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Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY———————————————————————–3

INTRODUCTION———————————————————————————-4

VIEWS OF THE CRITICS———————————————————————–4

VIEWS OF THOSE WHO SUPPORT TRIALS WITHIN THE US COURTS——-5

CONCLUSION————————————————————————————–6

REFERENCE—————————————————————————————-7

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The issue of whether the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be tried in the US courts has become a hot topic in the recent days since the decent of President of Obama on the presidency. This paper attempts to assess both sides of the debate. The paper evaluates the views of the proponents and opponents of the trial within US courts and concludes that the detainees should be tried within the US courts. The reasons are highlighted both in the body and conclusion.

INTRODUCTION

The subject of trying the terrorist detainees has elicited a heated debate among individuals in different quarters of the society. The two prevalent sides of the debate are holding differing views with respect to whether the detainees should be tried in the US courts or elsewhere. One side of the debate holds that the detainees should not be tried in the US courts for concern that it impairs the efforts of assuring the security to the society. Another side holds that the detainees should be tried within the US courts without any problem. While it is imperative to analyze the views of both sides, this paper holds that the terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay should be tried in the US Courts.

In order to defend its position succinctly, the paper takes a keen critical assessment of the views presented by both the proponents and critics of the view that the terrorist detainees should be tried within the US courts.

VIEWS OF THE CRITICS

The opponents of trial within then US courts maintain that such a move to try the detainees ion the US courts would endanger the public and US citizenry in particular from possible further terrorist attacks. If these suspects are released on technicality or if they are not found guilty, and freed within the borders of the nation, they are a source of danger. It can be remembered that the trials of September 11 were halted in New York when the residents raised their concern for possible insecurity (Dahlstrom 2003). Another part of this school of thought argues that the detainees can be tried within the US boundaries but must be tried under a military tribunal.

The opponents hold that the terrorist detainees should be tried at Guantanamo Bay because if they are tried within the land and within the US courts, it would become easier for the trying courts to expose top secret or classified information thus become another source of insecurity. They also argue that such a move would lead to confinement of prosecutors while the suspects are accorded more rights that are given to the US citizens (Dahlstrom 2003). The critics also attach an issue to the security concern arguing that bringing the terrorist detainees to the US courts is likely to create public alarm and general anxiety as well as an increased expenditure on the criminal lawyer costs.

VIEWS OF THOSE WHO SUPPORT TRIAL WITHIN THE US COURTS

Trial within the US courts, the supporters argue, would be achieved with more effectiveness and efficiency. This position is based on the historical perspective that has seen most of trials done in the US courts being successful in respect to the conviction of suspects. If the US courts have a history of success in their jury process, they should be trusted to carry the prosecution of the detainees without there arising any problem of inefficiency or lack of effectiveness. For instance, Sutton (2009) posits that the US justice system is advantaged to handle the trial of the terrorist detainees given its long history of success in trial and prosecution of the suspected terrorists without endangering the public in any way.

Secondly, the supporters hold that claiming that the detainees cannot be tried in our courts is tantamount to evisceration of the very values our society stands for. On the same level, the idea behind the argument is that if the society stands to protect justice and human equality, what is the difference between the US citizens detained at Guantanamo Bay and have to be brought home for trial for committing crimes against humanity and the terrorist detainees who are not US citizens? The critics however counter this argument on the basis that these detainees must not be accorded the same rights accorded to the US citizens (Dahlstrom 2003).

The detainees are just suspects and it is not known if they are terrorists or not. If they come to the US, it is not within the limits of common knowledge to establish that they will now turn into terrorists. This argument is however disturbing on the grounds that it is a gambling kind of argument where it would be assumed that lack of knowledge of these people means that everything that happens would favor the US citizens. It is disputable though can only stand to bolster the rest.

Steyn (2004) holds that the government of the United States is justified to judge the terrorist detainees for committing crimes against its citizens and land. Therefore, the internal court system is justified to carry on with the trial process of the terrorist detainees within the US court system.

CONCLUSION

Having assessed the arguments on both sides of the debate, the point is evident that the terror detainees are terror detainees because of being suspected to carry out activities that endanger the life of the American citizens in the first place and the peace of the world at large. Just like nations are justified to try officers or solders of the enemy army of war crimes, the US court system is justified to handle the case within its courts. History has given a good point of reference on the capacity of the US court system to handle the matters without creating danger to the citizens or encountering failure. These points therefore strengthen the thesis statement that the detainees should be tried within the US courts without any problem

Reference:

Dahlstrom, K. E. (2003) “Executive Policy toward Detention and Trial of Foreign Citizens at Guantanamo Bay,” 21 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 662

Steyn J., (2004) “Guantanamo Bay: The Legal Black Hole” Cambridge University Press- Republication 2008 International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2004), 53: 1-15

Sutton J., (July 23, 2009) “US courts convict 91 pct in terrorism trials-study” Reuters, Available online from URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN7N169281

Detailed outline on The red cube a sculpture created in 1968 by Isamu Noguchi

Introduction

Background

The red cube is an interesting sculpture created in 1968 by Isamu Noguchi. It is located in front of 140 Broadway, between Liberty and Cedar Streets. The sculpture offers an insight into the artist work and public art. Public art is any art work that is created purposefully to be made accessible to the entire public considering the publics and environmental values in the community. Public art provides an opportunity for the community to interact and appreciate art without the need to visit art museums. The Red Cube location in New York makes it public allowing it to interact with the New York community and the environment –the streets and skyscrapers.

Thesis

Isamu Noguchi is an excellent and successful piece of public art. The art clearly embodies his artistic ideal thus a perfect fit in his art career and further makes a contribution to the history of public art. Creating and positioning the red cube in New York provided a wonderful informal opportunity for the New York community to interact with it. These interactions have shaped the people’s opinion concerning the red cube.

Body

Noguchi is a renowned artist who has made several pieces of art among the prominent public arts such as the Red Cube. The Red Cube embodies Noguchi’s artistic style thus it a major contribution to his art career. The piece further makes an enormous contribution to the history of public art.

The patrons of the art intend to make a sculpture that could blend perfectly with the built environment. The patrons initially intended for a monolith sculpture which would perfectly fit in front of the HSBC Bank Building (also known Marine Midland Building) which they had designed. They never managed to build this monolith sculpture but still managed through Noguchi’s artistic work to get a befitting structure to stand in front of the building.

The public has had various other responses toward the public art. Most have found it befitting and inspirational. No one ever fails to notice the cube.

Success of this work of art cannot be over stated. The art holds a significant position in the built environment.

Conclusion

The red cube is an interesting piece of public art with an interesting story and a blessing of the craftsmanship of a talented artist, Noguchi. The art is a clear depiction of his artistic style and a major contribution to the history of public art in general. The art has stirred different responses for different audiences and never fails to get noticed.

Detachable Basking Multi-Purpose Seat

Detachable Basking Multi-Purpose Seat

This innovative concept originated from the desire to have a more customer-friendly and customized furniture that performs many functions more than just providing a seat. To begin, it is important to mention that our organization manufactures of furniture and the recent revelations have provided all indications that the outdoor basking seats have been plummeting in terms of sales. This necessitated development of various conceptions to come up with a way-through idea that would revitalize the company’s image in the market as a formidable supplier of furniture. An idea that was also considered in the initial stages of the deliberation was to go out into the market and gather information from customers and prospective customers among other stakeholders to determine why customers have developed a reduced interest in the outdoor basking seats. The information from the field intelligence was categorical. It revealedthat there was a growing concern for continued reduction in available outdoor space that has made relevance of the basking seats to decline. While these revelations gave a clear view of the future of the fixed basking chair, this paper hold that the new idea of a detachable multi-purpose seat will provide an improvement on the features of its predecessor and give user-friendly outcome.

Product Overview

Since the product is a re-invention of the previously-existing product, it is imperative to highlight the features of the previously existing (or already existing) product. Comfort First is a company that has had a long history of providing customers with furniture for diverse needs. One of the high-end products is the outdoor basking seat, which the company permanently installs in locations as deemed fit by the customers. Fixing them is provided as an after sales service and has been one of the areas that have attracted customers. Secondly, the seats are made of permanently fixed parts, and this implies that once it has been fixed in place, any damage to one part of the seat is damage to the entire seat. It is important to realize that as a high-end product, aesthetic value is of prime importance and thus damage to any part that renders the product to have or portray an ugly image is unwelcome and this approach is supported by Cooper and Edgett (2008) who point out that an innovation from an existing product must offer an advantage over a previous demerit. Meanwhile, the basking seats are generally of standard measurement. These features have greatly contributed to decline in customer desire as they also feel they do not have sufficient autonomy over the products they buy.

An idea that has been considered is to have a custom basking seat with detachable parts, which can be put in different angles to be used for various roles. Having a multi-purpose seat that can be detached and moved easily has been found to have a multifaceted advantage. First, it offers the customer ultimate control over the product they buy. This is a feature that they could not get from the previous product (Innovation Crescendo 2013).

Another aspect that gives superiority to the new concept is the ability of the new product to offer spatial conservation advantage. The previous basking seat could be fixed permanently in the ground at a place where the owner feels comfortable at the time of purchase. The space occupied would permanently be used by the seat. The new concept allows the customer to move the seat hence the same space can be used for other matters such as tent erection. This new seat can be customized for use in the balcony, rooftops, and beachfronts and in the gardens or anywhere suitable for relaxing. It is also notable that in case one part of the seat gets damaged, it just replaced rather than the entire seta being repaired. Therefore, the much desired aesthetic value is maintained. It is thus evident that apart from solving problems associated with the previous basking seat, the new product would offer many other benefits to the user.

The process began with abstraction of the existing product and this is supported by Gemmell (2010), who argues that starting from an already existing product through abstraction provides an opportunity to only make modifications and also offers an advantage of working from a viewpoint of a product already recognized by the customer. We evaluated each permutation we made on the fixed basking seat and ensured that conceivable evolutionary change is revealed. One of the ideas filtered out of consideration was the idea that Comfort First does away with the fixed basking seat altogether. Doing away with basking seat would imply doing away with the entire department. This would present another risk of playing risky card with competition as it would allow competitors to grab the opportunity. Meanwhile, the idea is still under brainstorming as it scheduled to be subjected to the first market test have a pragmatic test on feasibility issue.

In conclusion, as it is evident from the various aspects of the new idea, it is a great improvement on the fixed basking seat. It also promises user-friendly comfort through assured aesthetic value, user autonomy, improved spatial management and customizable to customer desires.

Reference

Cooper, R. & Edgett, S. (2008) Ideation for Product Innovation: What are the Best Methods? PDMA Visions Magazine March 2008. Retrieved March 29, 2014, from: http://www.stage-gate.com/downloads/wp/wp_29.pdf

Gemmell, R. (2010). The Socio-Cognitive Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Ideation. Working- Case Western Reserve University; Retrieved March 29, 2014, from: http://digitalcase.case.edu:9000/fedora/get/ksl:weaedm363/weaed363.pdf

Innovation Crescendo (2013) “Filter: Innovation Crescendo” Retrieved March 29, 2014, from: http://innovationcrescendo.com/tag/fliter/

Qualitative and Quantitative Data Market Analysis

With the advancement in applications in the furniture market, qualitative and quantitative analysis needs to be conducted to determine the market feasibility of a company’s introduction of a selected technology or application. A systematic market research is carried out that involves the objective collections, competition, environment and analysis of the selected application. It involves collection of data either using primary market or secondary research. Market feasibility can be determined by using either qualitative or quantitative data analysis but is more effective when the two are combined. The reason for market feasibility research on an application or technology such as the use of a detachable basking multi-purpose seat is to determine the benefits and disadvantages of the application before investing in their production (McKibben 2012).

Quantitative data analysis needs important attention when measuring market occurrences as is based more on statistics and numeracy. It uses a structured approach that involves large numbers and interviews. It is normally conducted to help the company determine how many consumers are willing to buy or use the new application or product of service so that accurate conclusions are drawn from the profiled statistical data. The large samples enable the marketer to draw projectable conclusions to the market target they want to reach. Some of the common types of quantitative data analysis such as survey that basically involve data collection from several different customers to determine the new technology market feasibility. The survey can be performed using self completion approach, face to face or computer technique. During the survey a questionnaire may be used to collect more response from a larger population.

Another is face to face quantitative analysis involves interviewing consumers either at home or in the street to identify their attitudes and reactions about the introduction of a new advanced detachable basking multi-purpose seat. The marketer is able to analyze the individual and note some of the expressions that would determine the pros and cons on the introduction of the new application. Use of telephone or mobile is a type of quantitative data analysis that is cost effective and quick in obtaining data. A group of clients are called via the phone and their response considered on the technology’s market feasibility. Self completion and postal analysis is cheaper but normally takes a longer duration in data collection. It is not the best analysis approach as it is biased and wrong response may be given by their addressee that may negatively affect the sales of the application.

Quantitative data analysis is more of observations and words and not numeracy. The data analyzed is text when starting the analysis process no hypothesis or variables are commonly involved in this type of data analysis (Deming 2011). Refining and identifying the significant concepts poses a key concern in the interactive processes of qualitative analysis. Conceptualization analysis as a type of qualitative analysis that starts with observation that is directly interpreted and put into meaningful information by analyzing the concept’s frequency through the use of matrix or well designed chart to aid on coding and categorization to examine the relationship from the displayed data to analyze the consumers’ reaction on the introduction of the technology or application (Madden 2010). Ethnography analysis assists to establish consumers’ trust on their products as they live and able to use their approach in marketing their goods.

Introduction of the new application or products may experience threats such as inadequate resources, skills or substandard services that summarize the internal negative aspect of the business that will reduce the overall market performance. Their applications help in product and service assessment.

Some critical success factors considered in the success deployment include taking advantage of the real time insights and alerts to minimize the error rates and enhance the productivity through integration of data and events with their production system. Also use of standard based approach that adopts solutions that adhere to the global furniture standards that will ensure the products are up to scale. The organization needs to be flexible to expand their implementation without being limited to only a single consumer. Also, organization needs to plan for continuous enhancement of products in order to meet the ever increasing and evolving consumer needs.

Types of qualitative and quantitative data market analysis such as survey, conceptual, ethnography analysis amongst others enable an organization to assess the market feasibility of their new application. Assessing and application of the potential threats like inadequate skills and resources should help in product and service analysis to improve their business strategies.

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Madden, P. (2010). Qualitative and quantitative data analysis in research. Science News, 174, 16-

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McKibben, B. (2012). Statistics in new technology. National Geographic, 212(4), 32-37.

Deming. J. (2011). A billion Lives.Critical success factors. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Elkind, D. (2008). Can we Research? Greater Good, 4(4), 14-17.