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Two significant changes to the penitentiary system during the twentieth century

During the 19th Century prisons were harsh environments that incorporated corporal punishment, striped uniforms and lockstep marching. In 1876 the Elmira Correctional Facility opened in New York.

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Flexible budgeting: risk management and ethical considerations

Flexible budgeting is more of an accounting philosophy than a specific accounting technique.

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My passion for teaching and personal experience with loss

It is a basic human right for everyone to decide for their career and pursue their happiness. A career that is chosen for personal satisfaction is obviously better than opting for some career that is being pursued only for making a living. How do people decide for their career?

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The case for requiring philosophy in high school education

Philosophy required in high school? Gun control?; Stem cells receiving federal support? To be alive is to be a philosopher.

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John Maxwell and New Paradigm Consulting on organizational leadership

John C. Maxwell is an internationally known expert and lecturer on the topic of leadership and on approaches to effective organizational culture.

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Crowdsourcing techniques for value co-creation in call centers

Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in use by for-profit organizations such as Threadless, iStockphoto, and InnoCentive. Speculation in Weblogs and wisdom of crowds theory assumes a diverse crowd engaged in crowdsourcing labor.

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Lavonda's choice between personal gain and ethical responsibility

Lavonda's situation is replete with legal and ethical implications. First is the issue of her engaging in a romantic relationship without reporting it to the Human Resources department. In doing this, Lavonda and Allen both broke fundamental rules of the company.

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Ed and John's ethical dilemma over falsified expense reports

In this situation, both Ed and John are in an ethical dilemma. Ed's ethical dilemma stems from the fact that he is operating based upon an old set of rules.

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Christine Boyer's concept of cybercities and digital life

Subsuming the heterogeneity of the Internet to a homogenous whole is a reductive move. Furthermore, it risks making the unsupportable conflation of the Internet user with their textual output." (Bassett, et al., 2002, p. 234)

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Ethical values competence, professional judgment, and workplace integrity

At first, competence may not seem to be an ethical value, merely a judgment of skill.

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