...Mohamed Rawoof Steffann/ENG111 11/22/2012 How to Defeat Greed People always want to chase their ambitions, and fulfill their dreams, but once they have reached it, new goals are created. Greed to set higher standards in life is a common way of being dissatisfied. Income is a great example of dissatisfaction amongst many people, but the key to satisfaction is not reaching a specific income, or accomplishing a goal, but rather achieving happiness. Money is a great desire for most people, but the rich can still be just as unsatisfied as the poor .This happens because the perspective of money is not depended entirely on wealth, it is also on the desire a person has for it. Someone can remain forever unsatisfied by money because of their view on it. Some people perceive money to be evil because of the way it controls a financial life-style, but it is merely just a tool from a rational perspective. Changing the perspective of money can change the outlook of life because it can help avoid selfish desires and make a person more financially stable (Klontz). If there was only one person in the world, and he was a billionaire, he couldn’t be considered “rich” because he wouldn’t have the “poor” to compare to. If rich and poor are measurements of wealth, they only exist due to comparison. This means that eliminating a view point based on comparison also has an effect on a person’s view of wealth. Gambling is the perfect example of the human’s dilemma. Many people are aware that...
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...Mega Brands Magnetic Toys Can Hurt The major problem with Mega Brands is with the safety of the children that play with the toys. Magnets fall off of the toy and children swallow the magnets which can cause stomach flu like symptoms and has even caused one child to die. Another problem is Mega Brands refusing to cooperate with the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. According to CPSC.com, “The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children.” The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission has a job to do as well as Mega Brands. From one business to another, Mega Brands should have responded to the recalls that could have prevented a lot of children from being sick. According to our text on page 263 “data was submitted covering 1,500 complaint reports made to Mega Brands”. Mega Brands “lacked an organized comprehensive reporting system.” (Brooks, Leonard J. Page 263.) If the organization was better this complaints could have been a red flag to get the toys off of the market. The concerns that I would express to the CEO about the Magnetix to issues would be that there has been a reported death from our toys. This alone should make the...
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...Case Study 1 1. Which supervisory attributes has Fred failed to display or perform? Give examples from the case to support your choices. Answers: The Supervisory attributes that Fred has failed to display or perform are assigning employee’s work that fits their abilities, example is gaving the electronics technicians supervisory paperwork, providing them with adequate instructions and training, for example, letting Carlos to figure out on his own to complete the forms and providing examples of proper conduct at work, example is getting home at 5:00 pm and went for a long weekend while there is too much work. 2. Do you think Fred’s employees need to change to adapt to his supervisory style? Why or why not? Answers: Fred’s employees need not to change to adapt to his supervisory style. Because Fred’s supervisory style is a bit strange, he failed to display supervisory attributes. 3. How will Fred need to change if he is going to be a successful superior? Do you thing he will be able to make these changes? Why or why not? Answers: If he is going to be a successful superior, he needs to change his behavior towards his subordinates. I think he will be able will be able to make these changes. Because the only constant in this thing is change, it’s not too late to change, he just need to open up his mind for suggestion. Case Study 2 1. What mistake do you see in Sally Santos’ approach? Answers: The mistakes I see in Sally Santos’ approach...
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...future; that no matter what controls we put into place - those controls will be subverted at some time in the future. So far, it seems that increasing numbers of "high security" organizations have been penetrated or fallen prey to criminal activites; additionally, wth globalization these problems have begun to affect individuals privacy and security of the information that they provide to governments and companies (and "friends), so that they can receive services. There seem to be increasingly frequent incidents perpetrated by both insiders and outsiders against commercial and government organizations. The number of known vulnerabiiltes is approaching 50,000 and is growing by 10-15 a day. The sophistication of threats, both internal and external, is growing at something around 2000% per decade. New modes or methods of attack seem to be invented daily - bad things happen that are not repeats of prior actions. Social engineering has become part of our culture through social media and as a result of desire of companies and governments for information about customers, citizens, (and about 'marks). To be vigilant one must know what (s)he is looking for; and we are simply not able predict what might happen in the future; and there is ample evidence that today's best predictive models are not very good at doing so . Furthermore, vigilance is expensive in actual and theoretical resources - it takes people, technology, dollars, and time, and it takes experience, training...
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...Applicable Housing in China Abstract The paper is about the research of applicable housing in China. It explains the definition of the applicable housing. There are some data of the research and the main problems that this kind of house meet in China at present. I also will talk about my opinion about whether applicable housing should be continued and how to make the applicable housing really help the low-income families. Applicable Housing is very special in Chinese real estate transactions. It is a government policy that provides the low-income families a house in a low price so that everyone can live in their own house. It began in 1994. It means as the development of Chinese real estate economy, there are still some Chinese can’t buy houses even though more and more Chinese can afford to buy their own house. Wealth is not evenly distributed in China. As one online dictionary said, establishing the housing supply system mainly with the economical and applicable housing was fit for the market economy of socialist and current circumstance of China. The target of applicable housing is very good. But the fact is that it works not very well. Some real estate developers haven’t built and sold the building that meet the standards of Applicable Housing while they enjoy the treatment of this government policy. As the result, here comes many problems, such as the price is much higher, the buyer is not the poor and so on. Here are some data from the research about applicable...
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...For JURI495 and 496, the research issue that you select must encompass at least two disciplines, law and a liberal arts discipline such as history, philosophy or political science. Your proposed area of research must require the contribution of more than one disciplinary perspective in order to gain adequate understanding and arrive at conclusions that integrate the various disciplinary perspectives. SEE RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS EXPLANATION. Write your Research Paper Proposal in the following format: ⎫ Paragraph of introduction to your topic. ⎫ Research Hypothesis—expressed three ways : o As a one-sentence hypothesis o As a research question o As a title for your paper ⎫ Essential Disciplines and Sub-Disciplines ⎫ Definition/Explanation of any essential terms [legal terms or disciplinary jargon of the field you are researching] with footnoting of the sources of your definitions ⎫ Description of how you will conduct your interdisciplinary research; the design of your research [may be up to 2 paragraphs]. Note: In this section, you must include a sentence which begins “An interdisciplinary approach is essential [or required] to [fill in……….] because no single disciplinary perspective can adequately address this question/issue. This section is the “road map” in two prose paragraphs describing your research. It paints a picture of the proposed path of your research OVER THE TWO-SEMESTERS OF THE COURSE. ⎫ Predicted research conclusions. These conclusions must be responsive...
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...MBA502 Economic Theory and Applications: Chapter 8 Applicable Questions (Pg: 220): 1) Find and label the monopolist’s profit-maximizing output and price: The chart shown below represents monopolistic competition, short run. P MC P1 MR D 0 Q1 Q At: Q1 MR=MC; P > MC/ATC (ATC not at minimum) A monopolistically competitive company reaches the maximum-profit output at the point where marginal revenue (MR) is equal to marginal cost. Profit will be greater than marginal cost and average total cost. At this point, profits cannot be increased by changing the production level. Increases in production will cause a decline in profits, because it adds more to cost. Decreasing production will decrease revenue, since there will less inventory to sell. The profits shown in this graph cannot be maintained, since other firms will also produce similar products. This causes the demand curve to become more elastic, and shift back toward the origin, until it becomes tangent...
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...Applicable regulatory compliance requirements for business situations. Marcie Snow, Marsha Williams, Raja Misra, Brandi Clark LAW/531 25 May 2015 Susan Purvin This paper identifies applicable regulatory compliance requirements for foreign trade to ensure protection of technology patents for foreign investors. It describes the reason it is necessary for laws to be set up, as well as procedures put in place for disputes when the laws are violated. With so much business being done between foreign countries, it is important for laws to be in place to avoid theft or reverse engineering of product or technology. The requirement of contracts is necessary and must be set up in a way that give specific information on how these foreign trades are to take place. In giving specific information the contracts ensure understanding for the business trade between the countries for the companies doing business. With contracts in place between the companies it is easier to hold a country accountable for illegal business practices which could possibly take place. The good thing about the law, is that all contracts must be approved by the government before trade takes place. This ensures that the contracts are fair and does not violate any of the laws set in place. Due to the differences in cultural beliefs within the different countries, the laws make it easier to do trade across the nations without the disagreements that could possibly cause issues. If a law is violated by...
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...Applicable CCM concepts and theories from The Terminal 1.High context vs low context in communication Daily communication includes verbal communication and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication is more common in low-context culture while nonverbal communication is more common in high-context culture. Edward Hall raised the concept of high context and low context in the book beyond culture. Context is the the commons and background knowledge that needs to be known and shared before effective communication between people. The more shared background knowledge is, the more commons there are. In detail, in communication in high-context culture, most of the information exists in the physical environment, or internalized in the individual body, and rarely exists in the encoding of the transmission of information. In communication in the low-context culture, a good amount of information exists in languages with clear encoding. For example: Navorski can only speak very limited English and have big problems communicating with Americans, which can be seen from the communication process in the beginning of the movie when Thurman and Frank Dixon asked him questions and he always gave an irrelevant answer. At the beginning, he could only use body gestures to communicate. However, North American is low-context culture while Bulgaria I suppose belongs to high context culture. Americans would feel it difficult to decode Bulgarian’s encoding, while language barrier makes Bulgarian’s...
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...Applicable Ccm Concepts and Theories from the Terminal Applicable CCM concepts and theories from The Terminal 1.High context vs low context in communication Daily communication includes verbal communication and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication is more common in low-context culture while nonverbal communication is more common in high-context culture. Edward Hall raised the concept of high context and low context in the book beyond culture. Context is the the commons and background knowledge that needs to be known and shared before effective communication between people. The more shared background knowledge is, the more commons there are. In detail, in communication in high-context culture, most of the information exists in the physical environment, or internalized in the individual body, and rarely exists in the encoding of the transmission of information. In communication in the low-context culture, a good amount of information exists in languages with clear encoding. For example: Navorski can only speak very limited English and have big problems communicating with Americans, which can be seen from the communication process in the beginning of the movie when Thurman and Frank Dixon asked him questions and he always gave an irrelevant answer. At the beginning, he could only use body gestures to communicate. However, North American is low-context culture while Bulgaria I suppose belongs to high context culture. Americans would feel it difficult to decode Bulgarian’s...
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...Usage of Applicable Mathematics in Biomedical Engineering (Macro and Micro Biomechanics) Biomedical engineering is an emerging discipline which links medicine, biology, and technology in order to tackle medical problems using an engineering approach. As such, it is heavily influenced by engineering principles and uses applicable mathematics in nearly all of its aspects. It is important to note that applied mathematics (vector algebra, calculus, numerical approaches to solving functions, etc.) is a language, which evolved to serve the needs of science and particularly those of classical (Newtonian) mechanics. Thus, it describes and explores natural phenomena using mathematical functions and relations. As biomedical engineering incorporates many engineering spheres, it employs applicable mathematics in numerous situations. The following is an overview of the applications of mathematics in solving macro-biomechanical, and micro and nano-scale challenges in biomedical engineering. Biomechanics is a field of biomedical engineering which analyses the behaviour of structures and materials in biological or medical applications [1]. It is closely related to the field of prosthetics and uses mathematical analysis to design and test better devices. Dynamic analysis of systems involves constructing free-body diagrams and resolving forces acting on the components. Using partial derivatives and integration can vastly simplify biomechanical problems by switching between the domains...
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...Business I. The essential elements of a contract and the applicable remedies in the event of a breach. Four Essential Elements of a Contract An agreement must contain four essential elements to be regarded as a contract. If any one of them is missing, the agreement will not be legally binding. a. Offer There must be a definite, clearly stated offer to do something. For example: A quotation by sub-contractor to the main contractor and an offer to lease. An offer does not include ball park estimates, requests for proposals, expressions of interest, or letters of intent. An offer will lapse: * when the time for acceptance expires * if the offer is withdrawn before it is accepted * After a reasonable time in the circumstances (generally the greater the value of the contract, the longer the life of the offer). Invitation to treatAn invitation to treat is a mere declaration of willingness to enter into negotiations; it is not an offer, and cannot be accepted so as to form a binding contract. An agreement is not created if there is an acceptance of the invitation to treat.An invitation to treat is part of the preliminaries of negotiation, whereas an offer is legally binding once accepted, subject to compliance with the terms of the offer. For example: Invitations to treat are advertisements, price lists, circulars and catalogues. | b. Acceptance Only what is offered can be accepted. This means that the offer must be accepted exactly as offered without...
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...Security standards are security rules applicable to the defined area related to the subject. All departments in our offices are responsible for information security. This report is only for the internal use side of our network. For routine operational information that is not widely available to the public, requires no special measures to protect. This could be things such as correspondences, internal phone directories, or inter-office memoranda. All internal documents should have the bottom of the page labeled “Internal Use Only” regardless of whether printed, stored, or transmitted. Transmissions by spoken word such as answering machines, voicemail, phones, cellular devices, and conversations. Should have reasonable precautions taken to ensure there is no inadvertent disclosure of information. Transmissions by fax, are located in areas no accessible to general public. Transmissions to printers are also kept in locations not accessible to general public and user need reasonable care in printer location selection. Internal transmissions like emails do not need any special handling but again users need to take care with what they are sending to who. Displays and any other media is to be removed or stored out of the sight of non-employees as well all screens faced to where the public cannot see them. Destructed of paper is to be shredded and any media containing hardware incinerated. Workstations and servers are to be password protected and screen saves set to low time limits...
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...strategy 28 Conclusion 36 Reference 36 Executive Summary Business Strategy is a subject to develop the learner’s ability to evaluate and select strategies appropriate to business organizations. This will involve an analysis of the impacts of the external operating environment and the need to plan organization strategies to ensure effective business performance. (Business Strategy course book, BPP professional education, 2004). The report is to address the following areas: This is a continuation of your previously prepared report for Assignment 1-Strategic plan. It reviews the previously prepared report on Apple Inc., the directors are now interested in examining the various approaches to strategy evaluation and selection that are applicable to Apple Inc. In addition, the directors are also keen to analyze how strategy implementation can be realized in the company. * Evaluate possible alternative strategies such as substantive and limited growth...
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...CAPSTONE PROJECT Project Title: APPLICABLE FINANCIAL POLICIES CHANGES THAT CAN BE USED TO ENCOURAGING HOUSE AND HOME OWNERSHIP IN MICHIGAN Submitted by: Submitted to University MBA/MS Program [list one] Capstone Mentor: [name] For University Use Date Received: ______________________________________________ Reviewed by: _______________________________________________ Approved/Disapproved: ______________________________________________ Signature: ______________________________________________ Date: ______________________________________________ Comments: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Abstract The need to encourage house or homeownership has been in the government’s strategic plan since 1934, however, the current financial policies and practices in the housing finance and the mortgage market has characterized by minimum flow of capital in the secondary mortgage market, confusion on the main control authority and various ill practices. This fact has necessitated various changes in the house and homeownership financial. This study collected both primary and secondary data, and found out that the government must set the right policies that will empower house and home...
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