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Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chenier: history and Geneva performance analysis

Umberto Giordano's verismo opera Andrea Chenier was first performed a century after the French poet's death during the Reign of Terror.

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The government-as-business model in public policy

Public policy creation and study is a complex process that contains a variety of different perspectives and considerations, some practical and others less so.

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How external factors shape love in Romeo and Juliet and Atonement

The complexities of love and romantic relationships have long been literature mainstays. Fundamental themes of love have emerged in plays, novels, songs, poems and prose for millennia.

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Television's evolution: from invention to future transformations

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts," asserted famed American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter and producer, Orson Welles, who was arguably best known for his role in the film Citizen Kane (Welles).

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Social media's role in Thailand's Red Shirt Revolution

Most scholars are in conflict with regard to the subject of revolution in the age of social media. Until now, revolution has been considered a top-down process. In Thai situation, things might have been different.

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Massachusetts healthcare reform as a model for national policy

Access, Cost, and Quality of the Massachusetts State Health Program: A Model for the Nation? Few issues are as controversial or as pressing in terms of national policy than healthcare, which was and continues to be a prominent election issue and matter of public debate and scrutiny.

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Alcohol abuse among adolescents: health risks and psychological consequences

Substance abuse particularly with excessive use of alcoholic beverages is considered as a form of maladaptive behavior that is exhibited by a person for a long period of time. It concerns health care officials because of numerous health risk consequences.

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Pros and cons of the Gardasil HPV vaccine

Gardasil, a new vaccine developed by Merck & Co., was approved in 2006 by the U.S. FDA as a preventative vaccination for HPV (human papillomavirus -- types 6, 11, 16, and 18) -- recommended for girls before the onset of adolescence and for men ages 9 to 25.

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Zara's outdated IT infrastructure and operational inefficiency challenges

Zara: IT for Fast Fashion is a unique case study in that it powerfully illustrates how a lack of IT integration and process efficiency can over time force an organization into complacency, lowering the standards of performance due to a lack of real-time market and operations data and analytics.

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ProLocal: A specialty sports apparel retail business plan for Boston

This business plan describes start-up, operations and expansion for ProLocal, a specialty sports apparel retail chain focused on professional and amateur hockey and whatever sports and events complement hockey consumption.

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