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Numerous considerations can apply to the selection of a stock and influence decisions on the matter. As a result, the issue can be particularly complicated for a new investor who has little to no prior experience in the question. As such, it is critical that the selection process is streamlined and simplified for the benefit of such a person. Gardner and Gardner (2018) recommend that investors avoid speculating and put their money into solid, reliable businesses. A large company that is showing a trend of steady growth would be the best option due to the likelihood that the practice will continue. With this condition established, the pool of possible investments narrows substantially, streamlining the process. There are numerous large brands in a variety of industries, all of which are potentially excellent investment options. Benzinga Insights (2012) proposes a focus on easy-to-understand stocks that represents large companies with powerful brands and strong past performance and pay out dividends. This approach rules out some companies, such as Google and many brands whose stock prices have dropped in the recent past. Overall, a small number of companies remain, out of which Walmart stands out due to its excellent overall profile. “Walmart Inc. (WMT)” (2020) shows a strong 5-year trend of continuous growth that has the company demonstrate a current stock price at almost the highest point throughout the period. As such, the stock appears to be a safe choice that is likely to generate substantial benefits for an investor. The client, in this case, would be a family member of the author who is considering some way of making use of their money. They would be a current employee in a senior and well-paid position at a large company. Their proximity to retirement has made them begin considering investing because they want not to have to worry about their money running out during the rest of their life. They have a considerable amount of savings, but not much property beyond their house, car, and other essentials. Lastly, they would be a risk averter since their goal is to create a sustainable source of income rather than increase their capital through high-return investments. The choice of Walmart is justified due to the expectations and interests of the prospective investor. Pinkasovitch (2019) proposes blue-chip corporations as an effective investment target for income-oriented people with low risk tolerance due to their established reputation and reliability. Walmart can be expected to grow steadily in the future, improving the value of its stock and benefiting the investor overall. Moreover, according to “WMT – Walmart Inc.” (2020), the business has been steadily, if slowly, improving its dividends per share, even if the yield has been falling with time due to the business’s quick growth. Overall, Walmart is recognizable, easy to understand, and reliable, fitting the investor’s needs excellently in this case. The five resources used for this part can also be applied to the rest of the assignment. They are as follows:  1. “Walmart Inc. (WMT)” (2020) is useful for seeing real-time data on Walmart’s perform
It is quite impossible to come up with the recipe for winning people’s affection, which would guarantee its practitioners 100% rate of success. Nevertheless, we can still outline the main principles, upon which the strategy of winning such affection must be based, by utilising our sense of logic. First of all, it is important to understand that it is only when individual is capable of expressing its thoughts in clear and cohesive manner that creates preconditions for such individual to be treated with respect, regardless of whether these thoughts correspond to audience’s expectations or not. Therefore, nobody should even try winning people’s affection, without being in possession of an intellectual integrity; which in its turn corresponds to such person’s ability of operating with abstract categories and his ability of defining practical implications of such categories. Second of all, one must have skills of an attentive listener. People have a tendency to think of their opinions as such that have an empirical value, even when confronted with the reality that suggests otherwise. Therefore, it is the matter of crucial importance for the individual who strives to make new friends, to appear as person that pays attention to what people say, while socializing in public. Third of all, since the notion of affection is closely related to the notion of respect, one must strive to gain a reputation of reliable person who sticks to his promises. As practice shows, person cannot be respected in apriori , simply for belonging to the specie of homo sapiens , as the hawks of political correctness try to convince us. Person’s existential integrity directly corresponds to his value as human being. Such value can be high or low, just as it is the case with just about anything in this world. One’s ability to show up on time and to stick up to its promises, automatically increases his value in the eyes of colleagues and co-workers, simply because there are less and less people capable of doing it, as the result of neo-Liberal ideological indoctrination, which refers to the notion of self-discipline as “euro-centric” and therefore – “fascist”. Fourth of all, person who seeks to win people’s affection must prove itself capable of standing up for his beliefs, thus proving its existential sincerity. For example, the reason why majority of African-Americans are not particularly fond of White people, is not because they consider them as “racists”, but because Whites are afraid of expressing their racist attitudes publicly, while preferring to use N-word when there are no Blacks around. “Double-faced” individual can hardly be treated with respect, regardless of how hard he tries to please people that surround him. Fifth of all, one must be capable of existing in non-conformist mode, that is – he needs to convince people of its own existential uniqueness. It is important to understand that such uniqueness has nothing to do with individual’s willingness to “celebrate diversity” or with his ability to consume French fries by tons, while being referred to as “pers
Ishmael and Queequeg attend the Whaleman’s Chapel before leaving New Bedford, where Father Mapple preaches a sermon. The homily is based on the story of Jonah and the whale, which takes a major part of the sermon, where the priest foreshadows the struggle of Ahab and Moby Dick. It seems to me that the story is called for teaching people not to escape God’s commands in order not to experience sufferings, as “we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists” ( Melville 53), “…higher the top of that delight than the bottom of the woe is deep” (Melville 60). Melville rejects the idea of original sin. It means that everyone on earth is perverted to the original sin that arose from Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden. Atonement can be deserved by God’s grace and needs obedience to God’s anger (Talley 55). The main character of the priest’s sermon wants to escape God’s commands by escaping from any country, where God may watch the people’s doings, “a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign” (Melville 54). He feels fear for God’s wrath, which he can call down, “I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!” (Melville 57). Finally, Jonah accepts the situation, “For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance. He feels that his dreadful punishment is just. He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple” (Melville 58). At the end of the sermon the priest tries to put people to the straight and narrow, “this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it while preaching to others is himself a castaway!” (Melville 59). The character of a priest is used to support thematic and narrative aims, Melville stuffs the story with a sacrificial line of images (priests, altars, Biblical sermons), but the religion is used in the story only to keep the ship crew in order (Tischler 185-186). The preacher’s teachings are aimed at telling us what Jonah’s sin was. Works Cited Moncur, Michael. “Herman Melville: Moby Dick or The Whale” . 2003-2005. The Literature Page. Talley, Sharon. Student companion to Herman Melville. Student companions to classic writers. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. Tischler, M. Nanc
Seasonal Agriculture Worker Program (SAWP) is a governmental program that allows Canadian farmers to hire employees from the Caribbean and Mexico. Foreign workers receive temporary visas during the seasons of planting and harvest. Migrant farmworkers face problems of abuse during their working season. There are many cases of violation of labor in migrant employees, and it is essential to examine how SAWP undermines accommodations for Caribbean and Mexico migrants and seek an efficient solution. Many struggles exist in SAWP that should be fixed. For instance, migrant farmers work up to fourteen hours a day and receive a small salary. Work conditions are horrible, but workers’ complaints do not help fix the situation. Moreover, the workplaces for immigrant workers are often overcrowded; many employees report violating attitudes towards them. There is no free access to medical equipment and attention; COVID-19 is ignored, and people have to infect each other. Lack of proper resources such as masks, sanitizers, and gloves makes the work unsafe for health. Places where migrant farmworkers sleep are called bunkhouses. These bunkhouses are overcrowded with people, and workers have to sleep very close to each other; it raises the risk of infection with COVID-19 (Mojtehedzadeh, 2020). It is important to note that many workers are elderly; it is known that older people get infected and bear the disease in a far more complicated way than young people. Thus, the 55 years old Juan Lopes Chaparro died because of coronavirus when he got infected on the farm (Dubinski, 2020). “Lopez Chaparro’s death has caused shock and devastation to his family in Mexico,” the article reports (Dubinski, 2020, p. 2). He was a loving father of four children, and now his family is abandoned without support in Mexico. Everything I have learned from these articles caused emotional discomfort in me. I feel disappointed and very sorry for migrant f
Introduction Vietnam is a multiethnic society comprising of fifty-four ethnic groups recognized by the government of Vietnam. It bears witness to many different ethnic groups who have made Vietnam their homeland. Some of them are residing for the last thousand years while some have entered into its lands only a few centuries back making it one of the most complex areas on the whole Southeastern coastline of the Asian continent. (Mackerras 2003: 108) Minorities have occupied the most important position in Vietnam, as they are part of the sensitive areas of Vietnam touching borders. Because they occupy strategically important and sensitive border areas like China, Laos, and Cambodia, they are always kept under watch, as retention of their loyalty is critical for national unity and safety. Ho Chi Minh has always been invoking unity, unity, and great unity (Doan ket, Doan ket, dai Doan ket) in his propaganda campaigns. (Mackerras 2003: 127) Main body Despite ethnic groups being only 14 percent of the total population, the majority belongs to the poor and 75 percent of them lie below the internationally set poverty line. (World Health Organization 2003: 6) All the records show there is a wide gap between the living standard of ethnic minorities and the groups belonging to the majority population and this gap has only been widening. Since the 1990s, Kinh and Hoa groups have been making great progress and are sustaining a higher standard of life as compared to the others belonging to the remaining 52 ethnic groups. The Khymer and many other groups belonging to the Northern Upland minorities have experienced themselves a standard level of growth but if we analyze their expenditure level’s we may find they are spending at much below the poverty line. But the minority ethnic groups staying at the Central Highlands and H’Mong are lacking behind in growth. (World Health Organization 2003: 6) The minority groups towards the Northern Mountains are scattered and do not have any defined territories. E.g. Thai and Muong, who are the wet rice farming groups, have made their settlements in valleys and intermountain basins whereas Kho Mu who are rotational cultivators are biased towards lower slopes of mountains where H’Mong are found towards higher parts of the mountains. (Mackerras 2003: 111) All the diverse groups have spread over the vast lands and within the parameter of the geographical landscape; there have been diversity and variedness in the various policies of subsequent government’s towards the minority ethnics. The constitutions of Vietnam of 1946, 1980, and 1992 recognized the rights of ethnic minorities. Many ethnic minorities take part in the framing of the policies and representing quite a reasonable number at the national level. Hoa, the term denoted by the
Njal’s Saga is one of the most complex and dramatic novels ever written. It teems with characters: each sharply, however briefly, drawn; all presented in the most dramatic contexts. The narrative is carried by dialogue and by the action of maximum concreteness. It is the story of the life of a man of great wisdom and spiritual strength in the early days of the colonization of Iceland. Much of it is concerned with the development of barbaric blood feuds and the struggle of Njal as a leader of the community to reduce them to the workings of civilized justice. With others, he is usually successful; but his closest friend, Gunnar, has a wife, Hallgerd, whose malevolent pride endlessly clashes with the imperious temper of Njal’s wife, Bergthora, and sets in train a series of vendettas in which first Gunnar and then Njal himself and his wife and all his sins are destroyed. Yet, in spite of murders, battles, ambushes, ghosts, and Viking raids, the thing that most amazes the modern reader about Njal’s Saga is the unparalleled maturity of its characters. These yeomen on their bleak island at the end of the earth are adults in a fashion unknown to Homer’s Agamemnon or Proust’s Swann. Njal never uses a weapon. Agility, strength, and battle prowess are entirely lacking in him. He is narrated as a kind man, but the Saga is named after him. Prowling under the humble exterior, Njal must enjoy traits that his contemporaries thought heroic. When combat is cal
Poor Software Design Contributors Unfortunately, the concept of poor software quality is nearly inescapable. Nonetheless, we have access to all the causes that may contribute to the advent of poor software design, and it can be helpful if we want to control and predict the initiation of software quality issues (Salonek, 2013). Specifically, poor software quality should be addressed because it is closely interconnected with primary business risks. The first contributor that may trigger the development of poor software is the lack of specific knowledge (Merkow & Raghavan, 2010). Here, the problem consists in the fact that the majority of developers have nothing to do with the business side of software (regardless of the business domain of interest). These developers will learn more about the domain at hand throughout the process of developing and designing software, but they will also have to correct all the defects that appear due to the incorrect understanding of functional requirements (Lee, 2017). The only way to mitigate this contributor is to provide the developers with training sessions and peer-review the system with the help of experts in the field. The second contributor to poor quality software is the lack of technology knowledge (Merkow & Raghavan, 2010). Of course, the majority of developers are knowledgeable in quite a few programming languages and possess expertise in IT and hardware. Nonetheless, the existing business applications require them to think out-of-the-box to be able to maintain complex multi-tier software that should be perceived as a combination of software platforms and programming languages (Wiegers & Beatty, 2015). This aspect of software development is directly associated with data management and business logic, so it is critical to point out the technical defects of the system and deal with them as soon as possible. The third contributor to poor software quality is the lack of realistic scheduling (Merkow & Raghavan, 2010). This is an important aspect because developers are often forced to rush through the development process because of strict deadlines. This has a significant impact on their software development practices, and they have to sacrifice the positive output in favor of deploying the final version of the software application in time (Wiegers, 2013). The reason behind such negative outcomes is a large number of mistakes and bugs that cannot be taken care of because of the fast pace of the development process. The only way to mitigate the lack of realistic scheduling is to apply sturdy project management practices. This will allow the team to track and identify issues and adhere to the requirements successfully while being efficiently controlled by the manager. Functional and Nonfunctional Software Requirements Functional and non-functional requirements play a really important role throughout the process of software development. To achieve positive outcomes, we have to carefully address the context of the project at hand and communicate the objectives of the project to every team member. A functional requirement is a specific notion that has to define the operations and methods that the system
The December 2008 US presidential elections marked a point of history where the first African American was elected to occupy the most prestigious office in the white house. While polls had indicated that Barrack Obama, the Democrat candidate was more likely to win the elections than his closest rival, John McCain, the Republican candidate, not many people had expected such a landslide victory. This paper will outline the two candidates, how they competed during the runoff to the elections, and identify what factors placed the Democrat candidate at an advantage, hence handing him victory at the end of the race. Born Barrack Hussein Obama Jr, the Democrat candidate was the first child of a white mother, Ann Dunham, and a Kenyan father, Barrack Obama Sr., by his conception; both his parents were young students at the University of Hawaii. Later, his father left for Harvard before traveling back to Kenya, leaving the two behind. Ann Dunham then married an oil manager from Indonesia. This forced them to move to Indonesia. Barrack was age six. In Indonesia, Barrack recounts tastes of poverty that marked the developing country. Later, he moved back to Hawaii, where he stayed with his grandmother. Although his father called him regularly, he only visited them once when Barrack was ten years old (IMDb, 2009). Obama studied in Punahou School, one of the prestigious institutions in Hawaii. He later joined Columbia University and studied law. He later moved to Chicago to work with a church-based organization that assisted poor residents of the Southside. He moved to Harvard Law School, where he became the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Upon completing his studies, he declined a judicial clerkship offer. He preferred to represent victims of discrimination in housing and employment and legislation of voting right as a civil rights practitioner in Chicago. He ran for the seat of Senator in the same District under the Democrat ticket and won. He represented Illinois in the US Senate in the year 2004. He gained national acclaim when he gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention. In 2008 he ran for the presidency on a Democratic ticket and won (IMDb, 2009). On his part, John Sydney McCain III was born in 1936 at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in Panama Canal Zone. He was the second son of John S. McCain Jr and Roberta McCain. Both his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. His father later became the overall commander of the US naval forces within the Pacific. McCain had a stint in several prestigious schools before he graduated in 1954 from Episcopal High School. From the Naval Academy, McCain graduated in 1958 and later from the flight school in 1960 (Biography, 2009). He later volunteered to offer his services in the Vietnam War, flying low-altitude attack planes. He esca
Even in the wake of the 21st-century, the issue of discrimination still remains topical. Combined with the problem of poverty and lack of educational resources, it takes a truly monstrous scale, affecting not only the lives of women in a number of regions of Africa, but also the entire African population, as the lack of qualified professionals takes its toll on the quality of the services provided for the residents of the state, not to mention the efficacy of the state’s policies in both home and foreign affairs. In her speech regarding gender profiling in Africa in general and the lack of educational opportunities for African women in particular, Leymah Gbowee makes it obvious that the provision of equal opportunities in education for both male and female students is crucial to not only the social issues within the African community but also the political and economic status of the countries. The speaker raises a range of other essential issues, which the global society in general and Liberia, in particular, are facing at the moment, and which may impede the fight against the disease. To be more specific, the fact that the rights of women are currently infringed in a number of countries, Liberia not being an exception, must be mentioned. Gbowee touches upon the discrimination problem lightly in her speech, yet it seems that the problem needs to be discussed more thoroughly. According to what Gbowee says, across entire Africa, the right for education is a war for women. This is a major flaw of the current social system, which is tearing apart the very fabric of society. Though the phenomenon of discrimination may seem to have few links to the current global issues, including the ones that are related to political conflicts, it, in fact, affects the quality of the strategies that are used in order to advance complicated political situations (Gbowee para. 4). The idea of education improvement is the key strategy in resolving political and cultural conflicts, in its turn, has its pros and cons. On the one hand, the quality of education, in general, has little to do with the solution of very specific political conflicts, which are triggered by unique sociocultural factors (Prah 50). On the other hand, it is the understanding of various cultures and the knowledge of psychology that allows for addressing political conflicts. The specified skills, in their turn, are acquired in educational institutions and developed in the course of the academic progress. Therefore, the promotion of feminist ideas in Africa, especially the regions, where discrimination manifests itself in banning women from education completely, must be considered an essential step towards improving the wellbeing and health of people all over the world (Schulte para. para. 3). Apart from the obvious link between education and politics, Gbowee also makes a valid point concerning the use of modern media as a tool for promoting important ideas regarding education among the African people. Gbowe