...during the 1920’s. People were making more money than ever as prices for stock skyrocketed. When the stock market reached its peak, it seemed as though the market had nowhere to go but up. People in America didn't expect the stock market to fall and when it did they had no idea what to do so they withdrew all their investments which caused the stock market to crash. The fall of the stock market caused 30% of the nation’s workforce into unemployment and debt, forcing the country into a Great Depression. During the twenties many people were getting rich using buy and sell methods in the stock market, this caused the stock market to rise, and shares to become more expensive for the average buyer. Most American...
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...Trudeau, who had in previous years been a strong advocate of civil liberties, spoke of the need for drastic action to restore order in Quebec. When questioned by CBC reporter Tim Ralfe on how far he would go in the suspension of civil liberties to maintain order, Trudeau replied, "Well, just watch me." The reporter was trying to get Trudeau to explain why he would make Quebec into a military state. What good would it do? The reporter had his own idea about it and it was clear that he was making an effort to not be a “devil’s advocate” as Trudeau said to him at the very end of the video, (7:24) however, to try and make this situation debatable. The reporter is afraid that as a province they would lose their rights and freedom. He questions Trudeau, “Doesn’t it worry you that you have a town that has to resort to this kind of thing?” (0:31) It is clear that the reporter shows his worry and frustration by asking and doubting Trudeau’s in acting of the War Measures Act. The reporter expresses that he wants a more of a safer province by starting more of a heavier debate rather than an interview. Pierre Trudeau’s overall point to this interview is to show that he means business. Trudeau's firm conviction that "law and order in Canada" come first, and that there would be no bargaining with the kidnappers, won him new popularity in English Canada. When reporter Tim Ralfe asked him, “Sir, what is it with men and all these guns around here?” (0:04) Trudeau responds in a sarcastic tone, “Haven’t...
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...despite the federal government’s deployment of more than 10,000 federal police officers and upwards of 50,000 Mexican soldiers, the violence in the Mexican states has only increased, the total number of drug-related deaths numbering over 40,000 since 2006 (Sulivan). Culture of impunity and lawlessness pervades many Mexican communities, where drug cartels operate without hindrance from fearful and inadequate police forces, and without criticism from a censored media. Cartels have shown no mercy or regrets as they attempt to implement...
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...live with a man without getting marriage and she can leave the man according to their wishes. In some of the places of Harayana have women dominating area's. So in this way it is proved that India is save for women any only country which respect to the women as compared to men Posted by: AnshulAkashSao Report Post Like Reply Challenge02 Only in some places It depends where you are. For example, in South India, places like the very liberal state of Kerala are much safer than places like New Delhi (the capital). In New Delhi women traveling alone are not very safe, even if they don't get full out assaulted there is still some "feeling" of danger for women. Posted by: toinfinityandbeyond Report Post Like Reply Challenge01 Biased media reporting India is not much more unsafe as any other country. But our media is obsessed with reporting every rape case because it is more sensational than other crimes. Compare the cases of murder and the number of rapes. There are far relatively more rapes reported in the media than murders. Report Post Like Reply00 Laws are there Laws have been enacted for women safety.....Government are punishing those who are culprits.....As handful of people are mean we must not blame are...
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...Here we go again, another college kid talking about the legalization of Marijuana. But before you judge too quickly, it’s hard to deny all the good this plant could do. Whether it be the broad range of jobs it could create, the tax profits it would bring to the government, or even the medical miracles surfacing around the nation. Marijuana is safe, safer in fact than most other prescribed medications to treat the same symptoms. This plant is growing vastly in the medical field and replacing many addictive narcotics prescribed by doctors. Medical marijuana is available in several different forms. It can be smoked, vaporized, ingested in a pill form or an edible version can be added to foods such as brownies, cookies and chocolate bars. While more than 17.6 million Americans are addicted to alcohol according to the NIAAA, only 9% of heavy pot users are at risk of becoming addicted. Unlike alcohol, you can’t overdose on cannabis and early research shows there are very few long-term effects of smoking pot. Studies show that for some users, perhaps as many as 10 per cent, cannabis leads to psychological dependence, but there is little evidence that it carries a risk of true addiction. Unlike for nicotine, alcohol and hard drugs, there is no definite withdrawal syndrome, the sign of true addiction, when use of marijuana has stopped. Also unlike cigarette smokers, most users do not take the drug on a daily basis, and usually abandon it in their twenties or thirties. Some would say...
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...RESEARCH & IDEAS Applying Business Theories to Your Life Published: June 4, 2012 Author: Carmen Nobel Scholarly economic theory applies to more than just business. The same causal mechanisms that drive big corporations to success can be just as effective in driving our personal lives, says Professor Clayton M. Christensen. Key concepts include: • In evaluating major life decisions, it's helpful to employ a tool called discovery-driven planning, which essentially boils down to a single question: What assumptions must prove true for this plan to work? • Incentives are not the same things as motivators. • Marginal thinking can be dangerous. It's safer to decide early on that you'll stay true to your commitments 100 percent the time, rather than assess the risk of every "just this once" possibility that comes along. Intel Corp. and the Pentagon, for example. In 2011, Thinkers50 named him the world's most influential business thinker. At the same time, he has held major leadership positions in his church, and he's never taken a business meeting on a Sunday because his faith encourages its members to keep the Sabbath Day holy. He sees no dichotomy. "You know, it's a travesty that somehow our society has gotten to a point where people have the view that science and academia are inconsistent with a spiritual life, and the belief that there we've been put here for a purpose," he says. "The reality is that the only reason you're interested in either of these things is that you're interested...
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...Essay * Case study I: GHEMAWAT, PANKAJ. (2001). Distance still matters. Harvard Business Review. 79 (8), 137-147. * Case Study II : GHADAR, FARIBORZ, SVIOKLA, JOHN and STEPHAN, DIETRICH A.. (2012). Why life Science Needs its own Silicon Valley. Harvard Business Review. 90 (7/8), 25-27. * Case Study III : BEAMISH, PAUL W AND LUPTON, NATHANIEL. (2009). Managing Joint Ventures, Academy of Management Perspectives. Harvard Business Review. 23 (2), 75-94 Reflective Essay I have always been scared of strategies, I used to always think that I will get confused after studying the module business strategies but I was wrong. My parents have always told me that nothing is difficult unless you try it and I never believed them until today. When I started my assignment I was scared of reading 3 big case studies and I always use to ask myself , how am I going to read all through this pages and write notes on this. The most difficult part was to summarize it only 500 word each case study which had a lot of vital information. But eventually I did it. I tried my best to cover all the important points. I have always been very inquisitive about the word strategies. It can be used in many things like game, work, business and many more. The word strategy is to make a plan before you implement, and one has to make a plan before doing anything. Spontaneous plan do not work every time, so to be on a safer side most of the people plan it. And today I am going to tell you that how this module...
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...In today’s uncertainty economic climate, UK’s economy’s growth in long period has stopped and has been in recession since July 2008. This was caused by key global problems such as rising in commodity prices, house price bubbles, volatility in financial markets and of course the credit crunch. These give a great impact on the business sector. Reduction orders or demands have led to closure of many companies across all sectors. Small businesses are struggling to access the capital needed to stay open, pay debts, maintain payroll and expand operations. The problem is worse for those looking to get into business for themselves for the first time. The Federation of Small Business indicated that about 280 small companies are going out of business every week during this current economic downturn. Why do we need to recover the small business sector? Small and medium enterprise or SME play a vital role in the economy, providing new ideas, products, services and jobs. The UK’s 3.7 million SMEs account for approximately 40% of UK’s gross domestic product or GDP and have an annual turnover of one trillion pounds. Giving jobs over 12 million people in the UK, they also account for 85% of the 2.3 million extra jobs created by new businesses in the private sector between 1995-1999 and more than half of the 3.5 million jobs gained from expansion over the same period. International Franchise Association mentioned that small businesses offer the best opportunity to promote a strong economic...
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...not much and lived the American dream, rising to success through his own wit and cunning, riding on the backs of none. His legacy is monumental; amassing the greatest private wealth of any American in history. His net worth in today’s dollars would be well over $350 billion dollars or 5 times more than the net worth of Bill Gates! Better yet, imagine $350 billion one dollar bills stacked on one on top of the other… this stack would be over 25,000 miles high. Pretty goal achievement for a boy, who at age eighteen had two lifetime goals…1. To earn $100,000 and 2. To live to be 100! J.D. is a native of Tioga County, New York, his grandfather, Godfrey, coming from Massachusetts and settling in Richford. In this village, John Davidson Rockefeller (J.D.) was born on July 8, 1839 to his mother Eliza a house maker and his father William (Devil Bill) Rockefeller. Devil Bill was a drifter, peddling oil products to cure cancer...Snake Oil that is! He was tall and fine looking, with a dominating personality, a great hunter, and an unusually good expert shooter. He was, too, a very shrewd, practical man and J.D often acknowledged owing an enormous debt to his father for training him in practical ways. He was engaged in numerous enterprises, large and small, about which he used to talk very freely to his son J.D., explaining their significance; in addition, he tutored him in the principles and methods of business., The family finally settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he built...
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...debts owed by their parents to the owners. They can never pay these debts back completely, so this is nothing more than slavery. Nothing more.” (pg. 134). “If you bend down, you’ll be able to see the buckets underneath that catch them as they fall. When the buckets are full, those youngsters over there crawl underneath and drag them to the next station. He pointed to a small group of ragamuffins, each somewhere between ten to twelve-years-old. … I asked why they were dragging buckets and not at home helping with chores or in school, and Mr. Blanton just shrugged his shoulders.” (pg. 90-91). B. This act prohibits most employment of minors. Children under the age of eighteen cannot do certain dangerous jobs, and children under the age of sixteen cannot work during school hours. The first quote violates this act because children under a certain age cannot be employed to start with. Also children that can be hired can only work a specific number of hours a week. The second quote violates this act because children under the age of eighteen are not to work certain dangerous jobs, and working around machinery that can cut off fingers constitutes dangerous. Also children are not to work any hours that are during the school day. 2. Americans with Disabilities Act A. “The most experienced and the oldest was Mrs. McHugh, who was seventy if she was a day. Her fingers were gnarled and crooked, but she had learned to compensate for her lack of dexterity by growing...
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...worked up, he twists in his chair and kneads his hand. Or he paces about in his tube socks grumbling, “They’re trying to destroy us,” and “The whole thing is a giant scam.” And Shaw, the founder of a medical device maker called Retractable Technologies, spends a lot of time being agitated. One of the topics that gets him most riled up these days is bloodstream infections. And with good reason—while most people rarely think about them, these are the most dangerous of the hospital-acquired bugs that afflict one in ten patients in the United States. Their spread has helped to make contact with our health care system the fifth leading cause of death in this country. A few years ago, Shaw, an engineer by training, decided he wanted to do something to help solve this problem and quickly homed in on the mechanics of needle-less IV catheters. Rather than using needles to inject drugs into IV systems, most hospitals have moved to a new design, which involves screwing the threaded tip of a needle-less syringe into a specially designed port. The problem is that if the tip brushes against a nurse’s scrubs, or a counter, or the railing of a hospital bed, it can pick up bacteria. And the rugged threaded surface makes it difficult to get rid of the germs once they’re there. Often, the bacteria go straight into the patients’ bloodstream—which explains why, according to some studies, the rate of bloodstream infections is three times higher with needle-less systems than with their needle-based...
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...think, act, and have the same hobbies as they do. The close-knit atmosphere combined with the desire to have their peers approval is a great example of the theory group minds. In group minds by novelist Doris Lessing, she states that “We also find our thinking changing because we belong to a group” (Lessing 595). This theory would explain how a member of a house can conform to the other member’s way of thinking. If everyone in the house believes that hazing is acceptable, others who are against it could start to also find it acceptable. This is how someone who usually thinks something like overdrinking is wrong, would soon find themselves taking one drink too many. Author Hank Nuwer used his book The Hazing Reader to describe what would happen if someone didn’t conform to how the others thought. When a house member begins to voice their opinion against a house activity, other members will try to convince this person to see the houses way of things, trying to make their opinion conform to be like everyone else's. If this...
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...Ethics in Group and Individual Sessions Liberty University Abstract In today’s culture more individuals are beginning to look for leadership and/or help with individual problems or concerns from therapists. This paper will compare therapy with a group vs. therapy in an individual session. Looking at the possible barriers and or challenges being therapists may possibly experience throughout the sessions they are facilitating. The paper will discuss the efficiency as well as the inefficiency of both group and individual therapy. It is very imperative for therapists to apply moral ethics in their practice. Study from several academic periodicals, trainings and textbook understandings are noted features for this paper. Groups The implementations of ethics in counseling is not to micromanage and/or try to inform someone of how to do their job, it is provided in order to help counselors and other professionals maintain standards within the profession one is in and it is the standard of behavior or action in relation to others. “A code of ethics for most professional organizations or associations is designed to articulate the standards of practice for a group of people.” (Kocet, 2006). Although ethics have many definitions, they are all intertwined to state the same meaning. According to Jacobs (2012), “Most ethical problems and situations deal with therapy and growth groups...
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...Tsinghua SEM | Stepping Out of Comfort Zones | Leadership and Organizational Behaviors | Zhang Xiaohao 2012213230 | Table of Contents Introduction2 Motivation2 General flow2 Literature review3 Definition of comfort zones3 Exploring the uncertainty4 Defeating the fear of failure5 Stretching the comfort zones6 Real life experiences8 Small circles formed unconsciously8 Risk avoidance due to fear of failure9 Development plan12 Mentally prepared and force to step out12 Proactively step out in new environment12 References13 1. 2. Introduction: Motivation of this paper “Comfort zone” was the first word that came into my mind when I was thinking about the topic of my paper, because I know I am the one who always want to stay in my comfort zones, which may impede my way to become a good leader or a successful person. So, I need to step out of my comfort zones on purpose once in a while, to improve my leadership skills and interpersonal skills. To finish this paper, first, I conducted a wide range of research on internet about “comfort zones” and “leadership”, finding that a lot of people shared the same feeling with me and there are plenty of articles in this specific area. I’ve learned a lot from the literature review stage, and knew more about how the “comfort zones” formed and its impacts. Then I reflected to some real life experiences of myself, further understood the reason why I would like to stay in my comfort zones and...
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...working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are NOT resting on their laurels. Before we get started, let’s define leadership. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills. Although your position as a manager, supervisor, lead, etc. gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives in the organization, this power does not make you a leader, it simply makes you the boss. Leadership differs in that it makes the followers want to achieve high goals, rather than simply bossing people around. Some personality traits may lead people naturally into leadership roles. This is the Trait Theory. o A crisis or important event may cause a person to rise to the occasion, which brings out extraordinary leadership qualities in an ordinary person. This is the Great Events Theory. o People can choose to become leaders. People can learn leadership skills. This is the Transformational Leadership Theory. It is the most widely accepted theory today and the premise on which this guide is based. When a person is deciding if she respects you as a leader, she does not think about your attributes, rather, she...
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