Honor
Essays

Introduction T. Boone Pickens is among the best-known corporate dealmakers in America, and his reputation was actually established in the 1980s when he became known as one of the top corporate raiders in U.S. corporate circles. This paper reviews his life, the years when he was building up Mesa Petroleum, the takeovers he manipulated, the money he has given philanthropically, and some of the controversies he has been involved with.

¶ … Dr. Maggie needs someone to prepare her an employee evaluation form. Approximately 30% of her employees have left the company relocating to similar jobs in the area and the oft-cited grievance was ambiguity of…

The Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer is, to some, just words that must be spoken during ceremonies and at times when new NCOs receive their sergeant stripes. To others, there is no higher thought.

Edgar Allen Poe's 1846 short story "The Cask of Amontillado" puts across an account involving a vindictive character who tries to reinforce his self-esteem by luring the person he considers his enemy into a situation that would do him justice. It is difficult to determine whether the aggressor actually has the reasons to punish his enemy or if he is simply insane and uses an unspecified event as a motive to go through with committing his crime. However, his insanity is controversial when considering the complex nature of the plot and the obvious feeling of satisfaction that the protagonist experiences as he acknowledges that his enemy is no longer able to hurt him.

The American dream… the great job, the picked white fence and the happy faces. People from around the globe have come to the United States to make the dream a reality. But for the dream to exist in the first place,…

The Republic is an influential dialogue by Plato, written in the first half of the 4th century BC. This Socratic dialogue mainly concerns political philosophy and ethics. The political ideas are clarified by picturing a…

Thousands of years after the blind Greek poet Homer supposedly sang his two great epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the world remains fascinated with the mythical Greek and Trojan warriors and wanders Homer…

Karyn Kusama's 2000 directorial debut Girlfight proves to be more than just another feel-good sports movie. Michelle Rodriguez also debuts on-screen as Diana, a sullen and younger brother Tiny (Ray Santiago) and her…

Army Comradeship: Important to Military Institution

The antitrust case brought by Wal-Mart and other retailers against Visa and MasterCard in the U.S. Eastern District court, was settled in 2003 for $3 billion and primarily involved a dispute concerning the efficient pricing of access to payment information, including security data that confirmed or refuted the transactional identities of cardholders. In their pleadings, Wal-Mart and other class action litigants argued that third-party providers such as Visa and MasterCard required them to accept both debit and credit cards issued by MasterCard but the interchange fees were higher for debit cards. In sum, the suit filed by Wal-Mart and other large retailers claimed that Visa and MasterCard required all merchants who accept their credit cards to also accept their signature debit cards [which] constitutes an illegal tie-in in violation of antitrust law. In their responsive pleadings, the defendants maintained that the plaintiffs' argument failed to satisfy the definition of tying because their so-called "honor-all-cards agreement" with merchants did not preclude them from steering their customers toward PIN-based debit transactions with their concomitant lower merchant fees. In reality, though, the case focused on the fundamental right of the class action litigants to timely and accurate research information, an issue that forms the basis of this project.