Book Review Undergraduate 2,618 words

Book Review: To Serve God and Walmart by Bethany Moreton

A critical book review of Bethany Moreton's To Serve God and Walmart, examining Walmart's rise through religion, gender, and free-enterprise ideology.

Business

~14 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,529 words

United States v. Jones and 4th Amendment Surveillance Limits

Analyzes United States v. Jones (2012), its Fourth Amendment ruling on GPS tracking, and what it means for Homeland Security surveillance capabilities.

Law

~13 min read

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1,222 words

Henry Paulson's transition from banking to Treasury Secretary politics

Henry Paulson's Long Night details the author's interactions with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson over the course of his career from his appointment to the fall of 2009.

~7 min read

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6,572 words

Building codes and master builders in ancient Mesopotamia

Construction in ancient times is second only to agriculture-it reaches back as far as the Stone Age and possibly further (Jackson 4).

~33 min read

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2,208 words

Robert M. Clark's Target-Centric intelligence model and accountability issues

Robert M. Clark's Target-Centric intelligence model utilizes what is known as the intelligence cycle. Originally, the intelligence cycle was designed to create a complete set of data by breaking into stages the process of collecting the data.

~12 min read

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8,782 words

Immigrants serving in the U.S. armed forces and citizenship

Except for the indigenous Native American population, the United States is truly a country of immigrants. Indeed, most modern Americans can trace their ancestry to the nations of Europe, Asia and Africa and it is reasonable to suggest that the vast majority of U.S.

~44 min read

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2,674 words

California's tertiary education budget cuts and workforce implications

Education is one of the most important issues in the Western world today. It dictates the future of millions of young people per year, and by association also the future of the country whose workforce these young, educated adults will join.

~14 min read

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1,105 words

WorldCom's $3.8 billion accounting fraud and detection methods

WorldCom filed for bankruptcy in 2002, after having admitted to committing an accounting fraud worth $3.8 billion. The company had inflated its profits by this amount in an attempt to distort the company's falling stock price.

~6 min read

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1,214 words

Long Island CBOs and schools: youth services partnerships and missions

Community-based organizations (CBOs) are established as non-profits and designed to address specific local needs. Representatives of two Long Island CBOs recently discussed their youth services organizations and the relationships they had to the function of schooling.

~7 min read

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1,432 words

Why different measurement systems are used in astronomy

English system of measurement is so complicated to some people is that it has a different basis for different measurements. For most things, the metric system is used and is based on powers of 10, in other words decimalized.

~8 min read

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