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  • Lexus and the Olive Tree Summary

    Lexus and the Olive Tree Summary

    The Lexus and the Olive Tree, written by Thomas L. Friedman, investigates the phenomenon of globalization in our world and how it has established a new international system that has replaced the cold war. This new system of globalization connects people from all over the world from Southeast Asians fighting a recession to Thai bankers to entrepreneurs in the United States. Friedman credits that the democratization of technology, information, and finance has shrunk our world

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    Essay Length: 1,275 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: David
  • Article Review: Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management

    Article Review: Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management

    Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management Jong-Ae Kim, PhD IFLA Journal, Sage Publications, 2006, 32, 362-367 Reviewed by Bambang Fahruddin Syahrir Stud. No. 2057802 This paper is an overview of the approaches to evaluate the impacts of knowledge management implementations to organizational performance. It is considered to be very critical mainly because of the increasing implementation of knowledge management as a new management technique within organizations in which it is believed to be capable of

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    Essay Length: 893 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Max
  • Impact of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis

    Impact of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis

    Identify situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting. The unethical practices and behavior in accounting would be misleading financial analysis for personal gain, misuse of funds, overstating revenue, and understating expenses, overstating the value of corporate assets or underreporting the existence of liabilities, sometimes with the cooperation of officials in other corporations or affiliates. Other unethical practices would be insider trading, securities fraud, bribery, kickbacks and manipulation of the financial markets.

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    Essay Length: 651 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Importance of Article 86

    Importance of Article 86

    Importance Of Article 86 Of The Uniform Code Of Military Justice: Absence Without (Official) Leave Definition: “Any member of the armed forces who, without authority— (1) fails to go to his appointed place of duty at the time prescribed; (2) goes from that place; or (3) absents himself or remains absent from his unit, organization, or place of duty at which he is required to be at the time prescribed; shall be punished as a

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    Essay Length: 340 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Janna
  • Ackoff’s Article

    Ackoff’s Article

    All technology, including information technology, is a means. The end is the satisfaction of the various organizational stakeholders, both intrinsically (in the pursuit of their objectives) as well as extrinsically (in the accomplishment of those objectives). A fundamental tenet of systems thinking is that the conception of ends should precede any conception of means. The first phase of my decision on Ackoff’s assumptions deals with all the issues that have to do with the critical

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    Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • Problem Analysis Summary

    Problem Analysis Summary

    Problem Analysis Summary The employees of ABC Company have identified a problem, which must be resolved. ABC employs a part-time administrative assistant whose work ethics and productivity are lacking; thereby affecting others in the organization. The employee is responsible to answer phones, take messages, and assist each department in performing various administrative functions. The position held by this employee is important, as each department relies on her input and assistance in completing their assigned tasks.

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    Essay Length: 438 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Ethics Summary

    Ethics Summary

    Julian Baggini’s extract from �What’s it all about’ explores the precarious nature of the elusive state of happiness, and the pursuit of it. Baggini contends that ultimately, as humans it is natural, and acceptable to desire happiness. Yet we must ensure that the pursuit of happiness does not become a dominating force in our lives, because it will ultimately be at the detriment to the very thing we are seeking, happiness. As C. Snow revealed,

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    Essay Length: 332 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Circus-Circus Summary

    Circus-Circus Summary

    Circus-Circus was an unprofitable business and a small time casino when William Bennett and William Pennington purchased it in 1974 for $50,000. With a new marketing program in place and a stock offering in October of 1983, the company was rejuvenated. What it has become is a hotel/casino that is targeted mainly towards middle income gamblers as well as family oriented vacationers, but has not strayed away from the high rollers that are found in

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    Essay Length: 618 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary Sir Gawain and the Green Knight follows a classic quest formula, with a knight receiving a challenge, going out on a journey to meet that challenge, and then returning home to tell everyone about his adventurous quest. At Christmas, a knight who is completely green rides into King Arthur’s hall. The Green Knight suggests a game: Any knight brave enough to strike off the Green Knight’s head may

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    Essay Length: 402 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Chapter one Summary of Freakonomics

    Chapter one Summary of Freakonomics

    Chapter 1 Summary Cheating. What is it? Dictionary.com defines cheating as “a way to deprive someone of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud, or to influence or lead by deceit.” Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner explain a form of cheating in their book Freakonomics. In chapter one, Levitt and Dubner explore mechanisms to discover cheaters. What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? It has to do with incentives, a concept

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    Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • Winckelmann Article

    Winckelmann Article

    In this article Winckelmann states that the good taste in art that is present in contemporary works stems from the work of the ancient Greeks. The beauty in the modern works of artists like Raphael (especially his Madonna and child with St Sixtus and St Barbara) hold such beauty, complexity of emotion, and good taste because he draws on the ideas set up by the great ancient sculptures and society in which they lived and

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    Essay Length: 642 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Artur
  • Summary of Prophets Teachings - Amos

    Summary of Prophets Teachings - Amos

    Summary of Prophets Teachings- Amos The prophet Amos was a native of the kingdom of Judah; he lived in a town called Tekoa, which was about 6 miles south of Bethlehem. Amos is recognized as the first Israelite prophet to have his teachings formally recorded. Amos was not a prophet his entire life at one point he earned a living as a herdsmen and a dresser of sycamore figs. It wasn’t until the later part

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    Essay Length: 377 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Sweatshop Article Comparasion

    Sweatshop Article Comparasion

    Our global economy is growing daily and as this happens the need for consumer goods is growing along with it. The companies, which produce many of these goods, are always looking for cheaper ways to get their products into consumer’s hands quicker than their competitors. Cheap labor is a major factor in how they accomplish this, and the use of sweatshops is rampant with major companies worldwide. The two articles show a total opposite view

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    Essay Length: 590 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Fallacy Summary and Application Paper

    Fallacy Summary and Application Paper

    Logic is the study of reasoning -- the nature of good (correct) reasoning and of bad (incorrect) reasoning. Focus is the method by which an argument unfolds, not whether any arbitrary statement is true or accurate. Thus, an argument can be both deductively valid and perfectly absurd, as in 1. All telephone poles are elephants. 2. Sally is a telephone pole. 3. Therefore, Sally is an elephant. The conclusion is valid because conforms to a

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    Essay Length: 936 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Lysistrata Summary

    Lysistrata Summary

    Lysistrata has planned a meeting between all of the women of Greece to discuss the plan to end the Peloponnesian War. As Lysistrata waits for the women of Sparta, Thebes, and other areas to meet her she curses the weakness of women. Lysistrata plans to ask the women to refuse sex with their husbands until a treaty for peace has been signed. Lysistrata has also made plans with the older women of Athens (the Chorus

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    Essay Length: 780 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Facebook Summary and Responce

    Facebook Summary and Responce

    Summary and Response: Facebook Facebook users do not realize how vulnerable their information is, according to Ari Melber in “About Facebook.“ Melber states that face book has over 58 million active members. Between those 58 million members there are more than 2.7 billion photos posted, and more than 2.2 billion digital labels. All photos posted on facebook are property of Facebook. The photos can be used for advertising bulletins. Even those who terminate their membership

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    Essay Length: 1,393 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Article Review on Workplace Substance Abuse

    Article Review on Workplace Substance Abuse

    Article Review: Everyone Must Not Get Stoned This review will look at the problem outlined in the article, the issues related to the problem, the implications of the article to employees, employers, and society, the ramifications if the problem is not addressed, the benefits of resolving the problem and finally, solutions provided in the article. The United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conducted a workplace drug abuse survey on 14 different

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    Essay Length: 539 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Romeo and Juliet-Love?- Feature Article

    Romeo and Juliet-Love?- Feature Article

    “LOVE IS A Certain Inborn Suffering derived from the sight of and excessive Meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other, and by common desires carry out all of love’s precepts in the other’s Embrace” is definition of medieval love. But Really, How much does Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet comes to terms of traditional “ love”? Think about Romeo in the

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    Essay Length: 1,075 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Short Summary Emilys Bronte Jane Eyre

    Short Summary Emilys Bronte Jane Eyre

    Ten-year-old orphan Jane Eyre lives unhappily with her wealthy, cruel cousins and aunt at Gateshead. Her only salvation from her daily humiliations, such as being locked up in a "red-room" (where she thinks she sees her beloved uncle's ghost), is the kindly servant, Bessie. Jane is spared further mistreatment from the Reed family when she is sent off to school at Lowood, but there, under the hypocritical Evangelicalism of the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst, she suffers

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    Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Articles of Confederation

    The Articles of Confederation

    The Articles of Confederation brought forth a whole new kind of government that most of the Patriots had not ever experienced before. This document was their first constitution, and it was right after the war so that in itself is an achievement. But, the Articles of Confederation did have achievements but it also had flaws. The Patriots had been envisioning a central government with limited powers as they moved toward independence in 1776. This meant

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    Essay Length: 661 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Monika
  • A Man for All Seasons Summary

    A Man for All Seasons Summary

    In the play A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt the audience learns about the extraordinary life of Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas is faced with a moral dilemma that will determine the outcome of his life. More, chancellor of England , and a strong Christian believer is forced to choose between his close friend, King Henry VIII, and the supreme lord his God. More is a man of moral integrity because he refuses

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    Essay Length: 799 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Thomas Malthus Section Summary

    Thomas Malthus Section Summary

    Thomas Malthus—Section Summary Malthus’ work, Essay on the Principle of Population, is often cited, first by Darwin himself, to have influenced Darwin’s conception of the theory of natural selection. His work, though unpopular, and often proven to be off the mark, did in fact bring to the forefront many socio-economic issues that are still being debated today: population control, food production and concerns over uncontrollable diseases arising from the effects of over-population. In this passage

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    Essay Length: 1,514 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Summary Boys Don’t Cry

    Summary Boys Don’t Cry

    Movie: “Boys don’t cry” The movie is about a girl pretending as a guy. It is a real life story that happened in Lincoln in 1993. The story began in this way. The girl pretending to be a guy went into a bar and met this girl called Candace whom took "him" to Falls city. She used “Brandon” as her “guy name”. When he (Brandon) first met Candace, he tried to act tough, just like

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    Essay Length: 1,130 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: David
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    The CPA firm; a necessary audit for today’s small businesses. A Certified Public Accountant is responsible for auditing and income tax work for their clients. (Myers, 2005) Over the years the environment has changed, but the most significant change of all was the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, this federal law established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. This

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    Essay Length: 278 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Steve
  • A Reaction Paper to an Article on Phonics Instruction for Older Students

    A Reaction Paper to an Article on Phonics Instruction for Older Students

    A Reaction Paper to an article on Phonics Instruction for Older Students Article: Ivey, G., & Baker, M. (2004). Phonics instruction for older students? Just say no. Educational Leadership, 61 (6), 35-39. The article makes a clear case against relying solely on phonemic awareness and phonics instruction as a strategy for teaching older struggling students how to read. In an effort for a "quick-fix" solution, many schools in the past have elected to saturate students

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    Essay Length: 340 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Jessica

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