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    Benjamin Franklin settled in Philadelphia and saw that books were not readily accessible to the public. The printing business was stationary and unprofitable. There were a limited amount and exchange in books or any sort of print. Making books rare and an extravagance. Meaning, books were owned and only borrowed from the wealthy. Franklin believed the "library afforded... the means of improvement by [the] constant study [to repair] the loss of the learned education... once intended.” He continued

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    Therefore, direct tax is legal when it is imposed on the artificial person. The state may directly tax, such as property, and Feds can implement a consumer tax which is indirect tax such as on gasoline, and purchase tax. Then on 2/03/1913, the 16th amendement introduces us to, ”The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without  apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration (US Constitution).” This amendment

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    In today’s highly globalized world, companies are facing competitive pressure to expand into international markets. These markets offer immense opportunity, but they come with challenges and they require companies to develop new skills and abilities in order to success overseas. These developments include recognition of diverse consumer needs, cultural attitudes, political regulations, and product adaptations. The differences between operation in one country or multiple countries are significant

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    related to sexting (Crimmins, & Seigfried-Spellar, 2014). Viewing online pornography was also associated with a significantly increased probability of having sent sexual images/messages for boys in nearly all of the five countries surveyed (Stanley, Barter, Wood, Aghtaie, Larkins, Lanau, & Överlien, 2016). The study

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    a single code of laws for the empire, similar to what Hammurabi did. He did this in hopes of improving trade, Darius also set up a common set of weights and measures, and he encourage the usage of coins. But most people continued to be part of the barter economy. However the coins system brought merchants and traders into an early form of a money economy. A Persian thinker named Zoroaster rejected the old Persian gods and taught that a single wise god, named Ahura Mazda. This was the first presence

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    Business is the practice of making ones living by engaging in commerce and for ethics it’s the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. So, lets get started, the way that the government has structured commerce(means business/birth certicate is traded by commerce) there is no such thing as business ethics, especially when you count out the good businesses. The congress/government operates and created this system off the term “necessaries.” This system is bankrupt and has been for quite

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    “What they cared about was the simple fact that African slaves could be made to work. In that regard, it was far easier to use and abuse African people than it was either other Europeans or Native Americans. This pattern had been true before 1619 and it would continue to hold after”. Michael Guasco “Slaves and Englishmen”. In the 1400s, France, Britain, The Dutch and Span were rapidly expanding their empires globally by the use of imperialism. These nations were vigorously looking for new sources

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    In the aftermath of World War II, German civilians become the target of hatred due to the Holocaust. The mass rapes that happened to German women during the occupation of Berlin are not remembered due to the hatred of the German population as a whole. In her diary A Woman in Berlin, Anonymous catalogues her perspective of the mass rapes. In order to cope effectively with the rapes and to survive, Anonymous manipulates her sexual assaults to become a method of obtaining necessary goods because she

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    In ancient history, trading was a major factor in the lives of many. It helped to renew the business of trading in some places. Another name for the trading system was the barter system. In ancient history there were many commodities that were useful in the trading system. Salt, gold, and people all had a role in the trading industry. Salt trade was very important during ancient history for several reasons. One is that salt could be made into many different things and used for many diverse reasons

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    discussing the remediation of its consequences, as he prescribes self-interest in TMS but only describes (and criticizes) it in WN. Presenting human behavior as self-interested, Smith, in WN, associates self-interest with the human propensity to barter, a necessary economic activity, and, in TMS, enforces its role in the development of virtues like prudence. In WN, he explicitly argues that “it is not the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our

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