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'Grim Fairy Tales and Gory Stories' by Aviva Layton

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Iraq and Embedded Reporters

reporters ..., 2003). However, "embedding remains controversial and has drawn stiff criticism from some quarters" (How embedded re...

Blasphemy or Entertainment Represented by The Da Vinci Code

is truly very little evidence that one could utilize one way or another to honestly find the "truth" in relationship to the origin...

The Effectiveness of Evaluation and Reward

measured correctly (Weinstein, 2006). Self-assessments for example are seen as flawed because employees tend to see themselves as ...

Gene Therapy

but it is at a higher level than typical drug therapy. Genes must be placed inside of a cells nucleus (Murray, 2001). One can imag...

Stem Cell Research: Societal Implications

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

The Victims' Rights Movement

grass roots movement and aligned with a variety of groups, such as MADD and others that try to change the system and make their pr...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

Childhood Obesity and Public Policy

issues on that front? First, it should be said that although the government does have policy on health related issues, some compl...

ADHD: Legitimate Medical Diagnosis or Socially Constructed Disorder? - Ethical Concerns

and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...

The Relevance of Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul

home, while none of the reporters dispatched there have produced anything resembling a definitive account of the countrys trajecto...

Principal & Decision-making/Ethical Case Scenario

specific steps that aid the decision-making in the process of logical analysis of a problem. The steps are: 1. Define the problem....

The Terry Schiavo Case: Ethical Implications

diagnosis, Shiavo had been incapacitated and dependent on others for her care for fifteen years. Schiavos husband ultimately argu...

A Comparison of Boxing and Ultimate Fighting

for example do not have a sense of authenticity anymore, and seems to be a throwback to an earlier time. Boxing is in fact a bit o...

William Jennings Bryan/Reformer

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

Victims and the Role of Journalists

one that truly shows the media as trying to be responsible (Cote & Bucqueroux, 1996). The examples provide one situation where it ...

Should Malcolm X Be Featured on a US Postage Stamp?

not have presided over mass murder, his rhetoric caused considerable damage to the Jewish people (Elder). As a member of the radi...

Critique of Dworkin's Striking Down of Legislation

key to the way that Dworkin is criticising it. To look at this we need to put the ideas of Dworkin into a broader context. Some, ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Congress therefore authorized extraordinary federal interventions for five years. But the deadl...

The Echelon Surveillance System

United States, pursuant to various treaties" ("NSA Watch: Echelon FAQ," n.d.). It is easy to see that well-known global intelligen...

Revolutionary Thought Among Bostonians

The American Revolution was not something that...

Cultural Acceptance of Controversial Images: An Ethical or Aesthetic Concern?

to believe that the American character is typified by a na?ve sense of exceptionalism, we, as a culture, continue to be mired in q...

The Impact of Censorship on Art in South Park's "Episode 201"

cartoon South Park has become infamous due to the circumstances surrounding its censorship. The episode was quite heavily censored...

Andrew Jackson, His Presidency and Policies

had, or the worst, depending on ones point of view. This paper discusses why he was controversial, what he hoped to achieve, what ...

The Debate about Making English an Official Language

both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...

8th Amendment Controversy

rights under the Eighth Amendment have been violated, there is a window of protection within the scope of this amendment that affo...

The Ethics Involved in Human Cloning

genes are duplicated in a host bacterium" (Pence, 1998, p. 11). Cellular cloning refers to a process in which "copies of a cell ar...

Was Genocide Committed During the Gulf Wars?

Patriarch of Babylon; Mar Raphael I Bidawid (Kapica, 1991). The way judgments are made on actions may be highly subjective, but in...

Accounting Standards and Hedging

price at a set point in time. This takes out the risk as the firm then knows what they are going to pay for the good they need. If...