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Philip II's military reorganization and expansion of Macedonia

According to Greek historian Geoffrey Parker, the end of the Peloponnesian Wars, circa 400 B.C.E., "did not bring an end to the conflict among prominent Greek city-states that contended for absolute power" (56) over each other and within the next fifty years following the end of the war, Sparta,…

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Fate and survival in Zhang Yimou's "To Live"

To Live" (1994) begins with a searing image -- a man loses everything because of his compulsive gambling. He is forced to sell off his ancestral home to pay his debts, and brings shame upon his family.

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Native American boarding schools and forced cultural assimilation policies

The legal relationship between the Americans and Native Americans has long been one that ensured the European descendants of the earlier settlers had and would retain legal domain over the territory and lands originally under Native American domain.

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Developing a biodiesel production business in Tampa, Florida

The biodiesel industry is currently a growth industry with almost exponential potential as it is economically and environmentally sound in ways that many other fuel deriving industries are not. It has only limited controls and subsidies but requires little consumer adaptation to utilize it.

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George Willard's gradual maturation in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio is drafted as a monograph detailing the life and the atmosphere of a small American town in Ohio. The book is considered to be a landmark of modernism and an extremely interesting and panoramic rendition of American life at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Catalhyuk and Neolithic settlement in ancient Anatolia

The republic of Turkey is quite young and it is located on a land which is very ancient. Right through the ages many miraculous events have taken place on the land which is now known as Turkey. The most consequential of these is perhaps the Neolithic revolution.

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Developing leadership skills through supervisor influence and charismatic leadership analysis

Enter 1-2 brief paragraphs about your Most Effective Leader, select 1-2 examples of leadership that person provided, and reflect on what you could learn for developing your own leadership style.

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Management talent development and succession planning gaps during recession

According to Carol Hymowitz of the Wall Street Journal, a fundamental paradigmatic shift is being forced upon human resource departments in terms of the way they operate during economic slowdowns.

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Geology and soil quality in Napa Valley wine production

Particularly over the past quarter century, California wines have grown in prestige to become among the world's most celebrated, even challenging more historically established wines from the Bordeaux region of France (Marcus).

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Critiques and applications of Watson's Theory of Caring

Barker, B. & Reynolds, B. (1994). A critique: Watson's caring ideology. The proper focus of psychiatric nursing? J. Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. (32)(5):17-22.

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