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This paper looks at Plato's writing "Apology" and how it addresses the question of the morality of following or breaking laws. The writer asks whether it is immoral to break a law or if it only becomes immoral once the law broken also breaks a moral code. This question is discussed and analyzed in detail with reference to Plato's teachings.

From the Paper
"The law is a code created by man, with this code attempting to represent what is right and what is wrong. Yet there is sometimes a gap between what the law sees as wrong and what is morally wrong. Just as man is fallible, the laws created are fallible. This is recognized in Plato's Apology where Socrates says that, "human wisdom has little or no value" (Plato, Apology 23a). The fact that laws change over time is also a reflection of this, since if laws were definitely correct, they would remain fixed. In the end, an individual must distinguish between what is morally correct and what is lawfully correct. Socrates says that he would "...run any risk on the side of law and justice rather than join you, for fear of prison or death, when you were engaged in an unjust course" (Plato, Apology 32b). This is Socrates statement showing he selects the morally correct path, rather than the morally incorrect path that the law dictates. In Crito it is described how the good moral path is the path that must be taken, "the most important thing is not life, but the good life... And the good life, the beautiful life, and the just life are the same"(Plato, Crito 48b)."

Tags:socrates, moral, morality, follow, law, break, life, path

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Forty years ago women in "high places" virtually didn't exist. Women physicians and lawyers, for example, were so rare that finding one caused comment and sometimes consternation. That is no longer true, of course, and leaders agree that the glass ceiling is not as strong as it once was. This paper shows that women have entered all areas of business and make up 50% of management positions, yet few women are in positions of leadership. Naturally, everybody wonders why women, in spite of their struggles, don't seem to be reaching the top. Many people argue that discrimination is the cause of women's failure to break through the glass ceiling, but this paper argues that discrimination, although still present, is not the main source of the problem.

Paper Outline:
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: What's Stopping Women?
What is the Glass Ceiling?
Communication Styles and the Glass Ceiling
Coping with the Glass Ceiling
Conclusion
References

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"A good mentor helps to establish contacts, develops networking, uncovers job opportunities, gives appropriate guidance, and acts as cheerleader, coach, and critic, but allows autonomy and independence at the same time. In fact, it may be an advantage for a woman to have a male mentor. A man can give insight into how a man thinks and makes decisions. Not that women should think like men, but they do need to understand how men think in order to communicate with them better. A well-connected mentor is important for any rising executive. A mentor can explain the political structure and offer guidance for effective maneuvering."

Tags:equality, feminism, CEO, discrimination, genderization

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This paper describes and analyzes the History Channel's documentary, "Breaking Vegas." According to the paper, a team of the best and the brightest were assembled to try and beat the odds of the established gambling industry. Led by their one of their professors from MIT, they were trained to remain focused and to use advanced statistical techniques to exploit the weakness that is inherent in the game of black jack. The team won tremendous amounts of money and was very successful until the casino industry cracked down on this unethical behavior.

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"This story is about group of brilliant students from MIT who were recruited to join a blackjack team that utilized statistics to beat the casino out of its money. This team visited the top casinos throughout the world, betting incredible sums of money and winning millions of dollars. While the team was able to utilize training, strategy and mental toughness to outwit the casino they had to overcome an aggressive security system that specifically designed to stop them. Still they had tremendous success by taking advantage of the elements within the game of blackjack and exploiting the nuances within the rules of the game. The group primarily..."

Tags:team, mathmatics, black jack

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This paper explains that, in his book "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy", James Fallows criticizes the modern American media for being out of touch with the people it claims to serve and asserts that the media often has a harmful effect on the American political process by creating an undertone of sensationalism and cynicism and by not informing readers of the substance of issues. The author points out that Fallows sees increasing laziness in journalists as a dangerous trend; recent technological breakthroughs, such as internet database Nexis, allow journalists to access a great deal of background information on any subject without having to leave their desk. The paper concludes that overall the book presents a good argument but, because some of the main points of the book were not sufficiently backed by concrete facts, the book falls short of its intended goal.

From the Paper
"Fallows struggles with this vagueness throughout the book. Often, he uses terms such as "almost never," "barely," and the above "more often," are bandied about with no reference citations to numbers behind them. This is perhaps an inherent flaw in the book. It is hard to be specific in an argument that there is a lack of something. Fallows asserts that most political reporting focuses on power struggles above substantive studies of issues. However, he does not give a percentage as to how much one type of story occurs more than the other. This issue is one of the main points of his book, yet he offers no references that could be used to bolster his claim. Thus, one of his main arguments is severely weakened."

Tags:vagueness, harmful, laziness, sensational, conflict

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This paper analyzes several of the key points from the book "First Break All the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. The author provides insight as to the current and immediate future business environment in relation to this book's message and usefulness.

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This paper briefly reviews this volume of history, which describes one of the greatest tactical victories in the Pacific theater of World War II, the drive to capture the Solomon Islands. It gives a brief biography of the author and explains why he had the capacity to tell the military and Navy details as he did.

From the Paper
"This book is the sixth volume of a fifteen-volume series detailing all major U.S. Naval operations over the course of World War II. It is, like all volumes in the series, told from the U.S. military's perspective rather than from an objective or "distanced" perspective of a later historian. The author, Samuel Eliot Morison, was a Harvard professor at the time he was commissioned by President Roosevelt to reside aboard eleven different ships with the intent of witnessing battles in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and to record them for posterity. Morrison was part of the Navy as he recorded his observations. His work is thus a history "of the moment" rather than a reflective history, and it does not attempt to present both sides of the conflict, only the United States' perspective in detail, and the United States' choice of military tactics from a laudatory perspective."

Tags:pacific, military

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In this article, the writer studies Martin Luther's reasons for breaking with the Church of Rome. The writer examines Luther's self-questioning of his own fitness for salvation. In this paper, the writer discusses Luther's criticisms of the political and financial corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. The writer also looks at the Protestant Reformation.

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"There are two conventional views of history. One view sees great men and women as the agents of historical changes, the other view of history is that events shape the circumstances in which the major players emerge. Both of course, have their validity and in fact we need to use both points of view to understand an event as important as the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther broke away from the Roman Catholic Church gradually in a series of events and decisions that he ... "

Tags:Protestant, Reformation, Martin, Luther

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This paper describes the pre-World War II Japanese code machine known as Purple, and how US cryptanalysts broke it. Additionally, the paper discusses the distinction between codes and ciphers, further examining the technology of the Purple machine and the means of breaking its code. The paper concludes with an analysis of the US failure to prevent Pearl Harbor along with later successful use of decoded Japanese secret information.

From the Paper
"Prior to its entry into the Second World War the United States had no overall national intelligence-gathering and interpretation agencie. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the ancestor of the CIA, was only established after the US entered the war. Both the exigencies of war and the shock of the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor led to a dramatic expansion and coordination of intelligence gathering which was then institutionalized in peacetime by the National Security Act ..."

Tags:codes, OSS, Japan, crytananalysts, Pearl Harbor, ciphers, japan, intelligence (military/diplomatic), world war II, pearl harbor

Abstract
An analysis of three pieces: Margaret Walker's "Jubilee", Langston Hughes' "Not Without Laughter" and James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man". Through their work we see that Walker and Hughes' perspective of race is pure. However, Johnson's view is focused on the individual and not necessarily on a person's racial background. This paper compares the two perspectives: If one is proud to be of a mixed race, is this breaking away from either his "white" or "black" race, or is it simply becoming a proud individual?

From the Paper
"After examining the texts in relation to race and one's identity, one can see that in both Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter, the idea of race is conveyed as fixed, whereas James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Couloured Man deals with race as a changing. The almost-too-optimistic portrayals of the mulatto clearly separate this mixed breed from the "hybrid" African American, putting the mulatto on a pedestal, superior to all other non-whites. Therefore, I believe that the idea of race, in agreement with Johnson, should be recognized as a constantly changing identity for a person of multiple backgrounds."

Tags:mulatto, Vyry, negro, Buster

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This essay will explore Hunt Hoe's documentary," Who is Albert Woo?" Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, "The Woman Warrior", and Mina Shum's film, "Double Happiness", in order to explore the complex representation of Asian identity in the west and the attempt by these three works of art to break racist stereotypes, which not only reduce and minimize Asian identity, but additionally negate the immigrant, cross-cultural experience.