Strengths and Weaknesses based on Barclays and Deutsche Bank Strengths Barclays and Deutsche Bank networking for the delivery is robust, and they offer multi-channel for delivery networking. The banks have Branches, ATMs, online banking facilities, and on phone banking facilities. The Banks’ employees are very enthusiastic about their work. Both banks have operational competence. The financial resources available at the two banks are excellent (Wójcik et al., 2018). Their operations are well expanded. The banks’ diversified set-ups include retail investment, consumer lending, place funding, and commercial banking. Fiscal public exhibition of the two banks takes the aid of engineering for enhancing their banking services as they respond electronically to the queries of customers. The banks offer commercial facilities to customers by applying information engineering. The banks supply online security so that thefts and frauds will be prohibited. For this security, the two banks are using different packages. Fraud instances are avoided by using the packages. Barclays and Deutsche Bank are geographically diversified, and they perform their concern operations in various states. Branches of the two banks are widely spread…
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…
Sony Mobile Specification with Prices Sony Xperia X Premium This mobile is the best version of Sony series, along with two other variants. It is the most expensive handset of the Sony Xperia X Premium company with high-end specifications. This phone set has Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820. This phone has 32/64GB Built-in, 3GB of RAM. This handset has a main camera, of 23MP, with the front camera of high resolution quality of 13MP. This handset is available in colors White, Graphite Black, Lime Gold, rose Gold. The weight of this handset is not announced yet. The size of this set is 5.5 inches. The battery of this handset is non-removable. This mobile has so many specifications, i.e. bilateral wireless charging active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, document viewer, photo/video editor. This mobile has already been launched. People who are very fond of using Sony series mobiles will definitely be going to purchase this phone without seeing its cost. The Retail Price of Sony Xperia X Premium smartphone is $559. Sony Xperia XZ Premium As you know that Sony Xperia XZ…
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…
The Populists and the Progressive Reformers in America’s History Introduction America’s economy in the 19th century was healing from the devastating economic effects of the great depression. The economy had bounced back, and the prizes of the commodities stabilized. Some of the companies in the US benefited from the expansion, and the acquisition of the overseas territories. Some reformist argued that ruling these territories without the consent of the people was unacceptable. These predominant middle-class reformers emerged during the 1890s, and are branded the name; “Progressives.” The progressives believed the government should indulge much in promoting the welfare of the people. The populists, on the other hand, wanted the government to directly control every economic aspect of the territories, and the monetary system. The progressives were conservative, and they believed the government should use the powers vested within its jurisdiction to regulate the policies within the financial system, and promoting social justice. The populists majorly concentrated on the government improving the conditions of the agrarian workers. The progressives in the history of the US included John Dewey, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane…
The view on what a firm entails in regard to the neoclassical paradigm, transaction theory and behavioral economics. A firm is an organization, company or enterprise that employs productive resources with the aim of obtaining or making products and services presented in the market in quest of making a profit. Also to note, not all organizations are firms. Therefore it should be distinguished that what differentiates a firm from an ordinary organization is the aim to make profits by selling products and services in the market. To add, firms attain there intended ultimate goal by transforming the resources available to finished products and services. To note also, firms use different types of resources in their productive process. These resources are divided into; natural resources, capital, human resources and entrepreneurship. Natural resources are those taken directly from nature exclusive of any transformations including air, wood, land, and water. Capitals refer to the funds needed for investment in technology, machinery, tools and equipment. As for the human resources, these are the physical and intellectual capabilities of the workers (Rothschild & Stiglitz, 2011,…
WORLD ZONES AND EARLY AGRARIAN LIFE By 12000 years ago the human population was split into four world zones – regions where collective learning could be shared but not penetrate the other zones. AFRO-EURASIA THE AMERICAS AUSTRALASIA THE PACIFIC The human experiment ran in four different places, in isolation from each other. Within a large world zone, e.g. Afro Eurasia or The Americas, exchange of information might be slow at first… in the early days most info exchange over thousands of miles would take many lifetimes. A new invention in China crept slightly further west for several hundred years before reaching the Mediterranean. The early agrarian era 12000-5000 years ago before the rise of states info exchange was even slower it would take centuries and millennia for the practice of farming to spread out of the hub regions around the world where they were independently invented to the hinterlands where people still foraged… same goes for spread of bronze tools instead of stone tools very little incentive for early farmers to spread their technologies into the hinterlands or even much…
COMPLEXITY EXPLOSION OF AGRICULTURE With the rise of agriculture 12000 years ago, human farmers weren’t just looting the products of nature like the foragers were, they were also manipulating them, domesticating plants and animals that were more directly geared towards human sustenance, thus harnessing a greater fraction of the Sun’s energy flows, to allow for much higher populations in a much smaller area… higher populations meant more innovators and packed much more closely together to communicate those innovations… collective learning went into overdrive and with it human societies grew more intricate and complex… in comparison to the last 13.8 billion years the last twelve thousand years have been a blur of milestone after milestone of rising complexity THE FORAGER-AGRICULTURE TRANSITION Imagine you are a forager 12000 years ago… for the past 2000 years the ice age has slowly come to an end, the weather was growing more temperate and certain regions of the world were much more hospitable… in fertile river valleys, ecosystems had grown with plenty of trees, edible plants, fruits and animals to hunt.. your people arrived in…
classic representations of life before agriculture or the state here are two classic representations of life before agriculture or the state… on the one hand you have Thomas Hobbes who wrote that before the state there were “no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death” and certainly with a 10% murder rate in the foraging era this possibility was very real… Hobbes goes on to say “the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” and foraging life certainly could be but also it could be quite nice depending on the circumstances… in fact some foragers would have lived happier and healthier lives than some peasants in Hobbes’ own day… the upshot of this narrative is to emphasize the potential anarchy of the foraging existence, to underline the “gift” of the state bringing in law and order and to justify varying degrees of authoritarianism… in Hobbes’ case it was to justify as best as he could the institution of monarchy… on the flip side you have a vision…
Water Conservation in Agriculture Climate change and rapid growth of the population are some of the factors which have intensified the search for efficient methods of conserving water. Water is essential to human life and it is also necessary for the growth of food used by human beings. Some parts of the world experience adverse climate changes where draught last for a long time before it rains. Therefore, there is a need to use the available water efficiently to avoid unnecessary wastage of water. Technological methods have to be employed in agricultural practices so that adequate food can be produced with a limited supply of water. This research paper will analyze previous research and policies which have been put in place to enhance water conservation in agriculture. Also, the research paper will discuss various methods used for water conservation and the advantages of water conservation in agriculture. Much proportion of the food products across the globe require water for their production. In the past, Easterling has observed that there is a major challenge to the 21st-century scientific leaders to increase…