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Children And Television Advertising
3,428 wordsThe following research has sought to understand the influence of television on children over the past twenty years using a variety of social models, from public policy and industry self-regulation, to how children receive and process media messages and the parental responsibility in monitoring what is acceptable for children to view. As a baseline, our research used a model of children interacting with television. We expounded on this model in an effort to seek current data and information that ...
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Nuclear Power Plants Chemical Weapons
1,909 wordsThis paper will discuss the moral and ethical issues concerning how and why Locally Undesirable Land Uses (LULUs) and Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (Tsdf's) are located. A LULU, or TSDF, can be a power plant, a munitions factory, a county landfill, a medical waste incinerator, a hazardous waste storage facility, a military base, an airport or any number of other facilities that people need, but do not want to live next to. The siting of these types of facilities is thought to be dri...
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Number Of People Remaining Employees
1,277 wordsAccording to a 1997 survey by the American Management Association (AMA), the most often claimed reasons for downsizing are organizational restructuring, business downturn, and reengineering of business processes. Downsizing has adversely affected 43 million jobs since 1980. Many organizations are realizing that downsizing may not be the best solution for reducing costs. The time and money it takes to train employees often make downsizing a wasteful procedure. By changing their business strategy,...
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Tobacco Companies Big Tobacco
773 wordsThe movie, The Insider, is about Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive of one of the largest tobacco companies in America. He is fired from his job, and is soon contacted by Lowell Bergman, the producer of 60 minutes. Bergman, played by Al Pacino, asks Wigand, played by Russell Crowe, to make sense of some papers about fire statistics, which belong to, tobacco company, Wilson Phillips These papers mysteriously show up on his doorstep. Wigand lets it drop that he has some inside information ...
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Body Image Bottom Line
757 wordsPerhaps no time in history have body image standards had such an enormous impact on society. With todays mass media people can be subjected to thousands of images and messages daily, portraying the ideal body image. The people most often portrayed and effected by these messages are young women. Females can feel constant pressure to live up to these ideals which are most often unattainable. This pressure can cause detrimental physical and mental states. To fully understand this problem we must fi...
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Russian Women American Women
3,063 words... Russia have a natural admiration for men, as long as they are good, decent, kind, and have good character. They do not have the deep rooted hatred for men that American women have who were brought up with by their mothers, peers, and feminist media. Any sane man would obviously prefer to be around the former than the latter, since obviously the former brings out the best in men while the latter brings out the worst in them. Nowadays in America many women seem to have a deep-rooted subconscio...
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Total Quality Management Product Or Service
1,921 wordsIntroduction: After much debate on a topic for this paper, it became quite clear that I would be taking from this course a newfound Love of (TQM) Total Quality Management. While we have covered many aspects of production management over this semester, I have become a huge advocate of this management philosophy. I find my self-using the principle of TQM in my daily life at work. I have even taken out my textbook in meetings several times. As for a case I had another dilemma and I was struggling a...
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Wellness Programs Compensation Package
1,090 wordsUnder the current market situation, the company's position is the creation and implementation of wellness programs. The basic market need is the reduction of corporate costs and the increase in employee efficiency that can be achieved through long-term wellness programs. The profile for Corporate Fitness' (CF) customer consists of the following: the immediate geographic target is the state of Mississippi; the demographic makeup is 54 % female, 69 % male, and 36 % of these individuals are adult; ...
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Ethical Standards Four Ps
2,607 wordsEthics in Business The Necessity Of Ethics In Business Ours is a business-centered society. No group in America is more influential than businessmen (Baumhart xv). Their influence, for good or evil, enters every life and every home many times each day. If this influence is good, the nation is strengthened; if it is evil, the nation is weakened. Obviously, the myriad decisions of businessmen will significantly determine our national health; ethical, as well as economic. Business ethics are discus...
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African American Population U S Population
594 wordsBy the year 2050, nonwhites will represent close to half of the U. S. population, according to the U. S. Census Bureau projections. By 2005, the ethnic minority share of the workforce is expected to grow to 28 percent, up from 18 percent in 1980 and 22 percent in 1990. Although the African American population is now the largest minority group, the Hispanic and Asian populations are growing much faster. In 1994, the African American population was estimated to be 33 million, or 12. 7 percent of t...
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Female Workers Labor Force
904 wordsDiversity the new nine letter word It seems corporations rise and fall on new buzzwords, reorganization, downsizing, right sizing, TQM and now diversity. In what seems like a flurry, corporate America has embraced this initiative becoming the champion of this good cause. In a country where skepticism is encouraged, the base motivation for this action desires exploration. Through the advent of technology and deregulation industries find themselves in a battle pitted against each other for consume...
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Managing Diversity Workforce Diversity
5,155 wordsDiversity in the Workplace Generally when someone begins speaking about diversity in the workplace, thoughts of Affirmative Action, racial diversity, or even sexual equality are usually foremost in our thoughts. However, diversity in the workplace really is so much more than this, we must also consider aging workers, handicapped workers, those with alternative lifestyles, and even physical traits to name others (For the sake of simplification, throughout this paper these will usually be included...
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Genetically Engineered Foods Genetically Modified Organisms
1,333 wordsDon t Mess With My Food! Technology has been in full swing for years, but only recently have some of these developments been placed in front of us at the dinner table. The genetic engineering of food is a hot topic; that with each meal, there is the possibility that we are putting genetically modified organisms (GMO) in our mouths. These toys of technology may make the apples look bigger and juicier, but who is to say that these science experiments will not have long-term hazardous effects? Ther...
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Locus Of Control Theories Of Motivation
2,674 wordsMorale Overview Morale, often used synonymously with job satisfaction, can be simply defined as the general attitude an employee has toward his or her job. Good morale is often a reflection that job satisfaction is high that there is little difference between the rewards provided and what an employee believes he / she should receive. Conversely, poor or low morale reflects workers dissatisfaction with some job related matters. Good morale, or job satisfaction, is considered a key dependent varia...
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Fee For Service Board Of Directors
2,219 wordsHMOs: The Health Care of the Beast Many people are concerned about rising health care costs. In reaction to this, some individuals and companies are gravitating toward the assumed lower prices of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) health plans. HMOs spend billions of dollars each year advertising their low cost services. While these savings look good on paper, there are many pages of small print. The explanation after the asterisk indicates that not only do the HMOs lack lower costs, but they...
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Worker Satisfaction Diversity Issues Training
508 wordsApproach I) Assess the needs of the organization (what type of specific diversity training is needed? ) Research has indicated that different organizations have different training needs. n This assessment includes, figuring out if the training course should be done on an organizational level or an individual level. (i. e. , is the entire organization having problems with diversity issues, or just a few individuals). n Part of the assessment process is to see which topics need to be addressed in ...
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U S Immigration Legal And Illegal
2,355 wordsWriten by Randy j 11 / 28 / 00 This paper was writen for political Life 1110 America has, is, and will always be a nation of immigrants: the great melting pot. In the years that have passed since Emma Lazarus poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty the golden door Americans have seen times when the door was open wide and times when it was close shut to most immigrants (Sure 4). Many people look at the present immigration problems as a purely modern dilemma. The truth is America has always st...
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Amount Of Money Millions Of Dollars
3,647 wordsSport and Money Everywhere you look you see sport intertwined into everyday life, be it on the television, in your back yard, in schools, universities or in social networks. Nobody can escape the influence of sport, either as a spectator or a participant it s everywhere. But who is to blame for this new era in sports? Is it the sponsors who are pouring millions of dollars into the sports industry that are changing the attitudes of athletes? For professional sports players it is no longer about t...
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Human Resource Management Human Resource Planning
2,489 wordsAssignment One Table Of Contents Introduction HRM Defines Traditional Approach Contemporary approach to HR Change Management Murrindindi Shire Council Experience Back Ground Human Resource Roles Organisational HRM Conclusion Introduction Human Resource management (HRM) has been seen as either having a traditional or contemporary approach. This paper will define both approaches. The HR approach undertaken by the Murrindindi Shire Council (MSC) which was my organisation up to three months ago will...
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Accept The Fact Date Rape
1,636 wordsToday s sadly growing trend in America is date rape. We hear about date rape on the news, in classrooms, and through school rumors almost daily. Fortunately, in recent years, the occurrences of violent rapes (those that are committed by unidentified men who forcibly attack women and then proceed to rape them) are slowly decreasing. Unfortunately, date rapes, which were virtually unknown a generation ago, have now become a common place. Unlike, a violent rape, a date rape is committed by someone ...
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