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RSS feeds as a critical component of communications strategy

The collection of technologies referred to as Web 2.0 (Bernoff, Li, 2008) share the common goals of ensuring a higher level of communication, collaboration, information-sharing and responsiveness between individuals and groups.

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The limits of unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence

Historically speaking these are often men who can take the best of the ideas of others and compile them to build a case for the goal, a state of peace in a controlled community of men.

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Transnational organized crime and government complicity as a modern threat

Introduction and overview common definition of organized crime is, "Widespread criminal activities, such as prostitution, interstate theft, or illegal gambling, that occur within a centrally controlled formal structure" (Dictionary: organized crime).

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The shift from the 4Ps to the 4Cs in modern marketing strategy

Today, some suggest that companies should organize and manage around the 4 C's: customer value, lower costs, better convenience, and better communication. Discuss the causes and the benefits of such a shift in focus.

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Lawrence Wright's Looming Tower and the origins of al-Qaeda

Lawrence Wright's book, the Looming Tower, published by Alfred Knopf in 2006. In Chapters 1 through 11, Wright make the complex workings of al-Qaeda easy to comprehend.

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Understanding the fundamentals and strategies of counterterrorism

The central reason for taking this course is to learn and understand the fundamentals of counterterrorism. The motivation behind my enthusiasm for this course is related to the age in which we live and to the ever-present danger of terrorism.

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Cascading effects of disasters on networked critical infrastructure systems

Disaster planning has been made that much more difficult in recent decades because of the increasingly networked nature of our own societies.

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Hate crime laws and concerns about equal protection

hate crime laws give certain people special rights and protection over others and are they, therefore, divisive and unfair?

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Identity and legacy in Morrison's Sula and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

Toni Morrison's Eva Peace and William Faulkner's Addie Bunden, present a clear portrait of the complexities of identity in the post-Civil War south for the African-American s. To describe these books as "complex" does little to assist us in understanding their true power.

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State terrorism in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia

In the history of the 20th century, the actions and legacy of Hitler's Nazi Germany too often overshadow the similar terror-infused events that simultaneously happened in Stalin's Soviet Union.

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