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This is a 5 page paper which discusses the unnecessary violence portrayed in the movie industry today. Assessing a film based on unnecessary “violence factors” is discussed and examples of violent movies are included. A list of top grossing movies of all time is also included and establishes the popularity of violence in movies today. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

20 pages in length. The fundamental function of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is to first anticipate and then address customer needs. With the recent and tremendous industry growth, it is not surprising to note that CRM has become the trendsetter for all to watch and learn. That customer service is the backbone of any industry serving the public gives CRM the power to provide stronger cohesion between consumer and merchant as a means by which to establish a seamless association in what can sometimes be an antagonistic relationship. Government and small businesses alike share in the contemporary approach of CRM; however, there is no denying the fact that the hospitality and tourism industries represent the top users. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

5 pages in length. The notoriety of Ally McBeal is not that surprising if one considers the standard elements of contemporary popular culture that it depicts. Indeed, the extent to which this particular program highlights such cultural values as capitalism and individualism, while at the same time devaluing certain ways of being, lends to the show's credibility as a reflection of society. Money and self-centeredness are two of the primary cultural values that stand out in virtually every episode; amidst the young law firm is a collection of people whose ideals are as shallow as a child's. That everything revolves around the amassing of great quantities of money reflects the manner by which society has rearranged priorities by placing superficiality at the top of the list. Add to that a significant sense of feminism gone awry and it all adds up to a television program that offends virtually every possible social group. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page contention that measurement error is a frequent component of many types of sociological research. This error is obvious in fields ranging from psychology to education and occurs despite the implementation of a variety of procedures and formats have been proposed over the years top overcome this inadequacy. Emphasizes that measurement error continues to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks in many aspects of social research. There continues to be a great variance in measurement reliability and validity as well as to the extent to which measurements achieve research purposes. Bibliography lists 13 sources.

A 5 page paper. Capital One is among the top ten credit card companies in the U.S. The company has more than 46 million customers worldwide. This paper considers the company's policies and asks whether or not they are ethical. Since it is so hard to obtain all their specific policies regarding credit card approval, the available information is used, in conjunction with personal knowledge of credit cards, to ask if certain policies regarding interest rates, fees and distribution of consumer information is ethical. It may be legal but is it ethical? Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page research paper that discusses the domestic programs proposed by President Truman. "When modern-day historians rank Truman, they place him among the top ten presidents, and some have him just below FDR, Lincoln, and George Washington." Why is this when more of Truman's programs were rejected by Congress than programs accepted and approved. Truman took office at a time when this nation was facing serious challenges. His Fair Deal, which included 21 programs, was mostly rejected by Congress but Truman began a path of values and institutions that every subsequent president has followed. This essay discusses these issues. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

6 pages in length. Environmental degradation comes in all forms, is emitted by myriad sources, and continues to worsen with every passing year. Determining how to deter this perpetuation and where to start such an overwhelming project often leads lawmakers directly to manufacturing plants that discharge massive amounts of air pollutants, with mercury emissions from the coal industry at the top of this list. In Missouri alone, two plants in particular bring to mind questionable levels of mercury excretion and the damage such discharge is doing to the surrounding environment: Southwest Power Station (0.0214920, plant; 1.2037, state) and James River Power Station, which emits 0.0214920 and 0.0231980, respectively, when compared with the overall state emission amount of 1.2037. The writer discusses coal plants and environmental pollutants. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

5 pages in length. The question is both loaded and debatable; depending upon which side of the sporting fence one resides, the answer might just incite a full-fledged riot. Which game really is America's favorite sport? Given the recent turmoil in both football and baseball camps, not to mention the ongoing rivalry between the two sports to outdo each other for the top position, it might seem a difficult challenge to choose just one. In spite of these tribulations, however, one must look at more than just the most recent polls and examine the impact one sport in particular has historically had upon the nation as a whole: baseball. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 5 page paper considers globalization and the way it has influenced global development. The paper begins by looking at the historical increases in GDP and whether this has benefits all economies or only some. Then paper then considers the influence of technology, before looking at the way in which power is distributed. This includes the examination of the economic power and place of the top 200 corporation. The last part of the paper gives two examples of the impact globalization has had on economies, with one country that has benefited from it ands one that has been harmed. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

20 pages in length. The importance of services marketing has come to redefine the way in which the global economy operates, clearly illustrated with the knowledge that services account for approximately three-fourths of all developed nations' employment and GDP. Moreover, the ever-growing trend toward services-related employment has created a decidedly top heavy concentration of opportunities throughout these countries. As such, services marketing has become both a mainstay and significant presence in virtually all industries, inasmuch as there is hardly a sector of commerce that does not in some way require a level of customer satisfaction. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

A 5 page essay that analyzes an article relative to how it portrays multiculturalism in American. This article offer a transcript of a CNN financial news broadcast hosted by Valerie Morris, which aired April 21, 2004. The topic under discussion for this broadcast was the fact that a magazine Diversity, Inc. announced its top 50 companies for diversity, with PepsiCo "shooting up" the list from 25 last year to number 5 on the new list. Examination of this article demonstrates that the media--and mainstream culture in general -- tends to characterize the diversity of the US population through stereotypical images that offer little to towards a better understanding of that diversity. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares Kate Chopin's The Awakening, published in 1899, and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, first performed in 1982. The writer argues that these works represent feminist literature separated by close to a century of world events and feminist progress. However, the concerns of these authors are still very similar. They each emphasize the conflicts inherent in women's lives due to the restrictions imposed by society and by motherhood. In each case, the author highlights how society, as defined by men, necessarily impacts the relationship between mothers and their children. Social context and expectations, childbirth and maternal instinct are addressed by both Chopin and Churchill and shown to be part of the same interconnected web, which serves to influence how women react to motherhood in each work. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 4 page paper. CEOs and other top executives receive extremely large compensation packages that include salary, bonus, direct stock and stock options, along with other perks. In 2002, however, some of these executives took only their base salary and gave up any kind of cash bonus or direct stock. The CEO of Citibank was one of those executives. This essay reports the compensation packages for the CEOs of Citibank and JP Morgan Chase, Inc. The writer makes some suggestions for compensation packages that would ease management-labor tensions and that might lead to greater dividends for investors. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 17 page paper presents an analysis of a case study of the title company provided by the student. SafePAC (QATAR) is a subsidiary of PAC Corporation, an American box-making corporation. SafePAC (QATAR) has faced a great number of very serious problems, including low productivity and high overhead. They are called upon by corporate to reduce expenses and increase production. The essay provides a synopsis of the background of the case, including the particulars surrounding the closure of on plant and the subsequent fallout due to the way the CEO of SafePAC (QATAR) went about getting an affirmative vote for closing the plant. There now exists great hostility towards the CEO from his top-level. The essay makes recommendations for the company at this time to improve productivity. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

10 pages in length. Reveling in its recent title of being one of the nation's top five urban school districts, the San Francisco Bay Area urban school district continues to thrive amidst an ongoing struggle of budget cuts, corruption and chaos, and cultural determinism. The district, which was established in 1851 and currently boasts a staff of over seven thousand educators and administrators who teach more than sixty thousand students in one hundred sixty schools, has long upheld its steadfast determination toward academic equity amidst its vast and diverse student population. Because of the Bay Area's rich and diverse cultural composition, certain issues of ethnic concern have typically plagued its urban school district, most notably the extent to which minority students are not fully assimilated into an academic program that is decidedly English based. Bibliography lists 14 sources.

A 10 page overview of India’s past and future in the high tech industry. This paper reviews India’s recent business history, recounting statistics, successes, and limitations. The author contends that While India has enjoyed a reputation of producing top players in the software design industry, many of those players must seek work outside the country. There are, in fact, many other shortcomings which act to limit India’s potential in this industry. The establishment of the high tech infrastructure needed to support software design and manufacture, software diversification, and the identification of other potential markets for export are items of priority for India in today’s complex business arena. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

15 pages in length. The Emergency can be seen as a milestone of continuing negotiation between 'traditional' Indian ideas/institutions and the modern progressive ideals embraced by the Congress Party that remain alien to most of the Indian population. Analyzing the fundamental basis behind the Emergency, one finds that modernity in India has always been laid on society from the top, with all power solely residing with the Congress and the Nehru family. However, no matter how much power is concentrated within the central government with all their Nehruian ideals, the fact remains how real power lies between that at the center and the extraordinary stratification throughout the rest of the country, which functioned upon an entirely different basis. Under Indira Gandhi, as well as that of her father, the central government's point of view has always maintained a sense of a nation being jeopardized by its various constituents; as such, the nation-state must be defended. Clearly, there exists the entrenched idea of how the Nehru family has long upheld a lock upon the progressive change in India and, thus, must play an essential role in the defense of this nation-state. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

A 6 page paper discussing the growing problem of obesity in childhood. Television, electronic games, uncertain dangers in urban settings, parents’ busy schedules and a plethora of other influences all combine to contribute to creating increasing obesity in children. Children are more sedentary than at any other time, and marketers believe there is great value in marketing directly to those efficient influencers of parents. The cost of marketing directly to children now tops $12 billion annually, and increasing numbers of health professionals believe that today’s children face a lifetime of learning to deal with and overcome the physical and psychological influences of childhood. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This is a 5 page paper discussing Manes and Andrews’ 1993 biography of Microsoft’s Bill Gates. The 1993 biography “Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry” by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews tells the story of the rise of Bill Gates and his company Microsoft during the early years of the computer software industry. The book is lengthy and does have several personal insights offered on Gates in the authors attempt to humanize the man deemed as America’s richest man. Manes and Andrews know a great deal about the computer industry and therefore this results in a great deal of detail about Microsoft and the industry and leaves less room for information about its central character, Gates. Nevertheless, the book still does Gates justice in revealing his motivation, competitiveness, work ethic and energy which led him to the top of his industry despite surrounding controversy, tradition and competition. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This is a 5 page paper comparing three Microsoft operating systems: Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98 SE (Second Edition). A comparison of three Microsoft operating systems, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) is best done through a comparison of firstly their system requirements which are the basics needed in order to run the system and secondly the features of the systems. The systems are based on the evolution of the Windows packages in which Windows 98 was originally an upgrade from Windows 95; Windows 2000 and ME (Millennium) was further an upgrade from Windows 98 and Windows NT; and lastly, Windows XP is still again above Windows 2000 but incorporating all of the top features of those operating systems which preceded it in addition to more comprehensive features regarding reliability, remote access and network administration among others. Not surprisingly then, each system higher within the evolution of the Windows family consists of considerably more features but also considerably higher system requirements in order to run the operating system. Professional versions also include more features which are dedicated to network capabilities and business applications and therefore the requirements and features are considerably more so than those of any Home versions of the product. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 10 page report discusses the top-ten salaries of National Football League quarterbacks and then considers the ways in which they represent some of the most fundamental econometrics of the NFL. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

11 pages in length. Watergate proved to be the most significant turning point in the life of America's thirty-seventh president, Richard M. Nixon, as well as one of the significant turning points in American politics, as well. The scandal that took place in 1972 at Washington, D.C.'s Watergate apartment and office complex became the president's worst nightmare, inasmuch as he was caught virtually red-handed as the primary conspirator in the Democratic National Committee headquarters break-in. This infamous occurrence sparked an investigation that uncovered secretly made audio tapes of conversations that Nixon had with several top-positioned government employees attempting to secure Nixon's re-election by illegally – and unethically – infiltrating the opposition's home office. Indeed, Nixon's world came crashing down when the investigative trail lead directly to his authorization of such damning activity; it would take two years after this discovery for the president to resign in order to avoid being impeached. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines what one could gain or experience through visiting the Mayan ruins in Chichen Itza and climbing to the top of the El Castillo pyramid. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This is a 6 page paper discussing colonial Latin America in relations to the patron-client relationship and social classes. While colonial Latin America was segregated into a hierarchy of social and class systems with the Spanish elite at the top, the maintenance of the system was possible by the textured social networks within communities which existed before the introduction of the Spaniards but nevertheless added the elite Spaniards as the ruling class. The Spaniards did their best to degrade the culture of the Native Indians by introducing Spanish customs and religion and separating the communities into barrios however although the Indians observed these new customs in a public sense, their private identity still contained traditional cultural, familial and social elements. Largely the Spanish elite ruled with stability based on the belief in the class system which expected them to manage the communities with justice. When that expectation failed however, consensus among the lower classes was obtained and riots ensued which led the way to eventual independence. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

6 pages. The BMW M3 has been the subject of many articles and consumer report studies recently. Rating cars is not only just an annual task for automotive journalists but it is also a subject which auto enthusiasts look forward to eagerly each season. Did their favorite car make it to the top? What did the critics have to say about it? And do these opinions agree with those who actually own these cars? This paper focuses on the BMW M3 in the sports car class. For those who own the BMW M3 it is likely they will claim that hands down it is the best sports car they have ever driven. Although not all of the auto magazines rated the BMW M3 as number one, most owners will disagree. The BMW M3 has everything a driver wants in a sporty car. By looking at several magazine articles and talking to drivers of these well-made and handsome cars, it is easy to conduct our own survey. Bibliography lists 12 sources.