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American military deployment and the post-9/11 war on terrorism

The most vivid imagine of war was the beginning of it all. September 11, 2001 changed the United States. It was vividly relived over and over again in the media and in the newspaper. There was this sense that the nation's spirit had been broken and there was no room to live innocently.

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The evolution of MP3 technology and digital music players

MP3 stands for MPEG-1 Layer-III (or MPEG Audio Layer III) and is recognized as the audio sub-division of the MPEG business model created by ISO- the Industry Standards Organisation and came to be recognized as a valid model in 1992 as a branch of the MPEG-1 norm.

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John C. Maxwell's seventeen essential qualities of team leadership

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken," reads the quotation on the title page of 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Leader: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants, by management guru John C. Maxwell.

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Easter Island's ecological collapse and its impact on Polynesian society

At that time, Easter Island was subtropical with a mild climate. Its fertile soil should have made it a relatively easy place for humans to inhabit.

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John F. Kennedy's Cold War leadership and flawed presidency

Rhetorical context: The audience is a conservative political group that advocates smaller federal government and the right for local communities and states to control as much of their needed government as possible.

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Depression treatment and workplace productivity improvements

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that in any given year, about 18.8 million adults in the United States -- that is 9.5% of the adult population -- will suffer from depression.

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Contingency theory and systems theory in aviation management

One of the defining features of aviation management is the need to navigate both uncertainty and a wide range of uncontrollable variables.

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Thomas Friedman's analysis of Middle Eastern politics in From Beirut to Jerusalem

Beirut...to Now book review of Thomas Friedman's classic work of political journalism From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem was written in 1989, after the author's tenure as the New York Times correspondent in Beirut.

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Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point theory of social epidemics

Ever wondered why some ideas or products catch on while others don't? Ever thought about what causes social behavior or attitudes to change all of a sudden? Ever wished that it was possible to mastermind radical change in the world?

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Plato and Aristotle's conceptions of justice and virtue

The most capacious account of Plato's established philosophical views has been published in "The Republic" as a comprehensive handling of the most basic values for the behavior of human life.

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