How can the industry deal with the issues of airport congestion, which will result from 2024 onwards, assuming the industry maintains its pre-Covid annual growth levels?

Demonstrate a clear and in-depth understanding of Critical theory

                                   Topic: Critical Theory

• Demonstrate a clear and in-depth understanding of your chosen topic and its association with early childhood education in Australia.
• Identify, evaluate, and compare the positive and negative impacts of your chosen topic on teaching approaches, curriculum decisions and learning outcomes for students.

Notes:

• Use Australian English I.e realise and not realize.
• References should be from 2013-2022. Please use the following reference anywhere in the essay. Philosophical, ideological, and theoretical perspectives on education (2014) – Book by Gerald L. Gutek

Construct your Own Religion and explain why it would be flourish using relevant religious based psychological theory and research.

Construct your Own Religion and explain why it would be flourish using relevant religious based psychological theory and research

• Word limit: 2,500 words. This maximum does not include the Reference list.

What is the core or fundamental aspects of religion? What makes a religion successful?

Your task is to construct your own religion – a religion that would be successful and flourish. And explain why the religion will be successful and support it with religious based psychological research and theory.

Please try to include these theory in the essay.

• Coalitional Commitment Hypothesis
• Supernatural punishment hypothesis

• Costly signaling theory

How would you craft your religion to ensure that it is successful? When devising your religion make sure you answer the following questions, and support ALL your decisions with evidence from psychological science:

1. What is the name of your religion and how did it historically come about?
2. How is your religion structured or organized?
3. What rituals and practices do adherents of your religion engage in?
4. What behaviors does your religion expect from its adherents?
5. What beliefs do practitioners of your religion endorse and adhere to?

Make sure to answer these questions and clearly demonstrate how the various aspects of your religion promote its flourishing and support your claims with arguments and evidence from psychological science! Alternatively, you might wish to argue that your new religion will not flourish. In this case, you still need to support your arguments with evidence from psychological science!

• Make sure the arguments and content reflect a deep grasp of psychological approaches to religion
• and are empirically supported with evidence and citations.
• Please include a complete list of references

Referencing:

Within the essay, you should include citations in-text as usual and provide a standard reference section at the end in APA format (6 or 7).

establish the application of theory to investigate the reasons for the difference between a budget and the actual and support the financial element of short-term and long-term decisions.

Consider the issues relating to the STANDARD OF CARE AND BREACH only raised by these facts. You CAN ASSUME A DUTY OF CARE WAS OWED.

James has had a bad month. A few weeks ago, his uninsured garage, located away from his house, burnt down and he lost goods worth up to £5,000. It later transpires that the fire brigade was called and was on the way but failed to arrive as the fire engine was diverted to deal with a call claiming that a local factory was on fire, which turned out not to be the case. James claims that hoax calls are common and that the fire brigade made a huge error of judgment in not attending to his garage and is threatening to sue for negligence. Last week, James, who is partially sighted, was injured when he fell down a hole left unguarded by Leicester Local Council. The hole was dug to make urgent repairs to underground wires and there was a large sign warning people and the cones around the hole. The cones had been removed by some teenagers who used them for goalposts on a nearby field. And yesterday he was diagnosed with a chest disease. James’ doctor told him he must have contracted the disease while working down a coal mine for the past ten years. He worked in three mines but two of them are now closed so he wants to claim against the only remaining one, called North Eastern Coal. He worked at North Eastern Coal for only three of the ten years and the medical evidence shows that although he clearly caught the disease at some time in his employment at the mines, it is impossible to say for certain how much each one contributed to his condition. None of the mines had adequate facilities for dealing with coal dust.

Consider the issues relating to the STANDARD OF CARE AND BREACH only raised by these facts. You CAN ASSUME A DUTY OF CARE WAS OWED.

evaluate the impact of COVID-19 travel restrictions on the global tourism and hospitality industry by focusing on the financial loss that the industry faced following the imposition of the travel restrictions on various tourists’ destinations worldwide.

The Effects of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions on Global Tourism and Hospitality Industry.

• Context of Research

The study aims to identify and analyse the critical effects of COVID-19 travel restrictions on the tourism and hospitality industry by demonstrating how the implementation of the COVID-19 containment measures by different governments in tourism destinations worldwide affected the performance of the sector, as well as the strategies that can be put in place to ensure its recovery from the impacts of the pandemic. According to a report released by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation in 2020, it was documented that following the continued spread of COVID-19, international tourist travels decreased by between 58% and 78% (Tuite et al., 2020), which led to a potential loss of between $0.9 to $1.2 trillion in the total global tourism receipts. Therefore, the introduction of travel restrictions had a profound financial impact on the tourism and hospitality sector.

• Rationale

I believe there is a need for research into the impacts of COVID-19 travel restrictions on the global tourism and hospitality industry. The results obtained from this study will help understand how the imposition of COVID-19 containment measures affected the global tourism and hospitality industry, as well as how various recovery strategies can be put in place to save it from the adverse effects of the pandemic and any future crises. Understanding the strategies that were implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19 will establish a framework for improving the industry’s performance and further inform the policymakers on handling future crises in highly susceptible industries when they occur.

2. Research Aim

This research aims to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 travel restrictions on the global tourism and hospitality industry by focusing on the financial loss that the industry faced following the imposition of the travel restrictions on various tourists’ destinations worldwide.

Research Objectives

• To evaluate the financial impact experienced by the global tourism and hospitality industry due to the implementation of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
• To analyse the available recovery strategies that can be put in place to restore the tourism and hospitality industry from the effects of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

Based on the visualizations, write an executive summary interpreting the financial performance of Company A and Company B.

Description
Based on the visualizations, write an executive summary interpreting the financial performance of Company A and Company B. Include screenshots from your data visualizations as needed in your summary. Specifically, you must address the following criteria: Assets, Liability, and Equity: Summarize how the assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity have changed over three years for Company A and Company B. Include screenshots of your data visualization as follows: Company A: In Power BI, use the provided Company A Financials and construct a set of three clustered column charts, representing: The assets of Company A as represented in the data during each of the three years The liabilities and owners’ equity over the same three years Company B: In Power BI, use the provided Company B Financials and construct a set of three clustered column charts, representing: The assets of Company B as represented in the data during each of the three years The liabilities and owners’ equity over the same three years Revenue and Earnings: Use the provided income statements to summarize the gross revenue and net earnings for Company A and Company B over three years. Include screenshots of your data visualization as follows: Company A: In Power BI, use the provided Company A Financials document and construct a line chart illustrating the visual relationship of revenue, gross profit, total expenses, earnings before tax, net earnings, and taxes. Company B: In Power BI, use the provided Company B Financials document and construct a line chart illustrating the visual relationship of revenue, gross profit, total expenses, earnings before tax, net earnings, and taxes. Conclusion : Summarize your observations about the financial performance of both companies. Include any insights you may have about their performance trends or how they have performed compared to each other over the past three years.

how are the Private Hire Industry and SKYLINE’s Private Hire Drivers affected by the upsurge in fuel price?

Background

The United Kingdom was rankedin terms of high fuel prices ahead of most countries in Europe, especially those in the European Union, such as Germany, Ireland, France and Austria (Haliloglu and Berument 2021). According to Burman et al. (2021), there has been a consistent rise in the cost of petroleum products, particularly petrol, diesel and gasoline, in the UK, since 2020. In 2022, fuel prices have reached a record high level retailing at 151.6 pence per litre in February(Diesel price UK 2021 | Statista, 2022). Haliloglu and Berument (2021) opined that the trend has also been observed in other European countries, with the product retailing at relatively higher prices in Netherlands and Italy by between 1 and 3 pence per litre. The fuel crisis in the UK has been linked to various causes, including the Covid-19 outbreak, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a shortage of truck drivers delivering oil to the UK (Yoon, 2022). According to Kartal (2021), the situation has had significant adverse effects on the UK economy. Therefore, the UK must seek alternative energy sources to avoid overreliance on petroleum products facing fluctuation in prices.

The repercussion of the high fuel prices is expansive and cuts across industries, with the transport sector affected the most(Aljoufie, 2019). Motorists are also experiencing tough times, with a recent study showing that it is currently costing £15 more to fill up a 55-litre car in 2021 than in 2020. Wickramaratne (2020) has linked this trend to reduce the number of hired drivers in the UK. However, this relationship has not been empirically proven, thus leaving an unanswered question on whether there is a direct link between fuel prices and public transport efficacy in the UK. According to Ruiz Estrada (2020), passenger mobility relies significantly on the availability of affordable fuel. Considering that private hire drivers are self-employed, they have no opportunity to spread risks regarding high fuel prices like in the large transport companies and thus are more vulnerable to the ongoing energy crisis in the UK. Nonetheless, Emam (2020) had a contrary opinion positing that the decline in the number of private hire drivers could also be influenced by other factors, including career change or a decrease in demand. Considering the conflicting argument being put forward by various scholars regarding the link between fuel prices and the availability of private hire drivers, it is necessary to carry out a study to establish the impact of increasing fuel prices on the private hire vehicle industry.

1.2. Problem Statement

The ongoing energy crisis in the UK is raising concerns among the users of petroleum products and those in related industries. However, there is no clear evidence of specific causes of this continuous increase in fuel. Moreover, the current decline in the number of private hire drivers in the UK is becoming an issue of interest for passengers depending on these vehicles to facilitate their movement (The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS), 2021). According to Kouam (2021), this reduction has been associated with the high fuel prices, a concept that has been contradicted by Wincott, Davies and Wager (2020), who argued that a decline in the number of private hire drivers could also be associated with other factors apart from the ongoing energy crisis. Despite the lack of empirical evidence on the cause of the declining number of private hire drivers, this decline is likely to affect the drivers’ income and cost of movement to the customers who use private hire vehicle services. Due to a lack of consensus on the cause of the current decline in the supply of private hire vehiclesand the possible implications of high fuel prices in this industry, the present study seeks to examine the impact of fuel price increases on the private hire vehicles industry, taking the case of the UK.

1.3. Significance of the Study

The study contributes to the existing knowledge by highlighting the significant causes of high fuel prices in the UK. Moreover, the study determines the impact of this high fuel price on the private hire vehicles in the country. This information is crucial to the stakeholders in the transport and energy sectors in the economy; the findings can be used to inform policy formulations towards cushioning the passengers and other users of petroleum fuels in the UK.

1.4. Aim and Objectives of the Study

The current research aims at determining the impact of fuel price increases on the Private Hire Vehicles Industry (TAXI).

1.4.1. Research objectives

1. To determine factors that influenced fuel price increase in the UK.
2. To determine the strategies or measures that Private Hire Drivers have employed in adjusting their operation with the upsurge in fuel price.
3. To explore the implication of fuel price increase on the income of Private Hire Drivers, the quality of Private Hire Car Services, and the safety of passengers.

1.5. Research Question

The project seeks to inform the research question: how are the Private Hire Industry and SKYLINE’s Private Hire Drivers affected by the upsurge in fuel price?

What made you select your chosen product/service? Would you choose it again if you were required to do this project all over again?

• ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY (EA) (50 points)

STEP 1: Pick a problem. Brainstorm an idea to solve the problem.

STEP 2: Create/Find a product or service to sell (based on the idea in step #1).

STEP 3: Go ahead and sell it.

STEP 4 (Deliverable): Submit a short report (2 pages) with the description of your activity, its outcomes, and the evidence to verify those outcomes.

For this part, you can pick any suggested idea listed earlier or come up with a new product/service idea of your own. Please Note: If you already own a business or hold a job, your regular or day-to-day business transactions or job-duties cannot count as an entrepreneurial endeavor for this project. Entrepreneurship must contain the element of newness/novelty.

In order to come up with an idea, it is advised that you talk to the people in your social network including your family members. This would help in identifying the right type of problems that matter for people, and improving the quality of your idea to address those problems. If you do not wish to spend much time finding problems/information, then you can directly jump to selling an item or skill that you possess. However, please remember this: The more mundane and run-of-the-mill your product/service is, the lower your score will be.

Although “selling” is an important part of this project, it is not the main component. You can earn points even if you don’t end up actually selling your product/service. What is more important are your “efforts” in trying to create/find and then sell your product/service. You will need to clearly demonstrate (with evidence) that you tried your best to create/find a product or service and then sell it to as many customers as you possibly could.

You have between now and the end of the semester to 1) choose/create your product/service and 2) carry out the activities required to make a sale.

Deliverable: Finally, for this part, please submit a short report (2-3 pages) with the following four (4) components:

• Explanation of your chosen product/service – What did you try to sell?
• Explanation of your efforts in selling your product/service to potential customers – What actions did you take?
• The outcome/result of your efforts – Were you successful in selling? How or why not?
• Evidence to prove the outcome/result (for example, if you sold an item on eBay, please provide a digital copy of the sale receipt or some other confirmation from eBay).

Grading Criteria for the ‘Entrepreneurial Activity (EA)’ Part

Your EA report (worth 50 points) will be scored on the following criteria:

1. NATURE & SCALABILITY of the ACTIVITY: Is it a too easy/simple activity or does it require considerable effort? Is the activity person-specific (i.e., relevant only to you) or can it be delegated to someone else? Is the activity a regular part of some job/profession or is it truly entrepreneurial? (e.g., an automobile-shop owner selling auto parts cannot call it an “entrepreneurial activity”. It’s just regular business activity)
2. DESIRABILITY of the ENDEAVOR: Can it attract more customers in the future?
3. FEASIBILITY of the ENDEAVOR: Can it be done again/repeatedly?
4. VIABILITY of the ENDEAVOR: Can it make money continuously?
5. SUSTAINABILITY of the ENDEAVOR: Is it scalable or is it a one-time exercise?

Moreover, the following restrictions apply to your chosen product/service as per the policy of this course. In other words, your product/service idea cannot be on any of the topics/areas in the below-mentioned list. So, please:

– No alcohol-related ideas.

– No arms or ammunitions-related ideas.

– No drugs-related ideas.

– No idea about your own current business (e.g., you already own an online boutique or store; you already possess rental property or invest in real estate, etc.). Your existing business does not count as a new idea.

– No ideas about one’s family-owned business.

– No ideas about growing or expanding an existing business (e.g., “I want to expand my cooking classes online”)

– No ideas that relate to your existing job or salary-based employment (e.g., you cannot propose an idea to improve your job as an accountant, or an architect, or an engineer, etc.)

– No ideas about franchising/licensing agreements or investments.

– No ideas about non-profit organizations/charities/voluntary social work.

– No ideas about unpaid/free process.

– No ideas about consulting, practicing or other individual endeavors – they are professions, not businesses (e.g., writing and publishing your own book is not entrepreneurship).

– No ideas about political beliefs/campaigns or contentious/debatable issues.

– No ideas involving religion as the main theme.

– No ideas on forming groups/communities based on race, nationality, faith, or political ideology.

– No ideas that may be classified as contentious, debatable, unvalidated, illegal, or otherwise controversial.

– No ideas that have been previously developed in a team-setting or for an entrepreneurial competition. For example, you cannot pitch the same or a slightly revised idea that you pitched in a previous Kansas Start-Up or Faulkner Challenger or similar other competition.

• INTROSPECTION (50 points)

For this second part of the project, you will answer the following questions in detail and submit it along with your EA report.

Please Note: Each of these questions is worth 10 points (5 for total 50), so you will need to provide a substantial, well-crafted and convincing response to each of them.

1. What made you select your chosen product/service? Would you choose it again if you were required to do this project all over again?
2. What activities did you do to successfully carry out this business endeavor? Begin from the first stage of idea-generation or problem-identification. Please narrate your experience in this process in detail.
3. What do you think about the outcome of your business endeavor? (For example, did you have any sales? Could you have made more sales/transactions? Could you have earned more money? Why do you think the product/service did not sell? Would you consider it a successful or a failed business endeavor?)
4. What did you learn from this exercise? What do you think you should have done differently?
5. Is it possible to convert this one-time exercise into a sustainable business? How would you do it? If it is not possible, what modifications would be required to convert the activity it into a long-term business?

PROJECT DEADLINE & METHOD OF SUBMITTING THE DELIVERABLES

Develop and evaluate business idea and plan taking into account issues such as resources management, business/market research, team management and presentation.

Word or Page Limit (if applicable): 2000 Words (+/-10%, excluding cover page, appendix and references) Assessment Type (individual or group): Individual Main Objective of the assessment 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the theories surrounding SME development/growth/survival and how they relate to the wider environment of business support and economic development. 2. Assess the relevance and impact of Government initiatives in relation to the needs of SMEs, especially during start up phases. 3. Develop and evaluate business idea and plan taking into account issues such as resources management, business/market research, team management and presentation. 4. Demonstrate critical self-reflection and self-evaluation of their personal development through experiences and team activities. MG3009 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ventures Assignment/Coursework Brief for 2021/22 MG3009 Coursework Brief 2021/22 2 of 5 Brunel Business School Description of the Assessment Individual Assignment (100%) Word limit: 2000 words (+/-10%, excluding cover page, appendix and references) ** please state your word count at the end of the references ** PART I (50%): Using the Business Model Canvas to visualizing the resources needed for a new business opportunity that you’ve identified to develop a new start-up venture based in the UK. PART II (50%): Evaluate yourself and illustrate, to what extent, you enjoy being an entrepreneur. ** Your answer in each of the two parts must relate to relevant theories/frameworks/concepts and examples. **