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Women in combat units: policy debate and military integration

Women in the army are nothing new. During the Second World War, women served in the front as much as men, both among the allied and the axis powers. The separation of duties resulted in companies called the WAC -- Women Army Corps that had details in medical, and other non-combatant operations.

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Research-based best practices for teaching reading disabilities

The objective of this study is to make a review of research-based best practices for students diagnosed with a learning disability in reading.

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Sexuality and media influence on late adolescent girls

Adolescence is a time of change, physically, emotionally and mentally for young people. They are making a transition from their role of child, to their role of young adolescence when they will be empowered with more freedom and decision making in their lives.

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Critiquing Gardner and Csikszentmihalyi's theories of creativity

Gardner and Csikszentmihalyi's perspectives on ongoing creativity are valid, but unnecessarily restrictive for several reasons. First, their view discounts the contributions of creative individuals like musicians and artists who create one superb masterpiece.

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Age perception's effect on employee interactions with HR representatives

This transformation has been influenced in part by the ability of human resource departments to provide high quality services to their customers in a timely fashion in both face-to-face as well as online venues.

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Mindfulness techniques for managing the inner critic

Buddhism has leapt out of the terrain of religion and into the domain of cognitive science. Mindfulness is a central Buddhist concept and practice, especially in the Theravadan school.

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Merit pay versus automatic raises in different industries

Merit pay (or pay-for-performance) compensation schemes base employee pay raises on their performance instead of awarding pay increases or bonuses automatically based on periodic raises according to schedule.

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Autism's impact on parents and siblings: effects and family challenges

Autism is a disease that has a major impact upon the family of the child with this disorder, which include emotional, functional, social, financial, as well as others, which will be related in this study.

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Steve and Barry's celebrity endorsement marketing strategy and product lines

Background and History of the Steve and Barry's Business Model: Partners Steve Shore and Barry Prevor were childhood friends who opened their first retail casual clothing store near Detroit, Michigan in 1985 as both were completing their undergraduate studies (at Tulane University and the…

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act's impact on annual reports and strategic planning processes

It is a new era of transparency and compliance in accounting practices within public and private companies, and this is completely changing the role of annual reports and strategic plans.

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