Essays on Principles

Introduction

In 1981, the first publication of getting Getting to Yes came out and since then it has been translated into many languages. In 1983, authors Ury, Patton and Fisher founded the Harvard project for Negotiation based on their seminar work on conflict resolution. With time they have been engaged in international and national negotiations, the central focus is the certainty that conflict resolution and negotiation skills are highly required in our world in all levels, from communities to international relations and individuals through families.

Review

Ury and Fisher have explained that good arguments need to be efficient and wise, and

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Introduction

An analysis of an ethical dilemma and decision making based on ethical issues in the business environment are the most aspects in determining the integrity of an individual. I was confronted with a need to make an ethical decision in the case where there was no right or wrong decision. This is so because I was caught in the middle.

The Dilemma

I am used to order my shoes from a finish line shoe company because I believe in their quality of services and product. I always order my shoes, even for my friends from this company because they always match

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The organization chosen for the purpose of this assignment is Mars Inc. The reason for choosing this organization is that my relative Mrs. Rachna Kapoor have been working as an accounting professional for 5 years in their Cost Accounting and Budget Management department in London, United Kingdom.

About Mars Inc.

Mars Inc. has been initiated in 1911, when Frank C. Mars prepared candies and started the Mars confectionary. The story of success began with the launch of many Mars chocolate brands, namely Milky Way in 1920, and continuing the similar story to register twenty nine chocolate brands as in 2014 .
The winning

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The onset of modern technology has put the right to privacy into question. The right to privacy envisioned by the constitution drafters has been riddled with controversy since the discovery of the internet. Discovery and innovations in the field of technology has increased the chances of privacy intruders. The government and other titans in the field of technology have been identified as potential privacy intruders.

Question one

A commission of inquiry drafted the fair information practice principles to regulate how online entities operate to and ensure that the right to privacy is protected. The US Secretary Advisory Committee on Automated Personal

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Introduction

Aspirin or acetylsalicylic acid refers to a salicylate drug that is usually used to relieve pains as an analgesic, as an antipyretic in the reduction of fever, as well as in fighting against inflammation. Aspirin falls in the category of weak acids and usually undergoes slow hydrolysis where one molecule of aspirin reacts with two hydroxide (OH-) ion. Different methods are applied in determining the amount of aspirin that is contained in an analgesic drug. These methods include back titration and fluorescence spectrophotometry.
In fluorescence spectrophotometry, the molecules absorb the light energy supplied and then re-emit it. The emitted

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For international peace to be attained, liberal theorists of international relations posits that every state must be free from international interventions. For this to be realized, it is vital that certain principles of liberalism are common among the states, countries, or nations. International peace is fostered by freedom of the members of a society, adherence to codes of dependence on a common legislation, and adherence to law of equality. Observant of these universal liberties among members of states and among nations is perceived to bring about international peace. With mutual respect pertinent among states, it is possible for individual

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Defined as the obligation of a person or institution to safeguard certain entrusted information about another individual, confidentiality is a norm that has to be kept by care givers. It may also refer to facts that are secret, private, or privileged by certain individuals and should be kept undisclosed as instructed by the patient under examination. However, it would be impossible at times to care for the patient effectively since healthcare is a multi-disciplinary entity that involves several people. According to “Bioethics on NBC's ER: Betraying Trust or Providing Good Care?” the aspect of concealing certain information may be

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The United Nations was formed in 1945. Several independent states became members of this organization with a common objective of promoting international peace and security. There has been a long standing debate about the ethical nature of this organization. Preventive actions taken by the UN as a justification to protect the state are at times criticized. William V. O’Brien criticizes on the basis that, the right of defense can only be used when the specified criterion are fulfilled. These criterion include; intent, imminence, and proportionality (Lango, 2005). The magnitude of the threat needs to be understood by the

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According to Lilienfeld (2011), there are six principles of scientific thought that must be applied when utilizing scientific thinking. It is commonly believed that scientific thinking need only be applied to scientific concepts; however, this is not the case. These six scientific principles can be applied to any type of claim, regardless of subject matter; these principles are methods for analyzing claims in any realm of study. The six principles of scientific thinking, according to Lilienfeld (2011), are as follows: first, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; next, that a claim must be falsifiable if it is to be

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MEMORANDUM

This memorandum gives a description the extended description of how solar heat is generated for cooking. This description will include sections as follows: purpose of the concept, principles of heat, materials requirements, design principles, operation of solar cooking device, and future development. With this information, the basic description of the concept of solar cooking shall have been described.

Purpose of the concept

Solar cooking is a technology that is utilized in using the solar energy to generate heat for cooking. This is a technology that has been seen to help many users utilize solar energy for cooking. With this technology, energy from the

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“Scientific Skepticism”

The meaning of the word science has suffered many changes across the centuries in Western civilization. The scientific method is commonly known to be at its base, but the philosophy that serves as it foundation is often overlooked. This is in part because its contemporary meaning, made possible by Descartes’ separation of meaning from truth, has a great pretention of rigor that is especially linked to mathematics. Lilienfeld theorizes that there are six principles that serve as guidelines for what should be accepted as scientific thought.
Furthermore, these theories must also hold other qualities that differentiate them from other

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Article Review

This article titled “4 Principles of marketing in the digital age” was written by Greg Satell and appeared in the Forbes magazine on the 16th of April 2013. It gives pointers to marketers on how to cope with the ever changing face of marketing especially in the digital age.
The second principle is “Use Innovation Teams to Identify, Evaluate and Activate Emerging Opportunities”. This principle will enable marketers to tap into new potential and stay ahead of the competition through taking advantage of new opportunities. Greg, however, advices companies to first test all innovations that come their way before

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Religion is strict with its limitations; a matter often destroying the specific constructive liberal structures of the society. Although it is not considered detrimental, the extensive rules that religion often imposes create more harm than good to its members. With such strict commandments, the response of the people were rather common; to hide secrets, to deal with matters in a hypocritical manner, presenting themselves clean when they actually are doing something else behind the back of the church’s knowing. Among the primary characters who could be noted for such consideration of the church’s laws include John Proctor

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Psychology is the study of the mind, behavior and brain scientifically. Psychology brings out varies levels analysis, from to complex social and cultural influences, as well as from the brain to mind. Therefore, psychology is used throughout human life and cannot be exempted in any way. For that reason, psychologists are able to predict the natural behaviors of humans based on their daily activities. In order to study these behaviors, scientists have to come up with ways in which the analyses can be done. This has led to the creation of six scientific thinking principles that have been set

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During the five stages of group formation (forming, storming, norming, performing, and transforming) that Jim Cain (n.d.) presents in his article “Exploring the Five Stages of Group Formation Using Adventure-Based Activities”, there can be traced leadership traits and principles, which can be applied in various activity domains. Working in the construction operations I found that some leadership principles explored within Cain’s article can be applied to this activity sector, while others are inadequate or require adaptation.
While defining the five stages of group formation based on adventure designed activities, Cain describes various activities that can be applied in

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Achieving individual fulfillment is a process that is often determined by obtaining a sense of identity. Etymologically, heritage has been perceived as a relationship that involves exchange. It can be defined as the quality of values, principles and beliefs, which are passed from one generation to another. These qualitative aspects of life are usually negotiated and adjusted with time. The choice to maintain heritage implies belief in some aspects of the past, which builds and motivates the events of a time in the future.
I believe that the upbringing that children receive from their parents shapes their personality and

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The concept of enterprise architecture plainly refers to the extensive use of data management systems in the organization of businesses. A single corporation may feel the need to harmonize different types of data from its constituents for the purposes of decision-making. Enterprise architecture proves to be the best solution from Polizzi’s perspective. Through this, he argues that the company will be able to integrate the different aspects of its stretching potential into a single managerial core. As a result of its increased business transactions, it is unable to organize its sales and product variability and seeks to solve

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The book Reminders Of Poverty, Soon Forgotten by Alexander keyssar explores a great disaster that hit New Orleans in the United States in the year 2005. The author Alexander Keyssar skillfully applies the three classical principles of argumentation; the ethos, the pathos and the logos. He uses the power of these key principles to analyze the issue and convince readers about his ideas. As he analyses the great disaster that hit America, he carefully uses these three principles of argumentation to show how logic, empathy and ethics should exist in any event. The paper tries to explain how the

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Meaning of Theory from Different Theorists: A Comparison

The diversity of perspectives is always manifested through the numerous hypotheses that mature into theories. The understanding or explanation as to why an event is experienced varies from one person to another. This can be shown through the numerous correlated theories used to explain common or different situations. A theorist develops his/her argument with respect to the situation in question and establishes principles that objectify the main idea in theory. They frame their findings in a manner that it can be used to explain different phenomena in the same dome of argument. A comparative analysis of the same theory

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Reference: Kotler, P. & N. Lee. (2007). Improving public sector performance by seizing opportunities to meet citizen needs. In Marketing in the Public Sector: A Roadmap for Improved Performance. (pp. 15-37). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing.
Theme: A marketing mindset essentially begins with the awareness of the basic marketing principles and is then sustained through three key activities; practice, feedback and adjustments.
Summary
An effective marketing mindset is crucial for the success of any corporation. A successful marketing mindset is comprised of five key principles that dictate business performance. These five principles are:
Adoption of a customer centred

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Writing report title page

This world has witnessed many leaders who have been successful in bringing about much needed change in the social and governmental field. Their contributions have been remarkable in shaping the future of nations and continents and the world altogether. Be it racial discrimination or social injustice, these leaders took up the responsibility of setting the wrong things right. These leaders have had a marked influence on millions of people, and their contribution towards the evolution of mankind is priceless. Mahatma Gandhi is considered as one of the greatest leaders in the world due to his principles and different yet

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Commitment is the state of being dedicated to an activity or a cause. This means that an individual has to be more than willing to satisfy a given activity. Commitment may be defined by existence of various terms in its explanation. Like other words, commitment may have been made meaningful and sensible by presence of other words to supplement it or make it easy to understand. Such words are devotion, loyalty, and faithfulness. For a cause or activity to be achieved various forces must work together. These forces are the words that may be used together to bring out

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Justice is an important aspect in the society. Justice ensures that individuals achieve satisfaction and content in their lives. Justice covers various aspects some of which include morality and ethics (Justice, 2007). Ethics and morality define the extent to which the society upholds justice across the ethical issues, which in turn provide the extent of the upholding of morals by just individuals and organizations in the societies and communities.

Justice and Morality

Morality refers to the extent to which certain actions in the society are right or wrong. In terms of morality, justice refers to a particular system of principles and values

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Ellen White is renowned as the principal contributor in the initial endeavors of the Seventh-day Adventist Church concerning the young people’s educational planning. Ellen White turned out to be the major figure who urged a system independent of the public school system. Her book, Education (1903), is a must read as it makes the reader realize the importance and necessity of education for young people’s development as a complete individual. White has been successful in reminding the readers that education is exceedingly important for one’s mental, physical, and spiritual development, improvement, and enhancement.

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In a lot of regards, the sexualty in human beings in the contemporary world is no different than that of their ancestors’ times. If seen from a biological perspective, the process of human reproduction is as similar as it has been since the beginning of human race. In addition, human sexualty is also signifcantly affected by the culture and religion. In the modern times, public policies have also contributed greatly in shaping human sexualty and related subjects. It would not be incorrect to state that the new era has developed greater awareness about various dimensions related

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Mediation in the law is one of the technologies of alternative dispute resolution, with the participation of a third neutral, impartial, not interested in the conflict party, this party is called mediator, and is considered to be the person who assists the parties to work out a definite agreement on the dispute, and the parties fully control decision-making process for the settlement of the dispute and the conditions of its solving.
Ethics is a philosophical science, the object of study, of which is morality, and the central problem of which is good and evil. The following types of ethics

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Article Review on Achieving Competency in Psychological Assessment

Article Review on Achieving Competency in Psychological Assessment

Literature Review

The article under review was authored by Radhika Krishnamurthy and associates in 2004. The article surmises the proceedings of psychological assessment work group in the Competencies Conference: Future Direction in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology. The objective of this group was to first, identify the core components of psychological assessment competency. Second, determining the primary educational and training requirements that will facilitate competency development(Krishnamurthy et al., 2004). Third, Identifying and explicating strategies that will help evaluate competence. Finally, developing a roadmap for future direction in identification training and evaluation

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Principal concept analysis may be defined as the statistical analysis tool relevant for the transformation of detailed or complex data into simple and easy to understand data. The method focuses on the use of principal components of statistics for possible interpretations. In most cases, the method does not include statistical assumptions. However, the method will always give extremely significant results for data that contains multivariate normal distribution. The data is extensively significant in determining the hypothetical variables or components that are extensively useful in the multidimensional data. In other words, the method PCA is a method significant in projecting

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The world is rapidly changing, and much is expected in the management of the organizations. Operating principles determines on how an organization will achieve her excellence in its operations. Different organizations incorporate different strategies and principles in the performing of different duties that are expected to be done. Every organization seeks to achieve great development in its operations. The principles incorporated should seek to raise and develop a good relationship between the management and the staff (Cartin 2010). They should be friendly and accommodative so as to enable the organization to operate effectively. Workers need to be treated well

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In understanding the behavior of different people in a learning environment, it is important to understand the principles of learning. In grammar school and high school, for instance, he same students always seem to be punished while, at the same time, same students seem to be rewarded. The process of learning entails various stages and processes that give an individual n opportunity to improve their behavior. To some extent, personal behavior and genetics plays a role in influencing the intelligence of a student (Powell et al. 18). The learning process ought to be designed in such a way so

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Asian Humanities is one of the best classes I have happened to attend. I enjoyed every bit of it. During the class, I was able to learn about china and its ancient culture. I was able to learn that the traditional Chinese name of the country was referred to as Zhing guo. This was a name that dated back to the Xia dynasty. However, I was able to discover that the modern name, China came from the first imperial dynasty that existed during the 221 BCE. This is the only country that still practice its ancient tradition among the

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Businessman Randy Treadwell violated several principle of good business, and showed no responsibility to his investors. He showed no responsibility to anyone but his partner, Rick Sluter. Both Sluter and Treadwell lacked principles such as integrity, truthfulness, fairness, human dignity, participation, social responsibility, and love. To simplify matters, Treadwell will be the focus of this essay, as he was the leader of the scam.
First, Treadwell lied to his investors, telling them that they would receive enormous returns on their investments. Eventually, Treadwell was able to con people out of a total of 65 million dollars. Treadwell was dishonest

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Are There Innate Ideas or are we born with blank Slates? What are the implications of your answer for the limits of our knowledge?
A comprehensive philosophical analysis of the knowing technique must comprise of the sources of fault as well as of the procedures that permit one to attain to truth. Some discrepancy must be made amid knowledge and that which is a false posturing of acquaintance. When children are born they come as blank states. The fact that innate ideas could not be questioned gave an unwarranted power over the minds of others. This cause of error

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Introduction

Every Professional accountant has the responsibility of taking into account the interests of the public while also maintaining the reputation of the accounting profession. It is important that self-interest does not prevail over one’s duties as a professional accountant. Acting in the public encompasses having regard to the genuine interests of the clients, government, financial intermediaries, staffs, investors, as well as the business and financial community and all others who rely highly on the impartiality, fairness and truthfulness of the accounting profession for supporting their propriety and methodical functioning of commerce. The purpose of this essay is to

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IFRS is a set of principles of international accounting standards that regulate transactions and events reported in financial statements. Unlike GAAP, IFRS is based on principles rather than rules of accounting standards. IFRS includes all the interpretations and standards issued by the IASB and IAS, and IASC; it allows accountants to have greater flexibility and discretion than in GAAP when preparing financial reports (International Accounting Standards Committee, 2001). IFRS is crucial for accountants as it assists in development of transparent, comparable, and quality financial statements through the stipulated principles. It takes the needs of emerging markets in cases of

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In learning, there is a big difference between a process model and a content model. In practice, the content model of education gives a framework aimed at identifying important information about a given subject (Knowles, 1970). After finding this information, it is then theoretically and empirically integrated into the education system. Essentially, this model ensures that occupational information is applied across the learning curriculum. On the other hand, the process model of learning involves designing and implementing necessary instructions which will enable learners attain some of the essential goals of learning. It involves employing strategies which seek to integrate

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Thesis Proposal

The purpose of this research is to analyze and suggest the potential legal and social solutions that are imperative for the purpose of securing rights of those who are orphaned in Islamic countries on account of ongoing civil and political unrest. The research will be structured in the form of five chapters that shall effectively cover the objective of this research.

CHAPTER 1

In this chapter, I am going to analyze in detail the political turmoil and civil unrest in Syria and the consequent burgeoning orphan issues. I will highlight how the ongoing crises have impacted the turmoil in the social

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What special insights did I gain from the readings?

Workplace stress is inevitable but can be managed. From Reuter and Schwarzer’s article, I learned that a manager who succeeds in dealing with stress becomes an inspiration to his subordinates. Baltes and Clark taught me that the domestic scene is a fecund source of workplace stress. Both the individual and the organization must devise strategies to attain a healthy work-life balance. Understanding and applying emotional intelligence is imperative to create a workplace that can mitigate the negative impacts of stress. In essence, effective managers and employees should understand how workplace stress and burnout can be overcome.

Personal reflections

I have

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Confucianism is one of the belief systems or religion that help shaped ancient history. Despite the difference in diverse governments and civilizations that existed and continues to exist, Confucianism is one thing that gives them similarities. One of the nations which have been extensively affected by this belief system is the country of Japan, particularly during its Nara period which encompasses the history of Joan from 710 to 794 CE. Much of Chinese and Japanese Confucianism derived their doctrines from the Analects of Confucius. The said record delved extensively with ethical principles in governance as well as personal values.

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Ever since Georg Wilhelm Hegel’s death in 1831, the concepts and ideas that he had articulated in his political philosophy has continuously remained the crux of modern philosophical, moral, and ethical discussion. Hegelian schools – both ‘Old’ and ‘Young’ – emerged as propagators of the philosopher’s Hegelian system, and imbued it with controversy and a distinctive dichotomy. With the emergence of socialism in the early 1900s, thinkers such as Moses Hess, Karl Marx, and Ferdinand Lasalle began relating their works with that of Hegel, as did a significant number of liberal and conservative philosophers. Much of the impact that

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