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| Key Stakeholders of Sara Lee Company | 610 |
| Stakeholders are often considered the lifeline of a company. They share a common interest in the health and well being of a company and often support a company financially and morally. Within any organization key stakeholders include individuals and groups within the organization that have a 'stake' in the well-being or overall success of the organization. Stakeholder's aim is to make sure a company deliver positive results and remain viable through its product and service offerings. Stakeholders often have much say in an organizations daily functioning. They may influence the products or services that a company offers and may influence programs or organizational systems. Key stakeholders at Sara Lee come primarily from within the company. They key players at Sara Lee include members of management and employees but also some external clients including suppliers. Other stakeholders that may sha | |
| The Culture of the Sudanese and Response to U.S. | 794 |
| The people of Sudan, commonly known as the Sudanese, bring with them numerous traditions and cultural mainstays when they enter the United States. Their history, culture, medical practices and traditions provide them with a sense of home, and allow them to continue to preserve their past while allowing them to lead better lives. However, while their traditions and culture are vital to this preservation, their new positions in the United States often lead to struggles and conflict. This paper will outline the culture of the Sudanese, and will examine how that culture has altered in response to life in the United States. One of the main differences in culture and medical practices lies in the circumcision of females in Sudan and in the female perspective overall. Female circumcision is a common practice in Sudan, since it is believed to ensure the virginity of young Sudanese women. In Sudan, circumcision is required to attain any form of socio-economic status, and required for acceptance into the community (Halim, 18). Almost all females of middle class and wealthy families are subjected to the practice at an early age. Once in the United States, however, the practi | |
| Ethical Dilemmas of the Police Officers in New Orleans | 1080 |
| When Hurricane Katrina hit the United States in 2005, there were many individuals whose lives were destroyed. The resulting flooding in New Orleans also left many without homes, food, water, and employment. Even those in positions of authority were left without means of communication, and in some cases, these individuals committed acts completely against their codes of ethics. This paper will discuss one set of individuals in power exclusively, those of the police officers of New Orleans, and will focus on the ethical dilemmas that stemmed from the acts of looting which occurred at the hands of some of those officers. To fully understand the situation in New Orleans, one must first understand the issues underlying ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas can stem from a variety of sources, including a conflict between personal and professional values, between two principles, between two actions, each with strong positive aspects as well as strong negative aspects, and between ones' percei | |
| The Romantic Period and with the Artist's Life in Earlier Periods | 392 |
| The life of a "free artist" during the early 19th century Romantic period of literature, art and music was conceptualized in terms of the artist as a free person, an artist outside of society, often beset upon by his or her inner demons. In contrast, the Classical period that immediately preceded the Romantic period during the 18th century valued wit and repartee rather than inner self-expression. Romantic literature favored lyric poetry, for example, often used by Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats to express their inner feelings, away from society while the artist was in repose. In | |
| View of the Heart | 1628 |
| Pascal seemed, on the surface to make one of the most famous reasoned and calculated defenses of Western Christian philosophy when the French thinker made his 'wager' that it was better to suppose that God existed, rather than did not exist, given the proposition of eternal life if one acquiesced, and the certainty of damnation of one did not. But in Pascal's less quoted but more extensive musings on his "View of the Heart" in relation to, in reaction with, and ultimately in support of the limits of rational human philosophy, Pascal suggested that reason did not alone satisfy all of the functions of human philosophy. In fact, in his Pensees 423 Pascal states: "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." The heart, in Pascal's philosophy, stands opposed to the pure rationalism of the head, when really the heart should, and does, guide the head in relation to its sensations of the deity. In 423, Pascal further states that "the heart has its reasons, which reason knows n | |
| Theories and Administrative Thought on Modern Day Police Departments | 320 |
| Various sociological theories and administrative thought shows that modern police department is a combination of a hierarchical and quasi-military bureaucracy. In accordance to the fundamental rationality of Weber's theory of bureaucracy, the modern police department is wrought with red tape and other unfortunate side-effects of bureaucratic organizations. On the other hand, as Weber suggested, many large-scale organizations, especially those linked to the government, must be | |
| The Dominican Republic and Its Influences | 1195 |
| The Dominican Republic is an island nation of rich culture and lasting tradition, located in the Caribbean Sea. Winning its status as an independent republic in 1844, the republic is best known for its beaches, resorts, and unique history (Brown, 1999). However, it is perhaps the unique blend of cultural influences from around the world that make this beautiful island the fascinating area it is today. Its influences, stemming from African, Taino, Spanish, and English origin, combine to create an experience more unique than those found almost anywhere in the world. Of these influences, the Taino Indian culture is the first that can be noted in almost all areas of life in the Dominican Republic. The Tainos inhabited the island from before 11 A.D. through the colonization of the island by Columbus and the Spanish in 1492 (Brown, 1999). From the agricultural practices and foods to the religion and art, the impact of the early Taino Indians is clear. Agriculturally, the Taino India | |
| Salem Witchcraft Scare | 333 |
| The social tensions that influenced the Salem Witchcraft Scare were based in politics and social class. Among the group that wanted Salem Village to be independent from Salem proper, were the Putmans, who formed their own church with Samuel Parris as its minister. Many of the wealthiest members of the village were among those who refused to attend meetings at Parris' church, and "refused even to assess taxes for the payment of Parris' 1692 salary" (Pestana 63). The gender role had particu | |
| To live or to Die - Legal Murder | 2206 |
| INTRODUCTION Euthanasia is the practice of ending a person's life for the sole purpose of relieving the person's body from excruciating pain and suffering due to an incurable disease. The term euthanasia is often referred as mercy killing or the 'good death' as derived from the Greek. Euthanasia can be classified into four categories. In active euthanasia, a person's life is terminated by a doctor through a lethal dose of medication. Passive euthanasia implies non provision of life-sustaining treatment to a patient based on logical reasoning or in other words doing nothing to save a person's life by abstaining to give life saving measures like putting a person on artificial respirator. Simple way of distinguishing active and passive form of euthanasia is a mere difference between act and omission. The other forms include voluntary euthanasia in which a person's consent is obtained for either active or passive euthanasia. Whereas non-voluntary euthanasia which refers to ending a person | |
| Analysis of Active and Passive Euthanasia | 2212 |
| INTRODUCTION Fundamentally there are two types of euthanasia, Active and Passive. Passive euthanasia is seen in an example where a patient requiring dialysis, is not put on the dialysis machine and hence dies. Active euthanasia is seen where a patient is injected some poison to cause death. "In active euthanasia you directly and intentionally cause a person's death. In passive euthanasia you do not directly take their life but you permit them to die" (Dr. J.P. Moreland). In essence it can be said that in active euthanasia, something is done to cause the death while in passive euthanasia something is not done to cause the death of the patient. Although the end result of both types is the same people do make a moral distinction between the two types of euthanasia. The distinction being, the difference between killing someone and just letting someone die. However there are others who feel that this is one of the same things. Active euthanasia is morally a better option because the pati | |
| Macroeconomic Indicators | 586 |
| INTRODUCTION Just like many macroeconomic indicators directly affect a firm's potential profitability, similarly for Hayes which is an automotive wheel firm, these indicators produce a similar effect. Most common of these indicators are the Gross Domestic Product, Inflation and Unemployment. With the effect of these conditions, organizations of any type need to work and plan accordingly to keep up their sales and profits. They are competing with various organizations of the same type from around the world and it's important for them to analyze different factors so as to ensure their existence. MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total value of services or completed goods that are produced within a country. The most common way to calculate GDP is to add the consumption, investment and exports and from it subtract the imports. That wo | |
| Diagnostic Test for Migraine | 3886 |
| INTRODUCTION. Migraine, also known as hemi crania and megrim, is a severe and recurring headache. Commonly known as sick headache, it often affects only one side of the head, and is usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, visual disturbances, and sensitivity to motion, light sound and odors. "The, International Headache Society (HIS) has created a checklist by which migraine can be diagnosed. This is a simplified, standardized and globally accepted diagnostic test for migraine. The following criteria define common migraine, which is the migraine without aura: 1.A patient should have had at least five of these headaches. 2.The headache lasts from 4 to 72 hours. 3.The headache must have at least two of the following: a.One sided location. b.Pulsing or throbbing quality. c.Moderate or severe intensity, making daily activities difficult or impossible to perform d.Headache is worsened by routine physical activity. Such a bending over or climbing stairs. 4.The Headache is acc | |
| The Human Biology | 1745 |
| I had a sociology professor a few years ago who repeatedly made the point that "race is a social construct"; she would, virtually every day, restate the phrase, "There is no biological backing to the notion of race." However, she would never satisfactorily expand upon exactly what this idea meant. From the way she presented the concept of race, she made it seem as if a woman of African descent and a man of European descent were just as likely to have children who appeared Asian as they were to have children more visibly related to their biologic backgrounds. Clearly, there is a relationship between what could be termed "race" and human biology; specifically what my professor never made apparent was that precisely where people draw the lines between races is what is arbitrary. Yet, the evident result of this, to my professor, was that "race is a scientifically groundless conception." Although the first two statements made by her could undoubtedly be understood as accurate-from a certain | |
| "Are We There Yet?": A Wholesome Family Comedy | 728 |
| The movie is a feel good movie. It is all about kids who were left to their mom's friend, "Nick" on New Years day. The movie clip started with a mom's suitor visiting her then before the suitor came near their door, the kids made fun of him. They do not want their mom to go on date to any man nor to have a boyfriend. There was a man named "Nick" who has a brand new car and owns a little collectibles toy store that hates kids a lot and irritated when he sees kids because kids are short tempered. Then all of a sudden he saw "Suzanne", the mom's kids, outside his store, divorce with two kids. He instantly fell in love with her. They became friends. One day, the mom received a phone call from her ex-husband on the airport and told here that he cannot bring the kids to his home. She did not know what to do until Nick offered his self to pick up the kids then drive them to the airport to meet their mom before New Year's Eve. The caretaker reminded Nick to stay away from the kids if he wants to live longer but he simply ignored. Along the way, unforeseen and unexpected circumstance | |
| The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault | 2777 |
| Initially, in order to provide a stable framework on this study, we would try to clearly define, identify and learn both the visible and literary meaning on the work of Michel Foucault's work, The Birth of the Clinic. We will intend to scrutinize each of the underlying detail of this literary masterpiece and retrieve its modern influences in the field of medical and health studies. In the modern era of rational thinking and ideas, the concept of which Michel Foucault is trying to convey in his literary work, The Birth of the Clinic is the postmodern influence of medical attribute to the social and political structure of our society. The concept of which Foucault considers as a myth of which he notes: "...the first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated...p.33." Foucault nevertheless contradicted these myths stating that: " | |
| The American Revolution and Economics | 710 |
| The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the American Revolution. Specifically it will discuss whether the revolution was economic in origin, or depended largely on politics and other areas of American life. The American Revolution came about for a variety of reasons. Many people believe the biggest reason was "taxation without representation," which became a well known phrase of the fight. However, there were many reasons for the Revolution, and not all of them were economic. Trade and the importance of economic trade with England were certainly factors in the American Revolution. Americans faced sanctions and taxes for their trade items, and they wanted to be able to trade freely with the world without the English getting in the way. However, these taxes and sanctions were only one reason Americans wanted freedom, and they were not the most important reasons. Politics and political freedom were very important to Americans, and England began to take away these freedoms and the people rebelled. The colonies had been | |
| The American Rebellion in 1776 | 1014 |
| The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the American rebellion in 1776. Specifically it will evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776: Parliamentary taxation, restriction of civil liberties, British military measures, and the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas. Americans rebelled against British rule for a number of reasons, and some were more important than others were. These were four of the main reasons the Americans finally had enough of British rule, and they became the basis of the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Almost everyone knows the phrase "taxation without representation" and what it means in U.S. history. Many people believe that high taxes were the main reason that Americans finally rebelled against the British. Taxes were an important reason, as historian Robert Hole notes, "Over the next 12 years, time and again the British tried to tax the Americ | |
| William Wordsworth's Poetry Experience | 1230 |
| In his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," William Wordsworth concentrates his attention on how truth is discovered through poetry. His assertion is that "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth Preface 19). From this assertion, the poet draws a clear connection between the perceived experience and the poetic expression of that experience. In Wordsworth's poetry, this overflow of feelings manifests itself primarily through the experience of nature. This theme of experience serving as stimuli for poetry can be seen in "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," "The Prelude," and "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," where the poet captures the experience and the raw emotion associated with it through poetry. These poems illustrate Wordsworth's notion that from experience springs forth poetry and these two aspects operate together to heighten his relationship with nature, poetry, and self. In "Intimations of Immo | |
| Transformational Leadership Style | 1587 |
| INTRODUCTION The paper discusses how Transformational Leadership Style type, ISTJ enhances or hinders leadership effectiveness while working as a team. An observer defines leadership as follows: "Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent". (Donald Clark, 1997) Transformational leadership stems from George MacGregor Burns (1978) Model of Moral, Transaction & Transformational Leaders. According to Burns an amoral leader cannot be a true leader. In this way he creates dichotomy of morality in leaderships. While a moral leader is a real leader in Burns' eyes an amoral leader is one who exhibits naked power coercion like fascists and dictators and hence viable of becoming infamous. He goes further to classify a moral leader into Transactional and Transformational Leaderships. Moral Transactional and Transformational leaderships only differ in their set of peculi | |
| American Cultural History and Cult of Matthias | 2266 |
| Introduction: There had been many changes occurs in terms of the progress of the economy, population and intellectual abilities during the 18th century and these could be considered as the possible reasons for the evolution of a fresh thinking in all the various spheres of life, and this pertains to religion as well. This was in complete a need for change and a great desire for bring about changes. To a certain extent, this was considered to bring about the end of earlier concepts of religion of pertaining to the thought that it can be handled only by the privileged classes also ended. This led to the emergence of certain new religious thinkers and practical leaders like that of Mathias as leaders like him could not have become popular religious figures in the previous era. The line of thinking of Matthias was very much different from that of the ideas and thoughts of the earlier leaders. Analysis: This was the age when the truth of what Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his essay | |
| Passion of Writing Essays | 320 |
| Some of us are natural born writers while others need to work hard on being creative and learning how to write. To me writing has always been a passion but what I have learned through the various essays that I have written is that talent is not the only key to success. One might have great talents but getting polished through coaching and practice can only make you something exceptional. This I hold to be true for all fields in life. A tool which I found to be really usefu | |
| Five Fingers | 873 |
| Marijuana was declared an illegal drug in the USA with the passing of the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937 under dubious circumstances.1 Since that time numerous studies have shown that the drug is less harmful than tobacco and alcohol. Despite the available evidence and the enormous cost of enforcing the marijuana ban, it is hard to understand why this relatively harmless drug continues to remain illegal in the United States. This essay argues why marijuana should be decriminalized without further delay. Opponents of legalizing marijuana contend that it is a dangerous drug; this is far from the truth. For example, there has not been a single recorded case of death due to marijuana overdose. On the other hand, a legal intoxicant like alcohol results in the death of about 5,000 persons every year due to overdose. The reason for this is that the ratio of cannabinoids2 necessary for intoxication is 40,000:1 while that for alcohol is generally between 4:1 and 10:1. ("Answers To...," 2005) As su | |
| The Affirmative Action and It's Policies | 401 |
| White males continue to occupy a disproportionate number of positions of power in the United States. Whether CEOs of major corporations or state senators, people in positions of power have the ability to change public policy, alter consumer habits, and influence lifestyle, worldview, and cultural ideology. Politically correct language has done little to correct the imbalance at the upper echelons of society. As a result, minorities are poorer and less well-educated than their white counterparts. Race continues to be a major social, political, and economic issue in the United States, because the | |
| An Analysis of Ethics In the Workplace | 566 |
| Article Synopsis In the first article "What role should HR play in corporate ethics" the authors establish that HR is vital toward maintaining and building corporate ethics programs. In particular the researchers suggest that HR professionals can create programs that help facilitate open communication and enhance ethics by helping employees and management officials understand the effects non-ethical behavior may have on customers, shareholders and organizational productivity. The authors also suggest that ethics programs should be linked to all business units including finance, security and any legal organization components. An ethics program according to this author must cover multiple areas including risk assessment, organizational standards, communication, reporting and organizational assessment. I support the author's views in | |
| Cold War and the Policy of Detente | 1252 |
| Introduction: There is no clear and important threat to United States as can be seen directly now, and that had been the major determinant of foreign policy for United States for many years, after the Second World War. This has led to a situation where there are many impressions about the policies that are best suited for America and those originate from different philosophies about the fundamental national interests and values. Issues and problems that were not being considered earlier are now attracting the attention, debate and scrutiny of policy makers since the position has changed since the fall of communism. It is true that United States had to bear the biggest burden for the defeat of Communism, and this is leading to the pursuance of a lot of other priorities that had not been considered then. (Bring Back the Laxalt Doctrine) At the beginning of this argument it is essential to accept a new logic that there are no threats to United States in the form of further spread of we | |
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