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Training Program Proposal

their own. It also gives them a sense of place, and that they are a part of something larger than their particular locations. They...

Management Functions Based on Personal Experience

been planned may not be accessible. In this instance, nothing is really lost. Plans that have been made can be recalled by memory,...

Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

No Child Left Behind Act

actually based on true and accurate assumptions of how actual learning takes place. Many scholars, such as Johnson, argue that the...

The Internet and The Perfect Tender Rule

are not responsible if the television does not perform. After all, the product being sold is something more than a steel box. It i...

eBay (SWOT Analysis)

a late entrant (Steiner, 2008). * eBay failed in Japan and left that market in 2002 ("Yahoo! vs. eBay in Asia: Who Needs Desperate...

Origins and Influences of Buddhism

and responsible for the advent of Buddhism. To some extent, his unique history would lay the groundwork for his interest in spirit...

Architecture and Affluence

II. What is an Affluent Society? The concept of the affluent society sounds positive. After all, affluence is something good, bu...

Alternative Automobiles

electricity for power, but because it uses gas as well, it is able to make the long trips (Wouk, Retseck & Johnson, 1997). Of cour...

Sexism in America Today

those of men. Moreover, the gender pay gap widens as educational attainment increases: women earn 81% of mens wages at compulsory ...

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...

Why Deconstructivism Will Never Last

unique nature of the buildings at the time. Architectural students are taught a great deal about deconstruction, something that ir...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

The Effect of TRIPS on Public Health

pharmaceutical sector, and it will affect access the medications6. What is the TRIPS agreement and how long has it been in effect...

Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace in the Twenty-First Century

the right to vote. During the twentieth century, equality was the issue and in fact, some claim it is still an important fight. Th...

The Relationship between the Renaissance and Reformation

thinking and a new freedom. Perhaps this gave those who were inclined to change the impetus to do so. Many of the well known peopl...

The Cold War as Compared with the Conflict in Iran

the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...

State of Nature and The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes

In four pages this paper examines the state of nature as determined by Thomas Hobbes with an analysis of the three assumptions dev...

4 Andragogical Assumptions by Knowles

and experience to the higher education classroom which allows each of us to assimilate and accommodate new information in a more f...

Discussion of a New York Times' Article on Nature versus Nurture

In five pages this 1997 newspaper article is critiqued in terms of assumptions and each side of the argument's pros and cons. The...

Motherhood and its Ontological Assumptions

workforce will slack off as she, rightly, attends to the young infant. Thus, more credence is given to the male in the workforce, ...

New Nursing Theory Formulation

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

Author's Arguments Presented in Former California Governor Pete Wilson's Securing Our Nation's Borders

argument by discussing statistical facts: 1. There are a million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone (1). 2. Only one-third o...

Characterization in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the grandmother and the Misfit characterizations are examined with the context of good and evil and how those assump...

Turner and Bicci Paintings Comparison

In five pages J.M.W. Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' painting is contrasted and compared with Neri di Bicci's 'The Assumption of the ...

How to Reduce Global White Privilege

In seventeen pages this paper discusses what can be changed regarding racial equality and the assumption of white prejudice. Thirt...

Why Mexicans Cross the Border

Immigration policy has turned out to be a minefield for the political parties. This research paper examines U.S.-Mexican immigrati...

Behavior Conditioning and B.F. Skinner

In eight pages Skinner's assumptions regarding the scientific method and his human behavioral applications of them are examined an...

Book Review: Bourneman's Biography of James K. Polk

One example is Polks executive involvement with Fremont, Gillespie and Larkin in California just prior to the war. The story is bl...