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Marketing strategy for Blackboard Academic Suite

Blackboard Inc. is a software company focused on delivering high quality products that satisfy a wide array of customers. Their products and services mainly target students, teachers and universities and are aimed to facilitate the e-learning process.

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Motivating Axis Manufacturing employees through pay and incentive plans

Axis manufacturing is a 5000 employee facility that specializes in the manufacture of aircraft components for the U.S. military. Recently, orders have increased to the point where management is hard-pressed to meet production quotas.

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Nissan Motor Corp. v. Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

In the last several decades as industry has increased throughout the United States, there have been several court cases regarding industrial chemicals, their use, and the liability of those using potentially hazardous materials.

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Arson as a violent crime: motives, investigation, and impact

Over thirty thousand structural fires are set annually at a cost of over three-quarters of a million dollars worth of damage and more than three hundred lives lost.

~15 min read

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Merit pay for teachers: effectiveness in student performance and teacher retention

Pay for performance is not a new idea. Organizations all over the world use this type of system when offering bonuses based on predetermined results or commission. Pay for performance, or merit pay, though is a fairly revolutionary idea for the teaching profession of today.

~22 min read

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Migration patterns of Native Americans and Korean-Americans to the United States

Native Americans and Korean-Americans are separated by tens of thousands of years when it comes to immigration to the Americas.

~15 min read

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Secularization and scientific advancement in nineteenth-century Europe

The secularization of Europe in the 19th Century was a continuation of trends which began with the Reformation and the Renaissance, and found a flowering in the development of rationalism in the 18th century amongst philosophers and economists in the UK, France and Germany.

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Amazon's evolution from online bookstore to distribution empire

Amazon.com, and projects whether or not the Amazon model will be as successful in the future. This paper then analyzes the case for the opposite type of e-commerce company, one based on very narrow or "walled" competitors.

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Shirley Jackson's reflection of madness in "The Lottery"

Shirley Jackson is the kind of writer that demonstrates a reflection of what she saw around her in her fiction.

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Invisibility and passing as escape from racism in American literature

There is no point in blinding yourself to the truth. Don't blind yourself," (Ellison 192); one cannot ignore the racial tensions of the United States for they are much too prevalent in every facet of society.

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