Lowest common denominator

touch on our recent political season. After seeing the results of the presidential election, I have to wonder, what type of leadership training has Trump had? Granted, he has worked in mostly FOR profit settings, but how does someone with his lack of etiquette and communication skills, rise to the level he has? Perhaps I am sounding cynical, but it saddens and frustrates me to no end that this is the leadership that “we the people” have chosen as our representation for the USA. If we are to take to heart all the wonderful wisdoms throughout these readings, who is to guarantee that they will be recognized and pushed forward?! I’m deeply concerned that these gems will continue to be ignored and push us down into a place where the lowest common denominator is able to seize the day. Similarly, when we talk about good communication skills being a crucial piece to effective leadership, where have we gone wrong? Is all this effort by these knowledgeable thinkers for naught? Is there hope? Upon reading Susan Nilson Kibbey’s, Ultimately Responsible, the title alone states the obvious. We as leaders need to be accountable for our words and actions as well as discerning our gifting’s and where to plug them in. “Allow…

Once I reached to the Commons, it was quite crowded and quite obvious that this was the place where all of the cliques and groups of Portage High School enjoyed hanging out. I trotted around talking to people hoping to make friends. Many people gave me a lot of funny looks and rejected me as I attempted to include myself in their groups. However, I was lucky enough that the theater kids accepted me as I was and even asked me to sit with them at lunch. I could not believe that I already had made…

In this situation there is a lot of power given to each individual who shares the common land. Because they all want to maximize their own profits it is up to each person to share the commons fairly. If a group of people from a different country, race, or ethnicity from the people who originally shared the commons joined the community a lot of prejudice towards that person may occur. This type of prejudice can be similar to the kind that Ta-Nehisi Coates experienced in his book “Between the…

much in order to secure him or herself. For example, if the common area is a pond, one may catch too many fish to ensure a meal for an entire month so that he or she may survive. This creates a selfishness in society, generating a cycle of these three events. According to Rousseau humans have the ability to either be the selfish individual or not associate him or herself with these negative actions. Animals do not have any idea, and will take as much fish from the pond as necessary to feed its…

Professor Victor Miguel Ponce (2014) defines the Tragedy of the Commons as, “a natural resource shared by many individuals, in the absence of regulation, each individual will have a tendency to exploit the commons to his/her own advantage, typically without limit. Under this state of affairs, the commons is depleted and eventually ruined.” Ashford University is currently facing a “tragedy of commons” that presently affects many students including myself. I believe it has stemmed from the…

numerous tragedies of the commons as labelled by Garrett Hardin. One of the most prevalent is the increasing rate of population while the resources does not have any change. The current world has an urge population equivalent to seventh billion. People need all these resources in order to survive such as; oxygen, food, and water which are between the most essential needs of human being. The main issue is the increase in population whereas these resources are limited. According to Garrett Hardin…

(Handbook of Texas Online). Although, the first courts were established in Texas’s capital under this system, the newer courts were replaced under Spanish law (Andrew 3). Through several amendments and evolvements, the courts in Texas have become what they are known as today, and are made up of 5 levels and each have a place in handling specific cases. There are the district courts, one of the main courts for trial and handling a large range of cases. There are constitutional county courts that…

Roles In the United States, attorneys provide a wide variety of services. They seem to do everything from drafting contracts and writing up wills to trying high-profile cases and arguing in front of the Supreme Court. In fact, at times it can seem like the U.S. is obsessed with attorneys as more and more things become legal issues and attorneys find themselves taking on more and more roles. Our pop culture seems to both reflect and drive our legal obsession as well, with more and more legal…

jurors, “I don 't mind telling you this, mister. We don 't owe him a thing. He got a fair trial, didn 't he? You know what that trial cost? He 's lucky he got it”. It is easy for the readers to place themselves in a jurors place, faced with a challenging decision and being forced to confront their individual conscience and discover what kind of character they have. Twelve Angry Men, resolutely reminds one, that the responsibility of the jury is never insignificant (Alpert). The only details…

Source and Purpose of Civil Law Historically, civil law is derived from Rome’s Corpus Juris Civilis and France’s Code Napoleon (Emerson, 2009). It is founded on English common law. Notably, civil law systems are founded on legislative codes rather than judicial precedents. These codes are comprehensive and authoritative collections of rules that cover principal subjects of law. Currently, the main sources of civil law include academicians and legislative bodies. According to Schubert (2014),…