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Unethical advertising practices and their harm to children

The fundamental business model of advertising is changing drastically as the Internet becomes a much more prevalent communications channel, capable of being specifically targeted to audiences of consumers while also providing the ability to measure the performance of all forms of digital…

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Consequentialism's adequacy as a guide to criminal justice practice

Consequentialism faces a number of objections. Which are the most serious, and do they render the theory unsuitable as a guide to criminal justice practice?

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Corporate social responsibility motives and business ethics integration

Corporate social responsibility is an important but "evolving" concept and thus while it may be easier to define it; it is certainly difficult to explain the motives of a company behind adoption of this strategy.

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Pan-Africanism and decolonization of Kenya and Zimbabwe

Of the numerous and complex surrounding the decolonizing of the British empire in Africa, the influence African states under the British had on one another throughout the process is of particular interest, because it is a subject that has not been widely explored to date.

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New technologies and democratization in contemporary popular music

POPULAR MUSIC is the obvious link to the mass consumer culture. It represents a challenge for any claims as to its transformative potential and capacity for resistance.

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African-American cultural expression and the politics of oppression

Many cultural forms of expression have been utilized within the social science construct, to demonstrate ways in which such expressions reflect the culture as a whole, and in many cases the broader culture, or the one that is usually subjugating the first. Within W.E.B.

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Naomi Wolf's use of emotive language in The Beauty Myth

Language is one of the most fundamental components of human communication, encompassing everything from the banal to the philosophical. Used effectively, language has the power to argue theories and manipulate opinion.

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Overcoming student resistance to revision in composition instruction

A favorite teacher's well-intentioned message, a parent's unskilled assessment, or the student's own perceptions can stymie the editorial and revision process.

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Science and religion: examining compatibility across philosophical texts

In a book by that title, Paul Kurtz asks, "science and religion: are they compatible?" His answer is that though both may be valid, they are only minimally compatible.

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Roman satire's influence on Pope's Rape of the Lock and Swift's Modest Proposal

Horace, and Juvenal, and their Influences on Eighteenth Century Satire: Pope's the Rape of the Lock and Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

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