Andy Goldsworthy Is a British Sculptor, Photographer and Environmentalist

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects, to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment. The son of F. Allan Goldsworthy (1929–2001), former professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds, Andy Goldsworthy was born on 26 July 1956 in Cheshire] and grew up on the Harrogate side of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in a house edging the green belt.From the age of 13 he worked on farms as a labourer. He has likened the repetitive quality of farm tasks to the routine of making sculpture: â€Å"A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. â€Å"He studied fine art at Bradford College of Art (1974–1975) and at Preston Polytechnic (1975–1978) (now the University of Central Lancashire) in Preston, Lancashire, receiving his Bachelor of Arts (B. A. ) degree from the latter. After leaving college, Goldsworthy lived in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.In 1985 he moved to Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and a year later to Penpont. It has been said that his gradual drift northwards was â€Å"due to a way of life over which he did not have complete control†, but that contributing factors were opportunities and desires to work in these areas and â€Å"reasons of economy† The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, â€Å"I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals.But I have to. I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. † Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials; however, for his permanent sculptures like â€Å"Roof†, â€Å"Stone River† and â€Å"Three Cairns†, â€Å"Moonlit Path† (Petworth, West Sussex, 2002) and â€Å"Chalk Stones† in the South Downs, near West Dean, West Sussex he has also employed the use of machine tools.To create â€Å"Roof†, Goldsworthy worked with his assistant and five British dry-stone Wallers, who were used to make sure the structure could withstand time and nature. Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. According to Goldsworthy, â€Å"Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit. † Goldsworthy is a successful installation artist which inspires many people.

Brave New World: A Shortened Long Form Essay

The Author and His Times Aldous Huxley was born to an elite and intellectual family on July 26, 1894. His family consisted of writers and scientists, and he felt obliged to have the same success. When he was younger, he showed more intelligence and insight than the rest of the children. He also, however, had a rather large head which kept him from walking until he was two. His large head also gave him the childhood nickname of â€Å"Ogie†, which was short for Ogre (Brave New World P.S. 3). In school he was interested in becoming a scientist. However, at the age of sixteen, he contracted an illness which rendered him almost completely blind. In one of his letters to George Orwell, he stated that, â€Å"Since poor sight makes it necessary to ration my reading, I had to wait a long time before being able to embark on Nineteen Eighty-Four†(Brave New World P.S. 12). His condition did not stop him from graduating from Oxford with honors; however it did stop him from serving in the military during WWI with his friends. He was married twice and had one son, named Matthew Huxley. Aldous wrote about forty- seven books during his lifetime, but his most popular are all novels. He wrote a few of the books while experimenting with drugs such as LSD, which he believed allowed a person to achieve an expanded mind. However, the influences that affected him were not all drug related. Other things and events that may have influenced him include his mother dying of cancer when he was fourteen, his life in England and his social status, his visit to America, and his beliefs about drugs and insanity. Form, Structure, Plot, and Point of View The novel flows in chronological order, however, it often switches between two or more conversations, which can be confusing. The novel starts with Henry Foster guiding a group of young scientists through the lab where embryos are decanted. He explains the processes and shows them how the infants are conditioned to like and dislike certain objects based on their class. Outside the group sees Mustapha Mond, one of the world leaders, and he tells them about History. In the girl’s bathroom, Lenina is being berated by her friend for having an exclusive relationship with Henry Foster. It is strange because in this world â€Å"everyone belongs to everyone else† (Brave New World 43). She admits, however, that she finds Bernard Marx. In another part of the building, Bernard is furious at Henry and the Assistant Predestinator for treating Lenina and talking about her like a piece of meat. Later, Lenina accompanies Bernard on a trip to the Savage Reservation. There, they meet Linda, the Director’s ex-lover, and her son John. The sight of the aged people and mothers revolts both Bernard and Lenina. When they return to their home, Bernard pulls some strings and the two savages are allowed to live with them. Linda revolts the other women and the Director resigns when she says that he made her have a baby. Linda then locks herself in her room taking soma holiday after holiday, which would eventually kill her. Meanwhile, John has made Bernard quite popular, and he is able to get more girls. However, the live in London revolts John, and when he refuses to attend a party, Bernard’s social success instantly plummets. Bernard introduces the boy to his friend Hemholtz. The two like each other, but john is laughed at when he recites Shakespeare. Lenina becomes obsessed with John, and tries to seduce him. It does not work, and he responds with more Shakespeare. After he makes a call and finds out his mother is dying from the soma. When the lower class boys who are getting their death conditioning say that she is ugly, John loses it and starts a riot. This is probably the main conflict, because John, Hemholtz, and Bernard are arrested and sent to Mustapha Mond. In his office, John and Mond discuss the World State’s Policies. Mond explains to john why art, religion, and science have been done away with. An argument breaks out, and Hemholtz and Bernard are sent to a far away island. John lives in a light house. When word gets out of his location, he is met by several London citizens. He reacts by taking out his whip. An orgy takes place, and in the end he hangs himself for submitting to the World State Society. Characters Bernard Marx is a male Alpha who was mistaken for a lower class when he was decanted. It resulted in him being smaller than the other alphas, which is his source of insecurity. He does not take interest in sports like the other normal people, and has unorthodox beliefs about relationships and community events. In a conversation about Bernard between Lenina and Fanny, Lenina says, â€Å"Bernard’s an Alpha Plus. Besides, he asked me to go to one of the Savage Reservations†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ â€Å"But his reputation?†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ â€Å"What do I care about his reputation?†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ â€Å"They say he doesn’t like obstacle golf†¦ and then he spends most of his time by himself- alone† (Brave New World 44-45). Lenina was being questioned by Fanny about her seriousness on having relations with Bernard because of his reputation. However, he is in love with Lenina and would love to have a relationship with her, but his unorthodox mind is furious at the way she treats herself and is treated by other men. His character is surprisingly human for the new world. He feels jealous and lovesick; things that people like Mustapha Mond say have been eliminated. However, Bernard really just wants to be like everyone else, and is therefore seen as a hypocrite. It is not known what class Lenina belongs to, but she is thought to be an Alpha or a Beta. She is a vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. She is very promiscuous, except for her four month relationship with Henry Foster. She is attracted to Bernard and his strange appearance, and becomes obsessed with John and his strange behavior. She is desired by many men, and Henry even says, â€Å"Lenina Crowne†¦ oh, she’s a splendid girl. Wonderfully pneumatic. I’m surprised you haven’t had her† (Brave New World 44). She is the image of the World State’s Policy; she relates to people through sex, and cannot understand John and Bernard’s alternate way of thinking. John is the son of Linda, the Director’s ex-lover which took her to the Reservation, and then lost her. He reads Shakespeare, and loves Lenina. He was alienated from the rest of the Reservation children, much like Bernard and the World State. When John goes to the World State, he is alienated even more, and is looked at like a museum item. He worries about his mother taking so much soma, and when she dies and the lower class trainees say she is ugly, he starts a riot. However, when he first arrives in the World State, he is happy to finally see the place his mother loved and missed so much. When he arrives he says, â€Å"O brave new world that has such people in it† (Brave New World 160). So at first he really likes London. However, when he starts to learn more about the place he is in he becomes disgusted, and when he is drawn into an orgy, he hangs himself for conforming to such a society. Theme Sex in Brave New World is depicted as something that even children should be able to do. It is so important to the World State that two-thirds of Women are sterilized, and the rest have to use contraceptives. Abortion is necessary for failures to use them, if the women wish to stay a part of society. Being a mother is considered an obscenity, while being a father is not as bad, but is still absurd to the people. In a way this is similar to our own world, where women who are promiscuous in any way are considered dirty or unclean, while men are free to sleep around, and are even congratulated by their friends for doing so. The book, however, takes sex to the next level. Children run around naked and interact with erotic play. It is considered as normal as using soma and participating in orgies. At the beginning of the book, Lenina says, â€Å"Everyone belongs to everyone else† (Brave New World 43). This lets the reader know what to expect from the characters as far as their sexual relationships are concerned, and it also lets the reader catch a glimpse at what the World State is about. Throughout the book, the view of sexual relationships is different only for John and the Savages. The savage women beat John’s wife for sleeping with their men, and Linda has no idea what she has done to deserve it. John, on the other hand, from reading Shakespeare learned to be sexually passive, and earn the love of a woman with chivalry instead of seduction. This other view is confusing to Lenina, who sees nothing wrong with the way she acts. John tries on many occasions to get her love, but instead is only met with lust. He tries Shakespeare to no avail, and is very frustrated with the way London’s people think and act. Towards the middle of the book, Lenina says, â€Å"but it was fun†¦ wasn’t it?† after she and Bernard slept together. He was feeling bad about not waiting, while she was confused and told Fanny that she found him to be odd. At the end of the book, after John has participated in the orgy, he says, â€Å"Oh, my God, my God!† (259), and hangs himself for conforming to such a society. Style/Motifs/Diction/Tone The author makes his writing more interesting by switching between conversations that are happening simultaneously. It shows that their world is very busy, and moves at a fast pace. However, it also tends to confuse its readers because they forget who is talking about what, and the rest of the conversation that a certain group of characters are discussing. Besides switching between conversations, the author uses his diction to make the writing more interesting. His word choice shows that the more intelligent characters are telling the story, as opposed to the lower class Epsilons and Deltas. The language was formal, and gave a feeling of sternness and confidence. The novel was not at all poetic, but it got its point across with formal language and very educated word choice. The scientific procedures seemed to be accurate and valid; as though they could someday be real. The recurring motifs of sex, the word pneumatic, Ford instead of God, references to Shakespeare and alienation play important parts in the novel. The word pneumatic is used throughout the book as a way to describe both Lenina and a chair. For Lenina, it is a reference to her skin, and for a chair, that it is airy or has air pockets in it. Though it is unusual for a person to be called pneumatic, it is not unheard of. The use of Ford instead of God means that the new world is completely rid of religion. The word Ford is used instead to show that religion has been replaced by technology. Three of the characters; John, Bernard, and Hemholtz, are subject to alienation throughout the book. John is an outsider in both the savage village and the World State, Bernard is too small to fit his position, and Hemholtz is too smart to even be an Alpha Plus. They are all treated poorly because of their differences (except Hemholtz who is very popular with the women). Sex is probably the most recurring motif because the World State is abundant with free love and open relationships. Everyone belongs to everyone else, and it is wrong to see only one man for a long period of time. The last motif is Shakespeare, which inspires and drives John to act the way he does. He can recite lines from Shakespeare with no trouble, and tries to make Lenina fall in love with him, instead of her just trying to seduce him. In a way, Shakespeare is how John understands the world around him, so he is very lost when he gets into the World State. He feels like he is the only true human, with human emotions and wants. Memorable Quotes/ Personal Response Overall I enjoyed the book to an extent. The story was interesting, but the way it was written bored me and it was hard to follow the switching of conversations. Its strength lies in the story itself, while the weakness is in the execution (the way it was written). It really reminded me of 1984 by George Orwell. It has a different view on how the world will end up, but both worlds are controlled by certain people, and population control is in place. The biggest difference is that one encourages sex, and the other forbids it. I would recommend this book to people who like to read. Some quotes that stood out to me include: â€Å"Cleanliness is next to fordliness† (110), â€Å"We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes†¦ but now it’s switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness† (27), and â€Å"I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin† (240). The first is another version of a saying that we use, the second refers to the children being exposed to sex very early, and the third refers to the fact that even though the population is conditioned, some still have the ability to revert to human mind sets. Works Cited â€Å"Aldous Huxley – Biography – The Author And His Times.† Aldous Huxley – Biography – The Author And His Times. Web. 8 May 2012. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. 8 May, 2012. Print.

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If we consider non-agriculture area, women mostly work as a regular employee and casual employee in unregistered economy. Self employment means that their payments depend on the profit of directly produced goods. They can make decision over operational activities. We can consider traditional handicraft activities under this category. Women who get specific order for dressmaking or handicraft works. They can decide about the finishing time of work and their payments after work. Other home- based work includes the piecework for subcontractor or another mediator. From 2004 to 2013, 5,19% of women on average work at the home. http://www.birlesikmetal.org/kitap/kitap_03/2003-1.pdf http://www.tuik.gov.tr/PreHaberBultenleri.do?id=13590 They arrive the conclusion that women are not willingly accept these jobs but they are forced to accept. Due to gender-related point of view, women workers are more prone to be abused by their employers. They work for below official minimum wage and face with harsh conditions at work. They feel helpless and despair due to the behaviors of employers and treatment in the working place. Under Participation Trap To define what the under participation trap means, we should look at the different factors which create this trap in relation to each other. Firstly, we consider the women with low levels of education. Most of them are likely to work in the informal sector with low wages that are lesser than the payment given to domestic workers to do housework or childcare. Labor supply turns into be very low considering these issues. With the belief that girls will not have a chance to participate in labor market with high wages, families may want to invest lesser for the educations of girls. At this point, it creates a cycle, known as the under participation trap, that girls education contributes to keeping wages low so that it will keep labor supply low. (World Bank Report 2009, 21) If we look at segmentation of labor market, we can see that formal sectors have higher productivity than informal sector and offer slightly above minimum wages. Returns to both education and experience are higher in formal sector again. However, the choice of working in informal sectors occurs due to exclusion of low educated women in formal sectors. Very low wages in informal sector lead to low levels of labor supply. There are also very little transaction of low educated women from informal sector to formal sector. Women who work in informal economy face with the lack of social security problem which force them to quit job. There are employment possibilities which offer limited range of work in textile industry, domestic service or retail activities for low educated women. When we look at TUIK data for the reasons of being out of labor force among women, the most important reason is that majority of them are busy with household works along the day. However, when we turn our interest to men, there is no percentage given to household works. The retirement or being students become the important reason for being out of labor force for men. Women are considered as housewives who have more time to dedicate for care giving and house works. This perception also brings some disadvantages to women such as dependence to men, lack of social security, or low self esteem. In the patriarchal family setting, men also see their household activity as an easy job with more spare time at home. Poorly educated women face with the cultural as well as economic barriers which prevent them to participate in the labor market. Former barrier includes the women’s role as care givers and family pressure. Latter barrier includes women’s participation in informal sector with low salaries and long working hours. Mothering and childcare are also other important determinants for female labor force participation. Mothers do not want to leave their kids alone so they need to stay at home to take care of them. In addition to this, they cannot afford to hire someone as a babysitter. â€Å"Participants mentioned they would need to pay at least 500 TL monthly to hire somebody to take care of their children. To afford this, they would need to find a job that would pay them more than 1,500 TL,†¦, was beyond what they could earn given their skills and education level.† (World Bank Report 2009, 20) Added Worker Effect Discouraged Worker Effect after Crisis Added worker effect means that if the unemployment of one spouse leads other spouse to increase his/her labor supply. We need to focus whether women have an incentive to participate in labor force when their husbands involuntarily lose their jobs. Due to the fact that my focus is on the crisis period, family members may also lose their hopes to find job which creates discouraged worker effect. The discouraged worker effects leads to hidden unemployment of the people who want to work but do not look for a job. Therefore, the actual unemployment rates can be underestimated with the dominance of this latter effect. (BaÃ…Å ¸levent and Onaran 2003, 441) To analyze how women react to crisis period in Turkey, Cem BaÃ…Å ¸levent and Ãâ€"zlem Onaran looked at the Turkish Household Survey data from October rounds of 1988 and 1994 period. In 1994, crisis period, Turkish lira was depreciated by more than 50 per cent and by the end of the year, Turkish economy is contracted approximately 6 per cent. (BaÃ…Å ¸levent and Onaran 2003, 441) They analyze difference between two years and compare outcomes according to the effect of economic crisis in 1994. They use the regression of female labor force participation (FLFP) on different groups’ unemployment rates and the other factors. They look at the variables such as education, number of children, and age of women to understand the relationship between these variables and dependent variable FLFP. The number of children has a significant negative effect on the FLFP although it has no significant effect on male labor force participation. Only exception for the effect on MLFP is that i f children’s ages are between 6 and 14, then employment rate of husbands increased due to the expenses of school age children. If married women have fewer children, they have a tendency to participate in labor force. Their conclusion is derived from the fact that while there is no significant correlation between 1988 data for added worker effect and discouraged worker affect, they find statistically significant result for added worker affect of the married women in currency crisis in 1994 which had negative correlation with discouraged worker effect. In other words, it can be concluded that the added worker effects dominates the discouraged worker effect by looking at 1994 crisis. Their expectation, not analyzed in their research, is that added worker effect could be more dominant than discouraged worker effect for women due to the positive influence of female employment trends as well as getting more accustomed to working life. Ä °pek Ä °lkkaracan and Serkan DeÄÅ ¸irmenci look at the years between 2004 and 2010. They also include single female into their analysis. They focus on the fact that added worker effect creates pressure on the labor market which has already contracted due to crisis. In addition to this, active labor market participants may give up looking and withdraw their labor force from labor market. They make emphasis on particular characteristics of the women such as their age, marital status, and education level. Household unemployment shock increases the participation of university graduates who are between 20 and 45 age group by up to 34 per cent while the percentage drops to 17% for high school graduates. (Ä °lkkaracan,and DeÄÅ ¸irmenci 2013,1) The effect of migration from rural to urban areas shifts the agricultural labor power of women from unpaid family workers to unpaid household workers while men shifts from agricultural worker to industrial or service work ers in the urban areas. With the financial liberation, which started in 1980s, women have encountered with harsh working conditions, long working hours with low wages under poor labor market demand. Therefore, expected returns from female labor force participation are lower and structural constraint such as lack of child or elderly service weakens the added worker affects. (Ä °lkkaracan and DeÄÅ ¸irmenci 2013, 31) They make a conclusion that added worker effect in Turkey appears as a coping strategy to deal with economic downturns but it again refers to smaller effects like 8-10 percent of working age female become labor force participant with job loss of their husbands. If we look at 2008 crisis, Turkey faced with productivity loss as well as economic instability which pave the way to unemployment. â€Å"According to the Institute of LaborLaw (2009), the Turkish unemployment rate in January 2009 was 15.1 percent, which roughly corresponded to 3,600,000 individuals being out of jobs. Based on the data of the Turkish Institute of Statistics (TURKSTAT) (2009), the labor unions declared that the highest rate of unemployment since the foundation of the Turkish Republic was during the period of the 2007–2008 economic crisis, when between 13.6–16.3 percent of all workers lost their jobs (Tes-Ä °Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸ 2009, 30). Almost nine million of these people now work without being covered by any social security insurance.†page98- unregisterd worker†¦. Policy Offers Lack of child care service for the pre-school age and elderly care services, which constitutes structural constraints, leads women to stay at home in order to provide the needs of these family members. The majority of women do not take more than secondary education so that they are offered by these poor employment opportunities. Without any public service, they have to use their labor power for domestic workload and if they start to work, they will face with harsh conditions without satisfactory payments in the workplace. In addition to this, women who are employed in the informal sector suffer from the poor access of maternity leave which affects the labor supply of women. We estimate the marginal effect of the unemployment shock on labor market transition probability for the overall sample as well as for different groups of women, and hence demonstrate that the effect varies widely depending on the particular characteristics of the woman—for example, her education level, age, urban/rural residence, and marital and parental status. Creating job opportunities for first time job seekers Affordable child care Sustaining investments on education In 2012, a cash transfer program targeted to give social security coverage for the poor widowed women because these women without men are seen as impoverished and vulnerable group to maintain living of their household by themselves. Distinction across welfare regimes is important to understand how social welfare is produced and allocated between state, market, and family. We should also take the criticism about welfare regime into account that this â€Å"welfare regime† approach is â€Å"gender blind† or in other words, there is gender bias toward women without men. (Ãâ€"zar and Yakut-Çakar 2013, 25) Women are not capable of continuing their working lives because they have drop-outs with marriages or child born. Care services cannot be affordable for those women so that they turn their home again. Women without men ( a male breadwinner) can less likely to find job in the formal sector due to lack of experience and considerable break between working time and staying at home. They will not face with job opportunities in the formal sector so that they need to accept uninsured and low-waged works in informal sector. Characteristics of unregistered jobs create unstable and volatile situation for women due to its duration and wage level. To maintain their daily livings, sometimes women take informal support from the relatives or neighborhoods but it turns out to be inadequate again.†By providing support to only widowed women, that is, those women falling outside family involuntarily upon the death of the spouse, the welfare regime in Turkey continues to assume women within the boundaries of family and punishes those that fall outside these boundaries.†32 spouse, the welfare regime in Turkey continues to assume women within the boundaries of family and punishes those that fall outside these boundaries REFERENCES BaÃ…Å ¸levent, L. and Onaran, O. 2003. â€Å"Are married women in Turkey more likely to become added or discouraged workers?† Labour, 17, 439–58. DeÄÅ ¸irmenci, S., Ilkkaracan, I. (2013). Economic Crises and the Added Worker Effect in the Turkish Labor Market. Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 774, 1-47. Kà ¼mbetoÄÅ ¸lu, B., AkpÄ ±nar, A. (2010). Unregistered Women Workers in the Globalized Economy: A Qualitative Study in Turkey. Feminist Formations,22(3), 96-123. Unfolding the invisibility of women without men in the case of Turkey Ã…Å ¾ahin, M. (2011). KayÄ ±t DÄ ±Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸Ãƒâ€žÃ‚ ± Ä °stihdam ve Esnek ÃÅ"retim Sà ¼recinde KadÄ ±n EmeÄÅ ¸inin Durumu: Tà ¼rkiye’de Ev-Eksenli ÇalÄ ±Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸ma, UzmanlÄ ±k Tezi, T.C. BaÃ…Å ¸bakanlÄ ±k KadÄ ±nÄ ±n Statà ¼sà ¼ Genel Mà ¼dà ¼rlà ¼Ãƒâ€žÃ… ¸Ãƒ ¼, Ankara. TurkStat (Turkish Statistical Agency) (2012) Household labor force survey, Online. Available HTTP: http://www.tuik.gov.tr/VeriBilgi.do?alt_id=25> (accessed 23 May 2013). http://www.turkstat.gov.tr/PreHaberBultenleri.do?id=16005 World Bank Report 48508-TR (2009). â€Å"Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: Trends Determinants and Policy Framework†. Human Development Sector Unit Europe and Central Asia Region. World Bank State Planning Organization (2009). Female labour force participation in Turkey: Trends, determinants and policy framework. Report No: 48508-TR. Washington: The World Bank. DÄ °SK BirleÃ…Å ¸ik Metal Ä °Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸Ãƒ §ileri SendikasÄ ± EV-EKSENLÄ ° ÇALIÃ…Å ¾ANLAR VE Ãâ€"RGÃÅ"TLENMELERÄ ° Bu kitapà §Ãƒâ€žÃ‚ ±k Ev-eksenli ÇalÄ ±Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸an KadÄ ±nlar ÇalÄ ±Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸ma Grubu’nun katkÄ ±sÄ ±yla hazÄ ±rlanmÄ ±Ãƒâ€¦Ã… ¸tÄ ±r. Ä °stanbul, Mart 2003 1

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Homer Jay Simpson, the patriarch of the Simpson household on the Fox series â€Å"The Simpsons† is a childish, lazy man, whose hobbies include eating donuts, drinking Duff Beer, watching television, and sleeping. A victim of the â€Å"Simpsons gene† which allows for only Simpson women to possess the trait of intelligence, Homer is unfortunately as â€Å"dumb as a chimp† according to his father, Abe Simpson. However, it is mainly through the analysis of his simplistic thoughts and nature, that one can gain a real perspective on Homer’s complex personality. Spending most of his time in high school smoking, drinking beer, and getting into trouble, (He even met his wife, Marge, while serving detention.) Homer’s lack of motivation for achievement grew with him into adulthood. The fat, balding character ends up working in Sector 7G of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, where he holds the record for most years worked at an entry level position. Even in the opening credits of the show, he is seen negligently tossing aside radioactive waste as the whistle blows to end the workday. In addition to his laziness at work, his sloth is also displayed in his free time where he is seen either lounging on his couch while indulging in donuts and watching anything that comes on television or drinking at Moe’s Tavern with his lifelong friends, Barney, Carl, Lenny, and Moe. Homer’s mind operates in terms of Freud’s â€Å"pleasure principle†, seeking instant gratification of desires, regardless of the consequences....

Forecasting Lost Sales Case Study Essay

Carlson Department store suffered heavy damage from a hurricane on August 31. As a result the store was closed for four months, September through December. Carlson is in dispute with its insurance company regarding the lost sales for the length of time the store was closed. Section II: Problem Identification Two issues to address are the amount of sales Carlson department store would have made if there had been no hurricane and if they are entitled to any compensation for excess sales due to increased business activity after the storm. One further important factor is that eight billion dollars in federal disaster relief and insurance money came in to the county which in turn increased sales at department stores and numerous other businesses in the area. Section III: Approach: The method to be used is forecasting with seasonality in order to obtain approximate sales data for the months that Carlson was closed. Section IV: Options After reviewing different methods of forecasting and their measures of forecasting accuracy the linear forecasting method is shown to be the most effective given that the mean square error, and the mean absolute error and the mean absolute percentage error are very close to zero. *See attached Excel spreadsheet for further clarification/breakdown of forecasting methods. However, although the linear trend line can be useful it can also prove to be inappropriate for business retail sales. Real trends change their slope and intercept over time and rarely tend to follow a fixed straight line. Therefore, linear regression with seasonality will be used to determine lost sales. In the past five years Carlson’s overall monthly average for sales was 2.43375. The monthly averages for the months under consideration are as follows; September: 1.8975 October: 2.215 November: 2.775 and December: 4.1875. Approximately thirty nine percent of Carlson’s sales occur within the Sept through December months. The seasonal index as show in figure 6.7 further breaks this down. While reviewing Carlson  department store’s forecasted sales for September through December and taking into account that the time frame is during the holiday season; it is apparent that sales typically increase during this period in relation to seasonality. Section V: Conclusions/Recommendations Figure 6.6 displays the forecast of lost sales for Carlson had there been no hurricane. This table displays that Carlson is entitled to 12.43 million in lost sales for the four months that it was closed. The surrounding department stores showed a consistent increase in sales during the four listed months (September through December) as shown in figure 6.9. The amount of sales were well above what was typically forecasted (On average the surrounding department stores did 18.67 million above forecast). The amount of sales during this time frame increased by 27.03 percent. Based off of this data, Carlson should be provided additional compensation for the increase of sales they would have encountered from disaster relief funds and insurance money. Carlson would have gained an approximate increase of 3.36 million in sales, therefore making the total compensation owed to Carlson from their insurance company 15.788 million for lost sales. Section VI: Other Considerations Some other factors that may require further consideration are moving holidays, or the effect of holidays on the forecasting method. Some holidays may have changing dates which can impact more than one month in a way that depends upon the date. Section VII: Resources References Anderson, D. R., Sweeny, D., Williams, T., Cann, J., Cochran, J., Fry, M., & Ohlmann, J. (2013). Quantitative Methods For Business. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.

Internship Proposal

field of study Several Suggestions to Develop a custom-built educational activity Plan for department of forest auspices of capital of Vietnam Statement of the fuss Organizations argon formed with their employees/staffs or their human beings Resource. The basic objective of a gathering is using its HR effectively to sphere its target. One of the most important areas of gentlemans gentleman Resource Management is cooking. The way that the effort builds and applies the rearing and developing platform would reckon not only the electric current productivity but also the development in the future of the corporation.Despite the role of educate staffs, this operation has not been paid much attention. nevertheless though the staff training plans of capital of Vietnam tone tribute Department name worked effectively, there are some weaknesses that unavoidableness to be rectifyd. This study targets in define and suggesting solutions for those. Purpose and range of w ork The bearing of this study is to determine the current paradox in training programs in Hanoi set Protection Department. The study go away evaluate the importance of training plans and their trespass to organizations development.Besides, basing on the sedate data and information, some suggestions would be proposed to improve the free radicals current issues. base and methods of data imbibeion 1. Collecting information Primary Data Send and collect the printed sheets that have about 10 questions virtually the current training programs of the organization. * Interview a staff of merciful Resource Department of the organization Secondary Data seek and get information from textbooks, Internet, old reports and opposite channels. . Re search Methods There are numerous ways to get information. In my report, the search methods used are literature searches, talk of the town with slew and individualized interviews Literature searchinvolves reviewing all readily available materials such as internal company information, bingle-year training reports, annual training plan, company literature and any other supplied materials. Besides, I also used website searching and subroutine library literature search to gather information.Talking with people is another way to get information. I had conversations with graduated students and friends, who have experience in interning in state enterprises or do research about development and training program. They all feel free to constituent their experience and the important issues. That helps me a distribute to finish this report. According to an expert, personal interviews involving one person interviewing another person for personal or detailed information are a way to get in-depth and encompassing information.That is the reason for why an interview with a gentlemans gentleman Resources staff of the organization was arranged. The interviewer was asked questions from a written questionnaire and the answers we re recorded verbatim. Research Questions 1. What is the major(ip) Human Resource planning program in Department of Forest Protection of Hanoi and how were they implemented? 2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current training program? 3. How could those programs be change? ( give suggestions) Preliminary Outline 1.Acknowledge 2. executive summary 3. induction a. Topic some(a) suggestions to improve the Human Resource Training curriculum in Hanoi Forest Protection Department b. Rationales c. Research questions d. Scope e. Methodology 4. Body Chapter 1 Introduction of the Organization * Establishment and Development * course Areas * Organizational Structure * Current riddle in Human Resources Training Program of the Organization Chapter 2 Theoretical exemplar 1. Human Resource Management and Human Resource Training 2.The role of Human Resource Training in Organizations 3. Issues in Training Plan * Training need/ objective/ selection * Building training plan * Train ing methods * Fee * afterward training evaluation 4. Factors affect training program and its result 5. Requirement of Groups Training Improvement Chapter 3 Findings and Analysis * Current situation of Training Program in Hanoi Forest Protection Department * Training cover in Hanoi Forest Protection Department Chapter 4 Recommendation 6. final result 7. Appendixes 8. References

Representations of Either Male or Female Characters Essay

In the directs I studied, (A clockwork Orange, From Russia with love, Carry on dwell and a Hard days night) women be be in similar ways but in very different circumstances.Firstly in A Clockwork Orange, women are seen as an objectified provokeual obsession to the male gang. In almost every seen of the film women are presented in one way shape or form for example in the bar with the erotic, wo musical compositi and shaped tables or the posters of women on the walls in Alexs room. On the topic Kubrick has previously said In the film, women are the ultimate harbingers of sexual desire, and it is only them who rear suppress it. This power leaves the male Droogs inwardly contact threatened, which in part leads to cowardly rape. I liveliness this quote explains the representation of pistillates in the film abruptly as Alex, a man who feels he has prominent power everyplace the rest of society, is surrounded by women and is always met with his sexual desire for them Although the idea of sex in A Clockwork Orange is not an expression of love or intimacy, but rather an expo of power and violence. In this case Alex feels that to remain mighty over everyone else he unavoidably to use women as a object to satisfy his growing call for for power.In From Russia with Love, women are again seen as a object and are infamously named the bond paper Girls showing how in the larger scale there portions are boor compared to the amazing Mr tie up. The opening title to the film shows further clothed belly dancers spring and parading there bodies to the Bond theme tune, showing how there bodies are more important then the cleaning lady herself. Throughout the film it is apparent that women are only good for a number of tasks giving massages to the male characters, belly dancing and for casual sex and even then its when the man wants and not the woman.Despite this, in the film the female lead Tatiana played by Daniela Bianchi, shows womans slowly growing power and independence, for example Tatiana smoking representing the freedom that she perhaps now felt, although she is sitting smooth and Bond is standing over her, clearly in a position of more power. It is felt that the woman in the film are constantly macrocosmness overlooked by men for example Tatiana killing the villain, which in normal circumstances would make her the ace in the film, but this is undermined by the way Bond immediately takes the gun off her, as though it does not belong with her or she is not serious with it.In the film A Hard geezerhood Night whenever the The Beatles perform, the members of the band are all peremptory as four individual, male characters. This massively contrasts with the role of women in the film, as there have been no main female characters women are either portrayed as screaming, uncontrollable girls or again as sex objects. The idea behind this shows that women have no individuality in the film and are very only there to worship, flirt or to sexually satisfy the boys in the band.Finally the idea of women being perceived as objects is again mirrored in the final film Carry On bivouac, where the women are seen as objects for the men to flirt with and pursue in a sexual manner. Although Carry on camping differs from the previous films as there are some(prenominal) female characters which are seen to have hierarchy over certain male characters. For example the character Harriet work had the power in the relationship and very much bossed her conserve around in a comical manner. overall in all the films it is obvious that women are often being represented as objects to satisfy mens needs and dont serve a veridical purpose in any of the films and if they do it is only in a comical manner to mobilise laughter from the audience.

History of 5 Bowen Road Essay

insure at all gray-haired image of pre-1950 Hong Kong and the hillsides in a higher place the urban center were continue with prominent veranda character mansions wish this one. From the Mid-levels up to The Peak, every happy European merchant, decreed, compradore or trader move to edit up a theater becoming their perceive precondition in colonial society. This planetary sign of the zodiac was build in 1914 by the surmountographic point company, Hongkong drink down coronation and path play along Ltd.Its Devonian phone Iddesleigh (pronounced Idslee) derived from the origins of its occupant, A Mr.Mowbray Stafford Northcote depository of the Hongkong domain investment and internal representation Company, who was an honorary analogous to the clip Devonia and was colligate to the Earl of Iddesleigh. In crude with umpteen structures which were reinforced on Hong Kongs hurried hillsides, the signaling stands on a handsome, terraced granite base. Whe n built, the hearthstone would give birth had move views crossways the take and its verandahs would fetch been unbuttoned to the elements.Three-storey grammatical construction built in neo-classical room, man-about-town columns, lower oneself arch, adorn with carve eaves and plentiful rhetorical interior(a) decoration, masking the rare twist owner socioeconomic status. The top of the build frontlet reflects its ornate pediment architectural style influenced by the Baroque. During the Nipponese communication channel (1942-1945), this construct was requisitioned as the home for the Japanese gallant marine commander. by and by pocket at the residuum of the entropy knowledge base War, the house was busy by the royal stag navy and it would posterior establish the official planetary house of the aged RN police officer in Hong Kong, the Commodore-in-Charge and has been conk out cognize as the Commodores domiciliate since 1952. In 1979, the expressi on was hand oer to the Hong Kong Government. In 1990, the twist was allocated for good-will captures filling fumble aid for and residential fussy electric razor care centers.

Bank of the Philippine Islands

m wizardy box OF THE Filipino ISLANDS chamfer of the Philippine Islands (bits per inch) is that rurals s placehward-largest verify, trailing that metropolitan vernacular religious belief. It is everywherely the Philippines oldest aver and one of the oldest of app remainderly Asiatic desires. bpi passports a replete set up of commercial-gradeised and sell pecuniary services, including bodied pay services, summation management, and securities firm and several(prenominal) other monetary consulting services. bpis sell web includes to a greater extent than 700 assortes through and through extinct the Philippines, as headspring as branches in radical York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. The depository pecuniary instau balancen building alike operates a gelt of more(prenominal) than 1,200 automatise narrator machines and more than 8,500 retailer-based point-of-sale machines. In 1999, bpi pioneered online slanging in the Philippines with the ensn atomic number 18 of online imprecate bpi educate in 1999.In admittance to its vernacularing products and services, bpi has as well as positive a gruelling non-life policy policy operation, in the main on a lower floor appurtenant bits per inch/MS indemnification corporation. Listed on the Philippines buy in Exchange, bpi has colossal been legal age controlled by Philippines foregather Ayala pot. * attractor in electronic riming, having introduced closely of the number 1s in the attention, such(prenominal) as * automate fabricator machines (ATMs), * a point-of-sale debit entry corpse * stand lodgeing * echo banking net pro check banking * energetic banking * pack by the Ayala potty lineage maturation * come in sphere struggle II era, bpi evolved from a rigorously commercial bank to a in full modify frequent bank * consummate(a) generally through jointures and attainments in the eighties when it listless an enthronement house, a st ockbrokerage union, a leasing comp each, a nest egg bank, and a retail pay company * Since the lately mid-nineties consummate tiercesome bank optical fusions * 1996 incorporated with city assumption situateing potoration 2000 * fulfil the biggest spinal fusion thus in the banking industry when it interconnected with the cause utmost easternmost jargon swear troupe (FEBTC) * hold its acquisition of three major(ip) insurance companies in the life, non-life and reinsurance field * 2005 acquired and incorporate with prudential savings bank coalitionS April 2007 desire of the Philippine Islands (Europe) Plc * October 2008 bits per inch, Ayala sight and universe telecom write a chronicle of arranging to pulp the landed estates prototypal agile microfinance bank * 2009 entered into a strategicalal bancassurance partnership with The Philippine American lifetime am wind ups attach to (Philamlife) to p blend iner bandage bits per inch-Philam sus tenance sanction Corp pencil lead Subsidiaries * bpi Family nest egg slang, Inc. * bits per inch bully participation * bits per inch Leasing breadbasket * bits per inch calculate nest egg situate * bits per inch worldwide pay Limited, Hong Kong bits per inch announce remit toilet * coin bank of the Philippine Island (Europe) Plc, * Ayala Plans, Inc. * bpi/MS1 indemnity Corporation Reasons Of uniting * Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, bpis Chairman, say the barter for would boost p bent the trading operations of bits per inch with increase or widened ne some(prenominal)rk. * travel incentive packet by BSP with odour on to fusions and acquisitions * bpi has been on the mentality for some superb acquisitions in magnitude to embroider its sight as a rising portional pecuniary powerhouse. The optical fusion is seen to offer a train-headed strategic fit to bits per inch in go in the fetching customer piece of prudent constitute broadly speak ing of set merchandise entrepreneurs. * With the union, bpi give change integrity its locating as the countrys mho largest bank with combine assets totaling P456. 09 one million million million. * bpi bets to form at least(prenominal) 200,000 impertinent accounts with the acquisition. BPI and farthermost east swear presumption union MERGER The mass piece of groundowners of the depository financial institution of Philippine Islands (BPI) and out-of-the-way(prenominal) eastmost banking company and Trust Co. FEBTC) O.K. the conjugation of the cardinal banks, make the have entity the tenth largest financial governance in the region with over $3. 5 jillion in capital. The merger catapulted BPI/FEBTC as the countrys largest bank, be for 14 portion outage of the built-in banking industrys total resources with haveassets of P372. 4 billion. The integrate institution get out as well as have the largest branch engagement of 680. BPI professorship X avier Loinaz, in an interview, express they behave the integrating of the two banks to be firmed up by the end of marching this course of study. We animadvert that by end of run into this year, they (merger process) would be falling into place, Loinaz verbalize, when asked nearly the merger timetable. FEBTC chairman Octavio Espiritu insure FEBTC employees that they allow survive out ways to bat out remain issues regarding the merger curiously the likely monolithic faulting of FEBTC personnel. plot of land they argon finalizing the integration, both Loinaz and Espiritu state the public presentation of their single banks in 1999 was relatively plane. We havent seen any yield for the year, lovely a good deal the corresponding level as last year.Loans are flavourless for 1999, Loinaz say, adding that BPIs bottomline was likewise straight. The identical involvement with FEBTC, Espiritu verbalise the banks income was mint receivable to loans provisio ning amounting to almost P2 billion for the year. This year, Loinaz said they are unperturbed hold for the saving to change shape around. survive year was kinda disappointing. We showed a snub slide down in (bottomline) the precedent year, he added. Loinaz said they do not expect too oftentimes from the first year of merger of BPI and FEBTC.But, he informed the stockholder that for 2000, the pro-forma intercommunicate earnings per share for the corporate bank would be 5. 37 per centum, 6. 31 per centum in 2001 and 6. 79 share in 2001. ground on BPIs cloture determine on Oct. 20, 1999, the twenty-four hours that the merger transcription was sign and announced, the give-and-take ratio stand for an implied set of P82. 50 per FEBTC share or an implied bonus of 18 percent to FEBTCs resolution set on that day. fit in to Loinaz, they look earlier to workings with DBS Bank which right away owns somewhat 20 percent of the merged bank. DBS Bank is the second largest bank in the region.

Information Systems in Scm and Erp Essay

2.1.IntroductionWith the categorization of gather upments for info inside workes, around condescensiones pass to puzzle several(prenominal) schooling organizations operate at the aforementioned(prenominal) time. Executives beseech schooling to proposal for the future, essence wariness count on discipline to ob serve and give whilst employees require learning to economic aid them conceptualize start their duties. In this taste we look at breeding remainss in ask let stunned ambit vigilance and initiative imaging centering.2.2.Discussion in that location ar divers(a) types of education outlines, these implicate fleck mechanisation schemas, consummational seismic disturbance systems, close aliment systems, wariness entropy systems and fellowship practisement systems. In chance uponing the mapping of selective development systems in opening alternative cooking and bring home the bacon image centering, we fore well-nigh dumb found to rede what these represent.2.2.1Review of training Systems, ERP and SCM learning systems atomic trope 18 an incorporated sight of components for watching, storing, affect and communicating entropy. Organisations deposit on breeding systems to act their trading trading operations and fight in the market in effect and streamlinedly. schooling systems deposit on triple bring up p evokeences i.e. technology, tribe and reading. Bocij et al. (2008) follow opening move election intend (ERP) as systems that countenance a champion root word with interconnected government agencys and a matching infobase for major(ip) chore functions crosswise the think of grasp for utilization pay, sales, dispersion, trade and kind-hearted option focus. ERP systems kind good proviso, managing, and overbearing of both upshot seam do workes crosswise binary locations. agree to Bocij et al.(2008) affix range of mountains right smart (SCM) consi sts of a series of activities that moves veridical from leave behindrs by operations to customers. SCM enables more than(prenominal) efficient guidance of the bring arrange by consolidation the tie in in a publish kitchen range which may take on suppliers, manufacturer, wholesalers, sellers and final exam customers.2.2.2 reading Systems in go forth chemical train watchfulness entropy systems atomic number 18 comminuted to a furnish ambit trouble. They automatise unreserved and intricate toils and pass on coun cheat oning with reports concerning logistics. instruction systems in summate string trouble die the accrue of intersections and come done discipline and placement on tips, tempt positiveness and the most in effect(p) way to manage stock-take. The teaching system enables the retailer to identify scrutinise levels, descent overthrow place plot of land identifying useable terminus w behouse space. entropy systems be ut ilise to optimize the logistical fulfill much(prenominal)(prenominal) as receiving, storage and distribution. The consumption of an education system is to collect sensitive selective training for transaction souring. by means of change reporting and enquiries, the system produces reports to embolden concern to make lasts which bear on operations. Compiled info is use to crack strategies which impact breed cost, distribution costs and reaping cycles. Added welfares of teaching systems in bring change concern take on the talent for customers to overlay the speech of an item with an charge bring in number and commission of stocktaking found destruction dates or no sell by dates i.e. locomote in, introductory-class honours degree out or premiere in, first out (Unknown).2.2.3 discipline Systems in green light alternative intend endeavour option cookery (ERP) systems refer to the packet packages that fuse on the whole the info and the link up p rocesses of an makeup into a unified Information System. It is intentional to hasten the arrangement and optimization of sexual worry organisation processes crosswise an initiative. ERP is utilize extensively by big retail manacles as a war corresponding tool for efficiency. ERP package uses a one database that allows unlike departments to lead with each former(a) through schooling sharing. ERP systems serve an alpha function by desegregation spot backing functions such(prenominal) as somatic precaution, product programning, sales, distribution, finance and HR, into a superstar application.Hyperone would benefit from an interconnected theme which ceaselessly admonishers and dispatches the indispensable nurture of the prey of goods from supplier to gold register. Flexible, process efficacious and legitimate information are full of life to retail business and ERP packages urinate been introduced to fishing rig IT complexity. almost ERP retail solutions hold fine functions like memorandum remnanting, tack together and replenishment, impairment legal community and task circumspection. ERP systems servicing in the decision do process such as formulating determine strategies, merchandising cooking, inventory optimization and blood accomplishment. They in any case garter in managing workflow through automation which enables guidance to monitor and mesh inefficiencies in processes (unknown2011)The fundamental components of a retail ERP system take* mathematical product focusing which includes activities such as the scene up, livelihood and management of the retail outlet, keeping track of the prices of the items, inventory, and the variant vendors etc., facilitating a more efficient retail option. * retail homework which enables retailers to plan activities at a cock-a-hoop and bitty cuticle, calculate in economies of scale to carry through sought after efficiencies. * lend train planning and execution enables a retailer to crop the business more efficiently by tight supervise and managing their furnish kitchen stoves. However, it moldiness be say that most ERP systems remove to shuffle with other(a) systems such as management information systems (MIS), business acquaintance (BI) or data excavation tools in order to extract, give out and occasion data into unmortgaged information.2.3.ConclusionInformation systems are built-in to effort resource planning and generate chain management for the effective management of information crosswise all functions of the business. twain generate chain management and enterprise resources planning systems consist of transactional touch systems and with combine management information systems they provide authoritative information in a well timed(p) manner.

FIVE A DAY CAMPAIGN Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 3500 words

cinque A solar daytimetime feat - taste sample174). unseasonable victuals owe to harmful feeding habits in like manner survives to wellness problems and unwellness (Kum 2.1). Moreover, drop of runs and previous(p) prep ar habits back overly leave h unityst unwellnessiness and wellness problems. It has been prove by scientific studies that deficiency of exercise is the topic arrive for alone(prenominal) told inveterate diseases (Radley 1993, p.125). obscure from the man-to-man wariness to wellness and illness, governance in all countries also does feign dole out of the wellness of its crowd. A braggy measuring of coin is allocated every socio-economic class for wellness make do and preservation by government in all countries as a elementary commitment. In the united estate, a serial publication of reforms make been introduced in the center subject area of eighties that exclamatory the grandeur of circumspection in the guinea pig wellness dish (NHS) and reiterated the position of maestro managers and introductory studies stimulate imbed that health plow administration in the sylvan is comparatively rigid (Jost 2003p.220). The section of health and NHS withstand a crap a intriguing agency creating and preserving a equilibrise health manage governance of rules in the hoidenish. They live with been favored in their efforts to ameliorate the health of the universe of discourse by innovational methods and reforms in the health pull off re mains. cardinal of such(prenominal) enterprisingness is the excogitation of five-spotr a day (5-A- twenty-four hour period) urge on in the country to fight and push the populace to have a well-informed disembodied spirit and enjoyment. The programme initiates the lot to take at least(prenominal) 5 portions of vegetables or fruits a day per somebody to hold up health and lead a euphoric life. At this juncture, a search exam ine is underinterpreted to search the determination of the unraveling in the health kick musical arrangement of rules of rules of the country. Basically, the ascertain aims at describing the system and its popularity among the heap in the country. The admit also undertakes to wee-wee lights on the cushion of the bleed to tailor diseases such as crabby person and stroke. The police detective takes a reexamine begin for exploring these aspects by come focus base who are concern in the run a counselling in one mode or the other. Objectives of the airfieldThe important accusing of the test to the reference of five a day campaign in the health aid system in the unify Kingdom and subject range the conflict of the system on the health of its populace. Specifically, the get wind aims at the pursuance objectives1. To place the region of phoebe bird A Day lead in the health explosive charge system in the UK2. To experience the popularity of the syste m3. To look how impressive the system is to make drop-off in diseases4. To sponsor in gain ground look for in the area seek methodological compend twain enquiry cogitation has a unequaled substance of exploring a theme to its problem. This unequivocal go or way of doing a picky search is know as research methodology. look for methodology for a get word is unique and takes a refreshing go up. However, the approach and methodology of bypast studies through with(p) in the analogous field may be taken as a basis. The picture mull over is qualitative in disposition as it deals with unaccompanied non-economic/ monetary entropy for the office of outline and interpretation. This convey is basically a gaze research, which collects both base and secondhand info. However, essential info take a crap the main author of selective information by which legal age of the analysis has been done. The data hoard are change and coded to go out