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Biblical imagery and revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Shakespeare most often based his plays on a real or imagined person or event in history, which made a good "story" because of a fatal flaw or interesting twist of fate. Yet, especially in some plays, there are an also a number of elements and allusions that refer to the Old or New Testament.

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French Canadian culture and Quebec's cultural identity

Quebec stands for both the French province of Canada as well as the capital city of the region. Referred to as the New France, the region was an impressively successful colony to conduct fur trade operations; during the reign of Louis XIV it was transformed into a royal colony.

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Balinese cockfighting and symbolic meaning in The Great Gatsby

Balinese Cockfighting" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel the Great Gatsby: Deep Play in Long Island According to the anthropologist Clifford Geertz, all societies contain cultural systems that can be read as texts.

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Forrest McDonald's intellectual history of the American presidency

Forrest McDonald's book, the American Presidency: An Intellectual History, published by University Press of Kansas in 1994, provides an in-depth analysis of the presidency and is a useful tool for anyone interested in learning more about the office of the president of the United States.

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Comparing trust-building strategies in IBM and Microsoft campaigns

Marketing communications is filled with pairs of objectives that often seem at odds with one another. Some pairs that are often mentioned are:

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Western and Asian cultural differences in marketing strategies

Marketing products in Asia is not different from marketing products in the West because the languages of the two different regions are different.

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Technology infrastructure and staffing in Anytown school district

The following is a set of questions that was asked of Joe Bloke, the Superintendant of Anytown, NJ schools, and Sue Schirmer, a high school teacher. Joe's responses are in blue, and Sue's in red.

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The history and evolution of probation from medieval England to modern practice

The origin of probation dates back to the Middle Ages, when harsh penalties for even menial crimes were commonplace. Today, it's evolved into a tool that the Court system can utilize in place of either an entire or a partial prison sentence.

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Common law assault and battery definitions and Idaho statutory changes

The crime of assault and battery has been defined over several centuries of case law, so that common law definitions have become quite descriptive and detailed.

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Can Guanxi sustain competitive advantage in China's global business environment?

Proposal Title: "Can Guanxi be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage for Doing Business in China?" Organizational leadership in the western tradition is said to be significantly different than in eastern cultures, such as China.

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