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Manifest destiny, westward expansion, and the transformation of America

At the time of the signing of Treaty of Paris (1783), which formally ended the American Revolutionary War, the United States of America consisted of thirteen former British colonies concentrated in the east of the North American continent and hemmed in by the rugged Appalachian region to the west.

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Positioning Canberra through the Stop, Go, Stay campaign

If an American child misbehaves, his mother says 'be good' (which implies he's being bad). The French mother corrects the child with, 'Be wise.'

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Differentiated instruction and multiple intelligences in ESL science classrooms

This work reports a case study conducted relating to differentiated instruction in a classroom with ESL or English as Second Language students.

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Marketing and business strategy for a Tampa-based biodiesel facility

Biodiesel is a processed fuel that is produced from biological sources that are biodegradable and produce less C02 than conventional diesel (Woodman, 2007).

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Athenian democracy and citizenship in classical Greek political thought

The classical features of Greek democratic tradition was an emphasis on disbursing political power among all citizens, and the participation of all citizens was seen as essential both to the well-being of the state and the citizen himself.

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How higher gas prices impact major automobile manufacturers

The heart and soul of this study, the primary research question, purports: What impact(s) do higher gas prices exert on the automobile industry (GM; Ford; Toyota; BMW; other manufacturers)? Subsequent questions include: How has the price of gas progressed through history?

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Compliance gaining strategies and manager-employee motivation

The objective of this work is to examine how managers gain compliance from their employees and how they get their employees to perform. The compliance gaming theory states that leaders can effectively make use of informal communication strategies to motivate their employees.

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Disappearing wetlands of the United States and their ecological importance

Wetlands, they are not the most attractive of natural resources and few have attained anything like the status of the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls, but they are some of the most crucial environments for both the humans that surround them and the life that inhabits them.

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Object-based narrative in archaeology and art history

On a world history scale, written narrative is a fairly recent phenomenon. It only developed after human beings had existed for thousands of years.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

Introduction number of studies and other researches have yielded findings that many or most combat or war veterans who return home from the battlefield develop Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. The disorder consists in reliving the memories of war, which a veteran re-enacts.

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