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California's Proposition 23 and the state's environmental policy debate

The five major industries of California encompass the fields of agriculture; oil and mining (natural resources), electronics and IT; movie making/entertainment, and tourism (California, 2010, Enchanted Learning).

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How the Jamestown Colony could have succeeded with better planning

When British settlers first tried to colonize the American Continent, they experienced several setbacks that almost cause them to abandon the idea altogether.

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Transition to renewable energy sources and the case for solar power

Since the Industrial Revolution, modern society has been dependent on fossil fuels and petroleum products for energy to power the many inventions and technological developments that have made life so much easier in the developed world.

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The distinction between biological sex and cultural gender construction

Biological sex is the physical characteristics that define a human being's body, including physical attributes and chromosomes. While the majority of people have XX or XY chromosomes, the concepts of 'male' and 'female' do not fully encompass the diversity of the human condition.

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Evidence-based practice versus research-based practice in nursing

According to the Behavioral Institute (2010), research-based practice "is a method for conducting research that ensures the research involves rigorous, systematic, and objective procedures to obtain reliable and valid knowledge," by using the scientific method of hypothesis testing.

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Culture and social learning's influence on business ethics

Society strongly influences the perceptions and expectations of individual in virtually every conceivable area of life. Much of the way the individual views himself and the external environment is determined by social learning.

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Divine providence and vengeance in The Count of Monte Cristo

"While I was in a dark wood wandering." The French author Alexander Dumas named the central character of his novel The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes for a reason: it is a clear allusion to the Italian poet Dante, who traveled to hell and back again, as chronicled in his great poem the…

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Controlling shareholders and corporate value in Taiwanese firms

Governance: An International Review. 13(2), 313-325. According to Y. Yin-Hua's 2005 article "Do controlling shareholders enhance corporate value?" from Corporate Governance: An International Review, when managers have a larger personal investment in a company, they have a greater incentive to make…

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Frederick Taylor, W. Edwards Deming, and Philip Crosby's quality management approaches

Scientific management, originally developed by Frederick Taylor at the turn of the century, originated the concept of work design, or creating a work environment to maximize employee productivity, as well as "work-measurement, production control and other functions, that completely changed the…

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Persuasive argument strategies in car sales: ethos, pathos, and logos

In advertising, there are several different avenues of approaching customers. Generally, they are derivations of the three traditional forms of persuasive argument outlined by Aristotle and other teachers of advocacy (Halbert & Ingulli, 2008; Hursthouse, 1999).

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