...Opinion over Christopher Pittman’s Adult Trial Verdict Name Professor Institution Date Just to quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. words, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Human beings are not entirely fit. Thus judges just like any other human being are bound to make mistakes in dispensing justice. However, Judges are obliged to be ever watchful and mindful in their endeavors of delivering justice. Every day, all over US judges dispense justice to convicted persons and defendants. However, absolute justice ideally is hardly realizable across board since its effectiveness demands human infallibility. Although it might be even harder to reap justice, justice is achievable and pursuit for justice remains a noble order. In this case, a 12 years old boy, Christopher Pittman from the state of South Carolina on February 15, 2005 shot his two grandparents using his father’s shotgun while they lay on their beds, he then set the house on fire, drove his grandparents truck and fled with cash and weapons in his possession. The petitioner, Pittman was only 12 years of age when he committed this malicious acts. He was charged with premeditated murder and put on an adult court for trial. Christopher Pittman’s defense team claimed that young Christopher Pittman remained an innocent child because he still could not differentiate what was right or wrong while under influence of Zoloft, an antidepressant. The defense urged the court to consider Pitman a child thus unable...
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...Taking a step away from the specifics of the situation in the Dominican Republic, an issue that warrants conversation is the power of terminology in the shaping of arguments and public perception. Andrew Shacknove provides that insight in his article “Who is a Refugee” (1985), employing the term ‘refugee’. He argues that the current definition of refugee is too narrow, excluding a large number of people from assistance; instead, he argues that refugee-hood’ should be based on the premise of a severed relationship between the citizen and the state, while acknowledging that the bond can be severed in diverse ways, persecution being but one physical manifestation out of many (Shacknove, 1985). In this article, there is a reluctance to use the...
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...When I was watching the video, I was trying to think more like a writer and about the analysis part. I realized he talked in a very stern tone which he did that to get the point across. He starts out the speech with a little bit of background with slaves and the decloration of independance which helps makes his argument stronger becuase people know a little bit of where everything originated. He pursuades the audiance by saying how much better life would be if everyone was equal throughout the whole speech. For example, he says “And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.” Meaning America cannot be a good nation until it changes its ways. The reason he said the speech was to persuade America that everyone should be equal....
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...(Name) (Instructors’ name) (Course) (Date) Action on Climate Change Problem Definition and Knowledge on Climate Knowledge The world is continuously experiencing the terrifying impacts of climate change. Most recently, portions of Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic and Caribbean United States of America were hit by Hurricane Sandy, which later developed into a super storm. Scientists had previously warned that climatic changes have increased the likelihood of occurrence of hurricanes of such magnitude. Other effects of climate change that continue to be experienced include increased frequency of droughts, decrease in crop productivity, water stress and the rising of sea levels. The problem is that these effects of climate change are predicted to worsen since the global average temperature continues to increase. Governments have set and embarked on a global goal, aimed at limiting the degree of warming to below 2oC above pre-industrial levels by 2100. From a scientific standpoint, it is unfortunate that there continues to be a significant gap between the actualities of global emissions, and the level of mitigation on climate change that is required to stay below 2oC by 2020 (Bowen and Ranger, 16). From a political and philosophical context, there are actions and commitments for both the short and long-terms, which had been agreed upon in previous conferences such as Copenhagen 2009, and agreements such as the Bali Road Map of...
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...Asia-Pacific Development Journal Vol. 8, No. 1, June 2001 ISSUES IN TAX REFORMS Azizul Islam* This paper seeks to describe the principles that have guided recent tax reforms in Asian developing countries. It critically examines the purported rationale underlying these reforms and raises some issues connected with these reforms. The paper first discusses the new direction of the perceived role of taxation as a macroeconomic tool and the principles which have formed the basis of recent tax reforms. It then analyses the implications of the application of these principles for the level and structure of taxes. It concludes with a summary of the key issues raised in the paper. Developing countries implemented an array of major economic reforms during the 1980s and the 1990s. Tax reforms formed an integral part of these reforms. The impetus for tax reforms was provided by a number of domestic and external factors (ADB, 1993). The last two decades were marked by a fundamental reassessment in developing countries of the role of the Government in economic development. There was a discernible shift in favour of assigning a greater role to the private sector, including foreign enterprises. This required re-examination of the structure of tax systems. Faced with declining external assistance, many Governments came under pressure to reduce budgetary deficits in the interest of macroeconomic stability. Multilateral development agencies required deficit reduction as a precondition...
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...For this analysis, the topic of illegal drugs will be traced across three different television serials that vary in genre. In each programme illegal drugs are a pivotal element to the storyline, with close reference to youth involvement. This analysis will investigate how different televisual forms shape the way illegal drug use is understood and made visible across three different genres of television with reference to youth involvement. In addition, this analysis will discuss to what extent this representation of illegal drugs assists in legitimating themes of drug use and how these representations have shifted throughout history. This analysis will explore the representation of illegal drug in Workaholics, 90210 and Arrow. The mass media are commonly seen to reflect and shape social attitudes and behaviours; therefore it is likely that representations of teen characters in film and television will assist in defining what normative behaviours and actions are for teen viewers (Stern 331). This contributes to the argument that television can influence and young viewers are using these representations to authenticate their behaviours according to the dominant values represented on television. The repetitive portrayal of drug use on television can be seen to glamorise drug use and provide an overabundance, and inaccurate representation of drugs (Long et al. 96). As it is more commonly discussed and glamorised, it becomes more likely that young people will associate substance use...
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...The Surrogate Motherhood Controversy POSC 450.001 Senior Seminar October 24, 2009 The Surrogate Motherhood Controversy Introduction “A surrogate mother feels like a flesh covered test tube during the entire experience. As the fetus grows the women is depersonalized and she become fragmented from the whole person –merely a vehicle for breeding babies.” There is a huge controversy of whether surrogate motherhood should be legal. This controversy has started huge debates worldwide. It has brought attention to doctors, sociologists, feminists, historians, and people of different cultures, races, classes and religions. The major overwhelming arguments is that the act of surrogacy should be illegal. The issues and objections surrounding the surrogate motherhood is that it is considered baby selling, finding the legality of its contracts, and the class of people, whether they are rich or poor. The other concerns are the traditional rights of the birth mothers, the psychological impact of these children who are born under these contracts. The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and analyze the controversy of a surrogate mother. The paper will find the reasons of why women want to become surrogate mothers. This paper will examine the different viewpoints that have been in conflict for many years. The paper will reveal how some women chose to become surrogate mothers just for the money and that some do it because they want to help couples who...
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...The Surrogate Motherhood Controversy The Surrogate Motherhood Controversy Introduction “A surrogate mother feels like a flesh covered test tube during the entire experience. As the fetus grows the women is depersonalized and she become fragmented from the whole person –merely a vehicle for breeding babies.” There is a huge controversy of whether surrogate motherhood should be legal. This controversy has started huge debates worldwide. It has brought attention to doctors, sociologists, feminists, historians, and people of different cultures, races, classes and religions. The major overwhelming arguments is that the act of surrogacy should be illegal. The issues and objections surrounding the surrogate motherhood is that it is considered baby selling, finding the legality of its contracts, and the class of people, whether they are rich or poor. The other concerns are the traditional rights of the birth mothers, the psychological impact of these children who are born under these contracts. The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and analyze the controversy of a surrogate mother. The paper will find the reasons of why women want to become surrogate mothers. This paper will examine the different viewpoints that have been in conflict for many years. The paper will reveal how some women chose to become surrogate mothers just for the money and that some do it because they want to help couples who cannot produce children. This paper will also show...
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...Charles E. Scott tactfully accounts for the emergence of political subjects into the public “normative” strata and how those new subjects make possible new knowledge and personal and institutional transformations in his essay titled The Birth of Political Subjects: Individuals, Foucault, and the Boundary Experiences. Scott begins his essay by defining the word “facticity” and characterizing its importance in determining different inclinations and predispositions among individuals and institutions concerning those who belong among the “normal” political subjects as part of the “we”. However, one must tread cautiously when believing facticity itself and determining our own reasonable sense of who belongs and who are excluded. Scott states that “frequently conflictual situations can trespass our secure boundaries of sense” (Taking Facticity Seriously 21). While these potential encroachments can warp our sense of facticity, such as through Scott’s pool ownership example, they give us opportunities to think differently from the way we previously thought and potentially value things differently as well. Our senses of facticity stem from limits defined by the operations of our meanings, beliefs, economic conditions, social relations and identities, etcetera and our disposition towards familiarity linked to those limits. It is often through our outlooks produced by those familiarities that we see the world and who belongs in it with “us”. Scott then moves towards the methods of Foucault...
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...evaluation of some performance measurements in this essay, it will be easier to understand their existence and apply acquired knowledge in the future, as a management accountant professional. Considering divisional organizations it is important to distinguished between the managerial performance, where only directly controlled items includes, namely direct costs (which level depends on manager’s efficiency and acquired leadership skills) and divisional performance measurement because outcome of manager performance might not reflect the market recession that division is struggling with (Drury, 2008). Therefore in order to presents reliable view of division performance the assumption should be appointed on controllable contribution. Drury arguments that: 2it measure the ability of managers to use the resources under their control effectively”. The most popular ratio used by vast majority of international companies is Return on Investment (ROI), which is extracted by dividing the divisional profit over the investments engaged. It is presented as a percentage, thus can be readily comparable with diverse scale of divisions within the organization (Lucey,2003)....
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...another investee’s money to pay off another investor’s investment profit. Madoff had all the big banks like J.P. Morgan, Bears and Stern, and AIG in his Ponzi fraud (Gregoriou, Greg N.). If these banks had checks and balances of the Glass-Steagall Act, the banks would have to follow the laws of Glass-Steagall Act. Investment in speculative securities, also the securities exchange would have checked on Madoff’s deposits to prove his funds profits on daily bases through a clearinghouse (Gregoriou, Greg N.). One over site in Madoff’s securities had their own clearinghouse. While repealing the Glass-Steagall Act did not in its self-cause, the next great economic fall of 2008 it played a major...
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...The Strategic Use of Drones in Modern Warfare Caleb E. Moore IS 3310 Troy University Author Note This article is intended solely for research and will have no biased opinions. Table of Contents 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title page. 2------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Table of Contents. 3-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract. 4-5 --------------------------------------------The Strategic Use of Drones in Modern Warfare. 5-6 ----------------------------------------------------------The Effectiveness of Drone Warfare. 6-7 –-----------------------------------------------------------------The Financial Cost of Drones. 7-8 –-----------------------------------------------------The Operational Capabilities of Drones. 8-9 –-------------------------------------------------------------------- Fueling Anti-Americanism. 9-10-------------------------------------------------------The Limitations of Drone Capabilities. 10-12 –------------------------------------------------------------------------The Future of Drones. 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reference Page. Abstract The emergence of drone warfare has completely revolutionized the strategy of our military surveillance and fights overseas. This study is intended to analyze...
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...Referring to the above Butt et al, 2003: 182 adds that ‘The relation between context and meanings is dynamic and reversible.’ The following is a complement of analysis already provided in sections: 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this assignment. 7.1 Register analysis: Field, Tenor and Mode Register is ‘the configuration of semantic resources that the member of a culture typically associates with a situation type’ (Halliday, 1978: 111). The story originates from America and it is reported by British press to the British audience. However, the cultural and the social understanding of the account of events is in this case the same. Register Daily Mail Text Daily Express Text Field The field of discourse is realised by the representational function of the experiential meanings of language that allows us to convey picture of our reality and encode meanings of...
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...westlund@hhs.se Prof. Fritz Fahrni University of St. Gallen, Director of the Institute for Technology Management Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland Phone: +41-71-224-7201 fritz.fahrni@unisg.ch Thomas Pock Research Scholar, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan National Quality Research Center 701 Tappan Street, 48103 Ann Arbor, MI, USA Phone: +1-734-709-1036 tpock@bus.umich.edu rewrite abstract according to instructions Abstract Purpose – The paper provides a well-founded analysis of situation specific drivers and limitations to quality targets and the complexity of Management Control Systems. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on prior case study results and uses a descriptive quantitative approach based on financial data from Stern Stewart Co. and data on customer satisfaction from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Findings – It is underscored that the way companies can and should deal with a strategic target as...
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...1. Introduction Social and environmental accounting has been increasingly important in the organisation because the society has become more industrial-dominant since 1990s (Deegan and Unerman, 2006, pp. 317). Disclosure of social and environmental accounting has regarded as a core reporting method among organisations and it has been eventually separated from the statement of the financial position (Deegan and Unerman, 2011, pp. 385). In the late 1990s, triple bottom line reporting, which considers that economic, social and environmental areas are equally important (Elkington, 1997), but unfortunately, with the higher demand of more integrated reporting, it has been replaced (Deegan and Unerman, 2011, pp. 386). This responsibility also embraces the social and environmental reporting practices on the basis of the personal judgement (Deegan and Unerman, 2006, pp. 318). Social and environment reporting can be defined as the process of the communication with particular stakeholder groups within society regarding the social and environmental impacts of the organisation (Gray, Owen and Maunders, 1987, pp. ix). It has been argued that the accounting standards which deal with this social and environmental sector appear to be somewhat meagre although there are some frameworks in terms of sustainability reporting (Gray et al, 1997). Hence, there may be some claims that an accounting standard regarding social and environmental issues needs to be established while others might think that...
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