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    sepoy army. Initially, the soldiers were well-paid to keep their loyalty, but the EIC failed to increase pay to match the inflation rate. Moreover, they received the impression that the Company was attempting to change Indian religions, due to the criticism of missionaries in India, previous violations of Hindu religious conventions, and the introduction of new cartridges that were greased in pig fat and beef tallow, the previous

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    code. All bug fixes to the software require a long and ineffective reporting process. In addition, you have to pay a separate fee for any upgrades to the software year after year. Raise the ethical issue As a result, there are overwhelming criticisms against Microsoft. People view Microsoft as an unethical business entity by creating “monopoly” and using unfair tactics to control the software market as a whole. Although it is important to realize that even Microsoft does not technically fit

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    International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management Volume 4 Article: MC04-0051-2004 Personality and Culture Learning Goals and Their Impact on Performance of Global Firms Carlos J. Alsua, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Management), College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA ‘Knowledge’ and ‘Culture’: Organisational Intangibles and their Tangible Value Proceedings from the Management Conference 2004 International Journal

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    whole tale. Although well-known today, the most activity ?Rime? has seen was in its beginnings. It has its fair share of praise and criticism, praise given posthumously and criticism given while Coleridge was alive. Other than criticisms on the actual text, many people claim that Coleridge borrowed the ideas of others and used them. One must look past the criticisms and negative reviews on an author?s work in order to truly understand it. This would aid a reader in realizing ?Rime? is full of

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    The Character of Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice     In her novel, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays Elizabeth Bennet as "strong and intelligent, yet bewitching in a completely feminine way". Elizabeth's possession of these attributes: strength of character and moral integrity, great intelligence, and an attractive personality, make her an admirable person. Yet Elizabeth has faults, which makes her more human. Austen's portrayal of Elizabeth is realistic and masterful, often juxtaposing

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    Essay on Anna Julia Cooper

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    but she did continue writing well into her eighties.3 Cooper's writings and life expressed her strong social concerns. Indeed, on a college questionnaire in 19 32, she wrote that her chief cultural interest was "the education of the underprivileged."4 This commitment is exhibited beyond her work as an educator and extends to the conscientiousness that infected her scholarship and her social activism. < h3>Development of a Feminist Critique The first account that Cooper gives of her struggle

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    theory is the `critical ' approach. This approach represents an attempt to reconcile the `applied-science ' and the `practical ', in which theory and practice are interpreted as being mutually constitutive and dialectically related. This approach views social practices as inherently `problematic ' with the theory±practice relationship being one of `ideology critique ' (Carr 1986), in which practitioners engage in critical self-re¯ection and, in so doing, can increase their self-knowledge and rational autonomy

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    John Emst Steinbeck was bom on Febmary 27, 1902, in Salinas, Califomia. The time and place of his birth are important because Steinbeck matured as an artist in his early thirties and during the darkest days of the Depression, and his most important fictions are set in his beloved Salinas Valley. In one sense, Steinbeck's location in time and place may have made him a particularly American artist. Bom just after the closing of the frontier, Steinbeck grew up with a fmstrated modem America and witnessed

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    A prime example of the how restricted the definition is the case of Shah and Islam. The court felt that women as a social is a too big a group. They narrowed the group to women, that are married and allegedly committed adultery and said that they are a social group. ’the concept of social group is a general one and its meaning cannot be confined to those…which the framers of the Convention may have had in mind’. Some argued that the court in this case

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    Abstract The study demonstrates the additional learning of the subject related to the Australian society and the changing dynamics of the world. The study analyzes the unemployment in Australia and the pertinent social policies with complete description and analysis of the policy. The post welfare state is a lot more concerned on the improvement of infrastructure, reducing the public sector and taking the control away from the state socially as well as economically, which allows a much better

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