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The enduring popularity and social satire of John Gay's Beggar's Opera

Why has the Beggar's Opera remained popular with theatergoers for so long? Fair enough question for something that's been around for the past 275 years. A considerable life for any play that depicted the society of when it was originally performed.

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Michael Corleone's moral corruption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather

Coppola's 'The Godfather' was released as a film in 1972, critics were quick to condemn the movie for engaging in a mis-portrayal of organized crime.

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Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday" and the 1920s

Al Capone to the President Harding scandals, including the revolution of manners and morals, Black Tuesday and the Prohibition; Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's" characterizes the events and figures of the wild, turbulent era of the boisterous twenties…

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Winston Churchill's "Never Give In" speech and leadership during World War II

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was one of the most energetic and vital of all British leaders. Born in 1874 to an English father and American mother, he embodied the highest qualities of both peoples.

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Financial innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States

The basis of the article is on a discussion that was held on this subject among four leading lights of financial entrepreneurship in the United States - Michael Milken, Lewis Ranieri, Richard Sandor and Myron Scholes.

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Bolman and Deal's four frames for organizational problem-solving

Reframing Organizations, Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal argue that many organizations today fail due to a lack of imagination.

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Microsoft's vaporware strategy and pre-announcement of Chicago

Given Microsoft's track record, it certainly appears that pre-announcement of Chicago were an attempt to thwart competition from rival products. Microsoft knows that information technology is one industry that is extremely volatile and highly unpredictable.

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The sacred mission of universities in developing imagination, skill, and compassion

Lawton believes, a sacred place where you find "your imagination, develop your skills, and enrich your compassion," then it has an enormous task in the world as we know it today. In the world as we know it today, the very term sacred is on the endangered species list.

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Maintaining competitive advantage for Sanofi-Synthelabo in the Persian Gulf pharmaceutical market

Pharmaceutical industries have to operate in an environment that is highly competitive and subject to a wide variety of internal and external constraints.

~129 min read

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Postmodernism's impact on individual identity and personal responsibility

Understanding the postmodern paradigm is a little like looking in to a bowl of spaghetti, and without using any utensils, trying to determine how many individual pieces of spaghetti are present, and what is their average length.

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