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In persona Christi: priesthood and Church function from Vatican II to today

The questions that surround the functions of the priesthood and the diaconate today appear to be part and parcel of the greater uncertainty that surrounds ancient Church customs.

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Benefits and costs of wind farms in Canada

As pollution and global warming threaten our environment, wind farms represent a particularly sustainable response via the creation of energy from wind.

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Church planting models and leadership development in Hispanic contexts

Church planting is a process that results in a new Christian church or parish in a new and untouched locality.

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Amazon's Kindle Fire and market expansion strategy

Much of what drives Amazon is technology. As it states in its mission statement, Amazon sees that their "vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online (Amazon.com 2011)." This tradition is…

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Intergenerational emotional abuse: current interventions and prevention approaches

Although even otherwise-loving and happy couples who appear to "have it all" may experience emotionally abusive behaviors from time to time, when these patterns of behaviors persist, they can work an enormous toll on their victims as well as their perpetrators.

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Business and financial performance of StarHub Group, 2008-2010

For the basis of my Oxford Brookes University degree research and analysis project (RAP) is project, the topic selected was number 8, "The business and financial performance of organisation over the three years period." This selection is due in large part to my ultimate dream job of being a…

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Family history and environmental factors in adolescent substance abuse risk

Differences between nonalcoholic offspring of alcoholics (family history positive, FHP) and matched offspring of nonalcoholics (family history negative, FHN) have been identified on a variety of behavioral, cognitive, and neurological measures.

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Leadership styles and organizational culture on company performance

Leadership is power, exercise of influence of an authority that seeks to inspire the conduct of others (individuals or groups) in order to get them to voluntarily achieve clearly defined objectives.

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The 1949 Geneva Conventions and the War on Terror

Enacted after the horrors of World War II demonstrated the limitations of earlier treaties, the Geneva Convention of 1949 have become one of the preeminent international standards dictating the behavior of combatants and the treatment of individuals in the context of international and other…

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Reading strategies and vocabulary building for English language learners

Today, more than 2 million students from non-English-speaking backgrounds attend public school in the United States and their numbers are expected to triple by 2020.

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