COMMUNICATION THEORY SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL TRADITION Prepared by Arthel John G. Bendo Sociopsychological tradition is a communication tradition that studies and explains “man as a social being”. The perpetrator of the said tradition was the Psychologists Carl Hovland ‚ headed 30 researchers at Yale University. There is vast tradition literature on how media affects us‚ and we can only take an aerial shot of it here by providing an overview of three large theoretical programs within this tradition
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Asset Backed Security (ABS) An asset-backed security is a financial security backed by a loan‚ lease or receivables against assets other than real estate and mortgage-backed securities. For investors‚ asset-backed securities are an alternative to investing in corporate debt. An ABS is essentially the same thing as a mortgage-backed security‚ except that the securities backing it are assets such as loans‚ leases‚ credit card debt‚ a company’s receivables‚ royalties and so on‚ and not mortgage-based
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Bankers and other leaders use accounting information to evaluate a potential borrower’s finical soundness. Eg: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and provincial tax officials use it to calculate a company’s tax liability责任. Citizen’s groups and government agencies use accounting information to access the efficiency. Eg: Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP)‚ organized by the CRA‚ 16000 volunteers help more than half million Canadians to complete
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The Collapse of Lehman Brothers – Lessons Learned: Corporate Governance and Ethics. Posted by erictse2 on February 11‚ 2012 The Collapse of Lehman Brothers – Lessons Learned: Corporate Governance and Ethics. Executive summary This essay discusses about the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008‚ from the perspective of corporate governance and ethics. It first gives some background about the collapse and analyze financial situation of the company before the incident happened. It reveals unethical
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Serving the Public Interest Barry‚ Joanne S. The CPA Journal80.2 (Feb 2010): 7. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers by selecting the Enter button Show highlighting Abstract (summary) TranslateAbstract One of the basic tenets of the CPA profession is to serve the public interest. Working with the Wenchester County Association and the Business Council of Wenchester‚ it took weeks for the task force of about 20 CPAs to attend budget hearings and various meetings‚ well as to pore over the proposed
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Introduction to Composition Lesson 25 Assignment 16 April 26‚ 2011 What is the meaning of marriage? According to Merriam Websters online dictionary marriage means “the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law.” Marriage is something no one should enter into lightly‚ it is considered as an intimate or close union. Most marriages don’t always last‚ they do end in divorce. Some of the most leading causes in
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under English law where more particularly all the aspect of rape were covered. Later rape wasUnder the Sexual Offences Act 2003‚ which came into force in April 2004‚ rape in England and Wales was redefined from non-consensual vaginal or anal intercourse‚ and is now defined as non-consensual penile penetration of the vagina‚ anus or mouth of another person. The changes also made rape punishable with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Although a woman who forces a man to have sex cannot be prosecuted
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In this paper I will expand on an aspect of Gerald Dworkin’s critique of Joel Feinberg’s argument against legal moralism. Using Dworkin’s counterexample of informational blackmail‚ I maintain that Feinberg’s argument ignores important moral considerations and moral legalism is sometimes justifiable. Before I proceed‚ some relevant background knowledge is necessary. In his argument‚ “Devlin Was Right: Law and the Enforcement of Morality‚” Dworkin sums up Feinberg’s argument in “The Nature and Value
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Adoption of Anonymous in 1973‚ the ethical consideration of who is the legal father in a consensual AID case. The issue present is whether the father of the child is considered its "legal" father even though the child was conceived through an artificial donor. After the divorce‚ the new husband wanted to adopt the child but real father would not give his consent. The court ruled that the defendant of consensual AID is in fact considered the legal father of the child and the term "father" is not limited
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legal recourse. Like the circumstances in which Jessica Logan found herself – she was legally an adult – revenge porn is most often circulated by former lovers who were the original recipient of a sext‚ and the fact of the image being initially consensual seems to rob the victim of her innocence – in other words‚ she brought this on herself by participating in sexual expression at all.
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