Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten is a crime mystery novel about a mother and her son. Danielle Parkman is a single mother who has amalgamated a prosperous career as an attorney with parenting her teenage son Max‚ who has Asperger’s syndrome. As the story begins‚ Danielle’s parenting skills are being tested by Max’s violent outbursts and she is concerned for his emotional health because of his expression of suicidal thoughts‚ violent behavior‚ and drug use. Danielle takes Max to a psychiatric
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clear than in the work of Durkheim‚ Marx‚ Weber and Simmel. Indeed‚ through their writings‚ whilst all of them displayed a remarkable awareness of the advantages of modernity‚ what distinguished them from their peers was their critique of the problems posed by modern society. However‚ whereas both Durkheim and Marx sought to develop a general model of modern society by examining the problems caused by modernity for the integration of society as a whole‚ Weber and Simmel instead both focused on studying
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Analyze your college or workplace using Weber’s model of bureaucracy. What elements (efficiency‚ calculability‚ predictability‚ and control) of McDonaldization do you see? Do you wish life were less McDonaldized? Why or why not? Efficiency strives to diminish reliance on human skills and decision making by automating and standardizing work processes. In my office we just updated our Computer software system to track zip codes where there is a high propensity for people to join the Army. This
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wealth maximization. The profit maximization objective from economic theory does not normally consider the time dimension or the risk dimension in the measurement of profits. In contrast‚ the shareholder wealth maximization objective provides a convenient framework for evaluating both the timing and the risks associated with various investment and financing strategies. Some marginal decision rules derived from economic theory are extremely useful to a wealth maximizing firm. Any decision‚ regardless
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Memo To: Senior Attorney From: Shaimah Hoosein Date: [ 10/19/2010 ] Re: New Client Angela Woodside. Angela Woodside visited our firm on December 18th 2007 and played out her scenario for us so that we can help her resolve this dilemma she has been caught up in. After her meeting‚ you’ve requested that I address the following six (6) issues with my opinion. Please take a moment to review my research. After reading the scenario between Ms. Woodside and Doyle Contractors the following are
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Weber destabilizes the relationship between base and superstructure that Marx had established. According to Weber‚ the concept of historical materialism is naïve and nonsense because superstructures are not mere reflections of the economic base. ("The Protestant Ethic" and "The Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5) Weber agrees that the economy is one of the most faithful forces in modern life. However there are other social and legal factors which exhibit power and thus influence society. These factors
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is‚ of course‚ this third type that is a central feature of Weber’s account of law. And‚ though the concept of legal-rational authority is bound up with his theory of value
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Max Miedinger was born December 24‚ 1910 in Zurich Switzerland. His career as a typeface designer spanned some 54 years. He began studying at the Kuntsgewerbeschule after training as a typesetter from 1926 until 1930. He worked at several positions until 1956 when he became a freelance graphic designer. About a year later‚ he developed Helvetica in collaboration with Edouard Hoffman. The creation made by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann was originally titled Neue Haas Grotesk‚ but this title was
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During the nineteenth century‚ Karl Marx and Max Weber were two of the most influential sociologist. Both their views on the rise of capitalism have various similarities and differences. They believe that capitalism is relatively new to the modern world. Their views differ on the rise of capitalism. Regardless of Marx and Weber ’s differences‚ both theorists agree that capitalism is a system of highly impersonal relations. Karl Marx was born on May 5‚ 1818 to the father of a Jewish lawyer. As a
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