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Communication and Interpersonal Process and Working with Diversity

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This literature review "Communication and Interpersonal Process and Working with Diversity" presents communication as a critical theme for social workers and is especially a significant factor in shaping and influencing the outcome in social work.... ... ... ... Besides the interpersonal process, diversity is another important factor that shapes communication between a social worker and a client....

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Influence of Industrial Location on Firms Cost

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The purpose of this literature review 'Influence of Industrial Location on Firms Cost' is to investigate the relation of geographical agglomeration of firms in regard to its general performance.... Additionally, the review will discuss how the environmental regulations by the government can affect the location of manufacturing facilities....

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Challenges of Family Business

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The objective of this literature review 'Challenges of Family Business' is to conduct an analysis of the concept of the family business and assess the economic and financial efficiency of such type of business.... Furthermore, the review will discuss the most common business challenges associated with running the family business....

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Food Connections by David Suzuki

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The paper "Food Connections by David Suzuki" highlights that the abstract notion of detaching ourselves from Mother Nature may strike home for a studied environmentalist or a nostalgic lover of nature.... But for an average reader, the words of Suzuki may seem just ethereal.... ... ... ... The distances that our food items travel before they reach us are alluded to in these lines....

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Charles Dickens: Hard Times

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This report "Charles Dickens: Hard Times" presents the dimness that dominated the society due to the inequality of Dickens Novels.... The sufferings of the working-class who are really the victims of industrialization and socialization are clearly drawn in the novel in a wonderful approach.... ... ...

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Cultural Transformations in The Jungle

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This book review "Cultural Transformations in The Jungle" presents Sinclair's novel 'the Jungle' that deals with such contexts of American history that it necessarily draws a flux of changes and transformations which takes place in the socio-political and cultural background of the US society.... ...

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The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison

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The first chapter of Tony Morrison's The Bluest Eyes, elucidates the plethora of helplessness and vulnerability that a marginalized child faces.... It beautifully looks into the paradigm of a child universe and recounts its latent horrors and insecurities.... By projecting on the subject position of disjunctive narrative, Morrison charts out the map by virtue of which she would be able to project her concern of Diaspora and marginalisation of African-American population....

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Alex Kowlowitzs The Other America

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The Other America" in Alex Kowlowitz's story is a Chicago housing project marred by crime and neglect where two boys and their family show how much heroism is expected in order to survive.... Kotlowitz tells the lives of two black boys; 10 year old LaFayette, and 7 year old Pharoah as they struggle with their American inner-city life....

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Brothel Analysis Using the Social Deviance Theory Anomie

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In seeking to solve the conflicts that exist in social norms, sociologists have brought forth several theories.... Of these theories is Robert Merton's Anomie theory, a theory that describes the social norms or lack of norms or a state of normlessness in the society.... .... ... ... This theory shows the breakdown of social ties between individuals and the community....

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Egypt on the brink

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Name: Instructor: Subject: Date: Egypt on the brink The political revolution in Tunisia paved way for a new dawn in the Arab world's political climate.... With the unpopular rule of President Mubarak of Egypt and his seemingly atrocities characterized rule, it was inevitable that Egypt would soon go the Tunisia way....

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Analysis The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Fediman

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"Analysis The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Fediman" focuses on the book that irrefutably brings out the divergence sandwiched between the modern ways of life accompanied by the contemporary beliefs and the outmoded cultural and religious disparities.... ... ... ... As a Muslim, I believe in spiritual components along with modern medicine hence I will not have a problem with taking a patient to the hospital as I pray for the patient and advice him to ask Allah for forgiveness....

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They Thought They Were Free the Germans and the Nazi Seduction

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A paper " They Thought They Were Free the Germans and the Nazi Seduction" claims that Milton Mayer, a progressive American journalist, and writer, became one of the first among people who tried to solve the enigma of Germans' conformity with Nazism in his book.... ... ... ... The problem of establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany still remains to a certain extent a mystery, both for the rapidity of the transformation of Europe's largest liberal democracy into autocracy that from 1938 on turned into an unprecedented regime of mass terror, and for seemingly feeble resistance that was offered to Nazism....

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Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain

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"Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain" paper focuses on the book in which the author vividly described the traditional ways of the peasants in the town of Fonds Rouge, the strong faith in Providence, the fate of the black people, and the miseries and pain suffered in a society engulfed by poverty....

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The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

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Name 14th November 2011 The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town The tale narrated by Helmut Walser smith is a compelling analysis of German anti-Semitism in action.... The book is centered on case of a young man named Ernst Winter who lived in Konitz, a small town in West Prussia....

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Reaction Paper to Movie Hoop Dreams

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REACTION PAPER TO MOVIE HOOP DREAMS Name: Institution: REACTION PAPER TO MOVIE HOOP DREAMS Hoop Dreams is a documentary film made in the year 1994 that was directed by Steve James with Kartemquin Films.... The documentary follows up very well through on the two high school students, William Gates and Arthur Agree, as they went through with their education in their first year of college....

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Portrayal of Women in Dreamgirls 2006

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The essay aims to discuss the portrayal of women in the movie from the women studies' perspective.... The essay interprets the message divulged in the movie in the backdrop of Native American culture and focuses on the assumptions made about the gender.... ... ... ... The movie won three awards at 64th Golden Globe Awards and also won two awards at 79th Oscar Academy awards....

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Freedom Writers, Diary Entries about Student's Lives

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This paper "Freedom Writers, Diary Entries about Student's Lives" tells us about inspired by the book 'The Freedom Writers Diary' by educator Erin Gruwell, the 2007 drama film 'Freedom Writers' that starred Hillary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, and Patrick Dempsey.... ... ... ... After the notorious Rodney King riots in Long Beach and during the peak of inter-racial gang wars, 23-year-old teacher Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) is assigned to Room 203 of Woodrow Wilson High School....

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Religion and the Workplace

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The paper focuses on an opinion that work and religion can not mix well together: that to be able to be successful professionally, one has to sacrifice one's faith or even one's morals.... However, there is a growing realization that most of the things that go wrong in business.... ... ... ... It is ironic that religion and virtue are often dismissed when talking about business and enterprise when the components that make it work such as often have the same core beliefs....

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Schooling in an Overachieving Culture

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"Schooling in an Overachieving Culture" paper examines the "Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids" book by Alexandra Robbins that shows what parents of underachievers already know: students are not learning the information they can use when they are just learning to take a test.... .... ...

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If He Hollers Let Him Go

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This book by Chester Himes is about the life of Robert Jones an African America from college who has moved from Ohio to Los Angeles to look for opportunities.... It has characters from virtually every social and economic class that is present in Southern ... ... alifornia at the 1940s.... ... ... ...

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The Age of McCarthyism by Ellen Schecker

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The paper 'The Age of McCarthyism by Ellen Schecker' analyzes the McCarthyism era in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, where major accusations were made against the American Communist Party of disloyalty and treason in most cases without proper evidence.... ... ... ... The author states that the era was characterized by the fear of communist influence on the political movement of America and infiltration by Soviet agents....

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Precious (2009) Analysis through the Writing of Bell Hooks

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The review "Precious (2009) Analysis through the Writing of Bell Hooks" focuses on the critical analysis of the film Precious (2009) through the writing of Bell Hooks.... The film Precious (2009) brought to the screen a film about the lower class black female in the depressed neighborhoods within the US....

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Wangari Maathai Unbowed:A Memoir

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In Unbowed, we are told of a compelling life story of Wangari Maathai, a nobel laureate and a pioneering Kenyan woman who fought discrimination due to her ethnicity, gender and political ideology, to found the Green Belt Movement and help Kenya attain a stable democracy after.... ... ... The Unbowed describes an often overlooked aspect of colonial rule which included harsh subjugation of the natural environment. ...

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Design Projects for the CQUniversity UniStart Project 2012

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The paper "Design Projects for the CQUniversity UniStart Project 2012" discusses that a way to ensure an effective design outcome is a clear understanding of its purpose.... This is true both for this designer and for the intended readers of this report.... ... ... ... These are the come-on characteristics that the target audience will perceive, which is analogous to the consumer value in products on sale in the market....

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Current Issues in Financial Reporting

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The paper 'Current Issues in Financial Reporting' is an affecting example of finance & accounting literature review.... Accounting principles and regulations legitimately allow accountants to report assets and liabilities as off balance sheet items, leading to their failure to faithfully and adequately represent economic substances of their companies....

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Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development

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The paper "Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development" discusses that the theory has been challenged by many on several grounds.... This theory brings out development to be a very smooth process.... The stages described are just approximations in ideal situations, which rarely exist.... ... ... ... Piaget's theory is applied by parents, teachers and the society at large during the upbringing of the children....

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David Finchers House of Cards

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The author of this book review "David Fincher's House of Cards" describes the main aspects of this drama.... This paper outlines the technique of foreshadowing, plotting, and characterization of personages.... ... ... ... The UK mini-series adaptation released in the 1990s was an antecedent of David Fincher's 2013 adaptation of the book House of Cards authored by Michael Dobbs....

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The Presidential Difference by Greenstein Fred

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This essay presents the book review The Presidential Difference by Greenstein Fred.... The book that is authored by Greenstein provides the account of the ability of Americans presidents to rule, the author takes a keen observation of the modern American presidency.... ... ... ... Connectively, he takes the liberty of providing a fascinating, instructive account of the qualities that have been involved in serving the American people in the office of president....

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Art Considered as Cultural Politics in Three Thinkers

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This literature review "Art Considered as Cultural Politics in Three Thinkers" discusses the great efforts art has placed in social politics.... Experts have argued much on whether art and culture can define certain qualities in society.... Art and culture influence various political orders....

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Darwin

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The paper "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Darwin" argues since man evolved from non-human ancestors who were subject to the natural selection process, so natural selection also applies to man.... The evolution theory explaining how man evolved resulted from natural selection....

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Analysis of the book's contribution to the study of sex and gender

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In the early years, it was seen almost universally as an act of oppression by a male patriarchal system on women: consumers of sex work were essentially rapists, and sex workers themselves were little more.... ... ... economic slaves, or deluded, damaged individuals who were little able to control their own lives, and either turned to sex work out of desperation or because of some kind of severe emotional trauma....

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

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A paper "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" reports that one grew up to become a business leader, an army officer, a Rhodes Scholar and the White House.... The other Wes Moore is serving time in prison for the crime of felony and assaulting a police officer beside dealing in drugs.... .... ...

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Archeoastronomy of the Hopi People in Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters

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A good number of the traditional Hopi villages are mainly located on the very edges of mesa tops overlooking the environment barren plan, and Walpi, which is situated.... ... ... The Anasazi cave painting that mainly appeared to designate a supernova explosion and the corresponding orientation of the crescent moon and stars mainly indicated that the art might be The Anasazi means of life is enigmatic and they constructed a solar observatory that suggests that the sky was extremely significant to the Anasazi means of life (Aveni, 2001)....

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Nozick

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The paper "Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Nozick" tells that natural distribution is neither unjust nor just as they are natural factors.... What is unjust or just is how institutions deal with the facts.... No one deserves a greater capacity or a more favorable starting place in society.... ... ... ...

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Rhetorical Analysis in the Book We Meant Well By Peter Van

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This book review "Rhetorical Analysis in the Book We Meant Well By Peter Van" discusses the book We Meant Well authored by Peter van contains valuable lessons for both civilian and military leaders.... The book raises countless questions regarding the complexities of reconstruction efforts in Iraq....

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Candide by Voltare and Utopia by Thomas More

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The author of the paper "Candide by Voltaire and Utopia by Thomas More" argues in a well-organized manner that through their works, Voltaire and More created an ideal world very much different from the own worlds they were living in at those times.... ... ... ... People dream of having a perfect world, an ideal society, different from the present world that we have right now....

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The Shawshank Redemption

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The paper "The Shawshank Redemption" narrates the movie Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont, and released in 1994 reveals the brutal reality and corruption within the four walls of the Shawshank State Penitentiary operated by Warden Samuel Norton.... ... ... ... The movie Shawshank Redemption is based upon the work Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King....

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Marya Hornbacher's Wasted - A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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The review "Marya Hornbacher's Wasted - A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" brings out several aspects of the various familial, social and personal aspects of eating disorders that are not always considered.... When studying these illnesses, it is easy to overlook the personal aspects of the disorder....

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The Theoretical Relationship between Exchange Rate Volatility and International Trade

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The paper "The Theoretical Relationship between Exchange Rate Volatility and International Trade " is an outstanding example of a macro & microeconomics literature review.... Rose (2004, pg.... 27) defines exchange rate volatility as ‘risk associated with unexpected movements in the exchange rate....

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The Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Assisted by Ultrasound

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The paper "The Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Assisted by Ultrasound" states that even though numerous technologies exist to characterize gold nanoparticles, few techniques are recorded in a good number of publications with minimal to nothing data on the material preparation to analysis.... ... ...

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Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

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This book review "Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn" sheds some light on the agonies which Lalu had to go through, namely, it was slavery.... Apart from physical labor, she was sexually abused, and that was the worst part of her life.... ... ... ... From the brink of a precipice where fate led him, Wiesel returned to embrace humanity, strengthened by the faith of his inner world, and affirmed that some Supreme Power controlled the managed the world....

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Advertising: Principles and Practice

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This literature review "Advertising: Principles and Practice" presents products that are central to most organizations whether they are in the form of tangible goods or of services.... Traditionally, manufacturers have been concerned with the design and production of products.... ...

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How Do Artificial Sweeteners Induce Glucose Intolerance

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The paper "How Do Artificial Sweeteners Induce Glucose Intolerance?... explains to curb the rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus, it is important to understand the mechanism how artificial sweeteners approved by the FDA alter the gut microbiota that is important in the control of blood glucose levels....

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Goals of Impressionism as Visual Art

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"Goals of Impressionism as Visual Art" paper argues that the shadowy effects are developed with spontaneity to represent both indoors and outdoors.... Impressionist paintings such as The Cradle by Berthe Morisot and Sunset at Ivry by Armand Guillaumin summarily reveal the consistent artistic beauty....

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Role and Importance of Religion in Persepolis and How it Impacts Peoples Behavior

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The goal of this research "Role and Importance of Religion in Persepolis and How it Impacts People's Behavior" is to analyze the novel "Persepolis" written by Marjane Satrapi.... The book gives an account of the religious rule in Iran with great sensitivity.... ... ... ... Persepolis is an autobiographical pictorial novel by Marjane Satrapi....

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Risk vs Reward in the Real World

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The paper "Risk vs Reward in the Real World " is an outstanding example of a management literature review.... The paper "Risk vs Reward in the Real World " is an outstanding example of a management literature review.... It is always considered by the wise that life is the gift of God given to every human being....

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The Dark Continent by Mark Mazower

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As a sweeping overview of the most significant events that happened in European history in the 20th century, Mark Mazower's The Dark Continent has made a mark in contextualizing the societal and political triumphs and upheavals that the world has known about the continent that is now.... ... ... ...

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Eleven Angry Men and One Leader

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The focus of this paper "Eleven Angry Men and One Leader" is on the movie Twelve Angry Men that represents a perfect scenario for how leaders can motivate and convince others to come to their viewpoint and change strongly held opinions simply by the act of leading others.... ... ... ... It is evidently clear from the discussion that on deeper analysis of the film Twelve Angry Men, it becomes clear that the trait theory of leadership and the idea of building relationships with followers are both highly applicable in terms of how the leader manages to bring everyone else in the room to his viewpoint....

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George Orwell's 1984

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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984 Introduction The story starts in the year 1984 in airstrip one, the mainland of the vast country called Oceania.... The country is governed by the party, which is led by a body known as the big brother.... The book is narrated in third person and Winston smith is depicted as the protagonist....

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Story Structure and Meaning of Mulholland Drive

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Mulholland Drive is a psychological Thriller, written and directed by David Lynch.... It was produced with a budget of 15 million Dollars.... From Lynch's initial idea as a concept for a TV series during the 1990's to Mulholland Drive's release in 2001, the production took several years.... ... ...

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