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United Airlines' history, corporate structure, and business strategy

United Airlines began as a mail carrying operation in Eastern Washington and Idaho in 1926. As the company began to grow and take on more routes, planes began carrying people in 1927, and coast to coast routes were established.

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Mount Rainier: geology and hazards of an active stratovolcano

Mount Rainier, Washington, is one of the few active volcanoes in the continental United States.

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Competitive strategy and market positioning of Palm, Inc.

SWOT Company Profile: Palm, Inc. For the purposes of this short white paper, Palm, Inc. is a manufacturer of mobile products such as user interfaces. In terms of Michael E. Porter's classic Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analysing Industries and Competitors, Palm, Inc.

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Best practices in effective instructor-student relationships and scaffolding

Ultimately, learning is a journey not a destination, and with that perspective in mind, this analysis looks at the relative progression of students to learning objectives over time.

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Infant male circumcision and HIV infection risk reduction

Male infant circumcision has recently become an issue of increasing contention. In addition to religious grounds for the procedures, other promote it for assumed medial and hygienic benefits.

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Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and cognitive development

The theory of multiple intelligences (MI) was advanced by Dr. Howard Gardner, an education professor who coordinated a projects dubbed project Zero at Harvard University.

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The war on drugs: expensive failure and rising violence

Until 100 years ago, drugs were considered as simply a commodity. It wasn't until the Western cultural shifts that drugs became known as immoral and deviant.

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Certified case managers in the American health care system

Management History- Case Management Society of America, (2010). "Definitions of and History of Case Management in Health Care Settings." Cited in: http://www.cmsa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=104

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Facilitative leadership and transformational leadership in organizations

Providing leadership without taking control is the essence of effective facilitative leadership, and this often requires leaders to change how they think as much as how they manage (Brome, 2006).

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British traditions and the formation of American colonial society

In the 18th and 19th centuries, a literary metaphor that was commonly used was a crucible, or melting pot, that described the combination of numerous cultures and ideas into one -- just as one might put several different ingredients into a pot to make stew.

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