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Transformational Leadership in the Financial Services Industry

Explores how transformational leadership can replace transactional methods to motivate bank employees, boost performance, and improve morale in financial services.

Business

~8 min read

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False Identification and Biased vs. Unbiased Lineup Instructions

Explores how biased vs. unbiased lineup instructions affect false eyewitness identification rates, testing four hypotheses with 55 undergraduates in a lab study.

Psychology

~11 min read

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Theories Behind the Collapse of the Mayan Civilization

Explores two major theories — warfare and famine — explaining the collapse of the Mayan civilization between the ninth and tenth centuries A.D.

History

~5 min read

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American inaction and the Holocaust: examining historical responsibility

Holocaust: Where Were the Americans? The Holocaust is the most horrific act of genocide in history. Millions of Jews, and hundreds of thousands of others, were killed in cold blood.

~7 min read

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762 words

Peer review analysis of Golden and Arce's cybercrime research papers

Scam Types: Mapping the Terrain of Cyber Crime (2011), author Golden demonstrates strengths in providing sharp insights and a good command of editing skills. However, there are some areas that could use improvement.

~4 min read

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886 words

Foucault's analysis of biopower and modern sovereignty in Western society

Michel Foucault's "Right of Death and Power Over Life" seems to be a historical analysis of life and death in Western civilization. He comments on how in older societies life was only part of the sovereign, but in modern times the importance of life is more widespread.

~5 min read

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Advertising definitions across classical, scientific, and modernist theoretical schools

The general division in the social sciences in terms of theoretical schools of thought has its own influences in other allied functions of management and social science profession.

~22 min read

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817 words

Beason v. United Technologies: disability discrimination under the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act

The plaintiff, Donald Beason, brought a case against his employer, United Technologies Corporation. Beason is appealing from a judgment of a federal district court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, that found in favor of his employer.

~5 min read

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954 words

Burke and the Sophists: comparing ancient and modern rhetoric

Approaches to rhetoric, which can be broadly defined as the science -- or perhaps quasi-art -- of how ideas, words, and/or actions are communicated and/or inspired in human beings, are highly varied and can be enormously complex.

~5 min read

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2,529 words

Race, cultural capital, and achievement gaps in Springfield Gardens Middle School

Queens, New York, is home to Springfield Gardens, a public middle school enrolling more than seven hundred students in grades six, seven and eight.

~13 min read

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