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Clark Pinnock and Barry Callen's the Scripture Principle revisited

In 2006, the second edition of Clark Pinnock's the Scripture Principle: Reclaiming the Full Authority of the Bible was published, this time co-authored with Barry Callen.

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Personal leadership potential survey results and self-assessment

I have always felt that I had strong leadership potential, for a number of reasons. I believe that I have a desire to be a leader, and that is part of leadership potential. Leadership needs to be a calling. What this survey showed me is that my beliefs about my own leadership potential are true.

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Critical evaluation of Webb and Nahum's tumour control probability model

"A model for calculating tumour control probability in radiotherapy including the effects of inhomogeneous distributions of dose and clonogenic cell density" by Webb and Nahum (1993)

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How family responsibility shaped my path to business management

I am the eldest of three children and my father left our family when I was 12-years-old and my younger sisters were four and three years of age. My mother is a teacher of mentally-challenged children and so her work -- though rewarding -- was often very taxing on her emotionally.

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The role of traits, motivation, and power in leadership effectiveness

There is little doubt that certain traits such as the Big Five need to be present in all leaders to some degree, the overall effectiveness of a leader is not dependent on the possession of specific traits as much as on how a leader's specific set of traits is utilized.

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Hobbes, Nietzsche, and Augustine on human nature and existence

"Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own." Hobbes was, more than anything, self-focused. When one first reads Hobbes, t is easy to think that Hobbes essentially believed that all human beings are selfish, that they basically are motivated by their own self-interest.

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Child soldiers: exploitation and trauma in modern conflicts

Though adults, particularly those in western cultures, would like to believe children partaking in the activities of war is a new phenomenon, in fact the opposite is true. Children have been involved in conflicts and war for decades, if not centuries.

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Multiculturalism in British education and society

The modern world is exponentially smaller, in terms of the ease of transportation and the transfer of information, than it ever has been in the past.

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U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank policy comparison

Compare and contrast the main policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank over the last 10 years.

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Neo-Confucianism's three bonds and five cardinal relationships in modern South Korea

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss neo-Confucianism in South Korea, more exactly, to analyze the manner in which the three bonds and five cardinal relationships of neo-Confucianism are applied to various aspects of modern South Korean life.

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