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The art of business conversation and customer retention

Often when people speak to each other, all they're doing is trading information. They are often doing this is an abrupt manner, feeling short of for time. But simply trading information does not usually impress contacts or win any repeat customers.

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The role and importance of female characters in Harry Potter

There has been much debate and contention about the social influence and effects of the Harry Potter novels on children and on the youth. One of the most debated issues that have arisen from both a literary and psycho-social perspective is the question of how women are presented in the novels.

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The research proposal: essential preparation and analytical foundations

Among these, the research proposal is absolutely essential as a way of projecting the intentions of the research endeavor, as a way of delineating the major dimensions of the intended research project and as a way of gaining approval for the endeavor through a board of review.

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Richard Wright's Black Boy: self-discovery and artistic salvation

Richard Wright's novel, Black Boy is a combination of themes that explore the depth of life as an African-American in the Jim Crow South.

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Maintaining police department morale during budget cuts

Organizational change, particularly due to economic factors, is a difficult time for leaders and their staff. While change is difficult for many people, maintaining staff morale in the face of cuts can be a particularly challenging task.

~4 min read

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Celebrity endorsement and consumer perception in film marketing

In 2010 the biggest advertisements and movies have a celebrity face. If a celebrity endorses it, then consumers will buy it. Has society lost the scope of what the product does, what it stands for?

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Stakeholder funding and mission conflicts in public broadcasting

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is guided by the principles of vision, mission, purposes, and values. The mission of its television programming arm, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), is to inspire, inform, and educate.

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Adult learner preferences for e-learning versus traditional learning environments

For a quantitative proposal you are planning, draw a visual model of the variables in the theory using the procedures for causal model design advanced in this chapter.

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1,906 words

Power and corruption in the fall of the Roman Empire

There is much controversy regarding the time when the Roman Empire collapsed, given that it is uncertain whether this matter concerns the Eastern Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire, or the Roman Empire as a whole before it divided.

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Origins of feminism in temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements

Feminism started largely with the temperance movement, as well as within the abolitionist movement.

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