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The role of gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

The work Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe has countless messages of a historical culture, that has been fundamentally altered by colonial intrusion and it is difficult to discuss gender in such a situation without discussing colonization, for several reasons.

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Russia's deprivatization policies and their effects on foreign investment

Since 1992, approximately 70,000 state-owned enterprises in Russia were privatized. Many of the private buyers were foreign companies and investors, for example from the United States and Western Europe. The idea was to move from a centrally planned economy to a market system.

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Health care reform through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") is one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in modern memory. This landmark legislation addresses the nation's long-dysfunctional health care system during one of the most challenging economic periods in the nation's history.

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Epicurus's argument against the rationality of fearing death

You know, it's really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. -- Milan Kundera, Immortality

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Marx's theory of commodity fetishism under capitalism

The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an 'immense accumulation of commodities'…" (Marx 303).

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Strategic assessment tools and Porter's Five Forces analysis for Hybritech

How strategic assessment tools were or could have been used to aid development and use of meaningful information about the company to develop its path for moving forward; (strategic assessment tools includes: value chain analysis, porter five forces, SWOT analysis and GE/McKinsey Matrix)

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Religious extremism and alienation in Pamela K. Taylor's "50 Fatwas of the Virtuous Vampire"

Fatwas of the Virtuous Vampire": A metaphor for Islamic terrorism. One common question that is asked when Islamic terrorists commit unspeakable actions is 'why?' In other words, why do people who purport to be religious feel as if they have the right to commit murder?

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Comparing experimental and case study approaches to anorexia research

Eating disorders like anorexia have been researched at length, but with varying results. I have chosen to examine how research on anorexia compares between an experimental study and a case study.

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Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilisation" and Middle East conflict

Robert Fisk's book, the Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East is a comprehensive description of the Middle East region and its ongoing struggles.

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Teachers' attitudes toward pay-for-performance compensation policies

Pay for Performance is not a new concept in the world of fiscal remuneration. The standard business and scholarly literature of the past three decades often postulates the question: what better, more productive way, to drive individuals to work harder, more efficiently, and to accomplish standards…

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