Essay: Wolfe’s Work on Religion

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Wolfe seems to support the thesis in his work that in the interplay between the dynamic American culture and religion, the former has prospered over the latter. This he further goes on to say, means that while there are many differences between the religious denominations that are presents, there is little difference between the people who follow them. He also puts strong emphasis on the relationship between modern liberal democracy in American and religious doctrine. In this regard, the author advocates the notion that while the American people are still very religious and indeed do take matters as such very seriously compared to many other nations, they have been able to shape religion to conform to their own unique notion of democratic equality.

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Essay: The Apple goals for its iphone

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The Apple goals for its iphone are already mentioned in the strategic objectives section. However, strategy formulation determines steps on how to go about achieving those objectives. At the same the concept of strategy formulation also highlights the difference between a strategy and an objective.  There are various aspects and areas where Apple can formulate a strategy to ensure the sustainability of iphone in the market. This would take us into porter’s generic strategies (Kotler, Keller 13th Ed). It involves three strategies: Overall cost leadership, Differentiation and Focus. Using porter’s generic strategy for iphone we would use the differentiation strategy which in fact is the one that Apple currently uses for its iphone.

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Essay: Promotion of IPhone

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Apple promotes iphone as the versatile, convenient and a value added device for a personal and professional use. The promotion of the product is not just a smart phone but the marketing strategy covers all areas of iphone uniqueness in terms of music, pictures and video, internet, gaming, emailing and more. Promotion has other dimensions as well such as cost. Therefore, the marketing mix strategy, as suggested above, is an integrated effort towards effectiveness and differentiation.

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Essay: Kim modeled constructive criticism

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Rather than have the students work in one large team, as they had in the first project and had reported finding unwieldy for communication and job delineation, Kim (2005) broke them up into four smaller teams that each worked on their own translation of the assessment tests.  This produced four different versions of the translated tests that were then discussed by the class and both strengths and areas for improvement were identified.   Noting that the students had reported feelings of dissatisfaction with the feedback processes realized during the first authentic task, Kim modeled constructive criticism for students.  Once changes were made to the various translations, Kim selected the most accurate one and that was presented to the clients.

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Essay: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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The new government evolving as an Interim Authority towards the establishment of the current Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is led by a Pashto, Hamid Karzai. This new government was realized through meeting of Afghan representatives (a loya jirga) that came to be known as the Bonn Agreement (Ayub & Kuovo, 2008; Johnsen, 2006; McNerney, 2005-2006). The Afghan state currently takes a toll on reconstruction efforts under the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The most profitable commodity in Afghanistan is its poppy cultivation which fuels almost three quarters of the world’s opium and heroin trade. This activity creates an ongoing security issue for the fledgling government, its international patronage countries, and the Afghan people who are most susceptible to the violence and corruption engendered by illegal drug trafficking (Ayub & Kuovo, 2008; Barajas, Howard, Miner, Sartin & Silver, 2006; Schetter, 2002; Emadi, 2005; Weinstein & Vaishnav, 2006).

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Essay: What is yield curve

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The yield curve is one of the most important concepts used by economists and fixed income analysts when it comes to analyzing bonds, to get a good grasp of conditions in the financial markets and to weed out trading possibilities. It is basically the relationship expressed on a graph between the interest rates and time to maturity of a given debt.

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Essay: What is Philology

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Philology concerns itself with both form and meaning of linguistic expression and combines both linguistics and literary studies. . The invention of recording equipments proved to be a boon for the nascent science of sociolinguistics enabling researchers for the first time to record and consider speech directly rather than inferring it indirectly from written documents.

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