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Early colonists' transatlantic voyage as calculated risk-taking

Although risk taking has become a sport or hobby for some, taking risks is still quite treacherous for those who worry about the consequences of their risky decisions.

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The Barbary Wars and the founding of the U.S. Navy

Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli, the Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines, by Gregory Fremont-Barnes

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Familiar names and speech segmentation in infant language acquisition

In their article, Mommy and Me: Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Structured Segmentation, Bortfeld, Morgan, Golinkoff, and Rathbun discuss infants' grammatical development with a specific emphasis on sentence construction.

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Applying Boudon and Eskensberger's theories to adult education instruction

What concepts in the articles of Boudon (2001) and Eskensberger (2001) can current instructors apply in an adult education program?

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Cultural relativism and absolutism in Western and Mongolian cultures

Western culture idealizes individual autonomy and choice above all things -- better to make a mistake in choosing a partner, it counsels, so long as it is your own mistake, than to have the choice made for you, for good or for ill.

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Ireland's foreign direct investment strategy and economic transformation

Ireland was one of the poorest countries in European Union (EU) two decades ago (Berry, 2001).

~8 min read

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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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Starbucks' strategic development from coffee retailer to global leader

Over the past recent decades, global communities have suffered drastic changes that lead to numerous mutations. For instance, the manufacturing entities are no longer centered on the sole production operations, in the hope of selling to customers whatever they produce.

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Founding figures and conflicts in early American history

Sam Adams. Franklin. Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton. Hancock. Clearly, each of these individuals are related in that they all participated in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence which ultimately led to the American fight for independence from England, and the formation of the new United…

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Equality Now's global advocacy against women's rights violations

Equal rights have begun to play an increasingly important role in the globalized and information-rich world of today. No longer can communities isolate themselves or make their own rules for existence.

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