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Philosophical approaches to virtue and morality in Socrates and Buddha

In modern day philosophy there are a number of different ideas that were developed over the centuries, to help humankind to live a happy and moral life. Two of the classic thinkers who exemplify this kind of reasoning would be Socrates and Buddha.

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Payback period as a tool for investment risk management

Good investment strategies are always tempered with a heavy dose of risk management.

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The internal rate of return method in capital budgeting decisions

What process do you use to evaluate capital investment decisions? When any firm is using the capital budget process to evaluate investment decisions, they are looking for ways to reduce the overall amounts of risk as much as possible.

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Moral development and ethical reasoning in a gifted adolescent

The subject of this case study is an 18-year-old male who, for the purposes of this project, will be referred to as "Steven." Steven illustrated high intelligence and precocious cognitive development as an infant, and as a small child.

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Menstruation and femininity in twentieth-century corporate health discourse

Menstruation: The Representation of Menstruation in the Popular Discourse of the 20th and 21st Century A 1948 Kotex pamphlet entitled "Very Personally Yours," published by the Kimberly Clark corporation is instructive of the contradictory cultural ideology attached to menstruation.

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Measuring public value creation in Moore's strategic triangle framework

Sherman, Weinberg, and Lewis cite Mark Moore's "Creating Public Value" as providing a framework for creating public value. However, they believe that it falls short in offering a means by which to measure value creation. Summarize and discuss their position.

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The problem of evil in Christian theology

For Christian theologians, one of the most troubling questions is the presence of evil in the world. If God is good, and the world is good, how can the world God created contain evil?

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Pathophysiology of cervical cancer and human papillomavirus infection

Every two minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from cervical cancer (GlaxoSmithKline 2007).

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Analysis and assessment of Al Qaeda's training manual

The manual was certainly written after 1990 as it refers to the failed assassination attempt on Egyptian Minister of the Interior Abdel-Halim Moussa, in which the parliamentary Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub was killed instead.

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Alternatives to incarceration for minor offenders: programs and benefits

Using alternatives to incarceration for offenders who commit minor crimes has a great benefit to both the offender and then community. These types of programs are used to reducing overcrowding in the jails and to better manage costs that are associated with incarceration.

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