...collection of the deceased fashion designer Yves St Laurent, fuelling great wrath of Chinese people. A NGO called APACE, together with a newly-established group of Chinese lawyers, applied to the “Tribunal de Grande Instance” (a court in Paris) for the “property preservation” of the two relics in order to sabotage the auction, yet the litigation was rejected since the judge held that the complainant doesn’t have the direct claim right. [1] Besides, Chinese government and individual collectors like Cai Mingchao also made their move against this auction, but China still scarcely makes any material progress in the restitution of the looted legacies throughout. [2] Such case reveals great challenges for countries like China to get back missing or stolen artefacts due to multi-faceted legal problems, and their harvests are often not in proportion with efforts paid. On the other hand, propelled by a huge profit, illegal antique trade has been showing a rampant trend in recent years. Its annual turnover is the second highest in all illegal dealings, merely lower than drug trade. [3] Given the lax law system on the protection of cultural relics and the burgeoning market demand, explicit need is suggested to curb the current situation. Based on the above case and focusing on its universality, this article firstly aims to shed a light on the difficulties in recovering relics. More importantly, in the later part, possible pathways to settle the issue will be discussed, with particular attention...
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...MH370 contradictory. Especially the delivery of information about the disappearance of MH370, some conflicting statements from the authorities of misleading . Appearance of a conflict of information between Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, Interpol and the Chief of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.'s Because Datuk Seri Hishammuddin said that, four passenger aircraft using a stolen passport, but the Interpol and the Chief of Police said that there were only two passengers using the stolen passport. Hishammuddin also denied by the Department of Civil Aviation ( DCA ) based on a closed-circuit camera (CCTV ) in at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport ( KLIA). Thus, it is evident that the weakness in the delivery of the information was damaging the country's image badly. Especially after many international media criticized the methods of the government to address the crisis. More pollute the good name of the country is the news agency of China considers information about MH370 did not arrive and China urged the Malaysian government to create an integrated channel for delivering legal information and details of the issue. My response to the article is at this time there should not be a political issue in a country like this critical moment , cooperation between all parties is needed regardless of political issues , and all information obtained shall be verified and investigated in detail...
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...were owned by a small number of wealthy landowners. While the majority of the population were peasants with limited access to land, this caused these peasants to have poverty. This is one of the main reasons which laid the building blocks of the Mexican and Russian revolutions. I will be talking about the conflict/how they divided the land, land rights, and the long term effect on private land owners. An example of Mexico having conflict is in document 1 where a main leader of the peasant rebellion made a public manifesto where he said to the land owners that if they did not give back the stolen land from the pueblos that the pueblo would take it by for if they must. Russia did it differently, for example in document 6 where Joseph Stalin, a secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, made a speech to announce that the offensive against the kulaks must be carried out. He also said that they have passed the policy to restrict the exploitation tendencies for the...
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...Ch 7 control and accounting information system Explain how the principle of separation of duties is violated in each of the following situations. Also, suggest one or more procedures to reduce the risk and exposure highlighted in each example. a. A payroll clerk recorded a 40-hour workweek for an employee who had quit the previous week. He then prepared a paycheck for this employee, forged her signature, and cashed the check. PROBLEM: Segregation of duties is violated here because the payroll clerk had the ability to record time worked and to prepare the payroll check (custody). This allowed the payroll clerk to both commit and conceal the fraud. The payroll clerk ignored the authorization process or had the authority to authorize the payment. SOLUTION: These three functions should be segregated. One person should authorize payments, another should record the payments, a third should prepare the check, and a fourth should sign it. b. While opening the mail, a cashier set aside, and subsequently cashed, two checks payable to the company on account. PROBLEM: The cashier who opened the mail had custody of the cash. The cashier opening the mail can pocket the checks and forge a signature, never giving the authorized endorser a chance to be involved. For this reason, many companies have the mail opened by two people or have...
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...------------------------------------------------- Electronic Processing and The role of professional Accouting and finance bodies and cods of conduct Accounting and Finance ATAR Assignment June 10, 2016 Ramla Mohamed Australian Islamic College June 10, 2016 Ramla Mohamed Australian Islamic College Part 1 a) What membership type are available for the organisation? Types of membership include Associate, CPA and Fellow are an example of memberships available to CPA Australia. b) What qualifications/experiences are required to become a member? Associate(ASA)- As an ASA you have six years to complete the CPA Program, including six education subjects and the experience requirement, in order to become a CPA CPA-To call yourself a CPA, you must: hold a degree or postgraduate award recognized by CPA Australia, in any discipline, have demonstrated competence in our foundation exams, usually demonstrated by the completion of an accredited degree, have completed the CPA Program, including the experience requirement, within six years, undertake continuing professional development (CPD) activities each year and comply with a code of conduct set by CPA Australia Fellow- You must be a CPA with at least 15 years' full-time work in accounting, finance or business. (1) c) How do you maintain membership? As a member of a leading global professional body, you understand the value of life-long learning. Whilst there is an obligation to participate in continuing professional...
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...Conflict Diamonds in the early 2000s, a common concern emerged among members of an oddly matched group : the diamond industry, the united nations, several goverments, and human rights campaigners. All wished to end the trade in conflict diamonds, gemstonesthat are mined or stolen by rebels fighting internationally recognized goverments. The $6 billion a year diamond industryhas long been dominated by the De Beers Corporation. Founded in south Africa by Cecil Rhodes in the 1880, the beers strategy has been to own as many diamond mine as possible and to sell its rough (uncut) stones exclusively to a small group of preferred dealers at prices set by the company. To maintain its control over supply, De Beers operated buying offices all over the world, “sweeping up” diamonds produced in mines operated by others. The result, for many years, was a virtual monopoly. De Beers has also been a shrewd marketer, pouring millions of dollars over the years into advertising. Using the slogan “a diamond is forever”, the company cultivated and association between diamonds and romance. The company first promoted solitaire engagement rings, later, it shifted its marketing focus to the so called eternity ring, a band of multiple smaller stones aimed at older married couples. In the early 1990s, event in several diamond-rich African nations converged to tarnish the gem’s carefully cultivated image of love and purity. During the cold war, many partisans in civil conflicts in Africa received funding...
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...Essay - ‘The dress’: Misunderstandings, crisis and conflicts sometimes occur to families. There are many reasons why these things happen. An example could be if the common communication had been suffering severe damage after a parent’s divorce. These families with divorced parents and children living with one parent have become a more and more common scenario nowadays. The short story “The dress” tells the story of a family with divorced parents and where the two daughters are living with their mother. The relationship between the two sisters Rachel and Flora is clearly not good, and the relationship to their mother is not good either. The plot is that Flora steals one of Rachel’s dresses. This action creates a major conflict between Rachel and Flora, and later on it has fatal consequences to the relationship to their mother too. Already from the start the widened gap between Rachel and Flora is described. Rachel is quite sure that Flora has taken her dress. She is walking round in the house looking for the dress and it is pretty obvious what she feels about her sister. “She stared at the place where she had left the dress, ironed and ready to wear that night for their mother’s birthday. The hanger was still there, thin and wretched, but the dress had gone, and the room smelled of Flora”. (p.1.l.14-16) “Rachel picked up the hanger and threw it onto the floor. She wanted to hurt someone.”(p.1.l.19) Rachel is clearly not happy about her sister at this point, and is not going...
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...“An efficient, responsive, fair and effective bureaucracy is based on the principle of political neutrality”. With the aid of specific examples and relevant literature, support or refute this contention. A bureaucrat is an unelected official whose main purpose is to serve the public interests to his maximum capacity, with efficiency, responsiveness, fairness and effectiveness. This can only be achieved if the bureaucrats are politically neutral, as politics extends further than core party politics, to relationships, religion, blood ties and ethnic groups. Politics leads to partiality, favoritism, appointment of unqualified bureaucrats and inaccessibility of these officials by the general populace, and corruption. Therefore an efficient, responsive, fair and efficient bureaucracy is based on political neutrality. Nevertheless, this has remained only as a utopia as bureaucracy and politics have proved to be inseparable and bureaucrats have proved to have remained political. Van Riper 1984, asserted that “the field of administration is a field of business. It is removed from the hurry and strife of politics,” Dwight Waldo states that “administration should not be driven by partisan patronage and electoral politics” This stands to mean that, as a business field, it should act business like, which involves impartiality and efficiency .This aspect can be paralleled to the ministry of education. Even though the bureaucrats are stationed in Harare, one can see that the same education...
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...Data Theft Paper Data Theft Paper Data theft is when information is unlawfully copied or taken from a business or individual. This information is user information such as passwords, social security numbers, credit card information, other personal information, and confidential corporate information. Within this paper several examples will be giving as, I explore how data theft has affected individuals and organizations. What can organizations and individuals do to protect them from becoming victims of this type of fraud. When stolen data happens such as people’s identities or an organization’s information the potential harm is huge with major economic and legal implications. The worst thing about the data theft is that it can remain undetected. It is devastating when you find out as a boss that an ex-employee has stolen the company information for personal gain, profit, or to ruining the company completely. A survey released by Information Week (informationweek.com) and Accenture in July 2007 showed that 89 percent of 1,010 U.S. companies still felt vulnerable to data theft (McNurlin, Sprague, & Bui, 2009). For example the Boeing Company had an ex-employee who illegally downloaded thousands of pages of significant business documents to his computer. It was anticipated if any of those documents had gotten into the wrong hands of Boeing’s competitors it could have cost them $5 to $14 billion dollars (McNurlin, Sprague, & Bui, 2009). In 2008, a data theft...
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...Conflict in Close Quarters Case prepared by Steven L. McShane* Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia A team of psychologists at Moscow's Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) wanted to learn more about the dynamics of long-term isolation in space. This knowledge would be applied to the International Space Station, a joint project of several countries that would send people into space for more than six months. It would eventually include a trip to Mars taking up to three years. IBMP set up a replica of the Mir space station in Moscow. They then arranged for three international researchers from Austria, Canada, and Japan to spend 110 days isolated in a chamber the size of a train car. This chamber joined a smaller chamber where four Russian cosmonauts had already completed half of their 240 days of isolation. This was the first time an international crew was involved in the studies. None of the participants spoke English as their first language, yet they communicated throughout their stay in English at varying levels of proficiency. Judith Lapierre was the only female in the experiment. Along with a PhD in public health and social medicine, the French-Canadian researcher studied space sociology at the International Space University in France, and conducted isolation research in the Antarctic. This was her fourth trip to Russia, where she had learned the language. The mission was supposed to have a second female participant from the Japanese...
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...While there seems to be numerous hypotheses on feminist criminology, liberal, radical, Marxist, and communist theories seem to be most often understood. Woman’s activist criminology attempts to redefine the thought process of criminologists to include more of a sexual orientation and to remedy the issues of why women are more unlikely than men to commit a criminal offense, and whether or not standard male speculation could be altered to elucidate female responsibility. Liberal feminist criminology emerged in the 1960’s to bring attention to discrimination against women. Currently it thrives to address women’s issues, lobby for women’s rights, create opportunities, and change a woman’s role in the public sector. Radical feminism seems to conflict and differ with liberal woman's rights, as they have constraints in regards to perspectives. Radical women's liberation looks at how women came to share in small roles in any situation, what male dominance consists of, and how social classes themselves could be altered. Radical women's activists would agree that as young men grow into men they are taught to be dominant bringing about strength in their pursuit...
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...programs, the strengths of diversion and restorative programs, and the links between diversion, restorative justice and youth work. (Ted Watchel 2012) Restorative justice itself is a social science and primarily focuses on reducing crime, improving human behaviours, restoring relationships and repairing harm, restorative justice looks at how crime doesn't only affect the victim but the offender and the community as well, restorative justice focuses on the offender taking responsibility for their actions and wrongdoings and trying to make amends with the victim and their community. This is done through restorative and diversion programs which focus on and are used for conflict resolution between all parties and to try to repair the harm that has been caused. (Lecture slides week two, 2015) An example of restorative justice would be if a young person became angry and threw a rock which broke a shop window. The young person would first have to admit to breaking the window before any restorative practice could take place, as feeling remorseful and owning up to the crime is the key to successful restorative practice, if the young person is not remorseful restoring justice would not be used as the young person does not regret or...
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...depicts numerous characters and brings them together through carjacking, car accidents and shootings. The movie Crash represents the nature of race relations in America. Most of the characters depicted in the film are racially opinionated in some way, and become mixed up in conflicts which force them to examine their own discrimination. The films show how one stereotype, one miscommunication or lack of communication, could turn into an unstable situation. Through these characters' connections and lack of communication, the film tries to show prejudice and racism is frequent and common in present America. Problems of race and sex make a group of strangers in Los Angeles to psychologically and physically crash in the drama. Graham is a police officer whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about his good-for-nothing brother than him. Rick is an L.A. district attorney whose wife, Jean, makes little secret of her horror and hate of people not like herself. Jean's worst dreams about people of color are complete when her SUV is stolen by two African American men. Cameron is a rich African American television producer with a gorgeous wife. When coming back from a party one night, they are pulled over by the police Officer Ryan subjects them to a shameful examination...
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...Abstract: The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands have brought China and Japan into a bitter dispute for many decades. With regard to the real question of who owns sovereignty over the islands, the two claimants can not come to terms on several critical issues, such as whether the islands were terra nullius when Japan claimed sovereignty in 1895, whether Japan returned the islands to China after the Japanese defeat in WWII, and how their maritime boundary in the East China Sea should be demarcated according to international law. There is no ready solution to the longstanding stalemate, but the pending dispute could be shelved and managed from escalating into a military conflict. INTRODUCTION The Diaoyu Islands in Chinese or Senkaku in Japanese are a tiny group of islands, 6.3 km² in total, in the East China Sea. The islands consist of eight tiny insular formations, of which only two are over 1 km² (the Diaoyu/Uotsuri Island is the biggest one with 4.3 km²), five are completely barren, and none are currently inhabited or have had any kind of reported human economic activity. Notwithstanding these unfriendly natural features, the islands have brought China and Japan into a bitter dispute since 1960’s because of their strategic importance in terms of security and economy, as well as their significant political implications. The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands are located approximately midway between the island of Taiwan and the Japanese Ryukyu Islands, around 120 nautical...
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...Conflict Analysis of the 2007 Post-election Violence in Kenya Mara J. Roberts * September, 2009 Abstract Kenya has been riddled with conflict and violence throughout its brief history as a nation. The 2007 post-election violence in Kenya, however, was of a different magnitude. In this paper, I perform an analysis of the conflict to examine why widespread violence erupted in the wake of Kibaki’s presidential reelection. I look at the history of the conflict, examine stakeholders, and employ a variety of conflict analysis tools in an attempt to get to the root of the cause of the conflict. Key Words: Kenya post-election violence, land dispute, tribal conflict, * Director of Conflict Recovery, New Dominion Philanthropy Metrics 1 “I don’t know whether Kibaki won the election” -Sam Kivuitu, Kenya Election Committee Chair, Jan 2, 2008 1. Introduction The carnage was horrific: 1,500 dead, 3,000 innocent women raped, and 300,000 people left internally displaced. Most of these atrocities happened in the first 14 days after the 2007 Kenyan general election. The severity of this conflict unfolded in a span of 59 days between Election Day, December 27th, 2007 to February 28th, 2008, when a political compromise was reached. The magnitude of the trauma and structural violence that took place in Kenya after the fourth multi-party general election took both Kenyans and the international community, alike, by surprise (Maupeu, 2008). In retrospect, the violence...
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