Provide a 4 pages analysis while answering the following question: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

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Provide a 4 pages analysis while answering the following question: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The world cannot run on the concept of total happiness at all times. In the absence of total happiness, carry on with the available happiness. I count my blessings in life than curse what I am not endowed with.&nbsp. The wise saying goes, ‘It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving.’ People have different yardsticks to measure happiness. To some exorbitant lifestyles like costly food items, latest apparel, bigger cars, posh houses, air-conditioned space, foreign holidays, shirking responsibility and buttering people to get fast benefits in life,&nbsp. are the factors related to happiness. But all these will provide fleeting happiness. I do not wish to knock at the wrong portals of happiness. The happiness of my concept is within the heart of each individual, and the concerned individual has to achieve it. No outside agency will provide happiness. Give up the negativities, confusion, and wrong ambitions. I thus tread on the true royal road to happiness. I am not a porter to carry the head-load of worries. I do my secular activities without any motivated desires and therefore, I am a happy person. I feel sad if I admit sadness within me. Basically, the root cause of our sadness is our negativities, I know this fact well. I will not make special efforts to suppress my sadness. Let this phase of sadness come and pass over. Howsoever powerful may the waves, their real nature is mere water! Even when I go through the process of sadness, I know that it has got to be a temporary phase. Just as I see the change of seasons of Nature, I understand, this phase of sadness has to pave way for happiness. There have been occasions when I feel sad and I immediately revert to meditation and concentrate on the root cause of my sadness. Putting the mind in ‘solitary confinement’ for some time is the best option to lighten the stress part of the mind. &nbsp.I have a stock of good spiritual books and magazines and I try to read a few pages of them to divert my mind from the thoughts of sadness. We have an excellent neighborhood park and I move there to take a brisk walk for about 30-45 minutes and then relax sitting on the green carpet of grass. Some friends and acquaintances meet in the park and interaction with them lighten the burden of the mind and this exercise paves way for substitution of positive thoughts. The first few hours of the experience of sadness are tough and gradually those strong feelings get diluted and the mind reverts to its true nature of peace. As a young man, I had offered my candidature for defense services for the post of Second Lieutenant. I cleared the written test, passed the first interview and failed in the final interview. My batch consisted of thirty candidates out of which only 4 were selected. That day I remained engulfed in sorrow and all my fond hopes of military service were dashed to the ground. But I still remember what the Major of the army selection board said in his farewell address to the rejected candidates. Looking straight into our sullen faces he said, “All smart candidates! You will succeed elsewhere in life!” He was indeed prophetic. As for me I chose to bank as my career and rose to become the Regional Manager of a top Commercial Bank. With this experience, I now know how to convert defeats into victories.&nbsp. Economic and power ambitions are good servants but they are bad masters.

submit a 1250 words paper on the topic What Motivates an Entrepreneur. The author states that James Caan and Steve Jobs are some of the well-known entrepreneurs of the world.

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Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic What Motivates an Entrepreneur. The author states that James Caan and Steve Jobs are some of the well-known entrepreneurs of the world. This paper is about interviewing a real business owner (whom I thought to be an entrepreneur) and identifying his/her good and bad business practices. The paper will suggest whether the chosen individual is a true entrepreneur or just a business owner who is not in fact very entrepreneurial. In this paper, Mr. Vasyl Fenin, a medium business owner from Ukraine is interviewed to obtain a clear view of various factors relating to entrepreneurship. Analysis Fenin is operating a medium-sized medical business in different cities of Ukraine. A Rediff business article (n.d.) says that the major factors motivating an entrepreneur to start a new venture include the desire for autonomy, aspiration for creating something new, the achievement of financial independence, and accomplishment of personal goals. It is observed that Fenin had not been motivated by any of these factors before he started his business, for he says, “I just gave it a try”. Once he realized that this business is a good source of income, he planned to expand his operations. Hence, Fenin’s act does not represent the entrepreneurial characteristics identified by some scholars. According to some, entrepreneurs will have a high level of determination and commitment and they will be action-oriented as well as result-oriented (Kumar et al 2008, p.2). In other words, an entrepreneur should have clear objectives. From the responses documented, it is obvious that Fenin&nbsp.had no specific business plan at the start up time.&nbsp.He admits that he did not even know what a business plan actually is at the time of the business start-up.

I Think, Therefore I Kant. The work is to be 4 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

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I will pay for the following article I Think, Therefore I Kant. The work is to be 4 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. The essay “I Think, Therefore I Kant” overviews the philosophy works and the revolutionary thinking of Immanuel Kant at the turn of the 19th century and his philosophy of reason still resonates in the Western world. In his attempt to reconcile religion and science, he drew criticism from all sides. His works, often heavy and lengthy, have at times made Kant difficult to understand. Yet beneath the surface lies an eloquent approach to philosophy and morality. Whether being praised or criticized, he has been called the “finisher and conqueror of Illumination”. A close examination of Kant’s ethical theory reveals why it drew such controversy and why it continues to persist.

Kant’s individual uniqueness stems from his belief in what is called deontological ethics or the study of duty. According to Kant, an action’s moral value does not stem from the consequences of the action, but rather from the motivation behind the will to act. When the action is universal and is motivated by only good will, it is a categorical imperative. In Kant’s words, “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”. Thus an action that is motivated by good will is universally good. Kant criticized the Utilitarian theories that evaluate the action based on the happiness it produced. According to Utilitarianism, whatever produces the most happiness in the most people is the moral course of action. This could lead to the happiness of many at the expense of a few people’s misery.

writing homework on Role of Regional Banks in Globalised Economies. Write a 500 word paper answering; Role of Regional Banks in Globalised Economies Introduction Countries that had hitherto been sheltering their agriculture, industry and services sectors from international competition, have opened their markets to the forces of globalisation through negotiations at forums like GATT, UNCTAD, and now, the World Trade Organization.

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Need help with my writing homework on Role of Regional Banks in Globalised Economies. Write a 500 word paper answering; Role of Regional Banks in Globalised Economies Introduction Countries that had hitherto been sheltering their agriculture, industry and services sectors from international competition, have opened their markets to the forces of globalisation through negotiations at forums like GATT, UNCTAD, and now, the World Trade Organization. Financial services industry is no exception and the entry of international players into the developing and emerging markets, makes it imperative that the regional players reassess their initiatives and strategies for survival and growth.

Globalisation and changed role of regional banks

Globalisation in essence is ‘free market economy on a global scale’, without any artificial barriers by governments. This process has opened the floodgates of knowledge-intensive, high quality products / services from the developed world to the developing countries and they in turn, are able to market their products / services, based on cheap & abundant skilled / semi-skilled / trained manpower, into the developed markets. In an ideal situation, all economies should benefit and the consumer should get best value for money.

Global giants in the financial services sector conduct a range of operations spanning personal banking to investment advisory services, consumer financing to industrial credit, stock market operations in futures, options and derivatives, merchant banking, underwriting, treasury operations and the like. These services are extensively backed by technology. To the customer, these banks provide a pleasant experience – from the very ambience to the fast decision-making processes. This is in stark contrast to traditional banking mode, as practiced by the regional banks which were catering mainly to traders of agricultural products in the beginning followed by ‘directed credit’ as mandated by governments to agriculture and small-scale industries (Guruprasad). Industrial credit is a later development. But the new market situation altered the role of regional bankers significantly. Their growth rates and margins are decreasing, leading to a search for newer initiatives and strategies.

Threats and opportunities

According to Guruprasad, the advent of global service providers resulted in migration of customers from the regional banks and corresponding loss of business. Added to this, the historical dependence on manual operations began to erode business margins in an environment of rising manpower costs. Industrial clients have also started tapping capital markets more aggressively, reducing their dependence on banks. These developments lead to a re-assessment of the role of regional banks to remain in business competitively and to earn profits for survival and growth. In this process, they have to rely upon their vast network of branches to reach nooks and corners of customer-base to provide those services, which the global banks can ill-afford to offer.

New initiatives and strategies

In my role as a prospective regional banker, I would:

1. Leverage on my strengths in ‘reach’ and ‘familiarity with local conditions’ or, as in telecommunications language, provide last mile connectivity. For short-term crop loans, there is usual subsidized refinance facility from state-owned institutions. I would use my bank’s own funds or take recourse to global banks’ refinance, for extending credit to trade & small and medium scale enterprises to generate profitable business. Thus I will turn traditional sources of business in trade and agriculture into niche markets. Here the risks are minimal.

2. Win back urban customers, by inducting technology, since personal banking is an important source of cheap funds.

3. Create facilities like the ATMs and networks that permit internet / phone banking, if required, as a pooled service in association with other regional bankers. This will reduce investment and costs can be shared.

4. Participate in fee-based services like underwriting and merchant banking.

5. I would join hands with global players in providing merchant banking services, especially where customers show a preference to work with regional banks. According to Guruprasad, this is quite a common experience.

Conclusion

As the saying goes, if you cannot beat them, join them! I will do just the same.

References

Guruprasad M. Asst. Professor (Economics), AICAR Business School, Mumbai.

“Banking in the New Millennium” &lt. http://www.indiainfoline.com/bisc/ari/mill.pdf.&gt. (accessed on March 15, 2006.

write an article on Childhood immunization. It needs to be at least 1250 words.

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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Childhood immunization. It needs to be at least 1250 words. The childhood immunisation is a shield that protect the babies from diseases and also minimise the complexities when a baby suffers from any diseases (Finlay and McFadden, p767). Childhood immunization is an important and essential way to keep the babies protected from wide range of diseases and health problems. Immunization starts at childhood because it makes children protected against certain viruses before they enter their school life and interact with different people and circumstances. Moreover, proper immunisation for certain diseases at particular time assures that the child world become able to fight against the diseases if he will came across the virus at any place (Hviid and Melbye, p1277). Childhood immunizations had allowed to overcome several diseases that decayed the generations of people in past. With the advent of advanced and effective childhood immunisation the mankind has become able to overcome several diseases like polio, tetanus and measles and now these diseases have now become just part of the history for people or the prevalence among the people has become very low due to proper immunisation (Pancer and Cooper, p518).

 

prepare and submit a term paper on Tension between Analysis informing and analysis setting policy. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length.

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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Tension between Analysis informing and analysis setting policy. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. Every aspect of the issue has to be looked in to so that the policy becomes efficient and successful once implemented. While forming policy the practicability of the same should not be ignored otherwise setting up of the policy becomes invalid. However, once the policy is being formed and setting is under way, there can rose conflicts as to the people, budget, and time factors involved in the policy setting. Policy analysis helps in explaining, why are there so many differences in the way we organize productive activity. When a policy is about to be set the scope of the problem has to be evaluated well. Moreover, in analysis of setting policy an analyst must look in to more of practice and applying side rather than just projecting certain actions to achieve a goal. When analyzing a setting up of a policy, certain factors like cost effectiveness, people involved, time frame etc.,are also to be considered. If there is any discrepancy in the analyzing in forming policy it can very well reflect in the setting up process. According to Torjman(2005)“The actual formulation of policy involves the identification and analysis of a range of actions that respond to these concerns. Each possible solution is assessed against a number of factors such as probable effectiveness, potential cost, resources required for implementation, political context and community support”. Should analytical products be purely “informative? Analytical products are tools which are used for assessing the viability and utility of a policy in an organization. These products are used by organization while they formulate and set policies so as to give policy makers a wider spectrum of actions to choose from to achieving a specific goal. It is very essential for an analytical product to be purely informative as it allows the organizations to choose the right product suitable for them. In order to improve the policy forming and setting process utilization of analytical products is a key aspect. They help in the appropriate evaluation and measuring of policies so as to give proper results. Analytical products are used primarily as a qualitative approach to evaluate the policy forming and setting. Process. Munger states that “Your evaluation of the major policy that was enacted to deal with the problem involves your assessment of how well that policy addressed the problem”. Analytical products set various bench marks to follow, so that the goal of the policies does not distract from the goal. It is very essential for the analytical products to be purely informative, so as to make the analysis process efficient. Decision and policy makers always make sure that the future policies and strategies have a solid ability to achieve the set goals. To obtain a quality analysis a very refined analytical product is required. otherwise the whole process of policy forming and setting becomes worthless. Most officials encourage the analytical products to be clearly informative to know what the product has to offer. The policy makers want their policies to be analyzed with a product which is transparent.

prepare and submit a term paper on Compare and contrast the various diagramming techniques used in UML2.0. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length.

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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Compare and contrast the various diagramming techniques used in UML2.0. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length. UML2.0 is a version of Unified modeling Language which is was develops to use graphic notations and modeling techniques to develop various visual models that are built and applied within systems to facilitate business activities. This paper gives a critical analysis, discussion and comparison of the various diagramming techniques and how they are used within UML2.0 to design and model systems. The various diagraming techniques are explained through illustrations or examples to demonstrate their similarities and differences. There are two major categories of diagrams in the UML2.0 system design and modeling techniques. These are structure and behavior diagrams which represent structural information and behavior of systems respectively. In each of the two major UML2.0 diagraming techniques are seven diagrams which represent various aspects of systems. Therefore, there is a total of fourteen diagrams which are used in the design and modeling techniques of UML2.0. Figure 1 below represents an overview of the two categories of diagrams which the UML2.0 design and modeling techniques employs to develop visual systems2. Figure 1: UML2.0 Diagramming All the diagrams under structural diagraming techniques of UML2.0 are similar in the fact that they all represent structural information.

Create a thesis and an outline on Journal Entry: Donald Halls String too Short to be Saved. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Journal Entry: Donald Halls String too Short to be Saved. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Toan-Thang D. Vo RHET 1311 11/ 20/05 Journal Entry: Donald Hall’s String too Short to be Saved The bond between a grandparent and grandchild isvery unique. Donald Hall’s String too Short to be Saved shows us the relationship the author had with his grandparents. Not everyone is as lucky as Donald Hall. He can look back and write with fondness on his childhood summers. What made the relationship between Donald Hall and his grandparents’ so special? I think their relationship was special because he made me identify with him. Even though I was raised in Vietnam and was raised in a different culture, the relationship with my grandparents had the same basic elements as the author of String too Short to be Saved. Both sets of grandparents had the same qualities, such as love, patience, and the need to pass on their legacy to their grandchildren. Grandparents with a good relationship with their grandchildren often show these three traits.

Grandparents show their love differently than parents or other family members. Some grandparents are indulgent with material things. For poorer grandparents that is not an option. This does not mean they do not love their grandchildren. They express their love in a different way. Mr. Hall’s grandmother cooked special treats for him. Milk and bread before bedtime might not have been a good idea to his parents. Grandchildren can be appreciative of these small gestures. A milk and bread snack can be something fondly remembered forever. No matter the grandparents’ lot in life, the fact is, grandparents will indulge their grandchildren a bit. There is something about spoiling a grandchild a grandparent cannot resist.

Parents sometimes find themselves losing patience with their children. On the other hand grandparents rarely lose patience with their grandchildren. Instead of rushing around to do things efficiently, they show their grandchildren how to accomplish mundane task over and over again. Donald Hall showed this in his book by the way he accompanied his grandfather during chores around the farm. His grandfather taught him how to track the wild heifers by their footprints. Where a parent would think a child slowed them down, a grandparent takes the time to show the child footprints. Grandparents are also a little more understanding if a child spills milk, messes up, or loses cows. A parent might be furious, but a grandparent will just shake their head and talk about doing better tomorrow. I think grandparents are more patient because they are older and wiser. The grandparent realizes that as humans no one is perfect.

Another important thing that can be learned from grandparents is their legacy. They can teach you about their life and times. A grandchild can actually be witness to living history. In String too short to Save the author’s grandfather likes to tell him stories of his life. Not major history lessons, but like the drought in the first chapter. Whereas history books tell of far away events and devastations, Mr. Hall’s grandfather made the drought real through his antidote. The funny part is grandchildren like Mr. Hall love to hear their grandparents’ tale. A child will listen with great interest to older people’s stories. Parents teach children to be polite and listen, but after awhile the children find themselves fascinated with their grandparents’ stories. Legacies are not only passed down orally. When Mr. Hall found the box labeled string too short to be saved it imparted a lesson from the depression. Save everything, because someday you might need it. It also shows that things that might seem unimportant may become useful later. Even though those strings were too short to save, they allowed Mr. Hall to reminisce about his grandparents after they were gone.

In the end, grandparents give their grandchildren love, patience and their legacy. I think that Donald Hall showed this very well in his book. It reminded me of the love, patience, and legacy my grandparents imparted to me.

Write a 3 pages paper on supplier relations.

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Write a 3 pages paper on supplier relations. Generally, a good supplier relation can be described as one in which the company does not keep itself apart from the suppliers (Lautenbacher and Stidham, 2009). Research has actually showed that there exist several companies who only contact their suppliers when they are running out of stock. Even among such companies, the only kind of communication that goes on has to do with quantities of goods needed and the periods the goods are needed. These companies totally fail to see their suppliers as an integral part of their business and so see no need to keep the suppliers informed about the day to day feedback on the supplies they do and the impact of the supplies on the company. For excellent supplier relationship to take place, suppliers must be aware of the daily needs of the companies in terms of demand for products and services. Suppliers also need constant feedback from companies regarding reactions from customers. This is an important move in ensuring that suppliers supply to the specifications of customers and that products supplied are always on high demand by customers so that they do not remain in the inventories for long (Kelton, et al, 2002). Aspects of Boeing’s supplier relations program that specifically address reducing inventories For Boeing as an international company, there are several relations programs that it has in place to specifically address the issue of reducing inventories, maintaining quality, regulating compliance and promoting competitiveness. In order to ensure that safety stocks are adjusted downwards and that there is improvement in quality, Boeing ensures that the leading times for supply are reduced to the barest minimum (Arrand, 2007). It would be noted that suppliers have their own lead times whiles customers also have their. But it is the lead time of customer that is paramount because it is the customer that the company makes profits from. There is constant relationship with the supplier to ensure that they reduce their lead times according to the lead time of customers. This helps in reducing inventory in the sense that it leads to a reduction in the amount of time needed to hold stock together (Fofie, 2001). Another important component of ensuring that suppliers are admonished to reduce their lead times is that when the lead times are reduced, it creates enough room for top-up orders to be made in the season when adequate time has been given to measure real demand. Consequently, all forms of rush in the supply of inventory are avoided and so suppliers can take their time to supply quality products. Another important program in place by Boeing has to do with the fact that the company has special terms of conditions as part of its relationship program whereby suppliers must prove beyond reasonable doubt that they can be trusted for reliability of supply before their services are engaged. This is an important program for ensuring reduced inventory and quality of supplies made because it ensures that the need to hold safety stocks is avoided. Meanwhile, the practice of holding safety stocks is one of the major causes of increased inventory. When companies cannot trust the reliability of supply, there are often forced to hold safety stocks that may not necessarily meet the demand of customers. As soon as new stocks come in, they are forced to offload those stocks through cheap sales, rendering the finances of the company handicapped.

submit a 2000 words paper on the topic Human Management and Performance. Markets have expanded rapidly, transcending all boundaries and going beyond a local and even a national scale, to a more global level.

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Hi, need to submit a 2000 words paper on the topic Human Management and Performance. Markets have expanded rapidly, transcending all boundaries and going beyond a local and even a national scale, to a more global level. Furthermore, technological advances have also greatly influenced and shaped the socioeconomic sphere today. That is to say, market expansion and technological progress have made the economy a much more challenging one today. For example, now, it is much harder to keep track of the latest fashions and trends because the producer does not directly know the consumer, and hence cannot gauge the consumer’s latest tastes or feelings towards a product (Houseman, pp. 149-170, 2001). Moreover, since there are many indirect links in marketing today, the ‘loyalty’ factor that was characteristic of a buyer-seller relationship and that used to work heavily in favor of some suppliers is no longer there, and there is an increased pressure on the companies to do well to keep their consumers satisfied. Now, there is a much greater pressure on firms than before to deliver, in that there is increased competition and to thrive – or even survive – in their fields, firms must not only perform well but also perform better than their competitors perform. Furthermore, trends have also changed greatly as new tastes and fashions grip society, and consumers’ demands are constantly altering, forcing businesses to adapt to them and provide products and services that fit their latest needs and demands (Houseman, pp. 149-170, 2001). Overall, in an economic environment where competition is paramount, consumer satisfaction is of the utmost importance to a business’s returns and so, to keep up with this pace, businesses must cater to new demands, and adapt to cost-cutting and more productive strategies to maximize status and profit. Naturally, to keep abreast of this faster moving market, businesses have had to address their strategies and alter their policies. These changes include an assessment of the production process, evaluation of employees, research, etc., but one of the biggest changes made to the structure of the businesses has been to promote and increase greater flexibility in the workplace (Houseman, pp. 149-170, 2001). Workforce flexibility refers to “an organization’s ability to adapt its human resources in a manner appropriate to increasingly changing environmental conditions” (Houseman, pp. 149-170, 2001). This approach allows a business to allocate tasks based on which jobs on an agenda require the most attention, for example, deciding the product that requires more workforces at a certain time. In addition, more workforces can come under hiring if demand calls. This is a very efficient strategy as unforeseen human resources staffing needs can be met without any significant loss to the business, and at the same time, workers earn more in terms of skills and training in other areas of their work as well. Need for an organizational restructure may come about due to a sudden increase in demand, or a certain, unexpected problem in the production line. For example, during a slow hour, cashiers could be used to help stock shelves, this is efficient because no workers are left idle, and a faster way to marketing can be approached (Wood, pp. 367-413, 1999). At other times, for example, if the supermarket is very busy and has a massive in-flow of customers, workers that were,&nbsp.for example, assigned to checking if everything was in order could be reassigned to the cash counter, so that more customers would be dealt with at a time.