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Employee drug testing: ethics versus privacy invasion

Is it Ethical or an Invasion of Privacy? Last Christmas, I took a part-time job as a cashier in a retail store. On the same day that I was hired, the manager informed me that I would have to submit to a drug test. Since I'm drug free, I had no problem with this.

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Effectiveness of a pre-course program for entry-level online adult students

Distance education is one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing segments of college and graduate level education.

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Business cynicism toward management theories and organizational change

Management Theory Brings the Best Process for Change? In these times of economic sluggishness - a period in which corporations face the grim realities of shrinking profits, restructuring, layoffs, cutbacks, downsizing, and overall belt-tightening - it would nonetheless seem to be an ideal time for…

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Racial disparities and mental health neglect in the juvenile justice system

It seems that, not only are juvenile justice systems deficient in mental health services, and not only is there a disparity between services for whites and African-American youths - but some juvenile facilities may even be contributing to the deterioration of kids' emotional and mental well-being.

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Jane Addams' views on child labor and immigrant education reform

Addams, Jane. (1994). Child Labor Legislation -- A Requisite for Industrial Efficiency. In On Education (pp. 124-135). New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.

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Adams and Balfour's theory of administrative evil in modern institutions

In Understanding Administrative Evil, authors Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour explore the idea and evolution of the concept of evil. Adams and Balfour begin by defining historical evil as "knowingly and deliberately inflicting pain and suffering on other human being" (xix).

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Historical methodology: from Ranke's historicism to Comte's positivism

The American Heritage Dictionary defines history as "a narrative of events; a chronological record of events, or the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events" (A.H.D. palm). How, then, can one align the definition of history with a statement such as the one cited above?

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Hitchcock's use of lighting, music, and editing in three key scenes from Psycho

Three scenes from Psycho demonstrate the Master of Suspense's expertise behind the camera. The scene in which Marion pulls up to the Bates Motel in the pouring rain is replete with anxiety and introduces the film's main setting and its characters, namely the Bates Motel and Norman.

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Colonial powers' methods of subjugating spirit in Cesaire and Kim

Colonialism," by Aime Cesaire, and "Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood," by Richard Kim. Specifically, it will discuss how the novel describes different methods used by foreign or colonial powers to break the spirit of colonized peoples. What are those methods? What are their effects?

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Cultural autonomy and the right to self-governance

Cultures should have complete autonomy over the practices occurring within them. We live in a world where the word 'culture' has come to mean one of two things.

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