An appellate court case that found the employer liable for hostile environment sexual harassment is Kunin v. Sears Roebuck & Co. Under this claim, Karen Kunin was sexually harassed by a male employee based upon the abusive and derogatory language that was used. Kunin did not report any abuse to Continue Reading
“THERE WAS NO DATE,” Owen said. I wanted to cry — not because I believed a single thing about his stupid “vision,” but because it was the first time he had lied to me” (397). In this quotation, Owens point-of-view about his death and the nature of his relationship with Continue Reading
Software Development Lifecycles Balancing increasingly complex requirements for new software applications with the constraints of costs, time and resources has made the use of software development lifecycles invaluable. The reliance on software development methodologies is increasing as shortages of programming expertise are leading to many companies relying on virtual project Continue Reading
Future Challenges Facing U.S. Healthcare: One of the major issues that the United States has encountered in the recent years is the countrys healthcare system especially in the wake of the need for healthcare reforms. However, even with the ratification of healthcare reform policies by the Obama administrations, the countrys Continue Reading
When Gorbachev launched perestroika (Gorbachevs policy of social, economic and political restructuring), the above mentioned “shadow” sector of society actually got amnesty and hence were offered a kind of “legitimacy,” Khokhriakov writes on page 13. During the first part of perestroika, the Soviets developed cooperatives, which “only strengthened the destructive Continue Reading
One can almost consider that American filmmaking contains fixed ideas where Japanese motion pictures produced by Kurosawa are the result of complex concepts coming from a series of cultures being brought together. In spite of the fact that Kurosawas film goes against some of the most respected Japanese values during Continue Reading
Recognizing that the films title functions on both of these levels is important because it reveals how Alfredson deploys common vampire tropes in novel ways which serve to elevate the emotional content of the film, so that the “rules” surrounding vampires become metaphors for the emotional development both characters undergo. Continue Reading
e. according to American norms and conventions. Part of this, incidentally, was due too to the fault of government itself that failed to provide them with the land, which the Hmong could have fertilized. I realized that even thoguh America has gone a long way in attempting to appreciate other Continue Reading
” IFRS has an entirely different approach, focusing on objectives, and also encourages the use of “illustrative examples relating to specific events and transactions.” The GAAP system is therefore significantly more robust. There are also differences between the systems with respect to the valuation of inventories, where GAAP permits LIFO Continue Reading
The outlook was very negative in August and September — there were some serious issues such as the debt ceiling debate that could have been responsible for the strong negative outlook. The outlook has turned slightly positive of late though, an encouraging sign. Overall, the data provides a mixed signal Continue Reading
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