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Transforming Riyad Capital through strategic leadership and organizational change

When I arrived as acting head of the it department, I had to turn around a troubled unit in record time. The team was in turmoil, overloaded and missing deadlines, with crucial projects bottlenecked for over two years -- integrated work bogging down other departments.

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Colonial perspectives on independence: religious, loyalist, and African-American views

The American Revolution was a war that began as a disagreement. The colonists largely believed that they were treated unfairly, merely pawns that were used for whatever reasons best suited the crown and parliament.

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The founding of the NAACP and early civil rights legislation in America

The struggle for the Civil Rights of the African-Americans have their roots in the slave trade era and the resulting pressure to let go the slaves in the southern states increasing every passing year during the emancipation of slaves period.

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Political satire and utopian quest in Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was first published in 1726 and was a major success in England, despite the controversy that surrounded it, or perhaps it was because of this controversy.

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Disney's international theme parks: cultural challenges in Paris and Tokyo

Though it would not be until 1985 that France and Disney would come to an official agreement on the site a conceived Euro-Disney, there had been consideration of this market roughly since the first successful years of the original American Disney theme parks.

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Metonymic characterization in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit

Metonymy is a literary term that is used to describe a concept that is not called by its own name, but rather by something symbolically associated with it that has a deeper, metaphorical meaning.

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An annotated bibliography entry evaluating an article on midwifery history and practice

This information in this article relates to midwife generally and in the United States specifically, incorporating its medical, legal, and spiritual/philosophical elements in a comprehensive and brief overview.

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St. Jerome's translation of biblical texts and Christian faith spread

Intended Audience: A mixed group of high school and junior high school students with a background in the Christian Faith

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Contrasting voices: Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington on slavery

Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery and the Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglass The institution of slavery has always been a dark stain on the history of this great nation.

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Language and alienation in Fanon's Black Skin White Masks

Grove, 1967. Fanon examines language's role in the black man's alienation from the other, the European (17). In his words, "a man who has language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language" (18). Simply put, language acts as a route into the colonizer's culture.

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