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Family dysfunction and desire in Mini's First Time

The characters in Mini's First Time aren't heroes -- or anti-heroes, for that matter, only very faulty human beings that are quite difficult for one to comprehend. They are complex and rife with contradictions.

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Jon Pahl and Stephanie Coontz on sacred and romantic spaces

Jon Pahl observes the shopping mall as something fulfilling a human need in his essay, "The Mall as a Sacred Place." The mall is very much like a church in many of the ways it operates. For example, it brings diverse people together for a particular purpose.

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Medication errors in intensive care units: rates, causes, and consequences

Elena Bohomol, Lais Helena Ramos and Maria D'Innocenzo entitled "Medication errors in an intensive care unit" (Bohomol, Ramos, & D'Innocenzo, 2009).

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John Lewis market entry strategy for Seychelles swimwear

The introduction of a new collection can help the brand exploit market segments that have not yet been reached, but it can also raise a series of disadvantages, with an unsuitable strategy.

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Feminist perspectives on environmental destruction and international relations

It's something like taking care of our own house." In scouting out potential future trajectories of the feminism movement it is germane to look into the recent past -- especially when it comes to the global environment.

~4 min read

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Comparing the Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust

The Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust in Europe are two if the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century. Though both of these events resulted in mass extermination of hundreds of thousands of people they had very different beginnings, and world reaction.

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Reducing juvenile delinquency through educational and community intervention programs

Juvenile delinquency has long plagued the American society. From the country's earliest days, individuals and groups of troubled youths were tried by the court systems and placed in correctional institutions.

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Mark Peel's "The Lowest Rung": poverty, justice, and social structures

Mark Peel's book the Lowest Rung paints a paradoxical picture of desolation and hope for those living in poverty in some of Australia's outer working-class suburbs.

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Assumption and its consequences in Ovid and Euripides

Assumption is a dangerous thing. Often, assumption is based on misinformation and can lead to horrible mistakes. It is an easy thing to do and, most of the time, we are not fully aware we are doing it until it is too late.

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Is commerce ever ethical? Business ethics from Friedman to Sarbanes-Oxley

Commerce ever Ethical? The issue of ethics in business has become increasingly important in recent years, in particular in light of the wave of frauds and accounting scandals in the early 2000s that led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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