...Jessica Mae B. Fernandez BSM21 What keeps me going? Sometimes, life can be tough. There are days that I get tired, hopeless, or that I am on the verge of giving up, but I tend not to. This is because I am surrounded with people and things that inspire me to get going. Through them, I am able to move forward. Let’s put first things first. Of course, my greatest motivating factor would be my family. They are always there to encourage and support me in my decisions. As an only child, I am the only one who will take good care of my parents when they grow older, that’s why I must be successful so that I can provide them what they need. And at the same time, I don’t want to disappoint them. So when the time comes that I have achieved my goals, I would gladly share my success with them, because success-- when you don’t have someone to share it with-- is totally worthless. Aside from my family, another thing that motivates me to keep going is my goals. It is just fascinating to know that there are still better things ahead of us, and some of our best days haven’t happened yet. Great things are bound to happen if we just choose to go on and work harder. Maybe, there would be ups and downs, but that’s a part of life. If we give up just because of a little rain, how can we enjoy the rainbow that appears after that? This college, I just made a bucketlist for all the things I want to accomplish just like places to visit, books to read, bands to watch, extreme activities to experience--...
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...Technology: Friend Technology is very much a part of modern life. Many people see technology as force that has escaped from human control. Technology helps improve the quality of life. By doing many of mundane tasks, so that people can spend more time. In today’s world, three modern technologies have become a major part in people`s everyday lives: the computer, cell phone and GPS device. Society uses the computer for a myriad of things from looking up facts to shopping online, but one of the biggest uses of the internet is social networking. The cellphone allows people to talk to any one of their friends. Because the GPS device is automated, it lets the driver focus on the road instead of the map. Although those three technologies may seem quite different, each one gives us convenience, speed, and freedom. Out of all the technology we have come across through the years, mobile telephony has become the most explosive development. It has added the convenience of reaching anyone no matter where they are. It has revolutionized long distance communication and has made the lives of generations easier through constant connection. Cell phones allow a college student to consult with peers and teachers about uncertainties on a project. A cell phone can save the life of a ten year old woman in a car accident, who is able to dial 911 from the seat of her car. As cell phones exploded in today’s lifestyle, so did the programs that come with it. Text messaging became popular...
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...CVS Caremark What is Really Going On Before we get to the major concept presented by Chapter 2, we must define one of the main contributors to the concept, whistleblowers. Whistleblowers are people who decide to report unethical or illegal activities, usually activities under the control of their employers. According to Halbert and Ingulli, “What unites all whistleblowing is the urge to bring a disturbing situation to light, the urge to bring about some corrective change” (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012, p. 46). This brings us to the concept highlighted in Chapter 2, loyalty to the company, and their views on employment-at-will and their rules for and against whistleblowing. Looking at CVS’ policies and Caremark’s Code of Conduct, and I quote, “A provision of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 requires CVS Caremark to provide its colleagues, and certain contractors and agents, with information regarding the federal and state false claims acts, whistleblower protections and CVS Caremark’s process for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse.” The protections that are said above include “protecting the employee involved in whistleblowing from being laid off or fired by the company, demoting from their current position, denying any overtime or promotion, disciplining in any way, failure to hire or rehire, intimidation and threat-making, delaying any chance for promotion, and reducing pay or hours,” (OSHA, 2013). This code of conduct in the policy itself shows that CVS takes...
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...WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF ATTENDING WESTWOOD COLLEGE With the recent downturn in the nation’s economy, many businesses have downsized, relocated or just shut down. The results of this downward trend are high unemployment, and shrinking numbers in our job pools. Employers have become more selective in their hiring practices due to the high number of applicants. A job that once took only a high school diploma or GED now requires a bachelor’s degree or at the least some college coupled with experience in that specific field of work. The demand for a more educated employee has caused colleges from all over the nation to solicit individuals to become a part of their institution. One of these colleges vying for the attention of serious applicants is Westwood College. Two advantages that make Westwood the higher learning institution of choice are its fast track system to obtaining a bachelor’s degree and the commitment to Westwood alumni after graduation. Westwood has adopted a system of learning in which a student can acquire a bachelor’s degree within three years. To the student hungry for success, the appeal of gaining a bachelor’s degree in such a short period of time serves as a catalyst that drives them to graduation. This system is particularly appealing to those who are currently employed and are seeking advancement in their present field. It is equally advantageous for the student fresh out of high school seeking an edge into the job market. Westwood prides itself...
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...Rosetta Stone What are the advantages and disadvantages of Rosetta Stone going public? The main advantages of Rosetta Stone going public are that an IPO would allow them the capital to expand their business into new markets as well as build on the Rosetta Stone brand. The IPO would also help them establish business credibility as a public firm. As a public company, Rosetta could enhance their image and reputation with newfound capital. It may also be advantageous to proceed with an IPO as the market has shown encouraging signs after the crisis of 2008. Changyou.com, a video game developer recently went public at 6.5 times EBITDA. Likewise, Bridgeport Education has recently considered going public and estimates that they could do so at a range of 10-12 times EBITDA. This may indicate that an IPO would behoove Rosetta Stone as it would be a successful business decision. Furthermore, the language learning industry largely consists of self-study learning as it counts for $32 billion of the $82 billion industry. Going public would allow Rosetta to be a major market presence in a booming industry. Another advantage of taking Rosetta Stone public is Adams’ concern of a takeover. Adams is worried that the limited amount of capital and resources they could get from private sources leave them vulnerable to a takeover. An IPO would quell those fears. There are, however, a few disadvantages associated with going public. For one, the process is quite arduous and would take...
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...The Senate Commerce Committee Hearings finally found the right metaphor for Enron's fate when Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) compared the company to the Titanic. "In the Titanic," he said, "the captain went down with the ship. And Enron looks to me like the captain first gave himself and his friends a bonus, then lowered himself and the top folks down the lifeboat and then hollered up and said, 'By the way, everything is going to be just fine.'" But there is, in the Titanic cast of characters, a good analog for the Enron leadership. While the captain, the first officer, and the Titanic's designer did go down with the ship, there was one honcho whose behavior was more like the Enron executives': J. Bruce Ismay, director of the White Star Line, which built and ran the Titanic. Ismay was a passenger on that fateful voyage, and some said he encouraged the high speeds that contributed to the collision with the iceberg. Yet he hopped into a lifeboat early on in the disaster. Shades of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, and Enron Chairman and former CEO Kenneth Lay. At the same time as these gentlemen were shouldering their way into the lifeboats, they were interfering with the evacuation of their workers. At this week's hearing, Senator Barbara Boxer played a videotape from a 1999 employee meeting where Skilling smiles and nods at the suggestion that employees put all their 401(k) retirement money into Enron stock. That was certainly not Skilling's own strategy. He sold 39 percent...
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...Get Your Team to Do What It Says It’s Going to Do by Heidi Grant Halvorson Say you’re in the early stages of planning your department’s budget for the next fiscal year. Your management team meets to establish short-term priorities and starts to think about longer-term resource allocation. You identify next steps and decide to reconvene in a week—but when you do, you find that very little progress has been made. What’s the holdup? Your to-dos probably look something like this: Step 1: Develop a tentative budget for continuing operations. Step 2: Clarify the department’s role in upcoming corporate initiatives. Those steps may be logical, but they’re ineffective because they omit essential details. Even the first one, which is relatively straightforward, raises more questions than it answers. What data must the team gather to estimate requirements for continuing operations? Who will run the reports, and when? Which managers can shed additional light on resource needs? Who will talk to them and reconcile their feedback with what the numbers say? When will that happen? Who will assess competing priorities and decide which trade-offs to make? When? Creating goals that teams and organizations will actually accomplish isn’t just a matter of defining what needs doing; you also have to spell out the specifics of getting it done, because you can’t assume that everyone involved will know how to move from concept to delivery. By using what motivational scientists call if-then planning...
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...To what extent does Donne present the lovers as equal in “To His Mistress Going To Bed”? According to the Platonic formulation, beauty is ranked in several stages where we begin by being attracted to a single beautiful person, then beautiful minds, on to beautiful ideas, and finally, to beauty itself. In the poem, it appears that the narrator is stuck on the first rung. He is simply blinded by his mistress’ beauty; unable to describe anything other than her appearance and subsequently treats her as an object as opposed to an intelligent being. Unlike much of Donne’s other poetry which tends to prefer pure and platonic love as opposed to lust, making this poem unusual amongst his other works. This may seem to establish the narrator as subjectively superior and thus the lovers unequal. However on closer analysis this may be found not to be the case as the poem points to the mistress having an unassuming power over the narrator. The woman’s role is established even before the poem begins as Donne describes her as “His Mistress”. The use of the possessive “His” implies ownership and foreshadows the domination that the narrator will lord over her throughout the poem. The term “mistress”, because it is not clearly defined who the woman is in relation to Donne, forces readers to make assumptions about the connotations behind the word and how it reflects upon the unknown woman. To a contemporary audience the word would most likely be interpreted as her having a sexual role in the play...
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...“The ontological argument does not succeed in going beyond defining God” to what extent is this true? The ontological argument, originally proposed by Anselm in his book ‘The Proslogion’ and later adapted by philosophers such as Alvin Plantinga and Descartes, defines God as “a being that which nothing greater can be conceived”. In my opinion the argument does not only fail to go beyond this definition, but we cannot be sure than it defines God correctly either. Firstly we cannot argue that the argument goes beyond the definition of God because as Kant points out the argument has a major flaw, the ontological argument is based on an assumption that to exist is a property of perfection. He uses the analogy of money saying that 100___ that existed in reality were no different in value to 100___ that existed hypothetically as both, in theory were worth the same and therefore equal. Bertrand Russell makes a similar point, he claims that the ontological argument uses the word ‘exists’ incorrectly and that existence is not a property of things, but of the idea of those things. Russell uses the example of dragons, saying that if someone says a dragon does not exist what they mean is of all the things that exist the word dragon refers to none of them, however this fact is not part of the definition itself and changes nothing about the description of the features of a dragon, therefore existence is an extension of an intention and not a definition. Alvin Plantinga attempts to redeem...
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...Kaitlyn Ray Mrs. Jennifer Burkett Pittman Composition II 12 February 2014 Candy Land: What Happens When Children Lack Subconscious Maps of the Real World as Seen in Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Researchers have said for years that reading is good for you. It encourages the thought process and can relays methods of working through situations one has never encountered before; that reading is the difference between a smart well-prepared child and one set in stone for failure. This resonance is similar to that of Gretchen Schulz’s and R.J.R. Rockwood’s belief asserted in “In Fairyland, Without a Map: Connie’s Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” that, “The society depicted in ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ has failed to make available to children like Connie maps of the unconscious such as fairy tales provide, because it has failed to recognize that in the unconscious, past and future coalesce, and that, psychologically, where the child is going is where he or she has already been” (1453). The point Schulz and Rockwood are making is that Connie’s generation and many following it, are neglecting to read fairy tales as bedtime stories and are consequently inhibiting the child’s ability to experience and work through problems he will encounter...
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...To reduce the number of teenagers developing respiratory infections within 2 years Key Messages (to be delivered) Stop smoking Importance of hand washing Need for Influenza and Pneumococcal immunisations Target Group Teenage males and females Time of activity March / April Name of the Health Promotion activity Objective One Obtain and disseminate appropriate educational tools regarding respiratory infections Strategies How to achieve objective one Actions Tasks to do Resources required Who will do it? What is needed? Cost? Time frame When will be done? Evaluation How is it going? What will be measured? Participant feedback? 1. Provide appropriate educational and promotional material Discuss suitable strategies and tools with local teenagers recently affected with respiratory problems Contact Respiratory Council of Australia re assistance in provision of educational tools Discuss options Record responses 1 week How is it going? What will be measured? Participant feedback? Provision...
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...began to talk about his dreams, once he began to talk about his future, their hatred for him increased and they began to question him by asking him “Shalt you indeed reign over us? Shall you indeed have dominion over us?” Josephs brothers were not so concerned about who he was, as a seventeen year old dreamer. Their concern was over who he was going to become. They were not afraid of his present, they were afraid of his future. And they wanted to stop him from becoming who God said he would become and going where God said he would go. They wanted to stop him from entering into his destiny. If there is anything Satan desires to do today it is to keep you from entering into your destiny. He wants to keep you from your future! Satan does not care if you live in your past. It is not even your present that is Satan’s greatest fear, it is your future. He does not want you to have what God said you would have, do what God said you would do, go where God said you would go and become who God said you would become. He wants to keep you from your destiny. He wants to stop you from your future. Everything that the Body of Christ is going through, everything that...
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...of the functions that are going to be affected by the reduction in force is staffing which includes: job analysis, the planning regarding the downsizing, recruitment, and selection. Human resource development, which includes: training, development, career planning, career development, organization development, performance development, and performance appraisal. Compensations which includes: direct financial compensation, indirect financial compensation (benefits) and nonfinancial compensation. Safety and Health are going to be affected, and employee and labor relations. Staffing is going to be greatly affected at the fact that he is being forced to let 30% of the workforce go. Yes it typically starts from the lowest seniority up, however with some of the employees being union members it makes it harder to let go of those employees because the union will fight for them. That can cost the company a lot of money, there might lead to strikes with the union works. If that does happen you can threaten the employees that are not union members that if they participate in the strike they could lose their job regardless of seniority. However, going that route will give people a bad taste in their mouth regarding the company. With the downsize there is going to have to be job analysis’s done due to people having to learn new jobs or move around to fill the void of those that were let go. So the HR manager is going to have to look at what employees know and what they do and see where he...
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...ASIGNMENT REPORT How to be a good manager Student Sunny 05/01/2013 I’ve known that good managers’ attributes that are useful are that they are always on top of what happens in the office. They make sure that the whole office runs efficiently by keeping an organized office. It is very important to be organized and to love what you do in order to make sure that the office is taken care of to the best of their ability. That is a reason why I’m interested in how to be a good manager. Firstly, a manager needs thirty skills to be successed: Communication, Listening skills, commitment for a truth, empathy, persuasion, leadership, focus, division of work, obstacle removal, heat absorption, uncertainty removal, project management, and administrative and Financial Skills. Communication, listening skills, and commitment for a truth are the most significant for a manager. Now, I would like to focus on communication first. There’s a lot of communication when you’re a manager. You have to communicate with each of your employees. You have to communicate “sideways” with your co-workers and customers. And you have to communicate upwards with your own manager or executive. You need some substance in the communication, of course — you need to have something worthy of being communicated. But substance isn’t enough — if you know what you’re doing and can’t properly communicate it to anyone else, then you’ll never be a good manager. Secondly is listening skills. This is a part of communication...
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...different kinds of communications methods that can be used for a certain matter at the time with a difficult situation that is going on that very moment. Another thing also to is an communication method can be very effective without any type of creating a panic attack about things that are on the radio station and the social media along with the television stations that is dealing with the emergency management office that is getting information about a certain report in the town of the areas That might have life threatening matter at the time. The main purpose of my paper will be covering the contingency plans with many organization and the public as well also to without trying to creating a panic attack with the community also you find in my paper how all groups and individuals are communicating with one another outside of the organization crisis and the potential advantages along with the challenges inside of the public eye of the crisis matter or situations at the time in a certain place or town that can improve a lot more of better communication skills. In the healthcare field today that could be more incorporate when using all of these different types of technology inside of the media crisis that is going on at the moment in the spotlight. While a certain crisis is going or a situation at the time then the emergency management o0ffice is going to be communicating with one another inside of the office and also outside of the organization as well. When dealing with and...
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