Compare and contrast the 10 Commandments with the 8-Fold Path of Buddhism, the Confucian Virtues, and the 12 Vows of Jainism.

One of the criticisms of the Hebrew Bible is the violence of God. Scriptures from other religions (Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita is set entirely in war; the Qur’an talks of war; Christianity is based on a final battle and destruction of the world) depict their gods as violent as well. However, throughout the Hebrew Bible God is also depicted as a God of love.

Main discussion questions for the week:

Given the Covenants between the Israelites and God, the 10 Commandments, the beauty of the Psalms, and the predictions of the prophets, provide three (3) of your own observations about this violent/loving God.

Judaism is a religion of doing and faith is seen in actions towards others.

Compare and contrast the 10 Commandments with the 8-Fold Path of Buddhism, the Confucian Virtues, and the 12 Vows of Jainism.
Are we seeing the same concept of doing and faith today, or has there been a shift as we move to Western religions?

Discuss something specific that you have learned in this class that supports or challenges this assumption.

Answer the question posed in the discussion description related to Chapter 11 Becoming an Ethical Adult (Starts on pg 200) in the Discussion as your Initial Comment Then respond to three other classmates’ Initial Comments

1. The textbook states that the best determiner of personal moral development “is the recognition that motive, not consequence, is a critical factor in deciding if an act is ethical (p. 384)”. Discuss something specific that you have learned in this class that supports or challenges this assumption.

What is meant by “evolutionary change”; meaning what is it and how would you know when it has occurred?

Discussion Topic 1
Natural Selection

A novel fungicide is introduced and widely applied to cereal crops. After five years, resistant genotypes of the fungal pathogen are detected at a frequency of about 1%; resistance is widely distributed across the pathogen’s range. Within two years, these have become so common that the fungicide becomes worthless.

Explain how this pattern can be explained by the basic features of natural selection. Include in your answer:

A brief description of what natural selection is.
The conditions that must be met in order for natural selection to occur.
How natural selection explains the scenario above.

Discussion Topic 2
Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

This unit we are learning that there are several mechanisms that lead to evolutionary change within a population or species: mutation, migration, genetic drift, non-random breeding and natural selection.

What is meant by “evolutionary change”; meaning what is it and how would you know when it has occurred?
Select two of the mechanisms listed above and explain how each can lead to evolutionary change as defined in Q#1. Be specific and use an example of each.

What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?

After learning about several ways in which our everyday actions impact climate change, choose one action to conduct more research on and create a PowerPoint presentation to tell us more! Use the unit material and reliable online resources to gather more information.

There are several ideas with information throughout the unit but there is even more information out in the world! Think about what you do every day, and how the activity uses energy or natural resources. Think about a product you buy—how it was made, what natural resources were used to make it? You can also do a quick google search of “everyday activities that effect the environment” and start reading some articles for more ideas.

Remember to use reliable sources from the Internet. There is a lot of misinformation out there and finding reliable information can be difficult. The best sources of reference material for your presentation are scientific journals found in the CSU Online Library databases. Click here for a biology research tutorial that demonstrates how to locate library resources relating to biology You can also find reliable statistics at organization websites listed in the Unit under “Combat Climate Change.”

Your presentation must include:

1. What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?

2. Connect the activity/product to its impact on the environment and climate change.

How does doing the activity or making the product use natural resources, disrupt habitat, impact wildlife or other effects on the environment?

3. Report data and statistics, with references, on how this activity/product effects the environment.

4. What can people do to decrease the activity/product’s impact on the environment?

Be sure to follow the formatting and guidelines provided below:

Include at least three visual aids.

Include three reliable references, and at least one source must come from the CSU Online Library.

Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and Governance

QUESTIONS:

SECTION 1 (45 points)

  • Define the concept of Code of Ethics, and critically evaluate its effectiveness in managing business ethics (15 points).
  • Define what Agency Theory is and critically evaluate its possible problems. (15 points)
  • Critically evaluate what Sustainability marketing is, and what makes it important? (15 Points)

SECTION 2 (55 points) 

(Read the below case carefully, and answer the questions followed.)

CASE:

You are the board director of Z-Med, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, UK.  The company’s Research & Development department is working on a novel breast cancer drug. The drug could provide breakthrough treatment for millions of women in the company’s core markets in Europe and the US and is likely to be a source of high revenue for Z-Med which has recently seen a fall in profits and resulting drop in share price.

In order to have approval, company still needs to conduct further trials to test for the effectiveness and safety of the drug. However, in Europe these kinds of clinical trials are rather lengthy and very costly to conduct, due to the strict regulatory environment.

In a board meeting, the CEO of Z-Med suggests carrying out a large part of the trials in country X, a developing country in Asia, whose government provides more favourable conditions for clinical trials. The government of country X regards international drug trails as a cheap way of providing treatment for poor people who cannot afford to buy drugs or other kinds of medical treatment. Furthermore, in country X, a significant proportion of poor women suffer from breast cancer; and therefore, it will be relatively easy to recruit participant for the trial.

The company has no plans to make the drug available below market price in country X after its approval. Also, at the current stage of the drug’s development the Research & Development department cannot yet rule out the occurrence of harmful side effects, even though they believe that the likelihood of this happening is very low.

The CEO’s suggestion sounds like a tough call for you to endorse!!! 

Questions: 

2.1 Identify key stakeholders in the above case and explain what the ethical issues around each stakeholder are. (10 points)

2.2 Critically evaluate the case using TWO of the following ethical theories: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Rights and Justice, Virtue ethics. (30 points)

2.3 If you were the board director, what would you do? Explain your opinion with proper justification. (15 points)

”The role of tourism and climate change” ”challenges and future of tourism incorporating sustainability agenda”

Hello, i need a Poster about the company MSC Cruises in the U.K, i did a research paper about ”Tourism and climate change” and now i need to do a poster that informs stakeholders about the challenges and future of tourism incorporating sustainability agenda for a company i used in the research, it needs to have charts and swot analysis. You will have everything you need to do in the files that i will upload, i have a poster template(you can modify it),and to be harvard referenced. Keep it simple. Thank you so much

Can investigative psychology make pragmatic contributions to criminal investigations?

By contributions, I am referring to any advancements in knowledge that can help improve the efficiency of investigations (think about the investigative cycle and how any stage could be improved).

I purposely use the term ‘pragmatic’ because we also want to know if the knowledge generated from IP research is applicable to the real-world (e.g., can Dragnet really reduce search costs, is the IP approach to profiling more accurate than guess-work?).

To answer this question, you need to dig deep into the literature and find research that evaluates the effectiveness of IP-related approaches to criminal investigations.

Potential topics:

Offender Profiling

Crime Linkage

Geographical Offender Profiling

Structure:

Introduction

Explain the fundamental principles of IP and how it emerged (learning outcome 1) (Approx. 300)

Main body

Explain the IP approach to criminal investigations (i.e., criminal differentiation, crime linkage, GOP,

suspect elicitation and prioritisation, A-C equation- you do not have to cover it all). (Approx. 600)

Evaluating the effectiveness of IP. Draw on a plethora of empirical literature to appraise the efficacy

of the Investigative Psychology approach. Highlight the strengths and limitations. (Approx. 850)

The above two points could be merged together.

Conclusion

Sum up your findings and consider directions for future research (Approx. 250)

Assignment brief attached below

Conduct a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

Term Paper: Networking

Select one of the following topics in which you will base your responses in the form of a term paper:

Network Neutrality

Web2.0

Wireless Technology

Broadband Convergence

U.S. Telecommunication Policy

Internet Security

IPv6

WWAN

WLAN

DNSSEC

WAN

Write a fully developed paper in which you:

1. Compose an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

2. Conduct a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

3. Evaluate the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.

4. Select one ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic, take a position on the issue, and provide rationale.

5. Analyze the improvements over the last two years to your communication technology topic, and suggest an improvement based on its current usage.

6. Predict the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

7. Create a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

8. Use at least eight quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.