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When Love Hurts, 2002.
A descriptive essay on sadism and masochism and the history of how it began with the Marquis de Sade.
934 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper is an overview of sado-masochism and promotes a positive view of S&M (sadism/masochism) . It presents the history and philosophical thinkings of sadism's founder, the Marquis de Sade. The paper argues that interest in S&M should not label an individual as perverse or abnormal as it can be practiced in many different forms with mutual consent.
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"All organic elements of nature - humankind, animals and plants alike - have the capability and need to reproduce. This means we are all disposed to appeasing our sexual appetites to further our species certainly, but also for the sake of pure pleasure, love, and a host of other reasons. The forms of expressing sexuality are also as many and as varied as the reasons for being sexual?certain acts, thoughts, fantasies and practices may appeal to some while appearing absolutely revolting to others. One of the most controversial expressions of sexuality, but at the same time also one of the most widely practiced (to various degrees), can be found in sadomasochism: deriving sexual gratification through means of pain (Microsoft bookshelf). The concept and sexual appeal behind S&M, as it is also called, was first truly brought to light by French author the Marquis de Sade and the practice has carried over until the present day."
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Why Outsourcing Hurts America, 2008.
A review of the problem of outsourcing that is facing America.
5,460 words (approx. 21.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 133.95
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The paper is an extensive analysis with graphic quotes on the subject of outsourcing, highlighting the fact that it is the cause of major unemployment. The paper asserts that reduced salaries as a result of decreased availability of jobs adds to undue psychic trauma to fellow Americans. The paper then asks when the US will realize that it is supporting foreign economies to its own detriment. The paper then points out that, on the flip side, companies are able to increase their productivity and be more cost efficient. The paper concludes that before embarking on a system of outsourcing a company should do extensive research and investigation to determine if such an undertaking is in fact cost effective. The paper concludes that more balanced approach is required and American needs to attend primarily to the requirements of America. The writer has paper appended copies of the source material.
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"At the same time as jobs are disappearing, the stress of working in an environment wherein one's position can be moved overseas at a moment's notice is eroding the faith of American workers in their employers - and undermining their psychological health; in short, people are becoming over-stressed and burned-out. Eugene Garaventa and Thomas Tellefsen write that employees, upon joining an organization, enter into an unwritten psychological contract with that organization. The "informal" contract is an agreement in which employees tacitly agree to give a certain amount of loyalty, effort and creativity in exchange for things like job security, human dignity (otherwise known as fair treatment), rewarding relationships with others, and the support of the organization in achieving their "developmental" expectations (Garaventa & Tellefsen, 28+). Citing scholarly research, the aforementioned authors inform their audience that "workers suffering a breach of their psychological contract were not only likely to lower their organizational contributions, but that these violations were so significant that neither promotions nor pay raises were able to counter their negative effect on employee performance" (Garaventa & Tellefsen, 28+). In other words, as morale plummets and faith in the organization erodes, workers become less willing to sacrifice on behalf of their pay-masters; the inevitable outgrowth is diminished productivity and employees deciding to leave the corporation before the corporation cuts them loose."
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The Wife of Bath: Hurting Rather than Helping Feminism, 2005.
This paper analyzes the Wife of Bath from Geoffrey Chaucer's classic novel "The Canterbury Tales" and argues against critics who call her an early feminist.
718 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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This brief but concise paper points out the many factors which identify the Wife of Bath, Alisoun, as an anti-feminist, including her viewpoint on: Violence within marriage, honesty, equality of the sexes and feminine roles in society. The writer of this paper succeeds in disproving many critics opinions that the Wife of Bath was one of the first feminists in literature.
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"Alisoun also describes a fight between her fifth husband, Jankin, and herself. They strike each other repeatedly, and she goes even so far as to push him back into the fire. Violence is by no means a true aspect of feminism; "she seems to see nothing wrong with the most horrible things that can be done to a woman, such as battery and rape." Furthermore, she shows absolute disrespect for her own body by engaging in domestic violence, and by treating herself and her sexuality as something that can be sold to the highest bidder, "be he short or tall, dark or fair; I didn't care."
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Hurting Canadian Women in the 19th Century, 2002.
How the labor market affected women's status in the 19th century in Canada.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the severity of women suffering in the 19th century labour market. Illustrated is how women's roles were predetermined and pushed into being house labourers.
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The International Monetary Fund's Loans Policy, 2008.
A discussion of how the International Monetary Fund's policy on conditional loans hurts rather than helps the economies of developing nations.
2,325 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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The paper reviews the policy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to impose stringent conditions upon the loans it releases to developing nations. The paper pays especial attention to why the IMF approach hurts developing nations and how the lending policy of the Fund acts as a sort of neo-colonialism that perpetuates north-south global imbalances. Finally, the political nature of the IMF and how this manifests itself in the loan conditions of the Fund is touched upon. In the end, the paper maintains that the IMF would serve everyone better if it would narrow its scope of activities and focus on preventing fiscal crises rather than aggravating them in the world's poorest states.
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"The debilitating impact of IMF loan policies upon developing nations does great harm in a host of areas, but it is arguable that the greatest impact is felt in the realm of business-labour relations. To wit, the International Monetary Fund's unwavering commitment to "labour-market flexibility" has meant that labour laws and wage standards have been revised dramatically downward in nations that are already shouldering heavy loan obligations that they must wonder if they can ever pay off. According to a 1995 United Nations Trade and Development Report which Cavanagh and his team seize upon, the new "flexible" labour laws do not encourage an increase in productive capacity, and they surely do not encourage the creation of work. Instead, they make firing workers easier and they reduce the ability of unions to protect vulnerable employees (Cavanagh et al, 2000). In the end, the devastating reality for struggling men, women and (sometimes) children in poverty-stricken nations desperately trying to extricate themselves from one problem after another is that their governments' reliance upon IMF loans makes their job security, working conditions, wages and benefits (such as they are) entirely dependent upon the capricious whims of foreign corporate mavens who know that they can count upon the IMF to work on their behalf."
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Customer Relationship Management, 2006.
This is a case analysis of customer relationship management (CRM) at the State of New Jersey's Department of Treasury.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that the State of New Jersey's Department of Treasury, Office of Treasury Technology, faces the same challenges as many public and private companies who also are striving to become more responsive to customer needs, while creating more efficient and cost-effective processes. The author relates that the CRM is a services organization to the many other divisions of the Office of Treasury Technology and, as a result, must focus first on managing the many expectations of these divisions and on balancing the workload in the process. The paper outlines the way that this CRM unit must attack the inefficiencies of manual processes, which actually hurt rather than help their ability to serve internal customers.
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Introduction
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Current Technology
Relationship to Current and Other Organizations
Conclusion
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"The Department of Treasury for New Jersey has many processes that are manually based, and therefore break down when someone is either out sick, resigns, or a new relationship manager is brought into the department. This reliance on manual processes is a major impediment to Customer Relationship Management team members in accomplishing goals on behalf of their internal clients. This is exacerbated by the fact that there isn't a known escalation process for service requests, support, information and problem identification and resolution."
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The Film, ?Good Will Hunting?, 2002.
This paper reviews the movie, ?Good Will Hunting?, which explores how people balance the need to be connected to others with the risk of being hurt if those people leave us.
820 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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The author feels that ?Good Will Hunting? is an excellent film, artfully written and produced film and well placed in its location. The paper reviews the film as it explores one important part of the human condition from the viewpoint of all of the major characters: Fear of rejection is overcome by the joy of really connecting with others.
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"The name of the main character, Will Hunting, allows for a play on words in the title. Will is hunting for a way to fit into a world that doesn?t make sense to him. He has two major barriers to connecting to people. First, he is a true self-educated genius with a photographic memory. Second, he is an orphan who was shuffled from foster home to foster home and was sometimes viciously beaten by foster parents."
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Business and Media, 1993.
An argument that the media and environmentalist's overreactions hurt business (tobacco, asbestos) and inspire bogus lawsuits.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"The purpose of this research is to show how business is often impacted by the media, with the result being government regulation and costly litigation. Two industries, the asbestos and the tobacco, will be highlighted to illustrate this problem.
Many people today believe that what does not fit the ideological preconceptions of the media is not considered news today. For example, while talk of rich and poor abounds, a recently released statistical report from a Treasury Department study of income tax returns showed that most Americans did not stay in the same part of the income distribution very long. Among people whose incomes were in the bottom 20 percent in 1979, 86 percent were in some higher income bracket by 1988. In other words, only 14 percent of the "poor" were still in the bottom quintile a decade later. Fifteen percent had risen all the way..."
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?Plessy vs. Ferguson?, 2002.
This paper argues that the Supreme Court?s interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in ?Plessy vs. Ferguson? hurt the fight for social equality in the United States.
965 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses that, although the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to the former slaves, the Supreme Court?s interpretation of this Amendment in ?Plessy v. Ferguson?, greatly harmed the civil rights movement. The author explains that in 1896, ?Plessy v. Ferguson? determined that the standard of equal-but-separate accommodations for black and white passengers on the intrastate Louisiana train system was not in defiance of these Fourteenth Amendment rights. The author believes that, by making social equality the problem of the community and not the government, the court effectively washed its hands of the problem of racism, deeming that phenomenon a social ill that may only be rectified at the grass roots level.
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"First, the Supreme Court maintained that enforced separation did not, could not, stamp the black race with a "badge of inferiority"(50). The nature of equal-but-separate legislation was mutually exclusive; a white man was as prohibited from occupying a black rail car as a black man was from occupying a white one. And, with both black and white cars being comparably furnished, the court reasoned that blacks and whites were therefore being treated equally under the law (34). By this interpretation, no privileges of any citizen were seen as having been abridged, and thus the integrity of the Fourteenth Amendment was ruled to be in tact."
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Free Trade and US Workers, 2005.
Asks the question: Does trade with low-wage countries hurt American workers?
1,582 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper addresses the question of whether free trade with countries with low wages harms American workers. It offers different perspectives, as well as an economic perspective relating to comparative and absolute advantage.
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"The globalization of manufacturing has led to a massive re distribution of work around the world. One question being asked repeatedly is this: Does international trade with low-wage countries such as China and India steal American jobs and cost American workers higher wages and a higher standard of living? Most economists think international trade is not guilty of forcing wages down, citing concepts such as comparative and absolute advantage and differences in productivity to explain why trade..."
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Illegal Workers in the United States, 2007.
An examination of whether illegal workers help or hurt the American economy.
1,128 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the problem of growing illegal immigration in the U.S.A, and looks at whether the illegal immigrants contribute to American society and economy. The paper explains that the real solutions to help control the flow of immigrants coming into the United States of America are the Real ID Act and Guest Worker Program which would provide a temporary status to foreigners in order for them to legally work in the United States, allowing them to come in legally, work
a certain amount of time and then go back to their country. The writer notes that the fence is useless because more and more illegal immigrants are coming into the country even with the border fence. The writer doesn't believe illegal immigrants really affect the jobs of Americans; they do the jobs no one wants, and in that way help the U.S economy, but believes that coming illegally into a country is a crime and it should not be tolerated.
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"In March 2005, more than thirty five million immigrants lived on the American soil, legal and illegal. This number represents about 12 percent of the United States' total population and Mexico accounts for about eleven million of them. The states with the highest number of illegal immigrants are California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois (Center for Immigration Studies 1, 6, 8). The estimated number of illegal immigrants is between ten million people, and one-thousand-four-hundred arrive daily. According to Peter Katel, a CQ researcher staff member and former writer for Newsweek and Time magazines, it is estimated that 96 percent of the illegal men are employed, which represents four and a half million men and 5 percent or the nation's total workers (Online)."
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The Oil Drilling in Alaska.
This paper discusses the problems of drilling for oil and gas in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
1,040 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that the northern slopes of Alaska's one hundred fifty million acre coastal plain, which is part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), is abundant in both oil and gas reserves and is the number one prospect for United States' oil and gas development. The author points out that the use of wildlife refuges and wilderness areas for energy development has become a very hot topic, especially in Alaska, because of the United States' dependence on foreign oil. The paper relates that researchers and developers are seeking new technologies to drill for and transport the oil without hurting the surrounding environment in the process.
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"According to government estimates, the equivalent of one billion, four hundred million barrels of oil are tucked away under Teshekpuk Lake. This lake is Alaska's third largest lake. Teshekpuk, which means big enclosed coastal water. This is where the Pacific Black Brant migrates for its annual molt. Migratory birds, as well as moose, bear and fish take full advantage of this wild life refuge. Many make their home there and
others migrate to this placid lake every year."
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The Lessons of Enron, 2006.
This paper details the events that led up to the collapse of Enron that affected not only its employees and shareholders, but also the global economy.
2,388 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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The writer of this paper examines the sudden collapse of Enron. Enron's downfall forced both ordinary citizens and their political representatives to step back and take a long, hard look at precisely what had been happening behind closed doors. This paper explores the history of Enron, which quickly became one of the world's largest private generators and suppliers of power. The corporation's success was based largely on the work of Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay, who were experts at cultivating an upstanding public image. This paper describes how the high ranking execs at Enron frequently helped themselves to huge amounts of judiciously manipulated stocks and then sold them for a profit just before the inevitable disaster. The writer details the events that led to Enron's collapse which began in 2001, when Sharon Watkins, a company vice-president noticed something was wrong with the company's accounting system. Enron had clawed its way up the corporate ladder by engaging in what was essentially an exceedingly risky venture. By offering to guarantee future prices in the natural gas market, the corporation was taking on a potentially enormous financial burden. Enron was able to mask its losses by removing them from the company's books. This paper explores how the misconduct of Enron and other corporations such as Anderson and Worldcom, hurts more than just their employees, customers and shareholders, they also hurt the global economy.
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"Enron did all it could to cultivate an upstanding public image. In 1997, the energy supplier was one of a small number of companies each of which donated more than one million dollars to the Nature Conservancy. In regard to the Kyoto Accords that were being negotiated at this time, Enron planned to benefit in two ways. By supporting the Accords, Enron was placing itself on the good side of the environmentalist public, while at the same time endorsing a document that severely limited the use of coal in energy production. Since Enron dealt only in natural gas, coal would have been competition. Though a praiseworthy idea at the time, the company's willingness to bend regulations to its own purposes might have given cause for alarm. Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling were not only innovative, but they were also increasingly creative when it came to figuring out ways to make money, and to expand Enron's horizons."
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Divorce, 2002.
A discussion on how adolescents deal with divorce.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper is written about how divorce hurts 15-19 year-olds. Statistics show that fatherless homes often create mental health issues including suicide ideation.
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Free Trade, 2002.
This paper discusses the phenomenon of free trade between Canada and the United States.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper argues that free trade is bad for Canada, because it hurts Canadian sovereignty and economic well-being.
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