1. What criticisms does Friedman raise against business managers who engage in "socially responsible" practices? Explain. Friedman criticizes business managers who engage in socially responsible behavior by using the argument that there is a different set of criteria for social responsible behavior of a person‚ who happens to be a corporate executive (businessman) versus that same person acting as an individual in a free-society. A business manager’s main responsibility is to maximize the profit
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Kill One Bird With Two Stones - Fiction Krieger Reich was an old duck who hunted alone in the rye and he’d gone 93 days now without killing a single human. At the end of last year’s human hunting season Krieger had hunted and beaked four humans‚ displaying their heads upon his mantel piece for all of his friends to look at and admire. During last week’s poker game Jules Reich pointed to the head that was the centerpiece of Krieger’s trophies and proclaimed‚ “I’ve never seen a human with gold in
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different from most people’s. My attention is drawn to places that others find uninteresting. And because I pride myself on expanding my knowledge of the world‚ science has always been one of my favorite subjects. I recently took a course called Bones‚ Stone and Human Evolution‚ about the origins of humanity. It became one of my most beloved courses. It is incredible to think about how all humans that live on Earth today‚ despite the discord that so often divides us‚ come from the same group of primates
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ago‚ and ended ten thousand years ago. This era often called the Old Stone Age was when human evolution took place‚ it was a very slow going change from ape like humans to today’s Homo sapiens. This era is important because during this time humans started to make stone tools for hunting‚ making shelter and creating clothing‚ and without this era who knows where we would be now‚ "The Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)." The Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era). Web. 1 Sept. 2015. The Neolithic Revolution
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Rolling the R’s is set in Honolulu‚ HI‚ during the 70’s. It’s a glance backwards to the author’s childhood. It’s mostly written in Hawaiian pidgin‚ nonstandard English. Its characters are mostly kids around the age of 12‚ but they look so much older judging by the way they talk‚ but it is related to the setting. There are many narrators and genres. It’s a series of vignettes. Children are the symbol of naiveté‚ they represent the in-between of subjugation and complete freedom. A recurrent theme is
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CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF HAGAR SHIPLEY In Margaret Laurence’s novel‚ The Stone Angel‚ Hagar Shipley is the main character. Born the daughter of Jason Currie‚ she is one who possesses incredible depth in character. Mingling past and present‚ we observe the very qualities‚ which sustained her and deprived her of joy such as her lack of emotional expression. As well‚ inheriting her father’s harsh qualities‚ she exhibited pride that detested weakness in any form. Despite of her negative
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I.F. Stone’s excerpt from the Akron Beacon Journal entitled The Killings at Kent State‚ briefly describes each of the four casualties of the Kent State shootings which took place on May 4‚ 1970. The article also includes a little bit of background information as well as the involvement‚ or lack of‚ that each of the victims had in the protests that provoked the incidences of that day. In contrast‚ Gary Geddes’ poetic rendition‚ entitled Sandra Lee Scheuer‚ highlights the life and innocence of just
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it would be like to see life through someone else’s eyes. What happens when the story is seen from a different point of view? Seeing a climatic scene from someone else’s point of view can drastically change how the event is perceived. In‚ A Cast Of Stones‚ Patrick W. Carr demonstrates point of view through his characters Errol and Liam. Errol and Liam are as different as fire and water. Not just their physical differences‚ though those are definitely different‚ but the way they act as well. “ Liam
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Experiment 5 - Cold Work‚ Recovery‚ Recrystallization and Grain Growth Objective To study the effects of cold working on the microstructure and mechanical properties of 70/30 Cartridge Brass. Background A small percentage of the energy expended in plastically deforming a material remains stored in the metal as an increase in internal energy. Changes are produced in both its physical and mechanical properties. Principally‚ there is a marked increase in hardness and electrical resistivity with
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highlight the methods‚ results and theory relevant during an engineering experiment called “cold rolling of metals". The purpose of this report is to show how readings obtained from the set-out experiment‚ can be evaluated to determine the behavior of 3 selected materials; Brass‚ Copper and Aluminium through the process of cold rolling. The form of the materials are in small strips which are processed via cold-rolling method 4 times from their original state to evaluate the effects incurred on hardness values
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