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Industrial-organizational psychology and employee selection practices

Employees are the lifeblood of any organization. An organization may have the best product or service on the market, but without the right employees to create, deliver and support this product or service, the organization cannot be successful.

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Critical analysis of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as commercial product

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a strange product of the modern age -- a film based upon a popular children's toy of the 1980s.

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Book review of Burke's Organization Change: Theory and Practice

Evaluating the book Organization Change: Theory and Practice (Burke, 2002) from first a practical and secondarily from a theoretical standpoint is the intent of this review.

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Postal code implementation in Ireland and its challenges

Almost all countries and cities across the world can be identified by some sort of postal or zip code. This is the result of a worldwide process starting during the 1960s, by which Post Offices began to automate their sorting offices.

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Probation and parole administration in Pennsylvania

As in most states, probation and parole go hand-in-hand in Pennsylvania. The same agency, the Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) oversees both agencies in the state, and they work together to ensure citizens' safety and well-being through the criminal justice system.

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Birth control access as an alternative to abstinence-only teenage pregnancy prevention

Unwanted pregnancy among American teenagers is a significant societal problem. In addition to changing the lives of teenagers in profound ways that require making alternate plans and arrangements for their future, it contributes to the numbers of children born into bad parenting situations.

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Defining the modern nation-state through historical examples

The terms "nation" and "state" are often used interchangeably in the media and by the population at large, but though our perspective of history and politics tend to rest on a foundation of entities that are both culturally and politically cohesive this conception did not begin until medieval…

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Ovid's Metamorphoses and the philosophy of human nature

Antiquity has had numerous writers and poets, each of them having either similar or diverse styles of writing, depending on various intervening factors such as their location and the time that they had lived in.

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Kennedy's lessons on deliberation from the Cuban Missile Crisis

Specifically it will discuss what Kennedy says are the most important lessons that he learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October 1962, and almost resulted in a nuclear war over Russian warheads in Cuba.

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The United States carbon cap and trade bill: policy mechanisms and implementation challenges

On June 26, 2009, the Carbon Cap and Trade bill was passed by a narrow margin through the U.S. House of Representatives. Currently, the bill is waiting to be voted on by the U.S. senate and if it becomes law, it would be the first law to mandate greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

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