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  • Ethics Theories Table

    Ethics Theories Table

    When I began thinking about enrolling into college, I was sitting in my office at work, contemplating whether I should make the phone call. In my younger years, when people would ask me if I was in school, I would become irate because I thought that was not the only thing important in people’s lives. Now, I think differently and have become that person who asks others if they are in school! Being in college

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    Essay Length: 545 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Edward
  • Hip Hop and Race Relations in America

    Hip Hop and Race Relations in America

    KRS One once said, “Rap is something you do, Hip-Hop is something you live.” The difference between how Hip-Hop is portrayed (rap) and what the Hip-Hop movement is, is that Hip-Hop is a lifestyle but the Hip-Hop we see on television is a media creation. We have to look at hip-hop as a whole culture and rap as something that comes out of it. Although Hip-Hop was originated by a mostly Negro constituency, it has

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    Essay Length: 862 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Vika
  • Ethical Consent for the Incompetent

    Ethical Consent for the Incompetent

    Ethical Consent for the Incompetent It is ethically difficult to research cures for diseases that render patients incompetent, because those patients, being incompetent, are incapable of giving consent to the research designed to study the disease and a possible cure. Should family members be permitted to give their proxy consent to such research, even if there will likely be no direct benefit to the patient? Close family members should be able to give consent for

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    Essay Length: 465 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Edward
  • Media Ethics Potter Box

    Media Ethics Potter Box

    Case Study 1 Part 1 Analyse the issue using the Potter Box. Use the quadrants of the Potter Box to make your own judgment of the New York Times’ decision to delay publication for a year, and omit certain information. Was it ethically justifiable? 1.Definition or situation. 4. Loyalties. 2. Values. 3. Ethical principal. Facing objection for the White House, The New York Times went ahead and published an article about President Bush permitting the

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    Essay Length: 1,149 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Yan
  • Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper All members of a civilized and harmonious society have ethical and legal obligations. We are obligated to act in an ethical and law abiding manner in our day-to-day activities within our community. It stands to reason that our financial reporting should fall within this expectation as well. So much of our lives and well-being is dictated by the business environment around us. It is where we work, where we invest

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    Essay Length: 732 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics in Business

    Ethics in Business

    Ethics in Business Ethics and Human Resources Ethics commonly refer to the rules or principles that define right and wrong conduct. In the United States, many believe we are currently suffering from an ethics crisis (Ricklets, Robbins & Coulter, 1996). Behaviors that were once thought unacceptable -- lying, cheating, misrepresenting, and covering up mistakes -- have become in many people's eyes acceptable or necessary practices. Managers profit from illegal use of insider stock information and

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Janna
  • Social Status of Women in Corporate America

    Social Status of Women in Corporate America

    Social Status of Women in Corporate America There is an inevitable intersection between corporate America and gender, and this relationship is the reason behind many issues of question regarding the low status of women. The common view maintains that women are of lower status than men and are kept in that position because of social construct. Thus, the established argument is based on the fact that the women are situated into an inescapable hole because

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    Essay Length: 2,001 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Effects of the Cold War on the Americas

    The Effects of the Cold War on the Americas

    The Effects of the Cold War on the Americas For nearly fifty years, the world lived in fear as two super-power nations quietly battled for power, respect and popularity of their respective political views. The Cold War arose out of the ashes of the failed alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union in World War II. Many different factors could be linked to the actual cause of the Cold War, however many agree

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    Essay Length: 655 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Vika
  • Central & South America

    Central & South America

    For more than a century, Central and South Americans have continuously immigrated to the United States. Their countries of origin include: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Belize, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uraguay and Venezuela. These countries vary greatly in size, geography, history, language, levels of urbanization and industrialization and number of immigrants who have resettled in the United States. Immigrants from these countries have been incorporated into the social

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    Essay Length: 2,355 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: David
  • Technology and the Future of Work

    Technology and the Future of Work

    Technology and the Future of Work Every society creates an idealised image of the future - a vision that serves as a beacon to direct the imagination and energy of its people. The Ancient Jewish nation prayed for deliverance to a promised land of milk and honey. Later, Christian clerics held out the promise of eternal salvation in the heavenly kingdom. In the modern age, the idea of a future technological utopia has served

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    Essay Length: 4,203 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mike
  • Journalism and Ethics

    Journalism and Ethics

    As times change journalism becomes more and more competitive. Deadlines become tighter, the stories become bigger, and publications struggle to be the best. These factors put individual journalists under a great deal of stress. As a result, many journalists fabricate or plagiarize their stories in hope of not necessarily winning a Pulitzer, but in hope of meeting their deadlines and the demands of their readers. It is unfortunate that these unethical, and often illegal,

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Monika
  • Comparing Ancient Egypt/america

    Comparing Ancient Egypt/america

    In comparing Ancient Egypt and modern day Americas, I found a few similarities and differences in their every day lifestyles. Things like religion, government, social class, writing, and their job specializations. It was surprising to me to find out that the ancient Egyptians way of leaving was somewhat like ours. Of course there are heavier differences, but still they were very modern for their times. Also I am in strong belief that we learned many

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    Essay Length: 734 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: July
  • Standardized Testing in the Us: Why It Does Not Work

    Standardized Testing in the Us: Why It Does Not Work

    In the United States, standardized testing is used to measure how knowledgeable or unknowledgeable a person is in a particular subject. According to the Council of Chief State School Officers website, standardized tests are defined as “a testing instrument that is administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard manner. It may be either norm-referenced or criterion-referenced” (Council of Chief State School Officers). I believe that this method of testing is not an accurate way of

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    Essay Length: 1,234 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Sonic: America's Drive- In

    Sonic: America's Drive- In

    Sonic: America's Drive- In The fast-food industry is changing everyday. There are new products being introduced in the market and new slogans being created. The companies in the fast-food industry will do their best to make the greater burger, and to make bigger and better fries. Founded in 1953, Sonic has become the largest drive-in chain in the nation. Sonic was founded by Troy Smith, Jr. in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His dream was to own his

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    Essay Length: 870 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Working Capital and Financial Environment Paper

    Working Capital and Financial Environment Paper

    Working Capital and Financial Environment Paper For every company that exists that offers a service or product to the public there is a focus on accurately measuring its current assets and liabilities in the most honest financial regulated environment possible. Brealey states that one of the most "useful summary measure[s] of current assets or liabilities" is net working capital (or just working capital). This paper will give an overview of the working capital elements for

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    Essay Length: 1,367 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Binge Drinking on America’s Campuses

    Binge Drinking on America’s Campuses

    Binge Drinking on America’s Campuses On any Friday or Saturday night, the average college student is usually drinking, dancing and out having fun. They typically party with friends at fraternity parties, bars, and clubs; and unfortunately most of these students are underage, consuming excessive amounts of alcohol or “Binge Drinking”. Binge drinking results in several detrimental outcomes, some are even fatal. Today this type of drinking is rampant on educational campuses everywhere. Large and small,

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: regina
  • Chemistry and America

    Chemistry and America

    When reading through the May 22, 2006 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, I found that a significant percentage of the articles shared and discussed the latest happenings with companies in the industry. While they may have mentioned a new drug they were developing or a new breakthrough just recently discovered, little was said in chemical or engineering terms. Only a few articles were focused on proteins and bonds and Borganhalogen compounds. I read a

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics Theory Table

    Ethics Theory Table

    University Of Phoenix Material ETHICS THEORIES TABLE Directions: Fill in the brief definitions and sub-theories of each ethical theory, and match the real-world examples listed below the table to the corresponding theories. Finally, come up with your own workplace example that fits each theory. Ethical Theory Brief Definition Sub-theories Real-world Example Workplace Example Duty-based Ethics Deontological ethics is the focus on rightness or wrongness of the action itself rather than the consequences of those actions.

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    Essay Length: 453 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Should Artists Address Social and Political Issues in Their Work?

    Should Artists Address Social and Political Issues in Their Work?

    Should artists address social and political issues in their work? Yes! I think that it is necessary for us to give physical form to things we think and feel strongly about, especially when it comes to social and political issues. We use art in our everyday lives for communicating information, day-to-day living, spiritual sustenance, personal expression, visual delight as well as for social and political purposes. Art can be used for communicating specific information. Art

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    Essay Length: 360 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Anna
  • Busines Ethics

    Busines Ethics

    BUSINESS ETHICS 2008 Outline : A) General overview. B) Utilitarian theory. C) Kant theory. C) Rawls theory. D) Conclusion. Foreword: This research paper discusses theories in business ethics. It also considers three cases that illustrate ethics principles violation. Thesis: Nowadays in the era of economic relations and international trade business ethics plays a very important role. Nowadays in the era of economic relations and international trade business ethics plays a very important role. It is

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    Essay Length: 1,408 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Obesity in America

    Obesity in America

    Obesity in America With fast food chains creating more and more ways to entice the American public to eat their food, it is becoming harder and harder to stay in shape these days. The fast life of America is quickly taking its toll on the public with the little enemy called obesity creeping up at an alarming rate. In fact, it is coming so fast, the Surgeon General has called it an “epidemic”. So what

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Vika
  • Swot Analysis of Climbing Works

    Swot Analysis of Climbing Works

    “Climbing Works” is a dedicated bouldering centre located in Sheffield that offers world class bouldering facilities in an atmosphere that aids elite training, but also caters for beginners and all levels in between. The centre is run by world renowned individuals with years of experience in the fields of climbing, bouldering and route setting, this experience has come together to create a fantastic opportunity to develop the fringe sport of bouldering. The centre was recently

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Code of Ethics Paper

    Code of Ethics Paper

    Code of Ethics Paper One thing that accountants take very seriously in our job training as an accountant is the rigorous code of ethics of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). This code suggest that accountants maintain independence from clients and they bear equal responsibility for reporting unlawful or misleading information when normal accounting practice would show to the accountant that such information was questionable or false. Ethics has been defined as the

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jack
  • Terrorism in America

    Terrorism in America

    Terrorism in America Thesis statement: terrorism is the systematic use of violence to intimidate the population and influence the societies to which they belong, the world trade center, pentagon suffered terrorist attacks the Whitehouse was also attacked but they failed in the intent because people in the airplane impeded it. People make terrorism because of their ideals for example the world trade center suffered the most important attacks on September 11, 2001, this shows

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: regina
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Many people shop everyday without really thinking about where the products they are buying came from, how they were made, and who made them. If they were to find out that many of the products at these stores were made by people working under harsh and unsafe conditions for only pennies per hour, would they still shop there? Wal-Mart is a prime example of this. This is why I believe it is wrong to shop

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Kevin