...Reaction Paper: Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. John Rey O. de los Santos CO1E Student Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple in his speech at Stanford really inspired me after viewing the video. He talked about many things in his life, his experiences, hard work, dreams, and even his cancer. The first thing that inspired me was his hard work and perseverance. He dedicated his life in his work and even if he was dropped out he didn't give up but he was eager to stand back and fulfill his dream because in hard work comes with success. If all of us Filipinos are into this, I think this will be a great nation to live and our country will gain more and our economy will boost. The Second thing that inspired me was his phrase: "If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it." It is because for me, if you are just idle and waiting for blessings to come, I'm sure it wont come to you. We need to work and have a dream in our lives in order to find what we are looking for. If we fall, we stand. If we fail, we try again. That's what life is all about. Next one was his battle against his cancer or tumor in his pancreas. The doctor said that it was incurable in the first place but Steve didn't surrender and fought this disease. Thanks to God that there was I think a miracle happened to him that his cancer was curable through operation. It only shows that we must put God first in the center of...
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...Employee Portfolio Jennifer Bratton January 15, 2012 Bret is between not being able to decide and being satisfied. Being engaged takes a little more effort and belief in what you are doing. His job satisfaction is neither high nor low. We can change his outlook and work ethic by motivation and our actions. His satisfaction level may be due to things that we can change here he may be very valuable in helping us mold the company in to a new and more encouraging and employee driven place. His efforts are needed to meet our company standards and we need to find out if he is willing to do the things we need to continue to work with our company. These characteristics can affect the company in lots of ways. Having an employee who in nonchalant or doesn’t care either way can make for some bad representation and decision making. I suggest doing some training with him and figuring out what is working and not with this employee. I would manage Bret by giving detailed directions, being professional and cordial without being overfriendly. I would try to see if Bret could be a manager or be promoted in the current job and see if his happiness could be found in our company. Naomi is satisfied in her field of study and is engaged very much in what she is doing. She is currently an asset to our company as far as being engaged and satisfied. These are just some areas and I suggest doing other assessments with this employee and a possible promotion depending on the outcome. Someone...
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...Dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling which people undergo after facing conflicting situation and which incite a drive to change the situation. It can also be considered as a lack of harmony between ones behavior in relation to their belief. Post-decision dissonance refers to a situation where people try to justify the decisions they made in the past mostly after been infringed on. This is because by making a choice to follow certain decisions they may experience disturbance for having left some other likeable decision. In this situation people and especially victims of harm tend to review whether certain decision they took towards perpetrators were the right decisions. It is a situation where people agonize over whether they made the right choice (Kowol, 2008). Various factors affect the amount of dissonance that may arise. The key factor that influences occurrence of post-decision dissonance is the magnitude of the situation at hand and the consequences that may result from it.If a situation is highly consequential there is a high likelihood of this dissonance occurring. Another factor that may affect the dissonance felt is the time taken to be decisive and come to a conclusion on one decision. The longer decision making on a situation is taken the more the dissonance. Difficulty in changing a decision once settled on is also another factor that affects the dissonance felt by an aggrieved person, the less difficult it is to reverse a decision the more the post-decision dissension...
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...Reaction Paper *Discuss or analyze the theatrical aspect. The play performed by the PHILMARTS was entitled “Romeo and Juliet”. It was not really that good. I may sound rude, but I am just being honest. Especially because of it’s failed costumes and acts. I am seated on the first line at the front, that’s why I have seen most of their mistakes. One of those is their costumes. Some of their costumes look like rushed when chosen. Some are like shoe covers, and doesn’t match their outfits. And the women’s dresses are inappropriate, and don’t match with those of the guys’ outfits. They look like they are from different time: the women are from the present, and the guys are from the past. It is because of the designs of their dresses, which doesn’t match with each other. Their dubbing was also bad because they don’t have right timing with the voice. It is also disappointing to know that there are many important scenes that are not included in the play. They just focused on the romantic scenes of Romeo and Juliet. They did that maybe because they think that such scenes are the ones that the students are waiting for. Especially because we are 4th year students, and maybe they also think that those are the only scenes that can make us shout, or excited. But they are wrong, because not all students are easily aroused by those kinds of scenes. And with their actions, it makes it look like they are seeing themselves as really good-looking people. ...
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...Phoenix BIS_303 December 20, 2011 Changing Role of Hospitality IT Introduction The role of IT in the hospitality industry is of the utmost impact in the current business environment. Because of this, GDS are possible. The strength of the GDS is in the way in which the interwoven resources and complimentary services can connect on a real-time basis. This perspective of running businesses within the industry shifts the focus. Efficiencies, Cost Control, Information Leveraging and the role of the GDS GDS allow players in the hospitality industry to be much more efficient and proactive by utilizing the capabilities that allow for simultaneous communications. This distinct shift in hospitality industry away from the reactionary and the real-estate focused business model to the channel and distribution focus facilitated by high technology, marks the modern hospitality industry. Although all of this focus is on streamlined channel distribution, the driver is still the customer. Or more precisely, providing all facets of the customer’s needs at the same moment This concept is better described in the text “The thrust of today’s distribution systems is about having the right product in the right place at the right time at the right price and under the right set of conditions or circumstances, as defined by the consumer” (Nyheim, 2005). The way in which the GDS contributes to cost control is through allowing for strategic channel focus vs. the traditional...
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...Wise Judgment Scenario Choose one of the following scenarios and discuss how each of the five components of wise judgments can be applied to the scenario you have chosen. Then, make a decision based on the five components. Explain the rationale behind your decision. 1. A teenage girl is “in love” with her 17-year-old boyfriend. He is encouraging her to have sex with him saying that he will make sure they only have “protected” sex. 2. A man has had a difficult time finding a job that pays enough to support his family. He has finally landed the job and has been working six months. He discovers that his manager is engaging in illegal activities on the job. 3. A mother knows that her 7-year-old child has stolen a box of cookies from the store while she was grocery shopping. 4. A high school friend cheated on his college entrance exam and told you about it. Baltes and his colleagues have organized components of wise judgment into five areas. Understanding each component is important in handling the situation wisely. A seven-year-old child has stolen cookies from the grocery store. How does the mother handle the situation with her son stealing the cookies? Component one is factual knowledge. Component one consists of knowing characteristics and traits shared by humans, how they relate to other people and what is normal behavior. The component helps the mother conclude that stealing cookies is not normal behavior or a characteristic for all children. Stealing is a punishable...
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...Mule killers As time passes so does people. A man and a woman form a family, and hope their children get children. But the tricky thing about families is when; there is a gap between the generations. Then people more often than not, are having a hard time trying to understand one and other. Such a dilemma is shown to us in Mule Killers by Lydia Peelle. In this story a test of the morals is shown, given the two generations different view on a problem. In this story our protagonist is our narrator’s father. The story takes place, when the father was young, but is being told to our narrator, when the father, has grown older. So the story takes place when the father is eighteen years-old. He is working on his father’s farm. In the beginning on this farm, everything is done manually, until the father decides to purchase two tractors to replace the mules, which had been taken to the slaughter house. It is here the one of the differences shows. “Mercy, mercy, mercy” (l. 58) these words comes from the protagonist´s fathers mouth, when the state comes with their big trucks, and drags away one of the mules named Orphan. Here it is clearly shown that these animals are not only a tool, but also a friend and helper. The father is willing to beg for Orphans life. The fact that he has named him also proves that they were close. The way Orphan reacts when they try to load him on the truck shows that Orphan cares about the father. The way his eyes goes mad, when they finally get on truck...
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...The code of ethics for Amgen is “doing the right thing” and O’brien followed the code of ethics and raised a red flag to their superiors. Amgen was carrying out illegal activities because they were not reporting the issues they were having with their drugs. He was “doing the right thing” yet was terminated after doing so. Amgen’s reaction to O’brien’s doing was contradictive to their code of ethics. A whistleblower is essentially a person working within a company and discovers wrongdoings the company or employees are taking part in. the individual will either report these wrong doings to another individual in the company which is internal whistleblowing, or they will report the wrong doing to someone on the outside of the organization, which is know as external whistleblowing. I believe he did take the right steps since he first alerted a senior executive of the company. He was trying to keep it internal and get things fixed before he went any further which I think would be the correct thing to do. After realizing the issues weren’t being resolved he could have blew the whistle externally with in that four-week period before he was terminated. His job was to improve “compliance processes with high inherent risk to public safety, major criminal and civil liability, or both” for Amgen. From an ethical perspective O’Brien was just doing his job and was doing the right thing especially since safety is a big deal in drug sales. He did the right thing raising a red flag to...
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...Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Manpower AL Buraimi Vocational Training Centre Business: Perfumes shop "Modern sustainability" Submitted to: MRP.Senthil Khumar, M.B.A Instructor, sales and marketing Submitted by: Aisha Suliman AL-Gaithi Roqaya Salim Al-Alawi Submitted on: Feb.2016 Introduction Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oil and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant small. Perfume is associated in many cultures with the sensual and romantic side of life. 1-What is your business type? Perfumes shop 2-When started the business? I began the business in 2011, and almost tried several projects, but a nearly two years I settled on the fat and wood Oud and perfumes with different types try to add as well as activity such as clothes, shoes and others door diversification and win customers, but with Omanisation law and calculate expenses and salary Omani employee with the number of working hours and the system of leave and decided to change the plan links and delete activity clothing and perfume only run activity and the piece has already been almost seven months ago and praise be to Allah. 3-Why you establish this business? I chose this project to my sense that I could invent and creative in this area with enjoy. 4-Are there any competitors for your business in same location? I don’t find any competitor in same draft area. But however, including...
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...Donald Tiffany Dr. Valerie Levy English Comp 101 4/19/2015 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words..Tears It was once said by Betrand Russell, “War does not determine who is right-only who is left”, I believe by this he means just because one side wins or one side loses doesn’t mean one is right or wrong. The fact of the matter is that when it comes to war, both sides see themselves as the right or virtuous side fighting for the cause that is just, but sometimes in war it doesn’t matter if you are the one that is right or wrong but rather the one with the bigger gun. War is a messy and by all means painful situation to be apart of, which ever if it is you fighting on the front lines or observing it through another means maybe such modes like media. Imagery of war can have an enormous effect on the people involved but also just the same lasting effect of the people that witness these images. In Susan Sontag’s, “Regarding the Pain of Others” and John Berger’s, “Hiroshima” they both depict their ideas toward the imagery of war and what the effects are and how these effects can have certain lasting results on our humanity. Both authors, Sontag and Berger have their own views on imagery of war, and how and if it should be used. Placing their opinions side-by-side allows us to compare their ideas on bringing to light the horrors of war, protection of our innocence, and what is morally right. War is no picnic in the park, it is an ongoing sequence of horrifying events that each...
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...The New York Islanders are now down to their final two exhibition games. The final two for players to try and make an impression on the coaching staff before rosters have to be set next Tuesday, October 11 no later than 5pm ET. Some decisions will be easier than others. Michael Dal Colle was always seen as a candidate for Bridgeport, to get more acclimated to the pro game as was Joshua Ho-Sang, who has turned heads with his pre-season play this year. It’s assumed that Adam Pelech and Scott Mayfield are the odd men out on the blueline, and Mayfield will likely pass through waivers if placed on the list at the right time. Anthony Beauvillier, however, was never seen as having much of a chance. With three years of junior hockey under his belt and at age 19, he is not eligible to play for the Sound Tigers. It’s either a nine-game tryout and remain, burning a year of his entry level contract or back to juniors for his fourth and final season as captain of the Shawinigan Cataractes. With 91 goals and 206 points in 178 games in the QMJHL, he has turned the most heads throughout this training camp with his steady two-way game, a must in head coach Jack Capuano’s system. Junior scoring totals sometimes do not translate to the NHL and Beavillier has shown a quick understanding of that, adapting his game more to the Islanders style. Capuano is noticing and heaped praise on the young forward after the game last night. “He’s in the mix. He’s playing the game the right way and certainly...
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...that it exhibits features that are normally associated with living organisms – human beings or plants. In this view, societies are complex networks of relationships that ultimately exist to maintain the whole, the whole being more important than its individual parts. In that sense, society differs from a machine, which is merely a collection of parts. The conservative notion of an organic society has a variety of implications, including the following: It implies that change, particularly radical change, is undesirable, as it misguidedly treats society as if it were a machine whose parts can be assembled and reassembled, recast and reformed, in the hope of improving its workings. It supports a ‘communitarian’ tendency within traditional conservatism that stresses the importance of social duty and obligation, and is linked to the One Nation tradition. The health of an organic society is upheld by attempts to strengthen the ‘fabric’ of society, in line with a functionalist view of...
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...I do believe that physicians have the right to restrict prescriptions to those who are diagnosable. The reason I say that is because the patient hasn’t been seen and diagnosed from a doctor or a psychologist. In this case the doctor is only going on from what the parents are saying not what he has witnessed or tested the child on. In my opinion I do believe it matters if it affects cognition reason being is that the doctor really doesn’t know what’s going on with the child. What if the child has a brain disease that is already slowing up his cognition? Then you medicate him with meds that are doing the same that means you are responsible for father damage to that child. I feel it shouldn’t matter if the patient is a child or an adult the doctor still should use his best judgment and that would be don’t give the patient any meds at all or diagnose the patient. So I feel the doctor did the right thing in this scenario. The word I chose was Non-maleficence I chose this word because the doctor reframed from using ineffective treatment or malice. Example: I took my son into the hospital when he was three months old. I told them he was constantly throwing up, scratching himself, and having trouble breathing. Instead of the doctors doing x-rays, blood test and etc., they gave my son a prescription for Benadryl, infant Tylenol and told me to keep him hydrated. I took my son home that night I woke up about 12 to feed him and my son was flushed and not breathing. I rushed my son to...
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...Elephant In “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell finds himself in a difficult situation involving an elephant. The elephant’s life depends all on one decision Orwell must make, to shoot the elephant or let him be. I agree with Orwell’s final decision to shoot the elephant for a few reasons. One reason being of the situation he was placed in from the beginning, being a figure of authority in an area of people that mostly hate you and torment you on a daily bases. He had to prove himself in front of the natives. Shooting an elephants is something that he did not want to do but was pressured by the people to do so. He says “ Here I was the white man with this gun, standing in front of the unarmed crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind.” He had no choice but to shoot the elephant with everyone there watching and staring at him. He felt their gaze on him and knew what he had to do. He couldn’t walk away without firing a shot at the elephant, without killing him. He was the center of attention and everyone was waiting for his next move and the only move they wanted to see was the elephant fall. Another reason, which he justifies himself, is that the elephant killed a man. Even if that man was just a Coringhee coolie, he was still a man. It was the legal and right thing to do. He couldn’t have a mad elephant running around. Granted Orwell could have gone another path like he discussed...
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...Case One Unethical Reaction Although the company has the right to protect it’s image by incorporating employees off duty behaviour into its code of conduct and ensuring that employees voice their concerns through the proper channels as outlined in a chain of command or via human resource personnel. The company’s reprimands were severe and unwarranted based on the cited reason for firing, which is employee venting regarding being unable to go home early and not being promoted for his hair style. Case Two Unethical Behaviour ii)It is natural for computer organizations to implement competitive measures such as restricting cartridge brand to printer brand. However restricting the demographics of where the cartridge can be bought and used can be perceived as a breach of consumer right and is an unethical attempt to monopolize fair trade. Case Three i)Unethical Behaviour ii)For the company to be allowed to use the software it must be a licensed user, which can only be done through purchase of the software from an authorized dealer. Therefore the company’s acquisition of the software through an underground source without paying and registering the software may be perceived as unethical and a copyright infringement. Case Four Ethical Behaviour ii) The station has due reason to be concerned for the objectivity of the program given the appearance of conflict of interest that viewer’s may perceive in that in matters concerning the host’s husband the...
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