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How employee involvement increases workplace productivity through engagement

In today's hyper-competitive, increasingly globalized world, one of the most critical resources a company can wield is their human resources. Maximizing productivity is in today's complicated business environment is a primary method of increasing competitiveness.

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Squatting as social justice and peaceful protest against homelessness

Squatting has had a long history worldwide, especially as concepts and laws related to property ownership change. Although most American media focuses on squatting movements in New York City, other cities in the United States are seeing squatters take over abandoned or foreclosed properties.

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Plato's allegory of the cave and modern materialism

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is one of the central episodes of the Republic. In the Republic, Socrates teaches Glaucon about reason, human perception, ethics, and justice.

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Truth and fiction in Tim O'Brien's Things They Carried

One of the chapters of Tim O'Brien's tale of the Vietnam War the Things They Carried is entitled "How to Tell a True War Story." O'Brien, throughout the novel, seems obsessed with the need to tell a 'true' story of the Vietnam War, a narrative he believes has been polluted with lies.

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Freidson's professionalism and targeted transparency in political appointments

With the changing of the administration comes the potential for numerous political appointments. While some of these appointments do not require confirmation, many non-career appointments do require confirmation and pose significant challenges to an incoming administration.

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Marketing's pervasive influence on teen consumers in the digital age

According to John Searbrook's comments during the Hidden Persuaders, a PBS Frontline documentary: "MTV… [has] broken down the notion that there is culture of programming, on the one side, and marketing and advertising, on the other side" (Seabrook 2010).

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The Silk Road as modern tourism invention and geopolitical infrastructure

In Chapter 20, "Roads and Bridges, Tourism and Pipelines," the author invokes all of the romanticism and the stark reality of the Silk Road. The ancient trade routes linking the Far East with Europe and the Near East have been a source of historical interest as well as a major tourism draw.

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U.S. foreign policy failures in Iran and Iraq after 9/11

The United States has interfered in Iranian affairs since the 1950s, and the resutls have been nothing less than catastrophic.

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Constitutional rights and same-sex marriage legalization in America

Why is there such strong resistance to allowing same sex couples to get married if they want to? Why prevent two adults from joining hands in matrimony -- just because they are the same sex? This paper provides the reasons opponents of same sex marriage use to justify their positions.

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Malcolm X's influence on the Civil Rights movement and American history

Malcolm X is the most misunderstood figure in the American Civil Rights movement and perhaps in modern American history. Although his message of freedom differed significantly from that of his contemporary, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X was no less influential.

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