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The fires of jubilee are the title of a book by Stephen B. Oates. The author narrates the tale of a slave rebellion. This rebellion was led by a slave named Nat Turner. The rebellion took place in rural Virginia in the year 1831. Nat Turner was a black slave born on 17 th October 1800 to a woman named Nancy. As he grew up, people started to notice special traits in him. It was said that he had a very good memory and that sometimes he could see visions. This made his parents very fond of him. They saw him as a future leader. His owner was a man named Benjamin Turner. The owner was very proud of Nat Turner and usually made comments on his intelligence to his friends(Oates, 1990). Nat’s intelligence was showcased through the fact that he was able to read at a very young age. This fact made him a very well respected slave, among his fellow slaves as well as among the white people. Nat’s life was completely changed when his father runaway to seek freedom. He thus began to see slavery as a yoke imposed on him. These thoughts would later see him lead an uprising against White men. A man named Joseph Travis acquired Nat turner as his slave in 1830. Nat was well treated by Travis his new owner. It was said that Nat regarded his new master as being kind. From a very young age, Nat was a profoundly religious person. As he was working in his master’s fields he received a vision (Oates, 1990). The vision made him start planning on liberating his fellow slaves. This is because he saw the end of the white man’s hold over the black man. The preparations turner made involved acquiring firearms. Later this proved too difficult and therefore Turner resorted to knives and other crude weapons. Turner recruited men that were trusted allies and slowly gained followers. Because of his religious exposition, when Turner saw an eclipse he took it as a sign to start what he was already preparing for (Oates, 1990). Thus the rebellion started. House after the house was visited, people were murdered and slaves were freed. This was the trend that Turner and his allies used. However, to remain inconspicuous they refrained from using firearms. Turner targeted the affluent Whites as he believed they were the ones who thought themselves superior to the Black people. The rebellion led to the death of about sixty people. In retaliation, groups of white men with superior weapons attacked black people wherever they were found. The rebellion was quickly quelled. Many Black slaves were killed on feeble excuses. Turner went into hiding. Most of his allies were killed. Many people were tried by the state. Many were found guilty of various accounts. Those found guilty were quickly executed. The number of this stood at approximately 56. There was widespread fear of attacks in the neighboring states. Meanwhile, Turner’s whereabouts were not known. Various efforts to capture him proved fruitless. Finally, after months, he was apprehended. He was found hiding in a hole. His captor was Benjamin Phipps. He was tried on charges of “s
The external business environment reflects the outer factors that an organization is incapable of controlling or influencing, but rather has to learn how to predict or adapt to them. Following the ideas of Alanis Business Academy, the external business environment incorporates different sub-environments. However, analyzing everything outside the main business context that might affect one’s organization and its performance is indeed a complicated task. These sub-environments include economic, social, technological, competitive, political-legal, and global environments. Altogether, they are considered to have the power to affect the business in a certain way. The external economic environment implies the conditions of the economy in which business primarily operates. The social environment includes demographics, consumer needs, preferences, and the critical interests of the target society. The technological environment is defined by the changes in the technological sector and how the business utilizes them to provide value to its customers. The competitive environment is a highly determining factor that considers actions taken by the key competitors that offer similar services. The political-legal environment stands for legislative and regulatory standards. Finally, the global environment involves international economic circumstances, natural disasters, and political unrest. When referring to the Dess et al. chapter, the main focus remains on creating a competitive advantage. As such, the video highlights the importance of being aware of what the competitor is doing, which could be difficult. Such a strategy helps assess whether it ultimately matters to take particular actions towards creating a competitive advantage and define the steps needed to make a change and surpass the dominant players. Works Cited “ The External Business Environment. ” YouTube , uploaded by Alanis Business Academy, 2015, Web. Dess, Gregory, et al. Strategic Management: Text and Cases . 9 th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2018.
Extensive British colonization of overseas territories emerged in the 17 th century and became the beginning of a long-lasting dominance of the Empire in the world. The military might and perspectives for economic growth in the colonies through commodities exportation helped the British Empire establish close economic relations with European settled lands. The economy of British colonies on the territory of America and the West Indies gradually changed during the historical period before the United States independence declaration. The paper will examine the development of the economy of these colonies, the context in which the changes emerged, and the influential factors that contributed to the shifts in commodity-related sectors of the economy. The economic well-being of colonial territories differed, but the overall improvement is observed in all of them throughout the period between the 17 th and 18 th centuries. Description and Main Idea The analyzed table shows the average yearly value of commodity exports by different British colonies. The table consists of two parts each depicting the financial data concerning commodity exports during two periods including 1697-1705 and 1768-1772. The data represents such colonial territories as West Indies, Lower South, Upper South, Middle Colonies, and New England. As it is seen in the first period, the highest level of total exports value and value of exports per free capita is characteristic of the West Indies. The rest of the regions, except for Upper South, show much lower indicators. However, the value of exports per capita is the highest in Upper South during this period. As for the 1768-1772 period, the total value of exports increased in all territories, although, the value of exports per capita significantly arose only in the West Indies. Context The developmental changes depicted in the table might be supported by some theoretical explanation of the historical context specific to these territories during the end of the 17 th and 18 th centuries. The British Empire enforced its expansion to overseas territories and established its military control on the conquered lands. All such regions were subject to the Crown, and the indigenous population was deprived of most property rights. 1 Therefore, the economy concentrated on farming and production for exportation to Europe. Since American colonial territories were on the early stages of economic development, they did not succeed to the same extent as the West Indies did. Analysis It is essential to incorporate the data available from the table and the historical context to interpret and analyze the causes and
Introduction The issue of religion and public life is the recent public policy issue being focused by the media. The issue of religion and public life is among the highly debated controversial issues currently in America with regards to the role of religion and faith in the society. Religion and Faith Pew Forum attempt to create knowledge and understanding of the controversies of public life and religion interaction in American society. The Pew Forum seeks to gather information from majority of the public concerning the interaction between the religious people and the general public, disseminating the information to provide a neutral ground for agreement. The Pew Forum is a non-advocacy firm that takes no stand on public policy issues of concern, as it seeks to collect and share information of the trends, issues and behaviors that shape the world and particularly America as a society. The public policy issues are of concern to the research organizations that help in delivering impartial and timely findings to the society’s political leaders, scholars, media personalities and groups of public interest. Public policy issues of research concerning religion and faith include controversies between the religious organizations and the government; religious influence on politics; public debates on issues such as gay marriage and abortion; and the role of religion in global affairs. Controversies between the church and the government encompass issues such as recent issue of the pledge of allegiance and the Supreme Court issue regarding the Ten Commandments (Cohn-Sherbok and McLellan, 1992, p.1). Scope of the Public Policy Issue Bioethics Innovations in biomedical research industry that have been researched by Pew Forum include the embryonic stem cell and human cloning. This has been a major issue of controversy between the religious organizations and the public. Medical and science innovations have impacted widely on the health and lives of human beings, which have been criticized by religious people. The research of bioethics focuses on human values such as life technology and responsibility of society towards human life and health. Capital Punishment Religious organizations have for a long period of time strived to fight against death penalty as a means achieving justice to offences in the society. It has become a public policy issue of concern that has consistently inflamed debates between the state and religious organizations with regards to capital punishment. Moreover, religious organizations have gathered and shared information to heir members and the general public about the issue of human dignity, justice and right to life. Gay Marriage Religion and Public Life have differed on the issue of gay marriage in the society. The public policy issue of civil union and gay marriage has been widely debated upon by the America
Introduction In all societies, women have different roles to play in economic prosperity. However, women have fewer rights than men in terms of marriage, legal status, education, professional life, divorce, as well as, dress code. Therefore, the society feels that the restrictions accorded to women’s rights are mandated. The oppression of women causes them to be pressurized into lower class citizens. This study evaluates whether the oppression of women’s right could affect the economy growth in a country by using quality of life as the measurement (Gilbert 23). Research question Why is quality of life index a critical factor in determining whether women’s oppression could affect the economy growth of a country? Literature Review According to the National Ranking, quality of life index use several elements, such as, the health level of the average individual, environment, and peacefulness of a country (World Bank 2). These elements could tell the condition of a country whether the majority are happy or unhappy. If the majority of the populations are happy, the quality of life would be high and vice versa. Quality of life index is scaled from 0.000 for the unhappiest country and 1.000 for the happiest country. In order to have a high level of quality of life, a country must maintain its medical policies so that a majority of people will have easy access to healthcare; maintain the quality and preservation of the environment, and security from crime, oppression, and war (Graham and Stefano 34). Looking at the gender gap inequality index, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Pakistan, Chad, and Yemen are countries that have high gender inequality in the world. These countries are ranked 131st to 135th. Meanwhile, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Ireland are the top five countries that have the lowest gender inequality in the world. Most countries in rank 131st to 135th do have oppression of women’s right due to a higher gender-gap (gender inequality). They face many problems because their rights are infringed as well as their full legal status that has been excluded from their rights. There are unjust laws that women face due to unbiased mentalities that have made them not to be recognized as equal citizens. There is a close relationship between a nation’s wealth (GDP per capita) and individuals’ levels of happiness (quality of life), which is why quality of life plays a pivotal role to know the wealth of a count
Reasons for Procuring to be More Expensive by 2% for BBC Technology Compared to Other Companies The reasons for procurement to be more expensive for the BBC Company than for the rest of the organizations can be explained by its size. With a range of affiliates all over the world, the organization required a large sum of money to carry out the procurement. Reasons for Outsourcing to the Third Party Being Cheaper than to the BBC Technology While collaborating with the BBC Technology in order to enhance the quality of the services provided by the organization seemed an obvious solution to the company’s concerns, the decision to be made was fraught with a range of serious financial consequences. By selling BBC Technology, the organization could save the money required for outsourcing from the third party and at the same time increase its revenues, which would have been impossible with BBC Technology around. Reasons for Choosing Privatisations The reasons for the company to resort to privatizations are, in fact, quite basic – by carrying out the specified actions, the company invested into the staff, who would have faced the threat of losing their jobs otherwise. While considered unreasonable at first due to major losses taken in the process, the given step helped BBC gain the credibility and reputation that it had been striving to attain. In addition to the above-mentioned advantage, the approach designed by the organization helped BBC improve the quality of its services. Finally, the process of knowledge sharing, which the outsourcing approach launched in the BBC Company, can be viewed as a major breakthrough. This addition to the information management strategy, which the organization used to follow previously, will clearly help coordinate the work of the staff in a more adequate manner. As a result, the company’s performance and overall competitiveness have been increased. BBC and Porter’s Competitive Forces Model From the perspective of Porter’s Five Forces Model, the choice made by BBC in terms of using outsourcing as the basis for its procurement strategy and the further expansion into the global market can be considered rather reasonable. Seeing that the threat of new entrants is rather high in the specified industry, the necessity for the company to increase its performance by acquiring new experience and increasing its staff’s competence is rather obvious. The threat of substitutes, however, can be deemed as average, seeing that there are very few alternatives to news media in the realm of the 21 st century. The bargaining power of buyers, in its turn, is rather high, as the latter is capable of identifying the quality of the news by comparing the information provided by the BBC Company to the actual facts. With the help of modern media, the data concerning inaccuracies or false evidence will be transferred from one potential customer to another, thus, launching the chain reaction of the company’s demise. The bargaining power of suppliers, in its turn, can be considered average. Risks and Advantages of Outsourcing before the Deal For the BBC Company, outsourcing presupposed benefiting financially in an otherwise unfavorable scenario. In
My experience watching the theatre show about ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was wonderful judging from the relevancy of the show with the original written script. Generally, the play was interesting with a performance of above average rating. Furthermore, it exhibited the most important aspects of a true Romeo and Juliet narrative. Apart from the entire production, I was impressed with the script since it presented all the major themes in a typical Romeo and Juliet volume. Some of the vital themes from the author’s narrative include the theme of fate. A perfect example of fate from the play was when lord Capulet’s servant tried to find an intellectual who possibly will read the guest list to him. In that exact moment, Benvolio and Romeo enter the room, and Romeo declared his reading ability. This unplanned meeting highlights the weight of destiny in the show. Another interesting scene of the production that makes it real understanding of the authors work is the casting of the romantic love between Romeo and Juliet, the physical love of the nurse and the contractual love by Paris. Lastly, the film displayed the actual meaning of gender and social disparity. A perfect example from the film (that communicated the real meaning of the author’s narrative) is Mercutio who proposed dissimilarity among people depending on ranking or social class. The direction of the film was excellent, for the fact that the director casting choice was perfect. This aspect added taste to the entire play and made it appear real as narrated in the novel. The setting of the show was perfect, with a fitting decoration of traditional English background. The set was up to my expectation, and it accommodated the various locations required for the story. Also the set added the traditional English value to the production. Could I see everything? Perfectly well, the use of black and white lighting heightened the whole experience because they added visual interest, suggested relevant atmosphere and above all distinguished between foreground and background of the stage. I could tell from the varying shapes of light on the stage that gobos lighting was employed. This gave the production a high standard ancient-like production. The costumes were appropriate for the characters and the period which the original event took place in ancient England. From the show, it was observed that various colors symbolized different status in ancien
This particular documentary exposes viewers to the history of the Anonymous hacking-movement, which during the last decade began to affect the socio-cultural discourse in the West to an ever-increased extent. According to the documentary, the movement’s origins can be traced back to the founding of the online image-board 4chan , which became very popular with ‘computer nerds’ from MIT during the early 2000s. As time went on, however, these individuals (as well, as their mind-likes from around the world) were becoming ever more politically motivated – something that predetermined the eventual emergence of Anonymous, as the international community of people committed to the cause of using the Internet to promote free speech (hacktivism). The documentary provides detailed information, as to what were the process’s sub-sequential phases, while presenting the audience with the excerpts from the interviews with the most prominent members of Anonymous and promoting (subtly) the idea that the movement’s objectives are thoroughly legitimate. In fact, it refers to hackers as nothing short of some modern-day heroes, deeply committed to the cause of the society’s betterment. The movement’s involvement in the harassment of Hal Turner (neo-Nazi radio host) and Tom Cruise (the affiliate of the Church of Scientology), as well as the fact that one of its members Julian Assange was the founder of the WikiLeaks website, are referred to as the best proof, in this respect. In my opinion, this is the main reason why “How Hackers Changed the World” should be recommended for watching – in the aftermath of having been exposed to it; people should be able to expand their intellectual horizons, with respect to what can be considered the societal significance of ‘hacktivism’.
Thomas Edison changed the notion of attention with his famous invention of the motion picture exhibition device (The St. Paul’s daily, 1894). The device was called the Kinetoscope, which was designed in a way only one view would view the film at a time. The Kinetoscope has a peephole on top of it where a viewer would place his or her eye to view. Although the machine was fundamental in building the basis of the modern projectors, the technology used by Edison was not as advanced as current projectors do. Thomas Edison introduced the thought but his employees who largely developed the thought into the famous Kinestone between 1888 and 1892 (The St. Paul’s daily, 1894). His prior invention, the phonograph, which was a record player that would capture sound to record and reproduce, attracted amazing attention. Nonetheless, the introduction of the Kinetoscope was overwhelming. His desire to develop a motion picture system was inspired by ideas from Eadweard Muybridge, one of the pioneers of the photography. From one of the lectures of Mr. Muybridge, Edison captured the idea of developing a system that would allow audio and visual contents to be played concurrently (The St. Paul’s daily, 1894). As he famously used to say, the Kinetoscope did with the eye the same thing the phonograph did to the ear (The St. Paul’s daily, 1894). The name given to the system was derived from the Greek words, Kineto, which means movement and Scopos , which means to view. Although Edison takes the entire credits for the development of the Kinetoscope, history has taught that the title of a creator hardly goes to an individual. In the development of the first audiovisual system involved a number of talented employees in Edison’s laboratories. The invention of the Kinetoscope attracted the attention of many with a Kinetoscope parlor being set up in San Francisco in 1894-95 (The St. Paul’s daily, 1894). Edison changed the entire entertainment industry through his invention. People used to read or see pictures of events such as wrestling, great speeches by their favorite orators to mention but a few. However, with Edison’s invention of the Kinetoscope, things changed dramatically. Because of his technology, people would enjoy watching motion pictures matching up with sound. These outdid the voice recording technology as well as photography. Edison gave rise to the lucrative film industry. His first recording house the Black Maria was being one of the first film record studios. He was determined at the onset of his invention to create a system that would turn pictures into motion and attach audio on the same so that viewers can watch and listen at the same time. This was turned into a reality, which shifted the attention from the inventory of photography. In the current world of technology, history seems to be repeating itself. As it happened with the Kinetoscope, today’s world of technology has become one of the most fast growing worlds. Invention in technology is not enjoying much time in existence before they are rendered outdated and ine