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Banking bonuses and the financial crisis of 2008

The Economic Crisis and Banking Industry Bonuses: When Moral and Financial Bankruptcy Collide It is probably not too surprising to most news-conscious Americans that huge bonuses were handed out at companies that were shedding employees by the thousands, forced into buy-outs due to an utter lack of…

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Hobbes and Locke's influence on American constitutional government

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were English social contract theorists who produced books approximately 100 years before the American Revolution describing why men enter political society and what shape the resulting state ought to take.

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Judith Lorber's analysis of gender as social construction

Social Construction of Gender, by Judith Lorber begins of with the briefest history of Western philosophy's view of women prior to the 18th century. That biologically women were basically men turned inside out, as far as their genitalia were concerned at least.

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Personal analysis of Freud's ego defense mechanisms

My ego uses regression often, so the defense mechanism can be easy to recognize. When I catch myself gnawing on the end of my pen, I know that Freud would claim that behavior indicates regression to the oral stage.

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Billabong International's value chain management strategy

Billabong International (Billabong) is an Australian company that manufactures, distributes, wholesales and retails products in relation to surf and board sports. Their product line includes: accessories, apparel, eyewear, hard good (such as surfboards), and wetsuits.

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The economic impact of credit cards on American consumer debt

Credit cards were devised in the 1920s as a response to an emerging class of consumers who traveled in their automobiles but did not have access to their bank accounts outside of their home town.

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Ableism, educational inclusion, and accommodations for disabled students

Ableism, as every author we have read who explicitly addresses the issue has defined it, is just like sexism or racism in that it is an underlying social and cultural system of prejudice that limits or prevents access to various parts of society-based to a select subset of the population.

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Boston College's Christmas on the Heights concert review

On Sunday, December 2, 2009 the Boston College University Choral and Symphony Orchestra perform "Christmas on the Heights" on the campus of Boston College. It was night filled with joyous Christmas music directed by John Finney.

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Personal choice and constraint in Dangerous Minds

It is understandable that the movie Dangerous Minds might leave the audience doubtful that the average person really has significant choice in life.

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How relocating from the city to a rural town transformed my life

A major decision in life is not taken lightly. At the same time, some decisions that are taken on the spur of the moment can become in retrospect a major decision that has far-reaching implications for one's life.

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