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Sustaining Microbreweries Beyond 5 Years
No full textSmall Business Administration (SBA, 2020a) reported from 1994–2018, an average of 67.6% of new employer small businesses survived at least 2 years. During the same period, the 5-year survival rate was 48.8%. The general problem is that small business owners embark on small business initiatives with limited knowledge on implementing business strategies, which results in premature business failures. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the application and implementation of business strategies for microbrewery businesses. A qualitative phenomenological design was selected for this study because it explored the lived experiences of microbrewery business owners who shared an event or phenomenon. Washington State Craft Beer (n.d.) reported a population of 431 microbreweries in Washington State in 2020. Business owners who set strategies for their businesses were the most appropriate interview participants. The study included a purposeful sample of 12 microbrewery business owners who have been in operations for 5 or more years. The first two microbrewery business owners were selected for the pilot study. The primary sources of data for this study were telephone or virtual semistructured interviews of microbrewery business owners. The researcher was the primary data collector, used a semistructured interview data-gathering vehicle, and applied a combination of manual and software-based techniques to organize and link responses. Four themes emerged from participants' responses: Theme 1–Customer Experience is Key to Exceeding Customers' Expectations; Theme 2–Passionate Business Owners Love What They Do; Theme 3–Business Strategies Build Foundations to Sustain Business; and Theme 4–Internal and External Factors Influence Business Sustainability. Findings of this study provide insights to microbrewery business owners in understanding small business implementation of strategies that help sustain business beyond 5 years. Results from this qualitative phenomenological study may enhance microbrewery business owners' abilities to conduct planning strategies to remain competitive, forecast, and study the market to anticipate changes in the beer industry. The researcher recommends further research using a quantitative, correlational study of small business owners to test the significance of relationships among variables, including customer experience, passion as a business owner, business strategies, business planning, and internal and external factors influencing business sustainability
Reflective Self-Analysis of a Teacher's Responses to Students Aggressive Behavior
Get PDFThis professional development study examined different strategies I researched to manage students' aggressive behaviour in the classroom. This study was designed to reflect upon literature research, and how I could use it in the school system. The aim of this study was to improve my responses to aggression and make necessary changes or adaptations to my approach to effectively deal with crises and to keep everyone safe. I have acquired new knowledge that made me realize that my actions can affect students' responses and how I handle aggression will produce different results. Prior to this study I was blaming students' parents for lack of support and intervention with students' aggression. After the study I realized that there are other interventions that I can administer and how I could change myself in order to respond better to emergency behavioural situations
The Power of Acceptance, Affirmation & Advocacy at Home: Evidence-Based Family Interventions in Support of Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth
No full textIn this capstone project, I will explore what parents of transgender and gender-expansive kids really need in order to be able to offer life-changing support, acceptance, affirmation, and advocacy to their TGE children. Specifically, can parenting programs, family therapy, and or specific attachment-based interventions create safety for trans and nonbinary youth in this cisnormative and transphobic world? Findings from this project can inform counsellors and mental health practitioners in delivering supportive gender-affirming care to the families of TGE youth
Tai Chi as a Holistic Mind-Body Therapeutic Modality for Older Chinese Immigrants in Multicultural Counselling
No full textOlder Chinese immigrants aged 65 and over are a fast-growing population in Canada. With the high risk of developing mental health issues and low utilization of mental health services, older Chinese immigrants have become an emerging but underestimated social concern. The lack of culturally responsive counselling and psychotherapy in current Canadian mental health system has been identified as one of the major barriers for older Chinese immigrants to receive appropriate mental health services. In order to address the limitations of Western counselling and psychotherapy, Tai Chi, an indigenous Chinese healing method is proposed as a novel holistic therapeutic modality for older Chinese immigrants, in hope of providing them with more culturally responsive mental health services. A 10-session protocol of integrating Tai Chi into counselling and psychotherapy sessions is proposed to provide guidance for counsellors and therapists to integrate Tai Chi safely, effectively and ethically into their practices
G?ilakas'la: To Accept You for Who You Are in This Present Moment
Get PDFThis thesis explores the world view of the Kwakwaka'wakw (kwak'wala speaking people) people to strengthen understanding of the true impact that Indian Residential Schools had on how the Kwakwaka'wakw people survived this colonial attempt at assimilation. This thesis emerged as a need for the writer to decolonize her synthesized worldviews of western academia and her Kwakwaka'wakw people. The Kwakwaka'wakw worldview can be demonstrated using words from kwak'wala language that greatly describe the relationship that the Kwakwaka'wakw have with the world. A literature review was conducted on language and cultural revitalization in order to engage in a conversation about the role that art can play in Truth and Reconciliation. Can art help bridge the gap between pre-conceived ideas of Indigenous people and how they live
Kafka Streaming Application using Java Spring Boot
Get PDFThe purpose of this research paper is to implement a microservice approach for data streaming applications. Data is the new fuel to business, and it is growing enormously day by day. Handling and processing these data using the traditional database with batch processing is very slow and will not help businesses. So, there is a need for processing this data in real-time. Data streaming is one of the methods used for data processing in real-time. There is a mechanism that needs to publish and consume this data from the streaming application, and microservices help to achieve the same. Java and Spring framework provides an easy development environment to achieve this. Finally, a database is implemented to save the data