Business Ethics Final Project Extraordinary Circumstances Stephanie Burg 2/16/2009 Table of Contents Mission Statement 3 Ethical Principles/Tenets 4 Day to Day Operations 5 Cynthia Cooper and the Culture 6 Conclusion 8 Works Cited 10 1)Provide a Mission Statement and brief background about WorldCom. Briefly explain how WorldCom did not honor their statement. WorldCom - "our objective is to be the most profitable ‚ single source provider of communications services to customers around
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In Black Like Me‚ written by John Howard Griffin‚ Mr. Griffin‚ a white novelist‚ experiences a treacherous journey throughout the Deep South disguised as an African American. He encounters racism‚ discrimination‚ and hate from various whites‚ but receives affection and hospitality from other African Americans. In this essay‚ I am going to explain Mr. Griffin’s findings in his bold exploration in the Deep South during the 1959’s. First‚ most African Americans in the Deep South didn’t receive the luxury
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The ideals of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mills utilitarianism can easily be compatible with the ideology of other political institutions; communism is one that I think relates to this theory on an international level. utilitarianism is a form of social philosophy meaning the valued principle and ethics only have the power because we consciously give the ideals jurisdiction. Utilitarianism is a means to support and claims pleasure for majority of the population‚ even if the general population
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Pete and Donald are brothers who have little in common. Stable and successful Pete is a real estate agent in Santa Cruz. He has two daughters‚ a sailboat‚ and a great deal of money. Donald is something of a drifter‚ never keeping a job for long‚ often migrating from one religious commune to another. While Pete is at home in the world and looks healthy and comfortable‚ Donald is gaunt and obsessed with the fate of his soul. Pete seems to have taken after their parents‚ who are both dead. Like them
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family. In Miss Julie the main characters are Julie‚ the daughter of the Count and a shockingly feminist mother and Jean‚ the manor’s thirty year old valet who has big desires to be rich. In Bad Animals the main characters are Joel‚ Cynthia and Jonah‚ Joel and Cynthia are the parents of Jonah‚ a boy who has autisim. These stories mainly focus on how family can affect a persons life‚ in Miss Julie Julie’s parents were not good parents at all‚ raised by a feminist mother who abhorred men and a father
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USC. Reggie Bush is not to blame for the allegations against him and‚ as a result‚ the sanctions against USC. Instead‚ his step-father‚ LaMar Griffin‚ is at fault in this situation. Griffin abused Reggie Bush’s future potential in order to gain illegal benefits. Bush was used as a scape-goat by Griffin and is now being falsely punished. Griffin should incur all of these punishments‚ not Bush. However‚ the real damage to Bush is his loss of proper standing in society’s view‚ which cannot be
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Irony is as efficient in a literary work‚ as the reader can perceive it. Therefore‚ often times the reader must carefully analyze the material‚ reading it repeatedly if necessary‚ in order to fully understand the author’s message and intent. Tobias Wolff and Alice Munro employ irony in their short stories in attempt to surprise the readers‚ giving them an opportunity for discovery. In Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow”‚ irony acts as a tragicomedy agent‚ but its role is mainly to reveal the true nature
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$1.4 (from taxing the drug) in revenue for California (Wolff). Additionally our country as a whole spends $68 Billion a year on its prisoner’s one third of which are imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes. According to an article written by Madeline Wolff in the Daily Sundial about half of these criminals are in Jail for Marijuana related crimes. This means legalizing the drug would mean spending less then $11.3 billion less on prisons (Wolff). Legalizing Marijuana would mean generating this lost
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I am going to evaluate tanning where it came from‚ who invented it‚ where‚ and why. Last but not least were going to be looking at the positive and the negative aspects of tanning too. The history of tanning beds begins with Friedrich Wolff. Friedrich Wolff was a German scientist who invented the tanning bed in 1978. Friedrich invented this on accident. He did this when he was doing a study on the positive side effects of ultraviolet light on athletes. Then he noticed a side effect about the
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standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child‚ as the case may be‚ who is under his care‚ if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances.” In the case in question‚ Griffin Grimbly‚ a 12-year old child complained that his father had beat him using a length of clothesline. The father was arrested and charged with assault by police. He entered a plea of
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