...| Pearson Waters Inc. | Memo To: | IT Development Department | From: | Donald Foulk | cc: | | Date: | April 1, 2014 | Re: | Unethical Coding Practices | | | Ethical Violations Found During the final stage prior to submitting our application to the client it was discovered that some code, as well as a few of the artwork elements included in the project were utilized without proper permissions from online sources. This required a complete recode to entire portions of the project, as well as to redesign the artwork and visual components. This also required the immediate dismissal of the employees whom perpetrated the violations as is the consequence clearly laid out in the employee handbook which every employee is provided upon their employment. While the client is happy that we identified and resolved the situation prior to providing them with their contracted product, they are understandably less than satisfied due to the delays which this breach caused. Potential effects of this action to Pearson and Watters Inc. could be long lasting. Our very reputation is at stake in any such matter. Not only have we now failed to provide a client with their product in the timeframe which we stated, but that client cannot help but wonder about past and even future projects and whether or not other such breaches were caught. This further effects our company due to having to replace the offending employees rapidly, lost profits due to additional time required to be spent...
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...film, a grumpy light house keeper is responsible for maintaining the functionality of the lighthouse. At the point in the time in the movie, the lighthouse keeper decides not to join in the town’s festivities and avoids socializing with the community. While the lighthouse keeper is working on paperwork, the light stops working and the lighthouse goes dark. The importance of the lighthouse is to avoid incoming ships hitting the shore rocks, causing possible loss of the ship, its cargo, and even the passengers on board. As the lighthouse keeper is attempting to fix the light, he further breaks the glass shell of the light beyond repair. A panic comes across the lighthouse keepers eyes as he sees an incoming ship headed straight towards the shore rocks. During this time, the town folk noticed the lighthouse stopped working. They all decided to stop partying and grab a lantern to head to the lighthouse. As the entire town quickly makes their way to the lighthouse with lanterns in hands, they make their way to the top of the lighthouse to provide enough light for the ship to see the rocks and steer clear of danger. Although, the film I chose isn’t a typical corporate organization, I believe it relays an important message. As it may be one person’s responsibility for a specific job duty, it is our social responsibility to help our friends and coworkers in getting the job done if it is needed. Without the assistance of the town, the lighthouse keeper would have not been able...
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...My Sister's Keeper tells the story of 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald who sues her parents for medical emancipation. They expect her to give up one of her kidneys for her older sister Kate, who has had leukemia since she was 2 years old. Her parents conceived Anna because they needed a donor of umbilical chord blood to keep Kate alive, and since then Anna has donated bone marrow and stem cells to Kate when she relapsed. But now she no longer wants to continue being used as an organ bank for her sister, and her only resort is the law. She does her research and then goes to a lawyer, Campbell Alexander, who has had some notable successes representing children in courts. Alexander goes around with a service dog, but he is not blind, deaf, or physically disabled, and he won't tell anyone what the dog is for. When Anna asks why he has the dog, called Judge, he wisecracks that he has an iron lung and the dog keeps him away from magnets. The novel takes the reader through the lawsuit, told from the points of view of each of the major characters, Anna, Kate, their brother Jessie, their parents Sarah and Brian, Campbell, and Anna's guardian ad litem, Julia, who turns out to have been Campbell's college girlfriend. On the audiobook, each character's portions is narrated by a different performer, which enhances the sense that these are genuinely different perspectives. The reader comes to understand the quandaries faced by Anna's parents, who love all their children but are forced...
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...Family Assessment My Sister’s Keeper Assessment of the Fitzgerald Family SBSN 360P Professor D. Hoitt, MSN, RN 21 March 2013 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide a selective assessment of the functional status of the Fitzgerald family. This premise of this assessment is to define areas of strength and or weakness is the family system. Due to the limited amount of contact with its members, this evaluation is not to be viewed as a comprehensive and exhaustive list of findings for this social unit. This is merely a limited overview of the family’s ability to cope and grow in spite of the chronic condition of promyelocytic leukemia in the eldest daughter. Identifying Data “My Sister’s Keeper” film adaptation revolves around the Fitzgerald family. Sickness causes the Fitzgerald family to stray from the traditional nuclear family model and become and extended family. The extended family includes at least one parent, at least one child, and at least one other non- parent/sibling member. (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2009)The story chronicles the events surrounding the life of Kate Fitzgerald, who is suffering from promyelocytic lymphoma. The story is told mainly from the perspective of Kate’s eleven year old sister, Anna Fitzgerald, who was genetically engineered for spare parts. We also get brief glimpses at the perspectives of her parents, Brian and Sara Fitzgerald. Very little time is spent portraying her brother, Jesse, or Kelly, her aunt that...
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...The title of my book is My Sister’s Keeper, and it was written by Jodi Picoult. It’s about a girl named Anna and her family. They live in Upper Darby, Rhode Island. Anna is 13 years old. She has a sister and a brother. Their names are Kate and Jesse. Her mom’s name is Sara and her dad’s name is Brian. Kate was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia in 1990. Anna was created as a perfect genetic match for Kate. One day, Anna goes to a pawnshop to sell a locket. This locket was given to her by her dad after she donated bone marrow to Kate. After this, she went to see a lawyer, whose name is Campbell Alexander. She tells Campbell that she wants to sue her parents for the rights to her body. Julia Romano is hired as Anna’s guardian ad litem, which is a person who represents minor children’s best interests and advises the court. As the story goes on, you see how her decision to not donate a kidney to her sister starts to affect her whole family. Her parents start having marriage problems because they have different opinions about Anna and the case. Jesse starts acting up more than ever, because he’s being noticed even less. Anna ends up winning the case, and she becomes medically emancipated from her parents. Campbell is given medical power of attorney for her until the age of 18. On the way to the hospital after the trial, Campbell and Anna get into a serious car accident. Anna suffers irreversible brain damage and dies. They give her kidney to Kate, and...
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...The narrative of My Sister’s Keeper alternates between first-person accounts by the novel’s different characters. The bulk of the story takes place in the present, in a one-and-a-half week stretch of time. Sara Fitzgerald, a former attorney and current stay-at-home mom, narrates the remainder of the story from different points in the past but moving gradually toward the present. One final chapter, the epilogue, occurs in the future. In 1990, doctors diagnose Sara’s two-year-old daughter, Kate, with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. The news that their child might die shocks Sara and her firefighter husband, Brian, but Sara immediately resolves to begin Kate on treatment. Kate starts chemotherapy, and her oncologist, Dr. Chance, suggests she might eventually need a bone marrow transplant, preferably from a related donor. The Fitzgeralds test their four-year-old son, Jesse, but he is not a match. Dr. Chance mentions that another unborn sibling could be a match, and Sara suggests to Brian that they have another child. Sara’s passages, told at different points over the next fourteen years, focus largely on Kate’s struggles. She describes how scientists help them conceive another daughter, Anna, who is a perfect genetic match for Kate. Over the course of the next few years, Anna undergoes several procedures, including frequent blood withdrawals and a painful bone marrow extraction, to help keep Kate alive. Sara describes in great detail the pain and suffering Kate endures. Chemotherapy...
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...The Grimm Brothers tale, Snow White, is a Phallocentric story about a young princess who is on the run from her mentally unstable step mother who is trying to kill her. Relationships between the characters are often gender specific as the roles between males and females are strongly defined. The Evil Queen, the Huntsman and the Dwarfs are all key characters which help with the demonstration of stereotypes, paternalism as well as gender roles. Stereotypes are very prominent throughout the tale. Snow White and the Evil Queen are quite different as far as stereotypes go. Right from the beginning, Snow White portrays typical female stereotypes such as being gentle, kind, sensitive, and dependent. It is also assumed by these qualities that she is not able to protect herself from...
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...Barron's Cover | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012 Fair Winds Ahead By MICHAEL SANTOLI | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR Superior performance has helped Neuberger Berman survive and thrive since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. Neuberger Berman was knocked around more than most asset managers in the treacherous seas of the 2008 financial crisis. The 73-year-old firm had only recently been lashed to Lehman Brothers when the investment bank foundered and ultimately failed. Buyout firms proposed a lifeline, but they fell short as the financial crisis deepened, leaving Neuberger's leaders to improvise an employee buyout during the most punishing financing environment in memory. Yet, four years later, Neuberger is freshly invigorated and focused on the essentials in the way disaster survivors tend to be. Its business is in sturdy condition, its fund performance is outpacing most peers and its strong investment culture has been affirmed. If the new Neuberger is in some ways "a $200 billion start-up," as one executive characterizes it, it is also one of the country's premier and most deeply rooted asset managers. Roy Neuberger, a founding partner and guiding force of the firm, died just two years ago, at the age of 107. Until he was nearly 100, he came into the office every day. For all the drama Neuberger has undergone in the past 15 years -- going public in 1999 after 60 years as a partnership, being absorbed by Lehman in 2003 and then set adrift five years later -- Neuberger is in some ways now...
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...Director Nick Cassavett has created yet another tearjerker with his drama, My Sisters keeper. This movie is based on the novel, “My sisters keeper” by Jodi Picoult. The film stars, Cameron Diaz (Sara) and Jason Patric (Brian), they are the parents of Kate who is suffering from leukemia. She was diagnosed with cancer when she was four years old and since then her mom has devoted her life to saving Kate. The parents receive a recommendation from a doctor to have another child, solely on the purpose that the child will be Kate’s genetic match. There are many ethical questions that rise with this decision. This 11-year-old child is Anna, who undergoes many procedures such as, donating blood, bone marrow, and stem cells, to aid in the survival of her sister. When she is asked to donate her kidney to Kate, she refuses and claims she wants a life of her own and to control her own body. Anna seeks for a lawyer and decides to sue her parents, on the right to receive a medical emancipation. The mother is aghast by this lawsuit, however, the father concurs with Anna’s decision. Cassavett uses a sequence of flashbacks to reveal the legitimate reason why Anna is suing her parents, before the results of the case are identified. He uses a variety of cinematographic techniques to increase the audience’s emotional response. He focuses on the detail of the characters, shooting close-ups and maintaining the camera at eye-level. When he is shooting the family from a distance he still uses a...
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...SUMMER READING I. Title and Author: My Sister’s Keeper By: Jodi Picoult II. Fiction (not a true story) or non-fiction (a true story): Fiction III. Settings: Rhode Island IV. Important characters or people: Anna Fitzgerald – is youngest Fitzgerald child. The protagonist of the novel. Anna is thirteen years old. Anna is smart, funny, and observant. Sara Fitzgerald - is mother of the Fitzgerald family. Sara is strong, stubborn, and intelligent. Campbell Alexander - is Anna’s lawyer. In the beginning overconfident and harsh. Brian Fitzgerald - is the father of the Fitzgerald children and a works as firefighter. Jesse Fitzgerald – is the oldest of the Fitzgerald children. Jesse cannot save Kate, and he has never been able to forgive himself for that. Also, he has often felt ignored by his parents. Kate Fitzgerald - is the middle Fitzgerald child. She has struggled with cancer nearly her entire life Dr. Chance - Kate’s oncologist. Is a kind but serious man. Dr. Chance represents the science and medicine keeping Kate alive. V. Other characters: Zanne - is Sara’s older sister. Zanne is a woman without children. She watches Anna and Jesse when Sara goes with Kate to the hospital. Judge DeSalvo - is fair and kind. Judge DeSalvo honestly cares for Anna’s well-being. Taylor Ambrose - is Kate’s crush and cancer patient. Kate and Taylor’s short relationship emphasizes that, at heart, Kate is a normal teenage girl. Izzy Romano - is Julia’s twin sister and roommate...
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...My Sister’s Keeper Based on the book by Jodi Picoult ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, we would all like to thank the Man with the Big guns from above named God. We thank you the most for without you we would never be able to do the things we love in life. We would never be able to see and feel the great wonders of the world that you have made for us especially the friendship and love that you never fail to provide us. Thank you for that. To our teacher we thank you for giving us a chance to show you what we can do. For always teaching us the right things to improve in ourselves not only in our writing of essays in class but also in our own separate lives. You have helped us in so many ways but the most would be for giving us the opportunity to make peace with the ones we have hurt in the past. Without you we would have lost another friend in life and lost the opportunity for friendship that could last for a life time. Thank you from the Bottom of our hearts. We also thank those who have helped us in making this book of ours, for without them we wouldn’t be able to finish. Thanks for our parents for providing us with everything we need in class just to give us a good education. Thanks to those who became patient with us under pressure thank you for understanding. And lastly the leader would like to thank her members for all the things they have done, for doing their own parts and cooperating oh so well with everything she asked for them to do, thanks...
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...In My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult tells the story of a family who is faced with a tragedy and in turn creates an ethical dilemma without even realizing it. Brian and Sarah Fitzgerald don’t think they will have any more children after Jesse and Kate, but when Kate is diagnosed with leukemia ideas of having another child spark in the minds of the Fitzgeralds. Although one might think the Fitzgeralds would have another child to replace the one they may lose, their plan is to use the child to keep Kate alive. The Fitzgeralds have a doctor genetically select an embryo as a perfect match for Kate and a short nine months later Anna is born so she can be used as “spare parts” every time Kate’s organs fail. The most important issue presented in this book is the fact that Anna was created for the sole purpose of keeping her sister alive. Not only was Anna born for an unethical reason, but she is forced by her parents to undergo the many and sometimes painful medical procedures required to keep Kate alive. The dispute between Anna and her mother, Sarah, portrays this issue best in the book. When Anna becomes old enough to stand up to her parents, she tells them she doesn’t want to donate anymore and fights them in a legal battle for “medical emancipation”. If Anna is granted medical emancipation from her parents so she wouldn’t have to donate anymore, but Kate would die. Sarah makes her decisions with the best intentions, but sometimes the decisions she makes favor Kate more than they...
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...My Sister's Keeper Jorge Vera HUM176 May 8, 2011 My Sister's Keeper The movie brings up a theme that most people have a hard time discussing amongst family members: “When is it time to say goodbye?” The story revolves around a dying sister who has cancer and her life has been prolonged because of her sister being a medical donor. The donor sister finally decides she does not want to continue donating body samples for her sister. The family’s mother has been volunteering the well daughter’s body samples most of her born life to keep her sick daughter around as long and medically possible, until the well daughter says she no longer wants to help. It has to be very difficult to be in a type of situation that her whole life has involved being poked by needles and put in a hospital to help her sister who has cancer. The only way she could fight this bout with cancer has been samples of blood and bone marrow to prolong her sister’s life. She finally decides to say no more and with the help of a lawyer who also has a medical issue unknown to everyone else, sue her parents for the right to say no and not have to go through more medical treatments for her sister. Society has grown to a point where anyone can sue anyone, including parents, for just about anything. Sometimes it seems morally wrong for children to sue their parents for anything. The children should owe their lives to their parents for dedicating their lives to their children. As the court proceedings continue...
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...My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper follows the life of the Fitzgerald family. that covers issues concerning genetic engineering, PGD and savior siblings. Older sister Kate is chronically ill, suffering from leukemia-related illnesses since she was a young child. Her parents, Sara and Brian, conceived younger sister Anna as a genetically-engineered baby to be the perfect match for Kate as a blood and bone-marrow donor. For thirteen years. Anna has gone along with it, but when her parents ask for a kidney, she gets herself a lawyer and sues for medical emancipation; the right over her own body. My Sister’s Keeper covers issues concerning genetic engineering, PGD and savior siblings The story revolves around 13-year-old Anna, a child created in order to serve as a matched tissue donor for her older sister Kate, who suffers from leukemia. At the very beginning of the movie, Anna says, “I’m an allogenic donor—a perfect sibling match. When Kate needs leukocytes or stem cells or bone marrow to fool her body into thinking it’s healthy, I’m the one who provides them. Nearly every time Kate’s hospitalized, I wind up there, too. None of which means anything, except that you shouldn’t believe what you hear about me, least of all that which I tell you myself.” Anna is a savior sibling is a child who was born to provide an organ or cell transplant to Kate, who is affected with a fatal disease in leukemia.Technicians, can screen the multiple embryos that are typically...
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...My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult Where is the line with choices? How is a decision determined to be right or wrong? These are some of the questions that summarize the concept of the book My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Anna, the protagonist, files a law suit against her parents, Brian and Sara, because they forced her to make medical decisions that were not her own. Anna is sympathetic with her sister’s condition and has given all she can to ensure Kate’s recovery from leukemia. Yet the discovery of the purpose of her being conceived through vitro fertilization was for the intention to possible spare Kate’s life. Anna claims that her parents’ (Sara and Brian Fitzgerald) push for her to donate her kidney unwillingly is an infringement of her “right to life”. She also claims that she is being denied the right to make decisions as regards her own body. While Anna believes that such an action would be very wrong, her parents emphasize that it is the right decision if saving Kate’s life is the ultimate goal. This book covers this life of this family during the trial period. It focuses on the tension that the family undergoes in a bid to keep one of them Kate, alive. The emotional tenacity of this book brings a different notion of health communication. An analysis of the events in this novel reveals that indeed right and wrong is subjective. This paper examines the different characters and events in My Sister’s Keeper and tries to analyze the theme of what choices are right...
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