...World Trade Organization (WTO) and the international Monetary Fund (IMF) are exploiting workers all around the world. One speaker alluding to “sweat shops” particularly caught the attention of the author by exclaiming, “Who made your T-Shirt”? This statement sparked Rivoli’s intrigue that is a great use of foreshadowing for what the story will lead to. The traveling of thousands of miles and across multiple continents to find out “who” really did make these shirts. We all wear our everyday cotton “tee’s” without giving a second thought about the journey each T-Shirt had to go through in order to make it here to the United States. This sets the foundation for the rest of the book and explains its purpose. The first stop in this journey isn’t on foreign soil where I expected the book to lead off, but rather here in the Continental United States at the Reinsch Cotton Farm in Smyer, Texas. Having served with many people from Texas, people often make claims about the greatness of this massive state; however, cotton production has never been one of the claims. This first stop along the T-Shirts journey came as a huge surprise to me and it was even more of a surprise when I discovered the Reinsch Cotton Farm competes with farmers from so many...
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...yourself if print will survive. I don't have the answer. And, I'm not even sure it's the right question. Even when the global economy turns around, it's unlikely that we'll see the same number of magazines or newspapers. So, how will we consume print- or page-like content? Computers are the most obvious answer, but I think products like the Amazon Kindle 2 really point the way. You see, we have to prepare ourselves for a time when the majority of written works, whether in magazines, newspapers, short stories, or novels, are delivered electronically. I don't imagine that everyone believes the computer screen and Web page is the preferred format for the consumption of this kind of content. I know that industry analyst Tim Bajarin made the argument in a recent column that future generations of e-book readers will offer color screens (I guess that's a good thing), and he suggests that a copy of Harry Potter might benefit from having an embedded video clip from the movie. I disagree. When I want to read a novel, I want to read a novel. I don't need to be distracted by multimedia, or even color, to help me imagine the story. My mind is quite adept at painting a picture with the words I'm reading. For me, that's the allure of a good, rip-roaring novel. The minute that publishers start producing e-books with "enhancements," we'll witness the beginning of the end of that format for the written word. The good news is that we're not there yet. For now, there are stores and libraries crammed...
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...women’s studies set,” is a sarcastic response to a male blogger dismissing feminism. Along with the regular posts, Feministe has threads engaging their audience like, “shameless self-promotion Sunday” where the blog followers can post their own stories, “signal-bosting” threads where bloggers can post links and share other articles, and “spillover” threads for more discussion on a certain topic in the comments section. The latest post, a response to the report on Rolling Stone’s handling of the University of Virginia rape story, was very eye opening and provided a different perspective. In November, Rolling Stone released a story about a rape on the UVA campus. The victim, called Jackie, wished to remain anonymous and also did not release the name of her rapist. However, she did name the fraternity of her accused rapist, the faculty members she spoke to, and three friends she confided in the night of the rape. The article was later retracted, which was the beginning of a social media and press storm. After the official report on the magazine’s handling of the story, the feministe response used critical facts to present a clear argument and form an essay that...
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...We also know the unlawful intentional killing of one person by another" is murder. So unless a defense applies, the intentional killing of one person by another is unlawful, and is therefore murder. That means our choices in defending against the murder charges that result from your intentional killing of another person are: 1) It wasn't your client (or more likely "they can't prove it was me") which your client is admitting to it. 2) It was your client, but it wasn't intentional (there was no mens rea) or it wasn't volitional (there was no actus reus). Your client is also admitting it was intentional so that one goes out the window. 3) It was your client, but a recognized affirmative defense applies which the defence of overexposure isn’t a recognized affirmative defense. Some types of mental defect apply to #2 ("I had a blackout and my military combat training kicked in, but I had no volitional choice in the act") Which you never had military training and were well aware of your...
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...disease is deemed mental and/or physical in nature. Frankly, whether society views addiction as a disease or choice, it is a problem and a controversial issue. The definition of drug addiction, according the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is: “the quality or state of being addicted <addiction to reading>, compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly: persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.”(“Addiction” n.d.) Numerous government and other science researchers continue to study drug addiction while addressing whether addiction is a choice or a disease. There is significantly more information that states addiction is a choice. Drug addiction may be the underlying cause of a disease. However, despite whether addiction may result in disease, addiction is a choice and it is a subject of major study and may reflect how addiction is viewed. “Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years” (Schaler, PhD, 2002). Drug concern evolved governmental responses; primarily from addiction within societies of lower class. American Medicine...
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...stating the obvious! 1 Format Date of final examination: Thursday 22 September Time: 2 pm (2 hours) This is a closed book examination. Section A Answer True / False questions. (10 marks) Section B Multiple Choice questions (10 marks) Section C Answer short structured questions (15 marks) Short essay type responses (15 marks) 2 Section D How you should prepare Define terms you have learnt in this unit and think about examples of these concepts. Review the slides and refer to the respective pages in the textbook. The summary of each chapter is also a very useful reference. Practice the exercises in the textbook and handouts / slides to reinforce your learning Practice writing essays 3 Lesson 1a & 1b Critical Thinking What is What are critical the barriers thinking? to critical Why is it thinking? important? How to develop critical thinking skills? What is an argument? How to differentiate arguments from nonarguments? 4 Lesson 1a What is Critical Thinking? Complex process of deliberation involving a range of skills and attitudes Identifying arguments Reading between the lines Drawing conclusions Evaluating Evidence Recognising techniques Presenting viewpoints Weighing arguments Reflecting on issues Critical thinking focuses on: Arguments Evaluate messages conveyed through speech, writing, performance or other media Identify the obvious and hidden messages...
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...8 Management Services Spring 2012 Efficiency nformation 5S By Dan Markovitz. llison is an anaesthesiologist at a major hospital in New York. Real estate prices being what they are in the country's most expensive city, her office is only slightly bigger than a broom closet. Every horizontal surface of Allison's office (except for her chair) is covered - no, buried - in paper: printed-out emails, regular mail, departmental memos, receipts from the last conference she attended, a decade's worth of professional journals...well, you get the idea. The place is a monument to the paper products industry. Now, given that Allison does her clinical work in the operating room and doesn't see patients in her office, you might think that the mess is without consequence. After all, it only affects her, not the surgeons or the patients. Moreover, it only interferes with the administrative aspects of her job, not critical patient care issues. But you'd be wrong. Allison's hospital is also a teaching hospital, which means that she's expected to write grants to bring in funds for academic research and she's supposed to publish her findings. Want to guess how many A papers Allison has published in the past two years? Zero. She justifies her lack of academic productivity by explaining that her clinical responsibilities are so onerous that she has no time to find available grants and apply for them. To be fair, she does work a long day...
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...another thought. After that, I forget all about my work and just think about various things such as people, places, and different times I've had in the past. For example, even while I'm writing this small paragraph, my mind keeps on slipping into other thoughts. I dont know if this happens to lots of people, but this is one problem that I have trouble the most in. Maybe this is why I'm a slow writer and don't like to write. When I write, I'm usually in my house sitting right where my computer is. One thing about me is that I hate writing anything with a pen and a paper. Most of the time when writing an essay, report, or anything else, I type it on my computer. I can probably type 50 times faster than writing by hand. I guess it's just something that I'm better at. I can type about 80-85 words per minute. If that isn't fast, then I dont know what is. When writing, I can write when it's quiet, loud, during the day, during the night, and during whatever atmosphere I'm in. Even if the whole house is quiet, I usually listen to music while typing an essay. However, the best time and the best atmosphere for me to write anything would be during late at night when everything seems pretty quiet around me. Another important thing to me when writing, is that I can not have any distractions near me or around me. Even the internet on my computer has to be disabled or else I would be tempted to surf online. • Writing is like expressing...
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...society is because it is closely associated with political language, which is heavily employed nowadays. It is used to distort words and phrases so that people are expressing their ideas whilst trying to deceive people as to avoid potential conflict. A good example of doublespeak is given by author William Lutz : “the State Department announced it was replacing the term ‘killing’ in its future reports with the phrase ‘unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life’" (Lutz, William.). Doublespeak is used to obfuscate people and make them believe they are fully aware of what’s being said when they really aren’t. People like to use doublespeak to make money and hide negativity. For example, by saying something is “gently used” when it is actually beyond use, that’s a complete distortion of truth and the person can make more money than they should off of the product. As for the use of gobbledygook in today’s society, it’s used for similar reasons: to confuse people. It’s used to make people believe that whatever it is they’re reading or seeing is official and trustworthy whereas it most likely isn’t. It’s widely used in today’s economy to make more money. An example of this is given in an article found in the New York Times: “When you’ve just invented something,” a banker once told...
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...and residual income valuation models based on the forecasts. The result is a simplified version of eVal4, the spreadsheet model that is provided with “Equity Valuation and Analysis” by Russell Lundholm and Richard Sloan, but one that you should completely understand (because you built it yourself!). To save you some time, many of the cells are completed; you only need to finish the blue-shaded ones. There are five parts to this case, corresponding to the five tasks listed above. The case requires two files: Building eVal4.xls and General Mills 10-K.pdf. Part A: Standardized Financial Statements The financial statements filed with the SEC are not standardized, meaning that the company is free to report and label line items however they please (within obvious limits). For this reason, there is an intermediary business that takes the filed financial statements and sorts the line items into a predetermined set of accounts. We will explore this important part of the reporting process in this part of the case. 1) Find the “as reported” financial statements in General Mills’s 10-K filing (in the pdf file). Compare the results with the Financial Statements sheet in Building eVal4.xls. Now compare the “as reported” financial statements with the version found at finance.yahoo.com shown in exhibit 1. How do the different versions of the financial statements compare? What has been lumped together with what? 2) The financial statement line items are themselves...
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...happens automatically for most. Just point your eyes in the direction of what you want to see and the image instantaneously appears. The inner, invisible, intangible characteristics require more than receptors and neurons to visualize. Thought and personal investment are required in the visualization of the intangible. In “Cathedral”, Raymond Carver suggests blindness is often an affliction of the heart and soul and not the eyes. Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” is a short story about a husband’s journey to enlightenment. A longtime friend of the wife comes to visit after the death of his wife. The wife meets the blind man, Robert, ten years prior while looking for a summer job. She becomes his assistant. The wife reads briefs, reports, and helps organize the blind man’s office. Over the years the wife and blind man keep in touch; corresponding by sending audio tapes through the mail (Carver). The visit from the blind man is not something the husband is excited about. He remains disconnected from the conversation most of the evening. When the wife falls to sleep, the husband is forced to engage with the blind man. With the persistence of the blind man, the husband engages in a conversation about cathedrals. It is through the process of describing the cathedrals to the blind man that the life of the...
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...The Student Bible, New International Version ® Copyright © 1986, 1992 by The Zondervan Corporation Introduction Worldview is how we see the world. It’s subjective because each person is different and has different ways of viewing things. Generations can view the world differently. Small things can change over time. For example, my daughter was reading her school supply list the other day. As she read aloud I heard “loose leaf notebook paper, notebooks, calculator, pens, hash tag 2 pencil… mom, what is a hash tag 2 pencil?” Of course I giggled out loud because this was an obvious generational thing. In my day we didn’t have social media like Twitter and Instagram. But, she has been predisposition to read a number sign as a hash tag. I explained it, but that is one example of how one generation’s view of one thing can change dramatically. Biblical worldview is how we see the world as Christians and how we relate everything back to our faith. Romans 1-8 is Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. Paul wanted to visit but was not able to so he wrote a letter. He needed to address the church because he was getting reports of its growth and it was his job to guide them in the way that they should grow. The topics Paul addressed were: the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and culture. Paul’s letter was to give them instruction on how to deal with specific situations (Hindson & Towns, 2013, p. 415) The Natural World In Romans chapter one, Paul...
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...The CREDO study done by Stanford University backs up the claim made by Minnesota Law School. The study showed that in 16 states including the District of Columbia charter schools performed at the same rate as traditional public schools. Only 17% of charter schools performed better than their traditional school counterparts. A total 37% of charters, performed worse than traditional public schools. The goal of charter schools is to better the learning environment for students, but it seems that it may be making the learning situation worse. The same study showed that charter school students on average see a decrease in their academic growth in reading and math by of .01 and .03 standard deviations, respectively. Though it is apparent that charter students in elementary and middle school grades have significantly higher rates of learning than in traditional public schools. When these students are examined at high schools and multi‐level schools they have significantly worse results. Some would argue that this disparity is due to the fact that charter schools serve a different population of students who learn differently or live in an environment that gives them a disadvantage than those in the traditional public schools that were...
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...negatively affect its consumers. Detrimental to politics, “...a sense of cynicism, distrust, and suspicion of modern politics and politicians”, otherwise known as “media malaise” (Newton, 1999) can be created by the media. Ultimately, the type, overexposure, content, and stance of the media combined with our own misinterpretations causes “media malaise” (Newton, 1999) and turns us off politics. The type and exposure of media plays a determinant role in the cause of “media malaise” (Newton, 1999). Newton (1999) discovered that while dependent on content, television can be subtly linked to “media malaise” (Newton, 1999). However, Newton (1999) also concluded that “...after controlling for income, education, gender, age, and party politics, reading a broadsheet newspaper is strongly connected with media mobilization...” (p.596). This indicates that the media’s ability to turn us off politics takes place the strongest through television as opposed to other types of media. In 2005, on average, Canadians watched a little over 3 hours of television per day and in the United States it was over 8 hours per day (www.economist.com, 2007). This trend of excessive television watching exhibits how our time allotted to television is increasing to near obsession. With this much time devoted to television, the intake of an extreme amount of political propaganda is inevitable. When this excessive information overwhelms viewers, it is a natural reaction for a viewers mind to mentally defend itself...
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...succeed. That America’s economy and the managers who plan, direct, organize, control, and staff its businesses must provide new, different, and creative approaches to meet the new competitive global environment. II) The overall managerial lesson in this reading is that management existed all the way back to the early days of civilization. Many companies have come and gone and many have reconstructed themselves to insure their futures. As a discipline, management faces new challenges and obstacles daily and some are the result of their successes but I feel some are the result of their weaknesses also. One outstanding challenge that has happened over the years is the new role of managers that are women(Mary Barra, General Motors), African Americans(Kenneth Chenault, American Express), Hispanic Americans(Oscar Muñoz, United Airlines) to name a few, and other minorities. These and other organizations will need managers who can think clearly and are capable of dealing with changes in all aspects of the companies so they can stay on top. III) What I have learned personally is that I need to make changes in my management style if I want to succeed at my job and company. I have always thought and have been told if it isn’t broke don’t fix it. I might think it’s not broke but there is always room for improvement and I need to step outside and look in to see what other people or my employees and bosses are seeing. I have also learned that companies including mine that think...
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