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Women as symbols in Poe, Faulkner, and Lawrence's fiction

Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkner, and DH Lawrence all create grotesque images of women in their short stories and poems.

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Spectrum Brands: matrix versus multidivisional organizational structure

Spectrum Brands began as an organization focused on a single product: Rayovac batteries. This singular focus was suited to a more hierarchical, traditional form of governance.

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Group dynamics in modern business organizations and teams

Organizations are more complex and unwieldy than ever before, and innovations in telecommunications and information technology have created an environment in which new business models are emerging every day.

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Class-size caps and student achievement in public schools

Sorting and Regression-Discontinuity Design in a Public School Setting With Class-Size Caps The importance of class size in determining student achievement has grown even more contentious in recent years as class sizes are increasing due to decreases in state funding for education.

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Lady Gaga, feminism, and the paradox of individual choice

Feminism in America today is often justified by the word 'choice,' in the sense that women should have a 'choice' in terms of what feminine conventions they embrace or reject.

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Cultural health beliefs and practices across Southeast Asian, Hispanic, and African-American families

Nurses are apt to use the term 'health' with patients as if it means the same thing to all people, from all backgrounds.

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Game theory and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's rational basis

Game theory: How the irrational behavior in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might be explained by the 'rational' analysis of game theory

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Strayer University's history and organizational performance metrics

Strayer University or Strayer Education, Inc. As it is formally known, has a history of more than a century in providing business education for working adults. Dr. S.

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Strategic planning approaches and stakeholder social responsibility integration

Henry Mintzberg (1994) defined strategic planning as a means to devise and implement the strategies that would enhance corporate competitiveness. Inherent to this was separating strategic thinking from the actions undertaken to execute strategy.

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Capital One's acquisition strategy and strategic environmental challenges

Capital One's external environment and its recent acquisition strategy. Capital One's strategy to this point has been congruent with its need to diversify beyond credit cards and the lack of international opportunities in financial services.

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