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Facing Challenges and Communal Responsibility, 2005.
A discussion regarding the challenges facing a new immigrant and the responsibility of the community.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This paper is a brief essay regarding the challenges that a young person from Iran faces in a new world and culture. The essay outlines some of the challenges faced and also explores the individual's view on giving back to the community. The paper concludes that there is a "cause-and-effect" relationship between healthy community role models and a healthy community.
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"Being a student from Iran and trying to gain a diploma in a new land presents many challenges. The following brief paper will outline the challenges that any young student placed in such a circumstance must confront. The paper will also examine communal responsibility and how a young person can give back to his or her community and make that community a better place for everyone. In particular, this paper will look at the "cause-and-effect" relationship of being a positive role model to young people. "
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Challenges Facing Democracy in the United States, 2008.
An argument claiming that President Bush has created a number of challenges to democracy in the United States today.
1,570 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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This paper discusses the three greatest challenges facing democracy in the United States today - the tyranny of the majority and the violation of civil liberties; an undemocratic constitution and an undemocratic electoral system; and an overwhelming executive power. The paper argues that President Bush's relentless abuses of power have led to this situation in the politics of the country.
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"The ultimate and foundational cause of all three problems being analyzed is the ignorance and apathy of tens of millions of Americans regarding politics and government. This ignorance and apathy has been exploited by the current occupant of the White House and his party in order to govern as fascists behind a facade of token lip service to Constitutional government and the rule of law. The Impeachment process would compel the complicit corporate media to report upon and acknowledge this harsh reality, which in turn would stir Americans from their lethargy and generate long-term electorate distrust of Republicans."
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Challenges facing the Nursing Profession, 2008.
A discussion about nurses' moral obligations to patients.
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 20.95
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This paper reports the writer's observations about ethics as they relate to the nursing experience. The paper is written in narrative form and discusses the writer's ideas about autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. The writer notes that she has come to understand that each nurse-patient situation is different and can often be complicated, and as such, cannot limit herself to one ethical theory when dealing with the ethical/moral dilemmas that sometimes arise in these situations.
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Introduction
Themes and application
Most meaningful themes
Significant learning
Conclusion
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"At the beginning of the course, I saw black and white and would be very close minded about ethics. The main thing I have learned is to incorporate new and deeper knowledge of ethical theories and principles with the analysis of an ethical issue. The key word in my learning is 'complexity'. I see that ethical issues are never simple. For example, the utilitarian idea of the greatest good for the greatest number (Beauchamp & Childress, 2001) sounds perfect but does not always work. My own favorite ethical theory is deontology because of its concern with others and with life. However, I learned I cannot limit myself to one view or I will never be able to deal with ethical dilemmas. Basically, I have learned that we need to have a complete understanding of all ethical theories and principle."
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Challenges Faced by Rural Healthcare Facilities: Research Proposal, 2008.
A research proposal to investigate the challenges experienced in rural health care facilities.
5,427 words (approx. 21.7 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 92.95
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This paper is a research proposal to investigate whether rural health care facilities overcome the ongoing challenges to provide quality medical care to their communities. The author provides background information leading up to this question as well as a recommendation for future studies and some diagrams of interest.
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Context of the Problem
Statement of the problem
Research Questions
Rationale of the Research
Significance of the Study
Methodology
Literature Review
Recommendations of the Research
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"Twenty-five percent of the total population in the United States are living in rural areas and compared with urban Americans and healthcare facilities in rural areas generally serve low-income, the elderly, and individuals who are less informed and armed with less knowledge concerning health care prevention measures. Moreover, rural individuals accessing healthcare in rural facilities face barriers to healthcare such as fewer doctors, hospitals and health resources in generation and face difficulty in accessing health services.
"Hospital closures and other market changes have adversely affected rural areas, leaving State and Federal policymakers, and others concerned about access to health care in rural America. Considerable changes in the health care delivery system over the past decade have intensified the need for new approaches to health care in rural areas. Managed care organizations, for example, may not be developed easily in rural areas, partly because of low population density."
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Face to Face with God, 2007.
This paper analyzes the book 'Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold' by C.S. Lewis.
1,419 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 32.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the book 'Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold' by C.S. Lewis and notes that Lewis has created a complex novel in his retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche. The writer points out that it is a novel with numerous themes and meanings, one which is very deep and reflects on the very core of the interaction between human nature and spirituality. The writer relates that speaking largely on the power of God, the Divine, love, jealousy and family among other themes, Lewis creates a powerful character in Orual whose transformation reflects on the very nature of God's involvement in life and on love, spirituality, and holiness within an individual. The writer concludes that Orual went through the process of gaining a face through her conversion and through her realization of her own self-deception, Lewis is suggesting that it requires internal awakening of the divine before true conversion and understanding of God can be reached.
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"Orual's conversion, and her own struggles with the divine, is reflective of the challenges humans must overcome to discover God. To find God, one must first find God in him or herself. Only through finding the divine inside, can one truly discover God. With the veil over the faces, to borrow Lewis' metaphor, humans have to face, and therefore cannot see the face of God. The face of God is not for humans to see anyway, because it is so pure and divine. However, there will come a day when we all have faces, as the title suggests, and then truly can we discover God. Ultimately, we must discover the Godliness in us as individuals; we must all undergo the conversion of Orual. The love that humans think they feel is not unconditional and it has to be to discover God. Discovering God is finding heavenly love in oneself, and to discover that one must believe in the greater spiritual powers without empirical proof. Psyche found her true happiness by trusting God, and she had beauty that was limitless. In Till We Have Faces, Lewis depicts how humans must go through a conversion, a difficult conversion in which they find true love in themselves in order to understand the true love of God. Only then, can God be discovered."
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Goffman's Face-to-Face Communication, 2007.
An exploration of Erving Goffman's model of human interaction.
1,953 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 43.95
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This paper identifies and discusses the various aspects of Erving Goffman's model of face-to-face communication, including impression management, discrediting information and group interaction or 'performance team'. The paper investigates these concepts and others as well as the concepts guiding the paper to the ultimate question of 'where or what is the real self?' The paper, considering Goffman's thoughts, attempts to answer this question.
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"For centuries philosophers have attempted to explain human face-to-face interaction. It is the human's desire for the fundamental answers of existence that explain this fact. Erving Goffman, a 20th Century sociologist, essentially found face-to-face communication to be a series of dramatic performances, not dissimilar to the performance of an actor or actress in a production. Thus, Goffman's 'dramaturgical' account of face-to-face communication was born. There are several aspects to Goffman's model of communication. Firstly, impression management is an important facet to investigate. Secondly, the relationship between revealing discrediting information and tactful blindness shown by the recipient is an interesting concept. "
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Challenges of Globalization, 2002.
A paper which discusses policies undertaken by Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Japan to face the challenges of globalization.
2,465 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 19 sources, APA, £ 52.95
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This paper discusses the globalization trend in the Southeast Asian region, highlighting policies undertaken by Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. Each country is examined in detail, using recent statistics and research to support the discussion. Also discussed are the obstacles they face in adopting these policies.
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"Globalisation can be defined as the ongoing economic, technological, social, and political integration of the world that began after the Second World War. However, there are also institutional and social changes that are taking place within the geographic borders of nation states, though these are much more difficult to quantify. Institutional changes include modifications in policy, in industrial organisation, and in the administration of laws and regulations that govern the behaviour of economic agents. Globalisation is impacting the institutional framework in both developing and industrial countries; it is changing the way in which governments view their developmental role in society (ADB, 2001, p.161). This essay aims to discuss the globalisation trend in the Southeast Asian region, highlighting policies undertaken by Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. It also discusses the obstacles they face in adopting globalisation."
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Human Resource Challenges in the Airline Industry, 2008.
A look at the challenges facing divisions of human resource management within the airline industry and some possible solutions to these challenges.
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 29.95
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The paper discusses five of the challenges faced by human resource management in the airline industry. The paper relates that these challenges include the need to ensure cost effectiveness, recruit and retain qualified employees, maintain employee satisfaction, and maintain union relations. The paper discusses each of these challenges and investigates them in relation to certain issues within the airline industry.
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"Another key issue faced by the airline industry is the use of contingent workforces. This is an issue that is not unique to the airline industry, but instead is on the forefront of all service industries. Contingent employees include "independent contractors, leased employees, freelancers, temporary workers and seasonal employees (Pratt, 2002)", which are willing to work in positions within the airline industry for monetary compensation only, without any benefits. The utilization of the contingent workforce may especially be desirable to the low cost/ no frills airlines since it generally results in the maintenance of a flexible staff while still acquiring the personnel and expertise required (Pratt, 2002). The human resource challenges most involved in this issue are the recruitment and retention of qualified employees. The fact that contingent employees do not receive benefits beyond monetary compensation may make these positions less desirable than positions where these individuals perform the same job for the same pay, but also receive benefits."
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Canada's 21st Century Challenges, 2008.
An argument that the challenges facing Canada in the twenty-first century are due to Canada's ties with the United States.
1,256 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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The paper discusses how Canada currently enjoys many advantages over other nations, but faces challenges that are bound inextricably with Canada continuing to strengthen its ties to the United States. The paper explains that with Canada's economy and security being more tightly bound to the United States, there is a risk of taking on more of the American problems as well. The paper asserts that Canada would be better off if it looked to other countries for new trade and investment. The paper is of the opinion that with more economic independence, political independence will follow and Canada's international image will be less coloured by the United States' foreign policy and the acrimony it generates.
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"The Canadian Prime Minister, Wilfred Laurier, said that the twenty-first century would be Canada's century. In many ways, the new millennium looks bright for our country. Canada currently enjoys many advantages over other nations, including a relatively peaceful social climate, an educated workforce, resource riches, technological might, and international good will. However, regarding this final point, there are difficult challenges that lay ahead. These challenges are bound inextricably with Canada continuing to strengthen its ties to the United States."
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Challenges in Intelligence, 2008.
This paper looks at the greatest challenges facing the intelligence community in the US in the coming years.
1,442 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 32.95
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In this article, the writer argues that several serious challenges must be overcome within the next few years if American interests are to be well-served by those entrusted with accumulating information on the country's enemies and with formulating strategies for overcoming those enemies. The challenges include unimaginative policy-makers, an unwieldy bureaucracy, imperfect human resources management, the need for international collaboration in a day and age when America is deeply unpopular around the world, the unfortunate trend towards the politicization of intelligence-gathering activities, and slovenly knowledge management. The writer notes that while arguably none of them is any more important than the others, all of them, if taken as a collective, can lead to a paralysis of the intelligence community that might prove, quite literally, deadly. The writer concludes that American intelligence has a host of challenges, from unimaginative policy-makers, to bureaucratic inertia, to combating America's unpopularity overseas, to poor knowledge management, that must all be overcome as quickly as possible.
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"Another major challenge will be coming up with a more stream-lined decision-making process for all branches of government - not simply the CIA or FBI or any other explicitly intelligence-gathering department. This commitment to efficiency, as most can imagine, is vitally important when it comes to things like protecting American nuclear arsenals from successful infiltration or attack. According to the General Accounting Office, the Department of Energy took nearly two years to develop a new Design Basis Threat capable of accurately assessing the possible size and capabilities of terrorist forces - in no small part because the DOE's review and comment process for developing policy is cumbersome, to say the least. Clearly, one of the great challenges facing America today is coming up with a means by which the bureaucracy can be made to work more efficiently so that all those associated - even peripherally - with the intelligence community are responsive and flexible in a day and age when responsiveness and flexibility are desperately needed. All in all, given as the country's nuclear arsenals are so enticing to sophisticated terrorist outfits with considerable human and financial resources, streamlining the decision-making and implementation process (particularly with regards to things like DBT development) is simply imperative."
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The Printing Industry's Challenges, 2007.
This paper researches the major challenges facing managers of UK commercial lithographic print companies.
5,108 words (approx. 20.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 89.95
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This paper reviews literature relating to the issues faced by the printing industry in the UK, focusing on small and medium-size enterprizes (SMEs), in particular. The paper discusses the main challenge of technology and e-business services by showing how the drivers of this industry are e-business applications. The paper looks at how companies must prepare their employees with ICT skills training and employ ICT marketing tools that enable knowledge, information sharing, communication and integration with customers in today's highly networked and digitalized market.
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New Tools in the Printing Industry
Policy Implications
Discussion
Conclusion
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"Today's traditional lithographic print industry, specifically firms that are SMEs are facing new challenges, structural change and implementation of new system processes that must be accounted into the firms' future if the firm expects to compete in today's highly digitalized, networked business world. It was written by Horton (1997) in the work entitled: "The Death of Print - The Global, Digital and Virtual Onslaught on the Traditional Print Industry" that: "the traditional print industry - composed of noisy press, messy inks, hundreds of thousand of impressions, highly skilled craftsmen, and a fearsome independence, is merging with other possible versions of a print business - the computer output business, the design service business, the digital print business, the electronic communication business, the global information business, and the customized service business. As a result the print industry is undergoing a slow and often painful revolution, which will take it into the 21st century just as a part of the global information and communication industry." (Ibid)"
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International Challenges, 2005.
A discussion of the three biggest challenges facing the international community - inequality, terrorism and nuclear proliferation.
1,542 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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This paper posits that inequality, terrorism and nuclear proliferation are major issues for the governments of the superpowers. The writer argues that these challenges have assumed crucial importance in recent times and have significantly affected international relations. If the international community fails to tackle these issues satisfactorily over the next few decades, they may become uncontrollable with overwhelming consequences for the whole world. This essay looks briefly at these three issues in turn and explains how they affect the current and future international relations.
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"Economic and social inequality has assumed grotesque proportions in recent times and the indications are that it is on the rise. For example, the richest 1% in the world (50 million people) have income equivalent to the poorest 57% (2.6 billion people) and four fifths of the world's population live below what countries in North America and Europe consider the poverty line. The rising trend of income inequality is reflected in the fact that "the share of the poorest 20% of the world's people in global income now stands at a miserable 1.1%, down from 1.4% in 1991 and 2.3% in 1960." ("Inequality"-World Revolution.org)"
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Starbucks' Challenges, 2005.
Examines the challenges faced by coffee giant Starbucks as they open more shops internationally and face competition by local tea cultures.
1,245 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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Starbucks has recently shown profound growth that is tempered by concerns over stores in foreign markets and the rise of a tea culture in the United States. In recent years, Starbucks' revenues have soared and the number of stores has increased dramatically. This paper shows that one potential cause for concern is a new focus on opening stores in rural and low-income areas, as opposed to the well-established success in high income, urban areas. In the global market, cultural differences have impacted Starbucks' potential success, especially in Japan. The paper shows that the strong coffee culture that played a role in Starbucks' success in America is not necessarily present worldwide. In the U.S., the potential growth of a tea culture may damage Starbucks' hold on the beverage market, especially given that the company faces stiff competition from competitors who may better embody the values of the tea culture.
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"However, this growth is likely to be limited not only by a potential reluctance to the values of coffee culture, but also by a number of practical concerns. For example, space limitations dictate that the average Japanese apartment does not have a coffeemaker. Instead, instant coffee is served at home, and also given to guests. Price and availability also limit the consumption of coffee in Japan. Note Weinberg, and Bealer (2002), "outside of fancy restaurants, which are out of reach for the average Japanese, fine coffee is still hard to find" (p. 145)."
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Human Resources Challenges, 2008.
A discussion fo the challenges faced by the human resources managers in the airline industry.
1,087 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 26.95
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This paper examines the ever changing challenges presented to the human resources managers in the airline industries. The paper looks at how the human resources manager in an airline industry has the challenge of staffing for this ever-changing need. The paper then explains that because the airline's needs are in a constant state of flux, the first step the human resources manager must take is to establish a system that allows for a regular evaluation of the need and then recruit based on the evaluated need. The paper also points out that the three main issues that a human resources manager will face in the industry is the increase in the amount of outsourced jobs, recruiting personnel who are qualified to handle the increased level of technology involved in the industry, and to be able to successfully handle employee disputes and possible strikes or other union-based actions.
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"As the human resources manager in this volatile industry, it is imperative that one prepare for the worse. To do this, the human resources manager must start by developing a in-depth and comprehensive employee contracting plan, especially in areas where unions are involved. The human relations manager must have a strategic plan as to what they can and cannot afford. This strategic plan must be developed based on a through evaluation of what risks the airline runs of a work stoppage for each of the contractual terms. (Shaw, 2004)."
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