same sexes to be married. It is often viewed as being wrong by religious people because marriage is portrayed as a woman and man uniting, not woman to woman or man to man. Although there are many people say that banning same-sex marriage is an act of discrimination against homosexual couples, this paper shows some reasons why same-sex marriage should not be legalized. I. Historical Background According to the Bible, marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a…
registered as a society with the Registrar of Societies, Malaysia since 1970. CAP is an association pressure group which organised interest articulation but to pursue limited goal. The motto of CAP is ‘Giving a voice to the little people’. CAP acts as a platform to educate the public and also to voice out their rights as a consumer, public can make complaints to CAP regarding any thing that are exploiting their right as a consumer. The main concern of CAP is to ensure that the…
The internet can trace its roots back to the 1950’s, when American government contractors began research on a secure communication tool for the military and government, to be used in the event of a nuclear war. For almost two decades this communication tool was unknown to people outside of the government. In the 1970’s computer programmers started to communicate with one another using Bulletin…
Its goal is to “maintain the security of the traveling public" (TSA, 2013). This is what Foucault would call the causalization of evidence. Based on certain knowledge -the evidence of 9/11-, American citizens consented to certain acts, such as the screening practices of "more than 1.8 million passengers each day at more than 450 airports nationwide" (TSA, 2013). Americans were told this was for their own safety and, therefore, they supported an increase of TSA power of surveillance…
Abstract We compare general corporate governance principles, guidelines and existing legislation relative to business, specifically in the financial industry, with Mr. Warren Buffett's corporate governance principles and applications in his company, Berkshire Hathaway. Then we consider best practices about leadership succession and compare them with the approach at Berkshire Hathaway. Business succession of Mr. Buffett being an important issue to which a clear path has not been presented…
aspect of the target or precept of the attacker. Religious violence does not refer exclusively to acts committed by religious groups, but also includes acts committed by secular groups against religious groups. Religious violence, like all violence, is an inherently cultural process whose meanings are context-dependent. Religious violence often tends to place great emphasis on the symbolic aspect of the act. Religious violence is primarily the domain of the violent "actor", which may be…
He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…
Weeks et al.’s (2008) state that “literature on rural veterans' health care needs warrants expansion and investment so that policy makers can make informed decisions in an environment of limited resources and competing interests.” In general, it’s understood that studies of access to care found that rural veterans have less access to care and were more vulnerable to travel barriers than their urban counterparts. Weeks et al.’s (2008) “conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature that…
On the opposite spectrum from supplier bargaining power is the bargaining power of buyers. These buyers do not just represent the end user consumer who purchases a PC, laptop computer, or other computer accessory, but represent the buyers all along the entire supply chain from concept and research and development to manufacturing, customization, packaging, transportation, sales, and delivery and in some cases, after the sale customer service. Their overall buying power as a group is considered…
interests from adversaries using cyberspace to their advantage and from our own efforts to employ the global nature of cyberspace to achieve objectives in military, intelligence, and business operations… “ “…For operational plans development, the combination of threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts must be evaluated in order to identify important trends and decide where effort should be applied to eliminate…