...Who has the right to tell me that I don’t deserve this choice?” (Brittany Maynard,CNN.com 2014) Maynard’s case is heartbreaking, but it definitely shouldn’t be taken out of context as a carte blanche in facilitating the highly controversial permissibility of euthanasia. If assisted- suicide laws went nationwide, it would create “explicit and implicit pressure” on millions of elderly, disabled, and chronically sick poor people to do the decent thing and end their lives prematurely. Establish the right of sick individuals to kill themselves, and that right begins to look more and more like an expectation. That isn’t a society we want to live or die in. (Marilyn Golden, CNN.com 2014 ) Not to mention the catch 22 that doctor’s will inevitably find themselves entangled in should they be broached with the antithetical situation of a patient wanting to end his life. We expect our medical professionals to assert that it is fundamentally wrong to kill vulnerable people, whether or not they have requested death. It is with great consternation that we remember the notorious Dr. Kevorkian,...
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...ASSIGNMENT in FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Case 2-1: MAYNARD COMPANY (A)* 1. Prepare balance sheets as of June 1 and as of June 30, in proper format. 2. Make comments about how the financial condition as of the end of June compared with that at the beginning of June. In terms of retained earnings, the financial condition of Maynard Company as of June 30 is healthy at $229,446 which has increased from $221,511 as of June 1. Although the current ratio on June 30 at 2.15 is lower than the current ratio on June 1 at 4.35, this is still considered healthy as acceptable current ratio is within 1 – 2 range. As of June 30, total assets increased by $43,350 as compared to June 1, which may mostly be explained by the following: o Cash increased by $31,677 as of June 30. o Accounts receivable increased by $4,707 as of June 30. These may be sales made on credit. o Supplies-on-hand increased by $1,071. More supplies may have been purchased for this month. o Purchase of an asset - new equipment (increased by $23,400). o More sales for the month (as explained by the increase in cash and accounts receivable and the decrease in merchandise inventory). o Most purchases were done on credit as observed from the increase in accounts payable. o Current liabilities (accounts payable, bank notes payable, accrued wages payable and taxes payable) have increased at the end of the month, which means cash may not have been yet used to pay for these. 3. Why do retained earnings not increase by the...
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...Cases Case 2 1: Maynard Company (A) Note: This case is unchanged from Twelfth Edition. Answers to Questions Question 1 Two suggested balance sheets as required by Question 1 are shown below. Question 2 This question provides an opportunity for students to step back and think about the information in a financial statement, rather than focusing on the details of constructing a financial statement. Students can begin to analyze and use the information that the financial statements contain. Students can be asked to identify which accounts have changed significantly between the beginning and ending balance sheets. These would include accounts receivable, note receivable, equipment, accounts payable, taxes payable, and the bank note payable, in addition to the cash account. The only ratio explained in Chapter 2 of the text is the current ratio, so students should be encouraged to ascertain what has happened to the current ratio between June 1 and June 30. Cash has increased largely due to increased accounts and notes payable, as well as cash generated by operations. Cash appears to have been increased by the collection of the note receivable, but as explained in Question 3 below, this was offset by the declaration of an identical dividend, so that the net effect on cash of these two transactions was zero. Equipment purchases were a major use of cash. As a result of these events, the June 30 current ratio has fallen to 2.15 from its June 1 level of 4.35. Even though the leverage...
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...Physician Assisted Suicide “I still feel good enough, I still have enough joy. I still laugh and smile with my family and friends. This does not feel like the right time to go,” Brittney Maynard. In Oregon, there was a woman named Brittney Maynard. She was 29 years of age. She suddenly started to have severe headaches and became concerned and wanted to go see a doctor as soon as possible. Shortly after in May 2013, Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She was married to her husband Dan Diaz, at the time she was diagnosed. The following year, in the spring of 2014 she was informed that she only had six or seven months to live. The thought of dying from terminally ill brain cancer and never having kids was heartbreaking to her. She wanted to leave her legacy behind. Maynard decided to move from the state of California to Oregon to participate in physician assisted suicide also known as the “Death with Dignity Act.” She was told that the process would be long and painful, and she did not want to go through that. So she went a doctor in Oregon that could prescribe her the lethal dose of the medication that would end her life immediately. She scheduled to end her life November 1, 2014, just three short days after her husband’s birthday. Brittney stated, “I know everyone has to morn, but I want him to remarry and have a family. Something I could never do for him.” In her saying that one can tell that she really loves Dan and wants only the best for him. Physician...
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... Attention Step: Who has heard of Brittany Maynard? She was a young woman who ended her life with a fatal dose of medication, legally prescribed by her doctor. Having been diagnosed with a form of aggressive and incurable brain cancer, she was given six months to live. Doctors informed her that her last few months would involve frequent and severe seizures, brain swelling, and severe headaches and neck pain. As a result, her and her husband moved from California to Oregon, to take advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. 2. Need Step: For almost nine years, Oregon was the only state that offered the Death with Dignity Act. Since then, four other states have passed a law to allow individuals suffering from painful terminal illnesses to end their lives peacefully, and on their own terms. Think about somebody you love – your mom, dad, or significant other – and imagine having to watch them live in constant pain and suffering, unable to do the things they used to enjoy. Wouldn’t you want to take any steps possible to relieve their pain and suffering? 3. Satisfaction Step: Physician-assisted suicide should be an option for terminally ill patients throughout the United States. This would allow for those terminally ill patients to end their suffering, and die with dignity. 4. Visualization Step: Some argue that legalizing physician-assisted suicide would result in everybody wanting to kill themselves. However, this is not the case. There are strict and specific guidelines to...
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...Crime Unit : NH State Police Summer Internship | Heating up: Cold Cases | Meredythe Leonard | | Heating Up: Cold Cases Countless developments in police science have occurred in the past decade or so. Many of these improvements can be seen as small, but imagine the challenges faced by crime scene investigators 50 or more years ago. The law enforcement agencies of the past did not have routine access to the amount information that officials today can gather and analyze from a crime scene. Current day crime scene investigation can range from the downright tedious to the technologically astounding, but they have all greatly impacted how evidence is collected, documented, and analyzed. There are around one hundred unsolved homicides in New Hampshire alone, dating back to the early 1960’s. (Department of Justice, 2015). Evidence from those crimes could quite possibly be the golden ticket in solving the wrongdoing, but with outdated techniques and capabilities, the answer will remain a mystery. If the state makes older evidence testing a priority, cold cases could finally find the justice deserved with the help of current day technology. Throughout the rest of this discussion, the call for new evidence testing in cold cases is examined while highlighting the need and importance for skilled investigators. Determination and patience, in the advancing field of forensic testing, have unlocked numerous cases not only in New Hampshire, but also across the country. One of...
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...Part A: PROBLEM-SOLVING QUESTIONS (Answer all FOUR questions). This assignment is 20% of the total mark. 1. Suppose a 10-year, $1000 bond with an 8% coupon rate and semiannual coupons is trading for a price of $1034.74. (10 Marks) a. What is the bond’s yield to maturity (expressed as an APR with semiannual compounding)? CPN = PMT = $40 = 1000/2*0.08 P = $1034, 74 N = 20 FV = $1000 Using Therefore y = 3,75 And APR = 7.5% b. If the bond’s yield to maturity changes to 9% APR, what will the bond’s price be? Using the formula above with y=4,5 P= $934,96 I don’t see the need of including the excel file as it is simple calculations 2. FastTrack Bikes, Inc. is thinking of developing a new composite road bike. Development will take six years and the cost is $200,000 per year. Once in production, the bike is expected to make $300,000 per year for 10 years. Assume the cost of capital is 10%. (10 Marks) a. Calculate the NPV of this investment opportunity, assuming all cash flows occur at the end of each year. Should the company make the investment? As the cash flows occur at the end of the year, being t the year we are calculation for the cash flow (R), when t=0 R=0. From t=1 to t=6, R=-200000$. After that, from t=7 to t=16, R=+300000$. Cost of capital, I, is 10% We need to use the Net Present Value decision rule. Using that formula in excel, NPV = $169482 As it is positive, the company should enter the investment. It would be like having...
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...identifiable, and sensitive information to many people rapidly. In this era of revelation—dominated by portable electronics, intemet social media, reality television, and traditional talk radio—^many of us are losing our sense of privacy, our taste for privacy, and our willingness to respect privacy. Is this set of losses a bad thing? If it is a bad thing, what can be done about it? My refiections on these questions begin with a series of diverse examples from the past several years. The examples illustrate the emergent ethos of our revelatory era. The first and second examples portray voluntary self-revelation for amusement and monetary gain; a third and fourth example depict revelations conceming others, motivated by a desire for amusement in one case and geopolitical justice in another. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the people of New Anita L. Allen, J.D., Ph.D.,...
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...A. Imagine you are a young vibrant newlywed trying to start a family, when after a couple months of severe headaches you find out it is not just headaches; it’s a malignant brain tumor. B. I’d like to talk to you about a person’s right to die. If you watched the news this fall you have likely heard this story. After two surgeries to stop the growth of the tumor, Brittany Maynard found out she had less than six months to live and that any treatment they could offer to try to prolong her life had brutal side effects. A Gallup Poll from May 2006 asking "When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?" the poll found that 69% of Americans answered yes to the question. C. I have been interested in this topic since the Terri Schiavo case from 2005. Terri had cardio-respiratory arrest in 1990 which caused her brain to be oxygen deprived for a long period of time. After a brief time on a ventilator to help her breathe she was able to breathe on her own but doctors declared her as being in a persistent vegetative state, which is an ongoing state of severely impaired consciousness in which the patient is incapable of voluntary motion. She was placed on a feeding tube as the only way to get proper hydration and nourishment. This was the only thing keeping her alive in her persistent vegetative state for 15 years. D. I will discuss three main points:...
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...WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY Mary Powell Dr. Sandra M. Tomkowicz BLA 201-Legal Environment of Business Alyssa Straiton Spring 2016 Sections 01, 02 & 03 Section 03 Assignment - Constitutional Law, Administrative Agencies, Intentional Torts & Intellectual Property ** You may complete the assignment with one or two partners from any of my three (3) sections of BLA 201. Each student will receive the same grade. PLEASE TYPE YOUR RESPONSES ON THIS DOCUMENT. DUE DATE: Friday, April 22, 2016 ** Read the story FDA Warns Tobacco Companies Advertising “Natural” Cigarettes, located at http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/27/435235804/fda-warns-tobacco-companies-advertising-natural-cigarettes and answer the following questions: 1. What type of speech is at issue? False or misleading speech 2. If the tobacco companies challenge the FDA’s order as violating their First Amendment free speech rights, will the companies win? Explain why or why not. The tobacco companies will not win because false or misleading speech is not protected under the First Amendment, so therefore none of their rights are being violated. If the tobacco were able to scientifically prove their claims, then they would win because then their First Amendment rights would be violated. ** Read the following stories (in chronological order): In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding, located at http://www.npr.org/section...
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...Death with Dignity Act Esther Harris November 29, 2015 Business Law – BA3310 Death with Dignity is a very controversial subject that has spanned many decades and continues to spark great debate from both sides of the subject. Death is a very personal matter, and those who support that law believe that a person should be able to die with dignity if he or she chooses to do so. Those who oppose the law believe that there should not be any human intervention into the process of dying. There are two distinct sides of the debate, but people should have the choice if he or she chooses to do so. Death with Dignity should become a legalized process throughout the United States. HISTORY Death with Dignity laws in several states allow mentally competent, terminally-ill adult residents to voluntarily request and receive a prescription medication, from a physician, so they can die in a peaceful, humane manner in a place and time of their choosing (Death with Dignity, 2015.) In layman’s terms, a person who is eighteen years or older and has received a terminal medical diagnosis, with less than six months to live, can request for a physician to provide him or her with a prescription of pentobarbital, which can be used at the patient’s discretion to end his or her life. Some states require that the patient request the medications in writing and then again verbally, while others only require the patient to make a verbal request. The patient’s primary diagnosis must be validated...
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...Adam Smith (5 June 1723 OS (16 June 1723 NS) – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment,[1] Smith is best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is cited as the "father of modern economics" and is still among the most influential thinkers in the field of economics today.[2] Friedrich Engels (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋəls]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist, author,political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value" and this was later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital.[1] He has also made important contributions to family economics. Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and writer who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three...
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...“La saggezza del mondo insegna che è cosa migliore per la reputazione fallire in modo convenzionale, anziché riuscire in modo anticonvenzionale” – John Maynard Keynes, Teoria generale dell'occupazione, dell'interesse e della moneta John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) è stato il più importante e “rivoluzionario” economista del Novecento. La sua teoria economica, che ruppe con la tradizione liberista del laissez-faire,cioè con l’idea che lo Stato non debba occuparsi di economia e lasciar fare al libero mercato, fu la base del New Deal inaugurato dal presidente americano Franklin Delano Roosevelt per uscire dalla crisi iniziata nel 1929 con il crollo di Wall Street. Le politiche keynesiane, costituite soprattutto da investimenti pubblici, tassazione progressiva e protezione sociale, risollevarono l’economia americana e segnarono la politica economica dell’Occidente fino agli anni ‘70. L’abbandono di quel fecondo filone di pensiero, in favore di un libero mercato senza alcun contrappeso, ha sguarnito la politica e la teoria economica degli strumenti per comprendere e gestire i cicli e ha prodotto diseguaglianze sempre più gravi che, secondo molti, sono tra le cause della recessione di questi anni. Il principio della domanda effettiva “Quando si risparmiano cinque scellini, si lascia senza lavoro un uomo per una giornata.” − John Maynard Keynes, Esortazioni e profezie − Keynes, contrastando alla radice la teoria economica allora dominante1, affermò che il livello di produzione di una...
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...NRSBN 3004 Nursing in a Changing Society Module Leader: Sue Bailey Word Count: 3159 Critically Discuss the Issue of Priority Setting Within the NHS It is no surprise that the role of the nurse has had to change over the last few decades; nurses are dynamic, vital members of a successful health care team. RCN (2009) The role they play is crucial in order to provide a consistent and quality service from health promotion and prevention strategies to clinical treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care. (NHS,2008). Nurses contribute greatly to a modern health care system hence the emergence of many specialist nurse practitioners who have undertaken additional specialist education in order to provide advanced nursing care and nurse prescribing services. RCN (2009) However in order for nurses to uphold the pledge of lifelong learning (NMC, 2008), it is imperative that they improve both clinically and academically and have an understanding of some of the important and current issues within the NHS. One such issue apparent over the last decade, and the cause of much recent debate has revolved around ‘priority setting’ within the NHS. Therefore the focus of this essay will be to critically analyse the subject of priority setting in relation to rationing and funding in the healthcare setting. “It is a matter of fact that rationing exists. It existed under the previous Government, and it exists now. Only when we recognise that rationing is a natural part...
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...Events.......................................................................................................................3 Outcome...........................................................................................................................................4 Lesson..............................................................................................................................................5 Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6 Bibliography....................................................................................................................................6 Abstract “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.” (Shakespeare) Since there have been men walking this earth, there has been a seemingly inherent need to fight each other for one reason or another. The following monograph is a short snapshot back into the first three months or so of my first combat deployment (OIF 8-9) and a look at an event that has had an everlasting effect on the way I look at life now and how I finally came to deal with it. 1 Introduction My name is SGT. Travis Maynard and I am 25 years old. I was born in Norwich Connecticut on June 8th 1988 and I am an Infantryman in the United States...
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