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U S Attorney Ethical Dilemmas
1,696 wordsWhen a company's interest are the same as those of an individual employee, in-house lawyers generally can avoid multiple-representation problems. But once there is a conflict of interest -- or a perception of a conflict -- the picture changes dramatically. It is important for in-house counsel to know how to spot such conflicts and what steps to take in response. Corporate counsel clients normally include the company, its board of directors, its most senior management, the heads of the company's ...
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Censorship Of Pornography A Moral Issue
1,292 wordsImagine The New York Times headline reading "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Banned! !" If the pro-censorship / anti -porn sector of our society has its way, this headline may come true. Some of the pro-censorship supporters believe that women posing provocatively in bathing suits should be considered pornography and that this and all other forms of pornography should be made illegal. There is and has been a moral debate over whether or not pornography should be censored. Many individuals be...
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From The Sea Golden Rule
762 wordsThroughout Odysseus' many adventures in his efforts to return home to Ithaca, Homer describes many various cultures that his title character meets along the way. Though many of these cultures could be identified as subcultures of the Greek world, each has unique qualities that separate it from the other cultures. Chief among these qualities is the set of values and morals that serve to define a culture's viewpoint toward life. This is no different in regards to the Phaeacian society on whose lan...
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Matthew Arnold Karl Marx
880 wordsThrough their writing, Karl Marx and Matthew Arnold show their opposing views on the importance of internal and external functions of culture. In the first chapter of Culture and Anarchy, "Sweetness and Light", Arnold describes culture as being responsible for the progress of politics and society, and as "the best knowledge and thought of the time" (19). Matthew Arnold's culture is based on two main aspects, religion and education. Karl Marx, however, strongly contrasts Arnold's ideas. Marx view...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,653 wordsExistentialism, philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, the term is impossible to define precisely. Certain themes common to virtually all existentialist writers can, however, be identified. The term itself suggests one major theme: the stress on concrete individual existence and, consequently, on subjectiv...
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The Glass Menagerie And Conflict Between Responsibility
419 wordsAn individual's right to be happy and its conflict with an individual's responsibilities is a common personal problem. Many people must make the choice between the two daily. Most people have a set opinion of whether responsibility or happiness should prevail. Sometimes people have exceptions to this opinion. Some people would judge Tom, in The "Glass Menagerie, " as being right or wrong in his decision to take happiness and leave responsibility. I believe that people have a right to be happy, a...
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Social Structures Key Element
1,401 wordsAlthough the United States is one of the richest countries in the world many of it's people sleep in the streets, dig through garbage cans to find food, and carry all that they own in this world on their backs or in shopping carts. These people are known as the homeless. Recently I had the opportunity of helping, and at the same time being educated by one of the members of this unfortunate group. I was able to experience first hand how a homeless person thinks and feels through an intimate means...
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Large Scale Small Scale
1,105 wordsWalking is a kind of practical knowledge, which is a mediator between person and space. While walking, people designate their self, whether consciously or not. Walking is a practice, which was characterized by culture. "Story begins on ground level, with footsteps... " 1. Pedestrian is a key form of metropolitan mobility. City can not be separated from the pedestrian, who is held to invite city to express itself. Walking can be considered the best way to make value of the city and space. Practic...
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Gender Differences Perceptions Of Sexual Harassment
1,803 wordsAs Americans we tend to have a conditioned view toward sexuality as a normal, healthy part of life. However, it seems that one may underestimate the power sex has on culture, which is evident in many areas. Most recently discussions on a sexual nature received extreme national prominence with the public events surrounding the Kenneth Starr investigation and report, which focuses on the sexual aspects of the relationship between President Bill Clinton and a former intern, Monica Lewinsky. The res...
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Island When Odysseus Courage And Wisdom Home
412 wordsAn individual's characteristics are the key to their behavior. Homer's The Odyssey takes place about 700 BC in the Mediterranean, near Greece. The epic tells of a man who left his home twenty years earlier to fight in the Trojan War. His mission now is to make his way home to Ithaca. Odysseus shows good and bad traits throughout the epic that influence his way home. The courage and wisdom of Odysseus help him survive through the whole epic. For example, Odysseus kills the Cyclops while the giant...
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Religious Discrimination In The Workplace
1,490 words"When the Magi came from the East to worship before the baby Jesus, Christianity gave notice that it was destined to become a world religion. And when those same Wise Men chose to disobey King Herod by leaving the country without reporting on the Christ child's whereabouts, they signaled that loyalty to Christ would trump all other authority. Since then, non-Christians have consistently reacted strongly to the Christian doctrine that Christ alone is 'the way, the truth and the life. '" (Ye shall...
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The Old Man And Wormhole A Review
1,664 wordsThis story represents the basic existential angst that infiltrates the late 20 th century American conscience. Note the theme of the threatening stranger who goes unrecognized by the innocent old man, obviously an analogue for Uncle Sam, the perennial archetypal figure so beloved of editorial cartoonists and poster collectors. He invites the "wormhole", which is here strangely personalized, although it is a science fiction concept. A wormhole is a "hole" in the structure of the universe, which t...
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Physician Assisted Suicide American Heritage Dictionary
1,708 wordsThe issue of euthanasia is tearing at the social fabric of the United States, as proponents and opponents attempt to answer a myriad of questions about an individual's right to die and society's responsibility in either permitting, assisting, or denying that act. The word "euthanasia" is of Greek origin, and literally is translated as "a good death. " According to the American Heritage Dictionary, euthanasia is "the act of killing a person for reasons of mercy" (AHD 670). But the issue is far mo...
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Make Mistakes High Level
1,153 wordsThroughout Stanley Renshon's' book, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition, the president's ability to govern has to do with three main concepts: ambition, courage, and integrity. Proving this, Renshon believes that the presidents psychology explains everything. 'By examining the range of choices available to the president as well as those he selects, both within and across circumstances, one can begin to discern the underlying patterns of psychology that shapes his beha...
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Neo Liberal Welfare State
616 wordsThe second dimension of the transfer of political functions onto civil society is a cultural one, based on ongoing processes and declared needs to rebalance the individual's sense of rights and obligations in modern societies. A reinforcement of the individual's sense of obligation can regularly strengthen the citizens' propensity to see first whether they can themselves jointly solve problems which emerge in their daily life sphere by spontaneous co-operation, and only inasmuch as this is not p...
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Standardized Tests Iq Tests
742 wordsStandardized tests like SAT and others are the most arguable issue in the contemporary American education. There is a big party of those who oppose the admission based on the standardized testing. Let us first look at the opponents of standardized tests. Their usual arguments look very similar in all sources. Standardized tests are unfair and are not helpful evaluation tools. Standardized tests are tests on which every student answers the identical questions, usually in multiple choice ones, eac...
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Group Of People Set Of Circumstances
2,090 wordsUnderstanding Issues in Organizational Behavior (1) The most recent movie, I have watched, where, in my opinion, can be found many examples of Organizational Behavior, is Fight Club, which was released in 2000. The plot of the movie revolves around person ability to completely change his outlook on life, with his act being adjusted accordingly, because the new set of socio-political circumstances comes in to the play. The character of the movie, Jack, finds it increasingly hard to exist in the L...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill
2,391 wordsThe Right To Die: Should Government Intervene? The Right To Die: Should Government Intervene? My Position is No In the recent years discussions about the right to die, the fervor of the national debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia has not decreased. Instead, it has been recast in legal, individualistic terms, in a manner disturbingly reminiscent of government stubborn social battles over abortion. No longer at the forefront of the discussion is the question when, if ever, it is morally r...
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Mental Illness Physical Activity
833 wordsPsychiatric Rehabilitation is a philosophy as well as specific strategies that has been formed over the past 30 years about how treatment should be provided to those individuals who suffer from a mental illness. During the 1970 's, due in large part to pioneers like Fountain House and Fair-weather Lodge, a shift began in the paradigm that had till then defined the "treatment" of mental illnesses. A growing consciousness emerged that, in addition to medications, skill building and social support ...
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Division Of Labor Neo Liberal
2,166 wordsThe Third Way Throughout the past centuries, much of our worlds nations have converted from various types of governments to a democracy of some kind. Of all of the countries that have switched to this type of government, none has found this form of government to be undesirable. What is it that makes Democracy so impressive? The answer to this question is both obvious and abstract. In many ways, understanding Democracy is easily explained, yet it is also very complex because every nation has a di...
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