... Cheating: * Any attempt to give or obtain assistance in a formal academic exercise (like an examination) without due acknowledgment. * dishonesty and breaking the rules. Reasons of cheating 1. Performance concerns * Need to excel at any cost 2. External pressures * Academic * Semester workload too heavy * Others’ cheating puts me at disadvantage * Professor/text did not adequately explain material * Too many tests on one day * Nonacademic * Pressure from parents * Job leaves no time for study * Illness prevents adequate preparation * GPA for athletic qualification * Financial aid depends on GPA * Good grades needed for job or graduate school 3. Unfair professors * Overly harsh grading * Unfair tests designed to fail students * Unreasonable workload in course 4. Lack of effort * Did not attend class * Did not study, do reading, etc. 5. Adherence to other loyalties * Helping a friend * Loyalty to a group (fraternity) 6. All’s fair in love and academia 7. Opportunity * Unexpected opportunity arose * Instructor left room during exam * Instructor wasn’t watching carefully * Other students didn’t cover their paper 8. Campus ethos * Others do it * No one ever really gets punished/caught Some ways of cheating 1. Copying Homework ...
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...Title : “Don’t Ask…Don’t Tell…Don’t Be All You Can Be!” I) Introduction: a) Don’t ask don’t tell or commonly known as DADT is a law that passed in congress in 1993 that requires the discharge of openly gay, lesbian and bisexual active members of the US Armed Forces. Under this law the Military will discharge any member, who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender. b) THESIS – The law passed by congress “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” should be placed as an inactive piece of legislature spoils the American spirit, does not leave much room for the younger generations of today to put faith in our government and costs tax payers extra money that they do not have due to the crashing economy. II) I plan to construct an argument that DADT should be placed as inactive piece of legislature by using the argument by narration. I plan to tell the stories of a few service members that have been discharged from the military because of this law. III) There are a few opposing arguments from those in congress that support it that I plan on analyzing and trying to show the weakness in their arguments as to why DADT should remain active. IV) The audience should care about this topic because having the DADT law as an active piece of legislature costs us money not to mention the lives of able bodied people who are willing to...
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...Homosexuality in the Military John P. Wernegreen DeVry University Professor Foley Homosexuality in the Military The issue of homosexuality in the military has long been considered a taboo subject, not to be discussed openly, and essentially prohibited with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy established in the 1990’s. However, attitudes have changed and evolved over the years making homosexuality in general less of a stigma and more of an acceptable lifestyle that some people live. After much deliberation and research, the Department of Defense (DOD) has established its own set of rules and regulations, thus continuing the controversy and discrimination of homosexuality within its ranks and the redefining of its regulations. Beginning in 1916, the United States military began issuing an administrative discharge called a blue discharge. This discharge, also known as a “blue ticket,” was neither honorable nor dishonorable, but it “became the discharge of choice for commanders seeking to remove homosexual service members from the ranks…” (Serving, para. 1). The policy for discharging service members found to be homosexual or engaging in homosexual acts prior to these “blue tickets” was to court-martial them for sodomy, imprison them and subsequently dishonorably discharge them. When the United States began to mobilize troops in World War II, though, it was no longer practical to hold court-martials due to time constraints and troop movements, so commanders began administratively...
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...Is Google’s Philosophy of “Don’t be Evil” being compromised at the cost of doing big business Google has always wanted to be the people’s favourite by having a strong set of business morals and gaining the confidence of its users by having a motto, “Don’t be Evil”. Even as it has created goodwill, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra. They've taken a stand against pop-ups and pop-under and refused ads from sites they consider to be overly negative. All the while, they've stubbornly kept the Google homepage concise and pristine. On just a faint whisper of a marketing campaign, the company pulled in an estimated $70 million last year (a third from licensing fees and the rest from ads) (McHugh, Josh, Google vs Evil, Wired, 2002). Should Google play ball with repressive foreign governments? Refuse to link users to "hate" sites? Punish marketers who artificially inflate site rankings? Fight the Church of Scientology's attempts to silence critics? And what to do about the cache, Google's archive of previously indexed pages? Are the questions often asked. Most major companies refer to a detailed code of corporate conduct when considering such policy decisions. General Electric devotes 15 pages on its Web site to an integrity policy. Nortel's site has 34 pages of guidelines. Google's code of conduct can be boiled down to a mere three words: Don't be evil. (McHugh, Josh, Google...
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...************** (Also works with *** Capo 1 *** chords G#, D#, & A#.) ************** Verses G D e |--------3-------2-------| b |--------3-------3-------| g |------0-----2---2-------|<--- Repeat through d |----0------0-0--0-------|<--- all Verses a |----------------x-------| E |--3-------------x-------| Occasionally after the D chord there is a guitar riff but I didnt want to attempt to tab it. Chorus D A Amor, no es amor (if this aint love) G D What am I feeling (what am i doing wrong) D A Amor, no es amor (if this aint love) G A Its just an illusion that i have in my heart D A G e |----2-----0-----3---------| b |----3-----2-----3---------| g |----2-----2-----0---------| d |----0-----2-----0---------| a |----x-----0-----2---------| E |----x-----x-----3---------| ...
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...THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS Book Three City of Glass Margaret K. McElderry Books An imprint of Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright Š 2009 by Cassandra Claire, LLC All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Library of Congress Cataloging-inPublication Data Clare, Cassandra. City of glass / Cassandra Clare.1st ed. p. cm.(The mortal instruments; bk. 3) Summary: Still pursuing a cure for her mothers enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her familys past that will help save not only her mother but all those that she holds most dear. ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5842-5 ISBN-10: 1-4391-5842-8 [1. SupernaturalFiction. 2. DemonologyFiction. 3. MagicFiction. 4. VampiresFiction. 5. New York (N.Y.)Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.C5265Ckg 2009 [Fic]dc22 2008039065 Visit us on the World Wide Web: http://www...
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...Teamwork at Google Organizational Behavior February 22, 2012 . Teamwork at Google Abstract Teamwork is an increasingly a growing phenomenon in learning organizations. The concept is gaining popularity in this highly competitive business world as it allows organizations to maintain a creative edge and retain innovativeness and synergy in its operations. One of the most popular organizations for making effective use of teamwork is Google. Google fosters a corporate culture which not only supports but also encourages team work through project management and entrepreneurial ventures. This paper explores how Google makes use of team work and how teamwork has led Google to gain the success that it has. It also discusses the importance of teamwork and how it is rewarded at the organization. Research for this paper has largely been done through a thorough examination and literature review of academic sources and company profile. Teamwork at Google Introduction: team work and culture A team has in essence been defined as ‘Groups of employees who have at least some collective tasks and where the team members are authorized to regulate mutually the execution of these collective tasks’ (Delarue, 2003). Effective implementation of teams and team members and tasks can enhance the motivational levels of the employees and give way to higher job satisfaction. However, job satisfaction of employees...
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...In Chapter 4 we see how we try to give each client a 10+ sessions to be able to work out the challenges they have to work out. There is always going to be challenges when you work waith people because there is no cookie cutter way to treate any one person. You need to break down the areas that they are looking to work on and go from there. In lessons 1-3 you are setting up the base line for the remaining appointments. You want your client to feel as if they can trust you and that you are available to listen to them in what ever way they need you. You also need to provide them with a demeanor that shows your interested and available. This is also where you do your basic analysis of the client; are they dangerous to themseves or others, are they mentally stable and is this something they can handle doing at this point in time. In the second session you are focusing on the BECHRISTLIKE formula.With this you can really break down the client and see where they stand when it comes to everything, are they teachable, are they dedicated, can they let things go, ect. In the third and fourth sessions, is where you are going to end up diagnosising the client with something and where you both will make a plan. This plan will cover how they intend to solve the problem and if they can adhere to it. Sessions 5-10 are where things become typically difficult. This is where the real problem is exposed and where challenges will start to surface. The client make face set backs in terms of lapses and...
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...I don’t know how to swim. I would like to relate my life to this weakness that I had before that became my strength when I entered the service. Before entering college, during the final interview I was asked “Why do you want to study in UP?” without a doubt, I readily answered “To be able to study in the premier university of the country is my childhood dream and I don’t want it to be just any other dream.” So I got in and I can clearly remember the my first day in UP, I am wearing my best that day because of mom reminded me to always dress as if you’re going to see you worst enemy. I was wearing elephant pants, wedges and a vintage tight fitting top while most of my classmates are just wearing shorts and slippers. It is really a great feeling that I am at my dream university, I really can’t imagine myself graduating from any other school except UP. I took up Bachelor in Sport Science, a pre-medical course because I wanted to pursue medicine at that time. I love science and how the human body works so I worked hard and studied well to become a university scholar each semester. I would skip gimiks and parties because I have a goal and I have to meet those. I am thinking that, I am already here so why not make the most out of it. During my sophomore year, I got invited to join the UP Dragon boat Team, my friends are joining and because of peer pressure I joined. I am not the strongest of the team, but since I wanted to be on the line-up I did not skip any training day. My mom would...
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...Marie Rudek Spinos !7 November 2015 Discovering Self-Identity As we grow older and become more aware of the social world, we often find ourselves learning and changing different preferences. Often times, this includes small quirks such as different foods we might have enjoyed at some point but grew out of or deeper insights such as self-discovery and learning what we stand for in life and tough situations. The complexity of this experience may vary for different people and is often a harder concept to fully grasp for ourselves but leads to shaping who we are and what differentiates us as human beings. To demonstrate, sexual orientation and gender identification has been a complicated journey for some to overcome. In the movie, Boys Don’t Cry, Brandon Teena struggles with these notions since he is biologically a female but would rather identify as a male. Teena undergoes a self makeover and ultimately changes her name into Brandon Teena from Teena Brandon. Although there are a variety of factors that attribute to his decision, including living in a small town with virtually nothing to do and no room for growth as well as having a carefree attitude full of law breaking and making poor choices, he ultimately just identifies as a male and is interested in women. In the film Brandon meets a woman, Lana, he begins to feel attracted to and who he deceives until one day he is discovered after he has been arrested and is put into the women’s jail raising many questions. Eventually...
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...Boys Don’t Cry The movie Boys Don’t Cry is a great movie with a very emotional storyline. I believe this movie showed that being transgender is not as uncommon as many people think it to be. Also, it illustrates the fact that even though someone is transgender it doesn’t make them any less of a human being. After discussing the movie with some of my classmates, I realized we had different feelings towards the movie. There were some things that didn’t quite make sense to them, but made perfect sense to me. For example, one of my classmates could not understand why Brandon continued to lie and deceive everyone. She thought if Brandon would have been honest from the beginning then he might still be alive. However, I disagree because I feel that Brandon wasn’t being dishonest to trick people or hurt others; I feel that he really thought of himself as a boy, so to him it wasn’t lying. Brandon was just trying to start over fresh in a new place and didn’t want to bring his past with him. I believe Brandon waited so long to come out because he knew he would not be accepted by his family. The movie showed how unsupportive his cousin was about his decision to become a boy. I truly believe that Brandon moved to another town to have a fresh start at life; there he had a greater chance of being accepted the way he was. Even after Brandon’s death his family still showed how unsupportive of him they were by putting, “Teena Brandon, loving daughter and friend” on his headstone. As...
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...Song Diary Song: Artist: Release Date: Background: Don’t Worry Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988 “The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894–1969) often used the expression "Don't worry, be happy" when cabling his followers in the West. In 1988, McFerrin noticed a poster with this quote in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck & Patti in San Francisco. Inspired by the expression's charm and simplicity, McFerrin wrote the now famous song, which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail, and became a hit single the next year.” (Wikipedia, 08.03.2011) Don’t Worry, Be Happy Here is a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry be happy In every life we have some trouble When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy...... Ain't got no place to lay your head Somebody came and took your bed Don't worry, be happy The landlord say your rent is late He may have to litigate Don't worry, be happy Look at me I am happy Don't worry, be happy Here I give you my phone number When you worry call me I make you happy Don't worry, be happy Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style Ain't got no girl to make you smile But don't worry be happy Cause when you worry Your face will frown And that will bring everybody down So don't worry, be happy (now)..... There is this little song I wrote I hope you learn it note for note Like good little children Don't worry, be happy Put together By Madhu Perera a.k.a. MMtheLion Song Diary Listen to what I say In...
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...linked up Venezuela and Trinidad with the smaller islands, but he couldn't make much out of that. He must have a private income, people decided, but they never decided why he had chosen to settle in a place he didn't like and to marry a coloured woman. Though a decent, respectable, nicely educated coloured woman, mind you. Mrs Sawyer must have been very pretty once but, what with one thing and another, that was in days gone by. When Mr Sawyer was drunk — this often happened — he used to be very rude to her. She never answered him. 'Look at the nigger showing off,' he would say; and she would smile as if she knew she ought to see the joke but couldn't. 'You damned, long-eyed, gloomy half-caste, you don't smell right,' he would say; and she never answered, not even to whisper, 'You don't smell right to me, either.' The story went that once they had ventured to give a dinner party and that when the servant,...
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...Betty Waltermire Crime and Criminology JUS-110 January 18, 2014 Sexuality and Hate Crimes A hate crime is an act of abusing an individual because they are convenient, vulnerable targets incapable of fighting back or will not fight back. People in this category may include homeless, gay men, lesbian women, transgender, transsexuals, and transvestites. These are specific crimes that drive a person by violence or a strong and selfish desire to severely injure or kill a person because of who they are or what they stand for. From coast to coast and throughout America’s heartland the murders of innocent people are occurring because they are different. They may or may not look any different than anyone else in your school, in college, at work or your neighbor. They are our sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, cousins, mothers, fathers that are gay, lesbian, transgender, transsexual that are being targeted, beaten severely, and killed. Anna Marie Lambert drove up the driveway to the rented farmhouse to visit her daughter and grandson. Inside the house she found the grisly, brutal, bloody scene and called the police. She took the grandson away from the bedroom and out to the kitchen away from the bodies. The male on the living room couch was identified as Phillip DeVine, 19. In the bedroom was the body of her daughter Lisa Lambert, 24, who was partly under the covers. The third...
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...Rights The health care professional whom would be the best person to determine what is to be “humane care” would probably be a veterinarian. A veterinarian is the most qualified to give care of an animal and would be best suited to determine humane care. I think a laboratory technician who does research on the animal has to be responsible in researching and such but should follow a strict set of guidelines. I do not support the use of animals for research. I do not think that is it humane to keep an animal locked up for testing and such. If you want to research the animal why not let it be free and research it in its natural habitat. I understand the testing for diseases and things of that sort to help maintain the animals health but I don’t approve of it. I am probably more biased towards this because I hate seeing any animal suffer, even a stray dog for that matter. I have a dog now and would never allow someone to test him unless it was a veterinarian. When viewing the NIH guidelines for animal research, I came across these 3 basic guidelines: Reduction: Reduction in the numbers of animals used to obtain information of a certain amount and precision. Refinement: Decrease in the incidence or severity of pain and distress in those animals that are used. Replacement: Use of other materials, such as cell lines or eggs, or substitution of a lower species, which might be less sensitive to pain and distress, for a higher species. I do believe that these guidelines are adequate...
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