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    True / False Questions   1. Efficiency means doing the right things to create the most value for the company.  FALSE   2. Effectiveness means doing the right things to create the most value for the company.  TRUE 3. A doctor completes a surgical procedure on a patient without error. The patient dies anyway. In operations management terms‚ we could refer to this doctor as being efficient but not effective.  TRUE 4. A worker can be efficient without being effective.  TRUE  5. Trying to maximize

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    employee can recover from an employer. TRUE 2. The worker must physically be on company property to qualify for workers’ compensation. FALSE 3. Medical treatment claims are the most difficult to process because they are filed for minor illnesses or injuries. FALSE 4. Permanent disability refers to an employee’s diminished capacity to return to work. TRUE 5. Schedule loss of use (eyesight‚ hearing or body part) compensation is a lifetime benefit. FALSE 6. According to the law‚ when

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    and limited duration‚ it’s where the information becomes conscious. 5. True-or-false: What three basic processes do memory depend on? A. Retrieval B. Storage C. Encoding D. All of the above 6. True-or-false: Which are the stages of memeory? A. Short-term memory (STM) B. Dependent memory C. Long-term Memory (LTM) D. A and C 7. True-or-false: Is encoding failures one cause of forgetting? A. True B. False Short-answer:

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    Cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words‚ right and wrong are culture-specific; what is considered right in one society may be considered wrong in another‚ and‚ since no universal standard of morality exists‚ no one has the right to judge another society’s customs. Morality is built within communal groups‚ for example a faith community e.g. a church. The morality of one social group is not better

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    It is believed Earth may be in the midst of another mass extinction‚ also known as ’The Sixth Mass Extinction ’. This mass extinction is the first for 65 million years since the Cretaceous-Tertiary period. "It ’s the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now‚ and we‚ the human race‚ are its cause ’ (Leakey‚ 1995). Every year‚ between 17‚000 and 100‚000 species vanish from our planet‚ which will result in fifty per cent of the Earth ’s species vanishing inside the next 100

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    Argumentative Relativism

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    Relativism Relativism is the philosophical position that all points of view are equally valid and that all truth is relative to the individual. Under the umbrella of relativism‚ there are many different groups‚ like cognitive‚ moral‚ and situational relativism. In moral/ethical relativism it amounts to saying that all moralities are equally good. In cognitive relativism it implies that all beliefs‚ or belief systems‚ are equally true. This essay will refute relativism‚ and its basic premise.

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    Marxian economic theory applicability‚ true or false? Marx has always been an arguable economist as well as person since first known by the world. Lots of commentators have discussed about Marx’s work. Here I will focus on the two of those economists‚ Mark Blaug and Fred Moseley. Generally speaking‚ the two of them have opposite thoughts over the validity of Marx’s work: Blaug mostly holds negative critiques about the theory while Moseley considers himself as a Marxist and disagrees. In Fred Moseley’s

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    Relativism and Absolution

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    Relativism and Absolution In order to promote harmony Morality dictates our actions‚ beliefs and behaviours it separates what we commonly call the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. But we should not have it confused it with the law’s of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ because they are not one and the same thing.To quote the “Random House Websters College Dictionary”: Absolutism is any theroy holding that values‚ principels‚ ect.‚ are absolute and not relative‚ dependant‚ or changeable. In The Meanings of

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    * Ethical relativism : means that there isn’t rational way to decide that if there is an ethical stander is absolutely true or absolutely false . For example : "drinking" is immoral in the Islamic countries ‚ yet "drinking" is not wrong in the other countries . *The objection to theory of ethical relativism : 1 - Some moral standards are found in all societies : it means there are some ethical acts that are immoral in all societies like : Killing 2- Moral differences do not logically imply

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    Nathan Whittingham Professor Mariana Philosophy 120 12 October 2014 The Fallacy of Cultural Relativism The diversity of beliefs and ways of life is a conspicuous phenomenon that occurs within the human race. For example‚ what Satanists find right and reasonable is damnable to Christians‚ and vice-versa. Additionally‚ the ancient Aztecs practiced human sacrifice for reasons that today‚ we find totally illogical. And just as we‚ in America‚ now look back upon our history regarding slavery with

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