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Introduction Each and every Country in the world today takes pride in having a large part of its young population that is educated, hardworking and productive. It is important to underscore the importance of vocational education in mind whenever we are keen on ensuring that our children get the best college education. It is equally important to know the capabilities of your children before forcing him or her into college because not every child finds the college prep-classes to be interesting. I strongly agree with the sentiments of the author to the article, “If you’ve got a trade, you’ve got it made,” This is due to the fact that many people have failed to grasp the essence of attending school. It is not all about graduation and moving from one level to another, but there is more to it than just graduating with good grades but with little technical or practical skills. In this discussion, it will become clear that the immense importance of Vocational education outweighs the perceived advantages of college education. Importance of Vocational education over College education It is quite evident that in a sizeable number of young people, College education is a waste of time and resources. In the years to come, a number of the developed countries (notably the United States), shall be faced with acute labor shortages. This is mainly because most Colleges in this country are not offering their students the technical skills required in the labor market. For any Nation to thrive, it must give its youthful population the necessary blue-collar skills who can then replace the retiring blue-collar workers. The country should also ensure that it has equal numbers of skilled workers as well as College grads. It is important to practice a two- way education system for our College age children. For instance in most European countries, students are given a chance to choose the path to take, either the trade-track or the University-track. In as much as college education may be appealing to some high school students, we should not ignore the existence of another group of students who need to do something different. The latter group could be willing to acquire employable skills that would put them in a position of securing better jobs without having to struggle with college education. Funds should be set aside to facilitate offering vocational education programs in our schools. These programmes will aid in preparing a particular class of students for the job market by offering them particular employable skills. This will also help save on the resources that would have otherwise gone to waste by forcing these kids into colleges which they do not find appealing. With the decline in vocational education, there is an equal increase in demand for school gr
Communication Good communication is important in any marriage in order for it to succeed. Good communication helps to avoid all forms of disrespect between the parties. Such forms of disrespect have been referred to as disrespectful judgments. They include ridiculing, sarcasm, making statements in a judgmental way or making false accusations. In other words, proper communication is qualitative (Hampson, Prince, & Beavers, 2007). Good communication may also be quantitative in that, having meaningful conversations with your couple several times in a day or week means that the marriage would be more successful than those not having enough dialogue as couples. Good dialogue may also occur as couples engage in other activities. For example, couples may engage in meaningful dialogue while they help each other in doing the house chores, while taking a stroll or driving around. I have personally watched how my parents maintain conversations almost everywhere they are. This has improved their relationship and has positively influenced me too. I plan to emulate them and make communication a vital tool in my relationships. Empathy and sensitivity For couples to have successful marriages, they need to be able to identify with the thoughts and feelings or even the attitudes of their partner. This would mean that they would have affective sensitivity towards each other. When one empathizes with the other, one would be able to put him or herself in another’s shoes and subsequently be in a position to willingly respond to the partner’s needs. Sensitivity is also a great virtue in marriage since it helps a person understand the needs of the partner. I have learnt a lot about sensitivity and empathy in marriage from the many visits I have made to my aunt and friend’s place. The way the couples understand each other’s issues and help themselves out has made me learn a lot and want to change some of my previous views and perceptions. Spirituality and values Spirituality and values are essential for any marriage if it is to succeed. Marriages built on firm spiritual values grow exponentially and the couples experience lasting happiness. Faith makes great differences in marriage and this is why it is very important to share your individual beliefs and values with the partner prior to marriage in order to understand each other and plan how the two of you will live with them. When partners in marriage have different spiritual values, it is almost certain that at some point in marriage, they will have trouble coping with each other. It is important for couples to share the same faith and have the same values. I recently learnt that a Christian friend of mine married an Indian woman. It has just been a few months now and they are filing for a divorce. This was mainly because of their differences when it came to values and spirituality. This has encouraged me to consider spirituality and values of the other
Introduction Engrave Investments is a window tinting company located in the Arab region and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and has been in existence for more than 40 years. This company has expanded its operations from the initial two branches that were located in the United Arab Emirates but later moved to Saudi Arabia. It has targeted regions like Asia, Africa, North America, South East Asia and North America. The mission of this company is to ensure that everybody is able to get window tinting services to ensure the safety of their vehicles and health are guaranteed irrespective of their economic state. This means that this company offers cheap services that ware available to all motorists. This was motivated by the need to ensure that motorists do not continue suffering the harmful effects of excess light in their vehicles; therefore, window tinting has become a good solution to managing this problem. The company has employed more than 1500 workers in its ten branches located in various regions within the Gulf region. Each branch operates as a separate company but there is a general manager and president who are in charge of coordinating all activities of these branches. Annual reports are presented to them during annual meetings that are condu
According to Hal Lindsey: “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”. The reading of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel The Painted Bird (which tells the ‘survivalist’ story, on the part of a Jewish boy, stuck in Eastern Europe during the course of WW2), of Isaac Babel’s story The Death of Dolgushov (which provides readers with a better understanding of what accounted for the realities of Civil War in Russia), and the watching of 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire (which portrays two Indian boys trying to survive in the hostile poverty-stricken environment) do confirm the soundness of Linsey’s idea. At the same time, however, there are good reasons to think that readers/viewers’ exposure to the earlier mentioned novel, the short story and the movie, helps them realize that people’s strive to survive, despite the impossible odds, does result in altering the very workings of their psyche. This partially explains why; whereas, in the novel and the movie characters seem to be endowed with a strong desire to survive, the character of Dolgushev in Babel’s story is being presented as someone who had lost its will to live. Apparently, the very nature of Dolgushev’s injury did in fact deprive him of his sense of existential optimism. People, who get to be exposed to the suffering of others for a long time, eventually come to realize a simple fact that, despite the claims of monotheistic religions, there is no ‘all-loving deity’ up in the sky. The reason for this is simple – it is not only that the God does not seem to care about executing his ‘divine duty’ of providing protection to the abused individuals, but he also appears to be always siding with the abusers. Therefore, there is nothing odd about the fact that, throughout the entirety of The Painted Bird , the narrator never skips a chance of exposing readers to what appears to be his strongly defined hatred of God, as someone indistinguishable from Devil: “Above me, God Himself stretched, suspended in space, timing
Introduction The rehabilitation of prisoners has been viewed as a way of punishing criminals for their wrongs and a means of preparing them for reintegration into society. However, over the past decade, this notion has changed following the introduction of tablets to inmates. The tablets provide prisoners with entertainment, education, and communication channels. They help prisoners educate themselves in ways that instill social and technical skills that could be useful once they are released from prison. 11 states are currently using the JP5 mini-tablet (Bhattacharya, 2015). The tablet offers communication features such as email, ecards, and videograms. Examples of facilities that use tablets within the US include Sanilac County Jail, St. Clair County Jail, Albany County Correctional Facility, Pima County Jail, and Davidson County Jail. Main body The tablets allow inmates to access resources such as libraries, brain teaser-type games, podcasts, news, books, music, movies, and job-search software (Diallo, 2015). Inmates can use these resources to pursue specific rehabilitation programming at their own pace. For example, they can use library resources to learn new languages, acquire new skills, and pursue their hobbies. Studies have shown that correctional facilities that have been running the tablet program have reported positive results about helping inmates reenter society (Diallo, 2015). The main goal of the program is to reduce recidivism by encouraging good behavior and the acquisition of new skills. The management teams of correctional facilities monitor the tablets to ensure that inmates use them appropriately (Bhattacharya, 2015). They have put in place several security measures. For instance, jail staff has master tablets that can shut down any tablet that they identify as being used in the wrong way. An inmate can pursue specific rehabilitation programming at their own pace. Communication tools such as email, ecards, and videograms allow inmates to maintain contact with their families and build strong relationships (Diallo, 2015. In many jails, inmates are allowed to text only 10 contacts that have been approved. The screening and approval are done to improve security. Many tablets have been programmed to prevent prisoners from accessing social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (Bhattacharya, 2015). On the other hand, communication with family members is highly monitored. People from the outside are required to get access to the communication platform created by correctional facilities to allow them to talk to inmates (LeBlanc, 2016). The tablets keep inmates occupied with positive activities that enhance their rehabilitation experiences. The inmates get vocational training through the numerous educational materials that they receive (Bhattacharya, 2015). Many jails have replaced recreational reading libraries with more robust libraries that provide access to thousands of books in different disciplines and l
Policy is the leading power in the modern world. Having obtained the great importance, now it influences souls and minds of the people all over the world. Rhetoric, however, is the main weapon of the policy. The leading politicians cannot ignore such a powerful remedy in the war for the electorate. That is why nowadays, every self-respecting politician should have the deep knowledge of the rhetoric and all rhetorical devices in order to make his speeches sound convincing. Barak Obama is one of the politicians of that kind. Having the great power concentrated in his arms, he should accept the unabated attention to his person. His every world is analyzed by the thousands of people that is why he should be especially caring about what to say. The good example of his oratory can be found in his famous election speech in Chicago. Understanding the importance of the event, as “it is hard to imagine a more culturally significant event in the history of our country than the election of an African American president” (Auger para. 3), he had to do his best. The speech was delivered soon after the announcement of Obamas election as a president of the USA. Obama was giving a speech in front of the thousands of his electors, however, addressing not only them, but the whole American nation. The new elected president was not only saying thank you to all his supporters, he also described the common state of the USA, outlining the future policy and making some historical parallels. The main message of the speech was clearly understood – the president outlined his further steps in the development of the country, he would make. The place and the time were chosen excellently, because people, being in the state of euphoria after the victory of their candidate, were not scared by some troubling signs in Obamas speech, accepted the content at once. The speech was not the improvisation, of course, as the times of the spontaneously proclaimed speeches had already passed. That is why every parag
Introduction In academia, studies are conducted to investigate how variables are related. The researcher must select relevant data and make theoretical assumptions that connect with the research questions. Thus, the research question is the basis for any study. In their research, Long, Malhotra and Murnighan (2011, p. 2) investigated the effect of “economic education on greed”. The aim of this paper is to analyse the research design used by the authors to test their hypotheses. Divided into seven parts, the paper analyses the hypotheses, assumptions, design, sampling, and methods used in the research. The paper concludes by discussing the contribution of the research to existing knowledge of the topic and to practice and policy. Research questions, theoretical, and practical relevance As stated in the previous section, the research investigated the influence of economic education on greed. Although the authors did not clearly state a research question, the study analysed how students’ academic backgrounds in economics influenced their greed. Long et al. (2011) developed two hypotheses for their study. The first hypothesis posited that growth in economic training positively influenced greed and negatively influenced concerns for fairness, while the second suggested a positive perception of greed amongst economists (Long et al. 2011, p. 4). The importance of the research cannot be overemphasised. Despite growth in economic courses in business academic curricula, a financial crisis was experienced between 2008 and 2010. The inevitable role of economists in the prediction and aversion of the economic crisis necessitates an investigation of the influence of curricula on financial behaviour. Greed was one factor that contributed to the economic crisis. A wave of misappropriations and poor economic ethics crashed financial markets globally. The inherent behaviours of economists cannot be similar. The possibility that exposure to economic curricula influences the financial behaviour of people necessitated the research. Conducted in 2009 and published in 2011, the study was timely and shed light on the role of behavioural features on financial misappropriation and the global economic crisis. The epistemological and ontological assumptions Philosophical perspectives affect researchers’ assumptions and guide the design of the study. This section of the paper analyses the epistemological and ontological perspectives characteristic to the research being investigated. Before identifying the type of ontology applied in the research, it is necessary to explain ontology. Crotty (2003, p. 10) describe ontology as the study of existence related to the type of scenario investigated, the form of existence, and the structure of realism. Ontological assumptions refer to the traditions that investigate what can be analysed or the nature of authenticity (Harvey 2006). Long et al. (2011) colleagues adopted a realistic ontology for their researc
The main communication channels that are commonly used in my organization are wireline and wireless communication channels. Being a hospitality company, the top officials are frequent interaction with the junior officials for consistency. The main forms of communication under the wireline channel are telephone calls and computer networks (Middleton, 2002). In this organization, senior officers usually use telephones to communicate within the organization, as well as to organize external meetings and interviews among others. On the other hand, wireless communication channel involves the use of internet through computers, mobile phones, televisions, and radio calls. Since the organization has an official website all official communication within the organization as well as to the organization’s clients is done through the internet. Telephone and radio calls are mostly used by the top officials to communicate meetings or emergencies. According to Middleton (2002), some of the main interferences within communication channels resulting into noise are electromagnetic interferences, and interferences of radio frequencies among others. As it has been revealed, interferences of the electromagnetic system usually cause inefficiency in the performances the entire system, resulting into noises. Further, interferences of the radiation emitted by most of the electronic appliances may interfere with the frequencies in the entire communication system, resulting into noise. One of the main strategies that ought to be incorporated in my organization’s communication system is a ‘short message’ notification for an official message. Since many officials are not always logged in their e-mails, it would be quite important if the system is made more effective through ‘short message’ notification for any new message from the administration. It should be noted that, e-mails are not only effective means of communication, but also necessary in the current society dominated by digital communication. Basically communication has largely improved because of technology since it is easier for information to reach large number of audience within a very short time (Middleton, 2002). According to Middleton (2002), organization’s climate affects communication largely. If in an organization there is free interaction between the top and lower officials, communication would be easier and effective. On the other hand, when lower ranked employees are restricted to freely interact with their top officials, communication would be limited among the social classes. Generally, the recurring pattern of behavior within an organization determines a lot the overall communication patterns within the organization. Generally, the organizational climate determines the how inter-group of interpersonal communication trends are facilitated. As reported by Middleton (2002), non-verbal communication is one of the most powerful means of communication within an organization. Non-verbal communication involves the use of body signs and signals to denote a certain meaning. Some of the ma
Introduction Space exploration has emerged as an important mission for scientists in the 21st century. Two of the major space agencies, NASA and European Space Agency have recognized the significant potential of exploring and looking for transits from space. The NASA has made considerable investments in space exploration programs. One of its most ambitious projects is the discovery program series. These projects comprise of many relatively low-cost and quickly implemented precision missions for exploring planets. The Kepler is the tenth principal investigator-led mission selected in the NASA Discovery program (Koch, 2004). This space mission was designed to look for transits from space and it was successfully launched in March 2009. The Kepler Space Observatory was named for the German Astronomer Johannes Kepler and it was able to successfully accomplish its core objectives until May 2013. Renee (2010) states that the Kepler Space Observatory might never have become a reality were it not for the works of Johannes Kepler about 4 centuries ago. This German Astronomer was deeply fascinated with the universe and this led him to invent the rules of planetary motion. Kepler’s first published work on planetary orbits was the “Mysterium Cosmographicum” booklet written in 1596. This work attracted the attention of Tycho Brah, a Danish nobleman who had a keen interest in astronomy and had gathered a vast amount of hard data on planetary motions. Brahe asked Kepler to collaborate with him in 1600 in order to create a mathematical model for planetary motions. By 1605, Kepler had come up with two of his laws of planetary motion, which stated, “Orbits are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, and a planet’s orbital speed varies depending on its distance from the Sun” (Renee, 2010, p.24). Kepler’s third law was discovered in 1618 and it stated, “The orbital periods of the planets were related to their average distance from the Sun” (Renee, 2010, p.24). These three laws are fundamental to astronomy and all significant astronomy innovations consider these laws. Kepler’s third law of planetary motion is used by scientists in the Kepler Mission to determine the semi-major axis for each exoplanet after observing its repeated movements in front of its stars. Fig. 1: The Kepler in Space. Scientific Objectives of the Kepler The Kepler Mission is NASA’s photometric space-based mission launched into space to detect Earth-like planets. The Mission set out to survey around 150,000 Sun-like stars with the aim of identifying Earth-like planets. This primary goal was supposed to be achieved within a span of 3.5 years. When the Kepler Mission was proposed, the main objectives were highlighted as the exploration of deep space with the aim of identifying planetary systems. A number of scientific objectives were highlighted for the mission. The first was to identify the terrestrial plan