...Medication Safety – The substitute abortion medication is Methotrexate, a chemotherapy medication that is inferior to Mifepristone as it requires more time to work, is less predictable, and is more likely to cause birth defects should the abortion fails. Political Issue – There are suspicions that the Harper Government is politically involved in the Mifepristone’s latest delay as it will conveniently postpone the decision until after the fall election. Canadian Women Rights – Since the medication has been approved and has been greatly beneficial to women in many other countries, Mifepristone’s delay has also been seen as an issue of women’s right to a medical treatment that is considered as the Gold Standard for medical abortion. ANALYSIS – Policy Cycle, Key Interests, Institutional Factors, and Ideas Stage of Policy Cycle: Health Canada reverted back to the Policy Formulation stage from the Decision Making stage as they requested Linepharma for more information regarding Mifepristone, consequently delaying the ruling on the drug even longer. The decision is being made at the Federal and Legislative level, which has nation-wide effects. Key...
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...November 26, 2013 Many celebrities, including the First Lady Michelle Obama, have been attacking obesity as an epidemic. The definition of an epidemic says that it is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community. Many television programs target young children who are watching their cartoon channels with sugary snacks. Should people in today’s society make someone's weight a topic of discussion, or should this be a conversation kept behind the doors of a person and their doctor and family? People should not be judging others when it comes to a topic that can be hurtful to others. Obesity is a problem that should be kept within the confines of the home or a doctor’s office. With the research provided, we will also answer the question of how obesity should be handled in today's society. Television has become a stepping stone for children who are obese. Obese children who have been bullied will sit in front of the television because they do not want to be harassed by the children they are in school with because of their weight. When you add this into the commercials being shown during these children’s shows about sugary snacks, these children will ask their parents...
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...is vital to the company’s organizational effectiveness. It is important for employees to feel as though they are being properly informed about the organization and are given feedback based on their performance. Employees should feel free to express their concerns as well as provide new ideas and feedback to the organization without any repercussion and/or judgment. As expressed by Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco, “effective managers tend to communicate openly with employees and are rewarded by a committed and productive staff. ” In his 1995 article “Open the doors, tell the truth” Harari demonstrates how open communication, or lack there of, can heavily impact an organization and its employees’ performance. Harari suggests that exploiting and sharing knowledge of information can only be vital for a company and its employees. A “behind closed door” policy, as referred to by Harari, is often managers’ most self-defeating action within the workplace. Not only does it create paranoia among employees, but also yields misleading or uncertain information and the decisions that are based upon it (Harari, 1995.) In a 2015 survey conducted by 15Five, provider of the leading web-based team feedback and alignment platform, only 15% of employees are completely satisfied with the quality of communication in the workplace. After surveying 1,00 0 full-time employees in the US, findings indicate that the majority of employees want more honesty and transparency...
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...What happens behind closed doors? Lisa D’amour’s play Detroit begs this question be answered. Two households are set up, one with a perfect exterior and another with a few cracks. Characters Mary and Ben are the ‘perfect’ family. Except Ben lost his job and is working from home, and Mary has a drinking problem. The other family is younger Sharon and Kenny, who openly admit to being drug addicts in the process of recovery. The two families engage in a few backyard parties and the night seems to bring the real facts to light. The set highlights the fact that the families have different appearances in society. On the left was a bright blue house with a nice white fence and bright red furniture. It is the embodiment of the American Dream and the...
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...learning his life lessons. “Growing up in a boarding house introduced me to hard work and taught me the value of diligent labor. I learned to shuck corn, shell peas, wash dirty dishes, set the table, shop for my mother at the corner grocery store and even flip eggs and pancakes on the grill” (Cathy, 1989, p. 37). Cathy is no stranger to entrepreneurial ventures, at the young age of 8 he started buying six-packs of Coca Cola for 25 cents and selling them individually door-to-door for five cents. Next was an adventure in magazine sales and at 11 years old, he started to help a friend with a newspaper route. Cathy told a reporter that he never regretted helping out his friend because during that time he met Jeannette McNeil who he would later marry. In 1933, at age 12, Cathy earned a newspaper route of his very own and continued his route into 1941. Davis and Lucas (2007) quote Cathy as saying “It was during that time that I learned the importance of taking care of the customers. You put the paper behind the screen door, keep the dog from chewing it up, [and] put it up on the rocking chair.” Cathy’s goals were to sign up and keep customers happy, all while earning a profit. This experience allowed him to see what he was going to do in his adult life. In his words (Cathy, 2002, p. 31) “My success with the paper route convinced me that I would one day open a business of my own, most likely a service station, grocery store or restaurant.” Cathy won many awards for signing up customers...
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...Cat in the in rain My assignment will contain an analysis of the short story: “Cat in the rain” written by Ernst Hemmingway. In my analysis and discussion I will focus on literary modernism and the lost generation, what typical features of the period, of the generation and of Hemingway’s style we see in the text, besides the text in from the 1920’s. The story is written in third person omniscient narrator, who deals with several different characters appearing in the short story. In the story we follow a couple and particularly the woman, and her vision on the relationship between her and her husband. She deals with many different issues, which appears in the way she is described throughout the story, and by the way she interacts among the other characters. The couple is on vacation in Italy, where they are staying at a hotel. The story takes place a rainy day. The American woman is looking outside the window, when she suddenly sees a cat hidden under a table from getting wet by the rain. She decides to go outside, to save the cat. On her way, to rescue the cat from the rain, she comes across the padrone of the hotel. He sends a maid out to help the American girl. When they gets to the table, where the cat were suppose to be, it was strangely enough gone, in proportion to how strange it is for a cat to walk into the rain, when they hate water. When she returns to her room, she is al of the sudden sad and annoyed. Without knowing why, she just wanted the cat so bad. When she...
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...We conclude that this is a conservative estimate of the proportion of false conviction among death sentences in the United States.” (Gross, 2014) a quote direct from the study which is considered a conservative estimate shows that far more than the 0.027% of convictions are potentially wrongful. Having what the public would consider such a high false conviction rate must cause headaches to new and old prosecutors and judges alike which is why I believe it is not widely known how many innocents still lay behind bars and their case behind closed...
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...the Federal Government. My thoughts began to race as I pondered how this would be different from any other business decision reached by such an enormous company like Amazon. After all, they are a multi-billion-dollar company, who are in business to make money. In an article published by CRN, a very reliable technology news organization, unconfirmed reports state that Amazon has reached a 10-year, $600 million cloud computing deal with Amazon. Amazon, if confirmed, and already a major player in the building of Cloud Infrastructure, will have scored a very large victory in the tech world. With such a sizeable deal in the works, one could speculate about some of what went on behind closed doors. As it may relate to our week two discussion thread on SWOT, I would speculate that the CIA did its own SWOT analysis of Amazon. I am sure that the CIA would not have even considered Amazon for this venture, before scrutinizing Amazon from top to bottom. For the business managers that were involved in this process, it should have been the standard way to conduct business, save for the fact it was dealing with an arm of the Federal Government. In the case of Amazon’s business strategy, as it might pertain to Week two’s discussion thread, I am sure that Amazon sought out this deal with the express idea of making a profit. The difference, however, is that Amazon was dealing with someone unlike most businesses they were accustomed to doing business with. That said, Amazon has a very impressive...
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...Response paper Introduction to Western Culture Home sweet home: Tangible Memories of an Uprooted Childhood Anat Hecht This text is an extract from a book call Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors, published by Daniel Miller edition in 2001. This chapter focuses on one woman’s past, memoirs and the link between her past, history and all the symbolic ‘materials’ in her actual home. The woman’s nickname is Nan and this is how she is call during the whole paper. She basically tells the Writer about some key events of her childhood that are part of her self-identity and after, analysis of these events are made by the author in little paragraphs. The text is split in six parts, the first one being an introduction enhancing the main idea, which is, how a Home can be defined as a private museum of memories. The second part is call A world of Memory, and it is about how the author and Nan first met, but also and mainly about Nan’s childhood which, as she said, was probably the most ‘beautiful’ part of her life, because when you are a child, you only care about things that makes you happy. Third part is call ‘Shattered Home’ and is surely the saddest part of Nan’s remembrance. Her father was called off to war and her mother was pregnant, hence, she had to stay home while Nan had to go to war camps with her five years old younger brother she had to take care of from that moment: “All she had left were memories and an extraordinary ability to...
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...Walmart is the nation’s biggest employer. As such, its impact on the economy is tremendous. To understand just how big this business is, it’s worth noting that their profit margin yearly is bigger than the GPD of Sweden. (BusinessInsider.com). Walmart’s actions shape our work, income distribution, consumption patterns, transports, politics, and the organization of industries from retail to manufacturing, from the United States to China. Our free market system has grown a monster that can’t be controlled by the Washington elites or Wall Street bankers. A few store closures could drastically change an entire city. A change to any part of its business model could potentially send the Dow Jones on a downward spiral. So the question becomes, how big is too big? Is Walmart in the same category as the too big to fail banks? The answer is simple. Walmart has the power to cripple this nation and no regulators will go against them and risk financial fail to our economy. There are currently 1.4 million associates on their payroll, of which 60% are struggling financially and still relying on government assistance for food stamps and medical coverage. As we seen in the movie, The High Price of low cost, (2005), the retail giant would give info sessions to its employees on how to apply for government assistance. They exploit all the loopholes by first paying its employees minimum wage, a family of 3 would fall below the poverty level thus qualifying them for food stamps, then getting tax...
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...An Analysis of McDonnell Douglas’s Ethical Responsibility in the Crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 The Memorial of Flight 981 at Ermenonville (Johnston, 1976). Executive Summary In 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 experienced a mid-flight cargo door failure which led to the first total loss of a wide-bodied aircraft in history. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, and this tragedy was compounded by the fact that sufficient corrective action had not been taken by the manufacturer after precursory failures had occurred over the four previous years. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the ethical nature of McDonnell Douglas’s decisions throughout this crisis, discerning their priorities with regard to safety and financial gain, and to assess if these qualities have changed in response. The origin of this catastrophe lay in a poor handling of design and manufacturing. The cargo door’s design employed faulty philosophies, and decisions regarding its manufacture were driven by savings at the expense of safety. However, though the door’s faults were later exposed, a more serious problem involving the tail control lines in the passenger floor was continually overlooked until the crash. This was due primarily to a policy of using old design strategies which met minimum federal requirements. The company oversimplified the control lines’ failure mode when confronted with it in ground testing and, being committed to their own design, were unable to...
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...Madison Zingers, Drake’s Ring Dings, Wonder Bread and Twinkies, decided it could no longer survive in the new Atkins-crazed marketplace with its bloated pension funds and financial issues.1 In November 2012, the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy to receive permission from the government to close its business and sell off its assets.2 The deal was accepted by the bankruptcy courts and a judge then agreed to hand over all the Hostess Brands foods to different buyers.3 This was not the snack food company’s first bankruptcy. During the 2004–2009 bankruptcy period, Hostess closed nine of its 54 bakeries and more than 300 outlet stores. In addition, Hostess’ work force declined from 32,000 to 22,000 employees. The company also dropped some regional brands and operating agreements, such as the agreement to produce Sunbeam Bread for the northeastern U.S.4 Why did it happen? A major reason behind the bankruptcy was Hostess’ failure to adapt its product lines to changing consumer tastes when their market shares started decreasing a decade ago.5 Company owners should have adapted more to consumer taste shifts and added new products. It also could have kept its high-performing products, such as the popular Twinkie, but reinvented other products, such as Wonder Bread, to be more natural with added nutritional benefits.6 Even if these measures were made though, it is still unsure if Hostess could have survived. The root of the company’s previous bankruptcy and most of its...
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...INNOVATION AT [pic]: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box CASE ANALYSIS I. Problem What uniting mechanism can Timberland Company administer to achieve the fullest potential of appropriate product design and process given the existing disparity between the In-line teams and Invention Factory? II. Objectives a. To ensure that the manufactured product is to be positively responded by the consumers. b. To provide sufficient focus to ensure the best use of resources without restricting innovation. c. To guarantee that there is always the presence of balance with regards to fashion and functionality in all Timberland products. d. To resolve the lack of wholesale and interest of Invention Factory ideas as they are integrated to the mainstream of Timberland. e. To improve the relationship between Invention Factory and In-line teams. III. Areas of Consideration REMOTE ENVIRONMENT Demographic – Timberland’s present organization of In-line teams that are responsible for a consumer segment: (1) Boot/Urban Team, (2) Men’s Casual Team, (3) Women’s Casual Team, (4) Outdoor Performance Team, (5) Kid’s Team, (6) Pro Team, and (7) Apparel answers to the different demographics and needs of a variety of Timberland consumers. Additional consumer focused teams for new segments have been established to cater to the growing trends in modern society (i.e. New Kid’s Line, Mountain Athletic Line, PRO Industrial Line)...
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...incivility in the workplace (either external or internal) creates a tension-filled environment. The stress and negative energy generated from the detrimental behavior of even one colleague or patient can be contagious and exert its disruptive effect on the entire staff. Disruptions are often manifested in the splitting of staff, decreased communication and collaboration, lack of teamwork, low morale, and increased staff absenteeism and turnover (Yoder-Wise, 2015, p. 465). These disruptive factors lead to decreased efficiency, meaning more energy has to be expended to achieve the same productivity; subsequently, increasing the probability of mistakes/errors and putting the patient population at risk. Remarkably, Yoder-Wise (2015) explains, Analysis of sentinel events found that nearly 70% of the events impacting patient care quality could be traced back to a communication problem. Although not all communication problems are related to incivility, many nurses have reported uncivil communications as a problem. (p. 466) Communication is the interpersonal exchange of verbal information and nonverbal cues between people. Working in a tension-filled environment, managing stressful situations, and interacting with difficult people are all forms of psychological noise: factors that impede effective (reciprocal) communication (Purpora & Blegen, 2012, p. 3). In our last discussion, I provided an example of conflict using an interaction I had with a physician who had a history of being disruptive...
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...SWOT Analysis | What is SWOT Analysis? | Examples of SWOT Analysis SWOT analysis was originally conceived and developed in the 1960s and its basic organising principles have remained largely unchanged in the field of strategic management since that time (Kotler et al., 2013). It is, as Ghazinoory, Abdi and Azadegan-Mehr (2011) comment, a systematic framework which helps managers to develop their business strategies by appraising the internal and external determinants of their organisation’s performance. Internal environmental factors include leadership talent, human resource capabilities, the company’s culture as well as the effectiveness of its policies and procedures. In contrast, external factors include competition, government legislation, changing trends, and social expectations (Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, 2008). The SWOT analysis framework involves analysing the strengths (S) and weaknesses (W) of the business’s internal factors, and the opportunities (O) and threats (T) of its external factors of performance (Ghazinoory, Abdi and Azadegan-Mehr, 2011). Through this analysis, the weaknesses and strengths within a company can correspond to the opportunities and threats in the business environment so that effective strategies can be developed (Helms and Nixon, 2010). It follows from this, therefore, that an organisation can derive an effective strategy by taking advantage of its opportunities by using its strengths and neutralise its threats by minimising the impact...
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