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The right to bear arms and responsible gun regulation in America

Gun control became an issue for Americans in the 1960s when President Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, all with guns. People began to demand that the government do something to stop the spread of guns and murder (Ruhl, Rizer, & Wier, 2003/2004).

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Whole Foods Market decision-making models and merchandising strategy

How would you describe the merchandising and operational decisions made by Whole Foods Market in terms of the rational, bounded rationality, and garbage can models of decision-making?

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Global Homage: an NGO for rural health and sanitation education

Establishing an organization is a very hard task. It entails careful, selective and series of planning, conceptualization and strategic execution. Maintaining the organization is equally challenging.

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Human resource management in international joint ventures: A cultural analysis

International joint ventures rise important problems for human resource management and evidence for this fact has been put forth by the recent international management literature (Geringer & Frayne, 1990; Gantinsky & Watske, 1990; Zeira & Shenkar, 1990;Bleeke & Ernst, 1991; Yuen & Kee, 1993;…

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Core values essential to justice system organizations

To create a balanced and violence free society it is essential to give importance to values in organizations that deal in justice. A good justice system ensures security and peace in society.

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Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief in terminal illness

Disease and death [...] grieving process in patients and loved ones, and the stresses of dealing with dying patients in the clinical setting. Death is inevitable, but it is still one of the most feared and misunderstood aspects of our culture and society.

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Harvey Mansfield's interpretation of Machiavelli's virtue and modernity

When hearing the name "Machiavelli," many people automatically think of negative words such as "corrupt," "evil," and "valueless." Yet, the controversy about the truth of this continues.

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Email spam: proliferation, consequences, and potential solutions

The background of this research project is the proliferation of unwanted, unsolicited junk email which is clogging the arteries of the Internet. Bill Gates predicted some years back that we would solve the SPAM problem by 2006. It has not happened, and the problem is worse than ever.

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Transparency mechanisms in WTO trade negotiations and dispute settlement

In the past, mistrust and false pretence in matters of subsidies, hidden tariffs, and environmental issues between countries have caused trade negotiations to be delayed and even fail.

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Ethical concerns and controversies surrounding embryonic stem cell research

Unethical Controversies man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. (Schweitzer, 2006)

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