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1. Copyright is not optimized to foster musical creativity. Discuss this statement with reference to examples. The mechanism of copyright control can pose significant threat to innovation and creativity in the music industry, because the copyright can fail to sufficiently recognize the relevance of uses of the musical piece as a creative force. Innovation in music, for example, has been performed in many scenarios by creators taking the creative risks by using existing materials in such a manner that does not fit effectively within the assumptions of the dominant copyright about creativity. Creators that operate within such paradigms of ...

Critical Analysis

As Delgado and Stefancic point out, the critical race theory (CRT) as held by most pragmatists and civil rights activists helps in explaining the issue of racism that is so entrenched in the American society’s legal, social, political, and economic systems (23). According to them, race is not a biological but a social construct which means that it is embedded in people as they interact with people from different racial backgrounds. Critical race theory also helps in explaining some of the historical racial injustices such as discrimination that people of color have had to go through for a ...

Exposure to Racial Discrimination in Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system of the United States comprises several challenges and flaws, while the issue with the spread of the racial disparity poses the most significant problem to the welfare of the citizens of the country. This problem is not new to the criminal justice system as it has roots in the XX century with the consideration of the cases of African Americans in trial. In the beginning of this period of time, African Americans amounted to 10% of the entire population of the United States, while the amount of the sentenced prisoners may be regarded as relatively ...

Business Plan

Business Plan

Executive Summary

A business plan is a particular statement that contains the goals of a business and the way of attainment of these goals. The paper presents a business plan that employs a business strategy in defining the business’s overall goals, management team, staffing of the organization and other factors. This plan ideally presents my idea of establishing a new business venture in the field of health care. Initially, the paper presents a well-detailed description of the business that is to be established. This includes defining the overall objectives of the business the particular products that the business ...

Discussion 1 - Systems Modelling

Systems modelling depicts a UML conceptualization that integrates models and constructs of structures, processes, and mechanics for running and maintaining business and information systems. The systems attribute concepts such as input, output, logical arrangements, methods and all the prevalent schemes and relationships between all the components (Whitten, Barlow, & Bentley, 1997). It is functionally imperative that the organization adopts a system modelling theme and approach for the following reasons. Systems modelling serves as a tool that logically and sequentially presents all the tasks and activities of a project. Logical organization of projects ensures effective, efficient and smooth flowing project cycles. ...

Introduction

With the evolution of the nature and complexity of civil cases, it has become imperative that the law firm develops and implement a case tracking and management systems (CTM). The CTM is geared towards achieving efficiency and overall effectiveness in the process of filing, early phases, pretrial, trial, judgment, appeals, and enforcement of civil cases. The CTM also factors in the cases that are poached by twists and turns making it easier to recover and proceed. For a local firm that works and specializes in civil matters, a CTM would prove to be critically instrumental in comprehensive monitoring and ...

Discussion 1

What is the relationship of use-case modeling to project management? Use case modeling proves to be a vital tenet of UML (unified modeling language). System analysts and developers of any project; software or business, always find themselves being plagued by the need to create a system that is user centered in all aspects. For use case modeling, the analyst and developer aim at creating a product that is not only user-friendly and interactive but also easy to use and manage at the user level (Whitten, Barlow, & Bentley, 1997). Similarly, project management strives to plan, initiate, control and close a ...

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Information management systems primarily serve the purpose of processing, organizing, storing and allow retrieval of data that businesses, organizations, institutions, and corporations use to their strategic advantage. Varied types of information systems exist ranging from transactional, decisional support, expert, knowledge management, and office management systems among others. The information systems are a paramount strategic niche in the context of the goals and objectives that have to be achieved. Therefore, organizations engage information systems and system analysts or designers to develop, manage and service the system (Chaffey & White, 2010). The organizational system that I chose to illuminate for the purpose ...

Pharmacy is the final stage at the health care chain. Therefore, the service provided is vital for the successful treatment and recovery. The mistakes at any stage of the pharmacy process influences the patient’s recovery, and it is an important area of improvement. Since the errors at HMO’s pharmacy are regular, the first stage to eliminate them is to analyze the process to see the areas that need improvement and possible faults. The process map is used to analyze the workflow of pharmacy and indentify the possible errors at each stage. Figure 1 illustrates the HMO’s ...

Public-private ownership economic systems or hybrid capitalist economic system refers to a form of capitalism where private business ventures and public or government service enter into a long term contract with an aim of completing a project that will serve the public. Hybrid capitalist economies can be employed in funding, financing, building, developing and operating projects like infrastructure, health, conventional centers, tourism, transportation networks and sanitation for the benefit of the general public. Public-private partnerships are very crucial in allowing projects to be completed in time through financing. The private sector often offers a service to the public while ...

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LOS ANGELES TIMES Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA), is the elimination of trade barriers and uniting all free economies member countries. The member countries include Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Barlow, 2001). The free trade areas were established to cater for the in the lower class in the society. The free trade area will ...

Dysthymia is defined as a persistent state of mild depression in which an individual can find no joy or even mild amusement in life. It is characterized by the feeling that the afflicted individual has been miserable for much if not all of their life, finding nothing to grow excited or even mildly enthusiastic about. Those who suffer through this mild form of depression tend to be withdrawn, moody, and even prone to becoming antisocial. Overall this disorder is akin to being uncomfortable with the act of living. This type of disorder can be persistent for years without going ...

Introduction

Climate change is fast becoming one of the most important issues facing humanity in the near future. Many countries have begun to establish frameworks that will allow them to avoid dangerous climate change within their borders; one of these pieces of legislation is known as the Climate Change Act of 2008. This piece of legislation, passed into law in the United Kingdom in 2008, establishes a number of foundational legal minimums that the United Kingdom needs to meet before the year 2050. Essentially, this is a legal structure that forces individuals and companies in the United Kingdom to work ...

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One of the major occupations of students studying crimes is to understand how criminal behaviors come about and why individuals are induced in engaging in deviant or criminal behaviors. Theories on crime and delinquency primarily explores this question to get a better understanding of individuals and society at large. Theorists drew from different fields of sciences such as sociology, psychology and biology, to find answers in uncovering individual motivations and structural inducement. One such theory that draws not only from sociology, but also from psychology, is the strain theory of Agnew. This paper provides a detailed discussion on the ...

Frederick Hoffman as well as Nathaniel Shaler, two of the early defenders of exploratory bigotry, were more critical of setting up race associations in the United States than the more considered, yet less mainstream, artists at the time such as Mary White Ovington or even W. E. B. DuBois. In spite of the fact that a few liberals endeavored to dismiss natural determinism instead of focusing on carrying out healing undertakings, even Franz Boas considered blacks to be mediocre, whereas Gunnar Myrdal diminished the significance of segregation amongst the police as well as law benches in the improvement of ...

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Autism is a psychiatric problem characterized by the presence of communication disorders as well as short attention span and decreased expression of emotions. Communication problems include both verbal communication and non-verbal communication as, for example, autistic patients cannot use their body language properly. Autistic patients are also unable to treat others as people, i.e. they show impairment in social interaction (Payne, 2003). Among the most important signs and symptoms of autism are repetition of words or phrases, a condition that is also known as echolalia; disliking for any physical contact; inability to understand the feelings of ...

How much a person consumes depends highly on their culture. Eating disorders, for example, are most often seen among European American women than the African American women (Durand & Barlow, 2016, p.291). This has been the effect of certain cultural beliefs, such as those that has something to do with the ideal body shape. It only appears that those who value thinness all the more tend to do more to attain a lower weight and thinner body. A small change in culture can influence the rate of eating disorders, such as seen in Asian women who attend Western universities and ...