...Chapter 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A fraternity is an organization, formed chiefly for social purposes having secret rites and name consisting of Greek letters. Fraternities get a lot of bad publicity as with that hazing problems at many colleges and universities, but there is another side to fraternities that many people do not see. Fraternities do have plenty of social events, service projects and other school and community related events. There are several factors such as personal, social, emotional and community factors that influence students to join fraternities. In order to join a fraternity, a neophyte has to undergo different rites or servicing in order to be accepted. The frequent reason that students join fraternity is for brotherhood and a place to belong. A special bond is formed between fraternity brothers. They will be there and will do almost anything for each other. Whether these set of friends make or break the student’s academic career, maybe hard to differentiate if a member is having too much fun. It sometimes depends on the individuals on how they will handle their selves as they join fraternities. But regardless, a fraternity is like any other group: what you get out of it depends on who you are and how you handle it .The problem focused on the involvement population/students in fraternities. Presently, the school/community does not recognize the presence of fraternities in the campus/population and have implied rules concerning this matter. But then...
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...Abstract By charter, national Greek organizations (ie, fraternities and sororities) place an emphasis on upholding personal integrity, academic scholarship, and development of campus leaders. Recent concerns, however, assert that the drinking behaviors of members of Greek organizations are antithetical to the mission of their universities. Objective: The author's purpose in this review was to systematically examine scientific literature addressing the effect of Greek affiliation on alcohol-related beliefs and behaviors. The internal and external influences affecting Greek members' alcohol-related beliefs and behaviors are organized into a frame-work of various health behavior theories, based on the ecological perspective's levels of influence.Results: Results provide a broad perspective into the individual characteristics, social peer network, and environmental aspects influencing alcohol-related behavior among Greek members. Findings suggest that Greek members comprise a subgroup that consumes alcohol in greater quantities, underscores and misperceives the risks of alcohol abuse, and emulates a social environment and culture in which drinking alcohol is a key part of life. Problem drinking during the college years is a significant public health concern. The goal of the current review was to examine the primary psychosocial factors that predict problem drinking in college students. Variables examined included demographic variables, personality, drinking history, alcohol expectancies...
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...with a description of the causes , and effects, of initiation in fraternity and includes a comprehensive comparative analysis of feasible solution to stop fraternity in school. B. Objectives 1: To know the effects of fraternity in a person. 2: To make a solution about fraternity. 3: To enforce the law about fraternity. C. Hypothesis 1: If every school has a program against fraternity hood then the case of joining fraternity will be lessen. 2: If the school institution are not aware of having fraternity gang it will stay as a big problem of school and of course the student who are the victim of this case. 3: If the parents and school institution help to the implementation law about compulsory joining of some students in fraternity and discipline to every student then the student will be aware to the consequence of joining into this brotherhood. C. Scope and Delimination This study shall focus on fraternity which is the cause of destroying the education and lives of every student who are suffering in this worst form of brotherhood. It shall also present the law against compulsory recruiting and this study and also promote or present the difference program against joining or compulsory recruiting of students in fraternities in every school institution . Much of this data shall be on...
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...However, the idea of a family splitting apart is much more critical and significant. The notion of seeing authority figures such as our parents arguing in front of adolescents and fearing the family will split is one fear no adolescent can brush off. Even if a family doesn't break off, parents can still neglect their children in many ways, causing external and internal problems with themselves. In the film, The Breakfast Club, Bender and his highly non-functioning parents have molded how Bender thinks and acts around people. As he crosses the threshold into adulthood, Bender will always act violent and impulsive towards others. He lacks that belief that people actually care, and this renders him emotionless at times. Bender has this inability to show affection and kindness, all because of his neglectful and abusive parents. In one of the scenes, he tells the rest of the group how his typical conversation with his parents goes. John Bender, imitating his father, says, "Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk." Then imitating his mother...
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...country; however, unity is very apparent in their culture. One main factor for their unity is the influence of Confucianism. Confucianism governs every relationship in China, and that includes business relations. Chinese culture is relationship-based. For Chinese, you are successful if you are well connected with other people (http://www.quickmba.com/mgmt/intl/china/). It makes a lot of difference in society if a person has good “connections” (guanxi in Chinese). Social connections bring a lot of benefits, while its absence makes things difficult. This is the reason why in the ethnic Chinese community, people try to find and establish kinship relations and connections with as many people as possible (Juan, 1996). “Guanxi” is an important element in Chinese businesses that serves as glue for members of their society. It literally means "relationships". In the Chinese business world, however, it is also understood as the network of relationships among different parties that cooperate and support one another. The Chinese businessmen practice the principle of "You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours." In essence, this points to exchanging favors, which are expected to be done regularly and voluntarily by the parties involved. (http://chineseculture.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm). According to Go Bon Juan’s Economic Miracle (1996), Clan, ethics, filial piety, and the countless fraternities, family associations and other organizations, hometown associations...
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...debates, discussions, and the overall decision making process. Background to the topic Ever since the world moved ahead of the monarchy and the dictatorship system, the importance of the public opinion came naturally to those who were the primary stakeholders in the politics:- the administrators and the other politicians. In the history of mankind, public opinion has forced to change or alter many political decisions. Hence, the role of public opinion in politics is not a totally new concept. However, in the modern age of information technology, people are empowered to share their opinion and get noticed like never before. Hence, it will be interesting to understand how people are using this power and how the political fraternity is reacting to the situation (Lippmann, 2007). Some recent incidents of interactions between people and politics In this section, we will see how in some recent cases, society influenced the political decision making process as well as the outcome. Back in 2003, the United Kingdom witness the grandest ever public demonstration in its entire history. On 15th Feb, people gathered to register their protest against the speculated move of British interference in Iraq. People...
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...Accounting Fraud Name: Institution: Course: Date: Accounting fraud Accounting fraud is an intentional manipulation of the financial records so that it looks improved compare to the previous ones. The fraud involves the employee in a business organization embezzling or misappropriating the business resources. Those holding higher positions in financial and accounting offices are the major promoter of the accounting fraud. There has been reported reports of the collapse of large companies mainly attributed to the impact of the fraud; the fraud only enriches oneself. On the other hand, there is deteriorations and failures in the business performance. Payroll fraud Is the past years, cases of payroll fraud has increased significantly. In this situation, the staff creates the payrolls of non-existing workers with the aim of receiving the money illegally in the end. The persons involved in the payroll fraud receives an additional payment of their salaries. There are failures in most companies because of the failure to keep enough and comprehensive records of the financial updates. Therefore, the best solution to the payroll fraud is the implementation collection of all the monthly payroll records and the account balance sheets. Through the tracking of the records will enhance the perpetrators of the vice held responsible(Singleton, T. W., & Singleton, A. J.2010). Prevention measures In any business organization, there is need of coming up with crucial prevention...
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...the history of the subject at hand, in this case Spanish history. This assumption of familiarity leads the author to use terms such as Castilian, Basque, and other regional terms without significant explanation or background. Lamikiz is also prone to use brief case studies that only give a portion of the story. One such example is Lamikiz’s mention of the arrest of Pedro Matias de Loygorri, “by night in the most extraordinary circumstances.” What these circumstances were, are never explained, nor mentioned again. While the exact details of such as story may or may not be directly relevant to Lamikiz’s thesis, the incomplete nature of such statements can lead to reader frustration, and adds to the hurried feel of Lamikiz’s work. These factors contribute to the feeling that the book is somehow unfinished. This is the primary problem with the book. It attempts to convey a large amount of information in less than two hundred pages, and while it does a remarkable job in many respects, it would have benefited from several additions. Including more background on the nature of the Spanish empire at the dawn of the eighteenth century and its place in the European hierarchy on nations would greatly improve this work. More information about the Spanish and Basque merchants living abroad would have added depth and strength to the author’s assertions, and fulfilled the promise of detailing the overseas networks that were mentioned in the title but failed to appear in meaningful ways within...
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...thoughts and feelings into words and nonverbal cues is called a. encoding b. decoding c. feedback d. semantics 2. What three things can help improve your communication competence? a. Motivation, desire, and expertise b. Skills, context, and semantics c. Encoding, decoding, and feedback d. Motivation, knowledge, and skills The route used to transmit messages is known as a. encoding b. decoding c. feedback d. noise e. a channel Sarah and Stephen are meeting to talk about their class project, but Stephen is distracted, because he is worried abouian exam in another class. He asks Sarah to repeat herself several times. This conversation is 3. 4. most strongly influenced bY a. b. c. d. 5. physical context physical noise internal noise semantic noise - The cashier at the store greets you by saying, "How are you doing today?" Even though you're having a bad day, you say, "I'm fine, thank you." Your response is an example of a a. spontaneousexPression b. constructed message c. scripted message d. semantic message Competent communication depends on a. having a friendly personalitY b. learning how to give strong feedback c. being both effective and appropriate d. avoiding noise 6. Name: ID: A 7. According to scholar Brian Spitzberg, motivation is an imporfant aspect of communication competence because a. b. c. d. 8. _ we must know what is involved in communication we will only improve our cortununication if we want to motivations makes...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership Yvonne T. Johnson Dr. Etta Steed BUS 508 Contemporary Business October 26, 2013 Determine how Five Guys philosophy sets it apart from other fast-food chains. In 1986 Five Guys started out as a little family burger operation with five locations and a steady following in Northern VA. Today, there are 570 stores across the U.S. and Canada with sales of $483 million. All Family members remain actively involved, in spite of company growth. One reason that Five Guys are different from any fast-food chain is because they have a philosophy of maintaining the basics, in which they still shadowing currently. For more than two decades, Five Guys has not changed their menu, despite of pressures from other franchises. Five guys believe in keeping it simple, even with their visual images upon entering their establishment. They have a nostalgic setting from a 1950’s diner, and a military canteen, which keeps décor to a mimuim. They have a quality selection of buns in which the supplier is local. They offer ingredients such as sautéed mushrooms, jalapeno peppers and grilled onions. And while the customers are patiently waiting for a great burger, Five Guys offer an unshelled peanut, which has become their famous trademark. Five guys being a fast-food restaurant does what other restaurants offer. They send secret shoppers twice a week to every location, and the family is traveling constantly, visiting every store. By sticking to the basics, five Guys leaves their...
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...Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education Alexander W. Astin A student development theory based on student involvement is presented and described, and the implications for practice and research are discussed. Even a casual reading of the extensive literature on student development in higher education can create confusion and perplexity. One finds not only that the problems being studied are highly diverse but also that investigators who claim to be studying the same problem frequently do not look at the same variables or employ the same methodologies. And even when they are investigating the same variables, different investigators may use completely different terms to describe and discuss these variables. My own interest in articulating a theory of student development is partly practical—I would like to bring some order into the chaos of the literature—and partly self-protective. I and increasingly bewildered by the muddle of f indings that have emerged from my own research in student development, research that I have been engaged in for more than 20 years. The theory of student involvement that I describe in this article appeals to me for several reasons. First, it is simple: I have not needed to draw a maze consisting of dozens of boxes interconnected by two-headed arrows to explain the basic elements of the theory to others. Second, the theory can explain most of the empirical knowledge about environmental influences on student development that researchers...
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...Question: For an industry of your choice, identify and analyse the most important drivers and barriers affecting its development. Answer Drivers and barriers affecting development of any industry revolve in the fraternity of globalization. Globalisation in business is the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration (Frank, 1998). It implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. Drivers in the business concept are critical forces which can be built within business strategy to enable a company to attain its set goals (Gilbert, 1994). Barriers to industry development are forces that deters the business organization from attaining the desired goals and these are encountered both in the internal as well as external business environment (Hough et al 2011) It is therefore imperative to evaluate key drivers and barriers affecting development in a bid to craft strategic tools that can stimulate strategic thinking, generate strategic foresight, provide a basis for testing existing strategies, explore and understand complexities of the future (Trompenaar et al, 2003). This can aid decision making and contribute to preparation for the future. As such, this essay seeks to explore key issues in strategic management and key theoretical models in the South African (SA) Wine Industry and that...
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...the board (Sanford v. Colgate University, 26 A.D.3d 1060, 1061). “The business judgment rule does not drain the traditional duties of prudence and diligence of directors” (Barr v. Wackman, 36 N.Y.2d 371, 381). C. Analyzing the particular facts of this case From the information we have, it is likely that Sports Everywhere’s shareholders will seek to prove the exceptions of conflict of interest and uninformed decision by the members of the Board of Directors, in order to make the business judgment rule inapplicable to the approval of the Burger Palace acquisition and be able to challenge the transaction. C.1. Conflict of interest In Auberbach v. Bennett 393 N.Y.2d 619, the management of General Telephone & Electronics Corp. directed an internal investigation to ascertain whether the corporation had engaged in questionable payments to public officials or political parties in foreign countries. The audit committee report confirmed the use of funds for such purposes and that some individual directors had been personally involved in the transactions. Auberbach, a shareholder of the company, initiated a derivative action against the directors for breaching their fiduciary duties seeking to make them accountable for the illegal payments that were performed. Following that derivative action, the Board of Directors adopted a resolution creating a special litigation committee (“SLC”), comprised by 3 directors that were not members of the Board at the time the controverted payments were...
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...higher chance of Culpism spreading out to the masses without much hindrance from other competing religions. Also, there is no set religion in Milwaukee, meaning there is a lack of a deeply ingrained religion, allowing Culpism to possibly plant the seeds of the religion and grow. In Paxamor’s case, the opposite would happen. It was founded in Boston, a largely Catholic city. Because of the large number of people who are already affiliated with a religion, Paxamor would have difficulty spreading out and recruiting members. However, there is a possibility of those who follow Buddhism to convert to this religion because of its similarities in ideologies and messages. Paxamor does not necessarily fail this proposition as much because of other factors that can affect the ability of the religion to thrive in certain...
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...CASE 1.12 MADOFF SECURITIES Synopsis A childhood friend summed up the driving force in Bernie Madoff’s life: “Bernie wanted to be rich.” As a youngster growing up in New York City, Bernie realized that Wall Street was the greatest wealth creation machine the world had ever known. So, after graduating from college in 1960, he set his sights on joining the exclusive fraternity that ran Wall Street by organizing his own one-man brokerage firm, Madoff Securities. Madoff was one of the first individuals to recognize that computer technology provided the means to “democratize” Wall Street by establishing a system that made securities trading much more efficient and much cheaper. In the early 1970s, Madoff and several other individuals organized the NASDAQ exchange, which was destined to become the world’s largest electronic stock market. Years later, the NYSE would be forced to follow suit and switch to electronic securities trading. Literally millions of investors have benefitted from the lower transaction costs of electronic securities trading that were in large part a result of the pioneering efforts of Bernie Madoff. Unfortunately, Bernie Madoff will not be remembered as a pioneer of electronic securities trading. Instead, the word “Madoff” will always be associated with the phrase “Ponzi scheme.” Although his stock brokerage firm was extremely lucrative, Madoff eventually established a parallel business, investment advisory services. Over a period of several decades, Madoff...
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