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Learn About Ways to Raise Capital

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's site contains a guide to help you understand how to raise capital and comply with the federal securities laws for your small business.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan

For Students 5th - 8th
J. Pierpont Morgan was not business tycoon who made his money from manufacturing. Read about how he accumulated wealth, how he helped the government through some economic panics, and why the government took him to court.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Punishable Perils of Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th
Fighting plagiarism is serious business. From brainchild-snatching to wholly quotables, plagiarists have plenty of wily ways to pass others' work off as their own- and all of them are threats to original thinking. Melissa Huseman...
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Employment Spot

Employment Spot: Disability Employment

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Disability Employment law and career information using the Employment Spot career resources.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Berkman Center for Internet and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace by investigating the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, commerce, governance, and education, and the relationship of law to...
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Microsoft

Microsoft: Software Piracy Protection

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Website. You will "find information on piracy, how piracy affects your business, and what Microsoft is doing to stop piracy."
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Voters to Choose Between Economy and Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Although this lesson plan deals with the a California vote for 2010 Elections, the subject matter will need to be addressed time and time again: economy vs. environment. Green energy is more expensive. Many companies would have to go out...
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Truth in Lending Act Regulation Z

For Students 9th - 10th
Site explains Regulation Z , "Truth in Lending" which is the "law requiring disclosure of terms" on a loan given to a business or consumer. Provides specific format of loan information to be disclosed.
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Scottish Parliament: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site of the Scottish Parliament offers "This week in the Parliament" as well as day to day business.
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Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Eminent Domain, What Is Eminent Domain?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by FindLaw.com. "Eminent domain," often called "condemnation," is the legal process by which a public body [is] given the legal power to acquire private property for a use that has been declared to be public by...
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Victorian Web

Brown University: Victorian Web: Adam Smith's Laissez Faire Policies

For Students 9th - 10th
Victorian Web provides an essay on the Laissez-Faire Policies of Adam Smith. He believed the government should not interfere with business.
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Problem Solving/negotiation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an advertisement, but it has some good information regarding the negotiation process, e.g., seven steps that are common to all negotiations.
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CNN

Cnn

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is news site features daily world and US news, weather, business, sports, technology, space, health, entertainment, politics, law, travel, food, arts and style, books, and an in-depth section. Includes video.
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CNN

Cnn en Espanol: Week of 2 24 14: Arizona Aprueba Negar El Servicio a Los Gays

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. Article reports on a controversial law approved in Arizona that allows business to refuse service to gays and lesbians.
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Other

National Museum of American Jewish History: Only in America Hall of Fame

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights well-known Jewish Americans who have made significant contributions to their fields in the arts, sciences, business, religion, sports, law, and politics. The public votes for those individuals they feel should be inducted into...
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Digital History

Digital History: Trail Gunner Joe

For Students 9th - 10th
A charismatic demagogue, Joe McCarthy grew up on a Wisconsin farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. While still a teenager, he established a thriving business as a chicken farmer. He dropped out of school after eighth grade, but...
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Quick Mba: Limited Partnership

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the characteristics of a limited partnership. Limited partnerships are contrasted against a general partnership, and a scenario is given of a limited partnership turning into a general partnership.
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Other

Quick Mba: The General Partnership

For Students 9th - 10th
A description, examples, and characteristics of a general partnership.
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Other

The Center for the Study of Technology and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor's Handbook: Patents

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has everything you would want to know regarding United States patents is included in this handbook for the "Aspiring entrepreneur."
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Other

Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.
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Other

Pro Publica: Journalism in the Public Interest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An independent newsroom that covers a wide variety of topics and events, which are often neglected by the mainstream media, and works to promote change. Explore investigative reports on politics, social-justice issues, technology, and...
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University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: Thomas Fitzsimons 1741 1811

For Students 9th - 10th
Fitzsimons (FitzSimons; Fitzsimmons) was born in Ireland in 1741. Coming to America about 1760, he pursued a mercantile career in Philadelphia. The next year, he married Catherine Meade, the daughter of a prominent local merchant, Robert...
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University of Chicago

Ancient Mesopotamia: The Role of Women [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars could use a copy of Hammurabi's Laws to discover what rights women did and did not have in ancient Mesopotamia. They could then do research to compare the lives of women in Mesopotamia with the roles and social status of...

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