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Jon Pahl and Stephanie Coontz on sacred and romantic spaces

Jon Pahl observes the shopping mall as something fulfilling a human need in his essay, "The Mall as a Sacred Place." The mall is very much like a church in many of the ways it operates. For example, it brings diverse people together for a particular purpose.

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Feminist perspectives on environmental destruction and international relations

It's something like taking care of our own house." In scouting out potential future trajectories of the feminism movement it is germane to look into the recent past -- especially when it comes to the global environment.

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Assumption and its consequences in Ovid and Euripides

Assumption is a dangerous thing. Often, assumption is based on misinformation and can lead to horrible mistakes. It is an easy thing to do and, most of the time, we are not fully aware we are doing it until it is too late.

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Electronic medical records and the reduction of medical errors

Electronic Medical Records: Can they Reduce Medical Errors? The phenemon of medical errors is not a new one, but it is one that has drawn quite a bit of attention in recent years. It is thought that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die every year due to some type of medical error.

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Language acquisition and critical analysis of the Genie case study

Scientists are inquisitive because they ask all the important questions (what, when, where, and why; they are persistent (they never quit trying to figure things out); they are explorative (they employ the scientific approach to examine a problem and then they design experiments to test whether…

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Gender interaction and bias in Grade 5 classroom action research

The thematic concern I am considering is gender issues among boys and girls in Grade 5. This is a stage of growth during which children become aware of each other as creatures that differ much more in terms of gender than they had believed up to this time.

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Storytelling as coping mechanism in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried, while presented as such, is not a true war story but a post-war story.

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The scientific method through case studies and experimental design in psychology

Scientists are creative because without creative solutions they never finish experiments; they are inquisitive because they ask all the important questions (what, when, where, and why; they never stop trying to figure things out (they are persistent); they are explorative (they use the scientific…

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O'Brien's definition of true war stories versus We Were Soldiers

"As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil," (O'Brien, p.69).

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Fair and ethical trade marketing through affinity relationships

In a study by Low and Davenport, the authors examined the topic of fair and ethical trade marketing through exploratory research (2009). The authors have identified a problem in the marketing of fair and ethical trade in that it is aimed at converting one consumer at a time.

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