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Introduction Aristotle’s works have been perceived to be the framework of most disciplines in modern science. His views on civic relationships have been extensive, considering they highlight different issues such as happiness, virtues, deliberation, justice, friendship (and other related issues). These aspects of civic relationship form the framework of this study. However, emphasis will be given to the workplace context and more specifically to issues that define a good workplace environment. Aristotle’s ideas on civic relationship will also be contrasted with the notions of the best places to work. Aristotle and Relationship at Work Aristotle explains that friendship forms a normative framework for the practice of citizenship but in explaining this fact, he outlines three factors that define human friendship. These factors are hinged on the concepts of “like”, “use” or “pleasant”. Aristotle is of the view that people develop friendships because they like one another, they perceive someone to be useful, or because a partner is pleasant to be around with. In explaining the concept of “like”, Aristotle explains that people develop friendships based on common likings or love for one thing. In this context, two people can therefore spend time together and do things, which manifest their values. The concepts of “use” and “pleasantry” are explained from the assumption that friendships should be satisfying and must expose a strong sense of goodwill among the parties involved. Relationships built on gaining advantages alone are therefore not sustainable. In explaining how the concept of virtue is essential in civic relationships, Aristotle’s highlights two factors. First, Aristotle says that virtue can be categorized in two levels. The first level appeals to a part of the human soul that focuses on reason (able to formulate reason) while the second part appeals to the part of the human soul that follows reason. Focusing on the human intellect, Aristotle explains that the human intellect is categorized into a section that appeals to theoretical reason and a section that appeals to practical reason. Aristotle therefore explains that people have the capability to be ethically virtuous but good moral ethics mainly develop from merging practical wisdom and proper habits. Close to the understanding of virtues is Aristotle’s view on happiness. Aristotle explains that human happiness stands at the core of our being but by extension, it is a goal in itself. However, Aristotle also explains that the ability to be happy mainly rests within us. Though people have the ability to be happy, Aristotle explains that happiness is mainly a product of our virtues. Virtues are also explained as the middle-point of two extremes, which border on the quest for sensual pleasure and the pressure that comes from harsh asceticism. Aristotle’s view on deliberation stems from the fact that deliberation is a means to uncover our acts, and a tool for determining our goals. Aristotle equates a good person to be a person who is open to deliberation. Simi
Basically, Google’s triumph in the current competitive market is ideally based on the effective utilization of the available innovative opportunities, its future business visions, and the knack to exploit the available tools. This makes Google to shine in every aspect of communication. The company has an official blog which is used as a tool by most companies and thousands of individuals. The corporation generates a majority of its revenues through offering measurable, highly relevant, and cost effective advertisements. To generate revenues from advertisement, Google often uses the AdWords program which assists in promoting other companies services and products based on targeted advertising search criteria. Google’s AdSense program is conversely used by various intermediary websites which comprise the Google’s networks to deliver pertinent ads which enhance users’ experiences besides generating revenues (Chaffey, 2009). Furthermore, the comprehensive internet search appliances, and the greatly aimed advertising solutions offered by this company via its well developed and entrepreneurial internet sites helps it to generate lots of revenues. Google’s future revenue levels based the eminent risk factors Since Google generally relies on advertising as a source of revenue, the levels of revenue generated via advertisement might significantly fall in the future due to their unpredictable and highly volatile nature. However, owing to lack of any meaningful competition in this field, Google still has establishment powers that would eventually help it evade the negative aspects created by the new market entrants. This implies that, as a key player in the advertisement arena, when the cost of advertisement escalates as a result of immense competitions, Google would be forced to lower the service prices. In response, the revenue generated would fall. Nevertheless, high costs of operation will see off many new markets entrants, and this will help Google restore its revenue generation levels. The pricing of this online advertising company might also be driven down by the overwhelming number of abusers who erode the bestowed assurance in the Google’s models (Marks & Lozano, 2009). For instance, the click fraud risks by the programmed software agents would probably distort the future revenue numbers while the low pricing accruing from web traffic would make the overall revenue levels to significantly fall. Case study-2: New Hype or New-Fangled Architecture? How SOA may reduce trust on a sole enterprise software source and raise flexibility by setting up new-fangled functionality and applications Via the utilization of web standards such as the XML, functionality and data may be swapped between various applications from diverse service providers. From the case study, the major precept of the inquiry is ideally whether it would be easier to generate multi-software and hardware vendor solutions. Ac
Introduction This paper explores the remarks of the journal entry entitled “Commentary on the Apology,” which discusses the accusations by Meletus against Socrates based on Plato’s Apology. The setting is Socrates’ trial for the accusations of corrupting the youth with false wisdom and of not believing in the gods of Athens but in other new spiritual things. This paper contains a description of the proceedings of the trial, explanations of Socrates’ unofficial accusations, the official charges against him by Meletus and his corresponding responses, and a discussion of the verdict of his trial and Socrates’ response to it. Unofficial Accusations Against Socrates At the start of his defense, Socrates disclaimed himself as an accomplished speaker. He claimed to only seek truth and thus, admitted that he may be a skillful speaker if “skillful speaking” meant “to speak the truth.” He asked for pardon on his language and manner of speaking throughout the trial. Later, he would explain this further among the accusations against him. Before defending himself against the official charges, Socrates thought it important to defend himself against accusations that contributed to his being brought to trial. One accusation was that he busied himself studying things in the sky and below the earth (Plato 23). Socrates invited the jury and his prosecutors to present evidence of this – that he had spoken ab
The relation of women with the Justice system is a much talked about the topic which raises concern several times. When a woman is accused or charged with doing something wrong a different type of fight comes forward. Particularly if a woman commits something serious that results in incarceration. The situation turns absolutely hostile for her as she has to go through life in incarceration as there might be tough conditions that are even hard to imagine. The rate of women staying in incarceration is increasing unfortunately and particularly the women of color make up a disproportionately high percentage among them. A huge population of women of color stay in utter poverty and are exposed to harsh living conditions. They are often victimized due to unavoidable circumstances. Whatever may be the cause, when a woman gets incarceration as a punishment the trail of misfortune never leaves them in her life (Scraton and McCulloch 2008). There are different reasons for which the rate of incarceration as a whole has increased. But the rate of women getting imprisonment has surpassed the rate of men. The war on drugs, tough on crime initiatives, equity sentence guidelines, changes in Welfare Reform Act, Family Law, laws regarding prenatal drug use are some of the reasons. All these initiatives have drastically increased the number of female prisoners, especially women of color in the jails where they suffer inhuman agonies. They are victimized in different ways, abused, and left with severe trauma, both physically and mentally. War on drugs implemented cracking down on street–level drug traders and punishing them with mandatory and harsh sentences. This increases disproportionately the rate of African American women getting “caught in the net”. These are mainly poor women who had no other choice than to accept plea bargains and face minimum mandatory punishments. Narcotic-related arrests are so high among women of color that almost 1 in 3 women are facing incarceration (Tregea and Larmour 2009). Another reason for the increasing rates of women facing incarceration is the “tough on crime” policies. These policies include zero tolerance for crime, mandatory punishments, three strikes, truth in sentencing, quality of life policing, and several other policies which resulted in a lot of victimization of a large number of women of color. These women become victimized in cases of violent crimes, but they themselves are quite vulnerable against them. This victimization often occurs due to the equity sentencing guidelines also. Equity sentencing involves fair sentencing, irrespective of anybody’s social or economic status or gender. Women of color get involved in the cases and lead harsh jail life afterward (Rennie 2009). The Welfare Reform Act, enacted to ensure social security benefits, underwent some changes in 2009. It should have been helpful to women of color to fight against poverty. Instead, getting involved in low-wage jobs after being denied basic income support or being left with no income at all imparts a huge effect on the women of color living in poverty. Sometimes there is no way
Introduction Traffic violation tickets are issued to those vehicle owners and users of the roads who have either disobeyed a traffic law or led to some other traffic infraction by the law enforcement officers of our state. Thus, we can consider a traffic violation ticket to be an official summon or legal citation. The basic purpose of a traffic violation ticket is to notify the person receiving it that he or she is responsible for committing a major or minor traffic infraction that is not legally permissible and will thus have to pay a fine because of that action. The traffic violation ticket that is issued is either given as a citation having a non-moving violation, for example the form of a parking ticket, or containing a moving violation, for example when someone is found to have exceeded the permissible speed limit. (Walker, 347-363) They then have to appear at a traffic court where they are heard and the vehicle owners are also required to pay a predetermined fine depending on their actions. Under normal circumstances a traffic violator would have to postmark their ticket and then mail the amount fined within the due date specified or pays it when they are summonsed to the traffic court. Thus, we can see that the entire procedure of manually paying the traffic violation tickets becomes a hectic ordeal for the lawmakers, vehicle owners and also the law enforcement officers who have to take care of at least a million such traffic violation tickets, organize the dates of the violator’s court hearing and at the same time do their jobs. A traffic violation ticket online querying and fine payment systems easily allows the law enforcement officers and lawmakers to issue and handle traffic violation tickets with ease and the traffic violators to pay their cited amount online or make any queries regarding their traffic tickets within minutes. The vehicle owners are instantly able to pay the due fines through the online system completely abiding by the rules consociated with the tickets received by them. (Fugmann, 116-129) Review of latest approach in online usage Every individual owning a vehicle has received a traffic violation ticket at least once in their life. But if any of them failed to pay the due fine levied on that ticket they have also had to pay some extra amount together with the actual amount cited in their ticket. Further if the vehicle owners are subsequently unable to pay the violation fine then there is a chance that their vehicle may get towed or a warrant being issued for arresting them. Thus, we can see that if a vehicle owner does not pay the violation fine then the consequences can be somewhat serious. Paying for a traffic violation ticket online is an extremely easy and quick way of resolving a complicated situation like this and the vehicle owners are also able to avoid any unwanted consequences like getting arrested and spending time in jail. (Harris, 123-131) Payment method discussion Traffic violation ticket online query and payment system
Internet marketing strategy is of great organizational benefits. This is so because a cost reduction and a further market reach will be among the benefits accrued from this strategy. This then implies that an expanded market reach will mean an increased competition that have to be mitigated by marketing plans that must be put into considerations. The marketing plan in this perspective must, for instance, consider the increased liability in other countries. This is so because implementing e-marketing in some countries may be met with laws and regulations that vary. Kudler in this sense do not intend to depict an insensitive image that does not recognize cultural issues that is imminent in the global market. To this end, Kudler Fine Foods should strive to develop an e-market plan that transverses the global markets and avoid implementing ones that may result in being offensive to different cultures. The imperatives of the methods that are to be used to collect data from customers cannot be underestimated further but an elaboration from the AMA code of ethics for marketing contends that any information that is to be collected from customers should be confidential and used only for the intended role (Frost &Strauss,2009,p.96). This then means that any information Kudler Fine Foods collects from the customers must be treated with the privacy it requires with security measures being a critical part. The need for all these is to ensure that the integrity of consumer data is safe; meaning that Kudler should be able to follow intensely the direct marketing guidelines (Frost &Strauss, 2009). The fact that e-commerce is an exciting idea that Kudler Fine Foods can engage in brings taxation questions and problems. The firm then should strive to understand the legality problems that arise and these could be attained through frequent legal consultations. An example of the legality problem is one that has been raised by Rai (2011) where he notes that any “E commerce conducted by out-of-state vendors do not have an obligation to collect sales taxes if traditional remote sellers, such as mail-order and telephone solicitation vendors do not collect sales taxes”. An outlook of the comparison between the traditional marketing vs the internet marketing is thus important in examining the cost benefit analysis so as to state whether it is a worthy venture. The traditional marketing strategy would use approximately 10 to 20 billboards within which each would cost $10,000 to $20,000 a month. The circulars and mail outs on the other hand would cost approximately $100 per advertisement that would total to $6000 per month. The mass media such as television and radio would cost $5000 to $20,000 each month. The approximate total cost for traditional marketing per month is $21,000 to $46,000. E-marketing on the other hand has the ability to reach 70% of the population if it uses the internet through the search engin
Introduction Two stories by Danish author Andersen describe the childhood of different characters. While the first protagonist enjoys being a child, another one constantly feels frustration and depression. The circumstances they got into determining their perceptions. Although some similarities might be seen in their situations, the differences play a crucial role. The purpose of this paper is to discuss two stories to find the main differences, which have a greater impact on the attitude of the main characters towards their childhood. The Comparison of Two Stories The Snow Queen is a story about two children, Kay and Gerda, that lived in neighboring lofts. They could come to each other’s places through the windows. Hence, the children spent together all the time. Kay and Gerda were happy. However, one day, the splinters of the enchanted mirror got into Kay’s heart, and he became vicious. Things, which had been likable, appeared ugly and unpleasant to him. “After all, these roses are very ugly!” Kay told Gerda (Andersen, The Snow Queen 3). In spite of the fact that Gerda was highly upset, she stayed positive as she believed she would help her friend. Gerda set off to encounter many difficulties. Although she was scared, the little girl did not stop. Gerda found many new friends that assisted in her dangerous endeavor. Gerda’s childish enthusiasm pushed her through it, and eventually, she broke the spell and made things work out. This story presents the vision of an innocent little girl, who believes that love is the most important gift nature gave people. Gerda’s childhood is full of insurmountable difficulties, but she neglects them as her faith is incredibly strong. Gerda focuses only on the greatest moments Kay and she experienced together. She thinks of days when they enjoyed roses, played and sang together. Their love was true and pure. However, things went awry, and she lost her friend. Gerda’s adventure was a long one. She grew up during her journey. However, Gerda did not lose her childish qualities and remained a kind and good-natured g
Introduction In considering the possibility of investing in Kramer Industries, located in Montana, Allied Group management should focus on identifying the potential risks associated with adding this firm to the portfolio. For this purpose, estimating the average return for the stock as well as the standard deviation can prove helpful. The aim of this paper is to present calculations and discussion of the company’s average returns along with the standard deviation as well as to justify an appropriate decision on the part of the Allied Group. The Average Return for the Stock (1990–2010) It is possible to calculate the arithmetic average return for the stock using the following formula: (year 1 return +… + year n return) / n, where in the case of Kramer Industries, five years of data are available from a twenty-year period. Thus, calculations include adding the available percentages for annual earnings and then dividing the sum by the number of years addressed. During the period 1990–2010, Kramer Industries reported an 8% loss as well as 23%, 26%, 31%, and 18% earnings. In focusing on calculating the average return, the provided formula yields the following result: (‑8+23+26+31+18) / 5 = 18%. Using these figures, the average return over the period of twenty years for the stock can be calculated for Kramer Industries by way of finding the mean from the provided data for five of the years. Thus, the annual average return can be reported to be 18%. The Standard Deviation for the Stock (1990–2010) In order to calculate the standard deviation for the stock during the twenty-year period (1990–2010) under consideration, it is necessary to apply the formula for the population standard deviation: σ = ([Σ(x – u) 2 ] / N) 1/2 , where u is the average of the stock and N is the number of years. The first step is to calculate the variance related to the mean. The variance in this case is 186.8. To determine the population standard deviation, it is necessary to find the square root of the identified variance. In this case, the standard deviation equals 13.667 or 13.7%. When calculating the sample standard deviation, having access to data for only five years, it is helpful to use the following formula: σ = ([Σ(x – u) 2 ] / N-1) 1/2 . With this formula, it is possible to use the provided sample to calculate the variance for the entire population or, in this case, the period of twenty years (Brigham & Houston, 2016). Thus, the sample standard deviation equals 15.28%, but it can be argued tha
The primary paradox “Blink,” the 2007 episode of Doctor Who , is based on is the knowledge paradox, or a bootstrap paradox (Steele, 2020). The events of the episode form a causal loop since it was the Doctor who gave himself the instructions to break out of being stuck in 1969 even though he would not have been able to send these instructions into the future if he did not have them in the first place. David Kyle Johnson describes this paradox and presents the transcript of the conversation the Doctor receives as a self-created object, of a jinnee. There is seemingly no cause for its existence since the Doctor leaving 17 secret video clips and Larry transcribing them are caused by each other. David Kyle Johnson resolves the paradox by pointing out that there is no causal origin for the Doctor and Sally’s conversation. He explains that causes mat not necessarily precede their effects, which makes time travel possible. However, what makes time travel impossible is the fact that jinn does not have a cause, or a stopping point, which makes their existence impossible. Another paradox in the “Blink” episode is the grandfather paradox, which refers to Kathy Nightingale being left alone by Sally to see who is at the door. Thus, she is sent into the past by the weeping angels only for her grandson to ring the doorbell, which saves Sally and leaves Kathy all alone. David Kyle Johnson explains this paradox by pointing out that time is not just the past, the present, and the future arranged in a linear progression. Seemingly simultaneous events only relatively happen at the same time. Thus, the grandson ringing the doorbell happens in the future and the past at the same time for his grandma. Reference Steele, Z. (2020). The bootstrap paradox. Medium . Web.