Employing the main protagonist, Edna Pontellier, as a medium of venting her own disdain and frustration of the Victorian notion of the ideal woman and expressing her own clandestine wish to rebel against it, Kate Chopin's The Awakening not just the antithetical repudiation of Victorian living but a written hope of social independence of women "a dream that will not be fully realized for another seventy years. ... The Victorian girl knew no other ambition."" ... Realizing that the prejudices and rules of the hated Victorian culture still permeates even her reclusive and independe...

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It is, however, important to acknowledge that diplomacy is relevant so long as any group of independent states with interests and ambitions of their own, are living side by side and are united by some basic community of outlook and traditions and therefore must have some degree of formal and organized contact with one another. ...

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Internal promotion is good public relations and reinforces the point that the organisation is interested in the welfare and development of its own people and will consider them first. ... They also had to recruit internally because the employee up for promotion had performed well in the role of Process Co-ordinator and showed ambition to progress further; they recognised his current skills and potential for development. ...

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The legal portion involves corporate insiders; i.e. directors, officers, and employees, who buy and sell stock in their own companies. ... The issue is whether Stewart was acting on privileged information when Bacanovic (her broker) called her on Dec. 27 to allegedly tell her that her friend Sam Waksal, than CEO of ImClone Systems, was selling millions of dollars worth of his own shares in the firm, according to prosecutors Stewart sold about 4,000 shares the day before the regulators announcement" (Chartier). ... According to the "stockholder theory", her duty is to conduct business in a ma...

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A crucial specification in the understanding of Tocqueville's philosophy of democracy in this particular context is that when Tocqueville talks about equality, he does not mean "equality of income, education or anything in particular", but "the absence of social obstacles to whatever ambitions an American entertained"3, so a kind of equality that entails freedom of movement in the social sphere, the liberty to pursue one's goals. ... "In this way", Holmes observes, "social leveling naturally produces a predilection for democratic self-rule", ...

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Abstract External debt today poses one of the biggest barriers to development for many of the worlds less developed countries (LDC's). Excessive external debt is often responsible for the stagnation of economic growth given that the uncertainty it creates discourages the private sector from investing in the economy for fear about the stability of the government, and it also discourages public investment and reforms given that policy makers are aware that any benefits would be likely to be transferred abroad in the form of debt servicing. I will in this paper, present some arguments for...

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