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Three logical fallacies in organizational decision-making

"It's all your fault!" cries the Chief Executive at the Board Meeting. "Well, why shouldn't we get a raise -- the higher-ups are making even more money that they don't deserve than we are!" cries the union representative. "Our workers should get some of that company money, too!"

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Critical thinking, decision making, and time management for academic success

Intellectual Life Skills: Critical Thinking and Decision Making, Time Management Strategies, and the Effective Identification of Fallacious Thinking

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Thomas Paine's common language and revolutionary message

Thomas Paine is justly famous for his historical role in the political foundation of the United States.

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Monir Tayeb's approach to managing cultural diversity in organizations

Tayeb, Monir H. (1996) The Management of a Multicultural Workforce. London, England: John Wiley & Sons.

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First Amendment protection and the Ward Churchill controversy

Freedom of Speech, or the right to express oneself, verbally and in writing, as one chooses, and how, when, to whom, and in what manner one chooses, is a guarantee of all American citizens, protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Corporate social responsibility in consumer advertising imagery

The last few decades have seen the emergence of two trends that have important implications for the field of consumer advertising.

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How stereotypes influence personal judgments and social interactions

Stereotypes are limited views of a group or type of people that is based on information that is not correct because it is oversimplified, incomplete, or distorted.

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Preservation and destruction of culture in Too Loud a Solitude

In Too Loud a Solitude, the garbage collector and compactor Hanta works to retrieve culture in the form of books from the compactor. How is this action simultaneously about matter and knowledge?

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Mark's authorship and reliability in early Christian tradition

According to Christian tradition, Mark, who served as both interpreter and disciple of Peter, took responsibility to write down the teachings of his pedagogue after both his and Paul's death.

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Herman Melville's Billy Budd: impressment and military ethics in context

Billy Budd -- a tale of the sea or an allegory of fate? Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd seems to function in many ways like an allegorical novel about a classic moral tragedy, but such a reading does not place the novel in sufficient historical or political context to fully explain the…

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