Declaration Case Studies Samples For Students

Disasters most commonly elicit the response of city, local, state, and federal aid agencies to meet the mitigation of destruction during various phases of an emergency event. Public health legal authority, during a hazardous substance discharge, may call for both public and private agency involvement. Thrusting personnel and materials in the area must operate under the auspices of inter-jurisdictional protocol and legal authority. The objectives in this written exercise are to alert the learner, in anticipation of future professional behavior, about gaining an understanding for legal protocols in public health/hazardous emergencies while maintaining the highest levels of public safety during a ...

Do we have a duty to intervene in conflicts around the world? Why or why not? Use Kant/vices to answer this question.
Kant argues that human being has the capability of knowing what it right as well as the capability of willing to do it (Kant 149). Conflict around the world is not a good thing; however, intervening to stop is a good deed. As such, as a human being, we feel the urge to do what is right, which is to stop it. Additionally, stopping the conflict does not yield pleasure to the person doing it; nonetheless, they ...

Introduction

Since ancient time, forests, grasslands, water bodies, hay fields, and other forms of vegetation covers have remained preferable habitants for millions of birds’ species. Based on their biological, eating, and breeding habits, different birds’ species occupy designated ecological zones, which are found in various parts of the world. Some bird species prefer habitants that are near water bodies, forests, and grasslands while others prefer living near residential places, in plains and mountainous regions, and in cold and hot conditions. In the same breath, some of the birds’ species play an integral role in human life, and in maintaining a balance ...

People's Moujahedin Organization of Iran v. United States Department of State, 613 F.3d 220, (D.C. Cir. 2010)

The petitioners are The People’s Moujahedin Organization of Iran, hereinafter PMOI. They are an organization based in Iran that were declared a Foreign Terrorism Organization, hereinafter FTO under the provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act hereinafter AEDPA. The respondent to the petition is the United States Department of State who are charged by AEDPA with the duty of designating an organisation has an FTO and later on reviewing the designation in the application of the provisions as to revocation ...

This paper will present an analysis of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream speech.” The analysis will focus on the five key elements of the five elements of dramatistic pentad. These are act, agency, agent, scene, and purpose.

Act:

The “I have a dream” speech was a speech that sought to fight for civil rights liberties and freedoms for oppressed Americans. Black Americans had suffered discrimination for centuries in the country. The speech began with a history of the suffering of the black people in America. It also gave an excellent portrayal of the struggles the black people ...

Abstract

The God squad group, mainly made of boys in junior and senior years, uses the 9/11 attacks as a rallying point for combination of white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, ant-Islamic, anti-immigrant, ant-gay, nee-fascist dogma mixed with a good dose of anti-abortion and fundamentalist Christian diatribe. The group catches the attention of the administration when they show up at school all wearing their uniforms and distributes the first edition of their weekly "newsletter". The” newsletter” contains highly offensive diatribes on how it is the "the duty of all true Americans to fight against the forces trying to destroy our country". The ...

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As it is known from history, the German Empire was among four Central Powers that fought the Entente during World War I. This war eventually led to a revolution in Germany that caused the demolition of the monarchy and installment of a democratic republican regime. The regime change that immediately followed the armistice of 11 November 1918 was in fact the main reason for a dissonance during peace talks. Entente powers, first of all the United Kingdom, desired to weaken Germany — then the most powerful state in continental Europe — permanently, especially in ...

History, Circumstances, Ethical Issues

“The Italian Tax Mores” case, prepared by Arthur R. Kelly highlights an ethical issue specific to the modern corporate world. The case is based on a real life occurrence, which indicates that the moral absolutes are surpassed by the legal morality, which results in a moral contradiction. Therefore, an American leading bank that opened a subsidiary in Italy was faced with a moral issue when it was forced to apply the “Italian style” for declaring its tax return, which implied lying about the actual tax return by downsizing it with 30 – 70% of its real value (Kelly 54). Although ...

“Issue #20: Is Now the Time for Reparations for African Americans?”

Introduction
The question of reparations to African Americans owing to slavery, lost opportunities, and state-enforced segregation has been long unresolved. The issue keeps emerging into the realms of national debate. The American psyche would not be healed till the time the question of reparations to African Americans is laid to rest, one way or the other.

Arguments for Reparations

Robert Allen, Adjunct Professor for African American Studies at the University of Berkeley, lends his voice in favor of reparations for African Americans. Allen is the editor of the Black Scholar journal and has written eight books covering the odyssey of the ...

The taxation of the capital gains made during the disposal of the property by James will be considered under the Income Tax Assessment Act of 1997, section 104-105 which deals with capital gains for individuals. This is wholly embedded in the Goods and services Tax act of 1999 (div 9-11). Using this act, considerations will be made on each tax event under the capital gains tax and analysis made on how each will be treated under the act. In the disposal of the property, either a capital gain or a capital loss is made, and such a gain or loss will have to ...

Merliah limited makes an offer to issue 10 million shares to the public at an offer price of $1.00 each share. These shares are to be paid up in 3 instalments, with the first payment of $0.5, the second payment of $0.4 and the balance in the third instalment. The first payment is to be made on application, the second payment on allotment while the last payment is to be paid as a first call two months after the close of the applications on 31st august 2011.
Applications have however been received for 14million shares, indicating an oversubscription by ...

Management Audit: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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Introduction

Management audit is conducted to monitor and keep track of the management through a systematic, comprehensive and extensive evaluation of an organization . The goal of a management audit is to identify the weakness and potential challenges that confronts the organization . This is in pursuit of trying to address and resolve whatever problem is identified in the management as part of the risk management program that organizations typically employ. However, management audit is specifically targeted on a particular managerial aspect. Among the areas of concern that management audit are directed on involve the organization’s policies, procedures, programs and performance . A ...

Debt securities transfer to profit or losses are proportioned to cost of bonuses in debt security management. Bonus payments will reduce significantly in this scenario since there is a decline in fair value of the assets in the portfolio. The variability relating to bonus declarations, also including shareholder returns, is usually equivalent to that of the asset return. When practicing companies tend to smooth declaration of bonuses (Vanderhoof & Altman, 2000). A company with huge and varied estates can chose the degree of smoothing bonus declarations. It depends on various considerations such as marketing among others- not only financial.
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In today’s global community, the issue of cultural diversity is something that all countries (and all social units within every country) would have to deal with. Cultural diversity refers to almost anything that pertains to differences in people’s ethical codes, ethnicity, heritage, identities, language, philosophy, practices, religious beliefs, traditions, among many other things. Such differences need to be managed so people can avoid any miscommunications and misunderstandings. In addition, individual rights need to be protected at the same time as the community’s welfare should be protected. (UNESCO, 2009, pp. 6–8)
UNESCO identifies four key ...

1. Which of the four privacy torts are involved with regard to this case? Is this a case of libel?

Libels as well with the invasion of privacy are two very important issues in communication law. Libel denotes to anything falsely printed and observed communication created of an individual with the intent to denigrate that individual. It is a printed depiction transmitting an unfair and inauspicious notion primed with the aim of spoiling an individual's repute. If the accused is capable of illustrating that the derogatory proclamation is fundamentally accurate, then the claimant's claim for libel will be unsuccessful. The publication requires solely be to a single individual, however it ought to be a declaration which declares to be reality, and is ...

Question 1:

Wendy Borg and Jason Kushdog were two entrepreneurs who came together to form Trendsetters Inc. trendsetter Inc. was a startup aimed at providing new warehousing and distribution solutions to clothing retailers. They however had a major challenge of capital as they only had six weeks of operations before they could run out of the initial seed capital they had invested. This prompted them to seek for alternative sources of capital, venture capital being one of the most lucrative one.
Neither of them had knowledge in how venture capitals work since Wendy had her background in supply chain management and ...

PHIL 434 Medical Ethics

Short answers 3 point seach
What is medical tourism?
Medical tourism is “where patients travel overseas for operations and various invasive therapies.” (Connell 2006, p. 1093).

What are 3 reasons people choose surgeries/procedures in other countries?

1. Economics – Even with health insurance, many procedures can be performed
for a fraction of the cost overseas.
2. Quality of care – quality of care is increasing around the world to the
near equivalent of Western countries.
3. More options- Even with health insurance, many patients find their health insurance companies limit the kinds of procedures they are able to receive.

What is the commoditization of care?

Turning health care into a commodity that is undifferentiated from other competing ...

The Vietnamese had suffered so much in the hands of the Japanese and the French. In 1941, they formed a military and political movement called Viet Minh, meaning League for Independence of Vietnam. This movement did its best to challenge the Japanese and defeat the French. The struggles eventually led to the freedom of the Vietnam nation; it was led by Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a source of inspiration to the people of Vietnam since he led them to their freedom; he was seen as a national hero. Despite the controversy over whether he was a communist or ...

The International Management Group (IMG) is an organisation that is responsible for the identification, recruitment, and management of talent throughout the world. IMG has its headquarters in New York City. The company was established more than fifty years and it has grown to include branches in more than twenty-five countries. The Creative Artists Agency is an American talent organisation founded in 1975. Like the International Management Group, this organisation is responsible for the identification, recruitment, and management of talented people. The purpose of this paper is to investigate contract law in regards to the Creative Artists Agency and The ...

Greetings Ms. Cherie Logan,

The purpose of this document is to provide you with the legal background of the scenario that you and the corporation that you are a part of, Cincinnati Commercial Design Associates Inc., is facing.

Facts

Starting with the facts, it has to be stated and clarified that you started the business—which is now running as a corporation, as a sole proprietorship or a privately owned business for an undisclosed number of years and that the main reason behind the recent step to incorporate it was to minimize potential liabilities as a business owner. The petition for Cincinnati Commercial Design ...

Introduction to the case

Northern Timber Company works wood cutting locales in province remote zones. Workers are reached there for 14 working days and after that come back for 14 days off. They are lived in trailers gave by the organization. They are secured by an aggregate understanding between the organization and the Timber Workers Union. The organization recruit timber cutter in 2005 named with Hank Bradford. Throughout his work, Bradford works a cutting apparatus and other conceivably dangerous equipment. Preceding being procured, Bradford was prompted that no alcohol and drugs were allowed on organization property, including the living arrangements possessed by representatives. The ...

Company Law

Question One
First, the issue in play is fueled by two elemental components. That is, the Beanstalk Ltd Company has a constitution that limits the sale of the agricultural products by the company in Queensland. In addition, the board of directors of the company implemented the policy that the board should approve all the transactions of the company over $100,000. Nevertheless, Jack, who is the managing director of the company, attended a trade fair in Victoria that saw him sign a purchase agreement worth $150,000 with Giant Ltd. This aspect has led to the disagreement of the viability of ...

Company Law

Question One
First, the issue in play is fueled by two elemental components. That is, the Beanstalk Ltd Company has a constitution that limits the sale of the agricultural products by the company in Queensland. In addition, the board of directors of the company implemented the policy that the board should approve all the transactions of the company over $100,000. Nevertheless, Jack, who is the managing director of the company, attended a trade fair in Victoria that saw him sign a purchase agreement worth $150,000 with Giant Ltd. This aspect has led to the disagreement of the viability of ...

Swire Pacific Ltd is a family business, publicly quoted and operating in China during the reversion from British to Chinese rule. The company has five operating divisions, aviation, property, marine services, industrial and trading. In 1997, the company was caught up in the Asian financial crisis as well as the world economic meltdown in 2001. Although China had tried to restrict trade with foreigners, they failed after opium wars and lost ownership of Hong Kong (John et al. 141). China gained back the areas under British rule after the 99-year lease was over and adopted a two government system after signing ...

Historical Context

The terrorist attacks in the United States marked the beginning of a new era of terrorism. The main trend in suicide terrorism has become reorientation of hatred for political regimes and their leaders and to combat them on ethno-national and religious terrorism. Another feature of terrorism is the use of a new era in its attacks scientific and technological advances that lead to fundamentally different scale of destruction and the number of casualties. Previously, in most high-profile terrorist acts to hundreds of people killed, the United States September 11, 2001 killed about five thousand people. The terrorist attacks of modern times ...

i) Calculating cost of equity using CAPM Model:
Capital Asset Pricing Model, often abbreviated as ‘CAPM’, is the most fundamental concept in the investment theory of present time. This is an equilibrium model that predicts the expected return on a stock, given the expected return on the market, the stock’s beta-coefficient and the risk free rate. Considered from the borrower point of view, this model is used to calculate the cost of equity for the company using the following formula:
Cost of Equity= RFR+ Beta(Equity Risk Premium)

Below is the detailed explanation of cost of equity calculated for Tim Hortons Inc:

Risk Free Rate: This refers to rates being offered by ...

Introduction and Company Background

In 1978, John Mckey and Rene Lawson borrowed $45,000 from their family and friends to start a natural foods store called Saferway in Austin, Texas (Marquis, Beshariv and Thomason, 2011). Two years later, they merged the company with Clarksville Natural Grocery and named the new company as Whole Foods Market in September 1980. This was a very big health food store compared to some of the stores of that time. During 1990s, the company started expanding rapidly by purchasing natural food stores all across America (Marquis, Beshariv and Thomason, 2011). In 2003, the US government certified Whole Foods Market as ...

PART I

British Petroleum Company Profile
BP plc, formerly known as British Petroleum, is a UK based multinational oil and Gas Company with its headquarters located in London, England, United Kingdom. As of 2012, BP is the world’s sixth largest energy company in terms of market capitalisation, fifth largest company by revenues, and sixth largest oil and gas company by production (BP. Financial and Operating Information, 2008-2012). BP is a vertically integrated organisation and it has a strong presence in all areas of the gas sector, including exploration and production, refining, promotion, distribution, power generation, and trading. The company also operates in the ...

Strategic Analysis

McDonald´s Corporation
Current analysis involves strategic position of McDonald´s relative to Starbucks Coffee Company. Recent decades brought a number of challenges to the McDonald´s Corporation, related to changing external environment. Such companies as Wendy´s and Burger King came to the market with innovative proposition and strong investment portfolio, putting pressure on McDonald`s market share on its major markets and sharing the growth potential in emerging geographical segments (McDonald´s, 2013). While the company continued to pursue its strategic direction on organic growth and quality of service it made a number of changes to diversify its product ...

A case brief of Bush v. Gore (2000)
The case of George W. Bush, et al v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al (531 U. S. 98, 121 S. Ct. 525), familiar as Bush v. Gore was a disputable one, and was heard on December 11, 2000. The case determined the results of the presidential election in 2000. By court’s order (7-2), the ballot recount that was conducted in certain counties in Florida, was stopped due to the absence of approved standards. The Court declared (in 5 – 2 vote) that there was no sufficient time for establishment of new ...

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U.S. Supreme Case of Shelby County v Holder
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Shelby County v Holder is a landmark case involving the Supreme Court ruling declaring the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, particularly sections 5 and 4 (b), as unconstitutional. Section 5 of the said Act requires the local government to get a pre-clearance from the US Attorney General or three judges acting as a panel of the US District Court in Columbia prior to changing the laws on voting to ensure that the new law will not result in the denial of the right to vote ...

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The justified reason for EEOC to sanction JBS-Swift for breaching their workers civil rights by creating a work environment that was bitter was established on the fact that the workers of JBS-Swift were thought to be associates of a safe class because of their religion, cultural group and native origin. The objections declared that the people in higher authority and fellow workers took part in throwing meat, blood and bones on the Muslim employees and also called them distasteful names. It also declared that the Muslim workers faced injustice as they were not given permission to pray according to ...

Information security framework

For an organization with two data centers, controlled by 300 server machines and with a host of different database models supported by storage area networks serving two different locations of data centers, security concerns are a common phenomenon. It is, therefore, necessary that the organization puts into consideration the risks posed by having a network that is controlled through sharing data and storage resources. While information technology offers a boost for the operations company, it offers equal risks that could undermine the confidence of the customers as well as lead to losses through loss or unauthorized modification of data. The IT infrastructure within a ...

Financial Analysis: Starbucks Corporation

Introduction:
Our analysis of a company listed on US Stock Exchange is based on Starbucks Corporation, the concerned industry is of Speacility Eateries.
Starbucks Corporation is a leading marketer and retailer of coffee, having its outlets in 60 countries around the world. The stock of the company is listed on NASDAQ Stock Exchange with the tick symbol of ‘’SBUX’’. Apart from selling coffee, the company is also involved in tea, beverages and variety of fresh food items. Today, Starbucks is a leading and most recognized coffee brand in the world. The most popular brand of Starbucks, K- Cup sources 72% ...

Introduction:

Our analysis of a company listed on US Stock Exchange is based on Starbucks Corporation, while for the purpose of comparison with the competitor within same industry, we shall be analyzing financial statements of Dunkin Donuts.

Starbucks Corporation is a leading marketer and retailer of coffee, having its outlets in 60 countries around the world. The stock of the company is listed on NASDAQ Stock Exchange with the tick symbol of ‘’SBUX’’. Apart from selling coffee, the company is also involved in tea, beverages and variety of fresh food items. Today, Starbucks is a leading and most recognized coffee brand in the ...

Lech has maintained the reputation of being the paradise of skiers because of its luxury winter resorts and summer holiday destinations. The place has the best integration of the architecture and the natural environment creating a carefully selected mix that promotes business and environmental, cultural and social conservation. It was awarded the most beautiful village in Europe among others because of its responsible tourism practices and vast supply of skiing terrains. With more than 110km of piste and other sporting facilities, Lech qualifies as a world-class tourism destination. It recognizes the World Tourism Organization Global Code of Ethics which endeavors to ...

- The stockholders’ equity section of the balance sheet gives an analysis of the several classes of shares held by shareholders and the company as at the end of that financial period, December 31, 2007. It gives details of the number of the various types of stock that are held and further goes on to give an analysis of the shares that have been issued and those that are outstanding. The statement of stockholders’ equity (exhibit 4) is almost similar to the stockholders’ equity section of the balance sheet, the only difference being that it is more detailed. It ...

Introduction and background

The following case study addresses human resources-related issues in Honda Motorcycles and Skooters India Ltd, which required significant efforts from the management to cope with. Uniqueness of the case study lies in seriousness of the issues under study and their significant implications on the activities of the enterprise.
Question1. Key factors that led to the breakdown of the industrial relations at Honda.Quite a wide range of preconditions underlay workers’ desire to form a union, despite all existing HR initiatives. At the first sight it seems to be strange that workers decided to unionize, considering existence of such HR initiatives as ...

The First World War was quite a turning point in the history of humanity, not only because of the great number of countries involved into it, but also because of the use of new powerful weapons causing mass deaths and leading to awful casualty rates. The USA President Woodrow Wilson tried his best not to enter this devastating war. However, in 1917 he had to change his policy.

The decision of Woodrow Wilson to enter the war with Germany seems quite controversial after one comes to think about the major slogan of his election campaign in 1916 “He kept us ...

On November 7, 2000 the Presidential election took place and it was a competition of candidates for presidency between republicans and democrats as Bill Clinton was vacating the position. Former Pres. George W. Bush was the Republican candidate, and the former Vice President, Al Gore, was the Democratic candidate. Due to the differences of the respective counts from exit polls, which revealed Gore was leading, to actually ballot counts, which declared Bush as the winner on the Florida state, this statutory case became a political controversy.

Background. This election was a known for its controversy as the winning candidate had received fewer ...

Australia has been rated among the countries to have highest obesity rates by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfares [AIHW]. This has made it essential to develop a better understanding of the determinants of obesity in a society to address the issue in a much effective way.

1. Discuss why obesity is a National Health Priority in Australia.
After being rated among one of the highest obesity prevailing country in the world by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfares [AIHW] adopt preventive strategies. According to the reports of the study that was released in 2010, every one out of four ...

Introduction

The growth and demise of the Enron Corporation has received critical responses from across the globe. A company that claimed revenues of approximately $101 billion in 2000 had fallen from its grace a year later in 2001, when it declared bankruptcy. The rise and fall of the Enron Corporation came as shock to a lot of small and large investors. After scrutinizing the financial statements investigators found that the figures in the financial statements were artificially inflated in a systematic manner, which is now better known as the “Enron Scandal”. This scandal is believed to be the biggest Accounting scandal of all ...

I. Summary of Cases

A. FAO Schwarz

The 142-year-old toy company was forced to closed shop on that year after it declared bankruptcy twice in 2003. FAO Schwarz got into financial trouble after it could not keep up with the heavy price discounts offered on toys by Wal-Mart and Target. They were selling toys that were pricier than those also being sold by the two chain store giants.
But the turnaround for the toy firm came when new management came in, making it possible for the reopening of its Manhattan and Las Vegas stores. The new owners attributed their success to ...

Introduction

After assumptions of the trappings of the eastern despotism i.e. during dominate, the office of the emperor of Rome faced several turbulent occasions. The barbarian kings started manipulating the western kings about the succession of the emperor while in the Byzantine emperor found it very hard with the autocratic trappings that were taking place in the East and which had consolidated support.
The post republican period that existed after the civilization was dominated by the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was characterized by vast territorial holdings both in Europe and the Mediterranean with an autocratic form of governance. ...

Is there a valid contract between the parties or May Jones legally have the contract declared as not valid?

For a contract to be valid, it should contain parties competent of contracting, approval of the parties, a legitimate objective, and consideration (Swartz 23).Jones went into a contract with defendants knowing of the special clauses within the contract. There was consent, there was competency, and there was a legitimate objective and consideration. Therefore, the contract was valid. However, a contract relating to a minor (a person under 18) might be implemented or annulled by the minor, except for the contract being for basic requirements for instance foodstuff, accommodation, of which one might be held accountable for the rational price of what was acquired. From the ...

Executive summary

There are several factors that are generally considered in the starting of a business. These factors include availability of capital, skills available, location of the business among others. In an advanced level, one should also consider the tax implications of starting each particular business.

There are several forms of business formations. Depending on the owner’s preference, one may decide to start a sole proprietors business, a partnership or incorporate a company. This study will majorly discuss the modes of formation of a sole proprietorship and a company, the advantages of running these types of business and the suitability of such businesses at different levels ...