...My Cousin Vinny The movie “My Cousin Vinny” is a comedy film of 1992, which is an amusing interpretation of the processes of the criminal justice system. The film depicts the procedures and processes of the court and criminal justice system. There are many things that have been depicted in the movie wrongly, but some are the correct depictions of the court proceedings and the criminal justice system. Many professionals have criticized the movie for its incorrect depiction of some of the procedures and processes. The movie taps different elements of the criminal justice system as a whole. There are countless individuals who do not realize the formalities, which go into actually being convicted for a crime. My cousin Vinny explore different aspects of these pretrial stages, criminal trials and the major actors in the process of the court hearing (Crede, 2012). There are a number of similarities as well as differences amongst what the movie has portrayed and the actual process of the criminal justice procedure which will be explored in this paper. The movie revolves around two New Yorker friends, Stan and Bill, who are traveling through Rural Alabama. These two friends make a stop on their way to buy some necessities from a shop. Immediately after they leave, another car, similar to theirs, pulls over. Two men get out of the car and kill the attendant of the store and runs away. Meanwhile, the two friends, Stan, and Bill, soon realize that they have accidently taken a tuna...
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...to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.” 1. Write these quotes at the top of your entry and identify the speakers. 2. Respond to the three quotes above. Use the questions below as guides, but if other things come to your mind, feel free to DV8. Remember, as always, journals are informal, so content is much more important than grammar. a. Do you blame Macduff for abandoning his family? Why or why not? b. Compare this opinion of “manhood” to Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s view from earlier in the play. Which is more familiar? Explain any connections you see between your view of manhood and the two from the play. c. How is the theme of revenge portrayed through the play? Positively? Negatively? Necessary? Unnecessary? When is revenge warranted? How is a “man” supposed to handle his grief? Do the two speakers agree? d. Who is the “bigger man” Macduff, who wants to stand and fight, but weeps for the loss of his family, or Macbeth who, despite initial misgivings, is guided by his ambition for money and power despite the consequences? Macbeth Journal Entry # 9 Keep up with your Journals for Macbeth—you will turn all of them in at the end of the unit. “Dispute it like a man.” “I shall do so; / but I must also feel it as a man…” “Let grief / convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.” 3. Write these quotes at the top of your entry and identify the speakers. 4. Respond to the three quotes above. Use the questions below as guides, but if...
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...can increase patient safety and hospital credibility and potentially save the hospital money (Institute of Medicine, 1999). The seven goals are to identify patients correctly, improve staff communication, use medicines and alarms safely, prevent infection, identify patient safety risks, and prevent mistakes in surgery. The six aims are to be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. The aims While some of the aims specifically apply to the hospital staff, all of the aims directly affect the patients....
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...was the result of their reaction? 4.What should the organization have done ? 5.Identify significant symptoms and root causes ? 6. What must they now do to rectify the issues ? Summary : Faced of declining revenues (an average of 8% per year for the past three years), shrinking market share (an average of 3 % per year for the past five years) and an increasingly competitive market (with an average increase of 20% in automotive stores over the past three years). the management of Sears, failed to raise their level of thinking to the Explore, Discover and Design phase of the Model. Instead they implemented a series of policies and procedures which gave pressure to bringing sales lead to the motivate of employees that misleading and selling unnecessary parts and services to the customers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Answer ISSUE STATEMENT : Facing an average of 8% per year decline on revenues for the past three years, shrinking market share of 3% per year for the past 5 years, as well as the increasing number of competitors, the management of Sear roebuck & co. had failed to think critically and strategically in order to come up with a new, suitable plan but spurring performance of its employees via a flawed incentive compensation scheme which resulted in misleading and selling customer unnecessary goods. 1. Due to the face of declining revenues (an average of 8% per year for...
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...tactics in different situations. These aspects together constitute elements of negotiation style. Different styles will have both strengths and weaknesses depending on the particular situation in which they are applied. By understanding your own stylistic tendencies, this diagnostic tool is intended to assist the respondent to more effectively use their style to deliver better quality outcome sin negotiations. The NDI consists of three parts: • • • Part A identifies different approaches. Part B identifies different emotional responses in negotiation Part C identifies use of different types of tactics. Part A – Approaches to negotiation Below you are asked to choose between 30 pairs of statements. You are asked to indicate which of the two statements best describes you. 1. E. I work hard to preserve the relationship with my counterpart. B. I try to identify the underlying issues. D. I work to defuse tense situations A. I gain concessions by being persistent E. I focus on solving the other party’s problem D. I try to avoid unnecessary conflicts C. I search for a fair compromise E. I work hard to preserve the relationship C. I suggest fair compromises D. I avoid personal confrontations C. I seek the midpoint between our positions B. I search for the problems underlying our disagreements D. I tactfully resolve many disagreements C. I expect “give and take “ in negotiations A. I clearly communicate my goals B. I focus my attention on the other side’s needs D. I prefer to put off...
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...A LEAN PLAN Green Acres will identify a Lean Operations Plan and ways to reduce or the wastes produced in our production or project and service development. To be lean: • Identify customers and specify value, recognize that even a small fraction of our efforts and time adds value for the end customer. • Identify the value stream – the entire set of activities through the stages of our Neighborhood Designs project – and create flow by eliminating wastes. The value stream represents the end-to-end process that delivers value to the customer. • Produce only the products that the customer wants. Value depends of customer's desires and is pulled from the provider by the customer. • Pursue perfection – every action and asset adds value for the end customer. There are several potential wastes involved in the areas of production, project and service development. The first is waiting – long intervals between operations – which would cause a loss of time and add costs if a lot of units of the Neighborhood remain vacant. Another is transportation, as it is an additional concern for our processes, incurs cost and adds no value to the operation. Unnecessary Inventory could also affect our operation or performance. The negative impact on agricultural lands of the project, too, will also add a high cost to the project. Finally, we intend to support the reduction of the burning of fossil fuels by reducing the need for automobiles. (cardiff.ac.uk), (Maltzman 180). Plan...
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...Week 1 Laboratory How to Identify Threats & Vulnerabilities in an IT Infrastructure Learning Objectives and Outcomes Upon completing this lab, students will be able to: • Identify common risks, threats, and vulnerabilities found throughout the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure. • Align risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to one of the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure • Given a scenario, prioritize risks, threats, and vulnerabilities based on their risk impact to the organization • Prioritize the identified critical, major, and minor software vulnerabilities Week 1 Lab: Assessment Worksheet Part A – List of Risks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities Commonly Found in an IT Infrastructure Overview One of the most important first steps to risk management and implementing a risk mitigation strategy is to identify known risks, threats, and vulnerabilities and organize them. The purpose of the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure is to help organize the roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities for risk management and risk mitigation. This lab requires students to identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities and map them to the domain that these impact from a risk management perspective. Lab Assessment Questions & Answers The following risks, threats, and vulnerabilities were found in a healthcare IT infrastructure servicing patients with life-threatening situations. Given the list, select which of the seven domains...
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...configure baseline security on all workstations. You will ensure that the antivirus software is running properly, remove unnecessary software and services, and implement a control related to password hacking attempts. You have been asked to train a new employee by demonstrating how to implement system hardening on a local workstation. Tasks Ensure that you are logged in as an administrator. Using a computer that has Windows 7* installed: * Review the antivirus program and ensure it is up to date and running a full scan of the system. * Disable at least five unnecessary services from the default installation of Windows 7. * Configure audit logging to identify all failed password attempts into the system. * If possible, complete these tasks using a personal computer with the default installation of Windows 7. If you do not own the necessary hardware and software, consult with your Instructor about alternatives. After your work on this project is complete, you may need to return the settings to the previous configuration. Then, for the employee you are training, write a summary of what you did and explain why system hardening is important. Include the following: Summary * Explain how you ensured the antivirus program is updated and running a full scan of the system; describe anything significant you observed. * Explain how you removed unnecessary services from the default installation of Windows 7, noting the five (or more) services by name and function. * Explain...
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...Residents Receive and Decreases Unnecessary Health Care Cost Nurses have the power to increase positive patient outcomes by implementing changes in their practice based on the evidence found in the nursing literature. Utilizing evidence-based practice (EBP) increases nurses job satisfaction, increases communication across the interdisciplinary team, enables nurses to provide their patients with high-quality care and decreases health care cost. The purpose of this paper is to describe why readmissions from nursing homes (NHs) is a nurse practice problem, nurse practice changes to reduce hospitalizations in NHs, evidence found in the nursing literature that supports the change in nursing practice and how to evaluate the change in practice after implementation of interventions. The Problem Residents in NHs continue to experience potentially avoidable 30-day readmissions to hospitals. Rahman, Foster, Grabowski, Zinn, & Mor (2013) define 30-day readmissions as when the resident is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged from the hospital to NHs and avoidable readmissions as conditions that can be managed safely and efficiently in NHs instead of the resident being transferred to the hospital (p. 1901) There are more than 1.6 million Americans living in NHs in the United States and 23.5% of these Americans experience readmission to the hospital within 30 days of discharges and cost more than $17.4 billion per year in unnecessary health care cost (Ouslander...
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...current status. * The team members should discuss cost- reduction ideas in a free- flowing manner. The ideas may come from the team members or from others in the company. All of the ideas should be captured on a paper. After discussing all of the ideas, the team should decide if each idea should be pursued. If the team thinks an idea has a merit, in most cases it will go to the affected department manager. Key Questions: 1.) Do we have a cost – reduction effort in place? 2.) Do we have cost – reduction targets? 3.) How do we identify and eliminate unnecessary costs? 4.) What obstacles will we encounter, and how will we get around them? COST PAERTO ANALYSIS * Identifying and ranking all of the organizations current costs is best presented on a department-by-department basis, and by overhead cost categories for the entire company. It’s important to do this for each department and by overhead cost category to identify...
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...instructed.) (The following information should be centered vertically as well as horizontally.) My Style LaVanessa Young Coll 100 American Public University Corey, Tutor (This blank page is unnecessary.) Title Should Appear Here The purpose of this essay is to examine and assess my learning style inventory. Using specific inventories, I would then seek out to measure my learning capabilities and provide my personal opinion on each one. I would also look into existing themes and determine whether this applies to my case or not. (unnecessary space) One of the main reasons for taking a learning style inventory is to determine my ability to identify how I specifically acquire information. This is connected to my overall objective of pursuing a College degree. Arguably, my participation to in a college/university remains to be essential because it can complement my professional goals and objectives. Likewise, my exposure to College allows the cultivation of skills that would complement my chosen field of expertise. In addition, the academic environment also provides opportunities to establish relationships with peers and develop connections with other people. (unnecessary space) Recognizing my goals in College, I realized the need for understanding my specific learning style. In particular, I chose the Center for New Discoveries in Learning (2012) and the ‘"Index of Learning Styles’" by Felder and Soloman...
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...parental guardian at all times. Here stands a child, just barely. The prestige of an organization should never be sacrificed because of one story or case. If the prestige of The Chicago Tribune, whom named the children, partly relies on their ethical portrayal of unethical events, then it is just that which they must uphold. Whether the story is told with names or faces, if told well, the story will provoke the same feelings. Completely unnecessary is the rambling off of names of children whom just not long ago learned to write their full name, perhaps in cursive. The bottom-line is the tragedy that happen in Jonesboro could happen anywhere. Upon the breaking news of the initial crime, it is absolutely not beneficial to identify anyone by name, child or not. These names just allow for further prejudices to exist. In addition, protecting the suspect’s name is not simply protecting the suspect himself, but the family or friends, indeed. Guilty by association? The father of the son who was the suspect? It’s completely unnecessary for Mr. Scott, one of the suspect’s fathers, to be identified, unless under investigation, the media or professionals find some reason why his lack of parenting or any trauma-induced by him may...
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...Economic in the U.S. healthcare system: The $765 billion price tag on wasteful spending Our country aims at continuing to increase the quality of patient care but medical services are being overused at an alarming rate causing great concern. The health spending of this country’s gross domestic product or GDP is 17.6% which is more than any other country (Feldstein). A report from CMS in 2010 states that the total health spending in the U.S. was roughly $2.6 trillion which is twice as much per capita of the average for any other nation yet delivers a lesser amount of care. These figures translate to $8,402 per person. (CMS) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that this figure will reach $4.6 trillion by 2020 which translates to almost 20% of our GDP. Table 1. Health care spending as % of GDP in 2010 Source: OECD; The Economist, 2009 Out of the trillions of dollars spent in healthcare, the 2009 PricewaterhoseCooper’s report The price of excess: Identifying waste in healthcare spending estimates that $1.2 trillion is wasted. This is equivalent to more than half of what is allocated towards health spending in the U.S. and the figures are broken down in various categories. The report attributed health wastefulness in the following areas: 1. $765 billion towards issues related to healthcare reform debate (6 major areas...
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...Niskanen believed different. Individuals found it difficult to swallow the Act because it was believe to only be enacted so government official could feel better about confronting only a few points of popular concern instead of resolving the matter. According to Niskanen the SOX act of 2002 is unnecessary, harmful, and inadequate (Niskanen, 2006). Lengthy terms of incarceration and seizure of personal property are penalties under the SOX Act. The act was viewed as unnecessary because the stock exchange had already put into action a policy to address most of the problems given in the SOX Act. Those policies include accounting standards, prosecution for fraud, audits, and financial reporting procedures. Officials believed that both acts handled the same issues. Therefore; congress should deem the SOX act of 2002 unnecessary. The SOX act of 2002 was regarded as damaging because it would “reduce the incentive of corporate executives and directors to seek legal advice” (Niskanen, 2006). It was also seen as prejudicial because it created prohibitions on loans to corporate officers that would create complications for reparation. The act was considered to be poor because it “failed to identify and correct the major problems of accounting, auditing, taxation, and corporate governance that have invited corporate malfeasance and increased the probability of bankruptcy” (Niskanen, 2006). A proposal to make the act more effective involves the need for Congress to better outline more specific...
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...In late 2003, the company of Boeing was the worst of its life. However, it was changed some market demand and solved the technology issues, then slowing to improve. According to the case study (Boeing), the six-box organisational model provides a framework that succinctly identifies the key factors at the centre of the Boeing situation. It explains the following according to Palmer et al. (2009): 1. Strategy – was to update their technology systems, downsize their operations, and re-establish relationships with their suppliers and the only feasible way costs could be cut. 2. Structure – the problem of 1994 airbus which shocked the management executives and began a series of changes that were implemented to overcome the bureaucratic structure, outdated technological systems, and unnecessary processes in a company that had reportedly changed. 3. Systems – Boeing adopted the principles of lean manufacturing and aimed to rejuvenate their reputation by making their production more efficient. The object of the project was to implement an automated system of assembly lines. 4. Style – the decision was made to diversify from the traditional commercial airline industry and the many acquisitions that were made created integration issues for the company. The aim again was to add more stability to the business by diversifying into information services and the space industry that providing services with elevated margins that would reflect on Boeing’s bottom line. ...
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