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All cultures have moral codes. A moral code is a "system of principles and other standards designed to guide people's conduct" (Arthur, 2009, p. 10). A simple moral code we all know and often adhere to is the Golden Rule. Society must believe in a moral code to guide conduct or we would all be at risk of harm from the self-interest of others and society would become chaos if no one believed in moral codes. Body It is clearly logical to have a moral c

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Introduction Schools are faced with the challenge of helping children keep their weight within a healthy range (University of the State of New York, n.d.). According to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Physical Education and Health Web site (n.d.), physical education is "a course in the curriculum which utilizes learning in the cognitive, affective and psycho motor domains in a play or movement exploration setting." By allotting time for physical education in each grade's curriculum and choosing age-appropriate activities, schools can help manage childhood obesity and the physical and emotional problems that come with it (New York State Education Department, n.d.). Obesity in Children About one out of three children now considered overweight or obese (Nemours Foundation, 2009b). Obesity is determined by Body Mass Index (BMI) which uses weight and height to calculate a number that can be used as a surrogate for body fat percentage (Centers for D

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This paper discusses the geography of Bermuda, starting from pre-human times, proceeding to pre-contact times, through early human contact, and to the present, as well as examining some issues that will continue to be significant in the future, such as the relationship of Bermuda's location and volcanic origins to the Bermuda Triangle and to global warming, if any. The progression of Bermuda's wildlife and some of its most notable tree species through these eras is discussed, with special note given to species of amphibians that were introduced by man and that impacted the island in a significant manner. William Livingston (41) noted Bermuda's importance with respect to global climatic changes, and his stratigraphic research is detailed in the paper, providing clues to Bermuda's pre-human environment. In addition, Bermuda's volcanic origins are discussed (Malmquist; Vogt & Yung 553). The phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle and the mysterious happenings associated

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Sentencing an individual convicted of identity theft for monetary gain can be challenging. In this case as in all others, a judge would need to know the extent and impact of the crime on its victims, the past criminal behavior of the offender (if any), the ability of the offender to make restitution and his or her remorse for the actions, and the likelihood of re-offending. As Lilly, Cullen, and Ball (2007) state, this type of information often determines the severity of a sentence handed down by a judge in the criminal justice system, regardless of the crime itself. Of special significance is the likelihood that the individual will re-offend or move on to more heinous crimes including violent crime. While identity t

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The author makes four useful distinctions for talking about the rise of the virtual economy. They are e-business, commonly called e-commerce, telecommuting, and audio- and video- conferencing. Together these four technologies have changed the ways firms conduct business. E-business refers to the multitude of software and internet-based applications that permit the core functions of a business to be handled online by software alone or a combination of software and human work. The core functions of businesses that can be replicated online include ordering, payment processing by online check or credit card #, accounts payable, shipping, inventory management, payroll management, and the calculation of tax liabilities. Bills and order confirmations are simply emailed. The fact that all this information is online means that it c

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As noted in the article by Townsend et al (2008), virtual communication has become increasingly popular in firms wishing to save costs on sending their employees to face-to-face meetings. Although face-to-face meetings have been the traditional way to conduct business for time immemorial, the rise of the manager and the large corporation means that the old 'spit in the handshake' is no longer the preferred method of cutting a deal in the realm of global transactions. What is preferred is cutting costs and shifting the savings into the accounts of the shareholders. Therefore, savvy firms have invested significant capital in developing virtual communications platforms for their employees and contractors. A review of the pros and cons of virtual and real-time communications richly repays examination. Virtual communications take place on computers, PDAs, cell phones, pagers, and dedicated audio- and vi

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Introduction The main mission of the firm is to expand our presence in Kava. Recruiting a qualified and diverse local workforce was chosen as one sure method of achieving this goal, particularly since harnessing Kava's diverse ethnic cultures with distinct religious beliefs is considered vital to expanding the firm's presence. A cost/benefit analysis revealed using the Internet and Employee Referrals as the most effective methods of recruiting for the firm in the unique context of Kava. A corollary mission is keeping the owner's principle of "doing what is right...because it's the right thing to do" as a behavioral guide to all policies, procedures and actions (Decisions, 2009, p. 4). Despite these lofty goals, the best policies and procedures in the world are rendered useless when implementation of them is ineffective. According to public management and administration professor Petrus A Brynard (2005), effective implementation equates to "the accomplishment of

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The term Hip Hop most commonly refers to a genre of music known for its synthesized beats and turntable technique. Originating in the Bronx of 1970's New York, Hip Hop began as a popular music genre among African Americans and Latino Americans who used Hip Hop music as a cultural expression of their ethnicity. However, in a country as diverse as America, it did not take long for the origins of Hip Hop to spread throughout the east and west coasts, gradually accumulating d

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The following presents an analysis of the relationship between humans and time. A description of the historical development of the human ability to conceptualize and measure time is provided and why humans have a need to measure time is examined. Specific examples of how, as time measurement has become more detailed, it has changed human behavior are noted. The human ability to conceptualize and measure time has changed over time. The Gregorian calendar measures and objectifies time (Fry, 2002). The Gregorian calendar includes a fixed point to begin the numbering of years and elements of this measure of time also include that time is not based on societal notions or religious or other rulers. This calendar was used to measure time, helped everyone to understand time, and was sanctioned by the church throughout the Middle Ages. However as secularization increased the sacred significance of this calendar decreased. Days, months, and years were no longer time frames related a temporal days of saints. By the sixth century the Christian calendar was used and this began with the birth of Christ instead of

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There is a great deal of discussion within the field of education as to which of the four types of standards impacting upon the field are most significant and require the most attention in the policy-making process (Stites, 1999). In general, content standards appear to be most significant because they form the basis on which performance standards rest. Conten

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Executive Summary The Bank of Queensland has a long and rich history that was cantered within Queensland until recently. Today, however, the bank has extended its reach into the whole of Australia, and offers customers retail and commercial banking services that include merchant services and personal accounts as well as credit cards and loans. The bank has introduced the owner-manager branch concept, a business model that is similar to a franchise relationship for the financial services industry. Although this business model is still undergoing debate, it has helped the bank gain rapid access to new markets; the bank's growth through acquisition strategy has had similar results, although the bank has taken on a significant amount of debt as result of some of those acquisitions. Although a strong ongoing concern overall, the bank faces challenges from its strategic alliances with some third-parties and its association with some scandals within the country, most

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Comparison of Two Narrators with Respect to Problem Resolution Two short stories, one by Langston Hughes titled "Salvation" and one by Anna Quindlen titled "Mothers" are narrated by characters who experience major traumas and develop responses to those traumas that are representative of their varying levels of maturity and capacity for a creative response to an admittedly difficult and potentially traumatic situation. Hughes (1) is writing of himself in describing a young man who was "saved from sin" when he was about 13 although he actually lied about meeting and encountering Jesus. Quindlen (31) describes how, as a grown up women, she copes with reminders of the mother-daughter relationship she lost forever at the age of 19 when her own mother died. Of the two narrators, it is Quindlen who emerges as best able to cope with the loss she experienced as a young woman, largely because she has had a great deal of time to accept her loss and the imagination to create almost endless possibilities about what a mother-daughter relationship could have been. Langston Hughes (1) was only 13 when he was challenged at a church re

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Guideline 1: Goal of the Study, Population, and Type of Study This study, "Evaluation of Smoking Characteristics among Community-Recruited Daily Smokers with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Psychopathology," by Erin Marshall and associates (2008) was found as an online article; it had been reprinted from a journal. The study's goal was to examine whether several cigarette smoking related variables (e.g. nicotine dependence, smoking rate, quit history, severity of symptoms, etc.) significantly differed depending upon whether smokers had posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), panic disorder (PD), nonclinical panic attacks (PA), or no current Axis I psychopathology (controls). The population consisted of people responding to recruitment ads that met several subject selection criteria related to smoking, and to diagnostic criteria concerning PD, PTSD, PA and No current Axis I psychopathology. The nature of the study was descriptive comparison which seeks to describ

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Critical thinking plays a significant role in the decision-making process, along with inquiry and reasoning (Smith, 2003, p. 37). Making a sound decision involves conducting an inquiry to find out what the pertinent facts are, reasoning to evaluate how each alternative stands in relation to others, and critical thinking to examine and weigh the facts and alternatives and arrive at a decision. When I make future dec

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Research is critical for the advancement of the clinical and non-clinical allied health sciences everywhere to include Canada and abroad. As noted by the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (2009a), health care is changing and this demands an understanding of latest research findings to ensure optimal and adequate health care for patients. Activities of these professionals are changing since the public is becoming more empowered, educated, and engaged in healthcare due to social media on the Internet. There are multiple websites that present complementary and alternative medicine worldwide and allied health care professionals must compete with these sites as well as help patients distinguish between what is accurate and what is not. According to Hatzenbuehler, ASAHP President, prof

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A neutron star can form in the aftermath of the gravitational collapse of a massive star during a supernova. The name supernova remnant is applied to the phenomenon of the shock wave that results from the star's gravitational collapse; the shock wave expanding at a rate of 30,000 km/s and the consequent sweeping up of everything in its path (Schawinski et al, 2008). Supernova events are categorized, and a neutron star formation can occur during Type II, Type Ib, or Type Ic supernovas. In the aftermath of this gigantic and fast moving dust cloud there remains a star composed almost entirely of neutrons. Neutrons, having neutral electrical charge, are nearly the same mass as protons. That being said, neutron stars are incredibly dense and hot, though not particularly large. An average neutron star may be 1.35x-2.1x solar masses, but its radius may be a mere 12 km. That is 2.6×1014 to 4.1×1014 times the density of the sun! A neutron star's compactness and high de

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Corrections Task Force Project Memorandum The recommendations of the task force formed by the County Board of Supervisors in Utopia County to address jail overcrowding has identified a number of recommendations relevant to such a facility. First, due to often significant fluctuations experienced in Utopia County in terms of inmate population (Dean, 2009), it is recommended that a holding jail that books inmates at a low rate but holds them for some time be constructed. Such a facility should be built and run by the public governing authority, specifically the county, to serve the needs of the county and other related governmental units. This will invariably require the expenditure of funds and the hiring and maintenance of

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I believe that dogs were put on the earth to provide companionship and inner healing for humans. I've had dogs of my own, and they have been stellar companions. When you're down and out and no one else wants to talk to you, your dog will sit patiently and listen to you, giving your hand an occasional lick as if to say, "I'm here for ya no matter what. I'm your buddy forever." Studies have been done showing that dogs provide much-needed therapy for the elderly in nursing homes and for those who have been emotionally battered. Many accounts of children that refused to talk until a therapy dog was brought to them on a regular basis can be found in journals and magazines. I've never thought it was an accident that "dog" spelled backwards is "g-o-d"(God. I used to work with a guy who had a lot of emotional problems. He'd been married once, but his wife divorced him. He was alienated from his children. In chatting with him on

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Cosmology "refers to the study of the cosmos(relating it to a society's view of the universe" (Bergeron, 1992). Although ancient cultures were dependent upon pre-technological modes of exploring the universe and trying to understand it, by the time the great scientific thinkers such as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein were born, they were able to piece together a concept of the concept through logic and mathematics. As Bergeron (1992) puts it, thanks to them, "we have been able to advance from a geocentric, isolated snapshot of our heavens to an astounding, complex, intriguing tapestry of the full cosmos." Bergeron (1992) includes Stephen Hawking among modern scientific thinkers and sees today's cosmology as "a complex arrangement of theories and observations, of equations and hypotheses...built on the backs of the most intelligent minds this world has seen, describing for us the things that confounded our ancestors for centuries upon centuries." The Big Bang Theory is

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Nursing has long been conducted through the implementation of nursing theory, but evidence-based practice has been recommended by nursing authorities as far back as Florence Nightingale. Evidence-based practice is simply the implementation of nursing practices that research evidence demonstrates to be effective, and "studies have supported that patient outcomes are substantially improved when health care is based on evidence from well designed studies versus tradition or clinical expertise alone" (Melnyk, Fineout-Overholt, Stone, & Ackerman, 2000, as cited in Melnyk, 2002, p. 1). It seems logical that nurses would want to use practices that have been demonstrated successful, yet there are a number of barriers to evidence-based practice. Theory is easy to obtain, but "many nurses are struggling or lack the knowledge and skills to implement evidence-based care" (Melnyk, 2002, p. 1). In addition, there is often resistance to change in many healthcare organizations. In

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The grand nursing theory developed by Martha E. Rogers(her Science of Unitary Human Beings(pivots on the concept of wholeness. Rogers' (1970, p. 47, as cited in Abiko, 1999, p. 170) theory of nursing was grounded in her perspective on human beings; she stated, "Man is a unified whole possessing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics that are more than and different from the sum of his parts." Rogers (1992, p. 28, as cited in Wright, 2006, p. 229) wrote that "the art of nursing is the creative use of the science of nursing for human betterment" and created a new worldview in which the focus was on "unitary, irreducible human beings and their environment." Reality for Rogers was "undivided wholeness" (Carboni, 1995, p. 72). In fact, wholeness, for her, was the foundation of health. Rogers (1990, p. 10, as cited in Carboni, 1995, p. 73) "specified that the use of the term health within the context of unitary irreducible human beings and their respective environs ref

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At the end of 2008, there were some 7.3 million men and women under correctional supervision in the United States of which 70 percent (5.1 million) were supervised in the community via probation or parole and 30 percent (2.2 million) who were in prisons or jails (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2009). The correctional population increased by 0.5 percent during 2008 and while this was the smallest increase in prison and jail population since 2000, prison life in the United States has changed dramatically in recent decades. One of the major changes is that prisons are still overpopulated and have in many instances become the locus of gang activities which make these compounds dangerous enclaves in which the potential for violence is omnipresent (Vuolo & Kruttschnitt, 2008). Developing policies to address these issues as well as inmate needs is therefore an imperative. Before considering specific changes in prison life, necessary policies at the state and federal level, and inmate

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Opening From the triumphs of the enormously successful inventor Thomas Alva Edison to the unparalleled dreams realized by entertainment icon Walt Disney, few if any achievements worth note have ever occurred without perseverance. Showing the nature and power of perseverance, the English philosopher Edmund Burke once noted "By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation" (1). This is the power of perseverance, though it is deceptive in nature. Many people fail because they quit trying, not because they fail. Perseverance means winning the 100th time even though you failed the first 99 times. Perseverance means moving in millimeters instead of miles and in zigzags rather than a straightforward fashion, but most of all it means never, ever quitting. It is for this reason that perseverance is actually achievement in disguise. Body The remarkable achievements of Walt Disney could never have been realized had it not been for the entertain

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Christianity has its roots in Judaism, so the two religions' belief systems overlap to some degree. The Jewish Torah is the first five books of the Christian Bible, for example, and the Jews are waiting for a Messiah to come, whom the Christians believe has already come in the form of Jesus Christ. Both Jews and Christians profess faith in the one true God, Jehovah, and both believe in the resurrection of the dead(the Christians, as a rapture concurrent with Christ's Second Coming, and the Jews, at some undesignated time as God chooses. Although both Christianity and Judaism have different denominations or branches, each religion has a core of basic beliefs. Christianity departs from Judaism by i

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Scenario One Historical and current business scandals and corruption teach the significant need for ethics to be a fundamental aspect of all business decisions. Using ethical principles to guide decision making and the action that stems from it is helpful in determining the ethical choice as also a means of achieving organization objectives. From a Kantian perspective, the categorical imperative mandates the maxim that in order for a choice to be moral it must be one that could be willed as a universal law. As Kant put it, "Act only to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law" (Boatright 56-57). Clearly, one could not will the actions of Steve as a universal maxim. Business would come to a standstill, planning would be pointless, and resource and cost calculations would be inaccurate. Not keeping your word in business, even if oral, is breaking a contract on a moral level. In this sense, I would tell Steve his long-te

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