Intent Course Works Samples For Students

Introduction

Intense competition and massive creativity characterize the modern business environment. As such, businesses are always on the lookout for ways and means to overcome competition, remain profitable, and have positive impacts on society. Strategic planning and thinking are the best ways that businesses can achieve their goals.

Description of Theories/Core Concepts

Conventional strategic planning concepts are the guides or the plans a business or organization creates to map out how it plans to reach its goals (Collins, 2011). Strategic intent thinking entails ambitious and compelling dream that provides intellectual and emotional energy for people to pursue certain objectives (Collins, 2011).Analysis

Although they are, ...

Introduction

The second battle of Fort Fisher was an important war in which the Union force’s commander, General Alfred Terry, applied most of the six principles of mission command to secure the union victory. From constituting an effective team, making clear his intent, taking initiative and motivating his force, to taking prudent risks and promoting independent actions amongst his subordinates, the commander demonstrated a remarkable degree of commanding competence. The battle was a joint attack against Fort Fisher by the United States Navy and the Union Army. Generals Alfred Terry (Union Army) and David Porter (US Navy) fought Braxton Bragg, Robert ...

Question 1

Jurisdiction is a term used to define the powers of a court. Personal jurisdiction refers to the power of a given court to give judgments against a particular defendant while subject-matter jurisdiction refers to the power of a court to hear and make judgments on a particular type of case (Chao and Christine, 9). Parties to a contract have considerable freedom in formulating terms of a contract. This includes resolution of disputes arising from the contract. Minimum contract law can be used to determine if a court in one state has personal jurisdiction over a defendant from another state. The relevance of the minimum contract rule is that it ...

Criminal Law

1.) a.) Observation and psychological testing in the assessment, selection and treatment of mentally ill offenders is important in order to creating a successful treatment program these offenders and to promote the public safety and security. It is difficult task on the part of the criminal justice system to pool together professionals who have the knowledge to understand the consequences imposed by both the criminal justice system and mental health treatment. At the same time, it is recommended that mental health professionals should be able to take into consideration the issues surrounding forensic patients, with the help of forensic clinicians ...

Inchoate offences relate to the steps in the direction of the commission of another crime. These steps also referred to as attempts are made in preparation for doing a crime and for that are considered crimes (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). Though generally for criminal liability to accrue the intent and the act must take place, these attempts constitute criminal conduct thus the liability attaches. The justification is that harm would have occurred had the crime materialized thus punishment serves to prevent the occurrence of the harm.

On the other hand, parties to a crime relate to the principle that a person can ...

Generic model of the Value Chain

The Generic Value Chain involves the transformation of inputs both primary and support activities into outputs that satisfy the needs of customers. The satisfaction of customer needs translates to profits for businesses. The first step in the value chain is the laying of the primary activities such as research and development, production, marketing and sales and customer service in place. Next the managers must ensure they put n place support activities such as information systems, materials management, appropriate company structure and enhance the human resources to aid in the transformation of inputs into valuable outputs.

Model for the Roots of Competitive Advantage

Managers use this model ...

Abstract

This paper gives an insight to the classification of crimes. It also establishes the employment of doctrines such as Mala Prohibita, Mala in Se, Mens Rea, and strict liability in classifying such crimes. Within the paper, two laws are discussed and analysed as per these doctrines to give a clear picture and distinction of the doctrines.

Introduction

Classification of crime emphasizes the frequently ignored realism that every criminal act differentiates itself. For instance, contract homicide is relatively perceptibly unlike sexual homicide. Therefore, Crime-deciphering deliberations compel investigators to realize the disparities between crimes consistent with the criminal’s setting, the crime scene ...

A syndrome relates to a blend of signs and symptoms that show that a person is suffering from a particular ailment, disease or disorder. A syndrome based defense is thus where a defendant uses an ailment or disorder to escape criminal liability (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). In such case, though they admit doing the offence, they argue that either they lacked criminal intent or that the action was involuntary. An important aspect of a syndrome based defense is that the disease complained of must either be a disease of the mind or affect the mind.

Syndromes may thus be regarded as excuses as they operate ...

Justification is a defense raised where a defendant admits to committing the crime but states that circumstances justified their actions (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). This defense places focus on the character of the behavior in the circumstances. Essentially, it supposes conduct otherwise criminal to be legally acceptable and avert punishment. In simple terms, the defendant shows that in the circumstances they had no choice but to do the act which they have been called to answer to.

On the other hand, excuse is a defense raised where the defendant acknowledges committing the crime but states that they had no criminal intent thus ...

The level of guilt associated with a crime can often differ according as to who makes that decision: the prosecutor, jury, or judge. The degree of guilt determines the criminal penalty the defendant can be sentenced with.

In the United States, crimes have a very narrow definition; therefore, a person charged with a crime knows exactly what they are being charged with, and which elements the prosecutor must prove for him to be found guilty. The defendant also knows what defenses he can use to prove his innocence. Furthermore, should the defendant be found guilty of a crime, any criminal penalty imposed on the ...

The case involves a communication process carrying a descriptive explanation of characteristics that would improve the messages including the descriptions of the purpose, environment, sender, receiver, technology, technology, feedback and noise. The author has written a B2B message to ABC Company asking to establish a relationship with Company XYZ.

Three Business to Business Messages that we will take for analysis are:

1. ABC Company asks to create a working relationship with XYZ Company
2. XYZ Company reverts back denies the working relationship. Reason: Credit & Prices (Financial Reasons)
3. ABC responds to the doubts / objections reassuring XYZ that they will be taken care of& how.

Let’s begin with the Communication process for the first message:

Since the “Purpose” is clear & defined, ...

Inductive Bible Study

The Inductive Bible Study is the way one reads, understands, interprets and applies the message in the bible. There are two types of reading and interpretation of the Bible; these are the reader response, and the authorial intent. The reader’s response determines the meaning of the Bible; this can be a single reader or a community of readers. It means that since each reader will understand the bible or the text in his own way, interpret it and apply it according to the way he understands it. That indicates that the bible interpretation has different meanings, which may be positive ...

The important things I learned from class are very informative, educational, and effective. Through my own learning, I would be happy to share to you the following that I surely believed open your minds and hearts to embrace the knowledge sincerely and apply it to yourselves. There are more or less five focal points based on what I learned on Interpersonal Communication course at Ashford University that I really wanted to share:

- Recognize how words have the power to create and affect attitudes, behavior, and perception.
- Understand how perceptions, emotions, and nonverbal expression affect interpersonal relationships.
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Gangs started their history in late 18th century when the first groups started to form. Mainly these groups started to form among the white immigrants; mainly they were English, Irish and German. However, the boom of gang formations is dated in 1820 in New York City.

The second wave of gangs’ formation started in the period of 1860-1920, when new immigrants started to settle down in USA. The first ones were Chinese, who formed highly structured gangs, which still exist in US. However, not only Chinese people started forming their own gangs. Therefore, there were many other immigrants ...

Sustainability and corporate responsibility are the buzz words for organizations nowadays in terms of operations. Considering this Boxed Water is one such example of entrepreneurship and marketing genius to hit the market and creating noise with its out of the box design and communication.
As an organization the primary message ‘Boxed Water is Better’ is relayed to the consumers has a two way objective, as stated on the company website as being curious, artistic and also a philanthropic aspect to the product the intent is to instill a presence in terms of sustainability and also create an emotive connect with ...

Issue 1- Ethics and Legal Environment

The situation that Arnold the CEO of gun manufacturing company found himself in is very critical. There are two conflicting and touchy issues that Arnold needs to give attention. It is an ethical dilemma situation that needs him to carefully weigh the options. There is a public outcry from the shareholders that Arnold must remove Mac from the Board of director of the company. It is challenging because the shareholders are the backbone of the company and whatever they demand must be attended to. Likewise, Arnold has to consider the profile of Mac, especially how much he has tried to ...

At the beginning of the 1990s through to the 2000s sexual offences became a trendy topic of discussion within the sphere of legislative discourse and public dialogue. The contention surrounded the crafting of criminal legislation that would reduce recidivism of convicted sex offenders and overly reduce sexual offence cases. The initial innovations resulting from the discourse were twofold. These were the sex offender laws, which made it a statutory requirement that convicted sex offenders regularly provide crucial identification information and contacts to law enforcement authorities, upon conclusion of their incarceration; and sex offender notification laws, the latter being complementary to the ...

The three-strikes rule in American law is often associated with drug users, but in reality, the rule varies from state to state. Usually, the three-strikes rule states that offenders who are guilty of more than two serious offenses-- usually felonies-- can be sentenced to life in prison (Stanford University Law School, 2013). These offenses may be violent offenses like child abuse or rape, or they may be non-violent offenses like drug possession or possession with intent to distribute (Staples, 2012). The reason why so many people decry the three-strikes rule as unfair or even potentially unethical is because the ...

Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a civil terminology used to describe the act of killing an individual which is slightly culpable as compared to the commitment of murder. The distinctive factor between murder and manslaughter is the mental state of the individual committing the felony(Loveless, 2012). Manslaughter is categorized into voluntary and involuntary.

Voluntary manslaughter is the instance where the culprit has an intent which leads to a serious injury or death of an individual. Voluntary manslaughter usually carries light degree of charges basing on the mental state of the defendant and the circumstances he or she faces. According to Collings (1962), a homicide ...

With the advent of information systems, it is important that there is a secure environment that information systems will operate. Information security is an important concern that should be undertaken. The fundamental characteristics of high speed network with maximum security features are high performance encryption, high encryption packet filtering, proxies and trusted servers. The most crucial is the high-performance encryption and high-performance packet filtering.

Company assets

There are assets which are supposed to be protected by the company. This section will identify these assets. The assets that need to be protected are physical and electronic assets. Computers form the bulk of the ...

Question 1

The origins of the definition of cognitive artifacts, comes from the roles they play in human learning, decision making and understanding: artifacts augment, influence or communicate these aspects. The term “artifact” refers to an object that is manmade. As such, cognitive artifacts are physical artificial devices designed by man to serve a specific purpose, by facilitating thinking, evaluation, as well as stimulate consequent actions or responses. The term itself (“Cognitive Artifacts”) was actually coined by Donald Norman, in reference to artificial devices designed to affect human behavior, through displaying, maintaining and operating upon information while serving a representational function. These artifacts ...

Arguably, testing and labeling of product are major activities in the world of business. In fact, the consumer is always the final person in the business trend, and it is crucial to protect them. Testing and labeling of products protects the consumer and the public against unreasonable injury and risks. These protections are done in various ways, which include consumer education, regulation, enforcement, as well as safety standard activities. In the labeling and testing process, there are many stakeholders who make certain that the regulation is followed, and the public is fully protected. Generally, there are various reasons for ...

Elite theory

The elite theory posits that the power, control and influence on government and corporations are vested on the minority. Indeed the American democracy is essentially a classical example of the elite theory. This is because of the lobbyists system of governance practiced in Washington. A perfect example of the rule of minority can be deduced on the Obamacare law that essentially gives insurances the opportunity to exploit the masses through the compulsory subscriptions as necessitated by the legislation. Thus far, no credible evidence can contradict the elite theory.

Charles Beard’s argument

The argument on property rights protection is attested by the fourth and ...

Cross-cultural decision making skills have been recognized to be increasingly vital to military and defense operations (Johnson &Friedland, 2009). The day-to-day operations of international military forces, in their interaction with different cultures as they work overseas, require intercultural competence to make decisions that are both appropriate and culturally sensitive (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). Cross cultural competency (3C) is accomplished through three unique steps: Cultural self-awareness, suspension of judgments and biases, and the development of skills that fit within domains of a new culture (Selmeski, 2009). Already, educational measures are being implemented by military colleges to promote 3C in military ...

Question 1: What do you think your a) strengths and b) weaknesses are? And why?

Part of my strengths is my strong self concept. I know myself, my own sets of skills, abilities, and interests. I can understand how I feel and I have a strong sense of empathy. Hence, I am also people oriented. It is easy for me to have other people open up. I really do not know why but even when I just meet a stranger, sometimes, it will just take several minutes, then, he/she will warm up and tell me interesting tales. This is where I learn a lot about others and about the world. I think being insightful and reflective is also part ...

Recently, there has been a paradigm shift, mostly in western countries, from an emphasis on crime prevention, to punishment. According to Fowler (2008), this trend is expected to accelerate steadily, at least in the United States. For instance, with respect to juvenile crime, there has been a frequent call for heightened outlays on crime detection and law enforcement, and for increased penalties for criminal as well as other anti-social behaviour (Meyers, 2010). This paper seeks to review the psychological research evidence on the effectiveness of punishment, and propose alternatives to the current trends.

Hollin (2008) describes punishment as the response-contingent use ...

1. Final Stages of Formulating and Implementing Health Policies

Policies are basically a body of principles governing decision making. Thus health care policies can be defined as collaborative measures by the government and other stake holders directed at maintaining and improving the populations’ health status. This basically states long and short term goals as far as the health sector is concerned. It is thus clear that formulation and implementation of health care policies is multispectral and is a concerted effort of many professionals working collaboratively. Any policies (health policies included) generally have the following cycles: first is recognizing, defining and identifying of issues. At this stage, assessment of the need ...

1. “A firm would prefer to be a monopoly, rather than be involved in a perfectly competitive market.” Discuss.
Every student attending economics class knows that perfect competition is ideal for any market, while monopoly is the worst possible situation due to a number of reasons. But at the same time, it is a well-known fact that since ancient times firms have strived to gain the status of monopoly. Why is it so? The matter lies in people’s nature – monopoly offers to a firm great power and control over market and requires practically no effort to get considerable income. At the same ...

A theory can be described as a rational statement that is consistent in nature .The nursing theories are useful in descriptions and presentations of systematic views about a particular phenomena. Nursing theories are important in the definition, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in the nursing industry. The theories act as a framework in which nurses can systemize their nursing actions (Alligood and Marriner 67).
This research paper focuses on the borrowed theories that have been incorporated into the nursing curriculum .It further describes one of the theories and how it has been put into effect in the future nursing setting.

Importance of nursing theories

The ...