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Transformative leadership and President Obama's 2008 campaign

Even President' Obama's harshest critics admit that his 2008 campaign for the White House mobilized a new generation of young people to become involved in politics. It also encouraged many jaded older Americans to participate in an electoral process they felt had excluded them.

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Organizational dysfunction at Saudi Arabian Airlines: merit versus connections

The airline seems to be riddled with problems most of which the writers of the article attribute to the HR department, but it seems to me the problems are reducible to certain factors that figure throughout the industry.

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The law of contracts: consideration, formation, and mutual assent

The law of contracts represents society's attempt to formalize promises between parties. Promises are agreements between parties that are supported by consideration. Historically, consideration was described as a benefit received by one promisor or as detriment incurred by the opposing promisor.

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Societal values and institutional barriers to technology management in developing countries

Technology management arrangements of developing countries vary from those of first world ones. The requirement for skill in these states is not growing from within, but somewhat cropping up from new wares imported from first world countries.

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Enterprise security management integrating risk mitigation and compliance

For any enterprise to attain its long-term and most strategic objectives, the need to have an agile, highly secure framework for managing their financial reporting and audit applications corporate-wide.

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Transformational leadership and the evolution of managerial roles

There are many fundamental differences between leaders and managers, with the most significant being in how each attempts to attain complex, often challenging objectives that require the coordination of limited resources.

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Analytical models for understanding causes of international conflict

Nations have gone to war against each other for millennia for a wide array of reasons, but most causes of conflict appear to be related to many of the same things, including scarcity of resources, powerful notions of nationalism and the vain quest for power over others.

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Gender role socialization and cultural variation in adolescent identity formation

Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has somewhat evolved around debates concerning sexual inequality. Gender roles are complex and clearly vary by culture and time-period, and are often misunderstood based on individual societal bias.

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Traditional education versus student-centered learning approaches

A traditional education begins and ends in the classroom the vast majority of the time. It is an education that is very teacher oriented; it is managed by the teacher, it is conducted by the teacher and it is and education that is almost totally dependent on the teacher's knowledge and skills.

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Observing Jupiter's Great Red Spot: causes and atmospheric conditions

The sights in the night sky are particularly refreshing as you can see the movement of many of the stellar bodies. The one that was of the greatest interest to me as I examined the sky was the view of three starry actions. The first was the interaction of Mars and the Beehive cluster.

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