Why is aging a health concern?
A discussion of the impacts of aging on health, both for the individual, and for society.
Counselling: ethical practice and non-discrimination
Discriminatory practice occurs when individuals from certain groups are treated in a different and often disadvantageous way because of the…
Product Mix
What is the product mix?
The Catholic Church’s attitudes towards the poor
This statement from the Catholic Church’s 1986 encyclical entitled Economic Justice for All encapsulates an important dimension of Christ’s…
Ways in which government expenditure can give rise to inflation
The relationship between government spending and inflation
Examples of Total Quality Management principles and practices
At the heart of these principles is that quality is the responsibility of the whole business, not one department. To implement TQM there are many methods that can be used
What is the consumer purchasing decision making process
Explanation of the 5 steps of the consumer decision making process in purchasing a good or service.
The role and purpose of homework in contemporary education
There are increasing calls for homework to be reappraised in terms of its relevance, and in some cases there have been moves to scrap the practice altogether.
Why do animal cells burst when placed into pure water?
Question Why do animal cells burst when placed in pure water? Answer To answer this question adequately a brief explanation of a biological process known as osmosis will be provided. Osmosis is a process by which water passes from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration through a semi-permeable …
Normal and not normal in society
In the modern workplace, many notions of normality have been reconciled: questions of gender and race, for example, have been reframed as…