Essays on Intent

Jails and prisons both share the characteristic of being correctional incarceration facilities. However, the purpose and intent of these types of facilities differs.In your initial response, compare and contrast jails vs. prisons. As part of your comparison discuss the purpose and intent of each type of facility. Consider the type of inmate that is housed in each facility as part of your evaluation of these correctional facilities. There is no doubt that incarceration of any kind is considered as an unpleasant experience, since a convict is deprived of freedom. It is worth noting that the rights, policies as well ...

Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, though well-written poetically, does not live up to its name. It is neither a poem about love nor is it a song. The poem simply expresses Prufrock’s indecision about life and women. Interpretation of the entire poem must rely on the epigraph for a complete understanding of Eliot’s intent and theme. The theme of indecision runs consistently through the point of view Eliot chose, as well as through setting, characters, tone and the use of repetition, imagery and metaphors. The poem begins with an epigraph borrowed from Dante’ ...

The 1955 short story, “Good Country People”, written by Flannery O’Connor, delves primarily on the human tendency to take advantage of the weaknesses of others, and the perception that everything urban is more superior than its country-style counterpart. This has been achieved through the use of several elements of fiction, obvious of which are the use of symbolism and irony. As such, in the said story urbanism is represented in the characters of Mrs. Hopewell and he children, while the supposed lower or innocent class of country living is seen in Mrs. Freeman and Manley Pointer. More so, ...

Abstract

This paper will analyze six curriculums of English high school in different schools using the Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation. In particular, Donald Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation has four components, namely the following: reactions, learning, behavior and results (Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 1 of Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation is reactions which measures how the participants of the training reacted (Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 2 which is learning that measures what the participants have learned from the training (Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 3 is behavior that gauges the ...

In a criminal case, a defendant will often seek to plead the insanity defense. An insanity defense may be a particularly attractive option if the murder was especially egregious or heinous. But while pleading insanity can be a viable defense for certain defendants, courts of law do not accept insanity pleas from every defendant. In order for a defendant to pleas insanity successfully, the defendant must show that 1) the defendant did not know that what he did was wrong, and 2) that the defendant failed to act with the necessary mens rea requirement (Fradella, 2007, p. 9). These ...

The area covered by the lecture is Trots in Aviation Law. The various topics covered in the lecture for include Strict Liability in consideration with Civil Aviation regulations, duties of a pilot in flight and pre-flight, duties of the air traffic controller, duties of the maintenance engineer, the three categories of trespass, and nuisance. The elements of the lecture cover the duties of the pilot including responsibilities of a pilot in command of an aircraft, responsibilities before the actual commencement of the flight, analysis of pre-flight data, safety of passengers, safety of cargo, safety of crewmembers, keeping information on ...

A Contract

In the words of Judge Learned Hand, a contract “is an obligation attached by the mere force of law to certain acts of the parties, usually words, which ordinarily accompany and represent a known intent” (Solan, 2007, p. 353). Because the formation of a contract carries with it certain legal obligations and rights of the respective parties, it is important to know when a valid and binding contract has been formed. In order for a valid contract to exist, certain elements must be met. There are generally four essential elements that must be satisfied for a contract to exist. ...

Importance of privacy policies in a fusion center

Information is the key goal for a Fusion Center. A Fusion Center collects and analyzes data from various sources to determine the likelihood of potential threats from domestic and foreign origin against the US. The information from government and private sources contribute largely to a Fusion Center’s database (Regan and Monahan, 2013). The most potent information often originates from the general population. The case of the Lackawanna Six is a testament to that. The people who provided the anonymous tip believed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation works to safeguard the nation. The FBI, with a long history ...

1. Abstract The emergence of home healthcare as an industry could be attributed to the growth of modern communication technology. As the term indicates, the concept refers to patients’ scope for getting quality care within their own comfort zone. Healthcare organizations today strive to meet customer requirements in this regard considering the growing completion and changing customer choices alike. Hence, innovations are likely that can enhance the quality of overall care provided. This paper will closely examine the implementation of home healthcare applications by Florida hospital. This will also give specific focus to the aspects like organization information, information ...

Cabir is a malware that started as the very first virus which was designed to attack smartphones. Before that time, which was precisely in the month of June 2004, the concept of malware attack was only limited to the PC. The virus was originally named Caribe by its developers, but the researchers didn’t want that name to stick. This is because the researchers took great pleasure in renaming the virus with names that they came up with after the virus had been introduced under the name of its programmer. This is so that it does not fuel the ...

I. Introduction Because of the intent of its purpose, this Advertising Strategy Brief will focus upon the salubrious qualities of the Muslim community, in terms of their sympathetic feelings towards Paris after the terror attacks of the city in November of 2015. The forthcoming details of this brief hopes to create an effective planning model and campaign, to mitigate the bad influence which is growing against Muslim society. Changing the perception of this group, under the task authorized by the Government, calls for a marketing strategy to address the negative media directed at Muslims perceived by the general public.

Background / Overview

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Abstract

This paper will discuss the emergence of national security policies and laws in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to these attacks, there was relatively little coordination between different government agencies and branches with regards to counterterrorism. But the 9/11 attacks led to significant changes. All three government branches are highly involved in national security measures and interests. Congress responded by passing very important statutes to augment the government’s authority to conduct and investigate terrorist threats and apprehend suspects. These statutes reflect the practical difficulties of apprehending and prosecuting terrorists. Terrorism is unique in that if ...

1. Executive Summary Today’s intensely competitive business environment necessitates the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices, because business houses are expected to protect and sustain the environment and communities in which they operate. Founded in 1953, the Burger King grew fast as an international food chain. The company strives to be a responsible corporate citizen while promoting its business goals and objectives successfully. Food, people, environment, and corporate governance constitute the four essential elements of the Burger King’s CSR approach. The company operates the Burger King McLamore Foundation to best serve the needs of its different ...

Intentional Torts

Essay Question 1: Manny Ramirez is a professional baseball player. He is a great hitter, but is also somewhat quirky and controversial. Because of his quirkiness, the Boston Red Sox decided to trade him to another team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Boston print and radio media has been very hard on Ramirez. Two radio talk show hosts, John and Gerry have been repeatedly very critical of Manny, with John states “good riddance” and Gerry states “who needs him” and “he’s a lousy ballplayer” on the air. Manny heard these comments while listening to the radio on the ...

QUESTION ONE

John may have a tort action against Manny for Assault. The elements of assault include: intent, apprehension of an offensive or harmful contact and causation. Manny had intent as indicated by this words “here’s something for you guys, you jerks”. The cleat thrown by Manny toward John created apprehension of harmful contact on the part of John, knowing that if a cleat struck him, especially in the face, injury would result. Causation is present because Manny threw the cleat in a rage and spoke words indicating he intended to cause harm. Therefore, John would succeed on a claim ...

The motives and characteristics of stalking has been a subject of research for decades. However, when one tries to understand persons who stalkers public figures like Presidents, there is an obvious gap in typology. The President of the country is the most visible celebrity; therefore, the psychopathology of the stalkers is essential when evaluating psychiatric state of these people. It is obvious that all stalkers have some psychological disorders that push them to act in a weird way. Some of them act openly and aggressively, while others try to hide themselves and mean no harm. The motives derive from ...

Patient-Centered Health Care

Patient-centered care refers to the involvement of not only health care policy makers but also patients and their families in the design of novel care models. In the patient-centered care, it is important to address ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic issues in health outcomes. Patient-centered care can be determined by the level of interactions of patients with clinicians. Research shows that patient-centered care helps in giving a lot of improvement in the quality of life and disease outcomes (Epstein, Fiscella, Lesser, & Stange, 2010). So, it is important for policy makers to look at health care not only from the perspective ...

Introduction

Sport even sponsorship has been on the rise over the years. Commercial entities spend huge sums of money to sponsor sport events because of the associated financial benefits. Sports sponsorships has an advertising effect that increases consumption of a firm’s products, market stock returns and profitability. Sports sponsorship are also beneficial to the receiving parties since they are able to finance their sport events. Sport sponsorship are contracts like any other that give rise to rights and obligations that must be protected. The protection of these rights are critical to maintenance of the relationship between parties involved. Trademarks ...

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 ...

Late last year an important discovery about Neanderthal was presented to the public. A 130,000-year-old Neanderthal toe fossil discovered in a cave in Siberia, Russia, allowed scientists to sequence a complete Neanderthal genome. This information is important both in terms of studying Neanderthals, and also understanding of what makes the lineage of humans unique. It will allow scientists to how Neanderthals and Humans interacted and the breeding habits between both species.

Nature was the journal that broke finding to the public in their peer-reviewed journal in an article titled, The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains. ...

Introduction

Roberts (2003, p.89) argued that performance appraisal is a controversial management tool that provides answers to problems within the system design and administration of organizations. Majority of the organisations have adopted appraisal systems to enable it gauge employee performance in trying to boost morale, and reward them accordingly. However, despite the importance and popularity of the performance appraisal in organisations, its implementation and effectiveness have been controversial (Liu and Dong, 2012, pp. 150). In fact, some studies revealed that there are many performance appraisal systems that have completely failed to motivate employees to do a better job (Oh and Lewis, 2009, ...

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 ...

Stereotyping is the process by which an individual looks at another person or group of people and makes a snap judgement about their abilities, intelligence, behavior, or mannerisms as a result of their outward appearance. Stereotyping is often considered to be linked with negative perceptions about an individual’s race or gender, but in reality, stereotyping can be done about any group-- and stereotyping does not have to include a negative generalization. However, generalizing about a group in a positive manner can be just as harmful to a business environment as generalizing in a negative manner. In the text Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts, Alquilar (2006) discusses ...

Analysis and Recommendations Regarding the Hire of Smoking Employees

Our Board of Directors is considering adopting a policy of not hiring employees who smoke, as a way to contain health care costs. As requested, I have studied this issue and the many complex questions that it involves. After a presentation of those questions, I will propose a recommended course of action.

The first question is legality. Are we legally able to not hire smokers? The answer is both yes and no. There is no federal law that prohibits us from not hiring smokers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission does not recognize smokers as a protected class, so it is legal – at the ...

Inductive Bible Study

The Inductive Bible Study is the way one reads, understands, interprets and applies the message in the bible. There are two types of reading and interpretation of the Bible; these are the reader response, and the authorial intent. The reader’s response determines the meaning of the Bible; this can be a single reader or a community of readers. It means that since each reader will understand the bible or the text in his own way, interpret it and apply it according to the way he understands it. That indicates that the bible interpretation has different meanings, which may be positive ...

Political Implications of Sino-Saudi Relations to the US and Regional Affairs

Abstract As the largest and most influential nations in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has been considered a valuable asset to any country wishing to have influence in the tightly-knitted Middle East. Many nations throughout the years have tried to sway the Saudi government and monarchy into entering diplomatic and economic partnerships with them in order to gain access to the region’s oil reserves and establish their partnership but only a few have been successful. One of these successful nations is the People’s Republic of China, which has strong diplomatic, economic and social partnerships with Saudi. China has been ...

ABSTRACT

This paper intends to present a detailed analysis concerning the Muslim faith school in London. An attempt is made to understand the historical and socio-cultural factors impacting the issue of Muslim faith school. The various issues faced by the Muslim faith schools have been touché upon. The case for and against Muslim faith school in context of its implication of social cohesion and unity has been analysed. Muslim faith schools have been analysed in the context of various theories like liberalism, communitarian, multi-culturist and the case for and against Muslim school has been presented in this paper.

Introduction

Muslims ...

The important things I learned from class are very informative, educational, and effective. Through my own learning, I would be happy to share to you the following that I surely believed open your minds and hearts to embrace the knowledge sincerely and apply it to yourselves. There are more or less five focal points based on what I learned on Interpersonal Communication course at Ashford University that I really wanted to share:

- Recognize how words have the power to create and affect attitudes, behavior, and perception. - Understand how perceptions, emotions, and nonverbal expression affect interpersonal relationships. ...

2014 Frieze Art Fair: Yoshimoto Nara from Japan to the Great Britain Japan is a country that has undergone an extraordinary (for more than a century) and a strong modernization following the Western model: it has, now, reached a unique style which seem to be quite eclectic. Japanese culture surprisingly developed more and more its visual culture in a strong and characteristic way. Passing through different artistic styles, contemporary Japanese artists want to be recognized for their true nature and not for old stereotypes. No surprises, therefore, that the recent animations works of Hayao Miyazaki are exported all over the world with great success, leaving ...

Gangs started their history in late 18th century when the first groups started to form. Mainly these groups started to form among the white immigrants; mainly they were English, Irish and German. However, the boom of gang formations is dated in 1820 in New York City.

The second wave of gangs’ formation started in the period of 1860-1920, when new immigrants started to settle down in USA. The first ones were Chinese, who formed highly structured gangs, which still exist in US. However, not only Chinese people started forming their own gangs. Therefore, there were many other immigrants ...

Alpaca business is a new form of business that is rising as a great business option for people. However, before deciding to invest in or deciding to expand any business, it is in the wisdom of the owner to think about both the upside and the downside of any prospective purchase. There may be a vast difference between the assumptions we hold and the actual experiences, however, there should be a familiarity with the range of possible financial returns.

The Alpaca business buyers, when new, generally start with the breeding of a pair or two females and they can decide on purchasing stud ...

Identification of Crimes and Defenses

Fact Summary: After taking cocaine, Nino and Bill decide they want more. Nino comes up with an idea to “scam” some more from Thomas, the boyfriend of Bill’s sister. On the way to Thomas’ house, Nino explains the details of the scam to Bill. Before arriving however, Nino drops will off and gives him a steak knife and tells him, “I may need protection.” After waiting 45 minutes, Bill walks to Thomas’ house and knocks on the door. Nino rushes out and begins beating him and cursing him for not keeping to the plan. In the process of beating ...

The speech provided explains the personal life of the speaker. The introduction speech seeks to notify the listener on the personal and social life of the listener. The speaker may also find it necessary to provide their professional information. Generally, the objective to the listener is to identify the speaker from the personal information they provide about themselves. In addition, listener seeks to understand the speaker from a personal point of view from the information they provide. How well did the speaker satisfy the objective of the speech? The paper will analyze the speech from the four required parts; introduction, ...

Following The American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract Most buildings once completed take at least one year to settle and require repairs and maintenance. However, many older multiple dwelling buildings have suffered unforeseen issues. The most common problem is water ingress through the building envelope. The reason why residential buildings are critical and require closer and immediate attention is because these buildings belong to people who have invested their life savings into them for comfort and spend most of their time in those places. Commercial and industrial buildings do not require as much attention and their environmental separation requirements vary because they are only occupied ...

Throughout the course of this essay I will attempt to construct a picture of modern techno cultures in respect of the laws and norms of the world they inhabit but don’t necessarily fit into. I will try to display to the reader that these techno cultures live within our world but outside our laws, they themselves construct their own laws as they live in their own worlds, they live in our world but in another world of their choosing. I will in a sense try to find reality in these virtual worlds and try to discover what is real and ...

The automobile industry has grown over the last decade with every consumer needing to own a vehicle to save on time and increase income. This trend has resulted in many manufacturers coming up with various models designed to satisfy diverse tastes. The brand that is selected in this presentation is Mercedes and it will be analysed next to its competitors which are Audi, BMW, and Volvo. The analysis will be about the attributes about consumers who decide on which model they will purchase and not the other. The fishbein model of attitude determination will be incorporated in this presentation ...

Sustainability and corporate responsibility are the buzz words for organizations nowadays in terms of operations. Considering this Boxed Water is one such example of entrepreneurship and marketing genius to hit the market and creating noise with its out of the box design and communication. As an organization the primary message ‘Boxed Water is Better’ is relayed to the consumers has a two way objective, as stated on the company website as being curious, artistic and also a philanthropic aspect to the product the intent is to instill a presence in terms of sustainability and also create an emotive connect with ...

Marston, Jerrilyn Greene. King and Congress. The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776. Princeton Legacy Library, 2014.

This book describes the history of the Continental Congress in the light of its being in the forefront of the struggle of America with the Great Britain. It is valuable for the research, because it provides a new perspective on the history of the Congress. The author of the book claims that the expectation of Americans as for the central government functioning were formed under the British monarchy and were of executive kind. Uniting and describing different perspectives will help in formation of complete view of the problem.

Adams, William Howard. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. Yale University Press, 2003.

This book is a biography of the prominent racy, plainspoken patrician, who was ...

Issue 1- Ethics and Legal Environment

The situation that Arnold the CEO of gun manufacturing company found himself in is very critical. There are two conflicting and touchy issues that Arnold needs to give attention. It is an ethical dilemma situation that needs him to carefully weigh the options. There is a public outcry from the shareholders that Arnold must remove Mac from the Board of director of the company. It is challenging because the shareholders are the backbone of the company and whatever they demand must be attended to. Likewise, Arnold has to consider the profile of Mac, especially how much he has tried to ...

Abstract

The onset of immigration had long been a part of American history since its discovery in the 1600s and had shaped the country’s society and government throughout the years. In the early years, America had gladly opened its doors to the world without restrictions and some aided in the liberation of the country from English rule and into independence. However, as the years progressed, restrictions were imposed by the government due to the fear of these immigrants and eventually, due to the onset of illegal immigration. Reforms left and right were implemented to sustain America’s security, economy and ...

Introduction

Intense competition and massive creativity characterize the modern business environment. As such, businesses are always on the lookout for ways and means to overcome competition, remain profitable, and have positive impacts on society. Strategic planning and thinking are the best ways that businesses can achieve their goals.

Description of Theories/Core Concepts

Conventional strategic planning concepts are the guides or the plans a business or organization creates to map out how it plans to reach its goals (Collins, 2011). Strategic intent thinking entails ambitious and compelling dream that provides intellectual and emotional energy for people to pursue certain objectives (Collins, 2011).Analysis

Although they are, ...

Introduction

As a writer, I have come to appreciate the exciting and lifting moment when my mind connects with the thoughts of another, through his or her piece of writing, which enriches the my experience of the world and the area of study. Further, it is because I – don’t only – get the opportunity to read the author’s piece, but I also get the chance to explore his or her true intention through the language and the literary devices employed. The overall purpose of the writer, about the piece they are writing, determines the techniques they adopt, as ...

Currently, over 80 percent of business transactions are governed by contractual agreements. In recent years business contracts have become significantly more complex with complicated legal language and a numerous of terms and conditions governing the terms of the contract. Contracts is an agreement binding two or more people. The agreement can be on behalf of persons or companies they represent. There are certain legal requirements that must be adhered to for a contract to be enforceable, but they are seldom an issue in business contracts. The business contracts do not have to be written because they are enforceable in a court of ...

Juvenile waivers involve a situation when a juvenile is transferred to an adult court and hence tried as an adult. This means that the juvenile is tried absent of all the protections offered to juveniles in the juvenile court. This may have very impactful effects on the life of the juvenile. A good example is that juvenile records are not a permanent stain on the juvenile’s life. These records are sealed the moment the juvenile turns 18. However, proceedings and outcomes in an adult court are a more permanent record. Irrespective of the age of the juvenile during the time, their case ...

Introduction

The second battle of Fort Fisher was an important war in which the Union force’s commander, General Alfred Terry, applied most of the six principles of mission command to secure the union victory. From constituting an effective team, making clear his intent, taking initiative and motivating his force, to taking prudent risks and promoting independent actions amongst his subordinates, the commander demonstrated a remarkable degree of commanding competence. The battle was a joint attack against Fort Fisher by the United States Navy and the Union Army. Generals Alfred Terry (Union Army) and David Porter (US Navy) fought Braxton Bragg, Robert ...

At the beginning of the 1990s through to the 2000s sexual offences became a trendy topic of discussion within the sphere of legislative discourse and public dialogue. The contention surrounded the crafting of criminal legislation that would reduce recidivism of convicted sex offenders and overly reduce sexual offence cases. The initial innovations resulting from the discourse were twofold. These were the sex offender laws, which made it a statutory requirement that convicted sex offenders regularly provide crucial identification information and contacts to law enforcement authorities, upon conclusion of their incarceration; and sex offender notification laws, the latter being complementary to the ...

The three-strikes rule in American law is often associated with drug users, but in reality, the rule varies from state to state. Usually, the three-strikes rule states that offenders who are guilty of more than two serious offenses-- usually felonies-- can be sentenced to life in prison (Stanford University Law School, 2013). These offenses may be violent offenses like child abuse or rape, or they may be non-violent offenses like drug possession or possession with intent to distribute (Staples, 2012). The reason why so many people decry the three-strikes rule as unfair or even potentially unethical is because the ...

Question 1

Jurisdiction is a term used to define the powers of a court. Personal jurisdiction refers to the power of a given court to give judgments against a particular defendant while subject-matter jurisdiction refers to the power of a court to hear and make judgments on a particular type of case (Chao and Christine, 9). Parties to a contract have considerable freedom in formulating terms of a contract. This includes resolution of disputes arising from the contract. Minimum contract law can be used to determine if a court in one state has personal jurisdiction over a defendant from another state. The relevance of the minimum contract rule is that it ...

Communication is part of everyday living, which means people communicate with one another through verbal and non-verbal means. In order to ensure that messages are delivered and received correctly, having correct grammar skills will help tremendously in understanding the meaning of the message and eliminating misconstruction and confusion. The importance of grammar cannot be discounted because it is like glue that holds language together. Incorrect grammatical sentences could lead to meaningless and unclear messages that make communication ineffective and leave the person or the message recipient puzzled about the meaning of the message. The study of grammar may ...

Criminal Law

1.) a.) Observation and psychological testing in the assessment, selection and treatment of mentally ill offenders is important in order to creating a successful treatment program these offenders and to promote the public safety and security. It is difficult task on the part of the criminal justice system to pool together professionals who have the knowledge to understand the consequences imposed by both the criminal justice system and mental health treatment. At the same time, it is recommended that mental health professionals should be able to take into consideration the issues surrounding forensic patients, with the help of forensic clinicians ...

Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a civil terminology used to describe the act of killing an individual which is slightly culpable as compared to the commitment of murder. The distinctive factor between murder and manslaughter is the mental state of the individual committing the felony(Loveless, 2012). Manslaughter is categorized into voluntary and involuntary.

Voluntary manslaughter is the instance where the culprit has an intent which leads to a serious injury or death of an individual. Voluntary manslaughter usually carries light degree of charges basing on the mental state of the defendant and the circumstances he or she faces. According to Collings (1962), a homicide ...

Abstract

The God squad group, mainly made of boys in junior and senior years, uses the 9/11 attacks as a rallying point for combination of white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, ant-Islamic, anti-immigrant, ant-gay, nee-fascist dogma mixed with a good dose of anti-abortion and fundamentalist Christian diatribe. The group catches the attention of the administration when they show up at school all wearing their uniforms and distributes the first edition of their weekly "newsletter". The” newsletter” contains highly offensive diatribes on how it is the "the duty of all true Americans to fight against the forces trying to destroy our country". The ...

A syndrome relates to a blend of signs and symptoms that show that a person is suffering from a particular ailment, disease or disorder. A syndrome based defense is thus where a defendant uses an ailment or disorder to escape criminal liability (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). In such case, though they admit doing the offence, they argue that either they lacked criminal intent or that the action was involuntary. An important aspect of a syndrome based defense is that the disease complained of must either be a disease of the mind or affect the mind.

Syndromes may thus be regarded as excuses as they operate ...

Justification is a defense raised where a defendant admits to committing the crime but states that circumstances justified their actions (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). This defense places focus on the character of the behavior in the circumstances. Essentially, it supposes conduct otherwise criminal to be legally acceptable and avert punishment. In simple terms, the defendant shows that in the circumstances they had no choice but to do the act which they have been called to answer to.

On the other hand, excuse is a defense raised where the defendant acknowledges committing the crime but states that they had no criminal intent thus ...

Inchoate offences relate to the steps in the direction of the commission of another crime. These steps also referred to as attempts are made in preparation for doing a crime and for that are considered crimes (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). Though generally for criminal liability to accrue the intent and the act must take place, these attempts constitute criminal conduct thus the liability attaches. The justification is that harm would have occurred had the crime materialized thus punishment serves to prevent the occurrence of the harm.

On the other hand, parties to a crime relate to the principle that a person can ...

With the advent of information systems, it is important that there is a secure environment that information systems will operate. Information security is an important concern that should be undertaken. The fundamental characteristics of high speed network with maximum security features are high performance encryption, high encryption packet filtering, proxies and trusted servers. The most crucial is the high-performance encryption and high-performance packet filtering.

Company assets

There are assets which are supposed to be protected by the company. This section will identify these assets. The assets that need to be protected are physical and electronic assets. Computers form the bulk of the ...

Question 1

The origins of the definition of cognitive artifacts, comes from the roles they play in human learning, decision making and understanding: artifacts augment, influence or communicate these aspects. The term “artifact” refers to an object that is manmade. As such, cognitive artifacts are physical artificial devices designed by man to serve a specific purpose, by facilitating thinking, evaluation, as well as stimulate consequent actions or responses. The term itself (“Cognitive Artifacts”) was actually coined by Donald Norman, in reference to artificial devices designed to affect human behavior, through displaying, maintaining and operating upon information while serving a representational function. These artifacts ...

Arguably, testing and labeling of product are major activities in the world of business. In fact, the consumer is always the final person in the business trend, and it is crucial to protect them. Testing and labeling of products protects the consumer and the public against unreasonable injury and risks. These protections are done in various ways, which include consumer education, regulation, enforcement, as well as safety standard activities. In the labeling and testing process, there are many stakeholders who make certain that the regulation is followed, and the public is fully protected. Generally, there are various reasons for ...

Generic model of the Value Chain

The Generic Value Chain involves the transformation of inputs both primary and support activities into outputs that satisfy the needs of customers. The satisfaction of customer needs translates to profits for businesses. The first step in the value chain is the laying of the primary activities such as research and development, production, marketing and sales and customer service in place. Next the managers must ensure they put n place support activities such as information systems, materials management, appropriate company structure and enhance the human resources to aid in the transformation of inputs into valuable outputs.

Model for the Roots of Competitive Advantage

Managers use this model ...

Elite theory

The elite theory posits that the power, control and influence on government and corporations are vested on the minority. Indeed the American democracy is essentially a classical example of the elite theory. This is because of the lobbyists system of governance practiced in Washington. A perfect example of the rule of minority can be deduced on the Obamacare law that essentially gives insurances the opportunity to exploit the masses through the compulsory subscriptions as necessitated by the legislation. Thus far, no credible evidence can contradict the elite theory.

Charles Beard’s argument

The argument on property rights protection is attested by the fourth and ...