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Globalization, diversity, and organizational culture in Malaysian firms

Diversity is becoming more present within the contemporaneous business climates and it is necessary that economic agents devise and implement the most adequate strategies in responding to the challenges of diversity.

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Interfaith dialogue addressing religious conflict in the Middle East

Common Ground in a World of Growing Fundamentalism and Controversy: The Importance of Interfaith Dialogue The geopolitical situation of the world today is heavily influenced by matters of faith, and specifically by the adherents to certain specific major religions.

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Reforming public housing in the United States: from Cabrini to community solutions

While at least a great deal of the motivation behind public housing in the United States has probably been good, the results have often fallen very short of good, or even adequate.

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The death penalty as deterrent: evidence and ethical concerns

One of the most contentious issues in contemporary America is the continued use of the death penalty against certain offenders.

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Marian Keyes and the creation of chick lit

One of the great pleasures of reading fiction is the sensation of being transported to another place and vicariously enjoying experiences that we may never encounter in our own lives.

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The economic recession and rising healthcare costs driving American uninsurance

According to an article that appeared last September in USA Today, a record number of Americans lacked health insurance. Wolf (2010) cited a report from the Census Bureau that showed 50.7 million uninsured, a figure representing nearly one in six U.S. residents.

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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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When and why the rule of law may be questioned and interrogated

As Waldron (2009) emphasizes, the rule of law is considered to be "… one of the most important political ideals of our time."

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Economic geographies of Brazil using world-system theory

Economic geography is defined as the branch of Geography that is concerned with the interrelations between the economic and the physical conditions to the production and distribution of the available commodities or resources (Merrriam Webster Incorporated, 2011).

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Western beauty ideals and globalization in Kuwaiti culture

When Marshall McLuhan introduced the concept of the 'global village' in his 1967 work The Medium is the Message, he established a precedent that still rings true decades after (Martens, Dreher, and Gaston 575).

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