SWOT Analysis for Apple Inc. Strengths Strong brand image Apple is among the most reliable and most valuable brands on the planet. As such, it can introduce profitable new product lines quickly, alluding to the virtue of its strong image. High-profit margins Apple’s 4P focuses on premium pricing strategy, which yields massive profit margins. The strategic factor severs as a major strength as it maximizes profits regardless of the sales volume at a particular time. Effective rapid innovation processes The intensive growth approach and generic competitive approach of Apple focus on effective rapid innovation that prompts it to keep up with the latest technologies, which is a tremendous competitive advantage. Great R&D Apple can undertake innovation as well as introduce new services and products. Apple has been able to improve its existing offerings through Research and Development hence has stayed ahead of its competitors. Sustainability made Possible through Liam The ability of Liam to recycle or pull apart old iPhones is impressive. The technology can detect and remove components from tiny screws to cooper and gold elements in parts such…

The Merits and Demerits of Local Sourcing There are many advantages associated with local sourcing. Chief among them is the reduction of business costs, mainly on transportation. Also, the endeavour permits a firm to monitor the quality of the goods or services supplied by the vendor more closely. Local sourcing also enables businesses to establish more meaningful buyer-supplier relationships with vendors. The endeavour also allows firms to enact a positive global footprint on the environment by fostering sustainability. Finally, local sourcing also adds more benefits to businesses by ensuring that they derive the benefits associated with working in a region in which they share the language and culture with the locals. This endeavour is fundamental in minimizing the emergence of misunderstandings or conflict among the buyer and supplier due to language barriers or culture shocks. It, thus, helps to foster business efficacy. On the downside, however, local sourcing can prove costly to an organization when the production and labour costs in the country are higher than those incurred by overseas businesses. This factor often leads a firm to spend more…

Movie Report: Pathfinder Pathfinder, a movie directed by Marcus Nispel, mainly depicts a story of a Viking boy, nicknamed Ghost, who survived a battle between his people and a rival tribe. The movie begins with a woman discovering the young boy, who, scared for his life, hides inside a ship while holding on to his father’s sword. Although the woman belongs to a tribe different from Ghosts’, she opts to adopt him. However, her tribe rejects Ghosts, hence making him contend with living as an outsider in a land he calls his home (Nispel, 2007). The inclination by Ghost and the members of his newly-acquired tribe to exude differences in their social relations denoted their awareness of culture. Mainly, the tribe could not fully accept Ghost as their due to their perceptions regarding his tribe, which mostly comprised of killers. In turn, Ghost’s awareness of his roots let him contend, becoming labeled an outsider. The quest by Ghost to understand his origin leads him to venture to find his path. His possession of his father’s sword leads him to deduce…

 Aubreyon on Tedtalk presentation The processes of decelerating the aging have increasingly received interest not only from scientists but every member of the public. It is essential to first understand what aging is and the implications it as in a person’s life. Aging starts when a person is about sixty years as they approach the late adulthood stage. Human aging involves the primary processes that are irreversible genetic programming and the secondary aging caused by sicknesses and other individual health habits that are preventable. Most scientists and researchers believe that the aging process has economic effects. Governments spend a lot of money to take care of the elderly population that is more vulnerable to chronic illnesses. According to Aubrey, in his Tedtalk presentation, aging is an expensive social problem, and there is a need to address the process. The author believes that rejuvenation biotechnology offers the best solution in the treatment and prevention of aging-related sicknesses (Aubrey, 2014). Aubrey also observes that there has not been a substantial effort in addressing age-related diseases. The medicine world has concentrated so much…

Alaska Air Group Industrial Analysis The company got formed due to the combination of two groups that includes Alaska airlines as well as Horizon Air. With a combined market capitalization of 8.547 billion US dollars, approximately 14,000 employees, and have 11 percent in market share in the US; the company remains among the top five biggest airline companies in the United States (Statista, 2019). The company has its headquarters in Seattle, serves over 44 million customers annually, and operates in four countries such as the US, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of Alaska Air Group The threat of New Entrants Generally, the threat of new entrants remains weak as far as Alaska Air Group is concerned. In the airline industry, there are strict government policies that entail the issuance of licenses and other legal frameworks before any company can start the airline operations. Such requirements render it relatively difficult for new entrants in the industry. Again, the Alaska air group operates on a high economy of scale, which makes its ability to produce high capacities of…

ANIMATION TRENDS AROUND THE WORLD We’ve seen a resurgence in the liveliness business in the course of the most recent decade. Not just has the web begun to look all starry eyed at the video animation services, however, new innovation has placed the apparatuses of liveliness into more hands than any other time in recent memory. All around the globe, artists are positively influencing new and energizing ways. THE ANIMATION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD Most Americans would highlight Burbank, California as the movement capital of the world. Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Nickelodeon and Netflix all have studios there. A ton of the national movement consideration goes to Disney, with its ongoing obtaining of twentieth Century Fox and the arrival of its new spilling administration. Also, the absurd prominence of the Frozen establishment. In any case, California isn’t the main spot where liveliness flourishes. Customarily, studios in the United States, Japan, and (to a lesser degree) Europe have created the main part of liveliness ventures. Yet, different districts have been unobtrusively fabricating their liveliness muscles in the course of the…

Alibaba Group Case Analysis Introduction Over recent years, Alibaba has grown to become an e-commerce giant with its headquarter situated in Hangzhou, China. The company uses the internet to market, sell, and promote different brands. Despite its tremendous growth, the company remains limited to China, and it is still struggling to extend its operation in the international market. A large percentage of the company’s revenue is derived from e-commerce business. For instance, in 2018, e-commerce businesses accounted for 82% of the company’s revenue (Wu & Gereffi, 2018). However, Alibaba faces a significant challenge as the company is still struggling to expand its global market coverage while at the same time trying to explore new revenue channels. Alibaba operates in China, a very highly populated country that translates to a high consumer or customer base. China is also the second-largest world’s economy, thus acting as an advantage for the growth of Alibaba. Other strengths that have fueled the continued growth of the company include healthy relations with the Chinese government, strategic partnerships, the escalating demand for wholesale and retail businesses, and…

 All About Love As Bell starts writing All About Love, she notes that Love is always termed as a noun, whereas it is appropriate to refer to Love as a verb. Bell Hooks is a famous feminist, scholar, and cultural critic who explains the deeper meaning of Love in her book. The book defines the true meaning of societal lovelessness and tries to magnify what Love is among different people. The author depicts how the society does not show the need to learn loving and it is only infused in sexual desires. Bells continue with the elaboration of the sacredness of Love, the redemption path that leads to the healing of broken individuals, hurt by loved ones.  All About Love confirms how great Hooks Bell is for society. The aim is mainly to change the mindset of Love in people and teach everyone how to love without doubting and hurting sincerely. Bell proposes Love that has a ground of forgiveness, affection, commitment, respect, trustworthiness, and caring. She is criticizing Love based on flaws, ego, traditions, stereotyping, control, and anger. The…

 feature integration theory Abstract Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade developed a theory called the feature integration theory that tested the attention in reaction time in simple and conjunction feature. Simple feature required one feature and conjunction feature required two features to determine the target. The participants were psychology students at the University of Bradford. The experiment was conducted by taking repeated measures and within-subject design. The results show that conjunction required more reaction time, the distractors are more complicated, and they need more attention for determining the target. Introduction Visual search is the ability to observe the external environment using our eyes and sensory aspects, which allow us to move, read, see and other skills that make our life easier. Another meaning for visual search is the observation of the optical system that uses attentional methods to target something in a word full of other items. Recent researchers have defined visual research as “a signal detection problem with multiple noise sources” (Wolfe and Reynolds, 2008). Visual search is pursued by visual perception which is the sensory system that receives the…

African Belief System               Abstract:     Scholars have misunderstood the concept of God and spirits in the African traditional religion. Many of the scholars saw Africans as people who did not have an idea of the Supreme Being, nor did them worship him (Awolalu, 1976).  However, the paper shows that the concept of God is not new to Africans, but in traditional beliefs, it is no atheist. Most of the factors have led to this disagreement, such as the preconception by western scholars who measured the conventional view with Christianity. Lack of a precise study of African religion also led to a swift conclusion.     The foundation, evangelization and most of the missionary activities of both Christian and Islam in many of the African countries resulted in the conversion of the indigenous people. Most of these people were from the African Traditional religion and converted to the two mission religions. Many of the religious beliefs and practices (immigrant religions) have an impact on the religious and cultural life of the traditional communities. Also, many of the indigenous religious beliefs and…