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Vygotsky's social theory of child development and the zone of proximate development

There is an extreme deficiency within the beliefs of nativist and behavioralist conceptions of the nature of development within the growing mind. Nativists believe the concept that development and influence comes directly from within.

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Economic impact of the 2009-2010 Toyota recall crisis

Mitchell, Josh. "Toyota's Chief Will Testify in Congress." (February 19, 2010). The Wall Street Josh Mitchell's two articles on the Toyota recall crisis form a deeper geopolitical and economic paradigm that reaches back into the Bush Administration, the U.S.

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Analyzing a bank's response letter to a customer's disputed charges claim

Recently, it came to the attention of Union Bank of California that you were concerned about a series of charges made at Wilson's Grocery store, all with the same transaction reference number, 1440022-228398371.

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: performance and efficiency analysis

Jude Children's Research Hospital currently operates on a budget of approximately one-and-a-half million dollars a day, which is nearly five-hundred-and-fifty million dollars every year (SJCRH 2010).

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Using the Myers-Briggs inventory to improve team communication

Ideally, the use of team-based strategies at work enables different personality types and differently-skilled employees to pool their collective resources and knowledge to function more effectively.

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Typhoid fever: epidemiology, transmission, and historical impact

About 400 cases of typhoid fever occur in the United States each year. Seventy-five percent of these cases are acquired while Americans are traveling internationally. It is a disease that is still quite common in underdeveloped nations where approximately 21 million people a year are affected.

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Economic inequality between African-Americans and whites since Obama's election

Since Barack Obama's election, many people have suggested that the U.S. is a post-racial society.

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Islam and democracy: reconciling competing Western and Islamic models

In the early nineties, a major historical event was announcing the new order of the world, together with the beginning of a distinctive era: the Cold War had finally ended, proclaiming the incontestable victory of democracy. Its opponents of any kind had been defeated.

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Biological adaptations of extremophiles in harsh environments

It is easy to assume that all life on earth require a delicate and forgiving environmental balance. Oxygen, water, and moderate temperatures are key to the survival of most organisms. However, this is not the case for extremophiles, which can live in even the harshest of natural environments.

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Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers whistleblower

The Vietnam War was waged at the height of the Cold War. During the 1950s and 1960s, most Americans accepted that there was a certain level of necessary secrecy in the conduct of foreign affairs and intelligence.

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