The Caribbean Essay -- Caribbean History Essays

The Caribbean Perhaps nowhere on earth is a more culturally varying region than in the Caribbean. The recent history has formed these islands into a confused, random area, hiding much of its people’s identity and heritage. Due to European Imperialism, extermination of aboriginal peoples, slavery, the plantation system, and the ethnic diversity of the inhabitants the Caribbean does not allow itself to be classified as one. In fact little can be grouped together. Sydney Mintz, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, and Michelle Cliff try to make sense of the combination and loss of culture as well as the reemergence of new ones. They do this from different perspectives, Rojo though the eyes of a Cuban and a literary critic, Mintz as a political scientist and Cliff as a Jamaican born and raised citizen. Sydney Mintz and Antonio Benitez-Rojo argue a very similar viewpoint. When the Europeans arrived in the late fourteen hundreds they took control of the native population an either enslaved or exterminated them. Over the years the European countries have juggled ownership of the islands, shifting in...

The Host Chapter 40: Horrified

I slowed when I heard the sound of voices. I was not close enough to the hospital for it to be Doc. Others were on their way back. I pressed myself against the rock wall and crept forward as quietly as I could. My breathing was ragged from running. I covered my mouth with my hand to stifle the sound. â€Å"†¦ why we keep doing this,† someone complained. I wasn't sure whose voice it was. Someone I didn't know well. Maybe Violetta? It held that same depressed tone that I recognized from before. It erased any notion that I'd been imagining things. â€Å"Doc didn't want to. It was Jared's idea this time.† I was sure that it was Geoffrey who spoke now, though his voice was a little changed by the subdued revulsion in it. Geoffrey had been with Trudy on the raid, of course. They did everything together. â€Å"I thought he was the biggest opponent to this business.† That was Travis, I guessed. â€Å"He's more†¦ motivated now,† Geoffrey answered. His voice was quiet, but I could tell he was angry about something. They passed just half a foot from where I cringed into the rocks. I froze, holding my breath. â€Å"I think it's sick,† Violetta muttered. â€Å"Disgusting. It's never going to work.† They walked slowly, their steps weighted with despair. No one answered her. No one spoke again in my hearing. I stayed motionless until their footsteps had faded a little, but I couldn't wait until the sound disappeared completely. Ian might be following me already. I crept forward as quickly as I could and then started jogging again when I decided it was safe. I saw the first faint hints of daylight streaming around the curving tunnel ahead, and I shifted into a quieter lope that still kept me moving swiftly. I knew that once I was around the gradual arc, I would be able to see the doorway into Doc's realm. I followed the bend, and the light grew brighter. I moved cautiously now, putting each foot down with silent care. It was very quiet. For a moment, I wondered if I was wrong and there was no one here at all. Then, as the uneven entrance came into view, throwing a block of white sunlight against the opposite wall, I could hear the sound of quiet sobbing. I tiptoed right to the edge of the gap and paused, listening. The sobbing continued. Another sound, a soft, rhythmic thudding, kept time with it. â€Å"There, there.† It was Jeb's voice, thick with some emotion. â€Å"‘S okay. ‘S okay, Doc. Don't take it so hard.† Hushed footsteps, more than one set, were moving around the room. Fabric rustling. A brushing sound. It reminded me of the sounds of cleaning. There was a smell that didn't belong here. Strange†¦ not quite metallic, but not quite anything else, either. The smell was not familiar-I was sure I had never smelled it before-and yet I had an odd feeling that it should be familiar to me. I was afraid to move around the corner. What's the worst they will do to us? Mel pointed out. Make us leave? You're right. Things had definitely changed if that was the worst I could fear from the humans now. I took a deep breath-noticing again that strange, wrong smell-and eased around the rocky edge into the hospital. No one noticed me. Doc was kneeling on the floor, his face buried in his hands, his shoulders heaving. Jeb leaned over him, patting his back. Jared and Kyle were laying a crude stretcher beside one of the cots in the middle of the room. Jared's face was hard-the mask had come back while he was away. The cots were not empty, as they usually were. Something, hidden under dark green blankets, filled the length of both of them. Long and irregular, with familiar curves and angles†¦ Doc's homemade table was arranged at the head of these cots, in the brightest spot of sunlight. The table glittered with silver-shiny scalpels and an assortment of antiquated medical tools that I couldn't put a name to. Brighter than these were other silver things. Shimmering segments of silver stretched in twisted, tortured pieces across the table†¦ tiny silver strands plucked and naked and scattered†¦ splatters of silver liquid smeared on the table, the blankets, the walls†¦ The quiet in the room was shattered by my scream. The whole room was shattered. It spun and shook to the sound, whirled around me so that I couldn't find the way out. The walls, the silver-stained walls, rose up to block my escape no matter which way I turned. Someone shouted my name, but I couldn't hear whose voice it was. The screaming was too loud. It hurt my head. The stone wall, oozing silver, slammed into me, and I fell to the floor. Heavy hands held me there. â€Å"Doc, help!† â€Å"What's wrong with her?† â€Å"Is it having a fit?† â€Å"What did she see?† â€Å"Nothing-nothing. The bodies were covered!† That was a lie! The bodies were hideously uncovered, strewn in obscene contortions across the glittering table. Mutilated, dismembered, tortured bodies, ripped into grotesque shreds†¦ I had clearly seen the vestigial feelers still attached to the truncated anterior section of a child. Just a child! A baby! A baby thrown haphazardly in maimed pieces across the table smeared with its own blood†¦ My stomach rolled like the walls were rolling, and acid clawed its way up my throat. â€Å"Wanda? Can you hear me?† â€Å"Is she conscious?† â€Å"I think she's going to throw up.† The last voice was right. Hard hands held my head while the acid in my stomach violently overflowed. â€Å"What do we do, Doc?† â€Å"Hold on to her-don't let her hurt herself.† I coughed and squirmed, trying to escape. My throat cleared. â€Å"Let me go!† I was finally able to choke out. The words were garbled. â€Å"Get away from me! Get away; you're monsters! Torturers!† I shrieked wordlessly again, twisting against the restraining arms. â€Å"Calm down, Wanda! Shh! It's okay!† That was Jared's voice. For once, it didn't matter that it was Jared. â€Å"Monster!† I screamed at him. â€Å"She's hysterical,† Doc told him. â€Å"Hold on.† A sharp, stinging blow whipped across my face. There was a gasp, far away from the immediate chaos. â€Å"What are you doing?† Ian roared. â€Å"It's having a seizure or something, Ian. Doc's trying to bring it around.† My ears were ringing, but not from the slap. It was the smell-the smell of the silver blood dripping down the walls-the smell of the blood of souls. The room writhed around me as though it were alive. The light twisted into strange patterns, curved into the shapes of monsters from my past. A Vulture unfurled its wings†¦ a claw beast swung its heavy pincers toward my face†¦ Doc smiled and reached for me with silver trickling from his fingertips†¦ The room spun once more, slowly, and then went black. Unconsciousness didn't claim me for long. It must have been only seconds later when my head cleared. I was all too lucid; I wished I could stay oblivious longer. I was moving, rocking back and forth, and it was too black to see. Mercifully, the horrible smell had faded. The musty, humid air of the caves was like perfume. The feeling of being carried, being cradled, was familiar. That first week after Kyle had injured me, I'd traveled many places in Ian's arms. â€Å"†¦ thought she'd have guessed what we were up to. Looks like I was wrong,† Jared was murmuring. â€Å"You think that's what happened?† Ian's voice cut hard in the quiet tunnel. â€Å"That she was scared because Doc was trying to take the other souls out? That she was afraid for herself?† Jared didn't answer for a minute. â€Å"You don't?† Ian made a sound in the back of his throat. â€Å"No. I don't. As disgusted as I am that you would bring back more†¦ victims for Doc, bring them back now!-as much as that turns my stomach, that's not what upset her. How can you be so blind? Can't you imagine what that must have looked like to her in there?† â€Å"I know we had the bodies covered before -â€Å" â€Å"The wrong bodies, Jared. Oh, I'm sure Wanda would be upset by a human corpse-she's so gentle; violence and death aren't a part of her normal world. But think what the things on that table must have meant to her.† It took him another moment. â€Å"Oh.† â€Å"Yes. If you or I had walked in on a human vivisection, with torn body parts, with blood splattered on everything, it wouldn't have been as bad for us as it was for her. We'd have seen it all before-even before the invasion, in horror movies, at least. I'd bet she's never been exposed to anything like that in all her lives.† I was getting sick again. His words were bringing it back. The sight. The smell. â€Å"Let me go,† I whispered. â€Å"Put me down.† â€Å"I didn't mean to wake you. I'm sorry.† The last words were fervent, apologizing for more than waking me. â€Å"Let me go.† â€Å"You're not well. I'll take you to your room.† â€Å"No. Put me down now.† â€Å"Wanda -â€Å" â€Å"Now!† I shouted. I shoved against Ian's chest, kicking my legs free at the same time. The ferocity of my struggle surprised him. He lost his hold on me, and I half fell into a crouch on the floor. I sprang up from the crouch running. â€Å"Wanda!† â€Å"Let her go.† â€Å"Don't touch me! Wanda, come back!† It sounded like they were wrestling behind me, but I didn't slow. Of course they were fighting. They were humans. Violence was pleasure to them. I didn't pause when I was back in the light. I sprinted through the big cavern without looking at any of the monsters there. I could feel their eyes on me, and I didn't care. I didn't care where I was going, either. Just somewhere I could be alone. I avoided the tunnels that had people near them, running down the first empty one I could find. It was the eastern tunnel. This was the second time I'd sprinted through this corridor today. Last time in joy, this time in horror. It was hard to remember how I'd felt this afternoon, knowing the raiders were home. Everything was dark and gruesome now, including their return. The very stones seemed evil. This way was the right choice for me, though. No one had any reason to come here, and it was empty. I ran to the farthest end of the tunnel, into the deep night of the empty game room. Could I really have played games with them such a short time ago? Believed the smiles on their faces, not seeing the beasts underneath†¦ I moved forward until I stumbled ankle deep into the oily waters of the dark spring. I backed away, my hand outstretched, searching for a wall. When I found a rough ridge of stone-sharp-edged beneath my fingers-I turned into the depression behind the protrusion and curled myself into a tight ball on the ground there. It wasn't what we thought. Doc wasn't hurting anyone on purpose; he was just trying to save – GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I shrieked. As I thrust her away from me-gagged her so that I wouldn't have to bear her justifications-I realized how weak she'd grown in all these months of friendliness. How much I'd been allowing. Encouraging. It was almost too easy to silence her. As easy as it should have been from the beginning. It was only me now. Just me, and the pain and the horror that I would never escape. I would never not have that image in my head again. I would never be free of it. It was forever a part of me. I didn't know how to mourn here. I could not mourn in human ways for these lost souls whose names I would never know. For the broken child on the table. I had never had to mourn on the Origin. I didn't know how it was done there, in the truest home of my kind. So I settled for the way of the Bats. It seemed appropriate, here where it was as black as being blind. The Bats mourned with silence-not singing for weeks on end until the pain of the nothingness left behind by the lack of music was worse than the pain of losing a soul. I'd known loss there. A friend, killed in a freak accident, a falling tree in the night, found too late to save him from the crushed body of his host. Spiraling†¦ Upward†¦ Harmony; those were the words that would have held his name in this language. Not exact, but close enough. There had been no horror in his death, only grief. An accident. The bubbling stream was too discordant to remind me of our songs. I could grieve beside its harmony-free clatter. I wrapped my arms tightly around my shoulders and mourned for the child and the other soul who had died with it. My siblings. My family. If I had found a way free of this place, if I had warned the Seekers, their remains would not be so casually mangled and mixed together in that blood-steeped room. I wanted to cry, to keen in misery. But that was the human way. So I locked my lips and hunched in the darkness, holding the pain inside. My silence, my mourning, was stolen from me. It took them a few hours. I heard them looking, heard their voices echo and warp in the long tubes of air. They were calling for me, expecting an answer. When they received no answer, they brought lights. Not the dim blue lanterns that might never have revealed my hiding place here, buried under all this blackness, but the sharp yellow lances of flashlights. They swept back and forth, pendulums of light. Even with the flashlights, they didn't find me until the third search of the room. Why couldn't they leave me alone? When the flashlight's beam finally disinterred me, there was a gasp of relief. â€Å"I found her! Tell the others to get back inside! She's in here after all!† I knew the voice, but I didn't put a name to it. Just another monster. â€Å"Wanda? Wanda? Are you all right?† I didn't raise my head or open my eyes. I was in mourning. â€Å"Where's Ian?† â€Å"Should we get Jamie, do you think?† â€Å"He shouldn't be on that leg.† Jamie. I shuddered at his name. My Jamie. He was a monster, too. He was just like the rest of them. My Jamie. It was a physical pain to think of him. â€Å"Where is she?† â€Å"Over here, Jared. She's not†¦ responding.† â€Å"We didn't touch her.† â€Å"Here, give me the light,† Jared said. â€Å"Now, the rest of you, get out of here. Emergency over. Give her some air, okay?† There was a shuffling noise that didn't travel far. â€Å"Seriously, people. You're not helping. Leave. All the way out.† The shuffling was slow at first, but then became more productive. I could hear many footsteps fading away in the room and then disappearing out of it. Jared waited until it was silent again. â€Å"Okay, Wanda, it's just you and me.† He waited for some kind of answer. â€Å"Look, I guess that must have been pretty†¦ bad. We never wanted you to see that. I'm sorry.† Sorry? Geoffrey'd said it was Jared's idea. He wanted to cut me out, slice me into little pieces, fling my blood on the wall. He'd slowly mangle a million of me if he could find a way to keep his favorite monster alive with him. Slash us all to slivers. He was quiet for a long time, still waiting for me to react. â€Å"You look like you want to be alone. That's okay. I can keep them away, if that's what you want.† I didn't move. Something touched my shoulder. I cringed away from it, into the sharp stones. â€Å"Sorry,† he muttered. I heard him stand, and the light-red behind my closed eyes-began to fade as he walked away. He met someone in the mouth of the cave. â€Å"Where is she?† â€Å"She wants to be alone. Let her be.† â€Å"Don't get in my way again, Howe.† â€Å"Do you think she wants comfort from you? From a human?† â€Å"I wasn't party to this -â€Å" Jared answered in a lower voice, but I could still hear the echoes. â€Å"Not this time. You're one of us, Ian. Her enemy. Did you hear what she said in there? She was screaming monsters. That's how she sees us now. She doesn't want your comfort.† â€Å"Give me the light.† They didn't speak again. A minute passed, and I heard one set of slow footsteps moving around the edge of the room. Eventually, the light swept across me, turning my lids red again. I huddled myself more tightly together, expecting him to touch me. There was a quiet sigh, and then the sound of him sitting on the stone, not as close beside me as I would have expected. With a click, the light disappeared. I waited in the silence for a long time for him to speak, but he was just as silent as I was. Finally, I stopped waiting and returned to my mourning. Ian did not interrupt. I sat in the blackness of the big hole in the ground and grieved for lost souls with a human at my side.

Invisible Gender Rules Essay - 1497 Words

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Target Marketing in Bottle Water - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 5 Words: 1463 Downloads: 2 Date added: 2017/09/19 Category Marketing Essay Type Argumentative essay Did you like this example? 1. Target marketing and market segmentation of Bling H20 Bling H2O crystal-encrusted of Beverly Hills is the inspiration of Kevin G. Boyd, a Hollywood writer-producer. While working on various studio lots where image is, well, everything, he noticed that you could tell a lot about a person by the bottled water he/she carried. So just like any other savvy business person, he decided to capitalize on his finding. Our product is strategically positioned to target the expanding super-luxury consumer market. Target marketing Kotler(2004)Here, the seller identifies market segments, selects one or more of them, and develops products and marketing mixes tailored to each. For example, if the Bling H20 were available in Australia, the marketer would only select super-luxury consumers as target marketing. 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Boyd said In Hollywood it seemed as if people flaunted their bottled water like it was part of their presentation. †¢ Behavior segmentation enables buyers to be grouped on the basis of their knowledge of the product, their attitude toward it, the way they use it and their responses to it. Occasions: When a product is consumed or purchased. For example, selling Bling water in the upscale restaurants. Loyalty: Loyal consumers those who buy one bra nd all or most of the time are valuable customers. For example Paris Hilton buys Bling H2O for her dog. 2. Bottled water industry in Australia An overview of bottled water industry was provided in Australian Beverage organisation show the bottled water market has continued its strong growth pattern now in its sixth year. The Australian market is primarily a spring water market Australians showing a marked bias for a natural great tasting product of consistent quality. Near waters include such products as flavoured natural spring water without sugar, or vitaminised waters that may contain low levels of sugars or other sweeteners. Lee (2008) describes the bottled water market is expected to grow 9. 1 per cent to $460 million this financial year, according to a forecast by the market researcher IBIS World, and Australia lags other developed countries in consumption. In the next year Australians are expected to drink 242 megalitres of bottled water, the equivalent of 19 600-mil lilitre bottles each. IBIS World predicts a boom in premium water as manufacturers claw back the higher costs of producing the plastic bottles from a crude oil derivative. The broadcast of the World Today (2004) interviewed Tony Gentile, chief executive of the Australian Beverages Council as well as the Australasian Bottled Water Institute, which acts as an industry association and a certifying agency. One issue facing the industry is that we dont know what sort of impact a broad economic slowdown might have. Australians like their water low in mineral salts, compared to, say, Europeans, Gentile says. There is sometimes a perception that bottled water competes with tap water, but it is just not the case, except with those drinkers who drink it because they dont like the fluoride or chlorine associated with tap water. Aside from that, the competition is with other bottled drinks, especially carbonates. He also said bottled water has the advantage, of course, in ompetition with other commercial beverages of being calorie free, and a lot of people especially like the taste of spring water, because it doesnt contain chlorine ‘Australia’s Manufacturing and Industrial Directory’ website (2004) has details of Consumer trends, Food and beverage manufacturers are also changing their strategy in how they are marketing products, according to Stanton, who points to a trend towards not only communicating more information about a product, but explaining the benefits of the product’s contents. Consumers are also becoming more environmentally conscious with a preference for simple packaging. INDUSTRY REGULATIONS The Food Standards Australia New Zealand’ website (2010) sets the minimum standards for all types of bottled water. These regulations are set out in the Food Standards Code. The primary standard is 2. 6. 2 â€Å"Non-alcoholic Beverages and Brewed Soft Drinks† Bottlers must comply with this and all other requirements of the c ode. Also the ABWI is the peak industry council and certifying organisation for water bottlers in Australasia. Bottled water produced by ABWI members must meet standards that are in some cases stricter than the FSANZ standards. ABWI has developed a quality assurance program called the Model Code, which is a strict set of standards for the safe processing of bottled water about the Model Code. 3. Ethical concerns and defend the marketing strategy Waste of resource Too much needless consumption, too much unnecessary waste, and too much advertising to convince us we will be happier or better off if we just had this sort of â€Å"ego† product, actually, most of people don’t like this product at all. 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Main Body: Corporate university is a term which has been used since long time back and they are also known as the human resource engine for the organizations (Giroux, 2009). The corporate universities with the help of managing the talents, skills and knowledge of an individual provides human resource supply to the parent organization which helps the parent company to cope with the competitive environment in globally. There are many such companies which have corporate universities nowadays and they try to cope with the competitive business world with the help of their corporate universities which train talented individuals and develop their skills that are necessary for the organization. Apple is one such organization which uses their own corporate university to nurture the talents and develop the skills of the individuals in order to cope with the market demand of the customers (Teece, 2012). Steve Jobs, a few days before he passed away, understood the importance of the corporate university and established it in order to make the Apple a more innovative company in the technology world. The corporate university which was established by Steve Jobs also holds the main culture of Apple, which is to think different on every aspects of the business (Guynn, 2011). The university that was established by Jobs, is believed to be the strategic empowerment of the organization and for that reason, the University of Apple not only provides courses to the individuals but also provides practical knowledge application in every aspects of the company. As Apple is a very less spender on the personal advertisement, they invest more and more in their corporate university so that the tal ents are developed in the way they want for the organization and are able to contribute towards the betterment of the organization and be innovative in every aspect. Located in Cupertino in California, the Apple University provides training to the candidates and individuals in a way that can help the company to attain their strategic objectives of the organization (Dormehl, 2012). But it can be said that, Apple is not the only organization that have their university in the world. There are various other organizations that have their own university, for instance another smart phone brand Motorola also have their own university which nurtures the talents from all over the world so that they can be provided training and can be adapted by the business (Altbach, 2015). The training is provided with the objective that the employees are able to learn the way the organization works and able to contribute to the organization with their way of working. The Motorola Centre of Education started back in the year 1979 and they believe tin the fact that providing training to the talents is not a cost to the organization but rather an investment on the part of the organization. Motorola Centre of Education gained the status of a University in the year 1989 and the mission of Motorola University is to view the world as an improved place where money can be made (Marquardt, 2011 ). The main objective of the Motorola University is to offer education to the individuals and operate very different from the regular train9ing institutions. It is also an objective of Motorola to be an autonomous university with a separate board of theirs from that of the Government and it is also a fact that the university also tries to re-characterize the responsibilities of the employees. The responsibility with which the university is formed is to help the organization link their strategy with the individuals of the university (Wang et al., 2010). The corporate university of Motorola also helps the parent organization to reduce the cost of recruitment from outside the organization. The curriculum and the courses that are taught to the candidates of the organization are also designed similar to what the employees needs to perform in the organization. The business related topics are taught to the individuals of the university and it also offers various kinds of training sessions like marketing and sales, engineering and manufacturing and thus Motorola Centre of Education helps the company to cope with the demand of the human resource without extra hiring cost. Now apart from the corporate universities in the technological world, the fast food industry giants, McDonalds also have their own university which goes by the name of Hamburger University. There are various courses that are offer to the candidates of the McDonalds Hamburger University and some of them include the consistency in the procedures of operations which should be maintained by the employees of McDonalds (Kincheloe, 2011). The operational procedures are also taught to the employees along with how to provide excellent services to the customers of the organization. Hamburger University students are also taught how to maintain cleanliness and hygiene along with maintenance of quality of the product. Training and development of leadership among the future McDonalds employees is the main objective of the Hamburger University. McDonalds university earlier chairman Fred Turner has made the foundation of the Hamburger University back in the year 1961 and in the first class; there we re 15 students who graduated from the university. Each year, of about 7,500 students now graduate from the university and helps the organization to meet their objectives (Jauhari and Thomas, 2013). Hamburger University also helps to meet the human resource need of the organization by providing the organization human resource whenever they need. Now while comparing the traditional university with the corporate university, it has been found that the corporate university education helps the organizations to nurture the talents and make them talented as they need but in the traditional approach, the overall education is provided to the individuals and not any industry or organization specific. There are various other differences as well as pros and cons of both forms of universities which are discussed below from the perspective of an employee: Traditional University Corporate University In the traditional university it can be said that it helps to improve the performance of the individuals (Rolfe, 2013). But, the corporate universities help to improve the individual performance as well as the performance of the organization to which it belongs. The traditional universities do not train the individuals to be specific towards a certain job but helps individuals to train in a way that they can work in every organization in every industry. Corporate university training is provided to the students so that the individuals are able to adapt according to the specific organization culture to which the corporate university belongs (Allen, 2013). In the traditional universities, the teachers are the professors of various streams who provide educational knowledge to the students. But in the corporate university the individuals are trained with the help of the managers, private or else public research centres and so on. In the traditional universities the knowledge that id provided to the individuals are more theoretical (Ryan, 2007). While, there are more practical illustrations to the students of the corporate university in order to make them cope with the practical business world. Apart from the difference form that of the traditional universities; the corporate universities are in a way advantageous to the society which can be described with the points that are cited below: Strategic coalition with the goals of the company: The corporate universities that are the best in nature are always driven by the strategic alignment of their goals with that of the mission of the parent company (Washburn, 2011). With the help of the corporate university, the specific objectives of the business are achieved and thus it is one of the main advantages for the business that have their own corporate university. Recruitment, engagement and retention: With the help of the corporate universities, the organizations are able to recruit the best talents that can support the activity of their organization. The best talents are recruited by the organization as well as they are engaged in the organizational activities when their training is complete. The organization also tries to retain them due to the investment they incurred in training each employee is huge. Quality consistency: With the help of the training that is provided to the individuals of the corporate university, the consistency in the quality can be achieved by the organizations (Wheeler, 2012). The employees in the universities are taught that how they can be consistent in their work, more than anything else. Apart from the advantages, there are also various disadvantages of the corporate universities: Firstly, some organizations provide corporate training in their universities with only theoretical knowledge and for that reason, the practical knowledge of the individuals remains zero and due to that, the individuals are more casual in performing their task which can go very wrong and hamper the reputation of the organization. Secondly, the corporate university also adds to the expenses of the organization and sometimes when the university students are not successful in playing their part in the organization, the company suffers a loss as a result (McAteer and Pino, 2011). So, from the above analysis, it can be said that the corporate universities have various pros and cons. But definitely, the pros that the corporate university have weigh more than the cons of the university and for that reason; the corporate university can be suggested as a suited option for the human resource development option for an organization. In the recent years, the corporate universities has become one of the main sources of human resource in the organizations that have their own corporate universities and also the employees are trained well with the help of the corporate universities so they are capable of performing the operations of the organization. The employees who get theoretical training in the traditional universities face problems to cope with the operations of the organizations but the corporate universities helps to cope with the problems of the organization to the individuals trained in the corporate universities with the help of the practical knowledge they are infused with (Weinberg and Graham-Smith, 2012). The organization can also get continuous supply of employees from their corporate university which ensures that there will be no shortage of employees when the organizations need them. Also with the help of the corporate universities, the cost of the organization for the external recruitment is reduced. When the organization has to do external recruitment, the cost of the organization increases but while having a corporate university, the demand for the human resource can be met whenever the organization wants. The most important function of the corporate university is that it helps the human resource department of the company to align with the corporate mission of the company and thus helps in achieving the company objective (Clinton et al., 2009). So, it can be said that the corporate universities can be recommended as an option for the company which can help in the development of human resource and also can help to meet the objecti ve of the company for the employees whenever the company will need. Conclusion: From the above discussion, it can be said that the businesses that have their own corporate universities are able to function better in the competitive environment of the industry and also performs better than their competitors. It is a fact that the corporate universities meet the demand for the company human resource and also diminishes the cost of the recruitment of the company and thus helps the company to achieve their objective by aligning the corporate goals with the human resource department (Gilbert, 2013). References: Tuchman, G., 2009. Wannabe U: Inside the corporate university. University of Chicago Press. Giroux, H.A., 2009. Democracys nemesis: The rise of the corporate university. 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