Journal of Business Ethics Forthcoming WHY DO COLLEGE STUDENTS CHEAT? Mark G. Simkin Accounting & Information Systems University of Nevada‚ Reno simkin@unr.edu Alexander McLeod Accounting & Information Systems University of Nevada‚ Reno amcleod@unr.edu ABSTRACT. More is known about the pervasiveness of college cheating than reasons why students cheat. This paper reports the results of a study that applied the theory of reasoned action and partial least squares methodology to analyze the responses
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Addicting drugs like Methamphetamines are the reason why many drug users find themselves years later with no money‚ no career‚ no friends and abandoned by their own families. Your willing to spend your last dime on Methamphetamines‚ forsaking every other financial duty‚ you’d be willing to do things way out of your character to get more Methamphetamines bringing shame and embarrassment to your family and to yourself. Morally I think it is wrong because you are not supposed to pollute your body with toxins
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arguments agree with it‚ while others do not. By virtue of personal experience‚ social phenomena and several research between parents and children‚ I prefer to agree with the statement. The most important reason and specific examples will be described below. Firstly‚ parents effect our behavior. As we are unmature and young‚ parents always show us which way to go. For example‚ they teach us how to speak‚ grab our hands and teach us to walk. Also‚ they take care of us until we can do things alone
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animals who bring nothing but misery and cruelty to the world. An education is one of the most important things one may ever receive in their lives. One can no longer gain any type of employment without a high school education and even college hours‚ so why would society care to hold anyone back from getting an education? Prisoners are having a hard time receiving education in the prison system today. No one seems to care or support prisoners in the challenging process it takes to change their lives. County
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The relationship between teens and drugs has been around for decades; however‚ this is not what you would call positive. Substance abusing (which is using drugs or alcohol in ways than can cause physical harm) is often associated with crime. But why do youths take drugs" Youth take drugs for the following reasons: social disorganization‚ peer pressure‚ family factors‚ emotional‚ or rational choice. Social disorganization deals with drug abuse to poverty and disorganized urban environment. Drug use
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government to mend the breaking union during the late 1800’s. Northern and Southern states differed politically‚ economically‚ and socially; thus setting the stage for one of the biggest battles in American history. The constitution was intended to be this almighty document that united the states and kept them in balance but tension rose greatly. Even though the constitution is ultimately our most important historical “rulebook” it failed in the 1850’s being the primary cause for a Civil War. For four long
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Why a 2-year contract costs you more for a cell-phone One thing I hear on an almost weekly basis is‚ “I can’t believe my cellphone bill was x amount of dollars this month!”. Yes‚ the big name carriers (Verizon‚ AT&T‚ Sprint‚ and T-Mobile) are what most people know of‚ but there are many more options in terms of price‚ coverage‚ plans‚ and more. And I will say this right off the bat; buying a $600 phone and joining a prepaid carrier‚ even the ones you see prepaid cards at the gas station‚ will
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The neighbors think it his free time that he does in the games so he was enrolled in a " I play violent games" with the neighbors kids. The group talks about why these games are appropriate for them‚ why they play them‚ and how they should stop playing them. I have went to one of the meetings and i have to say its working
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There are many reasons to why we often misinterpret the Bible. Most common thing that Christians do is taking the words out of context and use it the way they want to. Taking sentence or phrase out of context and leads to a different meaning of the original message. When we pulled individual verses out of the text‚ we ignored the surrounding paragraph which causes us to misunderstanding the real definition of that story. Schultz talks about the four types of Biblical context which could be distinguished
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Nike Case Study By Mark Colasurdo‚ Andrew McMullen‚ Jonathan Burd‚ Gaoxing Feng‚ and Jie Leng Background: Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at North Point Group‚ is looking into the profitability of investing in the stocks of Nike for her fund that she manages. She is supposed to base her decision the company’s data which was disclosed in the 2001 fiscal reports. While Nike management had addressed several issues that are causing the decrease in market sales and stock price‚ management presented
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