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Metal detectors in schools: ineffective security and corporate profit motive

When confronted with a frightening phenomena, people often tend only to look at the symptom, rather than the underlying cause, and in turn they end up making the problem worse, as in the case of installing metal detectors in schools in an attempt to stop violence.

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Racial assumptions in Canadian marriage equality discourse

Marrying Citizens! Raced Subjects? Re-thinking the Terrain of Equal Marriage Discourse," Suzanne Lenon attempts to parse the underlying racial assumptions present in the legal fight for marriage equality in Canada, and in doing so reveals that this topic is as much about racial identity as sexual…

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Applying servant leadership and distributed leadership in middle schools

In this paper, we present an analysis of servant leadership as well as distributed leadership as well as a description of how they can be used in the educational settings.

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The Industrial Revolution's transformation of work structure, identity, and time

Industrial Revolution heralded a shift in the way that goods were produced. Technological developments in particular began a shift in emphasis away from human capital towards financial capital.

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The moral case against animal cruelty and sport hunting

Animals think. Animals feel emotion. Animals experience pain. Yet there are members of our human society that find these facts irrelevant.

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Academic success and cultural alienation in Rodriguez' autobiography

Very much Tolstoyan in implications, the author tells about straining to reach the pinnacle of academic success, achieving that, and then finding himself regretting the huge chasm that resulted between himself and his boyhood past, between himself and his culture, and between himself and his…

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Foucault's panopticon and the cultural construction of male bodies

Michel Foucault first developed his theory of the panopticon as a means of describing the ways in which a society may dominate the thought processes and behavior of the individual by "convincing" that individual to implicitly engage in their own surveillance, in the same way that a literal,…

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Business ethics importance for management and organizational stakeholders

How is the notion of business ethics important for management, work and organisations? Business ethics is a form of professional ethics guiding the moral conducts of business organizations.

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John H. Stroger's communication and leadership as Cook County Board president

Desvcription Your Role Model John H. Stroger, Former President Cook County Board Commissioners, Chicago, Illinois. My relationship President I Police Bodyguard (Commander Security Detail) 4 years stroke february 2006 Description Your Role Model's Communication Behaviors 1.

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The relativistic ethical system and its moral implications

Before discussing any ethical system it is important to understand what the terms ethics and ethical systems mean.

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