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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What Makes a Good Foreign Language Teacher? It is not a secret that teaching has a great role in our life‚ it is everywhere. In our constantly changing world we have to get knowledge from everything: e.g. from people and things surrounding us‚ from different technologies‚ from our experience. But nothing of these can take the place of a teacher‚ who plays a great role in life of every person. During rather long period of time a teacher is an integral part of children’s life. A teacher does not
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In the video "A Place at the Table" it showcases eight American teens discussing their ancestors trials and tribulations of what they thought would be the American dream. Their names are Wislene‚ Peter‚ Samuel‚ Reina‚ Carol‚ David‚ Terry‚ and Deloria. Wislene is a descendent from Africa‚ her grandparents were stolen from their native land and forced into slavery in America. They were re-named and separated from each other. They had to endure social justice blatant racism and nightmares upon nightmares
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Video Games and Their Place in Our Lives What is a video game? “A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor”. History of video games goes on from the early 1950s. Video games are the products for mobile/tablet‚ gaming consoles (such as PlayStation‚ Xbox‚ Nintendo etc)‚ social browser‚ handheld consoles and PC platform. Video games have an important position in our
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Challenges for social entrepreneurs The field of social entrepreneurship is growing rapidly and attracting increased attention from many sectors. The term itself shows up frequently in the media‚ is referenced by public officials‚ has become common on university campuses. One of the most important reasons behind the popularity of social entrepreneurship is the inherently appealing stories about entrepreneurs and how they confront challenges. Finding the funding‚ building strong infrastructure
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A Critique of “Why Violent Video Games Are Good For Girls” Carmen Tieu‚ author of the article‚ “Why Violent Video Games Are Good for girls” gave a series of examples on why first-person-shooter (FPS) are beneficial for women. There may have been agreeable examples and stated reasons‚ but her article flawed in many aspects. Tieu lacked in the area of including two parts of ethos that would make an article succeed better. As well as excluding some parts of Toulmin Model. The use of informal fallacies
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Robert Waldihger’s "What makes a good life?" TED talk discusses the everyday question people ask‚ what brings happiness to life? Waldinger begins by mentioning a Harvard study that has been in progress for over 75 years. They study the lives of different groups of men and try to find the "key" to their happiness. They document every single detail from their medical records to what a simple 24hour day consists of for them. He wanted his audience to question themselves and to give them an "answer"
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Do Video Games Make People More Violent? Do violent video games cause violent behavior? I believe that violent video games do not cause violent behavior. While I agree that violent video games may desensitize youth to violence‚ I don’t believe the games make the youth more violent than they already are. Its not fair to single handedly blame violent video games‚ when there are tons of other violent media sources out there. Karen Sternheimer is a sociologist from the University of Southern California
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argue that with the latest new technologised phones phone theft will be decreasing as attackers are being tracked down through other witnesses recording the theft event on their mobile video applications. This can cause less people being victims of theft as muggers are aware of this. I feel that cellphones can make us only feel safer due to the fact that if we are walking down a quite street rather than thinking of all the bad things that can happen people convert their attention to their cellphones
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Do television advertisements make consumers want to make changes in their lives? Some advertisements can make young people feel insecure about their physical appearance. They can also create a need for young people to be attractive which could lead to a result of insufficient funds. In short‚ advertisements today encourage adolescents to spend more time and money on products that will help make them the “perfect human”. Television advertisements may use skinny models‚ which can give young women
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