2012 BAM530 Business Ethics Unit 3 Question #3: Evaluate the concept of strict liability. Strict liability is the legal responsibility levied on a person or company for certain damages or injury even if they were not at fault. Strict liability can even apply even if the person or company did not physically commit any act to cause the actual injury. Corporations can be held liable for the defects of their product even if they did not know about the problem or harm it could
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DATE: September 16‚ 2011 TO: Martie Kazura FROM: maria anton RE: Shoe production in Indonesia Recently one of the company’s competitors was accused of exploitative labor practices because they used Indonesian labor that are paid similar wage like the company plans to. Due to the accusation imposed‚ that company suffered 50 % decrease in monthly sales and incurred negative publicity. If the company is to go ahead and implement the plan to relocate manufacturing in Indonesia by paying
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mentions. He likes a girl named Nadine but needs to prove to her father that he has a stable job and is worthy of her. His relationship with the US is not the best; all the companies that are refusing him are American news companies. 3. The key conflict that he faces is determining whether the United States and their news companies are being racial and biased of him or is he being biased of them because he is Arabic and worked for a big Arabic news channel. I think he demonstrates the sense of self
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“A genius of the South‚ novelist‚ folklorist‚ anthropologist”--those are the words that Alice Walker had inscribed on the tombstone of Zora Neale Hurston. In the essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ Zora explores her own sense of identity through a series of striking metaphors. After realizing that she is of color‚ Hurston never really places a significant emphasis on the racial inequalities that exist in America. “At certain times I have no race‚ I am me.” Zora Neale Hurston did not have any
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Like cement sets the foundation for a house‚ the cell theory sets the foundation for biology. Schleiden and Schwann proposed the cell theory‚ which states that the cell is the basic unit of life and that new cells arise only from the reproduction of already existing cells via cell cycle‚ in 1839. Since the cell is the structural and functional unit of life as the house is for a community‚ without the house the community would be irritated and would not be stable‚ the community would therefore cease
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Legal Due Diligence Checklist “While the term cannot be found in the dictionary‚ due diligence can be defined as the careful inspection of an item intended for purchase” (Stern‚ 1993). “Scrupulous due diligence is critical to determine if the offering is cost-effective” (Stern‚ 1993). Most potential purchasers of businesses now agree that they should carry out due diligence on a business before agreeing to buy it. According to Hall (2004)‚ “the reasons for due diligence will vary and may‚
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Law and Order SVU Where’s My Shoe? Bong. Bong. In Barbie Land District of Malibu‚ there’s only one thing that matters in the summer heat. Shoes are status. Shoes are the focal point of an outfit. Shoes are life. Tuesday June 12‚ 2012 Apartment of Teresa Dollface Apt. #126 Louboutin Lane Malibu‚ California Bong. Bong. “Oh my God. Where is my shoe?” Teresa screams panicking. She holds the button down on the remote control that powers her revolving shoe shelf system. Around and around
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asset or renew the lease contract. The three major types of leases are the operating lease‚ financial/capital lease and the direct financing lease. The operating lease is a short-term lease contract where the lessor bears all operating and repairing costs of the asset and the lessee pays periodic rental payments to the lessor‚ and where the lease is cancelable‚ and there is no bargain purchase option. Financial/capital lease is a long-term lease contract where the lessee bears all operating‚ repairing
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The Hardships We overcame for American Liberty In the twentieth century there was only a handful of people that got to enjoy what we call "American Liberty". Those who did were rich white business men‚ and those who didn’t were everyone who wasn’t them. People like African Americans‚ women‚ workers‚ etc. were all deprived of this "enjoyment". Sadly it wasn’t till the mid or late twentieth century that they were able to finally enjoy the liberty. African Americans were especially deprived at this
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or through elected representatives; Rule by the majority” (“Democracy” Def.1‚4). Democracy‚ as a form of government‚ was a radical idea when it manifested; many governments in the early history of the world were totalitarian or tyrannical in nature‚ due to overarching beliefs that the strong ruled over the weak. Although the Greeks coined the word “democracy” – the words demos “people” and kratos “rule” conjoined together to mean‚ literally‚ “rule by the people” – there is speculation about weather
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