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Introduction The problem of natural disasters and their devastating impact on people’s lives and financial well-being is a universal one and can affect any country no matter how advanced it may be. However, due to several geographical reasons, some regions are more subjected to disasters than others. In some of them, they are already perceived as a part of daily life. Many people are convinced that there is nothing to be done to prevent a catastrophe and thus, accept it as an act of God. This point of view is opposed by professionals worldwide, whose major task is to learn how to predict and prevent natural cataclysms or reduce their negative consequences in case they happen. As it has been learned from the experience of previous generations, situational awareness coupled with timely and proper intervention can significantly reduce the impact of disasters (Kano, Wood, Siegel, & Bourque, 2016). Disaster epidemiology is a new discipline, which investigates disasters from an epidemiologic viewpoint to estimate the short- and long-term health consequences of cataclysms. It encompasses a lot of areas such as injury, mental health, infectious diseases, environmental health, etc. Disaster epidemiology uses two main approaches. The first one presupposes a classical analysis of causes that underlie this or that disaster, together with an approximate number of deaths associated with it. The second is concerned with alleviating the consequences when a natural catastrophe takes place (Kano et al., 2016). Thus, the paper at hand will concentrate on the analysis of the impacts of natural disasters in Saudi Arabia (in comparison with those of the Asian region) together with the policy of their prevention. Saudi Arabia: Profile and Trends of the Disaster Epidemiology The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is situated in western Asia and is characterized by a considerable variety of landscape, from coastal areas in the east and west, to mountains in the south-west. Besides, there is a desert stretching along the border in the south (Saud, 2010). The country’s terrorist attacks attract a lot of attention to the world public. However, natural disasters, despite being neglected by the mass media, have been on the rise for the last two decades (Saud, 2010). Among all possible cataclysms, floods are the most frequent. The reason behind this is complex. Since there is a desert in the south, rains are not abundant, which leads to the underdevelopment of the drainage system. Besides, cities surrounded by mountains are situated in the low ground. Thus, when it rains, all the water flows come down and flood the area. This type is called flash floods and is the most devastating disaster in the country along with riverine floods (Dawod, Mirza, & Al-Ghamdi, 2013). The statistics show that since 2000 up to the present moment, floods took away lives of 394 citizens and affected 24653 people in total (CRED, 2015a). Table 1. Hydrological disasters in Saudi Arabia Disaster No.  Disaster Subtype  Start date  End date    Total deaths  Total affected 2002-0210     Riverine fl
Introduction The film Troy was released officially in 2004. The film was produced by Wolfgang Petersen, Diana Rathbun, and Colin Wilson. Peterson was also the director of the film. Troy tells the story of the Trojan Warfare that took place in the late 12 th century. The film was nominated for several awards and won three of them. The film crew explained that the storyline was borrowed from two pieces of literature: “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” both poems by Homer, to create the intense war between the Trojans and the Achaeans. The film has an interesting plot. One can argue that the character selection was fit for the movie as the lead actors delivered the plot well. This essay analyzes the film in its entirety, suggesting that the film is worth watching. The cinematography, plot, and character development proved crucial to the success of the film. Summary The film begins with a war between the armies of Mycenae and Thessaly (Paul 73). Single combat is announced, and Achilles from Mycenae is challenged by a Thessaly warrior. Achilles easily wins the combat. Elsewhere, two princes from Troy negotiate a peace treaty with the King of Sparta to end the war. However, one of the princes of Troy, Paris, is having an affair with the Queen of Sparta. Upon realizing this, the King seeks help from his elder brother, Agamemnon, and the peace treaty is abandoned. Together with his brother, the King of Sparta manages to convince Achilles to fight for them. Achilles joins the Spartan army as one of their leaders. Meanwhile, in Troy, the King of Troy is frustrated by his son’s actions. He understands the consequences of the affair and prepares his army for war. He is informed that Achilles will be fighting with the Spartans, but he has confidence that his son, Hector, will also lead his army well. The Spartan army manages to capture a high priestess, Briseis, during the battle (Andrew 71). The Spartan army decides to use the priestess for their own pleasure. Achilles is not impressed by how his fellow soldiers treat the lady, and he decides to save her. In the middle of the night, the lady goes to Achilles’s tent, intending to kill him. She, too, had heard of the great warrior and knew killing him would ensure Troy’s victory. However, she falls in love with the warrior and cannot go ahead with the plan. During the battle the next day, Achilles younger cousin is fatally wounded by Hector, the second Prince of Troy (Winkler 17). Hector is remorseful as he aimed to kill Achilles and not a young soldier. Achilles vows to seek revenge for his cousin’s death and kills Hector in single combat. He further takes Hector’s body back to the beach where the Spartan army had built its camp. One of the Trojan warriors visits Achilles and begs him to return the prince’s body for proper burial. The war is suspended for 12 days so that the prince can be buried. However, during the 12 days, the Spartan army builds a large wooden Trojan horse. The horse is hollow inside and can fi
Introduction According to the expert analysis, Americans are becoming more and more harassed from overworking themselves to the limit of their jobs-and researchers say it has damaging belongings on their physical condition. In an attempt to boost the lethargic economy, Americans are operational longer hours in the workplace. In 1977, joint weekly hours for a dual-earning couple with children stand at 81 hours. Now, that figure has soared to 91 hours per week. This novel trend has had its upside-United States output has finally surpassed that of Europe and Japan-but its unfavorable belongings far outweigh its compensation. According to the Chicago-based corporation ComPysch, there has been a 23% add to in stress treatment requests from customers in the primary three months of 2003 compared with the similar time frame in 2002. Additional surveys account for a 35% increase in nervousness and stress-connected ailments in the place of work in the previous year. Escalating investigation suggests that there are great mental and physiological evils associated with overwork, counting more vulnerability to constant illnesses. In addition to estimate Americans, hundreds of hours of priceless sleep, intense individual or occupational stress over an era of time significantly increases the odds of getting ill. Relaxed people have been revealed to be less vulnerable to sickness than their additional tense counterparts. In information, adults who scored badly on calmness tests are three times more probable to obtain colds than the additional relaxed sect of the populace. Arthur Stone, a psychologist at the Condition University of New York-Stony Brook, conducts a three-month study of everyday stress levels and resulting illnesses. The agreement was the body contained additional antibodies to disease throughout “stress-free” days; however, throughout more demanding times, fewer antibodies were there. Thus, adults catch chilly three to five days after their majority of stressful days. Americans’ insistence to labor “to the max” has undeniably led to monetary achievement in the commerce world, but its important effects on health are estimated by businesses, as healthy. Mandatory eventually costs industries up to $300 billion per year in exhaustion and pressure-connected problems. If Americans carry on at this pace, these expenses will carry on to increase, and in time, competitors the profit the state is amassing from its steady output. If Americans cannot have enough money to cut reverse their hours, pressure and its unenthusiastic effects can be subsided by amazing as simple as a snooze. A survey psychoanalysis study exposed that a noon nap can sharply add to performance. Before the new economic depression, many employers embraced this notion; they went as far as to present “nap” rooms for midday breaks. Unfortunately, those sleeping rooms have now been distorted into co
P&G’s behavioral, structural, and technological change strategies Most organizations have implemented three common change strategies namely technological, structural, and behavioral change strategies. The case is no different from Proctor and Gamble as the company’s change strategy revolve around the aforementioned change approaches. To begin with, P&G is an innovative company and as such, the company makes use of technology to increase its production and manufacturing. For instance, P&G has increased its spending on new product innovation, manufacturing technology, and engineering. This approach is an attempt by the company to develop and launch new and innovative products in the market (Brown, 2011). Moreover, the company has invested heavily in technology. In addition, P & G no longer develop new products in-house but instead, opts to make use of new technology from third parties. The importance of technology and innovation to P & G is also supported by Brown and Anthony (2011) who note that technology has been the backbone of the company In reference to the structural strategy, P&G has incorporated numerous changes at its corporate headquarters. For example, the company’s executives now share open offices while the offices of division presidents are located closer to their teams (Brown, 2011). According to A.G Lafley, these structural changes were incorporated in order to enhance effective communication, as well as to promote constant collaboration and teamwork (Brown, 2011). Behavioral approach to change emphasizes the importance of better use of human resources in the organization. In the case of P&G, the CEO has ensured that the company does not alienate its employees from the change process (Brown, 2011). This is indicative of an organization that is ready to its employees in its decision making process. Moreover, the CEO gives his employees ample responsibility, in addition to communicating the vision of P&G to the staff to ensure effective change processes. Therefore, the staff at P & G feel appreciated by the management because they are always informed of any major changes within the company (Lafley, 2009). This improves employees’ commitment, motivation, and morale. P&G’s integration of the three change strategies Procter & Gamble has integrated all the three change strategies. While integrating the three strategies, the management always takes into account how they affect each other. For instance, division presidents are located near their teams to promote communication. The CEO also emphasizes on the need for all P&G leaders to be part of the change process (Brown, 2011). Leaders should be on the forefront of a change process because they are the major change agents in the organization. The CEO at P & G has led by example in brining about change at the organization. P&G’s success evaluation P&G
In the film The Spy Next Door , Bob Ho is a former government spy who lives next to a family comprising a single mother, Gillian, and her stubborn three children. Bob, who these children hate, is dating their mother, Gillian. Gillian leaves, and Bob, who gave up his career to live with his girlfriend, is left to babysit the children. The movie revolves around Bob, who is trying to gain the trust and approval of the stubborn children. The Spy Next Door movie has gained popularity because of the super-production techniques used to deliver a top-class film. Both editing and mise-en-scene have been incorporated in the film through staging, cinematography, lighting, sound, and the actors’ mood to deliver a visual interpretation. In the preview, a man is seen fighting and being threatened with guns. We also see him performing stunts and running and jumping high places. We see him chased by three cars on a highway on a motorcycle, and we can predict his role/occupation as either a thug or a government agent. (Simonds, 2010). The preview depicts Bob’s character as tough as he does challenging stunts. The movie starts with an aerial shot of a neighborhood packed with small bungalows with tarmacked roads all over the area. The camera shifts to a single house that is well structured and with a car parked outside, indicating that it is a middle-class neighborhood. The first shot inside a house is of a bedside clock that indicates that it is 6:29 and an arm picking spectacles from the same bedside desk. The man wears the eyeglasses from the bed and stretches, suggesting that he has just woken up (Simonds, 2010). Outside the house is a man jogging under the low-hanging sun, which casts shadows to the left, indicating that it is 6.29 in the morning and not in the evening. The immediate scene is in a different house; a child is chasing a young piglet, and an alarm clock rings at exactly 6:30. A commotion follows where two kids come rushing to the bedroom screaming accusations at each other about a woman lying on a bed. The fact that the children wake up even before time indicates that they are troublesome children. The young girl screams, “I hate this family!” which suggests that she is a very rude kid or does not belong to the family. Editing is also an important aspect that has been brought out in this movie. Through camera shots like eye-line matches and close-up editing, the audience can interpret the film visually. When Gillian and the children get out of the house to the car, she sees the garbage truck left, and Bob offers to help take out the garbage (Simonds, 2010). Bob approaches the house and leans over to kiss her girlfriend, Gillian. At this point, eye-line matches are depicted, as the camera shot immediately shifts to the children in the car. The children look at them disgusted, and
Introduction Among the countries which offer the most outstanding job opportunities, UAE takes a solid position – it has everything literally to offer to the people who are looking for good job prospects and a more than sufficient salary. However, taking a closer look at the state of affairs within the country and its human resource distribution, one can see that the process of employment in the UAE is no bed of roses for a certain layer of the society, namely, the expatriates. Learning more about the difficulties which the expatriates face in the sphere of UAE employment, as well as the factors inducing these difficulties, can actually help to solve the issue with the expatriates and help them integrate into the UAE society more successfully. Al-Jenabi, B. (2012). The scope and impact of workplace diversity in the United Arab Emirates. Malaysia Journal of Society and Space, 8(1), 1-14. Introduction: The Research Background Dwelling on the issue of workplace diversity in the UAE, Al-Jenabi helps to understand the complexities which the employers face when building relationships with foreign staff and the issues which they encounter with the expatriates working for them. With a multi-method approach, the study offers the results of numerous surveys on the issue of workplace diversity. The Relevant Themes It is important that, while the paper touches upon the problems which the expatriated face in the UAE, it mostly concerns the employees, which makes the paper really interesting. On the one hand, it is important to know what complexities expatriates come across when dealing with finding jobs, sending applications, etc., it is also good to know what the managers think about it, and this paper provides the opportunity to hear from the other side in ample proportions. Immediate Professional Context Al-Jenabi tries to convey not only the fact that the current expatriate strategies need to be readdressed; the author also makes it clear that at present, the UAE companies lack touch with other cultures. Since the majority of the staff is foreign, it will be a good idea to create cross-cultural ties, Al-Jenabi thinks: “There was concern that the country’s cultural character and heritage would be damaged” (Al-Jenabi, 2012, 10). Conclusion and Recommendations Therefore, it can be considered that for the UAE employees, it is necessary to learn the specific of their own culture, as well as help them integrate into one of the UAE. However, what slipped the researcher’s attention is that increasing diversity in the workplace can lead to an increase in unemployment rates among the citizens of the UAE. Aloyusif, A., Naoum, S., Atkinson, A. & Robinson, H. (2010). In Egbu, C. (Ed) Procs 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2010, Leeds, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 511-520. Introduction: The Research Background Another research on the way diversity can affect and improve the company stability, the study conducted by Aloyusif, Naoum, Atkinson & Robinson (2010) shows the flaws of the existing management practices and offers the ways in which the latter can be improved. In ad
Find a background source related to the problem of anorexia, a condition that affects thousands of girls and women in the United States. Write the representation of this source In her article, Lupton posits that social standards of beauty affect the choices that people make in order to feel accepted and appreciated in their community. However, the author explains that due to the unreasonable and unattainable standards for an appearance that modern society upholds, especially for women, a wide range of the specified population develop eating disorders in attempts to gain the required body type (Lupton 120). According to recent research, about 0.6% of American women suffer from anorexia (The National Institute of Mental Health). By dismantling social stereotypes concerning the female appearance, one will reduce the rates of eating disorders and especially anorexia in women. Find the song or poem related to the primary text “Once there was a grill.” Describe it in a vivid way The problem of anorexia and the influence that media has on young women’s mental health, specifically, the propensity toward the development of eating disorders, is scrutinized in-depth in Katy Waldman’s “There Once Was a Girl.” Waldman reveals the tragically destructive impact that media produces on girls’ and women’s self-esteem through popularizing the images of unattainable body shapes and forms (). According to the author, the “unrealistic representations of female bodies in media” affect women’s health and reduce their chances to develop healthy eating habits and a confident perception of self (Waldman). However, Waldman is not the only one who has paid close attention to the effects of social stereotypes on women’s health. The analysis of the issue has permeated the realm of art, with a range of art pieces addressing the specified concern. For example, in her poem “My best Friend Ana (Anorexia),” Samantha White describes the challenges of a woman who has to go through a depressing realization of her inability to meet the established standards of beauty (White). The poem leaves an alarming impression due to the portrayal of unhealthy relationships between a young woman and her personified disorder caused by the sense of low self-esteem. The very first two lines of the poem have a genuinely chilling impression on the reader: “I hate you because you’re taking over me,/But I love you ‘cause you’re making me the girl I want to be” (White). Thus, the author delves into the complicated notion of dependency that patients with anorexia develop toward the beauty standards that were foisted onto them by society. Apart from the metaphorical personification of the disorder, the poem is devoid of sophisticated artistic tools and stylistic devices, which makes the message thereof all the more impactful. Write the representation of: Bodies under Siege, Eating Disorders and, Self-Mutilation among Women in conversation with the first text “Once there is a girl.” In “Bodies under Siege: Eating Disorders and Self-Mutilation among Women,” Wiole
Historically, laws on labour have been put in place in order to address social problems brought on about by the present day production arrangements. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is also known as the Wages and Hours Act was enacted by Congress. The Act is applicable to federal workers or workers involved in commercial production of goods. It does not cover independent contractors. This Act has been said to be indispensable especially with regards to the welfare of the American workforce. The Act establishes a federal minimum wage and set maximum hours for employment, so as to establish the bare minimum living standards for federal workers. The Act also prohibits child labour and also establishes a Wage and Hour Division in the labour sector. The Act did not initially cover certain classes of workers including: farming and regular laborers; those who handled perishable food and certain workers in industries where engaging in collective bargaining was allowed (Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938). Having mentioned the salient features of the Act, we will delve into the major provisions of the Act and their impact on the labor industry. The Act creates two types of employees whose employment is governed by the Act; these are the exempt and non-exempt employees. Exempt employees are not paid overtime while non-exempt employees who are the majority covered by the Act are paid overtime. The other differentiating characteristic is that employees who work in outside sales are exempt while those in inside sales are non-exempt. The other feature of an exempt employee is that he or she earns a minimum of 23,600 dollars per year. An exempt employee also has to be paid a salary and carry out exempt job responsibilities which are essentially high level duties. Exempt and non-exempt employees also have varying rights. The Fair Labor Standards Act has been amended severally, with some changes reflecting in overtime determination, wages, and the classes of workers governed by the Act. One of the major changes was in 2004 which sought to reflect transformation more so information technology and also ways of establishing new standards for testing whether someone is eligible for overtime. More recently there have been proposed changes to the Act. There have been recent proposals by Congress to make further amendments to the Act. It has been suggested that some of the provisions of the 73 year old piece of legislation are archaic and need to be conformed to modern standards. This has especially been pointed out with regards the wage-hour rule (Stone, 2005). It is evident that the world has changed a great deal since 1938 and so there is need to streamline some of the provisions of the Fair Labour Standa