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How financial managers create value through investment decisions

The role of a financial manager could be classified as part financial analyst, part psychologist.

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Historical, prophetic, and personal evidence for Jesus Christ's existence

The truth of the existence of Jesus Christ can be best be proven using a combination of historical, prophetic, and personal sources. Combining these three approaches is the best way to understand Jesus Christ.

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Strategic tourism development for the mining town of Bilby

As a historic mining community with a wealth of natural beauty, Bilby can readily become the region's premiere tourism destination.

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Factors promoting and inhibiting second language acquisition

Low level of linguistic distance (learning a Romantic language like Portuguese is relatively easy for a native Spanish speaker) versus a high level of linguistic difference (learning a tonal language like Chinese is a greater challenge for native non-tonal language speakers)

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Foucault and feminist rhetoric: discourse, knowledge, and patriarchal power

According to Foucault, discourse creates knowledge ("Michel Foucault on Rhetoric"). In fact, discourse also has the power to create reality. Therefore, the rules that govern discourse play a major role in the content of knowledge, how it is created, and how that knowledge is disseminated.

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Biological and social factors in Maya Angelou's resilience

As a young woman, the poet, dancer, and intellectual Maya Angelou faced seemingly impossible odds. She grew up in an era where discrimination against African-Americans was still widely tolerated.

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Project Open Hand's mission of meals with love for seniors

Project Open Hand provides "meals with love" to seniors and individuals with terminal illnesses. I have been volunteering for Project Open Hand for the past five months, and in that period have come to understand much about how charitable organizations work and carry out their missions each day.

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Workplace ergonomics: repetitive strain, computer monitors, and keyboard injuries

Prior to the widespread use of computers in the workplace, ergonomics issues in the workplace most often involved repetitive motion injuries.

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Verbal sparring and love in Much Ado About Nothing

They never meet but there is a skirmish of wit between them" (1.1.58-61). William Shakespeare's comic play Much Ado About Nothing portrays the funny, but also painful and violent adjustment that occurs when soldiers must socially reorient themselves to peacetime.

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Treatment approaches to mental illness across psychological schools of thought

Each of the major schools of thought in psychology propose treatment interventions for mental disorders. The therapeutic interventions vary depending on the theory's model of mental illness such as perceptions of etiology and goals of treatment.

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