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The ethics of plastic surgery funding based on medical necessity

The Ethics of Plastic Surgery Funding Based on the Reason for Surgery and Other Factors: A Literature-Based Briefing Since the beginnings of recorded history at least, and indeed even earlier from what archaeologists have been able to ascertain, human beings have been obsessed with their own…

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Lucid dreaming and enlightenment in Waking Life and Plato's Republic

Richard Linklater's 2001 film Waking Life explores the nature of reality and its relationship to dreaming, and in particular the way in which the worlds of dreaming and reality intersect and cloud each other.

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Poverty, not scarcity: the root cause of global hunger

The late 1960's and early 1970's saw a polemical of two distinctive viewpoints on the trajectory of world hunger, food production, and global starvation. Dr.

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Rayovac Corporation's diversification strategy and divesture plan analysis

Welcome to the new and improved Spectrum Brands ®. The organization has embarked on a cost reducing strategy that will enable our business to focus on our primary businesses whilst removing the non-core businesses. Divesture will not facilitate a cost to our firm.

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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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