...Obama in Kenya for rights talks NAIROBI (AFP) – US President Barack Obama held talks in Kenya yesterday on trade and investment, counter-terrorism and human rights, in his first visit to the country of his father’s birth since his election as president. A massive security operation was under way in Nairobi, with parts of the usually traffic-clogged capital locked down and airspace also closed for the president’s landing late Friday and his scheduled departure late today for neighboring Ethiopia. Top of the list of security concerns is Somalia’s Al-Queda-affiliate, the Shebab, who have staged a string of suicide attacks, massacres and bombings on Kenyan soil, including an attack on a university in April, which killed 147 students. Two years ago the siege of the Westgate shopping mall in the heart of the capital by Shebab left 67 dead. Obama was greeted by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as he stepped off Air Force One. The president’s half-sister Auma was also on the tarmac to welcome him and travel in the bomb-proof presidential limousine, nicknamed ‘The Beast’, for the drive to the hotel in the city center, where Obama dined with members of his extended Kenyan family. Excitement has been building in Kenya for weeks, with the visit seen as a major boost for the east African nation’s position as a regional hub – something that has taken a battering in recent years due to Shebab attacks and political violence that landed Kenyan leaders in the International Criminal...
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...The early years of this nation’s development is taught to the American youth early in their school years. Ask any fifth grade student who the first President of the United States is and the immediate reply would be Washington, the father of our country. Ask who freed the slaves and Lincoln will be immediately answered. Adults can answer these questions relatively easy too. However, ask who the ninth President is and there may be no response from a student or an adult. President Harrison played a key role in the development of our nation and should be honored for his service and his many other accomplishments for this country. He was the youngest of seven siblings and was born into a wealthy and politically involved family on February 9th, 1773 (Ohio History, n.d.). His father who was a three term Governor, signed the Declaration of...
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...Income inequality is a topic of great interest. President Barack Obama believes it is the “defining issue of our time”. Long before Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” sent shockwaves around the world, there was Jane Austen who described the pitfalls of living in an unequal society in the Pride and Prejudice. Reality differs from fiction. Rich kids without a college degree are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than poor kids who do graduate from college. Even when kids from low-income households do outperform those from high-income households, it is uncertain that they will end up earning more as an adult (Pew Economic Mobility Project, 2012). Higher income inequality would be less of a concern if we had a high degree of income mobility, which is truly the heart of the issue. Income mobility addresses the idea: if you work hard and are skilled; you can make something of yourself i.e. the possibility of an individual moving from one income bracket to another. An important distinction is made between intergenerational income mobility and...
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...and events such as the statement four score and seven years ago and emancipation proclamation along with President Lincoln’s assassination have molded American ideology and actions. President Abraham Lincoln was very influential in molding the United States of America and although some of the decisions made during the course of the presidency were controversial; these actions moved the country forward. Abraham Lincoln was the second child born from his father’s first wife. Life stated for Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. The Lincoln’s lost their land in Kentucky and eventually forced to move to Indiana. Once in Indiana, tragedy struck the Lincoln’s again. He had to deal with his real mother dying from sickness and soon thereafter his father remarried to Ms. Sarah Johnston. Although he missed his biological mother his new family all got along well so well that Lincoln even called Ms. Johnston, mother. As Kane stated, “He held jobs as a store clerk, soldier, postmaster, rail-splitter, surveyor, lawyer, state legislator, United States congressman, and finally the President of the United States from March 4th 1861 until his death on April 15th 1869”. He was married to Mary Todd from Lexington Kentucky for over 22 years and together they had four sons. He was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14th and died the next day at 7:22 A.M. With Lincoln’s broad career choices no one would have thought that he would be a likely candidate...
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...Lara Abouhamad Essay #1: The Significance of the Arts “With their focus on history, culture, literature, language and other relevant areas of study, the humanities address all these issues in direct and positive ways, while also providing important, if less easily quantified, insights about the human condition.” -Cornell President David Skorton A friend of my father once took it upon himself to give me some gratuitous advice on the matter of applying to college. Himself a successful business man, he urged not that I got straight into business school or any other specialty school of the sort, but strongly advised me that I get a liberal arts degree first (or in the case of Cornell, apply to the College of Arts and Sciences). He insisted that having a liberal arts and humanities background would be the best resource not only career-wise, but simply put, it would allow me to have the freedom to explore different realms of study before finding what interests I truly want to pursue, because at the study of the arts and humanities rests at the core of every profession. Albeit unprompted, the advice he gave me that day profoundly stuck with me and ultimately solidified my decision to apply to the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. In many ways, what my father’s friend explained to me echoes closely what President Skorton said in his letter: “Perhaps most important, the humanities are the cornerstone of understanding what it means to be fully human – an understanding that we ignore...
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...Lucas Abelar Professor Paul Hunter English 1301 8 October 2012 Several events in Chief Joseph’s term as chief of the Wallowa band show us he was more diplomat than warrior.The Voice of the West The first event happened in 1885 when, Isaac Stevens, governor of the Washington Territory, organized a council to designate separate areas for natives and settlers. Joseph the Elder (“Young Joseph’s” father) and the other Nez Perce chiefs signed a treaty with the United States establishing a Nez Perce reservation encompassing 7.7 million acres in present-day Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. The 1855 reservation maintained much of the traditional Nez Perce lands, including Josephs Wallowa Valley. The second event was an influx of new settlers caused by a gold rush led the government to call a second council in 1863.” Government commissioners asked the Nez Perce to accept a new, much smaller reservation of 780,000 acres (3,200 km2) situated around the village of Lapwai in Idaho, and excluding the Wallowa Valley.” In exchange, they were promised financial rewards and schools and a hospital for the reservation. One of the allied chiefs signed the treaty on behalf of the Nez Perce Nation, but Joseph the Elder and several other chiefs were opposed to selling their lands, and did not sign. Their refusal to sign caused a rift between the "non-treaty" and "treaty" bands of Nez Perce. The "treaty" Nez Perce moved within the new Idaho reservation's boundaries, while the "non-treaty" Nez...
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...“has no authority to subject citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure.” (History) The case was brought on the side of Mitsuye Endo, the daughter of a Japanese immigrants from Sacramento, CA. Endo refuses while the government asked to free her after filing a habeas corpus petition. Instead Endo came to decision wanting her case to address the entire issue of Japanese internment. Couple years later, the Supreme Court made the decision, but gave President Roosevelt the chance to begin camp closures before the announcement. A day after President Roosevelt made his announcement, the Supreme Court revealed its decision. Not until years later in 1987, where there was the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which is when the U.S. government address the wrongs that they have committed with their retribution was paying 20,000 dollars and an official apology for each surviving individual affected by the Executive Order 9066. The first remedy was not introduced in congress until 1983, until it was passed in 1988 due to a lack of funding and the decision of the Supreme Court in the 1940s. The civil liberties act of 1988 was signed by President Ronald Reagan on August 10, and the final authorized fund was used for reparations to...
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...Due Day 7 (Monday): Individual Assignment: The Responsibility Project Resource: The Responsibility Project website Perform a web search for the site called The Responsibility Project. Select the link for this site. View the short films on the Responsibility Project website. Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select. Include the following: • Why are the issues in the film important? • What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics? • How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions? • What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film? Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. The Freedom Riders Film - The Young Witness http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/freedom-riders-vol-1#fbid=9wgq-FoiKSY I choose my paper on The Freedom Riders, which is about the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives; many endured savage beatings and imprisonment for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders...
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...here that life doesn't abruptly end when one dies; rather, it extends into another after life. Longfellow values this dream of the afterlife immensely and seems to say that life can only be lived truly if one believes that the soul will continue to live long after the body dies. The second stanza continues with the same belief in afterlife that is present in the first. Longfellow states this clearly when he writes, "And the grave is not its goal." Meaning that, life doesn't end for people simply because they die; there is always something more to be hopeful and optimistic for. Longfellow begins discussing how humans must live their lives in constant anticipation for the next day under the belief that it will be better than each day before it: "But to act that each to-morrow / Find us farther than to-day." In the subsequent stanza, Longfellow asserts that there is never an infinite amount of time to live, but art that is created during one's life can be preserved indefinitely and live on long after its creator dies. In the following stanzas, Longfellow likens living in the world to fighting on a huge field of battle. He believes that people should lead heroic and courageous lives and not sit idle and remain ineffectual while the world rapidly changes around them: "Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!" His use of the word "strife" is especially interesting, since it clearly acknowledges that life is inherently difficult, is a constant struggle, and will never...
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...FOOD COMPANY In February 2007, Francisco Valle, Jr., president of Industrias La Vega, organized the first family council meeting in the owning family’s history to address problems he was having with his youngest sister, Mari, a shareholder in the company. He felt that the problems were not of his making and were interfering with his management of the company. Francisco, 45, had worked closely with his father, Francisco Sr., since 1986 and had become president of the company in March 2004, when his 72-year-old father was killed in an automobile accident. Industrias La Vega was a Spanish meat-processing business that produced hams, sausages, and other delicacies for domestic and export markets. The $104.8-million-a-year business was demanding, of course, but Francisco Jr. felt most challenged by the family conflicts that often overwhelmed him. The ownership structure of Industrias La Vega had been updated just months before the tragic accident involving Francisco Sr. At the request of Francisco Jr., who was concerned about the possible loss of control of the enterprise he had co-managed with his father for years, Francisco Sr. and his attorneys had created two classes of stock. The voting A shares did not pay dividends. The nonvoting but dividend-bearing B shares had a par value 10 times higher than that of the A shares. Except for brief stints, none of the Valle daughters had worked in the business prior to their father’s death. Ana, the second eldest daughter, was an artist,...
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...occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. The phrase “or the risk thereof” includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome. Sentinel Event identified by Joint Commission also include infant abduction or discharge to the wrong family. Summary of the Sentinel event in the Case Study: Sentinel event presented in the case study involves discharge of a minor to the wrong family. Joint Commission requires immediate attention to such matters so that it may be avoided in the future. The summary of the event is that a 13 year old teenager, Tina, was admitted for day surgery. Tina was accompanied by her mother. After dropping Tina for the surgery at the hospital, her mother left to run some errands. Before leaving, she left her contact phone number with the pre-op nurse. After the surgery, Tina was inappropriately released to her father when her mother was delayed in returning to pick-up the daughter from the hospital. The hospital staff had no awareness of the family situation. Upon arrival at the hospital after the errands, mother was informed that Tina’s father had picked up Tina from the hospital because the mother was 2 ½ hours late in picking up Tina. The hospital staff had attempted to contact the mother multiple times prior to releasing Tina. According to the call logs, six attempts to contact...
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...Benazir Bhutto: A Modern-Day Political Prisoner “America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.” A woman named Benazir Bhutto spoke those wise words. She, herself, was a political prisoner of conscience from an early point in her life. A political prisoner by definition involves an individual who has been imprisoned for holding or advocating dissenting political views (American Heritage Dictionary). This is similar to a political prisoner of conscience- one in which is prisoned for holding political or religious beliefs not tolerated in the state in which they live (Oxford Dictionary). In October 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) became the first major intergovernmental organization to approve concrete criteria for what defines a political prisoner. One of the criteria outlines the violation of basic human rights; particularly freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. St Thomas More was the first to coin the word “utopia”, meaning “an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect” (Merriam-Webster). This is the system of an ideal world, yet will never be a reality. Religious and political views vary greatly from country to country. Even within a single country, there will always be conflicting beliefs. In Catholic teachings, it is known that Jesus was among the first to be a political prisoner...
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...Valle family, had a Randall reputation for quality products in the marketplace. Francisco Jr., 45, had worked with his father Francisco Valle since 1976 and became president in March 1994, when his 72-year-old father was killed in an automobile accident. Francisco Valle, Jr., held the first family council meeting in the family's history in February 1997. While he liked the concept of a family council as a forum for family issues, he was most concerned that the problems he was having with his youngest sister, Mari, and possibly his other sisters, needed to be addressed. The ownership structure of Vega Foods included two classes of stock, responding to Francisco's concern with the possible loss of control of the enterprise in his absence. Francisco Jr. and Isabel, Francisco Valle Sr.'s surviving spouse, each held 50% of the voting shares and therefore controlled the corporation. Nonvoting dividend-paying shares were held by each of Francisco's five sisters (15% each), Isabel (5%), and Francisco (20%). Isabel was also a very positive influence in the family's culture. Her daughters described Isabel as the glue that kept the family together. Francisco considered her a wise adviser and a positive influence with his sisters. Except for brief stints, none of the Valle daughters had worked in the business prior to their father's death. But in 1994, Teresa, encouraged by Francisco to return from Latin America to assist in running the company, joined the top management team. Mari, the youngest...
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...Open Book It was a sweet sunny day of February 9, 1991 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon when birds are chirping and flowers are blossoming out from their buds. Amidst the calmness and the hush of the air touching the leaves of a narra tree in the front yard, a very loud voice went out from a small nipa house. “It’s a boy”, said by an old woman in a cracking voice. It was like singing in chorus – a tone like a lullaby when the child cried. It was like a paradigm shift, who would have thought that for nine months of swimming, playing, kicking and eating inside a mother’s womb, a child was born named “Kenneth” by his father after baptism. I am the youngest in the family. My name was chosen using a random method – and yes, not based in astrology, horoscopes or my father’s favorite basketball player. I could have imagined how happy my parents were when I survived the process and given the opportunity to see the beautiful world. I believe that I got most of my physical traits from my parents through genetics. I am 5’6 in height and my father too. Aside from the height, I got my skin tone from my mother. People always say that I look like my mother. I believe that not only do I got most of my physical traits from my mother but I got much more. My mother and I have a lot of traits that are similar. We both think alike and have many common interests. Genetic is one way of explaining the similarities, but I think it is more because of my childhood days. My mother took care of me since...
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...Joty Product and Ad Campaign For this next assignment I want you to create a product of your choice. You will be making everything that has to do with the product, from beginning to end. It can be a product that already exists, but with a new name, label, packaging, and advertisement. Although, I do prefer that you make a brand new product that does not exist because then it is all original. Brainstorming Ideas • Think like an inventor and think about solutions for the things that cause you problems on a daily basis. (For example: Drool catcher, Bed hair, Toe jam, Acne, etc.) • Think about your favorite products and how they can be made better • Think of your target audience (consumers) • How would you present your product? • What would it be made out of? • Who and how would they benefit from your product? Dieter Rams: 10 Principles for Good Design 1. Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally-friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible Requirements • Come up with a product that has an original name and slogan o Make a label and packaging for your product that has all of the essential information for the consumer (logo, slogan, product info). Make it look like a real You're...
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