Essays on Mintz

Introduction

Engineering profession in Canada is self-regulated while in the U.S. it is state-regulated. However, there has been a long-standing debate on whether self-regulation in the engineering profession in Canada has served the public interest in a similar way as the U.S. and other state-regulated regimes. Before engineering was made a self-regulated profession in Canada, there were other professions like medicine and law which were being self-regulated. However, these self-regulated fields had been marred with numerous scandals because they were putting their interests before those of the public. They would increase the cost of professional services and engage in professional ...

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

“We are what we eat; in the modern, western world, we are made more and, more into what we eat, whenever forces we have no control over persuade us that our consumption and our identity are linked ( Mintz, 1985, 211).” In his book, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney. W. Mintz takes a historical and anthropological approach to the production and consumption of sugar and in the process explains the place of sugar in the human food chain and how capitalism and market forces changed the status of sugar from a luxury item into ...

Research Paper Draft: The Hospitality Law and Privacy

Introduction Privacy, including information privacy, has become one of the great concerns of our modern information society. Each day, without much difficulty, one can find a news story or report concerning some question of privacy. The main focus of these questions, however, have centered around the age-old debate between what is the best balance between security and privacy. That is to say, very little public, media or government attention has focused on other equally important areas of privacy including privacy in the private sector, such as in the hospitality industry. Nowadays, the hospitality industry increasingly has access mountains of ...

Executive Summary

RASEOK Cosmetics is a new company in America and will venture into the supply of skin care products and sports apparels. The purpose of the above marketing plan is to justify how RASEOK Company will implement the set plan to realize the shareholder goals more effectively. The future of the company is instilled in the company vision to make people enjoy life due to the affordable skin solution offered by the business. One of the strategies used by the company is adequate satisfaction of consumers as a tactic of winning customer loyalty. The company intends to facilitate its operations ...

In the early American families, “children were expected to be guided by their parents’ wishes in their matches” (Coontz, 2015, p. 41). Although that statement refers to the matches in marriage, the parents had control over all aspects of their children’s lives, and they would get married to have children so that they can use their help. Specifically, children would work on the farm and help father run family businesses from an early age so that they could carry on providing for the family once their parents became weak with age. In the late 18th and early 19th ...

Scholars coined the 16th and 17th century as the age of discovery, as Europeans embarked in a journey that leads to the discovery of new territories. The first encounters of Europeans with other groups was with the Islamic Arabs, and they remained to be the only group that was known to the Europeans for centuries. However, further expansion during the 16th century resulted in the discovery of the major regions that were unknown to Europeans in the past. First, there were Spain and Portugal whose objective in sending several explorations was to claim new territories for the expansion of ...

Have Suicide Attacks Helped or Hindered Terrorist Groups’ Goals?

Terrorism that uses suicide as a means of attacking individuals and places is on the rise across the globe with the reasons for the increase in such instances having no clear explanations. However, existing reports that are based on psychological dynamics have gotten contradicted by the widening gap of socioeconomic backgrounds of terrorists who commit such suicide attacks. According to Pape (2003), it is evident that the aim of suicide bombings is to make countries that are liberal and modern in nature to give into demands of terrorist groups existing within their respective borders. Additionally, it is common belief ...

Food is a fundamental necessity of life and therefore becomes a rich conveyor of cultural traditions and norms and attracts patterns of symbolic significance much like a magnet, for example, who is entitled to eat with whom, and when, and how food is to be shared. The cultural understandings surrounding the sharing of food illuminates social dynamics by distinguishing cohesive social units and social distance. Indeed, it can be said that a culture is encoded in the expectations of behavior associated with the communal act of dining. The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical continuity of ...

Abstract

This paper does an analysis of Enron’s debacle and why it was termed as the biggest and the most complex financial fraud in U.S. history. The paper highlights the desperate attempts by the bankers, auditors and top leadership at Enron Corporation to hide the actual liabilities. They successfully did this by balance sheet management and skewed accounting treatments permissible for using the restructured assets under financial reengineering. The attempts to show profits led the top leadership at Enron and the entire financial system to abet in the svelte white collar crime of fooling the investors by dressing up ...

Levers that set the wheels of social change in motion often seem banal and insignificant from a modern perspective. In the 17th century, sugar was little more than a dietary novelty, a foreign curiosity that improved the taste of brackish teas and sedimentary coffee for the wealthiest members of English society. A century later, the uncanny growth of the cane-based product had made it an irreplaceable commodity that would saturate the British market and lead to a sea change in Western Europe’s economic framework. The means by which sugar was produced and financed helped to revolutionize the very principles upon which English ...