...should be one paragraph of between 150 and 250 words. It is not indented. Section titles, such as the word Abstract above, are not considered headings so they don’t use bold heading format. Instead, use the Section Title style. This style automatically starts your section on a new page, so you don’t have to add page breaks. (To see your document with pagination, on the View tab, click Reading View.) Note that all text styles for this template are available on the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Styles gallery. Keywords: Add keywords here. To replace this (or any) tip text with your own, just select it and then start typing....
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...FINAL PAPER –BUSINESS ETHICS- WIKILEAKS: Heroes or villains? Present a critical assessment. INTRODUCTION: Wikileaks is an international, online, non profitable organization, which publishes secret information, new leaks, political, social and military reality analysis (that can be hide), and classified media from anonymous sources for protecting them. They work for the protection of the freedom of expression and its diffusion through the media, and improve History of everyone and the right for each person to create it. The problem is that wikileaks generates different reactions. A lot of its publications generates violent polemics and intimidations. Even the website is threaten and had to to face to technical and financial problems. However, there are also people who defend the website like: “reporters sans frontiers”, or “le parti pirate suédois”, etc… In 2011 wikileaks had to face to a big financial problem, and had to accept the bitcoins, the electronic money. Morever, in August 2012, wikileaks is attacked and people couldn’t connect to the website for few days. Wiki had to register a complaint. After explaining the objective and the reason why of their existence, we can now expose the ethical dilemmas of Wikileaks. It can be defined by choosing between the right and wrong when there is no clear answer, and it’s hard to resolve. The problem implanted here is that those last months Wikileaks reveals shocking informations and became a heated subject of discussion...
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...brilliant, there must be truth and reason. Artists hiding behind paper and art only kept the truth hidden. In the 1920’s Art and Literature revolutionized American Society by turning away from the traditional ways and exposing the reality of American life. Art that was being published in the twenties was a representation of a new and wide variety of the movements, forms and points of view. This decade was one that “produced many great works of art, music [and] literature” (Mintz). In the early twenties American culture stood in Europe’s shadow and towards the end Americans were leading the struggle to liberate the arts. Artists were ready to develop new structures, tastes and styles. Poets like E.E Cummings, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Stevens were experimenting with new writing styles and format. Artists were doing the same, Charles Demuth, Georgia O’Keefe, and Joseph Stella, by challenging the dominant and realist traditions in American art. Not only did the techniques change but as did the genres. The 1920’s era was also an era of the Harlem Renaissance “a golden age in American Literature and significant developments” in other arts such as painting and music (Burg). Creativity exploded in Harlem and jazz came into being. Photographers captured the essence of Charles Demuth’s art work by pioneering expressionist art forms. Even as college enrollment doubled during this time period people began to veer away from the traditional ways of American culture. Truth and reality became...
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...the society. They are the possible rulers, philosophers, guardians, and so on. So, it is important to shape them wisely. This concept is no different than what shapes our society today. It is well known that one of the many qualifications of a good leader is that who can improve the country's educational system. Why?, because the youth are our future leaders and teachers. A parent would rather pick a private school over a public school, and a job interviewer would look more highly on a private school graduate over a public school graduate. You can say that education is important in today's society, as well as Plato's society. The youth can be educated in many different ways, either by keeping them in the shadows, or exposing them to the light. this means that the future of the society can be either ruled by a person who is oblivious to the society's past, or by a person who has been fully exposed to the society's history. If a person is censored from education, then they love their life as a perfect world. this is best described when Socrates says that a Guardian should be a person who "must be gentle to their own people and harsh to the enemy." (375b-c). Socrates wants to educate these Guardians to be noble, righteous, and tentative to their every word, like a robot. He wants to educate them by making them obedient. He also believes that repressing their knowledge of music/narratives, and physical strength will make them grow into smarter adults....
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...Alicia Morales DED 051 Professor Payne Final Research Paper 25 February 2013 Cyber Bullying Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior with physical contact, words to cause a person injury or discomfort. Bullies have been around forever as we are growing up. Technology in the 21st century has given bullies the option to go further more with their actions. This has led to cyber bullying, also known as Internet bullying or e-bullying. Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, and embarrass another person. Now, this is a serious problem because it has become hard to control and keep anyone safe from cyber bullying. In America, 19 million youths have the Internet in their homes, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Projects (Sam, 2008). This increases the probability of exposing ourselves to be easily cyber bullied. Studies have also shown that one third of teens that have internet access have experienced harassment. Cyber bullying is not limited to a computer but any digital device that is in our reach of our hands. This has given bullies the option to increased power and freedom to create greater fear into their victims. It has made possible to cyber bullies to go completely anonymous making it harder to stop and control. The introduction of social networking has been one of the leading forms of cyber bullying today. Most used networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Tweeter and IG have made it easy for bullies to access all kinds of information...
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...Mike Puddifant December 7th, 2012 Fred Fleron American National Government Video Analysis Paper 2 In lesson thirty eight; is America Ungovernable? “The Rich Get Richer because the Poor get poorer”, and Lesson thirty nine; “Has America Lost its Ability to function as a Democratic Nation?” The underlying truth of America’s government is both questioned and shown to viewers. These videos have given me a better understanding of the on-going problems within the government of the United States. The videos in lessons thirty eight and thirty nine expose many hardships that American citizens are forced to endure. The videos also expose the problems and issues between both political parties that govern the people of the United States of America. The videos also express ways to fix and aid the corruption of the government and its ways, giving a sense of hope for the future of America and its people. In watching the videos, it became clear that the two major issues in America’s Government today are where is the money of American citizens and its tax payers going? Also questioning the stability of the two parties leading America’s government system. I’d first like to discuss America’s two political partied systems, as the videos uncover and reveal many facts and statistics. In the “Intelligence Square Debate”; a poll was taken previous, where 46 percent of American citizens believed the two party system was in fact the main cause in the thoughts leading towards an ungovernable...
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...RBOX Reflection Paper on The Sarbanes-Oxley Act I. Introduction The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbox or SOX), also known as 'The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act' in the US Senate, was enacted on July 30, 2002. This law was co-authored/sponsored by US Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Maryland) and US Congressman Michael Oxley (R-Ohio). The act contains 11 sections with various requirements ranging from additional corporate board responsibilities to criminal penalties, and empowers the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to implement rulings that comply with the said act/law. The objective of this law was two-fold: 1) to restore the public confidence in public accounting, auditing and public securities trading 2) to assure ethical business practices by demanding executive awareness and accountability. But why and how did this law come to fruition? What events prompted these U.S. lawmakers to pass this bill in the first place? This bill was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting debacles (or accounting scandals). Some of those corporate accounting scandals involve companies such as Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom. These scandals, which cost investors billions of dollars when the share prices of these affected companies collapsed and shook public confidence in the US securities markets. To better understand SOX, it is best to understand the first company that found itself in that accounting...
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...which our inner being intersects with the world. This paper will examine Palmer, Borgmann, and Willard definitions of the soul and their reflection on the caring of the core ethical self. Finally, it will examine where the soul is being disposed to unethical activities as well as ethical flourishing. Soul Ethics Body, mind and soul. Authors throughout time have pondered the development and relationship amongst the three. What is the soul? Willard (2004) defines the soul as “the hidden or ‘spiritual’ side of the person” (para. 2). Developing the spiritual side of a person, caring for their soul, comes down to one fundamental thing according to Willard, “keeping God before our minds.” To do this we can practice solitude and silence. These practices can be incorporated into our daily lives to care for our soul. During these times of deep reflection a person can rest, observe and disengage from the constant information that is out in the world. According to Willard during these periods of time “we rid ourselves of the ‘corrosion’ of the soul that accrues from constant interaction with others and the world around us.” Referencing Aristotle, Borgmann (2006) defines the soul as “the vital source of a human being” (p.133). The soul is cared for through its development. Borgmann explains that the soul moves the body and the body in turn builds community for the soul where it is able to grow. This type of self-care is not a new idea, Churchill referenced it in his famous quote, “we...
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...by Dolia Estevez in December 16, 2013. The purpose of this article is to let the world know Mexico’s corruption is increasing in an exponential way. With a list of 10 persons, Dolia Estevez exposes the most corrupt Mexicans of 2013. Her purpose is undebatable, she is exposing Mexico’s corruption in which 8 out of the 10 persons in the list are from the PRI. Dolia’s point of view is completely objective, but the article is full of facts. She talks about the How? Why? When? Who? and Where? People know Forbes is an absolutely reliable source because it has experienced writers...
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...Retain Talented Employees In order for a business to succeed, human resource professionals and hiring managers must have the ability to find, attract, keep, develop, and tap into the most talented workforce; the success of these skills also determines whether the company will fail. Organizations have numerous methods or practices to enable the company to be successful at secure and retain the best talent to drive positive business results. In today’s workforce, employers, human resource professionals, or hiring managers do not have to settle for mediocre individuals to hire on their team. Every employer has the necessity to want the best of the best that is able to perform at the highest level and learn nearly every business aspect of the company. According to Aida Idris (2014), due to the high competitive nature of business retaining talented employees has become a predicament in some of the best entities worldwide (p. 71). Although the job market is strong, finding and retaining talent is top priority for organizations today. In addition, hiring the best talent will always remain at high demand; therefore, it is up to the hiring professionals to develop methods that will help them find, attract, and retain the best of the best. In spite of this, workforce trends have seen tremendous changes due to baby boomers retiring; which has caused a shortage of talent in the workforce (Oladapo, 2014); leaving the recent college graduates to join the workforce (Idris, 2014). Organizations...
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...EDWARD SNOWDEN TRAITOR OR HERO Regarding the Edward Snowden case there is a an very interesting ethical problem. Just to give us a bit of background context ; Edward Snowden was an employee of the CIA and NSA, who revealed details of several monitoring programs and American mass britanniques. For some peolpe he was considered like a hero because he has brought to light confidential information that deserves to be in the public domain and for other a villainous traitor because those put in danger his country, it is important to ask whether his revelations comes under the ethical or the legal fact. Ethical : We know that most people would feel betrayed by Edward because he released personal information about them but it was in order to prove that the US Government is recording the communications of its citizens. But it is Ethic to help other isn’t it ? Ethics are moral principles that guide the way a behaves. It issued by a business is a particular kind of policy statement. A code of ethic issued by a company is some kind of policy statement. A properly framed code is, in effect, a form of binding legislation within the company for its employees, specific sanctions for breaches of the code. If these sanctions are absent, the code is just a list of piety. The heaviest sentence usually dismissal unless a crime has been committed. Focusing on ethics, for those who feel that Snowden did was morally acceptable, calculating almost everyone has to weigh the benefits and...
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...The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Some Ethical Reflections 75 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Some Ethical Reflections Adebayo A. Ogungbure Department of Philosophy University of Ibadan, Nigeria philosopher.bayo@yahoo.com Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya (PAK) New Series, Vol.3 No.2, December 2011, pp.75-92 thoughtandpractice@gmail.com http://ajol.info/index.php/tp/index Abstract There are established ethical principles to protect human participants in biomedical research from undue exploitation by researchers. However, in the “Tuskegee Study” in the US, these principles were grossly violated. The task of this paper is to critically examine the ethical implications of that study on future practices in biomedical research, and to suggest ways of ensuring that such practices comply with appropriate ethical values. Key Words Bioethics, Biomedical research, clinical research, Tuskegee Study, paternalism, morality Introduction From time to time human beings experience health challenges, whether physical or mental. On its part, medical practice has made considerable progress towards combating or controlling many of these challenges. It is through research that the nature, symptoms and effects of ailments can be ascertained and remedies discovered. Medical researchers engage in both therapeutic and non-therapeutic research. Therapeutic research is that carried out with the purpose of treating disease. On the other hand, non-therapeutic...
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...Each day an individual will make a decision that will affect their life in some way. Should I wear the green shirt or the yellow shirt? Should I order a shake or lemonade? Should I wash the car today or wait until tomorrow? These simple decisions often happen without serious thought. Why? Because these decision are not life changing ones. But what happens when the decision is not so easy to make, when it’s life changing. Sometimes a person’s conscious greatly affects one’s decision making, especially when the topic of whistle blowing arises. In this paper, I will discuss and analyze whistle-blowing, where it occurs, the effects of whistle-blowing, whether whistle-blowing is an act of betrayal or public service, the consequences of whistle-blowing, and finally I close my paper with a conclusion. This paper also aims to provide a balanced approach to this topic. Understood correctly whistle-blowing is defined as an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization. Whistle-blowing is not about informing in the negative but more so, raises concern about malpractice within an organization. More so, it can also be defined as the release of information by a member (or former member) of an organization where there is evidence of illegal or immoral conduct in the organization, or conduct in the organization that is not in the public interest . The decision and bravery of being prepared to blow the whistle is directly related to the cultural resistance in many organizations...
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...world of media and technology, making it our way of communication. Unfortunately, we are becoming more attached to these needs that our communication is lacking of reality. Therefore, "it is clear that mass-media influence our values, attitude, culture etc." (Enache, R., Pescaru, A., Stan, E., & Safta, C. (2010), p. 31). This media has a long history behind its back and has walked a long way to be transformed into this large communication connection we all live with today. Like all stories with a beginning, media started in the early years of 3000 B.C with the introduction of the alphabet, devised by the Semites (“Major Events in the History of Mass Communications”, n.d.). During this early era of media, not only the early form of paper was invented by the Egyptians, but the printing method was created. Johannes Gutenberg, with his printing invention, opened “the possibility of distributing identical messages to many people located in different places" (Bogart, 1991, p. 63) - this big step would really begin mass media, giving it a start to the printing production of books. A follow up century which would take a big leap in the media history is the Telegraph Era. From 1800s to 1900s the first telegraph line would be first introduced by Samuel Morse, along with the invention of the telephone and radio. These inventions took media development into a big significant time in which more and more people would gain the opportunity to communicate and be heard. As the telegraph...
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...Introduction I came across an article dates back to 2011. The title of this article is called “New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users”. The title of this article basically sums up what the type of threat it is and a general idea of what the article will be about. Turns out there were more to this title than I thought because the person imposing the threat is a network security expert, a white hat hacker. Network Threat A security expert by the name of Eric Butler decided to release a free hacking tool called Firesheep, onto the Internet. Firesheep is an add-on of Mozilla Firefox, which means a Firefox browser has to be installed, to use this software. What is so intriguing about this tool is, no hacking experience is required, and anyone that downloaded this software will be able to hijack login information on an open wireless network. Threat materialized Firesheep was basically designed to targeted sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, Amazon, eBay, etc. Sites that didn’t fully implemented HTTPS. HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, it is a communication protocols that provides encryption communications between its sender and its receiver. Websites that don’t support HTTPS or doesn’t fully use HTTPS are at risk of exposing their users’ information during their session with the site. Firesheep nourished on websites without HTTPS. Because it provided Firesheep users with no limitation to amount of account logins they can obtained...
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