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Adam Foulds: British novelist and poet of contemporary literature

Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet who was born in 1974. His first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, was published in 2007, for which he won a Betty Trask award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award.

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Walmart financial ratios and accounting standards analysis

(All balance sheet information taken from the company's consolidated 10-K released February 18, 2010. http://investors.walmartstores.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112761&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1392384.)

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Key traits of effective mission and vision statements

Mission and vision are two elements that are critical to a company's success. Too often, mission and vision statements are either non-existent, or they are so vague that they may as well be non-existent. Good mission and vision statements will typically have certain traits in common.

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Beason v. United Technologies: disability discrimination under the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act

The plaintiff, Donald Beason, brought a case against his employer, United Technologies Corporation. Beason is appealing from a judgment of a federal district court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, that found in favor of his employer.

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Vatican II's legacy and agenda for future Catholic reform

Catholic Ecumenical Councils have been the method since the time of Roman Emperor Constantine to adjust the Catholic Church's policies and canon law to reflect the times in which the faithful live without compromising core Church values.

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Failed organizational change in a coffeehouse chain store

While working in a popular coffeehouse chain store, I experienced an attempt at organizational change that did was not especially successful.

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Capital punishment deterrence arguments in Muhlhausen's opposing views essay

The debate surrounding capital punishment is not as clear as one might think -- in fact, there is a great deal of gray within this debate. The actual definition is State controlled taking of a human life in response to some crime committed by a person who was legally convicted of that crime.

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A review of dislocation dynamics in anisotropic stripe patterns

This paper reviews the findings of a specific published study regarding the patterns that emerge form dislocation occurring across domain walls in physical systems, and specifically anisotropic stripe patterns.

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Enzyme deficiencies and their clinical health consequences

Enzyme deficiency cause ailments or discomfort in the people suffering from them. These can range from mild discomforts, birth defects, genetic disorders, and in worse cases can be lethal. Deficiencies can be from proteases, lipases, amylase, cellulase, and other protein enzyme deficiencies.

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School condom distribution programs and teenage sexual risk behavior

Many people believe that the moral degeneration of our society continues to be promoted by those individuals who believe that school officials have the right to hand out contraceptives to children.

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