...MAX WEBER By: JD Mojica Life and career Max Weber was born on April 21, 1864, the eldest of seven children, and grew up in a cultured bourgeois household, ruled by a strong authoritarian father. At University in Heidelberg, Weber studied economics, medieval history and philosophy as well as law. A period of military service brought him under the care of his uncle, Hermann Baumgarten, a historian, and his wife. Both uncle and aunt acted as mentors to Weber, the former as a liberal who treated him as an intellectual peer, the latter as a person who impressed him with her deep sense of social responsibility towards her charitable work. Both offered a stark contrast to Weber's father, who treated his son with patronizing authoritarianism. It was probably during this formative period that Weber developed an aversion to the way people then most often gained positions of power and authority through nepotism and accident of birth - factors he considered were lacking in legitimacy. He started to think of ways to free the individual as much as possible from personal judgments or from judgments which were clouded by emotion or self-interest. After periods as a legal scholar at Heidelberg and then at the University of Berlin, Weber became professor of political economy, first at the University of Freiburg in 1894, and then at the University of Heidelberg in 1897. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was first published in 1904, and in 1919, Weber became Professor of Political...
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...Social Work January 24, 2011 In the case of Max Weber, bureaucracy can explain why providing universal healthcare is so controversial in the U.S. Weber looks at beau racy as "the purest type of exercise of legal authority; efficient, precise, disciplined, calculable. What is meant by these definitions is that bureaucracy is the greatest application in for employing authority over human beings. Bureaucracy links to the controversy of providing healthcare in the U.S. as, it allows people in control (politicians, policy makers, CEO's) to exercise the authority over who receives and is eligible for health care. This form of authority allows politicians, coos, and policy makers, to have control over the population’s health care system, and also allows them to predict the revenue they will generate in the future. This form of legal authority also allows them to achieve acute efficiency from their workers, as workers are held to heavy discipline under this model. The controversy of providing universal health care completely disrupts bureaucratic control of human beings. By providing health care to everyone, there's is no longer any bureaucratic order because the massive increase in health care patients is too great to calculate. This extreme increase in patients will negatively affect the efficiency of medical treatment, thereby causing authorities to lose their control over their workers ability to be efficient. The stability and discipline of bureaucracy would no longer exists because...
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...begins with Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson each talking a little about themselves. It showed how and where each of them grew up. It showed how the recruiters kept trying and trying to get them all to come and play for the University of Michigan. Juwan Howard was the first one to sign to play basketball there. As the movie goes on, it shows how they get the starting line up. It was a huge step for the University of Michigan because 5 freshman were on the starting lineup and almost every game. After they lost to one of the hardest schools, Duke, they went on a little vacation to Europe to help get their minds off the tough loss. They played a little basketball there. They also had some team bonding while they were in Europe. It was well needed because some of the upperclassmen were being rude to the 5 new freshmen. The Fab Five started to complain about how they can’t work because of all the time and effort baseketball takes up and they need money for gas, food and other necessities. The movie ends with Chris Webber and the trial. The trial happened with the Grand Jury because Chris Webber was accused of accepting a lot of money from booster member Ed Martin. Ed Martin was illegally gambling, them giving the money to all the boys to help with their needs. He was hoping that they would eventually return all the money he loaned to them when they went pro. Obviously that didn't happen and they all got caught. When Chris Webber wouldn't talk to...
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...MAX Apple E – Lock and Unlock Double Click MIDI- range – 0-127 Note-in (pitch & velocity) Hold the Alt Button- Click & Drage to make copies Keyboard slider- shows you where you are Note In- to get sound out – Note Out Makenote- instead of playing the keyboard you want the information to come from somewhere else 12 octaves Make a box and hit -12 to make it x amount of octaves lower Making a Chord- +4 or +7 (need a space) BANG- a message that means do something -pitch is lower it will be quieter midiParse- takes all the info that comes in and breaks it up into different parts >if something turns red- just click it and it will automatically go there PGMout- sets off on its own – doesn’t need to attach to the other parts -put a slider on it – the left one is PGMchange- 128 instruments built into the basic midi -metronome object LEFT CLICK- metro help – opens a tutorial -take 3 messages and make them into a major chord 60,63,67 -bang will turn on and off the metronome- (so will a toggle switch) Groove- little tilda- means MSP which means it makes sound Groove- can play samples SFPlay= more basic version Open tutorial in Groove Copy & Paste your tutorial Buffer- where you can open a sample Name has to be the same name that’s on the Groove (make sure to turn on audio) -if the thing gets a negative number it will play it backwards .5 It will play half the speed ** say you have a slider and you want it to go from +2 to -2 -when you make s lider everything...
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...I spy The story is about a twelve year old boy, Charlie Stowe who wants to smoke a cigarette because some boys at school tease him with never having smoked a cigarette. His father owns a tobacconist store underneath the house. In that store, there is cigarettes. He sneaks into the shop to steal some cigarettes, but he hides because his father and some men are at the shop. The father offers the men cigarettes but they do not want them, because they are on duty. As the father and the men go out Charlie sneaks into his room and falls asleep. The story is properly very old and it take place in England and more precisely in an irregular house close to the sea. I can see that because Woodbine and Gold Flake are very old cigarette packs, which was very popular in England back then. Moreover, I can see that the story takes place close to the sea because he mentions the wind blew from the sea (page 1 line 4). I cannot exactly come up with a date, but it could be in the First or Second World War. I can see that when the main character uses words as “Huns” and “Zeppelins.” Huns was an old word for a German soldier and it was mostly used as slang. Zeppelins was a German airship. I think Charlie and his family live in a rich environment. I can see that because his father has a store. They have a house and Charlie goes in a county school. Charlie is twelve years old. He has a father and mother. He goes in a county School where some schoolmates tease him because he never has smoked a...
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...2007 that one-third of women owned businesses in the United Arab Emirates generated over $100,000 a year compared to 12 percent of American women owned companies (Reuters, 2010) * Women held 37% of the jobs in the securities workforce in 2003 (pg. 319) 2. Analyze the UBS organizational culture using Edgar Schein's "Model" of Levels of Organizational Culture: Artifacts (visible), Values (espoused and operational), and Basic Underlying Assumptions. See p. xv in the Harvey & Allard text for an overview of Schein's Levels of Organizational Culture. A. Surface Level Artifacts * The merger of the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank in 1998 resulted in the second largest bank in Europe. * Acquired the U.S. Paine Webber Group Inc. to become the world’s largest wealth management firm. * Employment of approximately 64,000 people in over 50 countries. B. Espoused and Operational Values * The president and COO of UBS stated that “Diversity is one of our core values”...
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...Consumer Behavior Paper and Questionnaire Constance Ordish MKT/554 May 7, 2012 Ruby A Rouse, PhD Consumer Behavior Paper and Questionnaire Most of the negative publicity found on the Internet about flavored cigarettes centers on the marketing of the cigarettes and not the product itself. Among smokers between ages 18 to 25 the cigarettes are met with warm welcome. Smokers welcome the change from normal cigarettes and like more flavor options to choose from. The previous methods of marketing flavored cigarettes are under fire. It is commonly believed that the tobacco companies are targeting children and teenagers to hook these customers at a tender age to create lifelong consumers. “Collier County Health Department says it’s a shameless ploy that’s gaining steam. “They know that children are attracted to sweet products, and if they get them hooked on the sweet products then they have a lifetime user,” Rachel Kleist of the Collier County Health Department….According to a 2010 statewide survey, the candy-flavored tobacco trend is catching on. 17.6% of Collier County youth between the ages of 11 and 17 have tried it and 19.9% in Lee County.” ("Cigarette Flavours", 2012). To counter the previous reputation of flavored cigarette marketing to children, Exotic Smokes will make every effort to develop a marketing campaign directed to smokers within its targeted consumer group and not any younger than 18. The ads will be presented only in magazines generally read by the target...
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...I spy The story is about a twelve year old boy, Charlie Stowe who wants to smoke a cigarette because some boys at school tease him with never having smoked a cigarette. His father owns a tobacconist store underneath the house. In that store, there is cigarettes. He sneaks into the shop to steal some cigarettes, but he hides because his father and some men are at the shop. The father offers the men cigarettes but they do not want them, because they are on duty. As the father and the men go out Charlie sneaks into his room and falls asleep. The story is properly very old and it take place in England and more precisely in an irregular house close to the sea. I can see that because Woodbine and Gold Flake are very old cigarette packs, which was very popular in England back then. Moreover, I can see that the story takes place close to the sea because he mentions the wind blew from the sea (page 1 line 4). I cannot exactly come up with a date, but it could be in the First or Second World War. I can see that when the main character uses words as “Huns” and “Zeppelins.” Huns was an old word for a German soldier and it was mostly used as slang. Zeppelins was a German airship. I think Charlie and his family live in a rich environment. I can see that because his father has a store. They have a house and Charlie goes in a county school. Charlie is twelve years old. He has a father and mother. He goes in a county School where some schoolmates tease him because he never has smoked a...
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...Background of the Study: Back in time when computer, internet connection, and technology are not necessities, frauds are easy to conceal. Given also the fact that accounting standards were still not that strict about some disclosures and can be circumvented easily, many people such as accountants, businessmen, and employees took advantage of it. These people may be blinded by their position that they are capable of doing their own dirty tricks. They also have their reasons why they wanted to try to benefit from their institution on themselves. Moreover, they also saw the opportunity in the weakness of the controls in the company so they knew how they will do it and conceal it. These ideas were in a way lessen as the accounting standards were amended due to the detection of numerous cases of accounting scandals at the start of the second millennium. More disclosures are now being asked from the companies in order for them to be transparent in their operations and be aware that the lawmakers are, now, more focus on them. However, even if more disclosures are being required by the accounting standards, some still have the guts to try to attempt in doing frauds. These people still see the opportunity and are still capable of doing it without even being obvious in the audit. In this era of quick developing technology, the idea of Information Technology (IT) audit is developed. Moreover, many see the need of it to address the time constraint for auditing the information systems of such...
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...Case Study Kent State University v. Ford Background In April 2010, Gene Ford signed a 5 years contract which includes a liquidated damages clause with Kent State University to work as a head coach of a basketball team with a total salary of $300,000. The liquidated damages clause state that if Ford quit before the end of the contract, he need to pay a liquidated damages to the school in an amount equal to his salary ($ 300,000) multiplied by the number of years remaining on the contract. However, in March 2011, Ford quit his job at Kent State University and accepted the same position at Bradley University, with a total annual salary of $700,000. After Kent State University recognizes his action, Kent State University sues Ford for the liquidated damages according to the liquidated damages clause in the contract, which had been agreed by both partied. But Ford argued that it is a penalty in order to prevent him from accepting other employment, and it should be unenforceable. Factor to be analyzed In this case, there are several factor need to be analyzed. The first one is whether the damages are uncertain as to the amount and difficult to prove. The court agreed that calculation of the damages resulting from the breach of contract by Ford was very difficult because the departure of the head coach of a basketball team will cause several negative effects. The court also noted that the liquidated damages clause was based on the continued employment of Ford, and the court agreed that...
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...Comparison and Contrast of Theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. While influence on modern social science can be traced to many revolutionary figures, perhaps none had greater influence on modern social science than three social theorists/sociologists, Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim who have been known as principle architects of modern social science. Although modern theory of sociology was founded by Max Webber and Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx has had a profound impact on the evolution of modern sociology. Each of the three figures contributed to sociology in many ways through different approaches to social class and inequality. Many might argue that there are similarities between these sociologists’ theories and that they examined ideas that were similar; however, they all came to different conclusions. Karl Marx was influenced by political economists who believed that the cost of production was determined by the amount of labor. Along with these and other influences, Karl Marx approached social problems and inequalities through his theory of alienation, which focuses on separation of things that naturally belong together. Marx’s theory further describes estrangement of individuals from their human nature as results a society divided into social classes. Karl Marx argued that class is decided by ownership or non-ownership of production. He also saw class as having connection to the means of production while Max weber’s idea of alienation is based on the concept...
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...Karl Marx and Max Webber both many had many philosophies of the capitalism and its effects on society. Their ideas helped pave the way and expand on theories of previous sociologists. Both men have a deep insight of socioeconomic class in the origins and development of modern capitalism. This paper will analyze the impact of capitalism on society as perceived by both men and the areas in which they agreed, disagreed, and expanded on the ideas of the other. In many ways, the Weberian theory was “rounding out” Marx’s theories, working within the traditions of Marxian (Ritzer, page 26). Weber viewed Marxists as economic determinists who offered single-cause concepts on societal life (27). Marx’s material orientation and its effect on society was something that Weber did agree with completely. Weber had a strong belief that most ideas are what shapes an economy, while Marx believed that it is the economy (and the materials within it, help to define our ideas (27). Weber was said to have taken Marx’s ideas and, “turned Marx on his head” (27). The inverse relationship between Marx and Weber transcends into many tremendous ideas on capitalism and the effects on society. Both sociologists have unique ideas on the driving measures that led to the development and the rise of capitalism. One of Weber’s most famous works called the, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, dealt with the origins of capitalism and their “ethos”; ideas that are engraved into religious beliefs. Weber...
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...SUBJECT NAME: Public Administration Question: According to max Weber, legal rational authority is the most rational type of authority. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer. The aim of essay is to discuss legal rational authority commonly known as bureacracy. It high lights why legal rational authority is the best way of authority for any professional run organization. The essay also highlights some of the problems of legal rational authority and the solutions that can make it more flexible in communication and decision making Legal rational authority according to Webber was the most rational and most stable of authority. Formal rules and regulations legitimize this authority. People obey orders of the ruler not because they are loyal but because rules and laws stipulate so and must be obeyed Legal rational authority also known as the bureaucratic authority is the form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or ruling regime is largely tied to legal laws. Legitimacy is seen as coming from legal order, meaning the authority follows and obeys the laws that have been enacted and enforced by government. Rationality means the basis by which sound decisions are made by proper reasoning instead of acting on intuition or influence Legal rational authority is the best type of authority reason being unlike these other types of authority, legal rational authority is management based on a formal structure with set rules and regulations which makes...
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...Interview with a dead person Outline A paper submitted to Webber International University in partial fulfillment for the Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing Management By: Aleema Jack Date: February 17th, 2014 Course: ENG 280-1 Foundations of Rhetoric Semester: Fall 2013 Instructor: Ms. Marisa Mark Word Count: Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the Nelson Mandela’s challenges and the difference he made in many lives. Central Idea: To discuss how Nelson Mandela overcame his challenges. Introduction * First Main Point –(Attention Getter) I had a dream about a black American friend who was always bullied by her classmates and she did nothing about it. * (Reveal your topic) While watching her being ill-treated, I wondered what it would be like to stand up for oneself or show others your standards. * (Establish Credibility) I will give a brief history of Nelson Mandela and what he had done for the world. * (Relevancy Statement) Nelson Mandela did not have a lot of parental support as a child. His father died when he was 12 years old. He fought for fairness and equality. He had many struggles to overcome. He sacrificed his family to gain support for the armed struggle. He went to the extent of leaving the country illegally. This encourages everyone to stand for what is right. * (Preview of Main...
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...spring 2015 Webber would not remain single for long, and in the same year he married Madeleine Gurdon. By 1993, Webber would experience another hit show with the opening of Sunset Boulevard, but it did not run long due to a "lack of star power," (Hafner, p. 1). In 1997, Webber became known as Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, being knighted by the Queen of England. His knighthood did not result in a burst of creativity, however, as his next two shows were considered failures, including Whistle Down the Wind, Song and Dance, and The Beautiful Game, (Biography, p. 1). Bombay Dreams was Webber's next musical, and the show has run since its opening in 2002. Webber signed a contract as part of Polygram's Really Useful Group production company, a contract under which he produced his film versions of his plays and opened new musical theatre productions. He terminated that contract in January, 2003, and noted, "I'm not really part of Really Useful anymore, apart from owning it," (Wolf, p. 67). Webber is far from sitting still these days, however. He has a new stage musical in the works known as The Woman In White, based on Wilkie Collins' classic thrilled. Critics contend Webber is perfect for adapting the thriller into a musical, since it is "a great Victorian melodrama from an era he so admires," (Martland, p. 41). Webber is also revitalizing some of his old musicals to reopen in London's West End. He also successfully wrangled the rights back from Warner Brothers for the film rights...
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