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  • Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper Accountants have been working since the early 1900’s to establish rules and regulations pertaining to the accounting profession. But it was not until 1933 that the Securities and Exchange Commission obtain the authority to establish accounting principles for companies whose securities had to be registered with the SEC, from that point on other entities were created such as the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) which established the Financial Accounting Standards Board

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

    Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

    Should Marijuana be Legalized? Aaron Roberts Mr. Marshall 4/5/00 Marijuana should be legalized. Marijuana's composition is complex, and has a number of physiological effects. Also, a reason for marijuana legalization is the potential wealth of health benefits that have largely been ignored (www.howardcc.edu). In addition, there are many industrial uses for the cannabis plant (www.sandi.net). Marijuana consists of a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Cannabis sativa plant, or hemp plant (Britannica

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    Essay Length: 552 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: July
  • Nurse Agency Legal Entity

    Nurse Agency Legal Entity

    Executive Summary - The service I have selected is that of a nurse staffing agency. The nurse staffing market is competitive in nature ranging from small local operations to that of a national or international operation. Despite a large number of nurses, roughly 1.7 million nurses, entering the job market since 2001 there are nurse staffing issues in many facilities and an overall shortage of nurses in most states. For example if current trends

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    Essay Length: 428 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Issues Surrounding the Legalization of Cannabis

    Issues Surrounding the Legalization of Cannabis

    Issues Surrounding the Legalization of Cannabis By Jennifer Siegfried Numerous countries have laws concerning the possession, cultivation, supply and use of cannabis. Non-psychoactive cannabis products, such as fiber and seed, are legal in several countries, many of which license cultivation for these purposes. Marijuana is considered a controlled substance in most areas, though it's use is often condoned for medicinal purposes. Currently, over seven million cannabis arrests have occurred in the United States since

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    Essay Length: 3,023 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Ethical and Legal Duties

    Ethical and Legal Duties

    Discrimination Complaint Tom Jones is an employee at Smith Systems Consulting Inc., a private sector organization, who wants to file a discrimination complaint against his employer. This is a long and tedious process that hopefully nobody will ever have to go through, except for Tom. In this paper I will be discussing and evaluate ethical and legal duties related to the Virtual Organization Smith Systems Consulting Inc., SSC. I will discuss how Tom Jones, an

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    Essay Length: 928 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Bred
  • Marriage Is like a Prison

    Marriage Is like a Prison

    Marriage Is Like A Prison Marriage is like a prison. It is a lifelong commitment that will hang on a persons shoulders forever. It can never be erased, and never be forgotten. Upon entering marriage, the crime is falling in love, the punishment is getting married, and the freedom is stripped from a person's very being. Falling in love is never considered a crime, but it is. Love is a rush of emotions that are

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    Essay Length: 349 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: regina
  • The Melting Pot: Interracial Marriages

    The Melting Pot: Interracial Marriages

    Interracial Marriages 2 The Melting Pot: Interracial Marriages To be or not to be? Once again this is the question. In the past, social scientist and society in general, categorized people involved in interracial romances as disturbed, or they labeled these relationships as acts of rebellion, or attempts to move up on the social ladder (Majete 2000, 1). Today this no longer seems to be the case. However, this can still be quite controversial. Part

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    Essay Length: 829 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT The definition of capital punishment is the legal punishment of death for violating criminal law. The person who gets capital punishment is the ones who committed serious crimes. Methods of capital punishment throughout the world are by stoning, beheading, hanging, electrocution, lethal injection and shooting. The two most common methods capital punishment use in the United States are lethal injection and electrocution. The lethal injection is the most used form of capital punishment.

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    Essay Length: 753 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Legalization of Torture in America

    The Legalization of Torture in America

    The Legalization of Torture in America The United States of America is a very strong country as far as economics and military power goes. Having a strong tie to neighboring and distant countries economically, has kept the United States afloat for so many years. Freedom and equality for all make the United States what it is today. Staying true to the Constitution for the past 220 years has made me proud to be an American

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    Essay Length: 935 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Us Legal Tradition Concerning Gender-Based Discrimination

    Us Legal Tradition Concerning Gender-Based Discrimination

    The legal tradition of the United States is deeply rooted in English common law. Thus, the legal history of gender bias in United States law has its origins in the English tradition. One writer describes the attitudes of this tradition by describing the status of a woman in relation to her husband as “something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse” (11). Under English common law, the woman was merely an extension

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Legalization of Marijuana

    Legalization of Marijuana

    The use of marijuana as a recreational drug is becoming more widespread on college campuses. College students are especially outspoken about marijuana use and its legalization. They feel that they are so stressed with classes that they need a way to calm their nerves before a big test. With the demands of school and heavy workloads students are pushed into a “world of coping” which tends to regard alcohol or drug use as a way

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    Essay Length: 1,350 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Same Sex Marriage - Does It Threaten the Traditional Definition of a Amily?

    Same Sex Marriage - Does It Threaten the Traditional Definition of a Amily?

    SAME SEX MARRAIGE - DOES IT THREATEN THE TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF A FAMILY Submitted by Rory Donaghy Today, marriage is the most essential of all human relations, and stands as the most validating aspect of commitment that two individuals can undergo. The fusing together of two lives, marriage is seen as a sacred bond who’s history is as old as mankind itself. In the past twenty centuries, the church and religion evolved from small cults

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    Essay Length: 2,483 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: David
  • Issues of Succcession/marriage/foreign Policy Were Most Important in Determining the Relationship Between Crown and Parliament During the Tudor Period

    Issues of Succcession/marriage/foreign Policy Were Most Important in Determining the Relationship Between Crown and Parliament During the Tudor Period

    Issues of succession, marriage and foreign policy were most important I determining relations between crown and parliament? How valid is this assessment During the period 1485-1603 the issues of marriage/FP/succession were certainly of great importance in determining relations between crown and Parliament particularly under the rein of Elizabeth. However it can be argued that other factors are equally as influential e.g. the Reformation under Henry VIII The issues of s/m/fp were of some influence in

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    Essay Length: 1,136 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Love and Marriage in Renaissance Literature

    Love and Marriage in Renaissance Literature

    In medieval Europe, the troubadours (poets of the southern part of France), like Guilhem IX, or Cercamon, first began to write poems about humble men falling in love with women who were admirer and adored by their lovers. Furthermore, intense love between men and women became a central subject in European literature, like between Tristan and Iseult, Lancelot and Guinevere, or Aeneas and Dido. But it was not question of marriage. Actually, marriage and love

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    Essay Length: 1,208 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Vika
  • Alumina Legal Analysis

    Alumina Legal Analysis

    Running head: ALUMINA LEGAL ANALYSIS Alumina Legal Analysis University of Phoenix March 10, 2008 Alumina Legal Analysis Regulatory and legislative compliance is a critical element for the success of any American company. The regulatory environment can be extremely challenging and diverse depending on the nature of the business and the applicable oversight agencies responsible for monitoring and enforcing key regulations. One of the most daunting, yet vital regulatory agencies policing American businesses is the Environmental

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    Essay Length: 1,815 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: July
  • Love and Marriage in Colonial Latin America

    Love and Marriage in Colonial Latin America

    Love and Marriage in Colonial Latin America Romance between young adults today is drastically different from that in centuries, and even the decades, before us. With the uprising of technology and advanced ways of communicating that neither our parents, aunts, uncles, nor grandparents had, intimate relationships have become cyber and impersonal more than anything else. My generation and more so the generation below me, will grow up forming bonds through AOL Instant Messenger, MySpace, and

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    Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Persuasive - Legalization of Md Slots

    Persuasive - Legalization of Md Slots

    The issue of legalizing slots and/or legalized gambling in the State of Maryland is a complex one, and one of great consequence to both the State’s residents, and the future of the State itself. Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich’s slots bill proposes that the State place a total of 15,500 slot machines or video poker machines in six different locations, three of which would be chosen from a pool of four Maryland racetracks. The racetracks that

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    Essay Length: 1,795 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jon
  • Employment Law: Legal Process for a Discrimination Complaint

    Employment Law: Legal Process for a Discrimination Complaint

    Employment Law: Legal Process for a Discrimination Complaint The purpose of this assignment is two-fold: (1) analyze a scenario in which an employee wishes to file a discrimination complaint against his/her private sector organization and (2) explain the civil litigation process for such a claim. “Litigation refers to the process by which cases are brought and prosecuted in the court system” (Legal Advice for Free, 2005a). In the case of a discrimination suit, the civil

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    Essay Length: 1,416 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Vika
  • Should Same Sex Marriage Be Allowed?

    Should Same Sex Marriage Be Allowed?

    Should Gay Marriages Be Legal? Just imagine being in love with a person and not being allowed to marry. Most of your neighbors, family, friends, and coworkers are allowed to marry, but your sexual preference keeps you from attaining a certificate that almost any heterosexual can get. Instead of marriage, you could have a ceremony, a reception, and a honeymoon. Unfortunately, these things lose some of their meaning when society or the government does not

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    Essay Length: 680 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia

    The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia

    The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia For most people involved in euthanasia they believe that some conditions are so bad that death is a benefit over living. The motive of the person who commits an act of euthanasia is to benefit the one whose death is brought about. Debate about the morality and legality of voluntary euthanasia has only become an issue in the last half of the twentieth century. The ancient Greeks

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    Essay Length: 1,819 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Gay Rights in America

    Gay Rights in America

    The Gay Family in America "Each individual's journey through life is unique. Some will make this journey alone, others in loving relationships - maybe in marriage or other forms of commitment. We need to ponder our own choices and try to understand the choices of others. Love has many shapes and colors and is not finite. It cannot be measured or defined in terms of sexual orientation." ( Same sex marriage and civil unions) America's

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    Essay Length: 1,467 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Legal Process

    Legal Process

    Legal Process John, employee in private sector, elected to file a discrimination complaint against his employer. This essay shall explain how the complaint begins with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and proceeds through the civil litigation process from the state level up to the United States Supreme Court. EEOC Proceedings Pursuant to EEOC website, "Equal Employment Charge Processing Procedures" (2003), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in hiring, firing,

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    Essay Length: 1,186 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Gay Parenting

    Gay Parenting

    Gay Parenting The conception that lesbians and gay men may be parents is frequently perceived in today’s society as impossible or immoral. Gay men and lesbians are often viewed as excluded from having children because sexual reproduction is related to men and women only. My approach to this uniquely controversial topic of gay parenting will be that of attempting to analyze the Pro side first. Gays and lesbians are human too and who is to

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    Essay Length: 2,054 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Mba 560 Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce

    Mba 560 Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce

    Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce University of Phoenix Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce “Increased competition and rapidly developing technologies are leading companies to make innovations in how they operate, organize work, and manage people. As employers increasingly take advantage of new technology they are finding the need to restructure staff” (Lieberman, Moss, 2001). These changes present legal challenges and risks for human resources; however, with proper planning the potential for incurring charges of

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Capital Punishment - the Legal Infliction of Death

    Capital Punishment - the Legal Infliction of Death

    Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. It has been around for thousands of years and still continues to execute people today. Capital Punishment is inhumane and in some cases sentences the innocent to death. It is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment. Being morally unjust, the purpose of it has no significance. Killing a person for their wrongdoings does not in anyway help our

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike

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