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Stories are an integral part of human life. One of the best features of story telling is that it is amusing and it can shorten time and brighten up leisure. Story telling is “a play of memory and forgetting” (Levy and Murphy 9) with the one who tells stories being able to recollect the events of the old times completely forgetting the present at this. It is remarkable how people of old age tell the stories about their youth and childhood but are sometimes unable to recollect their own name. Telling stories is important because they direct people’s imagination, cultivate their taste, and shape their thoughts (Keyes 4). One of the stories which my grandmother has told me as I was a child has completely changed my life and personality and shaped what I am now. It seems that grandparents are able to influence children’s future life namely through their stories. I, for one, have always listened to my Grandma attentively because I was simply amazed by her wisdom. When I stayed with her during the weekends or holidays, she always used to tell me stories before wishing me good night. Now I have a whole collection of them which, I am sure, I will pass to my children and then grandchildren. One of her stories has made a considerable impact on me changing my attitude towards love, relations, and romance. It was my Grandma’s response to the question regarding how she and Grandpa have met. My Grandma and Grandpa started dating when both of them were 18. Once they had to part for some time because she was sent to her relatives for a month, while he found a seasonal job in another town. They agreed to meet in a month at the train station from which they were to take the same train home (this is how people used to make dates when there were no cell phones!). However, it happened that Grandma missed her train for some reason. She stood crying from disappointment; she thought that Grandpa was in time for the train and left on it being convinced that she was already on it. In a minute, she felt somebody standing behind her. That was Grandpa who, as it turned out, failed to buy a ticket to the train and was also left at the train station. They bought tickets, came home together, and never parted since then. Back then I did not understand the value of this story for I was only 9. However, in several years I recollected it when I got disappointed with love and relations. I understood that only the one who is searching for love and wants to find it indeed will necessarily succeed in this. I thought of the lucky coincidence which the destiny prepared for my grandparents and got convinced that having another try in relations is worth it, at least for such moments when you are unbelievably happy simply because you accidentally met your beloved when you could not even hope for this. Thus, Grandma’s story has inspired me and turned me into a romantic person who now believes that true love does exist, despite all the objections on the part of cynics and those who became disappointed with relations. This is what the power of story-telling consists in: until stories are passed through the generations people will never forget about eternal values, s
The case “The weakest link” deals with the utilization of a logic bomb with the purpose to disable UBS-Painewebber (UBS-PW) servers and cause a stock price drop. After the nine/eleven many companies faced profit issues, and UBS-PW was not an exception. The organization had to cut its employee bonus program to remain competitive and have an opportunity to restore its business. All employees were informed about the reduction of payment, which meant that they were ready to receive less. Still, one of the workers, Roger Duronio, started complaining. He was already dissatisfied with his wage, and this situation made him angrier. Even though his boss tried to have the full bonus awarded, he failed. At that moment Duronio was already ready to quit and had his things packed. As he fired, UBS-PW suffered from the logic bomb execution. It disabled about 2,000 servers. As a result, the man got an opportunity to obtain a part of the company’s shares while UBS-PW lost $3 million. With the course of time, the parts of the code that was utilized in the logic bomb were found when examining the suspect’s home. Both of his computers had this information. Except for that, there was a hardcopy printout in his bedroom (Gaudin, 2006). As a result, the man was charged with “securities fraud (count 1), mail fraud (counts 2 and 3), and fraud and related activity in connection with computers (count 4)” (DeFranco, 2014, p. 136). The legislation that is appropriate for this situation is “The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) [18 U.S.C. Section 1030], which makes it illegal for anyone to distribute computer code or place it in the stream of commerce if they intend to cause either damage or economic loss” ( Computer crime laws , 2016, p. 7). According to this act, the criminal can be put in prison for up to 20 years and can be made to pay a fine even though the action was not intentional but done recklessly. The CFAA does not allow individuals to access the computer without authorization, steal financial data, commit computer fraud, create and use a code that can affect the system adversely, share passwords to influence commerce and to extort (Legal Information Institute, 2016). Trying to prove his client’s innocence, Duronio’s defense attorney gave the hint during the trial, mentioning that another company could have caused the damage and presupposing that the forensic team made a mistake when assessing the situation. Of course, such claims did not allow Chris Adams to prove the guilt of CISCO and @Stake Inc.; still, they had a particular influence on the situation. Adams wanted to implant doubts in the minds of the jury. His words lacked evidence and authoritativeness but made others consider such possibility and distracted attention from Duronio. In this way, the members of the jury would be likely to spend some time discussing the defense attorney’s words. As a result, Adams increased the chances of facing the situation when the jury fails to come to the common decision or at least could have more time to find and reveal mitiga
Introduction Adorno’s and Benjamin’s theories of esthetics are among the most scientific representations of 20-th century cultural reality. Both philosophers are considered to be one of the most crucial figures in esthetics theory development as they opened radically new spheres and dimensions of its analysis. First of all, it should be noted that the cultural and historical atmosphere in which they elaborated their ideas and construct was characterized by several important transformations which shook later predominant vision of esthetics and philosophy. Before 20-th the main notions of esthetics such as ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’ as well as their philosophical connotations were deeply embedded in classical antic Aristotelian and Platonic traditions in which they were regarded as eternal substances connected with ideal moral and universal norms and rules. The piece of art as one of the main objects of esthetic theory was also regarded by Enlightenment theorists such as F. Schiller as the center of the esthetic word, esthetic representation of Absolute Spirit’s movement and ideal substances development. Art and esthetics as well as Subjects who created them were involved in some spiritual and mystic ritual and were delinked intellectually from the ugly truths of the worlds. The departure from these ‘romantic’ sentiments, art, and culture adoration is already evident in Adorno and Benjamin philosophies as they are seen as certain markers of then-dominant ‘dissatisfaction’ with culture. Several historical changes should be taken into consideration if we want to understand this rising critique of culture and art as it occurs in the works of Benjamin and Adorno. First of all, such segments of esthetical Object as literature and art become dominated by critical social content, for instance, it concerns such writers as Balzac, Stendal, Flaubert, etc. It no longer possible to abstract oneself from the real social content as it becomes more and more evident that critical relation to existent historical reality is one of the main prerequisites of good literature. Besides this, it should be noted that with the development of capitalist societies the link between art and dominant interests sometimes becomes more evident and we already can speak about deeply embedded ideological meanings and connotations. Furthermore, it should be noted that the technical development of Western civilization were one of the main factors that transformed classical opposition between vulgar and ideal, opposition between profane culture and art. This trend would be evident in Benjamin’s analysis of the ‘Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction’. Democratization of society which rapidly developed in the beginning of the 20th century together with these processes were among the crucial driving forces of mass culture as it first was reflected in jazz, modern operettas and other fusions of classical and profane. There is no denying the importance, that all these processes shoul
Quality Assurance Plan The quality of services offered in a nursing home defines its national ratings. According to Singh (2009), developing a quality assurance plan may help in improving the standards of services offered within these homes. In this plan, the researcher has identified specific items that will be included to help improve the quality of service delivery at this institution. The first item will be the maintenance of a high degree of cleanliness in this home. When conducting reviews, officials responsible for rating nursing homes always focus on the issue of hygiene at such institutions. This plan will not require any additional financial resources. The current team responsible for cleaning will have to double their efforts to achieve this objective. The second item will be the quality of service offered to the individual clients at this institution. This will require additional six nurses to be hired. It will require an additional $ 10,800 per month given that the monthly earning of a nurse is set at $1,800. The management will also make an effort to boost the morale of all the employees in the firm to improve their efficiency. Implementing the plan will require additional funds. This nursing home relies on payments from private clients and reimbursements from the government based on the cost of maintaining Medicaid and Medicare clients. The management can identify some areas where costs can be cut to implement the suggested plan using the earnings from the reimbursements and payments from private clients. The hospital should enter into a strategic partnership with nearby hospitals to ensure that its clients can access medical services there. This way, it will eliminate the costs of rendering specialized medical care to these clients. It will only focus on providing quality nursing care to the clients. Managing a Chain-Affiliated 110-Bed Facility My superior officer aims to ensure that there is an increased cash flow into the firm from the payments made by the private-pay clients. However, this may be an unethical practice that may harm the ratings of this facility, especially if we are forced to turn away very needy clients. To address this issue, I will explain to my superior that the suggested move is not strategic in the long term. I will convince him that the move will paint a negative image of the firm that will not only harm the national ratings but also scare away private-pay clients that we are aiming to attract. The only way of increasing the number of private-pay clients is to improve on our service delivery. We should
When it comes to poverty, the national debate frequently overlooks systemic issues. Instead, the majority often blame those who are poor for their predicament. Poverty is usually caused by various circumstances, including a lack of desire, self-advocacy, and weak work ethics. Individuals who lack self-advocacy are impoverished because they make poor decisions based on what is necessary for survival, making it difficult for them to care about the future and forcing them to live on their own (Hosken, 2020). Self-advocacy is defined as adopting behaviors that promote long-term goals over short-term incentives, but poverty can drive an individual to live in the here and now. If an individual does not know how to survive through today, worrying about tomorrow can be a luxurious thing to do. Individuals can devise successful strategies to combat poverty in any particular location if they are motivated enough. Motivation strengthens those people, preparing them for any future challenges. In various ways, poor work ethics contributes to poverty. The working poor, of course, has employment, but so do many of the welfare poor. However, there is a slight possibility that work will lift the worker out of poverty in any circumstance (Hosken, 2020). In terms of work principle, both the poor working and the welfare poor have it to varying degrees, but it does not help them much because the only employment available is low paying and leads nowhere. If a working poor or welfare poor person is a woman, she is much worse off; because sexism is pervasive even in the desperate world of the low-wage earner, and women are given the least desired occupations and paid minor salaries. Reference Hosken, N. (2020). Social work, class and the structural violence of poverty. In Doing Critical Social Work (pp. 104-119). Routledge. Web.
Introduction Movies not only provide entertainment but also often depict situations that show various aspects of the human life. Different social problems, for instance, are vividly present in many films. In this paper, we will scrutinize the movie Titanic , in which the problem of social inequality is rather bright. After that, we will analyze social inequality from two different sociological points of view, namely, the conflict and the interactionist perspectives. Short Synopsis of the Movie Titanic is an American 1997 movie that tells a fictional story of a young woman and a young man who met on RMS “Titanic,” a historic British ship that sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg (Cameron & Landau, 1997). The story is told by Rose, an old woman who survived the catastrophe. When she was 17-year-old, Rose DeWitt Bukater boarded “Titanic”; she came from a formerly rich family that was experiencing financial problems. She was to marry a Cal Hockley, a rich man, to resolve these problems. She did not love Cal, neither did she want to lead a life of a wife of a rich businessman. The old Rose says, “I saw my whole life as if I have already lived it, an endless parade of parties and cotillions… Always the same… people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared or even noticed” (Cameron & Landau, 1997, 0:34:45-0:35:15). Rose was going to commit suicide and jump down from the stern, but she was stopped by Jack Dawson, a poor young painter. After communicating with him for a while, Rose fell in love with Jack. She decided to part with Cal and run away from her family together with Jack; she left a mocking note to Cal. When Cal discovered it, he decided to frame Jack for stealing a precious diamond necklace, the Heart of the Ocean. Somewhere at this point, the ship collided with the iceberg, while Jack ended up chained to a pipe on the lower deck. Instead of using a lifeboat, Rose went down to the lower decks to save Jack. Having fetched him, she went up to the upper deck and boarded the lifeboat. When she was looking at Jack, she understood that there was no lifeboat for him as he previously had claimed (there were too few lifeboats on the ship), and jumped back to the ship. Eventually, they waited together until the ship sank. Later, Rose was picked up by a lifeboat, but Jack died of hypothermia in the ocean. Rose lied about her name and introduced herself as Rose Dawson later on a ship that came to save them, to avoid Cal, as well as her family. The Social Problems Shown in the Movie One of the major social problems that are shown in the movie is social inequality. It is vividly depicted in the film. The main characters, Rose and Jack, come from different social groups, and the position and obligations of Rose do not allow her to be with Jack. Even when she rejects the privileges (which she perceives as a
The Oda of Omwari Oda Nobunaga was born Oda Kipposhi on June 23rd 1534 and was a second son of Oda Nobuhinde who by then was a minor lord and whose family was servant to Shiba Shugo. Oda Kipposhi’s father was a very knowledgeable warrior who used much of his time in battles as a Samurai to Mikawa and Mino. At home, Oda kipposhi’s father, later Oda Nobunaga, was involved in power rivalry with his extended family over the control of Omwari province (Seal par 5). The Oda family was divided into two warring branches. The Nobuhide’s branch was stationed at kiyosu and was run by three elders; the second branch of the family was housed at Iwakura castle in the north of Omwari province. At the time of his birth, Japan was a divided country as Opposed to what it used to be in earlier years before the terrible civil war of 1460s. The country was divided into more than sixty provinces each under the rule of a Daimyo. However, Daimyo were always at war with each other during which time numerous farms and villages would be burned. Oda Nobunaga was brought up in a castle in Nagoya where his father was among the chiefs from his Oda family that ruled Omwari at the time. During his youthful years, Oda was a handsome and unusually graceful man and his father had hired tutors to teach his son the arts of war and other Chinese classics. Oda however proved to be a nuisance to his tutors because of his arrogance and irrelevance. One of his trainers, Kiyohide committed kanshi after writing up a letter urging Nobunaga to take up his studies more seriously. This death made Nobunaga change some bit and honored Hirashi Kiyohide by building the Seisyu-ji in Omwari (Seal par 4). Oda Nobunaga was strange in his mode of dressing wearing odd colored short sleeve and knickknacks hanging from his waist. His moods were also unpredictable making people think him crazy. It was rumored that Oda acted in this manner to fool his older cousins from seeing him a rival for the power. Physically, Nobunaga had a prominent nose and a scarce beard and was of unruly behavior. At the age of fourteen, Oda Nobunaga married a daughter of the lord of Mino province. This was a politically instigated marriage based on convenience not loves. The rise of Oda Nobunaga Following Oda Nobuhinde’s death, Oda Nobunaga built a small force of not more than a thousand men and successfully built an army that later repulsed two attacks by r
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has undergone a series of war over the past fifteen years. The first war that broke out in 1996 and ended in 1997, ousted long time ruler Mobutu Sese Seko and brought to power Laurent Kabila, a rebel leader supported by Rwanda and Burundi (HRW 35). The second war from 1998-2003, started when Laurent Kabila disagreed with his initial backers, propelling Rwanda and Uganda to invade the east of the country. The war led to the death of approximately 5.4 million people. Sexual violence was widespread and sometimes systematic. Rival groups used it as a tool of war to deliberately terrorize civilians, to exert control over them or punish them for perceived collaboration with the enemy. Reports indicate that armed groups would abduct women including young girls and use them as sexual slaves (HRW 40). Many of the crimes committed amounted to crimes against humanity. In fact, women affirmed that the war was being fought on their bodies (HRW 43). Sexual violence continued in the Congo throughout the peace process and the national elections in 2006. In Eastern Congo, new armed groups emerged leading to continued perpetration of rape cases. Reports indicate that sexual violence against women continued in North Kivu in 2008 due to intense fighting between rival groups (HRW 44). Incidences of rape propagated by civilians have notably increased in the recent past. This is due to an increase of demobilized combatants who have reintegrated into society amid poor rehabilitation measures in society. The brutalization of society that has eroded protective social norms also contributes to these crimes (HRW 45). These atrocities against women have led to the crowning of Congo as the worst place on earth to be a woman. The Congolese national army (FARDC) is considered as the key perpetrators of sexual violence. The army came into place after the installation of the transitional government in June 2003 (HRW 56). This army brought soldiers from all the leading rebel groups as well as former government army together. The strategy aimed at creating harmony. Officer and commander groups were divided up between them. In addition, the transitional government introduced a new policy called mix-up in which new brigades were formed comprising of soldiers from main rival groups. This policy targeted to break former chains of command and enhance the integration of former enemy combatants into new units. A rapid integration process that took place in 2009 saw estimated 12,000 combatants from rebel groups join the national army. The national army was estimated to have close to 60,000 soldiers after, the integration process. The national army encountered long standing problems that included indiscipline, pay, command and