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  • A Look at California’s Changing Environment

    A Look at California’s Changing Environment

    Introduction California is known as being one of the most biologically diverse regions not only in this country, but also in the world (Defenders, 2006). Within its 160,000 square miles, California’s varied habitat harbors more unique species of plants and animals than any other state. The diversity of climates and landscapes, and all the barriers to migrations such as rivers, mountains, and deserts, has led over thousands of years to the evolution of a large

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics in the Workplace

    Ethics in the Workplace

    Accountants along with the corporations should avoid actual or apparent conflicts of interest and advise all appropriate parties of any potential conflict. They should refrain in engaging in any activity that would prejudice their ability to carry out their duties ethically. Accountants, especially auditors, must refuse any gift, favor, or hospitality that would influence, or would appear to influence their actions. They should recognize and communicate professional limitations or other constraints that would preclude responsible

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Philosophical Changes

    Philosophical Changes

    Philosophy In Europe, West Asia, and East Asia from the 600s BCE to 1450, many philosophical thoughts developed. As time passed, some philosophies remained the same while others changed or completely disappeared. In Europe, Greek influence was evident among all forms of philosophy while in South Asia there were Chinese influences and in West Asia Arab influences. Philosophy was first developed around 600 BCE in Ionia. The Ionians were deeply interested in the ways of

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Edward
  • How Does Dickens Use the First Four Chapters of ‘hard Times'to Introduce the Characters and Themes of the Novel?

    How Does Dickens Use the First Four Chapters of ‘hard Times'to Introduce the Characters and Themes of the Novel?

    How does Dickens use the first four chapters of ‘Hard Times’ to introduce the characters and themes of the novel? Charles Dickens wrote ‘Hard Times’ in 1854. He had a number of reasons for writing it. Firstly, he wished to educate readers about the working conditions of some of the factories in the industrial towns. He wanted to demonstrate how appallingly the affluent factory workers treated the poverty-stricken working people. This is an issue Dickens

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Max
  • What Ethical Principles Should a Reporter Follow in Reporting/writing a News Story to Ensure It Meets the Standards of Professional Journalism?

    What Ethical Principles Should a Reporter Follow in Reporting/writing a News Story to Ensure It Meets the Standards of Professional Journalism?

    Introduction Nowadays, more and more people are place importance on journalismЎ¦s ethics. It is because everything that a journalist writes or says, or neglects to write or to say, in some or other way has an influence on many people, and that influences can be good or bad. The principles of good journalism are directed toward bringing the highest quality of news reporting to the public, this fulfilling the mission of timely distribution of information

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Business Ethics

    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Business Ethics

    In 2002, the US passed the Sarbanes ЎV Oxley Law. This law was enacted to strengthen Corporate governance and to restore lost faith by the investors, and to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. U.S. Senator, Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley were the sponsors of said law. It was signed into law on July 30, 2002 by George W. Bush after both houses of Congress voted on it without changes

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Ethical Egoism Vs Social Responsibility

    Ethical Egoism Vs Social Responsibility

    Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary defines egoism as "a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action." Social responsibility entails one's actions benefiting one's society more than oneself. A cost benefit analysis sided towards the many rather than towards the individual. In the two books The Elements of Moral Society and Ethical Issues in Engineering by James Rachels and Deborah Johnson respectively, the subject of egoism and social responsibility come up. Hannaford in

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • Ethic Dilemma

    Ethic Dilemma

    The Fall of the Andersens • Andersen was fined $7 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for overstating the earnings of Waste Management Corporation. • Enron was under the investigation of SEC for dubious accounting figures. • Following the fall of Enron, Arthur Andersen was subjected to investigation by the regulatory boards as well. The significant stakeholders are: major clients such as Enron, WorldCom, Sunbeam and HIH, Australia, Fred Andersen, investors and 85,000

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet MBA 500 University of Phoenix Online Ethical Filter Worksheet Value Personal Source Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Integrity My personal source of integrity would be from my youth leaders in Arizona. I place integrity at the top of my list because this is a combination of my other values. Integrity is the adherence to moral and

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Ethics of Academic Freedom

    The Ethics of Academic Freedom

    The Ethics of Academic Freedom University of La Verne EcBu 543 Ethics in Organizations And Society Summer II 2005 Professor: Rita Thakur The Ethics of Academic Freedom "Don't take too seriously the advice of people who supposedly know better than you do. As long as you are finding out things we didn't know before, you are doing something right." ~Doreen Kimura The quest for knowledge can be a wonderful thing. It can help to

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Monika
  • Ch’an and Zen Buddhism

    Ch’an and Zen Buddhism

    Ch’an and Zen Buddhism Throughout the early years in many East Asian countries, there were many people who were looking for answers to this world’s, and otherworldly, questions. When Gotama became enlightened, and began preaching the practices of Buddhism, it came at such a time when the Han dynasty was collapsing, citizens were tired of Confucianism and looking for a new ideology that they could put there hearts and souls into. Over the years, Buddhism

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jack
  • How a Cell Phone Changed My Life

    How a Cell Phone Changed My Life

    When it comes to cell phones, practicality is not the first thing I consider. Many people are satisfied with just “having a phone that works”, but that’s never been good enough for me. I’ve owned my own cell phone ever since the fifth grade; a technology that none of my friends had at the time. Most kids would be happy just having a phone to begin with, but I have always enjoyed being a step

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Application of Theory Towards Ethical Implementation of Military Force

    Application of Theory Towards Ethical Implementation of Military Force

    As I am heading off this summer to be trained as a Chaplain in the U.S. Navy, and I consider myself to be just shy of a pacifist, I am highly interested in questions of military ethics. I deal very often with both inward and outward doubts about the possible hypocrisies involved in becoming a piece of the infrastructure of a machine whose actions I may often disagree with. In the end I have my

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Hacker's Ethic

    Hacker's Ethic

    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html More sites about: Hacking > FAQs Hacker Crackdown, The http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/hacker/ More sites about: Shopping > Computer Books > Culture Hacker Purity Test http://www.armory.com/tests/hacker.html More sites about: Humor > Computers and Internet Hacker's Diet, The - how to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html More sites about: Health > Nutrition Hacker Instruments & Industries Inc. - supplies products to the anatomical pathology market. http://www.hackerinstruments.com More sites about: B2B > Laboratory

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Personal Values and Ethical Foundations

    Personal Values and Ethical Foundations

    Personal Values and Ethical Foundations How does one’s personal, organizational and cultural values affect decision-making in one’s personal and professional life? Can a correlation be made to support this conceptually? Can specific interactions reflect the perspectives identified? These are all questions that lead to the formulation of personal values and setting an ethical foundation in a person’s life. People today in and outside of businesses are fairly liberal in choosing what they will and what

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Running Head: ETHICAL FILTER WORKSHEET Ethical Filter Worksheet University of Phoenix Value Personal Source Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Honesty and Respect Honest and respect are at the top of my list of priorities in decision-making because they are both equally important values in decision-making. Honesty is an inner-quality that one earns and people will see in time. Honesty

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: regina
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper As defined by Webster's 1913 Dictionary, "Ethics is a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions". Ethics are standards of behavior that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves. On the other hand, the word value has many meanings and may be

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Insider: An Ethics Perspective

    The Insider: An Ethics Perspective

    The Insider: From an Ethics Perspective The Insider was an excellent movie that depicted a multitude of ethical dilemmas. Although the focus of the movie surrounds the two main characters, Jeffrey Wigand and Lowell Bergman, there is unethical behavior behavior existing amongst these individuals and everyone in their surroundings. The film's depiction of ethics is a perfect example of what situations one can face in the modern business world. Some of the ethical issues in

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Charcter Traits

    Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Charcter Traits

    In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden the main character, Christopher Boone, exhibits the personality trait of anxiety. In the story the anxious Christopher Boone finds a dog dead in his neighbor’s lawn. He wants to find out who the murderer is and during his investigation he finds out that his mother has not been dead for two years and that his own father killed the dog.

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Victor
  • How Being in Love Can Change People

    How Being in Love Can Change People

    “How Being in Love can Change People” In the three marvelous works, Matchstick Men, Punch-Drunk Love, and “Mama Day”, people are all changed greatly, and for the better by romantic or father/child love. How everyone knows that there is no one on Earth who is perfect, yet when there is love, we come so close to it. Within these three works of art, one can analyze how there is actual change through people when

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jack
  • Ethical Decision Making: What Are the Elements and the Impact?

    Ethical Decision Making: What Are the Elements and the Impact?

    To answer this question, we must first examine the thinking process and define the meaning of morality. We continually make decisions without regard to ethics or moral values on a daily basis. We can define morality as a system of shared rules, or values that dictate specific behavior during the interaction of people. Morality or moral value is about doing the right thing and brings up questions on how we ought to act in

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Buddhism

    Buddhism

    Buddhism Alejandro Rueda Western International University Religions of the World/Hum 127 Edward Sinclair November 20, 2005 Buddhism Buddhism was founded by Siddartha Gautama, and eventually, he became the Buddha. His intentions were not to form a new religion, only to modify an older one. Brahmanism, or Hinduism, had become very orthodox and Siddartha was a minor king of Northern India. One day, he ventured outside the palace walls and saw how life really was.

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Changing Role of the Labour Courth

    The Changing Role of the Labour Courth

    Introduction In the following essay the author will set out to show the reader the changing role of the Labour Court since 1990. It will start by explaining to the reader how the Labour Court is structured and then outline briefly its functions. From there, the author will talk about the history and reasoning for the establishment of the Labour Court, and how various acts were passed by governments of the time that changed the

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Ethics Perspectives

    Ethics Perspectives

    Ethics Perspective Pamela Dixon University of Phoenix MGT 344 The Ethics Awareness Inventory refers to four characterizations based on ethical philosophy. These characterizations are character, obligation, result, and equity. The inventory not only analyze the characteristics of one’s perspective on ethics but “will assist you in the development of a deeper understanding of your personal ethical perspective and style.” (The William Institute for Ethics and Management). In this paper I plan to define character, obligation,

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Author and His Times

    Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Author and His Times

    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES It was a brash, bustling, energetic country in which Hawthorne grew up and carved out his writing career. The covered wagons were rolling West, with signs that bravely declared "California or bust!" The first passenger railroad opened, and the trains went huffing and puffing along at the (then) incredible speed of 20 miles an hour. Jackson was elected president, throwing the conservative statesmen out of office and ushering

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Bred