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Blogging and Rise of Participatory Journalism - Impact and Implications for Traditional News Media
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73 per cent of those interviewed stated that they found citizen generated content more sincere since the traditional news media tend to present news in a more complicated form and focus on unimportant issues, while 81 per cent of them believed that the news published or broadcast by the traditional media was largely controlled by powerful people, hence is highly likely to be biased (Pew Research Center, 2012b). ... he rise in consumption of citizen generated content and by extension, participatory journalism in the form of news blogs, is a cause of critical concern for the traditional journalists since it threatens to push the traditional news media, particularly the print media into extinction....
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President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Era
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This led the radical republicans to form and empower the minorities and fight for the rights of labor class.... The main focus is to elaborate the role played by President Andrew Johnson during the reconstruction era and what he did with the confederacy.... He laid the foundational basis to it that since they never truly left the Union, it was better to recognize them again and form the Union as a loyal part of the states and in turn a loyal government....
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A critical review of the literature on the nursing management of type 2 adult diabetec patients
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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes and patients typically have a large store of abdominal fat (Plotnick & Henderson 1998).... This research paper will aim to review the literature on the use of nursing interventions to improve compliance.... A literature review was therefore conducted on the compliance of patients with diabetes type 2 and the role of nursing interventions in improving compliance.... Critical Review of the literature on the Nursing Management of Type 2 Adult Diabetic Patients Diabetes is a fast-growing disease especially in the UK....
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Multi-Level Car Parking System
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This literature review "Multi-Level Car Parking System" is about the firsts multi-story car park in the world.... literature REVIEW ... ulti-Level Car Parking System – literature Review ... As it will be demonstrated later in this literature review, Hoboken garage is one of the first robotic parking garages to be opened in the U....
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Conflict out of the Ring
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As far as Ellison knew, his grandfather never disrespected or rebelled against white folk, yet this was really his form of resistance – a paradox Ellison found hard grasp ?... The young man now understands that his grandfather's seemingly joyful submission to whites for decades was all a front to eventually win the long war against their oppressors.... literature: Craft and Voice, Volume 1.... The author states that growing up about 85 years after the abolition of slavery and a couple of decades before the African-american Civil Rights Movement, Ellison finds himself in a perplexing time as a Black youth....
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The Child-Fat Problem by Mary Eberstadt
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Just three months ago, a major study published in the Journal of the american Medical Association confirmed what any american with eyes even half-open could already have reported--that not only our adults but also our children, are fat and getting fatter all the time....
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Depression in Men among Black Minority Ethnic Groups
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ne aspect that I want to focus on in my future practice is improving my knowledge of different mental sickness.... I would like to focus on understanding complex mental cases such as paranoid schizophrenia that I was confronted with during my placement.... This literature review "Depression in Men among Black Minority Ethnic Groups" discusses depression as a common mood disorder that causes someone to feel prolonged sadness, loss of interest, and a negative sense of general wellbeing (Birch, 2012 pp....
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The Culture of Old South - Myths and Reality
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Scholarship on this issue brings into focus some of the issues of class and reproduction women faced during the antebellum period.... Following the end of the Civil war, the United States went into a period of rebuilding and redefinition in many respects.... According to Stephanie McCurry, the role of women in the South didn't differ very much after the war than they had been before the war, at least among the middle classes....
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The Issue of Sexual Violence in Schools
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It is important for the government to focus upon teacher training programs; such programs shall resolve the social issues and shall be helpful in the promotion of gender equity in academic institutes (Lloyd, 1992, pp.... adker has hoped that the government shall essentially focus upon the primary-level teachers.... It is therefore important for the government to conduct structured preparation for the teachers with special focus on the gender issues in education....
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Firm in Media Landscape Analysis
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In consequence, it has been noted that the ever-changing media landscape has resulted to a shift in both the target and focus of media relations in two notable ways that include; first, the overall increase in the imminent desire of journalists working with practitioners since they will be compelled to engage in social media aspect (Lister, 2009).... The focus of the paper 'Firm in Media Landscape Analysis' lies in examining the different levels of new media landscapes in relation to how the disseminate such important aspects as citizen-based journalism; news media content as well as a condition of a given democracy....
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Crave Outsourcing: Company Going through a Change Process
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Business organizations are essentially operating in a highly fluctuating and turbulent business environment.... The paper 'Crave Outsourcing: Company Going through a Change Process' would try to analyze the change management process of Crave Outsourcing with regards to its change in service delivery from IT, recruitment, and accountancy to project management....
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Impacts of Art Therapy and Psychotherapy Palliative Care Settings
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While medications have been developed for most physical conditions of patients, there is continuous need to create methods that focus on the psychotherapeutic healthcare aspects.... hen the focus Is on Care: Palliative Care and Cancer.... he criteria for this evaluation is by administering this form of nursing practice by a group of people working as a team collectively concerned with the patient's total well-being and that of the family (Aitken, 2009)....
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Most Effective Pain Management Strategy for Older Adults with Dementia
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According to McAuliffe et al (2009), old people with dementia experience different form of pain, which may be from normal occurrences while others may be due to issues with their health.... he exclusion and inclusion criteria has assisted the researcher in knowing and comprehending what should form part of this research and which part should not be included.... They would also respond quickly to persons with confirmed and diagnosed any form of pain....
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Warm and Harsh Parenting as Mediators of the Relation Between Maternal and Adolescent Emotion Regulation
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?? Authored by Dilek Sarıtas, Joan Grusec and Tülin Gençöz, the article's principal focus is to determine the role played by parenting extremities in mediating the emotional state of teenagers.... The authors are, however, keen to note that majority of investigative studies in this psychology field principally focus on parents' proclivity to coach or dismiss certain behaviours, and to regulate children's emotions through the reactions they depict when children behave in a certain manner....
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Accounting in Operating the Ontology and Epistemology Research Program Successfully
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Several suggestions have been offered by the review which includes a need to invent better theoretical models, better measurements of the existing models, the need to shift focus in testing the hypothesis in estimating the parameters, a need of maintaining data archives as well as use of theoretical frameworks as per the world experience.... focus shun from multiple of accounting methods.... This is because focus is on how the combination of tests impacts earnings instead of impact on one specific accounting method....
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Competitive Strategies for Firms in Foreign Markets
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This brings into focus some of the successful strategy builders such as conducting SWOT analysis, value-chain analysis, resources-based outlook and other strategic methods that will influence the organisational culture positively and within the shortest time possible.... Development costs could be deterring many companies from setting base in various countries, and having a company to form a joint venture with in the country will determine the greatest ability to deal with and find the right mix to promote the business (Schilling 2013: 142)....
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Operations Management
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n the article written by Blankley, Kerr & Wiggins (2014), quality control criticisms in PCAOB inspection reports were analyzed with special focus on the characteristics of Triennial Firms with and without deficiencies.... The reason for using this approach was to ensure that only the selected audits were reviewed and the focus based on financial statement areas that possess the utmost risk of misstatement.... perations audits are audits that focus on reviewing as well as assessing the process of a business....
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Efficiency Analysis of a Therapist-Driven Protocol
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Again, sharp and distinct focus is brought on individualized patient care, which is now currently the main focus of health care services.... Catalogue searches of books shall primarily focus on those which are related to respiratory therapy and therapist-driven protocol in respiratory therapy.... This helps form the basis for evidence-based and patient-centered approach to treatment and to respiratory therapy.... ottom of form ...
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Social Exclusion on Mental Health Service Users
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The focus of this study is on non-involvement emerging from limitation, instead of free will.... The focus in this description is on non-involvement resulting from limitation, instead of choice or free will.... literature Review 4 1.... literature Review Social exclusion is defined as the level to which people are incapable of participating in major domains of cultural, social, and economic life.... A mounting body of literature and empirical evidence shows that personal encounter with individuals who are mentally ill can lessen these stigmatising outlooks (Bonner 2007)....
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Optimum Cultivation and Establishment Methods for Growing Oilseed Rape in Soil Conditions in the UK
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s sustainability and the greening of the ecosystem become very important to global agencies and nations, the focus of most countries have turned to the role that plants can plan in achieving this goal.... The review will therefore focus on the background of the crop, the relevance of it to UK and the best practices in its cultivation. ... soil in the production of oilseed rape, it is important for researchers to focus on improving seed quality based on their acceptability with conventional factors such as site, season and husbandry rather than focusing so much on genetics....
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Primary Assessment for Learning - Collaborative Learning
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he use of JIGSAW techniques in the collaborative learning has been criticized for its Problem-based tendencies as it focus more on improving higher order thinking and problem-solving skills while compromising the lower level knowledge achievement .... rom the segment collaborative learning also takes the form of a legitimate cooperation which apart from the group works, teachers in the Park Lane Primary have implemented through the use of mixed- ability classes, JIGSAW techniques as well as allowing the students to participate in the planning process. ...
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler
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Shipler that discusses the capitalistic mythology that prevails in the american mindset.... It seems that in the american society, the myth prevails that the harder you work the more chances are of succeeding.... The television, the political debates and the schooling is all programmed to teach the Americans in various ways how everyone can be a winner by working hard and while few do with a bit of luck and succeed with this formula, but there are still many in the american society that survive on monthly pay checks with no promising future....
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Impact of Confucianism on Customer Perception of Western Brands
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Inefficient management structure Groupon's did not focus on local talents to include in its strategic management group.... Chinese culture and Confucianism In analysing the consumer behaviour of Chinese in context to western brands a focus is made towards Confucianism and is essential as the tradition tends to have had an enormous impact upon the Chinese people and also assumed to influence the consumer behaviour in the Chinese market.... Consumer behaviour and Chinese culture Confucianism tends to focus on family values towards individuals and Chinese people have deep concept of family members and is widely reflected in the buying decision made by the Chinese....
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Microsoft Restructure to Get Back in Game and GM Forms $100 Million Technology Venture Firm
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The review 'Microsoft Restructure to Get Back in Game and GM Forms $100 Million Technology Venture Firm' focuses on far-sighted world brands introducing the latest technologies and borrowing innovative business development strategies, not fearing the risks associated with business restructuring.... ...
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Optimal Timing for Umbilical Cord Clamping
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Another important results to focus on is delay when pulsations stopped both when an infant is on maternal abdomen (Coggins, and Mercer, 2009).... The paper 'Optimal Timing for Umbilical Cord Clamping' is an informative example of a literature review on nursing.... The paper 'Optimal Timing for Umbilical Cord Clamping' is an informative example of a literature review on nursing.... eview of the literature ... esults of literature review ...
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The Importance of Culture for Managing and Controlling the workforce
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literature review Organisations exist on the productivity and output of employee interaction with clients and customers.... Western Europe, United States and Canada countries have an individualist culture while South american and Asian countries embrace a collectivist culture....
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Plagiarism as a Form of Academic Dishonesty
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However, the second part of the argument deserves a deeper examination since the primary focus of plagiarism as it is defined can certainly be taken to mean that the student is attempting to cheat.... ??While there is no simple solution to this problem, an instructor should focus on "how to reduce and discourage cheating activities" rather than "why students cheat and how they did it.... (2007) may chose to entirely ignore the reasons and social pressures behind plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty and instead focus solely on the idea of the student intending to cheat....
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The Relationship between History and Violence in the Twentieth Century
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Holden, illustrating his views on the warlike nature of human beings, argues that human existence is essentially about violence and this becomes the major themes of the novel.... Blood Meridian elevates war to its most mythic power by reaching back to that time before gadgetry took the individual heroism out of skilful killing, before it became less the work of berserkers and more the work of machines.... ?? (Ellis, 166) Through the novel, it becomes clear that war preserved its game-like qualities at that point in history, and Holden's dual analogy and the its courtroom tropes best points to the specific historical time, which would be meaningless and ridiculous if applied to the realities of modern fights....
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Integrity from Kings and Carters Views
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The open letter as a form of “saying openly” signifies a mark of a person with integrity.... He argues that the present-day american individual will do everything merely for the sake of social acceptance.... He contemplates on the things or ideas that are relevant to his life as a person in general and as an African american in particular.... The most touching of the numerous examples presented in the letter is when an African american child asks his father why “white people treat colored people so mean” (King)....
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Importance of Critical Thinking Skills for Law and Criminology
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Heuristics entails simple and efficient rules used to form judgement and make decisions.... american Journal of Public Health, 98(9), 1573. ... american Educator.... The paper "Importance of Critical Thinking Skills for Law and Criminology" discusses that critical thinking applies techniques to ensure possibilities in overcoming barriers that are related to everyday thinking....
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How Saudi Female Students are Affected by Code-Switching
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Finally, the embedded element may attract the listener's attention or focus (Rezaeian, 2009; p.... Fluctuation between languages in the form of code-switching is an extensively practical occurrence in foreign language classrooms.... University students have high tendency of using social networks as a form of identifying with others and forming solidarities.... The idea that linguistic form is influenced by setting and participants along with topic was influenced partly by Ervin-Tripp (1964 p....
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Euthanasia: A Review of Literature on Healthcare Industry and Public Opinion
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he condition of terminal illness and unbearable suffering tend to make people forget the laws and focus on human compassion. ... Patients consider psychosocial conditions as part of their unbearable pain, while doctors focus more on its physical dimensions.... hese people want access to a peaceful form of death, when incurable illnesses are present. ... "Euthanasia: A Review of literature on Healthcare Industry and Public Opinion" paper aims to understand the views of healthcare providers and the public on euthanasia....
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Function and Form in Architecture
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Yet buildings do show the imprint of the architects' personality, to the extent that historians often guess a building's author by the idiosyncratic characteristics of its massing, form and detailing.... “the degree to which the interest in form moves towards formalism” ... The interest in form setbacks are closely linked to architectural failure to look into its technical and physical particulars.... The ideal shape of a concert hall, for instance, should be generated by setting out the uninterrupted sight of lines for every spectator, the shape and the location of the foyers should be determined by the flow of the people to and from their seats; and the outside appearance should be shaped by the symbolic role of a concert hall as a focus of civic pride....
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What is the state of corporate governance in the UK, USA, EU, Australia, Japan and the GCC countries
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In large corporations that have different management and ownership with no regulating shareholder, the agent-principal issues may crop up between top management (an agent) that may have varying interests and may possess more information than the firm's shareholders which form the principals....
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Argument on Whether Universal Human Rights Is Really Western Human
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depicted that human rights in a universalised form refers to a western concept, which is likely to have minimum applicability.... This literature review "Argument on Whether Universal Human Rights Is Really Western Human" discusses laws and regulations framed that safeguards the rights of the people living in the society from various corners of the world in a universal manner.... Annals of the american Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol....
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To What Extent Could an Accurate Simulation of the Brain Help Us to Answer an Open Psychological Question
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Essentially, where the noise is in form of low music that expresses emotions.... According to Cohen and Spacapan, (1984), the noise is said to cause aggression, interpersonal judgement, some form of attraction.... As such, the aim of this paper is to provide a detailed literature review on the following topic: To what extent could an accurate simulation of the brain help us to answer an open psychological question? ... In this literature review, the key question of interest is how noise pollution affects one concentration and acts as a determinant of displaced aggression....
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Higher Educational Institutes of Saudi Arabia
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ccording to Rees and Porter (2009) marketers in education segment are always able to selling their academic institutes Saudi academic sector has faced expansion in form of new universities- both private and public and research centres to face the rapid growing competition in different sectors of the kingdom.... he dilemmas that are faced by higher educational leaders in the professional context in the higher education institutes of Saudi Arabia, with reference of previous literature of various authors in the same subjects, shall be discussed in detail in this part of the paper....
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Energy and Economic Growth
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Conversely, the gas business has also fundamentally developed without any form of considerable conflict, needing a high level of cooperation between the suppliers and the distributors.... There is no other industry that possesses this form of clearly identified midstream that introduces an extra layer of connection between territory and energy resources and consequently political control.... Certainly, outside the Western democracies, the locals considered the oil industry's history up to the sixties as some form of foreign exploitation....
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The Success of State Reconstruction Varies according to the Scale of State Collapse
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The World Bank is best known for its implementation of economic governance programmes in the form of technical assistance and loan packages.... To date, an estimated thirty nations, including European, North american, Middle East, former socialist countries, India, China, Japan and other middle – income countries like Turkey, Korea and Thailand, have established international development assistance loans and programmes providing aid to other less developed nations of the world....
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Diane Arbus, Photography of the Everyday or Pictures for the Freak Show
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rbus stacks the deck through her insistent focus on people who are mad or odd or marginal, and that is her privilege as an artist.... For if directness is photography's glory, it is also liable to be manipulated, used as a sort f all-purpose rhetorical device, until frankness itself becomes a form f obfuscation or artiness--which is a fair description, I think, f the work f Diane Arbus.... He films heads right-side up and upside down, and he revels in the beautiful symmetry f eyes and nose and in the surprising form f an open mouth....
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The Art of Court Love in Literature
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The paper describes writers and poets, Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, Geoffrey Chaucer, Chretien de Troyes, and Marie de France, Andreas Capellanus, that narrowly focused on the worldly concept of love.... He failed to capture the essence of fate in a romantic relationship between two lovers....
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Strategies for Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities
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n this literature review, we focus on effective reading instruction in inclusion settings, because more than half of the students identified with a learning disability experience serious reading problems (U.... Children who continue to fail at reading require instructional approaches that focus on phonemic awareness, phonic skills, and the application of these skills to real words in text (OConnor, 2000; Torgesen, 2000; Vellutino et al.... A focus on curriculum design: When children fail....
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The Concepts of Modernism and Imperialism
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I can no longer focus on the screen to read the last article.... For centuries the capitalists have behaved in the underdeveloped world like nothing more than war criminals.... Individual soldier's identities were profoundly changed by their experiences in World war I.... The purpose of the war on all fronts collapsed in the face of real and immediate human drama.... They understood that they had been in the crucial center of the activity of the war and thus right where life was happening, yet they felt empty and devoid of meaning....
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Advertisements are Ideologically Problematic
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he encoding of meanings process by advertising agencies and agency work practitioners is an area that has remain under-explored within the literature of consumer and marketing (Kelly, Lawlor & Donohoe 2005, p.... Advertisement is any form which presents non-personal services, goods or ideas and it is paid by a known sponsor (Shimp 2010, p.... Advertisement is a form of communication which is pervasive in nature, that is, it is everywhere and human beings do not choose whether to watch or read hence an inescapable type of communication....
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Financial Rewards - the Best Way to Increase Work Motivation
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The paper 'Financial Rewards - the Best Way to Increase Work Motivation' is an impressive example of a finance & accounting literature review.... One of the major critical issues that management deals within the organization is related to making human capital highly productive and high performers....
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Impossible Peace Israel/Palestine since 1989
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Published in 2009 by Fernwood Publishing and ZED Books in Canada and the rest of the world respectively, Mark LeVine's book is an outstandingly authentic and deep historical account of the unsuccessful peace process in the Israel/Palestine conflict.... Mark LeVine is the.... ... ...
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The Role of Architecture in Addressing Different Social Ills
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His difference with Le Corbusier is his specific focus on high modernism that has its strengths of trying to improve the social fabric and enabling the social participation of modernist thinkers, while its weaknesses are ruthlessness in advancing modernist ideals and disastrous effects, when political controls are weak or deficient.... Architects must focus on function, not ornamental form, to create buildings that have true functions for users.... The Robie House and Dymaxion House do not have similar forms because the former has an axial organization with focus on horizontality, while the Dymaxion House is a hexagonal house with a modular interior space....
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Testing Weak Form Efficiency of Muscat Security Market
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Harper & Jin (2012) who did research on the Indian stock market to find out if it was efficient in the weak form found out that the Indian Stock market is not efficient in the weak form and the investors could exploit market inefficiency in order to make abnormal returns.... The paper "Testing Weak form Efficiency of Muscat Security Market" is an outstanding example of a finance and accounting literature review.... Testing weak form efficiency of Muscat security market Contents Contents Introduction 2 Introduction Whenever a person puts money in the stock market their goal is not only to make profit but to outperform the market....
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Social and Environmental Aspects of the Zero Waste Theory Along with its Industrialization
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Existing literatures on ZWT focus more on the refinement and application of its principles, particularly of recycling and reusing aspects either through CTC or GRRN.... For instance, contemporary studies and applications of the ZWT focus on finding solutions to segregate renewable and non-renewable wastes (Tsiboe & Marbell, 2004, p.... For instance, this paper found out that GRRN focuses on the recycling and reusing aspect of waste management while the Cradle-to-Cradle principles focus on remaking the production system so as to design products whose raw materials may degrade in the environment naturally. ...
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The Absence of Fathers Contribute to Anti-social Behavior with Young Black Males
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The wielding of children is a combination of nature and nurture, but people focus on the factor of the environment in developing the growing children.... ?? The focus will be on the African American young males who have disruptive behaviour as rooted to their fatherless family.... First, the literature must answer “What are the typical behaviours of growing children?... Second, the literature must explain “How male children behave while growing up?...
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