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GPS technology in telecommunications and location-based services

The intent of this paper is to define the concepts behind Global Positioning Systems (GPS), specifically focusing on how the data is used from these systems and their role on data communications networks as well.

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Ecotourism as environmental learning: integrating education and conservation

Ecotourism is becoming increasingly more important in the tourism industry due to the internal crises which include the economic recession, the SARS outbreak, terrorist attacks and the war on terrorism. (Chafe, 2004; p.

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Personal motivations for pursuing a counseling career

First, it is important to discuss reasons NOT to seek a counseling degree. Many people enter this profession because they want to help others.

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Globalization and exploitation of women and children in sweatshops

Sweatshops more often than not conjure images of slavery albeit in the context of our modern, industrialized world.

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Nationalism and public archeology in the British Isles

Although there are numerous positive and negative motivations that inspire archeologists to search for ancient ruins and civilizations in various countries, the spread of modernization as a result of the ever-changing cultural face of the world related to technology and population growth has now…

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Balancing non-discrimination duties with employee safety at hotels

DWI is placed in a precarious legal position because it has competing duties. On the one hand, DWI cannot discriminate against any of its patrons on the basis of race. On the other hand, its refusal to do so has placed its employees in a position of danger.

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Saturday Night Live's 2008 political parody and media messaging

Watch a TV show or film and analyze the types of messages it is giving you. How are those messages conveyed? Be sure to talk about the visuals as well. If you saw the show or film as a realistic portrayal of the world, what would the world look like?

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Challenges facing patients, families, and providers in U.S. hospice care

The objective of this research is to examine the hospice care community and the challenges associated with treating terminal disease and maintaining quality of life standards that medical professionals, patients and their families face.

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Albania's history from Ottoman rule to post-communist transition

Albania is a nation that sadly bears the scars of one of the most difficult histories of all of the Balkans. As a modern state, Albania is relatively young, although the Albanian ethnicity which predominates within its borders has a far older genealogy than the modern Albanian nation.

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Affirmative action and reverse discrimination concerns in veteran hiring

Affirmative action is an actually a reasonably new development when looking at the long history of the United States. Basically, it is designed to ensure that anyone who was treated unfairly in the past because of specific characteristics like race or gender gets equal treatment now.

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