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Czinkota on international marketing and American insularity

Czinkota urges those he consults for as well as the readers to cultivate awareness about themselves and about their assumptions. Czinkota communicates the reward and the utility of considering ideas outside the realm of established assumptions.

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Enlightenment ideals in Molière's Tartuffe and Swift's Gulliver's Travels

In his own way, Moliere's Tartuffe represents one aspect of the Enlightenment, if only a negative one, since he is a purely self-interested individual who cares only about advancing his own wealth and status.

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Personal reflections on cultural differences in nonverbal communication

From an early age, I was urged to always make eye contact when I spoke to others. I feel that making eye contact is natural, given that it seems people are more willing to listen to what you have to say, if you gaze directly into their face and eyes.

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Utilitarian and deontological approaches to resolving bandit raids

Is your answer from last week closer to the utilitarian approach to moral problems, to the Kantian / deontological approach or to neither?

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Max Hardberger's Seized: Adventure and ship recapture

Max Hardberger's Seized is a thrilling adventure novel, told from real-life events, of Hardberger's life as a sea captain, teacher, ship recapture, pilot, and family man.

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The Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination and special education assessment

As Wisconsin and the federal government need some manner to gauge teacher performance and student progress it falls on educators to find effective means of testing special education students. The WKCE system is discussed with a special emphasis on the alternate testing pathway.

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Whitman and Melville: spirituality versus alienation in industrial New York

Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" are set in New York City during the early years of the industrial revolution, but are markedly different in tone, theme and the perceptions and feelings of the main characters.

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Managing diversity and communication in urban school leadership

Diversity typically plays a major role in leadership and administrative issues in a school setting.

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Caregiving responsibilities and diabetes self-management in African-American grandmothers

The authors of the report, Carthton et al., are very well qualified to write this report on diabetes.

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NAFTA's political, technical, and legal challenges

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted in November of 1993 with the objective to facilitate the free flow of goods, services and labor between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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