Essays on Voss

The Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) is the statute that allows for the recovery of damages against the United States (Cann 487). This Act allows prisoners of the federal government and pretrial detainees in federal correction facilities to file lawsuits against the United States if a federal officer injures them. The Federal Torts Claims Act enables a litigant to sue the federal government over torts committed by its employees (Cann 487). The United States has no qualified immunity under this Act. It is important to note that the Act does not limit a noncitizen from suing the federal government. ...

Amazon.com Inc. is an American E-Commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos and provides a platform upon which consumers can easily access and purchase books and other products such as CDs and DVDs online. The company was started to capitalize on the opportunity for online retailing as internet services grew across the global market. Amazon.com is one of the most cited companies with respect to business-to-customer e-commerce as its domain; amazon.com attracts over 600 million online customers annually (Shier 4). The company operates based on a mass marketing business model which aims ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the western media reported the Sino Japanese war and how China and Japan were portrayed. Several news reports portray the Chinese as being aggressive and violent individuals thus presenting the perception of the Chinese as being less victimized in the war. In contrast, the western media portrays the Japanese as being a rational and courteous group of people while their negative roles and atrocities in both world war II and Sino Japanese war have been overlooked. This paper will further identify the underlying reasons for ideological inclinations of wartime reporting. ...

Environmental Errors and Developmental Symbiosis

Environmental Errors and Developmental Symbiosis In their book, Hernandez and Blazer (2006) discuss genetic and environmental bases for developmental errors in animals. Although much can be speculated and a great deal is known, the use of animals in the research has allowed greater manipulation of various factors. As such, medical science has been more successful in disentangling the nature versus nurture argument that continues to plague human development. While not all of the information learned through animal study can be generalized to humans, it has opened new pathways for research and understanding. As science has known for some time ...

Chapter 9 questions

Question 1

The discounted cash flow valuation approach determines the value of a firm by discounting the expected cash flows from the firm (Voss & Larrabee, 2012). The value of any firm or asset should be equal to the present value of the cash flows expected from the firm or asset. Since the firm’s value is determined today, the least an investor would be willing to pay is the present value of the sum cash flows expected from the enterprise (Voss & Larrabee, 2012). Discounting is based on the time value if money. A firm will generate a stream of ...

Question one

In following the LBO, the assets of Seagate’s will be $128.1 million shares of the stock of Veritas. The management believed that Seagate’s value should be ascribed to its operating assets value. Because the market was attributing high value to the stake of Veritas, the market made it appear as if Seagate was asset holding firm (Andrade et al., 2001 p. 13). Going concern model may be used in evaluating the operating expenses of a company. This model assumes that the business will continue operating for an undefined amount of time (Pignataro, 2013 p. 73). Another model ...

Letter of Transmittal

Richard Albert Sylvester Management Consultant Lamplighters Corporation Ottawa K I P 5B5 Phone: 613-563-1509 www.lamplightres.ca The Right Honorable Justin P.J. Trudeau

Office of the Prime Minister

80 Wellington Street

Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

RE: Project Suitability Report on the Proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project Dear Right Honorable Prime Minister, It is with great pleasure and honor that I submit this report on the suitability of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project. The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project proposal by Kinder Morgan aims at increasing the current capacity of the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Currently, the existing infrastructure has a capacity of 300,000 barrels per ...

Introduction

Information, it is argued, is power. When patients are misinformed about chemotherapy handling, they imagine worst case scenarios; they expect over-blown worst case scenarios. A lot of side-effects are imagined and as a consequence, anxious patients undergo loss of control over their disease-causing psycho-social effects as hopelessness (Sauer & Voss, 2012). Furthermore, acute care nurse practitioner’s role is imperative in the management of psycho-education, imparting skills and cognitive resourcefulness required by patients during the crisis period. The quality of life, which is described as the general well-being with a strong relationship to the patient’s health perceptions and ability ...

Philosophy

Explain the connections between pleasure, contemplation, and judgment in aesthetic appreciation. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy; it is type of quality hypothesis or axiology, which is the investigation of sensory or sensori-passionate qualities, called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is connected with the logic of art. Style is once in a while called "the investigation of magnificence". Judgments of aesthetics esteem depend on our capacity to separate at a tactile level. Aesthetics looks at what makes something wonderful, glorious, appalling, fun, adorable, senseless, enthralling, bombastic, empowering, grating, agreeable, exhausting, comical, or disastrous. Tactile separation is connected to ...

Introduction:

The Voss Foundation is a public charity 501(c) (3) based in the New York City. Its major goal is providing clean drinking water to African communities. The Voss Foundation was formed by the directors of Voss Water in 2008, as a non-profit foundation. Voss Chief Executive Officer Knut Brundtland together with his wife Cecile Brundtland formed the organization after taking a trip to Africa where and as a result, faced the magnitude of water crisis. After returning to their home country Norway, they went to Voss headquarters in New York and launched the process of the foundation. The Headquarters of the Voss ...

The use of business ethics to assess business conduct in BP

In the recent years, there has been an expectation on companies to adhere to ethical standards. Every company desires to make profits and its known this is a goal that can compromise on ethics (Acheru, 2009). Employers are expected to take care of their employee safety, the environment and the public. When the ethical factors are not considered the results are catastrophic and company suffers many expenses (Flaxx, 2002). This was shown by the BP Texas city explosion. 15 workers were killed in the Texas plant explosion while 170 others were injured. There were trailers located to close to the ...