"Everyday Use" & "Marriage is a Private Affair" Story Connection

Everyone who is born in the world ideally will love their family as a vivid symbol of affection. In a family, the existence of multi-generation is very natural and can be considered as blessings. The older generation will guide the younger generations and will create a harmonious in the family. However, the existence of different generations sometimes may result in a different point of view which may lead to conflicts within the family. Those typical situations are perfectly told in the story plot of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe. Both of those short stories have a similar theme that described the conflict caused by different perspective between parents and children. Furthermore, this essay will compare three different aspects that can be analyzed through the two short stories, which are the different reasons of the conflict, the different family’s tradition, and the different environment surroundings that may influence the character’s way of thinking.

The Government of Republic Indonesia Should End The Fuels Subsidies for Better Economic and Social Welfare

Fuel oil is one of the basic needs of many people in Indonesia. Students, teachers, doctors, salesmen, everyone, need fuel oil for their vehicle(s). Since very long time ago, Indonesian government always try to help their citizens and allocates much money to subsidize the fuels. At 2018, one-liter premium and solar fuel are charged for IDR. 6000 and IDR. 5000 (Rianto). Indonesian government hopes it could help citizens especially for those who are still in low-middle class income. However, during the implementation of fuels subsidies policy, the fuel consumption per day always exceeds the predetermined quota. It really worried government and makes them re-allocate another subsidies’ spending to fund the fuels subsidies. So far, there are so many pros and contras regarding the sustainability of fuels subsidies. Since 2014 at Mr. President Jokowi’s administration, fuel prices have been increasing as fuel subsidies decreased every year. The increase in fuel prices causes massive protests from various elements in society. That is why the decision to continue, cut, or end the fuels subsidies is always a dilemma for the Indonesian government.

The Blue Bowl: Story of a Buried Memory

When a person is left by their significant other, it will hurt and make them feel down. It is nothing different when the pet owners are abandoned by their precious animals, as it will crush them as much as they lost their beloved one. The misery will not go easily especially when they have shared joyfulness to each other. That sadness is entirely shown through “The Blue Bowl,” a poem written by Jane Kenyon. The whole plot of this poem tells the readers about the speaker’s and her family sadness feeling when their beloved cat was dead. Furthermore, the tone, the diction, and the senses that the poem convey can be used to analyze the feeling of the speaker and her family.

Communication and Technology's Impacts

There are three importance of communication skills for career success, which are: communication influences how we think about our-self and others; communication influences the way we learn; and communication skills are demanded by business and industry. First, communication definitely make us think about concept we want to deliver and while we are communicating we try to understand others’ messages and priorities. It can happen when someone told us that we are not speak clearly and we need an improvement in grammar, it may be discouraging. So that is why, it is important to have a good communication skills as professionals. Second, communication really influence how we learn something. When we are not good enough in speaking then we are motivated to practice. Having a good communication skill is a symbol that we have effort, persistence, and self-correction. Third, business and industry demand person with a good communication skill. There is a fact that top level managers mostly hire a consultant to make their communication skills improve. Moreover, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, communication skills is the top rank of personal skills employers seek. So, that is all the three importance of communication skills to support our career growth.

Is Junk Food Elastic or Inelastic?

The quantity demand for junk food with respect to price for me is inelastic. I know when the price goes up people will consume less junk food, however the decreasing demand is less than the increasing price. It is because the substitutes for junk foods (fast foods) is difficult to find by now, especially in US. The most fast and easy food to eat is junk food itself.  Based on “The Impact of Food Prices on Consumption: A Systematic Review of Research on the Price Elasticity of Demand for Food” journal, it says that “Price elasticities for foods and nonalcoholic beverages ranged from 0.27 to 0.81 (absolute values)”. We highlight that elasticities stated is less than 1%, so it is going to be inelastic. The idea behind this is that the buyer must buy the foods even if the price rises for 1%, because the demand will only reduce for lest than 1%. So we can know that price is not impactful toward the quantity demand in Junk Food.

Case Study: Recruitment, Retention, and Rewards in China

The world nowadays has been evolving into a border-less world. Many Multinational and Global companies are outsourcing their employees and hire a talented worker from overseas. Many Multinational Companies are also seeking lower cost labor with equal talent, skill, and ability. Most of them are outsourcing in some developing countries especially in China that widely known as over-population country with enough good labor quality and lower cost as the added value. However, I highlight some problems in China that caused difficulty in retention of the worker which are inequity, unwell-organized reward, and improper benefits for local employees.

Ajaran Yang Tidak Akan Pudar

Berdasarkan data statistik Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Indonesia, tercatat ada sekitar 209.727 institusi pendidikan jenjang SD (Sekolah Dasar), SMP (Sekolah Menengah Pertama), dan SMA (Sekolah Menengah Atas) sederajat di Indonesia. Setahun kemudian, UNICEF (United Nation International Children’s Emergency Fund) mengeluarkan data statsik yang menunjukkan bahwa 2,5 juta anak Indonesia tidak melanjutkan pendidikan ke jenjang yang lebih tinggi alias putus sekolah. Tingginya angka putus sekolah tersebut mengisyaratkan bahwa usaha pemerintah untuk mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa dengan mendirikan ratusan sekolah masih belum berhasil.

This is Why Government Intervene The International Trade

The role of government is quite significant to intervene the trade in order to cope with inefficient activities in the economy. Inefficient activities include unequal distribution.

1. The function of the government to maintain internal security and defense. In order for citizens to conduct business activities with a calm and comfortable.
2. The function of the government to administer the judiciary, so that every citizen has the same rights and obligations.
3. The function of the government to provide goods not provided, so that citizens get easiness in running business activities. 

Despite all, the reason of government intervention can be classify as three main parts:

1. To correct market failures. Market is an unexpected things in our life; we cannot handle the market as it supposed to be. Therefore, to prevent any massive failure in the economic system, the role of government is really needed. There are several example of market failure such as immobility, public goods, demerit goods, merit goods, imperfect information, high relative poverty, and monopoly power in a market. Those market failure can bring some negative impacts such as structural unemployment, failure of market to provide pure public goods, free rider problem, over consumption of products with negative externalizes, consequences for consumers from poor choices, low income families suffer social exclusion, negative externalizes, higher prices for consumers, cause loss of allocate efficiency
2. To achieve a more equitable distribution of income and wealth. The reason of the government is that it is the power of each human being to gain more money to fulfill their need. Therefore, the government needs to distribute equal wealth especially to those people who live under economic condition.
3. To maximize the social prosperity. The role of government to intervene the trade is to boost the performance of the economy. Since, they will be able to compete with other countries from all over the world for the sake of good economic performance in the world. The role of government can also improve social welfare involving public welfare. Such as improving the function of public facilities. Thus, the government can utilize these facilities equally.
4. Socio-Economic Factors. Market interventions for socio-economic including labor laws to protect certain segments of the population and the setting up of certain products to ensure the health and well-being of consumers.

Real Estate Investment Analysis in Flagstaff, US at 2018

Flagstaff is the city that located in North America. Flagstaff located at an elevation under 7000 feet. The Flagstaff population grew almost 13,000 more than 65,000 inhabitants. The city of Flagstaff consists about 64 square miles excluding outlying areas. Flagstaff is located at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks and is surrounded by large pine forests, precisely located in the district of Coconino County, which is the second largest area in the United States that consisting of nearly 12 million hectares. In addition, the cost living in the Flagstaff is about 20% higher than the national average and the flagstaff area code is 928. After we visit the website in the realestate.com we find the property type that exist in Flagstaff are house, condo/town home, multi family, mobile or Mfd and land.  

Knowing the whole market is the important thing that we need to understand before analyze the investment in real estate. To begin with, the median home value in the united states is $220,100 according to the www.zillow.com. Based on Zillow predictions, the United States home values have raised up 7.6% in the last year and it will increase 6.4% within next year. It indicates the real estate in America is stable. In addition, the home value falls 20% in 2007- 2011 and make many homeowners are now underwater on their mortgages, which mean they owe more than their home is worth. Meanwhile, the median value in Arizona is $244,600 and the home values is going up 7.7% over the past few years and it will be increase 3.8 % based on Zillow prediction. In addition, foreclosures become the factor that impacting the home values in the Arizona. In the information also given that mortgages in Arizona is 0.7%, which is lower than the national value of 1.1% U.S. home values. Lastly, the median home value in Flagstaff is $366,600 and the Flagstaff home value going up 8.0 % in the past few years and will increase 5.9 %. Besides that, the homeowner of the Flagstaff only suffers 5,2% underwater mortgage and 0.4% delinquent mortgage.

The basic principle of investing in real estate is to gain profit compare to the cost to buy the real estate itself. The main reason of investing in real estate is basically a believe that population will increase while the land will generally steady in terms of area. Based on Labor Statistics of Bureau, the most expenditure by American is housing expenses. Therefore, invest the real estate is one of good choice especially in Flagstaff, AZ. The first reason is because real estate in Flagstaff has high and positive growth of real estate. Its property’s value increase overtime and this is good for all investors in real estate. To be more detail, according to Flagstaff Business News, the residential real estate in Flagstaff has jumped 38% since 2015. Moreover, they also predict that the growth of sales price average will increase slowly at least until 2022. Moreover, there is also a potential excessive demand of real estate in Flagstaff because according to U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, Flagstaff has more than 1,500 demanded houses and 170 are under construction the price changes also averagely high around 20%.

Business Meeting Invitation Message

Dear Head of Marketing Manager of Apple Company,

I am Head of Sales Managers at JVR Music Studio Company would like to inform you that we are planning to order some of Apple’s latest cell phone product, Opus 12, for our outside sales representative. As we know, in the second week of March 2018, we had have done a brief meeting about the introduction of Opus 12 by the Apple Company’s Head of System Engineer. At that meeting, we noted some of the extraordinary advantages of Opus 12 Cellphone like the Four-Days Battery system and the deployment of 4G+ Lite networks across the continent of America, Europe, and Asia. We consider those two strong features of Opus 12 will be the key success to improve the performance of our outside sales representative in terms of effectiveness of internal and external communications.

Negative Business Message in Indirect Approach

Dear Sales Team,

Through this letter, I would like to express my greatest appreciation for the hard work and allegiance of sales team in order to increase the company's sales so far. I am really amazed because the sales target since two years ago has always increased more than 19%. As a member of the team, I feel that we have worked together as a team and are able to prevent various obstacles that may be faced by the company.