Essays on Solicitation

Abstract

A Cybercrime is a crime performed through the use of or against digital technologies . The crimes are perpetrated using a computer, computer networks or other information communication technology. The target or victim of the crime is computers or network services. The victim may be random or specifically targets. Typically, the criminal is seeking to gain personal profit or financial gain, but may also be seeking to cause physical damage or make a statement as a form of protest. Cybercrimes began to arise with the introduction of computer systems and have grown and advanced with technology. The investigation of cybercrimes ...

Nowadays, Internet has firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers (Boyd & Ellison 19). Social media has both good and bad effects on the lives of teenagers. Because of this, parents need to monitor their children and enforce rules regarding the use of social media. Communication plays an ...

Nowadays, Internet has become firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers. Communication plays an important role for the development of the individual at each age stage, but for young people communication and interpersonal relations are a vital factor in the formation of their personality. The special role ...

Question 1

Newspaper, walk in and recruitment agency appear to be working well as the yield ratio for potentially qualified is above 50 percent for the three sources and the yield ratio for six month survival is above 10 percent. Corporate website and job board seem to be having trouble as they have the lowest yield ratios for all the stages. The main problem is that the company seems to attract the wrong pool of applicants. On average, only 24 percent of the total applicants are potentially qualified.

The situation can be remedied by focusing energy on recruitment channels that reach out the correct pool of applicants.

Question 2 Customer service agents will the right skillset and attitude should be ...

Contracting your Small Businesses with the SBA and U.S. General Services Administration Introduction Federal acquisition and procurement involve making sound business decisions to provide Federal customers with best goods and services. The U.S. General Service Administration (GSA) has a Small Business Utilization Center (SBU) where small businesses receive information on how to work with the government and obtain a contract. The Federal Government gives GSA contracts in a full and open competition process where every business has an opportunity of winning the supply tender (U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, 2015). The following paper analyzes the suitability of Hobby-Models Company ...

Introduction

The GSA is an independent body of the United States government; it came into existence in 1949 with the objective of facilitating proper functioning of the federal agencies as explained by Miller (2010). For instance, the agency provides products and services encompassing transportation and communication as well as devising policies pertinent to cost minimizations among other management strategies. As such, the essay entails the description of the General Service Administration Schedule solicitation of the United States concerning a service-disabled veteran. Additionally, there is the analysis of subsequent security measures alongside advantages of using electronic submission process in comparison to ...

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 ...

- Contract Terms and Conditions

Our organization may opt to use the RFP as the ideal document for binding the contract between us and the contractor or possibly draw up separate document that will serve as the contract. Either way, contract condition and terms must be clear, present and agreed to by the two involved parties. The RFP contract provides general conditions and terms which we could use. However, if the agency involved in the contract determines that an HSP is required and subcontracting opportunities are possible, then all respondents will be required to submit the HSP alongside all their supporting documentation and proposal. ...

Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts and judges give meaning to enacted legislation and consequently apply it to a particular case. In the English as well as the Wales legal system, the doctrine of separation of powers prevails whereby Parliament is the supreme law maker. The Executive is charged with the responsibility of implementing the legislation as passed by Parliament while the Judiciary is the final arbiter which interprets legislation as enacted by Parliament. Thus, in tandem with the doctrine of separation of powers, the courts must keep within their ambit and ensure they do not arrogate to ...

Between contractors and owner

The person with the ethical dilemma is the owner of the job, Brown Equipment Company, a heavy equipment dealer. The company wants to construct an office/warehouse and has therefore invited bids from several contractors to do the same. The contractors include Smith Construction, Jones, and Capone among others.

Claim

This person should follow the normal ethical practices that deal with bid solicitation between contractors in the building sector. The normally accepted bidding process starts with the advertisement for bids. Advertisement for bids is a public notice to members of the public, and contractors notifying them about the project. To go with the ...

Introduction

The US Constitution guarantees many of the rights of the individual citizens. One of the rights guaranteed is the right to peaceably assemble. The Bill of Rights states in part that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof [] or the right of the people to peaceably assemble” (First Amendment [emphasis added]). The 14th Amendment, on the other hand, ensures that states enforce this guarantee and all other civil rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The core issue in the present study is the right of the fans of Big Bad Bruce to ...

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Introduction In the contemporary era, cell phones have turned out as one of the most important everyday requirements. There was a time when possessing a cell phone was regarded a luxurious thing. On the other hand, it is common to own a cell phone in the present day. It is not an untold secret that children, especially the teenagers, are using the cell phones just like adults. They use their cell phones to do almost everything. Not only are cell phones used to stay in touch with family and friends, they are also used for watching videos, text-messaging, ...

Thesis statement

In the United States of America, prostitution is illegal. There are however other sections of America states that have legalized it. Despite the illegality, prostitution is practiced in several parts of the country.

Introduction

Prostitution is the nexus between sex and money. In this paper, I will dwell with the history of prostitution in America, the heated political debates that characterize the practice, the types of prostitution, state and federal laws governing the practice of prostitution. Traditionally, the government was uninterested in prosecuting or curbing offenders of prostitution. It was allowed by the authorities and the only laws that regulated ...

Potential Legal Issues: A Case Study

There may be times when a company experiences a financial crisis and considers the need to downsize the employee base. However, there are a number of issues for management to consider in the selection and manner in which terminations are performed. In order to avoid litigation based on discrimination wrongful termination, and violations against laws within the Department of Labor, a company follows strict procedures. Attention to incentives for early retirement, severance packages, signing of waivers, and documentation that will hold up in court should a lawsuit arise can save a company significant time and money. Following are examples of potential violations in the ...

Introduction

Juvenile Prostitution, or child prostitution, is a type of sexual abuse involving the commercial sexual exploitation of children, in which a child provides the services of prostitution for the financial benefit. The term generally refers to prostitution by a minor, or a person below the local age of maturity. Many countries have employed strict laws against juvenile prostitution, which may include the people older than the age of maturity, for consent. Victims of juvenile prostitution are the most overlooked, misidentified, and underserved type of children. The lines differentiating between the roles of the victims and offenders in prostitution have begun to blur, ...

Introduction

Vagrancy is associated with homelessness and is not tolerated by the States with regulated society. Although homelessness is a pitiable condition, it is criminalized because of vagrancy. Once vagrancy was viewed unlawful for a different reason of shortage of workers. The first law of vagrancy was introduced by England in 1349 making it unlawful not to work if physically fit. Vagrancy was liable to be punished with 15 days of imprisonment. Vagrancy law in due course (by 1530) shifted its focus towards suspicious or criminal behavior. Originally vagrancy was not tolerated due to shortage of workers due to Plague in 1348. ...

Impermissible and Unwanted solicitation of professional employment

Re: Illegal/Unethical Solicitation of Professional Employment Using Third Parties ISSUES - Is it legal to personally (or by use a third parties) to “chase ambulances”? - Is it legal/ethical to pay compensation to parties recommending an attorney’s services to potential clients? - Are there any circumstances under which Betty’s husband may legally/ethically give out Adam’s business cards within the course of his employment? answers - No, any communication transmitted at the scene of an accident, or at, or en route to a treatment or care facility (hospital, emergency or other health ...

Executive Summary of Cyber Crime Task Force Plan

The St. Louis County Task Force will be a joint effort of the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. It is primarily tasked to curtail cyber criminalities, particularly in the State of Missouri and in the St. Louis County. It is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The tri-state law enforcement team is similar to the Boone County law enforcement unit as it targets child pornography, enticement, solicitation, and other sex-related offenses. The task force has three full time staff ...

Campaign finance is used about the funds that are raised during campaigns to promote the activities of political parties, candidates or to support policies during referendums, elections or initiatives. Political campaigns involve very much expenditure that include the cost of traveling for staff and candidates, consulting, direct costs of communicating with the voters, campaign logistics, publicity and production of campaign materials. Campaign financing is different depending on the country. In the Great Britain, for example, television advertising is sponsored freely for all parties campaigning and can only be limited by law, whereas, in the United States of America, television ...

Introduction

The practice of code of conduct and promoting ethical behaviour is essential in a business organization whether small or large. In a business firm, integrity and loyalty creates a positive work environment which is important in strengthening the investors’ and stakeholders’ confidence in the company. At Cheesecake factory the code of ethics and business conduct is meant to facilitate the compliance of the company with the legal requirements. The code of ethics and business conduct in Cheesecake Factory are set for Executive Officers, Senior Financial Officers and Directors. The code of conduct and ethics are collectively and directly applied to the Company’ ...

The Regulation of Federal Acquisition (FAR) section 46.703 basically envisages the law of warranty. This statute sets the reasons for the need for warranties, defines the types and gives the scope and overview thereof. The first segment of this law gives the scope and overview of the warranty requirements. It gives Program Managers (PM), Logistic Managers (LM), Contracting Officers Representatives (COR), Contracting Officers (CO) and Project Officers (PO), together with others who are responsible for the implementation and development of warranty guidelines and steps to this great task. For example, the first step to developing a warranty is establishing a warranty ...

The judges mainly rely on a various principles when interpreting the acts of parliament. These rules include:

- The literal rule. - The golden rule. - The mischief rule.

The literal rule

It is the cardinal rule of construction (interpretation) of statutes. In this rule, words must be given their ordinary, literal, grammatical meaning. The literal rule is the first rule to be used in establishing the intention of the legislature. In many cases, the courts are normally required to interpret the meaning of a given piece of legislation to enable them apply facts to the cases that come before the judges. As such, the courts have continually developed a wide range of rules of interpretation to assist ...

The General Service Administration (GSA) Schedule programs avail significant opportunities for both small as well as large businesses. These Schedules program offer the first step in which businesses take when they want to do businesses with the federal government. Nonetheless, it needs to be made clear that being in the Schedules program may actually involve a huge investment of resources as well as time. As such, as a business leader, one needs to make sure that they possess the requisite resources to pursue a schedules contract as well as time to fight it out with other businesses and marketing. Further, it must ...

There are various federal government policies and administrative regulations that should be observed when it comes to handling contracts. Most of the administrative policies which exist are application of the existing policies, procedures and laws. According to the conviction specified under sections 121, 124 and 418 of the criminal code, small companies are given equal opportunities to the developed companies when it comes to state contract (Sandholm, 2008).. This implies that the financial ability of big companies is not considered. The law was put in place so that small business can develop and bring about competitiveness when it ...

Law

Introduction Employment contracts contain non-compete clause which prohibit employees who leave an organization from working with an employer in the “similar line of trade or business for a specific period of time” (Mathis and Jackson, 2011). The non-compete agreement may be presented as a separate contract or a clause in the contract that is primarily being used for newly hired employees. There had been several court decisions which have ruled against employers who terminated employees for the refusal of such employees to sign the non-compete agreement. Creating a non-compete agreement will require that the contract shall have a geographical and time limitations, should ...

Procurement report:

Based on a case analysis of Nickelodeon

References 17

This report lays out methods of procurement which play a major factor in the process of planning for the client. It lays out procurement methodology, its classification and integration in both traditional and non-traditional methods of procurement. The report further avail points laid out in the Government of New South Wales that would assist a client in the selection of a method that’s most appropriate. Different options for procurement methods such as SWOT analysis, IFB, RFI, Design and Construct, and (EPC) Engineering, procurement and construction are presented. These constructs are availed, evaluated and explained putting ...

Introduction

The United States government pays a special attention to service-disabled veteran businesses when it comes to federal contracting opportunities. Businesses owned by Service-Disabled veterans stand higher chances of being rewarded contracting opportunities especially in the United States Department of Defense. Service Disabled veterans are ex-servicemen, who have incurred disabilities while in the line of duty serving the military, navy or the Air force. For a business to be considered to be in this class, at least fifty-one percent of its ownership must be by a service-disabled veteran. The United States government offers the outstanding recognition of such business in what it considers ...

Introduction

Deviant behavior denotes actions that violate the socially acceptable norms in a particular society. It is from this foundation, indeed, that society and organization’s policies, laws and practices hinge on. Policies and laws are formulated to codify various acts of deviant behavior. Among the law enforcement agencies such as the police, deviant behavior will include acts that fall short of the policies set or those which go against the set norms. The police force, being a criminal justice agency, has laid down code of ethics and standards that must be followed by its members. Any act done outside these standards ...

Introduction

Procurement Management is acquiring of goods and services effectively from an outside organization and gaining maximum benefit to the organization in question for the intended project. (David I. & Roland, G. 89).To add on to that project procurement management also helps in maintaining good relationship between the buyer and the seller. Since a contract is a legally biding agreement between two or more parties, it should include documentation. The procurement part of it deals with acquisition or obtaining what is needed. In any contract, both parties involved should agree to do or supply whatever planned to do in written form. There ...

Powerpoint Reviews

Phenomenological Article - I noticed that your Abstract only described the method and not the results of the study. Can you explain why your Abstract is written this way? Do you think that when someone wants to get a gist of a study or research, they would be interested only in the methods? - You indicated that the participation was voluntary, yet you also cited that emails were sent by the researchers to obtain a sample for a study. Don’t you think this is through solicitation rather than voluntary? Can you please differentiate voluntary participation over one that’s conducted ...

Positive and Negative Views Concerning Lawyers

The public view of lawyers comes from a number of sources. The news, television shows, movies, books, and personal experience influence people’s beliefs both in positive and negative ways. There are many examples both positive and negative that fuel people’s perceptions about the legal profession. On the negative side, the legal profession has earned a bad reputation because people believe lawyers are greedy, because people find the idea that lawyers defend criminals to be reprehensible, and because the language lawyers use is seen as too difficult to understand. On the positive side, groups like the Innocence Project and the ...

Child Predation

The development of the internet over the last 20 years has resulted to the improvement in communication both socially and in the business community. There has been an increase in access to plenty of information. However, despite the internet being a valuable tool, it has resulted to increased hazards towards the safety of children. Child predation via the internet has become easy due to the presence of online solicitation and increased access to inappropriate material (Dombrowski, Gischlar, and Durst, 2007). The internet also allows different individuals to be able to misrepresent themselves via online chat rooms, which makes it easy ...

Question 1: What states are you researching for these answers? This paper will be comparing the state laws that govern the funeral departments of the states of North Carolina and New York Question 2: How does one get to be a Board member? In North Carolina some members are appointed by the Governor from nominees recommended by the North Carolina Funeral Directors Association, other members are members recommended by the Funeral Directors & Morticians Association of North Carolina, One member is appointed by the Governor who is licensed under this Article and who is not affiliated with any funeral service ...

Socioeconomics of Government Contracting

On a general scale, the federal request for solicitation (RFS) has the minimum requirements that outline this kind of a document. It is composed of three major parts. The first part is a statement of the requirement for solicitation. It outlines the type of service that the department for homeland security requires, which in this case is the installation of the Evergreen software and training of staff to operate the software. In this part, it specifies that the DHS is soliciting a contract and offering it to companies that have already had experience with this new research software. Furthermore, the respondents will be ...

Introduction

Many companies often hide their trade secret with the aim of achieving an economic advantage over its competitors. The secret may comprise of industrial or manufacturing secret as well as commercial secret. The use of the trade secret by an unauthorized party is considered a violation of the trade secret, as well as, an unfair practice. The protection of trade secret may form a part of the general perception of protection depending on the legal system or usually is a case law of classified information. This paper is going to look at three scenarios in which some people may or may not ...

Acquisition Process Competition Requirements

How and why I would change one or more competition requirements in the acquisition process. Business ought to be conducted with ethics, which requires fairness integrity and openness among supplying and buying organizations. This ensures competitiveness in the acquisition and allows companies to compete and win contracts. However, businesses are becoming unethical by demonstrating lapses in conducting unfair competition such as changing of some competition requirements without notifying other players in the field. This has made the U.S government design the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). This document contains policies that help organizations manage acquisitions efficiently. It offers policies ...

Abstract

“Sexual predator” refers to the most dangerous sex offenders. According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, a sexual predator is any person 17 years of age or older who commits any of a number of sexually violent offenses that are prohibited under the Texas Penal Code.

Keywords: sexual predator, sexually violent offense

Sexual Predators Under Texas Law The public image of a “sexual predator” is that of a man who attacks strangers, perhaps stalks his victims, is a multiple offender, and commits brutal crimes. The law takes a broader view. There is no section under the Texas Penal Code that specifically codifies “sexual ...

Objective

I aim to work in a challenging environment that enables me to employ my skills in construction, logistics, and contracts and to display my leadership abilities therein. I thus aspire for an opportunity to lead a project from the planning and design phases to the construction phase I desire to be involved with the processes of defining the project scope, directing the implementation of plans, and the coordination it entails by ensuring immaculate resource allocation and task delegation, in compliance with the standard practices and organization and corporate policies I am confident that, given my experience in decision ...

The internet has been hailed as one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century and has caused what can only be termed as a revolution. The internet is available in most countries worldwide and is available to over 120 million people globally, which is approximately 2% of the world’s population (Saisan et al., 1). This is because the internet has been the driving force of information technology and is responsible for the major lifestyle change that has been experienced in the world today. The internet possesses two characteristics which have been vital to its success: it is the ...

Processes of Project Procurement Management & Procurement Management Plan

Introduction

Project procurement management entails the processes that are needed during the acquisition of goods and services from outside entities that outsource to the organization. The processes of project procurement and management are described with respect to inputs, which are the supporting documents and plans; tools and techniques, which involve the various mechanisms that are applied to the various inputs; and the outputs, which include items such as products and their documentation (Project management Institute, 2008). This paper presents an analysis of the six distinctive processes of project procurement management and procurement management plan. The six steps discussed in ...