Food Memoir Essay

Eating it as soon as it gets out of the oven is an amazing experience. The elation increased inside me as soon as I started to smell the juicy baked chicken. Suddenly, it feels like a irresistible need to grab a bite of it right away. Obviously you can’t resist it, so you cut a piece of it and eat it. The crunchy sensation of the baked cereal all around the chicken is wonderful, but not only the texture felt good, the gooey of the sugar that comes with the cornflake make it taste like glory. The sweet mixed with the salt of the seasonings is an incredible party inside the mouth. Adding a delicious bowl of baked potatoes with bechamel sauces makes the dish even better. I always love to cook and be creative while cooking; preparing different kind of dishes with different seasons, all natural most of the time. Cooking is not about following recipes and going by the cooking book. Instead it’s about being able to mix different seasonings to create the perfect taste. The history behind this invention comes from the lack of resources to prepare a decent dish. It was a quite night like tonight, listening to John Mayer and my roommate and I were really hungry. Then we looked at the refrigerator and cabinets to see what we could cook but we only found chicken, tomatoes, garlic, salt and pepper. Having all those seasons and been tired of eating grill chicken I decided to make it baked crunchy chicken, but sadly there wasn’t any ground bread and I figured it out late so the only thing that I could use was the cereal. So that is how it happened, a happy mistake. I used cornflakes instead of bread crumbs for the baked chicken. At the time I started to prepare the chicken, two girls came in looking for us. They reaction was priceless; they screamed â€Å"Oh my god! You guys are crazy! † at us. My roommate after he laughed for few seconds he told them that it was going to taste good and that they will want me to cook for them after they taste it. The girls said ok and stayed in our apartment all night with us having fun. While the chicken was in the oven, I put some potatoes to boil. Then when the potatoes were cooked, I prepared bechamel sauces. I took a bowl with all the potatoes and I let the bechamel sauces rain over it. Then I put the bowl inside the oven with the chicken as well. In the meantime, I sat down between the two girls and we talked about something â€Å"special†. That happened later that night. When it was time to take the chicken and the potatoes out of the oven, we all went to the kitchen to see how it looks like. First I took out the chicken and placed on the dinner table, and then I go back to the kitchen to take out the potatoes as well. When I come back from the kitchen, I found that my friends had already eaten one chicken to taste it in like 8 seconds. I told them that they attacked the chicken too fast. Therefore one of the girls said to me that it was really good, that the sugar on the chicken was delicious. We sat on the table, each of us four with 2 boneless Baked Cereal Crunchy Chicken, with baked potatoes doused in bechamel sauce and many very cold coke cans. The coke cans were so cold that I had to use my can handler while the others used a can bag that we have. Those 15 to 30 minutes that we were eating on the table, became a good memory to our brains and especially to our tongues. Even though, that like five other people came to the apartment to check out our dinner and ate from our food, it was a good. They find out about it because the girls posted some pictures on instagram. Every single people who tasted the food, at the beginning when they saw what was it, they were all like â€Å"Cornflakes with Chicken? † However they all found it very tasty. Good enough to tell me that I should do that again. After we ate, I laid down on the sofa with my head over one of the girl legs. Then my friend yelled out loud â€Å"Toy timbi†, that is a Dominican expression that people say when we cannot eat more. My roommate went to the kitchen to clean the dishes, as it was his turn. After he was done, the girls screamed â€Å"Special time! † and suddenly a bottle of Jose Cuervo appeared. They prepared some margaritas with lemon and strawberry mixer. Later on, after around 3 rounds of margaritas we started to listen and dance merengue and salsa. We dance for like hour and half non stopping. Also we were singing a bit while we were dancing. We stopped dancing when he figure out that it was 4:00 am and we had class at 8:30 am. We were all tired but we were also in a happy mood. We all went to bed right away, but sadly none of us make it through the next four hours; the one who woke up earlier was the younger girl at 10 o’clock. She nocked my door very hard, until I woke up really mad because we skipped the class at 8:30 am. When we were all ready, we talked about last night. And the first thing that came out was that the chicken was really good and when I would do it again.

Necessity is the mother of invention Essay

Introduction Rationale This research topic â€Å"necessity is the mother of invention. Evaluate this statement in relation to scientific and technological experiment.† was chosen for studying in the area of informatics study. However, the research topic was seemed to be in the philosophical term to understand the basic need of technology more than the informatics subject, which deals with creating and developing of computer study. So that this topic needed past experience and historical background to be evaluated, but didn’t need much in education background because the topic wasn’t related to the theory or language of computer study. The topic in this area was very interested for future study because it could helps in understanding and forecasting the need of society need when developing or creating new technology or inventions which lead to the success in business. These are the fact of this chosen topic. The analysis of the research topic The research question is â€Å"Necessity is the mother of invention. Evaluate this statement in relation to scientific and technological experimentation†. The key words that show the content of the question are â€Å"Necessity is the mother of invention†. The relationship of this question is to show the relation between necessity and invention that necessity is the cause of the invention or not. The requirement of the question is to prove the relationship between necessity and invention by evaluates the statement according to scientific and technological experiment. The proposes of the thesis are to show that to what extent does necessity be the mother of invention and to evaluate according to scientific and technological experimentation. Three areas were analyzed during the study. These three areas, which are communication, industry, and medicine, were studied in the area that involve in scientific and technological experimentation. The communication was studied to understand its necessity and invention of the present. The industry was studied to analyze the situation of necessity in the economical competition,  which lead to the use of invention. The medicine was studied to show why it is very necessary to human life and what are the alternative inventions that come after. So all evidences were collected to support the thesis of the research question and its purposes that the study defends an argument on the proving of the necessity that lead to the invention. The diagram on the next page shows the structure of the analysis of the research topic. Data Collection The Research Method The research was carried out in three steps. The first step was to understand the research topic by searching for definition, background history, and general information from the source books and journal articles. Then all the information was evaluated to find out which areas are mostly involved in the research topic and range, which is the scientific and technological experimentation. The second step was the collection of data to find the relevant information. The information was analyzed according to the relevancy to the research area, the objectivity of the author, and the period spent on collecting of the data. Then third step, the limitation of the information will be analysis on the certain aspects of the topic areas of the scientific and technological experimentation. Therefore, the research will focus only the necessity and invention in the areas of scientific and technological experimentation. Most of the sources that use in the research were some kinds of business and socia l case study such as â€Å"Cleft palate case in the medicine study†(Singer and Bergthold, 2001, pp.2161-2230). Annotated Bibliography Cotterell, A. (1988). An overview of research and co-operation in advanced information technology. In A. Cotterell, Advanced Information Technology in the New Industrial Society (pp.1-27). New York: Oxford University Press. Written for expert manager who involve in information technology that want to find out which technologies are matched for their business  area. This chapter describe about new technologies that involves in industry and focus on future technology. The improvements of communication and computer storage are used to compare in industry area to explain how necessity are they. Also, this chapter explains the expert system in new technology to shown that new technologies have invented new ideas in the industry. Fuglsang L. (1993). The â€Å"soft† information technologies and its critics: the risk of wild policy making in science and technology. In L. Fuglsang, Technology and New Institution (pp.54-96). Denmark: Copenhagen. Written for computer managers that involve in information system research and development of technology in future research. These chapter focuses on what invention creates by the risks which cause when new science and technology are emerging while old are crisis. The history of technology over 50 years is used to prove that risks cause necessity to create invention of new technology. Hall, B.J. (2000). Use of the pulmonary artery catheter in critically ill patients: Was invention the mother of necessity? Journal of the American Medical Association, 283(19), 2577-2578. This article has been written for doctor and hospital that involve in surgery area. This article discusses two studies regarding the use of pulmonary artery catheters in critically ill patients and the process of its future evaluation. The use of pulmonary artery catheters is necessary for the medicals and surgical intensive units (ICUs). It helps to manage critically ill patients. Singer, S., & Bergthold L. (2001). Cosmetic vs. reconstructive surgery for cleft palate: A window into medical necessity debate. Journal of the American Medical Association, 286(17), 2162-2203. This article has been written for doctor in plastic surgery and people who interest in cosmetic surgery. Medical necessity is a term that  used in most commercial health plan to create invention. This article is focus about plastic surgery for a cleft palate, and the debate about whether the surgery is cosmetic or reconstructive. But because of medical necessity can mean different things to different people and organization, so it could be both general meaning. Stewart, J. (1992). Technological change and industrial location. In J. Stewart, The Management of Science and Technology (pp.110-192). Denmark: The Australian National University. This book has been written for educator and manager that involve in information technology and works on the productive area of research. This chapter focus on Just-in-Time system, which is the new industry system that create by the competition in the world economic. Because of competition in the market industrial investment, the Just-in-Time system is used to because it is necessary to control cost and increase profit. Tate, A. N., Clayton B.S. & Gourley K.G. (2001). Development and implementation of a managed care rotation in medical necessity review: Exposing students to new opportunities. Journal of American Pharmaceutical Education, 65(3), 261-307. The purpose of this journal is for fourth-year PHD students to design a rotation in managed care through medical necessity review. The rotation involved working with the Tennessee department of Health’s TennCare Appeals Units. It shows how the impact of pharmacists can have on patients’ lives. They claim by using professional development experience to show the advantage of utilizing pharmacists. The Literature Review The five articles that are reviewed focus mainly on scientific and technological experiments, which separate into three major areas. These three areas are communication, industry, and medicine. The writers ‘s attitude toward the study of information technology and science, which are  used in society, raised a very detailed discussion and neatly analysis on the proving of necessity as mother of invention. The sub-topics in each area contain important information involve in necessity of both individual and social points of view. Evidence is provided completely from all sources and can accurately be used to prove that necessity is the mother of invention as reasons and evidences. The purpose of the review is to make a clearly analysis on these six articles toward similarities and differences in their areas. The first article, an overview of research and co-operation in advanced information technology by Arthur Cotterell, mostly represents in the area of communication. In this article, he discusses that the communication is important to the future of society. Cotterell compares the different between old and new mediums of communication, which lead to the social necessity. He explained the medium clearly in details and supported by using a city named Swindon (Cotterell, 1988, p.26), which wildly use fiber optic (medium) as his evidence. The successful of the fiber optic is picked up to prove his documents. In the second article by Jenny Stewart, â€Å"Technological change and industrial location†, represents in industry area, which focus mainly in competition in market industry investment and scarcity of natural resource for industrial manufacturing. She points and explains the effect of competition and scarcity lead to the change of new system. The Just-In-Time (JIT) system, which is a new information system, is used to compare how efficiency it is with the old system. This system is the very successful system that helps reduce and eliminate cost, waste, and speed in production. She analyse automotive industry in Australia, which success in this system, as her evidence. The smaller, more technological advanced players, and accurate in the industry is the main point of the invention in this article. The third article, which is written by Fuglsang, in the article, he expresses the meaning specifically of how and why invention is created (Fuglsang, 1993, pp.54-96). The main point of his article is to show that when the time is running and population is increasing, they cause the old invention to become crisis and it is necessary to invent something new to replace the old. This article can be used as theory and reason to explain and clearly support all three areas of communication, industry, and  medicine. The phases of invention development are used to show the steps of scientific and technological improvement. In each phase provide the evidence of the development of invention clearly since past fifty years when a manual turning-machine was created to the automatic machine are used. He also supports his evidence by using the development of American technology. He mentions that the growing application of new technologies in society creates a need, so it is very important to studies more about technology network in political process. The forth article written by Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold, they mainly represents in the area of medicine. This article focuses on medical necessity by compare the different between cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. They support the document that medical necessity in the area of surgery is really necessity by using â€Å"health plans† (Singer and Bergthold, 2001, p.2162). This health plans is medical necessity standard that use permanen tly all over the world. They also comment generally that social viewing among medical necessity in surgery is also included in some case. The case of a cleft palate patient is used to analysis and discusses the different between cosmetic and reconstructive case. Then they argue and support that medical necessity determinations involving the condition that proven to be especially problematic not self-desirable. The fifth article written by Jesse B. Hall, â€Å"Use of the pulmonary artery catheter in critically ill patients: Was invention the mother of necessity?† the article show that pulmonary artery catheters is necessary to most patients that involve in heart, lung, and blood problems. He analysed this technology from 10217 patients in 34 medical and surgical intensive care units (ICUs) in 1998. According to Hall, the pulmonary artery is used in the case that no medicine can used to cure the sickness. He suggests that this invention still has high risk, so this is very necessary to improve this invention to help critically ill patients and the process of its future evaluation. All issues in five sources, which written by Arthur Cotterell, Jenny Stewart, Fuglsang, Jesse B. Hall and Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold, are considered very important to show the audience the historical and current significance of continuity about necessity as mother of invention in the term of scientific and technological experiment. This is because when the old  invention is considered as the necessity for the future improvement, the continuing improvement to the new invention will be created. Arthur Cotterell writes about the use of communication medium during the past 10 years until the use of new medium today (Cotterell, 1988, p.26). His examples of twisted pair and fiber optic cable show the fact that the why the increase of performance of new medium are used by the change in society. It shows the audience clearly the distance between time in the past and present of social necessity. This article also talks about the rapidly increases of necessity which lead to the improvem ent of new medium in the future continuously. In the issue of Jenny Stewart and Fuglsang have the similar area in the industry that also express the same meaning of need in the industry. Jenny Stewart shows the change in industry system by using automotive industry in Australia since 1990 (Stewart, 1992, p.124). Fuglsang shows the rationalization phase (Fuglsang, 1993, p.56), which is one of 4, phases in technological invention development. This phase analyses from the past 50 years of the development. Both Jenny Stewart and Fuglsang’s article shows the change in the industry, which involves in commercial interests and competition. This article helps to show the link between competition and tutorial in the industry, which leads to the use of the new invention. In the rest of the issues from Jesse B. Hall, and Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold are involved in medicine area that involve in the surgery. Jesse B. Hall talks about the result of the use of pulmonary artery catheter (Hall, 2000, pp.2577-2578). This result shows the need of cosmetic surgery among the people who have problem of the natural disable of the body and also explain the use of the invention to help solve the problem. Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold article also help to shows that since from the past the meaning of medical necessity is mean only reconstruction to the normal state of patients. Both issues from Jesse B. Hall, and Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold come form the different medical case but they have similar thesis, which are medical necessity that lead to the invention of new medical invention. All the writers come from the different areas but they have the same meaning of their issues that the continuing of the time lead to the increase of need of invention in both new and improvement. So that their issues are strongly support the statement that necessity creates the invention in the part of science and technological experimentation. There are three articles which surely are the objective of the writers when they present research their research results and evidence to support their arguments because these articles provide complete information and details of the document. The first article, which is objective, by Arthur Cotterell supports and expresses the meaning of his argument clearly by using the complete examples and information of communication mediums (Cotterell, 1988, pp.1-27). He shows the detail number of capacity, speed, range, and material made in each medium sample clearly. He also compares the different in each medium by mathematical calculation. This helps audience to easily understand the different even technical term. The second article, which is objective, from Fuglsang is objective because he has the acknowledgment from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States (Fuglsang, 1993, pp.54-96). His article and support evidences come from the case studies in Denmark, US, and Sweden. Th ey are emphasis and detail clearly on the influence of culture, organizational choices and institutional concerns through research. The third article, which is objective, from Jenny Stewart is objective because her argument and sources come from the federalism research centre (Stewart, 1992, pp.110-192). She provides the information clearly in the example of automotive industry in Australia in percentage of profit, time, competitor, and increase of product output. The other two articles from Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold, and Jesse B. Hall are not objective because they provide the information too general. It is general because the information they provide is not specific in number of result from the succession in medical treatment. Both of them show only the result from the invention by using only reasons, causes and effects after treatment (Singer and Bergthold, 2001, 2162-2203). This is because most of the article is the summary of the result of the cleft palate research, so that they just mention about the need and future development, which result from the succession of cleft palate surgery. Although they don’t provide completely information, the area that they work is in medicine area, which concentrates only the result of necessity. So that their article can express their main ideas easy and clearly understand by using reason, cause, and effect documents. By compare all the articles which each others, the information that provided by the authors are enough to support the necessity of  invention by using their specific details and information, research, reasons, causes, and effects. Their sources are considered as essential in comparative and explaining the necessity as mother of information in scientific and technological experiment. The interpretation of data is clearly in all five sources because all data can be analyse to evaluate the need of the research topic in relation to scientific and technological experiment easily. The relationship between the necessity and the invention is linked in clearly understand. There are three different ways in their interpretation of data. The first way is represented by the article of Arthur Cotterell. He interprets his information by explain the detail of old communication medium and new communication medium in technical term and estimated calculation of speed, capacity, and range. For example, he explains that twisted-pair could carry 10Khz but if compare with fiber optic (Cotterell, 1988, p.26), fiber optic is faster than twisted-pair million times. He also clarifies the use of fiber optic that it uses in linking between two or more networks and twisted-pair uses in local phone line. The second way is represented by Fuglsang and Jenny Stewart. They interpret their sources by using the result of the time in the industrial development. They show the change and need since from the past and result of it in the present. The time between standardization and rationalization is used by the author to show the relation of the improvement of the invention from first creation to the first development (Fuglsang, 1993, 56-56). The third way is represented by Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold, and Jesse B. Hall. They interpret their sources by using the result of their information, which is the specific in medication. They summarize the result of medication from the patient and use it to support their argument. The research result of the patient in a cleft palate case is used to analysis the term of medical necessity in the surgery area of medicine. The result after the surgery is used to compare that the surgery is reconstructive surgery not cosmetic surgery. In comparison of all the writers, they interpret all data clearly. All the data are separated into three areas, which Arthur Cotterell is in communication area, Fuglsang and Jenny Stewart are in Industry area, and Singer S. and Linda Bergthold, and Hall are in medicine area. There interpretation of data can support each others and express their  understanding in analyse that necessity as mother of invention clearly. There are three articles that are conducted the research thoroughly in order to prove the points by the writers. The complete research could help the claim of research topic to become more strong and reliable without being counter by other argument. Arthur Cotterell, Singer S. and Linda Bergthold, and Jenny Stewart are the writers who do their research thoroughly. Arthur Cotterell researches neatly on the information system research, which express all the meaning, material used, quality, and performance of each medium between communications clearly (Cotterell, 1988, p.15-27). He use a city name Swindon to do his research. This city is widely use in fiber optic and coaxial cable to link between communication which mean that it is a very efficiency sources to use on communication research. Singer S. and Linda Bergthold research on the medical necessity on surgery course. They use a patient who was born with cleft palate problem as their research (Singer and Bergthold, 2001, pp.2162-218 0). They clearly research on the result before and after that patient take the surgery. They also research on the health plan of the medical standard and analyse it with medical theory as the reconstructive medication. Jenny Stewart researches on the Australia industry. She finds out that the reasons of necessity in industry come from the competition, which lead to the need of more flexible, fast, and efficiency technology(Stewart, 1992, p.124-192). This led her to find out the new system, Just-in-Time system, and research it on the Australia automotive industry. She has the result of how efficiency and profitability it is. The other sources from Fuglsang and Jesse B. Hall are not researched thoroughly because they get the information from general source directly without fully detail. Fuglsang picks up the history to speak to support the argument but the detail on his suggestion seem not clear on details and analysis. From Arthur Cotterell, Singer S., and Linda Bergthold, and Jenny Stewart research, they are very to understand their point of view from their research and directly connect audience to the understanding. The clearly details and information of their research link their ideas to the necessity as mother of invention in the scientific and technological experiment. From five sources, there are four sources that provide practical and  realistic suggestion by the writers. The practical and realistic of suggestion can help the article to become more clear and ease of understanding. First is Jenney Stewart, she suggests that future of the industry needs smaller, more technological advanced players, and accuracy (Stewart, 1992, p.125). The writer suggestion shows that her study is very important to the use of technology for the future use. Her suggestion is proved by her comparative of old technology and new technology that show the change of size, quality, quantity, and speed. Second is Arthur Cotterell, he suggested that by the help of computer-aided design would help to avoid a lot of tentative material cutting. The writer suggestion shows that his study is very important for the industry to increase their performance of the system. This is very useful in showing the relationship between necessity and invention. Third is Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold, they suggest that cosmetic or treatments intended primarily to improve appearance is exclude in medical necessity standard (Singer and Bergthold, 2001, p.2162). The writers’ suggestions are used for people to understand that the purpose of surgery is different in some case because some case could count as personal desirable such as cosmetic. This shows the relation between medical necessity and invention clearly. They support their suggestion by evaluate the cleft palate in the medical necessity term and health plans. Forth is Fuglsang, he suggests that the growing application of new technologies in society creates a need to assign a more offensive and organized role to technology studies networks in the political process. This suggestion shows that his detail on study is very important for who is interested in technological development. The writer proves his suggestion by evaluate and show the need over past 50 years of the development of information and communication technologies in four phases (Fuglsang, 1993, p.55-58). From all the suggestion of all writers could help the audience to know what are the main interests in on the articles of the writers, which are very useful. There is no surely use of expert opinion from all the writers. They haven’t pick up any expert opinion but they adapt to use another people and place from other sources as their expert opinion. The expert opinion on the article of Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold is not mentioned clearly. They  use the term physician as their expert opinion to help support their argument in consider appropriate medication for a patient, such as treatment intended primarily to improve appearance. As same as Sara Singer and Linda Bergthold, Jenny Stewart doesn’t use expert opinion but she uses other opinion, Lamming (1998), who is one from her source. Lamming talks about the industry remaining effectively in â€Å"stress period†. This opinion helps audience understand the best period of industry development. In the article of Fuglsang L., this writer use Sloth Andersen and Slavo Radosevic, who are not mention clearly who are they, as the expert opinion. They talk about an innovation forum, which help to support the writer about the change of technology during a century so that the view of technological change would be see as the important to the new invention. The rest of the writers do not have any expert opinion to support their argument. But in the case of their writing, the support of expert opinion is not important because the evidences and examples are enough to call as expert opinion in the case of science and technological experiment. In conclusion, all of the five articles are clearly review, analyse, and can be reliable. All the sources talks in the areas of communication, industry, and medicine by using variety of evidence and alternative ways of using expert opinion. The objectivity of each writers are confirm in all sources and the interpretation are very clear. The thoroughness of treatment of the subject matter could confidentially be used from the analysis. Each suggestion from all writers are mentioned mostly point to the future use and analysis. For further research the study of more variety of necessity in creating invention must be more research and study to express their meaning widely in different area. This could help to look and analysis more widely in today and future development of invention. But the main point of all reviews is to find out the best ways to the result of successful future. The Limitations of research This research limited by certain factors. The research was limited by some limitations of the topic. The personal factor was caused by the research topic is not directly related to the past experience and educational  background but mostly related to the philosophical area which is not computer study. This caused the lack of some specific or direct information that could help analyze the topic more efficiency. Another reason is the topic question is some kind of question that can answer in two ways that people could agree and disagree depends one the personal opinion so that the degree of the answer to the question is not strong enough. This caused some part of the argument easy to be counter by some situation in both side of agree and disagree. The suggestions for future study The problems of limitation of research need some suggestions to be made for future study. Firstly to solve the problem of lacking in specific education background, this research needs the specific education of philosophy and psychology to help provide more specific and strong supported information for the term of human necessity. This can help to improve the supported argument of the essay to become more reliable. This future study can do by focus on the continuous of inventions in each area in term of psychology, which will be very helpful in this research. The research doesn’t need to find out the started point or the first creation of the invention because this essay was only focusing in present invention. Second future study is by searching more support from the expert opinion to help solve the limitation of unstable argument due to the meaning of research topic, which is too wide in general. The more researched findings of supported expert opinions can strongly help to support the argument and make the research become more reliable. This could be done by focus on the expert opinions that involve in the succession in each area of industry, medicine, and communication. The success of expert opinions is more reliable and couldn’t be counter by other argument easily. In conclusion, if all suggestions of future study are completely finished the research will not have any blank spaces to be counter by other counter argument.

The Impact Of Black Upward Mobility On The Corporate...

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A Strategy of Global Marketing at Loreal Case Study

Essays on A Strategy of Global Marketing at Loreal Case Study The paper "A Strategy of Global Marketing at Loreal" is an amazing example of a case study on marketing. The L’Oreal Group is considered as the largest company which produces beauty and cosmetics across many countries of the world. With its main offices in Paris, it has so many units and plants in the other nations of the world. It mostly concentrates on; skincare, hair color, makeup, perfumes, sun protection, and hair care. In the United Nations, the company actively supplies pharmaceuticals and dermatological fields and is considered as the leading nanotechnology patent-holder. The study below considers the aspects through which the company is able to adapt a strategy of global marketing and why it has different cultural distinctions for enhancement of the prosperity in international markets.How L’Oreal is adapting a global marketing strategyThe Company is widely represented by the many units which are located in various parts of the world. Apart from the distributors who are located almost in all corners of the world, it has five worldwide research and development centers: there are two in France (Chevilly and Aulnay), one in the United States (Clark, New Jersey), and one in Japan and another one in Shanghai China. These centers concentrate on research and manufacturer of the unique cosmetics products which are distributed to all the centers across the world. Although the organization is operated by a common management committee which is also considered as the board of directors and expected to formulate common policies and principles, there are other operational policies that are formulated at the plant level depending on the culture of the environment. This is highly influenced by the external and life factors like political, social and economical which influence the behavior of people (Armstrong Kotler, 2007).Cultures of L’Oreal in JapanThe main challenge of the company in the global market is whether it should adopt the general cult ure of the product thus considering the consumers in the global dimension or the specific culture of the location of each unit and still maintain the standardization of the products. Each country has got its cultures which should be adopted by any individual or organization surviving in it. The organization should lay its strategies for the operations of marketing and promotion of the make-up products based on the influence of the cultural activities or behavior of the consumers.Considering the cultural activities of Japan is an essential aspect of marketing because it influences and needs and wants of the targeted consumers as well as having a positive impact in the efforts to interpret the communication of the products. Considering the behavior of the consumers will enable the management and other operators of the organization to effectively formulate the important aspects of manufacturing the products, for example, features of the cosmetics, packaging, symbolic attributes, promot ion and service attributes.

Point Of View In A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner

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Nursing People with Chronic Conditions for Health -myassignmenthelp

Question: Discuss about theNursing People with Chronic Conditions for Health. Answer: Introduction Chronic illness refers to the health state and condition which is persistent within or long-lasting within n individual. This type of illness tend to occur with time and if it is inherent from parents or family members. Diseases can be chronic in nature and the effects have the potential to ham the afflicted individual. The individual possessing a chronic disease require constant or frequent medical care and attention. It is likely that the individual would be seriously affected if precautionary measures are not implemented within the appropriate time. In the essay an attempt would be made to understand and assess the possible chronic illness which can happen to an individual provided the fact that the individual has parents who suffered certain diseases. Considering the given case scenario, it can be observed hat Daniel is a man of 52 years who possess several health complications. His father faced death due to cardiac complications while his mother died to the metastatic breast cancer (the cancer was in its last stage where further treatment was not possible). Both the parents were afflicted with serious heart complications. Apart from this fact, Daniel was attacked with acute myocardial infarction (Lundstrm et al.2016). Hence, it can be easily stated that the heart condition of Daniel is sensitive and can be severely critical if proper attention is not given to the illness, the illness is chronic in nature. Daniel was a football player in his young day due to which the condition of his lower back is not good condition. Without proper medical attention, the lower back and the muscle in the knees might wear out and deteriorate in future; it can become a chronic medical issue. It has been observed that the condition of the bronchitis is recurring in Daniel, along with this he is in the first stage of emphysema. The individual who is facing problem of recurring bronchitis and emphysema is likely to have chronic lung problems and breathing complications (Singh Yadav, 2015). The lung bags have started to expand and signs of damage have become apparent. Taking into account the case scenario of Daniel, it is important to mention that the individual is a heavy smoker, finishes two packets of cigarettes per day. This habit would further worsen the condition of the lungs, affecting the other oragans related to respiration in the process (DeMaria et al. 2014). Taking into account the case scenario of Daniel, it is known that his wife Alma and son Noel lives with him. Both of them are working however, Alma is made redundant. In spite of her attempt she is unable to get any job. Negative impact would befall on the family members if Daniel does not start to give attention to the necessity of getting proper health treatment. His habit of smoking is bad for him as well as for the health of his family. Emergence of chronic illness would affect the financial condition of the family, leading to further problems and complications. The responsibility of the family would fall on the shoulder of Noel. Intensive care should be needed by Daniel and it would not be possible for Noel to take constant care of his father since he has to work (Moze, ef?kov, Ra?ek, 2014). It has been perceived that Alma is looking for job but is unable to get success; this is possibly one of the major reasons for getting succumbed to depression. She has been taking medicatio n because of depression issues. Hence, it can be easily understood that she needs health consultation and medical care. The potential chronic illness of Daniel would further impact and aggravate the mental condition of Alma, which might lead to severe stage of depression and anxiety (Patwary Biswas, 2015). Apart from this, the chronic illnesses would limit the working ability of Daniel. He would not be able to take extra work pressure. For instance, air pollution due to vehicles can aggravate the breathing problem of the individuals. As its result his income would reduce to a significant extent. Conclusion Health is an important asset. The individual would not be able to earn and have economic stability if the health condition affected and gets deteriorated. It is necessary for the individual to consider necessary medical treatment and care. It is necessary for the individual to pay attention to health, not only for self but also for the family members who are associated with the affected individual. Introduction Different kinds of model of care are present however considering the given case scenario of Daniel; the most suitable care model for the purpose would be the social model of care. It is true that it pays little attention to the injury and disease, however it should be mentioned that the chronic diseases which are given would generate and become severe if the consideration is not provided to the broader and exterior factors (Ahrens et al. 2016). The particular model highlights the broader factors concerning the health department, like economic, environmental, social and cultural factors. Considering the case scenario, it has been known that the individual used to play football and this has affected the knees and lower back. Daniel changed several occupations before he started to work as a cab driver. His parents had heart problems and he himself suffered from heart problems. His lung issues and recurring bronchitis along with the initial stage of emphysema, all related to the respirat ion system (Baxter et al. 2015). The habit of smoking on a regular basis has deteriorated the respiratory organs of Daniel. He had excessive fat and this had been leading to the problem of artery blockage. Therefore, it can be easily understood that in order to make the model of care applicable in an effective manner, a certain process needs to be conducted for the purpose. The first and the foremost factor which needs to be considered, effort should be made to make Daniel understand the necessity of taking medical care. He should have the knowledge of the importance of taking care of health and the immediate need to improve and better lifestyle. Workplace plays an important role in affecting the health condition of the individual (Vogel et al. 2014). Extra load and work pressure tends to affect the health condition. It is necessary for the workplace to ensure the responsibility of welfare and healthcare of the employees. The GRAB Company needs to give attention to the health condition of Daniel. For instance, health organization and workplace should come together to achieve the purpose. It is necessary for Daniel to get frequent health checkups and get medical insurance. The workplace should have certain rules and regulations keeping in mind the health condition of individuals such as Daniel. People tend to get affected and influenced from society. Daniel is a 52 year old man who changed several occupations, this shows that the unstable condition of his economic condition. Both his parents died from heart complications. His wife is made redundant from her company yet she is looking for jobs while their son also works with Daniel. Therefore, it can be said that the financial condition of Daniel and his family is not good and sufficient (Kingsnorth LeBlanc, 2013). Considering the factor, the government entity of the country needs to consult with the healthcare agencies to consider the improvement economic condition of individuals like Daniel. The Australian government needs to take the initiative. The care model gives importance to the ability of getting access to aids and facilities of healthcare. Health promotion should be conducted. For example, people associated or connected with health and social care needed to spread the necessity of health welfare with the help of v arious programs. Effort should be taken to educate individuals like Daniel as well as Alma to take care of health and the way which can enhance the healthcare process (O'Gara et al. 2013). Conclusion It is recommended for individuals like Daniel to get proper medical and health attention. This is necessary for the afflicted individual as well as for the family or close members who are associated with the individual. Help from external sources like indigenous community, workplace and so on. A patient communication letter Dear Mr. Daniel I hope your health condition is better. In this letter I would like to tell you about the purpose of the plans that we both agreed upon, considering the welfare of your wealth. I need to remind you that your health condition would not improve if you do not take proper medical assistance. You agreed to participate after carefully thinking about your family. I want to appreciate you for your attempt to consider about the agreed plans. I would like to state that we need to have your willing consent and full cooperation for the purpose. Yours sincerely, Michael Ross. A referral letter To the Heart of the Department, Heart Lung Clinic, City of West Torrens, South Australia, 6th Oct 2017, I would like to refer you a patient who has heart complications and lung issues. His father died from heart complications and mother from metastatic breast cancer. Daniel is a patient of myocardial infarction. He has recurring bronchitis and is in the first stage of emphysema. I would like your medical consultancy for the patient. I would be highlight obliged if you respond as soon as possible. Thanking you, Sincerely Michael Ross. Reference List Ahrens, K. A., Silver, R. M., Mumford, S. L., Sjaarda, L. A., Perkins, N. J., Wactawski-Wende, J., ... Faraggi, D. (2016). Complications and Safety of Preconception Low-Dose Aspirin Among Women With Prior Pregnancy Losses.Obstetrics and gynecology,127(4), 689-698. Baxter, M., Hex, N., Samyshkin, Y., Hudson, R., Mahon, J., Alexiou, D., Bartlett, C. (2015). If we followed the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (nice) guidelines and treated people with diabetes earlier, patients and the National Health Service would benefit from a reduction in complications, mortality and direct healthcare costs.Diabetic Medicine,32, 198. DeMaria, A. L., Flores, M., Hirth, J. M., Berenson, A. B. (2014). Complications related to pubic hair removal.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology,210(6), 528-e1. Kingsnorth, A. N., LeBlanc, K. A. (Eds.). (2013). Management of abdominal hernias. Springer Science Business Media. Lundstrm, U., Wahman, K., Seiger, ., Gray, D. B., Isaksson, G., Lilja, M. (2016). Participation in activities and secondary health complications among persons aging with traumatic spinal cord injury.Spinal cord. Moze, ., ef?kov, Z., Ra?ek, L. U. (2014). Long-term effect of altered nutrition induced by litter size manipulation and cross-fostering in suckling male rats on development of obesity risk and health complications.European journal of nutrition,53(5), 1273-1280. O'Gara, P. T., Kushner, F. G., Ascheim, D. D., Casey, D. E., Chung, M. K., De Lemos, J. A., ... Granger, C. B. (2013). 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.Journal of the American College of Cardiology,61(4), 485-510. Patwary, M. S. A., Biswas, S. C. (2015). A Better Approach of Generalized Estimating Equations Models for Maternal Health Complications in Bangladesh.AU Journal of Technology,18(4). Singh, J. D., Yadav, R. 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Women in Rap Music free essay sample

To what extent does your chosen subject either perpetuates oppressive gender attitudes/myths, or allows participants involved in it to transcend the limitations imposed by gender/gender myths? Gender Degradation of Rap and Hip-Hop Music Dating back to the eras of the Battles and the Relentlessness, music has always had an affect on the ways that people act, dress, and live their lives. With the arrival of rap and hip-hop music in the mid sasss, new lyrics and cultural values began to spread throughout the radio frequencies of every household and car in society.Rap revived a new form of music a music based upon fast and catchy rhythms that could launch an audience off of their seats, forcing them to dance in the isles of a concert or down the halls of their own home. Yet, with this form of entertainment gaining popularity so quickly, its affects gradually began to take a toll on the ways that individuals lived and perceived life. We will write a custom essay sample on Women in Rap Music or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page With lyrics promoting anger, violence, and substance abuse, society began to absorb what is sometimes called the gangster lifestyle. Through lyrics, music videos, and radio airtime, rap and hip-hop music has en able to positively expose the realities of the urban lifestyle, while promoting the degradation of women In a male dominated Industry; where female artists are scarce and are nearly forced to appeal lyrically and physically to males. With the arrival of the music video, rap and hip-hop artists were given the opportunity to express their lyrics in a visual form. Instead of directly relating the videos to some of the lyrics, rap artists decided to film videos that degraded the social and physical status of females in society.In various music videos, it is common or a female to be dressed in merely a bra and panties, dancing around a male for his own entertainment. This nearly nude image, which seems to depict a sense of power among males over females, is highly evident in the m usic video for the song The Thong Song by popular hip-hop artist Solos, formerly of the quartet Drug Hill. In this video, Solos sings about the thongs of women and how they shake it around for men. Not only are the lyrics to this song primarily about the body parts of females, but the video focuses on women of all different races dancing on the beach.Its not he fact that these women are dancing for fun, but it is the fact that these women are merely wearing a bathing suit top and a thong bottom piece. With their butt cracks revealed, the females in this video dance around Siss and other artists in this video. Siss is seen walking down the beach in one scene, Just viewing a line of females with their rears facing his face. Siss seems to have total power over these women, as he does back flips and dances along the sandy beach while grabbing and fondling any females that he chooses.In another particular scene, hip-hop artist Notion is seen toting in a hot tub with four other females; with all four females rubbing and touching the body of the sole male in the hot tub. These Images in the video alone show that women are merely seen as objects of sexual pleasure in rap and hip-hop music videos. The women nearly seem to look Like the slaves of the males, as they provide back rubs and belly dances for the spectators people call men. Not only are females depicted as sexual objects in music videos, but male rappers of their lyrics.In an article focused on the lyrical content of rap music, Victoria A. Brownout of Curve magazine claims that eighty percent of rap music is being performed by African-American males, yet the same percentage of the lyrical content is primarily discriminating against both females and homosexuals. This statistic researched by Brownout shows that even though hip-hop and rap music may have high entertainment value in the market, its true lyrical content is degrading to females, homosexuals, and even the buyer of the album.Furthermore, violence against females is evident within the lyrics of the song Stan by rap artist Mine. Amines lyrics state Shut up pitch! Im trying to talk! Hey Slim, thats my girlfriend screaming in the trunk but I didnt slit her throat, I Just tied her up, see I anti like you cause if she suffocates shell suffer more, and then shell die too. Well, goat go, Im almost at the bridge now Oh sit, I forgot, home I supposed to send this sit out? Amines lyrics depict a disturbing form of violence to society.In the lyrics, the reader can see that the male in the song has tied his girlfriend up, put her in the trunk, and is going to drive the car off of the bridge so that she drowns and suffocates inside the truck (Mine). These disturbing lyrics are a prime example of how females are beat and thrown around in many other rap lyrics promoting violence towards females in Americas society. Females are seen more as the objects of males, rather than individuals that have emotional and physical feelings of their own. These depictions harm the entire character of females and show the distinct weak nesses of abuse among many males in todays society.Along with the promotion of female abuse in the rap lyrics of many artists, one must realize that in a field that is primarily dominated by the men, few women seem o slip through the cracks and enter the rap and hip-hop music industry. In this industry very few females are taken seriously, which is obvious as Marl L. Shelton lists the few successful female rap artists in her article in Popular Music and Society. In her article, Shelton can only list the core of the artists that include TTL, Salt N EPA, Queen Latish, and MAC Late.Along with those four artists/groups, today there are merely three other famous rap artists, including: Missy Elliott, Ill Kim, and Eve. In an industry that is filled with sexist lyrics towards women, it is evident that these male artists wont be taken seriously lyrically. With very few females involved in the industry and males entering it nearly everyday, females remain a heavy minority among the hip-hop industry. Since the lyrics that the males rap about seem to express masculinity among these artists, rap music has taken upon the stereotype of being more masculine. Therefore when women enter the industry, it seems to be unacceptable for them to lyrically express feminine views. Feminine views are rarely seen among the lyrics of males, answering the question that females dont belong in he rap industry because it is the masculine territory of men. Furthermore, with females gradually beginning to work their way into the rap industry, they are forced to repress their true feminine views and produce lyrical content that appeals to males and contains more masculine aspects. Marl L.Shelton makes this evident in her article as she speaks on how women conform to masculine standards and base their lyrics on the idea of gangster rap. Shelton describes the scenes of various female music videos that tend to be based in an urban, crime- ale artist rather than that of a female artist. Along with conforming lyrically and visually to masculine settings, female artists have transformed from being more masculine and fully clothed to the feminine approach of less clothing that targets a male audience. Instead of standing for what they truly believe in, todays female artists direct their image and their lyrics on what will sell rather than what they personally value as an artist. Women rappers are often seen in music videos dressed wearing nothing but underwear, while rapping lyrics directed towards males. In the Eng How Many Licks by Ill Kim, the chorus talks about how many licks it is going to take the male to get to her the center of her body. The song also is filled with moans and sexual content that appeals to the sexual pleasures of males rather than to the artists own feminine satisfaction.Ill Kim focuses her song about various men that she has had sexual experiences with, degrading herself to the public, risking her image in an attempt to sell records rather than to promote the power of females. Even though women tend to be a source of degradation in hip-hop and rap music, his genre positively exposes the realities of the urban lifestyle. Rap music effectively shows the con ditions of the hood and helps to open the eyes of the listeners that life for everyone isnt easy and worry-free. In the song Changes by Outpace Shaker, the rapper illustrates an image of the common inner-city urban street.In his lyrics, Shaker describes a scene where white and blacks are enemies, and crack sellers are around every corner. Yet, even though these lyrics talk about the violence in the streets, it talks about needing to make a change within the society. Shaker raps We deed to make changes, Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers. And tats how its supposed to be. How can the devil take a brother if hes close to me, uh, I love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change, and thats the way it is. In the previous lyrics Outpace is encouraging peace within the community. He is encouraging whites and blacks to see each other more as individuals rather than two different enemies, but in the end he says that is Just the way the life is (filled with hatred). The ability that the rap and hip-hop genre has to expose how life really is in he ghetto not only can promote change, but it helps to show people of all socioeconomic backgrounds that life everywhere isnt truly kosher.Many of the rap lyrics composed by various artists focus on the neighborhoods that they live in, not generally depicting masculine views, but talking about how harsh urban life really is. As rap music continues to remain a top the music mainstream, new rappers continue to emerge daily from both the suburbs and the inner-city. With different tales to tell, rappers continue to conform to the ghetto image of the urban society. Yet, lyrically, rap music continues to express similar lyrics of female degradation and violence.And as the years pass, it is likely that more female artists will l and inside the rap and hip-hop music industry. Where violence is constantly being depicted, very few songs tend to express the true realities of urban life, limiting the views of people to only those of degradation towards women. And as long as the rap industry continues to remain popular among consumers, the lyrical content within the songs will never change; helping violence, hatred, and sexism survive in a society that is striving for change.