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Terrorist group formation is a widespread and vitally important issue to research due to the potential of understanding the inner forces of terroristic organizations, which fosters the capabilities of successfully fighting against them. Kaplan (2008) refers to the Four-Wave theory developed by Rapoport to add a fifth previously lacking wave, which is, unlike four international ones, is based within one state. The establishment of the fifth wave is characterized by particular features that allow for understanding the ideology behind such domestic terrorist groups’ activity. The fifth wave of terrorism includes domestic terroristic organizations derived from their international patrons and directed their activity inward. As the characteristics of establishing a terroristic group of such nature demonstrate, foreign ideas or religious beliefs influence these groups. However, due to some reasons, they “have turned inward … and sought to realize a utopian vision of a radically perfected society on the local level” (Kaplan, 2008, p. 12). Other characteristics involve identifying the precise origin and a catalyzing event, upon which a group breaks away from an established international terrorist organization. Break-aways are usually radical, violent, legalistic, and authoritarian (Kaplan, 2008). An example of an actual terroristic group established in the USA is the Base. This is a right-wing neo-Nazi terror accelerationist group that is originated from al-Qaeda, which functions on large territories across the country (Jones et al., 2020). The characteristics of this group coincide with those listed for the fifth wave. To summarize, terrorist groups’ establishment expands beyond the commonly perceived international level but impacts the domestic sphere. The theory of four-wave terroristic groups is broadened by Kaplan (2008) to include break-away organizations that pursue disruptive goals within the state. Specific measures based on
In the present competitive environment especially affected by the pandemic, the majority of automobile brands undertake all efforts to attract new clients and improve customer loyalty. Toyota is a company known worldwide for its continuous focus on exceeding consumers’ expectations through its product’s quality and sustainability. For instance, it is strongly committed to the achievement of zero CO2 emissions in the future, offering hybrid electric and nitrogen options. During the pandemic, it is attracting partners, dealers, and customers by emphasizing its adherence to careful infection prevention measures (Cenizo, 2020). In addition, Toyota pays particular attention to the quality of its customer support, ensuring that service center employees have all necessary problem-solving skills. The company offers an immediate and free examination of a vehicle in the case of its dysfunction. However, one of the most peculiar strategies of the brand that contribute to consumers’ delight is the MyToyota app (Toyota Sustainability Report, 2020). It provides multiple benefits for its clients, including exclusive offers, online service booking, and discounts for hotels or sporting tickets, therefore, influencing their perception of performance. As a matter of fact, it is genuinely challenging to choose an automobile company that simply reflects positive satisfaction and is not flexible enough to work with negative feedback. However, according to the 24/7 Wall Street review, Volvo has 33% of customer loyalty (Suneson, 2019). A considerable number of Volvo drivers do not plan to purchase this brand’s products again, and auto reviewers suggest better options. However, the company does not implement any efficient strategy to improve consumer satisfaction and influence the opinion of experts. In general, not only the price and quality form customer loyalty, but the brand’s responsiveness to any complaints or suggestions contributes to people’s delight and brand awareness as well.
Introduction Jazz is believed to be the culmination of ethnic black music. Indeed, it can be named one of the Western world’s dominant and defining music genres of the twentieth century (Sarath ix). Moreover, its rhythm inspired many black people to change their lives in the 1920s, known as “the Jazz Age” (Bearden and Henderson 136). For example, after the return of African Americans from the First World War, the pride for these soldiers changed the perception of their identity, resulting in the mass migration from the southern to northern states (Bearden and Henderson 135). This migration initiated a marked shift in the role of black people in American culture, leading to the appearance of such famous African American artists as Palmer Hayden and Augusta Savage (Bearden and Henderson 134). The concert that will be analyzed in this essay took place at Lincoln Center in New York in March of 2019. Jazz can rightfully be considered the music genre that initiated and accompanied the decade of the rise in cultural and social awareness among black Americans. The Jazz Concert The band of individual performers held the tour in 2019, spreading the spirit of the annual Monterey Jazz Festival. The sextet members were Cecile McLorin Salvant, voice, Bria Skonberg, trumpet, Melissa Aldana, tenor saxophone, Jamison Ross, drums and voice, Yasushi Nakamura, bass, and Christian Sands, piano (“Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Live in New York)”). Although Sands appears to be the group’s organizer, neither he nor other members dominate the band, contributing to the whole. Interestingly, some of the band’s musicians used to perform several times before, but this event was their first concert as a sextet (“Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Live in New York)”). Still, they were able to demonstrate an incredible synergy of their skills and talents. The central theme of the event seems to be love, beauty, and dreams that were expressed in such songs as “Fog,” “Visions,” “Sack Full of Dreams,” “Ghost Song,” “Yasugaloo,” and “Splendor.” The concert commences and ends with songs composed by Salvant, “Fog” and “Splendor,” respectively. Although it was a relatively short performance that lasted less than one hour, the band members conveyed their inspiration to the audience. The rhythmic accuracy and space for individuality distinguish jazz from many other popular music categories. According to Sarath, the critical features of jazz include “African-based foundations, the prevalence of improvisations in individual and collective formats, blues roots, highly personalized expression amidst rich collective interaction, self-transcending connections, and spirituality” (xi). The New York jazz festival preserved the same energy, allowing the viewers to be carried away to the times of peak popularity of this music genre. For example, “Yasugaloo,” composed by Nakamura and dominated by the bass sounds, reminds of the evening meetings after a long day of hard labor in the 1920s-1930s when black people were overwhelmed but full of ho
Abstract There have been a lot of reports covering issues related to oil spills in the world. The reports cover issues ranging from causes of oil spills to the effects of oil spills on the environment. This report is also covering some of the issues in a different perspective. The body of the report deals mainly with methods of controlling and cleaning up oil spills especially in the oceans. Since the beginning of petroleum industry, and subsequent occurrence of oil accidents, several methods have been developed to aid in the clean up of the mess. Oil companies are faced with the challenge of cleaning up the mess in the recent past. This is because environmental groups, animal rights groups and human rights activists together with other agencies have emerged with policies which can be quite detrimental to the smooth running of the companies that violate those policies. Although there are different methods of cleaning up oil spillage, advancement of these methods should be done in order to cope with the increasing challenges. A good example given in this report is the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The challenges faced by BP Oil Company attests to the fact that advanced technological input is needed in this area. The overwhelming task of solving the problem from its source proved to be a daunting task to the experts. Although it was a success, this incident left a negative mark on the environment that will not be forgotten for years to come. At the end of this study, the causes and methods of cleaning up oil spills will be crystallized. The effectiveness of these methods will also be known and the need for better facilities is greatly emphasized. Introduction An oil spill is a situation that occurs when crude oil is accidentally poured out so that its effects are directly felt by the environment. Oil accidents have been occurring since the beginning of the petroleum industry since it is quite impossible to mine oil without spilling some. The main causes of oil spills are accidents and operations at the port (Oracle, 2010). For instance collision is a familiar accident to mariners. Other accidents include explosions and groundings. Operations at the ports have also been causing small but several oil spills. Some of these operations include loading and discharging of oil. Basically there are two kinds of oil spills. One kind is the one that occurs on land. Land oil spills usually occur in confined localities. Thus they are easily contained whenever they occur. Also, they do not cause much alarm since the situation is usually localized. In this situation, pollution is also localized hence clean up is easy and the effects are not adverse. On the other hand, marine oil spills are quite familiar and thus infamous. Sine water moves with current, marine oil spills tend to spread over large areas thus causing far reaching environmental degradation. Oil spil
Introduction With the contemporary global concerns about sustainable development, the issues of food waste and environmental protection have become more visible and better tackled. With prevalent problems of insufficient nutrition and food insecurity due to the disruption of conventional food consumption traditions, sustainable eating is threatened (Huambachano, 2019). Indeed, human eating habits and the overall culture of food consumption are subject to analysis to identify patterns that might yield an impact (positive or negative) on the environment from both short- and long-term perspectives. Daily practices of consuming food, cooking, grocery shopping, and managing leftovers and waste comprise the whole behavior of individuals in relation to food. They are commonly associated with the environmental worldview that prevails in a person’s overall outlook. Thus, it is relevant to revise and alter the environmental worldview to revise harmful or unsustainable eating habits by engaging in spiritual practices for better sustainable outcomes. This paper presents a reflective analysis of the author’s eating habit-informed environmental worldview, the health of their connection with nature, and probable spiritual practices to improve sustainable food consumption. Environmental Worldview Analysis The analysis of one’s environmental worldview should be based on the observation of practices and behaviors rather than assessed theoretically. In such a manner, the identification of a particular paradigm is more objective and realistic. For that matter, the basis for this analysis is the record of a seven-day eating habit journal that I have completed for the purposes of this project. The information recorder in the food habit spreadsheet allows for categorizing my environmental worldview as stewardship. This conclusion is validated by the limited waste I produce after each meal, which helps protect the environment from pollution and eliminates the threat of overproduction in the long-term perspective within food systems. Indeed, most days, I did not produce any
Human beings rely so much on the past to solve future and the current life challenges. Thus this mere fact calls for efforts to make the past more meaningful and relevant in the current day to day activities undertaken by mankind. This has led to acute need of establishing of modern art museums in our society because their collections are usually presented in a very artistic manner which initiates curiosity amongst the audience who come to visit such museums. Consequently the audience becomes aroused and inspired by the works of the museums. Thus this enhances meaning attachment in the objects of the museums, thus making them relevant to the current generation unlike the other kinds of museums which are too conservative in their collections. The historical management of modern art museums involves the curators who are so rigid in their roles. In the modern art museums the curator shifts his or her duties to an artist and the audience acts in position of the curator. This makes the curator understand the expectations of their own audience and thus making them to be in a position to make relevant modification in their collection in order to ensure that they are focusing on the needs of their clients. This will at long run ensure quality of visits rather than the quantity of visits in the museums and thus this encourage tourists to visit a particular museum several times. This is not a common practice with majority of tourists because most of them usually plan to visit specific sites once in their life time. Unless that particular site is extra ordinary impressive to the tourists they cannot come again for a revisit (Hamma 1). In this case we are going to address the various roles played by the modern art museum amongst them being the educative, aesthetic and social roles amongst many others. Finally we will also look at the possible evolution of the modern art museum. The first and most important role of the modern art museum it the aesthetic function which is commonly associated with beauty. Here the most important point of emphasis is the efforts made by the modern art museum to impress their audience. This is mainly done by ensuring that the collections of object and also their presentations in the modern art museum is quite attractive and relevant to the people who usually come to visit such museums. The artistic work is usually made in a way that the visitors who may be either domestic or foreign tourists are in a position to have self enjoyment in the modern art museum. This vital objective of ensuring that the tourists get maximum enjoyment in such museums is also facilitated by huge investment in various recreational facilities such as development of restaurants which well equipped with various social amenities to suit the interests of both domestic and foreign tourists. If all this facilities are in place the tourists will be encouraged to visit a given modern art museum several times which is not a common practice with most of tourists because tourists usually plan to visit a particular site of a museum n
Boeing Company is the world largest aircraft manufacturer. Aerospace Support (AS) is a division of one of the two major Boeing business units. The Company has tried to cut a niche for itself by trying to prove itself the market leader in provision of support or sustenance services to airplanes, throughout their life cycle. It should be understood that the support life cycle phase of a plane usually reaches when a plane has already been sold, delivered and already in use by customers. The products of Boeing Company in this support system includes modification; training, repair and provision of spare parts to its customers. Provision of these products to the highest degree assists many customers for the reason that some of these products such as modification, though performed at a cost, may sometime be much expensive and mostly when provided by other Companies relatively to the one that sold the airplane. Being the world largest planes manufacturer and a market leader in this sector is not a small achievement at all. To gain such success, there must be models, theories, concepts and strategic ways in which Boeing Company at large and Boeing aerospace support deploys so successfully to drive performance and be competitive within their sector. Among the concepts and strategies deployed by Boeing aerospace support, include the way in which the company makes use of the state-of-art technology. By use of above range technology, the company has been able to provide both indisputable goods and services to their customers in a way that is unmatched by its competitors. Such advanced technology equally gives the company a strategic
Among the whole complex of problems, which are studied by that or this branch of knowledge, there are always those that are considered as basic issues for this science. One of the most important problems in philosophy is the ultimate nature of reality and the relationships of its spiritual and material constituents. The given philosophical problem is of a great importance for the whole discipline. In the reality, there exist two groups of phenomena. They are the objective or material phenomena, existing beyond a consciousness, and spiritual phenomena existing in a mind. Over the course of history, the ultimate nature of reality was the subject matter of many philosophers and thinkers. In discussing the nature of reality in contemporary philosophy there is a tendency to distinguish between its spiritual and material constituents. Among a great variety of approaches to this philosophical question, it is possible to distinguish four major schools of thought with different treatments of this problem. They are Materialism, Idealism, Dualism and Theism (Dominguez,2015). From the point of view of the materialistic approach, the ultimate nature of reality is represented with substantial things that can be measured and perceived materially. The authentic Materialists do not believe in a real spirituality or a spiritual realm. This approach views the existing reality as a sort of mechanism, which works in accordance with its arrangements, and which is low influenced by an impact of an individual. Many existing religions have similar approach to the nature of reality with the only difference that this mechanism has been created by God. Moreover, God sometimes meddles in this mechanisms functioning. From the point of view of the contemporary natural sciences, the objective reality is uncognizable in a full extant and to the last detail. Some scientists apt to think that the term ultimate reality is an example of a logical mistake because the notion reality means the entity, which is free from subjective influences. According to the materialistic approach, a human being is a complicated system whose actions may be explained by casually relevant events. The Materialists believe that people are just who they are and they can act how they prefer unless they avoid negative consequences. The materialistic ideas concerning the nature of reality can be found in studies of such ancient philosophers as Democritus and Epicurus. According to Democritus the true reality, which can be perceived by means of mind, is atoms that vary in size, form and mutual bracing. They have a property to come into motion, and change their positions. They may combine with each other creating in such a way new things. A human soul, according to Democritus is no more than
Philip K. Howard’s speech “Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System” at TED Talk revolves around the topic of law and judgment. I agree with his claim that people become overconfident in the righteousness of the legal system, which hinders freedom. Philip also adds the point on the fact that the law should work for the entire society and not for individual conflicts. I also agree with speaker’s ideas that many people are highly concerned by their personal rights, where citizens undermine the importance of legislative measures that have an effect on a national scale. I agree with Howard’s next point that the system of education is filled with numerous strict regulations which hinder the development of learners. For example, he mentions the case of an educator who was not allowed to drive students to the leadership conference due to liability measures. The school provided a bus with a capacity of 60 people for three event participants, which was highly inefficient. In addition, teachers have to spend an entire month dealing with an unsatisfied parent who sues an educator for giving a lower grade due to a missed deadline. This flaw of legal system forces teachers to provide higher grades, even though sometimes students do not deserve them. The main reason is that educators do not want to spend a lot of time being involved in the case where they are most likely to lose. The last point is made on challenges in communication between doctors and patients. I agree that due to the aggressiveness of citizens and their full reliance on lawyers, medical professionals are forced to be highly careful in communicating with patients, because the latter may sue them for “outrageous” statements. I think video’s message is highly important, because these strict regulations eliminate freedom of creativity, instead of serving as boundaries.
Introduction Iron man and superman are two movies that entail characters stepping in to perform tasks that seemingly grew beyond the capacity of the security officers in the localities. In the iron man, the character Tony Stark is introduced as the man at the top helm of a “military contracting” company. As Stark travels to Afghanistan to test a newly developed weapon, he leaves Stane to take charge of the company. Stark is however attacked and wounded. A co-captive develops an electromagnet into his chest to sustain his life from the injuries. Stark’s captor, a military group offers a deal for him to make a missile for them but he turns them down. He escapes through a series of events and decides that his company would stop dealing with weapons. Stane, offended by the decision enters a deal with the terrorist group to supply them with weaponry as they try to kill Stark. Stane then attacks Stark, kills security agents but is finally killed by Stark who is then identified as the IRON MAN (Theiapolis 1). Superman on the other hand is a story of a boy named Clark on adoption after he arrived from another planet. Clark has his super natural powers developed as he grows and he uses his powers to try and save people from destruction and finally delivering a dangerous criminal, Luther, to the authorities (Imdb 1). Similarities in Superman And Iron Man The two movies had some common aspects. Significant among the similarities is the fact that the characters had some extraordinary powers. Clark is sent to his new planet as his father understood that the effects of the yellow in the new planet would give Clark powers to survive. The child realizes his powers that developed and uses them against principals of nature. Clark for example was able to lift a car with his bare hands when the car was going to squeeze and kill the man who had just adopted her. He as well made outstanding unnatural activities like “kicking a ball into the orbit” (Imdb 1), running faster than a speeding train and catching a bullet by his unprotected hand. He also at instances flew. These are just a few of the extraordinary things that he displayed. Stark as well is seen to exhibit extraordinary powers that helps him escape from his terrorist captors. The suit of armor helps Stark escape from the hands of the ten rings. Both Stark and Stane uses this technology to power themselves as they later meet to fight each other. Another similarity in the two movies is that the two chara