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Guillaume de Machaut's life and musical achievements in medieval France

Medieval France was Guillaume de Machaut was one of the first composers who left substantial information behind about his life and music. This paper provides an account of Machaut's biography, followed by a discussion of his major musical achievements.

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Instructional design as process, discipline, science, and reality

Instructional Design is easily defined by its components - the design of instruction. It is the plan used to deliver knowledge. Since the first parent was presented with the challenge of rearing the next generation, humans have been involved in instructional design.

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Sexual assault forensic examination protocols and nursing competency requirements

The report of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women entitled: "A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations: Adults and Adolescents" relates that: "Sexual assault can result in physical trauma and significant mental anguish and suffering for…

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Divorce effects across racial and ethnic groups

Divorce has been a hot topic as well as the effects that divorce has in various family dynamics especially across ethnic boundaries. However, Studies of divorce among ethnically heterogeneous couples was rare in 1996.

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Daimler-Benz and Chrysler's merger and dissolution: strategic failures

If you travel to Stuttgart, you'll find the three-pointed star everywhere, from the main train station to the engine works in Unterturkheim on the Neckar River.

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Luke's portrayal of Jesus through the Gospel narrative

Jesus" is a question that is both straight forward and at the same time ambiguous. On the one hand, everybody knows who Jesus was. Simply, he is whom Christians believe to be the Son of God and who Jews and Muslims believe to be a prophet of God.

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Robert Putnam's theory of social capital and civic decline

Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam offers an interesting image of how the idea of social capital applies in the modern world and how people are becoming more isolated so that the idea of democracy is under attack, given that people have fewer and fewer community associations and community activities…

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Contraceptive access policy at King Middle School in Portland, Maine

Confidential Condom and Birth Control Pills for Middle School Students? The argument put forward in this paper is that today's teenager, whether in senior high school or middle school, should be given access to confidential health care - e.g., condoms and prescription birth control - in order to…

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Environmental attitudes in developed and developing countries

The objective of this work is to examine the differences in attitudes towards the environment in the developed and developing world.

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Physicists' moral conflict during the Manhattan Project development

The physicists instrumental in the design and development of the nuclear atomic bomb are certain to have held a certain level of pride in their accomplishment however it is just as certain that there must have been regret as well due to the potential for destruction, death and war that had been…

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