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Introduction The rapidly changing dynamics of business put up new demands for employers. In particular, the shift towards globalization in the economy, coupled with the growing competition from developing markets, has created the need for better services and products at lower prices. At the same time, the social aspect of employment is evolving, with the shift towards attention to workplace culture and favorable climate. This is most prominently illustrated by the growing popularity of the work-life balance, with the generation of millennials being especially sensitive to it as a criterion for choosing a workplace. These changes render many traditional practices unsuitable for a modern setting and create the need for flexibility and responsiveness as a crucial employment condition. One of the means of reaching the said flexibility is the introduction of the job-sharing principle. Basically, job sharing is an arrangement where two workers occupy a single position in a company. Such an approach is most readily associated with child care and was initially targeted at women (Guidotti et al. 2012). Nevertheless, it gradually gained popularity among all types of employees and is currently adopted by many companies. The advocates of the approach suggest that the involvement of partners creates a more seamless working experience, contributes to productivity by introducing several viewpoints of the same problem, creates better accountability by sharing responsibility between employees, and allowing more experienced workers to oversee and mentor the younger ones. Most importantly, however, it decreases stress and allows for better time management and a more favorable life-work balance. The opponents highlight difficulties such as the need for a high degree of compatibility between partners and the improbability of good communication, which in turn undermines the efficiency of collaboration. The job sharing has also been shown to undermine equal opportunity, introduce additional expenses, and complicate external overseeing. Benefits of Job Sharing For the organization, the benefits of job sharing can be grouped into two broad categories: reduced turnover rates and increased productivity. The former can be attributed to better staff management possibilities, where the employees who face difficulties with work-family balance issues tend to leave the workplace. Similarly, the temporary issues, such as family member’s illness, often require the possibility of leave, which can be a strong motivator for some individuals. Finally, the flexibility introduced by the job sharing practice makes the position more appealing, thus further decreasing the chance of losing th
The article “The Spain Among Us” written by Henry Wiencek (1933) discusses the Spain’s influence on the history of the United States. The author begins by laying out an account of Walt Whitman’s visit to Santa Fe in 1883 where the writer suggested a different approach to the view of American history. Wiencek is concerned with the notion of national character and the role of Spain in it (Wiencek par. 1). He examines the meaning of the Spanish legacy and argues that it goes beyond the architectural structures and toponyms. He traces the history of the great Spanish explorer Francisco Vâsquez de Coronado who discovered the Grand Canyon in the attempt to find a passage to the Pacific Ocean (Wiencek par. 6). The author compares the Spaniards’ need for exploration with that of British and argues that the period of English settlement from 1492 to1607 in Jamestown was almost nonexistent in the American history (Wiencek par. 13). The article examines the history of scientific development in the United States and provides the accounts of the impact of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Alejandro Malaspina and Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén on the natural science. Wiencek lays out the details of the role of the military campaign headed by a governor of Louisana Bernardo de Gâlvez in 1780 (Wiencek par. 18). The author claims that his contribution to the Spanish war on England was indispensable. The article provides a critique of the Black Legend—a long-lasting mixture of the anti-Hispanic falsehoods depicting Spanish as cruel settlers driven only by greed. Wiencek states that the majority of Catholic priests were against the barbarous treatment of the Indian populations and vehemently protested against it (Wiencek par. 27). Work Cited Wiencek, Henry. The Spain Among Us. n.d. Web.
Introduction The term accumulation media refers to turn out, distribution and telecommunication structures. There is now a new phenomenon captivating place in today’s extremely technologically advanced civilization; this is the digitisation of the modes of accumulation media which were mentioned beforehand. Furthermore, the hypothesis which applies to this digitisation of the accumulation media is recognized as the convergence theory. According to this news there are plenty of differences between populace live in China and Taiwan. In a new pole taken in Taiwan, the majority of the populace wished that belongings remained as they are now. The greater part of the people who exist in on Taiwan do not desire to reunite or be reunite unless it is on their conditions with democratic China. The populace of Taiwan is content with the status quo, and they consider that communism will obliterate everything they have worked so hard to achieve. Taiwan wishes to stay a democratic civilization, and they believe that that objective will be not possible if they reunite with collective China. China on the other hand believes that Taiwan can be reunite with China and still uphold a physically powerful economy without any important changes to their civilization. In additional universal terms the convergence hypothesis refers to the wedding of different technologies or industries. This meeting theory as it anxieties the mass media encodes all types of in sequence, whether voice, text, video, pictures and tune into digital formats. According to Vincent Porter simply put digitisation is the merging of the mass media by means of information expertise. Porter stated that there were two mounting trends which are facilitating this digitization of the media. Firstly, there is a tendency towards transferring all categories of information, voice, text, video, pictures and music into digital arrangements which can be manipulated by computers. Secondly, there is a growth of high pace multi media communication networks in excess of which digitised information can be transmitted, for instance the internet. This digitisation of the media makes global media constructions. Current News of Global Media ‘Local Values’ versus ‘Global Values’ This research focused on this truth that the convergence of the accumulation media has some far attainment implications for restricted China and Taiwan cultures. However, single of the majority serious implications that this technical superiority or digitisation has is educational imperialism. All experts recognize this educational imperialism as an attitude of power over all non industrialised civilizations to uncritically accept the technical imperatives of the west. No doubt, this news portrays the clear picture of a long history lies behind this issue show how China and Taiwan have been alienated from every other. After China lost a humiliati
Introduction The movie “Fight Club” by David Fincher is an adaptation of the cognominal novel by Chuck Palahniuk which can be acclaimed as one of the most successful dramas released in 1999. This is no wonder as the film features outstanding play by actors, interesting and thought-provoking layout and good quality of its accomplishment. Overall, the film can be evaluated as a great piece of film-making art which seems to represent the themes revealed by Chuck Palahniuk in his novel even better than this great master of thought and word. The film’s zeitgeist First of all, with regards to the film’s zeitgeist, it should be said that it fully reveals the atmosphere of 1990s which is shown in it with its spirit and general moods prevailing among people. According to Kavadlo (4), the peculiarities of this atmosphere are in ‘combining violent surrealism, suspenseful noir, and psychological twists’. The movie’s main protagonists oppose themselves to political, social and economic systems with all their contradictions and complicated issues. Pondering into the film’s ideas, the audience faces such critical issues as the search for the relief of stress and the use of violence for this along with the emersion of a variety of supporting clubs prevailing in 1990s. Comparative characteristics of the film and the cognominal novel by Palahniuk Next, addressing the way the film reflects on the novel which served as its basis, it should be stated that even Palahniuk himself evaluated the work by “Fight Club” scriptwriters as very successful. The writer highlighted that the film’s story plot revealed the ideas he wanted to blow upon his audience even better than his novel. In particular, such ideas as the pursuit for tranquillity by means of causing pains to the others during the acts of violence along with the emphasis on self-importance and presumptuous spirit revealed in the character of Tyler Durden are related in the film. In addition, both the film and the book have a measure of ambiguousness and a twisted approach to understanding certain scenes in them. For example, the scene where the narrator and Tyler Durden are bathing suggests both homosexual i
Introduction Reading refers to the overall active, cognitive (acting on, reworking, and transforming input to trigger responses), and affective process of constructing meaning from written texts. The ultimate purpose is to derive specific meaning from the written texts. Reading is a learned behavior dependent on mastering a written code based on the alphabetic principle. Special education defines the type of learning process that entails individuals possessing special needs; such needs include hearing impairment, partial and or total blindness, feeblemindedness, and physical disabilities among others. Individuals with special needs face numerous challenges including difficulties in oral expressions in terms of reading. For effective communication to take place between different parties, there must be a mutual understanding, being brought about by fluent and easy way of expression of ones feelings, ideas, expectations among other issues, which is acceptable and affirmative among the communicating parties. Oral reading expression is one of the many ways used for communicating ideas, thoughts, and deriving meaning from written materials such as books, magazines, electronic formats (hypertexts) and other forms of written materials available (Braunger and Lewis, 2006). Problem cause of Oral reading Difficulty in oral reading has become a major problem that affects communication, most especially in special education. Both the elderly individuals and those with special needs are faced with this problem. With the elderly, the problem occurs due to loss of clear view and comprehension of written text due to vast age or eye infections. Some individuals are born totally blind, hence needing the use of Braille equipments for text comprehension, others may suffer from short or long sightedness, and this affects the way written text is interpreted. The entire community needs to be aware of the adverse effects that oral expression bears on individuals, and should advocate for appropriate measures to be adopted to ensure that individuals facing such challenges are catered for. This could be done by acquiring Braille reading equipments in schools, providing medical services that treat and protect the eye sight, and promoting overall understanding among individuals facing such challenges. Braille enables the blind to read and comprehend written text, though it cannot be of much help if the content is in video or motion picture, if the contents are hypertext, this means that there will be extreme difficulty for the victim to easily
It is important to note that social media is a core element of the internet, and it reshaped how a modern human perceives information, communicates, socializes, and learns about the outside world. It became a primary lens through which one interacts with others, and thus, it is critical to properly evaluate whether or not such a state of affairs is beneficial or harmful to human wellbeing. The given assessment argues that social media, not the internet, is harmful to society and humanity in general because it reshapes the social fabric, causes loss of reason, logic, attentiveness, and memory, violates individual rights of all people as well as proliferates misinformation, which means that social media’s harms heavily outweigh its benefits. Firstly, in order to fairly and properly assess the benefits or harms of social media, the latter should be distinguished from the internet. For example, it is stated that “the notion that the Internet is bad for you seems premised on the idea that the Internet is one thing—a monolith” (Goldsmith 597). In other words, the internet is not one thing but rather a collection of vastly different forms of communication, presentation, information exchange, entertainment, interactions, and other functions. Therefore, the internet is a source of many positive aspects of modernity because it not only brings more informational democracy but also prevents restriction and control of the free exchange of knowledge. However, the question is not about the internet as a whole but rather social media. Unlike the internet, which brings a number of benefits, which far outweigh the harms, social media does not bring a similar imbalance in favor of good. Social media was designed to simplify socialization and communication online, but the outcome is unchecked control of the flow of conversation in favor of a specific agenda, profit, and violation of individual rights. Secondly, not all internet elements utilize artificial intelligence as extensively as social media platforms. The use of AI allows such companies to fine-tune one typology of information consumed, which means that it is social media that makes decisions for its users. While the internet is a library of knowledge, where a person makes a clear choice on what to read, watch, listen to, or interact with, social media uses AI and complex algorithms to influence its user. The underlying business model of all social media platforms is to learn about its user as much as possible and profit from them in a targeted manner. Such a design is not an inherent feature of the internet, which is not constrained to be profitable in this manner since many websites operate through subscriptions, direct sales, or other means. When it comes to such dangers, AI itself can also be a problem. It is stated that “there are indeed
The development of a new slogan or a brand is a very important component in the field of marketing. Evidently, through the right development of slogans, organizations can promote their products, increase their consumer base, and amplify their sales volumes. It is fundamental to assert that the right brands or slogans incorporate attractive designs, good colors, and appealing words. The use of appealing words, attractive designs, and good colors have a primary intention of marketing the product and differentiating it from others offered by competing organizations. Smart brand managers usually develop slogans or brands that not only increase the sales volumes of the company but also augment its market share. It is within this context that the essay develops a new slogan for Coca Cola Company and lists three concepts that the slogan fulfills. ‘Water is Life’ is a new slogan developed by Coca Cola Company in an attempt to market a new product that it recently launched. Since the product serves the needs of those individuals, who love mineral water, the slogan is very instrumental in increasing their willingness to purchase it. Moreover, the slogan promotes the product and differentiates it from others offered by competitors. The slogan is appealing and eye-catching, and thus, it receives the required attention from potential consumers in the target market. The accompaniments of the slogan, such as color, the shape of the bottle, and the writing style, increase the demand for the product in the market. It is imperative to highlight that the role that brand managers played in developing the new slogan is a factor that the organization cannot underscore in its quest to increase present and future p
Seaside resorts were created to cater for industrialization in the late 19 th century railway era. Back then, they were frequented by wealthy visitors. In the years that followed the depression, they renewed their appeal and attracted a lot of visitors until the Second World War when most were closed. They began to thrive again in the 1950s and were doing well until the 1970s (English Tourism Council 2001). The decline of the seaside towns began in the mid 1970s (Kennell 2011). In 1974, the world experienced the first international oil crisis. Domestic tourism fell and remained depressed until the late 1980s. The reported numbers of English seaside tourisists showed a decrease from 32 million to 22 million staying visits and from 193 million to 104 million nights stays (Tourism insights info n. d.). In the 1980s, day visitors to seaside resorts increased tremendously. Most of this tourism market did not spend a lot, it did not contribute to accommodation spending, and it created car congestion eroding the quality of the environment and providing disincentives to better spending customers. (Middleton 2001). A principal seaside town is one that has a population of more than 10,000 people and one where seaside tourism is a significant factor in the economy (Beatty & Fothergill 2003). These seaside resorts share characteristics that are different from other towns. They have tourist infrastructure like promenades, piers and recreation parks. They also have holiday accommodation like beach houses and caravan sites. Tourism products being offered nowadays include coach tours and tea dances for the elderly (Beatty, Fothergill & Wilson 2008). Seaside towns evoke fond memories of playing at the beach, holidays spent in the sun with family and this has largely influenced the decision to reinvent these towns. Britain’s struggling seaside resorts are being turned into creative industries by injecting arts and culture into their attractions (Carter 2008). There has been a lot of talk about the impending death of seaside towns but many feel that this is exaggerated. The seaside economy accounts for 22% of British domestic tourism expenditure (Economic Development & Regeneration n. d.). The market share of England’s seaside resorts from domestic and international tourists is around 13% (Middleton 2001). These figures show that domestic tourism is still a substantial contributor to the economy but many feel that if something is not done to improve it, it may decline further. Seaside towns may soon lose the few tourists that they currently attract. Seaside towns are usually low wage economies and they have an above average proportion of pensioner households (Beatty et al. 2008). To fully understand the dange
Introduction Despite the feminist claim that all people are created equally and women should have equal rights because they are just as capable as men, there remain numerous differences between the genders. This does not necessarily make the claims of the feminists wrong, but to ignore the fact that there are differences between the genders negates the special qualities that make individuals different and glosses over some of the reasons why the genders have such differences. The reason why the genders have such differences One way that males and females are different can be found in the way they think, which does not seem to be a result of their upbringing or social constraints but instead seems to be a part of their biological states. Men tend to think about one thing at a time until they shift onto the next thing. They are usually geared toward action and movement but are equally capable of investigating the deeper meanings of a piece of literature or contemplating the heavens. Women tend to think about several things at a time and seem to be more concentrated on planning and preparing rather than acting although they are also equally capable of concentrating just on winning the next footrace or another single-minded pursuit. In addition, men seem to focus more on the physical, outward elements while women seem to focus more on their feelings and emotions, the inward elements. Not to negate the very real physical differences that exist between men and women, but it seems a great deal of how we define our gender is based upon social elements. For example, from a very young age, girls are surrounded by the color pink, encouraged to play with dolls or stuffed animals, and are taught to pursue housekeeping activities through the use of play kitchens, etc. Boys are surrounded by blue, given toy trucks, cars, and planes to play with, and taught to go out and do things, be active, energetic, and always on the move. These types of treatments are continued not only by parents but also by teachers, toymakers, television and movie depictions,
Introduction Promoting workplace equality from a gender perspective is a social issue that is increasingly being raised in the context of national policies in different countries. The UAE has become one of the states that have taken real steps to create conditions for diverse and impartial recruitment of employees. Specific legislative initiatives have made it possible to address the issue of gender balance, and creating a special body promoting the idea of ​​equality in the workplace has become a significant factor. To obtain a comprehensive picture of the topic in question, the following question should be addressed: what measures have contributed to establishing gender balance in the workplace in the UAE? This literature review is aimed at highlighting relevant social trends in the UAE in recent decades with regard to gender balance, the value of new legislative initiatives, and specific advances in this area. Relevant academic sources and legislative documents may help obtain credible findings and make predictions about future research directions. Definitions To begin with, this is necessary to define several concepts that make up the essence of the analysis. Among them, one should mention gender balance , women empowerment , and professional legitimacy . Zhang and Yu (2019) assess gender balance in terms of both social responsibility and legal requirements. This concept implies an equal approach to recruiting staff without applying the criterion for the separation of workers by gender. The term is more commonly utilized to address women’s employment issues because they are more likely to face prejudice in the workplace due to social prejudice. According to Dipke (2021, 55), “women empowerment is the pre-eminent contraption to expand women’s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices”. In the workplace, this is manifested in providing women with equal opportunities for professional growth base