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Scholarly definitions of romantic love across short-term and long-term relationships

How do I love these -- let me count the ways. So the poet advises the lovers of the world, but the advice could just as well be given to scholars investigating the ways in which romantic love is understood and explicated.

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Seth Godin's "All Marketers Tell Stories": storytelling in modern marketing

The book, All Marketers Tell Stories by Seth Godin is entertaining, educational and very insightful about the nature of marketing according to one of the world's most celebrated gurus of this area of business.

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Employee attitudes toward performance appraisal systems at Company XY Limited

The Literature Review section is constructed in a means in which it introduces the reader to the topic of performance appraisal systems and to various dimensions of the issue, such as their definition and history, their applicability within the modern day business climate, but also their flaws.

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Recruitment strategy for confidential engineering projects at Pumps for All

Pumps for All: High-Profile and Top Secret Water Movement Engineer Recruitment: A Case Study In order to remain a leader of water movement technologies, Pumps for All must maintain the highest standards of excellence and innovation in the engineers it hires.

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No Child Left Behind's impact on teaching methods and student equity

The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes that teachers have made in order to adapt to the need to improve student test scores on standardized tests since the introduction of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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Applying Lewin's change management model to corporate social responsibility

Developing Corporate Social Responsibility through Managerial Strategy: An application of Change Management Corporate social responsibility (and the lack thereof -- whether merely perceived or an all-too-evident actuality) has been an increasingly prevalent and impassioned topic over the past…

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Achievement gap theory and affirmative action in MBA education

The impact of Affirmative Action on the Professional Success of African-American MBA Graduates Affirmative action as it stands in the professional and business sphere has generated a wide spectrum of controversy.

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Metonymic characterization in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit

Metonymy is a literary term that is used to describe a concept that is not called by its own name, but rather by something symbolically associated with it that has a deeper, metaphorical meaning.

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Outcomes and challenges for youth aging out of foster care

Annually, about 20,000 of 542,000 youths age out of foster care across the United States (Courtney, 2005). Except for incarcerated youth, foster youth are the only individuals who are involuntarily removed from their families through government intervention.

~21 min read

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Ideology and family dysfunction in Little Miss Sunshine

As scholar Timothy Corrigan suggests in his book a a Short Guide to Writing About Film, "[w]riting essays about films is, in short, one of the most sophisticated ways to respond to them" (iv).

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