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Held-to-maturity securities accounting and classification changes

There are several principles applied with respect to holding investments until maturity. If a company acquires a debt security, it must determine if the intent is to hold that security until maturity or if there is a likelihood that the security will be liquidated prior to maturity.

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Multiple measures to evaluate positive behavior support: Mindy's case

Before the behavior escalated to more violent behavior toward herself as well as others, positive behavior support (PBS) was utilized as an approach to see if Mindy would reduce the self-injurious behavior and violent and inappropriate outbursts and replace them with more appropriate responses.

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Spiritual disconnection in modern secular government and society

Religion and Reality. The levels of reality are terrestrial, intermediate, celestial, and infinite. One question for this perspective is whether these "higher" levels of reality, which are ultimately invisible, truly bring meaning to life. If they exist, then it makes sense that they would.

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Breaking cycles of illiteracy through adult education and self-directed learning

I am interested in the topic of undereducated and disadvantaged adult learners. I selected this topic because adult illiteracy is a pressing social issue.

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Comparing Keynesian, classical, and supply-side unemployment policies

The Keynesian would argue that unemployment is caused by a lack of aggregate demand. This demand derives from consumption, government spending and business investment. Business investment is likely to be suppressed by a lack of consumer spending.

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Sears' shift to performance-based compensation and total rewards strategy

Sears, Roebuck, and Company is an American chain of Department stores founded in 1886. For decades it was the iconic general Department store for American life, and the Sears Catalog was something many families looked forward to with anticipation.

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Marshall McLuhan, Roland Barthes, and Donna Haraway on media theory

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan provides the genre with the famous statement "The medium is the message," from which other theorists have since commented upon based upon his or her own view of the media culture.

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The 1979 energy crisis' impact on U.S. foreign policy and domestic consumption

The 1979 Energy Crisis was a major international turning point in energy policy and had far reaching political and economic ramifications. The crisis created a raised awareness of the interconnected nature of the world energy markets, specifically the oil markets and gave citizens in the U.S.

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Imagined geographies in travel writing and consumer culture in Latin America

Latin American Studies" (by Philip Swanson) by answering questions 1-12. Travel writing in Latin America was imagined in such a way to create certain stereotypes of both the inhabitants and physical geography when it was reported back to readers in Europe.

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The relationship between human resource development and adult education

Human Resource Development should fall under the larger umbrella of Adult Education for several reasons.

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