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Relationship selling and adaptive selling in services industry buyer-seller dynamics

The intent of this analysis of current research on salesperson and customer interactions includes the dynamics of buyer-supplier relationships, an overview selling model definitions and research efforts used to validate them, and a comprehensive review of key findings from research into these…

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Collaboration and culpability in crime: examining moral responsibility

It has been observed that people within our society have strived and struggled to achieve success, but unfortunately nothing can be achieved through personal efforts, unless the individual has support and motivation.

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African-American cultural expression and the politics of oppression

Many cultural forms of expression have been utilized within the social science construct, to demonstrate ways in which such expressions reflect the culture as a whole, and in many cases the broader culture, or the one that is usually subjugating the first. Within W.E.B.

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Emotional intelligence and effective leadership in contemporary organizations

Leadership, as applied in the contemporary organization, has evolved both as a function and as a concept. As a function within the organization, leadership (or specifically, leaders) have become the focal point through which an organization's efficacy and performance is assessed.

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of Her Own": war, feminism, and identity

"[a]s a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world" -Virginia Woolf

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Family violence and criminal offender behavior analysis

Family violence as a criminal offense has developed into being a great issue when analyzing the behavior from the criminal offenders' perspectives.

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Administrative responsibility, public interest, and ethical obligations in government

Public interest in society is not what it should be. For me, public interest sometimes is more into self-interest and this is what is making it so tough to make decisions in society. The people use their right to select officials to make their living better for them.

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Media theory and Danny Schechter's embedded Iraq war critique

Embedded: The Relationship Between Form and Theoretical Assumption in an Account of the Iraq War Danny Schechter's book Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception looks at the media coverage surrounding the Iraq war and attempts to argue that the American news media failed in its duty to robustly…

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Steven Holl's Kiasma museum and architectural phenomenology

Kiasma, the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, takes its name from the Finnish word for chiasma, which was the original title of architect Steven Holl's winning design.

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Literary ethnography of Jesus's teachings on anxiety in Matthew 6:25-34

This paper offers a literary ethnography of the passage known as the Sermon on the Mount, the Epitome of the Teachings of Jesus, Matt 6:25-34. The passage offers guidance to individuals who worry, letting them know that God will care for their needs.

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