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Ethical barriers in international marketing across cultures

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Growing up between Puerto Rican and Colombian cultures in America

It is almost time for dinner. The smells of rice, beans, and spicy chicken come wafting up to my bedroom, calling me to the table, along with the roar of the Yankee game on the radio. My father is cooking. He talks to me in Spanish, I answer in English.

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Power distance in Hofstede's cultural dimensions model

Power Distance is one of the five cultural dimensions that Dr. Geert Hofstede created as part of his Cultural Dimensions Model, based on the accumulated research completed at IBM (Hofstede, Geert, Neuijen, Ohayv, Daval, Sanders, 286). The Cultural Dimensions model emanated from the research Dr.

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Nonviolence in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam's central religious texts

Deconstructing the Thesis Statement that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Call Implicitly Call for Nonviolence within their Central Texts

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Dissertation writing experiences: Insights from doctoral researchers in sociology and psychology

With the objective of achieving a wider perspective in dissertation writing, I have interviewed two doctoral-degree holders about their dissertation experiences. My respondent Jane* holds a doctoral degree in Sociology and for her, choosing the research topic is pivotal in research.

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The four broad classes of human tissue: structure, function, and classification

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Post-tenure review and faculty compensation in higher education

The idea of a post-tenure review process sits well with some and not with others. It is generally assumed that an instructor is reviewed and corrected while he or she is working to attain tenure, but once tenure is achieved it is virtually impossible to correct or discipline a professor.

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Kate Chopin's critique of marriage in "Story of the Hour" and "The Storm"

In "Story of the Hour" and other works such at "The Storm," author Kate Chopin rails against the social conventions of her time. She does this very effectively through the use of plot conflict and imagery to illustrate how women have not been fulfilled by the social institutions imposed upon them.

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Symbolism and conflict in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

"This fall I think you're riding for -- it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind...The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with...they gave up looking.

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