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Individual experiences and motivations of soldiers at Shiloh

Real people, some of them very young, entered the military for different reasons, and each had their own story.

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Service-oriented personalities in Habits of the Heart

Ever restless and frustrated with the problems in our society, I was never one to rest on my laurels. For years I worked with refugees from Africa in my hometown. Few of them spoke fluent English, and we usually used sport as our common language.

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Combat roles for women in the United States military services

Women in history [...] problem of women in the military, and offer a solution to the problem. Historically, women have not served as members of the military for a number of reasons.

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Amy Bridges' analysis of municipal reform in the Southwest

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. The title of Amy Bridge's book Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest, comes from a phrase of the infamous Tammany Hall politician George Washington Plunkett who referred to the political reformers that wished to eliminate the corruption and…

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The Fact and Fiction Project's approach to boys' reading engagement

Boys with reading problems do not always get the attention they need and deserve to help them. It is possible that boys are stuck in a rigid classification as underachievers and they can't escape from that classification.

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Post-communist reforms in Poland and Yugoslavia: divergent paths

The communist rule in Europe marked an important historical moment. It represented the framework for the political, social, economic, and cultural evolution of most East European countries.

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The Abilene Paradox: causes, symptoms, and organizational solutions

The Abeline Paradox, as described in Jerry B. Harvey's essay of the same name, occurs when a group of individuals embark upon a project that all of them agree, privately, is insane (like taking a long trip to Abeline, Texas on a hot summer day), but no one speaks up to stop the insanity.

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Chiang Kai-shek's rise to power through the Northern Expedition

Northern Expedition a military campaign launched by the Kuamintang (KMT) in July 1926 to defeat the warlords controlling northern China, is considered to be an important event in modern Chinese history as it served to unify the country after decades of instability and fragmentation.

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Jane Addams's political argument in Hull-House

Hull-House by Jane Addams. Specifically, it will discuss what her political argument is, and how she goes about promoting it in the book. Jane Addams has a clear political argument that sets the tone for her book, and the editor states it early in the manuscript.

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Key success factors in IBM and Nokia's corporate entrepreneurship programs

The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the key success factors that corporations who are successfully managing corporate entrepreneurship programs have in common and which factors they vary on.

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