...In the United States, the older generation did not like body ornamentation because they think it is bizarre or abnormal. However, the younger generations is changing that today because they believe that it is a sign of meaning of self-expression. For example, people that have tattoos are trying to tell a story in the form of art and body piercing is a sexual expression. Likewise, other cultures around the world have been doing this for centuries. The African women will input rings around their necks and both sex will insert plates in their lips. Therefore, every culture practice these body ornamentation differently. Going back to the pages of history, tattoos in the early ages, were borne not for fashion. Instead, they were generally inscribed in body, essentially for the medicinal and spiritual qualities (iloveindia, n.d.). “While beadwork and jewelry are also frequently used as a means of beautification, there are a few types of body art that dominate. Body decoration and transformation occurs at set times in a person’s life and the decoration’s thought to enhance a person’s status and beauty” (Admin, 2010). In varies of cultures, tattoos and body piercing is the form of beauty and power because it reconfigures identity, sexuality, gender, and status. Africans and indians mark themselves for beauty, medical purpose, and protection from evil spirits. “Traditional tattooing in African culture is not a mere expression of one’s individuality. It’s a series of intricately...
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...OMM640 WEEK: 1 DICUSSION #1 Read “Resolving Ethical Business Challenges” in Chapter 2 of your text, and then address the following points. Support your response with evidence from the text. * What are the ethical and legal issues at stake in the scenario? * What are Karl’s options? * Discuss the acceptability and commercial use of sex, violence, and gambling in the United States. * Is marketing sex, violence, and gambling acceptable in other countries if these things do not conflict with local cultures? A1. The ethical issue is that Kent has made a game that has both a lot of violence and nudity in it. He knows that the game would be marketing sex, violence, and gambling; and he knows that all three are bad to be imbedded into a teenagers mind. When he talks to Brad about these at first he does not understand why Kent has changed his mind about this game that will make the company lots of money. Then some legal issues come into play when Brad decided that he will look into other countries that will like this game and will buy it off of them. Brad said that for Mexican market they would love it but take out a little of the violence and that Taiwanese loves it but wants more graphic in violence and nudity. Q2. What are Kent’s options? A2. Kent’s options are to either stop the development of the game and to change some of the concepts and then remarket it. This could be gone by taking out some of the violence and not putting any nudity in it. His...
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...Question: What is callable preferred stock? Answer: A type of preferred stock that gives a corporation the right to call in the stock at a certain price and to retire the stock. Callable preferred stock is one of many types of preferred stock. Instead of having a maturity date, it can be bought back by the issuing company for a certain price on a certain date. Question: Why do corporations issue such stock? Answer: Issuing callable stock offers the company protection against future interest rate fluctuation. Just like a homeowner wants the ability to refinance should rates drop in the future, a company wants the right to call back stock that pays a higher rate when rates go down. Companies/corporations need to raise money to expand. To do this, companies either need to borrow money, or sell part of the company. This selling off part of the company is known as issuing stock. Issuing stock is known as equity financing. The advantages of issuing stock is that it does not require the company to pay back the money or to make interest payments as in debt financing Question: Given the different features that are associated with stock (callable, cumulative, preferred, etc.)? Answer: Callable stock - . Callable preferred stock is one of many types of preferred stock. Instead of having a maturity date, it can be bought back by the issuing company for a certain price on a certain date. Cumulative stock - The term "cumulative" represents a variation from traditional preferred...
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...Discussion Questions Review “Feminist interpretations of intellectual property” in Chapter 9. Please respond to the following: •Explain why, according to Halbert, quilting and knitting are traditionally outside the realm of copyright protection. There have been changes in the world of knitting. The long history of sharing patterns among knitters was done in easy to share formats with minimal concerns for copyright issues. But today a dominance of ownership has been privatized to maximize in profits. Both quality and knitting were primary ways of creating and have existed outside copyright law perhaps because the romantic author and the desire for profit were not central to the process of creation. The knitting patterns were sold to make money and not to further the culture of knitting. •Discuss how and why this is changing. The change in the traditional way of quilting and knitting versus the copyright protection is the dominance of ownership. Everything now is being privatized while maximizing on the profits. A personal signature, individualizing the patterns, allows a financial gain for anyone wanting to ‘copy’ a pattern. •Explain why crafts like these do not fit inside the copyright paradigm. These crafts were known for completion amongst women enjoying the company of each other. The crafts don’t fit into copyright paradigm because it attempts to solidify connections between people and not divide people by property boundaries. •Discuss what values underlie authorship...
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...DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Explain the difference between market capitalism, centrally planned capitalism, centrally planned socialism, and market socialism. Give an example of a country that illustrates each type of system. Market capitalism is an economic system in which individuals and firms allocate resources and production resources are privately owned. Consumers decide what goods they desire and firms determine what and how much to produce; the role of the state in market capitalism is to promote competition. Market capitalism is found in the United States. Centrally-planned capitalism is an economic system in which command resource allocation is utilized extensively in an environment of private resource ownership can be called. Centrally-planned capitalism is found in Sweden, where two-thirds of all expenditures are controlled by the government. Centrally-planned socialism is an economic system in which the state has broad powers to serve the public interest as it sees fit. State planners make “top-down” decisions about what goods and services are produced and in what quantities; consumers can spend their money on what is available. The government owns industries as well as individual enterprises. Centrally-planned socialism was found in the former Soviet Union. Market socialism is an economic system in which market allocation policies are permitted within an overall environment of state ownership. Market socialism is found in China where farmers can offer...
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...When you write a letter to your mother, you probably use casual language, which might include short phrases instead of complete sentences or clichés or phrases that have personal meaning for your family. When you write an email or text a friend, you might shorten words or even use a group of letters to represent a word or a statement. While these shortcuts or casual language are acceptable and even expected in these types of written communication, writing for the academic world requires a more formal approach. As you develop your writing skills for the academic world, you should be aware of grammar concerns or words or phrases that should be avoided. If you work to eliminate grammar errors and to sharpen your diction, your academic work will become stronger and more powerful. Grammar Concerns: Grammar is the backbone of written communication. While there are more grammar elements than we have listed here, these represent the areas that students struggle with the most. 1. Agreement a. Pronoun/ Antecedent Agreement i. Definition: The pronoun and its antecedent do not agree in number (antecedent = the word that the pronoun refers to). ii. Example: 1. Everyone takes their books home. (incorrect) 2. Everyone takes his or her books home. (correct) 3. The students take their books home. (correct) iii. In order to eliminate awkward constructions, make the pronoun and its antecedent plural when possible. iv. Remember that if it is obvious that only one gender is...
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...Performance Appraisal As A Positive Part Of The Performance Management Process An Organization is a combination of various talented people in different areas of work, who are joined together for attaining some common objectives. It demands the co-operation and the co-ordination from the part of its employees. Once the employee has been selected, trained and motivated, he is then appraised for his performance. Performance appraisal is the step where the management finds out how effective it has been at hiring and placing employees. The strength of any organization is its people. If people are attended to work properly they can recognize their talents by developing their capabilities and utilizing them appropriately, organizations are likely to be dynamic and grow fast. Ultimately the varieties of tasks in any organizations have to accomplish by the people. Some of them may have capabilities to do certain tasks better than other tasks. And some of them may not have capabilities to do the task assigned to them. In this situation one of the important activities we conduct by any organization is the Performance Appraisal. Performance appraisal as a positive part of the performance management process has come a very long way in the history of human resource management. Performance appraisal is one of the central pillars of the performance management which is directly related to the organizational performance and have a direct and significant impact on the employee and the company...
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...Performance Appraisal System Dicussion I Performance Appraisal As A Positive Part Of The Performance Management Process An Organization is a combination of various talented people in different areas of work, who are joined together for attaining some common objectives. It demands the co-operation and the co-ordination from the part of its employees. Once the employee has been selected, trained and motivated, he is then appraised for his performance. Performance appraisal is the step where the management finds out how effective it has been at hiring and placing employees. The strength of any organization is its people. If people are attended to work properly they can recognize their talents by developing their capabilities and utilizing them appropriately, organizations are likely to be dynamic and grow fast. Ultimately the varieties of tasks in any organizations have to accomplish by the people. Some of them may have capabilities to do certain tasks better than other tasks. And some of them may not have capabilities to do the task assigned to them. In this situation one of the important activities we conduct by any organization is the Performance Appraisal. Performance appraisal as a positive part of the performance management process has come a very long way in the history of human resource management. Performance appraisal is one of the central pillars of the performance management which is directly related to the organizational performance and have a direct and significant...
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...dicussion Lisa Marie Sinotte Walden Discussion Never events are the kind of events that should never happen in healthcare. These “never events” are defined as preventable adverse events by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (http://www.cms.gov/). Starting in 2008, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services eliminated or reduced payments for certain “never events” (Thornlow & Merwin, 2009). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid requires hospitals to report claims for discharges and whether or not selected conditions were present on admission. If a condition is acquired in a hospital, Medicare will not cover the cost of the acquired condition. This “Pay for Performance” initiative highlights the importance of following performance standards to decrease or eliminate “never events”. Preventing patient falls is a universal issue and a “never event”. Falls, and injuries from falls for hospital inpatients are the most frequent adverse events reported (http://www.nursingworld.org). With global emphasis to provide safe quality care, there in now increased scrutiny and inspection for the assessment of falls. The Joint Commission requires accredited hospitals to conduct fall risk assessments so that prevention methods can be implemented into the patient’s plan of care. The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators allows organizations to compare injury fall rates so that participating hospitals can evaluate the efficacy of their processes, clinical effectiveness...
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...Journal 1 – 12 angry men ^ Journal 2- Huge Class Dicussion On those Moral discussion questions ^ Journal 3- Trip Journal 4 –Trip Journal 5 – Doodlebug Journal 6 – Listenining ^ Journal 7 – Patiences Journal – Smoking/Peer-Pressure ^ Journal 9- Reflection on the course Journal 1 I never thought I’d end up in group dynamics, but I decided to further educate myself in psychology. It’s my first week in and I’m having a blast learning all kinds of things about group formation and group decisions. I especially learned a lot from watching 12 Angry Men with my classmates. I loved this film because it identified almost all of the group roles in some way, so for me I really got a chunk of what group dynamics really is my very first day. I found group dynamics to be about a list of things, but more specifically to feel affection and be in control while in a group because most members of a group expect to be able to speak and be understood in discussions. The next day I was partnered with a group of individuals I didn’t really know at the time, but we were tasked with identifying the group roles of each jury member in 12 Angry Men. Anyway, I am very intuitive person and I felt I wasn’t getting enough recognition in my group the time. I wanted give a more in-depth opinion on the group roles we were discussing, but I guess my group was more focused on generalizing the group roles for each jury member. Although I didn’t get to fully express my opinion… but...
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...and multiplied the number by 4 to get the beats per minute. Recorded data on the table. 5. Obtained aspirin and placed two drops onto the slide with Daphnia. 6. Monitored the heartbeat for 15 seconds and multiplied the number by 4 to get beats per minute after substances was used. Recorded the data. 7. Used eyedropper to remove the Daphnia from the slide and returned to post experiment jar. 8. Repeated steps 5 through 8 for the other substances listed. Results Table: Percentage of Change Seen Based on Substance Substance Heart Rate Before Heart Rate After Change % of Change Aspirin 180 200 160 89% Adrenline 180 240 60 33% Acetylocholine 180 220 40 22% Sleeping Pill 180 140 40 22% Coffee 180 200 20 11% Alka Seltzer 180 160 20 11% Dicussion In this lab, we began with understanding the different chemicals will act to increase or decrease the heart rate. With each Daphnia, we tested various simulative and depressive substances and monitored the heart rate for changes. Each Daphnia started with a heart rate of about 180 beats per minute. After establishing initial heart rate (180 bpm), we added the first substance, aspirin to the Daphnia on the depression slide. After approximately 15 seconds, we retested the heart rate (finding it to have decreased to 20) and recorded the change (160 bpm less). Based on this change we established a percent change (89%) between the starting rate and the rate after the addition of substance. This continued on for the following 5 substances (which...
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...Business Project 1) Further justification of reason for selecting particular industry(automotive industry).Justification can be on the basis of value chain links, externalities, why is it important ,distribution of sales.(use the book of Peter to justify why automotive industry). 2) Why specifically Toyota(it might be case that Toyota is unique, it has particular types of competitive advantages, discuss the emergence of Toyota as a key global player).Basically to say the main reason of this topic is find out what is actually happening in this industry,why is it point of interest. 3) Methodology: I want to find out what will make this company successful in this market ? Need to look for successful examples in this particular market especially in automotive industry, what autom. Company. invested in those markets,look which one is successful.(case study analysis of the companies that have already invested in those markets,look at the fact that has an influence on investment process and link with OLI,take each company and say OLI configuration for different companies(saying OLI conf.for P@G look like ….Unilever look like …..).Once I’ve done with this I can say in general that ownership characteristic that a company carries in order to be successful should be like …location characteristics of the country are these and these are internalization advantages and this is why it end ups with FDI rather than anything else. In general I take couple of successful companies...
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...Energy Inc. Date: February 15, 2013 Prepared by: Christiana Egwakhe Reviewed by: Professor Robert Elya ISSUE: Accounting for loss provisions under the different fact patterns. BRIEF BACKGROUND Energy Inc. (Energy), a Public Company, operates in the oil industry. Energy’s operations sometimes result in soil contamination. Energy cleans up this contamination when required to do so under the laws of the particular country in which it operates. Energy Inc. has a widely published environmental policy in which it undertakes to clean up all contamination that it causes. Energy, Inc. has a record of honoring this published policy. Energy is currently evaluating certain fact patterns to determine the appropriate accounting treatment required under U.S. GAAP. ISSUES 1. Is Energy required to record a loss provision for a legislation-required cleanup enactment, for old and new contamination, that takes effect soon after the year end, December 31, 2011? 2. Is Energy required to record a loss provision in a country in which it operates even though there is no environmental legislation in this country? 3. Is Energy required to record a loss provision to retrain a large proportion of its administrative and sales workforce in order to comply with changes in the income tax system brought about by the government? 4. Is Energy required to record a loss provision due to new legislation that requires the installment of smoke filters in its factories by June 30, 2012, thou no installation...
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..."THERE IS NO AGREEMENT AMONG AUTHORS TO SET A COMMON DEFINITION TO THE TERM PLANNING." DISCUSS . Spontaneity We do agree upon that statement As they are expressing their own points of view and they may never agree upon one definition as that definition is going to be changed according to the field they are working at and under what conditions And all of them try to define planning through that it's a process that aim to achieve organizational goal but each author has his own way in how to reach that goal. FIRST DEFINITION: DEFINITION PLANNING IS the first managerial function involves setting organizational vision, goals, and objectives. AUTHERS' NAMES: William G. Nickels, James M. McHugh, and Susan M. McHugh. BOOK TITLE: UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS. EDITION: 6th Ed. PUBLISHER: McGraw Hill. COUNTRY: IRWIN. YEAR: 2002. PAGE NO.: 207. DISCUSSION, ANALYSES, AND CRITICIZEM - The authors defined planning as it is the first managerial function and about setting goals, vision, and objectives of the organization, BUT THEY mentioned that planning is only about setting goals but they didn't mention that the planning function is responsible also for deciding how those goals and objectives are going to be accomplished, and they also didn't mention the time horizon related to the plan and that it's also related to the future. SECOND DEFINITION DEFINATION PLANNING IS a process that includes defining goals, establishing strategy...
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