Essays on Bad Company

Section I – Theory Information

Chosen theory (Person-Centered Therapy) Person-Centered Therapy aims at offering an individual a chance to create a sense of self, whereby one can realize how his/her emotion, perspective and conduct are negatively impacted (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006). Cooper, Watson, & Hölldampf (2010) insist that despite criticism from various behaviorists, this technique is widely used, and it's an efficient personal therapy. Evidently, most people still rely on this theory for mental and emotional healing. A key idea of this therapy is that in a certain psychological setting, the attainment of individual potential entails being sociable, the desire to be close to people ...

In his 1994 book The Massacre at El Mozote, Mark Danner offers a clear description of the the massacre of hundreds of men, women and children by the El Salvadoran army, who were trained by American consultants and military advisors. He also provides excellent background and analysis of the political background that encouraged the massacre. At the time, the story of the massacre was covered-up, ignored or minimized by the right-wing anti-communist El Salvadoran and U.S. governments for political reasons. There were also practical diplomatic, communication and journalistic obstacles and mistakes which made the story ambiguous, opaque and hard to ...

Role of drug abuse in criminal activities

Introduction According to Drapela (2006), drug use and abuse is not only detrimental to an individual’s health but also plays a role in facilitating criminal behavior in the society. The research aims to identify the root cause of the delinquents’ crimes (Maldonado, et al. 2010). This research will seek to provide strategies that will enable the administration of the right strategy that would alleviate criminal behavior completely (Anglin, et al. 2009). This strategy would indeed treat the cause of criminal behavior, rather than treating the symptoms of the problem (Haberstick, et al. 2011). Furthermore, the application of information ...

The two life events that had a significantly positive impact on my life include moving away from Texas as a 13 year-old, and the birth of my first born daughter. I had lived with my single mum for a very long time until met my step dad. Since that moment, I became rebellious and became involved with the wrong group of people. I almost got killed while these groups. My grandparents were very supportive, and they let me move with them to Texas. While there, I felt like I had a new life to make something of my life and to make my ...

In life we are always waiting for our epiphany, the moment when one realizes why they are here on earth and how they intend to lead their lives. My moment came after spending some time with my grandfather, a retired army officer who survived many challenges and even death itself when he was fighting the second world. Being a man of outstanding moral character, hardworking and perseverant, he offered me very important advice on character development and how one should interact with other people so as to be successful in life. Fighting the Second World War was an event that ...

1. (10 pts.) Discuss how organizational architecture and corporate culture are related. Use an example of a real-life firm and discuss how its corporate culture blends with its organizational architecture. Organizational architecture is based on the way the organization’s design incorporate the following three aspects: the designation of decision rights, modalities of rewarding employees, and the evaluation system structures to gauge performances of employees or business units. Corporate culture entails how people work and how authority and power is spread through the organization (Alvesson, 2002). This is the point where the organization’s architecture and corporate culture meet. ...

Ethics in a Global Marketplace

1. What in your view makes a company "good" or "bad", from the perspective of your idea of ethics? Why and explain. A company can be a good or bad one for a variety of reasons. Principally there is the issue of how the company is constituted and if its directors are ethically abiding by the rules which are the basis for all good finance. Then there is the issue of how the company gets its finance and how this is sourced, obviously this is definitely one of the most important issues in this regard. A good company would ensure ...