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Islamic faith and secular education in multicultural societies

Culture is an evasive term that is hard to define and even harder to name. This is despite the fact that the term is used definitively and repeatedly in almost every aspect of discussion regarding people.

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Social ethics of negative advertising and its consequences

Although most marketing professionals and consumers agree that people buy more when they feel better, a great deal of advertising has gone negative. Despite its recent popularity, the continuum of negative and positive advertising is not a new topic.

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The relationship between school bullying and academic performance

Feller (2003) defines school bullying as "aggressive and repeated behavior based on an imbalance of power among people" adding that "it ranges from slapping, kicking and other physical abuse to verbal assaults to the new frontier: cyberbullying, in which kids use e-mail and Web sites to humiliate…

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RSS feeds as a critical component of communications strategy

The collection of technologies referred to as Web 2.0 (Bernoff, Li, 2008) share the common goals of ensuring a higher level of communication, collaboration, information-sharing and responsiveness between individuals and groups.

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The limits of unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence

Historically speaking these are often men who can take the best of the ideas of others and compile them to build a case for the goal, a state of peace in a controlled community of men.

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Transnational organized crime and government complicity as a modern threat

Introduction and overview common definition of organized crime is, "Widespread criminal activities, such as prostitution, interstate theft, or illegal gambling, that occur within a centrally controlled formal structure" (Dictionary: organized crime).

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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.

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