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Ethics and financial decision-making in Australian investment practices

Socrates, some 2500 years ago, the question of whether or not ethics can be taught or has limited application has raged on. Yet, a consensus that ethics does or does not have a place in business has never been garnered and the age-old issue will likely remain elusive in the centuries to come.

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Establishing an Office of Protocol at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Working for the Department of Veteran's Affairs means that I need to be able to get results. They are very important, and in 2002 I was asked to participate in a task force for the advancement and the employment of women. I led the subcommittee on researching best practices for the report.

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Personal experience with global business ethics and cultural intelligence

Business School Admissions -- Appeal would like the business school to be aware of several compelling factors regarding my candidacy for the school that were not present in my original application and several factors regarding my personal history that were not, I believe, adequately emphasized in…

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Tennyson's Ulysses and the wisdom of old age

Ulysses" by Lord Alfred Tennyson and the main character's view in old age. This essay will explore the issue of old age, both positive and negative within the environment of the poem. The paragraphs below will touch on how old age is viewed in modern society today.

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Irony and immigrant experience in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

America acts as a place for Amir to bury his memories and a place for Baba to mourn his. In America, there are "homes that made Baba's house in Wazir Akbar Khan look like a servant's hut." What is ironic about this statement? What is the function of irony in this novel?

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Federal law enforcement efforts against drug trafficking organizations

The objective of this research is to discuss current issues involving drug trafficking into the United States and to include current statistics as well as to research the country's major organizations brining drugs in the U.S.

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Teaching morality in classroom settings: research findings and approaches

Research findings discussed include the conclusions that moral education should center on matters of "justice, fairness and human welfare." At the outset, Nucci makes a distinction between the teaching of morality (based on internalized intrinsic values) and the teaching of conventions (based on…

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Geography and Western dominance in Guns, Germs, and Steel

In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, the historian and New Guinea anthropologist Jared Diamond argues that the geography and the environment of the West played the major role in determining the dominance of Western civilization of the modern world.

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China's economic growth and market reforms since 1978

China is equivalent to Europe in many ways in terms of its internal development and the kind of impact it has on countries around it.

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The decline of Tammany Hall and rise of New Deal politics

California's Electoral System of Today -- No return to the New York Tammany! It would be tempting to view the defeat of the Tammany Hall Political Machine by the opponents of political corruption as the clear triumph of good over evil.

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