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Gwendolyn Brooks's radical turn in "Speech to the Young"

Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward. "even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right.

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Ethical leadership and corporate responsibility in modern American capitalism

Given the recent crash on Wall Street and the housing market symbolized by corrupt financiers like Bernard Madoff, ethical and moral leadership of corporations has become a major issue for those who study the American capitalist system.

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Health risks from bisphenol A in plastic beverage bottles

Whether you drink Coke, Pepsi, Gatorade, or any of hundreds of possible beverage choices, the chances are you will drink it from a plastic bottle.

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Teilhard de Chardin's theological justification for God's role in Darwinian evolution

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is one of the few people who can legitimately claim a place in the history of both Darwinian science and Christian theology.

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Urban crime rates and socioeconomic factors in United States cities

Crime in urban cities is at least 1.5 times higher than suburban or rural areas. Many factors account for this difference including higher poverty, more densely populated centers, presence of poor minorities, low education, limited resources etc.

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Mary Shelley's representation of childbirth in Frankenstein's creation scene

In tracing the historical etymology of the word "monster," the Oxford English Dictionary offers a primary definition of something to be stared at or marveled over (from the same root as "demonstrate") but notes the second-most common use of the word is biological: "an animal or plant deviating in…

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Herding behavior and the neurological basis of bank panics

The work of Devenow and Welch (1996) states that the most basic of human instincts is likely to be that of "…imitation and mimicry" which are the primary characteristics in what is known as 'herding' which often specifically occurs related to such as "fashion and fads…" (Devenow and Welch, 1996,…

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The SIRUP approach to semantic data integration and heterogeneous sources

The work of Ziegler and Dittrich (nd) reports that integration is "becoming more and more indispensable in order not to drown in data while starving for information." The goal of data integration is "to combine data from different sources by applying global data model and by detecting and resolving…

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Benefits of ethics education in business and consumer trust

What are the possible benefits to companies, individuals, society and the world of business?

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Capital requirements and credit risk behavior in Arab African International Bank

The research will mainly dwell on the capital requirements and risk behavior of banks, more in particular the credit risk. The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the relationship between capital requirements and the risk behavior of banks in Egypt

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