. Therefore, because the company is one, it has some set objectives and threshold. The goal that t