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  • Kant's Theory and Objection

    Kant's Theory and Objection

    Kant's Theory and Objection The Ethical Theorist Immanuel Kant, was born in 1724 and died in 1804 at the age of 80. He was the first philosopher to publish in Germany, and his theory in which he devised was called Deontology. Deontology was a theory that discussed duties and obligations and even further, to figure out what duties we have. His central idea was also what makes actions right is that the person has right

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Jack
  • Personality Theories Matrix

    Personality Theories Matrix

    Personality Theories Matrix THEORY Psychoanalytic Neo-Freudian Trait Biological Humanistic Behavioral/ Social Cognitive Personality “Self: id, ego, superego, thanatos; defense mechanisms.” Personlaity structureis made up of 3 major systems: the id, the ego and the superego. Each has its own function properties, components, operating principles, and mechanisms, the systems interact so closely with one another that it is difficult to disentangle their effects and state their relative contribution to man’s behavior. Id is the part of

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: David
  • Economics

    Economics

    Economics can be defined simply as the study of the economy. A more in dept definition would be "the social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems". (www.answers.com). Microeconomics and Macroeconomics are two issues that have a major influence on society. Macroeconomics is the study of the total effect on the national economy and the global economy; basically

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Economic of Oil

    Economic of Oil

    Economics of Oil 1. My article is about the oil prices falling from the lack of demand then in the United States and China. Heating oil, light, sweet crude oil, gasoline, and natural gas prices all fell, and there are predictions that prices will continue to fall. However, the downfall about predictions is they have the likelihood to not come true, and anything can happen to change this prediction. Recently, the stock market tumbled by

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad

    Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad

    Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad Pat and Hugh Armstrong, authors, in their article "Canada's System Is A Model For Health Care Reform", reprinted in Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints, argues that the Canadian health care system is superior to the United States' market-based system. They support their argument with three reasons. First, they reason that 96% Canadians prefer their health care system to the United States'. They use as support the five principles of

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Max
  • Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory of Development

    Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory of Development

    BRONFENBRENNER'S ECOLOGICAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory of Development Jermor Simmons Capella University   Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Abstract 3 Method 4 Results 4 References 5   Abstract The development and growth of an individual is within the constraints of the social environment (Jordan 183). Bronfenbrenner’s theory that development is influenced by experiences arising from broader social and cultural systems as well as a child’s immediate surroundings. Ecological Systems Theory, also

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Vika
  • Dell Computers - Economics for Managerial Decision Making

    Dell Computers - Economics for Managerial Decision Making

    Dell Computers Economics for Managerial Decision Making ECO 533 July 28, 2004 Executive Summary Although the idea of electronic commerce (E-Commerce) has been around for several years, it is slowly moving up the ranks in terms of how both consumers and businesses conduct business. Electronic commerce is the paperless exchange of business information using electronic data interchange (EDI), e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, fax transmissions, and electronic funds transfer. It refers to Internet shopping, online stock

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Janna
  • Economic Overview of the Automotive Industry

    Economic Overview of the Automotive Industry

    Economic Overview of the Automotive Industry Western International University ECO 301 Economic Theory The automotive industry is without a doubt an industry that has massive implications relating to the United States economy as well as affecting every American household. Shifts in the supply and demand of automobiles influence the current and future household purchases. Households must determine what amount of their hard-earned income to allocate to certain necessities. Because most households have a budget, the

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Anna
  • Summary of Brent Staples

    Summary of Brent Staples

    When Brent Staples published his piece, “Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space”, in Ms. magazine it was very controversial. He was a black man, for starters, writing about racial profiling, and he was writing in a feminists’ magazine in 1986. Staples chose to submit his article for publication in Ms. because, according to him, women are who profiled him the most even though they are against the

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Top
  • Economics

    Economics

    Is leadership learned or innate? Leadership involves influencing, or inspiring people to want to follow. Effective leaders use influence to encourage change in individuals, groups, teams, and organizations. However, the resulting influence first begins by nurturing our innate ability to lead. The values learned from parents, our culture, close friends, and lessons of experience usually nurture people into leaders. The innate ability to lead is in each of us. It is God given, though some

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Steve
  • Piaget’s Cognitive Theory

    Piaget’s Cognitive Theory

    Soraya S. Psychology PiagetЎ¦s Cognitive Theory Cognitive development is the development of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Historically, the cognitive development of children has been studied in a variety of ways. The oldest is through intelligence tests. An example of this is the Stanford Binet Intelligence Quotient test. IQ scoring is based on the concept of mental age, according to which the scores of a child

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Cases Where Traditional Economics Doesn't Work

    Cases Where Traditional Economics Doesn't Work

    Content 1. Introduction…… …………………………………………………………………….….3 2. Traditional economics theories ………………………………………...……………….4 3. Cases where traditional economics doesn’t work……………………………………….6 4. Conclusions…………………….………………………………………………...….….10 5. Bibliography………………………………….………………………...………………11 1. Introduction. Economic theory is described as the result of the accumulation of knowledge. It is assumed that the opinions dominant today represent the highest stage of knowledge about the economy as today’s physics is superior to that of the 19th century. This superiority can be questioned. Theories are always embedded in certain paradigms, worldview

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Steve
  • An Economical Electronic Point-Of-Sale Updating System

    An Economical Electronic Point-Of-Sale Updating System

    An economical electronic point-of-sale updating system by DAVID G. HAMMEL Raytheon Company Bedford, Massachusetts INTRODUCTION A major trend in the business world is toward more complete record keeping of business performance. The demands of government (federal, state and municipal) are ever increasing for purposes of tax evaluations. In addition, business executives are interested in obtaining more complete information, within the shortest delay period, pertaining to their company's financial operations. For the past half century one

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Artur
  • Economic Concepts Worksheet

    Economic Concepts Worksheet

    Economic Concepts Worksheet Concept Application of Concept from Personal Experience Reference to Concept in Reading Demand is a schedule or a curve showing the amount of a product that buyers are willing and able to purchase, in a particular time period, at each possible price in a series of prices. A little over a year ago I had the opportunity to launch a new vaccine. I have watched clinic orders significantly increase as insurance companies

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Distinction Between John Locke’s and Thomas Hobbs’ Theories

    Distinction Between John Locke’s and Thomas Hobbs’ Theories

    Locke and Hobbes had their own different theories about government and the right of humans. In 1651 Hobbes published Leviathan, a book in which he challenged the Social Contract concept of government. Hobbes believed that humans possessed individual rights that had to be sacrificed for the good of that state. Hobbes believed the force that would tame the natural anarchy of which was human nature, would be the unlimited power of the king. Hobbes

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Primary Cause of the American Revolution Was Rooted in Economic Self-Interest.

    The Primary Cause of the American Revolution Was Rooted in Economic Self-Interest.

    On April 19, 17, the first shots, the “shots heard round the world,” were fired in Lexington. These gunshots were the opening shots of the famous American Revolution. England had been situated in the Americas for over a hundred and fifty years and had maintained a dominant establishment. So why was there a revolution? There were multiple causes of the American Revolution; however, a primary reason for the revolution was for economic self- interest. Leading

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Vika
  • Mgt330 Management, Theory, Practice, and Application

    Mgt330 Management, Theory, Practice, and Application

    MGT/330 Management, Theory, Practice, and Application Wendy Johnson June 19, 2003 Management Functions In my explanation of the four management functions, I will explore how they apply to my organization, my supervisor, and my position. The planning, organization, leading, and controlling aspects of management are what I will discuss in this paper. The fact that I am not a manager in my organization will pose only a small inconvenience and a minor distraction in the

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Language as a Powerful and Healing Device in Three Contemporary Canadian Novels.

    Language as a Powerful and Healing Device in Three Contemporary Canadian Novels.

    This essay aims at analysing the use of language as an extremely powerful instrument to gain freedom back and to recover from a past of sufferance and victimization in three major Canadian contemporary novels: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Joy Kogawa's Obasan. LANGUAGE: the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting in the use of words in a structured and conventional way. (Oxford Dictionary of English,2003) By analysing

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Janna
  • Canadian Pension Plan

    Canadian Pension Plan

    1. What benefits does the Canada Pension Plan provide? The Canada Pension Plan is a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program. It ensures a measure of protection to a contributor and his or her family against the loss of income due to retirement, disability and death. There are three kinds of Canada Pension Plan benefits: * disability benefits (which include benefits for disabled contributors and benefits for their dependent children); * retirement pension; and * survivor

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Business Economics Assignment

    Business Economics Assignment

    Business economics assignment Part A 1. Many firms have similar cost structures, it might be possible to predict the prices of other competing organizations. Also cost plus pricing is simple to compute. Markup= (price-cost)/ cost price= cost (1+markup) P= Lab+ Mat+ Mkt+ F/Q+Z*A/Q Q: planned output A: gross operating assets Z: desired profit rate MR=P/ (1+1/Z) if firm is maximizing profit: MC=MR=P/ (1+1/Z) P= MC* [1/ (1+ 1/Z)] So profit maximizing price is a mark

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Foundations of the Core Values in Western Ethical Theories

    The Foundations of the Core Values in Western Ethical Theories

    The Foundations of the Core Values in Western Ethical Theories Eric Wingrove-Haugland Asst Prof of Morals and Ethics US Coast Guard Academy 15 Mohegan Avenue New London CT 06320 (860) 444-8368 44 Norman Dr, Gales Ferry CT 06335 Ewingrove-Haugland@exmail.uscga.edu I. Introduction In the past few decades, the U.S. military services have initiated fundamental changes in their approaches to ethics, and the service academies have changed the way in which they teach ethics to future officers.

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • National Economic Growth and Competitiveness

    National Economic Growth and Competitiveness

    National Economic Growth and Competitiveness Chap 2.2 1. Meaning and Intro 2. Porter’s Diamond / Porter and National Prosperity 3. Krugman’s Criticism on competitiveness a. Dangerous Obsession b. “meaningless” c. “misleading” 4. Comments by other Academics a. Francis Fukuyama b. Robert Reich c. Laura Andrea D’Tyson 5. Critique on Krugman 6. Conclusion 1. Meaning and Intro Porter wanted to find out why US was losing its competitiveness, and why - Japan was strong in automobiles

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Putting Theories into Practice

    Putting Theories into Practice

    Putting Theories into Practice In politics, humans seem to be very contradictory towards one another. Many situations allot for disagreement as well as interesting discussions and conversations. I was watching the presidential debate when my girlfriend started shedding her opinion, which I didn't quite agree with. It was as if she ignored what one candidate said and believed the other because there was a bias in her thinking. That, along with what each candidate was

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Autism - Theory of Mind

    Autism - Theory of Mind

    AUTISM Autism is a rare developmental disorder that affects approximately four in every ten thousand children (Baron-Cohen, Leslie & Frith, 1985). Employing a clinical perspective, Kanner (1943) (as cited in Sachs, 1995) was the first to provide a description on the disorder of autism. However, in the 1970s, Wing (1970) (as cited in Sachs, 1995) applied a cognitive perspective in describing the mental structure of autism. This essay will therefore argue that autism is characterised

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Artur
  • Theory X and Y

    Theory X and Y

    douglas mcgregor - theory x y Douglas McGregor's XY Theory, managing an X Theory boss, and William Ouchi's Theory Z Douglas McGregor, an American social psychologist, proposed his famous X-Y theory in his 1960 book 'The Human Side Of Enterprise'. Theory x and theory y are still referred to commonly in the field of management and motivation, and whilst more recent studies have questioned the rigidity of the model, Mcgregor's X-Y Theory remains a valid

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Artur