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Luxury consumer behavior and online purchasing patterns

Consumer behaviour is a matter of fundamental interest in nowadays business environment. It helps companies get an idea about the preferences that the present and potential customers may have, as well as about their acquisition patterns.

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Mattel's My Scene Barbies and the evolution of diversity in doll design

Mattel Corporation has been the owner of the Barbie brand and exclusive marketer of said brand for its entire existence, and in fact the original Barbie creator was also the creator of the Mattel corporation.

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Modernism and historical context in Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited"

Francis Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most prominent modernist writers. His life and career as a writer span two of the most tumultuous economical periods of the United States: the incredible economic boom of the twenties, followed by the tremendous economic crash during the Depression.

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Coping with miscarriage and stillbirth: addressing grief and dispelling myths

Sadly, miscarriages occur in approximately one out of four pregnancies. Of the 4.4 million confirmed pregnancies in the U.S. each year, over 500,000 end in miscarriage and 26,000 are stillbirths.

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Cooperative learning techniques in mathematics education

Cooperative learning techniques are being used extensively in many educational classrooms, although such methods are more likely to be found in the arts, science and literature than they are in mathematic courses.

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Television stereotypes of rural Americans and ethnocentrism

Rednecks and Television: A Qualitative Investigation of Popular Media's Habit of Promote Stereotypes of "Rednecks" The researcher's goal is to explore stereotypes of classic "rednecks" or "hillbillies" on television.

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Institutional repositories: history, purpose, programs, and benefits

Over the last several years, institutional repositories have increased in number substantially. In a study done in 2005, Lynch and Lippincott found nearly 40% of institutions deployed some form of institutional repository (2005).

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Treatment approaches for autism spectrum disorder in children

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the topic of autism. Specifically it will discuss the disease and treatment approaches to the disease. Autism is a disease that has no cure, even though research is working on understanding and thus curing the disease.

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Female Aboriginal survivors of Canadian residential schools

In 1993, many Native Indian women stood up before a Joint Commission to explain their hurt and despair resulted from their stays at Canadian Residential Schools. More recently the Canadian government asked the Law Commission of Canada (LLC) to investigate child abuse within the schools.

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Arson as a violent crime: motives, investigation, and impact

Over thirty thousand structural fires are set annually at a cost of over three-quarters of a million dollars worth of damage and more than three hundred lives lost.

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