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Locke defends toleration as a political good, arguing for a widespread general acceptance of different religious beliefs. His view of toleration does have some limits, and he states that an individual is in the state of…

Southwest fosters its organizational culture of "Luv" by ensuring that the spirit of love manifests itself in everything that the company does. Southwest sees treating its employees like family as a key starting point…

The three centuries that comprise the Ming Dynasty are not easy to describe in the course of twenty pages of text. However, the author of this chapter does a stellar job of conveying the essence of the Ming Dynasty via…

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir has been described as an existentialist roman a clef, or fictionalized reality of the intellectual impact of the Vichy government upon the leftist elite of French society.

This article describes the authors' research findings on the 360 feedback process. They have discovered six critical factors, or best practices, to help leaders in organizations get the most from their investment in the…

The Epic of Gilgamesh and Virgil's Aeneas exemplify ancient epic poetry. Both works trace the psychological evolution of a semi-divine male hero who meets with immense personal trauma and hardship.

Philosophy could be defined as the highest level of true clarity and understanding human thought can aspire to. It would thus seem strange to compare the ideal philosophical kingdom of Plato's Republic with George…

Drug trafficking in Latin America is linked to many violent crimes including murder. Many people believe that were drugs that arrive from Latin America be legalized that the situation would be much easier to cope with…

The API is the method used within the California school system to measure academic performance relative to peer schools. The API is a scale that ranges from a high 1000 to a low of 200. Placement between these two metrics indicates the overall performance of the school relative to peers. Within the state of California, the target API score is 800. The API is based on an improvement model. The API from one year is compared to the API from the prior year to measure improvement.

The field of training and development still faces a lot of challenges owing to lack of philosophical writing in its literature. This is a nightmare to many practitioners. This is a clear indication that the field is so…