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Introduction The following research paper on Schubert’s lied ‘The Erlkoing’. The paper specifically examines the role of the piano in the Erlkoing.However, it is important to give a short summary of Schubert’s life and major composition style before examining the role of the piano in the erlkoing. Discussion A short summary of Schubert’s life and major composition style Schubert wrote songs which were referred to as lied. The term lied is a German word that was founded by Franz Schubert and is associated with a folk song.Usually, the composers of lied select an appropriate poem first before composing music that best projects the thoughts and mood of the text. Franz Schubert was born in 1979 at Vienna location and was the youngest son in his family. He passed his early childhood years at home. He also developed love for music at a very young age. His fondness of music was also stimulated by a close relative who took him often to visit a pianoforte warehouse where he would exercise without any guidance from a master. Schubert joined a piano class at the age of seven where it became apparent that he had master the skills that he was bound to be taught by his masters. His father accounts that he prepared him for elementary lessons at the age of five. At the age of six, he sent him to a piano class where he emerged as one of the best student. According to his father, Schubert happy moments were when he was at his play-hours together with his fellow schoolmates. His father continues to account that he taught his son the basic skills of playing violin while Schubert was eight years old. He made sure that he played duets easily and very tolerably and it is afterwards when he sent him to Lichtenthal for singing. His choir-master Micheal Holzer,was very proud of him as he had never seen such a pupil who had the capability of mastering skills fast. Actually,his master did not give him much lessons and instead, he amused himself as he found that Schubert already knew more than him. The school however played an important role in Schubert’s career as his pianoforte and organ playing skills were greatly enhanced. Schubert also acquired some skills from his eldest brother Ignaz who taught him basic skills of playing pianoforte.Ignaz was however amazed by the fact that after a few months of practicing with him, he had already mastered the skills and thus, there was no need of further instructions(Fischer-Dieskau 56-59). In 1810, Schubert wrote his first pianoforte composition made him famous as it was fabulous. During the following year, he wrote his first song ‘Klagegesang der Hagar’ and his composition skills were also amazing. Gifted with a soprano voice, he was hired as a violin player and a solo singer at a local parish church while at a tender age of eleven years. Fischer-Dieskau(1976) in his study argued that his performances attracted huge numbers of listeners from all parts of the land. Later, he was promoted to the Chapel Royal as a chorister and having mastered violin playing skills, he became a member of school band. His duty was to study on a daily basis and to execute symphonies of Mozart and Haydn as well as Beethoven’s works. Schubert used th
Executive Summary Located in Lima, Ohio, the Lima Tire Plant is one of the top plants among the eight manufacturing enterprises within the Treadway Tire Company faced the problems of high turnover and job dissatisfaction which threaten the morale and productivity. Defining the root causes of the current issues, developing the measures for overcoming them and evaluating the following implications against the required costs are the main targets of this strategic plan. The cost-cutting mandate, the current hiring patterns based mainly on informal performance assessment for the following internal promotions, inconsistencies in the foremen’s functions and responsibilities and the lack of communication can be regarded as the leading underlying causes of the existing problem. The attempts of changing the hiring patterns and initiating the training program were made by Ashley Wall, the Director of Human Resources but were rejected by the senior management due to the lack of the financial rationale for the strategy. Emphasizing the financial implications of improving the corporate culture through enhanced communication and workers’ commitment would be helpful for explaining the benefits of implementing the strategy to senior management. The major stages of the action plan include the investigation of the main deficiencies, changes in the hiring patterns trough developing a detailed performance assessment framework including the criterion of the communication skills and enrollment of the employees into the training program intended to enhance their awareness on the importance of effective communication, the strategic plan and the system of rewards for the improved communication. The changes in the hiring patterns, employees’ enrollment into the training program and the development of comprehensive frameworks for performance assessment and rewards is crucial for overcoming the high turnover and job dissatisfaction problems and preventing the hazards of reducing the corporate morale and productivity at the Lima Tire Plant. Introduction The Lima Tire Plant as one of the plants of the Treadway Tire Company faces the problem of the high turnover rates and employees’ dissatisfaction with their working conditions and environment. The tire plant located in Lima, Ohio employs 1,120 workers, 970 of whom are hourly employees unionized by the United Steelworkers (USW) and the rest 150 are salaried workers. The salaried managers supervise the line production employees called line foremen who are responsible for the four main domains, including Quality Assurance, Material Control, Production, and Maintenance. The three main sources put into the basis of the hiring patterns include the internal promotions of highly-performing hourly employees, external hires of the college graduates and the company transfers of the experienced employees from other Treadway plants with the special emphasis upon the internal hires (up to 80% as of
There are some questions that have been asked time and again in the world of nursing, and the role of this research, is to try and bring the answers to the minds of people, who have through the years asked the questions. Nursing education is a part and parcel activity in the world of nursing, and its mandate of developing the staffing arena remains inevitable. Due to this fact, there is every reason to try and empower the present and upcoming nursing staffs, so as to be in an efficient position to effectively fulfill their mandates. The research seeks to answer some of the nagging questions in most people’s minds, like the roles of the organizations in recruiting and retaining the best nurses available, in the midst of a profound shortage in their nursing staffs (Weinstein, 2007). The research will also seek to unfound the ways that organizations ought to bring the beginners or inexperienced nurses out of the shackles of newness and inexperience, into a world of great levels of professionalism, competency and proficiency, to be able to achieve the goals and objectives of patient care in the least time available and the resources at hand. Literature review Saudi Arabia has constantly been faced with a shortage of nurses in the last three decades. This has in most occasions been followed by high rates of turnover. The highest number of Saudi nurses are the expatriate nurses who are in every health care facility in the country, and this has calculated to a partly 29.1 percent of Saudis in the entire nursing workforce combined (Sharon, 2004). This fact may be shocking to most of the Saudi natives, but it becomes even more shocking in the private health sector, since the percentage here is partly 4.1 of the whole workforce. To this effect, it is undoubtedly clear that the Saudi people are faced with a mammoth task, when presented with the challenge of developing the nursing staffs. With the nurses expected to respond to a plethora of the new demands that arise each day due to the complex state of the healthcare system, the emergence of increased tasks like priorities in the finance arena, improvement in accountability, new regulations and the increased demands for professional standards, the task of empowering the nursing staff in Saudi is a daunting one for them. The development of new staffs through nursing education is the driving force towards a successful planning in succession, reduction in unnecessary costs and management of priorities that are effective for competition. The practitioners are more than educators, since they lay great emphasis into efficiency, safety and effectiveness, while at the same time hastily ushering in assorted generations of nurses into practice (Downs, 1999). This is basically due to the fact that they have the ability of dev
Summary of the article The world history has been portrayed in diverse ways by a number of political philosophers. In this article, the author presents the arguments of a substantial number of philosophers. The paper brings out the views of the philosophers on the world history, particularly the political and economic developments and their implication on the existence and relations between human beings in diverse political and economic landscapes. The author tries to present an end of the world history by bringing out the main arguments from the major philosophers and the implication of the arguments as portrayed by the contemporary organization of the world. The author draws a comparison of the history of the political and economic course as it is founded in the arguments that are posited by a number of scholars, who include Hegel, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Paul Kennedy, and Kejeve among others. The critical question in the article concerns whether there is a cofounded explanation in the political philosophies that are advanced by the scholars, which depict an end to the political and economic order of the globe whose search has been depicted in a number of political and economic courses like the three main world wars. The author makes an analogy of the current developments in the concept of governance by drawing from the ancient philosophical theses by Hegel, Kejeve, Karl Marx and Max Weber. The aim of the author is to draw a relative comparison of the current structures of governance from the theses that were advanced by the ancient scholars as a way of determining the relative factor of governance and its foundations in the philosophies. As it comes out in the article, there are a number of contradictions in the explanations of historical events and the linkage of the events to the contemp
Introduction Delivery of health care should be efficiently done in all health care facilities. Such a delivery can only be made possible if Information Technology is introduced in these facilities. Many facilities are warming up to the idea of implementing technology in their centers though the process is practically low in many centers. This has been attributed to application of the process and under what circumstances and settings. This paper will therefore analyze a case study that help the reader understand the need of introduction and management of an efficient Information Technology transition process. Case Study: Thedacare Health Care Center Located in Northeast Wisconsin, Thedacare is one of the leading health care providers in the region. With more than 5,000 employees based in their different sites, the center serves more than 200,000 patients on a monthly basis. The center is busy at all times throughout all its branches. It is comprised of four hospitals situated in different areas namely the Appleton, Theda Clark, London Family health center and the Riverside care center. It further has a physician wing with more than 120 physicians based in the area branches and a customer care call center that operate on a 24 hour base with an aim of attending to urgent medical calls. It also has provisions for laboratories, the orthopedics plus and other small branches that take into considerations unique cases of patients. The mission of Thedacare is to provide and deliver valuable and efficient health care services to the patients. It is for this reason that it got actively involved in an improvement initiative to promote the service delivery. The initiative, Thedacare Improvement System (TIS), saw the center engage itself in lean manufacturing concepts and principles. The initiative has been a success leading to Thedacare’s drastic reduction in its blemishes hence recording an improvement in their patient’s results. Transition Fundamentals Of Information Technology In Thedacare Transformation Thedacare initiative project is an indication of its effort to integrate the Information Technology system. Why is this important in such an institution? With more than 5,000 employees at the center to take care of a large number of patients, service delivery should be fast and efficient to the satisfaction of the patients. Patient’s records needs to be stored in a systematic manner for easy retrieval and update of information. In addition, it becomes easy for such a large institution to address the problems from all the providers affiliated with the center through an inte
McNamee et al. conducted research to see how the low-frequency (ELF) magnetic field (MF) that influences people in their everyday life affects the circulation system (267). The scientists presupposed that individuals can experience possible negative effects, including physiological problems, cancer and even death from cardiovascular causes. They considered that such an occupational environment has an adverse influence on the health condition of the workers due to long periods of exposure. In order to see if people are really at risk of having health issues because of ELF MF, the researchers paid attention to the changes in the sample’s heart rate, arterial pressure, and skin blood perfusion. As it turned out, there is no ELF MF effect on the microcirculatory system. Some changes may be noticed under certain frequency/intensity windows, but they are not critical and seem to be an exception rather than consistency. Still, the authors underline that the effects might be not observed due to the poor sensitivity of the tool used to measure alterations. Heart rate and mean arterial pressure also do not change because of ELF MF. Still, the researchers pointed out that if the heart rate was checked before the measurements, they could have noticed the increase in relaxation and decrease in physiological arousal. Skin temperature also remains the same regardless of ELF MF even though some scientists expected to observe the decrease of the temperature. In general, received results refute the authors’ hypothesis and support the previously published materials. Thus, it can be concluded that domestic and occupational environments with ELF MF do not have adverse influences on people’s health conditions. They might have some positive effects such as relaxation, but this information requires further research. Work Cited McNamee, David, Michael Corbacio, Julie Weller, Samantha Brown and Robert Stodilka. “The response of the human circulatory system to an acute 200-[mu]T, 60-Hz magnetic field exposure.” International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 84.3 (2011): 267-77. Print.
In 1990, an indictment was issued for the arrest of Daniel and Lyrissa Touby after they were found to be manufacturing and to conspire to manufacture a drug named Euphoria. Previously, Euphoria had not been classified as a controlled substance, and the plaintiffs were free to manufacture it. However, the Attorney General, through the Drug Enforcement Agency, had temporarily designated Euphoria to be a controlled substance. The plaintiffs went to court to dismiss their indictment on the grounds that Section 201 of the Controlled Substances Act gives the Attorney General unconstitutional legislative power to deal with drug indictments. The plaintiffs also argued that the Attorney General temporarily assigned his ‘scheduling authority’ to another party (the Drug Enforcement Administration). The case was filed against the United States Government, whereby the defendant sought to have the indictments upheld. The case was originally filed in New Jersey’s United States District Court. In the original filling, the plaintiffs singled out the Attorney General or the Department of Justice as the defendant. During the trial, judgment was passed in favor of the defendant, and the indictments against the plaintiff were upheld. The plaintiff appealed the decision to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Consequently, the trial court’s judgment was upheld in favor of the government. The case was presented to the Supreme Court, where it was argued on April 17 1991, and decided on May 20 1991. The court had to argue whether the constitution through Section 201(h) of the Controlled Substances Act was violated. The actions of the Attorney General and his legislative powers in regards to his mandate under Section 201(h) of the Controlled Substances act were to be evaluated. The trial court had the responsibility of finding out whether by sub-delegating powers to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Attorney General acted unconstitutionally. On May 20 1991, the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeals third Circuit by a 9-0 judgment. The court found the petitioners liable for their actions when they manufactured or conspired to manufacture Euphoria, a substance that had temporarily been classified as a ‘controlled substance’ by the Attorney General through the Drug Enforcement Administration Agency. The unanimous judgment was passed pursuant to Section 201(h) of the Controlled substance Act, 98 Statute 21 U.S.C 811(h). The Supreme Court’s decision was informed by the Controlled Substances Act, which was passed by Congress in 1970. This legislation classified controlled substances into five categories or ‘schedules’. All the five categories of controlled substances were consequently regulated and they would only be manufactured, possessed, or distributed in accordance with their categorization. Under the Controlled Substances Act, the Attorney General is at liberty to change the schedules of various substances and place them higher or lower according to their composition. The law stipulates the procedure that the Attorney General uses to schedule controlled substances. First, the Attorney Gener
Introduction A couple of years back Marcellus, the Devonian black shale located in Appalachian Basin, was not popular to geologists exploring the Basin for oil and gas because of radioactive nature. However, a handful of these geologists speculated about the potential of Marcellus as a ‘supergiant’ in terms of gas supply. They were disheartened by the initial minute quantities produced from the drilled wells expensive process as well. However, a recent geophysical study in 2002 by United States Survey revealed approximately 1.9 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered oil and gas that is projected to serve the locals for a span of approximately 100 years under the current consumption rate. The carbonaceous shale covers much of the undersurfaces of “ Ohio , West Virginia , Pennsylvania and New York ” (Citizens Guide to Marcellus Shale 1). Given the richness in resources in the Marcellus region, the resources were not fully exploited till recently when progress in drilling technology rejuvenated the interests of a host of drilling companies. The latest technology, a cost-effective technology helped the companies realize huge profits. As a consequence, a robust of activities has seen different stakeholders including the “land owners and the area residents raise alarm over the extraction, drilling and transportation of the gas” (Citizens guide to Marcellus Shale 2). From land pollution, water to air pollution there is an imminent danger that man is exposed to due to the effects exploitation of the gas. Apart from man, wildlife as well as aquatics faces the looming danger from the extraction of gas as evident in other areas that have ventured in gas mining. As a result, the environment is at the threshold of imbalance. Considering all these issues, we are left speculating on the extent of the imminent danger that the exploitation of the gas has in store for the people of Marcellus. In this essay, I will argue is: how are the different stakeholders prepared to face the expected challenges that lay ahead of them? In a nutshell, the literature that follows focuses on the negative impacts of the project to the environment and, the laws framed by the stakeholders to mitigate the effects of natural gas extraction to the environment. The impacts of natural gas exploitation to the environment and stake holders On narrowing down to the extraction process, it is understood that the process consumes a lot of water; over a million gallons rendering the commodity scarce for animals as well as for human consumption. After processing, the effluent is normally released to rivers and streams contaminating the aquatic ecosystem. The wildlife is not spared the brunt either; they become victims after the consumption of the contaminated water. Furthermore, the looming danger that the people of Marcellus expect from the project include deforestation, noise pollution and, growth of invasive species to aesthetic loss of land. On a broader perspective
Introduction In today’s ferociously competitive business environments, the ability of a business to create ethical organisational culture may determine whether a business succeeds or fails. Many companies find themselves under increased pressure to adhere to ethical business practices since doing otherwise may lead to revenue loss and negative backlash. The term corporate social responsibility (CSR) was created to describe companies’ readiness to adhere to such business practices which positively affect social well-being (Porter & Kramer 2006, p. 78; Brunk 2010, p. 255). Businesses strive to maintain some level of social responsibility to create a positive corporate image. CSR is especially important for large companies which are in a constant public view. In spite of the shift towards CSR, once in a while a company fails to operate responsibly and finds itself amid a media scandal. Global food manufacturer Nestlé was accused of many unethical practices, including exploiting farmers and using child labour. Child Labour Exploitation on Nestlé’s Farms Nestlé is a transnational food manufacturer, one of the largest food manufacturers in the world. The company, which was established in Switzerland in 1866 and first specialised in selling milk, today produces a variety of products under over 7500 brands (Kose 2007). Today, Nestlé is best known for chocolate and confectionery, produced under such brands, as Nestlé, Aero, and Kit Kat. Over the course of its long history, Nestlé has been accused of many irresponsible activities, including unethical marketing and production techniques (Pping & Klopping 2013). One of the biggest scandals which happened in the early 2000s concerned the exploitation of child labour on Nestlé’s cocoa farms. Cocoa farms, which are located in the West region of Africa, became the subject of media debates after an investigation done by the BBC ( Nestlé SA: Corporate Crimes 2005, par. 4). In spite of the fact that slavery has been condemned for over a century, in 2001 slavery flourished in several regions in West Africa. Children from these areas, aged from 12 to 14 years, wer