Student’s name Lecturer’s name Unit name Unit code Date of submission Rogerian Essay on Allowing Cell Phones In High School With the evolving technology, things nowadays are seen to be easy, and most products and information can easily be accessed from just a click of a button. The issue of a cell phone being allowed in high school has sparked a different reaction from the community, teachers, students, and regulatory bodies. With the growing technology, almost everyone owns a cell phone. Having a cell phone has made our lives easy, and with the revolutionized technology, interconnecting through the web and social media is made possible. It is essential to understand how having a cell phone in a school compound can affect students. There are some benefits and disadvantages of allowing high school kids to possess a cell phone in school. We must get to understand how each plays in the growth of a student and how it impacts him or her socially. In this paper am…
Reflecting on the Strategy Formation Process Article Overview The article is a review of the strategy process by Henry Mintzberg and Joseph Lampel. Managers see the strategy process in a different way from how consultants perceive it (Mintzberg & Lampel, 1999). While managers try to be reactive, consultants are proactive, forecasting future growth and planning how to get there. On the other hand, managers analyze the current external and internal business environment and respond to the changes in these environments. The focus of the article is to evaluate how the strategy process has evolved over time by analyzing ten different schools of strategy formulation. The authors observe that over the years, the strategy process has changed with new perspectives arising, which has helped to broaden the concept. The articles further explore how the different schools have led to the perception of strategy formulation as either comprised of many processes or as a single process made up of many parts. According to the article, some schools are intertwining as to the evolution of strategy formation, while others present a clear and…
role of culture in international negotiations Over the recent past, more businesses have gone global. Additionally, politicians are always engaged with their counterparts from other parts of the world. According to Cardenas (2019), culture comprises of the socially transmitted values, attitudes, norms and behavior patterns of a given community, which may comprise an organization, country, or ethnic group. This paper explores the role of culture in international negotiations. Cultural differences make business negotiations more complicated. For instance, cultural differences create an opportunity for misunderstandings between negotiating parties. For instance, a U.S firm may be negotiating with its Japanese counterparts when the representatives of the latter make a statement suggesting that they are having difficulty accepting the proposal made by the former. This may be interpreted by the representatives of the U.S firm that their Japanese counterparts are still willing to continue the business negotiations. However, Japanese culture encourages people to avoid confrontations (Cardenas, 2019). By saying that they are experiencing some difficulties accepting a business proposal, representatives of the Japanese firm are insinuating that the discussions between them and their…
Reflection Brown Vs. Board of Education Question one Thurgood Marshall. He is one of the best African American who worked with Supreme Court justice. He plays a key role in promoting racial equality when coming with the civil rights movement. Separate but equal. It is one of the legal doctrines within the United States constitutional law. According to this law, the law requires the whites and the blacks to ride in separate railroad cars but was not part of violating the equal protection clause. The rule of law. It can be defined as a durable system of laws, norms, institutions, and community commitments that brings about accountability. Sweat v. painter, the role of those cases was to challenge the separate but equal laws. The case involved a black man sweat was denied admission to join the Texas school of law. U.S constitution. The role of the U.S constitution, in this case, is to act as a guide or reference for the people. Fourteenth amendment. The fourteenth amendment was meant to address many issues affecting the citizens and their rights. It…
Nationstate Insurance Case Study The case study talks of Jane Denton, a chief information officer who has just been appointed at Nationstate Insurance company. Jane has shown quite a remarkable achievement in IT, and now at her new position, she intends to leave a lasting legacy before her retirement. The case study vividly describes Jane’s strategy in her conquest to achieve her goals. The paper describes the potential rewards that Nationstate Insurance would realize from the growth of an enterprise-wide architecture proposed by Jane. It also presents a business case that Seamus O’Malley, Jane’s chief enterprise architect, would hand over to the senior management team. Potential rewards that Nationstate Insurance would realize First, Nationstate Insurance would experience an efficient communication amidst various business units. Since the strategy aimed at centralizing the information, then several business units would experience quite an efficient communication that comes from a single location rather than from several points. Secondly, the cost would be significantly reduced as redundancy would be eliminated. When information is centralized, then the repetition of documentation is eliminated. Additionally, the company would…
Language Test Course Students Name Affiliation Course Instructor Date Language Testing Course Question 1 As a language practitioner, how do you test language abilities turning target language use into test tasks? Explain focusing only on one language skill of your own choice. As a practitioner, testing language abilities may be challenging. Consequently, for a learner to grasp a language, they have to understand multiple concepts. Thus, as a language practitioner, I will employ the different aspects of the language in the test. In this case, I will focus on English language skills. Applying various elements such as past tense, present tense, and rhetoric questions is useful in testing the language skills of the student. I will also analyze the student’s ability to comprehend and understand the grammar and context used. The first test will be made up of an English passage from a book or paper. Markedly, apart from the passage, I will…
The Anglo-Saxon people were composed of various Germanic tribes that came into the English Islands during the Middle Ages. The people of these tribes originally practised poetry through oral tradition, but when Christianity was introduced, some written work was preserved and survived. The Anglo-Saxon poetry also called Old English poetry, was divided into two: The Christian, and the heroic poetry, which was the source of pre-Christian Germanic myth, history, and custom. During the old times, when written poetry was invented, only churchmen were literate, and most of their time was spent copying manuscripts (Benson, 339). That is the reason as to why most of the existing work on The Old English poetry is based on religious topics. Old English poetry is the earliest of all written Germanic culture, and that’s the earliest history on pagan oral literature of Germanic culture, and the only source of knowledge about many aspects, and values of the Germanic community. However, the Anglo-Saxon poetry had no rules or system that was followed, and therefore every knowledge we have about it is based on the modern…
Rhetorical Analysis: The Gillette Advertisement Case Study Name Institutional affiliation Date Businesses are primarily marketed by the use of advertisements ranging from the wobbly cartoon shapes placed outside stores to the theatrically displayed singing and dancing on mainstream television commercials. Ads are aimed at performing a range of roles in the market, but the most significant of all becomes to ensure that there is brand awareness by consumers. Therefore, organizations spend a lot of resources in the creation of advertisements to attract and keep customers. The effect of the ad is highly dependent on the persuading of the audience. An ad can only be termed as good if it encompasses the proper elements of rhetorical appeal. That is, there has to be evidence of pathos, logos, and ethos in the presentation to appeal to all senses of an individual. A commercial that has all the aforementioned rhetorical appeals leads to the creation of an identification of the person with the product leading to a preferential consuming of the product or service being displayed.…
Mute in an English Only World Introduction In his article, “Mute in an English-Only World,” Chang-Rae Lee tells the story of the challenges she faced in her childhood to depict the challenges faced by other people from other countries every day. He tells the story about the struggles her mother faced as an immigrant in a foreign country due to the language barrier. Even after practicing English for many years, she never learnt it well enough to be able to express her emotions using the language. In the article “Mute in an English-Only World,” Lee uses the pathos appeal to convince the readers of his argument. The author tries to illustrate the difficulties that most immigrants have with English using the story of his mother’s struggles. It is clear that Lee used the Pathos appeal, a method that draws upon the emotions and sympathies of the reader, to make his argument (Rubinelli 2018 ). Everyone reading this book certainly feels sorry for Lee’s mother due to the challenges she faced, and this was the author’s intention while writing the story.…
Love-Hate Relationship between Journalism and Public Relations in the Digital Era “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything is public relations” – George Orwell. The relationship between journalism and public relations has been the subject of a magnitude of research for the past century. This relationship has been likened to a coin with public relations and journalism representing its opposite sides. For decades, researchers and scholars have sought to determine the effects of public relations on media and journalism and vice versa. The link between journalism and PR can be summarized as an eternal love-hate relationship that is devoid of trust but fueled by mutual dependency. While public relations strives to build a positive image of an organization, the main objective of journalism is to look for controversies and problems posed or faced by organizations. The advancements in technology, such as the evolution of social media, has brought about digital disruption in the field of communication. This change has, in turn, affected the relationship between journalism and public relations. New boundaries and platforms for interactions…