Essays on Agreeing

Introduction to Contracts

Just like any other website dealing with social media, Facebook has terms of service that users must accept by clicking on a box before they go on to create an active account. Many legal experts around the world have questioned the legality of the Facebook terms of service seeing that the agreement process is just ticking a box. However, such terms of service are legally binding, and a violation on either side can result in a legal issue. For instance, agreeing to the terms of service allows face access and use of your personal data for research and another ...

Introduction

While conducting research, various methods are used in gathering the samples and testing them and coming up with the realized results of analysis. Surveys were done take multiple forms depending on the discipline under the study. Social sciences make the have numerous subjects and under them falls education and leadership. Getting deeper into the field of education, a researcher can decide to use several optional methods when conducting the study. Among them is observation, interviews, case studies, surveys, laboratory experiments and field studies. In spite of this variation in the possible methods that are implemented, a common ground involved ...

For some time now, philosophers, scientists, and intellectuals from different fields concern themselves over the nature of epistemology—the study of knowledge itself. The subject itself is a broad one, so they attempt to view and explain it through different perspectives. The study of knowledge can be presented according to its ethical considerations, the essence of what is considered useful information and what is not, and the likes. This means that many approaches can be made to learn more about the nature of knowledge. What is interesting about epistemology is that, because it is the study of knowledge itself, ...

Chapter 9

1 Gain-framed messages are more effective compared to the loss-framed messages. Gain-framed messages are more persuasive especially when the behavior is associated with preventive actions. Gain-framed messages change beliefs and attitudes towards certain behaviors such as smoking which leads to avoidance. Gain-framed messages involve gaining the desired outcome or preventing an undesired outcome. 2 The climax order of arguments puts one's best material for argument first while the anticlimax order saves the best material for last. The pyramidal order sandwiches the best points in the middle of the argument. Both the anticlimax and climax order have been proved effective ...

Circumstances, where confidentiality agreements are necessary

Nowadays, the intensity of competition among the producers of confectionary is crossing the boundaries of imagination. In order to stay competitive, the businesses have to reduce their overheads, while trying to maintain the appropriate quality standards of their products. These research and development activities require substantial funding, and, in order to safeguard their achievements from being imitated by the competitors, the ultimate contents of products are held in the strictest confidentiality (Hasnas, 2006). Food companies often offer lucrative settlements to those, who have been affected by their products (Maclntyre, 2008). Yet, the majority of such offers have a small, ...

Terms and Conditions may apply

People are usually fast to agree on terms and conditions on online platforms without necessarily evaluating the risks associated with accepting. Online privacy policy typically utilizes the information of the users that can be displayed to third parties as well as government corporations; such a measure hinders the independence of one’s personal information. Individuals often do not read all the information provided since it is always bulky. Such a situation is amongst the factors that hinder people from going through all the information that requires a person to agree with before proceeding with the given process, for example, ...

As requested, I have looked into the tendency to overbill in law firms and sole practitioner offices in the United States. I have looked into how these tendencies can endanger any prospective law firm, including our own. According to my findings, the legal profession requires many reforms in order to comply with Rule 1.5 of the Model Rules and to still be able to generate a viable profit through billable hours, fixed rates or contingency fees.

Analysis of Billing Issues Within the Legal Profession

In recent years, the legal industry within the United States has undergone a major transformation. In fact, since the economy crashed in 2008, ...

A) Given that nearly one in every five women surveyed have been victims of some kind of sexual assault at some point in their life, there is an immediate need to formulate and implement measures to effectively reduce the incidence of sexual assault. A two-pronged approach is needed to reduce this statistic. Firstly, females from the ages of eight and above should be educated about the actions that constitute sexual assault at the educational institutions where they are enrolled in . This I believe is important, because most females who have suffered some form of sexual assault, particularly at young ...

Throughout the course of my academic career I have adopted and synthesized various elements of effective academic article construction techniques, yet none have been so fundamentally formative in my ability to engage with the viewpoints expressed by other writers as the principles and techniques outlined in chapter four “The Three Ways to Respond”. In this chapter, I gained a greater degree of understanding regarding effectively engaging in academic dialogue through incorporating the three primary response methods of agreeing, disagreeing or some combination of both to better discern the viewpoints of an author from the perspective of an active reader, ...

Abstract

A balanced scorecard refers to the management system and strategic planning tool used broadly in industry, government and nonprofit organizations across the globe. Its application seeks to better align operations to the specific strategy and vision of an organization, to improve both external and internal communications and to monitor an organization’s performance alongside those strategic objectives. The scorecard was first was introduced back in the early 1990s by Norton and Kaplan of Harvard School. More than half of the key companies in the US, Asia and Europe currently employ the scorecard approach, with its use on the rise ...

Question 1

They are more expensive to form than hiring outside consultants. They allow for management to allocate resources at will to various projects as the needs of the company change. They are expected to coordinate work without ongoing direction from a supervisor or manager. They operate across time, space, and organizational boundaries using means other than face-to-face meetings. Question 2 When Kathy gains self-awareness by understanding how others view her and how she is shaped by others' opinions of her, she is best reflecting the concept of ____. self-serving bias social mirror projection factor social dilemma

Question 3

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Abstract

A balanced scorecard refers to the management system and strategic planning tool used broadly in industry and business, government, as well as nonprofit organizations across the globe. Its application seeks to align operations to strategy and vision of an organization, improve external and internal communications, as well as monitor an organization’s performance alongside the strategic objectives. The scorecard was first was introduced back in early 1990s by Norton and Kaplan of Harvard School. Currently, over, half of the key companies in US, Asia and Europe apply the scorecard approach, with its use increasing in those regions and in ...