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Social and economic conditions in England's industrial revolution: three perspectives

Some argue that the industrial revolution was significant because it helped the economy to grow, thus improving the wages of not only the rich but the middle class and poor also. Others maintain that the industrial revolution did nothing more than make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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Comparing effectiveness of e-learning versus traditional learning environments

The idea that e-learning could be seriously compared to traditional learning when it comes to efficacy in learning is somewhat controversial in theory; however, in these modern days, students are looking at online learning as a non-traditional way of getting an good education -- mainly because…

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Ocean acidification and the survival of marine invertebrates

The presence and behavior of human beings has altered the ecological balance in profound ways.

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Digital technology and the future of the apparel industry

Increased strengths for the apparel industry in 2010 and beyond include the ability for fashion to be delivered with greater immediacy as well as changing marketing platforms, which interact in inextricable ways.

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Evaluation of the Lakeview Pantry's home delivery program

The Lakeview Pantry is a food pantry on the north side of Chicago. Their website is: (http://www.lakeviewpantry.org/). The pantry was established in 1970 and provides food to those residents living below the poverty level.

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De Tocqueville's analysis of American volunteerism and political parties

In the early nineteenth century, when the United States was still a very young democracy and growing into its own ideals, a French citizen named Alexis de Tocqueville took an extended tour of the country and noted the differences and similarities between American and European society.

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Concurrent engineering, fault tree analysis, and product traceability

Concurrent engineering, as the name implies, involves the simultaneous designing of various components of a given product.

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Temptation and sin in Christian belief: a personal tax ethics analysis

The temptation arrives on a mental level; internally. When a Christian acts on this temptation and succumbs to it, the act is externalized. The goal of attempting to deal with temptation is to maintain the temptation in the internal arena without letting it degenerate into action.

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Context-dependent memory effects across sensory modalities and species

While we often speak of ourselves as having a 'good' or a 'bad' memory, the nature of human learning and the process of encoding memory is considerably more complex than simply being 'good' or 'bad' in terms of memory storage and retrieval.

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Qualitative research methodology in online K-12 education and air traffic control

Both use qualitative research in significantly different roles within their methodologies, making significant contributions to each.

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