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Elon Musk And Power At Tesla

Pages: 6 (1701 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:68738154

… fine and Robyn Denholm replace Musk as Chairman of the Board. Denholm had been a Board member for five years up to that point (Porter, 2018). Thus, up until Musk’s run-in with the SEC in 2018, he had been both CEO and Chairman of the Board—which can … principal” (p. 136). This can certainly be seen in the case of Musk, for a variety of reasons.

As Yang and Zhao (2014) point out, “the main argument against CEO duality (or dual leadership) is based on agency theory, which predicts that CEOs, as agents of shareholders, … a long-time Board member and thus one who has already fallen under Musk’s influence. There is no real independence for the Chairman. The point of splitting up the roles is that it helps to ensure better governance of the company—more accountability and increased transparency for shareholders. There ……

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Abels, P. B., & Martelli, J. T. (2013). CEO duality: how many hats are too many?. Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society, 13(2), 135-147.

Dickins, D. (2010). CEO and COB duality: Does it matter. Internal Auditing, 25(4), 35-38.

Gaydos, R. (2018). Elon Musk may have violated Tesla’s conduct and ethics code after smoking up in podcast interview: report. Retrieved from  https://www.foxnews.com/tech/elon-musk-may-have-violated-teslas-conduct-and-ethics-code-after-smoking-up-in-podcast-interview-report 

Porter, J. (2018). Tesla has found a new chairperson to replace Elon Musk. Retrieved from  https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18074800/tesla-new-chair-2018-robyn-denholm-elon-musk 

Yang, T., & Zhao, S. (2014). CEO duality and firm performance: Evidence from an exogenous shock to the competitive environment. Journal of Banking & Finance, 49, 534-552.

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The Battleship Potemkin

Pages: 5 (1631 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Film Analysis Document #:15032782

… truthful in its depiction of what happened as Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Both are fantasies that take as their starting point a real time and place where real people existed and acted, where real movements and events serve as the backdrop. Both use that ……

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Bascomb, Neal. Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Eisenstein, Sergei. The Battleship Potemkin.

Neff, Taylor. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Propaganda on the Big Screen: Film in the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1936.\\\\\\\\\\\\" The FGCUStudent Research Journal 3.2 (2017).

Osborn, Andrew. “Potemkin: the mutiny, the movie and the myth.” The Independent, June 14, 2005.  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/potemkin-the-mutiny-the-movie-and-the-myth-225737.html 

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The Karen Ann Quinlan Case Legal Aspects Of Healthcare

Pages: 6 (1922 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:87626234


Karen Ann Quinlan attracted national attention following her slipping into a comma in 1975. In essence, the Quinlan case remains a key reference point in discussions revolving around the right to die. According to Drane (1994) Ms. Quinlan fell into a comma on the night of April … by her doctors. Here, the judge made a finding that the decision at hand was more medical than judicial. As Rosenthal (2018) further points out, it was also found that any move to disconnect the respirator would in this particular case be in contravention of the homicide … a permanent vegetative state, a physician or an ethical committee could be the designated decision maker. This could be the case pending the appointment of a guardian. As a matter of fact, the AMA Code of Medical Ethics points out that in situations that involve patients with no surrogate and are incapable of……

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Drane, J.F. (1994). Clinical Bioethics: Theory and Practice in Medical Ethical Decision-making. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield.

Holland, S., Kitzinger, C. & Kitzinger, J. (2014). Death, treatment decisions and the permanent vegetative state: evidence from families and experts. Med Health Care Philos., 17(3), 413-423.

Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice (2019). The Story of Karen Ann Quinlan Made Headlines! Retrieved from  https://www.karenannquinlanhospice.org/about/history/ 

Mizzoni, J. (2011). Ethics: The Basics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Rosenthal, M.S. (2018). Clinical Ethics on Film: A Guide for Medical Educators. New York, NY: Springer.

Singer, P. (2013). A Companion to Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

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Vision And Mission Statements Strategic Planning

Pages: 6 (1788 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Case Study Document #:15240681

… the organization.
5. It should offer guidance for managerial decision-making, shaping the organization’s strategy and impacting how the organization is run from that point on (Kouzes & Posner, 1996).
Mission Statement
The criteria for establishing a quality mission statement should be:
1. It should be informative—this means ……

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Kim, W. C. & Mauborgne, R. (2002). Charting Your Company’s Future. Harvard Business Review, June 2002. Harvard Business School, Boston, MA

Klag, M., Giroux, H., & Langley, A. (2012). Strategic planning at Saint Francis de Sales Schools. International Journal of Case Studies in Management (Online), 10(2), 1-20.

Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (1996). Envisioning your Future: Imagining Ideal Scenarios. Futurist, 30, 14.

Mullane, J. V. (2002). The mission statement is a strategic tool: when used properly. Management Decision, 40(5), 448-455.

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Final Report On Presidents Task Force

Pages: 4 (1198 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:56235974

Final Report of President’s Task Force: Key Points in Building Trust and Legitimacy
Key Points
The key points of Pillar One of the Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (2015) are that 1) People are more … in order for the community to accept the police in the capacity of an organization that serves and protects—and each of the key points of Pillar One is orientated towards restoring that acceptance.
Role that Trust Plays
Trust plays a significant role inside a police department in ……

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Cao, L. (2015). Differentiating confidence in the police, trust in the police, and satisfaction with the police. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 38(2), 239-249.

Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. (2015). Retrieved from  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qkyvcmq379R6_xw-Phd1DhUYgIGmgb2A/view 

Peak, K. J., & Glensor, R. W. (1999). Community policing and problem solving: Strategies and practices. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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Media And Its Grip On Youth Culture

Pages: 8 (2308 words) Document Type:Essay Document #:55265241

… their own destiny, like Marx said they would. One of the most powerful companies within the Culture Industry is Disney, and as Giroux points out, it is all about hooking the kids while they are young and turning them into good little life-long consumers and brand loyalists. ……

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Drake, Jennifer, et al. Growing up postmodern: Neoliberalism and the war on the young. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

Giroux, Henry. “Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence.” TruthOut, 2009.  https://truthout.org/articles/disney-casino-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-young-boys-beyond-the-politics-of-innocence/ 

Hall, Stuart. “Representation & the Media.” Media Education Foundation, 1997.  https://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Stuart-Hall-Representation-and-the-Media-Transcript.pdf 

Marger, Martin N. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The mass media as a power institution.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Power in modern societies (1993): 238-249.

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Impacts Of Long Distance Relationships On Interpersonal Communication

Pages: 6 (1902 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:90404057

… communication has replaced face-to-face contact for many people. As Dr. Paul Booth at the College of Communication at DePaul University of Chicago has pointed out, “There has been a shift in the way we communicate; rather than face-to-face interaction, we’re tending to prefer mediated communication…We’d rather e-mail … also depends upon the bond and the level of commitment that the people share (Farrell et al., 2015). As Farrell et al. (2015) point out, partners’ humility, “as well as their levels of commitment to the relationships, relationship satisfaction, and forgiveness of their partners” are all factors … maintained. When the distance begins to grow heavy, the commitment can falter. The two can begin to wonder whether there is any real point to maintaining the relationship. Interpersonal communication will all but stop in these types of situations because there is no trust or vision that ……

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Etcheverry, P. E., & Le, B. (2005). Thinking about commitment: Accessibility of commitment and prediction of relationship persistence, accommodation, and willingness to sacrifice. Personal Relationships, 12(1), 103-123.

Farrell, J. E., Hook, J. N., Ramos, M., Davis, D. E., Van Tongeren, D. R., & Ruiz, J. M. (2015). Humility and relationship outcomes in couples: The mediating role of commitment. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice, 4(1), 14.

Johnson, A. J. (2001). Examining the maintenance of friendships: Are there differences

between geographically close and long?distance friends?. Communication Quarterly, 49(4), 424-435.

Johnson, A. J., Haigh, M. M., Becker, J. A., Craig, E. A., & Wigley, S. (2008). College students’ use of relational management strategies in email in long-distance and geographically close relationships. Journal of Computer-mediated communication, 13(2), 381-404.

Keller, M. (2013). Social media and interpersonal communication. Social Work Today, 13(3), 10.

Maguire, K. C., & Kinney, T. A. (2010). When distance is problematic: Communication, coping, and relational satisfaction in female college students' long-distance dating relationships. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 38(1), 27-46.

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Immigration Terms And Analysis Of Interview

Pages: 7 (2224 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:15654754

… United States is hardly a new phenomenon; in fact, the tide of immigration flow from Mexico ebbed in the 1970s. As Massey 1986) points out, it is a gross generalization to assume that economic factors alone drive immigration. Certainly there are a large number of immigrants from … or who are labor immigrants.
Juan’s story reflects the salience of social organization as a key factor in immigration experiences. As Massey (1986) points out, kinship and community bonds can be either formal or informal but always have a strong bearing on the individual and collective immigrant … forces. Then in 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act created new opportunities for establishing legal status in the United States. At this point in immigration policy history, the term “illegal alien” came into common use, transforming public perceptions and attitudes towards newcomers.
Juan is too young … European superiority persists.
Juan remains……

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Fox, C. & Guglielmo, T.A. (2012). Defining America’s racial boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945. American Journal of Sociology 118(2) (September 2012): 327-379.

Gonzales, R. G. (2011). Learning to be illegal: Undocumented youth and shifting legal contexts in the transition to adulthood. American Sociological Review 76(4) (AUGUST 2011): 602-619

Huntington, S.P. (2009). The Hispanic challenge. Foreign Policy, 28 Oct, 2009.

Jones-Correa, M. (2012). Contested ground. Transatlantic Council on Migration. July 2012.

Massey, D. S. (1986). The social organization of Mexican Migration to the United States.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 48(7):, Vol. 487, Immigration and American Public Policy (Sep., 1986): 102-113?

Massey, D. S. (n.d.). What were the paradoxical consequences of militarizing the border with Mexico?

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Evolving Public Interpretation Of Gentrification

Pages: 15 (4506 words) Sources: 25 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:63686489

...Point Just like pornography, everyone seems to know \"gentrification\" when they see it. See a Starbucks or Whole Foods move into a neighborhood? That's gentrification. Find out that a house sold for an exorbitant amount or that rents at some building doubled? That's gentrification. See bike lanes added to your street, or a rack of bike-share bikes pop up near a busy corner? That's gentrification.
– Pete Saunders, 2017
Gentrification is one of the most controversial issues in American cities today. But as the epigraph above clearly indicates, it also remains one of the least understood. Few agree on how to define it or whether it is boon or curse for cities. Due in large part to this lack of definitional clarity, opinions about gentrification in the past have been largely shaped by the negative connotations and effects of gentrification that have been highlighted by the mainstream media. For instance, according……

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Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Betancur, John J. “Gentrification in Latin America: Overview and Critical Analysis.” Urban Studies Research 37-41.

Berrey, Ellen C. 2005. Divided over diversity. City & Community 4 (2): 143-70

Black’s Law Dictionary. 1990. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.

Bostic, Raphael W., and Richard W. Martin. 2003. Black home-owners as a gentrifying force? Urban Studies 40 (12): 2427-49.

Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2004. Social preservationists and the quest for authentic community. City & Community 3 (2): 135-56.

Brummet, Quentin, and Davin Reed. “The Effects of Gentrification on the Well-Being and Opportunity of Original Resident Adults and Children.” Working Paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), 2019.

Capps, Kriston. “The Hidden Winners in Neighborhood Gentrification.” CityLab, July 22, 2019.

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Privacy In Social Networks Regarding Machine Learning

Pages: 8 (2537 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:98311751

… even realize it. Machine learning algorithms often know more about a user’s habits and choices than the user does. Bilogrevic et al. (2016) point out that “by analyzing people’s sharing behaviors in different contexts, it is shown in these works that it is possible to determine the ……

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Balle, B., Gascón, A., Ohrimenko, O., Raykova, M., Schoppmmann, P., & Troncoso, C. (2019, November). PPML\\\\\\\\\\\\'19: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 2717-2718). ACM.

Bilogrevic, I., Huguenin, K., Agir, B., Jadliwala, M., Gazaki, M., & Hubaux, J. P. (2016). A machine-learning based approach to privacy-aware information-sharing in mobile social networks. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 25, 125-142.

Bonawitz, K., Ivanov, V., Kreuter, B., Marcedone, A., McMahan, H. B., Patel, S., ... & Seth, K. (2017, October). Practical secure aggregation for privacy-preserving machine learning. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1175-1191). ACM.

Hunt, T., Song, C., Shokri, R., Shmatikov, V., & Witchel, E. (2018). Chiron: Privacy-preserving machine learning as a service. arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05961.

Lindsey, N. (2019). New Research Study Shows That Social Media Privacy Might Not Be Possible. Retrieved from https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/new-research-study-shows-that-social-media-privacy-might-not-be-possible/

Mohassel, P., & Zhang, Y. (2017, May). Secureml: A system for scalable privacy-preserving machine learning. In 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 19-38). IEEE.

Mooney, S. J., & Pejaver, V. (2018). Big data in public health: terminology, machine learning, and privacy. Annual review of public health, 39, 95-112.

Oh, S. J., Benenson, R., Fritz, M., & Schiele, B. (2016, October). Faceless person recognition: Privacy implications in social media. In European Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 19-35). Springer, Cham.

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