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Somalia's ancient history and migratory origins in African context

On the east cost of the African continent lays a strip of ground surrounded by the Indian Ocean, on one side and by exotic lands like Kenya and Ethiopia on the continental side.

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Soviet media control and the unintended consequences of glasnost

From 1909 to 1991 were defined as political instruments by the Communist Party leadcrship to further political and ideological aims. Directed from above, the structure of the Soviet communication system reflected the understanding of media as a specialization and mobilization force.

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Television's influence on American attitudes toward homosexuality

This paper will look at the rise of homosexual portrayals in televised media, and whether or not the increase has helped inspire a greater social awareness and acceptance of homosexuality in America; one factor being that the stigma once associated with homosexuality has significantly lessened…

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Political leaders, corporations, and the struggle for ecological sustainability

The relationship between politics and ecological sustainability has involved an inverse power struggle between political leaders whom seek to enable corporate success and the ecologists whom fear the poisoning of the earth and other forms of ecological damage.

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BP's crisis management and communication strategies following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Marketing and advertising strategies are used in various fields, not just in promoting products and services. Such techniques are developed and implemented in order to communicate political messages, to influence the election process, to create or to conceal scandals, and others.

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Teacher proletarianization and professionalization in Alberta's 1990s educational reform

Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta and Teacher's Struggle against Proletarianization In the 1990s, Canadian educational system went through a series of reforms.

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Canada-U.S. border security and post-9/11 policy evolution

For the Canadian public, the United States is widely perceived as an intrusive, aggressive, and increasingly reactionary bully.

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Personality traits in panic disorder treatment and agoraphobia development

Panic disorder is a comparatively heterogeneous disorder, with its center characteristic, the knowledge of frequent unanticipated panic attacks, surrounding a diversity of somatic, physiological, and cognitive indications that can vary from patient to patient.

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Jonathan Kozol's examination of inequality in American urban schools

Kozol, J. (1991) Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol is a passionate expose of a disturbing reality of what plagued the American school system in the late 1980s.

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Organizational competences for business intelligence system benefit realization

Business intelligence (BI) systems comprise one of the largest and fastest growing areas of it expenditure in companies today. Companies? experiences with deriving benefits from these systems are still mixed.

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