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Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood as superior Macbeth adaptation

Akira Kurosawa's take on Shakespeare's Macbeth can be far more enjoyable than the Elizabethan version. Set against the backdrop of feudal Japan, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood imparts an evil atmosphere that the Bard would envy.

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Barriers to effective risk communication in emergency management

Identify some avenues of risk perception and communication. Also, identify potential impediments to effective risk perception and communication, and how they may be overcome.

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Carey McWilliams' analysis of exploitation in Southern California

Carey McWilliams' title of his history of Southern California, Southern California: An Island on the Land, suggests that Southern California encapsulates a unique culture, as distinct from the rest of the United States, almost like an island nation.

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Why companies use resellers in B2B distribution channels

Resellers are both competitors and customers for B2B firms. Why do so many companies use resellers which add another layer to their distribution channel?

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Suicidal ideation and attempts in childhood: Family stress and depression associations

Suicidal Ideation and Attempts During Middle Childhood: Associations With Perceived Family Stress and Depression Among Child Psychiatric Inpatients (1992) by Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow. (UCLA School of Medicine)

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RosettaNet standards and high-tech supply chain integration

How will setting supply chain standards improve supply chain management? The integration points between supplier and buyers are so complex and numerous, accentuated in their complexity by the need for enabling transactions across supply chains, that many industries need supply chain standards to…

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Point of view and irony in Frank O'Connor's "The Drunkard"

The sins of the child eradicating the sins of the father -- point-of-view in "The Drunkard" by Frank O'Connor Drink, you see was father's great weakness." The title of Frank O'Connor's short story "The Drunkard" is deliberately misleading, as are many of the early clues in the narrative detailing…

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The role of buyers in SAP's enterprise software product development

Give an example of and industry where they play a significant role.

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Intranet implementation benefits for healthcare organizations

The intent of this proposal is to illustrate through example the benefits to a healthcare organization of choosing to implement an Intranet as both a collaboration and knowledge management platform.

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Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" and musical dignity

Were it not for the title of the song, it would not be difficult to envision what Aaron Copeland had in mind when he wrote "Fanfare for the Common Man." With medieval trumpet calls and grand gongs permeating the composition, it is certainly a "fanfare." However, most fanfares culminate in the…

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