Stuart Burge Essays

We use SWOT analysis to determine the performance of Nestle in Malaysia and 7Eleven. SWOT stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The companies that under our observations received their Halal certificate from Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM). Nestle had full filled Malaysian standard and this document had undergone the process required by International Standardization Organization (ISO). Nestle branches in Malaysia also received Grad B in sanitary premise from local authority

In her novel A Mercy, Morrison uses the slave narrative to make the readers close to her work. By using this narrative style, the reader feels sympathy with the slaves and he can put him/herself in their shoes. Morrison thinks by shedding light upon that topic, the world take any action to save these feeble servants. It is a witty style which makes the novel more effective. Morrison speaks about the slave narrative and says “a very large part of my own literary heritage is the autobiography” (qtd

Thomas Stonewall Jackson's Accomplishments Thomas Stonewall Jackson, born January 21st, 1824 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and died May 10th, 1863 in Guinea station, Virginia. He was a very well known Confederate general during the Civil War. Thomas Stonewall Jackson was a very accomplished general, because he won the first Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and he graduated from West point academy 17th out his class of 59 students. These victories helped Stonewall earn his

“I would rather be a beggar and single, than a Queen and married.” Elizabeth was born on September 7, 1533 in Greenwich, England. She was the last heir of the Tudor Dynasty. In this essay, I will be talking about how Queen Elizabeth I was one of the greatest Queens in history and, possibly, the greatest Queen of the Renaissance time period. When Elizabeth was a child, she was often forgotten; first, because she was a girl, and second because she was the youngest girl in the family. She had a rough

William Shakespeare is an English poet, playwright and actor. He is considered as the greatest writer in the English language. The World views him as the pre-eminent dramatist for his works. During his lifetime, Shakespeare has written a total of 38 plays between 1590 and 1612 with his best works being tragedies. Shakespeare’s tragedies have not only been used for entertainment, but the use of teaching to others. In Shakespeare’s work, the theme of appearance versus reality is shown throughout two

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character” (Heraclitus). In every novel, there is always a special and significant character that all readers will notice and impressed by. In the book The Chosen, a boy named Reuven Malter had impressed many readers of all age groups. His distinctive characters are shown throughout the incidents that had happened in the book. Many people appreciate

Macbeth, a tragedy written by Shakespeare around 1606, dramatises the consequences that unchecked political ambition can yield. To truly understand Macbeth, however, it is important to know the time period and political context in which it was written. The main theme, excessive ambition leads to great consequences, is interestingly relevant considering how, why, and when Shakespeare wrote the play. Shakespeare drastically altered certain historical events in his writing. Shakespeare likely made these

The Tudors were a family of Welsh origin that ruled England during the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. During their reign of one hundred and eighteen years, England underwent religious reforms, upsurge of wealth, and prominent progress in the arts. Six monarchs represented the Tudors, each with a unique story. The first Tudor king was Henry VII Tudor, who became king after the Battle of Bosworth Field which ended of the War of the Roses in 1485. The War of the Roses was an English

NASA bumped him down to the Apollo 14 mission - which was the 5th space capsule to land on the moon with human life forms inside - because they said he needed more time to train. They launched Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa in Apollo 14 on January 31, 1971. They landed safely enough with just a few minor setbacks, something that NASA always seemed to have at one point or another. Shepard and one of his crew members, Ed Mitchell, went on the moonwalk to find more

Utilitarianism is a normative moral theory based on consequentialism-its fundamental idea is that “do what produces the best consequence”. In more detail the theory dictates that actions are only right if they promote happiness and produce the greatest amount of happiness; “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of

The novel displayed the idea of a utopian society. Utopia refers to a community which possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. This kind of society values egalitarian principles in order to sustain a structure and organization which made it often called as an intentional community for it creates an ideal society; that is so nearly perfect it if often portrayed as fiction. The first utopian principle was proposed by Plato – an infamous philosopher. He schemed that citizens in the

Another concept that motivated Sen in this regard, relates to Isaiah Berlin 's classic essay Two Concepts of Liberty (Berlin, 1982), which mounts a fierce attack on the positive concepts of freedom . Sen also takes the trouble to compare and contrast the CA with some close rivals, which concentrate on entitlements, the priority of liberty, human rights and human capital (Sen, Development As Freedom, 1999) (Sen, Editorial: Human Capital and Human Capability, 1997) (Sen, Human Rights and Capabilities

Harmony has a meaning similar to peace, security and equality as well as equivalent to the happiness of the Confucian perspective. Also, the concept of harmony has empowered with the imagination of prosperity. To some extent, there has distortion of unity due to political aims. This section will focus on the mutual relation between harmony and another similar concept to examine the conceptual manipulation of the notion of harmony. The idea of Harmony often connects with the idea of peace. Till to

bring great joy, or cause the least destruction. Two philosophers, Jeremy Bentham, the first philosopher to having thought of this concept, and John Stuart Mill, the philosopher who emphasized certain extent of a pleasure are considered great influences to the concept of Utilitarianism. The purpose of this essay is to consider the extent of John Stuart Mill’s influence on Jeremy Bentham’s theory. Jeremy Bentham’s theory is the generalization

In social psychology, prosocial behaviour is defined as any act which benefits others, essentially any behaviour initiated with the purpose of increasing another person’s physical or psychological well being, with positive consequences for that person (Hogg and Vaughan, 1998). By contrast, in social psychology altruism refers to a behaviour that benefits only another individual, rather than oneself, often even with consequence to oneself (Batson and Coke, 1981). Prosocial behaviour refers to all

Hedonism postulates that pleasure is the all and only bearer of intrinsic value and pain is all and only bearer of intrinsic disvalue. In this essay I will evaluate the coherence of the normative version of Hedonism, defined as the theory that says pleasure should be pursued and pain should be avoided and that the right action is the one that produces the greatest amount of net happiness. Prudential hedonism talks about pleasure being good for the one experiencing it. I will examine if this type

To a large extent it is better to live spontaneously. Mencius and Daoism have different interpretations on spontaneity. Mencius emphasizes on expanding humans’ innate good nature, which leads to spontaneous moral cultivation. On the other hand, Daoism spontaneity is emptying ourselves and follow the nature of the outside world without human interference. In this essay, I will first describe the concept of spontaneity in both Mencian and Daoist views, and then I will argue that it is better to live

consequentialism, consequence is important, and is some cases only matters. It is believed that one would achieve happiness, when there would be a pleasure and no pain. (John Stuart 2013) However, it is important to understand that utilitarianism considers not only the quantity, but also quality of the pleasure. For example, John Stuart (p. 417, 2013) classified pleasure as negative, simply sense pleasures, and positive, which is mental or intellectual pleasures. Obviously, positive pleasures have more

Gozon, Cherie Ann O. PhD Media Studies Media 210 While the main premise of both libertarianism and social responsibility is freedom, but the specific context as to what kind of freedom they uphold and its underlying conditions as to the press’ content, accountability, operations, and audience response are different. Libertarianism of the press encourages a high regard for freedom of the press to the point that they publish any information – be it good or bad – and trusts the audience’s mental

The object of this essay is to show a simple evaluation of john Stuart mill principle “an action is right that it does not cause harm to another person” I will be exercising both evaluations and explaining why the positive side outweighs the negative side of the principle, in a society that it’s people are emancipated to control their own opinions. Mill Stuart in his autobiography of 1873 he narrates liberty as a philosophic chronicle of indivisible accuracy. (Mill (1989.edn).p.189) rather than