...Zero Tolerance By Purple Team Grand Canyon University: EDA 555 Instructor: Norman Hale February 25, 2015 Zero tolerance policies began in 1994 following the passage of the Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA). It was generated in response to numerous school shootings that had taken place across the United States (US). The Gun-Free Schools Act entail policy that forces schools to expel students who possess or carry a gun(s) while they are on school campuses and/or property. Zero tolerance policies are in schools all across the United States and are coined “Zero-Tolerance Schools”. Zero-tolerance policies are found in schools ranging from elementary through universities/colleges. The court rulings, laws and policies of zero-tolerance are designed to create a safe learning environment by keeping drugs and weapons off of school property. Punishment relinquished in zero tolerance schools range from detention to expulsion from the school. Some individuals believe that zero tolerance policies go too far, as the punishment is swift and unyielding for various types of inappropriate behaviors enacted by students (Lawyer.com, 2015). This paper examines the effects of zero tolerance policies as it relate to David Silverstein, 13, was inspired to build a model rocket after seeing the movie October Sky, a biography of NASA rocket scientist, Homer Hickam. The boy took his rocket, made out of a potato chip canister and fueled with three...
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...Does School Violence Warrant a Zero-Tolerance Policy? While violence is becoming a common occurrence in many schools across the country, we must ask, does violence deserve a zero-tolerance policy? Studies have shown that there are many positives and negatives to having the zero-tolerance policies in schools today. The amount of violence in schools has continued to rise in recent years and this has led to people wanting a way to change it. Are zero-tolerance policies the way to do it? Studies have shown pros and cons to the policies. Zero-tolerance policies have specific consequences for each action that a student might commit (Rice). This allows the school to treat all of the students fairly. Every student will be punished to the same...
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...Consensual Relationship Agreements BUS 520 April 3, 2012 Abstract This report will examine the issue of consensual relationship agreements (CRA), also known as love contracts, within the workplace. It will define what a CRA is, and argue for the use of CRAs in the workplace and argue against the use of CRAs in the workplace. It will also address the ethical principles involved in the use of CRAs and offer another option to CRAs that would address workplace romances. Consensual Relationship Agreements or CRAs are known to some people as love contracts. Lawyers may define it as a liability of intimacy, and a U.S Military member will be familiar with the term PDA or Public Display of Affection. Regardless of which sector a person is employed, they may be subject to a company's policy on dating or consensually becoming involved in romantic relationships with other employees in their workplace. We can best define CRA's as a document, presented by human resources, and signed voluntarily by both employees, acknowledging a "consensual" relationship. This contract is to specifically state in writing, that a romantic relationship will not interfere with job performance, and reiterates the principles of the company's harassment policy. The agreement will require arbitration rather than a harassment grievance if for any reason the relationship ends, which protects the employer of any liability of any claim being presented at a later date...
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...local markets, but also mining competition and the welfare of the countries in which this practices are considered part of the culture as such. In particular for very large international companies, with subsidiaries spread all over the world, to keep track of unethical practices may be difficult, as to maintain the integrity of the corporate culture in all the people involved in the organization, from the employees, sales managers and top management. Every country has a different culture, and every culture has its own level of tolerance against corruption. Since bad practices like bribery are well ingrained both in the countries’ culture, as well in the companies’ culture, it is evident that changes do not happen over-night, and to draft an anti-bribery policy and post it in the office blackboard is not enough. The aim of this paper is to analyze several perspectives on the topic, taking the reader into the discussion by giving him/her pro and cons by analyzing a specific company and his cultural and managerial issues when facing a period of internationalization and internal changes. 1.2 Company profile Starnes-Brenner Machine tool company is an international company situated in Iowa city, United States, that owns a small-one man sales office in Latino, South America, headed by a very successful man but with an unique style in his method of operating, called Frank Rothe. He has worked in Latino, one of the major Latin-America country, for a long time and he is going...
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...may give birth naturally it does not necessarily mean that they are not in a hospital or under the supervision of a medical professional. Any woman that chooses to go the natural childbirth route can choose where they give birth and what doctor they choose to be there for the event. Another positive is that a natural childbirth can allow the mother to be in control of every aspect of the labor and delivery. There are many women that gain such a high level of accomplishment as they labor through the pains of childbirth without any help. Natural childbirth also allows a woman to be fully aware of the process by staying alert. I feel that some women are very capable of laboring through the difficulty of contractions while others have a low tolerance for pain. It does not make women more or...
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...A Basic Model for Understanding the Change Process So far in this lesson, we have discussed some common barriers to change, and we have seen that not everyone adopts change at the same time or in the same way. Being conscious of this behavior can reduce your frustrations, and can help you work with the people involved in the change process. So how can an organization help different types of people adjust to change? Let’s take a look at one more model for understanding change in organizations. This model — proposed by the psychologist Kurt Lewin — provides a simple way to understand the change process.3 Lewin proposed that organizational change occurs in the following three stages: 1. Unfreezing; 2. Change or transition; and 3. Freezing (or re-freezing). In other words, Lewin suggests that in order to effect long-lasting change, you have to recognize that people have to be loosened from their old way, transitioned, and then molded into their new way. It’s a conscious process that must be respected. This involves preparing people for change, actually managing the change, and then working to ensure that the change stays in place. Stage 1: Unfreezing From Lewin’s perspective, the first stage in helping people adapt to change involves unfreezing or loosening their attachment to their current attitude or practice. That means helping them understand why change is necessary and clarifying how the change will be accomplished. When implementing a change in...
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...MG4208 Cross-Cultural Negotiation Week 10 Negotiating decisions in multicultural teams Agenda 1. Multicultural team performance 2. Obstacles multicultural teams have to face 3. Resolutions 4. Team decision exercise Earley & Mosakowski (2000) • Team diversity: – Homogenous, split, heterogeneous • Team outcomes – Team identity, communication, performance • Curvilinear relationship between diversity and team outcomes – Homogenous and heterogeneous teams better than subgroup Quadratic Relationship Homogenous Split Heterogeneous Types of conflict in multi-cultural teams 1. Task • Interests in the task 2. Procedures • Approach to accomplish the team goal 3. Interpersonal • Social identity of team members Resolving task conflict 1. Generating information across parties and issues 2. Making integrative decisions Case on Shanghai Tang Shanghai Tang: Interests Create artistic and elegant Chinese based fashion Expand business to global market Generating information 1. Language barriers • Cliché and misunderstanding 2. Cultural barriers • Value dimensions 3. Structural barriers • Time and space 4. Psychological barriers • Groupthink, lack of team transactive memory Making integrative decision Treat decision like negotiation • Explore issues (preferences and priorities) • Making multi-issue proposals (no agenda) • Decision rules (voting vs. consensus) ...
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...The Pros of Medical Marijuana The human body naturally makes its own form of cannabinoids that can modulate pain. THC-An abbreviation for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, THC is the main component responsible for marijuana's mind-altering effect. It also may help treat signs and symptoms such as nausea and vomiting that are associated with a number of medical conditions. Cannabinol and cannabidiol-These compounds have some of the properties of THC, but cause less psychoactive effects — the high. Dronabinol (Marinol). Dronabinol (dro-NAB-in-ol)-is a man-made version of THC available by prescription. It's used to prevent nausea and vomiting after cancer chemotherapy when other medicines for these side effects don't work, and to increase appetite in people with AIDS. It has been shown ot be an effective treatment in reducing nausea for people under going chemtheraphy treatment. There is also evidence that it reduces nausea and weight loss in AIDS patients. Glaucoma is a disease that leads to blindness. It increases the pressure in the eyeball, which can then lead to vision loss. It was discovered by scientists in the early 1970s, that by smoking marijuana it was able to reduce the pressure in the eyes caused by glaucoma. Scientists were not able to understand how it worked. Scientists have since discovered that CB1 receptors in the eyes, may provide the clues for future research on how marijuana affects glaucoma. In the 1800's people were known to smoke...
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...opening with no end. What is a stem cell? A stem cell is a cell that is undifferentiated, which means it can develop into any type of cell. There are three places stem cells can be obtained. They can be obtained from adult cells, bone marrow cells, and embryonic cells. According to the article on the website for The National Institute of Health on Stem Cell Research, stem cell research has been going on since the 1950’s (http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics4.asp). There are billions of dollars being poured into stem cell research, because of all the benefits that can be done with stem cells (http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/pros-and-cons-of-stem-cell-research.htm). The first type of stem cell is the adult stem cell, which comes from individual’s bone marrow or the peripheral system (http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/pros-and-cons-of-stem-cell-research.htm). Stem cells are undifferentiated and this allows them to grow into differentiated cell to be used wherever they are needed. Stem cell treatment has been used in treating cancer, and other major diseases. Stem cells can replace damaged cells and this helps with the healing process and in some cases the patient has even been cured of the disease, which is why the research with stem cells is so aggressive. Researchers have found that adult stem cells can be taken from many parts of the human body. Also with adult cells they are an exact match to the patient’s DNA, therefore the body’s immune system accepts them...
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...available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0957-8234.htm JEA 41,1 The ethics of zero tolerance Kevin Gorman Sylvania Northview High School, Sylvania Public Schools, Sylvania, Ohio, USA, and 24 Patrick Pauken Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA Received May 2002 Revised September 2002 Accepted October 2002 Keywords Decision making, Ethics, Violence, Schools, Discipline, Legislation Abstract “Zero tolerance” has become the international “buzz word” of the secondary building administrator. As school violence has increased so have the legislative and regulatory policymaking mandates c a l l i n g for increased disciplinary consequences for inappropriate stud ent behavior. Ethical problem-solving and decision-making have taken a back seat to reactive discipline by school officials. Media publicity has forced proactive principals to become reactive impulsive decision-makers. In this article, Starratt’s three-part model for ethical school administration – encompassing the ethics of critique, justice, and care – is applied to a fictional scenario and the ethical dilemma that evolves. Recommendations for practice are offered in a proposed resolution of the dilemma within the context of a central conclusion: if the school administrator of the twenty- first century is to build and maintain an ethical educational setting where all students can learn, zero tolerance cannot dictate the only outcomes for inappropriate student behavior. Journal of Educational...
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...SYNOPTIC! You should spend 45 minuets on this question. Below is a list of all the areas and studies you need to know for each section of the exam. Don’t worry if you don’t know all the studies, each college/school are likely to teach slightly different ones, just make sure you know about that amount for each section. Q.1 For the first two pure crime parts you need to know: Functionalist theories of crime and deviance Durkheim – Social control, social regulation including suicide Merton-Strain theory, blocked aspirations Cohen – Status frustration Cloward and Ohlin – Deviant subcultures New Right/Right Realism James Wilson – Strict law enforcement needed Wilson and Kelling – Broken windows, zero tolerance Murray – Cultural deprivation, single parents and ineffective, the underclass Erdos – Families without fathers Subcultural theories Cohen – Delinquent subcultures Cloward and Ohlin – Delinquency and opportunity, criminal, conflict and retreatist subcultures Willis – pupil subcultures (learning to labour) Patrick – Gang culture (Glasgow gangs) Humphreys – Gay subcultures and covert participant observation Miller – Focal concerns, lower working class male subculture Matza – Delnquency and drift, techniques of neutralisation, subterranean values Marxist theories of crime and deviance Gordon – Criminogenic...
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...pass a law that required farmers to grow the plant. It was not until the prejudice against the Mexican immigrants who had introduced the drug to America, was the drug suddenly seen as dangerous. Their association with the drug and the supposed terrible crimes that they committed were attributed to marijuana and the Mexicans who used it. Public and governmental concern about the newfound problem of marijuana use instigated a flurry of research which further linked the use of marijuana with violence, crime and other socially deviant behaviors. Coincidentally these crimes were primarily committed by "racially inferior" or underclass communities. Today, the public is still being exposed to new and more advanced studies that report on the pros and cons of marijuana use. According to an article published in American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse entitled ???? researchers are finding that marijuana is not the culprit for criminal behavior and contrary to popular belief it is not a gateway drug. On the surface, the gateway theory seems reasonable enough. After all, there are almost no heroin users...
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...frequency spectrum, that might not pass through some medium (e.g., TP of 200Hz 3000Hz). Hence, we need to remove the DC from the Digital Signal . 3) Self-Synchronization: To match the sender and receiver clocks, hence match the bit intervals at both ends for correct decoding. Transitions in the digital signal act as self-synch altering the receiver to the start, mid, or end of the bit, resetting its clock in case it is out of synch. 4) Built in error detection: It is good to add extra bits to the Tx data for error detection (and possibly correct). 5) Noise and interference immunity: Encoding/ Decoding complexity: complex - high cost Line Coding Schemes Figure 4.4 Line coding schemes 4.10 1) Unipolar: NRZ (non return to zero) No signal return to zero level at the mid of bit. Problem: Large DC component many low frequency components. Hence needs based...
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... When you have read through the entire essay, come back and choose up to five sentences/areas that you marked for readability. Copy the text and insert it here, along with the paragraph number. You do not have to identify the error or fix it… just locate problems. No more than five sentences: For the past decades, researchers such as Peter Greenwood have focused their attention… Indeed, any program that is introduced to help reduce… After having read the whole paper through the first time, write out a few “big picture” comments. What one element of the paper do you think needs the most work before your peer turns it in as a final draft? There are several grammar errors and to explain what are concepts such as zero tolerance and get tough on crime. If you had to grade it right now based on the rubric, what grade would you give it and why? Probably a B because it definitely serves the purpose of defending their policy through methods such as cost benefit and comparison but there are grammar and spelling errors that need to be fixed. How would you rate the writer’s academic credibility (ethos)? Why? They have good ethos because the work they cite is scholarly....
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...Form Review Highlights Pros: * "Great environment combined with a perfect work-life balance" in 49 reviews * "Great work environment/culture which makes it a fun place to work" in 45 reviews * "Good benefits; Good company to work for till profits started to slide off" in 36 reviews * "Lots of great people at the company, learned a lot and inspired my career in technology" in 33 reviews * "Good pay, great management, I felt like the work I was doing was important for the company" in 30 reviews Cons: * "No work life balance, limited career advancement, lack of good benefits of tech companies" in 20 reviews * "Senior management (C-Level) does no communicate down to employees well" in 27 reviews * "Poor management decision making processes - not innovative" in 18 reviews * "Upper management doesn't listen to people lower down that actually know what they're talking about" in 15 reviews * "Many bad/useless middle management built up over the years but the layoff did some clean up" in 13 reviews Reviews Dec 8, 2013 “Loved the company and the people.” Software Development Manager (Former Employee) Rolling Meadows, IL I worked at BlackBerry full-time for more than 5 years Pros – BlackBerry was a great company with great people. I still believe the technology is the best in the industry and is only lagging due to customer lack of appreciation of the importance of Mil grade security. Cons – Executive management...
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