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Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant: military leadership and principles

Ironically, for a man whose name is synonymous with the Confederate cause, Robert E. Lee was not a passionate defender of slavery or secession

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UK immigration policy and migrant labour during the 2009 recession

With the October 2009 announcement that the nearly one-year-old global economic crisis had resulted in downturn cuts of foreign worker jobs, the United Kingdom braced itself for a recession that would significantly reduce the number of UK jobs being offered to workers immigrating from outside the…

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Seth Godin's "All Marketers Tell Stories": storytelling in modern marketing

The book, All Marketers Tell Stories by Seth Godin is entertaining, educational and very insightful about the nature of marketing according to one of the world's most celebrated gurus of this area of business.

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Political satire and utopian quest in Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was first published in 1726 and was a major success in England, despite the controversy that surrounded it, or perhaps it was because of this controversy.

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The Treaty of Westphalia and the end of the Thirty Years War

The region in north western Germany known as Westphalia gave its name to the treaty that ended the Thirty Years War, which was one of the most harmful disagreements in European history.

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Employee attitudes toward performance appraisal systems at Company XY Limited

The Literature Review section is constructed in a means in which it introduces the reader to the topic of performance appraisal systems and to various dimensions of the issue, such as their definition and history, their applicability within the modern day business climate, but also their flaws.

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Rising healthcare costs and their effects on small businesses

Over the last several years, the underlying costs for health care have been rising dramatically. Part of the reason for this, is due to the fact that 70 million Baby Boomers (largest population demographic) are becoming older.

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Thomas Frank's analysis of United Methodist Church structure and decline

As Thomas Frank recalls the early days of his childhood driving along the country roads as his father made his pastoral rounds, he realized that the United Methodist Church (UMC) formed an integral part of the American landscape.

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Neo-Confucianism as a response to Buddhist and Daoist philosophy

Neo-Confucianism is a philosophy which was born from the need to explain the existence of man and the universe in a manner which was just as complex as the Buddhist one.

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Kansas City after-hours clubs and jazz development in the 1930s

The objective of this work is to examine the question of what would have happened to jazz if there had been a crackdown on illegal "after hour" clubs in Kansas City in the 1930s? Toward this end, this work will examine the literature in this area of study.

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