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A true scandal is an action that is observed as unacceptable and generates public offense. Scandals have existed since the beginning of time, yet, throughout time they have varied because of new cultural standards. For example, a woman showing her ankles in medieval times would be considered taboo unlike today. However, regardless of the time, the speed of scandals entering the public eye is the same from the age of “A Face in the Crowd” as the modern days. A striking difference between times…

All great pieces of writing consist of the same three rhetorical elements: Logos, Pathos and Ethos. They are strategically used to persuade the audience to believe something they hadn’t before. Michael T. Klare effectively practices these methods in his 2012 article, The Coming Hunger Wars: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest, to hook his reader and to coax them into viewing his topic differently. He exploits experienced sources, hard facts and fear driven emotions to inform his…

Additionally, in Dolan’s 2013 article she focuses on of political gender stereotypes. She suggests that “…voters ascribe to women candidates certain stereotyped policy competencies and personality characteristics. In terms of gender linked personality traits, women candidates and officeholders are viewed as more compassionate, expressive, honest, and better able to deal with constituents than men” (Dolan 2013). Like in other studies women candidates are linked with being more interested in and…

Organizations develop tradition, heritage, and culture as they establish roots in a bureaucratic system. These qualities allow for a myriad of possibilities, and in the Department of Defense, there is a tendency toward inertia to mitigate risk. In Masks of War, Carl Builder extols the principle that technology created the USAF and the USAF tends to rely on technological solutions for its problems. However, even in an organization that embraces technology as a founding principle, the USAF…

Martin Luther started a religious reform with the intent to purify Christianity in the early 1500s, but his actions brought about an unintended social revolution. As the leader of the Reformation, he needed to take responsibility for what his movement caused. Yet, despite what his Catholic critics said, Luther never deviated from his support of the nobility, and was never a hypocrite in his views. His writings and teachings consistently defended the nobility’s power. In his Ninety-Five Theses,…

Eusebius’ excerpt The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine and Mou Tzu’s excerpt The Disposition of Error clearly depict the issues Rome and China faced as these new religions entered their society. During Eusebius’ time Christianity was a fairly new religion and was seen as a threat to Pagan Rome, thus it received a lot of backlash. Mou Tzu lived in 6th century China which was after the Han Dynasty fell. This was a time where people were open to new ideas. Thus Mahayana Buddhism flourished…

The main points to set up KPI is sequential, planned and systematic. To develop customer KPIs, there are six steps need to be completed. First, ensure a clear corporate strategy and business strategic objectives (Parmenter, 2010). Have a clear strategy objective is the excellent beginning to develop KPIs. Corporate strategy focuses on where the company 's resources should be used, and the purpose is to maximize the value of the resources of the company control. Business strategy is concerned…

Introduction One of the largest industries located in Dothan, Alabama today is peanut farming. Known as the “Peanut Capital of the World”, an astonishing half of the peanuts in the United States of America were produced within a 100-mile radius of Dothan Alabama (Alabama Farmers Federation). Dothan is also home to the Alabama Peanut Producers Association an organization that is interested in promotion, research and educational activities dedicated to enhancing the peanut industry (Thompson,…

Background A growing problem not only in the United States, but the rest of the world as well is Cyber-security (German, 2016). German (2016) states that the office of personal management or OMP reported an initial breach of 4.2 million personal records with another 15 million records that may have been compromised. Consequently, to identify the scope of the problems as well as the need for businesses of all types requires more research. Also, there is a need to focus on cyber-security as an…

The message of this verse is simple and clear – love of the Beloved Lord is indeed the real wealth. Those who have love for the piyā (Beloved Lord), the verse maintains, are indeed wealthy, whereas those devoid of love for the Lord are destitute. The term nirdhanā is a compound word, derived from nir, normally used as a prefix, implying negation when used with a noun and certainty when used with a verb, and dhan, which means ‘money’, ‘riches’, ‘wealth’, ‘treasure’. Nirdhanā, therefore means…