This research explores Amazons growth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and how it impacted its innovation initiatives. It examines the strategies employed by Amazon to drive innovation, explores the challenges encountered during this period of expansion, and identifies opportunities for innovation in a post-pandemic era. Additionally, this study offers insights and recommendations for organizations navigating similar circumstances.

With an increase in Artificial Intelligence applications in the world of technology, its usage has extended as far as the world of business, with small, medium, and large firms offering both products and services for consumer and business use. Through its historical development, and the devolvement of frameworks, algorithms, and basic toolkits, the application of AI in business was able to flourish. The development of multiple tools such as smart stethoscopes and conversational assistants throughout multiple industries has created a complex commercial enterprise of Artificial Intelligence for the specific genre of business and its applications today are bound to have major effects on the AI applications of tomorrow.

As the world’s population continues to readjust in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, shifts in work and travel patterns have changed drastically. The Pandemic proved that a lot of jobs can be done at home, and as a result the desire for leisure travel has increased significantly. Despite this, will employers acknowledge this greater interest for leisure travel from their employees as regressions in COVID mandates continue and individuals return to in-person work? Most developed nations around the world have some form of federal legislation that requires employers to offer their employees paid vacation time. The United States, in contrast, is one of the very few countries that does not have such legislation and leaves it up to the discretion of employers. This thesis will explain why the United States needs to guarantee paid vacation time and how it can benefit the people, the employers, and the government. It will examine the reasons why the United States government has delayed guaranteeing paid vacation time-off to all workers, as well as understand how paid vacation time-off and other paid time-off (PTO) options can benefit a worker’s overall health and their performance levels at work. This thesis will also examine how other countries have managed to guarantee paid vacation time and how such legislation has affected these nation’s economies, productivity, and psychology of their people.

As online media, including social media platforms, become the primary and go-to resource for traditional communication, news and the spread of information is more present and accessible to consumers than ever before. This research focuses on analyzing Twitter data on the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War to understand the significance of social media during this period in comparison to previous conflicts. The significance of social media and political conflict will be examined through Twitter user analysis and sentiment analysis. This case study will conduct sentiment analysis on a random sample of tweets from a given dataset, followed by user analysis and classification methods. The data will explore the implications for understanding public opinion on the conflict, the strengths and limitations of Twitter as a data source, and the next steps for future research. Highlighting the implications of the research findings will allow consumers and political stakeholders to make more informed decisions in the future.