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Ideal Bank Heart Dinner Ideal Bank is one of the leading and successful corporate in the financial services sector. The bank is involved in lending to the micro and small enterprises. It also engages in individual lending and other financial services like overdrafts, saving accounts and current accounts. The vision of the bank is to be the leading financial services provider in the U.S. and at the same time considerate to the environment and society. Event description Purpose & goal of the event Ideal Bank Heart Dinner is an annual event organized by the Bank to source fund for patients requiring heart surgery but not covered by the normal insurance policies. The bank has been engaging in this activity as part of its corporate social responsibility. In essence, the bank employees and the bank as a corporate have invited their associates for a dinner where each attendant will pay the entrance fee on top of the meals costs. The event has been organized in such a way that the main source of funds is the bank employees’ own contribution. The bank will thereafter contribute double the amount that the employees will donate and thus making their contribution critical. Other supporters of the event are the associates of the bank, friends of the employees and other private and corporate sponsors. The event is expected to raise funds which will be allocated to various patients identified as needy by the medical practitioners’ network (Wolf & Levine, 2005). The event intends to invite employees of Ideal bank, associates and other corporate representatives for a dinner which will be attended by one the U.S. leading artist in standup comedy. Location The event will be held at the Lincoln Hotel in the New York City; over one thousand guests have been invited to the occasion. Lincoln Hotel has been selected for the event based ambience and modesty in their costing. The availability of large dinner space to accommodate the invited guests has also been one of the considerations not to mention the participation of the same hotel in the fundraising as one of the main sponsors. When The event has been set for the Friday the 26 th November 2010. Friday evening being the beginning of a weekend period has been selected since most employees of the bank and their associates will be available. Why the organization engages in the event. Ideal bank has organized the event as a way of giving back to the society especially to the less fortunate. Patients of heart problems requiring corrective surgery has increased according to the medical practitioners’ statistics. The Bank has also organized the event so as to sensitize the community on the challenges of heart complications and their predisposing factors. It is also in line with the vision of the bank of being considerate to the society to contribute funds to assist patients undergoing heart surgery and not having medical insurance cover (O`Toole, 2002). Theme and deliverables The stage will be well prepared with big screens set up in various strategic locations for the guests to follow every moment of the event. A VIP lounge will be set aside specifically for chief guests that will be present during the event.
Introduction Health initiative programs are global phenomena. They are as old as humankind. Continued government support has shown that all-inclusive, sustained programs to address causes of key public health problems are an underlying denominator in the health status of any country (Garrett 2007). In Australia, a number of comprehensive programs addressing key health issues have been put in place. Greater emphasis is placed on advocacy, policy, and inter-sectoral action to help inform people’s choice of health programs. Examples of health promotion initiatives include Michelle Obama’s Lets Move program in America, Living Longer Living Better initiative, and Headspace initiative. The last two are in Australia. Let’s Move Health Initiative Obesity in America is an old problem. Thirty three percent of American children are overweight or obese. The condition leads to complications like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer (Batan, Li & Scanlon 2010). Almost forty percent African American and Hispanic children are affected by the problem. The First Lady, Michelle Obama, is determined to solve the obesity problem in America. To this end, she launched the “Let’s Move” campaign. A letter was written to President Obama by Melody Barnes on behalf of the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity. The letter detailed an action plan to solve the
There are many challenges involved in the effort to ensure effective integration among different teams. The first is a lack of coordination among these groups, especially when they are distributed globally. Inappropriate dissemination of information can frequently occur without a well-established communication system, with team members not getting the knowledge they need and information leaking. To overcome this challenge, project managers should establish and oversee robust networks that deliver messages to those who need to see them. The usage of modern communication technologies is essential for that purpose. Another essential problem in managing many different teams at once, which is partially related to the first one, is the lack of timeline synchronicity. When teams set goals for themselves, they will assign different priorities to specific tasks and complete them at their pace. As a result, some work outcomes may be unused for some time as no other team requires them yet, but some instead cannot proceed without a product they have not created yet. It is the project manager’s task to guarantee that the teams’ schedules are well-aligned for overall productivity purposes. The third challenge discussed in this paper is related to the skills and competencies involved in a large project. At times, teams will encounter tasks that they are not equipped to handle and have to either learn to accomplish them or find a competent professional. In a large-scale project where such a person might be available but occupied with other matters, such an event represents inefficiency. Project managers have to consider these competencies when assigning tasks to different teams. However, since they likely lack the technical competencies required, they will have to consult the various groups in detail. The first issue the author will highlight within the topic of integration in project management is the delegation of responsibility. Teams will typically have to interact to achieve their goals in concert and complete the project. However, if no clear responsibilities are established other than that of the project manager, there can be decision-making issues that result in progress being slowed down. All controversial decisions will be passed on to the top level, and the leader will likely be overwhelmed by their number and be unable to make an appropriate decision. To combat the issue, the project manager should allocate responsibilities appropriately at the beginning of the project. The second problem is motivation, which will not necessarily be the same for each team. As a result, people will be working at different paces and not necessarily fulfill the project manager’s expectations. Managing each group’s motivation separately is a challenge that increases in complexity dramatically as the number of people involved rises. Nevertheless, the project manager’s task is to understand each team’s motivational issues and create solutio
Duke, S., & Bennett, H. (2010). A narrative review of the published ethical debates in palliative care research and an assessment of their adequacy to inform research governance. Palliative medicine , 24(2), 111-126. The authors explore how the quality of research, along with the available evidence in guiding palliative care largely relies on ethical decisions that inform its conduction, designing, and reporting. Even as there is a lot of published work on the ethical debate of palliative care research, nonetheless, there still lacks in literature a synthesis and exploration of the quality of the central debates. These central debates include moral appropriateness, inclusion, gate-keeping, vulnerability, and research culture. Limited debate exists on research reporting ethics as well as the ethics supporting research leadership. The study offers a framework to enhance a reconciliation of emerging ethical issues in addition to an identification of possible methodological approaches. Gardiner, C., Barnes, S., Small, N., Gott, M., Payne, S., Seamark, D., & Haplin, D. (2010). Reconciling informed consent and ‘do no harm’: ethical challenges in palliative-care research and practice in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Palliat Med, 24(5), 469-472 In their paper, the authors emphasizes on the ethical challenges associated with research involving palliative care patients. In this regard, the study discuses these challenges in the form of a pilot study aimed at assessing the needs of the palliative care patients experiencing severe and moderate obstructive pulmonary disease. In the study, the main ethical problems that the subjects were faced with involved issues to do with the application of terminology, and more so the terms ‘chronic obstructive pulmonary disease’ and ‘palliative care’. The impact that the ethical advice given to the patients is also examined and its capability to provide them with a total informed consent. Jubb, A. (2002). Palliative care research: trading ethics for an evidence base. J Med Ethics , 28, 342-346 In this article, Jubb argues that the evidence of effectiveness is often required in god medical practice to address care deficiencies, justly distribute limited resources, and endeavor for further improvements. However, a scarcity of good evidence often hinders the potential for palliative care. Jubb contends that such circumstances are mainly due to perceived challenges that supposedly categorize dying patients in a special class of their own. The critic by Jubb is an attempt to consider the need for undertaking focused studies with the intention of developing policy and clinical decisions with a view to guiding professionals within the health care sector as they attend to dying patients. The author also examines the principles behind the ethical and practical challenges regarding palliative care research, and regards them as insurmountable and unique. In summary, the review argues that a compassionate application of the ethical principles by investigators in their work is a sign of an endeavor to enhance the
To effectively fight crime, the law enforcers need to have prompt access to the data of individuals who have violated the law. This is captured in the 1967 Commission report, which urged for rapid adoption of information technology (IT) to make the criminal justice system operate efficiently and fairly (Ridgeway, 2018). Since then, significant strides have been made especially in using big data technologies. To prevent errors, Lee (2019) suggests that the information collected should be accurate and that the correct software must be used when dealing with different agencies. The objective of this paper is to exemplify the case of Uncle Bob, who has a record of crime in California, his residential state, and was caught speeding during his vacation in Miami. First, it is necessary to understand the facts about the case to appreciate data sharing and access across legal entities. The field police in Florida had basic information that could identify Uncle Bob even though he had no history of crime in that state. The officer arrested him after a conversation, implying that he gave out information that matched the details in their records. Therefore, in addition to Uncle Bob’s over-speeding, it was established that he was a fugitive or had stolen property since such is the information stored by the National Crime Information Centre (NCIC) (Kilfeather, 2016). The Florida police knew about Uncle Bob’s past offenses by accessing the shared database to verify the information that he had provided during the conversation (apprehension). Notably, the data was available to the Miami Police department because there was National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). Specifically, the federal government acts as the center for sharing information with different local agencies. For instance, the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) System hosts data in the cloud and contains a search engine to allow police officers in the field to find data easily as long as they have an internet connection. The two states have provided the analytical capacity to authorized persons to access the data they need to prevent or control crime. Kilfeather (2016) states that information is also accessed through the in-case index, which locates small details and matches a specific numbered report. Thus, the officer can easily connect information that appears unrelated because the technology has proprietary algorithms features. Moreover, the officers have access to guides that can help relate data and make trustworthy conclusions about an individual suspected of an offense. Accordingly, the information available to the Miami Police Department includes biographic data and criminal history, all of which flow from the local agencies to the federal center and back. Officers can easily access the details such as name, height
In his play Fences , the playwright August Wilson presents audiences with a family at the cusp between complete segregation and the civil rights movement, and between demoralization and stability. The family of garbage worker Troy Maxson is attempting to advance from the hopeless poverty of his childhood and Rose’s confused family relationships. This family is trying to make their way in a world still largely set against African Americans (Wilson, The Ground on Which I Stand). They are trying to create a stable family, in the face of a history of deliberate destruction of the families of enslaved people. They do not always succeed, although, by play’s end, there is a promise for success in the next generation. One continuing symbol of their efforts to achieve some measure of status in their community is the fence that Troy intends to build at the start of the play. The fence can affirm Troy’s ownership and the stability of the family. The fence is a barrier against the intrusion and oppression of racism and serves to exclude the rebellious son, as well. The fence appears in the gospel song that Rose sings to herself, as a symbol of the spiritual protection that she seeks and hopes to acquire. Fences, both in the title, and in the dialogue of the play, serve to retain respectability and what passes for normality in a heavily segregated society, and to keep out the forces that threaten that respectability – the oppression of racism, lust, filial disrespect, and other evils. Alan Nadel, in his essay entitled “Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fences and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ,” points out that the notion of a fence is tied up with, “the idea of property” and “giving propriety” (Nadel). 1 As Nadel reminds the reader, in the Western world, there is a long tradition that building a fence around something confers ownership (Nadel 86). Troy is perhaps trying to build a fence, weekend by weekend, at Rose’s urging, to assert his ownership over his home and family that he, and especially Rose, value so dearly. We know that Rose cherishes her family because Rose expresses her ambition that, “I never wanted any half nothing in my family” (Wilson, Fences Act 2, Scene 1). She wants to keep this wholeness, this propriety, and to accomplish this, she has striven to be, “everything a wife could be” (Wilson, Fences Act 2, Scene 1). As Bono puts it, “Rose wants to hold onto you” (Wilson, Fences Act 2, Scene 1). Thus, the fence demarcates the property that Troy has acquired (albeit with the help of his brother Gabriel’s disability payment) and the family that Rose has created with Troy (Wilson, Fences Act 2, Scene 5). 2 This fence is also intended in some way to keep at bay the intrusion of the racism that he deplores at his job. Nadel asserts that this fence is part of Troy’s “struggle to internalize the Mason-Dixon line (Nadel 89)”. Outside the fence, Troy chafes at being assigned the less desirable jobs solely based on his race (although he does not have
Many philosophers presented rationalism and empiricism as two opposite schools before Immanuel Kant combined knowledge about these studies and created his own Theory of Knowledge. The reason for this synthesis was in imperfection that Kant saw in both dogmas. However, this combination of two opposite schools did not mean just a simple adoption of views and implementation of those views into a new theory. Both empiricists and rationalists had disagreements in their main views. One of them was about thinking about substances and their amount: some philosophers thought that there is just one substance exists, some thought there are many. There were others, who thought there is none. However, the main disagreement between schools was about the role of experiences and senses. While rationalists emphasized the role of senses, empiricists thought that our ideas should be obtained from experience. However, Kant did more than just combined those doctrines. He created his own system of Critical Philosophy, which combines certain elements of both theories and rejects some main views. Main Kant’s idea was in the necessity of both reason and experience for human beings. He argued with empiricists about the fundamentalism of experience: while the last is very important for cognition, the reason is necessary for producing this experiment. However, Immanuel argued with rationalists as well and rejected some of their nonempirical reality ideas. Rationalists claim: “We have knowledge of certain entities, such as God, immortal soul, and substances underlying things’ properties that are not objects of any possible experience” (Dicker, 5). In other words, they deny even an idea of human knowledge in nonempirical reality. Kant agreed with them at some points: Although we cannot know whether God exists, whether there is an immortal human soul, or whether humans have free will, we may believe in God, immortality and freedom. Furthermore, for purposes of action and morality, we ought to believe in them despite the fact that there is no way we can know whether these beliefs are true (Dicker, 4). Immanuel Kant in his works also gives definitions for such terms as a priori analytic and synthetic. According to Kant’s point of view, in contrast to empirical knowledge, a priory is the knowledge that does not require any experience. He also emphasizes the importance of synthetic a priori judgments. In his opinion, Synthetic judgments are opposite to analytic and are not sufficient to decide the importance of proposition. In his works, Kant shows mathematics and pure science as two fields of knowledge where synthetic priori judgments exist. Here, the term pure appears as a synonym to a priori. He claims that some laws in science are more than just logical deductions. They are synthetic and complicated. The same thing is about mathematics. Although all mathematic contains logical conclusions, it is based on synthetic judgments: “if my understanding is correct, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem has demonstrated that no fully satisfactor
The preservation of the human rights is one of the main tasks of any government. However, where is the solution to the question which involves the preservation of the population’s interests, but breaks the human rights? This controversial issue is closely connected with the problem of Aboriginals in Australia. Moreover, the issue of the Stolen Generations is still current for the Australian society because the consequences of the forcible removal of indigenous children can be observed even today. That is why it is important to focus on determining short-term and long-term consequences of removal for those children who became the victims of the governmental discriminative policy in Australia during the period of 1890-1970. The fact of the forcible removal of indigenous children from their aboriginal families is discussed by many researchers today. In their work “Women and Human Rights in Australia”, R. Desai, S. Fascione, J. Fox, and D. Kogan present the overview of the development of women’s rights in Australia in relation to the phenomenon of the Stolen Generations (Desai, Fascione, Fox, & Kogan, 2008). The authors make accents on the formal aspects of women’s socio-political organizations in Australia and connect their development with the progress of social movements associated with the problem of human rights in Australia from the perspective of the issue of the Stolen Generations and results of this process. However, presenting the definite background for the development of the social organizations and movements in Australia, the authors give only general and brief information about the phenomenon of the Stolen Generations without concentrating on its consequences. Thus, the reasons for developing the violent actions against aboriginals were hidden in the governmental inclinations to realize the principles of assimilation in the Australian population with the help of providing discriminative measures (Desai, Fascione, Fox, & Kogan, 2008). If the reasons of the process are historically explained, the consequences of removals for the representatives of the Stolen Generations require their further analysis. These consequences can be discussed as short-term and long-term ones. Many researchers determine such aspects of the process as the inclinations of the authority to create definite conditions for civilizing the indigenous children. However, the real situations became tragedies for those children who were removed from their families. The short-term results of such actions could be observed in the children’s inability to adapt to new circumstances, in their diseases as the results of stresses and changing the life conditions (Cassidy, 2006). The most dangerous effects were connected with the violent actions of white people who took children in their families. Aboriginals were considered as servants and often suffered from different kinds of abuses including sexual abuse (Kennedy, 2001). Various discriminative actions which were directed against the indigenous persons became the causes for children’s different psychological traumas which were complicated with the fact of their isolation fro