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Self-actualization in Didion and Walker's essays on identity

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Open source forensic software as a significant development in digital forensics

Of the many new technologies introduced into digital forensics in the last five years, open source forensic software has been the most significant in its contributions to forensic analysis, the prevention and solving of crimes.

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Hitler's use of propaganda to gain power in Nazi Germany

A common definition of the term propaganda refers to "…information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation…"(Propaganda) Allied with this is the view that it is the one-sided promotion of a particular doctrine or set of principles…

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Alister McGrath's analysis of scientific models, religious myths, and religious models

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Transformational leadership and shared vision as catalysts for organizational innovation

Shared leadership requires a highly transformational leadership style if it is to be effective (Mancheno-Smoak, Endres, Potak, Athanasaw, 2009).

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The Mayflower's myth in American culture and history

In human history many events change the course of nations, not intentionally, certainly not at the exact time of action, but later, as events domino from each other into what becomes a mythological event captured in writing, art, popular music, and even the heritage of a nation.

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The universal made specific in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and other poems

The speaker of the poem is the child of a dead Nazi officer. She has tried to recreate her tormented relationship with her father, half-consciously and half-consciously, in her relationships with other men. "Then I knew what to do.

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Nonviolent resistance: Omer's alternative to escalating discipline

Omer, Haim. (2001). Helping parents deal with children's acute disciplinary problems without escalation: The principle of nonviolent resistance. Family Process, 40(1), 53-66.

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Roe v. Wade and the legal debate over abortion rights

Abortion is one of the most divisive and controversial political and social issues in the United States. For many decades, elective abortion was prohibited in most American states.

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The difference between a job and a profession in culinary work

Two cooks working side by side in a kitchen, even doing the exact same tasks, might have very different perspectives on their work. One, perhaps, is focused on the necessities of continuing to work: there is a family to support, bills to pay, a future to plan for, etc.

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