Effectiveness

The SOX act was a rule that was passed by Congress in 2002 in the aims of protecting the investors from any fraudulent activities. According to the act, there was the enactment of strict reforms in order to improve the financial disclosures that occurred within any business and also to protect corporations and aid in the prevention of accounting fraud. The SOX has been effective. It had aided in increasing the audit commitment involvement. In the past, board seats were considered to bring…

Polonius: Polonius is consistently presented as comic relief here. This can be seen most easily in one of his first miniature “speeches” in the scene, when despite acknowledging that “brevity is the soul of wit,” he takes ten lines merely to inform Claudius and Gertrude of what they know already - that their son is mad. This is an amusing episode for the audience, as by admitting that wit is denoted by brevity and then failing to demonstrate any ability to be brief, Polonius effectively calls…

The two-party system still works to an extent, though it may work people are not represented fairly by agreeable candidates. This system is not effective in any aspect as it is a guaranteed win for only two prospective candidates rather than the collective of running candidates. The two-party system is not fair, people should be able to vote for who they want not the other way around. This idea creates the perfect storm for gerrymandering and many other unfair political processes. Furthermore…

There are six factors that play a role in the effectiveness of general deterrence. Individuals rationally weigh costs and benefits of the crime. For example, as stated in the text, “To a drug addict, the cost of not stealing the money to pay for one’s next fix probably seems greater than stealing he money”…

our experiment was to determine if antibacterial products lost effectiveness in killing common bacteria in everyday environments after repeated use. This is an important environmental issue because if these products are losing effectiveness, then our common living areas are not being properly sanitized and this could lead to more illnesses caused by the bacteria. The hypothesis in this study is that thymol will lose its effectiveness to kill bacteria after repeated treatments…

therefore, trust is the key to all interpersonal relationships, because without it, no real, genuine connections are established or maintained. That said, according to Dr. David Johnson, social psychologist and author of Reaching Out:Interpersonal Effectiveness and Self-Actualization, trust is the foundation for building and maintaining caring and productive relationships, which essentially measure the health of a relationship, as well as the level of intimacy between partners (Johnson, 2014,…

“The mind is not only inside of us,” Daniel Seigle, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry said at the 2016 Leading to Well-Being conference. A conference program (Leading to Well-Being: Cultivating Resilience) lead by George Mason University was carried out in April 15, 2016. This conference was open to everybody, especially those individuals who want to be more conscious and have a greater sense of view towards how to live life with a better approach. It is necessary to cultivate resilience,…

Parenting is a thankless job, and there is no formal training for it in the education systems. On this point, Gordon makes a spectacular contribution in developing a program to train parents. Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) is a book for mothers and fathers who do not want their children to fire them as parents. Dr. Thomas Gordon, who was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, discusses in P.E.T. remedies for house violence and shows the way to a democratic peaceful house which consequently can…

Sure Thing, a play written by David Ives, illustrates two characters, Betty and Bill, who every time they say something that the other doesn’t like, a bell rings to restart the conversation. In the play, the effectiveness of humor plays a major role which helps create the main theme of the play; it shows the importance of first impressions, and how a person initially presents themselves through dialogue could either create or destroy a friendship. The humor in the conversations between Bill and…

enhance student achievement, it is important that we continually examine our practices, including the factors relative to the teachers, students, and the school. Thus, I asked three colleagues to complete Robert Marzano’s Snapshot Survey of School Effectiveness Factors, along with completing it myself. For each item listed under each key factor, the teachers had to respond to a set of three questions. Question 1 asked: To what extent do we engage in this behavior or address this issue? Question…