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The Worden Report - Business & Society: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Bad Boy Banks Enabling Inversion: Can a Firm Be Patriotic? Were he to have put his personal patriotism into force at the bank at the expense of the stockholders’ financial interests and the chartered function of the bank, he would have been unethically disregarding his fiduciary duty. Mark Gongloff, “ ’Patriotic’ Big Banks Profit Helping U.S. Companies Dodge Taxes. 8221; The Huffington Post, July 29, 2014. Thursday, July 10, 2014. In his own Person. With, and joyned to it somethin...
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The Worden Report - Film: Subtle Anticipations in Film Narrative: Foreshadowing in A Single Man
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Shakespeare,. Wednesday, August 20, 2014. Subtle Anticipations in Film Narrative: Foreshadowing in A Single Man. Tom Ford’s approach in screenwriting and directing his first feature film, A Single Man. The film begins closer to consciousness. It is all so open-ended, as if a blank screen so bright nothing on it can be seen. Just as vaguely, George says “I’m going away” in answer to a hustler’s suggestion of “Maybe another time? You don’t look so hot....After d...
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The Worden Report - Film: The Imitation Game: Machines Imitating Man?
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Shakespeare,. Monday, January 19, 2015. The Imitation Game: Machines Imitating Man? What does it mean to understand something? Put another way, what counts as understanding? The film, The Imitation Game. 8220;Can machines think? 8221; Nock asks. “Could machines ever think as human beings do? 8220;Most people say not,” Turing replies. “Well, the problem is you’re asking a stupid question.”. Stepping back to the “metafilm” level, the screenwriters could...Alexander...
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The Worden Report - Business & Society: Starbucks’ CEO Triggering Conversations on Race
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Starbucks’ CEO Triggering Conversations on Race. Should a company’s CEO use the vast tentacles of the local retail stores to prompt public discourse on race in America? Schultz even made a video in which he told the baristas how they should steer their respective conversations. If this sounds a bit like George Orwell’s Big Brother in the novel, 1984. The question may be whether such societal influence is legitimate from a position of management in business. Business CEO’s...
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The Worden Report - Higher Education: May 2015
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Monday, May 4, 2015. A Conflict of Interest at the U.S. Department of Education Keeps Students on the Hook. The conflict of interest lies in the department putting its debt-collection/money-making role above the governmental responsibility to the public and the students. In other words, the conflict of interest involves shirking the role of wider responsibility in favor of one in which private benefit is foremost. That the department was indeed exploiting students for private (i.e., departmental)...Had t...
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The Worden Report - Business & Society: March 2015
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Starbucks’ CEO Triggering Conversations on Race. Should a company’s CEO use the vast tentacles of the local retail stores to prompt public discourse on race in America? Schultz even made a video in which he told the baristas how they should steer their respective conversations. If this sounds a bit like George Orwell’s Big Brother in the novel, 1984. The question may be whether such societal influence is legitimate from a position of management in business. The Big Short and Co...
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The Worden Report - Government & Markets: Property Rights in China: On the Separation of Ownership and Control in the Stock Market
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Thursday, July 9, 2015. Property Rights in China: On the Separation of Ownership and Control in the Stock Market. Already down by more than 30% since early June 2015, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost another 5.9% on July 8, 2015 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed down 5.8 percent. [1]. The Chinese government directed “state companies and executives to buy shares, raised the amount of equities insurance companies can hold and promised more credit to finance trading.” [2]. Ordering companies...
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The Worden Report - Government & Markets: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Fixing Federalism Sidestepped in Opposing E.P.A. Coal Regulations. Were McConnell the chair of the E.U.’ s European Council rather than the U.S.’s Senate, he would doubtlessly have pointed to the worsening “democracy deficit,” wherein regulators in the European Commission take power away from state legislatures. Yet, surprisingly (or many not), the majority leader did not frame the issue in terms of federalism. In other words, President Obama is going too far, usurping Congress&#...
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The Worden Report - Film: 2014-11-23
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Shakespeare,. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Heaven Is For Real: Applying Kierkegaard to a Film. In Heaven Is For Real. In Fear and Trembling. By the universal, Kierkegaard has ethical principles in mind, for they are on the universal level because they are known inter-subjectively and thus can be understood by others. Might this be as much presumptuous as it is compassionate? Maybe love more naturally issues simply in being witnessed rather than being told. In a...
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The Worden Report - International Relations: July 2015
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. The American-Iranian Agreement: Moving Mankind Past War. I submit that Obama’s accomplishment can be thought of as a step toward rendering war itself as obsolete, or at least perceiving it as a. Means of resolving disputes internationally. More subtly, the feat makes the sheer distance between the premises of war and those of diplomacy transparent. Paradoxically, this insight implies just how difficult a shift from a war-default to one that takes war as obsolete must be. He made ...
