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Women's leadership and workplace equality in the construction industry

Watts, J. (2009). "Leaders of men: women 'managing' in construction." Work, employment & society 23(3), pp. 512-30.

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Housing development and wetland loss in Florida's Everglades

Florida, the sunshine state, and vacation destination for millions of tourists, from around the world. It is paradise, as many will call Florida, and it is a great place to live during the winter month.

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The American Dream's failure in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Few plays personify the heartbreak associated with the American Dream than Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. This play reveals the hardship associated with the American Dream, exposing the fact that hard work and focus are necessary for success.

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Zen Buddhism and the hero's journey in the three pillars

Roshi Philip Kapleau -- to whom is credited, in large part, the introduction of Zen Buddhism to the west -- recounts in his seminal work, the Three Pillars of Zen, a series of conversations between a great Zen teacher, Yasutani-roshi, and an unnamed student who found himself beset on the road of…

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Profit maximization strategies in perfectly competitive firms

Over the last several decades globalization has been bringing about increased amounts of competition. In many circles there has been the push to maximize profits as much as possible. However, to achieve this objective the overall view of the most productive / competitive firms will vary.

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Psychic readings and building repeat business in professional metaphysics practice

A psychic reading refers to the process where one person attempts to gain information and insight about another person through tapping into the metaphysical realm.

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Coping mechanisms of children with incarcerated parents in foster care

This paper will show the issues children face when their parents are arrested and consequently incarcerated. Children are not all the same, and it shows that younger children can easier cope with this issue, while older children are in need for help.

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The development of Christology in Catholic Church doctrine

From the beginning, the Church has been Christocentric. This means that Christ has the central place in the relationship between the world and God. Christ is viewed as the mediator between God and humankind, standing in the middle of Christian faith.

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Narrative discontinuity in John 14:30-31 and the farewell discourse

The Gospel of John can be subject to analysis from the perspective of its narrative construction. Under such critical gaze, there appear questions about the author's puzzling arrangement of material. Take, for example, the case of John 14:30-31.

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Multidimensional scaling in marketing research and applications

The next section compares MDS with factor analysis and cluster analysis. The third section identifies actual applications of MDS in the marketing research literature and the last section is devoted to a hypothetical situation in which MDS is used in a snack food market.

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