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Consumer data privacy and corporate marketing segmentation ethics

Whenever a consumer enters into a relationship with a corporation, he or she is making a leap of faith that the company will not use his or her information in a compromising fashion.

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Risks and concerns of personal health tracking devices

The debate about posting health information online used to revolve around the right of insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors to allow confidential health data to become accessible through less-than-secure online storage devices.

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Sports marketing strategies in professional sports organizations

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Critical thinking applied to a workplace customer service problem

Contrary to what some might believe, being a critical thinker does not mean being a negative thinker, or aggressively looking for flaws. Rather it is trying to see the world as it really is and striving to arrive at creative solutions when there are real problems that need to be fixed.

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Social media integration in geographically dispersed workplace teams

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Refuting Barnes's flawed conception of eternal heavenly existence

The image of Heaven that Barnes offers in the Dream is one where one eventually becomes bored with the perpetual availability of everything that one could possibly desire. In his case, Heaven consists mainly of sex, golf, and on-call cuisine, and the opportunity to meet famous individuals.

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Bank accounts for poor children in India and developing nations

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Prosecuting the young defendant in Twelve Angry Men

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we have a serious issue to ponder. For many days we have heard about the details of a horrific crime, perhaps the worst type of crime since time began -- the death of a man at the hands of his own son.

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Scott's critique of utopian simplification and practical knowledge

According to Chapter 9 of James C. Scott's book Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, the failure of state-imposed and orchestrated 'improvement' strategies is due to the fundamental utopian simplification of the needs of human beings within the social…

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Gothic architecture's relationship to feudal society and labor

Gothic architecture's vast, sweeping and expansive designs and its emphasis on religiosity is a product of stratified feudal society.

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