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An Ethical Dilemma
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... was injured at the age of three by a severe dog bite causing vision and neurological problems. When he turned eighteen he was already homeless but soon received the first $7500 installment of the $75,000 settlement. This money quickly took him off the street but did not last long. He then turned to a large factoring company by the name of J.G. Wentworth. He sold his remaining future payments of $67,500 for the lump sum of $16,100. He is now homeless again and has nothing left to sustain him. Another client by the name of Raymond White was awarded a $198,000 settlement but cashed in his future p ...
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Sexual Harassment
Number of Words: 1688 / Number of Pages: 7
... harassment or abuse
-Subtle pressure for sex
-Unnecessary patting or pinching
-Constant brushing against another employee's body
-Demands for sex accompanied by threats of termination
-Demands for sex in return for preferential treatment
qualified as components of sexual harassment.(Redress for Success, page 75)
Soon after that women began to realize that they could be sexually harassed by
anybody, such as by employers, supervisors, co-workers, customers, or even by
subordinate employees.(Redress for Success, page 74) With this new
understanding that t ...
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European Studies
Number of Words: 5423 / Number of Pages: 20
... to stabilise markets and to ensure reasonable prices for the
consumer. (3) This is unusual in the context of the Treaty of Rome which
provided for free trade and movement of resources. Agriculture was ill-
adapted for this approach. Protection was given, not only by customs
duties, but also by a variety of agricultural policies. This essay will
discuss the merits and demerits of a the pre-1992 CAP with its emphasis on
price reform, in comparison with the post-1992 CAP which was oriented to
structural reform.
It cannot be denied that there were merits of the pre-1992 price reform ...
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Minimum Wage
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... effective in aiding those families at the lower end of the wage scale. This however is not true for it has been shown that only 11.7% of teenagers in families with above-average incomes would benefit from a higher .
The opponents of a increase say that if the is increased many people will lose their jobs. Because employers can only afford to pay so much for labor, if they have to pay a higher wage per worker, than they will hire fewer workers. Studies suggest that for every 10 percent increase in the , a minimum of 100,000 jobs are lost. This information shows that a increase would hurt many o ...
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Censorship From "Obscene" Material
Number of Words: 1044 / Number of Pages: 4
... most people agree that we are being overwhelmed with offensive
material, there is no consensus on how to deal with the problem. There are
three possible solutions. The first is the possibility of government censorship,
which would include laws and penalties for breaking these laws. The second
solution is self-imposed censorship by individuals and corporations. The third
solution is total free speech with no censorship.
The first possible solution is government censorship. In the past
government legal actions have been taken to control offensive messages. For
example, in 1988, the Ku Klux Klan wa ...
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Knights And Chivalry
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... such as the English Order of the Garter and
the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece. By this time, however, chivalry had
become largely a system of etiquette. Tournaments, in which knights had
originally risked their lives in jousting combat before the ladies, became
simply elaborate, stylized, and harmless entertainments. Moreover, the expense
of this and other trappings of knighthood led many nobles who were eligible for
knighthood, having served the customary apprenticeship of 7 years as a page at a
noble court and another 7 as a squire, or attendant, to a knight, not to become
knights at ...
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Marriage: The Perfect Ending To Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 1943 / Number of Pages: 8
... universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife" (Austen, 1) As Norman Sherry points out,
this is Austen's way of implying that 'a single man in possession of a good
fortune' is automatically destined to be the object of desire for all unmarried
women. The statement opens the subject of the romantic novel; courtship and
marriage. The sentence also introduces the issue of what the reasons for
marrying are. She implies here that many young women marry for money. The
question the reader must ask himself is, does Jane Austen think this is moral? ...
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Nightclubs' Role In Our Drug Problem
Number of Words: 1715 / Number of Pages: 7
... pinpointing one specific group to “bust” is not effective.
Recently, we have tried to track the location of drug use. We find places where
drugs tend to be, and seek to close them down as an effort to decrease the
overall use of drugs.
This has proved to be an ineffective technique because it does not
change people's craving for drugs. Reasons leading up to drug use still exist.
Arresting people for drugs does not kill their desire to use them. Closing
down a crack house does not end the residents addiction, it just forces them to
move. Reprimanding committed crimes does not eliminate the reason ...
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"Is Moral Egoism Correct?"
Number of Words: 1039 / Number of Pages: 4
... deeper though, we soon discover that although most of the time it is correct for us to do what is in our own best interest, sometimes it is not. For example, say I am poor and I am living in an alleyway in New York City. I have no money, no job, and nothing to eat. One day, a nicely dressed businessman comes up to me and offers to give me food, shelter and everything I ever wanted, but there was something I would have to do in turn. I would have to go to the local middle school and to the local high school and push cocaine to the students. Although it is in my best interest to have food, shelter a ...
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Instilling A Child's Values
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... sound like a cheap cliche,
but there is a lot of truth to it.
While raising a child, a parent might find that sometimes the child is
not learning the morals that the parent is trying to instill in their child. In
that case, a parent should discipline him. Discipline shows the importance of
values in a whole different way. When a child is punished for something he or
she did that was wrong, he or she learns not to do it in fear of being punished,
but after a while the child accepts the given value for what it is. Punishment
can be done several ways. Some deny their child of something such as: f ...
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