...A Case Against Oklahoma’s Ban on First Cousin Marriage While public support for same sex marriage has undoubtedly increased within the last decade, the topic of consanguineous marriages is seldom discussed in popular media or the court house. In January of 2014 “District Judge Terence Kern overturned Oklahoma’s discriminatory state ban on marriage for same-sex couples” (“Oklahoma”). Nevertheless, according to section 43-2 of Oklahoma Statutes “marriages between…first cousins are…expressly prohibited.” By continuing to uphold this ban, the legislative assembly of Oklahoma wrongfully agrees with the common notions that marrying one’s close cousin results in a significantly higher chance of genetic mutations and disorders among offspring, disrupts social order, and is morally wrong. A careful analysis of the assembly’s implied arguments disproves their validity. The increase in health risks posed to the offspring was perhaps the most influential factor considered by the legislative assembly of Oklahoma when outlawing consanguineous marriages. Although everyone is aware of the additional danger, many—including governing bodies—often disregard the actual numbers and exaggerate the findings. The offspring of first cousin marriages have only “a 1.7-2.8% increased risk for congenital defects above the [general] population” (Bennett et al. 115). The rise is not only miniscule, it is also preventable due to advanced methods of genetic testing and introduction of “genetic counseling” (Gelman)...
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...Would you like your body left to Science, while you're still alive and capable of feeling pain? Animals used for testing are taken away from their mothers at a young age to live a life of torture and confinement. Animals used for testing are poisoned, abused, blinded, and killed. Over 100 million animals are killed for research every year. How would you like to be in their situation? Do you think it's worth it to have another shampoo on the market for tons of animals lives? Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. One reason why is because millions of animals are blinded, poisoned and killed for our own products.Another reason why animal testing is cruel and inhumane is that 97,123 animals were in pain every year. The last reason why animal...
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...VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HO CHI MINH CITY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CUSTOMER SWITCHING BEHAVIOR IN THE VIETNAM RETAIL BANKING INDUSTRY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Student’s name: BÙI THỊ GIÁNG HƯƠNG Student’s ID: BAIU09043 Advisor: NGUYỄN VĂN PHƯƠNG, Ph.D Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2014 CUSTOMER SWITCHING BEHAVIOR IN THE VIETNAM RETAIL BANKING INDUSTRY APPROVED BY: Advisor APPROVED BY: Committee _____________________________ ______________________________ Nguyễn Văn Phương, Ph.D. Nguyen Kim Thu, Dr., Chairman ______________________________Duong Thuy Tram Anh, MBA, Secretary ______________________________Le Phuong Thao, MBA, ______________________________ Hoanh Thanh Nhon, MBA, Thesis Committee ACKNOWLEDGMENTS During the time working on this thesis, there are plenty of difficulties that I have been through and plenty of experiences that I have learned. This thesis is finished with the valuable contributions of many people that I am very thankful to. First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratefulness to my advisor, Ph.D. Nguyen Van Phuong for his guidance, support and contribution during the whole process from the beginning of this task till the end. Especially in my first stage, his tutorials and recommendations helped me to get through the obstacles resulted from short of time and knowledge...
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...Maggi case. Will Maggi Bounce Back? Would Nestle be able to Leverage the crisis and Gamble on the Indian Market? Prepare a case study. It should include the following: Summary/ Introduction/Background/ Situation/ Impact/ Discussion/ Recommendations/Way forward Summary Nestle India’s popular 2-minute noodles Maggi accounted for 60% of the noodle sales in 2014. In 2015, Nestle faced the biggest hit after Maggi was recalled by FDI, after tests showed high levels of lead and MSG in the noodle. The tests conducted in other countries did not find the levels unsafe and recently the Bombay High Court struck down the nationwide ban questioning the test results. By analysing the situation it’s hard to say where the fault lies. Were there really unsafe amount of lead and MSG in the noodle? Were they framed? The way Nestle responded to the situation, was it wrong? What else could Nestle have done? What should Nestle do bring Maggi back? This case study will show how the situation developed, how Nestle dealt with it, and also how Nestle handled the customer’s queries. The case will also have recommendations on how to bring back Maggi to the customers’. Introduction Background Nestle first entered the Indian market by setting up a milk factory in 1961. Nestle India Limited introduced the Maggi brand to Indian consumers by launching Maggi 2 Minute Noodles, an instant food product in 1982. At that time they were trying to create a new food category of instant noodles especially targeting...
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...Ethics problems in cosmetics industry St. Thomas University MAN 510 Management Ethics Professor Raúl Fernández-Calienes 3/05/2014 Rong Li Abstract A cosmetics industry is called “beauty economy’, which includes the make-up, skincare and hair production and so on. Due to the beauty of nature, there is a huge demand for the cosmetics in the economic market. The corporations of cosmetics are the main supplies of the beauty products. As the blooming development of cosmetics industries, some phenomenon is involved in argument, which have exert an harm on people and the society even though they do not violate the current law. In this research paper, three main ethics problem will be discussed. This paper will give a brief background on each phenomenon, and then give the arguments and problems of it by using the ethics theories and case. Finally, some suggestions and measurement will be given to each problem. Key words: ethics, animal-test, advertising manipulate, double standard, Corporate social responsibility Introduction Cosmetics industry is called “the beauty economy”, devoted to develop the products of skincare and make-up both for woman and man. Due to the pressure from employment and mating (lipstick effect), people, especially woman most likely tend to spend their money on buying cosmetics, in order to enhance their beauty on their appearance and body. Consumers in America spend $45 Billion on cosmetics and beauty...
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...1. Introduction In Vietnam, planning and conducting more effective learning and teaching strategies for History is considered as one of the most challenging task for educators (Mr. Truong Tan Sang 2012). The quality of teaching and learning History has stood low and even had tendency to get worse in the past few years. A report in Tuoi tre (July 26, 2011) revealed that the year 2011 witnessed an unprecedentedly disappointed result in History of the entrance exam, approximately 80-90% of candidates got the mark below five, in some extent, the figure even reached over 98%. This is a seriously alarming warning for Vietnam about the unacceptable quality of teaching and learning History. Although it is significantly crucial to do a research to figure out the effective ways of educating History, the number of studies about the methods of History teaching is relatively limited; in addition, all of them still have not provided enough necessary information (Mr. Truong Tan Sang 2012). Nevertheless, thanks to these studies, we at least have had an overview about what should be done to improve methods of teaching and learning History in Vietnam. According to Phan Ngoc Lien (2002) and Nguyen Thi Coi (2006), changing attitude, upgrading facilities and holding up training courses would be three crucial measures to improve the quality of History educating in Vietnam. The Ministry of Education has already implemented diverse campaign focusing on these measures such as textbook reforming and...
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...BLOOD DONATION ANBU 1111711205004 Information Technology ABSTRACT Blood donation is carried out when a person voluntarily agrees for blood to be drawn with the intention of donating it. The donated blood may be used for transfusions or itmay be separated into individual components to be used as required. The latter procedure is called fractionation.Blood donation may be of different kinds. In the developedcountries unpaid donors give blood to replenish a community supply. In economically poorer countries, however, blood donation is carried out according to demand, as the established blood ties are extremely limited. It may be an altruistic act or it may include a cash payment or incentives other than money. A person can have blood drawn and stored for own future use.In 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) set a target for all blood donors to be unpaid volunteers. But statistics, in 2006, revealed that only 49 of 124 countries surveyed had achieved this target. INTRODUCTION A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole-blood components). Donation may be of whole-blood or of specific components directly. Blood banks often participate in the collection process as well as the procedures that follow it. DONORS In the developed world, most blood donors are unpaid volunteers (voluntary non remunerated repeat donations...
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...off the job and outside of their work hours should not condemn them or cost them their job. On January 24th, the Associated Press reported Newbern police Sergeant James Bishop, of Tennessee Police Department, was terminated for smoking after 17 years on the police force (“Police Officer Fired”). Some may question why Sgt. Bishop was not written up prior to being fired, but the answer is simple; policies have prohibited smoking in municipal offices or buildings. The purpose of our presentation is to shed light on the pros and cons of the smoking policies at the Dallas-based Health Care System. We will focus on the employer’s and employee’s perspective of: Increasing insurance costs vs. disease/addiction, clean work environment vs. anti-smoke bans, and lastly wellness/pro-health vs. discrimination against smokers as a class of people. Baylor officials claim smoking is one of the reasons health insurance premiums are constantly rising for Americans. Over the past few years, various employees have been adapting to the smoking policies, which has become a more prevalent issue. The challenge for employers, however, resides in staying within legal and ethical boundaries when addressing such issues. Presently, a growing number of employers are requiring employees who use tobacco to pay higher premiums, hoping that will motivate more of them to stop smoking. Existing employees of Baylor who smoke are paying a surcharge of $50 a year. In January 2012 a new plan took effect, increasing the...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Every industry operates within two sets of constraints. Internal constraints are those problems within the organization and over which the enterprise has reasonable amount of control. Personnel problem, capacity utilization and the techniques or process of production are some of such factors. External factors could pose formidable problems to an enterprise. The problems are made more severe by the fact that these problems are caused by factors outside the competence of a given enterprise to control. Examples of such factors are government regulation, traditional or cultural values etc. The bakery industry in Nigeria has been a victim of externally imposed constraint. Hitherto, bakers depended on local millers who produced their vital raw materials, flour from imported wheat. Government banned the importation of wheat and wheat product in 1986, thereby, sending shock waves to this very well established and expanding industry. Wheat products has started to consume an unacceptable amount of the nation’s foreign exchange as the table 1.1.1 below clearly demonstrates, as well as figure 1.1.1 in page 3. Table 1.1.1 Foreign Exchange Spent on Wheat and Food Import 1981 – 1985 Import 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 N,000 N,000 N,000 N,000 N,000 Total food 1,820,215 1,642,245 1,296,714 843,246 946,567 Wheat 159,422 79,629 255,717 243,067 327,870 C/o of total 9% 5% 20% 29% 35%` Source: Federal Office of Statistics...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Every industry operates within two sets of constraints. Internal constraints are those problems within the organization and over which the enterprise has reasonable amount of control. Personnel problem, capacity utilization and the techniques or process of production are some of such factors. External factors could pose formidable problems to an enterprise. The problems are made more severe by the fact that these problems are caused by factors outside the competence of a given enterprise to control. Examples of such factors are government regulation, traditional or cultural values etc. The bakery industry in Nigeria has been a victim of externally imposed constraint. Hitherto, bakers depended on local millers who produced their vital raw materials, flour from imported wheat. Government banned the importation of wheat and wheat product in 1986, thereby, sending shock waves to this very well established and expanding industry. Wheat products has started to consume an unacceptable amount of the nation’s foreign exchange as the table 1.1.1 below clearly demonstrates, as well as figure 1.1.1 in page 3. Table 1.1.1 Foreign Exchange Spent on Wheat and Food Import 1981 – 1985 Import 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 N,000 N,000 N,000 N,000 N,000 Total food 1,820,215 1,642,245 1,296,714 843,246 946,567 Wheat 159,422 79,629 255,717 243,067 327,870 C/o of total 9% 5% 20% 29% 35%` Source: Federal Office of Statistics...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Every industry operates within two sets of constraints. Internal constraints are those problems within the organization and over which the enterprise has reasonable amount of control. Personnel problem, capacity utilization and the techniques or process of production are some of such factors. External factors could pose formidable problems to an enterprise. The problems are made more severe by the fact that these problems are caused by factors outside the competence of a given enterprise to control. Examples of such factors are government regulation, traditional or cultural values etc. The bakery industry in Nigeria has been a victim of externally imposed constraint. Hitherto, bakers depended on local millers who produced their vital raw materials, flour from imported wheat. Government banned the importation of wheat and wheat product in 1986, thereby, sending shock waves to this very well established and expanding industry. Wheat products has started to consume an unacceptable amount of the nation’s foreign exchange as the table 1.1.1 below clearly demonstrates, as well as figure 1.1.1 in page 3. Table 1.1.1 Foreign Exchange Spent on Wheat and Food Import 1981 – 1985 Import 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 N,000 N,000 N,000 N,000 N,000 Total food 1,820,215 1,642,245 1,296,714 843,246 946,567 Wheat 159,422 79,629 255,717 243,067 327,870 C/o of total 9% 5% 20% 29% 35%` Source: Federal Office of...
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...Rachel Beck Professor Carr RWS 200 2/27/14 Electronic Cigarettes: the Future of Smoking? Today, if you were to sit at a bar on the Lower East Side, you may find yourself next to a guy smoking a light-up plastic tube that smells like cherries and think to yourself, even Humphrey Bogart couldn’t make one of those look cool. Or if you haven’t seen the 1941 film, Casablanca, you may still chuckle a bit. But could these vaping devices be the future of smoking? Author Andrew Stuttaford in his article, “Vaper Strain” published by the National Review in 2013, addresses the topic of these electronic cigarettes, arguing that these healthy alternatives are, in fact, the future of smoking. He believes they are often demonized for no good reason and he advocates for the product by addressing some of the key health concerns that consistently show up in debates on e-cigarettes. His purpose is to address these concerns, but ultimately show how the benefits of e-cigarettes outweigh their potential detriments. In his attempt to debunk arguments from the critics of e-cigarettes, he adopts a sarcastic tone for his audience, the readers of the National Review. Stuttaford’s sarcastic tone is used to introduce e-cigarettes to an older audience, predominantly one of older cigarette smokers who grew up in a time when smoking was a part of the American culture. The very first sentence in his article is introducing e-cigarettes – what they do and how they work – knowledge that is commonly known...
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...incredible amounts of money towards the drug itself, and all the other associated risks involved, we get to the millions of nameless, faceless addicts that society doesn’t pay much attention to until unknowingly affected by it themselves, and when so many people can be affected by something they are not actively participating in, that is a problem that needs to be addressed and some sort of action is a must. This is where the debate of the needle exchange program, or NEP’s (community-based initiatives that allow intravenous (IV) drug users to exchange used syringes for clean, sterile ones in an effort to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, C and other blood-borne pathogens) enter the conversation.( Past/Future - Needle Exchange | The Age Of Aids | FRONTLINE | PBS.) The NEP is a program that is always met with large amounts of opposition by the public, as well as government apprehension. Considering the recent increases in heroin addiction, many cities all over the world have reluctantly started their own form of a Needle Exchange Program. There are many valid arguments opposing...
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...CASE 27 McDonald’s and Obesity THE PROBLEM Governments and influential health advocates around the world, spooked that their nations’ kids will become as fat as American kids, are cracking down on the marketers they blame for the explosion in childhood obesity. Across the globe, efforts are under way to slow the march of obesity. In the United States, roughly 30 percent of American children are overweight or obese. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 64.5 percent of Americans tip the scales as overweight or obese, the highest percentage of fat people of any country in the world. However, adults and kids in other countries are catching up. THE WORLD The World Heart Federation reports that globally there are now more than 1 billion overweight adults and that at least 400 million of those are obese. An estimated 155 million children are overweight worldwide including 30–45 million who are obese.1 In many countries, the worst increases in obesity have occurred in young people. About half a million children in Europe are suffering classic middle-aged health problems because they are too fat. Obesity among European children has been on the rise over the last 25 years. The number of overweight children in Europe did not change much from 1974 to 1984; then the rate started to creep up during the next 10 years, and it exploded after 1995. In Britain, one in five children is overweight or obese; in Spain 30 percent;...
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...MAGGI CRISIS RISK MANAGEMENT & HACCP ESS 101 Managerial Economics Group 12 Pushpdeep Bahade Shreya Madhur Bajpai Manasa Rajbarath KR TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Background _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Beginning ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Recent crisis and effects ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Objective of the report_____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Financial analysis _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Monopoly power ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Substitution effect & Reverse Bandwagon effect ________________________________________________________________ 2 Impact on share price _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 Manufacturing Process ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Risk management ________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 Hazzard Analysis & Critical Control Points _____________________________________________________________ 6 Overview ____________________________________________________...
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