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  • History of the Computer Industry in America

    History of the Computer Industry in America

    Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mikki
  • What Ethical Principles Should a Reporter Follow in Reporting/writing a News Story to Ensure It Meets the Standards of Professional Journalism?

    What Ethical Principles Should a Reporter Follow in Reporting/writing a News Story to Ensure It Meets the Standards of Professional Journalism?

    Introduction Nowadays, more and more people are place importance on journalismЎ¦s ethics. It is because everything that a journalist writes or says, or neglects to write or to say, in some or other way has an influence on many people, and that influences can be good or bad. The principles of good journalism are directed toward bringing the highest quality of news reporting to the public, this fulfilling the mission of timely distribution of information

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    Essay Length: 1,422 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Business Ethics

    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Business Ethics

    In 2002, the US passed the Sarbanes ЎV Oxley Law. This law was enacted to strengthen Corporate governance and to restore lost faith by the investors, and to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. U.S. Senator, Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley were the sponsors of said law. It was signed into law on July 30, 2002 by George W. Bush after both houses of Congress voted on it without changes

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Ethical Egoism Vs Social Responsibility

    Ethical Egoism Vs Social Responsibility

    Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary defines egoism as "a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action." Social responsibility entails one's actions benefiting one's society more than oneself. A cost benefit analysis sided towards the many rather than towards the individual. In the two books The Elements of Moral Society and Ethical Issues in Engineering by James Rachels and Deborah Johnson respectively, the subject of egoism and social responsibility come up. Hannaford in

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • Ethic Dilemma

    Ethic Dilemma

    The Fall of the Andersens • Andersen was fined $7 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for overstating the earnings of Waste Management Corporation. • Enron was under the investigation of SEC for dubious accounting figures. • Following the fall of Enron, Arthur Andersen was subjected to investigation by the regulatory boards as well. The significant stakeholders are: major clients such as Enron, WorldCom, Sunbeam and HIH, Australia, Fred Andersen, investors and 85,000

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • You Dont Now Anything About Hard Work

    You Dont Now Anything About Hard Work

    You Don’t Know Anything about Hard Work You think marching band isn’t hard? Think again. Growing up in Indiana, going to a small elementary school, I never really had much exposure to music whatsoever. When my sister finally started to play an instrument, I knew somehow I was going to be following those footsteps. And now here I am in the Lawrence Central High School Marching Band and am having a blast. When signing up

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet MBA 500 University of Phoenix Online Ethical Filter Worksheet Value Personal Source Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Integrity My personal source of integrity would be from my youth leaders in Arizona. I place integrity at the top of my list because this is a combination of my other values. Integrity is the adherence to moral and

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    Essay Length: 665 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Ethics of Academic Freedom

    The Ethics of Academic Freedom

    The Ethics of Academic Freedom University of La Verne EcBu 543 Ethics in Organizations And Society Summer II 2005 Professor: Rita Thakur The Ethics of Academic Freedom "Don't take too seriously the advice of people who supposedly know better than you do. As long as you are finding out things we didn't know before, you are doing something right." ~Doreen Kimura The quest for knowledge can be a wonderful thing. It can help to

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    Essay Length: 1,263 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Monika
  • Ethical Dilemma Changes in Expectations

    Ethical Dilemma Changes in Expectations

    Ethical Dilemma Changes in Expectations Original Situation A young woman, Sally, and her children moved back to her home state after having family difficulty and her husband being incarcerated. Sally and her children moved in with her husband’s parents due to having no other place to stay. Sally immediately found work through a temporary agency. After being put in several short term assignments Sally was finally placed in one that was a temp to hire

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Max
  • Application of Theory Towards Ethical Implementation of Military Force

    Application of Theory Towards Ethical Implementation of Military Force

    As I am heading off this summer to be trained as a Chaplain in the U.S. Navy, and I consider myself to be just shy of a pacifist, I am highly interested in questions of military ethics. I deal very often with both inward and outward doubts about the possible hypocrisies involved in becoming a piece of the infrastructure of a machine whose actions I may often disagree with. In the end I have my

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Hacker's Ethic

    Hacker's Ethic

    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html More sites about: Hacking > FAQs Hacker Crackdown, The http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/hacker/ More sites about: Shopping > Computer Books > Culture Hacker Purity Test http://www.armory.com/tests/hacker.html More sites about: Humor > Computers and Internet Hacker's Diet, The - how to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html More sites about: Health > Nutrition Hacker Instruments & Industries Inc. - supplies products to the anatomical pathology market. http://www.hackerinstruments.com More sites about: B2B > Laboratory

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    Essay Length: 629 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Personal Values and Ethical Foundations

    Personal Values and Ethical Foundations

    Personal Values and Ethical Foundations How does one’s personal, organizational and cultural values affect decision-making in one’s personal and professional life? Can a correlation be made to support this conceptually? Can specific interactions reflect the perspectives identified? These are all questions that lead to the formulation of personal values and setting an ethical foundation in a person’s life. People today in and outside of businesses are fairly liberal in choosing what they will and what

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Running Head: ETHICAL FILTER WORKSHEET Ethical Filter Worksheet University of Phoenix Value Personal Source Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Honesty and Respect Honest and respect are at the top of my list of priorities in decision-making because they are both equally important values in decision-making. Honesty is an inner-quality that one earns and people will see in time. Honesty

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    Essay Length: 541 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: regina
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper As defined by Webster's 1913 Dictionary, "Ethics is a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions". Ethics are standards of behavior that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves. On the other hand, the word value has many meanings and may be

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • America the Racist Tyrant

    America the Racist Tyrant

    America the Racist Tyrant In "The Declaration of Independence," Thomas Jefferson shows the King of Great Britain acting as a tyrant to the colonies, and Jefferson declared America to be free from Britain. In the "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. writes to a clergyman logically analyzing criticisms while communicating to the public his arguments. Jefferson fought for freedom and right for America. King also fought for better civil rights for his black

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Insider: An Ethics Perspective

    The Insider: An Ethics Perspective

    The Insider: From an Ethics Perspective The Insider was an excellent movie that depicted a multitude of ethical dilemmas. Although the focus of the movie surrounds the two main characters, Jeffrey Wigand and Lowell Bergman, there is unethical behavior behavior existing amongst these individuals and everyone in their surroundings. The film's depiction of ethics is a perfect example of what situations one can face in the modern business world. Some of the ethical issues in

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution in Work Teams

    Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution in Work Teams

    Within effective working teams conflict always seems to happen. There are many types of conflicts that exist, such as emotional conflict. This is what physiologists refer to as an A-type conflict. Emotional conflict is someone that takes criticism personally, or is always on the defensive. ... Other types of conflict exist within working teams, and team members must be able to identify these personalities. ... These are the individuals who add constructive criticism and stimulation

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Impact of Diversity in the Work Place

    Impact of Diversity in the Work Place

    How does diversity affect a team? Since each class in the University of Phoenix (UOP) online format requires working within a learning team, team diversity is an issue student’s deal with all the time. In this course, learning team C is made up of three members. We have each lived our lives in different ways, but have all reached a plateau in our careers that has lead us to UOP to obtain our bachelor’s degrees

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Ethical Decision Making: What Are the Elements and the Impact?

    Ethical Decision Making: What Are the Elements and the Impact?

    To answer this question, we must first examine the thinking process and define the meaning of morality. We continually make decisions without regard to ethics or moral values on a daily basis. We can define morality as a system of shared rules, or values that dictate specific behavior during the interaction of people. Morality or moral value is about doing the right thing and brings up questions on how we ought to act in

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Sociological History of Boston Massachusetts as It Relates to Work and Culture

    The Sociological History of Boston Massachusetts as It Relates to Work and Culture

    Boston is both the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is considered the unofficial capital of the New England area, and one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most expensive places in the country to live. Its citizens are known as “Bostonians” and their city is home to the nations first school, first college, and has been called “The Athens of America” for its great intellectual and cultural influence and

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics Perspectives

    Ethics Perspectives

    Ethics Perspective Pamela Dixon University of Phoenix MGT 344 The Ethics Awareness Inventory refers to four characterizations based on ethical philosophy. These characterizations are character, obligation, result, and equity. The inventory not only analyze the characteristics of one’s perspective on ethics but “will assist you in the development of a deeper understanding of your personal ethical perspective and style.” (The William Institute for Ethics and Management). In this paper I plan to define character, obligation,

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • African Immigration to Colonial America - an Essay

    African Immigration to Colonial America - an Essay

    « African Immigration to Colonial America » by Ira Berlin, a historian from the University of Maryland, published in March 2005 in the quarterly magazine "History Now" The text in question is a detailed account of demographic statistics and an aspiring profound description of the slave trade phenomenon that manifested in Colonial America by European settlers. The text does not intend to present a definite thesis or a clear question, yet it would seem that Berlin rather

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: David
  • New York Accounting Code of Ethics

    New York Accounting Code of Ethics

    New York Accounting Code of Ethics The Code of Ethics provides guidance on how to maintain the Company’s commitment to being ethical in all its business dealings. In all Company matters, employees must abide by the ethics and compliance principles set forth in this Code as well as all other applicable corporate policies and procedures. Violations of the Code or other policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. In some cases,

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Ethical Values

    Ethical Values

    Are we deluding ourselves by thinking we understand our customers' needs? 'ACE' (Leading Edge Management Consultancy Limited) stands for an Audit of Customer Expectations. ACE identifies for you what your customers expect from your company and how they perceive you compared with your competitors. It is structured to focus on what is really important to your customers. It identifies the factors that are critical to a company's success and then explores them in an interactive

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Monika
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    Ethical businesses look at the moral implications of their actions, from product development to manufacturing to distribution, in order to stay competitive. Many issues fall under the rubric of business ethics; for instance, human rights, environmental protection, worker health and safety, labor standards, and marketing. Business ethics likewise is concerned with a business compliance with internal regulations and government mandates. A truly ethical company looks beyond its own ethical practices to the practices of its

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike