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Consumer behavior in purchasing local versus international baby food in Ethiopia

Companies that manufacture and/or market baby formula employ various conventional and modern (i.e., web-based) media for advertising their products and capturing a large target audience.

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Workplace communication barriers between heterosexual and homosexual employees

There is likely a combination of factors that is causing Nichole to have difficulty communicating with her co-worker that is homosexual. The most prominent of these pertains to the fact that it is obvious that Nichole does not view this coworker as just that, a simple coworker.

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Gendered division of labor and patriarchy in India and America

Cultural traits can refer to the familiar systems and institutions present throughout human societies including religion, family structures, gender roles and norms, methods and meanings of education, language, and politics or governmental systems.

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Proposal for a 21-turbine wind farm in southwestern Florida

Florida, the United States and the broader world in particular is facing an energy crisis. Indeed, it is a battle and one with many fronts. There are a number of good reasons out there to find alternative energy.

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Parental involvement and literacy development in minority and ELL communities

How do family interactions

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The spread and cultural transformation of universalizing religions

Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam are a few of the "universal" or "universalizing" religions. Strayer frames the universalizing religions in terms of the spread of different cultures and ideas throughout the world.

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Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Earthseed religion

In Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, the plot focuses on one woman's attempt to start and maintain a new religion for humanity -- one that can give meaning to the people in Los Angeles in a post-apocalyptic world.

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Coercive control theory and domestic violence in Behind Closed Doors

The documentary Behind Closed Doors depicts several cases of domestic violence. In all of the anecdotes, women struggle to leave their abusive partners but due to personal and legal factors this is challenging.

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Federalist and Anti-federalist visions of American government structure

Federalism seeks a “well constructed Union,” as Madison (1787) put it in Federalist 10, whereas anti-federalists claim “the principles of this system are extremely pernicious, impolitic, and dangerous,” (Henry, 1788).

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Gender discrimination in US workplaces: effects on organizations and individuals

First, literature related to the fundamentals of discrimination and descriptions of gender discrimination are discussed in the literature.

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