Sunday, 24 June 2012

Update

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A quick update, I have another site called HubPages I will be posting all of my writing on if your interested then click the following link: http://esjae.hubpages.com/ This will accompany my other pages: Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficial Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae -...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Business Notes: Key Term–Emerging Markets

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Emerging markets are an international area that has the potential to grow and develop in terms of productive capacity, market opportunities and competitive advantage. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–International Competitiveness

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International competitiveness is the ability of firms to sell their products successfully both abroad in export markets at home and in competition against imports. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Globalisation

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Globalisation is the process enabling financial markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Cyclical Unemployment

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Cyclical unemployment is unemployment resulting from an economic downturn or recession in the business cycle. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Structural Unemployment

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Structural unemployment is long term unemployment resulting from change in demand, supply or technology in the economy, which produces a fundamental decline in an industry. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Unemployment

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Unemployment is the number of jobless people who want to work, are available to work, and are actively seeking employment. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Hyperinflation

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Hyperinflation is a situation where the value of money decreases so fast that people lose confidence in it.- Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Inflationary Expectations

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Inflationary expectations are views about what will happen to the rate of inflation in the future. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Demand-Pull Inflation

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Demand-pull inflation is the process by which prices rise because there is excess demand in the economy. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Cost-Push Inflation

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Cost-push inflation occurs when there is an increase in the costs of production (including wages, raw materials, fuel, taxation, and interest rates) that forces firms to increase their prices in order to protect their profit margin. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Deflation

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Deflation is a decrease in the general level of process within an economy or rise in the purchasing power in money. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Inflation

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Inflation is an increase in the general level of process within an economy. Inflation also means that there is a fall in the purchasing power of money. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Fixed Exchange Rates

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Fixed exchange rates are when the government decide to fix the value of its currency permanently in relation to other currencies. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Flexible/ Freely Floating/ Fluctuating Exchange Rates

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Flexible/ Freely Floating/ Fluctuating Exchange Rates are the demand for, an the supply of, the currency which determine the exchange rate. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Exchange Rate

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The exchange rate is the price for one country’s money in terms of another. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Interest Rates

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Interest rates are the cost of borrowing money and the return for lending money. They also measure the opportunity cost, to both individuals and firms, of spending money rather than saving it and receiving interest. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Business Notes: Key Term–Economic Growth

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Economic growth is an increase in the level of economic activity or real gross domestic product. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Recovery

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The recovery is a period characterised by slowly rising levels of consumer demand, rising investment, patchy but increasing business confidence and falling levels of unemployment. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Slump

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A slump is the period characterised by very low levels of consumer demand, investment, and business confidence, an increasing number of businesses failing and high levels of unemployment. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Recession

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A recession is the period characterised by falling levels of consumer demand, output, profit and business confidence, little investment, spare capacity, and rising levels of unemployment. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Boom

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The ‘boom’ is the period characterised by high levels of consumer demand, business confidence, profits and investments at the same time as rising costs, increasing process and full capacity. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Business (or trade) cycle

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The business cycle is the regular pattern of ups and downs in demand and output within an economy, or of gross domestic product growth over time. It is characterised by four main phases: boom, recession (or downturn), slump and recovery (or upturn). - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube:...

Business Notes: Key Term–Capital (or investment) Goods

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Capital goods are items that are purchased by firms because they help them to produce goods. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Stock

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Stock can be defined as the raw materials, components, work in progress or finished goods. - Esjae xTwitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Consumer Durables

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Consumer durables are goods that are owned by households, but which are not instantly consumed by them (e.g. cars, computers, televisions). - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Gross National Product (GNP)

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Gross national product is the total value of a country’s output over the course of a year plus net income from abroad. The growth in real GNP per head of population is the main measure of economic growth. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Gross Domestic Produce (GDP)

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Gross domestic produce is the total value of a country’s output of the course of a year. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Microeconomics

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Microeconomics is the study of the individual parts of the economy. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Macroeconomics

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Macroeconomics is the study of the whole economy. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–PESTLE Analysis

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PESTLE analysis is a framework for assessing the likely impact of the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environment factors in the external environment of a business. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Stakeholder

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A stakeholder is an individual or group with a direct interest in the activities of an organisation. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Corporate Objectives

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Corporate objectives are the targets that must be achieved in order to meet the stated aims of the business. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Corporate Aims

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Corporate aims are the long term intentions of a business. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Business Notes: Key Term–Mission Statement

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A mission statement is a qualitative statement of an organisation’s aims. It uses language intended to motivate employees and convince customers, suppliers and those outside the firm of its sincerity and commitment. - Esjae x Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficialBlog: http://esjaeofficial.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theesjaeofficialYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae...

Friday, 15 June 2012

Business Notes: Kotter’s 8 Step Model for Change

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Step 1: Create Urgency For change to happen, it helps if the whole company really wants to do it. Develop a sense of urgency around the need for change. This may help you spark the initial motivation to get things moving. Step 2: Form a Powerful Coalition Convince people that the change is necessary. This often takes strong leadership and visible support from key people within your organization. Managing...

Business Notes: The factors influencing the success of takeovers and mergers

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Knowledge of the target and the industry Good co-operation from employees If the culture of both businesses fit well together/ have the same attitudes Extensive analysis of the takeover and market target Analyse and evaluate the company itself and the market Scientific approach Customer base/ target market – different to present Financial situation/ performance Workforce skills, experience,...

Business Notes: Structuring the Section A Essay–PEE

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An effective essay builds an argument based around a series of coherent and linked paragraphs. But what should go into a good paragraph? How long should an effective paragraph be? That’s where the acronym comes in handy. PEE stands for: P = Paragraph make a point E= Explanation E = Evidence with examples Let’s develop this a little further. Paragraph Makes A Point Well written paragraphs that focus...

Business Notes: Introduction To Writing An Essay In BUSS4

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An essay question invites build or develop an argument. The essay title will invariably offer several different ways of approaching the question. But the most important thing to remember is to write an essay which directly addresses and answers the question. A good essay is balanced. By that we mean that more than one point of view is explored, even if the essay ends with a conclusion that comes down...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Poem: Do I Belong

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Look at me, look at me from behind What do you find, Your willing to say your opinions blunt Look at me, look at me from the front Your not afraid to confront, Me, for who you think I should be Why don't you try and get to know me Instead of judging me on what you think you can see You're older and therefore supposedly wiser But I wouldn't want you as my advisor Just because one...

Saturday, 9 June 2012

Update: 1000 Youtube Views A Year On

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Great News! A year ago today I uploaded my first poetry video on youtube:   So far it's been an amazing journey learning how to write, read and perform poetry, a journey which has been made even more amazing by reaching 1000 views on youtube across all of my videos!   Thank you to everyone for their support.   - Esjae...

Friday, 8 June 2012

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Poem: Give Us A Break, You Get Me

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Last night was amazing I reached the final 12 in the Strawberry Slam Poetry Competition at Strawberry Fair and did my first live performance! I had such a great time and was really pleased with my score, congratulations to the two winners their poems were awesome. Here is my poem, I merged two of my older poems together and changed them a little bit, It's called 'Give Us A Break, You Get Me'... Teenagers,...