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Thomas Jefferson's radical vision for American educational reform

Thomas Jefferson's life experiences shaped his views on education. His attitudes towards education -- radical as they were for his time -- were influenced by his unusual life, by the revolutionary times in which he lived, and by his own rather exceptional perspective on the world.

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Environmental management and sustainability in the global gold mining industry

The notion of environmental management has become essential both to business and civic leaders.

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Double closed-loop control system modeling for submerged arc weld power supply

Modeling and Analysis of Submerged Arc Weld Power Supply Based on Double Closed-Loop Control commences with the article's abstract, which briefly summarizes the core elements of the piece. It states that two methods were developed:

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Can average American households afford to go green?

The increasing environmental concerns brought on by carbon emissions and other pollutants from human activities have led to a greater consumer awareness of and demand for sustainable products.

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Ethics and misconduct in the accounting profession

Ethics represent a system of moral principles, or the rules of conduct established by certain organizations and institutions regarding a class of human actions or a particular group of some kind. Ethics also represent the moral principles of individuals (Thesaurus, 2010).

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Legal rights and due process for Guantanamo Bay detainees

A peacetime government owes to its predecessor wartime government the time and trouble to study and evaluate the costs spent to bring peace to its tenure. War destroys not only lives and things, but also the ideals of a people, and peace is only supported by strong ideals to bind a people together.

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Buddhist interfaith understanding and the Four Noble Truths

As a Buddhist, I believe that I should be compassionate towards people of other faiths and recognize them as suffering beings first, before seeing them as people of other faiths.

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Psalm 1 as a guide to happiness and righteous living

Nobody knows why -- humanly speaking, that is -- that the Psalter as a whole collection came to exist or why it appears in the Holy Scriptures.

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Skinner, Pavlov, and Kohn on behaviorism and constructivism in learning

This also includes my personal critique. A comparison and critique of the philosophy undergirding behaviorism and constructivism is also carried out.

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Research methods for business survey design and data collection

For this question, I would use a personal interview. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that the question is open-ended. With open-ended questions, it is important to allow the respondent to give whatever answer he or she feels is the best one.

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