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Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

New Media and Advertising Agencies' Changing Role

some of these changes. The role of the advertising agency in a new media environment is rather diverse. In some ways, agencies se...

Education Politics, Modernism, and Postmodernism

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Occidentalism Article by Margalit and Burma and Global Hatred of Western Culture

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

Contemporary World's Species' Preservation

and rationalize any decisions humans have made for their own preservation. While Aristotle argued that the virtues were faith, hop...

Homology

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the homology concept in a consideration of vertebrate embryos and Charles Darwin'...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...

Hero or Antihero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

Computer Security and Internal Corporate Hacking

dissatisfaction with administrative policies. It might be a reaction against a proposed merger that threatens job security throug...

Overview of Countertrade

goods or services to finance purchases as opposed to using cash alone (2002). Countertrade represents about 10-15% (2002, p.PG) of...

Marketing

Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...

Survival, 'Total Institutions' of Erving Goffman, and Human Development

In five pages various concepts regarding survival are considered in an examination of Erving Goffman's 'total institutions' applie...

Success, Intelligence, and Money

which seems to reinforce this notion. Contemporary philosopher and lecturer Jacob Needleman observes, "Money is like a mirror to ...

Human Experience and Heroism

is used to inspire generations such as the inspirational messages found in Rainer Maria Rilkes "Letters to a Young Poet" in which ...

Function of Government within the realm of Private Business

to be applied as appropriate" (Should Agricultural Subsidies Be Abolished, 2002). Others against government subsidies sit...

Spiritual and Psychological Influence on Human Identity

dangers and that bad things only happen to other people (Rodriguez,1995). That is simply one example of how Piagets work may be ap...

Alexander Hamilton v. Thomas Jefferson and Differing Future Visions

an agrarian society in America but Hamilton had high hopes for an American role in commerce and industry (Sarracino 226). Still, H...

Canto 3 of 'Inferno' by Dante

Dante used the framework of the poem to convey his ideas concerning religion and morality. An overview of Canto III and its level...

Case Study Based on the Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura

26 year old male rapist would indicate that his behavioral disorder which leads to the violent attack was somehow as a result of o...

Empowerment and Case Management in Nursing

help. Many of these people have the same basic preparatory training for their work, thus, there is a great deal of duplication, i....

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Business and Centralization vs. Decentralization

optimum; this may be done by tailoring its practices to its own customer base (Chang and Harrington Jr. 1427). For example, if o...

Hydronic Systems and Heating Loads

In addition to Int-Hout and Kloostras observations regarding air movement, other principles apply to the heating (or cooling) of t...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

A Comparative Analysis of the Anonymous 'The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell(e)' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

a temporary reprieve. She gave him one year and one day to determine what a woman desires. If he was able to successfully answer...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...