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George Kennan's Long Telegram and Cold War containment strategy

The policy makers in Washington and Harry S. Truman overlooked the views and beliefs of Kennan, those that he expressed, in Moscow.

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Red Hat's competitive position in enterprise open source software

Red Hat is an information technology company focusing on open source products. According to the 2010 Annual Report the company has a subscription-based business model, primarily working with corporate and enterprise customers.

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Utilitarian ethics and the greatest-happiness principle

Ethics is a moral philosophy that attempts to discover a systematic understanding of the nature of morality and what it requires of people -- which, in Socrates's words, would simply come down to "how we ought to live" -- and why (Rachels & Rachels 2009). But, who is to say how one ought to live?

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African and Australian cultural wedding traditions compared

A wedding can be simply defined as a ceremony in which two individuals are bonded in marriage. There are various wedding traditions and customs and these go by the cultures, religions, ethnic groups, social classes, and even countries.

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Crisis intervention theory and school-based applications

Crisis theory intervention can be traced back as far as 400 B.C. (Roberts 2005). However, more modern crisis theory came out of studies that were done on crisis and bereavement.

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Facebook advertising strategies and cultural preferences in the UK market

Facebook is highly popular in the UK market today, just as it is in many other areas of the world. That has not always been the case, because Facebook has not been a social media tool for that long. In addition, when it first came out it was only for colleges in the United States.

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Government policies and incentives for solar power development

Government regulations and policies affect renewable power generation a great deal, as is revealed through a brief review of the history of governmental policy in regards to power generation.

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Facebook as a vehicle for political and social activism

Randi Zuckerberg, an older sister of the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a marketing director of Facebook until August 2011, told an interviewer last year that the social networking site Facebook would continue to help people around the world mobilize for activism. According to Ms.

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Corporate social responsibility trends in Saudi Arabia's oil economy

In this paper we are examining corporate social responsibility in Saudi Arabia. This is accomplished by conducting a literature review and focusing on why this is taking place. Once this occurs, is when we can see the underlying causes of these trends and how they impacting the Kingdom itself.

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Student-centered learning in European higher education reform

Today, university teaching is initiating a process of change as consequence of European convergence, new curricula and the influence a new educational paradigm in which the unit of analysis are not the actions of teacher but the student's actions.

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