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“Fences” by American playwright August Wilson was published in 1987. This play is about an elderly scavenger Troy, a basketball star in his youth. It is worth mentioning that “Fences” contains many essential topics for discussion which are relevant nowadays. For instance, the first scene reveals the duties and responsibilities of fathers and sons. There are many interpretations of “Fences,” including staged and filmed versions, and it is important to discuss both to understand their features. The spectator sees James Earl Jones in the role of a strict father. His son, Lyons, is trying to figure out whether his father loves him, which constitutes one of this scene’s essences. It is vital to say that each of the three versions, movie, play, and text, is unique, and the spectator perceives it differently. For instance, Lyons, the son, asks his father about Troy’s affection for him. Indeed, he does not receive an expectable answer. Instead of confessing in love, Troy explains what it means to be a father. “It is my duty to take care of you” is a strong phrase that shows another variety of fatherly love (Niko Papastefanou, 2011). The excerpt from the play demonstrates Troy almost in anger; probably, he is unfamiliar with tender feelings, but he knows how to take responsibility for his family. The 2016 movie “Fences” shows the same scene, but it is perceived differently. Here, the dialogue between Troy and Lyons is extended, and it allows for understanding the characters better. Moreover, the decorations are more realistic than the staged version, creating an atmosphere of presence. The importance of money is also raised here as a vital topic (H Moga, 2017). It shows their responsibility of Troy to care about his family. Overall, the staged version seems to be more effective and moving. The absence of great decorations makes the spectator focus on the actors’ play, bringing attention to details. James Earl Jones performs Troy’s role amazingly with his intonation and facial expressions. Moreover, while reading the text version, it was possible to think about Troy as a careless father. However, after watching visualized performances, Troy is seen as an interpretation of a strict but responsible man. Overall, the message of this scene is the complexity of father-son relations; more generally, the play is about acceptance and the ability to adapt to circumstances.
A checklist is a complete list of items to be investigated or discussed with a particular selected person from a certain department(s) within a firm or a company. A checklist for supplier support visits concerning the effectiveness of Barrien Metal Product Incorporation in the United States. In this case, a checklist includes items that need to be remembered and amended in a firm (Besterfield, Besterfield-Sacre, Besterfield & Besterfield-Michna, 2003)   * Company Name: Barrien Metal Product Incorporation   * Address: (800) 978-5300, Michigan   * Product sourced: stainless steel   * Contact Person: the director of Barrien Metal Product   * Persons visited: three employees   * Facility visited: steel   * Date visited: May 23, 2010   * Visited by: the Quality Assurance Manager Sustainability hazard achievement           high risk  Increased risk  average risk  small risk  Low risk Company structure                                                                                         Location and ecological effects                                                                           Employee safety and health                                                                                Overall sustainability hazard achievements                                                                 (Feigenbaum, 1991). Is there any agreement between the company and the Federal Reserve Board and the Open Market Committee? Yes (2010 FGFOA Annual Conference, 2010) Company structure                                                                                                                                             No  Yes  Evidences                                                                                                                                                        The company has signed the Government Auditing Standards                                                                                                          yes  This firm has signed the government auditing services and hence there is transparency                                                                            The organization scheme is available and describes the GAS responsibilities                                                                                       yes  These government auditing services are well described in this firm                                                                                               Has the emergency tools been fixed at the company in relation to the present risks like explosives                                                                yes  This company has adequate equipment which assist in cases of emergencies like explosives                                                                         Employees has the knowledge of hazard recog
The wired world has reduced geographical distance and made it possible for people physically dispersed to interact. Small and medium sized businesses have managed to expand and reach a wider market segment with the assistance of the internet, telecommunication technologies and social media platforms. In light of the recent economic conditions, organizations increasingly turn to new innovations rather than face-to-face meetings to reduce running costs and maintain their business process. By factoring in current market conditions, several factors emerge that give support to the premise that the outlook of physical meetings is blink. Current economic conditions and the difficulty in fulfilling monetary and policy plans is making it difficult for the effects of the recession to diminish. Moreover, deregulation of the global market implies that economic issues facing a region affect the rest of the world instantaneously. Therefore, this ripple effect will transcend for a long time, until a balance is found within the international market. For these reasons, organizations seeking to maintain their position in the business world will continue to find ways, to sustainably manage business processes. One of the business processes that will face more scrutiny in the future are meetings. This translates to a reduction in the number of physical meetings carried out within a fiscal year in the future. To manage operational costs, more organizations will turn to virtual meetings, rather than physical meetings. Virtual meetings will be preferred more in the future because like the large physical meetings, they also facilitate networking and allow an exchange of information. Additionally, virtual meetings are less expensive as compared to large physical meetings since transportation costs, accommodation, shipping, packaging and hiring of large conferencing facilities are not included. Virtual meetings further offer organizations the advantage of reduced time costs. Therefore, virtual meetings will take precedence in the future for organizations seeking networking, and information exchange. Looking at the direction of communication and organizational needs, it is evident that virtual meetings will be the choice for future meetings. Large physical meetings will not be preferred since, they consume a
Historical Portfolio Al-Hammadi Hospitals Company has established itself as one of the most progressive medical service providers in the Middle East with its latest foray into ICT assisted services. The contracts, with Cisco and Wipro, which were officiated in 2014, marked the formalization of a transformation process that had commenced years ago and set to continue for several more to come. The hospital has had a heritage of almost three decades years and over the course of the last one, it has become highly reputable in the Kingdom for providing state of the art healthcare services (“Al-Hammadi Development,” 2014). Consequently, the deals with CISCO and Wipro were instrumental in helping the organization to upgrade its services in line with its mandate of consistent positive adjustments. In addition to improving the quality of patient care, the organization’s adaptation of technological solutions has also contributed to cutting overhead costs and enhancing safety. The following study found that the ICT transformation has been successful in improving the quality of service delivery in the organization, despite the presence of several challenges. The study found that, with a history of nearly 30 years, the Al Hammadi Company has cultivated an excellent tradition in Saudi Arabia, where it is renowned for quality services and first-class facilities. The organization commenced the installation of systems such as the private health cloud so they could ensure security and ease of access to medical records for patients, irrespective of which facility they visited (“Al-Hammadi Development,” 2014). So far, the solutions have proven to be very effective in streamlining the quality of services offered. Although many of the changes are still in their implementation stages, the integration of data, voice as well as mobility tools have drastically reduced the probability of human error. Moreover, they are now recognized as one of the trendsetters in terms of ICT implementation in the region because of their aggressive and proactive strategy. Success Rate Admittedly, it was not possible to obtain very detailed figures of the extent to which the transformations have succeeded since many of them are long term and still in their implementation stages, however, the company’s prospectus shows noteworthy improvements. Case in point, between the year 2011 and 2013, the number of deals carried out by the Al Hammadi foundation for information technology increased from, 965,534 to 1,605,974 (“Al Hammadi Company”, 2013). Overall, this is a testament to the high uptake of technology by the organization, especially since the figures are expected to go up during the course of the present year. Furthermore, the hospital’s administration and medical support teams have better and faster access to various health-related data, given that the CISCO technology allows the servers to support 1500 VDI sessions using Windows 7 32 bit PCs. Consequently,
Introduction Recent studies on international relations reveal that the world is troubled with primeval ethnic conflict. This implies that tribal groups lie in wait for one another. Ethnic groups nurture a long-standing revulsion, but they cannot engage in war because powerful authoritarian leaders control them. From this perspective, it is difficult for tribal groups to coexist without the use of force, which can only be implemented by powerful leaders who have absolute authority. In Eastern Europe, former Yugoslavia serves as an example whereby the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians coexisted yet they belonged to different ethnic groups. The groups lived for several years peacefully, but they rose against each other without a valid reason. This was after the fall of the authoritarian rule, which held them together for a long time. Serbs, Croats and Bosnians share a common language and history, but they differ in terms of other cultural aspects. They have always viewed each other with suspicion as regards to resource distribution. Ethnicity becomes nationalism when various groups attempt to control major state resources, such as land and power. The Serbs and Croats advocated for their rights by joining other European nations that demanded self-governance. While Serbs drew examples from the short-lived nation-state, Croats were in advanced stages of developing a nationalist ideology (Geertz 67). Croats believed that their rival regarding resource allocation were the Serbs. Therefore, the best alternative was to eliminate them. This could not materialize given the fact that a powerful authoritarian leader could not allow this to happen. This paper evaluates the statement that antagonistic ethnic groups can live together for years due to the presence of the authoritarian leader. The article therefore supports the hypothesis that soft authoritarianism is needed to maintain peace and political stability. Authoritarian Rule in Yugoslavia Yugoslavia was formed after the First World War following the despicable conflicts that characterized the region. Serbs dominated the state since they owned major businesses. This was never received well by the Croats who felt that their position was under threat, as they owned nothing. In this regard, the Croats formed a militant organization referred to as Ustashe, which aimed at fighting for the rights of all Croats. The militant organization could not do much before the Second World War because of the presence of an authoritarian leader. Following the collapse of the state during the Second World War, the Croats collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate the Serbs. The Serbs were forced to work in concentration camps together with the Jews while others were expelled from the region. The Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic declared war on the Croats when he noticed that his people were dying in large numbers. After the Second World War, a strong authoritarian leader took over in Yugoslavia, who controlled occurrence of another massacre until 1
Definition of Social Responsibility Businesses are always forced to balance between their economic pursuit and the general welfare of the society. It is a principle of social responsibility that determines how the public perceives a business entity. If the public develops a negative perception about a business, it can be detrimental because the business entirely depends on the same society to sell its products. This means that businesses cannot ignore the principle of social responsibility (Rossi, 2001). Company Q did not act in public interest by shutting down their stores in the crime-prone areas. They totally ignored the fact that people would want to buy products from their grocery. In effect, their customers had to walk longer distances to get the same goods. Ethically, Company Q should have sought to beef up security in the area or seek government intervention instead of quitting altogether. While quitting may have helped them to avoid unnecessary losses, it was completely insensitive to the plight of the general public. It was the reason why they had to complain to the company to open up the shops and serve them once again. Essentially, the company rushed into making the decision to shut up their premises due to insecurity. The most ethical thing that they should have been was to relocate to a more secure building around if they had no controls over the condition of insecurity. This would have benefited them economically as well as taken care of the interest of the general society (Rossi, 2001). The decision to stock only high margin items was self-serving and direly insensitive to the public. In fact, it must have generated public outcry considering that people had had to do without the services of the shop for long. It appears that the company was not persuaded that they needed to resume business in the locality. For them, it was a mere publicity exercise because people had complained to them. Had they observed the principle of social responsibility, they would have conducted a simple inquiry to determine the type of goods the people direly needed. This would have effectively compensated for the several days they had been out of operation. However, they chose to do what only suited them as a profit-making firm. Quite certainly, this decision must have caused more public uproar than the closure had done because the company was basically repeating the same mistake. It was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, considering that selling goods that most people don’t need is basically the same as closing down the business (May, Cheney, & Roper, 2007). Welfare of Employees It is socially immoral to throw away food when there were multitudes of people who desperately need it. This was the mistake that the management did when they decided to throw away food instead of donating it to charity. While they would effectively argue that they spent fortunes to make the foods, throwing it away was even more expensive. For example, if the government was to intervene in supporting the food bank, they woul
Reading the “Notes of a Native Son” from a non-fiction book Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, it becomes obvious that the author tries to dwell upon many different points devoted to his father to make sure that if he speaks about the problem, if he splashes his feelings hatred and despair in relation to his father is going to disappear. Even though these son’s relation to father is explained through the whole chapter, the main purpose of the discussion is the attempt of James Baldwin to understand the role of black people in formation of America as the country which we are able to see it now. The chapter presents the story of a boy who was brought up in a society of black people and who was driven to New Jersey to get education. Reading some passages, it seemed impossible for people to behave that way. However, looking at the modern society when some people seem to be higher in range just because they think so, it is obvious that the history is really important. James Baldwin tells about the cases when he came to New Jersey with the purpose to get education and where he could never think he would be treated as a slave who was unable to do what he wanted, who was unable to visit the places he wanted and who was banished for that society. James Baldwin writes that no matter where he came he “was always being forced to leave, silently, or with mutual imprecations” (Baldwin, 1955, p. 93). The author says that such position of affairs affected him greatly and in some time he became afraid of walking in the street. Then, after being fired for several times, he began to think that there was something wrong with him particularly. Returning to the problem of the place of the Afro-Americans in the life of America, it may be stated that the white supremacy during the 1940-1950 played an important role in the formation of the country. Many black people who wanted to study and wanted to work were rejected just because they were of different color. The prejudiced relation to black people caused
Big Data is the datasets that are abundant in the realms of volume, variety, velocity or variability to the extent that they cannot be processed by means of ordinary equipment and require matching tools for handling (NIST, 2016). Through these realms Big Data is differentiated from ordinary datasets such as enterprise or corporate ones. Usually, the amount of information transferred between departments inside an organization or to a different company is meant to be perceived by humans the instant they receive it. Such data includes payment orders, lists of components, tasks, employees, payrolls, and other information. Typically, organizations do not require sophisticated equipment to handle such information, as it is easily processable by office computers. Big Data, on the other hand, requires the machinery several dozen times more powerful than such that a company uses for daily information exchange and processing. The software for Big Data is usually identified by the ability of a tool to store, access, and handle datasets within a reasonable period of time. Big Data is usually stored separated into multiple parts in different places. An adequate framework for processing Big Data is often defined by how well it performs in terms of memory management, communication and networking, integrity and reliability, security and privacy, and information representativeness (Al-Jaroodi & Mohamed, 2016, p. 428). It is paramount to note that the ability to collect and generate incomplete data is also a characteristic feature of Big Data software. All of these items define Big Data frameworks as highly sophisticated and powerful tools that outmatch any other applications by the above-mentioned parameters. One of the practical issues that an individual or an organization may encounter is the lack of understanding of the goals or final results that they wish to achieve through the processing of Big Data. Careful planning and goal-setting is often in order to address this issue because it could save an enormous amount of resources. The establishment of Big Data management system is a cost-intensive endeavor that under inadequate guidance might inflict sizable losses. Another typical issue is matching ‘the V’s’ of Big Data and the framework that is capable of managing it (NIST, 2016, p. 4). Again, planning and calculating at least preliminary scale of operations with Big Data that are needed to achieve the desired results are essential for informed allocation of resources. There are also ethical issues that individuals or companies might face during the management of Big Data. One of them might concern the algorithms used to process and interpret datasets about human behavior that produce inadequate or offensive results. Such pattern may be exemplified by predicting people’s choice on the basis of data correlations without the account for errors and external factors. Another problem might lie in the sphere of composing individual profiles from the datasets with different parameters. For some social groups a resulting profile might be insulting or disturbing.
A hero is an individual who is brave and can struggle to achieve the best out of him especially in odd situations. As Fingeroth (14) observed, a hero is one who “rises above his or her limitations to achieve something extraordinary.” In addition, a superhero is one who is brave, has superhuman powers and ready to sacrifice his life in order to save some people or the whole community. The only difference between a hero and a superhero is perhaps the superhuman powers that heroes do not have. In most cases, the superheroes are portrayed as being immortal. He is distinguishable from villains who can be regarded as the evil counter-parts. They are also usually described as being lucky in most instances to an extent that despite their superhuman ability no ordinary man could be. In other cases, they can die and come back to life. Some of the superheroes were described to have been born that way. Others acquired their abilities from external sources like the sun while others were just ordinary looking people but with some unique characteristics (Levi para1). Therefore, the study of the tales of the Superheroes is essential to human beings today . The study of superheroes has been of interest to psychologists mainly due to the inspirational impacts it has on those in the neighborhood of the superhero. Often one would dream to be like this legend and would be interested in experimenting what it costs to be one. People find it more interesting if they could be associat