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The shift from the 4Ps to the 4Cs in modern marketing strategy

Today, some suggest that companies should organize and manage around the 4 C's: customer value, lower costs, better convenience, and better communication. Discuss the causes and the benefits of such a shift in focus.

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Lawrence Wright's Looming Tower and the origins of al-Qaeda

Lawrence Wright's book, the Looming Tower, published by Alfred Knopf in 2006. In Chapters 1 through 11, Wright make the complex workings of al-Qaeda easy to comprehend.

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Understanding the fundamentals and strategies of counterterrorism

The central reason for taking this course is to learn and understand the fundamentals of counterterrorism. The motivation behind my enthusiasm for this course is related to the age in which we live and to the ever-present danger of terrorism.

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Cascading effects of disasters on networked critical infrastructure systems

Disaster planning has been made that much more difficult in recent decades because of the increasingly networked nature of our own societies.

~9 min read

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Hate crime laws and concerns about equal protection

hate crime laws give certain people special rights and protection over others and are they, therefore, divisive and unfair?

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1,767 words

Identity and legacy in Morrison's Sula and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

Toni Morrison's Eva Peace and William Faulkner's Addie Bunden, present a clear portrait of the complexities of identity in the post-Civil War south for the African-American s. To describe these books as "complex" does little to assist us in understanding their true power.

~9 min read

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State terrorism in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia

In the history of the 20th century, the actions and legacy of Hitler's Nazi Germany too often overshadow the similar terror-infused events that simultaneously happened in Stalin's Soviet Union.

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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's "Random Family": poverty and drugs in the Bronx

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the book "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx." By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. Specifically it will contain a book report on the book, focusing on three problem areas the book discusses.

~8 min read

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Rousseau's general will versus liberal individualism and property rights

The great philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the foremost proponents of the theory of the Social Contract and of ideas concerning the basic nature of human society.

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Problem-oriented policing approaches to gang violence in America

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the topic of problem oriented policing. Specifically it will discuss two articles from the U.S.

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