Diminishing returns

pursuing additional attacks on Rome. Continued attacks on Rome were unnecessary in Hannibal's mind, but when the Romans refused to negotiate after the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal's plan began to fail because the number of his troops and supplies were diminishing and he could not expect Roman allies to join…

predict performance. Balanced Scorecard: 1. The Financial Perspective: How do we look to shareholders? Are we making money? The focus of financial perspective is financial performance measured by financial accounts. Key performance indicators are return on capital employed, cash flow, project profitability, profit forecast reliability, and sales backing. Revenue and productivity are valuable indicators of undertaken projects, as well as their economic results. The financial goal should be…

transfer can take place when an adopted behaviour for a given situation results in degraded performance in another (Rolfe and Staples, 1986) Notably flight simulators primarily focus on the evaluation and training of pilots. In order to assess the return on the investment made in the simulator, the use of the aircraft must be significantly reduced or even avoided. To allow for such as comparison to be made The Transfer Effectiveness Ratio (TER) is used (Rolfe and Staples, 1986) (See Equation…

War Photographer is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy. This poem was created for a person she was close friends with, Don McCullin, a famous “war photographer”. She emphasises the idea of the persona she talks about in “War Photographer” as a photographer for a newspaper, who takes his job very seriously, but falters when looking back. She also extend that through the talk about the wars and contrasting it to a casual Sunday in England. The poem begins with a depiction of the war picture taker…

According to the the SAPA Project Emotional Assessment/Personality Test, my ‘Honesty’ score was 6 out of 9, ‘Conscientiousness’ was 6 out of 9, ‘Orderliness’ score was 6 out of 9 and ‘Industriousness’ score was 6 out of 9. These were my highest scores, however, I would not say that I think they are my greatest personality strengths. My ‘Compassion’ score was 5 out of 9 and I would have expected it to be my highest score. I personally think that I am more compassionate than other…

It is often heard echoing down the class hallways before exams with glorified voices, “I stayed up all night studying for the test” It makes the teachers chuckle, not because students deserve praise, but how detrimental it is to one. This meme lines up with that train of thought, it depicts a college aged female studying from an open book, surrounded by darkness with a grim smirk on her face, in the midst of twenty-one-ish other books in various school subjects, the meme contains text that says…

event that he appears to be flighty, it is on account of he is willing to fall flat. He gathers truth by being willing to commit errors, to fall flat and fizzle and come up short once more, to persevere through the agony, to experience the demise, and return from hellfire again and…

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is about the unfortunate downfall of the protagonist, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture. Okonkwo is an honored and effective leader within the Igbo community of Umuofia in eastern Nigeria. Things Fall Apart set about instituting the legitimacy of life in tribal Nigeria in the late 19th century, before the arrival of the "civilising" colonialism of Christian missionaries. There are many themes in Things Fall Apart but one theme that is very prominent is…

When Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, it was designed as a safety net and was intended to protect American workers upon retirement, disability or in the event of an early death. This program is the largest government program in the world and uses a pay-as-you-go system where workers contribute 6.2% of their salaries into the plan and come time to give up work, and they will be eligible to receive a limited monthly income to assist them during retirement. In other words, the…

punishment can be fatal as God is powerful and have no problems to launch any magnitude of punishment (Hosea 6:1,5). God is capable to heal people from severe and fatal injured, including those inflicted by him. God will heal those who repent and return to him (Hosea 6:1). Not only God can revive people, but also complete it in short time (Hosea 6:2). God has the free choice to destroy as well as to deliver. God, like dawn (“light”) and rain, brings life to earth (Hosea 6:3). God can…