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The advertisement will focus on water and its necessity, as well as the want for water. It is needed by the human body to carryout life processes but it is also psychologically refreshing and pleasurable. After any physical activity or long presence in the sun, water is used to hydrate the organism. Any additions to water in a form of lime, cucumber and a number of any other flavors can enrich the taste or even add vitamins and minerals. Water is often used for diets and has a number of other health benefits (Chang, 2012). In the advertisement, a glass or a bottle will be pictured with a waterfall. The first perspective represents a hedonic need. It can serve two purposes, as in being needed because of its necessity and for the pleasures associated when quenching thirst. When seeing a glass or a bottle of water, the consumer will associate the advertisement with the need for water in a purely physical aspect. Hedonic approach makes the use of the senses and appeals to the person’s natural need for something. In this case, everyone knows that life without water is impossible, so people understand that one way or another they will have to get water. Because in the cities there are rarely rivers or bodies of water or if they are present, drinking that water is rather unsafe due to pollution, people will purchase water. The advertisement plays a great role in how refreshing the water is imagined by the potential customer (Crowley, 1992). This marketing strategy is potentially successful, as it relates to everyday life and pleasure of satisfying thirst. The waterfall in the background reinforces the psychological need for water and adds to the freshness of the advertisement and water itself. The glass of water in the front catches the viewer’s attention and the clarity and transparency create a sense of clean and fresh water. This sort of representation is very universal over cultures and nations, as all people in the world require water and are familiar with waterfalls. The target audience is all people, especially children, as the background and scenery is very natural and appealing to the eye. Even if people will not notice the glass at first, they will be drawn by the large natural scene and the view of the waterfall. After seeing the glass, the association will be almost immediate, as psychologically people are inclined to link things together (Stading, 2007). For a business or a corporation that gets involved with this sort of advertisement, there are many possibilities in what to present the audience with. The brand’s name could be written on the bottom, so that it is unnoticeable at first, and the potential customer will be forced to look at the advertisement for some time, before figuring out what it advertises. Or it could have a big bottle in the front with the company’s name, so that right away people know the product. The most important point is that people feel the need for the product and realize that without it they will b
Introduction The film, A Bug’s Life , was produced in 1998 by Darla Anderson and was an animation film. It is based on two movies that were released earlier and one of them is the film, Seven Samurai . The other film was the Ant and the Grasshopper . The aim of this paper is to provide a summary and an evaluation of the plot, characters and the special effects used in the film. Summary The film is about an inventor ant that was individualistic and hired a group of bugs as warriors (Foley 56). This inventor was named Flick. He believed that his warriors would help him fight off some of the grasshoppers who had made the group of ants their slaves. This individuality always got Flick into trouble. He always surprised the rest of the ant colony by making inventions that led them all into trouble. A number of grasshoppers came by often to bully the ants into providing them with food. The ants decided to appease the grasshoppers by preserving a portion of food for them. However, one of Flick’s inventions – an automatic harvester for grass seeds – knocked down the grasshoppers’ food portion into the stream. The grasshoppers learnt about this and were agitated about it. Therefore, they demanded food twice as much as that which they used to take. Following this incident, the team leader thought it best to recruit some bugs to help wade off the enemies who had been terrorizing them. The ants pretended to oblige. Flick traveled to the big city to recruit the warrior bugs but his intentions were not understood since the bugs thought that Flick was looking for talent, so they followed him back to the Ant Island. The bugs made a good impression at the colony. They saved Dot from a killer bird. Flick ended up making something that resembled the killer bird in order to chase away the leader of the enemies. This worked for a while until the ringmaster found out. This angered him and led the ants to exile Flick in order to save him. The attempt of the ants to satisfy the demands of the grasshoppers failed and this led the grasshoppers to plan to kill the queen. The queen’s daughter, Dot, went to look for Flick and convinced him to come back and help save the queen. Flick agreed and his plan almost worked but the grasshoppers’ ringmaster stopped him and planned to kill him. What followed was a combined effort from the ants as they managed to stand up to their enemies and fought them off the island. The colony rejoiced because of the victory and Flick was acknowledged. This victory earned him respect among the members of the colony and he was treated right. He received the crown that belonged to the mother of the princess as a way of acknowledgment. Princess Atta was also promoted and became the colony’s new queen. Evaluation of the plot, characters and special effects The animated film had many special effects that used the most advanced and state of the art visual effects. The computer technology employed was incredible a
Many people consider Mozart’s music like a mosaic that consists of a series of influences that he encountered in his life. Abert’s book on, “Mozart’s Personality showcases the life of Mozart, its social relevance, commerce, and industry. (Abert). More than any other kind of artist, Mozart had a special place in the history of musical prodigies. He was born in Salzburg, on January 27, 1756, as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus although he just wanted to be known as Wolfgang Amade. His father, Leopold Mozart mastered the violin and played for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold (Sacheverell, 1932). Leopold composed musical compositions yet his son beat him well. Mozart’s mother was Anna Maria Pertl, or Bertlin, daughter of another official of the Archbishop’s Court. His mother nearly died when he was born. Mozart had a light spirit with him and he began to love music as he watched his elder sister who also had a good musical ability. He was able to compose music at the same time that he learned how to play them. It was not long after that when he learned how to play with precision and in exact time. For instance, a music book in the Mozarteum at Salzburg had minuets and air with twelve variations with a note in Leopold’s handwriting to the effect that Wolfgangerl learned these pieces in his fourth year. Soon after he learned in the same music book with the minuet and the trio in just half an hour before his fifth year. (Sacheverell, 1932). His father also began to teach him in fun although this time he knew his son was indeed talented. Another subject area where he was most talented was in the area of Mathematics. He loved the subject so much that chairs and tables would be full of chalk markings as he wrote tables and stools and even the floor was chalked over with his markings and computations. His father made him go on tours with him so he can perform before an audience. (Sacheverell, 1932). During their tours, they met Count Franz von Walsegg of Ruppach who had a penchant for commissioning works from composers who were not so well-known. He made them perform in his own house and he bragged this to his friends saying that this was his own craft. It was also during the years 1763-1766 when he toured Europe with his father and sister as they were commissioned to play for Louis XV at Versailles and George III in London (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 1756-1791). Leopold had a strangely unique attitude with his son. His letters were filled with all nationalities so that he could control his son’s mind. The discussions and debates centered more often on money. It seemed that he was not a good steward of money (Krantz). Mozart was passionate about a lot of things including making relationships and friendships. He gave his all to everything and this was an area where father and son often argued about. (Krantz). Studies tried to trace intelligence to various sources. Heredity, environment, sex, culture, social conditions, race, and geographical location have offered a factual basis for such intellectual differences. The normal Curve which is a mathematica
Whether the Trend in America’s International Trade Has Been Good For the Country The global monetary crunch had severe implications to several world economies. The US in particular is not an exemption. This crisis, dated from 2007, impacted negatively on the federal state’s trade deficit. Basically, there was a remarkable decrease in trade deficit. According to Nanto and Donnelly, (2011), this impact remained notable from 2008 up to 2009. However, it is critical to note that the country has steadily begun to gain recovery. Particularly, this positive trend has been realized with the entrance of the Obama’s administration. Indeed, it is obvious that if there is any negative trend in the international trade, then the global monetary crunch has a greater role in it. In the past few years, the country’s imports have significantly reduced at an elevated rate relative to its exports. However, the forward patterns indicate that this situation has reversed. This is majorly because of the heightened demand for the country’s imports. Additionally, there is an observation that the country has extended into novel and rich global markets. The heavy exports destined to developing states and overseas investments within diverse sectors such as energy are critical. This is because they are basic indicators of a positive trend in the America’s global trade. However, the impact of heavy competition, especially from the BRIC states is still evident. As growing economies, the BRIC have potentially dominated foreign rich markets (Cattaneo, 2010). Consequently, this has led to a reduced potential for the US to dominate such emergent economies. In 2010, the trade deficit on international goods rose to $ 645.9 billion. This was based on the balance of payments (BoP) premises (Nanto & Donnelly, 2011). Comparably, this recorded figure was $505.9 billion greater than that of 2009. The American merchandise trade deficit realized in 2010 was notably greater with China. This was approximately at $273 billion, with European Union following at $79.7 billion. In a descending pattern, other notable trailers included Canada, Japan as well as Mexico. Relative to the previous year’s observations, this depicts a forward trend. Critically analyzed, it can be noted that America has steadily progressed its international trade ties with the recently industrialized states (United Nations, 2009). These include Hong Kong, Taiwan as well as South Korea amongst others. In this new international venture, the US trade balance has remarkably increased since 2007. Consequently, increasing surpluses have been recorded from 2008 to 2012. The total imports and goods exports within thriving economies have steadily improved. Therefore, it can be noted that despite its increasing debts, there has been a remarkable improvement. For instance, in 2010, the country realized a $165 billion in excess of investment income (United Nations, 2009). This was relatively high compared to other global economic powers. The international trade trends within the automotive sector have potentially contributed to this development. In addition, several American corporations and multinationals have vent
Introduction Strategic human resource practices require a business firm to focus on creating value in their internal functions to increase their competitive edge in specific industries they operate in. This requires a firm to link its organisational culture with its operational structure and business objectives to attain positive outcomes (Boxall & Purcell, 2008, p. 67). Emirates Airlines is one of the largest companies with operations in the United Arab Emirates and other parts of the world. The company’s vision focuses on sustaining strong leadership to enable it to formulate fresh ideas to keep it competitive in the industry. The company’s mission focuses on corporate responsibility by participating in different community programs that have tangible communal benefits in different parts of the world. The purpose of this report is to highlight different aspects of strategic human resource management in Emirates Airline and how they have enabled the company to attain positive results in its operations. This paper will discuss an overview of strategic human resource management practices in Emirates Airlines and provide an analysis on how they help it execute its objectives in the industry. Approach to Management Strategic HRM principles which focus on giving a firm organisational effectiveness to make it more competitive in the industry have been implemented by Emirates Airline. The firm’s HR systems offer all employees positive working environments that allow them to utilise their talents to improve performance (Boxall & Purcell, 2008, p. 71). The organizational culture is closely aligned with its mission where employees participate in making crucial decisions which are reviewed and implemented within a short time. The firm’s operational systems are flexible and this ensures that various crucial functions and duties are performed in different locations to save on costs and time. Since it is a transnational organization, the firm has a less complex organisational structure which allows all employees to interact freely. The company’s resourcing practices focus on developing its own talent pool and sourcing experienced employees through the internet, recruiting agencies and the media. Advertising of employment opportunities by the company is done through traditional media and recruitment agencies which the firm partners with. Employees are drawn from 160 different nationalities and they are given equal opportunities to build their skills and talents in the firm. Adverts target employees with different types of skills who are able to perform a wide range of functions in the firm. More importantly, the firm constantly looks at changing patterns in the industry that are likely to impact on its operations and updates its employment practices accordingly (Bamber, Gittell, Kochan & V
The Ship of Theseus will always be the same. This is due to some reasons. Correlation between identity and change in the world of idealistic field of metaphysics might appear easy but there are some complexities. Whenever an object transforms, it always changes in a certain way. For instance, a child develops to something different implying that it transforms in terms of size and age. For reptiles such as snakes, they shed their skins. Both the child and the snake remain the same in one way or another. Therefore, properties of an object determine its shape. For illustrative purposes, an item A changes with regard to property B. This could only take place when an object A has property B but at later stage B does not have A. Regarding the Ship of Theseus, the ship changed a lot but it remained the same in terms of its properties. It is the same thing with human life. People change from childhood to mid-adulthood and further to old age. An individual remains the same irrespective of whether he or she is at childhood, mid-adulthood or old age. The Ship of Theseus could have changed in size and shape but it still had some characteristics that distinguished it from other ships. What happened to the ship was mere refurbishment. The ship could have changed completely if the owner decided to destroy it and use the materials to construct something different that does not look like a ship. The concept of recreation vs. destruction is applied explaining this case. The ship cannot be any different because it has all parts that the previous ship had. In case the changes are taken seriously, things would be different whenever we view them for the second time. This would mean that any slight change in properties of an object would affect its existence. Therefore, it is true that properties should be explained in terms of time. Indeed, they are indexed to time. A property is temporarily indexed meaning that it is subject to change. According to Leibniz, the ship is the same at all times (Browne 182). This is because ship A has properties that would be found in ship B. On the other hand, ship B has properties that could have been found in ship A. In this case, the common property is the mast. Ships A and B have indexes that are temporary. Irrespective of philosophical theories applied, the Ship of Theseus would always remain the same. Endurantist theory holds that an object will always be the same throughout its history. At each moment in history, the object exists with all its properties. Perdurantist theory on the other hand would claim that objects are four-dimensional entities, which comprises of a sequence of temporal parts (Graves 445). An object is likened to a movie. If someone recollected all boards that had been discarded and reassembled them by adding the original sail and mast then the person would still have the Ship of Theseus. Even the ship that had been sailing continuously is still the Ship of Theseus. The real meaning of the word ‘same’ depends on the context. For illustration, the original ship w
Going through internal personal conflicts triggered by various circumstances in one’s life is not an easy task, and the outcomes of this process transform people’s consciousness on a deep level. The same development happens to Jay Reguero, the protagonist of the book “Patron Saints of Nothing,” written by Randy Ribay. Throughout the narrative, he faces numerous challenges deriving from the impossibility to form an adequate attitude to the death of his cousin Jun. In order to do it, he goes to the Philippines in an attempt to learn about this event and thereby accepts this sad aspect of human life. Therefore, in the novel, Jay’s struggles are connected to the meaning of truth in one’s existence, cultural identity leading to misinterpretation of occasions, and the feeling of guilt accompanying tragic events of a similar nature. The main idea in the story is the role of truth in adjusting to new conditions or, as in Jay’s case, accepting death. In the beginning, he unknowingly demonstrates a wise attitude to the subject. By saying that one “can only handle so much truth at any given moment” when refusing to ask about the dead puppy, he confirms the insignificance of inquiry (Ribay, 2019, p. 14). However, this occasion does not affect him much, and the transformation occurs only after Jun’s death. The anonymous message stating that “Manuel did not deserve to die” because “he did nothing wrong” instantaneously inspires trust (Ribay, 2019, p. 43). Hence, the emerged motivation correlates with the reception of limited information on the matter. The corresponding desire to “clear Jun’s name” and “not fail him in death” relates to it and explains Jay’s further actions (Ribay, 2019, p. 142). In the end, he admits that the truth was not essential, but the transformation already happened. In this way, learning about Jun’s addiction did not affect his memory of him, which proves that facts have limited value in personal relationships. Another struggle faced by Jay and incorporated in the novel is cultural identity, and it explains the difference in the perceptions of Jun’s death by family members at home and in the United States. It becomes apparent after rereading the letters from Jun saying that “people are sick and starving to death,” but “no one cares” since everyone wants to go to America for “popularity and money” (Ribay, 2019, p. 27). By writing about the conditions of citizens in the Philippines, he expresses his concerns and highlights the apparent difference in their views. It is also confirmed by Jay’s Filipino mother, who says that “we can’t grasp the extent to which drugs have affected the country” (Ribay, 2019, p. 33). When viewing the events through the lens of the specified perceptions, one can easily discern the lack of interest in the circumstances of Jun’s death from his parents and Jay’s desire to know about it. While being unfamiliar with the form
Abstract Since social facilitation and drive theory postulate that audience enhances performances of easy tasks and complicates the performance complex task, the experiment examines conditions under which the performance is optimum. To determine conditions for optimum performance, 10 university students participated in three experiments under three different experimental conditions, namely, no audience condition, audience condition and audience condition with competition. The results reveal that optimum performance occurs in audience condition, followed by no audience condition and least performance in audience condition with competition. The results were not consistent with social facilitation and drive theory and thus further studies need to include more participants and consider confounding variables. Introduction Psychologists and sociologists have established that social facilitation enhances performance of easy tasks and complicates performance of hard tasks. According to the drive theory, social facilitation is critical in determining the performance of tasks. The theory postulates that audience has both negative and positive influence on a person performing a given task, meaning that performance of tasks depends on the nature of the task and the effects of audience on the performer. Sanna explains social facilitation from drive’s perspective saying that, “…the presence of others, as an audience or as co-actors, arouses a performer’s generalized drive, which increases the emission of dominant responses …when the dominant responses are correct, as on simple or well-learned tasks, performance would be improved in the presence of other” (1992, p.774). Therefore, audience and competitors increase the performance of simple and easy tasks while they decrease the performance of the hard and complex tasks. Social facilitation theory originated from the work of Norman Triplett in 1890s when he observed children racing their bicycles and noted that fast racing occurred when there is competition. From this observation, Triplett realized that social facilitation is responsible for the fast racing of bicycles and went further to explore the phenomena by conducting more experiments. In his experiment of children turning fishing reel, Triplett confirmed that competition and social facilitation are two factors that enhance performances of the children when doing simple tasks such as cycling and turning fish reel. “Triplett suggested that the sight or sound of another’s movement might strengthen the idea of movement and thereby increase energy and motivate greater effort. His notion of increased energy may have developed into what was later conceptualized as arousal” (Aiello & Douthitt, 2001, p.164). Thus, the work of Norman Triplett forms the basis of social facilitation theory that supports that audience and the nature of tasks determines the performance of a person. Subsequently, sociological and psychological researchers came up with social facilitation theory based on the foundation work of Norman Triplett. In 1920, Allport designed experiments to differentiate competition