Essays on Favoring

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What does the treatment of women in Chinese law tell us about understandings of justice in Late Imperial China? Introduction During the Late Imperial China, women were treated as inferior to the men in the society. Even for those who were educated. However, it can be observed that during the seventeenth century, there were many calamities that befell China such as earthquakes, drought and famine. These facts caused a lot of changes in the society. Many people turned into bandits and thieves because of the hunger they were experiencing. There was also a moral decay in the ...

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Canada is known internationally as a peacekeeping nation that does not take part in larger imperialist agendas and is a haven for refugees and immigrants. This has caused the country to adopt multicultural state policies meant to provide a safe and progressive environment for its diverse society. However, the country has a history of indigenous colonization, slavery, white settlement policies, and racialized immigration policies meant to settle people of color. Despite the multicultural policies being in place, Canada’s history has influenced racism in the nation with the Canadian minorities being marginalized socially, politically, culturally and economically. This essay ...

INDIVIDUAL ESSAY

Introduction The paper is intended to evaluate the importance of ethical decision making and to critically discuss the factors that affect the choice of an individual within the company (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 2016; Jones, 1991). Most of the managers and managements within the firms and organizations are now considering the importance of ethics in their practices and decision making (Samson & Draft, 2011). Either it is business firms, business people or government; all are concerned about the ethics. Based on the scenario that Radax is the company of the manager’s best friend, yet the bids of the company are not ...

21.2 Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910) 1. What does Theodore Roosevelt want the federal government to do in order to address problems created by business monopolies? Answer. Roosevelt professed the notion of progressivism to be implemented in the federal government’s action by increasing its participation in the socio-economic features, regardless of the constitutional regulations on the same (Theodore, 1910). He wanted the federal government to have an authoritative control of the capitalization of all the government and private corporations who were working within the state. Roosevelt implied that the government should take corrective and punitive actions ...

Its role in Microglia causing dopamine cell death

This assignment is being submitted on June 18, 2015 Introduction The list of prominent neurodegenerative disorders has Alzheimer’s at the topmost level and closely following it is the Parkinson’s disease. The latest researches pertaining to the Parkinson’s pathogenesis have narrowed down to the crucial relevance of Neuroinflammation and establishment of microglia. Thus there has to be a concrete substantiation to prove that Neuroinflammation has a significant contribution in causing Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Another approach to ratify the same can be done by proposing that genetic deficiency is not the sole cause for ...

Institutional Structures Favoring Business in China

Institutional Structures Favoring Business in China China’s ability to attract domestic entrepreneurs, multinational companies, and international investors has been associated with business-friendly institutional structures established by the Chinese government. These institutional structures include techno-industrial policies, financial regulation, and influence of political class.

Chen and Naughton (2013) observed that there has been dramatic changes in Chinese policy in the areas of technology development and innovation and which attract businesses. Although technology development has been one of the main objectives of the Chinese leadership, the new policy allows for more government intervention for specific sectors that favor industrial development. ...

The dialectical relationship between love and material objects is complex. In the United States of America different elements in culture often take opposing sides: some, like most spiritual organizations, favoring the former, and others, like the capitalistic worldview, favoring the latter. O. Henry was one of this country’s most famous turn-of-the-nineteenth-century writers, who constantly incorporated its culture into his texts; “The Gift of the Magi”, one of his most famous and important short stories, deals with this dichotomy. Using many of O. Henry’s staples, it rests on irony to construct a bittersweet tale where love ends up prevailing. ...

INTRODUCTION

When most people think of Ancient Rome, they imagine great marble statues, sky-soaring columns, and men and women dressed in draped togas. However, there is one name that is eternally synonymous with this Ancient era, Julius Caesar, the great and incredibly powerful ruler, whose reign would end with his assassination, by his friend and peers. Most people’s interpretation of Julius Caesar comes not from history, but from the imagination of the William Shakespeare, in 1599, within the pages of his play titled, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” (Layson and Zurcher 1). Many people see this play as a pointedly ...

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The two-child policy has been a major topic of debate among the Demographists and Sociologists particularly in the wake of China adopting a one child policy in the early 1980s. The term Two Child Policy assumes different meanings in different parts of the world- in regions like Eastern Europe, where the population is on a decline, the two-child policy will be seen as a measure to improve the population growth rate and achieve stability. Whereas if you consider high population nations like China or India, the enforcement of two-child policy would be seen as a measure to control and reduce the population growth rate. ...

Introduction

Game theory is the official study of engagement and cooperation. Game hypothetical perceptions apply whenever the engagements of several agents are codependent. These agents may be persons, groups, firms, or any amalgamation of these. The perceptions of game theory offer a language to express, structure, analyze, and comprehend strategic scenarios. The interior consistency and calculated fundamentals of game theory make it a key tool for modeling and scheming automated decision-making procedures in interactive environments. For instance, one might like to have well-organized request rules for an auction website or tamper-proof automatic discussions for purchasing statement bandwidth. Examination in these submissions of ...

In the exploration of the current controversy over the Second Amendment given the recent debates that have sparked from the many school and neighborhood shootings, it becomes evident that there are a diverse number of positions on the subject. These positions represent the fundamental issue that underlies the effects that this type of legislation would have as well as the way in which it is informed. Their differences arise due to important factors that contribute to their existence. This existence pertains to how the basis for gun control should be established. The issue is that, while it is important ...

Leadership is essential to the successful management in the field of nursing. However, nursing leaders and employees have different views on the type of leadership style to be adapted for best results. Owing to the challenges in the nursing leadership, re-evaluation of current managerial tactics is necessary. A nurse leader must master delegation because it constitutes a critical portion of the effective leadership and success in the patient care. Since we live in a multi-cultural nation; good leaders should consider all aspects of a person including cultural diversity. Time management skills, self-efficacy and assertive communication are the other significant qualities of nurse ...

History

The Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1781 although the first draft had been written by Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The Articles organized the colonies into a weak confederation of more-or-less independent states (Sturgis, 2002). The United States of America became a new nation but unfortunately in the mid-1780s an economic depression forced a serious challenge for the national government to find solutions to the economic problems. The Articles of Confederation did not include taxation power or any other power that would provide income for the national government. The meaning of an American democracy became a debating point particularly on the ...

Question No. 5: Living Culture –

Gender, Sexuality, and Race Gender, sexuality, and race are less biological facts than the outcome of contextually specific discourses and discursive practices. Explain with reference to no more than two aspects of identity.

Living Culture –

Gender and Race Introduction Gender, sexuality, and race are less biological facts of how human identity develops than the outcome of contextually specific discourses and discursive practices connected to ethnicity and cultural interchanges. The following scholastic exercise defines how social science prods the ethnic and cultural interchanges of humans in their discourse and discursive practices. In turn, the following describes how this affects ...

Women’s participation in the paid workforce increased especially around the 1950’s. This also had a significant increase of married women in the workforce. By 1983, women were over one third in the workforce, and in the 1990’s women were almost 50% in the workforce. Young women entering workforce stayed longer, and even after getting married they continued working. Despite women entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and the great strides made by women in the workplace, inequality still persists (Tierney, 2011, p. 197). Since they were able to work, women have been struggling in the workforce. However, ...

Over the past several years, the government has tried its best to remain neutral towards all religions. Essentially, government neutrality towards religion requires that the ruling government does not favor any sect, religion or denomination over the others. In order to enhance the government’s neutrality towards religion, there are several laws that deny the government authority to interfere in religious matters. Government neutrality towards religion is a good idea because it fosters good relations between people from diverse religious backgrounds, creates a conducive political environment, helps to avoid isolation of religious minorities, and ensures that there is freedom of worship ...

The Islam religion had no divisions before the death of Prophet Muhammad in the year 632 A.D. It is believed that the Prophet Muhammad had prophesied that upon his death there would emerge more than 72 Muslim sects (Friedman 128) but only one of them would not go to hell (Mervin 11). The biggest cause of the split was the lack of and/or the failure by Prophet Muhammad to name his successor before his death. Conventionally, his successor would have been his eldest son or a male relative. The problem was that all his three sons who were the ...

Introduction

It has been noted that Fast Food TV commercials have biased representation of gender; majorly favoring the males. These commercials promote heteronormative and sex-role stereotypes, which are Packwood and Merskin, argue in their article “Having it His Way: the Construction of Masculinity in Fast-Food TV Advertising” (Packwood, & Merskin, p. 456) to be as unhealthy as the fast food themselves. Most of the fast food TV commercials represent men as heterosexuals, which imply that the fast food ads aimed towards such male members of the society. On the other hand, critics argue that such ads present women as the weaker ...

Introduction

One of the legally required benefits available to employees is protection against discrimination in their workplace. This is the selected area which this paper proposes to examine. The U.S. Department of Commerce has categorized potential discriminations in the workplace as “REGARDS” each letter of which refers to race, ethnicity, gender (sex), religion, disability, and sexual orientation respectively as part of best practices in achieving workforce diversity in one of its reports. As such, the most common forms of discrimination in vogue at workplaces are the above said ones in addition to genetic information, pregnancy, and sexual harassment. If an ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Reg No Designation Abstract The essay begins with a brief introduction about the outline of the contents. This essay critically discusses the abortion issue from a Philosophical point of view. There are several arguments both favoring and against abortion. The essay can be considered a good reference point for an argument or a debate on the abortion issue. Finally the essay concludes summarizing the vital points supporting in favor and against abortion. Recommendations are also offered to minimize the growing number of abortion cases as a result of the changing social life style among the current generation.

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Discussion of Five Theories of International Relations

Liberalism The study of international relations owes most of its roots from liberalism. The liberalist school of thought, having emerged during the Enlightenment, mainly addresses the broad concern of international relations on attaining enduring peace and cooperation between states and non-state actors. Scholars of liberalism thus devote themselves to the study of stabilizing relationships between states and organizations from different parts of the world through a variety of methods (Doyle & Recchia, 2011). Liberalism includes within its vast umbrella of sub-schools of thought theories that focus mostly on the behavior of ...

Abstract

Leadership is a combination of qualities that any individual can inculcate, but a true leader is known by how he or she may use ethics to solve professional and personal dilemmas that they face in their day to day life. Ethical dilemmas are, in a manner, the measuring gauges of a person’s perspective of things and their ability to show leadership qualities in the chores they undertake. Following is a discussion on the topic of ethical dilemmas that a leader must face to demonstrate leadership.

Introduction

Time and again it has been observed that leadership is a virtue that cannot be tapped from a person’s genes ...

Introduction

The civil rights movement provided a significant chapter to the history of democracy in the United States (US), in that it enabled the empowerment of African-Americans towards freedom from discrimination. While much activity related to the movement is attributable to the string of protests undergoing in the US between 1955 and 1968, it also influenced uprisings in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The prevalence of discrimination against African-Americans has prompted activists to fight for the eventual recognition of their entitlement to civil rights. Race is the primary focus of discrimination, with the ...

Introduction Illicit drug usage has been a subject of varied legal, medical and ethical considerations in the United States (US). Many understand illicit drugs as harmful substances that face strict legal regulations, with links to deviant behavior harmful to the welfare of society. Yet, challenges to that contention have emerged resulting of emerging research on particular benefits and alternative remedies. Among those illicit drugs in question is marijuana – one that possesses medical qualities alongside its reputed usage as an addictive drug. This study poises to tackle arguments on legalizing marijuana usage ...

Angola’s economy is ranked at number 160 as the freest economy as per the current index. The economic freedom of this African country has a score of 46.7. Currently, this score has improved by a point of 0.5 which is attributed to improved government performance in terms of spending, business and human workforce. Even throughout of the 46 sub-Saharan African countries, Angola comes number 38, its score is still low compared to other world and African economies. Angola’s economic freedom is being undermined by corruption political interference especially on judicial affairs. Oil and diamond dependency for revenue by the ...

Culture and Ethics in China

Knowing who you are on the market in which you activate is essential for your business. This implies knowing your competitors – the existent ones, your potential competitors (new entries or substitute products) and the partners you can rely on or on which you depend (suppliers, corporate clients, for instance). This Porter’s Five Forces Analysis is very useful for knowing yourself in the market in which you activate. For Multi U, a multinational company activating in the IT industry (an ever growing and competitive industry), knowing its environment in the countries in which it operates helped the company remain competitive ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events which contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...

History

Progressivism is a set of political theories that advocates social, political and economic changes for the betterment, especially in context of the deprived section of the society. This observable fact came into the existence in the period between the end of nineteenth century and in the beginning of the twentieth century. The emergence of this principle was first experienced in the cities, which were flooded by the migrated workers, who left their native places and traditional occupation, in search of better opportunities. These opportunities had taken place because of the new emerging centers of industries; people started fleeing towards ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events who contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...

Introduction

The Social network movie depicts the establishment of Facebook, which is a social networking website and the lawsuits that followed due to its establishment. This paper critically analyses the lawsuits between Face book and the Winklevoss twins (Noughton 45). The paper provides an overview of the legal and ethical issues involved in the dispute between Facebook and the Winklevoss twins, the essay also reflects and discusses on the public policy favoring settlement agreements, and he various forms of ADR and their respective advantages and disadvantages in the context of the dispute between face book and the Winklevoss twins. In addition, ...

Manifesto:

The constitution amendments in the Arab countries in order to provide less powers for presidents and reduce their ruling span to ensure fair running of the countries resources. There is need for creation of anti-corruption bodies to investigate past corruption cases in order to bring justice and eradicate corruption among other leaders through equal distribution of resources among the regions in the country. The natural resources should be equally allocated to all regions to ensure a balance in the national cake. These will boost development because firms and industries will be set up in all regions that will eventually create job ...