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Introduction In this research paper, I have selected honesty as my topic of discussion. I chose honesty due to the importance of this virtue in our daily lives, both in and out of school. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines honesty as an uprightness of character or deeds or observance of the laid regulations (Merriam-Webster, 2011). The following questions will be vital in having a deeper understanding of this important virtue.   * What is the importance of honesty in our daily lives?   * Is honesty intrinsic or acquired?   * If honesty is acquired, how then can we acquire it?   * Why do most people advocate for honesty, yet few practice it?   * Can we change the current state of dishonesty? Honesty is the recognition of the fact that insincerity in action, deeds or utterance is dissolute, that love, fame, or material wealth received through fraud has no value, and that an attempt to obtain a value through insincere means is not morally right. It refers to an aspect of moral character and signifies positive, moral traits that include integrity, truthfulness, and sincerity along with the lack of deceit and theft. The concept of honesty is applicable in all facets of our lives. For example, while we are in school, it is vital that we exhibit honesty in all academic and non-academic activities, lack of which can lead to penalties such as deduction of marks or a suspension from school. We must strive to embrace honesty despite the consequences, as this can be beneficial in the long-term. Acquired or Intrinsic? Behavioral studies show traits such as honesty, laziness, courage or humility are not intrinsic; instead, they are acquired by engaging in the acts repeatedly, for example, a person becomes hard working by adopting the trait as a child and practicing it all through to adulthood. A person adopts a trait that he believes in. These beliefs can be instilled by parents, friends, religious teachings, or teachers at school. One important point is that fear only motivates honesty to a certain degree, therefore, educationists must not instill fear upon students as this will only make them act honest when the teacher is around but when he leaves, do the reverse. Honesty is best acquired when it comes from within a person. Academic Honesty Academic dishonesty is very rampant in most educational institutions and typically involves any form of cheating in an academic exercise. There are many forms of academic dishonesty, these include plagiarism (adoption or use of another person’s ideas without giving him/her appropriat
Global warming is referred as the climatic change as a result of increased temperatures on the earth surface. This climatic change is caused by two factors, which include human activities on the environment, as well as the natural effects. This has resulted into adverse effects, thus calling for the environmental sustainability which can only be achieved from the sustainable development. Human activities, which are referred as anthropogenic factors are the major causes of global warming as the natural factors are not known to account to the greater effects. The following discussion comprises of the effects of the global warming as well as the mitigating measures to be put in place (Houghton 20). The global warming increases the temperature in the sea which in turn results to rising of the sea level. This effect result into flooding leading to the destruction of properties, vegetation, land, and loss of habitats to the wildlife and the displacement of people which increases the number refugees. Due to the high release of greenhouse gases such as chlorofluorocarbons, sulphur oxides and methane among others have resulted into depletion of the ozone layer (Union on Concerned Scientists18). This has in turn led to direct reach of the ultraviolet rays into the earth surface where there have been increased cases of skin cancer. The vegetation has dried up in many areas thus causing desertification and also continuous occurrence of prolonged droughts thus starvation and loss of lives. Excess evaporation of water from water surfaces has increased due to increased temperatures thus lowering the water quantity and drying up of these sources (Weart 42). The above effects can however be reduced through practicing environmental sustainability by every person. This can be done through promotion of reforestation in the cleared forest as well as increase of tree plantation in private land. Trees are known as natural carbon sinkers thus they reduce the carbon in the atmosphere which leads to reduction of green house effect by the carbon oxides. Carbon oxides emissions from the fossil fuels and charcoal burning can be reduced by use of natural sources of energy such as solar and wind energy. Electric power can also be used on vehicles instead of using the fossil fuels and, promote use of bicycles and walking in small distances instead of driving (Weart 45). Waste should be reduced as in its composition there is production of methane which is also a green house gas. Reduction of this waste can be done through recycling of materials for instance used newspaper as tissue papers. Waste can also be reduced by use of materials which are reused more than once. There should be minimization of equipments that emit chlorofluorocarbons like refrigerators in our houses, less use of sprays and air conditioners which are used to cool building during summer seasons. This can be done by adding insulators in the b
Abstract Seaweeds are pertinent basic producers especially in low-lying coastal ecosystems. They particularly do well in the open end of the mouth of oceans called an estuary. The greatest importance of these aquatic plants is that the biomass produced by these species is estimated at over 400 times more than that obtained from other aquatic derivatives like phytoplankton. Besides, seaweed which exists alongside the tidal current of the sea may be highly generative. The yearly production of dry matter in a given area is in surplus of other forms of vegetation like forests. As a result, the ecophysiology of this aquatic vegetation is of great significance in our appreciating the coastal ecosystems. Similar to phytoplankton, this plant obtains its vital growth nutrient basically from the surrounding waters. The nutrients needed by seaweed exists both in high and low concentrations. For instance, non-organic carbon has a higher concentration while elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus have relatively low levels of concentration. Indeed, nitrogen in this case is of utmost importance due to the fact that it controls growth rate o f the seaweed in such marine environment. Seaweeds will obtain the nutrients required by absorption through the thallus. Moreover, ammonia is also contained in non-organic nitrogen and is derived as waste product from the plants which are closely related with algae. Introduction Seaweeds obtain the nutrients they require for growth through the surrounding waters. The division of those resources which prove to be limiting is referred to as complementarity. Some of these resources include nitrogen, nitrites or ammonium compounds. This competition may easily result in general increase of resource overuse which may equally be imperative in the process of maintaining a state of balance in biodiversity (Gunson 1993). This practical part will investigate whether there exists this for of competition in seaweed. Additionally, the rates of nitrogen uptake by New Zealand seaweeds will be experimentally investigated and an analogy drawn with other geographical environments. Before the assimilation of any vital nutrient, the same has to go through a membrane. This is possible in two different ways namely through low affinity and high affinity transportation mechanisms. One of the categories of a low affinity is the one described by the linear relationship between uptake and the amount of concentration while the high affinity transport mechanism entails the transfer of materials across semi permeable membrane due the chemical difference between the two ends. The overall aim of this experiment is to investigate the relationship between seawater nutrient (ammonium and nitride) concentration and rates of nutrient uptake by a range of New Zealand seaweeds and the ability of the seaweeds to partition these sources of nitrogen. Methods A stock solution containing 50 mM ammonium chloride was provided. Thereafter, a dilution of the very stock solution followed. As a result, 100mL of seawater containing 50μM of a standard ammonium was obtained. Th
Introduction The insurance sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in Saudi Arabia. The recent introduction of compulsory insurance cover for all private employees, regardless of company’s size, has had a positive impact on this sector. Government reports and other private publications have ranked the sector among most promising sectors in the world. Many Arab countries are considering Saudi Arabia as a potential investment destination. Tawuniya Insurance Company is one of the fastest growing firms in insurance sector. Despite the economic down turn that has been experienced in Saudi Arabia in the recent past, Tawuniya Insurance Company has registered a steady growth, making it one of the largest insurance firms in the region. Set up in 1986, this company has made an effort to transform the insurance sector in this country. It has managed to set new standards in the market of insurance, regularly introducing new products in the market that are responsive to the needs of the consumer. This company has also made it its personal duty to educate public within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia about the importance of insuring both businesses and persons. It has been so active in conducting corporate social responsibilities in a bid to have a society that is well educated on health matters and issues pertaining to safety at work place. The company has undertaken to have the best employees, who are technologically advanced in order to run its activities efficiently. Its employment policies are also very friendly, making it one of the best employers in this region. This is what made the researcher interested in conducting a research on this company. Tawuniya Insurance Company: An Analysis of the Company This insurance firm got operational on January 18, 1986 to offer reinsurance and corporate insurance activities. It was given a commercial registration number 1010061695 as a limited liability company. Its headquarters are located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With an employee population of over 2000, this company is ranked as one of the largest insurance companies in this region. Its services are offered in three categories, namely: Property and Casualty; Motor insurance; and Medical sector. This company has several branches in various regions within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Some of those locations include Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Najran. This giant company operates in other regions outside Saudi Arabia. Some of the countries where this company operates include Egypt, Iraq, United Arabs Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan and Lebanon among other countries. The company operates in an Islamic country and therefore it upholds Islamic doctrines. The company has a Sharia Committee, headed by H.E, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Suliman Bin Manie as the chairperson, Dr. Mohamed Bin Ali and Sheikh Yousef Bin Abdul Aziz as members. Formed on 25 th of February
Introduction Same sex marriages have been on the rise in the last four decades or so. Pro-same sex marriage lobbies have articulated that these need to be treated on par with conventional marriages. They believe that since most of the parameters that apply to heterosexual marriages, such as love, caring, commitment, fidelity, promiscuity and so on apply to these marriages as well. They see it as the exercise of natural choice, and refute the procreation aspect by claiming that they can have offspring, too. Testimony to this claim is the fact that no less than a quarter of the estimated 600,000 same sex couples in the US have adopted children. (D’Cruz, 387-8) They claim, with credibility, and backed up by facts, that when it comes to habitation, they go by the same set of conditions –they have the same commitment to their children as heterosexual people, live a life in which they cooperate with each other in all major aspects of life, pay taxes and contribute to society. Thus, according to this segment, there should not be nay moral exclusion by these people should be viewed as the mainstream of the society. However, they ignore the moral and religious grounds. In a country where currency notes contain the words, “In God We believe”, it is a blasphemy to encourage this segment of thought process and legalize it. (D’Cruz, 384). Problem Statement Gay couples are looking for legal recognition of their right to stay together as couples and they want it to be legally referred to as ‘marriage’, which is socially, culturally and religiously unacceptable. The solution proposed to solve the problem The same sex couples want a legal recognition called ‘civil union’ this should be provided. Target audience The target audience in this issue covers a wide range from an individual, committee, group and most of all legal authorities. Action for readers to take Once the readers are influenced by the argument it is assumed that they would move a social memorandum in favor of the argument and insist the authority to grant the gay couples the status of civil union and not marriage. Alternative solution for readers The readers may also take up the issue and organize a social referendum to stop the legalization of same sex marriage altogether. However, the readers may feel it would be lenient to allow staying together of gay couples without any legal status. How have you handled these alternatives? As per the argument, it is persuaded that human rights should not be ramified under any circumstances. Thus, allowance of civil union would suffice without any further allowance by the legal authorities. Arguments The total percentage of the gay and lesbian population is about 10% (D’Cruz, 380)of the population and their ways of life significantly ramify the normal ways, livelihood, religion and beliefs of the rest 90%. (D’Cruz, 380) Thus, it is recommended that the authorities should restrain from legalizing these minority populations in favor of the majority as it is expected of a democratic society. Measures should be taken to make the authorities understand the good of the greater mass. It should be noted that ma
Introduction In all entrepreneurship projects the decision making principles ascribed to it will either make or break the potential business. Success in all ventures is determined by how well the venture is planned, what goals are set in the beginning, how it plans to run its operations and finally what are its plans towards mitigating risk. For this venture, the Al Hallab restaurant chain, the chosen decision making principles is that of effectuation whose tenets are based on controlling the future through meticulous planning in situations where there is a certain degree of uncertainty. In this case the uncertainty is whether or not a restaurant that specializes in Lebanese food will be able to become a success in markets that are already inundated with various restaurants with the same theme. The reason why Al Hallab is an effectuation entrepreneur can be determine due to these three factors: Patchwork Quilt: The basic product of the restaurant is Lebanese food yet it had gained main stream popularity in various consumer sectors despite the availability of similar types of food in other restaurants. The patchwork quilt principle of effectuation emphasizes the creation of something new through existing means. That is exactly what was done with the Al Hallab restaurant chain wherein the existing method of cooking Lebanese food was enhanced and brought into modern day mainstream consumption by modernizing its overall look and method of preparation as well as the ambience of the restaurant. As such the restaurant chain was able to discover a new way of achieving success by reinventing the way Lebanese food is consumed. Affordable Loss: The concept of affordable loss can be described in terms of committing to a particular business plan with the intent of focusing on a particular consumer base and accepting that you will lose other types of customers. This can be seen is the emphasis of the Al Hallab restaurant chain on serving only Lebanese food. This means that it is forgoing the possibility of gaining other types of consumers by merely focusing on the type of consumers that enjoy eating Lebanese food. Pilot in the Plane: The concept of the pilot in the plane revolves around the concept of people and service and being the prime drivers of business operations rather than trying to focus on external opportunities such as producing a particular product at time when it is in demand and continuously shifting production to different types of products as demand changes without ascribing to a particular type of product. In the case of Al Hallab the focus is
Sometimes it is rather difficult for young people to overcome the period when they are not children, but not adults yet. It is the beginning of a new life, and it is very important to start it under the best circumstances. However, what are the peculiarities of growing up when you are in a foreign country, live with the host family and hope for the better future trying to accept your past? In her novel Lucy , Jamaica Kincaid created the character who in many details reflects her own personal experience. “The Tongue” is the most provocative because of its open frankness part of the novel. The main ideas discussed in this chapter can be presented in the form of three key words which are ‘tongue’, ‘love’, and ‘remembering’. Nevertheless, to analyze the author’s opinion on these concepts, it is necessary to focus on Lucy’s interpretation of these notions. The title of the chapter can be considered as rather controversial, but to understand its provocative character completely, it is significant to read the first pages of the part. ‘Tongue’ is the concept which can be perceived from many points of view, including social, cultural, and historical perspectives. However, in her inner monologue, Lucy as the narrator of the story presents only one understanding of ‘tongue’ concentrating on its physical meaning. Thus, ‘tongue’ is the reflection of Lucy’s perception of her own sexuality. When she speaks about her kisses and close relations there are no descriptions of the romantic aspects of the situations, but only physical details. She says, “I was sucking the tongue of a boy named Tanner”, and then, “I liked the way behind his ears smelled. Those three things had led to my standing in his sister’s room (she was my best friend), my back pressed against the closed door, sucking his tongue” (Kincaid 43). She also compares it with a dish cooked of a cow’s tongue which was “served in a sauce of lemon juice, onions, cucumber, and pepper” (Kincaid 44). These details give the readers no opportunity to think of Lucy as a romantic girl. If the author focuses her attention on the sensual character of Lucy’s feelings and emotions, she rejects the sensitive reactions of the main character. Drawing the readers’ attention to such details, the author expresses the peculiarities of Lucy’s becoming a woman and her rather cynical perception of the fact typical for young people. Lucy is extremely honest in her reactions to reality and considerations about many facts. A number of her phrases presented in the narration can be characterized as modal ones, with strict connotations because many of them include the words which express her emotions in the range of ‘love-hatred’. Thus, the next key concept is the notions of ‘love’ and ‘likeness’ as it is given in the text. To describe her emotions, Lucy uses the word ‘love’. However, does she really mean love? “I was not in love with him nor did I have a crush on him” (48) or “I loved Miriam fr
Introductory paragraph Contracts are legally binding agreements that are entered into by the parties with regard to property or service. Parties involved in a contract could be two or more. Parties should show mutual accord so that they could form a legally enforceable agreement. The elements of a contract with regard to real estate are analyzed in this essay. Was the contract successfully fulfilled? As a realtor in the state of Nevada, I enter into contracts with many clients who could either be sellers or buyers of real estate property. I owe certain duties to all parties involved in real estate transactions. Recently, I entered into a contract with the seller of a strategically located house in Nevada. I undertook to see that a formal contract was formed before we could transact. A contract is formed when an offeror promises an offeree an item (McKendrick, 2012; Rogers, 2012). If an offeree accepts an offer in the context of clear consideration, capacity, and legality, then a contract is formed. Therefore, the five elements of a contract are the following:   * Offer   * Acceptance   * Legality   * Consideration   * Capacity When I heard from a friend that the owner of the house intended to sell it, I approached him and he offered a considerable price. We negotiated a bit and I accepted the final price that the owner of the house proposed. A valid contract that could be legally enforceable was formed because there was a valid offer and acceptance, a given value with regard to the property (consideration), capacity (the seller and I were of sound mind and we knew that we were entering into a legally binding agreement), and legality (we both understood that the agreement was for a legal purpose). An offer is the willingness to act, which must be accompanied by an acceptance of another individual (McKendrick, 2012; Rogers, 2012). The offer that the seller gave was the readiness to sell the house to me. Many offers are limited by time. However, if an offer is not limited by time, then it could be valid until such a time when an offeror can revoke it. A contract is formed if an offeree accepts an offer presented to him or her by an offeror. Acceptance could be executed in writing or verbally. Thus, parties to an agreement are required to agree on the method of acceptance (Lando, 2007; Rogers, 2012). Consideration means that the benefit that an offeree intends to obtain from a contract is measurable in economic terms. Consideration should be accepted by both parties. If an item is underpriced, then a seller cannot go to court with regard to the shortfall because a legally binding agreement was formed. Minors and lunatic