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Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition", 2005.
An overview of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition"
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper presents a review of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition". The paper discusses the author's main themes, provides a summary of the work, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the collection of essays as a whole.
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"Throughout history human beings have attempted to produce theories of knowledge and learning. Some of the most basic questions such theories have attempted to answer concern what knowledge is, where knowledge comes from and how we know what is true. Plato theorized that only things that do not change, that are immutable can be known. Limitations of the human senses and perception have always played into theories on knowing. So too has human capacity for ration and more..."
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Human rights vs. Human Nature, 2006.
A discussion regarding the justification of war and the issue of human rights versus human nature.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews the question of justifying military intervention on the basis of protection of human rights, pointing out that such a question requires a prior assumption. The paper clarifies this assumption to be that countries are capable of benevolent, disinterested altruism. History refutes this assumption. The paper further discusses how individuals and groups within a country may very well have the best intentions to bring relief to the suffering citizens of a brutal dictatorship or civil war; but countless examples, from Vietnam, to Latin America, to Rwanda, to present day Iraq, show a road to hell paved with such good intentions. The political and military forces involved in such maneuvers, by their very nature, preclude truly altruistic actions.
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Human Rights And Human Trafficking, 2006.
A discussion on human trafficking and the international response to the problem.
5,084 words (approx. 20.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 127.95
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The paper discusses how human trafficking has increasingly become a problem for many countries throughout the world, with people being taken from their families, homes and communities and ensnared in a life of servitude to others in a strange and foreign country. The paper focuses on the question of whether there is enough being done to combat the increasing problem of human trafficking. The paper examines the international community's response to the problem. The paper details various countries and communities and how they have been effected by human trafficking.
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Objective
Introduction
Overview Of Human Trafficking Throughout The World
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
India
Bulgaria
The Netherlands
Pakistan
Russia
Uganda
Poland - The Press And The Perspective In Media
Mexico - 20,000 Child Victims
Mongolia - 200 Mongolian Children Exploited As Prostitutes
Other Countries
What Is Being Done To Combat This Problem?
Bibliography
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"According to a separate report, "Migrant trafficking and smuggling has become a global business generating huge profits for traffickers and organized crime syndicates." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) In fact in a study conducted by IOM reports "...an estimated 15 to 30 million irregular migrants worldwide." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) Sadly a report of the U.S. Department of Justice states that an estimated "...700,000 women and children are trafficked yearly across borders." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) The reason stated that so many of these migrants go unreported is due to the inherent "...clandestine nature..." involved in so many of the lives and migration of these individuals."
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Aggression in Human & Non-Human Primates, 1999.
Analyzes nature of violence, differences between humans & non-humans, biological, psychological & social causes, evolution, territoriality, survival and theories.
4,950 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 13 sources, $ 135.95
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This paper is an investigation of the topic of aggression in both humans and non-human primates with an attempt to understand the causes of such aggression and what links exist between the aggressive behaviors of different primate species.
The literature on primate aggression is reviewed and a number of bases for aggressive behavior are put forth, including psychoanalytic, biological, evolutionary and learned. The validity of each of these explanatory paradigms is examined and the evolutionary and social learning perspectives are established as being the most useful bases on which to create theoretical models of primate aggressive behavior.
A substantial amount of attention is paid to possible evolutionary causes of aggression and evolutionarily based links between the aggressive tendencies..:
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Human Evolution and Closest Relative, 2007.
This paper discusses the evolution of the human and discusses human origins.
2,016 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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In this article, the writer explains that evolution is defined as a change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation and natural selection. The writer notes that the topic of human evolution all started when human fossils and remains were discovered from different regions on earth. The writer points out that the availability of new technology even allows the study of the genetic structures of the fossils found, which signifies a more reliable and astonishing breakthrough in defining the start of human evolution. The writer concludes that many of the scientific evidences including that of the anatomical, archaeological and genetic provide a full proof view that modern humans descend from earlier hominid populations or our ape-like ancestors.
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"Homo sapiens (about 100,000 years ago) is characterized by large brain size, high forehead, small eyebrow ridges, slender skeleton and upright structure. The Homo sapiens fossil record shows anatomical trends toward decreased bone mass. Their diet was more balanced - it included meat, grains and vegetables. The sapiens' tools were more sophisticated, and incorporated the use of raw materials. Surviving Cro-Magnon artifacts include huts, cave paintings, carvings and antler-tipped spears. The remains of tools suggest that they knew how to make woven clothing (according to a claim by Michael Rappenglueck, of the University of Munich. 2000.). The appearance of Cro-Magnon culture about 40,000 years ago was characterized by fine artwork - beads, ivory carvings, clay figurines, decorated tools and even musical instruments."
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Human Rights in England and the ECHR, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the decisions of the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal with that of the European Court of Human Rights concerning human rights cases.
1,990 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 18 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper compares the decisions of the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal in R v Ministry of Defence ex parte Smith [1996] 2 WLR 305 with that of the European Court of Human Rights in Lustig-Prean v UK (2000) 29 EHRR 548. It discusses how the different outcomes in these cases can be chiefly explained by the approaches available to the courts in terms of reviewing State policy. It looks at why the test of 'irrationality' employed by the English courts meant that the discriminatory government policy could not be overturned and then examines why the test of 'proportionality' available to the Court of Human Rights allowed a fundamentally different outcome to be reached.
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"Having accepted Brown LJ?s assessment regarding the justiciability of the policy, both the Divisional Court and Court of Appeal considered each of the three grounds for the review application: that the policy breached Article 2 of the EC Equal Treatment Directive ; that it breached Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights; and that it was ?irrational?. Both English courts shared the view that the word ?sex? in the EC Directive should not be construed as embracing sexual orientation and should, therefore, have a meaning no broader than gender . Had they accepted the applicants? argument, the policy would have been unlawful as it would amount to direct discrimination . In the Divisional Court, Brown LJ emphasised the ?unambiguous? language of the Directive, which plainly refers to discrimination of gender rather than of orientation."
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Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry, 2008.
This paper discusses effective human resource management in the airline industry, including employee recruitment, management and evaluation.
12,341 words (approx. 49.4 pages), 22 sources, APA, $ 237.95
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The world we live in is constantly faced with new challenges it must overcome in order to survive; and the business world is no exception. A wide array of changes have affected industrial activities and have forced companies to develop and more importantly, to become increasingly adaptable to all forces of micro and macro nature. A most relevant modification within the business sector is represented by the approach to the human resource. If only a few decades ago, the personnel were perceived as the force operating the machines, today, they represent the company's most valuable assets, its core competency and its means of achieving organizational goals. The management of the human resource currently constitutes a vital issue within corporations, moreover for the companies activating in the service field, where the quality of the interactions with the customers is crucial for the successful continual of the business activity. Airline companies place increased emphasis on the human resource strategies and policies and have integrated them in the company's values. This research paper presents the most relevant human resource management practices as revealed by numerous academicians and specialized economists. Furthermore, two airlines companies are discussed while presenting the means in which they understand, develop and implement human resource strategies and policies.
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Executive summary
1. Introduction
2. Human Resource Management Practices
2.1 Relevant Concepts of HRM
2.2 Planning and Recruiting
2.2.1 Recruiting the personnel
2.2.2 Sources of recruitment
2.3 Organizing the Human Resource
2.3.1 Job Design
2.3.2 Working Conditions
2.3.3 Flexible Schedules
2.4 Developing and Training the Human Resource
2.4.1 Training and Development
2.4.2 Motivating the Human Resource
2.5 Evaluating and Remunerating the Personnel
2.6 Employee Relations
2.6.1 Communications
2.6.2 Collective Bargaining
3. Human Resource Management within Airline Companies
3.1 HRM Particularities in Airline Companies
3.1.1 Globalization and Market Liberalization
3.1.2 Technological Developments
3.2 Measuring Job Satisfaction of Airline Passenger Service Staff
3.3 Airline Employees and Airline Disasters
3.4 The Human Resource at British Airways
3.5 The Human Resource at Air Canada
4. Conclusions and Recommendations
5. Reflections
6. References
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"The human resource strategies designed and implemented by the company's management are expected to retrieve two finalities. The company first expects to better satisfy the needs of its employees. Secondly, the management hopes that through the implementation of the HR practices and alternatively an increased job satisfaction, employees' performances will increase and this will generate a superior quality of the airline services offered by the organization.
"But in order to reach the desired status of increased market share, profits and increased interest from investors, due to a high quality of their services, managers must first measure the level of satisfaction of each employee. Ruth Taylor, the Academic Area Head for the Services and Tourism Management program at Curtin University, Western Australia, has long studied and analyzed the level of job satisfaction felt by airline employees as well as the measurements used by managements."
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Human Development, 2002.
A comparison of two literary works to describe what it means to be human and the processes of human development.
760 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses "2001:A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton. The writer explains that while the genre of these two books are different, each author works a similar idea - human development - from different points of view.
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"In the larger sense, though, the main character is not any individual at all but Mankind, and the novel is the story of human beings from the time of their origin as human beings to the next step in the evolutionary cycle leading past homo sapiens to whatever designation would be given to the superior beings to come. Everything in the story centers on the development of the human race for a higher purpose, and this development is guided by unknown and unidentified extraterrestrials, never seen but implied and symbolized by the monolith appearing first among the prehumans of the African plain, then on the moon, and finally floating in space and serving as the stargate through which Frank Bowman passes on his epic journey, leading to the appearance of the Starchild: "With eyes that already held more than human intentness, the baby stared into the depths of the crystal monolith, seeing--but not yet understanding--the mysteries that lay beyond" (Clarke 233). The people of Shangri-La also seem to represent an advance in evolution, for they have attained great longevity and live more contented lives, as Chang explains when he tells Conway that "the process of retarding age would begin, and if successful, might give Conway half a century or so at the apparent age of forty" (Hilton 182)."
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Kafka, & Spiegleman: What It Means To Be Human, 1986.
Compares ideas of what it means to be human & what the boundaries of what human life are in Franz Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS, & Art Spiegleman's MAUS.
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" Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Art Spiegelman's Maus both raise issues of the meaning of being human, the parameters of humanity, and how people retain their humanity in the face of horrible conditions. Kafka raises issues of what are the boundaries of human life in Metamorphosis, while Spiegelman addresses the question of how people keep their humanity in extreme conditions. Inherent in both of these analyses is the central question of what is humanity--what is it that is being lost in the change that overtakes Gregor Samsa in Metamorphosis and what is it that people are trying to keep in the extreme conditions of the Holocaust in Maus? An examination of the two books may show some conception of what humanity is, what it is that makes us human, and thus what it is we try to hard to protect."
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Human Resource Management, 2007.
This paper discusses how important effective human resource management is to a successful business.
3,314 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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The paper discusses the various theories of human resource management. The paper illustrates how strategic human resource management combined with a company's strategic management can bring higher benefits to organizations. The paper provides a short overview of global human resources and examines the application of technology in human resource management. The paper concludes that, for a company to be successful, it is vital that human resource management work together with, and in the same direction as, the strategic management process of the company.
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Introduction
Human Resources Management - Review of Theories
Importance of Human Resources Management to Organizations
Strategic Human Resources Management and Firm Performance
Human Resources Management (HRM) and the Strategic Management Process (SMP)
Challenges and Benefits of Global Human Resource Management
HRM and Technology
Conclusion
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"Even if the plant and equipment, as well as financial assets are and will continue to be important and required resources by almost any organization, the human resources - the people these organizations have - start gaining an ever increasing role within companies. The people will be the ones designing and actually producing the goods and services a company offers to its clients, they will be the ones controlling the quality of their work, marketing the products and distribute the financial resources, as well as setting the overall organization's strategies and objectives... meaning - the people will have the same role as the sanguine system has in the human body. Therefore, it can be easily understood that a company that will not benefit from the presence of effective employees, will be confronted with serious challenges in achieving its objectives."
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Human Cloning, 2004.
This paper discusses the attitudes of scientists toward the ethics of human cloning.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper relates that scientists believe if they have the option to work with an unlimited number of human cells through human cloning, they have resources to attempt new procedures and push the limits of scientific knowledge. The author points out that the power of wholesale manufacture of human tissue is the very heart of the debate because human beings are not automobiles, which can roll off an assembly line at the rate of a few per hour. The paper presents the argument of one scientist who compares human cloning to in vitro fertilization: if the human can be conceived outside of the human conjugal act, then why cannot a human be created completely in a laboratory via cloning?
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"The most disturbing acknowledgement Pence makes is that, in his opinion, the whole question of cloning human beings needs to be "Fletcherized." Pence makes this reference to align his viewpoint on cloning with the secular viewpoints of Joseph Fletcher, whose "situation ethics" were successful in devolving religious ethics out of the modern mindset. He was responsible for creating secular degradation three decades ago. While secular society may no be free from the 'regulations and restrictions of religious ethics.' our concern for human live, and perspective that all men and women deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has also been lost somewhere in the argument."
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Human Sexuality, 2005.
Summary and discussion of an article by D. Dyrne and M. Hogben on human sexuality, "Using Social Learning Theory to Explain Individual Differences in Human Sexuality".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses an article about human sexuality that emphasizes an approach to studying the concept of human sexuality and human sexual behavior from the perspective of the social learning theory. The paper also explains and analyzes how the theory is applied to the study of human sexuality and behavior and examines contemporary research that supports this approach.
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"Dyrne & Hogben (1999) in their work "Using Social Learning Theory to Explain Individual Differences in Human Sexuality" approach the concept of human sexuality and human sexual behavior from a social learning theory approach. This article is of interest because it presents a new model for exploring human sexuality and the reasons that humans act in a particular manner with regard to sexual behavior." The article analyzed is appended to the paper.
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Human Resources Management, 2002.
A discussion of the role of human resource management within the office environment through a review of the book ?Human Relations: Interpersonal Job Oriented Skills? by Andrew Dubrin.
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper examines how the human relations manager and human resources play a key role in the productivity of an office environment and how their role is one of quality control, as they guarantee that the efficiency of a work environment is not compromised by the inability of workers to co-operate. It discusses the theory put forward by Andrew Dubin in his book ?Human Relations: Interpersonal Job Oriented Skills?, that human resources functions are too expensive and that the key to successful human interaction is to be found in the psychological aspects of employees and social dynamics among employees. It describes how the book focuses a great deal of time on interpersonal skills training, as it is dedicated to improving interpersonal action in organizations.
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"The role of the human relations manager is usually broader in corporations where employees are unionized: there human relations managers are seen as more vital in that they negotiate compensation with union leaders and serve as management?s diplomatic team in dealing with the elected representatives of skilled laborers. Often managers responsible for working with small teams of union laborers in larger corporations lack the authority to change the nature of workers? positions because they lack the authority, or because contractual constraints restrict these workers? roles."
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Human Dignity in the Nazi Era, 2005.
A look at the implications for contemporary bioethics arising from the Nazi treatment of human beings.
7,812 words (approx. 31.2 pages), 76 sources, MLA, $ 169.95
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This paper examines how the justification for Nazi programs involving involuntary euthanasia, forced sterilisation, eugenics and human experimentation were strongly influenced by views about human dignity. It looks at how the historical development of these views should be examined today because discussions of human worth and value are integral to medical ethics and bioethics. It discusses how social Darwinism was foremost amongst the philosophies impacting views of human dignity in the decades leading up to Nazi power in Germany and how Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory was quickly applied to human beings and social structure.
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Abstract
Background
Major Influences
Malthusianism
Herbert Spencer
Natural Selection
Hereditary
Eugenics
The Path to Nazi Medicine
Five Beliefs and their Impact on Bioethics
The Nature of Ethics
Human Distinctiveness
Human Gradation
Life Not Worth Living
Survival Of The Fittest
Inherent Human Dignity
Conclusion
References
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"Social Darwinism was foremost amongst the philosophies impacting views of human dignity in the decades leading up to Nazi power in Germany. Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory was quickly applied to human beings and social structure. The term 'survival of the fittest' was coined and seen to be applicable to humans. Belief in the inherent dignity of all humans was rejected by social Darwinists. Influential authors of the day proclaimed that an individual's worth and value were to be determined functionally and materialistically. The popularity of such views ideologically prepared German doctors and nurses to accept Nazi social policies promoting survival of only the fittest humans. A historical survey reveals five general presuppositions that strongly impacted medical ethics in the Nazi era. These same five beliefs are being promoted in different ways in contemporary bioethical discourse. "
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Karl Marx' View of Human Nature, 1999.
Karl Marx's view of human nature and why he is critical of the ideas of human rights and political rights and emancipation.
1,444 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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This essay examines two aspects of Marx's philosophy; firstly, his view of human nature and, secondly, why he is critical of the ideas of human rights and political rights and emancipation. The paper argues that Marx?s view of human nature underpins his thought and work and shows that Marx is critical of human rights and political rights and emancipation because he believes there to be a greater goal.
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