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1. Why did you start your business? Mary: I had been working in department stores for about 15 years, I was lucky enough to work for many of those years with a wonderful old style corsetiere, who ensured I got the very best training. The time came for me to branch out on my own 35 years ago, giving me the opportunity to specialise even more. Gillian: I bought Colleen 's two years ago when Colleen retired after starting the business 15 years ago. I saw it as a great opportunity to use my own…

The culture and social bond come from the people who live in the community. The cultural influence the recruitment of employees can be very profitable in the long run. This is key when recruiting in many communities outside of the United States. Every individual is made of Desoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), organizations have their cultural DNA makeup. The cultural content, assumptions, belief, and values change with training, time, and growth. By creating a high-performance workforce across the…

Thomas Malthus, an English economist in 1798 predicted that with an exponentially growing population and an increase in food production, the world would not be able to sustain itself. Luckily this prophecy has not come true, but with the threat still looming, people are doing whatever they can to keep up with the ever growing increase in population. One of the revolutionary techniques to combat world starvation is genetically modified organism (GMO). A GMO is a plant, animal or other organism…

As a Latino immigrant who grew up in the U.S. in a predominately minority community, I had the privilege to witness the best and the worst of two worlds. I got to experience many of the social and health problems that immigrants, minorities, and everyday people face in this country. In my Latino community, there are many families who have someone suffering from a disability, mental health problem, drug addiction, and/or illness and do not have the resources to aid them. Recently, I lost my aunt…

Does greater responsibility come with greater power? That is if you have a special ability (e.g. one acquired through training as an engineer) to do good (e.g., help those in need), do you thereby have a moral obligation to do good? In other words, would it be morally wrong for you to not use your special engineering skills to do good, or even as much good as possible? Be sure to interact with the Robichaud reading when answering these questions In my opinion, power without a purpose becomes…

(Abramowitz & Siqueland, 2013) and is associated with significant functional impairment and decreased quality of life (Subramaniam et al., 2014). Not only are there personal costs associated with OCD, but there are also many social costs as well (DuPont, Rice, Shiraki, & Rowland, 1995). Because of the personal impairment, decreased quality of life, and social costs, treatment is often necessary to ameliorate symptoms in individuals with OCD. Fortunately, various efficient treatments, including…

Obese, Stressed-Out 40-Year-Old Blames Holocaust Introduction A forty-year-old man sits in the dark in complete silence. His resting heart rate sits at ninety beats per minute. He is severely overweight and suffers from hypertension. He cannot get a job because he experiences anxiety attacks any time he is placed in a stressful situation. He isolates himself from society in order to mitigate his depression. Why does this man have so many disorders? As ludicrous as it sounds, scientists blame…

With much attention on America’s obesity problem, have food companies and marketing experts taken advantage on society’s growing concern of healthier eating? There has been much debate on food production and labeling and as to whether or not eating a more organic lifestyle is healthier. From “organic” to “Non GMO” do these labels ensure safer eating habits? What exactly does organic verses conventional eating mean? Are there any distinguishable differences in them? Why is it so much more…

Negative Impacts of GMO: Now that the positives have been shown, now one must look at the negative impacts that GMO’s cause as well. There is no surprise that they also cause many negative impacts as well, but it is up to everyone to way out to see if the positives actually do weight out the negatives. Now when one looks at the negatives there are many things that they must take in, one being they need to know what they are actually looking for and they need to know how to be able to classify…

Panel 1 A small town misanthrope builds a Kevlar suit and goes on a merciless killing spree in this visceral thriller from director Uwe Boll. This is the synopsis of the movie RAMPAGE 2009. As horrifying a picture as this paragraph paints, one cannot help but wonder how this young man is standing unharmed in an explosion such as the one behind him on this poster. Perhaps we should take a look at what he is wearing. Is that the Kevlar suit? Why is he dressed in it from head to toe? Let’s find…