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The decision to attend college: opportunity costs and philosophical justification

Action: I decided to attend college, and obtain my undergraduate degree. Risk: First, there is the opportunity cost of the income I could earn at a full-time job.

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Cheating as a culturally embedded form of academic dishonesty

Cheating takes a wide array of forms. An act of dishonesty or habitual acts of dishonesty used to deceive others, to advance one's self, to gain the upper hand in a competitive circumstance or to engage in illicit behaviors while attempting to obscure these behaviors, cheating conjures a number of…

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Strategic alignment of Iron Mountain's corporate values and practices

Iron Mountain does not publish its core values, but some of them can be interpreted through their mission statement.

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Individual ethical violations and the Enron case study

Recently, there have been several highly-publicized cases of individuals given great opportunities in life or who were in positions of power who have betrayed the public's trust.

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Plagiarism as theft of intellectual property in writing services

This is highly unethical; therefore it cannot be accepted as a way of life by any writing service. For example, there are writing services that provide writing assistance to students and professionals.

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Pfizer's Trovan drug trial in Nigeria during the meningitis epidemic

In the article analyzed, Drug testing in Nigeria, the researchers, Debora Spar and Adam Day, describe the situation of a clinical test of an experimental drug, Trovan, conducted in a Third World country under suspect conditions, with shoddy supervision and for questionable reasons.

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Internet marketing and distribution in the hotel lodging industry

In the recent past, a hotel has been described as a 'home away from home'. This brings out the images of a cozy, comfortable room set in a friendly, hospitable environment. Like many households which have increased the number and sophistication of electronic gadgetry.

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Machiavellian principles in tobacco industry marketing

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most controversial yet enduring political manifestos regarding the differing types of military affairs, principalities, and qualities of a great leader.

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Social capital and intellectual property rights in music piracy

Social Capital and Intellectual Property Rights: Ethical Standards of Downloading Music From Free Web Sites The prevalence of the influx of free information through the new media, the Internet, has provided opportunities for people to gain access to almost every idea or commodity distributed and…

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Hospital access to care: perspectives of stakeholders and costs

Administrator. From the administrator's point-of-view, access to care represents an ethical dilemma. Ideally, all patients would have equal access to care, but the hospital cannot afford to finance care for all.

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