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Historical context in Pinero's Lower East Side Poem

I agree that when teaching a poetry class, it is necessary to include instruction about the poet's historical and social context for a student to fully appreciate the poet's output. Of course, there is value in simply responding to a poem in an instinctual fashion.

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Selecting optimal locations for wind farms using local wind characteristics

Mother nature is very powerful and is always producing to provide for her many life forms that reside on her surface. The wind is a great resource for harnessing the powers of nature and using them for manmade purposes.

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Internet and recession reshape the U.S. retail industry

This article first appeared in Forbes in 2009 and discusses the affect of the Internet and the recession on the $4 trillion dollar U.S. retailing business.

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Leadership transitions: critical variables for organizational success

Times of leadership transition are among the most stressful periods in an organization's life cycle.

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Origins and development of environmental psychology as an interdisciplinary field

Dreams, Reality, and the Future of Environmental Psychology by Richard Sommer. started in U.S. And Canada and later diffused; related to Roger Barker on psychological ecology and Daniel Berlyne on environmental aesthetics ref to charisma (extraordinary power)

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Dawkins' argument for evolution as established fact

In the book The Greatest Shown on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution author Richard Dawkins (2009) attempts to explain how it is impossible for evolution to be logically denied if people look at the scientific evidence behind the theory.

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E.P. Thompson's critique of Wordsworth and Coleridge's political disenchantment

Thompson "Disenchantment or Default?: A Lay Sermon," The Romantics. In the article "Disenchantment or Default?: A Lay Sermon," author E.P. Thompson explores the restoration of literary works by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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Foreign investment in tourism during the global recession

The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies offers a fantastic overview of the issue of tourism and tourism studies but as has been pointed out is developed from the perspective that the world was not necessarily about to experience an extreme global recession.

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Obama's insurgent campaign and Clinton's collapse in the 2008 Democratic primary

All the pre-primary polling in 2006 and 2007 showed that the nomination was Hillary Clinton's to lose, since she usually led Barack Obama by over twenty points, and even by 51% to 21% in one 2007 Gallup poll.

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Butterfly farming as sustainable income and conservation in Tanzanian villages

Butterfly farming has been examined by many researchers as a means of sustainable income in many regions of Africa. Butterfly farming consists of breeding butterflies as a means of sustainable income and as a tool for forestry conservation.

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