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Hospice care: history, philosophy, and end-of-life services

Hospice is an approach to end-of-life care and a kind of support facility for terminally ill patients (Wexler & Frey, 2004). It provides palliative care, patient-centered care and related services. Palliative care relieves discomfort without improving the patient's condition or curing his illness.

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Financial deregulation and mortgage-backed securities in the 2008 crisis

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Parag Khanna's "Second World": competition for influence among superpowers

The author Parag Khanna takes on an ambitious journey in researching and writing the book the Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global World by visiting dozens of countries and both observing and interviewing globalization experts to complete this book.

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Junot Diaz's examination of Dominican diaspora in Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao hails as Junot Diaz's greatest creation. In this book, Diaz details many facts of Dominican life that are often absent from the minds of the rest of the world.

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Web design principles for common and expert users

Anyone with basic computer skills can create web materials using some very simple stages and steps, the most important of which are, understanding client/organization goals and intentions, design, function, technical (hardware) support, universal usability and then these are elaborated on based…

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Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema in Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz

The 1960s and 1970s were a period of remarkable cultural proliferation for the United States. The development and emergence of an increasingly influential counterculture would soon find its way to the mainstream of music, art and cinema, to name a few media.

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Coombs and Holladay's critique of media misrepresentation of public relations

PR: Public Relations in Society is an enterprise authors Coombs and Holladay took as a consequence to the gap they felt it was created between various opinions expressed by those who attacked the field and its real meaning. The tone they set is objective and free of any partisanship.

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Strategic marketing compass merger and Granada acquisition analysis

Compass began a new era when they merged with Granada. That transaction heralded several years of restructuring, from which Compass is just now emerging.

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Deceptive advertising practices and regulatory gaps in marketing

DECEPTIVE MARKETING PRACTICES and ETHICAL ISSUES Background and History of the Issue: The history of advertising regulations goes back only to the early 20th century because prior to that, little regulation existed even with respect to the actual products marketed for sale, let alone the…

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Criminal profiling as a police practice and constitutional violation

Due process of law is one of the most fundamental concepts in American constitutional law.

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