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Brooke Witles
A) Chinese business ethics, community, Confucianism, labor rights, non-ideal
theory, and sagehood
B) Business Source Premier
C) I choose this article because it is a scholarly article and it was very
informational in a short amount of reading.
D) I used MLA format for the citation.
Tae Wan, Kim. "Confucian Ethics And Labor Rights." Business Ethics Quarterly
24.4 (2014): 565-594. Business Source Premier. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.

A. Ethical behavior, ethical organizational culture, formal ethics training, U.S.

sentencing guidelines, unethical behavior, values
B. Business Source Premier
C. I choose this article because it was a scholarly article and it was a very short
informational article.
D. I used MLA format for the citation.
Warren, Danielle E., Joseph P. Gaspar, and William S. Laufer. "Is Formal Ethics
Training Merely Cosmetic? A Study Of Ethics Training And Ethical
Organizational Culture." Business Ethics Quarterly 24.1 (2014): 85-117.
Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Feb. 2015.

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A. Oregons governor is dealing with being accused that his fianc used his
position to gain clients for her environmental consulting business. There is
an ethics investigation going on concerning the innocent that has
occurred. This innocent has threatened Oregons governors term.

"Oregon Governor Faces Ethics Allegations, Calls to Resign." The New York Times. The
New York Times, 06 Feb. 2015. Web. 14 Feb. 2015.
A. Ethics
"KidsBank Free - Allowance, Chores, and Virtual Bank." ZDNet. Bunting
Software, 11 Feb. 2015. Web. 15 Feb. 2015.

c. I used techcrunch.com and CNN.

Techcrunch.com

I received 4 search results for ethics in the

past month. This website was not very
helpful because it only gave me 4 articles
on ethics.

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CNN

I received multiple search results for

ethics in the past month on the CNN
website. This website was better than
techcrunch.com because it had more
articles on ethics.

A. This article was written on February 6, 2015. The article has not been
updated since then.
B. This article does relate to the ethics topic I was researching.
C. This was written by someone that is associated with the press. The person
who wrote this article may not have been qualified. If someone is associated
with the press this may have been a very bias article.
D. This article may not be trustworthy because someone associated with the
press wrote this article. There was plenty of evidence in the article but the
article has not been tested for accuracy.
E. The purpose of the article was to inform. This article could have been bias
because of the author of the article. Anytime an article is written by the press
they are taking a stand and have their own opinion.
A. The database was overall the better way to go rather than searching my topic
online. When I researched ethics into the database a lot of articles came up.
There were many articles in the database that was able to choose from. It
was very easy access the topic I wanted on the database. The database
article was a very short article and easy to read. The article was straight to
the point. On the internet it was tougher to find an article that dealt with
ethics. I had to do more researching than I did on the database.
B. When I searched for the topic ethics on the database I choose the first article
that came up. Compared to the website article I had to do more researching
and that took more time. So if time was the main factor in deciding which
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article to choose it would be the database. I would choose the database
because it took less time to find the article that I needed. The amount of
researching that I did on the database was a lot less than the website article
and I liked the database article better.
C. The database was a lot more influencing than the website article was. The
database was clear that the article was about something being unethical. The
website article you would have to think more about the article to realize it
was something that was unethical. I liked the database a lot more because
the article was a lot about ethics and it was short and to the point. Overall
using a database to research is the better way to go.