Crisis Management             The occurrence of an emergence creates an immediate need for communication. In a business setting, for example, it is critical to immediately reach the customers to calm their curiosity about what could happen to them. Also, indirect stakeholders such as regulators and government officials should be briefed since society will be expecting information from them. Under normal circumstances, a firm will have neighbors who will also need immediate details as to whether the emergency will affect them. A business should ensure a vigilant communications department to ensure that the relevant audiences get information in time to avoid unnecessary tension. Preparedness of a business crisis communication department can be measured by the rate at which the business responds during an emergency both during and after the emergency has occurred. The relevant audiences that include customers, employees and families, survivors of the crisis, media, managers, and investors, government officials and suppliers must be reached immediately with information related to the specific interests and needs. Developing a comprehensive crisis management program to handle information during disasters is critical for the…

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome  SARS was a viral epidemic that struck in 2003 and was considered a threat globally (Medicine et al., 2004). It was first identified in Guangdong province in China in 2002 and thought to have originated from the bats from where it spread to other animals, the civet cats. In China, there were over 5,300 people infected and reported 349 deaths. The epidemic spread to 30 different countries in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, with the numbers shooting to over 8000 by 2003 before the outbreak was contained. The transmission was from person to person and mostly spread on and around the health centers due to inadequate prevention measures to curb the spread. Other countries that were affected by SARS included Canada, Singapore, and Viet Nam. Among the symptoms including fever, malaise, myalgia, headache, diarrhea as well as rigors. Ethical issues such as international cooperation in times of a crisis, transparency in sharing of information, quarantining of both the affected as well as health practitioners’ response in times of the epidemic. The health system in…

                    UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF ADVERTISING THEORIES AND MODELS. A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR A CAMPAIGN AT THE TIME OF COVID-19       Student’s Name         Course Professor’s Name University City (State) Date             Understanding the Role of Advertising Theories and Models. A Strategic Plan for A Campaign at The Time of Covid-19 Part 1: Theoretical Framework A campaign in the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic necessitates a persuasive advertisement that seeks to achieve set objectives. Also, the ongoing health crisis across various countries in the World attribute to unprecedented times, where companies should be cautious with brand promotion. In the time of Covid-19, advertisements should aim at informing as opposed to irritating customers with irritating marketing emails. The two theories, which can assist in elaborating the theoretical framework of the strategic plan in a campaign during COVID-19, include the agenda-setting theory and the persuasion theory. In contemporary societies, there is an emergency of various social media platforms that demand marketing as well as…

Drug Dependency Issues Related To Opioids Name Professor Course Date Drug Dependency Issues Related To Opioids Overview of the Issue Drug abuse is an issue that plagues many societies around the world. Opioid abuse is a common issue in America that is believed to have begun in the late 1990s (NIH, 2020). Pharmaceutical companies passed assurance messages to healthcare providers that opioids are not addictive which led to the widespread adoption of the greater prescription rates (NIH, 2020). As a result, there was the development of high rates of misuse among users especially for pain management which revealed the widespread growth of opioid dependency (Morone & Weiner, 2013). Subsequently, there were increased reports of opioid overdose deaths in America. As a result, as of 2020, about 29% of opioid prescription patients misuse the drug (NIH, 2020).To the public health department, this shows an increased number of cases relating to opioid dependency especially in pregnant women known as neonatal opioid withdrawal symptoms (NIH, 2020). Additionally, the use of injections to administer the drug among abusers has led to increased rates of…

Social work reading reflection According to the National Association of Social workers’ website, several roles of social workers are evident. These include advocacy, educating, facilitating, or mediating, thereby protecting the dignity and worth of their clients. With regard to the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019, these social workers are concerned with the well-being of their clients and the community at large. NASW, for example, is advocating to ensure insurance coverage of teletherapy, they are also educating through the dissemination of accurate information from sources that can be trusted as prevention efforts against COVID-19.  The level of practice exhibited range from macro to micro social work. Macrosocial work encompasses practices for both small and large communities, including advocacy, community-based education, among others (Gilbert, 2018). These are evident, for example, the free NASW webinars for educating people and the NASW 2020 National conference. The level of commitment exhibited is enormous. For example, the information related to COVID-19 is vast, which includes facts, news, preventive measures, and resources. This demonstrates a commitment to explore difficult issues and, at the same time, provide…

              Aristotelian Criticism Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Aristotelian Criticism Evaluation Why Uber’s Apology Ad Worked and Facebook’s and Wells Fargo’s Bombed is an article written by Prudy Gourguechon and published by Forbes.com. Gourguechon is an American psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and an author specializing in leadership strategies. The  article attempts to explore the features of an effective apology given by a company. Gourguechon explores apologies given by Facebook, Wells Fargo, and Uber. She was motivated by the advertisement apologies aired by the three companies, which all employed different communication approaches. Of the three apologies, Gourguechon describes Uber’s apology as the most effective. Gourguechon wrote and published the article at a time three significant companies in the world had issued advertisement apologies within the same time frame. Moreover, a survey suggested that Uber’s apology was accepted by 31% of the individuals who had watched the advertisement featuring the company’s apology. Gourguechon’s target audience was individuals who manage companies and those who determine how companies communicate with their consumers. To persuade the target audience, Gourguechon provides a clear…

                    ASSIGNMENT 3: CRITIQUE OF INTERVIEW                         SECTION 1.          SECTION 1A: FOCUS ON SELF REFLECTION Before the interview I had studied every possible question that could be asked out there. I had researched on every forwards and the backwords the company had influence on. It was practically there after all the research and all the waiting. The anxiety was there may be in a few minutes and seconds. I did all I could to get myself back to the cool mode before it happened.  In the current situation I believed there had never been a time when cooperation from international unions was needed at an urgent rate to fight and contain the virus.  This became the most acute pandemic and had never considered it that serious as we had thought. On planning on the interview I considered the virus to fall under the version of shared future. Many medical teams were spread all over to spread the worlds contribution to return to normal ways on containing the pandemic. This affected the availability of the gathered information since the interaction…

Countrywide and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Countrywide Financial Corporation was a giant in the financial industry in the United States for several decades until the financial crisis in the year 2008. Under Mozilo’s stewardship, the company’s growth had been incredible. It had employees tripled to more than thirty-four thousand. Initially, it was called countrywide credit industries but changed to the countrywide financial corporation. It is an assertion that it was no longer a sheer mortgage company. As a complete commercial company, it owned banks, sold title insurance, and traded in shares. However, the mortgage remained its principal business as was ranked third largest home provider in America by inside mortgage finance. Efforts put in place by the company during the fast-growing period were to command a market share of about forty percent, which would have been the highest ever witnessed in the industry. If achieved, this would have proved the dominance of countrywide corporation for more than a century. When the real estate market in the US fell due to the financial crisis in 2008, it left the company exposed…

Milestone 2: Crisis Situation Analysis and Response Tactics. Introduction Given the intricacies of crises that the Haddonfield county probation department is facing, the organization requires a strategic response plan that advocates the involvement of all multiple organization players, above and beyond the short-term emergency response tactic. Mitigating the impact of the crises on the overall organization strategy calls for the need for an established framework for coordinated action for an effective result. Whereas the need to conduct situation analysis will establish the possibility of a constitutional crisis and help develop a suitable response tactic for organization survival and damage reputation (Ashari et al., 2017). How well the department of probation responses to the issue of staff misconduct complications, organization’s staffing issues, and current budgetary problems will test the organization’s resolute capacity to provide the appropriate mitigation strategies to protect the organization’s mandate of serving the juvenile offenders. Furthermore, as a department, we will embark on concentrate on improving the views of society when it comes to the department interaction with crime and law enforcement, rather than on the criminal justice…

Cultural representation in Films Recently there has been increased attention on racism in films in Hollywood, this can be reflected on who is the actor, and the director of the film and how people have been represented on the screen. Over the years, Hollywood has provided different examples of racist depictions, with the African American and Asians being mostly the targets. Since the birth of Hollywood in the 1900s, it has been characterized by racially stereotyped roles and racism in the form of exclusion. Take, for instance, the movie Breakfast at Tiffany, where Mr Yunioshi, who’s mysterious and a comic character is meant to mock the Japanese. Both the Native Americans and African Americans have often been marginalized in Hollywood. Up to date,some representation of them in films weren’t even made by people who know much about them. Therefore, this creates a bizarre depiction of them in cinema, especially for those who do not know the Native Americans or the African Americans. This also creates confusion among them since they cannot relate to what is depicted about them in the…