My Texas and US government class has impacted my education the most outside of my engineering classes. Knowing about the governmental system and political parties helps engineers like me understand and influence the policies that affect our jobs. The federal, state, and local governments determine and enforce safety and environmental standards through agencies like OSHA and the EPA. It also controls patents, publications, and engineering licensing. Depending on the current political party or special
Final Reflection/Position Paper American Government March 10, 2013 Final Reflection/Position Paper The purpose of this paper is intended to summarize my views on what has influenced my understanding of politics and government prior to taking this class, and how my understanding is now since completing this course. Pre Reflection/Position My understanding of politics and government prior to taking American Government came from my family and their beliefs.
setting. I went through such an experience senior year in my Comparative Government class, which focused on different governments along with the key social and economic issues they face. While many may argue that the “banking” concept has some value in certain issues, the alternative in problem-posing offers a broader experience in which
Final Project Reflection Our group’s topic is religious diversity, and we decided to watch the film “Priest,” which portrayed religious issues through the plot. After each member watched the film, we discussed how the elements in this film emphasized our topic --- religious diversity. Each group member was assigned different tasks, and we helped each other to make the slides more creative. For example, Nadia, one of my group member, created the background of our Powerpoint and did the plot slide
Texts serve as a reflection of social, cultural and historical contexts of the composer, and thus the comparison of texts highlight the continuing yet changing nature of values through time. Rebellion and totalitarianism are precursors to revealing the impact of an oppressive government, which are explored in Fritz Lang’s expressionist film Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s satirical Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). In the novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, the protagonist Winston Smith depicts this
Article Reflection and Case Summary 2 Tong, Yiran (Nina) #3480572 University of New Brunswick, Saint John MBA 7102 Deryk Stec Jan 29, 2015 Article Reflections Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda by John Gerard Ruggie Summary and background This paper analyzes the development of human rights and business in an international view, states the factual issues, and provides strategies to improve the existing realities. The article explains the conceptual challenges to let
The documents chosen to go in the learning outcome 9 part of my portfolio demonstrate my understanding and ability to adhere to the appropriate legal, financial, and ethical frameworks under which nonprofit organizations operate and are regulated. One of issues that nonprofit organizations face is the lack of awareness as to the extent that a 501 (c)(3) can lobby. For some organizations it is critical that the organization act as an advocate for its clients and lobby in order for the organization
believed that democracy was the best possible form of government. Pericles saw Athens as superior to other city states based on their implementation of democracy which ultimately represented freedom, liberty, courage, honor and justice. In his funeral oration, Pericles refers to the Athenian democracy as a system of government where men are able to advance in society as a result of their merits rather than on class or wealth. In the Athenian democracy “class considerations are not allowed to interfere with
Edmund Burke offers the conservative view from his book Reflections of the French Revolution. History is the guideline for conservative politics and political theories produced by rational reasoning and innovative qualities are a source for evil politics (Burke, 1955). Tradition offer stability and ensures that
Part 2: Express a multi-dimensional inventory analysis of the individual benefits of this class by putting creating a concise plan to engage stakeholders In my opinion, stakeholder management is significant to the success of every project in every organization. By engaging the right people in the right way in all projects, it can lead me to be successful. However, my plan to engage stakeholders will start from I have to understand clearly each step of stakeholder management so that I can potentially