Education -- the ways education is constructed and presented
Contemporary Issues in Education

Afghan Girls, Back in the Shadows

The article presents a situational description of the dangers facing schools, its teacher and students in Afghanistan. The article describes how learning in Afghanistan has been hampered by an up rise in insurgents. The remedial measures by government and non-governmental organizations encouraging education in the region are also highlighted. It is observed that there have been remarkable advances in number of pupils enrolled in public schools. The number off attacks to schools have also been seen to be high an aspect that is blamed on the extremist Islamic movement against education of girls. There is a demonstrated eagerness among the Afghanis appearing eager to embrace education.

In the rural areas, it is a concern that education of the girl child is a controversial aspect. The controversy comes from the observed custom that girls at…...

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References

Burde, D. (2004). Weak state, strong community? Promoting community participation in postconflict countries. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 6(2), 73-87.

Green, A., Preston, J., & Janmaat, J.G. (2006). Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis,. United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.

Harris, A., & Chrispeels, J. (2006). Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives. United States: RoutledgeFalmer.

Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues
Ethics are generally relative to a person's culture, but not so much to an individual, although there are exceptions. This comes about because people, even though they are clearly individuals, are also significantly affected by the culture of which they are a part (Becker & Becker, 2002). The cultures, however, are often very different, and many of the ethics that are part of a particular culture do not translate to another culture (Fagothey, 2000). This is often why people who are attempting to do business globally have trouble, or commit an unintentional faux pas. They do not realize the differences between cultures, which can be quite pronounced (Fagothey, 2000). Many of these cultural differences are insignificant, but the ones that deal with ethics and ethical behaviors can become problematic for people who are interacting with other cultures for business or pleasure (Becker & Becker, 2002). Additionally,…...

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References

Becker, L.C. & Becker, C.B. (eds.). (2002). Encyclopedia of ethics. New York: Routledge.

Fagothey, A. (2000). Right and reason. Tan Books & Publishers, Rockford, IL.

Singapore Educational Policy Development
Singapore: Contemporary issues in early childhood education

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education

The purpose of this paper is to prepare a service mapping Singapore Ministry of Education policy development and to map how those policies, services, and regulations are formed. The focus will be on the area of curriculum and will be presented as an essay. Four quotations and links to journal articles are required as reference sources and there must be included a self-critical reflection and a comparison of the policies with other countries.

According to the Singapore Ministry of Education when a student completes Secondary School the should have:

Have moral integrity

Have care and concern for others

Be able to work in teams and value every contribution

Be enterprising and innovative

Possess a broad-based foundation for further education

Have appreciation for aesthetics

Know and believe in Singapore

In the work entitled, " A New Emphasis for a New Millennium: Affective and Career Education in…...

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References

Toner, Phillip (2001) APEC Labor markets: structural change and the Asian financial crisis. (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Journal of Contemporary Asia 2001 Oct 1 [Online at Highbeam Research Engine]

Schiffman, Harold, et al. (1996) Language Shift in the Tamil Communities of Malaysia and Singapore: the Paradox of Egalitarian Language Policy Dept. Of South Asian Regional Studies University of Pennsylvania

Singapore Ministry of Education Website [Online available at: moe.gov.sg/cpdd/cpdd.htm]http://www.

A New Emphasis for a New Millennium: Affective and Career Education in Singapore (1999) Education Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, Winter 1999, pp. 1-12 Abstract Online available at:  p I'd=45& rid=45& type=9& name=News.http://www.iss.nus.edu.sg/iss/browse.jsp?cid=55& ;

Organization Behavior
Contemporary Issues in Management: Creativity, Change and Innovation Management

Contemporary Issues in Management

Contemporary Issues in Management: Creativity, Change and Innovation Management

In order to keep up pace with the changing market conditions and beat the competitive pressures in an effective way, organizations have to pursue continuous change and innovation strategies in their business processes and workplace practices (Kerle 2011). Creativity, change, and innovation management has never been an easy task for a business organization due to various internal and external issues and constraints (Khan & Al-Ansari 2005). A number of research studies have been conducted that address these issues from the contemporary business world and present various kinds of models and theories which can be followed by organizations to bring an effective organizational change (Agbor 2008).

The purpose of this paper is to discuss this important issue for one of the leading multinational corporations in the Information Technology industry -- the Microsoft…...

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REFERENCES

Agbor, E. 2008, Encouraging Organizational Creativity and Innovation. Available from [Accessed January 13th, 2013]

Ala-Mutka, K., Punie, Y., & Redecker, C. 2008, ICT for Learning, Innovation and Creativity: Policy Brief. Available from [Accessed January 13th, 2013]

Botten, N. & Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, 2009, E3 -- Enterprise Strategy: Strategic Level. Oxford, U.K; Burlington, MA: CIMA Publishing/Elsevier.

Cameron, E. & Green, M. 2012, Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change, 3rd Edition. London: Kogan Page

Water Management
Contemporary Issue in Management

One of the most important and essential things needed for the healthy maintenance and socio-economic development of the world's ecosystems is water. Proper management of water resources play an important role in reducing poverty and promoting a better livelihood in the community. The life of almost everyone, young or old, rich or poor, is closely associated with water in some way or another. However, the increasing rates of urbanization in the past few years have also resulted in an increase in demand of clean drinking water. This seems problematic because it is now putting quite a stress on the available water resources. Population estimates show that the planet's population is likely to shoot upto 8 billion by the year 2030 and it would be impossible to feed them all if issues regarding water management are not resolved (Pietersen & eekman). Moreover, at the rate at…...

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Bibliography:

Water management - problems and methods. (n.d.). Retrieved from  http://www.aquamedia.at/templates/index.cfm/id/1462 

Pietersen, K., & Beekman, H. (n.d.). Freshwater. Retrieved from  http://www.unep.org/DEWA/Africa/docs/en/aeo-2/chapters/aeo-2_ch04_FRESHWATER.pdf

This was about the same time we entered into a so-called global economy. Americans buying American puts the steering wheel that is controlling our nation's fate in the hands of those who care about it most - the American People. People feel that the time has come for ordinary Americans to take control of America's destiny (Buy American, 2005).
Supporters of the Buy American campaign which is promoted by the union and some domestic manufacturers fear a growing protectionist sentiment along with efforts to restrict spending of billions in federal stimulus dollars targeted for infrastructure improvements across the nation. With the global crisis that is presently going one, now more than ever America needs to take an active first step in safeguarding working people (DaParma, 2009).

To date, the union has worked to help get the Buy American resolution introduced in more than 600 cities, towns and states nationwide. These efforts…...

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References

Ake, Hokana Aotearo. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2009, from Web site:

 http://www.buynz.org.nz/85164/html/page.html 

Buy American. (2005). Retrieved October 6, 2009, from Web site:

 http://user.pa.net/~nrwing/buyamerican/

Tourism
Handbook Coverage of Foreign Investment in Tourism

The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies offers a fantastic overview of the issue of tourism and tourism studies but as has been pointed out is developed from the perspective that the world was not necessarily about to experience an extreme global recession. For instance in the timeline associated with tourism development internationally the work provides the last section of the timeline to include the 1990s and 2000-and beyond (Jamal & obinson 2009, p. 153). What this offers the reader is the sense that the climate for foreign investment and especially investment in developing nations will remain static as the research and development of national tourism sites will continue to be an issue of economic advantage for both the investor and the nation of focus. Though the work does also challenge the issue of investment oversees in developing nations as something that can and…...

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References

'A Private Sector-Driven Recovery. (cover story)' 2011, Latin America Monitor: Caribbean Monitor, 28, 7, pp. 1-7, Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 11 December 2011.

Bahar, O, & Kozak, M 2007, 'Advancing Destination Competitiveness Research: Comparison Between Tourists and Service Providers', Journal Of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 22, 2, pp. 61-71, Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 11 December 2011.

Bloomberg, N, 'South Africa proclaims World Cup a tourism win', Toronto Star (Canada), December, 7 2010, Newspaper Source, EBSCOhost, viewed 11 December 2011.

Bodman, P, & Le, T 2011, 'Assessing the roles that absorptive capacity and economic distance play in the foreign direct investment-productivity growth nexus', Applied Economics, 45, 8, pp. 1027-1039, Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 11 December 2011.

business and social climate places a myriad of pressures on managers to obtain their objectives. While the defined purpose of the organization, or mission statement, is meant to keep the organization on track toward justifying its existence, and achieving its goals, the modern manager is also a leader, and must exercise concern for how the organization reaches their goals. The most basic motivation of keeping one's job is not enough to build and maintain a career. The manager who tells the boss what he or she wants to hear, juggles a few figures, shortchanges customers, shortcuts quality control procedures, or exploits workers may think he or she is getting ahead, but eventually the long-term effects on such an individual will create a career which lacks the integrity, and honor which the organization can rely upon. This individual who does not show long-term commitment to results is a candidate for…...

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Bibliography

J. Post, A. Lawrence, & Weber J (Eds.), Contemporary Business Issues with Readings (9th ed., pp. 1-247). 1999. New York: McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing

close correlation between the concepts and applications of job rotation, job enlargement, and job enrichment. Job rotation is a managerial strategy in which employees rotate performing specific tasks or jobs within an organization at fairly regular periods of time. The point of this strategy is to make employees well rounded, and to see who has the greatest propensity of performing certain types of work. This strategy is distinct from job enlargement in that the latter involves increasing the quantity of tasks or assignments that employees have. That increase may occur at regular intervals, or it may not. The chief difference is that the employee is still responsible for completing his original tasks as well as the additional ones. This is appropriate in situations in which organizations might be understaffed. The main distinction between job enrichment and job enlargement is the quality of the additional tasks included in an employee's…...

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References

Duffield, C., Baldwin, R., Roche, M., Wise, S. (2014). Journal of Nursing Management. 22(6), 697-706.

Fridrich, A., Jenny, G. J., Bauer, G. F. (2016). Outcome expectancy as a process indicator of comprehensive worksite stress management interventions. International Journal of Stress Management. 23(1), 1-22.

Rawat, P.S., Basergekar, P. (2016). Managing workplace diversity: performance of minority employees. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations. 51(3), 488-501.

Renko, M., Kroeck, K.G., Bullough, A. (2011). Expectacy theory and nascent entrepreneurship. Small Business Economy. 39, 667-684.

growth and use of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution using the modern day criminal justice system.
According to Webster's dictionary of Law, Judicial Activism is defined as: "The practice in the judiciary of protecting or expanding individual rights through decisions that depart from established precedent or are independent of or in opposition to supposed constitutional or legislative intent compare judicial restraint." Over the past 4 decades, since the practice of judicial activism has been created by then NAACP lead attorney Thurgood Marshall in order to forward the progress of civil rights legislation, liberal political interests have pursued a practice of judicial activism in order to expand the powers of the government into the lives of U.S. citizens by bypassing the legislative limits defined in the constitution. Through this practice, small minorities of political interests have hijacked a political system which was purposefully designed to…...

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Bibliography

Henderson, N. (2002) The Patriot Act's impact on the government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance of ongoing domestic communications. Duke Law Journal, Vol. 52.

O'Neil, Briget. (2003, Sept. 15) The Patriot Act's assault on the bill of Rights. Published in the Detroit News. The Independent Instititute. Accessed 16 Jan 2004. Availa ble at  http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030915ONeil.html 

Elliott Currie, Crime and Punishment in America (New York: Metropolitan, 1998) 21.

Marc Mauer, Race to Incarcerate (New York: New Press, 1999) 7, 19.

Federal Judiciary
On Wednesday morning, right before the Supreme Court justices were about to begin their day, Justice Kennedy put a 24-hour hold on a Ninth Circuit Court mandate nullifying same sex marriage bans in the states of Nevada and Idaho (Denniston, 2014). The temporary stay on the Ninth Circuit's ruling is to allow ban opponents to present their side of the issue. This ruling surprised everyone because last year the Supreme Court ruled Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional because it violated the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment (United States v. Windsor, 2013). Since then several district and circuit judges have been ruling against same-sex marriage bans instituted by a number of states.

The Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Windsor (2013) hinged on DOMA usurping state's rights, in particular a state's right to define the act of marriage. New York State for example,…...

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References

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. (n.d.) Judges & Judgeships. Retrieved from  http://www.uscourts.gov/JudgesAndJudgeships/FederalJudgeships.aspx .

American Bar Association. (2010, May 11). American Bar Association. Retrieved from  

Contemporary IssuesA complex healthcare system is fragmented and highly sophisticated. In the contemporary world, patients see several specialists track the treatment plans, medical bills, and insurance coverages pose various challenges even to those patients who have filled up the informed consent. In this aspect, health advocacy is integral in easing patient burdens and increasing and improving the system\\\'s navigation. Trained personnel, physicians, and other allied health workers can address health inequalities as one of the techniques for promoting more equitable health outcomes in patients. They can advocate for patients by enabling them to have access and benefits that patients are entitled to, such as home visitation programs and child and family benefits, to mention a few. At the same time, physicians can support patients faced with different social problems by getting their history and providing relevant advice. Other suggestions entail availing oneself as a resource that addresses patient issues and…...

Cracking the Code
The contemporary issue of physical security/IT security

Modern day businesses and organizations face the contemporary issue of physical security/IT security. Whether a business needs to maintain network security for a website or server, or an organization needs to restrict access to a server room, there are several aspects facing the problem of dealing with IT security. Any general computer networking instructor teaches the DOD and/or OSI networking models and from this IT professionals understand that everything start from the bottom, like with the physical level. Therefore, IT professionals tasked to handle IT security, must base their foundation or overall strategy in IT security management on the physical security of software, hardware, and equipment.

Some organizations forget the importance of physical security in an IT security setting may become distracted by the safeguarding features of certain software-based security merchandise and overlook the significance of protecting the network and all its components…...

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References

Armknecht, F., Maes, R., Sadeghi, A., Standaert, F., & Wachsmann, C. (2011). A Formalization of the Security Features of Physical Functions. Security and Privacy (SP), 2011 IEEE Symposium, 397. doi:10.1109/SP.2011.10

Chung, K., Boutaba, R., & Hariri, S. (2014). Recent Trends in Digital Convergence Information System. Wireless Pers Commun, 79(4), 2409-2413. Doi: 10.1007/s11277-014-2182-4

Jaferian, P., Hawkey, K., Sotirakopoulos, A., Velez-Rojas, M., & Beznosov, K. (2014). Heuristics for Evaluating IT Security Management Tools. Human -- Computer Interaction, 29(4), 311-350. doi:10.1080/07370024.2013.819198

Li, Z., Cheng, L., Zhang, H., & Tong, W. (2013). Communication and Cyber Security Analysis of Advanced Metering Infrastructure of Smart Grid. AMM, 325-326, 637-642. doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.325-326.637

The shared understanding is crucial in order to build strength and enough confidence necessary for the implementation of strategy and to necessitate evolution.
Second Phase: LG's strategic intent

In order to remain competitive, LG has to stick to its long-term vision which should act as stabilizers to the corporation in times of uncertainty. The vision in this case refers to as a statement of the things that can be achieved by the corporation. The concept of strategic intent is very crucial to the operating of a corporation since it acts as a magnet that pulls the present corporate dynamics and activities to the future. Any given strategic intent should be formulated in a manner that the corporation's remain with a large vision that can energize the workforce at all times. The formulation of new strategic intent options can help LG in capturing new markets while remaining competitive within the uncertain economic…...

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References

Chandler, AD (1962).Strategy and structure: chapters in the history of the industrial enterprise.

The American Historical Review, October 1962, Vol. 68 Issue: Number 1 p158-158

Bradford, RW (2008). Communicating Your Strategic Plan with Employees . Available online retrieved 16 January 2011http://www.strategyletter.com/CD1103/featured_article.php

Bartlett, C. And Ghoshal, S. (1994), "Changing the role of top management: beyond strategy to purpose," Harvard Business Review, Vol. 72

4. Conclusions

In the article Ethical Issues in Information Technology, author Richard T. DeGeorge points out the existence of five interrelated ethical issues: issues in the usage of technology in business, issues in the it business, issues related to the Internet, issues in e-business and issues affecting the social background. Each of the five categories presents several ramifications. The article has a general coverage, an informal writing and throughout its 24 pages presents reduced details. The article merely highlights the existence of ethical problems and concerns in the information technology sector and poses questions as to how could these problems be best resolved. The academician also gives short but relevant examples as to how it procedures are being improperly used to deceive and cause harm. Among these examples, DeGeorge includes shortcoming of the medical systems, within organizations and individual usage of the Internet, mentioning at all times the inappropriate legislature.

Relative to…...

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Bibliography

Anderson, James G., Goodman, Kenneth, 2002, Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to Health Care System in Transition (Health Informatics), 1st Edition, Springer

DeGeorge, Richard T., 2002, Ethical Issues in Information Technology, Blackwell Publishers

Hongladaram, Soraj, Ess, Charles, 2006, Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, IGI Global

Johnson, Doug, 2007, Information Technology Ethics, Doug Johnson Website, Creative Commons License,   accessed on December 7, 2007http://www.doug-johnson.com/ethics/,last 

I. Introduction
A. Definition of the Human Condition
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A. Human Emotions and Behavior
B. Cognitive Processes and Perceptions
C. Impact of Social and Environmental Factors

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Title: The Imperative of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Driving Progress in Modern Society

Introduction:
In a world characterized by globalization and interconnectedness, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have emerged as essential pillars for thriving societies and organizations. This essay delves into the significance of DEI and explores compelling essay topics that highlight its multifaceted nature.

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Analyze the economic benefits of DEI in organizations, showcasing how diverse teams foster innovation, enhance creativity, and drive superior business outcomes.

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7. The intersection of religion and politics in contemporary society.
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