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Emotion, control, and political anxiety in Orwell, Huxley, and Akerlof

On the edge between a crowd and a mob, the Tea Party protests have brought a range of strong human emotions to the fore: Anger, hate, fear, righteousness have moved across the faces that have moved across our televisions and computer screens.

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Bank of America's organizational structure, leadership, and human resource development

Bank of America is a bank and financial holding company and one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. The company's history dates to 1904 when it was founded as the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to lend to Italian immigrants who were unable to borrow at other banks.

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Administrative challenges and leadership in emergency services

Emergency services are organizations that ensure public safety by dealing with various urgent situations. Many emergency services agencies exist with some solely dealing with certain types of emergencies while others deal with impromptu emergencies as part of their regular responsibilities.

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Colonialism and tragedy in Madama Butterfly and M. Butterfly

As the curtain falls on Act III of Giacamo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, the sobbing words of Lt. B.F. Pinkerton echo through the hall, "Butterfly, Butterfly, Butterfly," with the pentatonic tones of the Bonzo theme, and not a dry eye in the house.

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Rossini's role in the development of Romantic opera

The Italian composer, Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, many of which are still performed and enjoyed today. These include the well-known the Barber of Seville (1816), La Cenerentola (1817), Semiramis (1823) and William Tell (1829).

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Government's duty to help the poor through market-based economics

With the recent passage of health care reform in the United States, the debate over whether or not government has a duty to help those in need has been infused with new breath. The response to this question may vary upon how you view the role and purpose of government.

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Redemption, sin, and forgiveness in The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini's the Kite Runner is a beautiful book at once for the simplicity of its storytelling and for the complexities of human life and perspective that it lays clear to the careful reader.

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William Byrd's social ambition and the Virginia-North Carolina border survey

Such seems to have been the case of Colonel William Byrd (1674-1744), a planter, author, and the founder of the city of Richmond. Colonial America in the 17th and 18th centuries was still a mass of unknown and undiscovered lands.

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George F. Kennan's Cold War containment strategy and Latin America

State Departments leading expert on the Soviet Union, George F. Kennan, sent his famous "long telegram" to the state department from his post in the U.S. embassy in Moscow in February 1946, wherein he enunciated his realist views of U.S.-Soviet relations in the Cold War.

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Natural therapies and environmental factors in Alzheimer's disease

This is a peer-reviewed 15-page article by James a. Howenstine, MD, a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, who is convinced that natural therapies are more effective, safer, and less expensive than pharmaceutical drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment.

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