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Reality and Illusion in Light of Pride and Vanity

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"Reality and Illusion in Light of Pride and Vanity" paper examines Doctor Faustus, Mephisto, and The Picture of Dorian Gray that forces us to question what is reality and illusion lest we fall into the same trap of vanity and pride such as the main characters of these stories.... ... ... ... Alexander Gillies tells us that there is 'the duality of human nature'; in us exists both reality and illusion thus the distinction between reality and illusion lies and can also come from us....

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Environmental Problems Facing Costa Rica

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The essay "Environmental Problems Facing Costa Rica" takes a look at the serious environmental problems caused due to water pollution and deforestation in Costa Rica.... Decades of unplanned population growth and urbanization turned Rio Grande de Tarcoles into one of the most polluted regions.... ...

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Perception of Death

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The paper 'Perception of Death' presents every living creature who needs to follow the inevitable circle of life in which starts from conception moving throughout different stages such as early childhood, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood.... ... ... ... The physiological appearance in each person will change with each stage, however, it is up to the individual to have the will power to slow the process and live longer....

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Financial Reporting Theory Practice

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This essay aims to provide detailed analysis on the topic of management that is to determine the value of a Morrisons company as expressed through its choices of strategy and structure.... Strategic management guidelines have been developed by the researcher to discuss in this essay.... ... ... ... The researcher of the essay provides the reader wth ratio analysis on te topic that is an excellent way to determine an entity's current financial standing....

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How and Why Are Ethical Concerns and Corporate Social Responsibility Impacting Businesses in the UK

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The author of the "How and Why Are Ethical Concerns and Corporate Social Responsibility Impacting Businesses in the UK" paper states that ethical responsibility has already changed the way business is done and it can be expected that the future will bring more changes with it.... .... ... ... For businesses, the situation means that simply informing the consumers about the personal and economic benefits of buying a certain product is no longer enough, a customer must also be informed about the ethical practices and socially responsible operations of a company which confirm that the company is acting for the benefit of society....

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The Opportunity the EU Expanding

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The main idea of this study under the title "The Expanding of the EU" touches upon the policy of the European Union.... The author discusses the introduction of the Euro and the European Constitution in terms of framework, authority as well as aspirations.... ... ... ... There was an understanding that since these nations had so much in common amongst each other, thus there should be an understanding as concerns to their oneness and unity which could only be achieved through the formation of a body that could track down the problems of the member nations and keep all the troubles that hinder the respective progress of these nations....

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Conflict Management Skills

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The author of the essay "Conflict Management Skills" states that As with most things in life goals, dreams, and pursuits do not just happen by accident.... In order to achieve these accomplishments, a plan must be created, implemented, managed, measured, and adjusted.... .... ... ... The paper shows that a personal management development plan should be devised in order to provide a framework, or blueprint, to follow which will help lead to the goals that a person has for himself/herself....

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The Aspects of Love in As You Like It by Thomas Lodge

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The paper "The Aspects of Love in As You Like It by Thomas Lodge" highlights that Shakespeare's ease to delightfully accept all kinds of love is a really genius idea.... In the end, he proves that all love is to exist because its variations have the only one and simple sense.... ... ... ... Celia proves her devotion by leaving her home together with Rosalind and sharing all her wealth: in the forest, she meets a shepherd and buys his pasture, house and flock....

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The Foundation of Family Law

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The objective of this essay "The Foundation of Family Law" is to discuss whether the legal institution of marriage remains fundamentally important in family law, or whether the law is based upon a wider concept of the family considering the tendencies of modern society.... ... ... ... The emergence of many forms of cohabitation and partnership often brings us the question of what is a family....

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Candida Albicans Microbe

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This paper 'Candida Albicans Microbe' discusses the Candida albicans microbe and the Amphotericin-3 counteragent.... Candida albicans is an oval budding yeast that produces pseudohyphae both in culture and in tissues and is a member of the normal flora of the mucous membranes.... ... ... ... In smears of exudates, Candida appears as a gram-positive, oval budding yeast, 2-3 x 4-6 micrometer, gram-positive, elongated budding cells in chains, or true hyphae....

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The Pros and Cons of Euthanasia and Mercy Killing

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This paper 'The Pros and Cons of Euthanasia and Mercy Killing" focuses on the fact that euthanasia, a.... .... .... assisted suicide has been a controversial subject for many centuries.... Proponents of the practice believe that individual freedoms of choice that exist in life also extend to the end of life....

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Nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been one of the worst and the most devastating war actions of the time till date.... The holocaust caused by the atomic bombings, have brought into focus the most pertinent question of all time.... Why were the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki' Even after more than sixty years of bombing, the historians, elites and the common man have been trying to rationalize the objectives that had led to the mass destruction of human lives....

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Understanding of What Happened in the US Economy over the Last Few Years

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The "Understanding of What Happened in the US Economy over the Last Few Years" paper looks at the functions of a Central bank and how it manages the economy with the monetary policy and available instruments.... The central bank with the government acts in tandem to steer the economy out of crises....

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Flexible Labor in Organizations

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In the paper 'Flexible Labor in Organizations,' the author discusses a desirable quality in a labor market, without specifying exactly which kind of flexibility is referred to.... Flexibility in work is a distant dream; many of the workers are aspiring for.... ... ... ... The author states that many observers believe that highly flexible organizational forms -often called networked organizations or virtual corporations - will become increasingly common in the future....

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Rethinking the Criminal Justice System

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The term paper "Rethinking the Criminal Justice System" states that the Criminal justice system is a system of laws, practices, and institutions in a country that is controlled and directed by the government.... The main objective of a criminal justice system is to control criminal activities.... ...

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Juvenile Sex Offenders

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This paper 'Juvenile Sex Offenders' investigates the fact that every 8th rape is committed by minors.... The exact statistics on abuse of adolescents is unknown, as many are ashamed to publicize the act of violence.... Environment and the media actively promoting the topic of sex effect adolescents much....

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Evolution of Islamic Theology

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This paper discusses the evolution of Islamic theology, one of the major religions and beliefs in the world.... It first discusses its evolution on a historical note and goes on to discuss the evolution of Islam based on the development of its belief systems.... ... ... ... The Al-Ash'ari rose from the ideas and context of the Mu'tazila....

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The Evaluation of a Particular E-Commerce Application

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The following paper under the title 'The Evaluation of a Particular E-Commerce Application' focuses on the development of e-Commerce which has been inevitable mostly due to the increased need for communication with customers and expansion around the world.... ... ... ... In most cases, the targets set by e-commerce are common in firms internationally; however, there are firms that choose to develop a particular e-commerce strategy in accordance with their needs and their targets....

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Realist Novel as Well as Satirical Novel

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This paper tries to find an answer to the questions by considering the two novels: "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen and "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding.... These are works of literature that are seen as realistic as well as satirical.... .... ... ... This essay stresses that With the advent of the novel form, there have been experiments with the formation of a novel....

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Opportunities for Raising Productivity in Non-Profit Organisations

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This paper 'Opportunities for Raising Productivity in Non-Profit Organisations' implies to identify the scope of improvement in four spheres of non-profit organizations in terms of productivity.... Opportunities in these four spheres have been explained with emphasis on the most viable option.... ...

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The Usefulness of Accounting Standards

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The paper "The Usefulness of Accounting Standards" considers accounting standards conflict with the decision-making process of the company and may cause hindrance in the smooth data flow.... The IASB should look at the issues the companies are facing in adopting these standards and develop more pragmatic ones....

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Disparities in Race and Capital Punishment

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This essay describes disparities in race and capital punishment.... This paper outlines criminals, features of capital punishment, minorities and punishment, effectiveness and fairness.... .... ... ... The contemporary debate over capital punishment has been conducted principally in terms of whether it is an effective deterrent, appropriately retributive, racially discriminatory, arbitrary, or inevitably prone to errors (Greenburg, 1982)....

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The Difference between Statutory and Common Law Offences

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This essay discusses the aspects of the difference between statutory and common law offenses.... It has elaborated on how the latter has been created and how they can change.... It has given a layman's meaning to precedent and other legal terms important in the context of criminal and civil laws....

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Ethical Theories and Theft

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The various arguments regarding the acceptability as theft, from a moral and philosophical perspective, are identified in this paper.... It is being argued that it might actually be acceptable to steal, however, only in the very extenuating circumstances.... .... ... ... In terms of ranking, there should be some hierarchy to rank them as some of the concepts are actually more important than others....

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A Literary Response to Waiting for Godot

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This essay presents Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett which is about two tramps trapped in a situation in which they have to wait for Godot, an acquaintance they probably would not recognize.... To while away the time, they eat, sleep and argue repetitively about seemingly nonsensical things.... ....

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Applying Ethical Theories to Business

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The author of the "Applying Ethical Theories to Business" paper states that being ethical and using the idea of ethical egoism can certainly bring profits as exhibited by the case of Apple Inc.... and not being ethical or focusing on the short term relativism can damage the reputation of a company....

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Interpersonal Skills and a Happy Successful Living

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In the paper 'Interpersonal Skills and a Happy Successful Living,' the author discusses how to live a contented and successful life with people around.... The life of a person is always connected to that of others and the level of relationship with other person depends on how you deal and treat them....

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How To Analyze Psychological Disorders

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This essay "How To Analyze Psychological Disorders" discusses how analyzing psychological disorders has been most difficult for medical science and the field of psychology because there is no single theoretical reference by which all the disorders can be understood.... ... ... ... Schizophrenia is mostly found to be a neurobiological disorder and the social or psychological causes that could have led to the disorder is not much studied....

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Achieving Behavior Modification

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An author of this paper aims to describe the process of personal behavior modification.... Moreover, the writer reveals the goals that were set and a day-by-day path of making such assignment.... Finally, the paper summarizes the overall effectiveness and challenges of the task.... ... ... ... In order to carry out a personal behavior modification, I have set the goal to reduce my daily consumption of alcohol from four small pegs to one small peg....

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Diversity and Difference in Early Childhood Education

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The paper 'Diversity and Difference in Early Childhood Education' seeks to evaluate some theories of childhood education, which have evolved from time immemorial up to the present and surprisingly, this subject matter brings in more and more complex issues during these modern times.... ... ... ... The author states that education has become a primary concern in our world today as we tend to compete in this area....

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The Most Essential Characteristics of a Democracy

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This essay "The Most Essential Characteristics of a Democracy" discusses the basic characteristics of democracy such as rights of the citizens to participate in civic and political activities, as well as elections that are free and fair where basic human rights are upheld and the rule of law applies to all persons without discrimination....

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Do fame/celebrity/wealth result in a different standard of treatment in our judicial system

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In other words, gender, race, wealth, influence, fame, social status or any other personal charisma do not have any influence on the proceedings of.... ... ... But some of the recent incidents happened in America forced people to think in terms two types of law and order; one for the ordinary people and the other for the celebrities....

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Divorce as a Social Issue

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This paper "Divorce as a Social Issue" discusses the different dimensions of divorce and the major impacts it may cause to society and family.... Cruel treatment, Impotence, Inebriation, Adultery, Desertion, etc were the major reasons for divorce in America during the seventeenth century.... ... ...

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Vincent Van Gogh: Life and Works

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The paper begins with the statement that Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch painter.... He was born March 30, 1853, in a family of a Calvinist priest.... Three uncles of Vincent traded works of art.... By their example and under their influence in 1869, he joined the company, 'Goupil', to sell the paintings....

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How Does Foucault Explain the Emergence and Persistence of the Prison

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This paper summarizes the way that Foucault explains the emergence and persistence of the prison by looking at his presentation of the historical origins of prison, the most important features of the prison in the last two hundred years and the cultural importance of the prison in the modern world....

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Multiple Determinants of Health Framework

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This work "Multiple Determinants of Health Framework" focuses on Cardiovascular Disease in the African American community and different factors that influence the provision of health care, especially in relation to cardiovascular diseases, in this subset of the population.... The author outlines a chronic health issue and improving patient-clinician interaction....

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Civil Right Act of 1964

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The research paper 'Civil Right Act of 1964' seeks out a working knowledge of the term "constructive discharge".... A Constructive discharge happens when an employee's working environment is so adverse that he/she is forced to resign and leave the job.... ... ... ... According to the paper, the Employment Rights Act of 1996 defines constructive discharge as an act of termination of the working contract by an employee due to the unfair conduct of the employer which the employee equates to constructively dismissing from employment....

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Nigeria Kidnappings

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Today Africa is still experiencing problems such as kidnapping as it was some century ago, as a continent it consistently suffers and recovers from one problem to another.... The paper "Nigeria Kidnappings" will look at the analysis of how kidnapping can be stemmed in Africa Nigeria for instance....

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Illegal war trade, and its effect on society

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Illicit drug trade and the abuse of drug not only affect the individuals who alone use drug but also overwhelmingly devastate the whole structure of the society.... Illicit use of Drug as well as drug trade is not only a nationwide problem but also an international crisis.... Recently.... ... ... Various studies commonly show that the global spread of drug has a close relationship with the technology-based development of modern transportation system (UNDCP 3)....

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False and Puffery Advertising

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The author focuses on advertisements that talk about facts but there is a hidden falsity across the information.... The main thrust of this paper is to discuss ethical issues and situations about false and puffery advertising that has an impact on the industry and the society as a whole.... ... ... ...

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Kantian and Utilitarian Theories and the Nestle Moral Issue

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This research will begin with the statement that applying philosophical concepts to social issues can test the relevance of philosophy in contemporary society.... Such an application may also help to resolve present-day social issues, as philosophy can draw light on moral concerns....

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Should the US Use Torture and Enhanced Interrogation Techniques in its War on Terrorism

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The paper "Should the US Use Torture and Enhanced Interrogation Techniques in its War on Terrorism" highlights that adopting effective anti-terrorist enhanced interrogation techniques is essential for a nation like the United States to prevent global terrorism and ensure security.... ... ... ... The United States always held a strong position against terrorism and it is conscious of the security and peace of both its civilian and the international community....

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Rules of Statutory Interpretation

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This essay "Rules of Statutory Interpretation" considers the influence of the European Law and discusses the validity of the view that the Rules and Approaches that apply to statutory interpretation give too much latitude to the courts, and it seems there are no underpinning principles.... ... ... ...

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Money is the Root of Good

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The writer of the essay suggests that Money is the Root of Good.... It is should be divisible and portable in order to make business easy and fast.... In ancient time, barter trade was the main mode of transactions.... The business was conducted in the form of barter trade.... ... ... ... It also depended upon common agreement on quality and quantity....

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Effect of Temperature on Peroxidase Activity

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Enzymes are proteins which are very sensitive to temperature changes.... Peroxidase is an enzyme that is present in all animals, higher plants and aerobic cells.... Peroxidase is required by the cell.... ... ... Peroxidase is an oxidoreductase enzyme that reduces H2O2 into water and releasing oxygen for the oxidation of the organic compounds....

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The Coconut Grove Fire

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It was built in 1927 and instantly became popular.... It faced a setback in the 1930s in the Prohibition period but was revived during the World War II.... The tragic incident took place in the evening of November 28, 1942.... ... ... ... ver 1,000 people including Buck Jones, a famous American movie star were having dinner in the restaurant when a busboy was instructed to fix a light bulb at around 10....

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Regulation: Case on Next Generation Broadband

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The essay "Regulation: Case on Next Generation Broadband" emphasizes the aim of instituting regulation is to protect the interest of players in a given field.... For instance, the roll-out of the new generation broadband would influence internet service delivery and telecommunication services.... The need to create a fair play in the sector constitutes the discussion in this essay....

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Egyptian Islamic Jihad

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This paper 'Egyptian Islamic Jihad' is a critical evaluation of Al-Jihad as a terrorist organization.... Al-Jihad was founded in 1979 mainly as an organization to install Islamic rule.... Despite the country having Islam as the dominant religion, the government was perceived as being led by apostates....

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Costing and Information Systems of the Worplestrop

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The essay "Costing and Information Systems of the Worplestrop" discusses the different budgetary cost control system of the Worplestrop Company.... Cost can be defined as the actual expenditure which is incurred in getting a product, service or a good.... ... ... ... The word budget simply means the plan or framework of activities expresses in financial terms....

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The Prison Officers Strike

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In the paper 'The Prison Officers Strike' the various aspects of the Prison Officers Strike in August 2007 in UK are analyzed.... Relevant literature is used in order to explain the reasons for the development of the strike even if it was against the law.... ... ... ... The author explains that the Prison Officers Strike began in 29 August 2007 and ended the same day....

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