...briefing paper is an overview of what I will include in my individual paper in which I will discuss the main choices in more detail. 2. Background This briefing paper is to prepare me for my final academic paper. This briefing paper will be correctly referenced and will inform my tutor on how I will complete my final paper due in week 14. Once I have completed this paper I will write an action plan which will give the details of the various tasks I will undertake and I will also allocate deadlines in order to complete those tasks. For my individual paper I have chosen to critically examine the challenges and choices HR managers now face in regard to work life balance and wellness. My briefing paper will focus on the above title and I will cover many areas which include what I know about the subject already, what my arguments could be and my supporting evidence, drafting the final individual paper and I will also include a paragraph which will be the introduction to the final paper. 3. Findings 3.1 - What the assignment is asking me to do This assignment is asking me to critically examine the challenges and choices HR managers now face in regard to work life balance and wellness. In this assignment I will analyse my chosen topic and brief my tutor on how I will complete my final paper as well as correctly referencing throughout the briefing and the individual paper using the Harvard referencing system. 3.2 - What I know about the subject already Work life balance is...
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...This is similar to the Reign of Heaven where there are good people and there are bad people. The wheat represents the good and the weeds the bad. At the end of the harvest, the harvesters will separate the good from the bad; just like at the final judgement God will separate the good from the bad. Next, The Parable of the Mustard Seed shows the idea of growth. It shows that the Reign of Heaven, like a mustard seed may start out small, but can grow and flourish in the end. This shows that when the good news of God is spread that the Reign of Heaven will grow just like the mustard seed did. In The Parable of the Yeast, the Reign of Heaven is compared to yeast. Jesus uses the yeast rising as a symbol for the power of God. This parable shows the possibility of seeing the power...
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...deontological because it has primary precepts which are to do with duty, and secondary which apply to circumstances. Thomas Aquinas based Natural Law on Aristotle’s teaching about causality. In Aristotle Final cause and purpose are important when trying to give an explanation of a thing. Eg. the final cause of a knife is to cut. Aristotle thought this is what made a good knife. Something is good inasmuch as it fulfills its purpose. (The most important cause is the final cause which when achieved by an object it reaches perfection – because it has moved from potentiality to actuality eg. a potential A grade student becomes an actual one through application of hard work. ) The contrast with other senses of the word good can be brought out if we consider that a good knife can be used to perform a bad deed – ie. to stab a person. However, if it cut cleanly it would be good in the sense of doing what it was made for. This use of the word good is taken up in Aquinas and used in his theory. What is clear for a knife is not so clear for humans – what is our purpose? Ultimately, God Himself is the final purpose of human beings – our goals are not merely temporal, but eternal, because we have an immortal soul. However, we also have temporal purposes, which could be summarised as to live and flourish in certain ways discoverable by reason. Thomas Aquinas believed that Natural Law was part of a hierarchy of laws that are part of the cosmos created by God. God created everything via the Eternal...
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...Michelle Lyda Jessica Hutchman English 113 9 November 2011 Casual Wear In the fast-paced world of today’s news and media, the true meaning and emotion of many leading stories is lost in the endless reel of current events. James Merrill constructs his poem, “Casual Wear,” in a similar fashion; the first eight lines of the poem distantly describe a female tourist and a male terrorist, not as people, but as statistics. It is only in the final two lines of the poem that Merrill injects any emotion into the work and connects the two seemingly unrelated individuals. In “Casual Wear,” Merrill uses contrasting viewpoints to convey both the resolution of the terrorist and the direness of the death of the tourist. Most of “Casual Wear” focuses on “your average tourist” and “your average terrorist;" it is not until the last two lines that the poem reveals, indirectly, that the terrorist is responsible for killing the woman, who is given the title, in the last two words of the poem, “wife” (Merrill 907). The unexpected outcome provides the reader with the fierce shock of reality on a personal level. Since the only name given to the woman is “wife” and the odds were “1 to 910 against her strolling past the Embassy,” the reader is given the impression that this is something that could happen to anyone, anywhere (Merrill 907). The shift in tone from detached to very personal provides the reader with the stark contrast between a generalized newscast and the very personal level on...
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...achievements of the Umayyad Dynasty came from their changes to government. They created a centralized Arabic coinage system to connect the empire, they developed the jizya tax system for conquered people to support the empire, they empowered Arabs to replace others and take places as high level officials, they increased communication around the empire from a postal system, and they made Arab the official state language of the empire. The Umayyad Dynasty also led to a flourish in architecture, including the construction of two of the greatest sites in the entire Islamic world, the Dome of the Rock and the Umayyad Mosque. Intellectually, the Umayyad Dynasty achieved by creating a center of learning in Cordoba. Here there were over 70 libraries, the largest of which boasted over 500,000 volumes. The universities and law schools here were highly sought after, and thousands came to Cordoba to study. Overall, the Umayyad Dynasty was a highly achieving time where the world of Islam flourished. Unfortunately, the Umayyad Dynasty found its end from a combined number of problems. It began sometime around their military loss in Spain to a Byzantine army. The empire then began to experience a financial crisis from a lowering of taxes on non-Arab people of the empire, as well as feuds between...
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...of both Anaya and Márquez are different but similar from each other, Anaya aims to show the self-reliance an individual often needs in order to flourish and Márquez shows that humans often find extraordinary influence from the ordinary to flourish; but, the means to which the accomplish...
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...summit he faces many challenges far beyond the physical, which by the end change him for the better. The once selfish teenager learns to put others first. He learns to measure his success not by the final goal but the path he took. This climb opens his mind to the importance of the relationships he has and that family may not always be what meets the eye. Sometimes it can take a life changing experience to make a difference in one’s personality. Lacking in the empathy department, Peak’s life is initially very self-centred. It is in the first chapter Peak learns about a boy dying because he attempts the same climb up the skyscraper. Despite Peak feeling sorry for...
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...Non-sustainable Practices All four Riordan Manufacturing plants share similarities regarding processing and production. During the production process molding begins after plastic pallets are heated through a screw barrel and converted into a liquid state. Plastic parts are created by pressure injecting the liquid plastic in to a mold. Once the mold has been filled excess liquid plastic remains on contact points around the mold. The excess plastic has to be trimmed and removed before the final product can be approved for further assembly. The excess trimmings are treated as waste and are disposed of according. This process of disposal is harmful to the environment. The plastic trimmings end up in landfills leaching chemicals into the ground possibly contaminating underground water supplies. Knoblauch (2011), Production of plastics is a major user of fossil fuels resulting in eight percent of world oil production which goes into manufacturing plastics (The environmental toll of plastics ). When petroleum is processed into plastic, it is no longer biodegradable, and as such can clog up landfills indefinitely ("Do Biodegradable Items Really Break Down In Landfills?", 2012). Plastic in any size or form is resilient to the point that buried deep underground cannot keep plastic from contaminating or impacting the environment. Currently, plastic accounts for approximately 10 percent of generated waste, most of which is in landfills (Knoblauch, 2011). Riordan Manufacturing...
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...urges our imagination to sense a confusion of the usual human order, a reverse of human values, a world of darkness and foulness, a sinister challenge to ordinary goodness. Noble values of goodness and beauty are reversed in the threatening and confusing atmosphere of ‘fog and filthy air’. They seem to know the outcome of the battle before the battle is over. The opening creates a worrying vacuum in which evil can flourish. SCENE II Shakespeare seems particularly interested in depicting heroic soldiers such as Macbeth whose undoubted valour on the battlefield is tragically no help to them in other kinds of situations. The military alarum is a contrast to the thunder and lightning of the first scene, the play shifts from the wide world of the witches to the place where the royal authority is demonstrated. The main focus of this scene is to show Macbeth's virtues and his loyalty to king Duncan, which will contrast to the description of him later on in the play. The size and importance of the battle amplify the qualities of Macbeth. The final line of the scene – ‘what he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won’ – reminds us of line 4 in scene...
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...Difference between Heterocrony and Paedomorphisism ● paedomorphasis is one type of heterochrony ○ = juvenille of the ancestor looks like the adult of descendant ○ Ex: salamanders that stay in the water as adults=they can keep the gills of juvenile form and stay in the water ○ Ex: human evolution; dog breeds in lab ○ ex: Dog Labtruncated development so various breeds of dogs looked like juveniles of wolf ○ ex: pedomorphic foxes that came from the breeding of them for tameness ● paramorphasis ○ = adult of ancestor looks like juvenille of descendant ○ Ex: Irish elk = a simple extension of the growth of the antlers ■ an extension of the development of the juvenile Mosaic Evolution: ● = “different rates for different traits” ● Some parts of the body develop at different rates or at different times than othersdifferent morphological features change at different times in Jablonski’s words ● EX: birds; these early birdshad feathers and wish bone also had teeth in skull and welldeveloped claws in forelimbs like ancestral dinosaurs ● Tetrapods had flattened tail to swim in water but at the same time had limbs for land ● Humans: upright posture came before the enlargement of the brain ● Mammals; whaleswhalelike ears and aspects of skull but vertebral column; still had hindlimbs ● organisms tend to be modularso head can evolve separately from limbs, body, aspects of behavior Amniotic Egg: ● Huge leap in terms of animals the reproduce that way...
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...This has allowed drug cartels and guerilla militias to flourish since then to the present time. In the sections below, I will show how current events and threats have occurred and will conclude with my short and long term assessment of what the state of Colombia will be in the future. Current Events Even though President Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, has been undergoing peace talks with the FARC in Cuba, there has still been ongoing attacks by the FARC that continue to make negotiations difficult. This was the fourth attempt at peace talks between the FARC and...
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...It was a time that made me question the field I had chosen to pursue. However, in the final weeks of my first placement, I was reminded of why I chose this field and how I can make a difference in child’s life. This experience occurred in the final week of my fourth-grade placement at Turner Woods Elementary School. One student that had barely said two words to me, or any of the other teachers since the beginning of the school year, spoke to me and thanked me. After having a one-way conversation with the student for about 5 minutes, the student laid his head on my shoulder and said, “thank you.” After this moment, the child blossomed, he began interacting with his classmates and his teachers more and more frequently. This incident occurred at the end of my time with these students, so I never was able to see how he continued on, but I know on that day I made a difference in him and he made a great difference in me. I was reminded of the power communication has within this field of work. Communicating with him on a personal level, allowed him to flourish, and it allowed me to remember why I chose this profession; for the small moments that bring light into the dark days. At that very moment, I began my growth into being a professional educator. I learned the value of making personal connections with the students...
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...and announced the separation of the thirteen American colonies from British control. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft, and after several edits, it became the final document. Jefferson employed several key concepts and phrases in the introduction and preamble. The introduction paragraph sets up what the rest of the document is about. Jefferson states that when it is time for a people to separate from a country, it is necessary for them to “declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” This indicates that the rest of the Declaration will outline and highlight the reasons why the American colonists decided to sever ties with Great Britain. The first half of the preamble–the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence–says that humans have certain rights, and the purpose of a government is to protect these rights. The first key phrase declares, “. . . all men are created equal.” This, however, is contradictory considering the existence of slavery in the colonies and the fact that the author, Thomas Jefferson, owned hundreds of slaves himself. Some argue that those who signed the Declaration thought of “the people” as male property owners, which would not include women or slaves as being equal. However, in the original draft, Jefferson did condemn King George for allowing the slave trade to flourish, but Congress voted against this because they did not want the document rejected by the slave-holding colonists. This leads into the second half of the quote that...
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...the best approach to euthanasia’ (10 marks) The theory of Natural Law is a deontological theory, which means that it is based on duty, proposed by St Thomas Aquinas, which also comes from a teleological worldview based on Aristotle’s idea that the good is defined by the final cause. A key aspect to Aquinas’ natural law is also the idea of the synderesis principle, which states that we “naturally do good to avoid evil”. St Thomas Aquinas’ argument was sought to reconcile Christian thought with the Greek thinking of Aristotle’s work, which could be seen in Islamic libraries in the Fall of Toledo, where Christian armies reconquered Spain. Aquinas sees goodness in the Divine Essence (nature of God), which was his first law. His second law was the idea of ‘eternal law’ which he said was reflected in our own human nature and the ends in which we rationally pursue, which draws parallels to the synderesis principle, which opposes the idea of ‘reformation’ which proposes the idea that “we have all sinned and fall short of Gods glory” as portrayed in Romans 3-23. God’s Divine and eternal Laws are further proposed in the Holy Scriptures, such as the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. From these observable, rational ends, we get the five primary precepts. The Primary Precepts are “good wills” that we rationally pursue, and are absolute. They consist of preservation of life, order in society, worshipping God, education and finally, reproduction. This reflects the Divine Will, whereby God creates...
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...Chapter10 Question One There is a moral difference between the act of killing a patient and allowing a patient to die via the act of foregoing treatment that is deemed not beneficial or that is excessively burdensome. The end result of both actions includes the patient’s death; however, the cause of that death and the intention behind the act resulting in that death are morally different. Consider, if one administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient, the lethal dose is the cause of death. The intention of the person administering the medication is to bring about this end. On the other hand, foregoing or ceasing medical treatment, when that treatment is of no benefit to the patient or the treatment imposes undue burdens, does not cause the patient’s death; the death is caused by the underlying medical condition. In contrast to the lethal overdose scenario, the intention in the second scenario is not necessarily to cause death, but to stop ineffective treatment. (Panicola, Belde, Slosar, &...
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