Short_Paper_Project_Management

WhatATour LLC.

Site Extension Project

Short Paper

The need to extend the official website of WhatATour LLC to incorporate third parties products for advertisement looks imminent. This research found that some distant third parties, like in the third world, lack enough expertise to cater exposure to the web. The primary means of reaching out to potential customers is astonishingly based on word-of-mouth, followed by standard mails and old fashioned pamphlets. WhatATour (WAT) foresee a reasonable revenue generation by partnering with these clients and take charge of reaching out to their customers by having them use a portion of the website. At this time, WAT has over a hundred thousand visitors each day and of them, around 20% are loyal customers.

This partnership works on a contract basis. Potential clients are brought into an agreement to display their products, primarily the travel packages, in the official website of WAT and, as a result, pay a certain price of each visit by potential customers. There is a time limit for each product to display and clients have the rights to extend the period, edit, or modify and features of their products within the allowed time.

WAT aims to recover approximately 20% of its advertisement and marketing expenses through this agreement over the next year. The management aims to expand their marketing and advertisement efforts by proportionate percent annually.

I, as a project manager for this extension project, and an internal employee managing the IT department, can’t emphasize more to the profitability of this venture, and have niched out the entire strategy to handle this massive project. The approval of my project plan by senior management is a big step in attaining my goal here. Over the weeks, I have gather all the essential information, resources and expertise to handle this project with confidence. The timeline is consistent with the workflow and proposed go-live schedule of the company.

Women in Society

I am writing about Nepali Women. This is where my parents and ancestors come from. Nepal is a patriarchal society. Women, in general, are dominated by their male partners or male members of the family and society. Women in Nepal mostly are seen as homemakers, caretakers, a sign of peace and love. Women should look physically attractive and feminine. Food served without basic jewelry was not entertained. Cooking and serving was considered a very feminine trait and men was teased for doing such works. Male in the community is known to be a symbol of safety and strength, a decision maker.

A woman is not supposed to be participating in big household decisions and is not allowed to talk in between while male members are discussing anything. Female is supposed to serve everybody and eat at the end and especially in-laws are the left overeaters. While on the other hand, women are treated as Laxmi in Hindu Culture, who’s the symbol of goddess Laxmi, goddess of wealth. Men go out and earn money, bring home and give his wife to keep it and she is the finance minister of the house. She does the budgeting. A home is not considered home without women in the house.  Women in olden days were not allowed to go to school and very rarely worked outside the home in ancient days. Women have been given the name of the goddesses in the Hindu religion for being the symbol of wealth, love and affection, and care.

 A woman in typical farmer family ends up working extended hours while women whose husband works in highly paid Govt. jobs or private business owners, have housemaids at home and work less than their male counterparts. Women’s status in Nepal is highly determined by the socio-economic status of the family. While the contribution of women was substantial, their work was unnoticed as their traditional role was taken for granted. They were paid 25% less than the male in the position.” Although the constitution offers women equal educational opportunities, many social, economic, and cultural factors contributed to lower enrollment and higher dropout rates for girls. In the early 1990s, a direct correlation existed between the level of education and status.”(Wikipedia). A women’s status in the family, especially a daughter-in-law’s status is closely determined by the husband’s authority and the wealth of her parents.

Women in Nepal. (2017, July 09). Retrieved August 13, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Nepal

Migration and Diversity

Migration and diversity

“Unlike most animals, humans have mixed, mated, and migrated throughout our history, whether it is traveling to the next village or around the world, human has always intermingled and shared the genes”. History shows that human originally migrated from Africa and spread the world. During 19^th and early 20^th century, more than 80 million people emigrated from the country of their origin dominantly from Europe and Asia. The World Map shows the most dramatic movement among distances, remotest mountain tribe in Nepal originated and intermixed with neighbors sharing genes. We tend to think that similar physical trait comes from the same race of people while it is not right. People can share similarities even if they are from a different race. The race is wide. The race is not defined by geography or language or showing similar characteristics alone.

Technological advances making the distance commutable, cost effective and the need for skilled labor has spread human around the globe. Modernization and acceptance of the diversity have created openness to mingle a tribe of people with another. These phenomena have spread the genes among humans and created another unique human with unique features and gene composition.

Need for labor and other needs like economic and business have made people live their country of origin and start a new life in a new a place which ends up in mixing with another origin and create their brand new mix a product which creates and spreads genes to create varieties of human with varieties of external features and trait.

PBS. (n.d.). Geographic Origin of Diversity. Retrieved August 16, 2017, from http://www.pbs.org/race/004_HumanDiversity/004_01-explore.htm

Matrix of Domination_Short_Paper-School Work

Black feminist thought talks about the race, class and gender oppression and need of a Humanist vision of the community to create new possibilities of empowering the Afrocentric feminist knowledge. She has said that a black female is not just a black, not just a female or is from low family income, it could be all of them. A black female has learned to confront for being herself. In her view, Eurocentric masculinist thought to serve the interest of the Eurocentric man. She says white man worldview promotes white women’s subordination. In her writings, Black women’s thought speaks as emerging power as agents of knowledge/plays in empowering oppressed people. Black feminist thought proposes two essential contributions to furthering social relation of domination and resistance. A group survival in black women’s thought suggests the vision of a community that stands in disagreement to the level in the leading culture.

Therefore, black women can be one way or the other dominated in the society due to her being of female, being black, most times being from a poor socioeconomic status. Placing an African and other excluded women in the center of the analysis opens a concept of penalty and privilege for oppressed and oppressor.  This does not mean that race, class, and gender are interchangeable. “By emphasizing the power of self-definition and the necessity of a free mind, Black feminist thought speaks to the importance African-American women thinkers place on consciousness as a sphere of freedom”(Patricia Hill Collins). In addition to what is dominated against, race, gender, and social class, black feminist thought emphasizes three levels of dominations and potential sites of resistance.

References:

Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2017, from http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html

Major Contributions by Minor group

Erving Berlin is an American songwriter and lyricist. He is considered as the greatest songwriter in American history.  Erving Berlin, whose birth name is Israel came to the US with his parents and 7 other siblings in 1888 from Temun Russia. He was born on May 11, 1888, and was the 8^th  and the youngest child of his parents. Irving’s father Moses was a Jewish cantor. Moses was forced to work in a market on arrival to the USA. Irving lived an unsupervised and a gang life with his pals playing street games when he was young. When Moses, Irving’s father died in 1896, young Irving ran away from home and earned money as a street singer and beginning as a companion to an unsavory singing beggar.

In 1906, Irving was hired to write songs at Pelham’s and that changed his fortunes and the course of American music forever. The newly named Berlin began to make a name for himself as a creative lyricist. “One of his specialties at Pelham's had been the ability to sing parodies of existing hit songs, much to the joy of the clientele” (Reublin, 2003). “In 1911, Berlin hit the hit song jackpot with a song that swept the country like wildfire; Alexander’s Ragtime Band (MIDI, Lyrics)” (Reublin, 2003). This song spread across the country like virus and took the country by storm. The writer of this article states that this could have given equal surprise to Berlin. During the time American went to war, Berlin not only wrote music for the uplifting the morale of the ones who lived at home but also joined the war and gave his best tow in the war. “The infectious tune and good-humored lyrics made the song one of the greatest to come out of the War and further established Berlin as a great songwriter”(Reublin, 2003).

Thus, Berlin, an immigrant from Russia was legend songwriter in American history at the age of only 30. He wrote 1500 songs, including scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards.

Reublin, R. A. (2003, February). The Dean of American Songwriters. Retrieved from http://parlorsongs.com/bios/berlin/iberlin.php

Irving Berlin. (2017, August 04). Retrieved August 06, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin

I am in a computer science field. This field is dominated by a male in the history of research. Women tend to drop a lot or not even start a computer science degree due to various factors. To promote women in IT Field, In the U.S. in 2001, 27.6 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science went to women, according to the National Science Foundation but it showed a drop to 17.7 in 2008. There’s a slight uptick to 18.2 in 2010.  Hurst was the only women in the room as a software developer. Despite that women made up 47% of the workforce in 2011, only 27% of those were in the computer jobs. Computer science educators and activists agree that giving access to the computer programming classes at an early stage can bring more women and minorities in the Information Technology field.

Decade of reaches have shown that Inclusion of diversity of people in the organization has gained many financial benefits and innovations and prospered creativity. Diversity is important as they bring different ideas from their experiences, information and different opinions thus creating a financial gain for the organizations. There are increased communications, increased jobs, increased tolerance and acceptance and easy resolution to a conflict with a diverse population while there are challenges working in a diversity of populations. Diversity can lead to anxiety and conflict, rougher conversations, lack of trust, perceived interpersonal conflicts and lower communication, less cohesion, more concern about disrespect, and other problems. Overall, simply being exposed to diversity can bring change in the way we think.

Phillips, Katherine W. How Diversity Makes Us Smarter. 1 Oct. 2014, www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017.

Mason, Kyla Calvert. “Computer science's diversity gap starts early.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/teaching-coding-kids-key-closing-fields-diversity-gap/. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017.

Inequality in Healthcare

This was my research work from 2017 on Inequality in Healthcare

Inequality in Health Care:

In the history of HealthCare, there have been so many unfortunate inequalities and these unequal treatments have taken many lives at an unexpected time. Poverty plays a vital role in medical care. Poor people who are not able to afford to pay for medical insurance or co-pay end up their lives with an untreatable or fatal illness and thus subtracting their life span and living a life in misery. Gender plays equally for unfair or unequal medical treatment. Researches have shown that many pharmaceuticals have done medicine research on men. For example, Heart disease and treatment have been studied on men. There are racial-ethnic disparities in The US that a black non-Hispanic child has 3 times chances of dying than white counterparts and 20 years old has a better chance of getting better care than 60 years old. It is hard to say if it’s unjust as the young become old someday while the old today was young once.

Health insurance and coverage are the main reasons for people to get better treatment and vice versa. Private insurance from the employer a patient gets better treatment and medicine coverage and more options for Doctors while a poor with Government insurance has a lower chance of being treated for their health problems and fewer options for treatment. They have fewer doctor’s visits due to higher co-pays and not being able to afford to pay the out of pocket, they end up being undiagnosed for the lingering health and end up with serious health problems like stroke and breast/ovarian cancer for women.

Populations like new refugees with language difficulty have greater chances of misunderstanding about the treatment and care because of not being able to communicate them issues in their own words and afraid of bring everything at once. A person who needs interpreter literally needs at least twice as much time as someone who speaks English as their first language due to the use of interpreter but unfortunately, most times they are given the same time period for the visit which is overwhelming and are not able to communicate effectively. They cannot visit doctors very often because they have to work for themselves and the family. The symptoms they are describing might be caused by a single health problem but they are not able to communicate all their symptoms because the provider may deny that he or she can address only one issue at one visit. This leads to improper treatment because the provider did not have enough time to listen to the patient.

There are many men based researches in Pharmaceutical companies. Drug for heart disease is based on the research done for men. Due to the anatomy differences, it might not be the exact treatment for women. Doses and side effects can vary or it can be more harmful than useful.  Researches have shown African American women and uneducated women are more likely to be offered for the formula for their baby at the childbirth than educated and or white women. The gap between poor and rich is growing every day based on 50 years of health data study on health care. In the 1960s, before Medicaid and Medicare, the wealthy got twice as much care as the poor would get. 1977, poor got 14% more care comparing the rich counterparts while it makes sense that poor people were sicker. Yet pattern changed in 2004, over the next eight years, the wealthiest fifth of Americans, grew by 19.7 percent, care for the poorest fifth fell. By 2012, the wealthy got 40 percent more doctor visits than the Americans. Averaging the age and health, they got 43@ more care than poor. Rising deductibles by the employer are the main problems for the poor to afford their care. The income of the poor and middle class cannot pay unplanned $400 and end up not seeking care on time.

Medical bills have been collection agencies biggest businesses. Women waiting for their breast lumps to go away on its own and men with strokes without high blood pressure being treated. Growing inequality in health care resulting in worsening outcomes for poor Americans. The health gap between rich and poor Canadians have been closing but Americans have been widening. Wealthiest American man today live 15 years more than an average poor American

Gender: Women needing to pay a higher premium than men. Contraceptives mandate differences in gender between coverage of the medicines for one over the other. More women are insured than men. Women 86% while men only 74%

Working to fix the issue from the top down is crucial to bring this disparity down or resolving the burning issue of inequality in HealthCare. Hiring culturally, linguistically appropriate providers or including diversity on the top down will alleviate some of the health inequalities and thus provide better health solutions for the minor sufferer. Adopting Obama care Patient’s Protection and Affordable Care Act, outlaws gender discrimination in health care settings.

References:

Woolhandler, S., & Himmelstein, D. (2016, August 05). Health Care Inequality On The Rise. Retrieved August 13, 2017, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steffie-woolhandler/health-care-inequality-on_b_11351350.html

B. (2016, May 26). Gender Inequality in Health Care - Boundless Open Textbook. Retrieved August 13, 2017, from https://www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/gender-stratification-and-inequality-11/women-in-the-workplace-89/gender-inequality-in-health-care-515-10214/

Arcaya, Mariana C., et al. “Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories.” Global Health Action, Co-Action Publishing, 2015, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481045/. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017.