Essay Undergraduate 1,818 words

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository: Debate and Risks

Examines the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository debate, covering site selection, safety concerns, seismic risks, transportation hazards, and political opposition.

Environment

~10 min read

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Research Paper Undergraduate 1,851 words

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Culture & Community

Explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, demographics, sacred sites, kinship structures, and access to indigenous health services in Australia.

Anthropology

~10 min read

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Reflection Paper Graduate 1,357 words

Mission Command Philosophy: Trust, Intent, and Risk in Army Operations

Explores Army mission command doctrine, covering mutual trust, commander's intent, decentralized execution, and prudent risk acceptance for adaptive military leadership.

Government

~7 min read

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1,761 words

Global sourcing strategy at Friar Tucker International and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

In this paper, the benefits of global sourcing will be better for a company rather than domestic sourcing. From there, the benefits will be discussed in details why global sourcing will be more profitable than domestic sourcing.

~9 min read

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1,800 words

Sustainable hydration and the health benefits of proper water consumption

The first time sustainability was defined by a global institution was in 1987, when the Brundtland Commission, with a grant through the United Nations, outlined what was meant by the term.

~9 min read

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1,996 words

Racism and human inequality in North American slavery and history

Throughout history racism has been seen as a plight that tends to target vulnerable groups. Racism is the conviction that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others.

~10 min read

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2,391 words

Brazil and China's economic structures and institutional frameworks

Brazil is geographically the largest South American country and the fifth largest in the world (Economy Watch, 2010). With more than 190 million people, it is the fifth most thickly populated in the world. Its GDP in 2009 was U.S.$1.482 billion and growth rate was .05%.

~12 min read

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2,021 words

Ha Jin's *Waiting*: Cultural Revolution and gender roles in Mao's China

Waiting by Ha Jin was published in 1999. This is a tale of a love triangle in China during the Cultural Revolution. Lin Kong, a military doctor, was forced into marriage by his parents in 1962.

~11 min read

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1,454 words

Online recruitment in pharmaceutical clinical trials and employment

Trials. 2009. HighBeam Research. (January 4, 2011). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1800432001.html. The tremendous value of online portals for recruiters is hardly limited to the realm of hiring managers.

~8 min read

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1,825 words

Capital One's acquisition strategy and strategic environmental challenges

Capital One's external environment and its recent acquisition strategy. Capital One's strategy to this point has been congruent with its need to diversify beyond credit cards and the lack of international opportunities in financial services.

~10 min read

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