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Spreadsheet limitations in financial decision-making systems

Computers have brought a great change in our lives. A software program called spreadsheet turns the computer screen into a paper sheet one is working on. This program saves time by reducing the errors and repetitions of calculations.

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Alain de Botton's Socratic philosophy and modern moral complacency

The first chapter of Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy is set in an art museum. The author gazes upon an image of David's The Death of Socrates.

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Narrative analysis and institutional bias in healthcare decision-making

Crepeau (2000) entitled "Reconstructing Gloria" attempts to unsettle rather than describe or confirm existing healthcare paradigms by using a narrative analysis of the team meetings of hospital workers at a mental health facility.

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Merck's ethical failures in developing and marketing Vioxx

How could Merck management have handled the research, development and marketing of Vioxx in a more ethically responsible fashion, if at all?

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The Declaration of Independence and the Texas secession petition movement

The excerpt chosen for this paper is one of the most powerful passages in the Declaration of Independence. It packs a punch equal to "We hold these truths to be self-evident…" because it actually states what the Colonies intended to do, and why they fully intended to do it.

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Martin Luther King's rhetorical strategies in the Birmingham Jail letter

Martin Luther King penned his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" precisely because his peers in the religious community had criticized his acts of civil disobedience. The letter is a rhetorical argument, rooted in Aristotelian rhetorical strategies.

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Pearl Gibbs and Aboriginal rights activism in twentieth-century Australia

Pearl Mary (Gambanyi) Gibbs (1901-1983) was one of the major political activists supporting Aboriginal rights in Australia from the 1920s all the way to the 1970s.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's rhetorical techniques in the fireside chats

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is credited by objective scholars and historians as having brought the United States out of the Great Depression, and as having guided the United States through the difficult and dangerous period during World War II.

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Teaching to the test and standardized assessment in American schools

As William Hatfield presciently warned in 1916, when the ultra-efficiency of industrialization first begin threatening the independence of educators to craft curricula, "an education that focuses on memorising information to ensure reaching a single benchmark is an inadequate measure of success"…

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Ethical challenges in Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Lubrizol Corporation

This report presents an analysis of the ethical challenges faced by two organizations -- one in the not-for-profit sector named Susan G. Komen for the Cure and one in the for-profit sector named The Lubrizol Corporation.

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