Q9. Explain your agreement or disagreement with the following statement: “Cyclical decoration should be restricted to rich areas only”. The answer should include a brief description of:

1. Cyclical decoration.

2. The relevance of cyclical decoration various tenants.

3. The items to be replaced.

4. The procedure to be carried out.

You are arguing over a cell phone while trailing an unmarked police car by 26.0 m. Both your car and the police car are traveling at 102 km/h. Your argument diverts your attention from the police car for 2.50 s (long enough for you to look at the phone and yell, "I won't do that!"). At the beginning of that 2.50 s, the police officer begins emergency braking at 5.00 m/s².

(a) What is the separation between the two cars when your attention finally returns?
m

(b) Suppose that you take another 0.400 s to realize your danger and begin braking. If you too brake at 5.00 m/s², what is your speed when you hit the police car?
  km/h

Procter & Gamble, explore their website to answer each of the below questions. Many times, the following website sections will contain the type of information required: about us, corporate governance/leadership, investor relations, sustainability/social responsibility, and media relations. If any of the pages or sections are not made apparent, you could also search for information using the company's search box which will sometimes provide a link to a page several layers into their website.

1. Evaluate the company's website and describe how it is used for marketing products and services, communicating with investors, managing the company's public image, and recruiting new employees. Based on your review, describe at least one improvement you would recommend the company make to its website.
   
2. Describe the effectiveness of your focus company’s current social media activity, which might include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or YouTube.
   
3. What type of computer threats could arise that would affect the image of your company? What measures could they take (or have they taken) to prepare/prevent this?

ccording to Mark Mendl and Jordan Kirkness (When Worlds Collide: Addressing Off-Duty Employee Misconduct):

Many believe that what employees do on their own time should not be regulated by employers, but the boundary between the workplace and an employee’s private life is not absolute. As recent high profile cases have demonstrated, some off-duty misconduct, such as criminal or morally reprehensible behaviour, may invite discipline or even dismissal of employees.

It is generally accepted that employers can regulate employees’ conduct in the workplace through the promulgation of reasonable rules, policies and procedures. Increasingly, however, employers are facing difficult decisions concerning employee misconduct that occurs outside the workplace.

Making reference to the required readings up to this point in the course and your own experiences, explain what you believe are the appropriate boundaries for the responsibilities that employees have to their employer when not in the workplace. Do you believe that when not in the workplace, employees have any responsibilities to their employer? Does it make a difference if the employees are managers?

Obesity in African Americans

1. Identiy the stakeholders for obesity in African Americans using the influence diagram to visualize both the stakeholders and their relationships to another.

2. Please make sure that the influence diagram has the following qualities:

It includes obesity in African Americans

It identifies at least 10 stakeholders

It groups/clusters the stakeholders into logical categories

It shows the influence-relationship between those stakeholders and the target population

Taking the position that you are the Union President and in negotiations with your company, write a two page position paper arguing for an expanded funeral leave policy. Your company does not currently give any funeral leave.

A hydraulic lift in a garage has two pistons: a small one of cross-sectional area 4.50cm2 and a large one of cross-sectional area 220cm2 .

There are two parts to this question please give CORRECT answer.

Part A If this lift is designed to raise a 3400-kg car, what minimum force must be applied to the small piston?

Part B If the force is applied through compressed air, what must be the minimum air pressure applied to the small piston?

General Information on these three question

1.    Why is GM abandoning monthly sales reporting?

2.      How does monthly sales reporting drive employee behavior? What are the negative behaviors resulting from monthly car sales reporting?

3.      How will the changes in sales reporting impact employee behavior? What are the expected positive and negative implications?

1) discuss how projects are identified.

2) Explain how projects are prioritized and selected.

3) Describe the elements of a project charter.

First National Bank Balance sheet

                              Assets            Liabilities

Rate-sensitive    $20 million         $50 million

Fixed-rate           $80 million         $50 million

4) Given the above table and assuming that the average duration of its assets is four years, while the average duration of its liabilities is three years, then a 5 percentage point increase in interest rates will cause the net worth of First National to ________ (increase/decline) by ________ (5% /10%/ 15%/ 20%) of the total original asset value (use duration analysis).

Moral Dilemma
A moral dilemma involves a situation in which the agent has only two courses of action available, and each requires performing a morally impermissible action.. Plato presents the classic example of a moral dilemma. A man borrows a weapon from his neighbor promising to return it at his neighbors request. One day the neighbor in a fit of rage, asks for the weapon back apparently with the intention to kill someone. The man is faced with a dilemma: if he keeps his promise, then he will be an accessory to a murder if he refuses to hand over the weapon, than he violates his promise. A moral dilemma, then, is a situation, involving a choice between two opposing courses of action, where there are moral considerations in support of each course of action. Few would doubt whether we are in fact faced with difficult moral choices. The question raised by philosophers, though, is whether such dilemmas can be systematically resolved, or whether no systematic solution is available.

The most commonly suggested method of resolving conflicts between obligations is to appeal to the highest intrinsic good. A thing is intrinsically good when it is valued for itself and not merely as an instrument or means to some further end. Money is instrumentally good since it only provides a means to some further good, such as the purchase of a sports car. Music, on the other hand, is thought to be intrinsically good since it is valued for itself and not as a means to something else. Moral philosophers are concerned with uncovering the highest intrinsic good - that which is at the apex of everything that is valued. Human happiness is a common candidate for the highest intrinsic good since everyone strives for happiness, and happiness appears to be the final goal of all our actions. Other nominees for the highest intrinsic good are pleasure, human rationality, God’s will, free human choice, and highly evolved conduct.

Theoretically, if we can determine that pleasure, for example, is the highest intrinsic good, then conflicts between moral obligations would be resolved by determining which course of action produces the most pleasure. Similarly, if God’s will is determined to be the highest intrinsic good, priority would be given to those actions which are most in accord with God’s will. Thus, by locating the highest intrinsic good, moral dilemmas are resolved by appealing to that concept.

Assignment
The following is a list of some moral dilemmas, mostly adapted from Moral Reasoning, by Victor Grassian (Prentice Hall, 1981, 1992). Read each situation carefully.

You are to respond to the following directions for FOUR (4) of the eight dilemmas presented.

• Describe the decision that you would make in the situation and explain. Why.
• Identify the moral theory/ethic (such as “I would follow my conscience,” “I would do what God or the scriptures say is right,” “I would follow the advice of an authority,” etc.) on which you based your decision and explains how it applies to this situation.
• At the conclusion of responding to four of the moral dilemmas, write a final paragraph in which you compare the moral values you presented in your answers. State whether your answers consistently used the same theories/ethics or greatly varied. Based on your analysis of your moral values presented above, describe your general conclusions about your own “moral compass.”
*You should have a total of five (5) paragraphs; each one should be between 4-8 sentences. Grammar and format count.




1. The Overcrowded Lifeboat
In 1842, a ship struck an iceberg and more than 30 survivors were crowded into a lifeboat intended to hold 7. As a storm threatened, it became obvious that the lifeboat would have to be lightened if anyone were to survive. The captain reasoned that the right thing to do in this situation was to force some individuals to go over the side and drown. Such an action, he reasoned, was not unjust to those thrown overboard, for they would have drowned anyway. If he did nothing, however, he would be responsible for the deaths of those whom he could have saved. Some people opposed the captain’s decision. They claimed that if nothing were done and everyone died as a result, no one would be responsible for these deaths. On the other hand, if the captain attempted to save some; he could do so only by killing others and their deaths would be his responsibility; this would be worse than doing nothing and letting all die. The captain rejected this reasoning, since the only possibility for rescue required great effort of rowing, the captain decided that the weakest would have to be sacrificed.. In this situation it would be absurd, he thought, to decide by drawing lots who should be thrown overboard. As it turned out, after days of hard rowing, the survivors were rescued and the captain was tried for his action. If you had been on the jury, how would you have decided?

2. A Father’s Agonizing Choice
You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?

3. Sophie’s Choice
In the novel Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron (Vintage Books, 1976 — the 1982 movie starred Meryl Steep & Kevin Kline), a Polish woman, Sophie Zawistowska, is arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz death camp. On arrival, she is “honored” for not being a Jew by being allowed a choice: One of her children will be spared the gas chamber if she chooses which one. In an agony of indecision, as both children are being taken away, she suddenly does choose. They can take her daughter, who is younger and smaller. Sophie hopes that her older and stronger son will be better able to survive, but she loses track of him and never does learn of his fate. Did she do the right thing? Years later, haunted by the guilt of having chosen between her children, Sophie commits suicide. Should she have felt guilty?

4. The Fat Man and the Impending Doom
A fat man leading a group of people out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that cave. In a short time high tide will be upon them, and unless he is unstuck, they will all be drowned except the fat man, whose head is out of the cave. [But, fortunately, or unfortunately, someone has with him a stick of dynamite.] There seems no way to get the man loose without using [that] dynamite which will inevitably kill him; but if they do not use it everyone will drown. What should they do?

5. A Callous Passerby
Roger Smith, a quite competent swimmer, is out for a leisurely stroll. During the course of his walk he passes by a deserted pier from which a teenage boy who apparently cannot swim has fallen into the water. The boy s screaming for help Smith recognizes that there is absolutely no danger to himself if he jumps into save the boy-he could easily succeed if he tried. Nevertheless, he chooses to ignore the boy’s cries. The water is cold and he is afraid of catching a cold — he doesn’t want to get his good clothes wet either. “Why should I inconvenience myself for this kid,” Smith says to himself and passes on. Does - Smith have a moral obligation to save the boy? If so, should he have a legal obligation [“Good Samaritan” laws] as well?


6. A Poisonous Cup of Coffee
Tom, hating his wife and wanting her dead, puts poison in her coffee, thereby killing her. Joe also hates his wife and would like her dead. One day, Joe’s wife accidentally puts poison in her coffee, thinking it’s cream. Joe has the antidote, but he does not give it to her. Knowing that he is the only one who can save her, he lets her die. Is Joe’s failure to act as bad as Tom’s action?

7. The Torture of the Mad Bomber
A madman who has threatened to explode several bombs in crowded areas has been apprehended. Unfortunately, he has already planted the bombs and they are scheduled to go off in a short time. It is possible that hundreds of people may die. The authorities cannot make him divulge the location of the bombs by conventional methods. He refuses to say anything and requests a lawyer to protect his 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. In exasperation, some high level official suggests torture. This would be illegal, of course, but the official thinks that it is nevertheless the right thing to do this desperate situation. Do you agree? If you do, would it also be morally justifiable to torture the mad bomber’s innocent wife if that is the only way to make him talk? Why?

8. The Partiality of Friendship
Jim has the responsibility of filling a position in his firm. His friend Paul has applied and is qualified, but someone else seems even more qualified. Jim wants to give the job to Paul, but he feels guilty, believing that be ought to be impartial. That’s the essence of morality, he initially tells himself. This belief is, however, rejected, as Jim resolves that friendship has a moral importance that permits, and perhaps even requires, partiality in, some circumstances. So he gives the job to Paul. Was he right?

From your perspective, which IR theory/theories best describe how states and other actors in the international community should respond (or have responded) to the ongoing pandemic. Explain your reasoning, demonstrating a brand understanding of the IR theory in essay form.

Describe the importance of communication in the change process. Why is it imperative that all key stakeholders be included in this process?

Provide examples of how failure to effectively communicate the reasons for change may doom the process from the onset.

Distinguish between hot mix asphalt patching and crack seal used for the maintenance treatment for flexible pavements.