Dr. Hopkins EC 4350 11 September 2012 Reading Journal #2 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Chapter 2 What they tell us: Shareholders are not guaranteed any fixed payments. What they don’t tell us: Shareholders really only care about the short-term profits instead of long-term investments which in turn reduces the growth of the firm in the long-term.” …the L word‚ that is limited liability‚ is what has made modern capitalism possible.” (12) -Karl Marx defends capitalism Adam
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Perkins made the hardest decision of her life as she and her husband Jim were caught in the vise of the housing bust. Wanting to downsize their lives as they headed toward retirement‚ they bought a new house in Mesa‚ Arizona‚ before they sold the old one‚ also in Mesa. Their previous home had been appraised at nearly $400‚000 at the height of the market‚ but as the housing crisis ravaged Arizona‚ they were told they’d be lucky to get $200‚000 for it. They were carrying a loan of $260‚000 on their original
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the thing that determines your personality‚ your thinking style and how your react to certain scenarios. Your identity can change many things about yourself‚ but it can be changed itself. Your identity can be greatly changed by many things such as your experiences‚ gender‚ people you know‚ friends you have met‚ your location and religion‚ and finally your education. I will be talking about how gender can greatly change your identity. In the time when the Taliban took over‚ your gender could greatly
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Subject : Work Ethics Adviser : Prof. Romana L. Bitancor Did You Bring Your Ethics to Work Today? Unethical behavior has become an increasingly prevalent issue in today’s workplace. It is a sad truth that in every workplace‚ there are always employees who take part in unethical behaviors‚ mine is not an exemption. In fact‚ if an assessment of my workplace in terms of ethical behavior would be conducted basing on what I have learned in studying work ethics for three sessions now‚ I can
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Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You In this article on Facebook‚ Jacquielynn Floyd brings up a very valid and interesting point on how we give out personal information without even thinking that we could be harming ourselves. The way the world is today we don’t even have to have face to face communication with people‚ all we have to do send the person a friend request. Until we take responsibility for our actions‚ the only person we can blame for our personal information being
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and thriller flick that takes place in the life of high school senior‚ who holds a grudge on her best friends and takes actions on them. The theme of the movie was inspired by the 90’s coming-of-age comedy films‚ such as "Clueless"‚ "10 Things I hate About You"‚ "She’s All That"‚ "Never Been Kissed"‚ etc. The horror aspect is shown in the body language‚ actions‚ and insecurities of the girl who goes by the name "Alex". To add more suspense and a horror vibe to
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A Critique of Jill Dubisch’s You Are What You Eat Before reading Jill Dubisch’s article You Are What You Eat‚ I had many presumptions regarding how Dubisch would connect the health food movement to Geertz and his definition of religion. When thinking about the supposed “premise” of religion‚ I had always believed the vague and obscure definition that religion is a set of beliefs and practices that center around a divine force. Because of my ignorance regarding religion‚ my views were incredulous
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You were eight when you went through your first pacifist route. You were also eight when you allowed Chara to take over and murder all your friends. After that‚ you never allowed her to take control again‚ until she persuaded you that she wouldn’t kill everyone; just a few people. She kept her promise‚ but killed Toriel and Papyrus. Though it would have been no better‚ you thought she’d meant smaller opponents. You were nine when that happened. For some reason‚ you aged‚ even with the constant resetting
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distinguished to get his or her dream job. One thing that may open many closed doors in front of you is speaking more than one language as we are in open world where countries exchange different experiences and cultures. Learning a foreign language is challenging and it needs a lot of time and effort to be skillful and fuent. For that‚ I believe that it is better for children to start learning a foreign language as soon as they start school for the following reasons. Based on my personal experience
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1. Would you answer honestly if participating in a national crime survey asking about your criminal behavior‚ including drinking and drug use? 2. Why or Why not? 3. Explain how honestly and dishonest impact self –report studies. Yes I would answer honestly. The reason I say answer honestly is because it would help in the data profiles‚ and to make sure that there results are correct‚ so there will not be any confusion in the data when criminologist go to profile criminals. If false
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