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Managing workplace conflict through collaborative win-win solutions

Conflict can have an adverse impact on the workplace spreading to other employees and resulting not only in discontent amongst workers but also in expense to company and at worst in bankruptcy and negative reputation.

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The crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 in Amsterdam

Clearly, there are many possible reasons why the airplane crash landed where it did (luckily, in an remote region).

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Technical and social systems approaches to information overload

Why?

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The imp of the perverse in Poe's short stories

Uncontrollable Urge: The Effect of the Imp of the Perverse on Manifestations of Horror and Terror In many of his works, Poe often explores fears through a combination of horror and terror.

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Rousseau and Kant's theories for achieving lasting peace between states

The great philosophers of the 18th century were the first of their kind to fully encapsulate what it meant to be an ethnocentric state, rather than a simple nation or territory, and also were the first philosophers able to address the question of war between states as not merely individual…

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College athletes and compensation for their sporting contributions

McKinney, Scott. "Student-Athletes Bring Billions, But What Are They Getting?" This article focuses on college athletes in relation to their contribution in bringing billions.

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Gender as a false binary: challenging dualistic thinking about sex

People have always liked to think in terms of dualisms: there is the Cartesian 'body and soul' and 'paradise and hell', and "good and evil' amongst so many other dualisms. Either one category or the other exists. Belonging to that same schematic order of pattern is 'man and woman'.

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Jordan Brown murder case and juvenile justice system

Juvenile criminal justice system has enforced laws, which govern the rules for determining whether a juvenile criminal is eligible for a sentence or a counseling period is mandatory to alter the behaviors of such individuals.

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Self-affirmation as a strategy for reducing cognitive dissonance about heights

Cognitive dissonance is disharmony manifested within the human mind, and is quite annoying. Eliot and Devine (1994) sought out to prove that this dissonance that brings us to a disagreeable state of mind is essentially motivation processes at work.

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Marx and Engels's critique of industrialization and class struggle

It is widely known that the philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels influentially spurred forth the creation of The Communist Manifesto, a manuscript solely detailing the purposes of communist thought and the problems of capitalistic society.

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