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27 Feb 2015
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Good Bye, Columbus'-Brenda's Development

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

One of the themes of social life in the contemporary times is family. Family is held in such high regard that in most songs and movies, the people who turn their backs on their families are considered villains. There is also an emphasis on love over money and freedom of expression. At the end of...

27 Feb 2015
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Security and Risk Management - IT Database security

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The IT infrastructure of the organization makes it susceptible to external intrusions. For example, there are more than 1000 access points with no security awareness programs and no deployed security software programs or reporting to protect the access points. In addition, there is need for...

27 Feb 2015
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Death and fear

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

When trying to understand the meaning of death and the fear that people feel about it, you can understand some of the psychological changes that the individual may come to feel an intensive care unit. This topic will address the theme of death by two authors: Kovács and Feifel. In his work on...

19 Feb 2015
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In search of excellence - advanced organizational behavior

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

“In Search of Excellence” is a well-known book published in 1982 by Peters and Waterman and has been considered a fundamental book in the business world (Thomas & Robert, 1982). It has been read and recommended by some of the biggest businesses in the planet who have borrowed some of...

19 Feb 2015
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Effect of Motivation on Exercise Adherence among Obese Women

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Women exercise for a variety of reasons that may range from enjoyment to the maintenance of good physical well-being. Many women blame the weather, lack of time, lack of energy and lack of motivation. Some of these sources are external and we may not have much control over. But most of them are...

19 Feb 2015
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Effect of color on mood

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Color is an aspect of life that has been present with humanity since its inception. As such, the two aspects are often so delicately intertwined to the extent that the mere presence of color can have significant effects on a human being. Researchers and psychologists have over time studied the...

19 Feb 2015
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Hybrid Vehicles - Upgrading an Old Company System

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

Hybrid vehicles could significantly change the outlook of the motor industry owing to the numerous benefits that it offers to the environment. Being that it utilizes a smaller engine, it is better that the usual petrol based engines because it allows for greater fuel economy. In addition, it has...

19 Feb 2015
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Are Consumers Interested In Ingredients? - Horse Meat Scandal, Europe

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Time and again, most consumers purchase items from the shops including groceries and other food products without considering the ingredients that make up the food product or the grocery. However, recent findings and scandals regarding ready-made food and grocery, most notably, the horse-meat...

19 Feb 2015
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Efficiency of Clustering Algorithms - Large Biological Data Bases

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Today, protein sequences are more than one million (Sasson et al., 2002) and as such, there is need in bioinformatics for identifying meaningful patterns for the purposes of understanding their functions. For a long time, protein and gene sequences have been analyzed, compared and grouped using...

19 Feb 2015
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Catholic Identity and Culture of the Australian Catholic Schools

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The Catholic identity is centred on the presentation of the person of Jesus Christ with his call to repent and believe. It also espouses crucifixion Christianity which leads to the call to believe that everyone stands under the last fourthings of death and judgement, heaven and hell. As a...

19 Feb 2015
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Western Lowland gorillas in zoos

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Throughout history, facilities that exhibit wild animals to the public have always existed. The term zoo was first coined by newspapers in 1847 to describe the Clifton zoo and has since been used to describe confinement facilities for displaying animals to the public. The United Kingdom has been...

19 Feb 2015
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The Great Depression and the New Deal - published: 19/02/2015

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

When he was inaugurated as the president of the US, Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to make an assessment of the huge damage that prevailed in the country. The assessment pertained to the withered leaves that pertained to the industrial enterprise; inability of farmers to gather markets for their...

19 Feb 2015
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IP Strategy for Greentech Ltd in the area of Low Carbon Technology

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Modern businesses cannot survive if they are unable to create, exploit, while at the same time ensure that Intellectual Property (IP) is protected; R&D efforts would be compromised, as well. In addition to the expertise provided by professionals, it is nowadays important for organizations to have...

19 Feb 2015
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Game theory - Can Game Theory Predict Unique Game Outcome

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

oligopolistic markets. Game theory illustrates that the cooperation between two players, and not competition, yields a more beneficial outcomes to both players. Mainly, games such as Battle of Sexes, Prisoners Dilemma, and so on have been investigated by researchers. However, there have been very...

19 Feb 2015
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Bullfighting - Death in the afternoon

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

“Furthermore what the crowd honors is the victor, tossing him flowers and gifts, which he gracious returns, so that it may become a victory of all those watching him and recognizing themselves in it” (Barthes, 2007). This is a very interesting paragraph from ‘bullfighting' by...

18 Feb 2015
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Over-Education in the Graduate Labor Market

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

This paper discusses the issue of over-education in reference to the labor market in UK. In addition, enough evidence have been provided to show the impacts of graduates' over-education and how they are treated in the labor market in relation to the returns they receive and the expected return....

18 Feb 2015
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Moving toward Men-streaming Development

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Men have always been known to exercise power socially over women. This is as a result of how gender has been socialized in various regions and communities. It has hence resulted to discrimination, inequalities and women subordination in all major activities. This issue seems to be ignored so much...

16 Feb 2015
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The introduction of apartheid in South Africa

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Effective African colonization began with the Dutch at first were very friendly relations, becoming violent later. The Dutch also called Boers found several foci of resistance as the Hottentots, Bushmen and further north the Xhosa (were farmers, practiced animal husbandry, possessed large tracts...

16 Feb 2015
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Opposition to the apartheid

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

It was founded in 1912, was composed of the chiefs who had acquired importance during the tribal resistance to European domination, by the year 1943 remained harmonious relations with whites, always in the line that the tribal chiefs wanted. This year he adopts the claims and statements of...

15 Feb 2015
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Considerations on democracy and state in the modern world

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

The transformations that have occurred over the past three decades in the capitalist and socialist states brought to the discussion the importance of democracy as a determinant of the changes made largely in contemporary societies. The relationship between state and democracy becomes a rich...

12 Feb 2015
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Application of Hotelogix PMS to Hotel Fairmont Heliopolis

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

The web-based Management Information System (MIS) currently used in the hospitality and tourism industry that is preferred for application to Hotel Fairmont Heliopolis and Towers, Egypt, is Hotelogix; a web-based hotel managements system for small and medium-sized hospitality businesses(HMS...

12 Feb 2015
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Korean Musk Deer

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The Korean musk deer is a type of deer that is known well for its production of musk. The scientific name for this animal is Moschus moschiferus. It belongs to the Animalia Kingdom, Chordata as the phylum, Mammalia class, Cetartiodactla as the order, Moschidae family and Moschus genus. The Korean...

12 Feb 2015
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Increased Physical Activity among Latino Children in the Public Elementary School Decreases Obesity

Case study - 12 pages - Educational studies

Obesity cases have been increasing and become a nutritional issue among the children at the age between 2 - 19 years. Obesity among the Latinos has been an insightful area of study since it has been showing an up-ward trend among the population. There has been a need to reveal the various aspects...

12 Feb 2015
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Learning and freedom

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

When the community curriculum and school rules meeting was held, there was agreement that they would approve the mix of standard subjects and various exotic courses. Second, it was concluded that class attendance would be completely voluntary, and grading would be a fail/pass. Moreover, they...

11 Feb 2015
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Higher Education is Indispensable

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

According to Boyers (2014), so many people face the dilemma of whether high education is worth. Since ancient time, people already knew the importance of education. Most parents globally ensure that their children do not miss school. As time goes by, the educational system continues to improve....

11 Feb 2015
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Health Education Programs

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Health education is an important profession that is aimed at educating people about their health, and it is observed to be integrating various elements of human health. Some of these elements include environmental health, intellectual health and more importantly, the biological health and...

11 Feb 2015
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How to Help People Change?

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

How to help people change is a book by Jay Adams that focuses on a counseling theory. The theory emphasizes on the vertical relationship between God and man. According to Adams, there is no chance of effective change occurring if the client does not put efforts to improve his prayer live and...

11 Feb 2015
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Universally effective and desirable leadership attributes

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Leadership traits study has quite a long and questionable record. Research may show that having some traits on their own will not always constitute success in leadership. However, there is proof that efficient leaders exhibit some key aspects that are diverse from those in other people. Essential...

11 Feb 2015
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Spankers and Non spankers

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Despite the fact that the study revealed that mothers were more likely to spank their children if they received intense messages on spanking, received less intense messages that opposed spanking, if their children were younger, and in case they came from poor socioeconomic backgrounds, there were...

11 Feb 2015
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Use of Air Combat in World War

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

1914 is the year that the first air raid was conducted and it was done by the Germans. Throughout 1915 and 1916 a dirigible from Germany that was called the Zeppelin conducted raids in London and eastern England for more than 50 instances. In evaluations of the zeppelin bomber, it was seen to...