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Business Ethics
Ethics
Fraud
Weightlessness are often individuals who don’t always look at their own behaviors or maybe they do, but focus their attention on the things they observe to be unethical within the company, firm or organization to which they are employed. They find themselves at the point of making the life changing decision: “Do I expose this…
The Subject of Liberty in the Book “Leviathan”
Liberty
Social contract
In his book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes discusses liberty and the social contract. According to Hobbes, liberty is defined as “the absence of opposition (by opposition, I mean external impediments of motion)” (Ch 21, p.136). He argues that this state of liberty is the natural state of man but also leads to warfare and a troubled…
To Kill a Butterfly: A Case in Civil Rights
Civil Rights
NAACP
As an American child, I’ve always been told that I can make a difference, that I can change the world. While that’s always sounded nice, it’s hard not to wonder, “Can I actually change something? ” Such is the case of James H. Meredith. He changed the world not though extraordinary actions, but by rebellion…
International Humanitarian Law
Law
Introduction Wars and conflict have to a great extent been a major feature of the modern world. The electronic and print media is rife with conflicts occurring in different parts of the world, for instance, recently in Darfur and in the Gaza Strip. Overall, it does happen that some conflicts may not make it into…
Mahmoud Darwish as a Poet
Citizenship
Israel
Middle East
The national poets Mahmoud Darwish, has written mostly in the English language, his writing examples of the rich body of texts conceptualizing Palestine and exile. He constitutes a treasure trove in terms of convenience and information, the sophistication of this literature is not a style of expression that is overall typical of the Palestinian experience….
Changing Demographics, 1660 – 1775
North America
Slavery
United States
Between 1660 and 1775, the North American colonies of Great Britain underwent substantial changes in terms of race, ethnicity, and religion. Initially, the settlers were mostly white in terms of race, English in terms of ethnicity, and Protestant in terms of religion. The New World offered a refuge for those seeking religious freedom. Furthermore, as…
The Sand Creek Massacre Short Summary
Property
Social Issues
Violence
The Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing events of the history of the United States of America. The fact that uniformed soldiers have deliberately killed unalarmed men and unarmed women and children is really an act of absolute savagery. What ever have happened there was only the result of growing hostility and…
Belle Plain: The Forgotten City of Callahan County
City
There is a ghost town some 24 miles to the northwest of Cross Plains. Its stone ruins have been standing like lonely sentinels on the prairie for over a hundred years. Since this forgotten Texas city is not mentioned in Howard’s letters, we don’t know if he ever visited the ruins, or if he even…
The Texas of Robert E. Howard: Her Wild Old Past
Bonnie and Clyde
Texas
The Texas of Robert E. Howard was scarcely a generation removed from its frontier heritage. In May 1934, as Howard’s tale of Conan and Belit, “Queen of the Black Coast,” was on the stands in Weird Tales, a Texas lawman ran down the notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker — Bonnie & Clyde. Frank Hamer…
AP Government: How Public Policy is made
Affordable Care Act
Policy
In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes enacted in 2010: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PACE) both signed on Tuesday March 23, 2010, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H. R. 4872), which amended the PACE and became official law on March 30, 2010. Beamer, or…