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Fluid inclusions: understanding trapped samples of ancient environments

Until the early 1950s, few people in the scientific community had any idea of the practical applications of fluid inclusion research. After all, Fluid inclusions are bubbles of liquid and gas trapped within crystals.

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Developing effective communication and interpersonal skills for workplace success

The objective of this work is to demonstrate an understanding of communication at work and interpersonal skills and to integrate both of these and demonstrate how they are applicable to both the personal and organizational life.

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The deterrent effect of capital punishment on violent crime rates

Authoritative legal resources will be used to develop appropriate definitions of capital punishment, capital crimes, and violent criminal acts for the purposes of the proposed study.

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Critical media literacy and education for modern times

Most scholars believe that while the modern era has brought with it unprecedented growth and development in the technology sector; it has also dramatically shifted the power center from the governments to the multinationals.

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Philip II's military reorganization and expansion of Macedonia

According to Greek historian Geoffrey Parker, the end of the Peloponnesian Wars, circa 400 B.C.E., "did not bring an end to the conflict among prominent Greek city-states that contended for absolute power" (56) over each other and within the next fifty years following the end of the war, Sparta,…

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Fate and survival in Zhang Yimou's "To Live"

To Live" (1994) begins with a searing image -- a man loses everything because of his compulsive gambling. He is forced to sell off his ancestral home to pay his debts, and brings shame upon his family.

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Native American boarding schools and forced cultural assimilation policies

The legal relationship between the Americans and Native Americans has long been one that ensured the European descendants of the earlier settlers had and would retain legal domain over the territory and lands originally under Native American domain.

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Developing a biodiesel production business in Tampa, Florida

The biodiesel industry is currently a growth industry with almost exponential potential as it is economically and environmentally sound in ways that many other fuel deriving industries are not. It has only limited controls and subsidies but requires little consumer adaptation to utilize it.

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George Willard's gradual maturation in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio is drafted as a monograph detailing the life and the atmosphere of a small American town in Ohio. The book is considered to be a landmark of modernism and an extremely interesting and panoramic rendition of American life at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Catalhyuk and Neolithic settlement in ancient Anatolia

The republic of Turkey is quite young and it is located on a land which is very ancient. Right through the ages many miraculous events have taken place on the land which is now known as Turkey. The most consequential of these is perhaps the Neolithic revolution.

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