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Thoreau's philosophy of authentic living through nature and contemplation

Thoreau is thinking that reality as truly seen is forever new and more than words can say. So what do you think? Do we need contemplation or something like it in order to better understand who we are?

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Emotional intelligence in primal leadership and organizational performance

Goleman et al. (2001) revealed much useful information in discussing their ideas about primal leadership. Eventually this group developed an argument about emotional intelligence and discussed this idea as an extremely important, yet mostly overlooked component of workplace leadership.

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Weight stigma and its psychological and social consequences

Weight stigma is discrimination or categorizing based on an individual's weight, especially in case of very huge people. Weight bias is quiet prevalent in western culture. Weight bias results in unequal biased opportunities in employment, health-care and educational institutes.

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Self-affirmation as a strategy for reducing cognitive dissonance about heights

Cognitive dissonance is disharmony manifested within the human mind, and is quite annoying. Eliot and Devine (1994) sought out to prove that this dissonance that brings us to a disagreeable state of mind is essentially motivation processes at work.

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William James's theory of religious conversion and spiritual rebirth

A convert is a man who is born again; who perceives his 'personhood in a different way.

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Variables affecting student performance in business classes

Given that all students in a given business class are exposed to the same professor and the same course materials, one might expect them to perform similarly. However, there is a broad range in how students perform in business classes.

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Racism's impact across generations in Walker and Smith's works

Time changes everything; reading these two pieces of work reminds the author of that fact and so much more. Both The Welcome Table, by Alice Walker, and the poem What it's Like to be a Black Girl, by Smith speak out of the dust of the past to those who now live in the future.

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Body language and cross-cultural communication differences in professional settings

Body language is a core component of communication. The hearing impaired rely almost exclusively on body language for communication, proving the importance of gestures, posture, eye contact, and other factors.

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Interconnected causes and global effects of the 2007-2009 financial crisis

The financial crisis, which seemed to be elevated to its greatest extent world-wide between the years 2007 and 2009, is difficult to unravel.

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Lying and deception: motivations, detection, and moral justification

Lying is something which stands at a different perspective for everyone. Every form of lying is because an individual is trying to gain or achieve something, most of people's actions are meant to deceive in some way for personal gain, and this goes on underlying, since people are so used to doing…

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