Argument Analysis: The Case Against Bottled Water

In April 2012, Ban the Box campaign successfully advocated with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC to clarify and strengthen its policies by updating the Enforcement Guidance on Consideration of Arrest or Conviction Records in Employment Decisions. During that same year, EEOC started immediately going after employers who had a ban on hiring people with criminal backgrounds. One employer that was hit with this policy was Pepsi Cola Company. Pepsi was order to pay over three million dollars because the EEOC ruled that Pepsi discriminated against race of African American applicants based off their background check. Pepsi was also ordered to provide job offers and training to their applicants (bantheboxcampaign.org).

Michael Hiltzik wrote,”The Wrong Way to Think about California Water”, which is an article arguing against some of the ways individuals think about the drought in California. For the most part, I agree with the author’s argument. He touches on the topics of bottled water, almond trees, turf, and the idea that,”There isn’t just one California”(Hiltzik). Initially, Michael Hiltzik discusses the bottled water industry. The quote,”The entire nation consumes a bit more than 10 billion gallons of bottled water per year.

Espenak (2016) observes that the Daylight Savings Time idea, which may be credited to Benjamin Franklin, had the objective of maximizing on daylight hours by forward shifting of the clock by an hour in the spring and backward shifting it again during the fall. The idea was implemented during the World War I in Canada and the United States and many other European countries. In the United States, the legislative house enacted and passed a bill where Daylight Savings Time was to commence on the last Sunday of the fourth month of a calendar year and end on the last Sunday of October. President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill into law in 1966. In 2005, a new energy bill was signed by President Bush that extended the Daytime savings by four more weeks (Monalisa, 2013).

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After reviewing the case study on Tanglewood and their methods of recruitment, the three ideas I would suggest to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their recruitment measures are as followed; 1) decrease the number of methods used, 2) shorten recruitment time, and 3) more in-house interviews. I would decrease the number of methods used in recruitment for various reasons, but the most pressing one would be costs. From what I have seen in Tanglewood’s information given, using a staffing service can cost up to $70,000 to set up per store. This is $20,000 more than all the other methods combined. I feel that the cost of this one method is more likely unequal to the number of employees that it provides.

Case 16: Issues in PT Practice- Physician Owned Physical Therapy Practice & Direct Access Molly Reiter • Explore the concerns surrounding physician owned PT practices (POPTs). What are the potential benefits? o Stark Law (PT in Motion, 2014)  minimizes physician referrals motivated by financial gain  law created an exception- this exception allows a physician to own in office ancillary services (IOAS) • POPTS have contributed to increase annual health care costs o pro (PT Solutions, 2015)  beneficial for POPT only if they are outsourcing PT practices  reimbursement for PT ranges from $2000-$3000 per patient  cost of equipment is low  possibly more coordinated care  possibly likely to choose more conservative treatment options first 

James R. Baker, MD and chief medical officer of Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), writing an article for the STAT Magazine, discloses information regarding the pharmaceutical drug pricing controversy, in his case EpiPens, that affects many middle-classed Americans. By using the appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos, Baker presents a viewpoint that is antagonistic of the business practices pharmaceutical companies have been following for the last decade. One of the ways Baker acknowledges their argument is by appealing to the emotion of his audience with his introductory sentence that shows how parents are forced to make hard choices surrounding the health of their children. “All too often, parents of children with food allergies are forced to make hard choices. Many are splitting up twin packs of EpiPens, others are keeping them past their expiration dates, delaying filling the prescription,

According to Chatzky Jeans in his book, Pay It Down, From Debt To Wealth on $ 10 a Day, the credit card bill is the most demanding of debt income. That 's why Jeans suggest that if you wanted to make free from debts which are hindering life, which first handled are credit card debts. How to? When you are going to do high school reunion two months away and your weight is too excessive, the first thing you do of course is to find a balance and measure your current weight, then determine how many kilograms your weight will decrease within the two months. Analogous to this, When you intend to get out of credit card debt bondage, of course, you have to

According to the Environmental Defense fund, “In the Gulf of Mexico, red snapper populations are three times what they were in 2007 when we helped reform that fishery” so if we use their methods many other countries might be able to re populate their fish. 2. Alternatives to overfishing and how the normal population can help control it. A. There are many alternatives to overfishing that will help control the population.

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