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White collar crime prevalence and prosecution in American society

When most people think of white collar crime today, they think of Enron and Martha Stewart -- or of a nebulous idea of a kind of crime that only the "upper class" or the very powerful occasionally engage in. However, white collar crime is actually pervasive across all sectors of American society.

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The freshman fifteen: causes and campus dining solutions

What is the "freshman fifteen?" It's the fifteen pounds or more that many freshman gain during their first year away from college and their first year living away from home. After spending more than a month on campus, it is easy to see why the freshman fifteen is such a pervasive problem.

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The male gaze, performativity, and gendered economics in Berger, Butler, and Waring

Berger, Butler, and Waring provide unique and distinct perspectives on gender, sex, and power. Feminism is almost by definition a study of power and inequality, given the prevalence and pervasiveness of patriarchy worldwide.

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594 words

Workplace bullying's impact on victims and organizational performance

When most people think of bullying, they conceptualize schoolyard toughs terrorizing their helpless, weaker peers just as they have done for centuries. The harsh reality today, though, is that bullying is also pervasive in the American workplace today.

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Adjusting presentations for different audience types and managing tension

When making a presentation or a speech to a n audience, there are bound to be different types of audiences since not any two presentations will have the same type of audiences.

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Religious rhetoric and propaganda in "A Common Word Between U.S. and You"

The critical analysis of the aforementioned work, A COMMON WORD BETWEEN U.S. AND YOU offers highly charged rhetoric to the audience.

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Essay Undergraduate 707 words

Linux Security Tools: chroot, iptables, and SELinux Compared

A comparative analysis of three Linux security technologies—chroot jail, iptables, and SELinux—covering their origins, mechanisms, and threat models.

Technology

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Essay Undergraduate 729 words

Database Systems in the Enterprise: Architecture Overview

An overview of enterprise database systems covering relational and object-oriented architectures, ACID compliance, SQL platforms, and real-world business applications.

Technology

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438 words

WiMAX networks as economic accelerators for metropolitan communities

The potential for Metropolitan-based Wi-Fi and WiMAX to transform entire communities and the companies who operate within them is very significant.

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Compliance, obedience, and conformity: mechanisms of social influence

Social influence is believed to occur when an individual's emotions, behaviors, or opinions are influenced by others'. Compliance, identification, internalization are the three broad varieties of social influence that have since been identified.

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