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Naming rights Names are a fundamental part of our personalities, business, venue, place as well as stadiums. The name suggests more of a place and the perception of a person, place, and business by the people dwell on the name. Therefore, choosing a name needs much consideration as well as evaluation of various factors. This paper seeks to find an organization to collaborate financially with the University of Oregon and have naming rights to Autzen stadium, a stadium that has been popular and recognized by many for 43 years. Since the name has been well established, the paper seeks to address how to deal with various concerns that may arise because of it. Moreover, the paper will address the identification of the ideal prospect company or organization for purchasing the naming rights while explaining why the company would be willing to collaborate with the University of Oregon in financial resource investment. The paper also gives a brief definition of the naming right. Naming rights are defined as the “financial transaction whereby a corporation or other entity purchases the right to name a facility for a defined period.” Further, it asserts that the main aim for these naming rights is that the buyer gets a marketing property to promote products and services, promote customer relations and increase the market. Challenges As mentioned in the introduction the name of the stadium is well known for the past 43 years. This is a challenge both to the university and to the prospective company. However, as the assistant general manager my role is to find well-established companies that have great influence, and are affiliated to people of high caliber, who are well known, are a mentor to many as well as have a great influencing power. This will help in the transformation of a well-established name that has the added advantage of being affiliated with a well-known person of high caliber. The company to get the naming right to this well-established stadium should also have a good advertising geographical coverage through the media that will influence the people once they are mandated the naming rights. Similarly, the concerns of the prospective company may include how to deal with people who may oppose the exchange of the naming rights, what impacts their name will have to the stadium and the uncertainties that would arise if the new name of the stadium makes it lose its popularity. These concerns need to be addressed in a way that will convince the company that there will be no risks in undertaking the naming rights of the stadium. For the concern of the opposition, as the assistant general manager, I have to convince the company that the stadium is owned by the university. All the bodies concerned with the management of the stadium as well as the student bodies have agreed on changing the naming rights, which will give the company the evidence over that risk. On the impact of their name to the stadiu
Introduction In 2016, The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners celebrates its anniversary. Its birth was heralded by the first report to the nations on occupational fraud and abuse. This groundbreaking document changed the views on corporate and occupational fraud forever. The featured article, written by Dick Carroza and published in May/June 2016, provides the readers with a brief history of the document and a clear perspective on why it is so important to the industry. Main text The article begins with a case scenario for the readers. It is the year 1995, and Sam works as a CFE in a mid-sized company. Back then, little information about fraud was available. No authoritative sources to draw upon, no programs or deterrents, no methodology of research, no nothing. The bosses were blissfully unaware of the damage fraud was causing them. This changed with Dr. Joseph T. Wells, the founder of ACFE and the author of this groundbreaking research. His efforts began in the early 1990s. In order to gather data for his research, Wells dispatched numerous surveys to the companies located in the US, along with a request to estimate the amount of revenue lost due to fraud. Wells also recruited several other researchers to help him analyze the first wave of data. More than 2,600 CFEs answered the call. The first Report on Occupational Fraud and Abuse was published in 1996. Wells’ research ended up becoming the common body of knowledge for the industry, upon which further research and analysis could be built. This was a much-needed document, as many Certified Fraud Examiners knew about the dangers of fraud, but had no official research to back up their claims. John Warren and James D. Ratley, both members of the ACFE, remark that the survey was a major push forward. The first research introduced the concept of the Fraud Tree. Wells identified its three main branches – corruption, asset misappropriation, and financial statement fraud. Before this, there was a persistent myth that fraud was conducted in ways too numerous to count. The research, along with similar ones conducted in the following years, confirmed that the number of effective fraud schemes is limited. This year features the Ninth report being published. Many specialists around the world note the positive influence these reports had on the overall world dynamic. Comparisons were made between the surveys. Although the number o
Queen Victoria is one of the best-known British monarchs in the West European history. For a long time, her reign was considered the longest in the history of the United Kingdom, it lasted from June 20, 1837, to January 22, 1901, until her death, and became referred to as the Victorian era. Her biography is a fascinating story of how Queen Victoria managed in the times when the monarch of the British Empire had already only symbolic meaning and title, to influence both the British nation and the colonies abroad through her example of morals and ideals. Queen Victoria had many challenges on her way of becoming one of the most recognizable monarchs, who ever lived. The story of her life more than once was a subject to both the interest of the researchers and speculations and legends. The objective of this biography research paper is to research and clarify the most important points and events of the life of Queen Victoria, from examining her ancestry and youth, analyzing her reign and adult life to defining the meaning of such concept as the Victorian era and the relation of the Queen to it. Queen Victoria’s young years Queen Victoria was born in 1819 to the family of Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent in the times of complicated circumstances in the royal family. Before she was born, her father had the title of the Duke of Kent Strathearn as the fourth son of the reigning king of the United Kingdom; he was not married and had no legitimate children. King George’s III expected heir to the British throne was Princess Charlotte of Wales, who died in 1817, and “the succession to the throne that seemed so satisfactory settled, now became a matter of urgent doubt” 1 . Thus, out of confusion about the uncertainty of who was going to be the next king or queen, Queen Victoria’s father, the Duke of Kent married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and a year after that the young Victoria was born. Since her father was still alive and had three elder brothers, the newborn Victoria Alexandrina was the fifth in succession for the throne. She was the king’s granddaughter, and “willful as she was, however, the little girl, intelligent and lively and with an astonishing retentive memory” 2 , she progressed in her lessons and studying, although the other source suggests that the only thing she did not like was the strictness of schooling 3 . However, despite the fact that she was only a child, her family members were looking for opportunities to influence if not to manipulate her. In such a way by the year 1830 young Victoria had the status of heiress presumptive, that meant she was going to success the throne after her uncle, William IV unless he had a child of his own. Her mother the Duchess of Kent, and Sir John Convoy took care of Victoria’s good acceptance among the
Introduction This article appeared on the Massachusetts Nurses Association Newsletter. The article addresses the issue of delegation of nursing duties from registered nurses to unregistered nursing personnel. The subject of the article is a recent report by the Board of Registration in Nursing (BORN) that gives Registered Nurses (RNs) the authority to delegate some duties to Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs). The article challenges BORN’s decision in lieu of several considerations. This paper offers a summary of this article and then a reflection of the addressed issues. Summary The author of this article is Kelly-Williams Donna, a member of the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA). The author begins by noting that her organization received a draft report from a task force that was commissioned by BORN. According to the article, the report addresses some changes to the practices of RNs and LPNs. It is noted that the taskforce was supposed to make ‘evidence-based’ recommendations to the existing BORN practices. In these changes, any licensed nurse can be able to delegate medicine administration duties to an unlicensed practitioner (Kelly-Williams, 2012). According to the author, while BORN’s decision to settle this issue using a task force is noble, its preliminary report is unsatisfactory in some areas. The article then declares MNA’s willingness to be involved in the amendment process. According to the author, the proposed wording of the new legislation is ambiguous and it is likely to subject the new laws to abuse by unscrupulous nursing stakeholders. The author notes that the new wording might be unintentional but it still needs to be changed. The article continues by noting that although BORN claims to have involved MNA in the task force’s activity, the organization has no record to that effect. The author spells out the organizations’ stand on several matters. First, MNA requests for further clarification of what constitutes ‘incidental’ care. Second, the organization does not condone the changes in the language of rules concerning delegation. Finally, the author suggests a meeting between BORN and MNA officials as well as various regional meetings across the state. All MNA officials are promised to be informed about any new developments on the issue. Reflection The article addresses the subject of delegation, which is usually a contentious and pertinent subject when it comes to nursing. The rules that govern delegation in the nursing practice have been subjected to several changes over the last few decades. However, most of these changes have seen nurses become more relevant in the healthcare profession. Delegation in nurses starts with doctor to nurse delegation, and then nurse-to-nurse delegation. Previously, most debate on delegation revolved around the issue of which duties doctors can delegate to nurses. However, the existence of several levels of nurse training has made it possible for nurses to have different levels of expertise. For instance, in my state of residence one has to undergo through at least two years of training before becoming a registered nurse. In addition, the certifying board will
Introduction Religion has always been an extremely influential aspect of the lives of human beings beginning from thousands of years ago to the present. In the present day, many people from different walks of life face a number of challenges and problems concerning such issues as security, health and death. These problems and challenges are the reason why there has been continual existence of religion. According to Wenner, “religion is the universal tool for explaining things which we do not understand through the context of the known physical world” (Par. 1). Even if we have many different religions, but what is common among them is that they all work towards the same goal. Each religion gives answers to questions asked by all human beings. These include questions like, as Wenner points out, “why are we here? What happens when I die? How will I live my life?” (Par. 1).Therefore, if one looks below the surface; all religions have basically the same goal and lead to the same place and this can be seen when a comparison of the various religions is carried out. Comparing Religious Traditions The major religions in the world include Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism among others. Among these, we have those classified as Western religions which include Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and those classified as Eastern religions which include Buddhism, Hinduism. Looking at Judaism, this is a religion that has existed for a longer time as compared to most of the world’s religions. The Jewish people were the initial group of people to belief in the existence of one god. Christianity and Islam came up from this religion. The Christianity and the Judaism religions believe in God sending them a deliverer. However, these religions do not agree on the issue of the coming of a deliverer; on one hand, the Christians believe that the deliverer was Jesus but on the contrary, the Judaism belief holds it that that deliverer will come at a later time. The followers of the Christianity religion (Christians) believe that their God sen
Introduction Cultivation effect refers to “the negative effects that watching television has on attitudes of both its heavy and light viewers” (Chandler, 1995). People have come up with many theories to explain the implication behind cultivation effects of television. From his article, CultivationTheory , Gerbner argues that viewers of television tend to cultivate attitudes that exhibit consistence to the television world rather than the actual world. The cultivation effects of violent television programming are initially minute and have no serious impacts on viewers. However, with repeated viewing, the small effects accumulate to form pronounced implications and this explains why the violent scenes in television are arguably responsible for the violent attitudes that heavy viewers exhibit. Besides violent programming, immorality, substance abuse, gender disparity and petty (bad) politics attitudes hinge on television watching for both light and heavy viewers. Other Cultivation Effects of Television The cultivation effects of immoral programming affect the viewer in his/her attitude towards true morality. In most television programs, each program has an age bracket to its recommended viewers because of the fear of cultivation effects of immoral programming that the programs might carry. Heavy viewers of soap operas, for example tend to have different attitudes about relationships than light viewers. Conventionally, premarital sex, adultery and prostitution among other moral decadence elements are wrong. However, television content has been blurring the line between what is moral and immoral over time; actually, when one watches television for the first time the attitude about moral decadence holds the aforementioned conventional perspective. However, after repeated television watching, the attitude changes slowly because it seems right to cheat on a partner or prostitute according to the televised programs. The scenes in these programs usually cover such scenes and repeated appearance to the viewers makes it a “normal” thing. The time an individual brands such programs “normal” thing, his/her attitude has completely changed and conformed to what s/he sees on the screen from time to time. Television may also evoke the cultivation effects of drug and substance abuse. Isom (1998) laments, the drug and substance abuse cultivation effects mostly affect the youth because they are the main target audience of such movies. Practices such as smoking, alcoholism and any other kind of drug abuse are against principals that govern morality. Take for example, the first time an individual watches a program in which one of the characters smokes and finds pleasure it; his attitude towards smoking as a bad habit will not change, but he/she will develop some curiosity towards the act. Repeated scenes and continuous watching of such programs slowly changes the individual’s attitude albeit by a small magnitude until the cumulative effect is big enough to cause a complete attitude change. Generally, a heavy viewer gets slowly tuned into initial experimentation of the drugs, followed by attempted use and finally, addiction. The funny
Media has powerful influence on the way people think. While at the heart of the media is the assumption that news are objective source of information, the truth is that media industry serves the interests of the selected groups, those people who shape the way events are presented by audience. Representation of war is especial issue because the opinion of people impacts the amount of funds the government spends on military campaigns. The representation of the recent invasion of Iraq by American troops and the current war between Israel and Palestine proves that media is biased and the general audience does not get reliable and objective information about the true motivations behind the military campaigns. Media is the single source of information about the global events for the vast majority of people. Not every person will go to the battlefield to learn about the war personally. Therefore, the knowledge of people about the wars is limited to the messages delivered via diverse media tools. The problem is that media messages can be skillfully manipulated to create the desired effect on audience. For example, the current war between Israel and Palestine receives extensive media coverage; nevertheless, journalists present only one side of the conflict. In particular, the Israel’s occupation of Palestine is presented as a natural occurrence while the resistance of Palestinians is portrayed as exceptional aggressiveness and violence against the peaceful Israelis. The distorted representation of war is necessary to manipulate the public opinion. While the rare images of real atrocities eventually are made available (such as photographs of tortured Muslim prisoners in Iraq taken by American soldiers), the interpretation of such images does not reveal the true picture of the conflict. Moreover, neither novels nor photographs can convey the real situation. The knowledge about the specific conflict is limited to the media messages. Consequently, the understanding of the conflicts can be manipulated for the benefit of interested parties. Most people trust the news delivered by the national televisions networks and very few even question the validity of information transmitted to them. War is a tragic event in the history of any country as only one side can be the winner. We live in the world when media determines who is right and who is not. Public opinion is skillfully manipulated to ensure support for the military interventions and unlawful occupations. Carefully planned media mess
After the Mexican-American War, Mexicans residing in Texas were allowed to remain on their now US land and become Americans. Many chose to stay in the country, becoming Mexican Americans instead of Mexicans alone. However, being declared Mexican Americans did not guarantee them equal rights. Mexicans faced many challenges such as loss of their lands, cattle, harassment, lynching, laws aimed at oppressing Mexicans, and other racial inequalities. Additionally, despite Mexicans being providers of the principal labor force, they often received lower wages than their Anglo counterparts (Takaki, 2008). Negative prejudices and similar forms of discrimination against Latinos are still present up to date. This paper entails a critique of the struggles and discrimination Latinos continue to face in mainstream American society. Mexican labor was essential for America’s economic prosperity. They provided labor working in mines, ranches, fruit farms, vegetable farms, and construction. Mexican labor was preferred because it was cheap, stereotyped as submissive and docile, and with suitable supervision, more efficient than any other race (Takaki, 2008). However, in all the areas of employment, Mexicans were discriminated against in terms of wages and occupa
When you hear about Okinawa and Hawaii, what image comes to your head? Is it Hawaiian sandy, sumptuous, luxurious beaches lit by the warm, generous sun, or is it blue sky, azure-colored ocean, sky-high mountains, and intricate, fascinating architecture incorporated into vast abundant vegetation in Okinawa? The mind of a foreigner draws beautiful pictures which are difficult to resist. But have you ever considered that these places are not that god blessed in terms of their economic, political and cultural dependence on the other countries which subjects Okinawa and Hawaii actually are? It is a generally known fact that Okinawa is for more than 400 years has been under Japanese rule and Hawaii is subordinated to the United States. As a result, ethnic clashes occur derived from the unresolved problems of cultural diversity causing the local population to struggle for independence and liberty in an attempt to overthrow the existing order, to avoid exploitation of their land. This situation is known as cultural prostitution and is usually associated with tourism that fosters the loss of authenticity and “undermines the spiritual and sacred nature of the indigenous customs and traditions”, which may be applied to Okinawa’s and Hawaiian cultures equally (Takaki 17). This uncaring neglect of cultural heritage to gain political and economic profits may bring irreparable to the cultural legacy or even entail the extinction of original traditions embedded in the cultures under consideration. Over 400 years of Okinawa’s Occupation Before proceeding to the issues of cultural prostitution in Okinawa, it is necessary to highlight the most essential facts of Okinawa history. First and foremost, it should be stressed that Okinawa had not long enjoyed the status of an independent nation from 14 th to the 16 th century during which the major cultural traditions had formed but most of its history was subjected to other countries. The infringement of Okinawa’s people began in the 17 th century when a military government was established that was characterized by the harsh and severe policy under the subordination of the Satsuma clan (Molasky 12). In the 19 th century, Okinawa ceases to be the subject of the Satsuma clan and acquires the status of a Japanese prefecture as a part of the program of imperial expansion. Yet Okinawa’s status was not clearly identified. On the one hand, “Okinawa was regarded as an intrinsic part of the ethnic nation-state rather than a mere imperial subject” (Molasky 13). On the other hand, Okinawans have always been treated by mainland Japanese as not their equal counterparts but lower-class members of the empire. Despite Okinawa having given the status of the prefecture, it has always stood apart from the mainland. The Second World War brought major alternations in Okinawa in the aftermath in which Japan including Okinawa was occupied by the U.S. troops. It should be stressed that Okinawa suffered from severe losses during the war and especially in the notorious battle of Okinawa. Since Japan lost the war, Okinawa became the subject of the U.S. administration for 27 years. This step of the Japanese government who had l