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Marguerite Duras's "The Lover": autobiography, coming-of-age, and literary resistance

Though it won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in the same year it was published, Duras re-wrote and re-published The Lover under different names no less than twice throughout her career.

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Advantages and disadvantages of business ownership structures

This enterprise is owned by one person and easiest to create by filing for a business license with a business name, and setting up a business checking account. The owner has full control of the business decisions and realizes all its profits and losses.

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Sylvia Plath's life and Esther Greenwood: autobiography in The Bell Jar

It is not unusual for the line between autobiography and fiction to be blurred -- it has, in fact, become somewhat commonplace, and has served as a perspective for analysis and criticism for many works.

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High strength steels and lightweight material performance in automotive design

The use of high strength steels by automakers has become the fastest growing automotive lightweight material in the automotive industry in the past two decades. The use of the high strength steels and ultra high strength steels has overtaken aluminum's growth rate by 13%.

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Employee motivation strategies at Qualcomm and other technology companies

The key to a successful business is to have motivated employees that want to come to work and do the best job possible. In today's economy it is becoming more and more difficult to find the right thing that motivates employees. The things that worked in the past do not necessarily work today.

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Tim Kasser's research on materialism and human happiness

In his book The High Price of Materialism Tim Kasser asks what initially seems to be a philosophical, subjective question: what makes people happy? Kasser applies his knowledge of psychological methodology and data-gathering to this age-old query.

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Haier's entry strategy and competencies in the U.S. appliance market

In the U.S. major home appliances industry, price is a key success factor as most products are relatively commoditized and in mature markets. Building economies of scale is therefore important, as evidenced by Whirlpool's move to increase factory size and market around the world (De Jear, 2007).

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Stringent immigration enforcement and worker protection in the United States

Immigration is often presented as an issue of bias: opponents of liberal immigration policies are depicted in the media as prejudiced against legal and illegal immigrants because of immigrants' 'alien' or foreign status.

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Justifiable murder in "The Lottery" and "The Most Dangerous Game"

A reader of both Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" must decide when can murder be an acceptable action. Is the tradition of an annual stoning acceptable? Is murder as a game acceptable? Is murder as self-defense acceptable?

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Psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy, and behavioral therapy approaches

"Psychology is not about "getting rid" of symptoms. Unlike politics, and even unlike medicine, psychology is not about waging war or getting control of anything. Instead, it's about making peace with -- by listening to and understanding -- your symptoms.

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