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Practical anti-terrorism security measures for organizations and employees

The threat of terrorism involves many variables. The nature and degree of risk posed by a potential attack depends on a number of factors, including the goals of the attackers and their means of inciting terror.

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Flaws and dangers of rationalist theories in international relations

Despite the name, rationalist theories of international relations are anything but, limited as they are by both an almost childlike understanding of human behavior and a catastrophic lack of imagination.

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Deborah Tannen's "But What Do You Mean?" lacks empirical support

I'm serious. Nothing people say, write, or teach with respect to relationship advice, male-female communication, or the dynamics of socialization (with particular regard to language) is worth a damn. I'm serious. It's worthless.

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War propaganda in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage

One of the easiest ways to understand how literature can implicitly function as propaganda in the service of the powerful is to imagine Henry Fleming, the main character of Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage, if he had chosen to return home following his desertion rather than stay with…

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Sports sponsorship and the rugby sevens event stakeholder network

Private organizations may be enticed to provide a share of the funding necessary to design and construct a sport facility or support the planning and operational phase of an event until the first revenues arrive. Companies may become involved in financing for three chief reasons.

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Vasconcelos' flawed criticisms of Descartes, Locke, and Hume

While there is plenty to criticize in the work of Descartes, Locke, and Hume, one cannot justifiably claim that Jose Vasconcelos criticisms of traditional Western views on the nature of knowledge apply to these theorists if only because Vasconcelos' criticisms do not really apply to anything, as…

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Global environmental problems: causes, impacts, and climate change solutions

With the increasing globalization measures, there are various environmental problems that have continued to affect the entire world. These global environmental problems have affected almost every society in the world because of their impact on the earth's natural processes.

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Communication processes in e-commerce website design and customer trust

The dynamics of communication online are drastically different than offline or through hybrid communication and e-commerce channels, influencing behavior differently as a result (Sliwa, 1999).

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Value-based skimming pricing strategy for new smartphone market entry

The pricing strategies and tactics of innovative products including smart phones more effectively and clearly define their position in a market compared to another other strategy including marketing and advertising (Piercy, Cravens, Lane, 2010).

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Management styles in Italian and British tourism hotels

Italy is a country in a stage of transition. It is no longer a predominantly agrarian society nor yet a fully industrialized economy. It is also a land of striking contrasts, with no unified social or economic patterns.

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