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Is commerce ever ethical? Business ethics from Friedman to Sarbanes-Oxley

Commerce ever Ethical? The issue of ethics in business has become increasingly important in recent years, in particular in light of the wave of frauds and accounting scandals in the early 2000s that led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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David Lewis's modal realism and the plurality of possible worlds

Modal realism, as explicated by David Lewis in his work on the Plurality of Worlds, concerns the infinity of possibilities. On Lewis's view, there are infinite possibilities of worlds, where an infinite number of individuals are living an infinite amount of lives.

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Kantian ethics and decision-making in business management

Deidre McCloskey, the Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). [HB501 M55341 2006 -- Grad]

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Emotional and physical burdens in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

The Things They Carried is an emotional narrative about several American soldiers serving together in the Vietnam War. The story is told to the reader in the second person, yet the reader can identify with each soldier as if he was telling the story himself.

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Ishmael Beah's transformation from child to soldier in Sierra Leone

In January of 2007, the New York Times ran an excerpt of Ishmael Beah's memoir of life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. The excerpt is a shocking, heart-wrenching account of a boy's journey from carefree child to cold-blooded killer, and the difficult path to redemption that followed.

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The role of the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts

Book of Acts is the fifth book of the New Testament of the Bible, following the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It is widely believed that the apostle Luke wrote this book.

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Alternative energy sources for California's power crisis

"The energy crisis in California, the coming global energy crisis," a slogan used by energycrisis.com (2001), illustrates the necessity for alternative energy sources in California and by extension the whole world.

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Presidential power expansion from the Alien and Sedition Acts to Bush

In 1798, for example, Congress enacted, and President John Adams signed, a series of laws that, together, became known as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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Ethical leadership and corporate responsibility in modern business

Recent waves of corporate scandals have eroded the trust and goodwill of employees, investors and the public. Increased connectivity now makes it possible to easily distribute or access sensitive company data, allowing for greater transparency than ever before.

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Edward M. Bannister and nineteenth-century immigration to America

America was defined as a nation of immigrants or the melting pot in the century between 1820 and 1920 with more than thirty-three million people entering the country through the ports.

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