An Ethical Dilemma
.... provided a valuable service for some, but lets take a look at the dissatisfied customers.
Orion Olson was injured at the age of three by a severe dog bite causing vision and neurological problems. When he turned eighteen he was already homeless but soon received the first $7500 installment of the $75,000 settlement. This money quickly took him off the street but did not last long. He then turned to a large factoring company by the name of J.G. Wentworth. He sold his remaining future payments of $ .....
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The War On...Dress Codes
.... part of going to school. Actually, most of the time, any problems caused due to clothing are usually due to someone stealing someone else’s expensive clothes, such as Tommy Hilfiger, which we are allowed to wear.
Numerous students would also like to wear shirts and other clothing related to Satan. Worshipping Satan is just another form of religion, just like worshipping God. Yet students are not allowed to wear clothing involving Satan, Hell, or death. That is an unconstitutional rule though as t .....
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Peer Pressure
.... because you don’t want to look immature or scared in front of your friends you choose not to say anything and may risk your life because of it. On a smaller scale, peer pressure can happen when your shopping with friends and the sweater you love is considered out of style by your friends. Based on what your friends think, you will probably not buy the sweater.
Teens often give into peer pressure because they want to fit in with their friends at all costs. As a child grows to become a young adult fri .....
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Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
.... the educated woman was actually selfish and evil. I remember in particular the searing effect on me, who once intended to be a psychologist, of a story in McCall’s in December 1949 called "A Weekend with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing flowers and hot clam .....
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Generations
.... Gen-Xers all have values that are similar, but my generation is being questioned more than other generations. Values of my generation are rights to opinions, freedom, and attitude. Different generations have different values but most values are alike.
One value of my generation is the right to opinion. Ways of showing our rights to opinion is we have protests about what we feel is right and what we feel is wrong. Another way is the clothes we wear, we like to wear big, baggy clothes but society fro .....
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Instore Help?
.... too much organic matter on which the algae feed. It is not a threat to the fish but turns the water to a cloudy greenish haze in its first stages. Eventually it leads to a near total ‘green out’ of the aquarium obscuring even the fish. Although I had an idea as to how I might deal with this problem I decided to ask at the local fish store to see if some breakthrough product or method has been developed since my stint in the business. This yielded absolutely nothing.
I was able to find no one who, a) kne .....
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Pharmaceutical Companies And Advertising
.... newspapers through November of last year. As the result, magazines' numbers were declining, such as Rodale Press’ Prevention and Men’s Health, which are health-related books. Moreover, large consumers' books, such as Time Inc.’s Time and People and Washington Post Co.’s Newsweek were losing pharmaceutical advertising. Nevertheless, prescription drug marketers continued to move to TV, though ScheringpPloug Corp. continued to place their advertising in print because print because they can provide informati .....
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Humanism During The Renassiance
.... these painters whose works we admire today. Before the Italian Renassiance nude paintings were unheard of. Now with such great talent flourishing out of Florance, nude art works were accepted and common to see. Donatello was considered to be the father of sculpture using such details in all of his works. Michelangelo was considered to be the greatest of Italian artist. Michelangelo’s greatest works can still be seen around the world today. His fressico of the Sistine Chapel in Rome is admired by all .....
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Optimism Verses Pessimism
.... person is upbeat and charismatic, and a pessimistic person is dejected and downhearted. An optimistic outlook is most successful and radiant. Although everything has both pleasant and unpleasant attributes, a pessimist overlooks the positive and dwells on the negative. For example, if someone was to make an A on a test, a optimist would say “ good job,” when a pessimist would say “it was a very easy test anyway, and anyone could have passed it.”
If a person gets diverged in pessimism he will becom .....
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Should Americans Adopt Internationally?
.... than one child. Also many agencies in foreign countries are more willing to accept single adoptive parents. One of the most important reasons for adopting internationally is that it can be quite fast; sometimes placements occur within one year. International adoption can be faster if an agency has ties to a country with many waiting, orphaned children.
Another important reason people adopt from foreign countries is because they believe that children in foreign orphanages need parents desperately. .....
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The Struggle Between Being And Knowing
.... skills to do the job we are seeking, but have we acquired the intellectual capacity for continued learning? Was our curiosity tapped? Or worst of all satisfied? Both the articles “I Go to College” by Lincoln Steffens and the film Dead Poets Society present a unique struggle between the traditional methodologies and the desire for something more. It is time to analyze the university experience with regards to what is and what should be. Our expectations and our realities.
The reality of the univer .....
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Sartre And Homosexuality
.... he is a homosexual, he would be in bad faith. He would essentially agree that he is a homosexual in the same way that a book is a book. He wold be "affirming that he is a homosexual in the sense of being-in-itself, yet at the same time he would be aware that this was not, in fact, the case.
Another paradigm that we could use is the example of Ex-President Richard Nixon. Nixon’s infamous statement, "I am not a crook," is a nearly perfect example. By stating outright that he is not a crook, Nixon is a .....
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The Treatment Of Women In Muslim Countries
.... amidst the Middle East countries long before Islamic religion was even introduced.
Since the Muslim society ideology tremendously differ from modern Western thinking, the Muslims have developed their own unique garments to accompany their ideas. The Hijab is an adjective meaning to cover the body and soul in English, and is often referred to when speaking about the Chador. The Chador is the piece of fabric that the Muslim women wear to cover their entire bodies from head to toe. However the Chador’s phy .....
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Interpersonal Skills
.... communication. They also help managers to learn and practice communication techniques to aid them in creating strong, “open-door” communication with their employees. These types of classes should be offered to all employees, in all areas of the bank. When managers have stronger interpersonal relationships, it seems that their employees hold a higher regard for them. Because good communication is such a valuable skill, it is just as important for employees as it is for managers to receive communication t .....
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Ethical Values And The Classroom
.... needed for the next level. Assigning blame singly on the system, the teachers, the parents, or the student will not correct the matter. The issue must be evaluated holistically. All students leaving high school should be proficient at a college entry level; able to read, express themselves eloquently in written and oral form, think critically, compute mathematics, have some first hand appreciation of the arts and a strong sense of values. The inadequate education California's students are presently rece .....
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