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Dickens's Treatment of Education and Social Mobility in Great Expectations

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One of his last novels, Great Expectations came from Dickens in what can be said to be the autumn of his life.... In this novel Dickens gives us Pip, an unlikely Dickensian hero, not a fiery and knightly hero like Nicholas Nickleby who successfully rescues his damsel in distress, or a cynical, given-to-drink yet self-sacrificing one like Sydney Carton....

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Technical Large Animal Rescue

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This research will begin with the statement that large animal rescue refers to the methods used to interact with large animals in a situation where they need to be rescued.... Large animals, just like humans, also need to be rescued in case there is a fire or flooding.... ... ... ...

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The History of the Automobile Industry and Cars Technical

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"The History of the Automobile Industry and Cars Technical" paper states that the last 25 years of the car industry have seen technical and design advances that increased standardization, platform sharing, and CAD design.... Body styles have changed to include the hatchback and sport utility vehicle....

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Jane is a Department Head in a Library of a College or University

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According to the research essay, from the information provided one must assume that Jane is a Department Head in a library of a college or University.... This is based upon her full job title as well as the fact that many of her staff members are work study.... .... ... ... As the paper outlines, the Bibliographic Department of a library is usually responsible for creating and maintaining catalogue records of both print and non-print monographic and serial materials....

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Workshop Risk Assessment: Occupational Health and Safety Issues

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The paper "Workshop Risk Assessment: Occupational Health and Safety Issues" is a great example of a term paper on management.... Risk assessment is normally a procedure specified by law to ensure the safety of the people working in a facility.... A risk assessment identifies a hazard that could affect a person's health and safety....

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The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong

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The paper "The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong" promotes the book that serves as an expose of the real perpetrators of the violence.... Although many people assume that the US army was responsible for the massacre, it becomes evident communists and Christians indulged in the fateful war, in pursuit of power....

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American Drama in the Era of Dramedy

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The paper "American Drama in the Era of Dramedy" describes a genre providing humor from tragic or harrowing situations.... The humor is derived from dialogue that brings light into very dark situations, thus enabling the audience to have a vicarious catharsis that parallels the elements of the plot....

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The Impact of Globalization on Human Resource Management at Oxford University Press

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The paper "The Impact of Globalization on Human Resource Management at Oxford University Press" states that to engage employees and achieve satisfaction, the Press adopts policies that promote graft-life balance and that comply with local as well as internationally accepted laws.... ... ... ... This paper discusses the implications globalization has had on recruitment and selection, human resource development, training and development, and performance and reward practices at Oxford University Press, the oldest and largest university press in the world with operations in 100 countries of the world....

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The Legitimacy of Responsibility to Protect

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The paper "The Legitimacy of Responsibility to Protect" discusses that the basis for this expansion is largely constructivist in that it proceeds from the evolving concept of rights and the role of the international community.... In this regard, the law and politics diverge.... ... ... ... The difficulty of ascertaining the facts is compounded by the widely divergent understanding of rights in different localities, implied in the advocated scope to cover 'promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development' (Ruggie, 2008:1)....

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Selection Interview as an Effective Employee Selection Practice

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The need to detect deception is hardly a twentieth-century phenomenon; humans have always needed to distinguish between the trustworthy and the untrustworthy.... The final interview should be conducted when the references have been verified, the educational back-ground have been checked and the actual competency claimed tested....

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Kiva & The Girl Effect: Social Activism Among Women

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When considering what the definition of social activism and action might be, what first comes to mind is pinpointing an issue that targets a certain group or demographic and trying to make a difference.... Typically, activism and action do not need to take place unless for some reason there is a problem with a tactic, technique, law....

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History and Political Science

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Your name History and Political Science Thesis Economic activities have been part of every nation since the historical times and have since then been interconnected and heavily integrated in a global system of production, trade and consumption.... ... ... ... Markets have continuously developed globally due to the trade policies that are liberal leading to a reshape of the process and destination of services and goods as well as how they are produced and where they end up....

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Print News Media

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This paper will discuss the role of one form of media, newspapers, in increasing public knowledge and awareness of STDs.... News articles published in the nationally-circulated newspapers that tackle the issue of STDs will be analyzed to determine the ways in which the issue is presented and discussed....

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Justice Rights and the State: Rawls Theory of Justice

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This paper evaluates Rawls' theory in relation to the cosmopolitan theory of justice and provides a critique of his philosophical model.... The author evaluates the core elements of Rawls' theory of justice and comparatively analyzes this with leading proponents of cosmopolitan justice theory.... ...

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Managing Construction Site Constraints

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The writer of this paper "Managing Construction Site Constraints" thinks that study of construction site constraints is extremely important to conduct before actually staring construction works because these constraints can lead to unexpected delays in the overall construction work.... ... ... ... The role of geotechnical engineers is very important in choosing the best site for construction....

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The Law of Contract

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This work called "The Law of Contract" describes when a party can be discharged from his contractual obligations by reason of a change in circumstances.... The author takes into account the theoretical basis for the doctrine of frustration, development of the law renders, the contractual intention of the parties....

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Long-Term Implications of Future Shifts on Global Economic Security

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This paper 'Long-Term Implications of Future Shifts on Global Economic Security' analyses the long-term implications of these future shifts on global economic security from West to East.... In short, the future politics and economic activities is most probably controlled by the Eastern countries....

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Russians as Collectively and Symbolically the Elite of the Soviet System

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This paper considers linguistic, ideological, historical and political dimensions of this question in turn and finally determines how far the Russians during the Soviet years were rulers of that system and how far they were victims.... In the literature concerning modern Russian history.... ... ... ...

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Students Ability to Apply Different Mathematical Concepts

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The paper "Students Ability to Apply Different Mathematical Concepts" states that the implication of the test scores identified indicates that some questions have to be changed by the teachers and that the parents of the pupils need to teach their children when they are away from school.... ... ... ...

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Mother Hubbards Tale by Edmund Spenser

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The paper "Mother Hubbards Tale by Edmund Spenser " discusses that the personified character of the fox as a mischievous opportunist resurfaces in the fourth tale when the ape surreptitiously steals the lion pelt and forcefully inaugurates himself as king.... .... ... ... The poem 'Mother Hubbard's Tale' written by a renowned poet, Mr....

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Applying Foucaults Panopticism

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The paper "Applying Foucault's Panopticism" highlights that Michel Foucault's work on the penal institution offers an interesting perspective.... The panoptic principle of perpetual visibility as a mechanism of discipline is representative of society's operations.... ... ... ... The French intellectual Michel Foucault is known for his genealogical works on insanity, sickness, and criminality....

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Water Rights: The Rio Grande River

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This paper is an analysis and historical review of the struggle of water rights between the Texan and Mexican border in regards to the Rio Grande River.... There is clearly a struggle over the interpretation of prior and existing legal principles that have battled to determine the water rights.... ...

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Catfish - Applying a Method of Rhetorical Criticism

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This research paper "Catfish - Applying a Method of Rhetorical Criticism" perfectly shows that the ability to create cultural artifacts within society and to show this as a reflection of different idealists is the main objective of many films and pieces of art.... ... ... ... The cultural artifacts are based on creating a question of credibility, as well as one which magnetizes aspects of society that are often ignored....

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Unifying Human Resource Management for Jackson and Schuler

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rg/public/english/dialogue/actemp/papers/1998/srsirhrm.... om Rethinking Comparative and cross-national human resource management research, ... It is evidently clear from the discussion "Unifying Human Resource Management for Jackson and Schuler" that Human Resource Management is now a wide-ranging issue not only at the regional level and national level but also at the international level as well....

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Strangers, babies (Theater Class)

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Name: Course: College: Tutor: Date: Strangers, Babies Introduction “Strangers, Babies,” a play written by Linda McLean and directed by Jon Tracy, gives a detailed account of a woman's tortured past and consequent interaction with people close to her.... ... ... ... May is the play's female protagonist, Dan is her husband, Roy is her impotent lover, Duncan is May's father, Denis is her brother and Abel is a social worker or stranger....

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The Recession in the UK

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The root cause of the recessionary trends can traced to the borrowings on easy terms by the banks and financial institutions.... The banks and institutions will then lend this money at higher rates to individuals and corporate clients.... This trend started off from US with a rise in financial sector borrowings at a rate of 10 percent a year from 2002 to 2007....

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Cooley termed embarrassment

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Cooley Termed Embarrassment Embarrassment is a great emotional discomfort with oneself brought about by failure to show what is generally acceptable by other people based on morals, values, ethics, or any other ground.... This is a feeling of an individual towards himself in relation to others.... ...

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Rimsky-Korsakov

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This paper will examine the life and work of the greatest Russian composer - Rimsky-Korsakov.... The author describes his music as paintings and reviews his famous orchestral work - "Scheherazade".... ... ... ... Each country had its owns tales, own characters and its own culture.... But all these tales had the same aim - not only to joy people but also to teach them was wrong, and what was right, and how to become a good person....

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Journalism of the Founders

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This essay, Journalism of the Founders, discusses that journalism is the field associated in equal measure with the masses, the rulers and the opinion builders.... A journalist is supposed to take a judicious view of the facts, and the happenings around him/ her.... .... ... ... As the paper stresses journalistic writings can broadly be divided into two categories, reporting of the happenings and editorial comments....

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Philosophy Compare Derrida and J.L. Austin's views on langauge

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There are very basic differences between Derrida's and Austin's views on language, stemming mostly from the fact that the former maintains that language in the main hides meaning whereas the latter states that it is the major tool for communicating meaning.... ... ... ... Derrida seeks to "deconstruct" the fact that people often hide behind language: - to put it simply, they say one thing and mean quite another....

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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On the individual level, his death signifies an African's rigidity and conservatism that fail him to forsake the irrationalities and superstitious traits of his culture and.... ... ... His death symbolizes his ultimate failure in his struggle against the invading white.... But on the collective level, Okonkwo's suicide refers to the death of a culture that cannot survive on its own because its deficits in comparison to the rationalities of encroaching white Indeed Achebe does not tell much about why Okonkwo commits the suicide because he wanted his readers to brood over the death and to provoke them to make the meaning according to their own way....

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Magic number 1089

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The number 1089 has been used in mathematics as a magic number due to its ability to produce to be formed by some calculations involving two of any three-digit numbers.... This number falls in between 1088 and 1090, both of which do not exhibit the attributes of 1089.... Through a.... ... ... c procedure, that involves summation and subtraction of numbers between 100 and 999 whose first and last digits have a difference of more than two, the result is always 1089....

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Close reding

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As Odyssey and his crew set off ashore to explore the “unknown” in his narration, it would appear he knows exactly what he is up against despite the fact that in his actions he appears ignorant of the fate that awaits him or the identity and nature of his guests.... He.... ... ... the inhabitants of the island as Lawless brutes who had no form of societal harmony and who never worked but trusted the gods for the provision of everything, so much so, that they never tilled or sowed their land yet it produced all they needed....

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How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie): An Analysis of the Literary Devices

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The author of the paper analyzes the literary devices used in the short story 'How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)' by Junot Diaz.... The author states that the writer manages to keep the story throughout funny by the effective use of persona, style, tone, irony and explicit....

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Robert M. Adams, Moral arguments for Theistic Belief

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Robert Adams, the author of an article titled,” Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief” believes that ore lately moral arguments have become some of.... ... ... His article is intends to subsidize to the remedy of such neglect.... It deals with a variety of arguments, he thinks, because people can Adams begins with what he thinks is one of the most apparent, though perhaps not the most fashionable, arguments about the farm: the Argument on the Nature of Wrong and Right....

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The Epic of Gilgamesh as a Quest

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This essay talks about the book "How to Read Literature Like A Professor" by Thomas C.... Foster where he states that very often a narrative is actually a description of a particular quest a character has to complete proving it by the examples of various known stories.... ... ... ... Foster presents the common structure for a quest and describes each of its components....

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Script ( the Vassals)

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Make every scene (except the first one) more creative imaginable, psychological thriller and show rather than tell, make this scene have more character, look at the first page write it in the same style. ... ... know it's sad and a difficult moment for those they left behind.... It is.... ... ... They left behind a beautiful daughter, Mary Anne, whom will find it hard to forget them in a long time. ...

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Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

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This paper tells that the Hymn to Aphrodite depicts Sappho pleading to the goddess Aphrodite for her assistance in getting love.... Who is the persona in the hymn is not clear due to translation, but the reader cannot resist assuming the persona is Sappho.... She brings out the role of Aphrodite and her role in the hymn....

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Analysis of Mystic River Movie

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The paper "Analysis of Mystic River Movie" discusses that the stagnation within the running time is a big issue.... More so, the writer and the director developed a subplot almost a scene-like play-within-a-play when the wife to Kevin Beacon wails aimlessly without passing any message.... ... ... ...

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History of Lemonade

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The author of the following essay "History of Lemonade" attempts to describe the history of lemonade drinks, the aspects of its production, and its role in the beverage industry of various countries.... Moreover, the essay discusses how the recipe for lemonade has evolved throughout the years.... ...

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Introduction to Digital Economics

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The essay "Introduction to Digital Economics" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues in the introduction to digital economics.... Setting a business strategy is a more multifaceted task than simply managing a business.... Strategies are generally long-term.... ... ... ... Even long-term strategies might have to be changed to adjust to the changing times....

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Economic Development in Italy

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The essay "Economic Development in Italy" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues in the economic development in Italy.... Standard and Poor cut the credit rating for Italy based on the information available on a weakening economy and political uncertainty.... ... ... ... This has led to a conclusion of financial instability....

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The Landmark Case of Conjoined Twins

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The paper "The Landmark Case of Conjoined Twins" describes that judges often make such moral reasoning, but if we were to allow them to state these reasons clearly, we could ensure a more fair and just method of legal debate rather than hide such reasoning behind legal terms.... ... ... ... The mere inclination to do good may be enough to make the correct moral decision; need we be confined to the restrictive concepts of posited law, which in this case could not provide guidance from the outset?...

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Comparison of Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa and Pablo Picassos Seated Woman

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The two works of art chosen for this exercise are – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Pablo Picasso's Seated Woman.... Both these works are masterpieces of visual art and exemplify the defining features of their respective movements.... What is common between them is that they are both portraits of women....

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Judge of Character

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This paper, Judge of Character, stresses that people generally look for qualities like personal honesty, integrity, morality and capability etc in candidates who contest for public office.... They believe that normally a person who possesses these qualities will be a good administrator.... .... ... ...

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Detroit Public Library

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In early 20th Century Detroit, infrastructure developments were occurring at a fast pace, however the city budgets at the time did not have adequate capital for large-scale community improvements.... Detroit leaders and residents realized that in order to advance Detroit, there.... ... ... In 1910, unable to raise the necessary funds, millionaire investor Andrew Carnegie donated the funds necessary to construct the classically-inspired Detroit Public Library, over $750,000 (Detroit Public After Carnegie's generous donation to the city of Detroit, famous architect Cass Gilbert actually won a design contest for the Detroit Public Library, giving him the contract for new construction....

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Global and local processing in memory recollection task: Associating face recognition withtrait attribution

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Their research revealed that the viewers were not as fast in identifying the top half when both parts were aligned with each other; they had an easier time recognizing the face when both parts were not aligned with each other.... Much research is based on the validity by which holistic processing is assessed, but also on the assumption that overall processing is important in understanding facial processing (Farah, et.... Vision research, 37, 1673-1682....

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Strategic Management of Human Resources

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The strengths based approach focuses on recognizing and building on people's strengths.... It is based on the concept of positive psychology.... It is different from the traditional concept of HRM which focuses more on the weaknesses rather than strength to solve problems.... ... ... ... Under the traditional HRM model employers use training as a way to amend perceived shortcoming....

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Issues of Transformational Leadership in the Organization

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This research report will focus on the alleged benefits of transformational leadership style as a potential tool for ensuring higher motivation, less resistance to change, the improvement of organizational culture, and generally gaining more employee commitment.... Many of the pre-existing models of leadership, both justified through research and also through practical experience, do not have the ability to gain motivation in employee groups and build a sense of cultural unity....

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Challenges of Starting up an Online Business in China

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research evidence suggests that there are more opportunities than challenges.... research evidence suggests that there are actually more opportunities than challenges if the individual entrepreneur understands how to combat the list of problems that might develop when using this particular e-commerce platform.... Geert Hofstede developed what is known as the Cultural Dimensions model that predicts, based on decades of research data, the most likely characteristics of certain international cultures....

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