“The boundaries which divide life from death are best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” Edgar Allan Poe exclaims that death is left as a mystery no one can determine when the time will come when death approaches us. The two books “To Build a Fire” and “An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge” both establish a theme of hope, struggle, and death. Hope, struggle, and death are all common throughout the books and help the reader to understand the emotions the
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The Ethics Game II Eth/316 October 31, 2013 The Case of the Mysterious Roses The ethical issue that presented itself in “The Case of the Mysterious Roses” is the concern of an employee in regard to possible harassment in the workplace. The employee has been the subject of unsolicited attention and requests a confidential meeting. The author must make a decision on how to handle both the confidentiality of the meeting and how to proceed with the harassment claim. According to the companies
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The Mysterious Roses Sexual harassment or any type of harassment for that matter, in the workplace is unproductive, can create a hostile work environment and, is absolutely not acceptable behavior. It is a complicated subject and has to be approached in a delicate manner. A thorough investigation needs to be conducted to gather facts to determine if this is actually a case harassment or an innocent misunderstanding. Either way employees must be made aware of the consequences related to all
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The Ethics Game simulations of The Mysterious Rose and The Cold Feet Dilemmas address the following ethical issues: The first ethical concern is regarding a company employee by the name of Gayle Dornier. Gayle has received unwanted flowers from an unknown person, multiple times per week, and to this day Gayle has no idea who is sender of the flowers. Receiving a large quantity of flowers has begun to make her feel uncomfortable. Therefore Gayle is taking the proper Chain of Command to find a possible
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Ethics Game Simulations Finale Ethics Game Simulations Finale In the ethics game simulation Mysterious Roses and Cold Feet, I was presented with a case of harassment. I am the Director of Sales who sale representative was being harassed by another employee from research. He was sending flowers anonymously and even reached out about her performance, asking for leniency. Other employees noticed the female employees’ distress over the flowers and also express concern and she also reached out
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Setting: “The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations.” (9). The story takes place over twenty-four years
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Ethics Game Dilemmas Joanne Leetch ETH/316 June 18, 2012 Mary Sortino Ethics Game Dilemmas * In the Ethics Game Dilemmas Part II introduced two situations that needed an ethical decision to be made by management as to the best way to handle the situations. The first dilemma deals with the implication that there might be harassment, by an employee named Bill, going on in the workplace. The employee who may be being harassed, employee named Gayle, requested a confidential meeting to discuss
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going to include all the decisions for all the scenarios to see if there is trend within my decision making. I will have it by each of the cases in the order we did the scenarios. Also, the reason why I came to my decision. The Case of the Mysterious Roses. I have decided to promise my employee confidentiality. If the situation involves possible sexual harassment, advising my employee that I'll handle the situation informally. If it goes informally I will inform the necessary parties to handle
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Henry lines. The baby had turned from one to the other and Jeanne had slipped from the kitchen to the blanket chest. The rest of the gifts could wait, but she didn’t want Jasper to miss out on anything else. When he had pulled the cloth off the mysterious shaped object she handed him, she studied his face carefully. He raised it up, looked confused. She took it and placed the tip in his good ear and he put his hand up to clasp it, keeping it there as she sat on his lap, placed both hands on his chest
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tossed some bread, mustard, pickles, macaroni salad, and potato chips beside it. I suddenly realized I was starving. But before I could take a bite a blood curdling scream pierced the silence. Which caused me to freak out, drop my beard, and jump to my feet. It was followed by a drowning peace. “That was Aunt Em!” Ryan shouted and ran out of the kitchen. We chased after him up the stairs and down a long dark hall. At the end a door was ajar and light stretched across the floor. I was a few steps from
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