WorldCom was one of the leading telecommunication companies prior to its application for bankruptcy protection on July 21st‚ 2002. The firm’s decision to file for bankruptcy was a shocker move considering the amount of revenues and asset base the company had. It is believed that the firm was highly involved in fraudulent bookkeeping between the year 1999 and 2000 where they had managed to overstate its taxable income by at least $7 billion. It was also revealed that the company had committed itself
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Environmental Protection and Conservation of the Ecosystem We‚ the human beings‚ are living in a polluted environment‚ and it is getting worse day by day. There is nothing else to blame but ourselves. We are suffering from our own negligence. God has given us everything we need but all we do is to ruin His beautiful creation. If we do not want to see the future to suffer‚ it is not yet too late to act. By just doing the simple ways‚ we can help protect the environment. Every one of us has a responsibility
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Legal‚ Safety‚ and Regulatory Requirements Marissa Rittiron HCS/341 April 10‚ 2013 Debbie Kreisher Legal‚ Safety‚ and Regulatory Requirements Human resources must abide by legal regulations and safety laws‚ along with regulations requirements. This is set in place for organizations to avoid litigation. The employee-related regulations have been established by the United States including; Department of Labor‚ the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‚ The Americans with Disabilities
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Should abortion be legal? Lorenia Rangel PHI 103 Informal Logic DR‚ Theresa Ramsey June 6‚ 2011 Should abortion be legal? To this very day abortion has become a very sensitive issue worldwide. Known as a moral and ethical issue‚ abortion is an issue society should come to terms with. Abortion became legal on January 22‚ 1973 since women have the right to freedom and the choice to live their life as they please. Many years ago abortion was illegal and lots of women died because they
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environment as compared with other regions in East Asia. It was not until recently that that the discussion over protection of minorities rights[1] attracted more public concern within the territory. So what is it hiding behind the veil of the apparent prosperity in the society? What and who are being ignored by the general public or the "majority" in the society? This article is going to discuss some aspects whether the rights of minorities are being sufficiently protected by the public institutions
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Nurses make legal and ethical decisions when caring for patients; decisions that need to be made carefully because the decisions could possibly change a patients ’ life. There are theories to explain how to problem solve ethically and the theories are not based on emotion (Guido‚ 2006). This paper will discuss the relationship between legal and ethical issues and ethical theories‚ examples will be provided. Ethics can be described as principles and standards that are a guide to conduct used to elevate
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State‚ Government and Law 1. State An entity can be regarded as a state if it satisfies the following essentials of statehood 1. Population 2. Territory 3. Government 4. Sovereignty or Supremacy State can be unitary (only one govt. throughout the territory); federal(distribution of powers between central and state governments); monarchy(hereditary king as the ruler); republic(the head of the state is not a monarch but an elected person) etc. The ultimate aim of the state is
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Legal rules as to consideration: 1) Consideration must move at the desire of the promisor: the act done or loss suffered by the promise must have been done or suffered at the desire or request of the promisor. The act done at the desire of a third party or without the desire of the promisor cannot be a good consideration. It is not necessary that the promisor himself should be benefited by the acts of the promise. The benefit may be intended for a third party. But the desire or request
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[U MAD BRO?] Legal Medicine Notes 2011-2012 (Prelims Ed.) I. INTRODUCTION What the hell is legal medicine‚ anyway? Legal medicine is a branch of medicine which deals with the application of medical knowledge to the purposes of law and in the administration of justice. It is the application of basic and clinical‚ medical and paramedical sciences to elucidate legal matters. What is the legal basis of the inclusion of the subject “Legal Medicine” in the medical school curriculum? Sec. 6 of RA
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Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights‚ such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work‚ or to make derivative works that build upon it. For electronic and audio-visual media‚ unauthorized reproduction and distribution is often referred to as piracy (however there is no legal basis for this and indeed in one US copyright lawsuit the judge ordered the plaintiff’s legal team to stop
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