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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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Women's power to demand legal change in ancient Greece and Rome

Lysistrata by Aristophanes and "Women Demonstrate against the Oppian Law" by Livy. Specifically, it will discuss how Lysistrata and other women had the power to demand change in law and public policy. These pieces were written during times of strife and war in Greece and Rome.

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Patricia Nelson Limerick's approach to American Western history

The American West was a place in time and history that continues to affect our daily lives.

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Jimmy Carter's presidency in secondary source scholarship

Press, 1977. 9-31. This book predicts, using a [then relatively new, since when this book was published in 1977, psychohistory was then less than five years old (see Editor's Foreword)] psycho-historical/biographical approach, that Jimmy Carter would [in truth he did not] lead America into a war by…

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New technologies and democratization in contemporary popular music

POPULAR MUSIC is the obvious link to the mass consumer culture. It represents a challenge for any claims as to its transformative potential and capacity for resistance.

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Thomas Nagel's question of animal consciousness and thought

Clearly, humans, in their human form, cannot experience what it is to be a bat or any other animal, because we cannot shed our own forms and take on the characteristics of another species. Yet, these animals do have physical and mental experiences.

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