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U.S. adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards feasibility

The formation of a single set of high quality global accounting ideals is a matter of increasing position as the contributors in the ever gradually assimilated world capital markets mandate comparability and clearness of financial reporting international.

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Government taxation of smokers and healthcare cost responsibility

Instead, much of the money is being spent on other pork-barrel projects. It is time that the government realize that prohibition did not work in the 1920s and 1930s and it will not work any better in the 21st century.

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Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and economic inequality satire

Literature is a window into the society of Jonathon Swift's time in which created he created "A Modest Proposal." It mirrors English society and addresses the concerns of the day with regard to the social problems of poverty, hunger and the blindness to those issues of inequality in English…

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Sontag's "The Pornographic Imagination": transgression and knowledge in Cooper and Solondz

Pornographic Imagination," Susan Sontag attempts to discuss pornography free from the moral and aesthetic considerations that have previously rendered any discussion of the topic reductive, and ultimately, moot.

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Hardin's tragedy of the commons and overpopulation solutions

In principle, Hardin explains that the "Tragedy of the Commons" means that one of the inevitable consequences of large societies is that contemporary generations do not have a natural incentive to refrain from behavior that is decidedly detrimental to subsequent generations (or to others now).

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Nursing professionalism and cross-cultural medicine in practice

With the healthcare industry in its current state of disruption, it has become very important to re-evaluate the relationship of patient care and patient satisfaction. "Sometimes patient satisfaction needs to be measured one patient at a time.

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David Ogilvy and Joseph Turow on advertising's social impact

David Ogilvy, etc. It is difficult to refute David Ogilvy regarding advertising's place in American life.

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Corporate criminal justice: law enforcement, prosecution, and privatization

The following study is a critical analysis of four articles or book passages relevant to the study of criminal justice in a corporate context.

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Rousseau's concept of forced freedom in the social contract

In the Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes that "in order then that the social compact may not be an empty formula, it tacitly includes the undertaking, which alone can give force to the rest, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body.

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Conversion therapy: history, inefficacy, and ethical concerns

Conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, is a pseudoscientific therapy that purports to be able to change the sexual orientation of a person (American Psychological Association, February 2008).

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