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Refuting Barnes's flawed conception of eternal heavenly existence

The image of Heaven that Barnes offers in the Dream is one where one eventually becomes bored with the perpetual availability of everything that one could possibly desire. In his case, Heaven consists mainly of sex, golf, and on-call cuisine, and the opportunity to meet famous individuals.

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Bank accounts for poor children in India and developing nations

The proposal is to use public funds to establish a bank account for every newborn infant at the time of birth and to protect it from being accessed by anybody until at least the child's sixteenth birthday.

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Prosecuting the young defendant in Twelve Angry Men

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we have a serious issue to ponder. For many days we have heard about the details of a horrific crime, perhaps the worst type of crime since time began -- the death of a man at the hands of his own son.

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Scott's critique of utopian simplification and practical knowledge

According to Chapter 9 of James C. Scott's book Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, the failure of state-imposed and orchestrated 'improvement' strategies is due to the fundamental utopian simplification of the needs of human beings within the social…

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Gothic architecture's relationship to feudal society and labor

Gothic architecture's vast, sweeping and expansive designs and its emphasis on religiosity is a product of stratified feudal society.

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Psychological, academic, and social consequences of college exam cheating

Students cheat for a number of different but related reasons: to finish a course quickly and with as little effort as possible; to ease the burden of a heavy work load; or to earn a grade beyond what the student could achieve on his or her own. Types of cheating depend on the nature of the course.

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Organizational climate at Brockton Oval Enterprises: barriers to growth

Joshua Levine is a project manager for Brockton Oval Enterprises, a leading provider of sports equipment and technology. Brockton Oval Enterprises is a large company with a total staff of about six hundred employees.

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Special treatment for food critics: restaurant ethics and anonymity

Food critics are supposed to be anonymous: many have gone to legendary lengths to preserve their incognito status, from donning wigs to adopting funny accents, as well as using phony names on their expense accounts and credit cards.

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Follett's Destiny as a library search system for schools

Follett's Destiny automation service is one of the most effective and exciting library search databases on the market today. Our library must move forward into the 21st century, and further its mission to excite the next generation of readers about the resources of the library system.

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Personality conflicts and psychological contracts in organizational behavior

What are your expectations and learning goals regarding organizational behavior and/or experiential learning? What expectations do you have for the facilitator and fellow students? What qualities would help create a positive organizational culture?

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