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  • Super Management - a Combination of Management Techniques Used Around the World

    Super Management - a Combination of Management Techniques Used Around the World

    Super Management: A Combination of Management Techniques Used Around the World The success of a business is often linked to effective management techniques. Many books have been written about the best way to manage a company and what skills are needed to succeed. In looking at successful economies across the globe we can see that there are many styles of effective management. The United States, Japan, and Germany have the top three economies in the

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • World on Fire

    World on Fire

    World on Fire „Р The world is so unbalanced. WeЎ¦re killing it. Everyone is killing it, but especially us in the U.S. who see our nation as advanced and powerful. Ў§If car ownership and oil consumption per person in China were to reach U.S. levels, then China would consume eighty million barrels of oil per day. Yet, in 1996, the entire world produced only sixty-four million barrels per day.ЎЁ Other nations canЎ¦t live the way

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Impact of Compulsive Training and Long Term Training

    The Impact of Compulsive Training and Long Term Training

    The impact of compulsive training and long term training” Superior athletes have and will always be very hard workers. The problem is that sometimes athletes can begin to train so extensively that they cause long term damage to their bodies, and delay improvement in their sport. The majority of sports are endurance intensive and the majority of overtraining syndrome cases involve endurance sports. At some point during their career, a number of endurance athletes report

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Anna
  • My Family History (culture Diversity Course)

    My Family History (culture Diversity Course)

    I was born on the Indian Reservation in North Carolina in 1967 to the Cherokee Tribe of Native American Indians. My parents were both full-blooded Cherokee and I was being raised to speak both my native tongue of Cherokee and English. Tsalagi (Tsa-la-gi) is an Iroquoian language and is spoken by 22,000 Cherokee people. The Tsalagi language in North America is at a great risk of becoming extinct. There are some government policies that were

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Crash: Culture Shock and Race

    Crash: Culture Shock and Race

    The movie Crash incorporates aspects of anthropology such as ethnocentrism, race, and differing roles in society. Each of these aspects is revealed through the lives of different people colliding with one another and according to biases and personal prejudices. The title Crash metaphorically represents the culture shock we experience when we “crash” into people of different nationalities. Ethnocentrism, the belief in the superiority of one ethic or racial group over another, is an evident theme

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Janna
  • How Plastic Surgery Helped Reshape the World

    How Plastic Surgery Helped Reshape the World

    How Plastic Surgery Helped Reshape the World As we see throughout the years, plastic surgery also known as cosmetic surgery has become more and more popular every year. Plastic surgery has increased to nine percent from 2000 to 2001. There are many various types of procedures that could make the body the way the person prefers it to be. The most popular surgeries that are performed include facial reconstruction, liposuction, breast implant, arm, thigh, and

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Bred
  • Effects of Poverty in Our World

    Effects of Poverty in Our World

    All over the world, disparities between the rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of nations is rising sharply. Fewer people are becoming increasingly “successful” and wealthy while a disproportionately larger population is also becoming even poorer. There are many issues involved when looking at poverty. It is not simply enough (or correct) to say that the poor are poor due to their own (or their government’s) bad governance and management. In fact, you could

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Vika
  • Atv’s: A Mans World

    Atv’s: A Mans World

    Robert Cluck Freshman English II Propaganda Essay ATV’s: A Man’s World Propaganda is everywhere. It is on the television, in the newspapers, magazines, and the internet. Everywhere you turn, it’s there. The problem with this is that people merely dismiss it as truth. When people see propaganda, they don’t “see” propaganda; they see a nice new sport-utility vehicle with a “powerful engine” and “cool rims”. When an advertisement uses propaganda, it’s over-looked and the reader

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Fall of Germany in World War I

    The Fall of Germany in World War I

    The Fall Of Germany In World War I None of the European power wanted World War I, but they feared Germany. Germany was newly unified, and was beating the European powers in population and Industry. France wanted to recover the Alsace-Lorraine. Britain was a country used to being on the ocean, so they felt threatened by Germany's colonial expansion and William II's insisting on a large navy. Russia and Austria feared pressure on their unstable

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jack
  • World Systems Theory

    World Systems Theory

    World Systems Theory Unlike former sociological theories, which presented general models of social change with particular focus at the societal level, world-systems theory (or world system perspective) explores the role and relationships between societies (and the subsequent changes produced by them). A theory primarily developed by Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi and Andre Gunder Frank in response to the many new activities in the capitalist world-economy during the mid 1970s, world-systems theory is derived

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • World War 1

    World War 1

    On June 28 1914 a spark was set off in Sarajevo, which would become an explosion throughout the world. The event that led to World War One was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. A Serbian nationalist secret society, also known as the Black Hand, was who was responsible for Ferdinand’s death. Before United States entered the war, they exported hundred of millions of dollars to Great Britain. Almost a

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jon
  • A Brave New World - Happiness

    A Brave New World - Happiness

    In the novel, A Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley creates a world where the people are ignorant of the truth, and are, therefore, in a state of bliss that they mistake as happiness. The people in the World State are in a world where they don’t know what true happiness is. The way they have lived their lives has blocked out real happiness. Through conditioning and drugging the government has kept the people

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Fatih
  • During the Last Decade the World Has Witnessed a Staggering Elevation in Serial Killings

    During the Last Decade the World Has Witnessed a Staggering Elevation in Serial Killings

    During the last decade the world has witnessed a staggering elevation in serial killings. To give some insight into the scale of the problem posed by the serial killer, in the United States can be gained from examining the statistics for just one year. In 1989 (the last year for which detailed figures are available) there were 21,500 recorded homicides, of which some 5,000 are unsolved. Unofficial sources believe that as many as a hundred

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Controversy Surrounding the Reconstruction of the World Trade Center

    Controversy Surrounding the Reconstruction of the World Trade Center

    The sprawling mess of flesh and steel recombinant that was created on the morning of September 11, 2001 left thousands dead. The scene of Ground Zero would go on to haunt survivors and the general public alike. The terrorist attacks which were wrought that day destroyed a landmark, a large and populated piece of a city, and most tragically the lives of thousands of innocent people. Yet with death there is also rebirth, and

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Steve
  • To What Extent Is Globalisation a Relatively New Process in World Politics?

    To What Extent Is Globalisation a Relatively New Process in World Politics?

    To what extent is globalisation a relatively new process in world politics? In this essay, I will be attempting to explain to what extent is globalisation a relatively new process in world politics. The definitions of globalisation and it's history; from which can debated if there is an actual history to globalisation or is it just a recent process in world politics. This essay will making the argument that it is not a new process

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Edward
  • A Guide into the "not So" Wonderful World of Lsd

    A Guide into the "not So" Wonderful World of Lsd

    A Guide to the “Not So” Wonderful World of LSD Discovery of LSD LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) come from a fungus that grows on rye and other grains. Albert Hofmann, working at Sandoz, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, produced LSD for the first time in 1938. He was hoping that it could be used to stimulate circulation and respiration, though this idea failed. Hofmann forgot about the new found drug, and didn’t use it for

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Artur
  • Drawing on Appropriate Theory & Examples (i.E. Published Research, Case Studies and Personal Examples) Discuss the Extent to Which Managers Can Influence the Culture of an Organisation?

    Drawing on Appropriate Theory & Examples (i.E. Published Research, Case Studies and Personal Examples) Discuss the Extent to Which Managers Can Influence the Culture of an Organisation?

    Culture is a term that is used in workplaces discussions but it is taken for granted that we understand what it means. In their publication In Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman (1982) drew a lot of attention to the importance of culture to achieve high levels of organisational effectiveness. They made use of over 100 years of theory and research in cultural anthropology and folklore studies to inspire and legitimise their efforts. This generated

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Factors in Sports Flattening the World

    Factors in Sports Flattening the World

    Friedman’s 10 Factors that made the Sports world flat #1 The fall of the Berlin Wall may have helped flatten the sports world only by breaking down the barrier between east and west Germany and allowing teams in Europe and across the world to try and forget religious, political or any other different beliefs come in-between teams in any sport. #2 + #3 +#4+9+10 The invention of the internet and work flow software along with

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Artur
  • Cultural Competency in the Workplace

    Cultural Competency in the Workplace

    Cultural Competency in the Workplace Today’s management in the workforce is composed of all types of people verses thirty years ago when white males held a majority of upper-management positions in companies. These positions are now held by a mixture of ethnic back grounds and women who hold just as many if not more management positions then men. Just by looking at the changes in management demographics shows how important it is for people to

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Monika
  • Religions of China; the World as a Living System

    Religions of China; the World as a Living System

    Daniel L. Overmyer’s Religions of China; the World as a Living System Long Grove, Illinois Waveland Press, Inc. Copyright 1986 125 Page Count Daniel Overmyer’s, Religions of China, discusses the historical developments of the different religions of China. It also addresses the impact religion has on the daily life of the Chinese in the past and present. Overmyer introduces the Chinese living system with his knowledge of Feng-shui, and how everything is connected by

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Term Paper

    Term Paper

    What is the Supremacy Clause? Article VI of the Constitution, which states that laws passed by the national government and all treaties are the supreme laws of the land and superior to all laws adopted by any state or any subdivision. To a certain extent this clause only indicates a truism: in those areas where the national government has rightful authority its laws are supreme. The clause specifically indicates that the national law is supreme

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Pardon the hyperbole, but I wonder if we can't trace a goodly portion of the decline of Western culture in just the drop-off from Walt Disney's Pinocchio to Steven Spielberg's A. I.: Artificial Intelligence. Despite the surface similarities between these tales of a wooden boy on the one hand and a robot boy on the other, both of whom hope to become real, and despite Mr. Spielberg's quite conscious attempt to implicate Pinocchio in his

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Max
  • Poetry Essay - the World Is Too Much with Us Vs the Lake Isle of Innisfree

    Poetry Essay - the World Is Too Much with Us Vs the Lake Isle of Innisfree

    With possessions and machinery such as iPods, GPS systems, advanced voice-recording, photo-shooting, video-taking cellular phones, one can securely say that the present world is fully consumed by materialistic goods and behavior. Society has gotten so caught up with flaunting their valuables and questing to unearth more that they have completely forgotten to slow down and simply savor nature. In his poem, “The World is Too Much With Us,” William Wordsworth displays an ignorant world in

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Problem Solution: Usa World Bank

    Problem Solution: Usa World Bank

    Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: USA World Bank Managerial Decision Making Diane Rodgers University of Phoenix/Livonia Campus MBA 510 USA World Bank Problem Solution Instructor: Dr. Uju Eke Week 4 Problem Solution: USA World Bank USA World Bank (UWB) is a major bank with domestic and international presence. UWB has several banks that are located nationwide and enjoy a large consumer and small business base clientele. UBW also have been very successful in several worldwide ventures

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • How Did World War one Change American Society?

    How Did World War one Change American Society?

    Introduction In 1917 America entered World War one. By doing this America played a grave role in conquering Germany and ushering peace to Europe. However, the Great War also meant that the US would change dramatically through historical issues and changes which resulted in American society. Industries had started to realise that it was not as simple as it was before to abstract the immigrants. As the country developed and became more successful it

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mike