Business Decisions by Microsoft: Bad vs Good Business Decisions by Microsoft: Bad vs Good Microsoft had a lot to live up to after supporting an operating system called Windows XP. Windows XP was widely used by everyone from school kids‚ to multi-million dollar corporations. Microsoft seemed to be under a lot of pressure to create a GUI that was as “user friendly” as the Mac‚ handle crashes better than XP‚ and made better use of memory. Their answer: Windows Vista. Quickly seeing
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It’s easy to blame individuals for engaging in illegal or unethical activities by assuming bad behaviour is an inherent personality trait. "Only shady people do shady things‚" right? We assume the CFO who reports false financial data and the hedge fund manager who commits insider trading do so because they are inherently "bad people." The maxim of individual responsibility is comforting because it implies that‚ to eradicate criminal or unethical behaviour‚ all we need to do is identify and weed
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we get really a legitimate source that we can rely on for accurate facts? It is so easy to find bad sources that give us the correct information. A bad source isn’t one that has improper grammar or misspelled words. In fact it is an article that portrays bad references and resources and is not recent. Many current issues exist in the world today that can be used for comparing a good article and a bad article. One current issue that is really popular in the United States right now is the topic of
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demonstrates throughout the book is whether people are essentially good or essentially bad. He creates this theme by involving the death of Simon‚ Ralph’s adrenaline rush to hunting the boar for the first time‚ and the war that Jack had started with his tribe in order to kill Ralph at the very end of the novel. Golding includes these incidences to show us that people are essentially bad over the fact that people are essentially good. Simon was on his way back to the beach to tell the rest of the
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Stacey Kay O. Fortuna 9:00 – 12:00‚ TTH November 29‚ 2011 Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits The Article on Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits specifies the different reasons why accountants and auditors have taken part – consciously and unconsciously – in different accounting scandals. The signing of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 wishes to achieve corporate accountability. But the signing of this act doesn’t guarantee that accountants and auditors will not feed on their unconscious self
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In the article “Good and Bad Reasons for Believing”‚ Richard Dawkins argues that you should only believe something once it has been proven by evidence. He also claims that tradition‚ authority and revelation are three bad reasons to believe something. In this paper I will critically analyse Dawkins’ theory and explain why I agree with his viewpoint as described in the article. Dawkins argues that the appeal to tradition‚ authority and revelation are fallacies. Unless backed by evidence‚ they are
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to teach children‚ but to change their point of view of achieving excellence‚ not good marks or scores. At times‚ children don’t see how much knowledge they have. They measure this knowledge by marks and not by how much they have understood. And when they score less‚ they think they are not intelligent. I‚ being in ninth standard‚ have also seen my friends crying for marks and I also feel extremely bad if I score less but I feel worse about the stupid mistakes I make. But no one realizes
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Good vs. Bad In the novel‚ A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens opens with an anaphora‚ about how the world is throughout the novel. A reoccurring theme throughout this story is the battle between good and evil. Most of the novel is about the struggles each force has and how most of the time good triumphs over evil. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ the triumph of love‚ the death of the Marquis‚ and the contrast between Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay shows how good triumphed over evil. Throughout the
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United States Presidents: The Good‚ The Bad‚ The Ugly President James Polk once said‚ "With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses." And it is definitely true that the being the most powerful man on earth cannot be an easy task. Forty- three men have taken on the challenge of filling these shoes and to be forever considered for their accomplishments. In this line of powerful men‚ some are remembered for their ability to overcome adversity and leave a legacy of prestige
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Eugenia Rita Lee Callie Ingram English 102 9/11: the Good‚ the Bad‚ and the Whoops Was 9/11 a big mistake? America still reels from the attack on our sense of security‚ the devastating event an abrupt betrayal of our trust in social respect. Before the act of terrorism‚ we trusted that everyone was doing what they could for the good of humankind‚ if not for the nation. With the fall of the World Trade Center came the mistrust of a religious group that gradually expanded to any random stranger on
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