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Mexico's transformation from closed economy to regional trading power

It was over twenty years ago that Mexico began opening up its trade with the implementation of a number of unilateral policies and its accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1986.

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Kant's absolute prohibition on lying versus Ross's prima facie duties

Deontological ethics -- also known simply as deontology -- is an approach that ethics that judges the morality of an individual's actions based on the action's adherence to a rule or a set of rules.

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Soviet perspective on World War II in "When Titans Clashed"

"When Titans Clashed" by David Glantz and Jonathan House is an excellent account of the Second World War from a Soviet perspective, focusing on the Soviet Union's participation to the war through its main coordinates: the German attack on the Soviet Union, Soviet resistance in the winter of 1941…

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Classroom misbehavior management through teacher leadership and intervention

The first and foremost important lesson which has to be learnt by the leader of any group -- including a classroom full of students -- is that of leadership through the power of example.

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Taiwan's criminal justice system reforms and adversarial trial adoption

Over the past several years, Taiwan's criminal justice system has undergone a number of reforms.

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The concept of emptiness in the Heart Sutra and Buddhism

Heart Sutra is considered as a refinement of the Mahayana understanding of a foundation and practical realization of the Buddha. This experiential realization is the belief that all ideas, things and beings (or all dharma) that are generally considered as real have no intrinsic existence.

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Activity-based costing analysis of Survey Masters project profitability

Linda's assumptions contributed to the conclusion that small projects are at least as profitable as large projects. When she first drew up the analysis, the dividing line between large projects and small ones was somewhat arbitrary.

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Power and gender dynamics in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nothing highlights the differences between genders like a marriage. For better or for worse, the linking of a man and a woman, body and soul, engenders a complex interplay of ego, vulnerability, trust, mistrust, desire, and desperation.

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Stream of consciousness in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom is a representation of the South's story following the Civil War. The novel is Faulkner's attempt at selling the idea of what effect the Civil War had on an average family living in the Jefferson County, Mississippi.

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Challenges and considerations for using weblogs in research

The use of weblogs as a researching tool is marred with several demerits that must be systematically be dealt with in order to improve its efficiency to the researcher and acceptance amongst the respondents.

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