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Teacher burnout among physical education educators: causes and consequences

Aaker (1991, p13) it is the general aim of all researchers not only to discover new information but as much as possible to build on what other people have already done in the field.

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Auditor responsibility for fraud detection under SAS 99

The objective of this work is to describe the various types of fraud that the auditor may encounter and provide examples of actual fraud and to describe the auditor's responsibility under GAAS. This work will incorporate a discussion of SAS 99 and summarize key points.

~11 min read

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Design and messaging in Bank of America's annual report

The Internet has enhanced communication in myriad ways. Now people throughout the world can tap into information and communicate with people, which even a decade ago would have been impossible.

~5 min read

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The Trojan War in Western literature: gods, heroes, and cultural values

War is often in the news these days, the subject of great political and philosophical debate as well as the source of fairly obvious and more subtle practical effects for many of the individuals that experience war.

~6 min read

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Marguerite Duras's "The Lover": autobiography, coming-of-age, and literary resistance

Though it won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in the same year it was published, Duras re-wrote and re-published The Lover under different names no less than twice throughout her career.

~10 min read

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Advantages and disadvantages of business ownership structures

This enterprise is owned by one person and easiest to create by filing for a business license with a business name, and setting up a business checking account. The owner has full control of the business decisions and realizes all its profits and losses.

~9 min read

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Sylvia Plath's life and Esther Greenwood: autobiography in The Bell Jar

It is not unusual for the line between autobiography and fiction to be blurred -- it has, in fact, become somewhat commonplace, and has served as a perspective for analysis and criticism for many works.

~14 min read

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High strength steels and lightweight material performance in automotive design

The use of high strength steels by automakers has become the fastest growing automotive lightweight material in the automotive industry in the past two decades. The use of the high strength steels and ultra high strength steels has overtaken aluminum's growth rate by 13%.

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Employee motivation strategies at Qualcomm and other technology companies

The key to a successful business is to have motivated employees that want to come to work and do the best job possible. In today's economy it is becoming more and more difficult to find the right thing that motivates employees. The things that worked in the past do not necessarily work today.

~17 min read

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Tim Kasser's research on materialism and human happiness

In his book The High Price of Materialism Tim Kasser asks what initially seems to be a philosophical, subjective question: what makes people happy? Kasser applies his knowledge of psychological methodology and data-gathering to this age-old query.

~5 min read

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