articles. This took longer than I expected. After the librarian’s presentation, I thought this would be a piece of cake. I was wrong. First, I searched “marijuana”. This pulled up many sources, however many of them were outdated and not relevant to my specific topic. I then searched “marijuana legalization” and variances of the term, including putting an asterisk after
Words: 1634 - Pages: 7
damaged the water supply for Woburn, Mass. This case becomes Jan’s obsession, even to the extent that he is willing to give up everything. When we look at the case in ethical way, we can find several individuals and entities acting unethically. In this paper, we are going to discuss three unethical activities and entity occurred in the movie, including the ways local tanneries deposed toxic chemicals, and try to cover it after the lawsuit has been filed; the defendant attorney’s behaviors throughout the
Words: 629 - Pages: 3
Manufacturing Consent Questions – Avery Reyner – September 30, 2012 Manufacturing Consent is a technique of control. Noam Chomsky was first introduced to this concept from an author named Walter Lippmann who wrote about ‘Manufacturer of Consent.’ Chomsky augmented his concept to Manufacturing Concept and the philosophy has become so popular it later became a documentary film produced by two Canadians. Noam Chomsky has been called ‘arguably the greatest intellectual alive' (Fox, 1998) by the New
Words: 1393 - Pages: 6
ocean, we can consider our research to be the water in a bucket. As long as I'm on one end of the ocean, I will never know what the other end might hold. I might miss out on something that contradicts or better explains what I'm currently considering as my best example. Of course if one were to span the entire length and width of the ocean, they would be able to do that 'perfect' research but that is humanly impossible and therefore, so is the perfect research. The inherent inaccuracy of research
Words: 991 - Pages: 4
We’ve all heard the statistics. 11.2% of all college students experience it. For undergrads, 23% of females and 5% of males experience it. College women between the ages of 18 and 24 are three times more likely to experience it than the average woman, and of these female student victims, only 1 in 5 report it (RAINN). Campus sexual assault is, thanks to the media, something we have all become painfully and unfortunately more familiar with than we would like to be. We hear the more publicized cases
Words: 1721 - Pages: 7
Consulting Paper: An Effective Appraisal System Jessica Kaplaner Introduction There are several performance rating methods used by the official rater when evaluating employees’ performance. Some are more effective than others. Performance rating scales are one of the most effective scales to use when assessing an employee’s performance and are constantly being used to determine employees’ job performance (Cascio, 2013). They’ve been heavily relied on to thoroughly assess and precisely
Words: 1621 - Pages: 7
Chapter Overview 16.1 Social Thought and Behavior Groups Core Social Motives CONCEPT LEARNING CHECK 16.1 Describing 16.3 Attribution: The Person or the Situation? Fundamental Attribution Error Actor-Observer Bias Defensive Attribution Self-Serving Bias Social Roles 16.2 Person Perception Social Categorization Physical Appearance Stereotypes Subjectivity Culture and Person Perception CONCEPT LEARNING CHECK 16.3 Explaining Attributional Biases 16.4 Attitudes and Social
Words: 20082 - Pages: 81
Client Issue Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian Telecommunications company operating in the fields of Wireless, Cable (Internet, Television and Phone), as well as Media services. Over the past few years, the competition in the Telecommunications industry in Canada has intensified. Not only have existing major competitors, the so called “Big Three” operators of Rogers, Bell and Telus, begun to clash more intensively, the market place is attracting many fast growing new entrants as well. To
Words: 2761 - Pages: 12
purports to measure. There are basically three types of validity including criteria, face and content. It is imperative to ensure that the selection measure used by an organization has all this three measures. This research paper provides an analysis of a situation whereby my organization uses a selection measure that has high criterion validity with low face validity and no content validity. Ethical Concerns Ethical concerns associated with selection measures include fabrication which is
Words: 723 - Pages: 3
BEHAVIORAL FIANCNE AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT AUTHOR : MICHAEL M. POMPiaN BEHAVIORAL FIANCNE AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT AUTHOR : MICHAEL M. POMPiaN BOOK REVIEW OF : BOOK REVIEW OF : PREPARED BY : ASHISH SHARMA PREPARED BY : ASHISH SHARMA 2014 2014 Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management Author Information “Michael M. Pompian, CFA, CFP, is a partner at Mercer Investment Consulting, a firm serving institutional and private wealth clients
Words: 4842 - Pages: 20
