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Ethics and Business

new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...

Candide by Voltaire, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, and Insights Gained

In four pages this paper examines the philosophical insights each of these works offer. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

National Indian Identity and Mughal Emperor Akbar's Contributions

shrewd advisor who protected him and insured his safety, it is without doubt that the young prince would have seen another birthda...

Plato's 'Phaedrus'

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

Boeing Company and Theories of Ethics

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

The Adolescence of Anne Frank

is the equivalent of Freuds anal stage, is when a toddler begins to assert his or her individuality. The rest of the stages, and t...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Perception and Logic in Philosophy

conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

Expansion of Paper on Nursing Delegation and Shared Governance

of the patient (beneficence); * does not perform functions that can do harm to the patient (non-malficence); * practice fairness...

Ethics and Biogenetics

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

Gender Identity and the Impact of Video Games

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how gender identity and roles are influenced by various video games. Twenty sources are cit...

Operating Efficiency in the Bethesda Mining Company

From these values, the common approach to calculating ROE can be altered to effectively multiply ROE by 1, in the form of multiply...

On Germany by Madame Germaine de Stael

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

Fight Club Film and Crisis of Identity

whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" ...

Stanley Cavell and the Truth of Skepticism by Fergus Kerr

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

Identity Issues

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

Identity Search of Huckleberry Finn

scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...

Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, American Identity and Education

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

Is There Ever a Justification for Terrorism?

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Citizenship, Rights, Identities, and Gender

ideal women are inferior. Based upon a conviction of inferiority, male authorities were then able to design lifestyles for women,...

Garcia Lorca's Yerma and Motherhood

produce a child, she eventually seeks out the village sorceress where she is involved in witnessing a pagan ritual. When her husba...

Naming Pedophiles

In sixteen pages this paper examines whether or not pedophiles should be shamed by having their identities revealed with the empha...

National Identity of France and the First World War

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Social Identity and the U.S. Jewish Community

same beliefs and as such it is selective collectivism. Zionism is included within that group of schools of thought, here the idea ...