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Canadian food safety: moral hazard and adverse selection in risk assessment

Say there are only two grocery stores, your family is getting hungry and will eventually starve.

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Eastern philosophy's influence on Western literature and film

The American/English poet T.S. Eliot references the Upanishad in his most famous poem "The Wasteland," a work that essentially chronicles the break-up of Western civilization and looks to Eastern philosophy for a kind of crutch in the wake of the abandonment of Western philosophy.

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Partnerships between special operations forces and law enforcement agencies

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten by the millions of people who witnessed them, whether live or on television, whether American or foreign, and whether old or young. This date has surely joined others as an infamous date in American history.

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Writing and woman suffrage in nineteenth-century America

Writing and woman suffrage were inextricably intertwined in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Suffrage gave them a voice, and they used that voice to challenge the early American patriarchal status quo.

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George Kennan's Long Telegram and Cold War containment strategy

The policy makers in Washington and Harry S. Truman overlooked the views and beliefs of Kennan, those that he expressed, in Moscow.

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Red Hat's competitive position in enterprise open source software

Red Hat is an information technology company focusing on open source products. According to the 2010 Annual Report the company has a subscription-based business model, primarily working with corporate and enterprise customers.

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Utilitarian ethics and the greatest-happiness principle

Ethics is a moral philosophy that attempts to discover a systematic understanding of the nature of morality and what it requires of people -- which, in Socrates's words, would simply come down to "how we ought to live" -- and why (Rachels & Rachels 2009). But, who is to say how one ought to live?

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African and Australian cultural wedding traditions compared

A wedding can be simply defined as a ceremony in which two individuals are bonded in marriage. There are various wedding traditions and customs and these go by the cultures, religions, ethnic groups, social classes, and even countries.

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Crisis intervention theory and school-based applications

Crisis theory intervention can be traced back as far as 400 B.C. (Roberts 2005). However, more modern crisis theory came out of studies that were done on crisis and bereavement.

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Facebook advertising strategies and cultural preferences in the UK market

Facebook is highly popular in the UK market today, just as it is in many other areas of the world. That has not always been the case, because Facebook has not been a social media tool for that long. In addition, when it first came out it was only for colleges in the United States.

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