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Unethical advertising practices and their harm to children

The fundamental business model of advertising is changing drastically as the Internet becomes a much more prevalent communications channel, capable of being specifically targeted to audiences of consumers while also providing the ability to measure the performance of all forms of digital…

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Comparative analysis of Elkins and McPherson on slavery

Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life by Stanley Elkins, and Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson.

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Garrett Hardin's tragedy of the commons and resource depletion

Down through the ages, societies have made use of common goods and resources for the benefit of all.

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Population growth, resource scarcity, and human-nature conflict

Despite the modern separation from the means of production most people are at least marginally aware of the fact that everything we need to sustain us is provided by the earth. The earth gives us all the objects we need and many we desire and in turn she is changed.

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Consequentialism's adequacy as a guide to criminal justice practice

Consequentialism faces a number of objections. Which are the most serious, and do they render the theory unsuitable as a guide to criminal justice practice?

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Corporate social responsibility motives and business ethics integration

Corporate social responsibility is an important but "evolving" concept and thus while it may be easier to define it; it is certainly difficult to explain the motives of a company behind adoption of this strategy.

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Derrida's deconstruction of Rousseau on language and supplementarity

Jacques Derrida deconstructs Jean-Jacques Rousseau to make two main points. First, language is at the most a representative reality. Language is, in Rousseau's terms, supplemental. It can only approximate reality and mediate the truth to which the writing points.

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Tobacco as the least harmful alternative to drugs and alcohol

Nowadays people more and more intensively argue that our present life is significantly different from that of our predecessors, 100 years ago, for example; we hear all the times about the dangers we are continuously exposed to, because of our stressful existence, combined with other harmful factors…

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Pan-Africanism and decolonization of Kenya and Zimbabwe

Of the numerous and complex surrounding the decolonizing of the British empire in Africa, the influence African states under the British had on one another throughout the process is of particular interest, because it is a subject that has not been widely explored to date.

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John Lennon's "Imagine" and Romantic lyric poetry compared

What do we think of when we hear the words 'classic, Romantic poetry'? We think of poems like "Ode to a Skylark" or "Ode on a Grecian Urn." These 19th century poems are personal, reflective meditations about the world in the poet's own unique voice.

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