Mandate Pictures

Police brutality has escalated in the United States these past few years from the death of Trayvon Martin all the way to Michael Brown from Ferguson, MO. (Some states are requiring police officers to wear body cameras, and now there is a push for federal law requiring every police officer in the United States to be equipped with a body camera). The reasoning behind this is because body cameras benefit both the police officer and the citizen in many different ways. Some examples of these benefits…

we are called to a higher authority than who we adhere to in the workplace. We are called to be the salt and light of the world. (Matthew 5:13, NKJV) My decisions in and out of the workplace will be based on my beliefs to have a long term, big picture perspective; be honest; be wise; be diligent, and to do good and act right for by people, represents being ethical for all people in my family, church, community, and workplace. (Ruddell, 2004, p.44) Scripture tells us that we are co-workers…

Rome was a much more culturally tolerant empire than the Qin Dynasty, which was very culturally strict. In an edict of Augustus, written in 1 BCE, on the rights of the jewish people, he stated, “by the will of the people of the Romans, that the Jews shall use their own customs in accordance with their ancestral law, just as they used to use them in the time of Hyrcanus, the high priest of their highest god; and that their sacred offerings shall be inviolable and shall be sent to Jerusalem and…

In 2001, the government passed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in an effort reaching 100% proficiency of all groups of students in America by the year 2014. As per the act’s mandate, standardized tests are administered as the mechanism to measure the performance of the students, teachers and the schools. The primary purpose of these tests was to raise teachers’ accountability and improve students’ achievement. This raises an important question: Is standardized testing the greatest medium to…

In the film Bully, there is live footage of many different individuals and their experiences with bullying. In chapter thirteen of our class textbook, it discusses bullies, victims, causes and consequences of bullying, and solutions to solve the problem. There are some similarities and differences between the content of the film and the content of the section it correlates with. The book discusses that bullying takes many different forms including physical, verbal, relational, and cyberbullying.…

income taxes fund public schools in most states but locally the funds come from property taxes. The wealth of the community effects the funds that are going to their public school because if the community is not wealthy, their schools may not look picture perfect or not in the best condition because of the poverty in the community. School funding in the state of Ohio is done both by the state and locally. The Ohio Lottery plays a major…

been shown in many studies that being ethical has an upward relationship with profit. A balanced scorecard is needed when evaluating executive-level performance for many reasons. One of the key reasons is because without it you will not get a full picture of how the executive is performing. You could look at just their financial performance, but that is just one area and doesn’t even tie into the ethical climate audit that will be performed. It is critical to examine the financial and…

observation. i. Defining the problem. What is the question or problem you need to solve? Who, what, where, when, which, why or how? ii. Review the literature. Research can be conducted by the use of external sources, i.e. Internet, books, interviews, pictures, focus groups, and historical accounts just to name a…

explained why Bremer was selected to lead the CPA team - having no background in Middle Eastern politics or political leadership which basically amounted to being a governor of a country as complicated as Iraq. Bremer derived his authority through a mandate from President Bush to build a political structure similar to western style democracy. This may have led him to minimize the…

In “Should immigrants assimilate?”, Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou address the pressure to automatically assimilate that continues to hound second generation immigrants. They weigh the costs of this automatic assimilation and the effects of evident discrimination of a second generation immigrant that follows if assimilation is refused. Mary C. Waters’ article, “Debating Immigration”, acknowledges the inconsistencies of public debate and credible studies dealing with second generation immigrants…