Have you ever wanted to give to a charity? How about giving half of your earnings to a charity of your choice? In Peter Singer’s book‚ The Most You Can Do‚ that is exactly what people are doing. People such as Matt Wage‚ Julia Wise‚ Rhema Kokama‚ Celso Vieira‚ and Priya Basil are just a few of the many people who follow this type of lifestyle. According to these people‚ they are living ethically as effective altruist. To sum up effective altruism‚ Peter Singer (2016: vii) states that “effective altruism
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the average student takes from prekindergarten to twelfth grade according to preliminary research conducted by the Council of the Great City Schools (Helfing para.9). If that seems a little extreme to you‚ you are not alone. Standardized testing has become an increasingly common way to measure anything from student knowledge to the effectiveness of the school‚ especially after the initiation of policies such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To The Top (RTTT). But at what costs? Standardized
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Is Marcia’s Theory of Four Identity Statuses Still Effective in Today’s Culture The concept of identity is a heavily discussed and constantly changing idea. Some say it comes in stages and others believe it to be a gradual‚ continuous development. This paper is examining James Marcia’s theory of identity statuses by surveying adolescents and emerging adults between the ages of 13 and 25 about their career identity development. I expect to see my results come to a different conclusion than Marcia
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depends on several factors and one such factor is the effective communication within the workplace. Without effective communication workplace becomes a highly stressful place which de-motivates the employees‚ thus ultimately effect the overall growth of the organization. Actually‚ strong communication within peers helps in building a solid relationship among colleagues and the top management which prevent pointless misunderstandings. Effective communication includes several skills such as non-verbal
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What Matters Most To You? Why? What matters most to me is making meaningful improvements in my native Iran. Although my short-term dream is to form a successful Internet business‚ my long-term aspiration is to graduate from business to politics. I take my cue from America‚ where industry leaders like Michael Bloomberg have revitalized communities and made great people leaders. Iran has been ravaged by several decades of “ivory tower” politics‚ corruption‚ unemployment and caste divide. For
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What are Push Theory and Pull Theory? Pull theory: In economics‚ the demand-pull theory is the theory that inflation occurs when demand for goods and services exceed existing supplies. According to the demand pull theory‚ there is a range of effects on innovative activity driven by changes in expected demand‚ the competitive structure of markets‚ and factors which affect the valuation of new products or the ability of firms to realize economic benefits. In a marketing "pull" system‚ the consumer
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What is the most effective strategy for building customer loyalty in business-to-business (B2B) relationships? In today’s highly competitive business environment‚ the remarkable increase in the number of companies is becoming a problem. Due to this situation and also diversity in customer demand‚ business people are required to contemplate how to establish strategies to gain new potential customers or to maintain existing customers. Caceres and Paparoidamis (2007) identify that the cost of acquiring
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ARTICLE www.hbr.org What Makes an Effective Executive by Peter F Drucker . Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summar y The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 What Makes an Effective Executive 8 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 6980 What Makes an Effective Executive The Idea in Brief The
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Charles Dickens in his novel Hard Times‚ a novel which satirises school teachers who teach “nothing but facts” and regards students as "little vessels ... ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim." Reciting facts for students to absorb is undoubtedly an easy method of teaching‚ but is it effective? This essay attempts to answer the question of what it means to be an effective teacher by examining in more detail five areas that‚ when implemented effectively
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United States won the revolutionary war‚ it became clear that they would need a new government. They met at the 2nd Continental Congress to create this government and called it the Articles of Confederation‚ which was ratified on March 1‚ 1781. There is a reason how the Articles were effective‚ why they failed‚ and why they were beneficial. The Articles of Confederation failed to solve many of the nations’ problems‚ but it did have many good ideas. For example‚ the Northwest Ordinance
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