Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

achieve his idea of the American dream but ultimately fails in the end. Each person could have their own version of the American dream that they want to achieve. "While Miller clearly uses Willy's collapse to attack the false values of a venal American society, the play ultimately captures the audience's attention not because of its blistering attack on…

Different organisations have different organising systems, these systems are the key for an organisation to succeed or fail in the future. Samsung, an example of a successful organization in the electronic industry was found by Lee-Byung Chull in 1938 as a trading company . It entered the electronics industry in 1960 (Stickler 2013) . Its contrasting peer, Motorola was found in 1928 by Paul V. and Joseph E. Galvin which sold battery-eliminators as their first product but due to organization…

that the capacity to solve a provide solutions is in the hands of the victims. For instance, a story in the media can claim that the Third World countries are unable to develop because they waste foreign aid on extravagant lives. What Stone (2002) fails to appreciate is that since the main reason for framing a story is to inspire change of attitudes and subsequent policy change; Blame attribution may stagnate policy change if it blames the victim that is set to benefit from policy change. This…

Interplay between Hegelian Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism G.W.F. Hegel proposed that “dialectic” concerned itself with the process which went into knowing the “whole” of anything. Hegel equated “whole” with “totality”. According to him, only the whole is true. The whole is composed of moments that are partial wholes. The relationship that existed between these partial wholes is of prime importance. The whole contains within itself all the moments that it has overcome. Basically,…

social, mercantile and religious destiny. Despite the internal tensions the Civil War brought forth, the rapid growth of industrialisation of the nineteenth century led to a consolidation of the American Dream into a national consciousness. “As society became more secular, material progress became at once the Dream’s expression and proof. ‘The business of America is business’, Calvin Coolidge said in 1925. It…

When the country initially gained its independence from Britain in 1960, expectations were high that Nigeria would become an economic heavyweight in Africa. With abundant natural resources and a large population, it seemed the stage was set for success. However, despite earnings of more than $500 billion from oil sales during the period 1970 to 2007, the country still suffered from extreme poverty, illiteracy, and high debt. Several factors have been blamed for Nigeria’s troubles including…

the market and its components are ever changing. The most influencing factors of market changes are globalization elements, changes in the global economy, changes in the social structure and technology advances. Customers now have more options to choose from than ever before. While this is more of an advantage for customers, it is vice versa for businesses. Retaining customers requires less marketing resources than recruiting new ones, and thus are more preferable as it is more economically…

Quaker finally sold the company for $300 million to Triarc, which has since revived the floundering brand.8 Branding Challenges Branding poses several challenges to the marketer (see Figure 4-3). The first is whether or not to brand, the second is how to handle brand sponsorship, the third is choosing a brand name, the fourth is deciding on brand strategy, and the fifth is whether to reposition a brand later on. To Brand or Not to Brand? The first decision is whether the company should…