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Gabriel Conroy and the wasteland: identity and death in Joyce

Prototypical Man of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland": Gabriel Conroy in James Joyce's "The Dead" James Joyce's short stories are full of meaning on many levels; history, religion, and contemporary literature all found their way into his stories in both literal and symbolic ways.

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American gothic: reinterpreting Thornton Wilder's Our Town

While watching Our Town, it is easy to feel pressured to interpret the play as a sentimental valentine to small-town life. The play offers an idealized view of the relationships of a bygone era.

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CPS protocols for investigating child sexual abuse allegations

First and foremost, the initial telephone call should be used as a way to begin to gather information for the case at hand. This means conducting a full investigative interview with the party reporting the alleged abuse.

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Risk assessment and impact on strategic initiative success

Such initiatives are often based on assumptions about the future, so the risks typically relate to changes in the environment that impact those assumptions. These include project-specific risk, firm-specific risk, industry-specific risk and global risk (Mapsoftheworld.com, 2008).

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Intel's organizational changes during Craig Barrett's tenure as CEO

What were the different changes at Intel over the first three years of Barrett's tenure?

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Gutierrez's analysis of marriage, sexuality, and power in Pueblo society under Spanish colonialism

The matter of colonialism is extremely divisive, and, because of the various controversies revolving around it, people cannot simply accept to ignore the topic.

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Alternative assessment methods for special education students

The relative 'fairness' of grading special education students with end-of-unit and quarterly assessments that are similar to those given to 'regular' students obviously depends on the level of disability of the student.

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Accounting firm responsibilities in detecting and reporting corporate fraud

Accounting fraud is not limited to simply 'cooking the books,' or actively creating a financial statement that gives a deliberately inaccurate portrait of a company's finances. It also involves failing to report known fraud.

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Sensation and perception in the human five senses

Ordinarily, healthy human beings perceive their external environment through the five senses: the visual sense (sight), the auditory sense (hearing), the gustatory sense (taste), the olfactory sense (smell), and the tactile sense (touch), in addition to other types of specific sensory abilities…

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Improving physical education programs through problem detection and de-escalation strategies

We all remember physical education from our school days. Yet, recent studies have showed a great decline in success of these programs in recent years. Poor school conditions, large class sizes, and uncooperative students all threaten to hinder the success of physical education in America's schools.

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