The Wayside

Are you just starting your business? Or, maybe your sales haven 't been as great as you would like. In either case, you likely have a very limited budget to invest in your business ' marketing. You 're one of the lucky ones. You understand just how important marketing is to your business ' success. And you 're willing to put in the time to do so. Unfortunately, your pockets don 't understand how important a great marketing strategy is. So you 'll have to DIY and hope for the best. There are…

What is my Cultural Identity? That’s a great question that I am not sure I even know the full answers to. I can say there are things that are currently changing in my life that affect it and there are things that have been a strong influence on what makes me the person I am today. To discover my cultural identity we need to take a look at my values and how they developed, Let 's start with the basics. I was raised in a middle class family with strong educational background. I use the term…

I have an excellent handle on rewarding members for things done over a course of a tour but short term project rewards fall by the wayside. This is an easy fix, recognizing members at quarters in front of the crew, stopping by their desk to offer a handshake and a thank you or by writing a positive page seven. All of these things are easy and take minimal effort; I must make a conscious…

Reflection is a vital skill that all nurses should be competent at. The Royal College of Nursing (2017) suggests that reflection is a way to think about an activity or experience and consider what was positive and negative about it, enabling us to plan how we could do something differently or improve on for the future. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursing (2014) defines reflection as “the careful consideration of one’s own professional practice, including the ability to review, analyse, and evaluate…

Introduction The story of K-Mart began in 1897, when a man by the name of Sebastian Spering Kresge had the idea to open up a discount store in the heart of Detroit and form a partnership with a man by the name of John McCrory. This whole idea of offering goods and products to customers at discounted rates changed the ideas of retail in a way that was never seen before. It was two years after this partnership began, that it also ended in which Kresege took over, entitling these Detroit stores…

Throughout Postcards, Proulx presents a bleak of vision of life that is violently sad. Trapped in this unforgiving landscape; the characters are bound to their farm. With no chance of escape; the characters are seen as having no free will. Their fate is determined by their inability to adapt to the fast moving capitalism of America in the 40’s. Capitalism “nips all aspirations in the bud” which is clearly seen through the inevitable decline of the farm. As America progresses, the Blood family…

On July 4, 1776, the founding members of the United States declared independence from Great Britain. In this declaration, the earliest form of the United States government promised to secure a set of unalienable rights for all men – the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, the United States still strives to secure and protect these values for all American citizens. Via policing and military action, the government confronts and disbands any perceived threats to these…

demographics, how they can be in corporate and targeted into the business to make it more diverse and more productive. She will basically aim to change their self-efficacy by having them view this as a great opportunity rather than a chance to fall by the wayside. The board members will be provided with the opportunity to speak about their resistance and Lori will work towards taming the resistance by trying to foster cultural intelligent to bring about increase growth and diversity in the…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most respected and recognized early American authors. His written stories are filled with both exciting events and disheartening scenarios. The unwritten story of his life, however, is just as interesting as his novels and short stories. Hawthorne was born on July fourth, eighteen hundred and four in Salem, Massachusetts. His birth name was actually Nathaniel Hathorne; he would later add the “w” to his name to distance himself from his ancestor, John Hathorne.…

The New Jim Crow In Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” the author makes a case that modern African-Americans are under the control of the criminal justice system. This includes African Americans who are incarcerated in prisons and jails as well as those on probation or parole. Alexander claims that there are more African Americans under the thumb of the criminal justice system today than were enslaved in 1850. Moreover, discrimination…