Essays on United States

The Brown Case as it is often referred to, was significant for the jurisprudence the Supreme Court laid in interpretation of matters constitutional in relation to racial segregation which at that time was prevalent in the United States of America. A brief statement of the facts are as follows. The United States schools had until the litigation relied on Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had held that segregation in public facilities was constitutional as long as the segregated functions enjoyed similar facilities. This had been advanced in denying blacks the right to ...

Analyzing the film “Sicko”, by Michael Moore, one can identify that there are some problems of the U.S’ health care system that are being portrayed: the fact that there are many Americans, in a number that reaches almost fifty million people, that aren’t even covered/insured by the health care system; and the fact that the part that is covered are, in general misinformed by the insurance companies and led to cases of fraud, or even of red tape, thinking they have full coverage and then, when in need of health care, not receiving it for not being entitled to ...

International trade is defined from various sources as the exchange of goods and services between countries. International trade allows countries to expand their markets for both goods and services that may not otherwise be found domestically. In international trade, the goods and services are called imports and exports and it mainly involves foreign exchange. International trade is either visible (exchange of goods) or invisible (for exchange of services like tourism and electricity).

Imports: these are commodities ...

The article “Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?” by Zane Quible and Frances Griffin talks about deficiencies of writing skills among business writers in U.S. companies. The authors explore the reasons for American employees’ poor writing skills and discuss the benefits of the glossing, the modified context-based approach and consistent error marking in reducing writing deficiencies.

Although the problem is not new and students’ writing skills have neither improved nor deteriorated over the past 15-20 years according to the National Commission on Writing (NCW), the issue attracted attention of policy makers and researchers after the ...

Every culture has differences in communication and communication styles. These differences may be vast and nearly insurmountable, or they may be smaller, nearly imperceptible differences. Without an awareness of these differences, however, there can be problems with communicating across cultural boundaries. Even within a culture, there can be differences in verbal and nonverbal communication between members of different socioeconomic classes or individuals of different genders; these differences do not necessary preclude communication, but they can cause problems if the people who are communicating are not aware and sensitive to the differences.

For this activity, I was assisted by my ...

National Recovery Act Invigorates the Working Man

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat on July 24, 1993 introduced working class Americans to the general purpose of the National Recovery Act (NRA). During his Chat, he promised us “the codes and the agreements already approved, or about to be passed upon, prove that the plan does raise wages, and that it does put people back to work” (Roosevelt 1933). Since July, this great stride for the American worker has improved our wages, working hours, and standard of living. Before the advent of the NRA, Americans were ready for change, any change to halt the downward spiral ...

Question one

Segregation was a common vice that to place in most of the social amenities. The fact that the available public facilitates were used separately by the white and black due to the concern of superiority and inferiority that existed between the two races. Although the separate facilitate did attribute to the segregation it also had benefits on the fight against the segregation practice (Brinkley, 2007 p.34).

The separate public facilities motivate the African-American leader to fight for creation of doctrine that should allow room for separate but equal public facilities. In other words, it means that ...

The Eugenics Movement

Davenport, Charles & Laughlin, Harry H. (1927). Eugenics Seeks to Improve the Natural, Physical, Mental and Tempermental Qualities of the Human Family. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved from http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/image_header.pl?id=248&printable=1&detailed=0

This document is an overview of the intentions of the early American eugenics movement from the point of view of the Director and Assistant Director of the program in 1927. Although the front page of the document claims that humans cannot be used in scientific experiment, the rest of the document details the ways America should assess and promote things such as “what matings are fittest for society ...

Japan was left with 3 million dead people and an empty treasury when the world II was over. The nation stood up and became a major player in the world economy within two to three decades. There are various factors that contributed in the flourishing of the Japanese economy. This paper intends to discuss Japanese economy with a historical perspective and other related aspects.

Japan learnt a lot from its past experiences. Japan was almost devastated in the World War II. The country was determined to regain its prosperity and the power. Japan focused on the industrialization in the post world ...

Question One

Private Prisons Private prisons were banned in the Mid-20th Century because they were views as the new form of slavery. During the progressive era, the last private prison was closed down. Commercialization of Prison system was demonized by religious groups and Human rights activists. The business revived again in the 20 the century. This was as a result of the increased incarceration efforts by the criminal justice system. In order to reduce the crime rate, the courts opted to adopt tough sentencing rules. Currently, the United States of America has incarcerated over two million inmates. The phenomenon creates a situation ...

Introduction

Leadership is a very diverse and risky social aspect that requires application of emotional intelligence for every leader to enhance social and economic justice. Emotional intelligence involves an individual’s understanding of oneself as well as recognizing the interests of others. However, the situation is usually difficult since it is not possible to attain Pareto efficiency in every decision that a leader makes. As result ethical dilemma arises among the leaders, citizens and the rule of Law. Ethics refers to the generally acceptable code of conduct that commits the leaders of all aspects to respect the rule of law and civil ...

Labor cost

Effect of the World Economy as China commodity increases Chinese has employed wide use of the mass production as a manufacturing strategy. This has lowered the price of commodities compared to other markets in the world. The Chinese product has been more competitive in the entire market and contributing largely to the economy of the country. The exported products to the international market from china have a competitive advantage due to the low cost. In comparison to other markets the Chinese products such as DVD player and sweater among others, are cheap and hence attracting consumers. United States has ...

Taking the hidden bias assessment strengthened my conviction that indeed, individuals have hidden biases. People, when asked racists and gender related questions tend to choose answers they believe are the best and most acceptable to others. This may be because they want to make the impression that they do not have biases or prejudice against the race of other person or that they want to show that they are pro gender equality. However, the truth maybe is that deep inside they do not really know themselves that much to such point that they don’t realize that actually they ...

In the short story entitled “The Plane Reservation” written by Massud Farzan , the author, deemed as the narrator in the story who tells the story using the first person point of view, returned home to his hometown (Iran) from the United States to see how his parents are doing. What he discovered from the visit was instrumental in his next decision to follow his father’s advice and to make the plane reservation back to the United States. Thus, the thrust of the story was what one usually discovers after a long absence from home forms an instrumental part of ...

More often than not, globalization is associated increase in development due to the interdependence between economies. Increased flow of information and technology as a result of globalization has led to the emergence of new economies. From one place to another, globalization has also been associated with the degradation of the moral fabric in some societies. This is especially when more liberal lifestyles from developed nations impact on the conservative lifestyles that people in less developed nations lead. It is surprising that as much attention has not been given to globalization and disease.

Owing to globalization, diseases travel faster than ...

My place is Bothell city in the western United States of America. Bothell is located in Snohomish and King Counties, Washington State. Being an integral part of Seattle metropolitan area, the city has a population of about 33, 505 people. Bothell city is a popular city in West America (White, 2007). Geographically, the city is the home of the largest river in West America that connects Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish. The Bothell odd city location that is characterised by being a city in two main Washington state counties (Snohomish and king county), has attractive huge number of immigrants from various global ...

Albert Shanker Institute writes that, “State teaching quality oversight bodies to work on linking student standards and curriculum guidance to teacher preparation and development, and to ensure that sufficient resources are allotted to these efforts (Albert Shanker Institute, 2011, p.381).” Implementing an assessment for both teachers and students would help initiate equality among schools across the country. This is essential to America because it promotes a sense of equality for everyone through attaining equal skills and concepts among students. Given that state governments prefer their sovereignty from the national government when it comes to state affiliated issues such as education ...

Gun violence is a precarious issue in the world over. Incidences relating to gun violence continue to be witnessed in the U.S. despite the federal government’s efforts to ameliorate this situation. Notably, majority of American children die as a result of gun violence. Nearly one out of four children has witnessed to gun shooting while an approximated 20 children are killed by guns every day. It is a fact that US Taxpayer spends billions of U.S dollars to cater for treatment, security precaution among many other services relating to gun violence.

An approximated 2.3 billion is also spent to cater for ...

Slide 1: Introduction: say name, etc

Introduce the topic: Advocacy for Gun Ownership. You want to define the topic. What does it mean?

Slide 2: Highlight key points and arguments as well as your premise

- Gun ownership is the idea of possessing guns for personal use which might include defense, fun, or for other uses. - Advocates for gun ownership premise on the second amendment of the United States that states that grants the people the right to own guns for self defense - My argument is that Gun ownership control is necessary to regulate gun violence in the United States. Instead of a liberal gun market, gun ...

Status offenses entail conduct that is not a crime when it is committed by an adult, but it is a violation of the law if a minor commits them. Some of the examples of status offenses include skipping school, consumption of alcohol, running ways, violating curfew, as well as being beyond parents’ control. If the status offenses were determined according to social rather than the legal definition, there could be a lot of statistical changes in delinquency. It is worth nothing that the delinquency statistics will reduce due to the social view of some of the status offenses.

Social views of status offenses ...

Slide 2: FBI

Stands for The Federal Bureau of Investigations, which is an American security agency that is mandated to provide internal security within the country. Moreover, The FBI's primary’s task is to investigate crimes that have reached the federal level. This includes multiple homicides or major crimes that cross state borders, crimes which involve companies or individuals in multiple states. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an agency of the government under the United States Department of Justice that started in the year 1908 and has a dual role of dispensing investigative functions as well as functioning as an internal ...

Advanced countries have been on the fore front in advocating for Kyoto Protocol of 1997. In the USA, the Chicago Climate Exchange has been on the frontline as an operator of the emission trading scheme. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is legal binding actually a first voluntary GHG reduction and also a trading system that aims to emit and offset projects in the Brazil and the North America. Such a scheme helps achieve reduction goals through a cost effective means and via trading emission allowances between the available participants. The Chicago Climate Exchange has proclaimed and described itself as the rules based ...

The text that I choose to analyze is headlined “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr”. It is the famous and historical speech of Robert F. Kennedy, a well-known democratic politician from New York, and it was conveyed on the 4th of April in 1968. It is clear that the opening sentences of the speech display that the author is going to give out some news ...

The main theme of the reading is to outline the chronology of the events that have impacted on the United States Foreign policy from time in memorial. Foreign policy was a master plan for the realization of a strong United States. However their foreign policies have been faced with a series of challenges both internal and external.

Their definition of foreign policy was tied to specific terms which include territorial expansion, wealth and worldwide influence, but the model on how to achieve this has been out rightly been omitted.

The omission of a specific model on how the United states would have ...

Public policy is the act or principle that guides the government or the administrative bodies to ensure that they do not commit any acts that go against the interest of the public. Outsourcing came about due to the increased demand on the salary increase for the employees in the United States. Therefore, many companies and corporations sought to find other means to produce their goods, which was cheaper (Reinicke 98). However, this goes against public policy because there have been an increased number of unemployed people in the States. For that reason, the companies and corporations should find cheaper ...

Is the United States a Democracy?

Democracy is an in-progress process. Historical practices do not show patented forms of democracy applicable to all polities. The popular conception of and discourse on democracy as rule of people – a conception descending from Ancient Greek – is becoming less of an applicable principle and more of an ideal. This principle, moreover, gains more credibility in less diverse countries in which vested interests are less complicated and overlapping than in more diverse – particularly immigrant – ones. More pragmatic benchmark principles could, instead, be adopted in order to judge whether a polity is a democracy or not. The United States emerge as exemplary of a diverse ...

1) Argument of Plotz and Schemik in the articles Privacy overrated and Invading our own privacy, the age groups they conducted their research on and their ``safety concerns” on various age groups.

It is evident that David Plotz in his work privacy is overrated and David Schimke in his work invading our own privacy are presenting their arguments about the application of technology in regard to the use of the Internet. Plotz begins his article by arguing that we should acknowledge that our details are readily available from the internet due to technology advancement. To illustrate this point, he ...

Post-Watergate Public opinion

The Watergate scandals lasted between 1972 and 1974. The scandals included harassing and bugging offices of political opponents, and other illegal activities by people within President Nixon’s administration. President Nixon’s administration attempted to cover-up the scandals and tried to interfere with the FBI investigations about government’s involvement in the scandals. Nixon resigned in 1974 when his involvement in the cover-up of the scandals within his administration became apparent (Bernstein, 2005). Following the Watergate scandal, the American public henceforth became skeptical regarding the federal government. Consequently, an assertive congress campaign finance reform legislation and began to ...

William Penn articulates that the church and the state should have a cordial, divine and collaborative relationship in order to help men pursue and live a Godly life. Using the Divine Law (jus natural), William postulates that the church is a facet of the society that is established by man as a God’s agent to help man control his passions and adhere to the divine laws, which are formulated and enacted by the state. In essence, the church and the state should support each and obey God’s provisions as envisioned in the divine laws. In other words, the State and the ...

Globalization entails the internal integration that arises due to exchange of ideas, products, worldviews, and other aspects of culture in a nation. The United States government has shown tremendous strengths, aiming at increasing the output and the productivity of the nation. The concern of the U.S government is on improving the free-trade environment between the United States and other countries (Bertho et al 76). Improving the free-trade environment will enhance the draining of jobs from the economy of the U.S, to other countries in which the workers command low remuneration. Globalization includes the flow of economic activity in two directions. ...

Introduction

Throughout history, Chinese people have been migrating to USA in search for greener passage. From 1826 to 1950, they were booking their passage on ships like occidental and oriental steamship company, and pacific mail Steamship Company to travel. The money that they required to fund their journey was mostly borrowed from family members, commercial lenders or district associations. The first Chinese people to arrive in Los Angeles were men, who specialized in manual work. Their work mainly included gardening, laundry, road builders or ranch work. The migration of Chinese people from china was localized and controlled through parts of ...

Furthermore, in my notes I asked for certain points in the Jordanian case to be included like past relationships with Israel and the Faisal/Weizmann agreement. Moreover the US role both agreements has to be highlighted as the main factor that pushed the agreement forward. and in the Jordanian agreement part you've mentioned something about Hezbollah . How is that relevant? and in the conclusion you've mentioned a point about Arabism vs. Islamic brotherhood, could you please elaborate on that?

Bilateral vs. the multilateral negotiations: From my perspective the issue here is clear cutit is easy to ...

The trends in higher education both at undergraduate and graduate level show the increasing gap between African American male and female, whereby females are outnumbering the males in attainment of higher education. The trend needs to be analyzed for the purpose of finding out the reasons for this increasing gap by using the quantitative and qualitative methods and a mix of both. The dissertation aims at discussing the relative merits and demerits of qualitative and quantitative research along with the comparison of non-experimental, experimental and quasi-experimental research designs. The dissertation will also include the questions about the research on a given ...

Introduction

The country of Canada just like the United States has come up with several laws and regulations protecting its public. These laws are supposed to protect the citizens from exploitation and to ensure equity and justice among the citizens. The United States government has throughout the years come up with laws and regulations that are meant to protect, preserve and guide it citizens in everything that they do. The labor sector has come up with laws that govern the eligibility of people to work within the country.

The United States has the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) which ...

Personal Statement: Robert H. Smith School of Business

I have been dreaming of pursuing my Masters of Science degree in business since well before I graduated from secondary school. My family has always supported my dreams of leaving China for America and pursuing my education, but it is not until recently that these dreams began to seem achievable in the near future. After I graduated from Xi’An Jiantong University, I was fortunate enough to receive the good news that I had been admitted into the University of Nebraska’s Bachelor of Science program for business administration. At the University of Nebraska, I worked extremely hard and ...

Introduction

This presentation entails a reflection of the child labor practices applied in the context of the manufacture of goods and services and which are prevalent in China. Many American companies with large scale operations across the globe usually outsource some of their production operations to China due to the favorable cost propositions found there. The goods and services are then manufactured there and shipped to the United States where they are packaged and sold (Basu, 2010). However, a good number of the Chinese factories where these goods are produced are involved in child labor ...

A developed country is known by the growth and the level of its economy. Economy of the United States is the world's largest single national economy. The United States' nominal GDP was estimated to be $17.1 trillion in December 2013. Budget deficit affects the taxpayers to a great extent this is because government spending exceeds all the revenue. This forces United States government to increase taxes on the taxpayers. The deficit affects taxpayers forcing them to dig deep into their pockets to increase government revenue. This will, therefore, enable the government plan for its appropriated financial activities. The government will ...

Greenwald, G. (2014) No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State Metropolitan Books. The book describes how the author Glenn Greenwald visited Hong Kong to meet up with an unspecified source that had claims of being in possession of convicting information that could be used as evidence against the United States of America. The information exposed the U.S government’s spying activities and techniques. The anonymous source however insisted on using highly encrypted information to avoid detection. The NSA scandal has been very damaging to the United States government credibility contrary to its ...

- In March 1766, Declaratory Act was passed by the British Parliament to affirm the Parliament’s right to pass laws in their colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. This news of repealing gave colonists confidence that British government respected and understood their situation regarding taxes. Few appreciated and recognized the claim of Parliament in passing laws “in all cases whatsoever” through the Declaratory Act. - Colonists wanted to be represented in the Parliament by some one of their own, whereas policies of British were determined by a sole leader. Apart from the colonial legislatures, mobs in many cities demonstrated ...

Response

All language evolve over time. We no longer speak the language of Shakespeare and that is perfectly fine. I do not agree that English is becoming more corrupt. It is simply growing up and evolving as all living things do over time. Kirkpatrick talks about the powerful variety present in American English and the variation and impurity in British English. Nevertheless, let us remember that American English was initially corrupted English. Of course, things will change. As populations that speak English are becoming more and more diverse, changes in the language are unavoidable.

It is not only about ...

Introduction

Being an American Caucasian, I understand that though I live in an America, my lineage can be traced back to Western Europe (Nadel, 2005). Despite the fact that I have been in America for quite a considerable length of time, I still hold on to some elements of our culture. Considering that America has its cultural identity defined by some particular elements, I have since acclimatise with the culture. In this case, the two cultural backgrounds that makeup my cultural identity are the American culture and the Caucasian culture.

Features that illustrate the Two Cultures

Being a Caucasian American, I have since gained a number of physiognomies that ...

- Globalization, the multi-culture, and cultural relations contribute to increasing demand for learning cultures. - In addition, multiple global issues, such as pollution and climate change create the necessity of coordination and collaboration to cope with them. - Many countries, especially the USA face the phenomenon of cultural distortion due to immigrants. In order to create a prosperous community these cultural differences must be solved through intercultural communication.

Slide 2 Japanese Experience

- Finding a common language with Japanese people is not an easy task. Miscommunication and misunderstanding occur due to the lack of common cultural background. - Non-verbal communicational differences – silence, ...

Abstract

The historic incident of the U.S attack on the Iraqi Ba’arthist troops headed by Saddam Hussein on 1991 and the annexation of the country in 2003 have generated different debates on the actual intention of the stakeholders. Critics in favor of America’s action opine that these incidents were actually moral projects undertaken by America in order to release the Iraqi civilians from the claustrophobic ambiance prevailing in the country because of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. These critics believe that America took over the ethical duty to organize the law and order of Iraq and establish a democratic ...

Little Russell learned to play the piano and trumpet from the very childhood, and he made his debut on the music scene in 1955 , playing in a cover band, performing songs of Jerry Lee Lewis and Ronnie Hawkins. Also in this period, he regularly participated as a session pianist in the popular American television program «Shindig».

1962: Russell began working in the Los Angeles studio musician (sometimes arranger) with clients like Phil Spector, for example, The Ronettes, Crystals and The Righteous Brothers. Indirectly, he honed his skills playing the guitar under the direction of James Burton. In 1968, Russell, along ...

Slide 2

The establishment of Roanoke colony was the first presence of British presence in America or the New World. The first voyage to Roanoke Island was for observational purposes. Roanoke was an island in today’s North Carolina. Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a patent to colonize America. The first colonists that arrived 1585 were less prepared for the expedition because they run out of food and supplies. John White returned to England with the promise that he would return with supplies and other settlers. White encountered several problems because it was winter ...

If there should be no alcohol in public places until aged 21

“Teen who killed five admitted drink-driving 'all the time'”. The Age Victoria online publication of November 14, 2012 screamed this headline. The then 19 year old Steven Johnstone's VicRoads' admitted to his friends that he drove in an inebriated state all the time. The news article further states that just after midnight in Mill Park on January 17, 2010, Steven was speeding in his car along with five passengers. While driving, he ignored the red lights and was also talking on the mobile phone. It was at this stage that he lost control of the car which crashed with a ...

Summary

This paper will summarize the proposed research methodology of my dissertation topic on gender discrepancies in regards to African-American education. There has been a noticeable, growing increase in the presence of African-American women in undergraduate and graduate education while the gap between African-American males and females has widened. The dissertation will use mixed methods, grounded theory perspective to determine why this is the case. The overall theoretical perspective of the work will be rooted in critical race theory and poststructuralist concepts. Quantitatively assessed questionnaires and coded qualitative interviews will attempt to answer the question of why African-American male participation ...

Nowadays quite a number of school teachers, as well as professors are completely misled in their views towards the most correct, and acceptable form of English language. This partially happens because of the lack of training in language studies, which results not only in the misleading of students, but also in linguistic discrimination of them. If people fail to accept the diversity within the English language, this can turn into a risk of teaching in ways that are both culturally and linguistically non-responsive. That is the exact reason, why sociolinguists are now trying to change the current state by explaining that ...

The U.S. Victory in Vietnam: Lost and Found

The Iraq war and its insurgency has been likened to Vietnam’s insurgency, the U.S. also faces an equal defeat. Contrarily, people in support of the Iraq war state that Vietnam and the U.S do not share any similarity with the defeat of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

The U.S. is very dissimilar with Vietnam War, the U.S. won in 1973. It has been argued in two prisms: the Chinese Revolution has been likened to Indochina; the conflict was a Vietnamese Revolution and this was not a threat to the ...

Introduction

Economics is a field which has its active recognition and association in almost every walk of life. There is no single definition of the term “Economics” exist in the world as every author has had defined the concept in a somewhat different manner. Adam Smith and Alfred Marshal are known as the fathers of economics, as they proposed the most basic and effective definition of this term. According to both of them, Economics is the name of how to earn the money and how to consume it. It is one of the most important definitions from the viewpoint of the ...

Juvenile crime in the United States of America is as old as the nation itself. However, over the years there has been deliberate reform within the criminal justice system effectively affecting juveniles. Delinquency refers to the crimes committed by juveniles. A juvenile ideally refers to a person between the ages of twelve and seventeen. In that breadth, juveniles are just developing out of childhood and about to graduate into adulthood. At this stage, the law recognizes that the person may not appreciate the law as it is and may not necessarily be capable of harboring a mental intention to commit crime. ...

Reggie is the direction of modern music that emerged in Jamaica in the late 1960s and widespread since the early 1970s.

Slide 3

In the first half of the XX century, mento was the most common genre of music in Jamaica. These were the songs performed by roving musicians, is an alloy of religious hymns spirituals, work songs, calypso style and the variety of traditions of the Caribbean. Mento was folk music similar to the American country blues.

After World War II, the island has penetrated a lot of new music, mainly from the United States. This was due mainly to ...

I have known Ms. XXXX since 2010 when she worked for a summer internship at UBS. Having worked with Ms. XXXX directly, I observed how she distinguished herself from other interns. Her immediate impact at UBS led us to invite her to join our Hong Kong office permanently.

When Ms. XXXX joined UBS as an Analyst she proved to be highly knowledgeable in the practical aspects of corporate finance and investment, and the theoretical aspects of Micro/Macro Theory and Econometrics. Ms. XXXX demonstrated significant growth in a short time. I was surprised by her initiative to contact traders, researchers and ...

I can remember the first time I looked out at a sea of faces such as these, filled with ambition and hope. It was during my son’s school’s musical recital. The children were, understandably, very excited to share all of the songs they had learned with their parents. They had even thrown in some of their own improvised dance moves to spice things up. They were already leaders in their own rights. The teachers let it slide because creativity is still encouraged in some places in this dark, dreary world. They were so happy, and full of light. ...

The US government has recently been embroiled in a series of fresh scandals under the Obama administration. The nature of the United States dictates that the actions of the government elected over the polity are in direct oversight of the polity by virtue of the rights of citizens. This creates an environment wherein political figures are often tried by the court of public opinion despite the possibility of the ostensible legality of their actions. In what was one of the most sensational scandals of the last century, President Bill Clinton saw his administration stained very seriously following his illicit sexual ...

- What is motivating you to leave your current position?

As an attorney, I always admired the difficult task of guiding companies to pursue aggressive policies in business while in full compliance with the regulations, laws, and standards of ethical conduct. When I came across the opportunity of ‘The Business Integrity Counsel and Regional Business Integrity Officer – North America’ at Mondelēz International, it is a lot more than just motivation that propels me leave the current position. It has been and is my dream job. I am excited by the prospect of helping Legal, Business Integrity, and Global ...

The Universal Healthcare plan fondly known as Obamacare has been touted and regarded as a game changer, historic, and revolutionary by many and rightly so. The act aims to change the American health care system and to bring positive change to the quality of lives of its citizens. The expansion of SCHIP program, digitization of health records and expansion of COBRA insurance to unemployed workers would indeed do a lot of good to the citizenry.

Moreover the act prohibits private health insurance companies to deny insurance for pre-existing or to drop coverage when a patient gets sick, a move which strikes ...

Introduction

Culture is a complex spectrum which consists of ideas, thoughts and feelings on one end and behaviors, values and beliefs on the other. Negotiations globally bring cultures to the forefront because of the impact that cultural relations have on negotiation. U.S negotiators have different ways through which they negotiate. This paper will discuss the differences and the similarities between U.S negotiators and the other cultures which shall be described in this paper.

Question 1

Preparation; here the negotiators are required to complete several key tasks before coming to the table. First and foremost, one has to keenly study the potential partners business. ...

- What important functions do capital markets perform for national and global economies? Why should a country be concerned about the relative strength and performance of its capital markets?

ANSWER:

Capital markets have many functions one of them being recruitment of reserves. Capital markets play a very vital role in mobilizing inactive reserves from the country. People are encouraged to invest their funds in the reproductive channels of the economy. Additionally, money markets aid in capital creation whereby there is an accumulation to the existing store of assets in the market. Capital markets too provide investment avenues since they heave capital for ...

As articulated by Bittman (2008), in the article “ Why worry about food and water?,” which featured in the New York Times, Sunday Magazine's series, the correlations between American households with food are significantly dynamic as evidenced by rapid changes aligned with food preference, preparation, and consumption. As such, the notions contained in the article primarily target American households, which have since time immemorial been faced with various disparities with regard to food preparation and consumption. Worth noting is the fact that the beginning of the 20th century has been clouded by issues of food safety whereby low quality foods ...