Essays on Common Knowledge

Addiction can have devastating consequences on families. Many people become so caught up in the whirlwind of hard drugs that they lose touch with reality and begin to forget the person they used to be. They make decisions based on the drugs instead of using common sense, and people tend to get very hurt, and in many cases, they die. People will do anything for money, including committing crimes, and those crimes can end up leading them to jail or other criminal punishment. In Anthony’s Intervention episode, his addiction has a significant affect on all aspects of his ...

The AIS Plagiarism Tutorial is a presentation and a required reading material for students before engaging into a writing assignment in AIS. The tutorial starts with basic definitions. According to the presentation, plagiarism could be defined as using of someone else works as your own. It could be in various forms. Self-plagiarism is the use of earlier works of the same author without proper citation. Policies and rules of the state of California as well as in the Code of Student Conduct of the SFSU stated that all writing assignment in any class should not be plagiarized or should ...

Ethical Issues

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. For all practical purposes, this activity is nothing but a form of modern slavery. Every year, about 21 million people are caught up in human trafficking from about 130 countries around the world. Without a doubt, this is a serious issue given that it violates human rights that the United Nations takes very seriously - and should. While this pertains mostly to women who are sold into prostitution while also involving children and young boys as well who are coerced into forced labour as well. Given the atrocities around the world, the purpose ...

It is a well-known fact in today’s modern world that gender inequality is prevalent in almost all aspects of social life, whether in the smallest unit of society, such as the family, or in the broad expanse of the global community, impacting the life circumstances of each and every human being today, especially women. It is increasingly becoming apparent that the unfair practice of gender inequality is incongruently counter-productive in a globalized economic scenario. Despite decades of initiatives to resolve this problematic social issue, the problem still remains. In the earliest days of humankind more than a hundred ...

Summary of the Content

The book that is the subject of this paper is entitled Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This book was published in 2011 by book author and anthropologist David Graeber. As the name implies, much of the content was focused on debt. It, however, tackled the said topic in relation to other social institutions and practices such as marriage, friendship, barter, law, religion, slavery, economics, and government management. By putting the topic in line with the very factors that make up human life and society, he basically showed that he considers debt has played an important part in it. ...

On September 20, 2001, nine days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the President of America at the time, George W. Bush gave a speech to address the Congress and the nation. The speech recounted the events past briefly, identified the cause of the event and the perpetrators involved: it also consoled the American people and identified heroes who discharged their duties well. The speech was ended with a promise to the American people to ‘bring justice to the enemies of freedom’. The speech was well crafted to induce a specific action from the American people: ...

Introduction

This project will examine the portfolio of the Virgin Group in relation to their stakeholder marketing processes which helps in targeting specific classes of clients. This will be done in two parts:

Part 1: The evaluation of communication approaches and methods used to target various stakeholders and

Part 2: An application of IT Skills and Business Software applications to produce a portfolio of stakeholder marketing communication materials used by the Virgin Group.

Part 1: Stakeholder Communication in Virgin Group

Communication is a system through which an organisation codifies a message, transmits it to a given receiver and the receiver decodes the message, internalises it and takes action. Communication is important in sharing ideas, information or emotions from one entity to another. ...

Discussion of the crisis issues associated with the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in 2004

Management in crisis is a tough enough situation. However, the horrific onslaught of a suddenly unexpected tsunami literally crashing dramatically upon one’s doorstep is simply unthinkable. The inconceivable occurred in Indonesia, when the Aceh-stimulated earthquake stirred the violent killer waves in 2004 costing the lives of 127,000 people, roughly half a million injured – leaving behind potential scores of disease-prone epidemics and mourning of loved ones (Pascapurnama, Murakami, Chagan-Yasutan, Hattori, Sasaki & Egawa 2016). One international journalist and helper in the aftermath of the Indonesian Indian Ocean Earthquake Tsunami disaster, Bill Nicol, in his book Tsunami Chronicles, described the ...

The Influence of Early Childhood Teachers’ Mental Health Literacy and Early Intervention for Special Needs Children: Methods

Introduction In recent decades, it has become common knowledge that early childhood education is of fundamental importance to the overall development of all children, whether those children have developmental disabilities, are intellectually disadvantaged, or present with other special needs (Virmani et al., 2013; World Health Organisation, 2016; Kay-Lambkin, Kemp, Stafford & Hazell, 2007). However, despite the importance of early childhood education for all students, there are special requirements that must be met for students with special needs. Teaching special needs students in the early education classroom can be difficult for a plethora of reasons. The purpose of this discussion will ...

Discussion of the Key Trends, Industrial Strategy, and Impact on Ireland Burger King

Introduction Early twentieth-century strategic business developments can hardly compare with the myriad impact and influences of major corporations today. The global economy is at once complex, fiercely competitive, and sits on a landscape filled with the unpredictability of any number of financial storms. Burger King Worldwide (BKW) as the world’s second largest fast-food hamburger chain, according to recent documentation, (Burger King Worldwide 2013) has expanded its presence in nearly ninety countries. With its main offices headquartered in Miami, Florida, BKW has led the industry’s sales in its niche of fast-food hamburgers thus accounting for 12 percent of ...

Religious discrimination is treating a person differently because of what they do and believe in. This kind of discrimination infringes the constitutional right of freedom of religion (Katz, 1952).

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Vs Abercrombie and Fitch Stores Inc

In this case, a young Muslim woman claimed that Abercrombie and Fitch denied her a job because she wore a black headscarf to the interview.

Facts

Samantha Elauf, who is the Muslim woman, went to Abercrombie and Fitch Company for a job interview. During the job interview, the interviewer failed to inquire about her headscarf, but assumed she was Muslim. Therefore, Samantha did not ask the company whether they might offer ...