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Process of 'Big Bet' Business Risks

The author of this article went on to point out companies in Canada that had made and succeeded on big bets (such as Nortel on opt...

Great Philosophers and Contemporary Leadership

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

Architecture and its Controversies

to a particular interpretation (2002). In some way, modernisms influence never left. Modernism may also be construed as an archi...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Use of a Journal to Teach Business Ethics

of ethical behaviour. The problem with ethics in business can be seen in the way that there is a conflict between the ideals of e...

Indian Philosophy and the Connection Between Suffering and Craving

Craving can also be related to karma, a karma consisting of bodily karma, vocal karma and mental karma, each defined below:...

Comparing Friedman and Plato's Economic Ideas

illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...

Conservative Political Philosophy

to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Rationalism and Empiricism

"empiricists claim that nothing is in the mind that did not come through the senses." Such a claim would suggest that people are l...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Various Opinions on Globalization

How a variety of regimes have viewed globalization is the focus of attention in this well thought out paper. A variety of positive...

Criminology Concepts

specifically, because individuals are naturally unrestrained external control is needed to keep order. 6. Sykes and Matzas Tech...

Christian Theology and Greek Culture

In ten pages this research paper investigates how Christian theology and thought were influenced by the culture of ancient Greece....

A Review of Reagan in His Own Hand

A 5 page review of the book complied from Ronald Reagan's own writings by Kiron K. Skinner. Reagan's propensity for writing down ...

Issues in Business

6 pages and no sources cited. This paper provides rhetorical discourse on three different topics that have to do with business op...

The Impact of Career Changes

This paper describes the decision-making process utilized by a chemical engineer with a six-figure salary who decided to change ca...

Virtue Defined in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper discusses what these authors think constitutes a virtuous person as presented in their texts. Three sour...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

'Reason as the law of the World' According to Hegel

In five pages this paper examines Hegel's philosophy within the context of the statement 'The sole thought which philosophy brings...

The Impact of Perspective on Memories of World War II

This 5 page paper discusses current accounts of the Second World War coming out of Japan, Russia and Poland. The writer argues tha...

The Short Story 'The Abortion' from the Collection You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker

In nine pages reader empathy and understanding of Imani is considered through access to the protagonist's deeply personal emotions...

Life's Absurdities and Thomas Nagel

In six pages this report considers how Nagel regarded life as absurd in this overview of his thoughts about life. Five sources ar...

Psychology and the Place of Sigmund Freud

in psychology over the years. Freuds tradition envelopes the idea that childhood is very significant and that the mind is compris...

Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Analyzed

that the socially-programmed response is to either walk around them, or if it is necessary to walk between the interaction taking ...

Deuteronomy's Statement That No Israel Prophet Arose to Equal Moses

In five pages this research paper considers the Deuteronomy assertion and speculates on what Moses would have thought about it. T...

Chaucer and His Characters

In five pages The Canterbury Tales are considered in terms of what they reveal about the author, his compassion, humor, thoughts a...

One Perspective on Global Warming

This comprehensive paper opposes the general thinking on global warming. Opponents to the concept are noted and arguments are disc...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...