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Technology & Human performance: The case with oscar pistoris

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The Case with Oscar Pistoris Oscar Pistorius was born on November 22, 1986 in country of South Africa without a fibula in both of his legs (About Oscar Pistorious).... With the discretion of his parents the doctors amputated both of his legs at the age of 11 months.... ... ... ... In his growing period Oscar played rugby, water polo as well as tennis....

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Transgressors of Convention

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The critical assessment of three works of Modern art for their transgressions against aesthetic and/or social and institutional conventions will be covered in the span of this essay.... Texts from internet searches and Questia will be included to provide factual material and background.... .... ... ...

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The Meditational Practice of Deep Breathing

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The author of the paper states that because of its association with yoga and other Eastern philosophic belief systems and, later, with the New Age movements of alternative religious practices, meditation has often been dismissed in the West as something less than real.... .... ... ... 'Until recently the very word meditation tended to evoke raised eyebrows and thoughts about mysticism and hocus-pocus in many people....

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Concepts of Gender, Race and Class in The Maltese Falcon Authored by Dashiell Hammett

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This book review describes The Maltese Falcon that is a detective novel authored by Dashiell Hammett.... This paper outlines and analyzes the concepts of gender, race, and class and their discrimination in this novel.... ... ... ... Spade, determined to find out the truth behind the killings, immerses himself in a group of people who are desperate to obtain for themselves the much-coveted falcon....

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Ecological Disaster of Brukunga Mine

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The paper "Ecological Disaster of Brukunga Mine" discusses that there are a lot of internal and external factors that greatly affect the characteristics of water found in the rivers and lake of the Brukunga area.... These factors include the presence of Brukunga mining between the years 1955 to 1972....

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The Enterprise Laws

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The paper 'The Enterprise Laws' explores the cases where the court held that it determines what constitutes fair price in the valuation of shares or suggested that fairness depends on the circumstances and since circumstances change then the notion of fairness is unfixed.... .... ... ... The legal rules of valuation of newly issued shares of stocks of public and private companies is true to the extent that public companies are limited to the valuation by market forces as indicated in their prices in stock exchange markets and to the extent that there are no fixed rules for valuation for newly issued shares by private companies....

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Forensic investigator

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As I reached the unit, I was presented with the criminal record file of James Murray (culprit), aged 19, an information technology student at Hartford High School.... His file showed a number of other accusations along with the crime using computer-generated.... ... ... I also scrutinized the proofs and other documents confiscated, collected, and produced by the investigation bureau....

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Milan Kundera

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The paper "Milan Kundera" tells us about the inconstancy of Milan Kundera, a famous modern Czech writer.... His path from the Communist Party bystander to a severe critic of this regime is studied on the examples of his novels 'The Joke' and 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'.... ... ... ... An international interest to him can be explained by the spirit of freedom in his novels....

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The Millennium Projects - The London Eye and The Millennium Wheel

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This research paper describes the millennium projects, a special moment surpassing in importance all other New Year's moments for the next 999 years.... It explains creating of London Eye and its importance in history.... ... ... ... This special event had to be marked with special celebrations.... The special celebrations demanded to hold or make souvenirs to mark the moment of a lifetime....

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The Five Pillars of Islam

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The essay 'The Five Pillars of Islam' discusses how Islamic history can be traced back to the migration or Hijrat of Prophet Muhammad to Medina and his time in Saudi Arabia until his death.... ... ... ... It has also been observed that most of the Muslims visit Medina, where Prophet Mohammed's tomb is located before they leave the holy city....

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Buddhism the Oldest Religion of the World

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In this paper 'Buddhism – the Oldest Religion of the World' a sincere effort has been made in including all the pertinent vital points so that a lay reader gets to have at least a brief understanding of this extensive subject.... Buddhism is a religion pertaining to the East.... ... ... ... The author states that Religion is an offshoot of Hinduism, which is supposed to be the oldest religion of the World....

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Comparison of Short Stories Winter Night and Everything that Rises Must Converge

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The paper "Comparison of Short Stories Winter Night and Everything that Rises Must Converge" states that Kay Boyle's 'Winter Night' depicts social realism.... The story revolves around Felicia who belongs to upper-class and stays in New York apartment while her mother is out for work.... ... ... ...

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Role of Global Civil Society in Global Governance

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This paper "Role of Global Civil Society in Global Governance" discusses the following question: what role does global civil society play in global governance, as well as globalization, democracy, and development of civil society in the modern world.... ... ... ... The global civil society can clearly be said to be a source of immense power and plays, perhaps, the most important part of the system of global governance....

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The Nature and Evolution of the Blues

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The paper 'The Nature and Evolution of the Blues' focuses on Blues that is the name of a style of music that dates its roots to the tribal melodies of Africa.... As the seminal music of African Americans, it emerged as a distinct style in the 19th century Deep South.... ... ... ... The paper states that genre is characterized by twelve-bar blues progressions that include specific 'blues notes' which are played flattened or bent in relation to the traditional major scale....

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The Follies of Feminist Art Historians

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The following paper under the title 'The Follies of Feminist Art Historians' presents Kathe Kollwitz's talk on Frida Kahlo on the Guerrilla Girls at the Tate Modern & Open University Days that offered the British Public a retrospect on New York Bitch Culture.... ... ... ... The following paper states that instigated in the follies of feminist art historians in the former colony, the UK was invited to join in their activist rubric with the following introduction, 'We're feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman, and Batman....

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The Effect on Children Neglected or Actively Maltreated

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The paper 'The Effect on Children Neglected or Actively Maltreated' discusses the consequences of childhood abuse - from lack of motivation to learn and low school performance to criminal inclinations or suicide.... The author is for the adoption of radical measures to fight child neglect imbibing....

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Globalization - Advantages and Disadvantages

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The paper 'Globalization - Advantages and Disadvantages' asserts that removal of any bans of the free flow of goods between countries provides many chances for them, while it is not acceptable for some governments to lose power over the right to regulate these flows to a supranational body.... ...

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Deconstructing Racial Identity through African American Literature

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The divisions that occurred in America through the Civil War not only caused lines between the regions and in political arenas.... There were also different forms of thought that began to arise between ethnicities in various regions.... ... ... ... ... ... African – Americans began to move against the main concepts that were related to this mentality and showed a side of America that was unique to the African – American experience....

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The Battle Continues: Harry Potter and the Attack of the Muggles

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This paper seeks to delve into one such attack involving the role of girls or women in Harry's story.... It is also this paper's objective to explore and analyze the representation of gender roles in the series.... And particularly address Christine Schoefer's claim that boys come first in Harry's world pointing to the inferior characterisation of girls therein....

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Ancient Influence on Neoclassicism Architecture

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The main aim of the research "Ancient Influence on Neoclassicism Architecture" is to investigate how did neoclassical architects in England rely on the ancient art ideas and paradigms.... The paper specifically discusses the contribution of the Greek and Roman cultures.... ... ... ... Anyone studying basic art and architecture today is likely to point to the time period between 1400 and 1600 Italy as the defining centuries that mark Western society's shift from the church-dominated darkness of the middle ages....

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Treating Troubled Marital Relationships as a Mission of Marital Therapists

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The paper "Treating Troubled Marital Relationships as a Mission of Marital Therapists" provides a viewpoint that the appeal of helping marital partners sort out their problems is complemented by the intellectual pleasure of verifying and appraising the diverse marital therapy interventions that have developed throughout time....

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3D Virtual World Environments for L2 Learning and Teaching

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This essay stresses that to be able to experience a visual computer-simulated three dimensional environment is to step into the world of 3D virtual reality.... The intention is to create such an environment that allows the user to feel as if he is present in that world.... ... ... ... As the paper declares computer scientists and engineers have been able to create both realistic and imaginary worlds with great precision....

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China's State and Society in 20th Century

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This assignment "China's State and Society in 20th Century" discusses the main features of Deng-era political reform, the basic elements and goals in Deng's economic reform agenda and the main causes and dynamics of the Tiananmen (June 4) incident.... .... ... ... This assignment also discusses why it has been so difficult for China's leaders to successfully arrange for stable leadership succession, in what ways the institutional reforms of the Deng era have made effective policy-making difficult, how the leaders have sought to overcome these problems, in what ways state-society relations have changed in the three-plus decades since Mao's death and what the prospects of a society-led political transition in China are....

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Should Parents Censor Textbooks for Children in Schools

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The paper argues the extent of freedom with regard to textbooks and other literature that is exposed to children in USA schools.... Parents and other interested citizens have the moral authority to bring about censorship of literature in textbooks and other literature aimed at children in the USA....

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Athenian Democracy and Its Citizens

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The paper "Athenian Democracy and Its Citizens" highlights that it was only the male members of a certain age group that could actually take part in the processes pertaining to governance in ancient Athens, while slaves, women, children and the elderly, were considered to be non-citizens.... .... ...

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Europeanization of Islam in European Countries

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This paper "Europeanization of Islam in European Countries" focuses on the fact that Islam as a religion first emerged during the early 7th century, under Prophet Muhammad in the Arabian city of Mecca.... In 622 AD, Muhammad and his followers were forced to leave the city of Mecca.... .... ... ... After 100 years from its conception, Islam spread rapidly in the middle-east regions, and soon many newly converted Muslims started migrating from the Arabian Peninsula to other neighbouring countries....

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Deconstructing Representations of Identity in the Media

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This term paper "Deconstructing Representations of Identity in the Media" focuses on analyzing the representation of the Islamic community in the media using the examples of three articles about terrorist attacks.... All the articles present the information freely.... ... ... ... The deconstruct reveals that Islam has been linked with terrorists in one way or another....

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The Telcott Parsons Perspective on Sociology as a Profession

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The goal of this paper is to discuss the Telcott Parson's point of view on sociology specialty as a career choice.... The writer suggests that the opportunities for new sociologists to emerge are there, but there appears to be a demand for them to adapt to the existing establishment.... ... ... The sociologist Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) holds an important position in the development of modern Sociology as we know it....

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Social Networking & Security: Facebook

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nformation-management.... The author states that the information exchanged through social networks is not safe and anybody can misuse it for personal gains.... This paper reviews the literature available to learn more about the security-related threats raised by social networks taking Facebook as a major example....

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Aphasia and Its Impact on an Individual's Ability to Communicate

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In the report 'Aphasia and Its Impact on an Individual's Ability to Communicate' the author defines aphasia as a disorder that results from damage to portions of the left side or hemisphere of the brain that are responsible for language.... .... ... ... According to the paper, there are various classifications of this disease....

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United Nations Emergency Force

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This paper 'United Nations Emergency Force" focuses on the fact that since its establishment in 1945, the United Nations has continued to confront various issues on the global level, and is still playing an influential role in resolving a number of issues on the global level.... .... ... ... During the month of September 1956, French and the UK government felt the need of calling meeting of the Security Council as it had now become essential to address this conflict on global platform due to one-sided decisions of Egypt that changed international status of the Suez Canal into a domestic/national one (Barton, 2008)....

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To what Extent Are Men and Women Treated Differently in the Context of Equitable Remedies

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The author concludes that the Equity courts do not favor men in the majority of the cases relating to separation.... Special tenderness towards women will be tantamount to differential treatment for women, and this may extend to other areas of an equitable remedy.... .... ... ... In Barclays Bank Plc v O'Brien, Lord Browne-Wilkinson had stated his opinion regarding the disadvantages of married life, particularly for women, and how modern wives were deprived of their independence due to the marriage institution....

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Music Appreciation

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This is an essay on the history of classical music - starting from Middle Ages, Romantic era and till 19-20 century and modern ways of representing classical music.... ... ... ... The term “classical music” is a very broad one, referring to the mainstream music produced between the mid-16th century and the beginning of the 20th century: a time also known as the common practice period....

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Discovering of Planets Outside the Solar System

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The goal of this paper "Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Discovering of Planets Outside the Solar System" is to concern the contribution of technology, particularly telescopes to the process of discovering space objects outside the Solar System.... ... ... ... Whether it's the Stone Age or the present day human has always looked up into the sky and wondered that, is there any other planet like planet earth, are they alone in this universe and will they be able to another home like earth....

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Macroeconomic Environment of Business: Eurozone

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This paper seeks to address whether the expected advantages of the euro as a single currency for Europe was achieved, while in the process.... After its inception, problems have arisen and actual disadvantages were experienced especially in the microeconomic area.... .... ... ... The concept of a single currency for the European Union was widely received with deep enthusiasm as this signaled the convergence of European economies such as Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, also known as the Eurozone....

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Equity and Law Trust

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From the paper "Equity and Law Trust" it is clear that the principles of equity and unjust enrichment, Jean cannot just ignore the contribution of John in the renovation of the house.... Jean can be compelled to reimburse the amount of money and the cost of personal labor.... ... ... ... The rule on implied sharing in the property stems from the assumption that the people involved are partners....

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Can the the Atomic Bomb dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki be ever justified

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This essay "Can the Atomic Bomb dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki be ever justified" argues different positions regarding the issue.... ... ... ... A demonstration bombing in a remote area of Japan would have been sufficient to affect surrender without using it on a civilian population.... The second bomb was entirely unnecessary even if the first could be justified....

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Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky

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This research will begin with the statement that for Noam Chomsky, the world is a highly censored place.... He believes that the elites that control the media only allow for the general public to see what they want it to see and he is right about that fact.... ... ... ... The conclusion from this study states that the work of Noam Chomsky goes a long way in explaining why thing are as they are in the media, but it is not the only source of information on the subject....

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Money Sex and Power

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The basic motive of the paper "Money Sex and Power" is to talk about the historical and contemporary evidence concerning the agency of feminism, and how that agency has worked to both improve and harm the social, economic and political power base of women in America.... ... ... ... A young girl stands in the magazine section of a bookstore admiring the 'super model' on the cover....

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The Source vs U.S. Weekly

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This paper "The Source vs U.... .... Weekly" discusses the Source and U.... .... Weekly, two major selling magazines in the U.... .... Both magazines target a market base of age groups 18-34, but The Source basically targets black males, while U.... .... Weekly focuses more on white females.... ... ...

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The Harmonisation of International Reporting Standards

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In the report, it is stated that accounting standards are the legal requirements imposed on financial reporting.... The standards vary from region to region and can, therefore, create problems for countries that conduct business in more than one region.... ... ... ... There are substantial differences between the UK GAAP and the US GAAP, for example....

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Nullity of a Company in English Law

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In the paper 'Nullity of a Company in English Law' determines whether or not the concept of nullity of a company is truly an alien concept in English Law; and second, given the answer to the first, whether there is a need to apply the concept of nullity of a company in English Law.... ... ... ... This essay will first describe the concept of nullity of a company by describing the concept, determining the legal entity that it refers to, and determining the effect that the concept will have on such an entity....

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Physical Journeys Based on Away by Michael Gow

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This research tells that changing self relates to the ways individuals undergo change.... Change requires a movement from one place to another.... Michael Gow has used this as a metaphor in his play 'Away' comparing it with a human life and the numerous changes in it.... ... ... ... This research will begin with the statement that change is a transition, process, or alteration over time that affects everyone....

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The Use of Self in Social Work Practice

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The essay demonstrates a person of a social worker or the social worker's self, which can be very constructively used in social work encounters in order to produce positive outcomes, help clients develop more meaningful and open relationships with social workers and quickly solve problems.... ... ...

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The Domes of Deliverance: Two Roman Architectural Grandeurs in Contrast

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Most of these architectural grandeurs still stand throughout Rome, these buildings are characterized by arches and domes and used as governmental and religious purposes.... In the interest of having a deeper appreciation of the Roman classical architecture, two most prominent buildings will be compared for our purpose: one classical and the other, post-classical....

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'Gendered' realm' of international politics

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Men do not cry, at least not in public.... This is a general truism that is accepted as being natural in most parts of the world.... Every time that a female president or national leader is elected, it is considered a historic event.... Yet we purport that we are in the age of female liberation where women have had more freedom than they have ever had before....

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Theology: The Image of God and Human Emotions

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The "Theology: The Image of God and Human Emotions" paper contains a critical review of the psalms which contain human emotions and praises of God.... The Psalms have become widely recognized as expressing a deep well of human emotions with an extremely wide range, scope, and intensity.... ... ... ...

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Globalisation Resulted in a More Even Distribution of Economic Activity Across the Globe

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This paper "Globalisation Resulted in a More Even Distribution of Economic Activity Across the Globe" focuses on the fact that globalisation has changed the way business was done traditionally.... It has impacted economies of various countries in some or other ways.... .... ... ... This paper is an effort to understand the extent to which globalisation has impacted the economic activities of various countries in the 20th century....

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Leadership Profile: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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The paper "Leadership Profile: Muhammad Ali Jinnah" discusses one of the greatest leaders and politicians, a creator of Pakistan - Muhammad Ali Jinnah.... The role he performed in the construction of Pakistan in 1947 itself speaks of his vibrant leadership traits.... .... ... ... Adair, (2002, p....

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Provisions for Gas, Electricity, and Water Markets

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This paper "Provisions for Gas, Electricity, and Water Markets" focuses on the fact that 30 years ago, the consensus was those network utilities, such as gas, electricity, and water were essentially natural monopolies where the competition was neither feasible nor desirable.... .... ... ... Competition is generally seen to be possible and desirable in such utilities regulators now have all primary duties to promote competition....

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