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Canada's need for an independent foreign intelligence agency

At the present time, Canada, an independent sovereign nation, has no foreign intelligence agency.

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Computer-based testing and competency-based learning in higher education

There is push of the higher education towards novel instruction delivery models by the advent of the internet. This leads to the student being the focus of the learning process and the new models results into the creation of instructions which are tailor made for the student delivery.

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Rhetorical analysis of President Bush's January 1991 Gulf War speech

To paraphrase John Donne, no speech is an island. And this is especially true of the best speeches, for while each speech is addressed to a specific audience and is a response to a particular moment in history, it is also an echo of other speeches made in similar and sometimes dissimilar times.

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Global airline industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces

The past decade has been a challenging one for the global airline industry. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 sent the industry into a downturn in the first half of the decade, while the second half of the decade saw skyrocketing jet fuel costs and economic downturn send passenger numbers…

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Myanmar's Karen insurgency and regional destabilization risks

Decades of relative peace and prosperity have allowed the democracies of Southeast Asia the latitude to pursue economic cooperation and relatively stable domestic policies.

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Public management strategies responding to dynamic market changes

The dynamic changes which impacted the world up to the 21st century have materialized in a series of outcomes.

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The hero archetype in classical epic and modern film

Hero in Popular Culture- One very interesting aspect of the human experience is the manner in which certain themes appear again and again over time, in literature, religion, mythology, and culture -- regardless of the geographic location, the economic status, and the time period.

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Petroleum subsidies in Ghana and wealth inequality effects

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Developing a profile of distance learners in online education

Many of us have an image of what we think a "normal" student looks like. And that typical -- or even stereotypical -- student is dressed casually but neatly.

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Jury duty observations in a murder trial at Union County Courthouse

This will be my first entry. I have begun to visit the Union County Courthouse in New Jersey to follow a murder trial that is taking place there.

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