Rational Actor Model Rational Actor Model is the best one to explain the Cuban missile events. This theory pertains to; government being considered as the primary or key actor and the examination of set goals by a government, evaluation of the objectives according to their utility, hence picking the one with the most payoff. In this Cuban crisis, the model applies to several events. Kennedy disclosed in 1961 that the Soviet Union had few intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) than people thought. As feedback to this revelation, Nikita Khrushchev commanded the installation of short-range nuclear weapons in Cuba. Soviets also closed the missile gap hence earning points in the cold war. After Kennedy showed no support on the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Soviets believed that the United States would respond in a friendly way. Another event that makes this model fit for this crisis is when Kennedy and the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) assessed several strategies or options such as a complete invasion of Cuba and doing nothing. They finally picked the Cuba blockade option because…

Impacts of the incidents to the corporate reputation The events described have different implications for the united airlines’ status. One of them is that different customers lose their trust in the company. Another impact is that the company’s image has been destroyed following the occurrence of the incidents. Additionally, there is a drop in the company’s rating. Whether the events impact the company’s identity, image, or both These incidents affect both corporate identity and image. This is because customers have started viewing the corporate as a non-caring organization and have lost their interest in it. For this reason, the company has registered a drop in its rating, showing that their identity has been tainted. The case of barring the girls from boarding the aircraft indicates that the corporate is discriminating against people following their gender. People mocked this incident, and it tainted the image of the company. Whether the event constitutes a crisis From the information given in this case, the incidents constitute crises. In Dr. David’s fact, some crises occurred when forcing him out of the plain. These crises…

A successful leader My personnel experience as a successful leader takes me back in the year 2014, while I was working for an electronic company in Baltimore. The company operated both retail and wholesale. I was the company’s distribution coordinator. The distribution department was responsible for most of the logistics from pulling orders and delivering merchandise for shelf stocking. At the time, I assumed the position the company’s daily deliveries were limited to four trucks due to the inefficiency of the team at the time. I embarked on training my side and then placing them in the right position depending on their acquired skill sets. The efficiency of the team improved tremendously, and the total daily deliver trucks moved up to nine trucks. To achieve this growth, I applied the charismatic style of leadership. As a charismatic leader, I used persuasion, eloquent communication and force of personality to change the inner working of the department. Also, it helped me delegate duties based on the skill set of each team member. Besides, I worked with my team side by side, inserting…

The existence of racial issues The existence of racial issues has contributed to toxic effects amongst the affected group. Through these issues, the affected groups have been considered to be characterized by high risks of attacking diseases. Racial issues result in discrimination, which has been deemed to be linked to the outcome of health. This shows that discrimination base on race directly harms the health of a person. The racial issues are hazardous in the nation since it constitutes stressors. For instance, when it is analyzed under chronic stressor, the racial problems highly trigger the inflammatory action of responses specifically to African Americans within the cellular level. For a person to successfully survive, he or she may have the ability to respond to injuries, stresses, and infection. Racial issues are like a threat to the affected group. It triggers the response of the immune system hence fending off the pathogens, and th repair damaged tissues. The selected group f gene is the key to such a defense mechanism. Therefore the signs of inflammation of such genes work in encountering the…

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System To handle the ever-increasing volume and frequency outgoing and incoming data, a business needs to have an effective management system. Even for small businesses, where business operations are still uncomplicated, various business processes can be made as efficient as possible. Gone are the days where document filling and other demanding and more important operations such as data entry and data analysis were done manually. The best management that I would recommend for any growing business is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. ERP, unlike its counterpart Microsoft Excel, allows more operations to be done in a more efficient manner. ERP has features that allow integration of important business processes such as sales, inventory, finance and marketing into a single system that is easy to manage. Although the excel spreadsheet is a very useful accounting and record-keeping tool, it has fewer functionalities as compared with ERP. It is, therefore, slowly becoming an out-dated method of managing business operations and it has been overtaken by more versatile ERP systems and other digital applications. The greatest advantage that…

The right to vote by ex-felonies The right to vote by ex-felonies in the United States has become a topic of discussion by many policy-making groups and the judiciary in the country. Felony disfranchisement policies and severity in the United States vary from state to state. For example, in 2008, 5.3 million Americans were not allowed to vote because they were ex-felons. Whereas some states limit the right of voting for ex-felons in different ways, some states do not have any limitation towards voting for the same group of individuals; for example, the state of Maine does not have restrictions on ex-felons when it comes to voting. There are different ways in which different states restrict voting on ex-felons. First of is limiting voting rights of a felony when they are still serving their term in the society or jail. For example, states like Colorado and Maryland have these restrictions. Ex-felons may not be able to vote until when they finish their term, parole, and probation, and then it can be restored. An excellent example of the states are Alaska and…

  Themes in Candide The corrupting power of money is a primary theme that I believe has taken a central stage in the nine different concepts illustrated in the Candide story. When Candide got a fortune in Eldorado, it was like most of his challenges had been solved.  The issues like the arrest and the injuries to the body were no longer threats as he could easily bribe his way out of most situations. The practice shows a concept of humanism which is a concern of humanity, uniquely using specific approaches to solve human problems, like the avoidance of arrest and body injuries. However, as a rich man, Candide is still unhappy. The lack of happiness has come from the experience of seeing his money go to the hands of the corrupt merchants and also some officials testing his optimism in a manner that inhibited flogging. The experiences get associated with empiricism where the knowledge gets derived from the sense of experience. Also, the concept of pagan self-reliance is seen in the story where Candide has a full reliance on…

Analysis and Interpretation Using the One-Way ANOVA The one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical tool that is used to compare the means between two or more groups of data. The one-way ANOVA aids researchers in determining whether there is a statistical significance when comparing the means of multiple variables, usually independent (Warner, 2013).  This report examines and analyses the data variables in the grades.sav data set (section and quiz3), and using SPSS, interprets the data with supporting statistical output using tables and graphs. Section 1: Data File Description The grades.sav data set may be described as follows. The data was presented as a fictional data set by a teacher, who recorded the demographics of his students, as well as their performances across quizzes and a final exam. The performance data was recorded across three sections of the course in question.  The total sample size N is 105, with each section consisting of 35 students. The variables in the data set are section and quiz3, where the variables may be interpreted as the predictor and outcome variables respectively. In…

Student Housing Crisis in the Lower Mainland Renters in the Lower mainland are experiencing a housing crisis due to the vacancy rate of rental and the skyrocketing cost of decent housing. One of the parties discussing this issue is an advocacy group which recommends that the area needs additional five-hundred rental units. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is another interested party which established a report recommending that the Lower Mainland needs ten-thousand non-market rental units every year which would cost an estimate of 2.5 billion dollars every year. The report says that the situation is a felt need for low-income groups. In their discussion, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reported that low-wage earners could not afford even the cheapest one-bedroom apartment in Metro Vancouver’s 70 neighbourhoods (Corbett). The cost of housing is an issue at stake. Vancouver had the most expensive rentals of two-bedroom apartments in Canada in last year November. After a 6.5% rise in 2018, the cost of a two-bedroom apartment in Vancouver went up to well above three-thousand dollars per month. Other issues at stake include…

Realist Perspective of the Syria Crisis Introduction Though the photos showing the Qubair and Houla Massacres are sad and gut-wrenching, one can understand why the public opinion of Americans have shifted to the support for increased military interventions in Syria. More than 15,000 Syrians have succumbed to bloody deaths in the past one year. This resulted in a number of individuals suggesting that Syria was comparable to the Srebrenica of the previous United States administration. The objective of writing this paper, therefore, is to present a realist perspective to Syria so as to be able to effectively assess the crisis. The realist point of view, in relation to conflict resolution, asserts that there is a need for Syrians to avoid the interventions so that they may resolve their challenges devoid of the United States and other nations getting deeply involved than they already are, in relation to arms supply, support for the rebels and leading from behind. Discussion The realist’s perspective with regards to the Syrian crises entails the view that the United States desires that President Assad be deposed…