Essays on Consent

The issue of online credit card fraud has become one of the major crimes that can easily be committed using the internet. Due to the lack of policies and laws to prevent the crime, the number of victims continuous to increase since most sale transactions can be completed online using the internet. Online credit card fraud poses damage to the public but requires federal legislation to prevent future crimes. There is lack of corrective mechanisms to deter the proliferation of the online credit card fraud to prevent damage to future victims. The article of Segal, Ngugi & Mana (2011) explains ...

Hypothesis

The genre of preference is tied to the personality of the person Procedure The interview will take place in a hotel hall, and the interviewee will arrive in the perception that the interview is bound to land them a management role with a big dancing group. Immediately the interviewee arrives, they will be guided to the interview room where other respondents are expected to meet them. No one is supposed to meet them as they come into the hall. Music will be playing in the background, but the respondents will be under observation via the room cameras and their ...

Once, prominent German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote: “One is morally obligated to respect this dignity and value in oneself and in others”. This moral obligation is absolute, and it can`t have any exceptions. To hold any medical experiments on a person is possible only with the full awareness of the person about the experiment and in the presence of his or her consent to the experiment. This consent can be received only through a free expression of will. Interests of an individual undergoing any experiment must always prevail over the interests of science and society. What Baltimore's Kennedy ...

Business Torts & Ethics

Standing alone, the intruder is liable for his or her actions. The intruder is liable for a number of crimes independent of the landowner’s liability. While the landowner may be held liable as well, the intruder is most definitely liable for his intentional torts committed against Darryl and Sharon. Simply because the intruder committed the torts on the landowner’s property does not excuse the intruder from personal liability. The intruder is potentially liable for a number of different torts. The intruder can be charged with burglary. While burglary is a tort, not a crime, the intruder has ...

Abstract

Domestic violence, as its name suggests, involves intimate partner and family violence. The law has historically treated domestic violence as only a secondary issue. The treatment reflects the longstanding notion that family and domestic matters are private and should not be subject to law enforcement interference. Compounding this blasé attitude towards domestic violence was the fact that traditionally, women were considered to belong to their husbands. Until very recently, a husband could not be prosecuted for the rape of his wife. What is important to note is that domestic violence affects all types of persons. There is no one, ...

Change of Business Entity

Introduction Starting a business as a sole proprietor has its advantages and disadvantages and with development, it is normal for entrepreneurs to consider converting to other business types that have better terms. Some of the primary benefits of this sort of business include; the owner has full control of the company operations, can sell or transfer ownership, and does not incur tax whatsoever. Furthermore, the entrepreneurs spend less on acquiring the legal documents as compared to the other types of business. However, entrepreneurs operating in sole proprietorship are held responsible for any business debt or liability unlike the other ...

Introduction:

Corporate governance is a practice that defines all the mechanisms, procedures, processes and relations by which firms are controlled and directed. Governance structures and principles highlight the allocation of responsibilities and rights among the different parties in the firm such as: boards of directors, managers, shareholders, auditors, creditors, regulators, and other stakeholders. The governance mechanisms encompass the monitoring of actions, policies, and corporate decisions, their subsidiaries, and the stakeholders. The Citigroup mortgage crisis sets an example in substantiating the outcomes of poor corporate governance, where the top management fails in implementing oversight procedures that would have averted corruption and ...

Discussion Question 1

Informed consent is not an event and it is a process of communication that must continuously occur between the researchers and the participants. Being a process, then there are chances of mistakes and errors and this is even so for the well-trained and even the well-intentioned researchers. Individual informed consent does not necessarily offer the best approach to addressing the occurring mistakes and errors and there is need for alternative methods of consent (Shelton, Freeman, Fish, Bachman & Richardson, 2015). This is because it limits the communication between the research and the participant and at times, the participant may not ...

Interview

Interview

1. Define the word privacy.

Privacy means the absence of interference in any phase of life whatsoever.

2. Are you aware that many Internet sites record your activity?

Despite the assurances provided that they do not track our activity, yes I am aware that our activities are tracked.

3. How concerned are you about security on the Internet? Please explain. In this world, obviously you cannot abandon the internet. It is more of an obligation now. However, I try to secure myself as much as possible. For example, I don’t allow location tracking on my phone. So while I am very concerned, I still have to avail this facility. 4. Do you consider sites are recording your Internet activity with your knowledge to be a violation of privacy? Please ...

The advent and growth of the technological sector have been instrumental in the dynamic changes that have been realized in the media sector. The sharing of information and ideas has been revolutionized with the advent of the internet. The speed and rate of information flow have also been enhanced significantly. This essay focuses on analyzing the capacity of new media to cope with the propaganda models as defined and explained by Noam Chomsky. It seeks to expound on the dynamics of new media and the depth to which propaganda models can be applied or fail to work. In the ...

Introduction

The autonomous learning concepts are considered as the effective means of enhancing the academic performance of the students, however, these concepts are required to be practiced and analyzed in accordance with their effectiveness in the learning outcomes. The study conducted by Kristmanson et al. (2013) focuses on the conceptualization of the most effective methods for installing the autonomous learning methods in the classroom settings in order to promote learning environment. In this manner, the author has proposed the notion in which the students are allowed experiment with different methods of learning in order to determine the effective learning practices ...

Introduction

The President of the U.S. holds the powers of the executive branch, acts as the armed forces’ commander-in-chief and head of state. The President is also responsible for enforcing and implementing the laws written by the Congress and, appoints the federal agency leadership, including the Cabinet (The White House N.pag). Despite holding these vast formal powers, there are several constitutional legal restricts, balances and checks, the incumbent President usually finds as mentioned by the former President Harry S. Truman, that “the powers of the president mostly amount to getting people to do what they ought to do without him ...

Chapter 1

Questions to consider

Dr. Maria Hunt the special education supervisor What are the facts of the case? Jake has been having learning disability over time. However, his teacher, Ms. Rose Weiss has been teaching him to overcome the learning challenge. Jake was making progress. As of September when Jake joined the learning disability class, he could not read three-letter words. After receiving one-hour instructions in a day with a focus on reading and presented with one hundred basic sight words, Jake could read them with an eighty percent accuracy. When given twenty single syllable nonsense words, he could also ...

Summary

Autonomy is a principle that surrenders ability to make critical health decisions to the victim. It is a sector of service provision characterized by several ethical issues. The practice of nursing and other health related services is often subject critical decision making that may not always conform to the wishes of the stakeholders but are rather significant. In all fairness, there are several cases of entanglement and ethical horn-locking that face practitioners every day. In many cases, those at the decision-making end often experience cases of ethical dilemma in which they are normally forced to take actions that can ...

In this essay, I will discuss my experience with an acute mental health service user which occurred while I was on clinical placement in this care setting. Medication concordance in major depression is an important part of illness management and will be the emphasis of this paper. First will be a discussion of the service user’s profile including her background, history, and social status which aims to generate an understanding of the factors contributing to non-concordance. Consistent with the Code of Conduct of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2015), care will be taken to uphold the privacy of ...

1.1. It has to be reckoned that the media is aimed at promoting a single global commodity culture. In the age of globalization, the world is treading toward the dominance of monoculture that aims to undermine the cultural differences and community distinction so as to replace these with the notion of oneness all over the globe. In the modern era of cultural imperialism and globalization, media has emerged as the omnipotent tool to influence gazillion people all over the world society. Mass media is endowed with the power of affecting the mind and psyche of the people with its ...

Development of sciences, broad distribution of scientific methods make academics mediate about research ethics. The ethic problematics gains a special acuteness and popularity with the rapid growth of the qualitative research methods. Researching various sensitive topics in the scientific world, the ethical divisiveness quite clearly manifests itself with multiple methodological decisions. Ethics (from Greek “etika”) is a philosophical discipline learning morale and virtues. In the sphere of modern scientific activity, ethics deals with peculiarities of moral relations inside the scientific community, determining codes of conduct, norms and rules. Social sciences worldwide accumulated substantial experience in dealing with this problem. ...

Introduction

Ethics and morality are extremely essential in every business. This is foremost objective to build businesses upon well-established business ethics and principles. However, it has been well noted that businesses in the contemporary global economy face some central ethical challenges (Jones, Parker, and Bos, 2005). To understand the nature of the ethical challenges faced by businesses and how to deal with them, it is imperative to understand the meanings and significance of some ethical and moral concepts. Morality is the set of established norms and values that are considered and portrayed as good and right within a given socio-cultural ...

Informed Consent and Ethical Challenges

Informed Consent and Ethical Challenges

The major ethical consideration in this case is the idea that Mrs. G had a chance at recovery and, instead, is opting to allow her illness to take her. In this case, it is important for the medical practitioner to understand the obligations that they have towards the patient in regards to her right to make the decision for herself. In this case, while the treatment has a chance to help her, it also has very low odds of doing so. Furthermore, the costs that the family will be left with seem to outweigh ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is mandated to protect the overall wellbeing and health of the American citizens. To perpetrate its mandate and fulfill its duties, the department hires and trains a myriad of professionals in different fields. Social workers are important components of the HHS department in achieving its duties. A social worker ensures the social welfare of communities, families, individuals, and populations. To ensure social welfare, a social worker actively undertakes research in different fields affecting the welfare of the population, plans and develops policies intended to address the identified issues, and provides interventions ...

Identify

The relevant legal issue in the case study is whether a binding contract existed between Rosa and Basil. The facts indicate that Basil intended to purchase a table from Rosa. He even sent her a letter of confirmation. However, after seeing another piece of furniture on offer, he decided to buy that one instead and declined Rosa’s offer, via voicemail. Rosa insists that Basil enacted a binding contract for the purchase of her table. Through the application of relevant legal knowledge, this article will identify whether or not the issue raised by Rosa is valid enough to exercise ...

Abstract

Speech impediment is among the many disabilities that affect performance of children in the United States. The verbal communication of individuals is interfered with thereby implying that the impaired fail to communicate effectively with their teachers, fellow students as well as their close relatives. The result is a drop in the school performance if they are not subjected to the proper treatments which makes them improve their situation. This means that with proper interventions, they are able to significantly acquire higher scores in subjects such as English and Mathematics that are among the core fields in testing students’ competence. ...

The lack of a tort of privacy in the UK emphasizes the conceptual fragility of the right to privacy, as well as the importance and inadequacies of the equitable remedies of confidence, various torts associated with the intentional infliction of harm on other people, and administrative law principles governing the proper use of police powers (Bloy & Hadwin, 2007; Webb, Jones, & Walker, 2006). Article 8(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights provides for everyone’s right to respect for their private and family life, their home and correspondence. However, courts in the country reject the equation of Article ...

United States Constitution is the fundamental law of the United States having the highest legal force. The American Constitution was adopted in September 17, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and subsequently ratified by all then existing thirteen American states. It is considered the world's first constitution in the modern sense. It consists of seven articles, for the duration of the Constitution there have been adopted twenty-seven amendments, which are its integral part. The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments are considered as important amendments for people, as they protect them from different kinds of discrimination. The Fourth Amendment ...

1. In the YouTube video (Akin video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKa5CY-KOHc) provided the gentlemen discuss whether or not abortion of pregnancy should be legal or not if “legitimate rape” is the cause of the pregnancy. The topic of discussion is indeed very sensitive from both an ethical and sentimental point of view. Firstly, the video never mentioned the Todd Akin’s definition of the expression “legitimate rape”. The video indicates that Akin, who according to the online source provided, is against the concept of abortion and has an opinion that primarily the punishment should be for the offender and not the living ...

The Belmont Report

The Belmont Report was designed to ensure that practitioners and psychologists in the United States upheld ethical standards in psychological studies. Historically, three ethical principles have been developed as guiding principles as a result of the Belmont Report; each of these principles must be adhered to by anyone or any organization that is using human test subjects during the course of their work. These three ethical principles emphasize respect for persons, beneficence, and justice—without adherence to these principles, the ethical study can and should be considered inappropriate and should not be conducted. Each of these three facets of ...

Ethical dilemma

The ethical dilemma in this case is that a child has been diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, which requires urgent treatment. However, the child’s primary guardian would not consent to the treatment on account of her religious beliefs that forbids medical treatment. While the child’s father agrees that the treatment should proceed, he does not have primary custody over the child, and lives out of state to sign the requisite papers.

Component Parts

The physician’s professional autonomy and the patient’s autonomy are not only in conflict thus legally/ethically barring treatment, but there also is a conflict ...

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1. Background The arrival of new technologies as helped improve many aspects of life. For example, License Plate Recognition is a modern technology that has helped improve mobility and safety in transportation (Rashid, Aibinu, Rahman, Suhaimi and Yunis 93). Many car parks have resulted to the use of technology to help in the logistics of operating a car park. Rashid et al., (93) argue that automatic parking systems are progressive because in addition to improving logistics, they also increase the convenience of public parking, eliminate the hassles of fee collection and also enhance the security, especially when the car ...

Liberal democracy is a form of social and political order - a legal state based on representative democracy, in which the will of the majority and the ability of elected representatives to exercise authority are restricted for protection of minority rights and freedoms of individuals. In the UK, formally hereditary monarch has the highest authority, but in fact that power has the people through their elected representatives; monarchy has in this state symbolic character. Liberal democracy is aimed at ensuring the equal right of every citizen to due process of law, right to vote, private liberty, freedom of speech, ...

(the author’s name) (the institutional affiliation) Informed consent is primarily regarded as a communicative process between people, namely between a researcher and research participants. The process implies a dialogue that relies upon the relevant interactions which may not always correspond to standard consent procedures. The procedures concentrate on potential respondents’ perception of the study, so there arises an issue of what they want and need to know about informed consent, which consequently influences researchers’ design of the study in terms of providing informed consent. The standard consent procedure informs potential respondents about all of its elements: from a ...

Introduction

An intense debate usually revolves around the legality of Cannabis within the United States as well as other countries of the world. Numerous arguments are utilized to legalize or ban the trade of Cannabis under law and constitution of every country. It has been widely believed that Marijuana has undesired effects on users and society for promoting the use or more harmful drugs such as Methamphetamine and Heroin. However, recent arguments have caused disruption in this argument as many supporters of the drug argue that Cannabis does not promote the consumption of more harmful substances. The paper argues the ...

The 4th Amendment protects the privacy of every American from unreasonable and unexplainable government intrusion. FindLaw (2015) asserts that homes should, therefore, grant their owners’ the ultimate privacy as dictated by law. The description of a home would include apartments, mobile shelters, condos, mansions, motels, and tents among others. Therefore, the police would require search and arrest warrants as well as owner consent before making home entries. This essay discusses the 4th Amendment given a series of responses as follows. The following is an explanation of how the Amendment applies to police entry onto private property. Based on the ...

Research design

The study will utilize a quasi-experimental design whereby the researcher would be allowed liberty to select subjects for the study. This is something caused by the nature of the study (Parahoo, 2014). The study essentially involves elderly persons and it would be prudent to allow the researcher liberty to choose among subjects who are capable of fully participating.

Ethical considerations

It is of great importance to undertake steps to protect the subjects of the study, in terms of upholding their safety, autonomy and confidentiality. In this regard, thus study would be guided by a set of ethical principles (beneficence, non-maleficence and ...

Introduction

Handling an angry or uncooperative patient can be a challenge to any healthcare professional trying to perform a medical procedure on the patient’s behalf. When a patient is faced with a sudden illness, he or she may experience overwhelming fear about the outcome of any testing or procedures that have to be performed. For many patients with no medical knowledge, testing brings with it more fear about what is going to happen during the tests. The role of the radiology professional is to maintain compassion while educating the patient about the procedure that is to be performed. In ...

Introduction:

Unethical behavior in organization has become a common and important practice in order to enhance the revenue and achieve the targets and sale employees are more involved in this unethical practice as compare to other employees. In order to be competitive, it is essential to maintain good relation with customers and for this reasons banks have to follow the ethical behavior. Objective of this study is to enhance the understanding of business ethics through utilizing the theories. In order to gain the objective, paper has been divided into 4 major sections. In section one, the personally evident problem has ...

Law Regarding to Drones and Biometrics

Executive Summary This paper talks about drones and biometrics. These are two things that are taking over our world today since they are new inventions. Due to this, they need to be studied longer since this is their time. In this article, we look at both these inventions, the laws that govern them, the threat they pose to their environment as well as a recommendation on how they can be utilized better. I. Present Scenario for drones and biometrics. a. What is Drones? Drones are defined as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are controlled in one of two ways, ...

Abstract

The current antiretroviral drugs have been efficient in the management of HIV by suppressing the virus's replication. It has, therefore, helped in changing this virus from a deathly disease to a chronic infection. The utilization of extremely active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) calls for a lifetime prescription to prevent viral rebound by reducing the viral load to undetectable low levels. This high maintenance of treatment and the various side effects of the drugs and non-HIV related morbidity have led to the need for a better form of therapy. There has been an extensive study on stem cell manipulation done to develop gene therapy ...

Youth unemployment remains a significant economic challenge, not only in developing nations but even for developed nations. India, one of the world's developing economies, suffers both unemployment and underemployment despite the government's evident efforts to eliminate the economic challenges. In a peer-reviewed article entitled Impact of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Youth in the Kashmir Valley,  two researchers carried out a study whose primary aim was to investigate and establish the mental effects of unemployment and underemployment on the youths in Kashmir. The rationale for the study was that while unemployment and underemployment are economic challenges, their existence ...

CAN WEAK SELECTION PROCESSES BE SOLVED THROUGH TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT?

Introduction

Employee performance is a crucial aspect of all organizations in both developed and developing nations. For entities to become sustainable, workers have significant roles to play to ensure that they achieve a competitive advantage over others around the world. In this regard, selection processes have a critical place in the performance of organizations. There is the need to recruit committed and productive workers so that they are in a position to attain the targets set by organizations (Armstrong & Taylor 2014). Companies are now concentrating on getting appropriate human capital since employees are ...

Women have often been viewed as inferior to men as a result of the predominantly male chauvinistic tendencies in most societies. They have often been given subordinate roles while their male counterparts take the forefront in critical decision making responsibilities. This situation has often made women to be subjected to unacceptable acts such as rape, early marriages, verbal abuse and physical violence, which violates their right to human dignity. Regardless, there have been women of outstanding character and personality who have stood up against these suppressions that limit the potential of many women across the world. ‘The Bandit Queen’ is a ...

Philosophy of Sex

It is easy to simply define sex as ‘any contact between two or more individuals in which penetration occurs’; this covers the broad definitions of intercourse as have been commonly understood by societies over the course of history. This definition ostensibly covers oral, vagina, and anal sexual intercourse in a strict physical sense, but manages to ignore some of the greater nuances of the sexual experience. Therefore, this paper will seek to examine and defend a conceptual definition of sex as ‘all acts conveying a physical connection (requiring penetration) between two or more individuals.’ This analysis will be established by stipulating the ...

Identity Politics in the Visible World: Race, Anonymity, and Human Rights

The name Noam Galai is more than just a buzzword in all debates and topics related to privacy, secrecy, digital data and social media in the contemporary world. Rachel Kadish, who is a cousin to Noam Galai, tells the heartbreaking story of how his supposedly shy cousin becomes a victim of the greatest vice in the world internet today – theft of digital property. In her article "Who Is This Man and Why He is screaming?” Kadish narrates how the now international picture of her cousin robbed him of his privacy and the right to consent. Galai, who posted his controversial picture on ...

Abstract

This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

Introduction

American education has been reported as average when compared to other leading countries. Finland has a top ranked education system. More than half a million 15-year-olds around the world took the Program for International Student Assessment in 2012. The test is administered every three years and focuses largely on math, but includes minor sections in science and reading. It is often used as a snapshot of the global state of education. The results, published today, ...

The selected exam reading for this critique is Cribs for Kids: Risk and Reduction of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Accidental Suffocation. The study research has been conducted by Eileen M. Carlins and Kathryn S.Collins. The study paper is in the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Pennsylvania. The study explores the campaign efforts under ‘The Cribs for Kids’ and the effectiveness. Other factors such as progress and effect of the disease campaign have also been focused on. The critique paper within will seek to interrogate the research design and unravel what steps have been carried out well and correctly. ...

In the views of Jefferson it is “the consent of the governed” that provide the government the power to govern and to enact laws and to perform other administrative activities to ensure the basic rights of the people. The essential purpose of establishing the Governments, in the eyes of Jefferson, is to serve the people and that is why the assent of the people is crucial to make the government legitimate. The ...

Protection of health information is important. HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of individuals. Individuals must consent to have their health information disclosed to other people. Health care providers can share and discuss health information of an individual if he/she does not object. Sharing of information only happens in cases where the person receiving the information needs to know for payment or needs to know about the care of the patient. If the patient is unconscious, the health care provider of the patient can share the information to a family member ('Health Information Privacy', 2014). Nursing workplace is field that ...

It is crucial to note that collection of DNA without consent of an individual unreasonably intrudes on an arrestees’ expectation of privacy in a number of ways. Firstly, it leads to individual private information being accessed by law enforcement officers without authorization, which is against the constitutional principle of protection of individuals’ privacy. DNA information can be used to access other sensitive private information about a person that should remain private (Barbour, 2011). Therefore, taking DNA samples without personal consent is not right, as its result in those taking the samples intruding in personal life ...

The most complete role of the Congress in the system of separation of powers is in the functions vested in it by the Constitution. Summarily, they may be represented as follows:

1. Adoption of the legislation; 2. Budget and Finance; 3. Formation of the executive and judiciary branches; 4. Control over the activities of the government apparatus; 5. Implementation of the quasi-judicial functions; 6. Regulation of intergovernmental relations.

In the lawmaking, Congress is involved in issuing bills (laws), resolutions and orders.

Bills, that after the approval by president or on overcoming his veto become laws (acts, statutes), are divided into public bills and private bills. The ...

Answer 1: International Law is a set of rules made by a group of countries to ensure a formal pattern in trade and inter country relation. But there is no central controlling committee or headquarter to resolve any breach of regulations and procedures as in the case of domestic laws; it cannot be termed as law because worldwide countries adhere to international law to avoid getting cornered by the remaining nations. Associations like the United Nation Security Council and NAFTA often favour powerful nations; International Law is similar to Law in term of consent but the consent should be followed by abidance ...

Selection from an 8 year-period of pulmonary valve replacement and cross sectional follow up of a commercially available biological valve, assessed with established and a new method

What This Thesis Is About

Pulmonary valve replacement is a procedure necessary in many congenital heart defects and in-valve degeneration cases. Surgical results are excellent, but the longevity of artificial valves is very limited. Our goal was to give a retrospective overview of methods and results from the year 2000 until 2008 at Rikshospital, as well as the prospective five year follow-up of a biological valve made from bovine pericardium. Follow up included clinical examination with ECG, echocardiography, spirometry, treadmill testing, echocardiography ...

The Ellen Roche case is a case wherein a healthy volunteer participated in a National Institutes of Health funded research on the natural defenses of healthy individuals against asthma. The purpose of the study is to “gain a better understanding of the pathophysiology of asthma, specifically the mechanism of airway hyperresponsiveness”. Under the experiment Roche and the other subjects are required to inhale hexamethonium, a ganglionic blocker. The subjects will be paid $365 for participating in the experiment. After almost a month of participating in the research, Roche died due to progressive hypotension and multi-organ failure, which was attributed to her inhalation of hexamethonium.

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SLIDE 2

ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE This presentation has been designed to assess the impact of sexual abuse on those who become victims to such a heinous act. We rarely discuss the implications and consequences of the act that is committed so shamelessly. The survivors are subjected to the injustice of being deprived of any help or counseling that they could otherwise receive, and those helping them are stymied my innumerable social factors. At ...

Introduction

The achievement gap in formal schooling between African American children and other groups is stark. This has proven consistent over time (Coleman, et al, 1966), across jurisdictions (Clotfelter, Ladd & Vigdor, 2009; Bailey & Dziko, 2008), and throughout the K-12 system (The National Center for Education Statistics, 2014). Improving these issues is an obvious direction forward. Yet, the obstacles are numerous and multifaceted (Sanacore, 2004). Relative to the public domain, the school system is often targeted for a lack of understanding in relation to educating young African Americans of low socio-economic status. The curriculum is long been criticized for being de-contextualized to ...

Is Affirmative Consent the Answer to Sexual Assault on College Campuses?

The following paper deals with a Senate Bill 967 that is proposed to control the number of sexual assaults occur on campus the public as well as private universities of California. A Senate Bill 967 has been introduced by Senator Kevin de Leon, and the objective of this law is to establish certain criteria following which the public and private colleges in California will manage with the sexual assault incidents occurred on campus. The law requires all the universities and colleges in California to pass a mandate ensuring that all of the students will give an active or affirmative consent before ...

Management

The tracking of employees in organizations has raised a lot of ethical concerns. Privacy is critical with many feeling that tracking is an invasion of their privacy. Information gathered while the tracking is not only about their performance or productivity at their workplace. The data collected can also reveal an individual’s habits, routines and even their decisions. Even though employers use the tracking technology as a way to improve the organization’s performance, the data collected can get used for much more than that especially if accessible to other people. Also, if the data does not get stored securely, it ...

Rob and Bunny Sherman want to file a suit against the Church of the Divine Light. They allege that one year ago, their 15 year old son called Rob Jr., was coerced into staying in the church. He was threatened by being told that if he left, he would be thrown into the eternal fires of hell. He was brainwashed and began believing that the church was his new family. He was also told to demand money from his parents to cater for his upkeep. Rob Jr. stayed in the church for a period of approximately six months. Rob Sr. and ...

“ARE RIGHT AND WRONG CONVERTIBLE TERMS, DEPENDANT UPON THE POPULAR OPINION”? : A famous quote by William Lloyd Garrison poses a critical question to each one of us. Certain questions carry a lot of dimension to look through and in such cases there are enough supportive reasons to justify the rightness of each dimension. One such question stands whether it is ethically justifiable to use narcotics to speed up the end of life. Right from its inception the question has been a cause celebre and continues to exist as one. Effective pain relief especially at the end of life has always ...

Question One

The implementation of the project was faced with a number of ethical issues. The most predominant was assigning personal blame to some of the participants who had been adversely affected by alcohol and substance abuse. The ethical dilemma in this instance was that the health status of many of these individuals was caused by personal choices, for instance the choice to engage in alcohol and substance abuse (Nies & McEwen, 2013). There is a belief that individuals should be blamed personally for illnesses that result from their personal choices (Hernandez, 2011). However, previous discussions have highlighted the influence ...

Reference check is a process by which potential employer communicates with someone who knows the job applicant. It is an important process because it helps the employer; to verify the information that he has received from the applicant, predicts the future performance of the applicant and to uncover the information such as previous criminal records of the applicant (Gatewood and Robert,383). There is little research that has been done about the reliability and validity of reference checks as a predictor of jobs performance. From the few studies that have been done about the reliability of reference checks data it ...