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Introduction and Purpose In recent years there has been a growing interest in ethical styles of leadership, particularly in light of the recognition that ethical behavior not only confers value on an organization, it tends to distinguish one organization from another that may be less ethical in its behavior (Mayer, Bardes, & Piccolo, 2008). In the field of social work, ethical norms and values are of special significance in that they shape the relationship between therapists and clients and other stakeholder groups. Like other caregivers, social workers have direct and identifiable obligations to their clients, including the obligation to treat patient information confidentially, to respect the rights and privacy of the client, to avoid conflicts of interest, to be culturally aware and sensitive, and to at all times behave in a manner that promotes the health and well-being of the client (Sherr, Singletary, & Rogers, 2009). Indeed, one of the key requirements for success in

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Summary: "Custer Died for Our Sins and "Indians of All Tribes..." In a pair of related works, Native American civil rights activist Vine De Loria and Indians of All Tribes make a compelling case for reconsidering the ways in which the civil rights of Native Americans have been treated and the rights of Native Americans to regain control over territory that has been usurped by Caucasians over the past several hundred years. In "Custer Died for Your Sins," De Loria (294) states that "by defining the problem as one of race and making race solely refer to black, Indians were systematically excluded from consideration." Indians, said De Loria (294), have been classified as whites due to laws that were designed to exclude blacks but in other areas Native Americans are classified as blacks or non-whites in order to differentiate them and their rights from those of Anglo Americans. Over time, De Loria (295) says that Indians have been defined as animals with which the whites had some relation and who were in desperate need of the "civilizing tendencies of the invading white."

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The hidden curriculum has been defined as "the skills that we are not taught directly yet are assumed to know" (Myles & Simpson, 2001, p. 279). In many cases hidden curriculum is constituted by what a school does rather than what it says it is doing in its official mission statements and curriculum, and "The messages of hidden curriculum usually deal with attitudes, values, beliefs, and behavior" (Cornbleth, 2009). An example of hidden curriculum is the unspoken intention of a high school to achieve a high rate of graduating students going on to college. The hidden curriculum in this case may be evidenced by a limited number of vocational-type courses and a high number of college-preparatory and advanced placement-type courses. The student attending such a school and disinterested in going to college may feel like "a fish out of water" without necessarily realizing why. Wren (1999, p. 1) points out that "Usually, when educators refer to school curriculum, they have explicit

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On the morning of June 25, 1950 the military forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) invaded the neighboring Republic of Korea (South Korea). This would become one of the first and largest "hot wars" in the period known as the Cold War (Kaufman, 2006). The Korean War remains the least popular war in American history - less than either Vietnam or Iraq - and the war the led Harry Truman to have the lowest popularity ratings of any President in US history - lower than Nixon before he resigned and lower than George W. Bush at his lowest (Halberstam, 2007). The Korean War at the time seemed to have destroyed Truman's presidency, in part because of his firing of popular US commander Douglas MacArthur, but in the decades that followed, Truman's standoff with MacArthur and his overall strategy have helped him to rise in esteem among historians (Halberstam). Background After the surrender of Germany in World War Two, but before the surrender of the Japanese, Allied leaders of the victorious powers (the US, Russia, and Great Britain) met in Potsdam, Germany to determine the fate of the world after the end of the war. One of

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The main reason Gregor Samsa is better off as a beetle than a human being is because, despite the alienating and repulsive nature of his condition, it serves to provide him with clarity and insight that strengthens his familial bonds. Gregor awakes one morning to find he is transformed into "a monstrous insect" (Kafka, p. 64). Gregor's condition is isolating, alienating and repulsive. He is truly helpless in his condition, which is repulsive to his parents. He is cut off from others in a back room of the apartment he provides for his family, unable to communicate. As we are told, "the words he uttered were evidently no longer intelligible, despite the fact that they had seemed clear enough to him" (Kafka, 2008, p. 73). At this point Gregor is reconciled to a greater degree with human company, feeling he is cared for despite his co

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This paper presents a discussion of Vygotsky's child development theory and its application to the classroom. Application of this theory to instructional planning, delivery, classroom set-up and management, and assessment are noted. This is followed by a summary and conclusions. Vygotsky's presented a social development theory to explain child development. This theory became a basis of constructivism. Vygotsky asserted that cognitive development is a constant effort to adapt to the environment and children are active learners who contribute to their own development. Thus, according to this theorist, children build ways of comprehending knowledge and understanding their experiences through their activities. For Vygotsky, learning is socially mediated. Vygotsky referred to the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which is the distance between the ability of a student to perform a task under the guidance of an adult or with collaboration among peers and the ability of the student to solve a problem independently. Vygotsky believed that all learning takes place in

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Power to use force is regarded by many as one of the most important and challenging aspects of the police role. Wansbrough (2008) pointed out that while there are few who would question the necessity of such a power in contemporary policing, the police use of force is often the subject of controversy as well as scrutiny by human rights groups, the media, and the public at large. The power to use force creates any number of ethical, procedural, and legal dilemmas that challenge even police officers themselves with respect to determining when force is or is not excessive, legitimate, or necessary (Wansbrough, 2008). This essay will explore the question of the use of force by the police and the issues it presents from the perspective of individual police officers, police administrators and supervisors, and the community. The argument to be advanced is that incidents requiring the use of force by the police are an unfortunate reality which necessitates accurate documentation that sub

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The curriculum can prepare students for lifelong learning by including "how-to" instruction that equips them to research, explore, and derive knowledge from their own experiences and from what is around them. For example, teaching students how to find information, observe a situation and think critically about it, and learn from mistakes enables them to learn from what they are doing and encountering. T

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The effects of computer technology on learning are substantial. Its most important contribution to education is its ability to make vast stores of knowledge available to the student via the Internet. Everything from full-text classical literature books to scholarly research journals can be accessed online, affording today's student a rich diversity of information that students of 50 years

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1. Allowing free trade in a labor-abundant country will push wages down for unskilled labor. Over time, workers will develop specialized skills which will both increase their efficiency and their desirability in the market. This will encourage upward movement in wages overall, which will have a beneficial effect across the economy (Markusen & Venables, 2009). Lacking capital means that the economy is not necessarily able to generate the jobs that are required to ensure full employment. However, while there may be individual benefit to workers moving to other countries where jobs might be more plentiful, the economy then loses that human capital forever. A better approach is to attract capital, which can be done by marketing the abundant labor in the country to f

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During the final decades of the 20th century, Deng Xiaoping instituted various reforms in China, redefining science and technology, agriculture, industry, national defense, and also in establishing an "open door" policy that allowed China to have economic relations with other countries, thus making China a true global player. However, these forms have not come without consequences, specifically the problems that China's new position as an emerging superpower has created problems for the United States. One of the most significant ways in which China's new global position has affected the U.S. China has become one of the world's "top consumer(s) of a wide variety of natural resources and primary commodities, such as steel, aluminum, oil, and gas." (Wang 2). In China, gasoline prices are regulated by the government. As the price of oil has risen, China's government subsidies have not been able to keep up with the rising cost, resulting in fuel shortages that have a global effect

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Strengths Hewlett-Packard's primary strength is its financial position. The company has a significant amount of cash on hand-more than $10 billion at the end of 2008, and it maintains a low debt position. The company has enough cash to pay off its long-term debt in its entirety with nearly $3 billion remaining. This puts the company in a strong position to take advantage of market opportunities, and is more impressive because the company recently acquired EDS. The company was also able to increase its inventory turnover from 2007 to 2008, but in an indication that HP also suffers from the downturn in the economy overall, its accounts receivable turnover declined slightly (2008 Hewlett Packard

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The 20th century was undoubtedly a time of great instability and change in China. There are various leaders whose policies have had a long lasting effect upon the country that has extended into the 21st century. Most notable of these leaders are Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, both members of the Communist party who were often at odds and who implemented sweeping policy changes in China that have continued to steer the country's direction. One of the most important aspects of Mao's rule was his so called "Great Leap Forward". Modeled after reforms in the USSR, with which he intended to "mobilize China's entire 600-million-plus population in military-like fashion to overcome the limitations of economic scarcity by "leaping" over the mountain of physical constraints, and striding forward from there along the high road to a Communist utopia (Grasso 179). The "Great Leap" stressed the simultaneous development of agriculture and technology and the de-centralization of planning from gov

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Introduction In March 2009, the Los Angeles Times published an article by John Glionna, the newspaper's Northeast Asia correspondent. The article, "In Toyota City, Japan, the Good Times Rolled ... Away", later was picked up by other newspapers, such as the Canton Reporter. The Canton Reporter posted the article under the title, "Hard Times Come to Toyota City", on the CantonRep.com Web site. Purpose of This Paper An analysis and critique of the article, "In Toyota City, Japan, the Good Times Rolled ... Away", is presented in this paper. The article deals with a variety of issues, all of which are in some way connected to the Toyota Motor Company, the major industrial presence in Toyota City. In this paper, the several issues addressed in the article are analyzed and critiqued separately. Global Automobile Industry Glionna (2009) noted at one point in the article that, "Last summer, Toyota was just months away from overtaking General

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McDonald's will succeed in growing as a consequence of its strategic choices. As a SWOT analysis of the company shows, McDonald's strengths are more significant than its weaknesses. Its primary strength is its brand, which is recognized all over the world, and its position at the head of its industry makes it a force to be reckoned with. The company's ability to determine what consumers want and need and adapt to that is a major strength, one that requires McDonald's to keep reinventing itself. McDonald's used to close in the evenings just after dinner, for example, but now almost 40% of McDonald's restaurants stay open round the clock, with a focus on between-meal and late-night options such as snack foods and fruit smoothies (Arndt, 2007, p. 64). In addition, McDonald's generates new products more aggressively than in the past, churning out new selections that are tried out in one market for several weeks to see how the sales, costs, and margins grow and how easy they are

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People's views about the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono vary. Some may say that Ono had a negative influence on Lennon's career as an artist. Others may take the opposite view. Either way, Ono had a lasting effect on Lennon's life and artistic pursuits in ways that were transparent to the public. In particular, Ono influenced Lennon in the following ways: she intensified Lennon's focus on avant-garde performance art; she led Lennon to give more of his energy to political causes; and she brought a sense of love and contentment to Lennon's life that influenced his later music. Lennon and Ono met at a preview showing of Ono's visual art (Pirro). As an avant-garde artist, Ono's work focused on pushing the boundaries of what were considered acceptable forms of expression by mainstream society (Pirro). Her works were interactive, inviting the audience to become part of the piece. Included in this was performance art, in which Ono herself became integral to the art piece.

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Vibrio Cholerae Introduction The following presents the topic of Vibro cholerae. Vibro cholerae is a bacterium that causes cholera, a disease that leads to death within hours, but can be easily prevented and treated for full recovery. The discussion of Vibro cholera includes names of the organisms, a history of the organisms, prevalence, method of transmission, contagiousness, symptoms, treatment, and more. This is followed by a summary and conclusion. Vibro Cholerae Vibro Cholerae Defined Vibro cholerae is also referred to as Kommabacillus. The genus Vibrio has Gram negative curved or straight rods; it is a bacterium that is motile by a single polar flagellum. The Vibrios are able to cause respiratory and fermentative metabolism. The Vibrios are related to enteric bacteria but are different in that they are oxidase-positive and motile by a polar flagelia. They also share properties with pseudomonads but are different in that they are fermentative and

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Comparative Advantage Please answer shortly for following 4 questions. "Under the assumption of the Ricardian Model with 2 goods: Can one country have a comparative advantage in producing both goods? Even if one counties can produce both products at lower cost it is the differential in production costs of one in terms of the other that provides competitive advantage. Because England can produce cloth relatively more easily than wine it is to the advantage of both counties that Portugal produce all the wine and England all the cloth and that they trade with each other so England at the cost of a relatively small amount of it potential cloth production can have wine. Can one country have an absolute advantage in producing both goods?" It is entirely possible that one country would have a absolute advantage in the production of both goods. Ricardo uses the example of cloth and wine in Portugal and the UK. In his example Portugal has a competitive advantage in both, but the difference

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Sarty in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and Dee in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" are both rebels, but Sarty is a rebel with a cause, while Dee is a rebel without a cause. For Sarty, rebellion comes at a heavy cost, but he does it because it is the right thing to do. For Dee, rebellion is merely an expression of spoiled selfishness and a lack of respect for her mother and sister. Faulkner establishes Sarty's rebellion slowly, introducing the reader first to the father's barn-burning past and Sarty's unwilling compliance with his father's wrongdoing, and then detailing the incident with the rug to show the reader how the father acts out his resentment. The father is a man with a chip on his shoulder, literally baiting Mrs. de Spain by walking deliberately through the fresh horse manure-Sarty noting that "his father could have avoided by a simple change of stride"-and then tracking it onto her pristine white rug. As Faulkner describes the scene, with Sarty obser

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Problem Situation The problem situation involves a proposal to conduct manufacturing operations for washing machine household appliances in a foreign country. The products produced by the foreign manufacturing facility will be marketed in the United States and in countries surrounding the country hosting the manufacturing facility. The specific issues addressed in this white paper are (a) host country selection, (b) host country risk assessment, (c) financing the foreign manufacturing facility, (d) current financial risk reduction, and (e) future financial risk reduction. Host Country Selection The principal reason for selecting a manufacturing site for washing machine production that is located outside of the United States is to take advantage of lower costs for direct labor. Simultaneously, however, direct labor savings must be sufficient to more than offset transportation costs associated with importing the finished goods to the United States. An additional profit sou

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Family and community issues affecting elementary students are as important to schools as they are to the students, their families, and the community, so schools need to address them where possible. One way to accomplish this is to start initiatives that include the family and the community so that all three can work together to resolve the issues. An example of this type of problem

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Herman Melville was truly a rugged individual. Desiring financial independence at a young age, he found a job as cabin boy on a transatlantic passenger ship bound for Liverpool (Wikipedia). In Liverpool he witnessed a terrible plight which had yet to make its way to New York and America's other large port cities. His strongest feelings were about the dirt and degradation he saw there. Melville remarked on the huge numbers of beggars, mostly people turned off the land and driven into the cities looking for work. After the voyage, he returned and found a position as a teacher in New York City. The school closed down, however, and Melville went back to the sea. In 1839 he once again sailed on the whaler Acushnet which was bound for the south Pacific via Cape Horn. Although Melville left

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Service-learning credit should be mandatory for high school credits as long as special arrangements can be made for students with disabilities or other health problems to do the type of service-learning work that lies within their physical capacities. Service learning establishes a vital link between what students do in school and how they function in their community. Schools have often

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Sexual harassment is a form of sexual discrimination that happens in a work-related context. According to one legal dictionary, sexual harassment is the "Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive work environment" (Sexual, 2009, p. 1). Today, globalization makes it critical that employers recognize how culturally-based experiences of an increasingly multicultural workforce impact sexual harassment issues. As Zimbroff (2007) notes, definitions or perceptions of sexual harassment can be misunderstood even within the same culture so "sexual harassment must be understood in terms of cross-cultural perspectives" (p. 1). Frameworks of examining cross-cultural dif

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As if the author was not already sufficiently embarrassed by her internalization of the false left-right paradigm, she drones on with a knee-jerk analysis of national security failing to once mention the United States Constitution! In fact, the author's discussion of "civil liberties" is completely and utterly undermined by her choice to not talk specifically about any civil liberties, by her ignorance of certain historical contingencies, and by the so-called "experts" she cites to support her claims. Furthermore, the author's sweeping inferences on the topics of war, Osama bin Laden, and Congress's actions since 9/11 expose her as an apologist and shill. In an essay of only 9 paragraphs, there are 8 attempts by the author to breathe life into the false left-right paradigm. Line 4, "the left has pitched fits," line 8 "loud objections from liberals," line 16 "least of all a conservative," line 30 "civil-liberties types go ballistic," line 39 (implicit) "a process of emasculatio

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