Are The Advancements Worth What Is Happening To Our Society And Our Youth? Annotated Bibliography Bell, David. “Cyberculture.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007). In this source, Bell denotes that the invention of computers has led to social alteration due to computer utilization as well as the recognition into the community by individuals. Specifically, media and communications machinery have, in no small extent, commenced the event of detaching persons from realism and urging them towards a computer-generated universe. The author’s primary focus happens to be technological advancements have led to numerous affiliations among individuals. Conspicuously, this has been realized since the commencement of the personal computer. Interpersonal interactions are exceptionally dissimilar than ever afore. In the majority of the situations, due to the aspects of the physical locality, suitability, or comfortableness, human interaction can be considered to have reasonably transformed. The precise point of view of the author is that the majority of the technological advancements have prompted the event of eradicating copious visual and vocal cues individuals habitually utilize in communicating with each other. The perceived bias can be taken to…
The structure of the modern world The structure of the modern world has allowed cultures and practices to be passed from one region to another through the simple click of a button. The internet and mass media passed through cable television has allowed the aspect of the global village to be a reality in the modern generation. The entire world has been able to share the practices and activities as though they lived within driving distances. One of the easily transferable aspects of modern society has been popular culture. The sharing of what is trendy and contemporary in fashion, music, and art to mention but a few has been made easier. The third countries continue to adapt to the aspects of the global popular culture at a higher rate based on what they deem as acceptable and trendy. The popular culture has been affecting the local industries in the third world. One of the affected industries in the third world country has been the production of the movies that appeal to the local consumers in Nigeria. Nollywood, the Nigeria movies…
Flowers for Algernon Question #1 The moral issue the book raises is the issue of how society treats disabled individuals in one way or the other. During the treatment of Charlie, the novel portrays that people did not show sympathy towards individuals with special needs, especially medical practitioners. The book also relays how the disabled face difficulties in navigating through their individual lives and how they are disabled to experiments that are not moral. In the case of Charlie’s treatment, where the nurse Hilda, termed the treatment to be God’s play. God’s play meant that Charlie was not aware of what kind of treatment was to be administered to him. Furthermore, the book states that the surgery was a secret because Charlie narrates that he did not understand why he had to keep the experiment a secret. The care that the nurse, Hilda, is also unethical. She does not take care of Charlie as her profession demands. Case in point, when Charlie wakes up from the surgery, Hilda says that no one should mess with God’s work, and she makes…
Maine’s Conceptualization of the Society There is quite an extensive discontentment with the present theories on jurisprudence that exist. This is due to the fact that they are of imprecise verdicts that they do not really find a solution to the problems they aim to dispose of. They do not take into consideration what the law was originally about in the past eras far from the express period at which they came into existence. The authors of these theories distinctively observed the situations of their own and that of other ages and civilizations with which they had some extent of intellectual sympathy. However, when they tried to concentrate on anachronistic dispositions of the society that displayed more peripheral contrast from their own, they all stopped observing and began approximating. Maine’s Conceptualization of the Society The theories on legal development, according to Sir Henry James Sumner Maine’s points out sequential steps or phases that all progressive societies must go through. Each of the steps emerges from the one before it and puts down the foundation necessary for its evolution into the…
The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on violations of securities laws The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reported in an alert to investors on 14 January that Initial Exchange Offerings (IEO’s) may be in violations of securities laws, and investors must exercise caution while choosing to invest in them. Initial Exchange Offerings are similar to Initial Coin Offerings, but instead, they are initial offerings of digital assets to raise capital. The IEO’s have been on constant rage since 2019 as cryptocurrency exchanges took it upon themselves to directly offer the tokens from various projects on their platforms. They have recently seen a lot of development in the digital assets sector. They have been called a reformation over ICO’s since they directly take the offerings from companies and allow for immediate trading opportunities through trading platforms. As the SEC details, the risk posed by IEO’s happens when purported “exchange” platforms are not registered with the SEC and fraudulently behaves as if it complies with SEC standards and regulations. The SEC states that if the IEO offered involves…
UnitedHealth Group Ethics Ethics are the moral philosophies that guide an individual or an organization’s activities. These principles define what is morally right and evil, and any organizations ought to abide by these ethical standards for it to develop a good brand and lure more clients. UnitedHealth Group is one of the organizations that I highly committed to achieving high ethical standards in terms of integrity, honesty, accountability, autonomy, fidelity, justice, and openness. The firm’s ethical statement makes it clear that it believes in having good relationships with stakeholders, clients, regulators, employees, and other healthcare personnel. Honesty and integrity are the core values that guide its ethics in operations (Sroka and Lőrinczy, 2015). Over the years, the firm has had rough times in maintaining its ethical standards due to some cases that led to lawsuits and affected their brand. For instance, in 2006, the stock exchange committee launched an investigation into the UnitedHealth group’s directors and management actions of backdating stock options. These investigations were an indication that the firm was fraudulent and not paying revenue taxes as required. The…
The United States human rights In the United States, the constitution and the bill of rights provide broad human rights protections. The rights being amended were after the civil wars that occurred in the United States. Other than that, neocolonialism is a factor that led to amendments to these rights so that everybody could respect human beings in the world. Many of the reasons that are contained in the bill of rights are usually included in the UDHR. This typically allows mostly to the laws that are based on political and civil liberties. Glender explains that, in the United States, the Supreme Court is used in the identification of rights that are not found in the bill of rights (14). They mostly look into the presumption of innocents where they usually look into the rights of those that are innocent and make sure that their rights are wholly given to them. They also allow for freedom of movement in that they make sure that the righteous have the freedom for movement. Elizabeth says other than that, the United States frequently…
Study on Government of India Sources of Financing with Emphasis on Sovereign Gold Bond Executive Summary In November 2015, the government of India introduced a change to the purposes of gold in India by launching the Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) under the Gold Monetization Scheme. In a similar project to the introduction of SGBs, the government of India announced the opening of the SGB 2017-2018 Series I(The Reserve Bank of India). The Reserve Bank of India was put in charge of the two projects designed to improve the use of gold for transactions by stopping the people of India’s reliance on various forms of physical gold such as jewelry and coins. The plan to introduce SGBs is based on the premise that it is better than the other forms of gold, and such a verdict might be appropriate given that nearly all publications on the comparison between SGB and different gold types have outlined its superiority (Yurtoğlu, p. 243). The government and proponents of the SGB project now feel that the government should make it India’s primary financing source. Still,…
Two-Point Discrimination Abstract Motivation Sematosensation, also known as the sense of touch involves different sets of sensory and incorporates all sensation collected from the skin. The skin contains several types of receptors that differ from size and shape and are responsible for responding to a stimulus (Godde et al.,2016). The problem is essential because it provides information about what happens when the skin comes to contact with the surrounding environment. Methods The method used to obtain the results involved a lad experiment where the Subject is subjected to various sets of conditions on different body regions. The species used as human beings, students of age between 14-18 years. No sex difference was assessed during the experiment. Each area was randomly alternate between 1 point and 2 points of contact with a total of 5 trials for each body part, asking the Subject if they feel 1 or 2 points during each trial. If they respond to 4/5 trials correctly, then the test distance is continuously reduced until they are unable to respond correctly. When the Subject cannot differentiate between…
11 Gifts of Love For Your Long Distance Girlfriend Long-distance relations can sometimes become challenging; you cannot meet each other when you want. But, that should not stop you from expressing your love. When you can’t be together, then your gifts will help you show your emotions and feelings for your partner. In this blog, we will be enumerating 11 different ways that can help you express your feelings and love for your long-distance girlfriend. Gifts expressing emotions : Send a video note- Well, if you want to ditch the cliché ideas of gifting and want a unique way to express your feelings, then sending a video note to your girlfriend is a great idea. You can craft a beautiful message and shoot it at the location where both of you met for the first time and send it across to her. It will surely bring a smile on her face. Create a photobook- In the era of digitalization, where all the memories are stored in mobile phones, you can create a photobook having the pictures of…