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How To Stop Pregnancy Discrimination
… Schreiber and Young look at rules proposed by the state of Illinois regarding pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. This paper will compare and contrast the two to find where similarities and differences exist.
Smith and Tischler (2014) point out that the PDA applies to any company the ……
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Schreiber, P. & Young, A. (2015). Illinois Releases Pregnancy Accommodation Proposed Rules. Employee Relations Law Journal, 41(3), 50-53.
Smith, K. J., & Tischler, R. J. (2014). Accommodations under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Employment Relations Today, 41(3), 81-86.
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Intellectual Property Ethics
...Contrast Intellectual property can be described as any exceptional product of human intellect or the mind. Some common examples of intellectual properties include software, music, symbols, movies, designs, symbols, words and phrases. Similar to other properties, intellectual property is safeguarded by relevant laws that seek to protect the interests of creators. These laws seek to achieve this by giving the creators rights over their respective creations. However, the protection of intellectual property is associated with some ethical issues and concerns. This paper discusses intellectual property ethics in relation to intellectual property rights and intellectual property theft. The discussion includes an overview of laws relating to safeguarding intellectual property rights and a brief analysis of the Robin Thicke/Blurred Lines lawsuit.
Intellectual Property Rights and Intellectual Property Theft
Intellectual property rights can be simply defined as the privileges that content creators own over their creations (Burris, n.d.). These rights or privileges are safeguarded……
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Burris, E. (n.d.). Legal and Ethical Issues with Intellectual Property. Retrieved from University of Missouri-Kansas City website: http://sce2.umkc.edu/BIT/burrise/it222/notes/ip.html
Federal Bureau of Investigation. (n.d.). Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy. Retrieved from U.S. Department of Justice website: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime/piracy-ip-theft
Maya, J. (2015, April 15). Music’s “Blurred Lines” Verdict Broadens Copyright Protection. Retrieved Florida International University website: https://law.fiu.edu/blurred-lines-verdict/
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Starbucks
… for Starbucks was probably long overdue, and appears to be in line with where the company is in its life cycle. McDonalds, by contrast, may not be fully ready to admit where it is in the life cycle, despite facts that speak the truth. Yet, unless one ……
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Cannivet, M. (2019) Starbucks’ big stock buyback limits future upside. Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannivet/2019/08/29/starbucks-big-stock-buyback-limits-future-upside/#26c434067047
Hawley, J. (2019) Who are Starbucks’ main competitors? Investopedia. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/101315/who-are-starbucks-main-competitors.asp
Macrotrends (2019) Starbucks. Macrotrends.com. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/financial-statements
Marketwatch (2019) McDonalds Marketwatch. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/mcd/financials
Sharf, S. (2013) Starbucks ordered to pay Kraft $2.8 billion. Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2013/11/12/starbucks-ordered-to-pay-kraft-2-8-billion/#5516b7fa167d
Starbucks 1999 Annual Report. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://s22.q4cdn.com/869488222/files/doc_financials/annual/1999/102640_financials2_99.pdf
The Coffee Brewers (2008) With Starbucks closing 600 shops, is the coffee business still lucrative? The Coffee Brewers. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.thecoffeebrewers.com/starbucks.html
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Cognitive Theory Clinical Social Work Practice
… a directive and active social worker should immediately dedicate time to being an extra or critical resource for the client when needed. In contrast, if the client has strong environmental resources and personal strengths (D), the social worker should probably only limit his/her activities to emotional support, ……
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Gonzalez-Prendes, A. (2012). Cognitive-behavioral practice and social work values: A critical analysis. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics.
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Program Logic Model
...Contrast 1) What social problem did the program seek to address?
The social problem that the program sought to address was the need to reduce risky sexual behaviors among teenage youths. Risky sexual behavior is common among teens (Chapin, 2001) and programs that focus on educating teens about reducing risks associated with sex can be a way to address the issue (Walsh-Buhi et al., 2016). However, there is a need to understand teens’ perspective and for adults to be able to relate to what teens are going through in order to help convey the message about risk (Kerpelman, McElwain, Pittman & Adler-Baeder, 2016). For that reason, the program aimed to find a way to help bridge the gap between adult educators and youths and the idea of using young parents as peer educators to talk to teens about sex and preventing teen pregnancy was the focus of the program in the……
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Chapin, J. (2001). It won't happen to me: The role of optimistic bias in African American teens' risky sexual practices. Howard Journal of Communication, 12(1), 49-59.
Damon, W. (1984). Peer education: The untapped potential. Journal of applied developmental psychology, 5(4), 331-343.
Kerpelman, J. L., McElwain, A. D., Pittman, J. F., & Adler-Baeder, F. M. (2016). Engagement in risky sexual behavior: Adolescents’ perceptions of self and the parent–child relationship matter. Youth & Society, 48(1), 101-125.
Sciolla, A., Ziajko, L. A., & Salguero, M. L. (2010). Sexual health competence of international medical graduate psychiatric residents in the United States. Academic Psychiatry, 34(5), 361-368.
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The Coen Brothers True Grit
Western Film
The Coen Brothers’ (2010) film True Grit is an adaptation of the novel by the same name and contrasts sharply with the films of the same genre from the 1940s and 1950s. Save for John Ford’s Westerns, like The Searchers, which had ……
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Coen Brothers. (2010). True grit. LA: Paramount Pictures.
Dirks, T. (n.d.). The history of film. Retrieved from https://www.filmsite.org/40sintro.html
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Customer Service In The Telecoms Industry
… Vodafone is the major telecoms operator there. In countries where there is some choice, the relationship between the three variables is stronger. This contrasts sharply with the findings in the study by Chu et al. (2012), which showed that in the banking industry, for example, where there ……
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Angelova, B., & Zekiri, J. (2011). Measuring customer satisfaction with service quality using American Customer Satisfaction Model (ACSI Model). International journal of academic research in business and social sciences, 1(3), 232. Retrieved from http://hrmars.com/admin/pics/381.pdf
Boohene, R., & Agyapong, G. K. (2011). Analysis of the antecedents of customer loyalty of telecommunication industry in Ghana: The case of Vodafone (Ghana). International Business Research, 4(1), 229-240. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.662.3208&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Chu, P. Y., Lee, G. Y., & Chao, Y. (2012). Service quality, customer satisfaction, customer trust, and loyalty in an e-banking context. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 40(8), 1271-1283.
Lai, F., Griffin, M., & Babin, B. J. (2009). How quality, value, image, and satisfaction create loyalty at a Chinese telecom. Journal of business research, 62(10), 980-986. Retrieved from shorturl.at/BMTY7
Lee, H. S. (2013). Major moderators influencing the relationships of service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Asian Social Science, 9(2), 1. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.428.6730&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Liu, C. T., Guo, Y. M., & Lee, C. H. (2011). The effects of relationship quality and switching barriers on customer loyalty. International Journal of Information Management, 31(1), 71-79.
Khatibi, A. A., Ismail, H., & Thyagarajan, V. (2002). What drives customer loyalty: An analysis from the telecommunications industry. Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for Marketing, 11(1), 34-44. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/palgrave.jt.5740065.pdf
Kim, M. K., Park, M. C., & Jeong, D. H. (2004). The effects of customer satisfaction and switching barrier on customer loyalty in Korean mobile telecommunication services. Telecommunications policy, 28(2), 145-159. Retrieved from shorturl.at/imDEX
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Agency Theory
… of them with the main intention of investing in the growth of the company. Yet again, this point of view is usually in contrast with the perspective of the shareholders whose main endeavor is to get higher dividends as a return to their investment (Eisenhardt, 1989).
Lastly, ……
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Ballwieser, W., Bamberg, G., Beckmann, M. J., Bester, H., Blickle, M., Ewert, R., ... & Gaynor, M. (2012). Agency theory, information, and incentives. Springer Science & Business Media.
Bou?ková, M. (2015). Management accounting and agency theory. Procedia Economics and Finance, 25, 5-13.
Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989). Agency theory: An assessment and review. Academy of management review, 14(1), 57-74.
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Larcker, D. F., & Tayan, B. (2007). Executive Compensation at Nabors Industries: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?. Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Case Teaching No. CG-05.
Mitnick, B. M. (2015). Agency theory. Wiley encyclopedia of management, 1-6.
Scott, W. R., & O\\\\\\'Brien, P. C. (2003). Financial accounting theory (Vol. 3). Toronto: Prentice Hall.
Tearney, M. G., & Dodd, J. (2009). Accounting theory. H. I. Wolk (Ed.). New York: Sage.
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh Analysis
...Contrast Analysis of The Epic of Gilgamesh
Introduction
The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the few great literatures that survived the ruin of ancient civilizations, more particularly the ancient Mesopotamia. It is a poem that tells the story of two great heroes, friendship, adventure, and the gods. Comprised of twelves tablets, each depicting a section of the overall tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh exists in various versions—with the Akkadian and Old Babylonian versions being the most prominent. This essay considers various parts of the Epic and seeks to examine/illustrate a few details about the heroes “Gilgamesh and Enkidu”, their relationship, the actions of the gods, and the overall significance of this Epic—as regarding its depiction of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Gilgamesh was the first character, of the two, to be introduced. In the introduction, Gilgamesh was described as one who had exceptional qualities that transcends that of……
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Abusch, T. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The Development and Meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Interpretive Essay.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 121, 2001, pp. 614-622, doi:10.2307/606502. Retrieved from: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.2307%2F606502
Al-Rawi. F. N. H., and A. R. George. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Back to The Cedar Forest: The Beginning and End of Tablet V of The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 66, 2014, pp. 69-90, doi:10.5615/jcunestud.66.2014.0069. Retrieved from: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.5615%2Fjcunestud.66.2014.0069
Christman, J. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The Gilgamesh Complex: The Quest for Death Transcendence and the Killing of Animals.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Society & Animals, vol. 16, 2008, pp. 297-315, doi:10.1163/156853008x357649. Retrieved from: sci-hub.tw/10.1163/156853008X357649
Dickson, Keith. “Looking at the Other in ‘Gilgamesh.’” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 127, no. 2, 2007, pp. 171–182. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20297248.
George, Andrew R. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The Mayfly on the River: Individual and collective destiny in the Epic of Gilgamesh.\\\\\\\\\\\\" KASKAL: Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, vol. 9, 2012, pp. 227-242. Retrieved from: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/15817/1/Kaskal_9%20227-242%20George.pdf
Khan, Anika. “Gilgamesh and medicine’s quest to conquer death.” Hektoen international: A Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 11, no.4, June 2019, Highlighted in Frontispiece pp. 1-3.
Kline, J. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The Oldest Story, the Oldest Fear, the Oldest Fool: The Religious Dimension ofThe Epic of Gilgamesh.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Jung Journal, vol. 10, no.2, 2016, 24 – 36, doi:10.1080/19342039.2016.1157411. Retrieved from: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/19342039.2016.1157411
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Baseline Tectonics Of The Arabian Plate
...Contrast Pan-African Cratonization (about 800 to 680 Ma)
Nehlig et al. (2002) conducted a study to review the Pan-African evolution of the Arabian Shield on the premise that new perspectives on the geologic history and structural evolution on the Arabian Shield had emerged. These new perspectives were brought by the extensive fieldwork as well as synthesis and review of structural, aeromagnetic, geochemical, geologic, and geochronological data. The geologic evolution of the Arabian Shield took place between 900 to 550 Ma. This period was also characterized by the “formation, amalgamation, and final Pan-African cratonization of several tectonostratigraphic terranes” (Nehlig et al., 2002, p.103). These terranes were separated by key NW-trending faults and various oriented suture zones covered by ophiolites i.e. serpentinized ultramafic rocks.
Pan-African cratonization between 800 and 680 Ma incorporated the final cratonization of the terranes. The final cratonization of the terranes, which took place between 680 and 610 Ma, generated……
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Caby, R. (2003, May 27). Terrane Assembly and Geodynamic Evolution of Central-Western Hoggar: A Synthesis. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 37, 133-159.
Kroner, A., Roobol, M.J., Ramsay, C.R. & Jackson, N.J. (2013, February 28). Pan African Ages of Some Gneissic Rocks in the Saudi Arabian Shield. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 136, 455-461.
Black, R. & Liegeois, J.P. (1993). Cratons, Mobile Belts, Alkaline Rocks and Continential Lithospheric Mantle: The Pan-African Testimony. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 150, 89-98.
Heikal et al. (2013, May). Lithostratigraphy, Deformation History, and Tectonic Evolution of the Basement Rocks, Republic of Yemen: An Overview. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 7(5), 1-12.
Kroner, A. (2000). Pan African Plate Tectonics and It’s Repercussions on the Crust of Northeast Africa. Geologische Rundschau, 68(2), 565-583.
Nehlig et al. (2002). A Review of the Pan-African Evolution of the Arabian Shield. GeoArabia, 7(1), 103-124.
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