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J.K. Rowling's Harvard commencement address on failure and imagination

Author J.K. Rowling, famous for her mega-successful Harry Potter children's book series, gave the commencement address at Harvard University in June, 2008. Her speech was funny, endearing and profound, and the audience gave her a standing ovation.

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Romantic relationships and gender roles in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's masterpiece, the Canterbury Tales, presents in vivid, honest, and often amusing detail the great variety of human interaction. Especially insightful are his portrayal of romantic relationships.

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Edward Glaser's definition and components of critical thinking

Edward Glaser (1941) believed critical thinking involved an approach inclined to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that one experiences, knowledge of the techniques of logical inquiry and reasoning, and some skill in the application of those techniques.

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Teaching idiomatic expressions to English language learners

An idiom is an expression, word, or even phrase that has a unique of figurative meaning that is understood colloquially but that is often unrelated to the literal meaning of the word or phrase.

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Bureaucratic power dynamics in Weber and Foucault's theories

The word 'bureaucracy' typically carries with it a negative connotation to many Americans. The immediate reaction for most is to characterize an agency described thusly as slow, outmoded and inefficient.

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Social network support and well-being in same-sex and mixed-sex relationships

Blair, K.L. & Holmberg, D. (2008). Perceived social network support and well-being in same-sex vs. mixed-sex romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 25(5), 769-791.

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Emergency operations center design for hurricane-prone coastal communities

Emergency Operation Center for a coastal town. This town is vulnerable to hurricanes, and needs a center to manage operations if a hurricane occurs.

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Organizational change management in Dell and Walmart

Throughout the past recent decades, the it community has evolved at a rapid pace and has imposed the same rapid pace of development on the rest of the economy.

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Reverse discrimination and its effects on employee behavior

The following pages focus on providing an analysis of reverse discrimination and its effects on employee behavior. The paper starts with an introduction that provides general information on the subject, in order to help the reader get acquainted with the subject of reverse discrimination.

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Causes and manifestations of burnout in special education teachers

High levels of stress are dangerous for all professions. In the field of special education it is responsible for much of the symptoms associated with variant levels of burnout.

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