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Emotion, control, and political anxiety in Orwell, Huxley, and Akerlof

On the edge between a crowd and a mob, the Tea Party protests have brought a range of strong human emotions to the fore: Anger, hate, fear, righteousness have moved across the faces that have moved across our televisions and computer screens.

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Bank of America's organizational structure, leadership, and human resource development

Bank of America is a bank and financial holding company and one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. The company's history dates to 1904 when it was founded as the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to lend to Italian immigrants who were unable to borrow at other banks.

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President Kennedy's leadership in American physical fitness reform

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physiological fitness.

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W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe and the American dream

Kinsella's Shoeless Joe -- for which he was awarded both the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Books in Canada Award for First Novel -- reads like a long, languid trip through the slumber of an American mid-west long past; the American mid-west.

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Manipulative thrust techniques for treating lower back pain

Manipulative thrust techniques are used by osteopaths and chiropractors to make adjustments in the lower spinal region of the lower back and other joints in the body. Osteopaths call it adjustments and chiropractors refer to it as manipulation but the techniques are basically the same.

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AJAX application performance on TCP/IP and XML networks

Both TCP/IP and XML have emerged as market standards globally. AJAX-based applications show the potential of significantly increasing enterprise platform performance. The intent of this research effort is to quantify the performance of AJAX-based applications on both TCP/IP and XML networks.

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Effectiveness of influenza vaccines in children

How Effective is the Influenza Vaccine among Children? The purpose of this paper is to discover and discuss the effectiveness of the Influenza vaccine in children.

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Domino's UK financial strategy during the economic downturn

Domino's UK & Ireland has succeeded admirably during the economic downturn, largely due to the actions of management. The company "monitors its cash resources through short, medium and long-term forecasting" (2009 Annual Report).

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FDA-approved smoking cessation products and prescription medications

Smoking has been around for a very long time and the health effects that it has are numerous. Everyone who has taken up smoking has ended up trying to quit at one point it time. Many fail from the beginning or stop for a while but end up starting again.

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Euthanasia as compassionate end-of-life care for the terminally ill

"You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die."

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