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What is Position?

Position as an academic topic spans a wide range of disciplines, from business administration and public policy to nursing, education, and personal development. Courses in organizational behavior, healthcare management, political science, and professional writing all prompt students to examine what it means to hold, argue for, or strategically occupy a position — whether that refers to a job role, a policy stance, a formal argument, or a place within an institution. The topic is academically interesting precisely because it sits at the intersection of identity, authority, knowledge, and strategy, requiring writers to think carefully about how individuals and organizations establish and justify where they stand.

The papers collected here take notably varied approaches. Some are analytical, examining how organizations and companies leverage employee experience and satisfaction to strengthen their competitive position. Others are policy-oriented, addressing issues in education, nursing practice, or public administration, including cultural diversity in nursing and the role of strategic planning in public policy. Still others are personal and reflective, asking writers to assess their own professional success, goals, and future plans. Case analyses and reviews — including examinations of leadership models in healthcare and the effects of deregulation on global finance — round out the range with applied, evidence-based approaches.

A strong essay on this topic begins with a clearly scoped thesis that specifies whose position is being examined and in what context — avoiding the common pitfall of treating "position" so broadly that the argument loses focus. Evidence drawn from organizational data, policy documents, professional guidelines, or concrete personal experience tends to carry the most weight. Writers should connect their specific case or argument back to broader principles, whether about leadership, institutional design, or professional identity, to demonstrate analytical depth beyond simple description.

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Thompson's "A Defense of Abortion": Key Arguments Analyzed
A Defense of Abortion Introduction The author of this piece, Judith Jarvis Thompson, supports abortion, she uses descriptive assumptions creatively, and she makes dramatic – even outrageous – examples as juxtapositions to develop her argument and make her points. She also employs value assumptions that are effective in her narrative. But Thompson's theses and her Socratic style of argument carry the most weight as she turns of the positions of the "pro-life" movement upside down as a way to make her own positions shine. Thompson presents all of this two years before the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Roe v. Wade decision, which is impressive in hindsight, given the intensity of the ongoing debate on abortion.
Essay Doctorate
Toyota Strategic Management: Overcoming the 2010 Recall Crisis
Toyota's many quality management problems can be traced to their lack of consistency and clarity in their senior management teams. Instead of creating a highly unified strategy to solve the significant quality problems, the company created more problems for itself through political infighting and a lack of focus on what mattered most to customers. The net result was a very significant drop in quality and overall performance of the business.
Research Paper Doctorate
Colin Powell: Military Career, Diplomacy, and Legacy
General Colin L. Powell is a study in contrasts in many ways. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in the United States Military, many high-ranking political positions including Secretary of State, and as the founder…
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Religious Schisms: Islam's Sunni-Shia Split and the Protestant Reformation
Schisms, in the religious context, are divisions between people or a break between two sectors of a religious faith that were previously a single, unified body. Two famous religious schisms occurred in Islam after the…
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Amir and Hassan's Relationship in The Kite Runner
The relationship between the two children in "The Kite Runner" is not only the main theme of the book, but also the revolving instrument used by the author throughout the book in order to touch on some of the other…
Paper Doctorate
Competency to Stand Trial: Legal Standards in the Film Nuts
The 1987 film Nuts is a film portrayal of a true story about a woman from a well-to-do family who becomes a high priced hooker and is charged with first degree manslaughter when she kills a violent customer (aka a…
Essay Doctorate
Ethics of Deceased Soldiers' Email Access: Yahoo Case
In early 2005, John Ellsworth, father of deceased soldier Justin Ellsworth, made national news when he asked to be granted access to his deceased son's e-mails. Twenty-year old Justin had been killed in Fallujah on November 13, 2004, by a roadside bomb. The least, Mr. Ellsworth could do, the father felt, was to collect these e-mails that his son had written whilst in Iraq and fashion them into some sort of memorial. Yahoo! refused. They had promised privacy to their clients and they could not break the promise regardless of the situation. It was only after a Michigan probate court ordered them to release the e-mails that Yahoo complied. The case reveals two types of ethics. Yahoo! On the one hand epitomized the deontological way of thinking that norms of right and wrong exist and cannot be breached regardless of the situation. The judge, however, took the family's happiness into account and, by so doing, manifested a Utilitarian code of ethics.
Paper Doctorate
Corporate Social Responsibility: Ethics, Identity & Risk
The paper Discuses Corporate social responsibilities giving the definition and the observed trend. The causes of the rising trend in corporate social responsibilities are discussed as well as. In the paper measures of assessments while considering corporate social responsibilities are discussed highlighting the reasons for this consideration. Discussions on the likely benefits to accrue to an corporation are also given in the paper.
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Operational Command Failures: The Ian Blair Case Study
Sir Ian Blair left the Metropolitan Police amid a great deal of scandal over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. De Menezes was not guilty of anything, but was mistaken for someone else and shot. Blair and others in the Met attempted to cover up what had happened, because they did not want to be charged with any kind of crime. Ultimately, however, the Met was found guilty and fined a considerable sum of money. Blair also left.
Research Paper Doctorate
Police Ethics and Corruption: Law Enforcement Interviews
Interview Subject 1 - NYPD Detective Sergeant: