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Jon Pahl's argument that the mall functions as sacred space

Since the earliest human civilizations formed, people groups have relied upon rituals, ceremonies, and sacred places in order to fulfill their basic spiritual needs.

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Leadership and management practices at Google

In assessing how Google has been able to succeed in intensively competitive industries including online search, advertising, and providing licensing of their technologies for use within corporations and governments globally, their leadership and management practices need to be taken into account.

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The role of comitatus in the Old English poem "The Wanderer"

The complex relationship between a vassal -- the weaker, poorer, more populous, and lower class of individual involved in the comitatus relationship -- and his lord is a highly complex one, and is often grossly oversimplified in modern understandings and explanations of the feudal system.

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Freescale Semiconductor's use of performance metrics for employee retention

Why do you think Freescale focuses on metrics? Why don't more organizations follow its approach?

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Marketing strategies of PepsiCo and Coca-Cola

This is a template and guideline and is not to be used as a turn-in paper. PepsiCo is the world's leader in convenient foods and beverages. They have sales of over $24 billion and over 140,000 employees.

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Workplace violence prevention and employer preparedness in federal agencies

Opperman, S. (2007). Violence in the workplace: is your agency prepared? Retrieved May 14, 2009 from Fedsmith.com. Web site: http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1263/

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Puritan ideals in the poetry of Bradstreet and Wigglesworth

Puritanism as Seen in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Michael Wigglesworth's "The Day of Doom" The Puritans, for all of their iconic status as religious stuffed shirts with buckles on their hats and a penchant for punishment, are not an especially well understood group of people today.

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Structured data types and object-oriented programming in web applications

The analyzing the variation in data structures, data types and core concepts of programming as explained in this paper, the evolutionary role of Object oriented Programming (OOP) and associated objectives and structures are discussed.

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Modern maritime piracy: Economic desperation and organized crime in Somalia

Despite the fact that maritime piracy in the modern era is no longer a problem capable of threatening international trade and commerce on the large scale in the manner that it once did, the problem still persists.

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George Crumb's Idyll for the Misbegotten and contemporary musical works

The many apparent allusions to other works in the words and melodies of this piece caused me to seek out what inspired it. According to composer George Crumb, the works of environmentalists inspired his "idyll" or postmodern pastoral (Idyll, Arts of the States, 2009).

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