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George Knightley as Austen's redefined English gentleman ideal

In her third novel, Jane Austen created a flawed but sympathetic heroine in the young Emma Woodhouse. Widely considered her finest work, Austen's Emma once again deals with social mores, particularly those dealing with ethical actions and social status.

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The American media as Fourth Estate: from Watergate to present day

During the 1970's, the role of the media changed from simply reporting the news to revealing serious political scandals (Waisbord, 2001).

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Who was responsible for the Enron accounting scandal?

Enron Scandal: Who was Responsible and Why? The Enron Scandal was the biggest accounting fraud in U.S., indeed worldwide, business history.

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Islamic terrorism and world order instability

Terrorism seems to have taken over the world. No matter how hard the industrialized countries try to find ways to achieve peace and stability in the world but somehow the opposite happens.

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Shifting power dynamics between Japan and China in the Pacific Rim

It has sources. In recent years, the importance of South East Asia has been increasing steadily.

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The social psychology of music and personality development

Music has been acknowledged to be a universal form of communication. Even with the barriers of language, music allows the sharing of feelings, thoughts, and meanings.

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Arguments against legalizing positive euthanasia in the United States

Euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing death, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, often painful, disease or condition (Euthanasia, Infoplease.com).

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Employee benefits restructuring at a large newspaper corporation

While salaries themselves remain important, other benefits have become increasingly so as workers seek to balance family work responsibilities in ways that -- when most families had two parents, one of whom stayed at home full time -- had not been dreamed of a generation or two ago.

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Technological disruption and piracy in the Latin American music industry

The music industry is undergoing a global technological revolution which has been induced by the introduction of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing services, and the proliferation of recordable CD equipment which his now within the financial reach of the average consumer.

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Japan's postwar reconstruction and economic miracle, 1945-1952

Devastated by the Allies in World War II, Japan has emerged as one of the world's most economically and technologically advanced societies today.

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