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The choice of a product or service that an entrepreneur wishes to invest in is an important factor to consider before bringing it to the market. Any investment project chosen should produce returns to benefit all stakeholders and other interested parties that the project affects directly or indirectly. The paper utilizes axe anarchy fragrance for women, a new product that Unilever Company has launched on the market, as a case product in a bid to show the financial implication or consideration that the case company made before investing in the product. Unilever is a big corporation that deals with production or manufacture of many kinds of household products. Axe anarchy is the latest innovation or rather new product that the company has launched on its market (Unilever PLV, 2012, Para. 3). This product is therefore financed by the company. The company has put in place enough funds that are used to innovate and manufacture new products on the market. The company is quoted in the securities exchange market as exemplary in terms of the quality of its products. Some of its finances come from the owners of the business who are the shareholders. Because of the high amount of money the company receives from its shareholders, it is able to carry out various innovations besides venturing in the production of multiple types of products. Unilever PLV therefore generates its funds through the sale of shares to its investors, a process known as equity funding (Unilever PLV, 2011, p. 15). This form of acquiring fund is advantageous because investors who buy the shares are not entitled to any interest. Bondholders, on the other hand, require that interest be paid to them. Therefore, this method allows the company to access capital for use to produce and market its products. The investors are only entitled to profits and losses in equal measures. Hence, the method does not have any impact to the company. Another advantage that the company will accrue from this form of financing is that there is no collateral required for this type of investment. Furthermore, the company is only obliged to pay dividends on the earnings that it makes. This therefore protects the company from any court proceedings or accusations when the company fails to make profits on the products. Therefore, the business is not faced with a threat of collapse, as it can come up with other strategies to ensure survival. Furthermore, investing or financing this project through shared capital makes the company have a full control of the funds. The company is able to keep the funds indefinitely without being asked by the investors (Safania, Nagaraju & Roohi, 2011 p.78). Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to make decisions on whether t
In the given case, I would attempt to establish communication between Mrs. Lo and her daughter and find out Mrs. Lo’s real interests. During the discussion, she might reconsider some of her traditional views and try to resolve her new situation together with her daughter. Mrs. Lo has no outstanding health problems and difficulties in maintaining her household. Thus, living in a retirement community is an unnecessarily radical measure for her. A major challenge for Mrs. Lo is that she cannot travel long distances to meet her needs, such as shopping and church attendance, due to the absence of a car and a public transport. This problem does not directly threaten her health and is not a disastrous circumstance, but it has the potential to make her life more complicated. According to Tabloski (2014), in caring for older adults, one should not be guided by the principle of extending their lives, but by the principle of improving their quality of life in old age. The author argues that this principle is a key standard of gerontological nursing practice (Tabloski, 2014). Thus, it should be concluded that moving to retirement community could adversely affect Mrs. Lo’s quality of live. It is necessary to identify other possible solutions to Mrs. Lo’s problem if her daughter does not want to move in with her. Social and health care for older people is not always associated with their moving to a specialized institution. According to Mieke Deschodt (2017), “the majority of care-dependent older people are cared for in their own homes,” and only “about one fifth receive care in residential care facilities” (p. 3). Researchers note that, at present, there are a huge number of institutions caring for older adults, including remotely, and nurses are a crucial component of the corresponding programs (Mieke Deschodt, 2017). Consequently, Mrs. Lo’s daughter may consider options offered by various private or public healthcare organizations that would satisfy her mother’s request. The same option is available to Mrs. Lo and senior people like her. They can request support from nearby social and healthcare institutions, which would appoint them a personal caregiver. These may include gerontological centres, social assistance centres, retirement communities, private and public hospitals. In the proposed case, the care may involve the delivery of food to the house
The way to World War II in Asia and the Pacific region was in high degree independent of the conflicts taking place in European. Only the obvious danger of facing certain enemies helped to bring the Axis forces together. The threat, and then the danger of, conflicts in Europe played the most significant part in making opportunities for Japanese people, but perhaps not a determinative one. The Pacific War was caused by Japan’s attempt to encroach to Chinese territories and guard the domination of all directions of Asia. Perhaps the main result of the Japanese attempt was the devastation of the Nationalist regime on the Chinese territory and the greatest overturn in the world history. The phase on the territory of Pacific of World War II was in a great number of ways a specific fight, with powerful methods. The scene of war was the greatest of any in world history. Unlike preceding battles, it was considered largely by fighting in the air space and under the waters of the sea. In a further eccentricity, this sufficiently technological fight between several advanced states took place in localities that were extremely underdeveloped or even absolutely primitive. It would be a mistake to depict the war actions as a Japanese-American conflict, but the crucial struggle was indeed a conflict between ‘the world’s most distant neighbors’. By an irony American forces did not enjoy, they had played a main part in the modernization of Japanese technologies and thus helped make the war actions possible (Dower 3-6). “Japan’s war did not begin with Pearl Harbor. For almost four-and-one-half years before December 7, 1941, Japan and China have been embroiled in an undeclared war of continental proportions”. That very war stretched cruelly from Manchuria in the north regions to the borders in the southern part of the country. The exact point of the beginning of the war can be clearly defined. Beginning with the early years of the 20 th century, when the principal authority of the imperia experienced the breakdown, China was seized by chaos, enveloped in flames of the civil conflicts, separated by military regimes, and pillaging by means of encroachments to the foreign territories (Cook 23). The first wartime film I am going to analyze is “Five Scouts”. “Five Scouts” is the first film which deals with the veiled war with China guided by the Japanese in the 1930s; it has the outstanding goodness of showing more realistic facts rather than bringing propagandistic themes. Five soldiers that differ from one another extremely are sent to fulfill the subversive act behind opponent frontal lines on a mission whose risk they little suppose. After a successful search for the Chinese
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) is a scientific and clinical European journal. It is a collection of articles that analyze dialysis, transplantation, and nephrology research. Moreover, the NDT journal is officially approved by the European Renal Association (ERA). Thus, it presents crucial analysis and data for scientists worldwide. Additionally, the other article from StatPearls was selected as the source is included in the National Center for Biotechnological Information (NCBI). Therefore, the center distributes and stores information about scientifically approved research. The article focuses on the leading causes of chronic inflammation at the time of end-stage renal failure. In addition, the authors describe the impact of disease on clinical outcomes and the role of middle molecules as significant factors in the onset of pathology. The latest breakthroughs and research in dialysis are reviewed to stabilize the situation. The end stage of kidney damage is the stage of the development of chronic renal failure. In this case, the disease enters the final stage and threatens human life and health. Only a decrease in urine excreted (diuresis) is observed at the initial step. At stage 2, other signs appear, and nausea and a large amount of urine appear. At stage 3, the fluid does not leave, and diuresis stops. The kidneys fail, and acute renal failure develops, which leads to a deterioration in well-being. Treatment of end-stage kidney damage in adults involves taking medications. Chronic renal failure occurs in 200-500 out of one million people. Currently, the population with chronic renal failure is increasing annually by 10-12%. Morbidities with the end-stage renal disease lead to a person’s diuresis being reduced to almost zero. With advanced forms of chronic renal failure, pulmonary edema develops. At the moment, the prevalence rate of the disease includes about 759 people per million population. The incidence rate is not available for all countries globally, so it isn’t easy to analyze the information in detail. However, the average number of newly reported cases is 144 per million. The mortality rate is decreasing and currently stands at approximately 28%. Doctors prescribe a blood test to assess creatinine, potassium, and urea to determine the disease. Moreover, such a procedure as an ultrasound of the kidneys is performed. If necessary, the doctor prescribes catheterization of the renal pelvis and angiography of the kidneys.
Biological and cultural diversity determine human background and heritage, cultural preferences and uniqueness. Culture is that unique characteristic that separates the human from the rest of the world of living things. It is the primary means of human adaptation, the basis for the majority of human thought and behavior. Biological diversity determines a set of genes and color of skin, i.e. biological and physical characteristics. Thesis In spite of visible physical characteristics and racial differences, biological diversity does not necessities a commitment to cultural diversity. Biological diversity does not necessitate a commitment to cultural diversity because many people lost their values and traditions associated with biological (racial) differences and accepted new national values and morals. For instance, during the first and the second waves of immigration European and Asian immigrants accepted new cultural values and traditions in America. They remembered their ancestry but did not follow cultural and national traditions of their native land. Culture makes all humans basically the same, yet it also makes them different as each human group creates and develops its own version of culture designed to respond to their own particular needs and wants, and because of the choices they make (Smiers 14). Culture is created by people in response to the specific conditions, problems, or limitations that they face in the natural environment, and the socio-cultural ones that they create. The era of globalization has a great impact on perception and understanding of the concept of race and culture, diversity and origin. Americans have always taken pride in their diversity, in their own individual heritages, and in certain ideas that they have assumed were uniquely American. Their “heritage” was something they used to refer to their individual ancestry and linkage to the “old country,” wherever that might have been. Culture was a phenomenon in and of itself, unique , shaping how people lived their lives and yet independent of the people it shaped. When called upon, assumed, or used by Americans, culture has been used to characterize those “other” people, or to identify the differences between the American way of life (culture) and that of other groups of people “somewhere out there” in the world (Smiers 76). Biological diversity does not necessitate a commitment to cultural diversity because while people share culture because they learn it, this extra-somatic phenomenon lay beyond people (Sowel 36). Race could not touch it. Part of culture or of a culture is readily observable, such as rules, ideas, beliefs, and recipes for organizing people and doing things, all of which people can explicitly describe, talk about, explain, or argue about. But there is another part of culture that is not readily observable and must be inferred from the way observable action and talk are organized (George and Yancey i1). Biological diversity does not necessitate a commitment to cultural diversity because individuals are not born with culture; they have to learn it. See questions in the article: “Since
What is the main argument of the video? The main argument of the documentary Berkeley in the Sixties (directed by Mark Kitchell) is that those students, who have studied at the University of California (Berkeley) through the sixties, did contribute rather substantially towards the promotion of civil rights and freedoms in this country. Summarize the video from start to finish The film begins with the off-screen narrator telling the audience that throughout the sixties, the University of California remained at the forefront of people’s struggle to be in the position to take full advantage of the US Constitution’s freedom-guaranteeing provisions. According to the film, it all began in 1963, when many politically active students from this university decided to raise their voice against the policy of McCarthyism, which supposedly aimed at exposing and jailing ‘Communist agents of influence’ in America – contrary to the ‘freedom of speech’ Constitutional amendment. As time went on, the number of students committed to the cause of promoting civil liberties in this country continued to increase exponentially. To substantiate the validity of this narrator’s claim, the film exposes viewers to the historical footage of public mass-rallies against racism, sexism, and Vietnam War, which used to be organized by political activists from the University of California throughout the period in question. According to the narrator, these rallies did prove a huge success. Because of them, the governmental officials were provided with a powerful incentive to proceed implementing much needed socio-cultural reforms in America. The documentary’s final parts are dedicated to exploring the University’s role in the discursive legitimization of the Civil Rights movement, as well as its contribution towards the popularization of the institutionally marginalized ‘counter-cultures’ (such as the Afr
According to Schorkopf and Stoll (200), WTO is an abbreviation for the international body, World Trade Organization. This body is responsible for being the facilitator of trade around the globe, and entails creating multilateral forums in which agreements are made and disputes, which might arise between governments, are settled. World trade Organization has one hundred and fifty three members who account for about ninety-seven percent of all global trade. The world trade organization is esteemed by the member countries in that it gives a country prestigious status if it enrolled to be a member. When a country joins the WTO, it gains an international status of being one of the most favored nations. The countries that join the world trade organization should also realize that they are equal at such a level and should treat each other fairly. It is therefore important for a country to be a member so that it is not being exempted from most business transaction. This is because there will be no preferential trade partners once the country joins the world trade organization but rather preference is given to all member countries instead. The world trade organization deals with trade barriers for the member countries and this boosts their economies in that the countries can sell their produce to numerous countries without too much bureaucracy. It is also possible for member countries to acquire other necessary items among themselves with ease. Tariffs are the charges that are imposed on goods that a country may want to acquire and is not within that particular trading block. When two countries trade there is always the import quota that is charged on countries as way of trying to curb dumping of commodities in a country. This can also be strategy for a country in trying to maintain the standards of products they produce by trying to restrict more imports. When a country is a member of the world trade organization, there is a lower import quota imposed on the country and this allows a country to expand its market as it is allowed to import goods at a lower cost. Countries that trade within the WTO have less restriction on the trading policies, this enables their economies to grow faster as they are able to make more jobs by having sale people travel to other countries to promote goods or commodities, and this boosts their sales. About seventy-five percent of the countries that are members of world trade organization are developing. Schorkopf and Stoll (214) argue that membership of countries in WHO becomes of import
Introduction Marriage is hard work, and every one of them is unique and unrepeatable. The outcomes of marriages can never be predicted or explained, but it is still very fascinating to examine the experiences of different families, trying to conclude what events have brought the couple to the point where it stands. For this assignment, I have chosen two women who are a mother and a daughter. I find it interesting since I have an opportunity to both analyze two marriages of different durations and examine how the mother’s experience can influence her daughter’s view of relationships. Additionally, the responses of my interviewees largely confirm the concepts, which we have studied in the class. In the interests of the respondents, their names have been changed. The First Interview: Louise The first interview I conducted was with Louise (53 years old). Louise is one of my neighbors, and she has been married for thirty-three years. She met her husband during her university years – they met through friends. After two years of dating, the couple got married (for love). For several years after that, they were living with the groom’s parents, contributing to the development of patrilocal residence (Coles 56). The family has three children, all daughters: the eldest girl is 29 years old, the middle one is 25, and the youngest is 15. Two older daughters already have their own nuclear families and live separately from the parents. Louise is a good-looking woman with a kind smile and a young face. It is evident that she loves her family very much; she has even felt a little nostalgic while talking to me about it. When Louise got pregnant for the first time, she gave up her job (she used to be a teacher) and dedicated her life to upbringing children and household chores. Presently, she still does not work – her husband is a lawyer, and he provides for the family. When I asked Louise what the best thing about her marriage was, she answered that it was marriage itself. She meant that it was hard to live together for so many years and stay a family after all. She has also added that the children should be referred to as the best things about the marriage since “they are our reward for everything we have done right as a couple” (Harris). As for the challenges, Louise laughed at first and said that there were so many of them that it was even hard to remember. However, among the most significant ones, she defined the birth of her second daughter. When she was born, the family was going through difficult times. Louise’s husband was at work most of the time, and even despite that fact, the family incomes were barely enough to make ends meet. Additionally, the elder daughter was only four years old at that time and could not help a lot. Therefore, the woman was on her own. “I remember, my hair fell out, and I felt exhausted from the very moment I opened my eyes in the morning,” Louise said (Harris). As the second challenge the family overcame, Louise defined their “bad times as a couple” (Harris). She refused to provide any specific details but said that three major reasons helped her and h
Photography is one of the most popular “expressive means” these days. Almost every newspaper article is supported with the relevant image. There are many kinds of photographs which are created according to certain technique and performed with different purposes. Photography in new has a great meaning as it helps readers understand the subject of the article, for example. The documentary photography which is often used in news is aimed at recording certain places and events. But the photograph is not only a still image to be view, but according to Barthes (in Camera Lucda): “The photograph has a dual function. It is (at once) a fetish object and a transformational object (the w o ina) be closer…terms). The photography is also the means by which the shadow of the object understood as the real (and/as the mother) falls on the subject” (Kember 214). Thus, each photo is a significant addition to the text, but it can also serve as an individual source of information. Everything used in photography, focus, light, line, space, shade, etc. has specific meaning and function which produce the effect on the audience. In this paper, we are going to provide a critical response to images covering the crisis in Libya. The still images under analysis are from the BBC News: Libyan Crisis (image 4) (Fig. 1) and The New York Times: Detritus of War (image 3) (Fig. 2). These images are not only informational, but also contain certain ideas and tell stories. Every part on each picture is important in terms of the context and idea. In this paper, we are going to analyze the ideas and arguments of both pictures and discuss how the elements of each still image are used to transfer that idea. Main body First of all, it should be mentioned that both pictures are aimed at providing additional information to the articles to which they refer. The Fig. 1 image refers to the article in the BBC News “Gaddafi ‘not Targeted’ by Strikes”. It shows one of the protest movements against the UN-backed action. In the picture, we can see several people from the crowd with placates with slogans like “No Blood for Oil”. People are anxious, their faces are tense. People and placates are on the central focus. The setting of the image is quite difficult to define, as we can see only people, but it is some street. However, the setting is not very important. What is important is the idea: to show what people fight for. In the second picture, from the New York Times (Fig. 2), we can observe only one person and a burning car. The aim of this picture is to show common situations that occur in the streets in Libya. As opposed to the first picture, it is possible to see the setting and picture is not as emotional as the first one. The position of objects in both pictures is different and has a great meaning for the perception of the image by the audience. Barthes focuses attention on the relationships between object, image and time. He describes them as “that-has- been”: “