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Jules Verne's life, literary themes, and enduring influence

Few major figures in Western literature seem to both capture the imagination and defy mainstream analysis as much as Jules Verne. Nonetheless, his ever-present specter looms ominously over modern science, science fiction, children's fiction, film, and even philosophy.

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Promotion and prevention focused motivation in workplace management

When people fail and succeed, especially in the workplace, their tendencies and actions give a clear description of their personality and character.

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Antnet routing algorithms for mobile ad-hoc network optimization

The increasing reliance of mobile IP-enabled and GPS-capable devices is creating a groundswell of support for optimization algorithms that are capable of quickly interpreting and optimizing paths throughout mobile networks.

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Cultural diversity as strategic advantage in organizational teams

With the concept of globalization continuously rising, various industries nowadays are adapting with the idea of having cultural diversity in the workplace.

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The role of teacher-student relationships in educational reform

We live in an era, which may be characterized as almost acutely education-conscious. Articles pertaining to different aspects of the educational process can be found in our local newspapers nearly on a daily basis.

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Qualitative and quantitative statistical methodologies in education and school counseling

The intent of this study is to define both the qualitative and quantitative statistical methodologies including the development of descriptive and inferential statistics applied to the field of education overall and school counseling specifically.

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Thomas Carlyle's vision of labor and leadership in industrial Britain

The problems raised were addressed by various writes and ethical theorists, including the political theorists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the nineteenth century English essayist Thomas Carlyle, who discussed his particular views on personal freedom and its limits in his work…

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Arab League conflict resolution in Yemen from 1948 to 2007

The country has been divided and reformed, the subject of colonization, the victim of several complete governmental takeovers and last but not least the victim of bloody civil war, in both North and South Yemen's as they were then recognized and in a unified Yemen, associated with an Arab League…

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Intelligent design and evolution: comparing Young, Edis, and Asimov

Intelligent design is a theory that has been posited in support of the Biblical notion of creation; that God actually had a hand in creating life, the planet Earth for mankind and other forms of life to inhabit, and the universe itself.

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Children's understanding of animacy and Piaget's developmental theory

The question of animacy and how early an understanding of the concept develops among human beings is not as certain as was once thought.

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