...The rational choice theory explains that the rational actors will choose to engage in crime rather than non-crime, when the actor perceived net benefits of crime is larger than the perceived net benefits of non-crime (Benson and Simpson 2015,). The rational choice that is conducted because of the influence of the rational actors’ self interest. “Self-interest is the driving force of our society: people tend to try to improve their personal situation (Kirchgassner 2014, 1119 ). Self interest is different for all individuals because their interest is affected by numerous materialistic elements. Simpson and Piquero conducted a research whether low self control contributes to executing a crime. The research indicated that low self control...
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...The primary assumptions of Rational Choice Theory, is the beliefs that “human beings are rational and self-interested beings who are affected by the consequences of their actions” (Miller, 4). It is said that a person considers reason to their actions, such as: opportunities; the results that may come of the actions (advantages), costs, benefits. A person is capable of finding reasons to support their actions or at least try to create something to make them feel like the decision they make is justifiable; “rational choice theorists is not that individuals are purely rational in their decision making, but rather that they do consider the costs and benefits” (Hagan, 116). Miller (2009), said that “various costs and benefits that are considered by the would-be offender are the subjective ones” (p. 8), in other words, a soon to be offender will choose to commit an offense after...
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...FACTORS OF CAREER CHOICES AS DETERMINED BY EXTERNAL MILIEUS A Micro Research Paper Arabia, Lord Mark Anthony M. Villones, Wilson C. ED 4 Educational Research and Evaluation Masilang, Judy Marcia M. 22 March 2012 THE RESEARCH PROBLEM Career choice is an ongoing process, needs in-depth study, and requires much thought as it a decision that affects your future. As you learn new things you get an understanding of what you are interested in, what you would enjoy doing and what will be one of the best paying options. Career planning is a never-ending process as you gain experiences, grow, and improve. You need to give it a thought (Koonar, 2009). And there would always be a time that students will definitely begin to discern their future career. When the students reached this point, they now start to solicit ideas of what course to be selected as an embodiment of their future career. However, though most of them solicit ideas from the people who are learned in a particular discerning situation, they usually end up selecting their own choices (Polistico, 2009). When they fail to choose what their hearts desire, then would most likely shift course and end up the college level doubling the time intended for the particular course. The purpose of the study is to determine if career choice is really determined by the external milieus to which the students used to live. Furthermore, it seeks primarily to explore the extent of how these external factors could predict students’...
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...Simulation Review Paper Joel Chappell HCS/405 November 3, 2014 Latrina Benjamin-Frazier The simulation focused on a hospital that was called Elijah Heart Center which is a cardiac care hospital. The Elijah Heart Center has been according to their financial statement struggling, which has been caused by capital shortages, funding options and their capital expansions. In order to ensure that the overall organization will have enough funds to properly operate it is important that the heath care organization understand how to make the appropriate changes. This paper will go over and take look at the accounting data for the Elijah Heart Center to understand what changes and adjustments can be made to help the organization become more financially stable. When looking at organizations and how they may be able to cut cost, unfortunately sometimes these changes may involve reducing the number of employees or even reducing benefits to have a balanced budget. One must analyze the pros and cons of the decisions that will not only affect the budget but may also affect how the organization operates and even patient care. The recommendation along with a detailed explanation from what was discovered in the simulation are as fallowed. First focusing attention on the capital shortage within Elijah Heart Center. The corporation is unfortunately suffering capital shortage due to what the overall organization is bringing in as revenue is far...
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...Choice and Consequence Marcus Garvey, an inspirational figure for civil rights activists once said, “Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences”. A concept clearly portrayed in John Wyndham’s novel, The Chrysalids. Centered on choices made by some distinct and sincere characters in the novel and the consequences that followed, this paper will focus on demonstrating the affects decisions have on the characters and the story. When David learned that Sophie had more toes then normal he quickly promised to keep her deviation a secret. David was afraid that if anyone found out about her deviation he would lose Sophie. So much so, he even had nightmares of his father killing Sophie due to her deviations. But when Alan seen Sophie’s deviation he did not hesitate to tell David’s father Joseph. Upon Joseph’s questioning, David chose to keep Sophie’s secret. Unfortunately, Joseph gave David a beating and ultimately Sophie had to leave Waknuk. In an attempt to escape, David, Rosalind and Petra chose to runaway to the Fringes because everyone found out they were telepathic. A dangerous and stressful journey for the trio as Joseph’s men hunted after them. However upon arrival, David, Rosalind, and Petra were jumped and taken prisoner by the people of the Fringes who took them to Gordon, Joseph’s older brother. The choice to escape to the Fringes may not have been the best way to go but David was happy to see Sophie was there alive and that Joseph hadn’t killed...
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...the following paper, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, will be broken up to show the themes, settings, and symbolism. I. Introduction II. Themes A. Choice B. Dreams, Hopes and Plans C. Man and the Natural World D. Exploration III. Settings A. Forest B. On a gravel or dirt road IV. Symbolism A. Roads B. Nature V. Conclusion The Other Road Not Taken Speaking on roads that are not taken can literally be analyzed on a personal stance. Before I get into the poem I would just like to take the time to make this a reality. We all know the singer Whitney Houston passed away a few weeks ago. Her life can be analyzed as being two roads and which one she should have taken. Whitney grew up in a church in New Jersey where she began singing in the church choir. Her career took off in 1987 officially. Fast forward a few years and the good girl we knew seemed to crumble up before our eyes. Whitney married Bobby Brown and had a daughter Bobbi Kristina. Whitney and Bobby’s relationship soon became a downhill ride over powered by drugs and alcohol. We thought by looking at her, that her career was over. She proved us wrong by coming back more faith driven than ever before and with a new attitude. You see in “The Road Not Taken”, you have a decision to make as to which road you will pave for your life. Whitney chose her road and is at peace with it. Let us analyze the poem to see which road we will take. In the following paper, Robert Frost’s...
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...Donovan Cann Coach Schmotzer PE 224 12/2/14 Paper 3: Assistant coaches Another thing that ties into coaching and is a big part of the program are assistant coaches. I say this because an assistant coach can either be a real help or a big problem. Some assistant coaches embrace the tasks at hand and some run from them. The article “An Assistant’s Focus” talks about how as an assistant you have a tough role. You have to be “on” at all times. This means no slippage weather its handling a task or even at practice. You have to always be motivating and paying attention not just sitting in the background. This brings up the question of a coaches trust in his assistant and the coaches intelligence. In my opinion the head coach’s intelligence is based on the quality of people around him. I think so because in any situation you want to surround yourself with the people who have the same knowledge of you or higher. This way you can learn from each other. As a coach you’re not going to be around someone that doesn’t give positive insight on things or makes you feel less smart. Another thing is image if you’re surrounded by people who are not as intelligent as you it makes you seem less intelligent to the other people around you. Something that comes to mind also is decision making. There is a vast difference between suggesting and making a decision. As an assistant coach you often give your opinion and how you view things, and as a good head coach you will value your assistant’s...
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...Anna Hope. It is about a young girl named Ellie who is nineteen and struggling to balance her life between drugs and school. Ellie has a paper due in the morning and is being threatened that she will be kicked out of the school if she does not start to hand in her papers and show up in the school. But she is out of printer ink so she embarks on a life changing quest to find some. The theme in “A Gap of Sky” is freedom and choices which can be seen particularly in the ending where she chooses that she will not do drugs anymore. Although throughout the whole short story Ellie has to make choices. As she have to make the choice whether or not to risk getting kicked out of the school by not doing the paper since she is feeling terrible from the party the day before. She also has to make the choice on whether or not she is going to use her precious paper writing time to go out and find some printer ink or take the chance and get some in the morning. Freedom shows in the fact that there is not anybody to make those choices for her. She has the freedom too choose how she wants to conduct her life. This is symbolised in glove on the railing that makes her want to not care about anything after having seen it although later she makes the choice to not completely uncare about anything. After she decides to go into the museum and forgot about the paper for a while. In the museum she sees an exhibition about living and dying which eventually turns her away from the completely does not care...
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...03 / 22 / 2013 Compensation and Benefits Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Challenges that Face Organizations in Defining their Compensation Strategy Abstract A strategy refers to the fundamental directions that an organization chooses. All organizations that pay people have a compensation strategy. Sometimes different business units within the same corporation fit different compensation strategies since they have very different competitive conditions and adopt different business strategies. Some organizations may also have written compensation strategies for all to see and understand while others may not even realize they have a compensation strategy. The following paper will address the challenges organizations are faced with today in defining their compensation strategy. The first challenge is to understand the business, the industry in which the organization operates and how the organization plans to compete in that industry, to cope with the turbulent competitive dynamics and to focus on the important factors in the business environment; such as changing customer needs, competitors’ actions, changing labor market conditions, changing laws and globalization. Managers must also become knowledgeable about competitive conditions both globally and locally. Second, the pay strategy is influenced by how it fits with other HR systems in the organization. Pay can be a supporting player, as in the high-performance approach, or it can take the...
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...IELTS Secret Key #1 - Time is your greatest enemy |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | | |Written by Rad Danesh | |Monday, 23 April 2007 | |To succeed on the IELTS, you must use your time wisely. Many students do not finish at least one module. The table below shows | |the time challenge you are faced with: | |Module | |Total time | |Questions | |Time for each question | | | |Listening | |30 min ...
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...Working Worries Life is full of choices. Whether they are good or bad; they are still choices no matter what you label them as. Now with me being only twenty-two years old, I don’t believe that I have had to make too many crazy choices but when I think of significant choices that I have needed to make only one pops up into my mind. I think of my decision to begin college or not. This was difficult for me because I was ready to start my life in the “real world” as soon as I walked out of my high school doors on graduation day, so I began by getting a regular job. Little did I know that just a plain “job” was not going to be what I had envisioned. The reason why I think the decision to come to college is a big deal is because of all the other things that the decision affects. For example, starting college means that I need to focus a lot of my energy and attention to doing well in classes, where if I decided to just get another job, then I would have to focus on doing well with my work and my boss. Also starting college means that I need to take a loan out to help pay for my new education. I kept putting off the decision because of all the worries and fears I had about college work and the expenses that would come with my idea of a proper education. After working a few “dead end” jobs that could barely support the gas needed to drive to these “Jobs”, I made my decision. Obviously I decided on starting college, I decided on this course because I had been working straight...
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...vehicle So after deciding who I want to get a vehicle from I now need to figure out what kind of vehicle im wanting. When I made the first choice of who I was getting a vehicle from I already had a general idea of what I was wanting but its in this stage that I comb it with a fine tooth comb. Deciding on any premiums. So now that I have picked my vehicle out lets choose the cool stuff. What color do I want on it? What sound system or premium upgrades do I want on it? Do I want dvd players in the back for the kids? Or would I prefer to have a navigation system in the front? Or would I want everything upgraded to the max? Now we look at pricing. Now we have to deal with the bad stuff pricing. Nobody likes this but its important that your getting the most out of your money. Once I have one price I would leave the dealer with nothing. Check around at other places can anybody beat those prices. You also would want to do some heart searching. Are you sure you want this vehicle and all the extras you choose. The final decision. So now we have choosen the make, kind, upgrades, and pricing. Its time to sign the papers and drive off the lot with our new vehicle. But guess what the choices still exist. Now we have to decide what kind of gas we want to use regular? Maybe premium? Then oil what kind? The bottom line is lookover all your choices and make the...
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...analysis and re-butt Joel Tierno’s argument “that free will only accounts for choices that issue in evil” But fail to account for evil choices. 1 (Trakakis) The paper begins by breaking down Tierno’s argument in logical fashion A+B=C. As he is breaking down the argument Mr. Trakakis ask a series of questions and does not outright disagree with Tierno but provides another prospective. Brief Summary According to free will theodicists the existence of moral evil is permitted by God so as to preserve human free will, without which a host of significant goods would be unattainable.2 Joel Thomas Tierno ask if such ideas satisfactorily explain and justify God's approval of moral evil 3 & 4 Tierno according to Trakakis fails to understand free will theodicists. 5 Which he goes on to describe well probing Tierno’s argument. Trakakis partitions the piece into sections “Tierno’s ‘Adequacy Argument’ Against Free Will Theodicies” “The Inadequacy of Tierno’s ‘Adequacy Argument’, and ‘The Intelligibility Question’ 6 Critical Interaction Mr. Trakakis talking about two schools of thought. The first one being the Adequacy Argument or that free will is all that is needed to make or desire a choice as purposed by Tierno. The other school of thought being free will theodicists which requires a motive for a choice to occur and that free will is merely pursuit of motive with little to no interference to choices one makes to full fill the motive. 7 The author does...
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...choose our own destiny. Second is Reason and Experience, the theory that we gain knowledge using reason and experience. Finally, Personal Identity, that I conclude, we define by using free will (choice of destiny), then reason and experience (how and why we reach our destiny). Free Will Free Will comes into play because it relates to one’s own desires. “What freewill tries to account for is our introspective conviction that we are in control of many of our choices, and thus our destiny - that we are free to think and decide”. (Voss, 1997) The question that arises when we have free will is “Who do I want to be?” versus “Who am I supposed to be?” Subsequently, if one is pondering about whether to believe in free will or not, then one is already committed to its existence. The choices that I make help define who I am. “Throughout his life, every normal person deliberates, imputes responsibility, and recommends or proscribes courses of action. In each of these activities, he presupposes that alternatives are available to himself and others -- for it would make no sense to deliberate over what one had no choice about, or to recommend to a person what he either could not do or could not help doing, etc.” (Huemer, 1995) The person I become is in direct relationship to the choices I make and the actions I take, good or bad. If we had no free will we would be identical drones and incapable of any unique characteristics. Reason and Experience Learning and gaining knowledge...
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...Desert Survival paper The method I used to choose the priority of the items in the virtual desert assignment was based on the outside elements. I took into consideration the possibilities of what could be the cause of a loss of one of our team members. Since we were in a desert I classified the most dangerous issues as dehydration, the harmful sunrays, lack of food, fatigue, and dangerous wildlife. These five concepts seem to be most relevant to what could use the items for to protect ourselves. My first choice was the 1 Qt of Water per Person which is most important because it is the most urgent. Surviving without water in such high temperatures is unlikely and can lead to immediate problems such as dehydration and fatigue. The next two selections that seemed most urgent was the magnetic compass and sectional air map to help guide us to the nearby civilization. This choice was based on fleeing these conditions as quickly as possible. The longer we are in the situation the higher the risk becomes. If there are only enough supplies to last a short period of time then it is critical to get out of those conditions rapidly. My fourth choice was for the protection of the group against wildlife. Surly one night spent in a desert is enough time to encounter dangerous wildlife. The pistol is important for protection and to capture possible food to eat. The parachute seemed to be a relevant item since it is red and white it can possibly attract attention for a rescue while...
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