Thursday, January 29, 2009
Hong Kong
According to Xiao et al (2002), the mid-year population of Hong Kong was approximately 6.5 million in 1997. The actual population growth rate between 1987 and 1997 was 1.5% per annum, and the latest projected growth rate for 1996-2016 is 1.3% per annum. The problem of Hong Kong, however, is the severe aging of its population. 15 to 64 years of age accounts to 72.2 percent of the population – a great gap to the 14.5 percent of the 0 to 14 years citizens (Xiao et al, 2002).
The legal system of Hong Kong is based on the English common law. By occupation, community and social services workers account for 18.8 percent. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 somehow upset the Hong Kong economy, but “a boom in tourism from the mainland because of China's easing of travel restrictions, and a return of consumer confidence resulted in the resumption of strong growth from late 2003 through 2005” (CIA World Fact Book, 2008).
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hong Kong Tourism
In Hong Kong, tourism was regarded as one of the important sector of their economy. Actually, Hong Kong is one of the most popular destinations in the world and the tourism industry is one of the most important aspects in the economy of Hong Kong. According to the Tourism Commission of Hong Kong (2007) the industry held another record last 2006 in which more than 25 million tourists arrived in Hong Kong. In order to maintain the number of tourist arrivals in Hong Kong, the tourism department plans, develops, and audits the possible competitive destination.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Buyer Behavior
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Commoditization and Price competition
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Cost Cutting Project
Among other alternatives, the school opted to apply a strategy that will save them significant energy costs. In order to implement this alternative, the school developed a plan through project management effort. By utilizing the abilities of the different work teams, the school was able to plan and implement an energy-saving project. Through effective administrative leadership, the school management delegated project responsibilities and monitored its progress. In addition, administrative leadership skills allowed the administrators to settle project challenges such as communication and incompetence problems. At present, the energy-saving project is still applied at ABC College. Significant progress has been achieved since its implementation. However, the school must prepare itself to address future project concerns. Identification of these future problems in advance is then essential.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Factors Causing Commoditization
First, technology advancements bring about the possibility of copying newly invented products. Take for example, piracy of music and movies in China in the form of compact discs and DVDs. Technological advancements make possible the production of music and movies in compact discs at lower prices. Mass production of such commodities is prevalent in Asia and this takes away the profit from the music and movie industry worldwide. Moreover, access to new products is also made possible by technological advancements. Consider the Internet where in a click of a mouse, information necessary to copy products is provided. Thus, anyone with access to advanced technologies could become competitor to the original developer of certain products thereby undergoing process of commoditization.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Commoditization
In general, commodity is a generic product that consumers are not able to differentiate from different competitors (Heskett, 1975). However, not every goods exchanged in the market is called commodity. Doyle (2002) stated that newly invented products today could be tomorrow’s commodities. This means that commoditization is the state where products transform into a commodity given that several producers are producing the same type of products and intense competition of that single type of product is evident in the market. A very good example of commoditization is illustrated by Jonash (2000, p. 24) with the example of HP LaserJet printers, which was once a product exclusively distributed and produced by HP. Before commoditization, LaserJet printers have no competitions from the market and “the company was so fast to market that its sole competition was its own next wave of printers. Then Epson, Canon, and Lexmark caught up and joined the party…suddenly competition in PC printers…was based on price. That is commoditization (Jonash, 2000, p. 24).” Thus, LaserJet printers were transformed from a product into a commodity when other producers began to produce the same type of product. Commoditization brings about competitors in the market that when there are too many of them, price competition arises. Several studies provide different perspectives on the meaning and process of commoditization
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Racial Disparity
The unequal treatment of people from different races roots the belief that society is constructed as a hierarchy. In the American hierarchy, the white race is considered the superior race, while the black people are considered the inferior ones. Today, discrimination among races should already be at its minimal. However, this is not the case.
In the United States, a country that is suppose to champion diversity, racial prejudice is blatantly evident in almost all fields—employment, healthcare, entertainment, arts and literature, and the judicial system. Many organizations and agencies have been sued and penalised because of blatantly discriminatory, exclusionary policies and practices.
The US judicial system is one area where discrimination is discernible. As of June 30, 1994, state and federal prisons in the US held slightly over a million inmates. Blacks constituted 46 percent of the total; Hispanics, 17 percent; whites, 35 percent; and other ethnic groups comprised the remaining 2 percent. The explosive growth of the nation's prison population exacerbates a problem that has long been associated with US prisons: unequal treatment of inmates based on race (Tracy 195).
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Types of Internet Usage in Taiwan
The improvement made in the technology of the Internet made more and more people to use the World Wide Web. In Taiwan, the Internet has been known for various purposes. A survey by the government's Management Information Commission by H. Lai and D. P. Liang (1998) reported that by early 1998, more than two million people were Internet users in Taiwan. Their purposes for Internet use comprise mainly of: looking for information (89.6%), learning (53%), entertainment/chatting (47.8%), communicating (40.4%), and shopping (10.6%).
The breath of the uses of the Internet in Taiwan is manifested in the local environment in a variety of ways. Some of its uses apply in the context of the local government, business industries education and news. In the local government, the use of the Internet was highlighted in channeling the petitions and appeals of the citizens in the policies that govern them. According to Sheoi-po Lin (1981), long before the authoritarian regime started to democratize in the late 1980s, the central government of Taiwan and the TCG has set up different channels for citizens to appeal when they are wronged by certain measures or actions of the TCG that paved the way in the establishment of the Commission of Administrative Appeals. But although the government expanded channels for citizen complaints during that time, the citizens in general were not satisfied with the system (pp. 297-351). Further developments in the communication system between the government and the citizens were implemented. According to Don-Yun Chen, Naiyi Hsaio, and Tong-Yi Huang (2003), on October 12, 1995, Mayor Chen of Taipei launched an electronic mailbox called the "A-Bian Mailbox." It was the very first citizen-participation initiative in Taiwan's government agencies. The A-Bian Mailbox was first implemented in text-mode in an electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS), and was revised to a web-based edition in March 24, 1998. In November 2001, the Mayor's Box was still in operation and eventually, most bureau chiefs and deputy directors also have set up their own e-mail boxes for citizens to file complaints. In terms of media usage, about one-third of the complainants sent e-mails to the mayor, 11% sent e-mails to bureau chiefs or deputy directors. The growing use of Taipei City Mayor's e-mail box since its inception dating back to the second quarter of 1996 is worth noting as the City agencies have to respond to around 2600 e-mails a month, which has caused serious work overload since the first quarter of 2000 (pp. 525-527). The local governments of Taiwan extended the utilization of the Internet not just in addressing the concerns of the general public but also in the educational system of the country.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Domestic Violence
According to Shipway (2004) domestic violence is defined as any hurtful or unwanted behaviour perpetrated upon an individual by an intimate or prior intimate which normally is characterized by physical, psychological and emotional abuse. Domestic violence is based on the victim-offender relationship in the form of marriage, family ties, romantic relationships or a former marriage. It includes violence and abuse within same-sex relationships, violence by women against men as well as violence and abuse perpetrated by one family member against another (Shipway, 2004).
However, studies show that most cases of domestic violence which occurred have been on women as well as children (Humphreys et al., 2000). As such, this proposed workshop will present analysis of the domestic violence, its impact to women and children and the proposed parent’s plans to avoid or eliminate domestic violence.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Indian removal Act of 1832
Part of the removal act was the setting up of Treaty negotiators to work both in the East and the West for protecting the permission for the resettlement of the eastern individuals in Indian Territory. Treaty negotiators have also been accountable for convincing eastern tribes to conform to Indian removal. In 1838, the Cherokees started to travel their tragic Trail of Tears with the supervision and guide of General Winfield Scott with the federal army. The journey started three years after they have signed with the controversial Treaty of New Echota. Even if some of the groups like Seminoles did not agreed with the resettlement, most eastern tribes which are known as Civilized Tribes of the Southeast, had a very small option but to agree for what has been offered with them. The treaty which has been negotiated as the result of the War 1812 had already decreased the population of Native American of the Old Northwest. However some states like Illinois, Indiana and Ohio remained as a crucial region of operation for federal government officials who are accountable for propagating the Indian removal act provisions. In August 1831, the Treaty of Wapaghkonnetta has made Shawnees to give up the last of their lands in the state of Ohio as an exchange for 100,000 acres of land area in the Indian Territory. By the end of 1832, Wyandots and Ottawa Ohio had been able to agree to exchange t heir lands, which eliminated the states of Native American population. As a response to both the fear of native retaliation which has been inspired by the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Indian Removal Act, both Illinois and Indiana has similarly dispersed Indians in the early 1830s. (Green, 113)
It is said that the Indian removal act has been strongly supported and advocated in the south, in which states were willing to be benefited on the lands inhabited by the so-called Five Civilize tribes. It can also be said that this act was considered as crucial and controversial. In theory, the Indian removal was known to be voluntary, its practice showed the opposite. The Indian removal Act has been accused of pressuring American Indian leads to sign the treaties of the removal. Most scholars, who observed the Removal Act, have noted that the passage of the act can be considered to be an inevitable removal of most Indians from the states. All in all, it can be concluded that the Indian removal Act, has paved the way for the unenthusiastic and often aggressive, emigration of American Indians to the West. In this act, it can be said that Jackson’s uncharacteristic belief of having a strong central federal government, have enabled him to ignore the ruling of the Supreme Court and decides on things even if it will affect thousands of Indians settling in the states.
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Health promotion
Health promotion is increasingly characterized by working with key stakeholders or agents in decision making processes that affect outcomes (Springett, 2001), although the means of achieving collaborative practice are still not fully understood. Working with people and communities, ‘people-centered health promotion’ (Raeburn & Rootman, 1998) requires an ecological and holistic approach to health, one that can capture complex social phenomena (Springett, 2001).
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