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Introduction “At the Boiling Point With Israel” by the New York Times’ Editorial Board discusses the peace deal between Palestinians and the Israeli government, an issue that has been under the magnifying glass of the global community and directly affects the image of the US government in the final months of the President Obama’s office. Despite the controversy of the topic as well as the massive coverage of the global media, the problem remains unresolved and may escalate even further if no actions on the part of the international community are administered. The importance of establishing peace in the region is one of the key themes of the editorial, although it is worth to further dissect the authors’ opinions to find gaps in their arguments since presenting a partial picture of the problem may be the greatest mistake one could make when creating a compelling piece of journalistic work. While the key idea of the editorial is supporting the imposition of a peace deal between the Israeli and Palestinian governments, in some instances it fails to mention key points of why such a deal cannot be administered, backing up the argument with substantial scientific and statistical data. Principles for a peace agreement between the government of Israel and the Palestinians After dissecting the editorial piece into three elements of ethos, pathos, and logos, it became obvious that some of the claims made by the authors were unsubstantiated due to the lack of evidence. The element of ethos includes the aspects of credibility and reliability; however, there were practically no statistical data presented on the issue. While the authors argue that the United Nations Security Council should lay down specific guidelines for a peaceful agreement between the Israeli government and Palestinians (The Editorial Board par. 3), they failed to present scientific data about what the conflicting governments think about such an agreement. Discussing the importance of a peace treaty without referencing actual data concerning Palestinians and Israelis may be counterproductive since no Security Council will be able to help establish peace if the conflicting parties want to continue their struggle. In this sense, there is certain one-sidedness to the story, which limits the readers from seeing both perspectives of the argument and forces to engage in outside research on the issue. There is obvious rationality (logos), which authors presented in their article. Since the conflicting parties seem to be unable to come to a mutual and peaceful agreement, it is rational to argue that a third party can play a ‘peacemaker’ role and help resolve the problem. However, authors fall into the trap of suggesting that Obama’s office along with the United Nations Security Council are the key players in mitigating the conflict, which is not quite logical. While the global community can facilitate a dialogue between the conflicting parties, emphasizing the US’s role means diminishing the opinions of the Palestinian and Israeli governments. More evidence as to why the conflict persists and why no peaceful agreements have worked may have been beneficial for presenting readers wit
Safety of warehouses in the United States is regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), as provided for under the Occupational Safety and Health Act which was legislated by the Congress and signed into law in the year 1970. Safety of the warehouse should, however, not be viewed as just meeting the minimum legal requirements but as an obligation to prevent occupational health risks, illnesses, injuries and even deaths. Yet, most industrial, commercial as well as retail facility warehouses still fail to promote safety due to insufficient time, inadequate resources, or simply because of unwillingness to comply with the moral requirements. The potential warehouse risks that have been identified in the assessment and which have also been cited by OSHA as the most common include risks associated with fire, general housekeeping including floors, chemical safety, noise, material handling equipments and fork lifts. Fire is perhaps the most challenging and potentially most devastating of all warehouse safety risks. It calls for cautious safety plans such as proper warehouse fire safety design, installing in-rack fire extinguishers and adoption of sufficient fire prevention practices. “Catastrophic fires can easily be prevented or minimized by investing in competent fire expertise” in the daily operation of th
Introduction Information plays a vital role in successful organizational management. Information management using modern information technology enhances organizational survival and decision-making. Individuals with ill intentions can utilize any security flaw existing in the organization’s information systems to pursue their selfish interests; this, in other words, can render an organization susceptible to risks, which are costly or lower the integrity of the organization. Unauthorized computer access is only possible when an organization information security strategies are weak thus leaving an organization’s information resources vulnerable or accessible. When there are loopholes in the information security management system, malicious individuals take advantage of these ostensible flaws to achieve their ill intentions of either stealing or corrupting an organization’s databases. This paper discusses some of the key threats to an organization’s information security system or the persons that compromise an organizations computer system through unauthorized entry. Some of the highlighted threats are discontented employees, journalists, and political activists, hackers and information agents. Discontented Employees An organization’s information systems can be compromised in a variety of ways. The most notable being actions by discontented employees. Employees become a threat when they have been laid off or when they have left their jobs voluntarily in search of greener pastures. Such people might attempt to steal information with a motive of using it to exploit the company by selling confidential information to the competitors or to leverage on the same to get a new job. Owing to their familiarity with the computer system employed, such unscrupulous staff stands a better chance of successfully sabotaging, hacking or distorting information (Salehnia, 2002). Ideally, every organization should have an information security policy. Unfortunately, most companies lack proper policies to govern storage or management of sensitive and confidential information against theft and fraud. One of the most basic and yet reliable measure towards curbing employee related risks is doing an employee audit. An employee audit can be done electronically or manually to ascertain that no employee is not in custody of vital company information as they leave the company premises. In addition, magnetic chips should be fixed on crucial organization documents such as reports and files to control information movements. Hackers A hacker is an individual who is well equipped with programming skills and uses these technical skills to gain unauthorized access to an organization’s information systems. Hackers do this for personal gigs or monetary gain. Hacking is a serious threat to many organizations’ computer systems. Hackers break into compute
Request for Proposal (RFP) Statement of Work (SOW) Purpose The use of free space near shopping centres should be more efficient in current urban environments (Ede, Adepoju & Awoyera 2015). Construction of a multi-storey car parking will allow the centre not only to capitalise the space and create comfortable parting spaces for its clients but also engage in sustainable business practices. Multi-storey car parks are more efficient in their construction as they take up less space than open parking spots (Ede, Adepoju & Awoyera 2015). The purpose of this project is to design, build, and open a multi-storey car parking space with a capacity for 300 cars near the described shopping centre. The scope of work The chosen contractor shall design a multi-storey car park, prepare the land lot near the shopping centre for construction, build the park on the prepared lot, check the quality of the finished product, follow all safety requirements and perform any post-production activities necessary before and after the park’s opening. The contractor shall also present the estimates for all needed materials, staff and resources, a schedule and a breakdown of all activities and the proposed budget. The contractor shall analyse possible risks and develop a risk management plan, along with any additional relevant information and documents needed for project’s approval. A quality assurance plan is also to be delivered after the bidder’s approval. The location of work The designing process can occur in the company offices of the contractor. The lot near the shopping centre is the place for proj
“Stem cell research” is a fundamental process due to the characteristics, which define cell forms (Zarzeczny & Caulfield, 2009). Studies indicate continuous effort by scientists in developing technologies that utilize these cells in repairing depleted body organs. The general idea of stem cells will help in developing psychoanalysis procedures for diseases with adverse effects on delicate body organs. These organs may incorporate the heart and kidney. However, SCR is a recent technology that plainly utilizes the human cells in developing cells. Distinguished scientists, using scientific techniques, obtain the cells from the adult tissue. Brock, D. (2006). Is a consensus possible on stem cell research? Moral and political obstacles. J Med Ethics, 32(1), 36–42. This article argues that, the moral and the legal aspects linked to the SCR do not receive full examination. In light of the legal aspects of the research, the paper indicates that the human embryo deserves respect just as adults. The article indicates that destruction of the embryo is immoral. In the paper, the generation of HESS’s using the SCNT is immoral. In addition, the article compares the benefits emanating from SCR, which is equitable to respect that the embryo loses when destroyed. The article also determines whether women are subject to exploitation when extracting embryos from their reproductive organs. This poses both permissible and principled concerns. Irish Council for Bioethics (2008). Ethical, Scientific and Legal Issues Concerning Stem Cell Research. Opinion. Dublin: The Irish Council for Bioethics. The article demonstrates how the SCR presents many legal and ethical issues to the policy makers, the scientists, and to the community. The article states that researchers ruin the individual embryo in getting the stem cells thus regarding it wicked. Numerous people think that, embryos should be handled as adults since they bear life in them. This is merely by basing on the fact that life starts after fertilization. However, other issues have emanated from storage of the child’s blood for future use in medical practices. The entire issue of blood storing raises much debate on determining whether the investment is worth undertaking. In 2006, the European Union (EU) imposed a command that halted the SCR practice, until the medicine board of Ireland provided the licenses thus permitting the practice. However, the SCR mostly uses the adult cells in many places. Master, Z., McLeod, M., & Mendez, I. (2007). Benefits, risks, and ethical considerations in translation of stem cell research to clinical applications in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of medical ethics , 33, 169-173. The article addresses some of the ethical issues that need consideration when opting for the SCR as a methodology for combating Parkinson’s disease. In response to such a concept, the article states that, the profits likely to emanate from the risks involved ought to be calculated before the research commences. It further stipulates that, the anticipated benefits deriv
I chose to compare and contrast the movies Wall-e and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which are romantic comedies produced in the year 2008. However, they are not so similar because Wall-e is a computer generated graphic sci-fi motion picture while the latter is a drama film. Andrew Stanton produced Wall-e in the Pixar Animation movie company, while Woody Allen directed Vicky Cristina Barcelona under Mediapro studios. Wall-e tells us about a ragged recycling robot left 700 years in the aftermath of earth’s evacuation following pollution that made it inhabitable. He tries to reconnect with the world but fails, but he finds a plant which he nurtures. He comes across Eve, a feminine robot designed to reveal any form of life on earth to the space star-liner which harbors people. This ensues in a romantic encounter between them as they attempt to rescue human life. The other movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is about two passionate and assertive ladies from America who move to the Spanish city of Barcelona. They get entangled in an affair with Juan Antonio, an artist who had just publicly divorced his first wife called Elena. The engaged Vicky appears sensible when compared to the impulsive and liberal Cristina (Scott). We are also exposed to a fall out between their host couple who were monogamous. The cultures represented in the two movies differ in several ways. Vicky Cristina Barcelona demonstrates a modern society where Vicky and Cristina want to rediscover themselves not only on their career fronts, but also to find the perfect partner to fulfill their passion. Both of them are impatient and indecisive. This backfires upon them in the end because they made no progress in redefining themselves. Being set in a different culture, the Wall-e beings embody the need for tolerance and perseverance when handling relationships. The two robots were mutually committed to each other and eventually ended in a happy reunion. The drama comedy manifested a dilemma, unlike the animated film. Cristina was torn between her fiancé, who was stable and dependable but stodgy, and the compassionate but unreliable Antonio Juan. The main characters in Wall-e faced no significant dilemma. Wall-e falls in love with Eve and eventually she also adores him romantically. Their duty to save people was not subject to change in favor of another decision. The men aboard the ship also wanted to revert to their predecessors’ way of life and let go of their overdependence on technology. Both these films have one or more obstacles. The two robots in their mission to redeem human beings come up against the autopilot of the star-liner. Auto seeks to stop them from activating the ship’s holo-detector by sneaking out the plant. This plant indicated the earth’s newly habitable environment. Wall-e rescues the plant just before its detonation, and he helped activate the spaceship to return to the planet earth. In the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the two friends become obstacles to each other because they hindered the progress of Antonio’s relationship with either one of them. Doug, Vicky’s fiancé, later became an impediment to the relationship between Antonio and Vicky when he
Introduction Globalization is a reference often used by a lot of people and is defined in various ways. All the same, it is normally made out as being caused by a blend of financial, scientific, socio-cultural, opinionated and organic features. The reference can also point to the worldwide flow of initiatives, lingos, or popular culture by way of assimilation. One of the mainly contentious facets of this phenomenon is the universal spread and domination of American way(s) of life (Mercy Corps, 2009, p.1). In the same manner as United States commodities flooded global markets in the period following the Second World War, American way(s) of life are at the moment making a way into each continent by way of the spectacular development of mass communications such as song, TV, motion pictures and the World Wide Web. The making way into other parts of the world of US companies has as well played a major role in this. Overseas leaders and activists drawn from various backgrounds have reiterated their concerns that the ways of the world may turn out to be too Americanized and end up wiping out other cultures. A feature of the globe that has undergone the above described course can be said to be globalized. For instance, in business, it means the rising fusion of the globe’s trade and Industry order by way of cutback of such hurdles to global business as levies, export charges and import rations. The aim is to add to material affluence, commodities and services by way of an intercontinental sharing out of effort through good organization(s) enhanced by global associations, specialism and contention. It depicts the means through which area financial systems, civilizations, and customs have turned out to be incorporated by way of communication, haulage, and doing business. The reference is for the most part directly linked with the reference economic globalization. This refers to the amalgamation of state-run financial systems into the intercontinental economy by way of buying and selling, overseas direct venture, resources flows, migration, the broadening of expertise, and armed forces being there. As a result globalization, it is imperative that businesses and various other ventures have to alter their way of doing things so as to stay afloat or survive in the marketplace. This means that they need to rethink their strategies in order to incorporate the reality of globalization. International marketplaces and especially the surfacing ones present lucrative prospects. For a lot of businesses it is the single front for advancement as subsisting marketplaces get established with a small number of opportunities for lucrative chances (Hopeton, 1995, p. 88). As international markets develop by way of the rising use of the World Wide Web and with enhanced delivery chains, it is probable that there are a lot of unexploited sectors around the globe that would open to a transnational firm, in spite of the trade. Progressively, the globe is turning out to be an access
Abstract There has been a rise in sexual awareness among the teenagers. The statistical comparison of the current and past generations sharply differs. The mass media is largely to blame for the sexual practices in the youths. Introduction Are today’s teens becoming more sexually active and aware at a younger age than previous generations? Currently, teenagers have more information on sexuality while some have sexual experiences at a tender age. Parents and the media have to combine efforts to fight the vice. Literature review Chapman, J. (2000). Adolescent sex and mass media: a developmental approach. Miami: Herald. According to Chapman, the media is to be blame for the sharp rise in adolescent sex. To solve the problem, Chapman recommends the establishment of a body to monitor the contribution of media on sexuality. Brown, D. (2002). Mass media influences on sexuality . New York: Harper & Row. Brown also blames the media as the major source of moral decadence. He calls for the restrictions of teenagers from accessing obscene materials from the media. Ponton, L. (2000). The Sex Lives of Teenagers . New York: Dutton. Ponton is concerned about the sharp rise in teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, she recommends an explicit study to solve the problem. Analysis The first two authors of the above books point a blame finger at the media and the parents while the third author recommends for clear study to establish the origin of the problem. Methodology Through epidemiological approach, a retrospective study of teenagers (13-18 years). There will be an assessment of media and lifestyle comparing the behavior in the age groups. Results will determine the conclusion and recommendations. Hypothesis and Conclusion Sex is rampant among the teenagers. I believe my research will establish the cause of sexual exposure in teenagers and the subsequent ways to solve the problem.
Introduction The study of history can always be dynamic because its interpretations can always change through time. This is essentially the gist of Professor Jeremy Black’s lecture as he discussed the topic of “Why the Allies won World War II”. Professor Black emphasized that World War II is commonly dated to 1939, the year in which Germany invaded Poland in September 1 that year. In response to that, it lead to declarations of war by Britain and France on September 3, followed by the Dominions of the British Empire, Canada, for example, on September 10. This is an appropriate beginning for the conflict in Europe, but, in Asia, the parallel struggle stemming from Japanese aggression and imperialism began in 1931 with an invasion of Manchuria, the most industrial province of China. Main body Eons ago, historians interpreted the triumph of the Allies over the Axis was because they have immense advantage in the mobilisation of economic resources. Most history books, as Professor Black suggested, concentrated the terms of the Axis defeat based on the number of troops, aircraft and artillery among other things, where the Allies clearly has an advantage. This frame of thought continued from 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Professor Black pointed out that this is the most convenient interpretation because 1.) The bulk of the historic knowledge in the West associated World War II with Marxist theories and 2.) The rise of the new social order gave rise to a dominant orthodoxy. The previous interpretation has changed over the last 15 years because it essentially ignored the fact that it was a war that has real combat with many casualties. Unlike the World War I, the Second World War has made weapons an important part of winning the war. Professor Black reiterated that the weapons itself is not important, but it is how the weapons are used was more essential in the victory by the Allies in World War II. He gave an example that the French had more tanks than the Germans, but still the Germans won. The Japanese defeated the British in Burma (now Myanmar) because they were trained more to fight in the jungle terrain. In this case, economic advantage can only take you very far. But why did the Japanese and Germans attain defeat in the Second World War? Although Japan and Germany had done well in the first few years of World War II, they failed to take a longer perspective about where their war was going. When Burma fell rapidly, it was the mismanaged British defence that has been exploited by the Japanese, who conquered the country at the cost of fewer than 2,000 dead. As in Malaya, the Japanese proved adroit at outflanking manoeuvres and at exploiting the disorientating consequences for the British of their withdrawals; although the garrison was far weaker than that in Malaya. Yet again, the British troops were untrained for jungle warfare. Serious flaws in planning arose from the contempt for the Japanese. The victory by Japan was just momentary because Allies have trained themselves to fight