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A Clashing of Opinions
The "Mosaics: Reading and Writing Essays" textbook includes two essays with differing views on
the effectiveness of anti–loitering laws. Richard Willard shares his opinion that anti–loitering laws
are effective tools that discourage gang activity in his essay, "Anti–Loitering Laws Can Reduce
Gang Violence." He asserts that alternative methods of punishing gang members only cause them to
develop animosity for police that leads to more trouble. Alternatively, "Anti–Loitering Laws Are
Ineffective and Biased," an essay written by David Cole, presents the view that these laws are a
form of discrimination. Both authors support their opinions with statistics and previous examples of
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He states that "Chicago calls the offense "gang loitering," but it might more candidly be termed
"standing while black." Ultimately he uses the issue of racism to support his negative view of anti–
loitering laws. He makes the generalization that the police who enforce the laws do so in a
discriminatory manner. If the police who enforce the laws are unbiased, then his argument is
unfounded.
Cole also directly attacks Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's policies in New York City. He claims that
forces were focused on the inner city where minorities were adversely affected. Though others claim
that these policies actually helped the safety of the inner city regions, the author dismisses these
arguments as garbage. Paragraph 4 of his essay says "it is far from clear...that minority communities
generally favor "quality of life" policing efforts that send so many of their residents to jail."
After providing little basis for these claims, "Anti–Loitering Laws Are Ineffective and Biased"
moves on to assert that police officers who enforce anti–loitering laws become untrustworthy. The
essay offers no support of the fact that anti–loitering laws breed distrust among the populous besides
Cole's own opinions. He does however move on to say that authorities do understand the need for
trust. His seventh paragraphs relates that "Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission reported that
such support "will not be present when a substantial segment of the community feels threatened by
the
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Violating The Sherman Anti Trust Act
to compete, so it opted to try to form a monopolistic trust in order to eliminate the competition. But
to determine if Microsoft was attempting to violate the Sherman Anti–Trust Act, a trust must be
defined. By definition, a trust is a combination of firms formed by legal agreement. While it may
not be obvious to the average consumer, Microsoft, by trying to negotiate an agreement between the
two businesses so it could have a better grip on web browsing, hints at wanting to form a trust
between the two. Not many people had non–Windows systems so Microsoft would have the
Netscape browser be offered to the minority of customers while making itself available to the
masses. Microsoft would not directly gain money from Netscape, but its losing potential customers
meant that Microsoft would gain more money indirectly. The Sherman Anti–Trust is not explicit in
its terms and it is not clear whether a trust is illegal or preventing competition is. In Section one of
the act, it says that a trust has to also be "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states,
or with foreign nations" to fully be declared illegal. Even in section two of the act, it states," Every
person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other
person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or
with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony" (Cornell). The lines "among the several
states" can be used as a
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Microsoft Antitrust Case
Student: Stephen Votta
Class: Business and Society
Course time: Online
Professor: Dr. Chemene Crawford
Date due: 06/03/2006
The Anti–Trust Case against Microsoft
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by founder Bill Gates, a former Harvard drop out (Lawrence, 455).
The business grew and controlled 90% of the market for operating systems, with revenues of over
nineteen billion dollars per year (Lawrence, 455). In the nineteen nineties, the Internet generation
was starting to explode and Microsoft new that it would be a profitable market. This led to their
approach to develop a new product to handle this revolution. Their solution was Internet Explorer,
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– Hybrid to include two to three operating system companies and one software company (Lawrence,
461). This breakup seems sound and would create competition and avoid the problems of dividing
applications and Internet Business, but will still take away from an industry standard. – Auction
rights to windows source code to companies such as Sun Microsystems or IBM (Lawrence, 462).
This would create competition, but according to Sun Microsystems none of the companies would
bid on it because all of the key programmers live in Seattle and make too much to move (Lawrence,
462). – Require Microsoft to publish either the entire Windows code or part of it, so that other
companies can create operating system and software (Lawrence, 462). – The government would
write and enforce the rule for conduct for Microsoft (Lawrence, 462). This may seem like a great
approach, but the source code is not well documented and would require technical support from
Microsoft to understand (Lawrence, 462). After careful deliberation, the United States Justice Court
concluded that Microsoft violated 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act and remedy that they be
broken into two separate businesses; one of the businesses in the operating system market and other
one in the Software market (Wikipedia). In 2000 Microsoft appealed to the Supreme Court, but
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PepsiCo Case Study
Section One. Overview of the case:
On January 24, 1986, PepsiCo revealed that they had a plan to purchase the Seven–Up Company
from Phillip Morris Companies, Inc. for $380 million. A month later this huge acquisition led to the
Coca–Cola company proclaiming that they intended to purchase the Dr. Pepper Company for $470
million. During this time Coca–Cola was the leader in the soft drink market and held the largest
market share of thirty eight percent (38.6% in 1986 to be exact). In comparison Pepsi was the
number two supplier of soft drinks in the market and respectively trailed Coca–Cola with a market
share of twenty seven percent (27.4% in 1986). Both companies greatly competed on price, which
ultimately led to lower prices and amplified partnership in the soft drink industry. Price discounting
and effective promotion and marketing were fundamental in distinguishing products within this
highly competitive market. The ability to introduce new products also proved to be imperative in
gaining market share as it is in any market if you want to be successful as a major market player or
competitor.
As one could expect companies of smaller size and market share had difficulty surviving in this
industry, and were poised for a buyout from a much larger holder in the market. An example of this
was Seven–Up whom held a market share of six percent (6.3%). The proposed merger between
Seven–Up and Pepsi would have brought Pepsi's market share up from twenty seven percent to
almost
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Ftc : The Federal Trade Commission
What is the FTC? The FTC stands for Federal Trade Commission. The Federal Trade Commission is
an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1914 to help prevent unfair business
practices, deception, fair trade practices, and unfair competition. The FTC's mission is to protect the
consumers by enacting laws to ensure that businesses cannot cheat people out of money and keep
businesses from being unethical and immoral. The FTC takes complaints about businesses and
investigates them for fraud or unfair labor practices every year (Silbersack, 2013). Duties of the
FTC. The Federal Trade Commission's mission is to protect consumers and to promote competition
in the marketplace, but that is a very broad statement for what all duties the ... Show more content
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The company stated that consumers could make over $300 a day working from home. The FTC
came in and stopped this scam from hurting further consumers and prosecuted the online schemers
(www.ftc.gov, 2014).
Discussion
Events that led to the creation of the FTC. July 2, 1890, the Sherman Anti–Trust Act was the first
law passed by congress to prevent monopolistic business practices. Named after Senator John
Sherman of Ohio, he had this law to pass the senate with a unanimous vote of 51–1 and the House
with a vote of 242–0. President Harrison signed it into law in 1890. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act
authorized government to make it illegal to make a "restraint of trade or commerce among the
several states or with foreign nations". Those that did not abide by this law resulted in a $5,000 fine
and a year in prison. "The Sherman Act was designed to reestablish competition but was loosely
worded and unsuccessful to define terms as "trust," "combination," "conspiracy," and "monopoly"
(www.ourdocuments.gov, 2013)". Because of this "loosely worded" act, the Supreme Court
prevented the federal government from using the act for many years up until President Theodore
Roosevelt came along with his "trust–busting" campaigns. In 1904 the Supreme Court finally
supported the government in its suit for "termination of the Northern Securities Company and the
act was further employed by President Taft in 1911 against the
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National Football League Players Association Case Summary
Since 1920, the year the National Football League was founded, multiple issues have come up
regarding bargaining and anti–trust law. The National Football League Players Association, also
known as the NFLPA, the labor organization representing the individual players, was founded in
1956. Its main goal was, and still is, to get the best bargaining agreement for the players, making
sure all the needs and interests have been met. However, the job of those working at the National
Football League Players Association does not end once leaving the collective bargaining table.
Since founding, over 60 years ago, the organization has filed multiple lawsuits on behalf of the
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The National Football League has a Commissioner, who is supposed to be the voice for the owners,
in addition to all the lawyers at the bargaining table. Currently, Roger Goodell holds the position,
yet his term, while short, already has controversy around it. Some examples include Ray Rice and
Ezekiel Elliot and their domestic violence scandals, as well as the New England Patriots and the
"Deflategate" incident. On the opposite end of the spectrum lies the executive director for the
National Football League Players Association, DeMaurice Smith. For a long time, however, Gene
Upshaw held the position until his passing away in 2008. The relationship between these two
leaders affects the bargaining table and how willing each side is to negotiate. Paul Tagliabue and
Gene Upshaw worked together in a different way, fostering a relationship that proved beneficial at
the bargaining
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The Use Of Anti Bullying Policy On The Workplace
Introduction
The journal article I have chosen to review is 'Too hot to handle?' which focuses on how bullying
claims are dealt with and also how effective the use of anti– bullying policies are. I will also be
critically evaluating the methods used by the author in finding out how effective the use of anti–
bullying policies are in the workplace.
What is the rationale of the article? The purpose of this article is to scrutinize the relationship
between HR practitioners, managers and employees when dealing with allegations of bullying in the
workplace as findings suggest that HR practitioners rarely judge situations as bullying especially
when managers have been accused. Furthermore, cases have been found where HR practitioners
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However the examination of trust was not really an initial aim of the wider study but the author
decided to analyse this due to the fact that the theme of (dis) trust occurred from the data analysis.
According to Mishra et al, trust is defined as a 'willingness to be vulnerable to another, based on the
belief that the other is reliable, open, competent and concerned' (Mishra et al., 2011: 43) In order to
do this, they review the trust literature that is consequently drawn upon and then go ahead to outline
the key areas of bullying at the workplace and note how the voice of the employee dominates the
literature. There's often a lack of trust between employees and HRPs. When a trust research to
raising a bullying claim was applied, the theory suggests that the employee is likely to engage in a
risk–assessment process in terms of trusting both the policy and HRP before making a claim by
evaluating whether the benefit of making that claim actually outweighs the risk of feeling
vulnerable. (Schoorman et al., 2007). On the other hand, the problem of the employees having trust
issues also comes with this process; the employee must be rest assured that the bullying claim would
be handled with fairness and in a matter that is predictable whilst serving the employee's interests.
(Six and Skinner, 2010). The authors also make use of quantitative and qualitative research methods
in analysing the issue of
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The Anti-Vaccination Movement
The earth is flat, and lightning never strikes the same place twice are common scientific
misconceptions. In most cases, these misunderstandings are relatively harmless. In other cases, they
are critical.
Perhaps nowhere is science more important than in the anti–vaccination (anti–VAX) movement.
Throughout the last 10 years many "dead" diseases such as the measles, mumps, and whooping
cough have begun to come back in meager outbreaks. Pockets of unvaccinated children or under–
vaccinated children have led to these outbreaks. More importantly, there are growing pockets of
vaccine refusal throughout the nation. With these growing pockets comes disruption in the local
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Many getting treated will still have the peril of acquiring a disease because of the terrifying number
of people going around unvaccinated. The anti–VAX group's suspicion is making it difficult to find
a solution that could find a way out of the ditch already created. Many people in the anti–VAX
group believe that many vaccines have the capabilities of causing things such as autism. Great
Britain debunked this theory after being published in the journal Lancelet and the lead author of this
article, Andrew Wakefield, lost his medical license in 2010. However, as the years went along, the
fear of life–saving vaccines took hold of millions of parents. Due to the suspicions created by the
anti–VAX group, the lack of trust in America's doctors is near the bottom of all the industrial
countries: 24th out of 29 countries surveyed. Recent research has found that those who have the
least faith in the government are the least likely to vaccinate in the case of an outbreak of
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Case Study Essay example
1. Assume ParaWorld was eventually ordered to cease and desist due to IP infringement. What
category of IP has ParaWorld most likely infringed? Explain the actions that constitute such an
infringement. (5 Marks) 2. What are some of the anti–competitive behaviours SesamWare might be
guilty of? How did/might SesamWare's behavior adversely affect free market competition upon
which international trade depends? ( 5 Marks) 3. Is there an international law governing Sesame's
behaviour? How will competition laws be enforced globally? (5 Marks) 4. If SesamWare had been
headquartered in a country that had no competition laws, as is the case in many developing
countries, or if SesamWare never entered into a contract (for example to buy ... Show more content
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2. Some of the anti–competitive behaviours SesamWare might have engaged in are as follows: *
Dominance and Monopoly: The Company brought many other competitors and became the
dominant force in the software industry. This granted them power to dictate terms. * Pyramid
Scheme: The gamers were lured into accepting licenses which contained clauses which were meant
to benefit the organization in the long–run and not the licensees. * Refusal to deal: SesamWare
rendered other companies inadequate to compete by strategically eliminating them from the market.
* Issues regarding acquisitions: The phrase "more than meets the eye" perfectly fits the situation.
The main motive of the acquisitions seems to be eliminating competition to gain dominance in the
market. * Predatory Pricing: The initial contract fee was too low which made it impossible for the
other software companies to compete. 3. There is no single authority responsible for the
enforcement of international laws. (FITT) However, there are many entities that are concerned with
implementation and could possibly have an impact on SesamWare. They are as follows: * GATS
and GATT contain provisions dealing with monopolies and TRIPS and GATS recognize the
sovereignty of governments to take actions against anti–competitive behaviours. * Organization for
Economic
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The Rise Of Corporate Capitalism
Intro: After the Civil War, industrialization kicked off (an after–effect of the Market Revolution).
But rather than attempt to control it, the government bowed out instead, claiming itself laissez–faire
under Adam Smith's capitalism ideas, and letting the industrial chips fall where they may. However,
it appears the government couldn't let the "invisible hand" decide the fate of the U.S. market, so they
began to intervene in business affairs despite their original pledge not to. The government assisted a
great deal in the rise of corporate capitalism (business economy run by corporations and monopolies
such as the Standard Oil Company and the U.S. Steel Company) through its laissez–faire policies,
railroad involvement, and corruption. T: The U.S. government assisted in the rise of corporations by
its laissez–faire policies. R: Take, for instance, the wrong–doings of the railroads and the Sherman
Anti–Trust Act. The railroad business was full of shady deals and corrupted railmasters that wasn't
rectified until the Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railroad v. Illinois case. The Sherman Anti–Trust
Act was only passed after the mass outcry from cheated citizens. I: An example of the wrong–
doings of the railroads would be having a short haul cost more than a long one. Because the
railroads were owned by the select few large corporations and wealthy businessmen (Cornelius
Vanderbilt owned the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, which was one of the first
giant
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Sherman Antitrust Act : A Critical And Necessary Statute
SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT
I claim that the Sherman Antitrust Act is a critical and necessary statute that gradually caused
significant changes in business practices in order to ensure a competitive free market system
essential for long term growth of the economy, although it faced criticisms for sacrificing economic
efficiency. This fundamental statute continues to notably shape the economic landscape even today,
albeit being more than 100 years old.
The act contains three sections. The first section renders every contract, trust and conspiracy in
restraint of interstate and foreign trade illegal (Dana 1903). The second section effectively penalizes
everyone engaged in monopolizing any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or
with a foreign nation. The third section extends the first section to include U.S. territories and the
District of Columbia. Prior to the enactment of this act several states within the United States had
passed similar laws for intrastate businesses. However, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the
first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts and regulate interstate commerce
(Initiative).
The opponents of the act claim that it made the economy less efficient. Bradley (1990) asserts that
the Sherman Act discouraged scale economies that promoted lower costs and prices, penalized
successful market entrepreneurship, and rewarded the political entrepreneurship of less–efficient
business rivals. Others such as Comanor (1995)
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The Effects Of Monopoly On Economic Development
Discuss the effects of monopoly on economic development. Is monopoly legal in your country? If
so, give three examples. If not, what are the actions of the government that have been taken to
prevent monopoly?
A Monopoly power as study showcases is when a firm has monopoly power it will engage itself a
little competition. Which also means that a monopoly is a price maker and its demand curve will be
inelastic. If Monopoly set to increase prices demand, it would only fall by a small percentage.
According to Pettinger, R. (2013), a monopoly is likely to cause the following effects in the
economy development as stated below:
i. Monopoly would increase price and decline consumer surplus, in that case, demand is will be
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Monopoly will cause allocative inefficiency by introducing higher prices and less choice for
consumers. vi. A situation where monopolies get too high, they may experience what we call
diseconomies of scale. vii. Monopolies can use their monopoly power to achieve a goal by paying
lower prices to their suppliers. For examples, A Supermarkets will pay low prices to farmers since
the farmers do not have any other choice than to sell their products.
The effects of monopoly on economic development can also be seen from another aspect where we
have Price exceeding Marginal Cost, Price exceeding lowest Average Total Cost. This results to an
efficiency loss (dead weight loss) where we have sum of consumer surplus plus producer surplus is
less than maximum. It can be viewed as a "private tax" on consumers since the higher price will
generates higher economic profit that is distributed amongst shareholders of the company, who are
mostly from high–income groups. Monopoly owner's benefit at the expense of the consumers, since
owners have more income than the consumers, monopoly increases gap between rich and poor. For
example, when a buyer is richer than owners of the monopoly, then income transfer from consumers
to owners may decrease income
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How successful were Presidents, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson...
How successful were Presidents, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson in addressing America's economic
problems? (24 marks) America in the late 19th and early 20th century was going through
tremendous growth, with mass immigration and the consequent rapid growth of cities and
urbanisation, industrialisation and mass production. Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, the 3 main
presidents of the early 20th century are often known for their many achievements both abroad and at
home, and economic problems are one of the many problems that they dealt with during their terms
as president. This essay will touch on the economic problems in that era and how the presidents
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This shows how Taft might not have been all that successful in attending the economic problems,
but at the same time shows how he may have been passive with the trust busting with the intention
of future stability of the American economy. Taft showed more of his successful and
unsuccessfulness with the passing of the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. The tariff was passed by
Congress in 1909, and it was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897. The issue
had been blatantly ignored by Roosevelt during his terms and the Republicans wanted to revise the
tariff downward. To do this Taft called Congress to a special session, and the bill was promptly
passed, reducing rates. The senate substituted a bill which reduced the number of downward
revisions and increased many others. This angered many and so a compromise bill was adopted
which moderated the high rates that Aldrich had pushed for. Overall the tariff lowered 650 items,
raised 220, and left 1150 unchanged. Although it was a push economic change, it was a largely
protectionist move from Taft, showing that he had not much determination in fixing economic
problems. But at the same time it shows that tariffs were needed to maintain some leverage in
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The Consequences And Causes Of The Mexican American War
The Mexican American War began on May 13th, 1846, when Congress declared war on Mexico,
and finally came to an end on May 26th, 1848, when both sides of the war agreed on a peace treaty
(Bomboy, 2012). While this war was over, 14 years later, another one began, based on what many
feel transpired as a result of the Mexican American War (Bomboy, 2012). The War began when the
independent republic of Texas decided to join the United States, which Mexico considered an act of
war (Bomboy, 2012). By the end of the war, 10 states had joined the Union and the size of Mexico
was cut in half, including California, Texas, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and
parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming (Bomboy, 2012). This war was important for both
nations, but in America, it was exacerbated with the ongoing issue of slavery and the political
climate of the country. Thousands were killed, and millions of dollars were spent, it was America's
first foreign war that was fought nearly completely on foreign soil, and forever changed the borders
of both countries (Miller, 2006). Since Mexico was South, the states added to the Union were in
slavery territory, and the balance between the slave states and the free states of the North was
thrown off by the additional states (Miller, 2006). With 10 new states added to the United States in
the South, the constant uncertainty of whether or not they should be free or slave states, and what it
would mean for the previous Southern and
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Witchcraft For Sale
In the story, "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing, the main character, Gideon, is a servant for
a white family, the Farquars. Gideon pushes cultural limitations, and Teddy, the Farquars' little boy,
and he build a close relationship. Gideon saves Teddy's sight from snake poison, and when everyone
asks him to give up the secret of the tribal medicine, he refuses, which causes tension between him
and the Farquars. Gideon loses the trust of the Farquars, who believe he is making the wrong
decision, but he still saves Teddy and contributes to everyone's lives; making Gideon an anti–hero.
Gideon tries to be a good person and help raise Teddy the best he can; however, when things don't
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Teddy grows up with a servant, who is also his friend and caretaker, because Gideon gives him a
tribal name and gets attached to him. The story states, "They gave Gideon present... and a big
increase in wages, but these things could not pay for Teddy's now completely cured eyes" (Lessing
7). Although, Gideon almost exposes a native medicine, he saves Teddy's sight, which affects his
future. When Gideon decides to not give up the secret, the Farquars don't understand why he's acting
the way he is, and they begin to distance themselves from him. Gideon is the one to act as an anti–
hero, yet the Farquars are still affected by his
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AT & T's Anti-Trust Case
AT&T will be able to establish itself as a telecommunications powerhouse if it is able to win its
antitrust case against the Justice Department, yet the Justice Department and the Federal
Communications Commission has the fate of the telecommunications establishment at the palm of
their hands.
On one side, the Justice Department has blocked AT&T's $85 billion purchase of Time Warner by
suing the telecom establishment on November 20, while the Federal Communications Commission
broadcasted its plan on November 21 to revert net neutrality rules, which was perceived as a huge
victory for Internet providers.
Analysts mentioned that these events can help AT&T clinch a double victory since winning the anti–
trust case will enable the telecom establishment
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Microsoft: An Examination of Monopolies
Microsoft: An Examination of Monopolies Introduction This paper examines the nature of
monopolies and the anti–trust policies developed by the government to discourage them. It
specifically considers Microsoft and the case brought against it by the Federal government to
prevent its becoming a software monopoly. In many cases, the government is justified in pursuing
such anti–monopoly policies to protect competition and by extension the consumer. There are some
instances, however, when allowing certain monopolies ensures constant supply, efficient production,
and consistent regulation of products vital to the public good. The Microsoft Anti–Trust Case In
1998, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software
company was violating the Sherman Antitrust Act and the terms of a previous settlement by
bundling its Internet Explorer browser application with its Windows operating system. The Sherman
Anti–Trust Act was passed in 1890 in an effort to prevent monopolies that would threaten
competition in the marketplace and would eventually lead to extortionary prices for consumers. The
Act restricts companies from any practices that artificially create a monopoly by barring competitors
from entering the market. The government's case against Microsoft rested on a particular definition
of monopoly. Monopolies can occur in several ways. A pure monopoly, where only one company
offers a product for which there are no viable substitutes,
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Essay On Immunizing The Public Against Anti Vaccine Myths
Immunizing the Public Against Anti–Vaccine Myths:
The Best Vaccine Against Misinformation is the Correct Information
Picture yourself as a parent, driving your twelve–month old to the clinic for a scheduled vaccine.
You wait at the reception, they call your name, you are pointed to a room, you wait, the vaccine is
administered, the doctor mentions some information, and you drive home. The sequence ends with a
small feeling of accomplishment as you check another box on your list of parental responsibilities.
The next day, you are scrolling the Internet, and a headline grabs your attention, "new fear over
MMR link with rising autism". A quick flashback to the previous day causes a sinking feeling in
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The scientific community has debunked the vaccine–autism link countless times; however, the
controversy seems to constantly linger in the background of the discourse, and is brought up to the
forefront every now and then. Unfortunately, the vaccine controversy is the tail that wags the dog,
since those subscribing to vaccine myths are a definite minority; however, they are tenacious
enough to thwart the efforts of informative immunization campaigns. Since vaccine myths tend to
eclipse the truths about immunization, it is important to scrutinize the dialogue and separate the
facts from the fiction.
The Facts and the Fiction
Researching about vaccines on the internet tends to bring up websites and forums that support
immunization; however, a small alteration of the search using anti–vaccination key words will
quickly take you down a rabbit hole of anti–vaccine websites and sensationalist headlines that tread
dangerous waters that are far from the factual shore. Although most anti–vaccine beliefs are fringe
conspiracy theories that are scarcely mentioned, there are three main myths that have repeatedly
come up: the MMR vaccine–autism link, the Thimerosal–autism link, and the immunization
schedule debate. While it is important to discuss these popular myths, it is essential to begin by
defining what vaccination entails.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines vaccination as, "the injection of a
killed or weakened organism that produces immunity in
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Antitrust Investigation On The Anti Monopoly Law
Title page
Antitrust Investigation
Zhou Xiaoyan torimichelle74@gmail.com Table of Contents
Abstract........................................................................................... page 2
Introduction....................................................................................... page 2
Investigation and Costs.......................................................................... page 3
How Society was Affected ..................................................................... page 3
Conclusion.......................................................................................... page 4
References........................................................................................... page 5 Trust Issues Abstract:
The article reports on the anti–trust investigations performed by the Chinese authorities to the
business enterprises in acquiescence with the Anti–Monopoly Law in 2014. Corporations that were
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14). The contents of this article applies to certain aspects of economics by responding to the
following questions:
1. Why were these specific companies considered for antitrust behavior investigations?
2. What are some pecuniary and no pecuniary costs related to the antitrust behavior?
3. Do monopolies and oligopolies always reflect negatively on society?
4. What is an example that shows how monopolies and oligopolies can benefit society?
Investigation and Costs Chinese consumers were complaining about being charged too much when
buying cars, auto parts, and maintenance services arose, so did many reports of fines from several
car companies. "On September 11, the FAW–Volkswagen Sales Co., together with seven dealers of
its luxury brand, Audi, were fined heavily. The same day, Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd. and three
of its dealers were also held subject to financial penalties" (Xiaoyan, 2014, p. 15). This caused
authorities to specifically investigate Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Qualcomm Incorporated and Japanese
auto part makers. Therefore, the antitrust behaviors in this particular case consist of pecuniary costs,
which are costs of or relating to money. Moreover, these antitrust behaviors are in violation of a
specific act, which would be the Sherman Act. Violations of the Sherman Act include price–fixing,
bid–rigging and market–allocation
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The Microsoft Anti-Trust Case: Presidential Candidate...
The Microsoft Anti–Trust Case: Presidential Candidate Recommendations
The Microsoft Antitrust Case is essentially the clash of two separate ideals, the key issue being how
much influence the government should have in the marketplace. According to the U.S. Justice
Department, Microsoft is in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which states: "Every
person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other
person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or
with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony." ("The Sherman Antitrust Act") The Justice
Department claims that Microsoft used its power to establish and maintain a ... Show more content
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Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS) became a quick success since its creation, entering into
the service of millions of consumers worldwide. Ever since Windows became the dominant OS,
rival companies have faced the problem of designing software compatible with Windows in order to
maintain their large customer population – failure to do so would be detrimental to their own
company. Because Microsoft owns the code to its Windows software, defenders of the company
argue that it has the right to distribute (or not to distribute) its code at its own leisure. According to
Microsoft, the court order forcing them to sell their code is considered a breach of its rights to
freedom and property. ("Frequently Asked Questions") In addition, the RealNetworks case – which
demanded that Microsoft unbundle its Windows Media Player from the Windows software (Krim) –
can be considered a breach of the same rights. After all, Microsoft, as a seller, can dictate the terms
that it wants to sell to its consumers, leaving it up to the consumers as to whether they want to buy
the product or not. ("Frequently") Therefore, court orders that force Microsoft to either share its
technology or change the "bundle" that Windows is sold with are considered by Microsoft to be a
violation of their right to freedom and property
Furthermore, Microsoft has claimed that it practices sound business techniques that have brought it
to the forefront of computer software developers.
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Business Consolidation And Monopolies
IV) Essay Questions
1) Describe the new business practices that led to business consolidation and monopolies. How did
government policies address these new business practices? (520–528)
Brainstorm: Vertical integration, horizontal integration, trusts, interlocking directorates, anti–trusts,
Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 Wanting to control the market as a whole, rising businesses wanted
to create corporate monopolies, consolidate the stocks in a large company, have complete
domination over their workers, and be able to obliterate all competition. However, many anti–trust
supporters tried to use government policies in order to stop these new business practices. Trusts, and
vertical and horizontal intergration were among the business practices used by rising businesses, and
the Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 was one of the government policies used against growing
corporations. To create monopolies, many companies used trusts, which was when stocks of smaller
companies were handed over to the investors of a large company, put together to create an even
larger company. This gave the large corporation an extreme amount of influence ... Show more
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Knowing they would ruin smaller factories, they attempted to use political power to stop trusts from
consolidating corporate superpowers. Failing to gain traction from state legistation, the anti–trust
supporters went to congressional legislation for support. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890
prevented combinations in limiting trade, but large companies quickly found ways to manipulate the
act. Few cases were tried and they ended up being unsuccessful for the anti–trust supporters. A side
effect of this act was that labor unions also were unable to consolidate, as it was considered a
restraint of trade under the same logic, which stopped labor unions from gaining large
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The Pros And Cons Of The Anti-Trust Act
20. Nov. 2014 The anti–trust acts started out in the late 1800s. The anti–trust act means that the
government can prevent the growth of a monopoly. There were several forms of the anti–trust acts.
The first form of the act is the Sherman Act of 1980; it outlaws the restrains of trade and
monopolization (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). The consequences of not following this act meant
that the government can either break up the monopoly into competing firms or stop it from engaging
in the specific business they were monopolizing. Then the Clayton Act of 1914 was declared it was
made to strengthen and make improvise on the Sherman Act (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). It stated
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Even after the disagreements on anti–trust laws, the Supreme Court has the final say in the decision.
A firm will be sued by the government if it has a very high market share and if there is evidence of
market dominance (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). However, even if the government was the case,
the problem always is on how to correct the monopoly so it doesn't continue to be in violation of the
anti–trust laws. One particular anti–trust suit that is famous is United States versus Microsoft. In
2000 Microsoft was found guilty of violating the Sherman Act by challenging competitor companies
over its operating systems by being hostile to competitor's software (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn).
Microsoft used anticompetitive ways to maintain their monopoly power. Microsoft felt threatened
by competing companies so they signed contracts with PC makers that require them to feature
Internet Explorer on the PC desktop and penalized other competing software's (McConnell, Brue,
and Flynn). In addition, Microsoft gave coding to friendly companies rather than competing
companies and they created software making competing companies software incompatible with
Windows. Microsoft appealed their district court decision taking it
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A Comparison of Two Monopolists in a Competitive Market Essay
A Comparison of Two Monopolists in a Competitive Market
According to Webster , to have a monopoly is to have exclusive ownership, possession, or control.
The following essay is an examination of Microsoft in comparison to this definition and another
commonly known monopoly, Standard Oil. Also attention will be given to the necessary role of and
problems with monopolies. Competitive Market vs. Monopoly A competitive market consists of
many buyers and sellers. Markets thrive because an equilibrium price is established through natural
competition and no single buyer or seller can affect that price. Instead both buyer and seller must
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Such actions generally target existing competition or prevent the rise of future competitors. Some
examples of such actions are refusal to sell to a particular customer in order to eliminate
competition, lowering prices below cost (price war), and contracts that close channels of distribution
or supplies to competitors. Though its interpretation is not particularly clear, The Sherman Anti–
Trust Act is the standard used for determining trade misconduct and violates. Standard Oil January
2, 1882 marked the formation of the Standard Oil Trust. It was the invention of attorney Samuel
Dodd and fuelled by the control of John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller began by concentrating on the
refining business. He then expanded to other aspects of the oil industry to include extraction, sales,
transportation, research, marketing even to the point of barrel manufacturing. The practices that
brought Standard Oil to its peak became the evidence of its demise. Rockefeller kept a low profile
on his company earnings and hid the profits by reinvesting. Other acts were more covert and
damaging. Standard Oil had agreements with the railroads in which the railroad provided not only a
lower transportation price but also gave a Standard Oil a kickback from the higher prices charged to
competitors. The railroad also provided information regarding competitors shipments. This greatly
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The Burlington Case Paper
The Burlington case was able to expand the scope of retaliation where it was found out that the anti–
retaliation provision and Title VII's substantive retaliation that include factors to do with gender
discrimination (Gillet, Colombat, Michinov, Pronost, & Fouquereau, 2013). The case was therefore
in a position to achieve the wider protection of the employees within the organizations within which
they work as it makes it necessary for the protection of the employees from the different cases of
discrimination within their respective courses. Employees are also protected from legal risks in
cases where they might be subjected to unlawful retaliation an example being a situation where they
are excluded from organizational meetings modifying the job duties of an employee, an employee
being given a negative performance appraisal, or transferring an employee to shift with less
desirable working hours.
Along with other anti–discrimination legislation, the retaliation statute played the role of protecting
employees from actions that can be termed as being unjust in their respective workplaces as such
actions could have negative impacts on their respective levels of performance in the organization
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(2013). Procedural justice, supervisor autonomy support, work satisfaction, organizational
identification and job performance: the mediating role of need satisfaction and perceived
organizational support. J Adv Nurs, n/a–n/a.
Tabak, F. & Hendy, N. (2016). Work Engagement: Trust as a Mediator of the Impact of
Organizational Job Embeddedness and Perceived Organizational Support. Organization
Management Journal, 13(1), 21–31.
Wibowo, p. (2015). Work Engagement in the Work Place: The Role of Procedural Justice, Perceived
Organizational Support and Organizational Trust. Advances In Social Sciences Research Journal,
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Anti Hero By James M. Cain
Sporting a fedora, suit and a cigarette in hand, leaning against a wall, the captivating anti–hero
stands double crossed in the stereotypical L.A. noir genre. Right in the heat of World War II noir
started to rise to the top and become a popular source of entertainment and instant distraction from
reality. Many people were drawn to the anti–hero; they were drawn to the flawed characters who
were the "heroes" despite their flaws. A hero embodies what people want to be, most consider noir
anti–hero's the same. You can idolize them in a story, but they all have specific characteristics that
make the "hero," themselves, just as vulnerable as everyone else. An anti–hero needs to be layered,
complicated, and flawed that pushes the boundaries of what is right and what is wrong. They need
an illustrated struggle that builds through growth so as the audience reads they can keep showing
optimism for the anti–hero as they try to seek redemption. A novel by James M. Cain, Double
Indemnity's anti–hero Walter Neff has many flaws; flaws that are egotistical and murderous, but also
manipulative and powerful. Just like Walter Neff, a recent character that is the epitome of an anti–
hero is, Frank Underwood in the show House of Cards. Frank started at the bottom and with his
anti–hero characteristics powered his way to presidency putting many morals aside and doing what
he thought was the only option to achieve what he wanted. With complex motives, a driven mindset,
and no boundaries, the
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How Did Roosevelt Change During The Progressive Era Dbq
In the early 1900s in the United States, there was a time of reform at the national level. During the
Progressive Era, specifically the years 1900 through 1920, the nation was going through many
changes, especially with the different presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, and the limitations of
labor and citizen life as a whole. Roosevelt was a progressive republican president. He did many
great things for the Progressive Era and for overall progress of the country. The first federal action
against monopolies was the Sherman Anti–Trust Act, which Roosevelt used to bust bad trusts. He
also tried to save the good ones, and was pretty successful busting most of the bad trusts (Document
1). Roosevelt passed the food and drug act and the meat inspection act to keep food products safe
and healthy, after people exposed the meat processing industry and lied about what was in food and
medicine. Taft was another president of the Progressive Era. However, he was very limited
compared to Roosevelt. Taft busted the good trusts that Roosevelt wanted to keep around. Instead of
busting the bad trusts, he busted all of the trusts. Taft also tried to reduce taxes with the Payne
Aldrich Tariff, but it scarcely reduced the rates. Overall, Taft was the ... Show more content on
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He started a new freedom in the United States. Wilson passed the 16th Amendment, which gave the
right of income taxes, and the 17th Amendment, which established the direct election of senators.
Theodore Roosevelt pushed for the direct vote of senators and Wilson worked to make what
Roosevelt wanted to happen (Document 4). Wilson also established the Clayton Anti–Trust Act,
which strengthened the Sherman Anti–Trust Act (Document 5). Wilson strengthened everything that
Roosevelt wanted to do. However, he usually could also see both sides to any argument. Therefore,
it made the people think he couldn't make a decision, or in many cases, the right decision.
(Document
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Differences Between Thermisol And Thalidomide
Thermisol and Thalidomide: Is There Correlation? In our modern world we think that everything is
out to get us. Supposedly the things that were invented to help us survive are now the cause of some
horrible birth defects. The same thing has occurred about sixty years ago with the drug called
Thalidomide. My goal is to show the correlations between the medical scare of Thalidomide and
how people are reacting the exact same way towards the vaccinations. Thalidomide started in
Germany in 1957 as a calming medicine for pregnant women. As time went on they discovered that
the uses for it could also be used to alleviate morning sickness. After this new use was discovered, it
became an over the counter drug available to everyone. Shortly after the drug was available to the
public five thousand to seven thousand infants had been reported to be born with phocomelia, which
is the malformation of limbs. Only about forty percent of these infants survived. Throughout the
world over ten thousand cases had been reported and only fifty percent of those cases survived. As
you would expect from such side effects, this caused ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Thimerosal is mercury containing organic compound that is used as a preservative in many vaccines
to keep away life threatening contamination. The CDC and the APA requested that thimerosal be
removed as quickly as possible, except for some preparations of the influenza vaccine. Since 2000,
the thimerosal in children's vaccines had allegedly contributed to autism in children and because of
this, thousands of parents tried to pursue legal action. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine rejected any
connection between autism and the thimerosal–containing vaccines. Even after thimerosal was
removed from vaccine, autism rates steadily continued to rise and there is no scientific evidence that
proves that exposure to thimerosal causes
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Antitrust Law Violation Of Antitrust Laws
Antitrust Law Violations
Introduction
This paper will discuss the Google case that was presented by Microsoft stating that Google was in
violation of antitrust laws. Also, in this paper some of the pecuniary and non–pecuniary costs will be
discussed. Given in this paper will also be my thoughts on monopolies and oligopolies.
Antitrust Case
Google was investigated for antitrust behavior because they were claimed to be an "internet bully
that abuses its dominance of online search and advertising" (STEINHAUSER & LIEDTKE, 2011,
p. 1). Google was doing things like buying smaller companies in search results but then
labeling/highlighting their own services instead. Being that Google was knocking out the
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When dealing with market structures and considering Google as a monopoly, the characteristics of
the monopoly market structure fit. In a sense, Google is being seen as the only producer for internet
search, and is trying to make it seem through their practices that they are the only reliable business
in the industry. Because of the overwhelming market power Google is gaining through the use of
other smaller companies, other businesses such as Microsoft, are beginning to feel that the
competition being created is unfair and favored. Especially with Google blocking out their results as
the search engine is used.
Antitrust as Investopedia pointed out, "prohibits a variety of practices that restrain trade,"
("Antitrust Definition | Investopedia", n.d.). According to the complaints of Microsoft, Google was
in violation of the Sherman Act of 1980. The Sherman Act states that, "public is best served by free
competition in trade and industry," ("Sherman Anti–Trust Act legal definition of Sherman Anti–
Trust Act", n.d.). Also, the Sherman Act points out that, "it prohibits monopolies attempts to
monopolize, or conspiracies to monopolize." ("Sherman Anti–Trust Act legal definition of Sherman
Anti–Trust Act", n.d). By blocking out their rivals, and not giving them an equal opportunity to
display the information related to the searches of the consumers, Microsoft felt this was a violation
of the Sherman Act. On another note, after reading the research
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The First And Second Industrial Revolutions In France
The first and second industrial revolutions reconstructed the global economy. Manufacturing shifted
from the simple artisan shop to the massive factory. The idea and practice of the local small business
slowly faded, as the concept of corporation grew. These corporations had a simple goal: make profit,
cut competition, repeat. Manufacturers and other large corporations did anything to achieve this
goal, and strived to do it as cheaply as possible. In order to lower costs, they often cut workers'
wages. This was not received well by the employees, who eventually fought back. Thus, the labor
movement was born. France, at first, did not take to the idea of organized labor. Tension grew
between the people and the government, until a revolution was started. After the 1848 Revolutions
in France, organized labor was legal, and the French government began to embrace the idea. A
friendly relationship between laborers and the government was cast, and it was only to be fortified
when the Third Republic was formed. The United States however, did not face the same fate when it
came to workers' rights. Although labor unions were not explicitly illegal in the United States, they
were not welcomed either. Granted under the rights of the First Amendment, people could freely
protest and strike, yet the government continuously resisted unions. The United States government
took the side of the captains of industry, and remained on this side for over a century. While France
experienced the
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A Note On Trust Issues
Title page
Trust Issues
Zhou Xiaoyan torimichelle74@gmail.com Content
Abstract........................................................................................... page 2
Introduction....................................................................................... page 2
Subtitle 1 ......................................................................................... page 3
Subtitle 2 ......................................................................................... page 3
Conclusion.......................................................................................... page 4
References........................................................................................... page 5 Trust Issues Abstract:
The article reports on the anti–trust investigations conducted by Chinese authorities to business
enterprises in compliance with the Anti–Monopoly Law in 2014. Companies which were
investigated include automobile dealer Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd., telecommunication firm
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14). The contents of this article applies to certain aspects of economics by responding to the
following questions:
1. Why were the firms investigated for antitrust behavior?
2. What are some of the costs (pecuniary and nonpecuniary) associated with the antitrust behavior?
3. Are monopolies and oligopolies always bad for society?
4. What is an example of monopoly or oligopoly being beneficial for society?
Investigation and Costs
Complaints from Chinese consumers saying they were getting overcharged when buying cars, auto
parts, and maintenance services arose, so did many reports of fines from several car companies. "On
September 11, the FAW–Volkswagen Sales Co., together with seven dealers of its luxury brand,
Audi, were fined heavily. The same day, Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd. and three of its dealers
were also held subject to financial penalties" (). This caused authorities to specifically investigate
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Japanese auto part makers. Therefore, the
antitrust behaviors in this particular case consist of pecuniary costs, which are costs of or relating to
money. Moreover, these antitrust behaviors are in violation of a specific act, which would be the
Sherman Act. Violations of the Sherman Act include price–fixing, bid–rigging and market–
allocation agreements.
Affects to Society
Monopolies are a market situation in which a single group or firm owns all of close to all of the
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Anti-Trust Laws Essay
Anti–Trust Laws
The anti–trust movement in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s is a prime example of
the conflict in society between autonomy and responsibility. Trust–related issues tested the extent to
which the government could allow businesses to maintain their autonomy and at the same time
fulfill its responsibility to protect the right of the common worker. America was founded on the
principles of free enterprise. Throughout its history, the United States government maintained a
"laissez–faire" or "hands off" policy in regard to regulation of business. However, in the late 1800s
public demand for the government to regulate big business in order to protect the rights of farmers
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Also, railroads would charge more for transporting goods a short distance than they would for a long
one. The reason for this was that over a long distance they needed to cut rates to keep up with the
competition from other railroad lines. When only traveling a short distance, there was most likely
only one line that traveled the route and farmers were forced to pay whatever rate that particular
railroad was charging. In order to get more business, railroads would also refund money to big
business owners who used their lines. Such refunds were known as rebates. Since these businesses
paid less to transport their goods, they could sell them at a cheaper rate than small business owners
thus driving the small business owners out of business.2 Other practices used by big business
included vertical integration, horizontal integration, trusts, interlocking directorates, and holding
companies. Vertical integration occurred when one business controlled all industries involved in
making a product from the raw materials to the finished consumer version. In a horizontally
integrated industry all companies that produced a certain type of product consolidated to corner the
market. 3 A trust was controlled by a board of trustees that controlled the stock and voting privileges
of a number of companies in the same industry.4 In an interlocking directorate, the same people sat
on the board of directors for multiple
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Analysis Of Leicestershire 's Police Force Essay
The way police manage critical incidents is of upmost importance. An incident that is manged well,
will raise public confidence in the police, however if the incident is managed poorly it can have
devastating effects on the victim and the general public will subsequently lose confidence in the
police. ACPO's definition of a critical incident is as follows "Any incident where the effectiveness
of the police response is likely to have a significant impact on the confidence of the victim, their
family and/or the community" (Constabulary, December 2007) Any police officer can notify an
incident as possibly critical, therefore, police officers must always be aware of the potential for any
incident to escalate and become critical. A critical incident can include; Suspicious, unexplained
deaths, Homicides, Incidents requiring a police firearms response, Vulnerable persons missing from
home, Domestic Violence, Crimes involving particularly vulnerable or young victims and hate
crimes, which will be our focus. For our essay, we will be critically analysing Leicestershire's police
force's 'critical incident' management of the case of Fiona Pilkington which is a case of anti–social
behaviour that deeply affected public confidence. Whenever a critical incident is identified, it must
be addressed sharp and efficiently. Reassuring, rebuilding and maintaining the confidence of the
victim, their family and community should be fundamental to critical incident management (Thames
Valley Police,
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A Brief Note On An Intentional Torts?
2. Explain the concept of "Foreseeability". Foreseeability is primarily a question of the extent to
which something is predictable or will occur. The emphasis here is on the extent to which something
can be known beforehand. Foreseeability is a reasonable anticipation of the possible results of an
action if one is negligent or breached a contract. Foreseeability thus involves making sure one
guards against that which happenstance is under probability. The foreseeability test basically asks
whether the person causing the injury should have reasonably foreseen the general consequences
that would result because of his or her conduct.
5. Fully describe (2) Intentional Torts An intentional tort is a tort that is done on purpose or
deliberately. It is an unjustified act that causes trauma or harm to someone else. For a tort to be
intentional, the person perpetrating the tort must know to a certain degree that it would result in
harm. Below are two Intentional Torts:
False Imprisonment: This involves deliberately confining another person from moving freely in an
unlawful way. It can also be described as the restraining in an unlawful way of someone against
his/her will with the intent of committing a harm. This harm can either be physical or psychological
injury or even damage to property. One can only seek for a remedy from the court of law when there
is no legal reason for the imprisonment.
Defamation: This is when someone says something false about someone else, to another
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Letter from Scout to Dill
Argumentative Essay Brittany Ennis 11/20/13 There has been much debate among historians about
the role of government in big business. Should trusts be allowed to exist? Roosevelt believes that
they should get rid of monopolies. He quotes and believes in Van Hise's article "Concentration and
Control". His article says that the government should get involved in business in order to keep big
businessmen in check. He says that unrestrained competition is the biggest of our problems when it
comes to big business. The big business men do not feel as if they are doing anything because
everyone is doing it. The Sherman anti–trust should just be shut down and there should be a new
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What he's saying is completely false. We would never know if anyone was better than Carnegie
because we never gave anyone else a chance to be better. He can't sit there and say that if he doesn't
know, we will never be able to know if anyone was better than Carnegie because no one let anybody
else in. Wilson also says in is writing that "Upon the mere basis of knowing how to manufacture
goods better than anybody else and sell them cheaper, they can carry the water that they have put in
their enterprises in order to buy up rivals you are perfectly able to try it" (Wilson: Democratic Anti–
Trust). The fact that he doesn't want the government in it means that even if he wants unfair
business practices to end it doesn't mean it's actually going to happen. If we are going to get
anything done to help the economy we need to have the government there to enforce it. If we did
what Wilson wanted to then we would be sitting here just waiting for a miracle to happen because
nothing could get done. Even if we attempted to take away only the unfair business practices, they
big business guys would do all that they could to do it anyways. Wilson has no idea what he is
trying to deal with. Andrew Carnegie has a very similar yet very different point of view on the issue
than Woodrow Wilson, yet either way both of them are completely out of their minds. He says that
"The Socialist or the Anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions s t0 be regarded
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How Did Chesapeake Refuse To Sell Its Commerce
n June 1807, British frigate Leopard tried to stop an American ship Chesapeake which actually hired
some British deserters. British opened fired and killed three Americans on Chesapeake ship on U.S.
territorial waters after Chesapeake refuse to stop. Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807 to ban
British importation to retaliate this action. However, the act caused U.S.export increased and halted
its commerce. Jefferson paid a liability and decided no to seek for three terms. It also became one of
the failures of the Jefferson presidencies.
In previous, slaves could escape to free states through taking the underground railroad. Some
Southern slaveholders, usually political elite didn't agree to abolish slavery. They insisted on passing
the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 which legislated to allow for the capture and return of runaway
slaves within the United States. Some abolitionlist felt angry about this act because it liked ligalized
kidnapping. They tried to nullify the law and rescue slaves to get on the underground railroad.
Homestead Act was passed by Congress in 1862. Any citizens in the United States could recieved
160 acres of federal land. If the person lived on the land for five years, he/she could get the land free
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This act didn't cause any influencial effect on trusts but brought a Supreme Court case United States
v. E.C. Knight Company. The Court ruled that the American Sugar Refining Company, one of the
other defendants in the case, had not violated the law even though the company controlled about 98
percent of all sugar refining in the United States. The Court opinion reasoned that the company's
control of manufacture did not constitute a control of trade. The Court's ruling in E. C. Knight
seemed to end any government regulation of
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The Sherman Anti Trust Act Of 1890 Essay
Abbi Green
Period 5
2016 Nov. 16
Anti–Trust
The Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 was passed to prohibit trusts, this was the first law passed by
U.S. Congress to enforce this. This act was named after Senator John Sherman. Before this act was
put into place, many other states had enforced laws very similar to the Sherman Anti–Trust Act.
These laws were not perfect though, the large corporations had the majority of the economic power.
Congress was not pleased with this, thus making the Sherman Anti–Trust Act. This act allowed
Congress to regulate interstate commerce, outlawing monopolistic practices. If a person were to
violate this act, he or she could be imprisoned for a year and fined five–thousand dollars. This law
was successfully used to help Theodore Roosevelt during his campaign, "trust–busting". Also,
President Taft used the law to back himself up against the Standard Oil Trust and American Tobacco
Company. The Standard Oil trust was when a board of nine trustees was set up to make all of the
company decisions , allowing the company to run as a monopoly. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act
allowed both presidents to dissolve the trusts that were creating problems. On the other hand, the
Sherman Anti–Trust Act had many holes, it did not have exact wording, therefore allowing
companies to still control the majority of the producing and still get away with it. The Sherman
Anti–Trust Act had substantial success, but was put to rest and replaced with the Clayton Anti–Trust
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Anti Vaccination Apa Citation
Bernstein, L. (2014). Arguing with anti–vaxers: Maybe not a virtuous intention. Washington: WP
Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://examine–proquest–
com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/1634635164?accountid=87314
Lenny Bernstein, a author for The Washington Post in Washington D.C., believes that reason with
an one who does not trust in vaccines is not the best moving to convince them otherwise. He uses
scrutiny from "Dartmouth College which condition that in some suit the proof itself may be telltale–
productive." He contour the inference from the examination that found, "rectification vaccine myths
may not be an efficient approach to elevate vaccination;" this koan seems to be explained by "when
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The say undrape that some of the research conducted by the fifteen was subtle. The tell critic the
reality that the ponder was serious, with no obvious direct or adhesion to the expert method.
However, its findings it starting the vaccination terrify. The creator quote the retentiveness of
pressman Brian Deer for his prevent in reveal the counterfeiting. This matter is helpful in learn the
extirpate of the anti–vaccination movement as it will give me appeal to propitious my actual
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Essay On Theodore Roosevelt's Impact On Social Reform
The ascension of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency impacted America in terms of bringing
about meaningful reform. Acts such as the Forest Reserve Act, Meat Inspection Act and the Square
Deal helped to reform America. Roosevelt first started by exposing corruptions itself, nicknaming
the reform minded journalists Muckrakers. Their job was to write articles that exposed the
corruption in America. The major deal that helped reform America was the Square Deal. The Square
Deal aimed at: control of corporations, consumer protection, and preserving natural resources. The
first sign of Roosevelt controlling the corporations was during the Anthracite Coal Strike in 1902.
During which the miners went on a strike demanding higher pay and a decrease in workday hours.
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The first step towards natural resource conservation took place with President Rutherford B. Hayes
with the Desert Land Act. This act sold government land for cheap only if the purchaser would
irrigate the soil within a time period of three years. On the other hand, this act failed to attract
settlers to the west. The Forest Reserve Act was more successful, the act set aside land to be
designated as national parks. In 1902 Roosevelt passed the Newlands Act which gave the
government to use money from the sale of land in the west to develop an irrigation system. In
another effort to conserve our resources, Roosevelt set aside about 125 million acres of land to help
prevent further shrinkage of Americas forests. Roosevelt, along with engineers and foresters also
developed the multiple–use resource management policy, which intended to use federal land for
logging, watershed protection, and recreation purposes. The disappearance of the land in America
sparked the creation of the Boy Scouts and books such as "Call of the Wild" by Jack
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Progressivism Vs Populism Essay
Progressivism was a partial extension of the Populist movement, and many Populist ideals framed
the headwork for the Progressive Age.Many other influences that drove the populist movement
effected policies of progressive age. During the Gilded Age, a new political party emerged named
the Populist party, fighting for the silver standard and many indebted farmers. In the Populist
Platform of 1892 they presented many ideas that would carried off into the new century that will be
utilized to form the Progressive age. The Progressive movement started with the middle class' status
anxieties, because as the started to feel the squeeze of the trust and corruption the middle class
began to speak out. Progressivism and Populism can be looked as similar ... Show more content on
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In 1886 the Knights of Labor wrote in their Declaration of Principles of the Great and Growing
Order of the Workingmen about the adoption of new rules and regulation in the work environment
and even a shorten work day. These reforms were desired by many American in the 19th century
where many of them were industrial laborers. These ideas would be carried along to the Populist
Platform of 1896 adopting the shorter worker day and a graduated income tax. This ideas with be
carried into 20th century with the 16th Amendment that would levy the graduated income tax which
was at first a Knights of Labor idea. Along with the shorten workday that will eventually come from
the Lochner v. New York supreme court case that would give every factory worker a 10 hour
workday in 1917.Yet the adoption of workplace regulations would come after a tragedy despite the
strikes of Ladies Tailors nearly a year before. In 1911 when many women tailors who worked in the
Triangle Shirtwaist Company died in a tragic preventable fire many building and factory regulations
were put into place. Populist ideas which were derived from movements such as the Knights of
Labor Movement which would later impact the Progressive
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  • 1. A Clashing of Opinions The "Mosaics: Reading and Writing Essays" textbook includes two essays with differing views on the effectiveness of anti–loitering laws. Richard Willard shares his opinion that anti–loitering laws are effective tools that discourage gang activity in his essay, "Anti–Loitering Laws Can Reduce Gang Violence." He asserts that alternative methods of punishing gang members only cause them to develop animosity for police that leads to more trouble. Alternatively, "Anti–Loitering Laws Are Ineffective and Biased," an essay written by David Cole, presents the view that these laws are a form of discrimination. Both authors support their opinions with statistics and previous examples of anti–loitering law enforcement. Willard begins his essay by ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... He states that "Chicago calls the offense "gang loitering," but it might more candidly be termed "standing while black." Ultimately he uses the issue of racism to support his negative view of anti– loitering laws. He makes the generalization that the police who enforce the laws do so in a discriminatory manner. If the police who enforce the laws are unbiased, then his argument is unfounded. Cole also directly attacks Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's policies in New York City. He claims that forces were focused on the inner city where minorities were adversely affected. Though others claim that these policies actually helped the safety of the inner city regions, the author dismisses these arguments as garbage. Paragraph 4 of his essay says "it is far from clear...that minority communities generally favor "quality of life" policing efforts that send so many of their residents to jail." After providing little basis for these claims, "Anti–Loitering Laws Are Ineffective and Biased" moves on to assert that police officers who enforce anti–loitering laws become untrustworthy. The essay offers no support of the fact that anti–loitering laws breed distrust among the populous besides Cole's own opinions. He does however move on to say that authorities do understand the need for trust. His seventh paragraphs relates that "Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission reported that such support "will not be present when a substantial segment of the community feels threatened by the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 2. Violating The Sherman Anti Trust Act to compete, so it opted to try to form a monopolistic trust in order to eliminate the competition. But to determine if Microsoft was attempting to violate the Sherman Anti–Trust Act, a trust must be defined. By definition, a trust is a combination of firms formed by legal agreement. While it may not be obvious to the average consumer, Microsoft, by trying to negotiate an agreement between the two businesses so it could have a better grip on web browsing, hints at wanting to form a trust between the two. Not many people had non–Windows systems so Microsoft would have the Netscape browser be offered to the minority of customers while making itself available to the masses. Microsoft would not directly gain money from Netscape, but its losing potential customers meant that Microsoft would gain more money indirectly. The Sherman Anti–Trust is not explicit in its terms and it is not clear whether a trust is illegal or preventing competition is. In Section one of the act, it says that a trust has to also be "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations" to fully be declared illegal. Even in section two of the act, it states," Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony" (Cornell). The lines "among the several states" can be used as a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 3. Microsoft Antitrust Case Student: Stephen Votta Class: Business and Society Course time: Online Professor: Dr. Chemene Crawford Date due: 06/03/2006 The Anti–Trust Case against Microsoft Microsoft was founded in 1975 by founder Bill Gates, a former Harvard drop out (Lawrence, 455). The business grew and controlled 90% of the market for operating systems, with revenues of over nineteen billion dollars per year (Lawrence, 455). In the nineteen nineties, the Internet generation was starting to explode and Microsoft new that it would be a profitable market. This led to their approach to develop a new product to handle this revolution. Their solution was Internet Explorer, which was created in 1995 to allow its users to access the World Wide Web ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... – Hybrid to include two to three operating system companies and one software company (Lawrence, 461). This breakup seems sound and would create competition and avoid the problems of dividing applications and Internet Business, but will still take away from an industry standard. – Auction rights to windows source code to companies such as Sun Microsystems or IBM (Lawrence, 462). This would create competition, but according to Sun Microsystems none of the companies would bid on it because all of the key programmers live in Seattle and make too much to move (Lawrence, 462). – Require Microsoft to publish either the entire Windows code or part of it, so that other companies can create operating system and software (Lawrence, 462). – The government would write and enforce the rule for conduct for Microsoft (Lawrence, 462). This may seem like a great approach, but the source code is not well documented and would require technical support from Microsoft to understand (Lawrence, 462). After careful deliberation, the United States Justice Court concluded that Microsoft violated 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act and remedy that they be broken into two separate businesses; one of the businesses in the operating system market and other one in the Software market (Wikipedia). In 2000 Microsoft appealed to the Supreme Court, but ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 4. PepsiCo Case Study Section One. Overview of the case: On January 24, 1986, PepsiCo revealed that they had a plan to purchase the Seven–Up Company from Phillip Morris Companies, Inc. for $380 million. A month later this huge acquisition led to the Coca–Cola company proclaiming that they intended to purchase the Dr. Pepper Company for $470 million. During this time Coca–Cola was the leader in the soft drink market and held the largest market share of thirty eight percent (38.6% in 1986 to be exact). In comparison Pepsi was the number two supplier of soft drinks in the market and respectively trailed Coca–Cola with a market share of twenty seven percent (27.4% in 1986). Both companies greatly competed on price, which ultimately led to lower prices and amplified partnership in the soft drink industry. Price discounting and effective promotion and marketing were fundamental in distinguishing products within this highly competitive market. The ability to introduce new products also proved to be imperative in gaining market share as it is in any market if you want to be successful as a major market player or competitor. As one could expect companies of smaller size and market share had difficulty surviving in this industry, and were poised for a buyout from a much larger holder in the market. An example of this was Seven–Up whom held a market share of six percent (6.3%). The proposed merger between Seven–Up and Pepsi would have brought Pepsi's market share up from twenty seven percent to almost ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 5. Ftc : The Federal Trade Commission What is the FTC? The FTC stands for Federal Trade Commission. The Federal Trade Commission is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1914 to help prevent unfair business practices, deception, fair trade practices, and unfair competition. The FTC's mission is to protect the consumers by enacting laws to ensure that businesses cannot cheat people out of money and keep businesses from being unethical and immoral. The FTC takes complaints about businesses and investigates them for fraud or unfair labor practices every year (Silbersack, 2013). Duties of the FTC. The Federal Trade Commission's mission is to protect consumers and to promote competition in the marketplace, but that is a very broad statement for what all duties the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The company stated that consumers could make over $300 a day working from home. The FTC came in and stopped this scam from hurting further consumers and prosecuted the online schemers (www.ftc.gov, 2014). Discussion Events that led to the creation of the FTC. July 2, 1890, the Sherman Anti–Trust Act was the first law passed by congress to prevent monopolistic business practices. Named after Senator John Sherman of Ohio, he had this law to pass the senate with a unanimous vote of 51–1 and the House with a vote of 242–0. President Harrison signed it into law in 1890. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act authorized government to make it illegal to make a "restraint of trade or commerce among the several states or with foreign nations". Those that did not abide by this law resulted in a $5,000 fine and a year in prison. "The Sherman Act was designed to reestablish competition but was loosely worded and unsuccessful to define terms as "trust," "combination," "conspiracy," and "monopoly" (www.ourdocuments.gov, 2013)". Because of this "loosely worded" act, the Supreme Court prevented the federal government from using the act for many years up until President Theodore Roosevelt came along with his "trust–busting" campaigns. In 1904 the Supreme Court finally supported the government in its suit for "termination of the Northern Securities Company and the act was further employed by President Taft in 1911 against the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 6. National Football League Players Association Case Summary Since 1920, the year the National Football League was founded, multiple issues have come up regarding bargaining and anti–trust law. The National Football League Players Association, also known as the NFLPA, the labor organization representing the individual players, was founded in 1956. Its main goal was, and still is, to get the best bargaining agreement for the players, making sure all the needs and interests have been met. However, the job of those working at the National Football League Players Association does not end once leaving the collective bargaining table. Since founding, over 60 years ago, the organization has filed multiple lawsuits on behalf of the players and facilitated strikes to give the players leverage in exercising bargaining ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The National Football League has a Commissioner, who is supposed to be the voice for the owners, in addition to all the lawyers at the bargaining table. Currently, Roger Goodell holds the position, yet his term, while short, already has controversy around it. Some examples include Ray Rice and Ezekiel Elliot and their domestic violence scandals, as well as the New England Patriots and the "Deflategate" incident. On the opposite end of the spectrum lies the executive director for the National Football League Players Association, DeMaurice Smith. For a long time, however, Gene Upshaw held the position until his passing away in 2008. The relationship between these two leaders affects the bargaining table and how willing each side is to negotiate. Paul Tagliabue and Gene Upshaw worked together in a different way, fostering a relationship that proved beneficial at the bargaining ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 7. The Use Of Anti Bullying Policy On The Workplace Introduction The journal article I have chosen to review is 'Too hot to handle?' which focuses on how bullying claims are dealt with and also how effective the use of anti– bullying policies are. I will also be critically evaluating the methods used by the author in finding out how effective the use of anti– bullying policies are in the workplace. What is the rationale of the article? The purpose of this article is to scrutinize the relationship between HR practitioners, managers and employees when dealing with allegations of bullying in the workplace as findings suggest that HR practitioners rarely judge situations as bullying especially when managers have been accused. Furthermore, cases have been found where HR practitioners often ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... However the examination of trust was not really an initial aim of the wider study but the author decided to analyse this due to the fact that the theme of (dis) trust occurred from the data analysis. According to Mishra et al, trust is defined as a 'willingness to be vulnerable to another, based on the belief that the other is reliable, open, competent and concerned' (Mishra et al., 2011: 43) In order to do this, they review the trust literature that is consequently drawn upon and then go ahead to outline the key areas of bullying at the workplace and note how the voice of the employee dominates the literature. There's often a lack of trust between employees and HRPs. When a trust research to raising a bullying claim was applied, the theory suggests that the employee is likely to engage in a risk–assessment process in terms of trusting both the policy and HRP before making a claim by evaluating whether the benefit of making that claim actually outweighs the risk of feeling vulnerable. (Schoorman et al., 2007). On the other hand, the problem of the employees having trust issues also comes with this process; the employee must be rest assured that the bullying claim would be handled with fairness and in a matter that is predictable whilst serving the employee's interests. (Six and Skinner, 2010). The authors also make use of quantitative and qualitative research methods in analysing the issue of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 8. The Anti-Vaccination Movement The earth is flat, and lightning never strikes the same place twice are common scientific misconceptions. In most cases, these misunderstandings are relatively harmless. In other cases, they are critical. Perhaps nowhere is science more important than in the anti–vaccination (anti–VAX) movement. Throughout the last 10 years many "dead" diseases such as the measles, mumps, and whooping cough have begun to come back in meager outbreaks. Pockets of unvaccinated children or under– vaccinated children have led to these outbreaks. More importantly, there are growing pockets of vaccine refusal throughout the nation. With these growing pockets comes disruption in the local herd immunity resulting in vaccine–preventable disease outbreaks. Local herd ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Many getting treated will still have the peril of acquiring a disease because of the terrifying number of people going around unvaccinated. The anti–VAX group's suspicion is making it difficult to find a solution that could find a way out of the ditch already created. Many people in the anti–VAX group believe that many vaccines have the capabilities of causing things such as autism. Great Britain debunked this theory after being published in the journal Lancelet and the lead author of this article, Andrew Wakefield, lost his medical license in 2010. However, as the years went along, the fear of life–saving vaccines took hold of millions of parents. Due to the suspicions created by the anti–VAX group, the lack of trust in America's doctors is near the bottom of all the industrial countries: 24th out of 29 countries surveyed. Recent research has found that those who have the least faith in the government are the least likely to vaccinate in the case of an outbreak of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 9. Case Study Essay example 1. Assume ParaWorld was eventually ordered to cease and desist due to IP infringement. What category of IP has ParaWorld most likely infringed? Explain the actions that constitute such an infringement. (5 Marks) 2. What are some of the anti–competitive behaviours SesamWare might be guilty of? How did/might SesamWare's behavior adversely affect free market competition upon which international trade depends? ( 5 Marks) 3. Is there an international law governing Sesame's behaviour? How will competition laws be enforced globally? (5 Marks) 4. If SesamWare had been headquartered in a country that had no competition laws, as is the case in many developing countries, or if SesamWare never entered into a contract (for example to buy ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... 2. Some of the anti–competitive behaviours SesamWare might have engaged in are as follows: * Dominance and Monopoly: The Company brought many other competitors and became the dominant force in the software industry. This granted them power to dictate terms. * Pyramid Scheme: The gamers were lured into accepting licenses which contained clauses which were meant to benefit the organization in the long–run and not the licensees. * Refusal to deal: SesamWare rendered other companies inadequate to compete by strategically eliminating them from the market. * Issues regarding acquisitions: The phrase "more than meets the eye" perfectly fits the situation. The main motive of the acquisitions seems to be eliminating competition to gain dominance in the market. * Predatory Pricing: The initial contract fee was too low which made it impossible for the other software companies to compete. 3. There is no single authority responsible for the enforcement of international laws. (FITT) However, there are many entities that are concerned with implementation and could possibly have an impact on SesamWare. They are as follows: * GATS and GATT contain provisions dealing with monopolies and TRIPS and GATS recognize the sovereignty of governments to take actions against anti–competitive behaviours. * Organization for Economic ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 10. The Rise Of Corporate Capitalism Intro: After the Civil War, industrialization kicked off (an after–effect of the Market Revolution). But rather than attempt to control it, the government bowed out instead, claiming itself laissez–faire under Adam Smith's capitalism ideas, and letting the industrial chips fall where they may. However, it appears the government couldn't let the "invisible hand" decide the fate of the U.S. market, so they began to intervene in business affairs despite their original pledge not to. The government assisted a great deal in the rise of corporate capitalism (business economy run by corporations and monopolies such as the Standard Oil Company and the U.S. Steel Company) through its laissez–faire policies, railroad involvement, and corruption. T: The U.S. government assisted in the rise of corporations by its laissez–faire policies. R: Take, for instance, the wrong–doings of the railroads and the Sherman Anti–Trust Act. The railroad business was full of shady deals and corrupted railmasters that wasn't rectified until the Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railroad v. Illinois case. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act was only passed after the mass outcry from cheated citizens. I: An example of the wrong– doings of the railroads would be having a short haul cost more than a long one. Because the railroads were owned by the select few large corporations and wealthy businessmen (Cornelius Vanderbilt owned the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, which was one of the first giant ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 11. Sherman Antitrust Act : A Critical And Necessary Statute SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT I claim that the Sherman Antitrust Act is a critical and necessary statute that gradually caused significant changes in business practices in order to ensure a competitive free market system essential for long term growth of the economy, although it faced criticisms for sacrificing economic efficiency. This fundamental statute continues to notably shape the economic landscape even today, albeit being more than 100 years old. The act contains three sections. The first section renders every contract, trust and conspiracy in restraint of interstate and foreign trade illegal (Dana 1903). The second section effectively penalizes everyone engaged in monopolizing any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with a foreign nation. The third section extends the first section to include U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Prior to the enactment of this act several states within the United States had passed similar laws for intrastate businesses. However, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts and regulate interstate commerce (Initiative). The opponents of the act claim that it made the economy less efficient. Bradley (1990) asserts that the Sherman Act discouraged scale economies that promoted lower costs and prices, penalized successful market entrepreneurship, and rewarded the political entrepreneurship of less–efficient business rivals. Others such as Comanor (1995) ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 12. The Effects Of Monopoly On Economic Development Discuss the effects of monopoly on economic development. Is monopoly legal in your country? If so, give three examples. If not, what are the actions of the government that have been taken to prevent monopoly? A Monopoly power as study showcases is when a firm has monopoly power it will engage itself a little competition. Which also means that a monopoly is a price maker and its demand curve will be inelastic. If Monopoly set to increase prices demand, it would only fall by a small percentage. According to Pettinger, R. (2013), a monopoly is likely to cause the following effects in the economy development as stated below: i. Monopoly would increase price and decline consumer surplus, in that case, demand is will be inelastic. By so doing, the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Monopoly will cause allocative inefficiency by introducing higher prices and less choice for consumers. vi. A situation where monopolies get too high, they may experience what we call diseconomies of scale. vii. Monopolies can use their monopoly power to achieve a goal by paying lower prices to their suppliers. For examples, A Supermarkets will pay low prices to farmers since the farmers do not have any other choice than to sell their products. The effects of monopoly on economic development can also be seen from another aspect where we have Price exceeding Marginal Cost, Price exceeding lowest Average Total Cost. This results to an efficiency loss (dead weight loss) where we have sum of consumer surplus plus producer surplus is less than maximum. It can be viewed as a "private tax" on consumers since the higher price will generates higher economic profit that is distributed amongst shareholders of the company, who are mostly from high–income groups. Monopoly owner's benefit at the expense of the consumers, since owners have more income than the consumers, monopoly increases gap between rich and poor. For example, when a buyer is richer than owners of the monopoly, then income transfer from consumers to owners may decrease income ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 13. How successful were Presidents, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson... How successful were Presidents, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson in addressing America's economic problems? (24 marks) America in the late 19th and early 20th century was going through tremendous growth, with mass immigration and the consequent rapid growth of cities and urbanisation, industrialisation and mass production. Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, the 3 main presidents of the early 20th century are often known for their many achievements both abroad and at home, and economic problems are one of the many problems that they dealt with during their terms as president. This essay will touch on the economic problems in that era and how the presidents dealt with those problems. The first of the presidents Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt was a ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This shows how Taft might not have been all that successful in attending the economic problems, but at the same time shows how he may have been passive with the trust busting with the intention of future stability of the American economy. Taft showed more of his successful and unsuccessfulness with the passing of the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. The tariff was passed by Congress in 1909, and it was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897. The issue had been blatantly ignored by Roosevelt during his terms and the Republicans wanted to revise the tariff downward. To do this Taft called Congress to a special session, and the bill was promptly passed, reducing rates. The senate substituted a bill which reduced the number of downward revisions and increased many others. This angered many and so a compromise bill was adopted which moderated the high rates that Aldrich had pushed for. Overall the tariff lowered 650 items, raised 220, and left 1150 unchanged. Although it was a push economic change, it was a largely protectionist move from Taft, showing that he had not much determination in fixing economic problems. But at the same time it shows that tariffs were needed to maintain some leverage in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 14. The Consequences And Causes Of The Mexican American War The Mexican American War began on May 13th, 1846, when Congress declared war on Mexico, and finally came to an end on May 26th, 1848, when both sides of the war agreed on a peace treaty (Bomboy, 2012). While this war was over, 14 years later, another one began, based on what many feel transpired as a result of the Mexican American War (Bomboy, 2012). The War began when the independent republic of Texas decided to join the United States, which Mexico considered an act of war (Bomboy, 2012). By the end of the war, 10 states had joined the Union and the size of Mexico was cut in half, including California, Texas, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming (Bomboy, 2012). This war was important for both nations, but in America, it was exacerbated with the ongoing issue of slavery and the political climate of the country. Thousands were killed, and millions of dollars were spent, it was America's first foreign war that was fought nearly completely on foreign soil, and forever changed the borders of both countries (Miller, 2006). Since Mexico was South, the states added to the Union were in slavery territory, and the balance between the slave states and the free states of the North was thrown off by the additional states (Miller, 2006). With 10 new states added to the United States in the South, the constant uncertainty of whether or not they should be free or slave states, and what it would mean for the previous Southern and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 15. Witchcraft For Sale In the story, "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing, the main character, Gideon, is a servant for a white family, the Farquars. Gideon pushes cultural limitations, and Teddy, the Farquars' little boy, and he build a close relationship. Gideon saves Teddy's sight from snake poison, and when everyone asks him to give up the secret of the tribal medicine, he refuses, which causes tension between him and the Farquars. Gideon loses the trust of the Farquars, who believe he is making the wrong decision, but he still saves Teddy and contributes to everyone's lives; making Gideon an anti–hero. Gideon tries to be a good person and help raise Teddy the best he can; however, when things don't go the way he thinks they should, he shuts people out. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Teddy grows up with a servant, who is also his friend and caretaker, because Gideon gives him a tribal name and gets attached to him. The story states, "They gave Gideon present... and a big increase in wages, but these things could not pay for Teddy's now completely cured eyes" (Lessing 7). Although, Gideon almost exposes a native medicine, he saves Teddy's sight, which affects his future. When Gideon decides to not give up the secret, the Farquars don't understand why he's acting the way he is, and they begin to distance themselves from him. Gideon is the one to act as an anti– hero, yet the Farquars are still affected by his ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 16. AT & T's Anti-Trust Case AT&T will be able to establish itself as a telecommunications powerhouse if it is able to win its antitrust case against the Justice Department, yet the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission has the fate of the telecommunications establishment at the palm of their hands. On one side, the Justice Department has blocked AT&T's $85 billion purchase of Time Warner by suing the telecom establishment on November 20, while the Federal Communications Commission broadcasted its plan on November 21 to revert net neutrality rules, which was perceived as a huge victory for Internet providers. Analysts mentioned that these events can help AT&T clinch a double victory since winning the anti– trust case will enable the telecom establishment ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 17. Microsoft: An Examination of Monopolies Microsoft: An Examination of Monopolies Introduction This paper examines the nature of monopolies and the anti–trust policies developed by the government to discourage them. It specifically considers Microsoft and the case brought against it by the Federal government to prevent its becoming a software monopoly. In many cases, the government is justified in pursuing such anti–monopoly policies to protect competition and by extension the consumer. There are some instances, however, when allowing certain monopolies ensures constant supply, efficient production, and consistent regulation of products vital to the public good. The Microsoft Anti–Trust Case In 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software company was violating the Sherman Antitrust Act and the terms of a previous settlement by bundling its Internet Explorer browser application with its Windows operating system. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act was passed in 1890 in an effort to prevent monopolies that would threaten competition in the marketplace and would eventually lead to extortionary prices for consumers. The Act restricts companies from any practices that artificially create a monopoly by barring competitors from entering the market. The government's case against Microsoft rested on a particular definition of monopoly. Monopolies can occur in several ways. A pure monopoly, where only one company offers a product for which there are no viable substitutes, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 18. Essay On Immunizing The Public Against Anti Vaccine Myths Immunizing the Public Against Anti–Vaccine Myths: The Best Vaccine Against Misinformation is the Correct Information Picture yourself as a parent, driving your twelve–month old to the clinic for a scheduled vaccine. You wait at the reception, they call your name, you are pointed to a room, you wait, the vaccine is administered, the doctor mentions some information, and you drive home. The sequence ends with a small feeling of accomplishment as you check another box on your list of parental responsibilities. The next day, you are scrolling the Internet, and a headline grabs your attention, "new fear over MMR link with rising autism". A quick flashback to the previous day causes a sinking feeling in your gut, and the headline is sure to ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The scientific community has debunked the vaccine–autism link countless times; however, the controversy seems to constantly linger in the background of the discourse, and is brought up to the forefront every now and then. Unfortunately, the vaccine controversy is the tail that wags the dog, since those subscribing to vaccine myths are a definite minority; however, they are tenacious enough to thwart the efforts of informative immunization campaigns. Since vaccine myths tend to eclipse the truths about immunization, it is important to scrutinize the dialogue and separate the facts from the fiction. The Facts and the Fiction Researching about vaccines on the internet tends to bring up websites and forums that support immunization; however, a small alteration of the search using anti–vaccination key words will quickly take you down a rabbit hole of anti–vaccine websites and sensationalist headlines that tread dangerous waters that are far from the factual shore. Although most anti–vaccine beliefs are fringe conspiracy theories that are scarcely mentioned, there are three main myths that have repeatedly come up: the MMR vaccine–autism link, the Thimerosal–autism link, and the immunization schedule debate. While it is important to discuss these popular myths, it is essential to begin by defining what vaccination entails. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines vaccination as, "the injection of a killed or weakened organism that produces immunity in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 19. Antitrust Investigation On The Anti Monopoly Law Title page Antitrust Investigation Zhou Xiaoyan torimichelle74@gmail.com Table of Contents Abstract........................................................................................... page 2 Introduction....................................................................................... page 2 Investigation and Costs.......................................................................... page 3 How Society was Affected ..................................................................... page 3 Conclusion.......................................................................................... page 4 References........................................................................................... page 5 Trust Issues Abstract: The article reports on the anti–trust investigations performed by the Chinese authorities to the business enterprises in acquiescence with the Anti–Monopoly Law in 2014. Corporations that were investigated by these authorities embrace the automobile dealer Chrysler collection China ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... 14). The contents of this article applies to certain aspects of economics by responding to the following questions: 1. Why were these specific companies considered for antitrust behavior investigations? 2. What are some pecuniary and no pecuniary costs related to the antitrust behavior? 3. Do monopolies and oligopolies always reflect negatively on society? 4. What is an example that shows how monopolies and oligopolies can benefit society? Investigation and Costs Chinese consumers were complaining about being charged too much when buying cars, auto parts, and maintenance services arose, so did many reports of fines from several car companies. "On September 11, the FAW–Volkswagen Sales Co., together with seven dealers of its luxury brand, Audi, were fined heavily. The same day, Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd. and three of its dealers were also held subject to financial penalties" (Xiaoyan, 2014, p. 15). This caused authorities to specifically investigate Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Qualcomm Incorporated and Japanese auto part makers. Therefore, the antitrust behaviors in this particular case consist of pecuniary costs, which are costs of or relating to money. Moreover, these antitrust behaviors are in violation of a
  • 20. specific act, which would be the Sherman Act. Violations of the Sherman Act include price–fixing, bid–rigging and market–allocation ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 21. The Microsoft Anti-Trust Case: Presidential Candidate... The Microsoft Anti–Trust Case: Presidential Candidate Recommendations The Microsoft Antitrust Case is essentially the clash of two separate ideals, the key issue being how much influence the government should have in the marketplace. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Microsoft is in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which states: "Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony." ("The Sherman Antitrust Act") The Justice Department claims that Microsoft used its power to establish and maintain a ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS) became a quick success since its creation, entering into the service of millions of consumers worldwide. Ever since Windows became the dominant OS, rival companies have faced the problem of designing software compatible with Windows in order to maintain their large customer population – failure to do so would be detrimental to their own company. Because Microsoft owns the code to its Windows software, defenders of the company argue that it has the right to distribute (or not to distribute) its code at its own leisure. According to Microsoft, the court order forcing them to sell their code is considered a breach of its rights to freedom and property. ("Frequently Asked Questions") In addition, the RealNetworks case – which demanded that Microsoft unbundle its Windows Media Player from the Windows software (Krim) – can be considered a breach of the same rights. After all, Microsoft, as a seller, can dictate the terms that it wants to sell to its consumers, leaving it up to the consumers as to whether they want to buy the product or not. ("Frequently") Therefore, court orders that force Microsoft to either share its technology or change the "bundle" that Windows is sold with are considered by Microsoft to be a violation of their right to freedom and property Furthermore, Microsoft has claimed that it practices sound business techniques that have brought it to the forefront of computer software developers. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 22. Business Consolidation And Monopolies IV) Essay Questions 1) Describe the new business practices that led to business consolidation and monopolies. How did government policies address these new business practices? (520–528) Brainstorm: Vertical integration, horizontal integration, trusts, interlocking directorates, anti–trusts, Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 Wanting to control the market as a whole, rising businesses wanted to create corporate monopolies, consolidate the stocks in a large company, have complete domination over their workers, and be able to obliterate all competition. However, many anti–trust supporters tried to use government policies in order to stop these new business practices. Trusts, and vertical and horizontal intergration were among the business practices used by rising businesses, and the Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 was one of the government policies used against growing corporations. To create monopolies, many companies used trusts, which was when stocks of smaller companies were handed over to the investors of a large company, put together to create an even larger company. This gave the large corporation an extreme amount of influence ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Knowing they would ruin smaller factories, they attempted to use political power to stop trusts from consolidating corporate superpowers. Failing to gain traction from state legistation, the anti–trust supporters went to congressional legislation for support. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 prevented combinations in limiting trade, but large companies quickly found ways to manipulate the act. Few cases were tried and they ended up being unsuccessful for the anti–trust supporters. A side effect of this act was that labor unions also were unable to consolidate, as it was considered a restraint of trade under the same logic, which stopped labor unions from gaining large ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 23. The Pros And Cons Of The Anti-Trust Act 20. Nov. 2014 The anti–trust acts started out in the late 1800s. The anti–trust act means that the government can prevent the growth of a monopoly. There were several forms of the anti–trust acts. The first form of the act is the Sherman Act of 1980; it outlaws the restrains of trade and monopolization (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). The consequences of not following this act meant that the government can either break up the monopoly into competing firms or stop it from engaging in the specific business they were monopolizing. Then the Clayton Act of 1914 was declared it was made to strengthen and make improvise on the Sherman Act (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). It stated that tying contracts, price discrimination, interlocking directorates, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Even after the disagreements on anti–trust laws, the Supreme Court has the final say in the decision. A firm will be sued by the government if it has a very high market share and if there is evidence of market dominance (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). However, even if the government was the case, the problem always is on how to correct the monopoly so it doesn't continue to be in violation of the anti–trust laws. One particular anti–trust suit that is famous is United States versus Microsoft. In 2000 Microsoft was found guilty of violating the Sherman Act by challenging competitor companies over its operating systems by being hostile to competitor's software (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). Microsoft used anticompetitive ways to maintain their monopoly power. Microsoft felt threatened by competing companies so they signed contracts with PC makers that require them to feature Internet Explorer on the PC desktop and penalized other competing software's (McConnell, Brue, and Flynn). In addition, Microsoft gave coding to friendly companies rather than competing companies and they created software making competing companies software incompatible with Windows. Microsoft appealed their district court decision taking it ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 24. A Comparison of Two Monopolists in a Competitive Market Essay A Comparison of Two Monopolists in a Competitive Market According to Webster , to have a monopoly is to have exclusive ownership, possession, or control. The following essay is an examination of Microsoft in comparison to this definition and another commonly known monopoly, Standard Oil. Also attention will be given to the necessary role of and problems with monopolies. Competitive Market vs. Monopoly A competitive market consists of many buyers and sellers. Markets thrive because an equilibrium price is established through natural competition and no single buyer or seller can affect that price. Instead both buyer and seller must take the price given by the market based on the dynamics of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Such actions generally target existing competition or prevent the rise of future competitors. Some examples of such actions are refusal to sell to a particular customer in order to eliminate competition, lowering prices below cost (price war), and contracts that close channels of distribution or supplies to competitors. Though its interpretation is not particularly clear, The Sherman Anti– Trust Act is the standard used for determining trade misconduct and violates. Standard Oil January 2, 1882 marked the formation of the Standard Oil Trust. It was the invention of attorney Samuel Dodd and fuelled by the control of John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller began by concentrating on the refining business. He then expanded to other aspects of the oil industry to include extraction, sales, transportation, research, marketing even to the point of barrel manufacturing. The practices that brought Standard Oil to its peak became the evidence of its demise. Rockefeller kept a low profile on his company earnings and hid the profits by reinvesting. Other acts were more covert and damaging. Standard Oil had agreements with the railroads in which the railroad provided not only a lower transportation price but also gave a Standard Oil a kickback from the higher prices charged to competitors. The railroad also provided information regarding competitors shipments. This greatly ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 25. The Burlington Case Paper The Burlington case was able to expand the scope of retaliation where it was found out that the anti– retaliation provision and Title VII's substantive retaliation that include factors to do with gender discrimination (Gillet, Colombat, Michinov, Pronost, & Fouquereau, 2013). The case was therefore in a position to achieve the wider protection of the employees within the organizations within which they work as it makes it necessary for the protection of the employees from the different cases of discrimination within their respective courses. Employees are also protected from legal risks in cases where they might be subjected to unlawful retaliation an example being a situation where they are excluded from organizational meetings modifying the job duties of an employee, an employee being given a negative performance appraisal, or transferring an employee to shift with less desirable working hours. Along with other anti–discrimination legislation, the retaliation statute played the role of protecting employees from actions that can be termed as being unjust in their respective workplaces as such actions could have negative impacts on their respective levels of performance in the organization (Tabak & Hendy, 2016). The efforts were meant to constrain factors within the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... (2013). Procedural justice, supervisor autonomy support, work satisfaction, organizational identification and job performance: the mediating role of need satisfaction and perceived organizational support. J Adv Nurs, n/a–n/a. Tabak, F. & Hendy, N. (2016). Work Engagement: Trust as a Mediator of the Impact of Organizational Job Embeddedness and Perceived Organizational Support. Organization Management Journal, 13(1), 21–31. Wibowo, p. (2015). Work Engagement in the Work Place: The Role of Procedural Justice, Perceived Organizational Support and Organizational Trust. Advances In Social Sciences Research Journal, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 26. Anti Hero By James M. Cain Sporting a fedora, suit and a cigarette in hand, leaning against a wall, the captivating anti–hero stands double crossed in the stereotypical L.A. noir genre. Right in the heat of World War II noir started to rise to the top and become a popular source of entertainment and instant distraction from reality. Many people were drawn to the anti–hero; they were drawn to the flawed characters who were the "heroes" despite their flaws. A hero embodies what people want to be, most consider noir anti–hero's the same. You can idolize them in a story, but they all have specific characteristics that make the "hero," themselves, just as vulnerable as everyone else. An anti–hero needs to be layered, complicated, and flawed that pushes the boundaries of what is right and what is wrong. They need an illustrated struggle that builds through growth so as the audience reads they can keep showing optimism for the anti–hero as they try to seek redemption. A novel by James M. Cain, Double Indemnity's anti–hero Walter Neff has many flaws; flaws that are egotistical and murderous, but also manipulative and powerful. Just like Walter Neff, a recent character that is the epitome of an anti– hero is, Frank Underwood in the show House of Cards. Frank started at the bottom and with his anti–hero characteristics powered his way to presidency putting many morals aside and doing what he thought was the only option to achieve what he wanted. With complex motives, a driven mindset, and no boundaries, the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 27. How Did Roosevelt Change During The Progressive Era Dbq In the early 1900s in the United States, there was a time of reform at the national level. During the Progressive Era, specifically the years 1900 through 1920, the nation was going through many changes, especially with the different presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, and the limitations of labor and citizen life as a whole. Roosevelt was a progressive republican president. He did many great things for the Progressive Era and for overall progress of the country. The first federal action against monopolies was the Sherman Anti–Trust Act, which Roosevelt used to bust bad trusts. He also tried to save the good ones, and was pretty successful busting most of the bad trusts (Document 1). Roosevelt passed the food and drug act and the meat inspection act to keep food products safe and healthy, after people exposed the meat processing industry and lied about what was in food and medicine. Taft was another president of the Progressive Era. However, he was very limited compared to Roosevelt. Taft busted the good trusts that Roosevelt wanted to keep around. Instead of busting the bad trusts, he busted all of the trusts. Taft also tried to reduce taxes with the Payne Aldrich Tariff, but it scarcely reduced the rates. Overall, Taft was the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... He started a new freedom in the United States. Wilson passed the 16th Amendment, which gave the right of income taxes, and the 17th Amendment, which established the direct election of senators. Theodore Roosevelt pushed for the direct vote of senators and Wilson worked to make what Roosevelt wanted to happen (Document 4). Wilson also established the Clayton Anti–Trust Act, which strengthened the Sherman Anti–Trust Act (Document 5). Wilson strengthened everything that Roosevelt wanted to do. However, he usually could also see both sides to any argument. Therefore, it made the people think he couldn't make a decision, or in many cases, the right decision. (Document ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 28. Differences Between Thermisol And Thalidomide Thermisol and Thalidomide: Is There Correlation? In our modern world we think that everything is out to get us. Supposedly the things that were invented to help us survive are now the cause of some horrible birth defects. The same thing has occurred about sixty years ago with the drug called Thalidomide. My goal is to show the correlations between the medical scare of Thalidomide and how people are reacting the exact same way towards the vaccinations. Thalidomide started in Germany in 1957 as a calming medicine for pregnant women. As time went on they discovered that the uses for it could also be used to alleviate morning sickness. After this new use was discovered, it became an over the counter drug available to everyone. Shortly after the drug was available to the public five thousand to seven thousand infants had been reported to be born with phocomelia, which is the malformation of limbs. Only about forty percent of these infants survived. Throughout the world over ten thousand cases had been reported and only fifty percent of those cases survived. As you would expect from such side effects, this caused ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Thimerosal is mercury containing organic compound that is used as a preservative in many vaccines to keep away life threatening contamination. The CDC and the APA requested that thimerosal be removed as quickly as possible, except for some preparations of the influenza vaccine. Since 2000, the thimerosal in children's vaccines had allegedly contributed to autism in children and because of this, thousands of parents tried to pursue legal action. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine rejected any connection between autism and the thimerosal–containing vaccines. Even after thimerosal was removed from vaccine, autism rates steadily continued to rise and there is no scientific evidence that proves that exposure to thimerosal causes ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 29. Antitrust Law Violation Of Antitrust Laws Antitrust Law Violations Introduction This paper will discuss the Google case that was presented by Microsoft stating that Google was in violation of antitrust laws. Also, in this paper some of the pecuniary and non–pecuniary costs will be discussed. Given in this paper will also be my thoughts on monopolies and oligopolies. Antitrust Case Google was investigated for antitrust behavior because they were claimed to be an "internet bully that abuses its dominance of online search and advertising" (STEINHAUSER & LIEDTKE, 2011, p. 1). Google was doing things like buying smaller companies in search results but then labeling/highlighting their own services instead. Being that Google was knocking out the competition by only showing their results ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... When dealing with market structures and considering Google as a monopoly, the characteristics of the monopoly market structure fit. In a sense, Google is being seen as the only producer for internet search, and is trying to make it seem through their practices that they are the only reliable business in the industry. Because of the overwhelming market power Google is gaining through the use of other smaller companies, other businesses such as Microsoft, are beginning to feel that the competition being created is unfair and favored. Especially with Google blocking out their results as the search engine is used. Antitrust as Investopedia pointed out, "prohibits a variety of practices that restrain trade," ("Antitrust Definition | Investopedia", n.d.). According to the complaints of Microsoft, Google was in violation of the Sherman Act of 1980. The Sherman Act states that, "public is best served by free competition in trade and industry," ("Sherman Anti–Trust Act legal definition of Sherman Anti– Trust Act", n.d.). Also, the Sherman Act points out that, "it prohibits monopolies attempts to monopolize, or conspiracies to monopolize." ("Sherman Anti–Trust Act legal definition of Sherman Anti–Trust Act", n.d). By blocking out their rivals, and not giving them an equal opportunity to display the information related to the searches of the consumers, Microsoft felt this was a violation of the Sherman Act. On another note, after reading the research ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 30. The First And Second Industrial Revolutions In France The first and second industrial revolutions reconstructed the global economy. Manufacturing shifted from the simple artisan shop to the massive factory. The idea and practice of the local small business slowly faded, as the concept of corporation grew. These corporations had a simple goal: make profit, cut competition, repeat. Manufacturers and other large corporations did anything to achieve this goal, and strived to do it as cheaply as possible. In order to lower costs, they often cut workers' wages. This was not received well by the employees, who eventually fought back. Thus, the labor movement was born. France, at first, did not take to the idea of organized labor. Tension grew between the people and the government, until a revolution was started. After the 1848 Revolutions in France, organized labor was legal, and the French government began to embrace the idea. A friendly relationship between laborers and the government was cast, and it was only to be fortified when the Third Republic was formed. The United States however, did not face the same fate when it came to workers' rights. Although labor unions were not explicitly illegal in the United States, they were not welcomed either. Granted under the rights of the First Amendment, people could freely protest and strike, yet the government continuously resisted unions. The United States government took the side of the captains of industry, and remained on this side for over a century. While France experienced the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 31. A Note On Trust Issues Title page Trust Issues Zhou Xiaoyan torimichelle74@gmail.com Content Abstract........................................................................................... page 2 Introduction....................................................................................... page 2 Subtitle 1 ......................................................................................... page 3 Subtitle 2 ......................................................................................... page 3 Conclusion.......................................................................................... page 4 References........................................................................................... page 5 Trust Issues Abstract: The article reports on the anti–trust investigations conducted by Chinese authorities to business enterprises in compliance with the Anti–Monopoly Law in 2014. Companies which were investigated include automobile dealer Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd., telecommunication firm Qualcomm Inc., and technology company ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... 14). The contents of this article applies to certain aspects of economics by responding to the following questions: 1. Why were the firms investigated for antitrust behavior? 2. What are some of the costs (pecuniary and nonpecuniary) associated with the antitrust behavior? 3. Are monopolies and oligopolies always bad for society? 4. What is an example of monopoly or oligopoly being beneficial for society? Investigation and Costs Complaints from Chinese consumers saying they were getting overcharged when buying cars, auto parts, and maintenance services arose, so did many reports of fines from several car companies. "On September 11, the FAW–Volkswagen Sales Co., together with seven dealers of its luxury brand, Audi, were fined heavily. The same day, Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd. and three of its dealers were also held subject to financial penalties" (). This caused authorities to specifically investigate Qualcomm, Microsoft, Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Japanese auto part makers. Therefore, the antitrust behaviors in this particular case consist of pecuniary costs, which are costs of or relating to money. Moreover, these antitrust behaviors are in violation of a specific act, which would be the
  • 32. Sherman Act. Violations of the Sherman Act include price–fixing, bid–rigging and market– allocation agreements. Affects to Society Monopolies are a market situation in which a single group or firm owns all of close to all of the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 33. Anti-Trust Laws Essay Anti–Trust Laws The anti–trust movement in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s is a prime example of the conflict in society between autonomy and responsibility. Trust–related issues tested the extent to which the government could allow businesses to maintain their autonomy and at the same time fulfill its responsibility to protect the right of the common worker. America was founded on the principles of free enterprise. Throughout its history, the United States government maintained a "laissez–faire" or "hands off" policy in regard to regulation of business. However, in the late 1800s public demand for the government to regulate big business in order to protect the rights of farmers and smaller business owners became ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Also, railroads would charge more for transporting goods a short distance than they would for a long one. The reason for this was that over a long distance they needed to cut rates to keep up with the competition from other railroad lines. When only traveling a short distance, there was most likely only one line that traveled the route and farmers were forced to pay whatever rate that particular railroad was charging. In order to get more business, railroads would also refund money to big business owners who used their lines. Such refunds were known as rebates. Since these businesses paid less to transport their goods, they could sell them at a cheaper rate than small business owners thus driving the small business owners out of business.2 Other practices used by big business included vertical integration, horizontal integration, trusts, interlocking directorates, and holding companies. Vertical integration occurred when one business controlled all industries involved in making a product from the raw materials to the finished consumer version. In a horizontally integrated industry all companies that produced a certain type of product consolidated to corner the market. 3 A trust was controlled by a board of trustees that controlled the stock and voting privileges of a number of companies in the same industry.4 In an interlocking directorate, the same people sat on the board of directors for multiple ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 34. Analysis Of Leicestershire 's Police Force Essay The way police manage critical incidents is of upmost importance. An incident that is manged well, will raise public confidence in the police, however if the incident is managed poorly it can have devastating effects on the victim and the general public will subsequently lose confidence in the police. ACPO's definition of a critical incident is as follows "Any incident where the effectiveness of the police response is likely to have a significant impact on the confidence of the victim, their family and/or the community" (Constabulary, December 2007) Any police officer can notify an incident as possibly critical, therefore, police officers must always be aware of the potential for any incident to escalate and become critical. A critical incident can include; Suspicious, unexplained deaths, Homicides, Incidents requiring a police firearms response, Vulnerable persons missing from home, Domestic Violence, Crimes involving particularly vulnerable or young victims and hate crimes, which will be our focus. For our essay, we will be critically analysing Leicestershire's police force's 'critical incident' management of the case of Fiona Pilkington which is a case of anti–social behaviour that deeply affected public confidence. Whenever a critical incident is identified, it must be addressed sharp and efficiently. Reassuring, rebuilding and maintaining the confidence of the victim, their family and community should be fundamental to critical incident management (Thames Valley Police, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 35. A Brief Note On An Intentional Torts? 2. Explain the concept of "Foreseeability". Foreseeability is primarily a question of the extent to which something is predictable or will occur. The emphasis here is on the extent to which something can be known beforehand. Foreseeability is a reasonable anticipation of the possible results of an action if one is negligent or breached a contract. Foreseeability thus involves making sure one guards against that which happenstance is under probability. The foreseeability test basically asks whether the person causing the injury should have reasonably foreseen the general consequences that would result because of his or her conduct. 5. Fully describe (2) Intentional Torts An intentional tort is a tort that is done on purpose or deliberately. It is an unjustified act that causes trauma or harm to someone else. For a tort to be intentional, the person perpetrating the tort must know to a certain degree that it would result in harm. Below are two Intentional Torts: False Imprisonment: This involves deliberately confining another person from moving freely in an unlawful way. It can also be described as the restraining in an unlawful way of someone against his/her will with the intent of committing a harm. This harm can either be physical or psychological injury or even damage to property. One can only seek for a remedy from the court of law when there is no legal reason for the imprisonment. Defamation: This is when someone says something false about someone else, to another ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 36. Letter from Scout to Dill Argumentative Essay Brittany Ennis 11/20/13 There has been much debate among historians about the role of government in big business. Should trusts be allowed to exist? Roosevelt believes that they should get rid of monopolies. He quotes and believes in Van Hise's article "Concentration and Control". His article says that the government should get involved in business in order to keep big businessmen in check. He says that unrestrained competition is the biggest of our problems when it comes to big business. The big business men do not feel as if they are doing anything because everyone is doing it. The Sherman anti–trust should just be shut down and there should be a new more enforceable law in order to actually end big business. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... What he's saying is completely false. We would never know if anyone was better than Carnegie because we never gave anyone else a chance to be better. He can't sit there and say that if he doesn't know, we will never be able to know if anyone was better than Carnegie because no one let anybody else in. Wilson also says in is writing that "Upon the mere basis of knowing how to manufacture goods better than anybody else and sell them cheaper, they can carry the water that they have put in their enterprises in order to buy up rivals you are perfectly able to try it" (Wilson: Democratic Anti– Trust). The fact that he doesn't want the government in it means that even if he wants unfair business practices to end it doesn't mean it's actually going to happen. If we are going to get anything done to help the economy we need to have the government there to enforce it. If we did what Wilson wanted to then we would be sitting here just waiting for a miracle to happen because nothing could get done. Even if we attempted to take away only the unfair business practices, they big business guys would do all that they could to do it anyways. Wilson has no idea what he is trying to deal with. Andrew Carnegie has a very similar yet very different point of view on the issue than Woodrow Wilson, yet either way both of them are completely out of their minds. He says that "The Socialist or the Anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions s t0 be regarded ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 37. How Did Chesapeake Refuse To Sell Its Commerce n June 1807, British frigate Leopard tried to stop an American ship Chesapeake which actually hired some British deserters. British opened fired and killed three Americans on Chesapeake ship on U.S. territorial waters after Chesapeake refuse to stop. Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807 to ban British importation to retaliate this action. However, the act caused U.S.export increased and halted its commerce. Jefferson paid a liability and decided no to seek for three terms. It also became one of the failures of the Jefferson presidencies. In previous, slaves could escape to free states through taking the underground railroad. Some Southern slaveholders, usually political elite didn't agree to abolish slavery. They insisted on passing the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 which legislated to allow for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the United States. Some abolitionlist felt angry about this act because it liked ligalized kidnapping. They tried to nullify the law and rescue slaves to get on the underground railroad. Homestead Act was passed by Congress in 1862. Any citizens in the United States could recieved 160 acres of federal land. If the person lived on the land for five years, he/she could get the land free for building a home and producing a crop. Along with ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This act didn't cause any influencial effect on trusts but brought a Supreme Court case United States v. E.C. Knight Company. The Court ruled that the American Sugar Refining Company, one of the other defendants in the case, had not violated the law even though the company controlled about 98 percent of all sugar refining in the United States. The Court opinion reasoned that the company's control of manufacture did not constitute a control of trade. The Court's ruling in E. C. Knight seemed to end any government regulation of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 38. The Sherman Anti Trust Act Of 1890 Essay Abbi Green Period 5 2016 Nov. 16 Anti–Trust The Sherman Anti–Trust Act of 1890 was passed to prohibit trusts, this was the first law passed by U.S. Congress to enforce this. This act was named after Senator John Sherman. Before this act was put into place, many other states had enforced laws very similar to the Sherman Anti–Trust Act. These laws were not perfect though, the large corporations had the majority of the economic power. Congress was not pleased with this, thus making the Sherman Anti–Trust Act. This act allowed Congress to regulate interstate commerce, outlawing monopolistic practices. If a person were to violate this act, he or she could be imprisoned for a year and fined five–thousand dollars. This law was successfully used to help Theodore Roosevelt during his campaign, "trust–busting". Also, President Taft used the law to back himself up against the Standard Oil Trust and American Tobacco Company. The Standard Oil trust was when a board of nine trustees was set up to make all of the company decisions , allowing the company to run as a monopoly. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act allowed both presidents to dissolve the trusts that were creating problems. On the other hand, the Sherman Anti–Trust Act had many holes, it did not have exact wording, therefore allowing companies to still control the majority of the producing and still get away with it. The Sherman Anti–Trust Act had substantial success, but was put to rest and replaced with the Clayton Anti–Trust ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 39. Anti Vaccination Apa Citation Bernstein, L. (2014). Arguing with anti–vaxers: Maybe not a virtuous intention. Washington: WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://examine–proquest– com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/1634635164?accountid=87314 Lenny Bernstein, a author for The Washington Post in Washington D.C., believes that reason with an one who does not trust in vaccines is not the best moving to convince them otherwise. He uses scrutiny from "Dartmouth College which condition that in some suit the proof itself may be telltale– productive." He contour the inference from the examination that found, "rectification vaccine myths may not be an efficient approach to elevate vaccination;" this koan seems to be explained by "when you're questioned, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The say undrape that some of the research conducted by the fifteen was subtle. The tell critic the reality that the ponder was serious, with no obvious direct or adhesion to the expert method. However, its findings it starting the vaccination terrify. The creator quote the retentiveness of pressman Brian Deer for his prevent in reveal the counterfeiting. This matter is helpful in learn the extirpate of the anti–vaccination movement as it will give me appeal to propitious my actual ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 40. Essay On Theodore Roosevelt's Impact On Social Reform The ascension of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency impacted America in terms of bringing about meaningful reform. Acts such as the Forest Reserve Act, Meat Inspection Act and the Square Deal helped to reform America. Roosevelt first started by exposing corruptions itself, nicknaming the reform minded journalists Muckrakers. Their job was to write articles that exposed the corruption in America. The major deal that helped reform America was the Square Deal. The Square Deal aimed at: control of corporations, consumer protection, and preserving natural resources. The first sign of Roosevelt controlling the corporations was during the Anthracite Coal Strike in 1902. During which the miners went on a strike demanding higher pay and a decrease in workday hours. Roosevelt threatened to replace the workers with federal troops but eventually sided ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The first step towards natural resource conservation took place with President Rutherford B. Hayes with the Desert Land Act. This act sold government land for cheap only if the purchaser would irrigate the soil within a time period of three years. On the other hand, this act failed to attract settlers to the west. The Forest Reserve Act was more successful, the act set aside land to be designated as national parks. In 1902 Roosevelt passed the Newlands Act which gave the government to use money from the sale of land in the west to develop an irrigation system. In another effort to conserve our resources, Roosevelt set aside about 125 million acres of land to help prevent further shrinkage of Americas forests. Roosevelt, along with engineers and foresters also developed the multiple–use resource management policy, which intended to use federal land for logging, watershed protection, and recreation purposes. The disappearance of the land in America sparked the creation of the Boy Scouts and books such as "Call of the Wild" by Jack ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 41. Progressivism Vs Populism Essay Progressivism was a partial extension of the Populist movement, and many Populist ideals framed the headwork for the Progressive Age.Many other influences that drove the populist movement effected policies of progressive age. During the Gilded Age, a new political party emerged named the Populist party, fighting for the silver standard and many indebted farmers. In the Populist Platform of 1892 they presented many ideas that would carried off into the new century that will be utilized to form the Progressive age. The Progressive movement started with the middle class' status anxieties, because as the started to feel the squeeze of the trust and corruption the middle class began to speak out. Progressivism and Populism can be looked as similar ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In 1886 the Knights of Labor wrote in their Declaration of Principles of the Great and Growing Order of the Workingmen about the adoption of new rules and regulation in the work environment and even a shorten work day. These reforms were desired by many American in the 19th century where many of them were industrial laborers. These ideas would be carried along to the Populist Platform of 1896 adopting the shorter worker day and a graduated income tax. This ideas with be carried into 20th century with the 16th Amendment that would levy the graduated income tax which was at first a Knights of Labor idea. Along with the shorten workday that will eventually come from the Lochner v. New York supreme court case that would give every factory worker a 10 hour workday in 1917.Yet the adoption of workplace regulations would come after a tragedy despite the strikes of Ladies Tailors nearly a year before. In 1911 when many women tailors who worked in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company died in a tragic preventable fire many building and factory regulations were put into place. Populist ideas which were derived from movements such as the Knights of Labor Movement which would later impact the Progressive ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...