Furthermore, religion serves to remind humanity of the value of the environment we inhabit; changing our attitudes to our habitat at time went an attitude change is crucial. ... In a time where humanity systematically pollutes the world we inhabit, religion serves to remind us of responsibilities we have to that which nurtures us. ... However, the education platform similarly serves to allow the possible indoctrination of youths. ... However it may also serve as a source of indoctrination, establishing a definitive mindset and removing the ability to think-freely. ... Yet education has been...

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Starbucks historically used two paper cups and currently uses a paper cup and sleeve to serve many of its hot coffee and tea beverages. Little cardboard coffee holders a great device engineered by Starbucks Coffee executives allows the coffee to be served at a higher than normal temperature, consequently remaining too hot to drink for a longer period. ... Starbucks Coffee Company and the Alliance for Environmental Innovation are working together to change the way Starbucks serves coffee. ...

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It adapted an industrial mass production format, which allowed for movie producers to reuse script formulas, actors, sets, etc. to create modified version of the same popular film. ... Musicals are classifies with characters who act out and express their emotions and thoughts through song and dance, plots that are interrupted or moved forward by musical members and spectacular sets and settings. ... Genre's in themselves are vast and complex, but since there origin have served as a way for the audience to anticipate what to expect from that film, and can be used as a measure of how well t...

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It is about the ways in which art serves to legitimize, sustain and conceal social inequality. ... To set the stage for his study, that tellingly is confined to representational art, Berger first dismisses the traditional approach of art history as mystification. ... Set within a conceptual framework that charts the trajectory of European oil painting as the attempt to perfect the illusion of tangibility it is no surprise that "Ways of Seeing" gives particular attention to the depiction of women. ...

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However when assessing the merits obtained from the use of official statistics, it is important to recognize attached limitations, which serve as a major hindrance in developing and attaining an unquestionable and flawless research. ... This classification can then allow for quantifying the data, which in turn sets the base for the use of statistical data. ...

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Phrases such as "direct and terrible," "delicious death," "her red umbrella, filtering the light, rouges her face with a bloody glow," and "in harmony, she moves along, glad to be alive, smiling an empty smile," all serve to support the meaning and mood of this poem as slightly sour, positioning "Beautiful Dorothea" in a dream where these words would make sense and come together. The poet sets the scene by invoking the sense that everyone but the speaker, the reader, and Dorothea are awake to witness the action: "the stupefied world collapses into a siesta, a sort of delicious death where the...

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" A notable beneficiary of such spoils and an old friend of Jackson, the infamous Samuel Swartwout was appointed to serve the government as a collector of customs in New York. ... The spoils system distinctly reflects the immoral practices of Andrew Jackson's term as president and the crime of Samuel Swartwout serves as an example of the treachery and fraudulence that was instituted in Washington on account of Jackson's deplorable appointments of unqualified men into office. ... This ruling set the Bank up to expire in 1836, however, Jackson was not finished with the Bank and...

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People trust them to make informed decisions that hopefully serve their purpose in the best way possible. They are usually free to operate under their own (or senior professional's) instructions to fulfill what they set out to do which usually has a rightful purpose from the societal perspective regardless of the client's intentional desires. ... Requiring continual analysis for mistakes, opportunities, and methods for improvement, the work must not be taken lightly and a large burden is often placed upon professionals to serve society with the utmost responsibility for providing ...

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Furthermore, Herodotus' aim in this work, as set up in his preamble, demonstrates an impartiality for which we have no prior precedent. ... Herodotus does not set up his motivation for attacking the Persians as being entirely due to his misinterpretation of the Delphic Oracle. ... The Persian fleet, when sailing round Euboea, is harried by an observed natural occurrence, the Hellespontine (¶ 7.188), which serves to bring down the size of the Persian fleet. ... These dramatic scenes of tactical discourse served to portray the dangers of expeditions in an engaging manner. And while bei...

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Set in the hauntingly secluded locations of mid-twentieth century San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," is a hypnotic tale of one man's struggle for power, his hopeless search for his ideal love and his abandonment of reality for an illusion. ... Her submission to his requests and apparent appreciation of him, evident when she glances up through her eyelashes flirtatiously at him, affirming that John Ferguson is a good strong name," also serves to strengthen his ego, as well as increasing his desire to protect her for good. ...

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Crazy uncle Louie can belong as long as he is able to fulfill his responsibilities in accordance to the processes and procedures set forth by management "in terms ERP, CRP, Service considerations, product design etc.." ... I would also develop test cases around the impact of having capable leaders from divisions lead IT's efforts to develop some aspects of the "big data" platform that serves the division that the leader came from. ...

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Some of the noncoding sequences in the human genome serve regulatory functions, and it was proposed decades ago that regulatory variation may explain many of the phenotypic differences that can be observed between closely related species given the few differences in their protein-coding sequence (5). ... It is conceivable that binding events found in two species represent a core set of functional regions that are deeply conserved across multiple species. ...

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" This statement serves to anger those environmental conservationists as their efforts are being unnoticed and even silenced. ... Thus, diction, in combination with parallelism, helps set the negative tone towards those who support the destruction of the Indonesian rainforests. ...

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She is a personal translator, and often serves as the middle for the association her parents have with the American lifestyle. ... Leila realizes she is stuck in the middle, after all the experiences with her family she desires to maintain her "Chineseness" but quickly realizes like Nina that shedding her Chinese identity is the only possible way to fully assimilate into American Culture and pursue the American Dream as in the end of the story she leaves her family and moves away with the realization that Leon's ties to his Chinese traditions is what ultimately sets him back fro...

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During my visit, I analyzed my encounters with Hinduism in terms of the anthropological definition of religion, "a set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world ought to be, often revealed through insights into a supernatural power, and lived out in the community" (577). ... The visit also allowed me to understand how lucky I am to live in a city that "serves as an immigrant gateway," a perfect depiction of the forces of globalization, which are "stretching and shaping religions and religious practices" (Guest 610). ...

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The relationship, however, strays off its set parameters as it effectively unleashed a wide range of emotions that Edna had previously not experienced--jealously, passion, true and loving interaction. ... Kate Chopin frames her character, Edna into such: a symbol of resistance against obeying the extrinsically imposed social customs that only serve to limit the pleasures of life. ...

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This was a use of HR's information management skills, which was followed by HR's integration and change skills to manage the organizational interfaces, assess the organizations skills (or the current values of the banks human resource investment), set priorities, anticipate the future, and facilitate the changes. ... In the Peoples" Bank example, the environment changed from a product orientation, to a market orientation where the market (or what people wanted, demanded, and were buying and using) demands where determined first and then the products were "developed to serve the mark...

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In the international realm, such thinking is most obvious in liberal views concerning free trade (though many liberals would take a slightly more ambiguous view than the neoliberal one set out here). ...

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It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. However, it is neces...

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"We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of a human person, in the equal rights of men and wom...

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Perhaps one of the most novel charity traditions carried on by the Penguins is the At Your Service Dinner, an event at which the members of the team serve as waiters and bus boys for one night, and collect their wages and tips for the benefit of cystic fibrosis charities. ... Despite the penetrating winter cold and whipping river winds, the fans turned out to say good-bye to their beloved cookie-cutter-style stadium, which was set to implode at 8:00 AM; a place that had brought them the magic of baseball and football for 31 years was about to bow out of the sports scene, and proper respect wa...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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