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APA format requirements for academic manuscripts

American Psychological Association recommends a particular format for writing manuscripts in the fields of nursing and business, and in the social sciences. It is colloquially referred to as APA format.

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Cultural and political representation of the Asian warrior in two films

Film is a good medium for cultural and political representation. Images and dialogue shape the audience's viewpoint concerning who they are. Without question, film is a signifying system that one can analyze for patterns of meaning and representation.

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US-China trade disputes and financial interdependence

The American economic slump is running into the Chinese economic slump, creating the conditions for a face-off between Beijing and the U.S. Congress, possibly leading to destabilization of the world's most important bilateral economic relationship. If a clash is to be averted, the U.S.

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Collaborative new product development adoption in small and medium businesses

For small and medium businesses (SMB) product introductions are one of the most significant sources of new customer, revenue and profit growth. As a result, the new product development strategies, tools, techniques and processes they rely on of a strategic importance.

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Texaco and Chevron's ethical dilemma in apartheid South Africa

The case study involves two U.S. corporations, Texaco and Standard Oil (now Chevron), who operated an oil refinery in South Africa called the Caltex plant.

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Failed organizational change in a coffeehouse chain store

While working in a popular coffeehouse chain store, I experienced an attempt at organizational change that did was not especially successful.

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Google's censorship compromise and market withdrawal from China

Google is a leader in today's information economy, not only as organizers but also as producers of data to which millions of American and international users contribute. Google has developed such a remarkable system that, for most users, it is a free service.

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Reliability and validity of the Rorschach Inkblot Test

The Rorschach test was developed by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach. It was originally published in 1942 under the name "form interpretation test" in his book Psychodiagnostics. Rorschach passed away shortly after this publication and his colleagues renamed the test in his honor.

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Capital punishment deterrence arguments in Muhlhausen's opposing views essay

The debate surrounding capital punishment is not as clear as one might think -- in fact, there is a great deal of gray within this debate. The actual definition is State controlled taking of a human life in response to some crime committed by a person who was legally convicted of that crime.

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Orphaned protagonists and moral decline in Defoe, Fielding, and Dickens

In the three novels Oliver Twist, Joseph Andrews and Moll Flanders, all three of the main characters were brought up by people other than their natural parents. The lack of parental love, guidance and supervision affected their personalities in different ways.

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