...Legal Advice LEG100: Business Law Florida is a state which has been endowed with immense potential in regards to companies which offer their services (Jennings, 2008 ). On top of the list of some of the renowned companies within this state are companies which are in the transport sector. Businesses and those who own interests need to know their rights and obligations. What is legal? Where can I find the laws I need to know? How do I make decisions about legal conduct that, personally, is morally or ethically troublesome to me? This is because these are aspects which enable the businesses to grow and gain momentum. It is important for businesses to know the aspects of businesses which are of value. This is because these aspects enable the businessmen to work in accordance with the law. In this case, there are several purposes of business law. It is worth noting that there are two types of law. Public law includes laws that are enacted by some authorized government body. State and federal constitutions and statues are all examples of public laws, are the federal constitutions and statutes are all examples of public laws, as are the federal securities laws, state incorporation and partnership procedures, and zoning laws (Jennings M. , 2005). Private law, on the other hand, is developed between two individuals. For example, landlords usually have regulations for their tenants, and these regulations are private laws (Jennings M. , 2005). First, purposes of the law...
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...LEG100: LEGAL ADVICE Carolyn Locklear Strayer University Professor Tonya Fewell December 6, 2011 The company I chose is Family Dollar who opened their first store in 1959 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their headquarters is in Matthews, North Carolina. On September 27, 2011 Family Dollar announced that it has named Michael K. Bloom to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer and promoted Dorlisa K. Flur to the position of Vice Chair, Strategy and Chief Administrative Officer. Both Mr. Bloom and Ms. Flur will report to Howard Levine, Chairman and CEO. These appointments follow the announced retirement of R. James Kelly as Family Dollar's President and Chief Operating Officer after 15 years with the Company. (Wall Street Journal) Howard Levine believes that the new change would enhance and take the company to the next level. Mr. Levine commended Mr. R. James Kelly for his 15 years of commendable work and bringing Family Dollar where it is today; however over the next six months Mr. Kelly will assist on the new plans for the company. Some of the major plans Family Dollar have over the next couple of years with the new administration are in connection with the appointment of Mr. Garden to the Family Dollar Board, the Company entered into an agreement with Trian Partners and certain of its affiliates. Trian was founded in November 2005, Trian Fund Management, L.P. ("Trian Partners") is an investment firm whose Principals are Nelson Peltz, Peter May...
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...Legal advice for Mr John Smith 5th of December 2012 Dear Mr Smith, Thank you for your phone call last week requesting a legal advice. In this letter, I will provide you with my legal opinion concerning the facts you gave to me so you can make a qualified decision regarding the charges you face. First I will restate the facts, as I know them, to confirm their accuracy. Next, I will give you my opinion on whether a conviction for insider dealing is a potentiality. In your phone call you said, that you have received a call from City of London Police who wanted you to come in for an interview under caution due to evidence stating that you have been insider dealing. Regarding the facts of the case you explain, that you work for Stevens Management buying and selling orders and your wife works in the financial department in Transeit, a company which has been taken over by Microsoft. Before the offer from Microsoft became public the shares in Transeit shot up in value. According to the claim from the police exactly three days before the offer became public you excluded a sale of 500 Transeit shares. What makes your situation problematic is the fact that you had access to confidential information about the offer before it was made public due to your wife’s work. Whether you excluded the shares in your own name or in the name of the company your work for may also be relevant to the case. Due to the facts you have presented me it seem that the police have a strong case against you....
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...30/11/2013 Rhetorical Analysis of Advice to a Friend on Choosing Mistress Advice to a Friend on Choosing Mistress is a letter written by Benjamin Franklin in June 25th 1745 to his friend. The speech of this letter is essentially communicated to single men. The author gave advices particularly to his friend on which type of woman he should date if he is not ready to get married. Franklin preceded his lustful consulting by an apology for the marriage, recalling his friend how much carnal pleasures are favourable in a legal and recognized union. In his message, Franklin advises his friend that marriage is the best solution not for only sexual desires but also the undisputable source of solid happiness. Having suspicions that his friend would not follow his guidance, Franklin recommends him to choose older mistresses instead of younger ones and lists eight valuables reasons to better support his argument. Franklin commences his essay by presenting advantages of the marriage. He says ‘’ I know of no medicine fit to diminish the violent inclinations you mention…Marriage is the proper remedy. It is most natural state of man and therefore the state in which you can are most likely to find solid happiness’’. Through those sentences, Franklin seems to estimate that from a masculine’ view, one of the main advantages of the marriage is to bring pacification toward requirements of the flesh. The recipient of the letter who was the friend of the author seemed to be looking for...
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...Natasha Foxworth Spring -A 2012 “The Complications of the ‘Mother/ Daughter’ relationships” Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” (1978) is a short story; single sentence of advice a mother imparts to her daughter. Her daughter only twice interrupts the mother to ask a question and defend herself. The advice is meant to be useful but it is also demeaning. It seemed to be meant to help her daughter to have a productive life but also to scold her at the same time. In general, a mother tends to think highly of their daughters and wants to teach them all of the important aspects of life. The reality of the matter is that a Mother can only teach her child from her own experiences, weather the experiences are positive or negative. This is why I feel that “Girl”, shows the various ways that a relationship between a mother and daughter can be complicated. A mother’s womanhood, self-esteem, vulnerability and education all plays a major roles on how she instructs her daughter. The online resource enotes.com, “Girl: Introduction”, states that Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in 1949. Native of Antigua, in the British West Indies, but changed her name when she started writing because her family disliked her career choice. She went to New York at the age of 17, taking a job as a nanny. During this time she met New Yorker columnist George S. Trow, who eventually helped her publish in the magazine. Much of Kincaid’s work deals with the ramifications of Antigua’s...
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...Overview This design is geared more towards a more selective approach for the students to play with. In the event, a generated transcript will be derived from the users input or previous information submitted by the student. This technology gives students the means to effectively find university courses and produce a class schedule following the students’ preferences. Hopefully, as group we can try to integrate this course scheduler with enterprise information systems such as PeopleSoft. The system allows students to input their desired university courses and produces a set of schedules optimized around student time constraints, course specifications, and specified schedule prioritization preferences. Overall, this system is to be implemented so it reduces time spent by staff on academic advising. Out of the three designs, this design we are pushing this specific approach to be more internal power considering we are CIS students. This focus is push more towards the technology students that way an easier scheduling and not much of hassle conflicting with other courses at the university. With this, not much of a technological expert is required since the system will user frienldy and does not require much thinking. The goal is have all information be generated just from a click of the mouse. Usage Scenario The student see's their repsected advisor to be advised upon receiving the course load for the following academic year or semester. Using the system, following institution-provided...
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...Kendy S. Sumlin Mrs. Nettles English 0090 29 June 2014 Three advice I would give myself if I can go back in time Time is something most people don’t have much of these days. Time passes by so fast! People end-up making decisions that at the end, changes their lives. If I had the chance to visit myself back in time, it would be at sixteen years old. Teenagers think they know it all, just like I use to think. I’ve noticed that time is short, and my decisions affected my future. I would choose to visit myself at my house, sitting on the couch, when I would start talking to myself; advising myself on topics that impact life. If I would could have heard myself, my outcome would be different. At this age I started looking for advice, and unfortunately I didn’t find any. I would advise myself to first get a solid education, give myself time to find that special person, and lastly, not hold resentment. First advice would be to get a solid education. When I was sixteen, my dad gave a car to my older sister for her birthday. We both went to the same high school. My sister would skip school all the time, but hated to go by herself. She would take me on ride along with her. I really thought she was cool and anything she did was great. I looked up to her because she would do things that I was never allowed to do. Things took a turn when I became a young adult. Since I didn’t finish school, I ended up getting a low paying job. It is very hard to live on minimum wage when you have...
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...help and guide individuals towards their goals. Mentors are there to help from their heart and not personal gain. There are a lot of different types of organization groups that provide mentors like a organization called SCORE. SCORE is an organization that Provides free and confidential counseling, mentoring and advice to small business owners nationwide via its network of more than 12,400 retired business executives, leaders and volunteers. SCORE is sponsored by SBA and has volunteers share their expertise through in-person and online counseling (Steps to finding a mentor). When it comes to trying to find a good mentor there are some steps I like to follow which include making sure that the person I pick is someone who I would like to build a relationship with and someone who is willing to teach and advise me. First I would pick a mentor that is a positive role model (either a male or female) who has a good reputation and is admire by their peers. Second, I want a mentor who is a good listener and someone who will be able to tell me my weakness as well as my strengths. Also when it comes to getting feedback from my mentor I aspect not to be lecture but given advice on a solution. Third, I would like to find a mentor that will level with me and give me the honest truth because I do not want someone who is just going to tell me what I want to here. Another way I like to search for a mentor is to find someone that is nothing like me. I want a mentor that disagree with me but...
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...wanted to thank them because of developing our project and they are also willingly to help us out with their abilities. I would like to express my special gratitude and thanks to the hardware stores for giving me such time and attention. They also help us to find our needed materials in their store. To our principal, who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project which also helped us to do a lot of research and I came to know about so many new things. I am really thankful to her. To my group members, who help me to assemble the parts and gave suggestion about our investigatory project. To the panel, especially during the project presentation that has improved our presentation skill, thanks to their comment and advices. To our friends, who helped us a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame. To the other groups for sharing their truthful and illuminating views on a number of issues related to the project. I would also like to thank the WIKIPEDIA.ORG for giving us the needed information on how did the copper-zinc-vinegar generate electricity. To my cousin for helping me out to finish and construct this acknowledgement letter and her invaluably constructive criticism and friendly...
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...Formula of Success This report recommends ways to overcome the challenges faced in the business field. The advices came from an interview with Mudit Sethi, who works in the Financial Department of Chase Headquarter in Chicago. Mr. Sethi majored in Finance at UIC and joined Chase after graduating four years ago. He graduated during the financial crisis; therefore, most of his advices involve the crisis and how he managed to find a suitable job during the crisis. His advices are being interested in the work, being committed to the work, and being able to incorporate changes and use them to the advantage. When asked about the importance of writing in finance, he characterized it as essential part of any business. His advices motivate students to pursue the career of their choice with determination. He further elaborated each important advice by giving example from his personal experience. Interest in the work The first challenge that any person faces involves finding a suitable career that best suits their personality. The challenge involves finding work that will keep a person interested for the rest of his/her life. Mr. Sethi faced similar challenge while getting started at UIC. It was the time of financial crisis, and Mr. Sethi knew that finding work during the crisis would be difficult. But, he was so interested in the Finance field that he took the challenge and continued to study Finance at UIC. However, he did find it difficult to find work as soon as he graduated. He...
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... Is good old-fashioned intuition out of date? What do YOU think? by James Heskett In the last several years, a veritable tsunami of advice on how to make decisions has hit the Internet and what few shelves remain in our local bookstores. The advice is a distant relative of early ideas about decision theory in which we were advised to construct decision trees, mapping outcomes, attaching values to each one, and estimating probabilities that various combinations of outcomes might occur. Judgment entered into the construction of the resulting "decision trees," but the process itself was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, to "think twice" by Michael Mauboussin, and to think "fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman. The replacement of customs and biases with data, "big" or "small," has been intended, at least in part, to drive out such things as tradition, habit, and even superstition in endeavors ranging from child rearing to professional sports. After all, wasn't the book and film, Moneyball, at least in part a glorification of the triumph of statistics and probabilities over intuition and managerial judgment in professional baseball? Two recent books add to the genre of advice on decision-making. One advises us how to make better decisions. The other helps us ensure that we don't allow our decisions to get sidetracked...
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...adequately represent you. We have been engaged by Mrs. Susan A. Smith to review, advise and consult on the various tax aspects of different reorganization options regarding her ownership in KSA Industries, Inc. and its underlying investments including its investment in the Tennessee Titans. It is possible that our advice could be more or less beneficial from a tax perspective to one shareholder vs another shareholder. After carefully considering all the facts and circumstances, we believe that our firm can continue to represent all the affected parties in accordance with our professional responsibilities and the terms of our arrangement letter(s). We wish to make you aware of certain considerations relating to this representation and rules governing tax practitioners require that we obtain a signed waiver of any potential conflict of interest that may arise as a result of our representation described above. Please carefully consider the following implications of our representation: * Any information obtained during joint representation of parties is not confidential as to the other jointly represented parties. Any such information may be used in providing advice to any or all of the jointly represented parties. * Because of an actual or perceived potential for conflict, we cannot advise you...
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...like how she was always the voice of reason and gave people advice. She saw the good in people and gave everyone the benefit of the doubt. Even though Bertha’s husband Seth did not understand the other men in the boardinghouse, his wife Bertha tried to. Bertha tried to calm her husband down when he was upset. When Seth thought that the other people in the house were crazy and weird and wanted to kick them out, Bertha advised against it. I am definitely like Bertha when it comes to friends and strangers. I always try to give people a chance before I judge them. I am always there for my friends if they need me and give them advice. I especially give great advice to my female friends about men just as Bertha did with Mattie. Bertha says, “And I wouldn't waste my time fretting over Jeremy either. I seen it coming. I seen it when she first come here. She that kind of woman run off with the first man got a dollar to spend on her. Jeremy just young. He don't know what he getting into” (Act 2, Scene 3). Bertha is trying to tell Mattie that Jeremy is young and he does not know what he wants so Mattie should just leave him alone. Bertha ends up being right because when Molly comes to the boardinghouse Jeremy’s interests move to her instead. This shows just how unstable and confused Jeremy is and Bertha tries to warn Mattie but she does not listen. Mattie ends up running after Herald. I am much like Bertha in giving my friends advice and they do not listen to it and it ends up backfiring on...
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...LEG 100 Business Law 1 Assignment “Marriott International Legal Advice” Gregory Budd Professor John F. Rodgers August 19, 2011 About Marriott International Marriott International Inc. is a leading worldwide hospitality company with hotels and resorts world-wide from USA to their recently opened property in Pune, India. Marriott strives to personalize each person’s stay through new and innovative ways. Marriott International has multiple brands under the Marriott name to include; The Ritz Carlton® Hotel Company, LLC, JW Marriott®, Bulgari Hotel and Resorts®, Edition TM (“Signature”), Renaissance Hotels, Autograph Collection, AC Hotels, Courtyard®, Fairfield Inn & Suites®, Springhill Suites®, Residence Inn®, TownePlace Suites®, Execustay®, and Marriott Executive Apartments. Marriott International also has a timeshare business which is positioned for further growth by the end of 2011. They are Marriott Vacation Club®, The Ritz Carlton Destination Club®, and Grand Residences by Marriott®. In total Marriott International lodging portfolio includes 3,545 properties and timeshare resorts comprising of 618,000 rooms in 70 countries and territories. Marriott International has several initiatives plan within the next 3 to 5 years. Marriott International’s biggest and continuously ongoing initiative is grater exposure in the global community by investing and protecting the world’s natural resources by “addressing environmental challenges through innovative conservation initiatives...
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...“Don’t be too close to him, you’re too young, you might get hurt.” These are some pieces of advice I could still remember when I felt a strange feeling of happiness, a feeling wherein it seemed that my heart is jumping up and down. Asking myself, am I in love? But then because of my immaturity, I disregard my parents’ advice. I let myself being close to him and unfortunately, in the end I got dumped and left alone full of pain and all I can do is to cry. I think this is usual to us in our adolescence days. There really comes a time wherein what we want is contradicting to our parents’ wants for us and because of this we feel that we are deprive of our freedom to choose. I can still remember the days when I was courted by someone for almost three years. Everyday my parents always gave me advice on this thing. There came a point that we quarrel because I get irritated because they keep on advising me. But, then I never answered him because it seems I felt it is not yet the right time for me to be committed to someone. I said that let’s just be happy on what we are now, I thought he understands me but then just right after my 18th birthday, he texted me and said that he needed space and he just go away explaining nothing. In that way I ended up hating him. This experience was the most regretful in my 18 years of existence, for not following my parents. I am not the only one who was hurt but also my parents who wants nothing but the best for me. I disappointed them; and even if...
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