In this paper, we evaluate a set of three medical

In this paper, we assess a lot of three clinical related sites to be specific www.nln.org for the National alliance of Nursing, www.nursingworld.org for the American Nursing Association, www.ama-assn.org for the American Medical Association and the https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm for the National Council for State sheets in Nursing. We likewise assess an Archives asset webpage to be specific https://www.congress.gov//or the Thomas, the site of the Library of Congress of the United States of America.Prior to introducing the assessment we quickly depict every site: the motivation behind these locales and their present set-up. We at that point go into the assessment legitimate where we examine the general substance, style and usefulness of each site. In the general substance of the sites the nature of the data being introduced and the thoroughness of the data is assessed.Moreover, how current the data situated in the sites and where they were gotten or from what authority this data was determined is likewise surveyed. In conclusion, in assessing the style and usefulness of the destinations we think about the format or the way content is introduced inside the locales, ease in exploring the locales, its similarity regarding different programs, data space as for publicizing pages, and the speed whereupon it is gotten to through the internet.The first of the locales to be assessed is www.nursingworld.org, the official site of the American Nursing Association (ANA). Quickly, ‘ANA is the main full-administration proficient association speaking to the country's 2.9 million enrolled medical caretakers (RNs) (About the American Nurses association,â that propels nursing through assimilating elevated expectations, advancing the financial government assistance in their working environment and by proactively campaigning legislative organizations on issues influencing them.For the general substance, the site contains exhaustive and significant data strong of the motivati on behind ANA referenced already. The site has segments on data and administrations, newsroom and nursing issues/programs that support constant help for advancing elevated expectations in the nursing practice. It likewise has an area for demonstrating their promotions and activities for nurses’ general government assistance, with sub-areas guiding clients to see distributions applicable to attendants in the United States.As for the money of the archives, the records are fully informed regarding transferred reports as most recent as January 11, 2007 (‘Press discharges from the American Nurses Association†, http://www.nursingworld.org/pressrel/). Concerning the authority of the records distributed, the archives that are distributed have their relating sources going with them. All these data are introduced in a remarkably clear and compact fashion.For the style and usefulness of the site, the general format is effectively reasonable. The site can be effortlessly expl ored and the data is plainly sifted through for simple access, despite the fact that the site conveys a great deal of data it is shockingly available. Then again, the location of the website (www.nursingworld.org) is somewhat deceptive if you somehow happened to think about what might be the webpage of ANA and a name as www.ana.org or www.americannursingassociation.org may have been the better URL.The utilization of pictures rather than streak films may have the diminished the site’s in general tasteful effect on the client yet without the utilization of blaze motion pictures, the webpage would then be able to be effectively open from any PC with differing web speed with data provoking quick. In conclusion for the assessment of the www.nursingworld.org, the data comparative with the notices, they are isolated obviously so as to diminish the messiness and make perusing easier.The second site is www.ama-assn.org or the American Medical Association (AMA). AMA ‘helps specia lists help patients by joining doctors across the nation to take a shot at the most significant expert and general wellbeing issues’ (‘The AMA mission’, http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/bar/class/1815.html). Despite the fact that it is like the activities and projects of ANA, AMA has a more extensive market as it centers around the whole clinical profession.For the general substance of the site, it has similitudes as that of the ANA site, with augmentations of ‘professional assets section’ for clinical experts and ‘med school ; residency site‘ for clinical understudies. The majority of the data is state-of-the-art aside from the yearly report is just has the 2005 yearly report. What's more, the site’s data is taken from valid sources, which are additionally available in the site.As for the general design of the site, the immense data is clumped together in an unmistakable and effectively reasonable way with the end goal that clients can peruse through the site without any problem. The site uses streak motion pictures that make the site all the more engaging and further guzzles to the clients the vision and mission of AMA. Aside based on what was referenced above, there are anyway no critical or creative methods for introducing information seen from the ANA and the AMA site.The third site is www.nln.org which is the site for the National League for Nursing (NLN). The motivation behind NLN is like that of ANA however is somewhat shifted. As per its motivation (http://www.nln.org/aboutnln/ourmission.htm), the NLN ‘advances greatness in nursing instruction that readies the nursing workforce to address the issues of various populaces in an ever-changing medicinal services environment.’ This reason for existing is done through accomplishing the objectives of Nursing training, Faculty advancement, Research in Nursing Education, Data assortment, appraisal and assessment and Public Policy.For the general subst ance of the site, data appropriate to the objectives referenced above is obviously noticeable. Clients who wish to take an interest in accomplishing one of the objectives or for any individual who might simply need to peruse through the site can without much of a stretch go to a particular heading and see its related areas. As far as the money of the records, a large portion of the archives are forward-thinking anyway there are a few reports, for example, the schedule of exercises of NLN, which are still needing refreshing (the schedule is as yet 2006).As for the general format, the webpage has a topsy-turvy configuration, leaving from the measured and normal web composition that separates it from the remainder of the sites being assessed despite the fact that the website utilizes just straightforward illustrations to introduce its substance. The site can undoubtedly be explored, with data plainly isolated and assembled into brief headings that make it simpler to peruse through. In conclusion, transferring time for the webpage is reasonable for clients with shifting Internet transmission capacities because of its low-memory website architecture, along these lines data regardless of the way of Internet access can without much of a stretch secure information.Another webpage assessed is https://www.ncsbn.org/, the webpage for the National Council for State Boards for Nursing (NCSBN). The NCSBN is a United States-state wide association intending to advance and advance administrative greatness in Nursing for open security (‘Mission and Values,’ https://www.ncsbn.org/182.htm).For the general substance of the site, it has complete substance for the most part relating to the nursing calling and for the administrative nursing sheets, each other that suggests that their site presents explicit, important and brief data that supplement one another. The reports are all around refered to with experts in the field plainly expressed going with any exploration or paper they accomplished for NCSBN. By and large the site is modern, with segments for example the schedule of exercises that go as far introducing dates of exercises during the current year ahead of time, which is useful for a great many people. Anyway there are segments in the site that despite everything should be refreshed, segments, for example, the News discharges and the yearly report.As for the style and usefulness, the site is more â€Å"cleaner† than the others regarding the design. The data is introduced so that despite the fact that there is a great deal of data introduced, the site is as yet ready to introduce it in a basic way that would not make the client â€Å"disoriented.† The site can be effortlessly explored with all the data effectively open. The site anyway returns to the symmetric plan not at all like the site of NLN. The site uses basic glimmer introductions in their landing page that gives an extra stylish effect on the user.Lastly, we assess ht tp://thomas.loc.gov/, the site for the Library of Congress of the United States of America. As per the area depicting the site (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/abt_thom.html), ‘THOMAS was propelled in January of 1995, at the origin of the 104th Congress. The administration of the 104th Congress guided the Library of Congress to make government authoritative data openly accessible to the public.’ Currently is being kept up by the Library of Congress.For the general substance of the site, its presents a huge number of data as brief as could be expected under the circumstances yet the site despite everything gives off an impression of being intensely jumbled with data. Anyway when contrasted with different locales and the substance they hold, Thomas is considerably straightforward basic as it can. Regarding the power, the data introduced by the Thomas is without a doubt exact and originates from straightforwardly from the source that is Congress. What's more, the reports put aw ay in the site are the most present in the field, with every day refreshes coming legitimately from Congress. Connections are likewise introduced in the site that are pertinent to clients who wish to peruse other important legislation.In terms of style and usefulness, the Thomas has a straightforward format and tasteful appearance when contrasted with different locales. The primary page is somewhat jumbled so there is a likelihood that first time clients may get lost concerning the monstrous data being introduced and the one the client wishes to discover. Howe

Bell Hooks

She is glad to call herself as â€Å"Black lady scholarly, progressive lobbyist. † Not a torch progressive, who ‘wields the gun’, yet a person who sits over the table with paper and pen to arouse scholarly upset! Chime Hooks has a place with the later class and she has demonstrated how undoubtedly the pen is mightier than the blade. She has illuminated numerous types of racialism, open and with a shrouded plan. For the overarching, disgraceful states of the Black Women, she doesn't fault the â€Å"white supremacist entrepreneur patriarchy† alone.She takes the bludgeons against the Black freedom battle and the standard Feminist development. She knows about the quality of her suppositions and has prevailing with regards to making the effect by utilizing the electronic mediaâ€she has showed up on TVs, took part in the radio projects. She is keen on associating with the scholarly class, yet she is exceptionally worried to arrive at the normal man. Hence she says, â€Å"We are taking a gander at a culture where a great many individuals don’t read or write.† She has fortunately utilized the broad communications for proliferating what she accepted to be reality, simultaneously she has not saved it, for the questionable jobs they play as a rule to advance bigotry and sexism. Development the socio-profound Bell Hook: She soaked up the poet’s vision by broadly perusing writers like William Wordsworth, Langston Hughes, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Gwendolyn Brooks, directly from youth. The enthusiasm and feelings in her discussions and composing might be because of the generous impact of the writing of such poets.Each and each atom of her body and soul appears to have been overcharged with optimism. This separated, the viable, hard encounters of her life have made her a stalwart pragmatist. â€Å"She wrote in Sisters of the Yam that life in her locale included ‘an ever-present and profound commitment with th e supernatural components of Christian faith’ and that, ‘despite the sexism of that isolated Black world, the universe of otherworldliness was one where Black ladies instructors, evangelists, and healers worked with as much aptitude, force, and second sight as their Black male confidants. ’(Article, Black†¦. )Chime Hooks is a unique mastermind and she is eager to challenge any set-up that gives the optional status to the Black Women. She doesn’t want the dark ladies to be adherents, howsoever splendid might be their thoughts for liberation of the ladies. She wants dark ladies to be first among the equivalents. She is ever prepared to battle bogus portrayals. She underlines how race and class play as large as a job as genderâ€and clearly draws image of the subjection of poor and non-white ladies. To contend her focuses, she takes the contextual analyses from the most surprising spot her very own encounters and examples.She knows how harsh the bark i s, on the grounds that she has been constrained to bite its juice! Her primary grouse and concern is about the dread of the dark individuals. The mental enduring of the dark individuals is more significant for her than their monetary situation. Are the Blacks inferiors to the white individuals? Such a perilous and embarrassing reasoning with respect to the Blacks, profoundly stresses her deeply. She wants for a social reaction from the whites, where one can feel the real changes in their idea process.Only when their contemplations are changed, their psyches will change. At the point when the brains change, the men will change. At the point when men change, the general public additionally changes. At the point when society improves, one can expect the certified, altruistic changes in America, with respect to connection among Whites and Blacks. â€Å"Black ladies have regularly gone to medications and liquor as opposed to recognize their requirement for reasonable emotionally support ive networks. †¦. At the point when injured people meet up in gatherings to make change, our aggregate battle is frequently sabotaged by every one of that has not been managed emotionally.â€Å"(Article, Black†¦) Here, Bell Hooks talks as though she has wore the mantle of a progressive worker's guild chief! Be that as it may, again she safeguards her line of activity a novel way. She isn't content with the word battle. She terms it giving it a second thought, adoring, and thriving. With such fine moving articulations, Bell claims to the head and heart of the Black masses. She declares that investment in real life with cheer is superior to withdrawal and renunciation of activity for self-advancement. â€Å"My thought of a scrumptious time is to peruse a book that is wonderful.And then I have the standard interests: sentiment, fashion†¦I'm a major design young lady. What's more, I'm truly into craftsmanship and profoundly into culture. I am energetic about carrying on with my existence with a specific nature of class and effortlessness. In any case, the decision enthusiasm of my life is being a searcher after truth and the awesome. That tempers everything else. † (Article, Black†¦) She talks with the authority of a real profound pioneer. Just those people, who are inside solid and ethically right, can be that philosophical and practical.She is on the limit of the brain hindrance and she will encounter the perfect once she rises above it. She has the makings of a universal socio-profound pioneer. Ringer Hooks and gangsta rap: As for her projects, Bell Hooks is strongly preferred or sharply despised. Having once welcomed for any talk task/talk with, she doesn’t get rehash solicitations. It is the ‘reward’ for her harsh analysis of racial oppressor entrepreneur male controlled society. She says, â€Å"To white ruled broad communications, the debate over gangsta rap makes incredible spectacle.Besides the misuse of the se issues to draw in crowds, a focal inspiration for featuring gangsta rap keeps on being the sentimentalist dramatization of belittling dark youth culture by and large and the commitments of youthful dark men in particular†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ When I counter this deionization of dark guys by demanding that gangsta rap doesn't show up in a social vacuum, in any case, rather, is expressive of the social intersection, mixings, and commitment of dark youth culture with the qualities, perspectives, and worries of the white lion's share, a few people stop listening.† (McGee, 1994) Conclusion: Bell Hooks talks with bunches of conviction, and says in clear terms what is the crucial her life. She alerts the Black Women and cautions about the threats ahead. She hits out at the dark guys also, for their selling out for the real reason for government assistance of the dark race. She doesn’t save anybody including the Clinton organization, when she says, â€Å"Feminist evaluates of the s exism and sexism in gangsta rap, and in all parts of mainstream society, must keep on being striking and fierce.Black females must not be hoodwinked into supporting crap that harms us under the appearance of remaining adjacent to our men. On the off chance that dark men are selling out us through demonstrations of male brutality, we spare ourselves and the race by standing up to. However, our women's activist studies of dark male sexism flop as important political intercession in the event that they try to belittle dark guys, and don't perceive that our progressive work is to change racial oppressor industrialist man centric society in the different parts of our lives where it is made show, regardless of whether in gangsta rap, the dark church, or the Clinton administration.† (Article, 1994) ========= References Cited: Article: Black lady, Intellectual, Revolutionary Activist-Bell Hooks: †¦ www. allaboutbell. com †7k McGee, Arthur R. Article: Race and Ethnicity: snar es: Misogyny, Gangsta†¦ (March 9, 1994). .. race. eserver. organization/sexism. html †28k †Article: Bell Hooks †Misogyny, gangsta rap, and The Piano. Z Magazine, February 1994 †¦ www. allaboutbell. com/Misogyny. htm †22k â€

7 Great Books THE NEW YORK TIMES PANNED

7 Great Books THE NEW YORK TIMES PANNED A recent interest in book reviews as a genre led me to Books of the Century:  A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature from The New York Times Book Review. This volume collects notable pieces from the first 100 years of the NYTBR, including reviews, impressions, letters to the editor, and literary essays. Its a fascinating look at how book coverage, taste, and discussion have changed since the NYTBR launched in the fall of 1896. Of particular interest are the things the review got wrong. Commendably, the editors of Books of the Century not only chose to include critical missteps, but they even highlighted them (calling them Oops! entries). Here are a few highlights On Henry James The Golden Bowl: It seems to me to present Mr. James at his worstWe find, standing for subtlety, a kind of restless finicking inquisitiveness, a flutter of aimless conjecture, such as might fall to a village spinster in a department store. Mr. James, the prolix, the incoherent, the indecisive; it is of this Mr. James that we carry an impression from The Golden Bowl. Thoughts: Aside from the shift from the first-person singular to the first-person plural, the notable feature here is that the reviewer seems to mistake James interest with that of the characters in The Golden Bowl. To my mind, the aimless conjecture and indecisive descriptors are aptly applied to the characters rather than James himself. Forgetting that the authors concerns and interests do not necessarily align with the concerns and interests of the characters is a common reviewing mistakeand rather refreshing to see from the Grey Lady. __________________________ On E.M. Forsters Howards End: As a social philosopher, evidently, Mr. Edward M. Forster has not arrived at very positive convictions. He evinces neither power nor inclination to come to grips with any vital human problem. Thoughts: Ah, the good old days when one could chastise a writer for not coming to grips with any vital human problem unironically (and use clichés like come to grips with impunity). Those who love Forster love him in part, I think, for his lack of moral certainty or judgment. That this reviewer expected an identifiable social philosophy tells us much about the moment: just seven years later, criticism in this vein would be seen as woefully naive. __________________________ On Virginia Woolfs The Voyage Out: This English novel, by an English writer, gives promise in its opening chapters of much entertainment. Later, the reader is disappointed. That the author knows her London in its most interesting aspects there can be no doubt. But aside from a certain clevernesswhich, being all in one key, palls on one after going through a hundred pages of itthere is little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck fo mediocre novels which make far less literary pretension. Thoughts: You can be smug. You can be condescending. And you can even be wrong. But you cant be all three at once. Or so I thought. __________________________ On J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye: This Salinger, hes a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though, its too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he shouldve cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crumby school. They depress me. Thoughts: It has yet to be shown that satirical impersonation is a viable mode of literary criticism. Usually, the writer comes off as an ironical jackass; this case is no exception. Still, there is a whisper of truth about Salingers gift for the short-story, not as a mark against Catcher, but as a foreshadowing of his long publishing drought as he struggled to contain his opus about The Glass family. The unruliness of the novel form itself seemed to be a part of the problem, and this reviewer presciently suggested he stick to the short story. __________________________ On Joseph Hellers Catch-22: Catch-22 has much passion, comic and fervent, but it gasps for want of craft and sensibility. If Catch-22 were intended as a commentary novel, such sideswiping of character and action might be taken care of by thematic control. It fails here because half its incidents are farcical and fantastic. Thoughts: First, Im not sure you can gasp for want. Second, slamming Catch-22 for craft and sensibility is a little like panning a Ferrari because theres not much trunk space: it is just completely and utterly beside the damn point. Third, how delicious that a book criticized for lack of thematic control would itself be a symbol for all the contradictions of late 20th American life. Whats that phrase for either way youre wrong? __________________________ On Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique: Sweeping generalities, in which this book necessarily abounds, may hold a certain amount of truth but often obscure the deeper issues. It is superficial to blame the culture and its handmaidens, the womens magazines, as she does. What is to stop a woman who is interested in national and international affairs from reading magazines that deal with those subjects? Thoughts: These would be only moderately obtuse points coming from a freshman. Coming from a NY Times reviewer, they are embarrassing. Also, what is more superficial than a leading, block-headed question that sounds like an obvious truth but actually demonstrates the problem? __________________________ On Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange: With his tongue popping in and out of his cheek, Mr. Burgess satirizes both the sociological and the penal approach to juvenile crime, literary proletarianism, and anything else in his path. Written in a pseudo-criminal cant, A Clockwork Orange is an interesting tour-de-force, though not up to the level of the authors previous two novels. Thoughts: Besides not quite liking Clockwork enough, this seems pretty right to me, though the interesting tour-de-force is a frustrated phrase. I suspect that satires are particularly easy for a critic to get wrong, since much of what a good satire accomplishes is only apparent in hindsight.

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Essay Comparing The Awakening and Story of an Hour

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string(67) " that occurred during this year and gradually boost home-building\." Economic Policy Problem: Demand and Supply The demand and supply of Housing and the Housing affordability in Australia I. Introduction Like all other economies The Australian economy has been affected by the global financial crisis which is now a global economic crisis due the collapse of Lehman Brothers and other financial institutions in US. The consequences of the global economic crisis has been severe and as a result of this the world is in Recession therefore many economies has pushed the budget into a deficit launching economic package trying to boost their economies. We will write a custom essay sample on Demand and Supply of Housing in Australia or any similar topic only for you Order Now Because the housing market and the housing industry is one of the most important sector of the economy this report aim to analyse how the global financial crisis has affected the demand and supply of housing in Australia also what are the condition of housing affordability and how the Government through the stimulus package tend to intervene the economy. After this report we will be able to understand the movement and the reason for a movement into the demand and supply curve for housing in Australia you will be able also to identify if the Government economic policy is going for the correct pathway or if this temporary measure will not bring certainty and confident to the economy. It is very clear that at least the Rudd’s Government is addressing the problem anticipating future scenarios and acting to correct this scenarios exploiting and taking advantage of the relative good shape of the Australian economy in this moment in comparison with another countries. II. Australian Economy Like all other economies the Australian economy was very much affected by the global economic crisis and the recession around the world therefore the financial institutions started to feel the pressure and the stress of the situation but the Australian Government put in place measures to guarantee the debts of banks. Apart of that the Australian economy was affected by the collapse of commodity prices this brought real losses of income to the economy which put to business in a position to review their investment plan in the future. At the same time households have become more cautious about expenditure due the increase of the unemployment rates and they start to increasing savings. Because the panic caused and the lack of consuming the RBA responded lowering of interest rates reducing from 7 ? per cent to 3 ? per cent, this reduction have fully passed to the borrowers therefore interest rates on housing loans have fallen as well as interest in consumer and business loan, this rate are at historically low levels. This has produced an increase in loan demand; other factor that increased the demand of loans apart of the lowest interest rate around 5 ? per cent is the program first home owner grant which has attracted new buyers into the market. On top of that the stimulus package is an initiative of the government to support spending but this measure cost that last financial year there was fiscal surplus of 1 ? per cent of the GPD even so Australia will remain as one of the better performing economies around the world. One of the reason of the reduction in wealth over the past year is that people which income have grown over the year overestimated the returns of the share market, people did not set up realistic expectations about their financial goals and now they have to increase the proportion of income working additional year or many of them returning to the workforce to compensated the losses of the share market due the global financial crisis, people did not took in count that share market produce negative returns every few years therefore they should have included this into the returns expectations. Although the large fall in wealth the households sector still is in a relative good position because people is maintaining a good balance between assets and liability and even when the hose market was subdued during 2008 and the prices has fallen by 3 per cent, the Australian overall the housing market has held up pretty well in comparison with another countries like US or UK where price has fallen by 20 per cent. An update on the economy and financial Developments (Battellino, 2009) III. Supply and Demand The relatively high level of housing price in Australia is a reflection of a collective decisions of households, this is not the result of a external forces they are at their income, preferences, access to finance have been willing to pay those prices. But this is not the only reason the supply – side factors also influenced in the fact of high price like the ability to built new housing on the city fringe, factor affecting the ability to increase supply closer to the city, transport infrastructure and community affect the feasibility and desirability of living in a different place. One of the good indicators of some of the supply issue is the cost of raw land. Prices still are high on the edges of Sydney but lowest on Melbourne and Adelaide therefore will very important to see if it is possible to reduce these prices or at least try to keep a lid on increase over the years because the housing affordability over the medium term will be the result of the ability to expand the supply of housing. Home building has recently been at low levels and this is because in a showing or uncertainty situation economy builder does not want to take higher risk than usual and also recent weakness in building approvals are affecting the supply curve and when there is a lack of supply and increase in demand the prices will go upwards. Conditions and Prospects in the Housing Sector (Richards, 2009) Looking beyond that the fall in interest rate and improvements in housing affordability should contribute to growth this has not happened but economist are expecting that occurred during this year and gradually boost home-building. You read "Demand and Supply of Housing in Australia" in category "Papers" Another factor that can contribute the building approval for building activities and therefore increase the supply of housing is the increase of number of first – home buyer demand there has been an important increase in loans approval in recent months. Is also very important understand that for many economist in this moment there is undersupply in the housing market even though we do not know exactly how large the undersupply it is but this should support also home-building. According with the current population rates, the decline in average household and level of demand for second house had been maintained most calculation now put â€Å"underlying demand† around 180. 000 to 200. 000 per year that means we need to increase the number of new house built than has actually occurred. However, we can ignore the impact of prices on the demand for housing remember over the years the cost of housing has grown faster than incomes and the cost of goods and services as a consequence of that the demand for housing will be affected by the higher cost of housing therefore we can expect that the demand decline because many young adult will choose to live with their parents for longer, many other would prefer extra flatmate rather than having a bedroom vacant and another owner of holidays homes very likely to sell them so perhaps this is the reason that we have built fewer homes in recent years than might have been expected. But the undersupply of housing is a story of never ending because there is an Intelligent Housing Research Group â€Å"Hometrack† stated that the calculation of the RBA are based in accurate data according with them Australia may already have an excess of housing according with their estimation there are at least 10 millions dwellings in Australia compared with the 8. 3 millions of ABS data showing occupied dwellings of 8. millions, the extra two millions are housing awaiting to be sale or development, second homes and abandoned homes. Therefore they say that the ABS Method for calculation the ratio of people per dwelling per dwelling is based on ABS census data which is based upon occupied dwelling however Hometrack analysis is based on postal address indicates that Australia’s current level of housing relative to its population is in line with other Anglo economies. Following this looking at the context of population growth Australia total building approvals have running about the demand, for that reason the concern is that business and government decision in regards of housing market are being made based on demand assumptions that vary from the actual behaviour of the housing market. But how can we know who is telling the true well according with statistics during 1985-2009 an average of 1 residential dwelling was built per 1. 75 new Australian and only in the last 3 months has the rate of new building fallen behind population growth. This is in excess of the current ABS ratio of 2. 55 person per occupied therefore far from having and undersupply of housing Australia may well have substantial oversupply, it’s just that no-one is living in many of them. Is very likely cause of this large stock of unoccupied homes is Australia system of negative gearing. Most investor prefer build houses but avoid the renting-damage property having to manage tenant therefore they built it for capital gains because is better to keep the hose out of the rental market and claim the loss against tax. In order to defend the dominant view that Australian house price are justified by supply and demand, Anthony Richards (Economist) observed that the relative high level of housing price in Australia is a reflection of demand and the collective decision of households therefore housing price have not been set by external forces they are at this level because buyers in general have been willing to pay the prices. This is a fairly typical piece of neoclassical economic thinking â€Å"Prices reflect the interaction of supply and demand and are therefore justified†. Economist who apply a standard â€Å"Supply and demand† mindset to analysing the property market seem to consider that demand can shift â€Å"Left and right† as the number of buyers falls and rises with time; but they seem to ignore that the demand curve can shift up and down as well. Is response to the willingness of lenders to increase or decrease their loan to valuation ratios and if there is a substantial fall in LVR to new buyers could reduce the price that would be buyers can offer even in shortage of properties. Price S D3 D2 D1 Quantity of Supply, Demand Increase of demand due to: †¢ Population Growth †¢ Low interest Rates †¢ Booming economy with rising wages †¢ Governments Policies like Cuts to capital gains taxes Lies, damned lies, and Housing statistics (Keen, 2009) Bentick, Teresita, (2003) Microeconomics Study guide (4th Ed). Australia: Pearson Educations Australia. Frank, Robert, Bernanke Ben, (2001) Principles of Microeconomics (1st Ed). New York, USA: McGraw Hill Higher Education IV. Housing Affordability. Housing affordability can be divided in two: people need where to live whether they buy or rent therefore we need to include rents as well as mortgage to measure housing affordability, the second part is people who are looking to get into the housing market and people who already are already there. Housing affordability is consider as spending up to 30% a household’s income on mortgage repayments or rent. In the past two decades the prices of the housing has risen matched by a decrease in housing affordability this mean that a household now need 34. 8% of their income to meet an average loan repayment. According with a report released entitled â€Å"Anatomy of Australian Mortgage Stress† released by fujitsu consulting in April found that the main cause of mortgage stress is the interest rate rises and rents have risen slower than mortgage repayments pushing people out the house market and into the rental market, this mean that rents too are on the rise. According with report released by The Real State Institute of Australia REIA on April 22th 2009 â€Å"An opportune time for renters to buy† the ABS released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) showing that housing components increased 0,9% for the quarter bringing the annual increase to 5. 5%. The majority of this increase in the housing components was driven by rents which increased by 1. 7% over the quarter and 8. 4% over the year, this ncrease in rents reflects record low vacancy rates and the unavailability of rental properties in all capital cities. Building approvals and housing finance for investment purposes continue decrease during the March quarter 2009 and is very likely to put further upwards pressure on rents. Australia will need to build significantly more house than has occurred recently to meet rental demand. Housing affordability has improved significantly since the reserve bank began cutting interest rates in September 2008. With the availability of the first home owners boost (FHOB), lower interest rate, greater affordability and vacancy rates remaining in a low record now would be an opportune time for these in the rental market to consider the purchase of their own home. Real Estate institute of Australia (2009, April 22). Ann opportune time for renters to buy. Retrieved April 28, 2009, from http://www. reia. com. au/media/documents/REIA_MediaRelease_AnOpportuneTimeforRenterstoBuy. pdf Housing costs and Affordability in Australia (Thrift, 2008) Conclusion Is very clear that the housing sector in Australia is showing signs of improvements due the increase in households cash flows as a result of the of the important role of the Government and the RBA in the downturn of the economy decreasing the interest rates and providing policies that improve housing affordability for people to repay the loans but in order to tackle this important problem is very important that the government does not exclude anyone from the spectrum like young people also is very important that the Reserve Bank of Australia as a Central bank play an important role n this matter acting more like an honest broker developing real strong statistic about the housing market that helps in a future time to provide valuable resources, accurate data and support important decisions about the supply and demand of housing market instead of take part of this problem assuming neoclassical position taking in consideration on side of the problem and ignoring the other. REFERENCE LIST ? Bentick, T. (2003). Microeconomics Study Guide. Pearson education Australia, Australia: Pearson Education Australia Frank, R. , Bernanke B. (2001) Principles of microeconomics. Mc graw Hill, New York: Gary Burke ? Thrift Rhea, (2008) Housing and Affordability in Australia . Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://www. rba. gov. au/EconomicsCompetition/2008/Pdf/2008_first_year. pdf ? Real Estate institute of Australia, (2009, April 22). Ann opportune time for renters to buy. Retrieved April 28, 2009, from http://www. reia. com. au/media/documents/REIA_MediaRelease_AnOpportuneTimeforRenterstoBuy. pdf ? Battellino, Ric. 2009, March 31). An Update on the Economy and Financial Developments. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://www. rba. gov. au/Speeches/2009/sp_dg_310309. html ? Richards, A. (2009, March 26). Conditions and Prospects in the Housing Sector. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://www. rba. gov. au/Speeches/2009/sp_dg_310309. html ? Keen, S. (2009, April 08). Lies, damned lies, and housing statistics. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://www. businessspectator. com. au/bs. nsf/Article/Lies-damned-lies-and-housi How to cite Demand and Supply of Housing in Australia, Papers

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Now to society more than half of them may not be aware of this event, or be aware and just not care because those people it may not affect them personally as it w ould to the fisher men’s family.This novel has a similar event were random murders take place, and the main antagonist Patrick Rush does not care about what is happening in his city and he does not care of what happened to those people that died, until his one and only son is kidnapped by the mysterious Sandman. Andrew Pyper shows that what a person feels when losing someone close to them is completely different for what society or someone not as close may go through and develops this theme by using Patrick Rush’s situation as an example.To begin, everyone knows when anything big or small happens one way to find out would be probably watching or reading the news. Although the news is a good for giving people information on recent events, it is also something that hurts the hearts of the families of which the news could be about. Andrew Pyper shows that when something happens to someone close to you it is very painful, but to someone in the media it is something that pe rson can exploit and use to their benefit.He uses imagery to make the readers imagine a scenario that which the readers can feel how both a family member may feel and someone in society. For example, â€Å"You can Imagine. A father loses his son at the movies, the boy snatched away in the time it takes to buy hot dogs and onion rings– it’s a summer weekend news editor’s dream come true. † (Pyper, 265) This example shows the father that lost his son would be devastated, worried, and angry that it happened, but this story for the news editor is something he could potentially use as the next top story in his article.Taking it a step further it even shows that when people in the society listen to this news most may not even care and that little amount that does care will slowly start to not care as well, but the family that lost their son will never stop caring until he would return safely home. Relating this to daily life there are many examples of when news reporters take advantage of the worst situations just to get a better rating for their show. For example, channel 6 news was trying to get out some information on what happened to this teen who was shot out of her mother.For a parent that just lost their daughter the last thing the parents would want at that time would be a reporter annoying them that is why that teens mother got angry and replied â€Å" ‘OK, thats good’ when asked for a reaction to her daughters shooting, but then suddenly hurled a rock at ABC6 photographer Marc Jackson (Zimmerman, Para 3). This shows that even at a situation like this the reports do anything it takes to get some good news for their viewers, even if it hurts the hearts of the poor families.Furthermore, near the end of the book as stated Patrick Rush’s son goes missing, and in such cases many people in this common society would simply give up on either searching for him or already think his son would be dead. In this situation the readers can imagine what Patrick is going through, in his state of mind he allows the reading to sense how he is feeling by saying â€Å"There’s the shots of local volunteers searching for clues, for body parts. And theres the father, his skin speckled and spongy as oatmeal, robotically pleading for his boy’s safe return† (Pyper, 265).This shows that the volunteers in the society are already searching for clues, and Andrew Pyper specifies that the volunteers are searching for body parts meaning that the volunteers must already be assuming Patrick’s son to be dead. Patrick on the other hand is feeling depressed, as if he cannot move anymore without him, as if his skin feeling like it is going to melt, begging for his son to return safe. The readers can feel that Patrick is in pain, and clearly the volunteers helping to find the boy are not, thus proving that a what a family goes through is completely different from what others in this common society wo uld go through.This argument could be related to a recent tragedy that happened in Toronto where a man named Tim Bosma was fallen victim to a group of evil people that murdered him over a few vehicles. A few vehicles were recovered by the police, and a statement was given by an owner of one of the vehicles. He said â€Å"‘it’s just a bike,’ MacDougall said. ‘It’s nothing compared to what the Bosmas are going through now. They’ll never get Tim back. ‘This is sad, really sad’† (Casey, Para 6). Mr.MacDougall knows that what the Bosmas are going through is very difficult, and many people in Toronto probably did not even know of this incident that occurred, and do not feel what the Bosma family is going through. Thus, this recent event helps to prove that only families can understand how it feels when you lose someone because they are so close to him, compared again to society where people just do not have that same personal con nection. Finally, Patrick shows that people that only people that are close to you actually if the pain and sorrow when you are gone.Although he realizes this after his son is kidnapped, he still shows that he now understands how it feels to lose someone, and why others aside from him may not. Patrick says â€Å"Harm tends to come from when you lose ones you know the best† (Pyper, 267). Here Andrew Pyper uses what Patrick said to show that only when a person loses someone close to them is when that person would experience any type of emotional feelings; compared to someone that might not know that person to well and may not go through the same type of feelings that someone that was close to that person goes through.Looking outside the book, everyone in the world is scared of losing someone that is close to them; by looking online you can find millions of quotes or just ordinary people that have shared this feeling. For example, an unknown person said â€Å"I’m always scared of losing someone close to me†¦ and fed up of being told ‘it’ll be fine’† (Losing Someone from Death Quotes, 4). The quote said by an anonymous source is basically saying that losing someone close to you can be really scary or even depressing just to think about, and people around you may not feel the same as you do.This is just one opinion of the billions of people in the world, and Andrew Pyper being one is trying his hardest to prove that only if a person that loses someone close to them goes through completely different feelings than a person not as close goes through. In conclusion, Andrew Pyper using this novel to help prove that the emotions somebody shares when losing someone dear to them is completely different for someone that is not close to that person. By using Patrick Rush’s situation as a main example he helped to prove this thesis, and by comparing it to outside sources in this essay the readers now are totally clear on hi s message.Anyone would be terrified to even think about losing someone like their brother, sister, mother or father, or even their closest friend. What the author wanted to show is that only people close to that person that might have died or gone missing feel the pain and others do not. The real life examples of Tim Bosma, the mother that lost her daughter, and many people around the world helped to prove this thesis, and the main message Andrew was trying to get across.Everyone who was read his books will understand Andrew Pyper’s message, but only when the readers were to go through the same ideal or situation is when they will truly realise the importance of how feelings are different for every individual. Bibliography - Casey, Liam. Tim Bosma murder case: Stolen vehicles recovered from Dellen Millard’s hangar, police say | Toronto Star.   thestar. com | Toronto Star | Canadas largest daily. N. p. , n. d. Web. 7 June 2013. - Losing Someone Special From Death Quo tes.   Quotes and Sayings Search Quotes. N. p. , n. d. Web. 10 June 2013. - Pyper, Andrew. The killing circle. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Minotaur, 2008. Print. Zimmerman, Neetzan. gawker. com/. Mother of Shooting Victim Sics Pit Bulls on Pushy Local News Reporter. N. p. , n. d. Web. 10 June 2013.

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Leadership management assignment 1 - Essay Example This is in line with the company’s recruitment policy to help them get the most qualified at affordable remuneration (Luecke 2003). This is therefore done to ensure that the selected individual to fill the position of the manager is the best across the region. They received several applications for the position of the managing director; the group underwent a rigorous recruitment process and finally was left with an individual to negotiate with their starting salary on the job. The remaining individual was from Mexico. In the negotiation process different negotiation skills were outlined that resulted into a successful with a few instances of messing up. Its Human resource manager represented the company on the salary negotiation table while the other side was the individual whose starting salary was to be negotiated (Jacks 2011). Person Position Character A Human resource Manager He is a highly Sociable, Extrovert and democratic B Newly recruited employee Also quite extroverte d, friendly, polite, and highly conscious For new employees of any given firm it is normally safe to negotiate for higher starting salaries before accepting the job offer because after this the new employee will be subjected to the normal salary increase payment plans of the company, which depends on extraordinary performance (Young 1975). The new recruit therefore needed to negotiate for a higher pay than what they used to earn in their former position hence the need for the negotiation skills. The HR manager of company X also needs to be a good negotiator to make sure that they provide the company with manageable expenses and it is willing to negotiate the starting salary of the employee as a whole. The employee is though considering the option of first negotiating the basic pay because given their character they are likely to be confused if they combined the negotiations together with those for the other benefits. This would be to the disadvantage of the employee if the pre-deter mined salary were already advertised (Zartman 1978). A â€Å"Hello Mr. F, this is X company as we talked over the phone, I gaze you are here to talk about the remuneration package of the job offer that we just shortlisted you for the other day. According to the company policy, we would be glad to offer you a salary package of $60,000 yearly plus the benefits, which would vary depending on several variables. Would you be ok with that?† B :I am interested in the job yes but I would not mind if you offered me a salary package of $68,000 per year plus the packages as we would negotiate if it is at the best interests of the company,† A â€Å"$68,000 is not even the average industry rate leave alone what we normally start offering our employees. However, because of your skills and presumed competence, we would not mind offering you a $65,000 package yearly and the benefits as it would be negotiated. How about that?† B "Thank you for your offer and I am certainly intere sted in the position and Company. Can I get back to you later this afternoon or first thing in the morning" A â€Å"You are most welcome and highly appreciate the time that you took to present yourself for interviews. Please make a point of communicating tomorrow given that we need to fill the position immediately. Anyway, your positive response will be highly appreciated. Nice time.†

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Computing (IT)- essay by matthew foote Will the internet keep the U.K competitive in a world market, in terms of industry? Recently there has been emphasis for electronic business. Judging by IBM's recent advertising campaign you would be forgiven for thinking that launching a company website leads to instant profits. IBM 's portrayal of a grandmother taking her olive oil business from rural Greece into global markets neatly demonstrates the potential of the internet for huge exposure and trade without the barriers of geography and at a lower cost. Unlocking this potential for any business in the U.K and elsewhere is no easy matter. Although several large firms in the U.K are now making real impact through e-commerce, although examples of profit's being made in small and medium (SME) sized business's are few and far between. Even though the effects of the internet on U.K's industry can only be predicted at this early stage, there have been incentives (rewards) offered to several SMEs generating business with their websites by the government. Firms with no more then 250 employees where asked to show how they had used e-commerce to increase efficiency or to boost their sales. The average investment that created a profit among the ten regional winners was around 20000 pounds with the cheapest being 10000 pounds, all the companies testified to the need for expert help. Such expense results from the need to have an aesthetically pleasing website which offers in depth analysis whilst maintaining a user friendly aspect. The site must encourage people to explore and revisit and its presence on the internet needs to be developed, which generally requires the advice of a specialist. At present time in the U.K the internet is used mainly for business to business activity with less emphasis on customer intervention. One of the main reasons for this is the transport costs, a business will normally order batch which would make it worth while were as customers only demand 1 or 2 goods. The idea of supplying customers with intangible goods, such as music, computer games/ programmes, software upgrades etc. is becoming increasingly more popular. A telephone poll carried out across Britain based on 4000 calls found that while 39% of internet users have bought clothes by mail, only 13% would be willing to buy clothes on-line and only 2% have actually done so. 70% had never bought anything on-line - many assumptions can be drawn from these statistics i.

Psy-240 Week 2 Assignment

Inside the womb we start out as an egg, but one of the first major structures that begin to form is the brain. The brain itself is a complex structure that leaves much to be learned from it. It controls a person’s entire body function and movements whether it be walking, talking, or even going to the bathroom. What most people do not know is that there are five major structures of the brain. The first of the five is the myelencephalon ( the Medulla). The Myelencephalon (or medulla) is the posterior portion of the brain stem.Not surprisingly then, the medulla is composed largely of tracts carrying signals between the rest of the brain and the body. An interesting part of the myelencephalon from a psychological perspective is the reticular formation. It is a complex network of about 100 tiny nuclei that occupies the central core of the brain stem from the posterior boundary of the myelencephalon to the anterior boundary of the midbrain. It is so named because of its netlike appe arance (reticulum means â€Å"little net†).Sometimes the reticular formation is referred to as the reticular activating system because parts of it seem to play a role in arousal. The various nuclei of the reticular formation are involved in a variety of functions, however — including sleep, attention (definitely important for language), movement, the maintenance of muscle tone, and various cardiac, circulatory, and respiratory reflexes. Accordingly, referring to this collection of nuclei as a system can be misleading.Generally, the myelencephalon does not play an important role in language production or comprehension. The second major structure is known as the metencephalon. The Metencephalon houses many ascending and descending tracts and part of the reticular formation. These structures create a bulge, called the pons, on the brain stem's ventral surface. The pons (â€Å"bridge† in Latin) is the bridge to the cerebellum. It has many millions of neural fibers w hich cross the base of the brain stem, connecting to locations in the cerebellum.The cerebellum (meaning â€Å"little brain†) is the large, convoluted structure on the brain stem's dorsal surface. The cerebellum is an extraordinarily complex structure which though smaller than the cerebral cortex probably has even more neurons. It has long been believed to function primarily for motor coordination, but recent studies indicate that it also is an important sensorimotor structure. Cerebellar damage eliminates the ability to precisely control one's movements to adapt them to changing conditions.Although the metencephalon surely plays a role in the precise movements of the tongue and lips required for language production, it is generally an unimportant structure with regard to the study of language and the brain. The third major structure inside the brain is the mesencephalon. The Mesencephalon has two divisions- the tectum and the tegmentum. The tectum (â€Å"roof†) is the dorsal surface of the midbrain. In mammals, the tectum is composed of two pairs of bumps, the colliculi (â€Å"little hills†).The posterior pair called the inferior colliculi, have an auditory function; the anterior pair, called the superior colliculi, have a visual function. The tegementum is the division of the mesencephalon ventral to the tectum. In addition to the reticular formation and tracts of passage, the tegmentum contains three colorful structures- the periaqueductal gray, the substantia nigra, and the red nucleus. The periaqueductal gray is the gray matter situated around the cerebral aqueduct, the duct connecting the third and fourth ventricles. The periacqueductal gray plays role in mediating the analgesic effects of opiate drugs.The substantia nigra (â€Å"black substance† and the red nucleus are both important components of the sensorimotor system. The mesencephalon is generally an unimportant structure in the study language and the brain. The fourth s tructure is named the deincephalon. The Diencephalon is composed of two structures: the thalamus and the hypothalamus. The thalamus is the large, two-lobed structure that constitutes the top of the brain stem. One lobe sits on each side of the third ventricle, and the two lobes are joined by the massa intermedia, which runs through the ventricle.Visible on the surface of the thalamus are white lamina (layers) that are composed of myelinated axons. The thalamus comprises many different pairs of nuclei, most of which project to the cortex. Some are sensory relay nuclei — nuclei that receive signals from sensory receptors, process them, and then transmit them to the appropriate areas of sensory cortex. For example, the lateral geniculate nuclei, the medial geniculate nuclei, and the ventral posterior nuclei are important relay stations in the visual, auditory, and omatosensory systems, respectively. The thalamus seems to be a relay for sensory input as well as an important part of other pathways, including motor and sensory pathways and those between different parts of the cortex and the cerebellum and other subcortical structures. The thalamus and the cortex are profusely interconnected by reciprocal connections, which play an important role in the generation of rhythmic patterns in the brain and in attention, and may also be involved in top-down effects in perception.By virtue of bidirectional connections between the thalamus and every region of the cortex, these rhythmic patterns sweep regularly and rapidly through the cortex. They, therefore, provide a possible source for the rapid pacemaker hypothesized for high-speed inner sequencing. The rate of speed of these thalamocortical rhythms ranges from twenty to eighty Hz (Hertz: cycles per second) in the waking state and as slow as from four Hz to less than one Hz in deep sleep. The hypothalamus (Greek hypo-, cognate to Latin sub- â€Å"under†) lies under the thalamus.It plays an important role in the regulation of several motivated behaviors. It exerts its effects in part by regulating the release of hormones from the pituitary gland, which dangles from it on the ventral surface of the brain. Two other structures appear on the inferior surface of the hypothalamus — the optic chiasm and the mammilary bodies. The optic chiasm is the point at which the optic nerves from each eye come together. The mammillary bodies are a pair of spherical hypothalamic nuclei located on the inferior surface of the hypothalamus, just behind the pituitary gland.The hypothalamus apparently does not play much of a role in language. The fifth and final structure is the telencephalon. The Telencephalon (the cerebral hemispheres) is the largest of the divisions of the human brain, and it is what subserves language — at least the aspects of language which are of interest to linguistics and most other people. In fact, the same can be said of the just the cerebral cortex, only one of the fou r parts of the telencephalon according to the traditional division given previously.Of the subcortical and interior portions of the telencephalon, the basal ganglia, which partially surround the diencephalon, participate in motor functions, including articulation of speech, and the hippocampus and the amygdaloid nucleus, which lie deep within the lower part of the cortex, are very important in emotional expression. As stated previously, the brain is a complex structure. It also performs many functions for the human body such as walking, talking, running and even writing.

Portrayal of Curley and Slim in Of Mice and Men - 985 Words

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