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Developing cultural fluency through international marketing experience

If I were to describe myself in a single word, it would be 'fluent.' I have striven to make myself fluent in a variety of languages and cultures so my skill set can be adaptable to my current workplace and to the workplace of the future.

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Thomas Nagel's critique of Kant on moral luck and responsibility

Moral Luck" by admitting defeat: he informs the reader that he will be assessing "a fundamental problem about moral responsibility to which we possess no satisfactory solution" (450). The problem is essentially one about ethical judgment, and he begins it with an illustration from Kant.

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Ethical standards in digital image manipulation: newspaper editors versus television news directors

Cross-Media Response to Digital Manipulation of Still and Moving Images" was originally published in the Fall of 1996 by the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. The primary author of the study, George Albert Gladney, holds a Ph.D.

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Hypocrisy and charisma in Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry

Although Sinclair Lewis penned his satiric novel Elmer Gantry in 1927, many of the issues raised by the book are still relevant today. The title character uses the institution of religion and the American evangelical revival of the early 20th century as a means of making money.

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Food advertising's effects on youth and defensive strategies

Cognitive Development may appear to be a unified discipline or organic cooperation among several disciplines; however, the research shows chasms between fields devoted to the study of human development.

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The policy paradox: politics and rational decision-making in policymaking

Stone captures for me the crux of policy paradox with this statement: "…each type of policy instrument [e.g., inducements, rules rights, for example] is a kind of sports arena, each with its peculiar ground rules, within which political conflicts are continued" (2001, p. 13).

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Integrated corporate communication in globalized competitive markets

The established limitations are severely customized by globalization: the size of the company (where there is not a major link with the area of the performance, delocalization and outsourcing and being dependent on the network), design of the product and sales (where the relation with the…

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The historical roots of Dutch tolerance and liberal political culture

Dutch Culture "Typical Dutch?" The history of the Netherlands is demonstrative of a unique situation both socially and politically as the level of Dutch tolerance has been duly noted on countless issues.

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McDonald's integrated marketing campaign strategy and implementation

This paper is divided into two distinct sections. The first chapter is based on literature reviews of various scholarly works that are related to the topic of integrated marketing campaign that are also relevant to the McDonald marketing campaign that was created to celebrate the inherent democracy…

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Union organizing and unfair labor practices violations

The union held an organizing meeting with janitorial workers of an apartment building and townhouse complex on December 5th.

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