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BP's crisis management and communication strategies following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Marketing and advertising strategies are used in various fields, not just in promoting products and services. Such techniques are developed and implemented in order to communicate political messages, to influence the election process, to create or to conceal scandals, and others.

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Teacher proletarianization and professionalization in Alberta's 1990s educational reform

Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta and Teacher's Struggle against Proletarianization In the 1990s, Canadian educational system went through a series of reforms.

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Canada-U.S. border security and post-9/11 policy evolution

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Personality traits in panic disorder treatment and agoraphobia development

Panic disorder is a comparatively heterogeneous disorder, with its center characteristic, the knowledge of frequent unanticipated panic attacks, surrounding a diversity of somatic, physiological, and cognitive indications that can vary from patient to patient.

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Jonathan Kozol's examination of inequality in American urban schools

Kozol, J. (1991) Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol is a passionate expose of a disturbing reality of what plagued the American school system in the late 1980s.

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Organizational competences for business intelligence system benefit realization

Business intelligence (BI) systems comprise one of the largest and fastest growing areas of it expenditure in companies today. Companies? experiences with deriving benefits from these systems are still mixed.

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Preventing juvenile delinquency through rehabilitation and intervention strategies

Much has been written about juvenile delinquency in the last two decades. The problem attracts a serious interest these days because of the prevalence of delinquent behavior among adolescents in the United States throughout the country and the inability of stakeholders in containing the growing…

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Jewish-Americans and American identity from 1865 onward

Since the end of the Civil War, Jewish-Americans not only have defined themselves, but also have helped define America.

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Teaching and Learning Together program's impact on classroom engagement

Cook-Sather, a. (2009). "I'm not afraid to listen: Prospective teachers learning from students." Theory Into Practice, 48(3), 176-183.

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Comparing juvenile justice systems in China and the United States

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