Consumer safety has been a business ethics issue for as long as there have been regulatory agencies testing products and deeming them safe or unsafe. The function of such organizations if to verify the safety of products based on testing and reports of unsafe effects and especially those involved in human fatalities. A concern that has to be addressed by business is the relative risk of a product and the relative resources that are invested in it, both in the sense of research and development and product inventories. One rather modern global occurrence has been that when a product is deemed unsafe by the Consumer Products Safety Commission and either recalled or illegalized for sale in the United States, product inventories are then shifted to places where the product is not illegal to sell. This trend is known as "product dumping." (Not to be confused with the kind of "dumping" used by businesses to artificially drive down product prices in regions so that local i

The magic of numbers is nothing new to the field of literature. Over the past two decades many popular books have explored the theme of immutable numbers and their special properties. A quarter of a century ago, the book "A History of Pi" took the nation by storm and mathematics became an interesting and publicly identifiable discipline rather than the realm of scientists. A newly published book on another mythical but immutable number has come to the national consciousness. Robert Kaplan's book "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero". The number zero has many properties that make it unique over any other number. Deep in the heart of elementary mathematics, this is a term that we all learn and it is left unchanged whatever it is added to or subtracted from. One of the advantages of Kaplan's book over his competitors is his rich understanding of the history behind the number zero and his ability to narrate his findings in an extremely int

The supernatural elements in Elizabeth Gaskell's short story "The Old Nurse's Story" develop slowly, building on the atmosphere the author creates as she describes the characters, the setting, and the situation. Certain Gothic elements are evident in the story, from the isolated old house to the limited number of people in the house, the storms outside, and the mysterious sounds heard inside. The supernatural element enters the story after the situation is made clear, and there is no hint from the Old Nurse as she tells her story to her mistress's children that this will be a ghost story. Instead, she appears simply to be telling the children a story about their mother, beginning with the hiring of the nurse before her mistress would be born to their grandmother. The nature of the story is revealed only as the supernatural element becomes apparent to the nurse in the old house. She has no preconceived notions about this and has not been told any stories about

A "SWOT" analysis is usually performed when managers wish to determine their company's current position in the market (Garner, 2005). The acronym refers to the four areas of "strengths", "weaknesses", "opportunities", and "threats". Such an analysis on Arista Records will show its current position, so that the company's managers and associates can determine what is needed for optimal future development. It can therefore be regarded as a key strategy in ensuring a company's current well-being and future survival. Strengths One of Arista's greatest strengths is the fact that it is part of the global music conglomerate, BMG, the Bertelsmann Music Group that has its basis in Germany. In the current music industry, it is practically essential to belong to such a conglomerate. Some argue that the danger related to this is that music and its artists will become depersonalized and mechanized as a result of the unifor

1: There are four different types of audit reports. There are (1) unqualified reports, (2) qualified reports, (3) adverse reports, and (4) disclaimer reports. An unqualified report is issued when the independent auditor finds that the books and records of the company being audited conform to generally accepted accounting principles. A qualified report would be issued when the auditor encounters one of two types of situations which do not comply with generally accepted accounting principles. However, the rest of the financial statements are fairly presented. A qualified report states that the financial statements of the company being audited are fairly presented except for the manne

Introduction The world witnessed the ceremonial groundbreaking for the University of Phoenix Stadium on April 12, 2003. The University of Phoenix Stadium is by far the biggest and grandest adaptable sports arena in the world. Glendale, Arizona serves as its home, right across the Jobing.com Arena which is the official residence of the NHL Phoenix Coyotes. The NFL Arizona Cardinals along with the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl are its principal leaseholders. The University of Phoenix which is a for-profit institution dedicated to the sphere of mature studies legally attained the naming privileges by September last year. Originally the stadium was called the "Cardinals Stadium". The magnificence and artistic beauty of the University of Phoenix Stadium is such that the Business Week magazine in one of the February 2006 editions honored it as one of the ten most extraordinary sports arenas in the world. There is truly nothing like it in terms of its visual presentation, its design, engin

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the short story "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane. Specifically it will discuss four conflicts faced by the characters in the story. This story is full of conflict between the characters and between the natural world and the characters. Four men, lost at sea in a tiny boat, with only some water and whiskey, have the will to survive, but the conflicts in the story are all set against them. Without conflict, this story would not be nearly as meaningful or as interesting.

Since the time of ancient Babylonia, the perplexing challenge of how to calculate the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter has been of interest to humans. Pi has evoked the interest of mathematicians from ancient times to the present. Many have tried to find the end of this long string of digits. Pi has been the source of mystery and intrigue throughout the ages. In the world of today's supercomputers, this phenomenon continues to perplex the bytes and bits to exhaustion. The following will explore some of the more interesting historical tidbits about this most fascinating number. Ancient Beginnings The name of the ancient mathematician who first discovered that the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter is lost in time. The search for Pi began nearly 4000 years ago ancient Babylonia and Egypt (Beckman, 1971). Beckman theorizes that the first method for approximating Pi was to make a big circle and then use a piece of rope to measure

1. Auditor's Objectives: According to an essay published online by the United States General Accounting Office, managers and other decision-makers need to know how much inventory there is and where it is located in order to make effective budgeting, operating, and financial decisions and to create accurate financial reports. Physical inventory involves counting the individual items in stock at a particular date and time to ensure accuracy of inventory quantities and values as reported on the organization's Balance Sheet. Proper inventory accountability requires that detailed records of produced or acquired inventory be maintained, and that this inventory be properly reported in the organization's financial reports. Physical controls and accountability reduce the risk of (1) undetected theft and loss, (2) unexpected shortages, and (3) unnecessary purchases of items already on hand. There are many factors that can cause the record of on-hand inventory to differ from

Roger Ebert described Shakespeare's play, Much Ado about Nothing, as a comedy, in which the most important thing is the style: "A play like Much Ado about Nothing is all about style. I doubt if Shakespeare's audiences at the Globe took it any more seriously than we do. It is farce and mime and wisecracks, and dastardly melodrama which all come right in the end, of course, because this is a Comedy." Indeed, Much Ado about Nothing seems to be made exclusively of the pranks and games that the characters play on each other. As such, the play lacks any consistency in action or meaning, to the extent that it can not be taken seriously by the audience. In this sense, Shakespeare's text is a pure comedy, with no tangible content. Nevertheless, the play does contain a few elements that can be considered tragic or at least serious enough to make its status as a pure comedy debatable. Inasmuch as the play is filled with witticisms and comic farces that all end well it can be maintained

This four page paper presents an examination of special education transition services and how they relate to transitioning students from high school to college. The writer also explores the duties of the transition specialist. There were three sources used to complete this paper.

Jamaicans have a long history of immigration to the United States, especially since the end of World War Two. Most immigrant from Jamaica settled in New York, and in Queens particularly. When Jenny and her family arrived in New York, they were greeted by a flourishing Jamaican community with deep roots. Moreover, Jenny's relatives had moved there five years earlier and sponsored them for American residency. Jenny started preschool immediately after arriving; her mother works both at Jenny's junior high school and at JFK international airport; and her father is a cook at a Queens-area rehabilitation center. The family struggles but they make ends meet. They passionately support Jenny's education and value her academic achievement. Jenny herself is highly motivated both in school and in extra-curricular activities, especially sports. She runs track formally in school and jogs with her father nearly every day at a local park. When investigating Jenny's funds of knowledge, it is important

September 11, 2001 represents a date in history that none of our contemporaries will forget. This day is the day when the American society, if not the Western world, changed completely and was forced to face the threat of terrorism. After September 11 the whole world changed and this statement can be made with responsibility and not in dramatic terms, using sentimental approaches to describe the beginning of an ongoing war with terrorism. The great change that followed September 11 was a change in the American society as a whole, but perhaps the greatest change of all can be identified in the "war on terror" declared by President Bush. This war is more than a revenge of a deeply hurt nation – it is seen as a duty which resides in the historical American nationalism. Perhaps if America was not so deeply nationalistic the war on terrorism wouldn't have been so determined and long-lasting. Samuel Huntington presented in his famous work, "The Clash of Civiliza

Modern science is accustomed to patting itself on the back, often thinking that it has all of the answers for life's various conundrums, in comparison to the ancients who thought that the universe revolved around the earth, not the sun. Yet it was only in 1995 did a mathematician named Andrew Wiles, a British-born and educated academic in residence at Princeton University, finally solve the age-old problem of Fermat's Last Theorem. Fermat's Theorem was a famously impossible problem created by the 17th century French jurist and amateur mathematician Pierre de Fermat. It troubled mathematicians for ages, and took the professional mathematician Wiles nearly seven years of continuous effort to solve the amateurs' conundrum. As pointed out by Amir D. Aczel in his book Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secrets of an Ancient Mathematical Problem, to call Fermat an amateur, even a gifted and passionate amateur, is something of an understatement. In addition to his busy

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of chronic illness and nursing. Specifically, it will discuss the thought that an individual experiencing a chronic illness can be healthy. It will define health and chronic illness, and explain how these definitions are consistent with the thoughts expressed above. It is not difficult to understand how a person suffering from a chronic illness can be healthy. Often chronic illnesses affect one area of a person's health and well being, while others are unaffected. Thus, a person can experience overall health and well-being, while still suffering from a chronic illness.

Leadership is a word and a concept that is used in a variety of circumstances; it is not always used correctly, and leadership is not often fully understood. Sometimes "leadership" is used interchangeably with "management" and that is incorrect because a "leader" does not have to be in a position of authority to lead. Those in authority are certainly obliged to lead, and expected to lead, albeit many executives and managers have never been effective in motivating or leading others. This paper will review and present several definitions of leadership, including military leadership, "servant leadership," sports leadership – and it will present the difference between managing and leading. In the Journal of Leadership Studies (Funk, 43-45) the author points out that "while virtually every definition of leadership...in both scholarly and practitioner-oriented writings focus on the knowledge, skills, abilities, and traits of the leader," there is no "reasonable agreement" on precisely wh

In creating strategic alternatives for a company, it is important to take into account the various challenges and dynamics of the current business world. Particularly, it is also important that the company focus on the specific industry within which they function, and how they can best use industry developments in order to create a sound strategic management program. Functioning within the music industry, Arista Records is no exception to this paradigm. The music industry has seen rapid and extreme changes over the decades since the 1950's. Vinyl records have for example been replaced by CD's, which has been supplemented by digital music technology. On the industry scale, large conglomerates such as Sony and BMG have begun to monopolize the industry, making competition and market entry difficult for small-scale companies without affiliations with large-scale conglomerates. According to Heather Page (1998), affiliations is one of the most prominent strategic alternatives for the mo

This paper addresses the stock market crash of 1929 and its cause. The writer explores the events leading up to the crash and analyzes the source or combination of sources that created the crash. There were five sources used to complete this paper

The primary purpose of setting up armed forces of any country is to ensure the stability of the nation in times of war. Further to this mission is to defend the country against foreign or domestic (with regulations) aggression. Hence, the military is there to conduct offensive and defensive combat operations as mandated by the chain of command. The United States military establishment especially has a long tradition of war fighting capabilities and history, but in some areas it has been called upon to handle humanitarian missions such as peacekeeping, relief operations, infrastructure buildup and related stability operations. "The 1990s was t

Sider hit the mark when he writes in his article that there are "gaping holes in the ozone layer, polluted rivers, expanding deserts, denuded mountains, air-poisoned cities, and spiraling carbon emissions producing global warming." This present day ecological disasters are here and now and mankind must stop thinking that since we "alone are created in the image of God," we have the right and privilege to destroy what God has given as to lord over – nature and the environment. By lording over

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States is a declaration to the foundation of our nation's political society. Although many individuals view the preamble as being a unique theory in and of itself, in fact it is anything but unique. The Preamble is actually a composite of several different political theories as developed by other philosophers and theorist and applied to the unique American experience. Several of these theories include Social Contract Theory, Deontological and Virtue Ethics. The Preamble of the United States Constitution is a single sentence that states: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Social Contract Theory is a political philosophy most often associated with the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Rousseau. To briefly summarize, the general theory

My essay focuses on the eternal dilemma "to be or not to be a whistleblower" which has become a major problem for nowadays employees who often assist to irregularities without knowing what to do. The purpose of my paper is to prove that whistle blowing is a perfectly ethical and healthy practice which doesn't imply that the employee who makes the decisive step of disclosing information is disloyal to his organization. First of all, an individual who intends to point his finger at organizational misconducts should decide whether to talk or to keep quiet after taking into account several issues. One of the primary aspects refers to the amplitude of consequences, i.e. the number of people harmed and the intensity of the negative impact. Furthermore, an employee should know for sure that the respective effect will take place and that people will suffer because of it. On the other hand, the person who is tempted to blow the whistle must consider temporal immediacy. Thus, if

For schools to become foundations of social justice, educators need to promote and practice what Ladson-Billings calls cultural relevant pedagogy. The three essential components of a cultural relevant pedagogy include academic achievement, cultural competence, and social-political conscious

Introduction In recent years there has been a great deal of concern over the events that have occurred in corporate America. Among these events was the accounting scandal that took place at WorldCom. The purpose of this discussion is to examine the legal happenings at WorldCom. Let us begin our discussion with some background information about the WorldCom Scandal. The WorldCom Scandal According to an article published in the journal Issues in Accounting Education WorldCom was once a giant in the telecommunications industry. However, following several mergers, difficulties began to arise. The article explains that in July of 2000 the percentage of WolrdCom's total revenue began to rise; this resulted in a decrease in the company's rate of growth as it related to earnings. This decrease in earnings became a significant risk for WorldCom and it became apparent that its earnings would to meet the prediction of analysts and as a result the market price of World

General Mills is a Fortune 500 corporation and the #2 U.S. cereal maker, with only its rival Kellogg ahead of it in the ranking (General Mills, Inc. Company Profile, 2007). General Mills is a brand leader in several categories: Flour-Gold Medal Baking Mixes-Betty Crocker and Bisquick Dinner mixes-Hamburger Helper Fruit snacks-Fruit Roll-Ups Grain snacks-Chex Mix, Pop Secret Branded yogurt-Yoplait and Colombo (General Mills, Inc. Company Profile, 2007). General Mills acquired Pillsbury and added its refrigerated dough products and frozen vegetables to its line in 2001, thus doubling the company's size and making General Mills one of the world's largest food companies (General Mills, Inc. Company Profile, 2007). Despite its undeniable market presence, however, General Mills is subject to the seven environmental forces, just as any other company is. The political, legal, cultural, economic, demographic, ecological, and technology forces can exert a powerful impact on the company